 we certainly cannot expect a sensual life
to build it.

   We may have an ideal image, but if we do not live it, a
distortion will be created.

   A disgruntled, complaining habit, builds that kind of an
individual.

   If we refuse to live composed, poised, and relaxed, we
become tense and build discomfort. A contracted brow
builds headache. A tense, fixed state of the muscular
system brings on muscle -fatigue, which may be treated as
neuralgia, neuritis, or rheumatism. A slight injury to any
part of the body, coddled, nursed, and kept without motion,  may start a fixation of the muscles, causing more pain from
muscle -fatigue than from the injury.

   Enough neurotics have been relieved and cured of
muscle -fatigue to put  two schools of spine manipulators in
good standing with the people.

   All through the ages mountebanks, magnetic healers, and
various cults of “laying on of hands” have worked among
people who had time to nurse a slight injury into a very
large fatigue  disease. Fortunes have been made out of vile -
smelling liniments because of the supposed cures made by
rubbing the dope on sprained backs and joints. The same
cures could have been made by simply rubbing the parts;
but the minds that go with spineless peop le, who have time
to wait for miraculous cures, could not be made to believe
that a cure could be excreted without that mysterious
healing property associated with evil -looking and vile -
smelling medicaments.

   A sensitive, insignificant pile tumor may s et up such a
tense state of the entire muscular system as to render the
subject a confirmed invalid. Such a case became a patient
of mine a few weeks ago. On examination, I found an
extreme contraction of the sphincter muscles. His entire
body was tense, a nd, of course, he had muscle -fatigue, which caused him to believe that he was a very sick man. I
had him lie down, and I taught him how to relax; then I
introduced a finger into his rectum —very slowly, to avoid
giving pain as much as possible. I was about thirty minutes
bringing relaxation of the anal muscles. While
manipulating, I was advising relaxation of his body. Before
he left my office he declared that he felt better than he had
for two years, notwithstanding the fact he had been in a
hospital and ot herwise treated most of that time. I gave him
instructions on how to poise, how to manipulate the rectum
and anus. All his stomach troubles, and discomforts
generally, passed away in a week.

   I have seen many invalids of nervous type who had been
treated by many doctors and for many diseases. Tension of
the entire body was one of the pronounced symptoms, and
health could not be brought back until this habit was
overcome.

   The discomforts complained of by those who have tumor
of the womb, goiter, cys titis, stomach and bowel
derangements, rest largely on a basis of nervous tension,
which must be overcome before comfort and full health
will return.

    Position in standing, walking, sitting, and lying down
may be such as to cause tension. We have occu pational
diseases and emotional diseases; and lack of poise
complicates all of these so -called diseases and brings on
tension.

   Children are prone to become nervous and excited when
tired. When allowed to eat heartily, when excited and tired,
they have  indigestion. Extreme cases develop convulsions.
Fear and anxiety are two elements that lead on to chorea.

   Poise of mind and body should receive attention early as
well as late in life.

   Good health late in life indicates self -control, moderation
in all things, and equanimity —poise.

   Moderation does not mean the same to all people. Some
men call three to six cigars a day moderate indulgence;
others believe that one to six a month is temperate. Those
who have an irritable heart and stomach are i mmoderate
when they use tobacco at all.

    Fortunate is the person who knows his limitations and
respects them. Of such a person it may be said that he is
poised.

IMMUNIZATION

   Wouldn’t it be incongruous if in the evolution of man
such an importa nt element as autoimmunization should be
left out. No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme
of creation. Powers of offense and defense have been
wisely provided, and to suppose that king of all animals —
man—should be left defenseless is most absurd.  No, man is
provided with a nervous system, at the head of which is a
brain capable of thinking, which can come to the aid of a
flagging nervous system and help to renew it.

   When the nervous system is normal —when there is full
nerve -energy —man is norm al and immune to disease.
Disease begins to manifest only when environments and
personal habits use up energy faster than it is renewed. This
contingency the properly educated mind begins to remedy
at once by removing or overcoming all enervating
influence s.

    Man’s immunization to disease requires a life so well
ordered that his nerve -energy is kept at or near normal.
When nerve -energy is prodigally squandered, he is forced
into a state of enervation; then elimination of the waste -
products is checked, leaving the waste —toxin—in the
blood, causing Toxemia self -poisoning —the first, last and
only true disease that man is heir to. All other poisons are
accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia can have
no entree to the system. Poisons may be swallowed,
injected or inoculated into the body and poison or even kill;
but such an experience is not to be classed as disease, any
more than a broken leg or a gunshot wound.

   Toxin is a normal, natural product of the system, always
present. Being a constant, i t answers every requirement for
a universal cause of all so -called diseases. All the different
symptom -complexes, which are given special names, take
their names frown the organs involved in the toxin crisis;
but they are not individual —they are only sympt oms of
vicarious elimination. For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis,
bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis, are each and every one
Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms.
So-called diseases are just so many different locations
where toxin is being  eliminated. All are different
manifestations of one disease Toxemia.
    Toxemia is the only explanation of why so many young
men were refused by the examining boards during the late
war. Many were sent over to France who soon found the
hospitals for the y were near the limit of their toxin -
resistance. The excitement used up their nerve -energy. The
enervation was quickly followed by Toxemia. Their
sicknesses were given names, but the truth was that they
had Toxemia, and their diseases were crises of Toxemi a,
which means vicarious elimination.

   After the numerous vaccinations to which the boys were
subjected on entering the army, probably fear or
apprehension was next in order of enervating influences.

DIAGNOSIS A MEDICAL DELUSION

   Diagnosing acco rding to modern medical science is a
scheme of symptomatology that means nothing except a
guide in discovering organic change —pathological change;
and if no change or pathology is found, the case is sent
home, with the advice to return again in a few month s; or
perhaps it will be kept under observation for a while. Even
cases presenting pathological changes, such as we see in
rheumatic arthritis, I have known of being sent home for
six months, because no point of infection could lee found. The patient would  be sent away with the statement: “After
a thorough examination, we cannot find the cause of your
disease. Come back in about six months, and it may be
showing up in that time.” So much for the influence that
focal infection has on the mind of the professi on. Suppose
infected teeth were found. or sinus infection, what of it?
What causes the teeth and sinuses to be infected? Why is
rheumatism a symptom of infection, and the focal
infections not a symptom of rheumatism?

   The truth is that rheumatism, infe cted teeth, and sinus
infections, as well as every other pathology found in the
body, are effects. Symptoms without lesions represent
functional derangements which have not been repeated
long enough or often enough to cause organic change. If, as
diagnosis  goes, the cause is to be found in the disease, at
what stage are we to look for it? Is it at the beginning, or in
the fully developed organic change, or in the dead man?
Mackenzie believed


, and mind-body therapy to
maintain or enhance life-energy
LING- CHIH: "divine mushrooms"; fungus with reputed magical
powers
LOVE POINT: sexual acupoint
LUT E STRINGS: one inch inside the vagina
MANDARIN : scholar appointed as a high-level government official
MERIDIAN: channel through which chi, or life-energy, flows
through the body
MING-MEN: "life gate"; sexual acupoint in the small of the back
MIXE D ROCK: four inches inside the vagina
MOON GROTTO : vagtna
NED-CO NFUCIANI SM: form of Confucianism developed during the
last eight centuries, which has borrowed the theory of Yin and
Yang, and other metaphysical beliefs fron1 Taoisn1, while at the
same time exaggerating loyalty to the en1pcror and the impor
tance of sexual propriety, especially for won1en
NU RTURE: taking food and herbs to nourish health as well as sexual
vitality
PEACH: syrnbol of long evity ; literary n1etaphor for fernale genit als
PLAYING THE Fl. UTE: oral stintulation of the jade stalk, or fellatio
PLU CK-A ND -N UR TU RE: sexual practice at which one partner tries to
bring the otht:r to orgasntic ejaculation and absorb the resulting
st:crt:tions as nourislunent
PUR PI.E AGARIC PEAK: clitoris
QI- GO NG: St't' Chi-kutl,\!
SAN-l'JN-CHJAO: "junction of three Yins''; sexual acupoint on the
lower leg SAND MOUND : mons veneris or mons pubis
SCARLE T CHAMBER : uterus
SCARLE T PEAR LS: labia minora
SCENTED MOUSE: three inches inside the vagina
SHIH CHI NG : The Book of Odes (ancient Chinese poetry classic)
SHIH- MEN: "stone gate"; sexual acupoint between the navel and
the pubis
SHU AN G-H SIU: see Dual training
TAl CHI: "Grand Ultimate" or "Great Ultimate"; primeval energy
of the universe
TAl CHI CHUAN : "great ultimate fist"; health and self-defense ex
ercise involving shadow-boxing, deep breathing, and meditation
TAN- TIEN: see Cinnabar field
TAO : the Way, born of the mating of Yin and Yang, the Way that
cannot be charted, the Name that cannot be described, the Truth
that is unknowable
TAOISM : philosop hy based on Tao, founded by Lao Tzu (c. sixth
century B.c.)
TASSELED SPEAR : peniS
TSA I-PU: see Pluck-and-nurture
TWIN LOTUS PEAKS : female breasts
TZ U: form of poetry combining the classical and the vernacular
vAS T FOUNT AIN: female urethral orifice
WATER FROM THE HEAVENLY POOL: saliva
WHEAT BUD: two inches inside the vagina
YANG: masculine sexual energy
YANG IMPLEMENT: peniS
YANG PEAK: peniS
YAN G STEM : peniS
YEN-SHIH: volupt uous poetry
YIN: female sexual energy
YIN-CHIAO: "sexual junction "; sexual acup oint belo w the navel
YIN GATE: vagina
YUN-YU: "clouds and rain"; literary meta phor for sexual inter
course
ZEN BUDDHISM : Chinese form of Buddhism based on India's
Maha yana lluddhisr n and influenced by Taoism Glossary
..!.p MAJOR CHINESE DYNASTIES
Age of the Five Rulers (legendary pe riod)
Hsia
Shang-Yin
Chou
Era of Spring and Autumn
Era of Warring States
Chin
Han
Era of Three Kingdoms
Western Tsin
Eastern Tsin
Era of South-North Dynasties
Sui
Tang·
Era of Five Dynasties
Sung
Southern Sung
Yuan (Mongol)
Ming
Ching (Manchu) C. 2852-2205 B.C.
C. 2205-1765 B.C.
1766-1122 B.C.
I 122-722 B.C.
722-480 B.C.
480-221 B.C.
221-206 B.C.
206 B.C.-A.D. 220
221-277
265-317
317-420
420-589
589-618
618-907
907-960
960-1126
1127-1280
1280-1368
1368-1644
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 we no longer separate ourself from the universe as
an independently existing entity by disliking what is present or seeking what
is not present. In fact, in this case there is no ‘we’ and the rest of the universe.
The universe is a  universe, not a multiverse. It is a single, indivisible whole.
     Our likes and dislikes, and the activity of seeking and resisting which
they generate, are the mechanism by which we set ourself up as a separate
entity apart from all others and the world. Prior to the arising of that activity,
the current situation is a dance of interrelated elements in which no person
or thing stands out with its own separate or independent existence.
110suffering is our own activity
     In the ultimate analysis, there are no people or things. Discrete objects are
only such from the perspective of an illusory separate self or ego. Through the
activity of seeking and resisting, we artificially extract ourself from the totality of
the current situation as an apparently separate and independent entity, the ego.
     It is that imaginary entity who, through its own activity of liking and
disliking, sets itself apart from all objects and others. As a result, it is always
in conflict with the universe, a conflict that it cannot win. Such a one is des -
tined for frustration and disappointment, thereby inflicting suffering upon
itself and creating conflict with whomever it comes in contact.
     Neither will the activities of such an entity contribute to the long-term
good of humanity, although they may make a difference in the short term.
The sense of separation that lies at its origin will be imprinted subliminally
within all of its activities and will, in time, initiate further conflict. It is for
this reason that so many injustices in our civilisation have yet to be remedied
in spite of centuries of well-intentioned intervention.
     The primary distinction between self and other, which is initiated and
perpetuated by the activity of seeking and resisting, is the birth of duality.
It is the departure from the Garden of Eden. It is the activity through which
the unity of being is fragmented into an apparent multiplicity and diversity
of discrete and independently existing objects and selves.
     It is the activity of separation, the inevitable consequence of which is
unhappiness on the inside, conflict between individuals, communities and
nations on the outside, and the exploitation and degradation of the earth.

*     *     *

Most of the great religious and spiritual traditions contain at their origin the
understanding that the peace and fulfilment for which all people long lies in
the depths of their own being and is equally available to all people, at all
times and under all circumstances, except in rare cases when the safety or
well-being of the body is severely compromised.
     However, in time this understanding has, to a greater or lesser extent,
become mixed with extraneous elements, derived either from the local, tem -
poral customs of the culture in which the tradition originated or from mis -
understandings that have mystified and complicated this simple and direct
approach.
111you are the happiness you seek
     Devoid of this understanding, our world culture can offer only temporary
distraction from uncomfortable feelings through the acquisition of objects,
substances, activities, states of mind and relationships. However, as soon as
the object, substance, activity, and so on, has worn off or come to an end,
the underlying suffering surfaces again, compounding the cycle of suffering,
seeking and avoidance that is the basis of all addiction.
     I was once on a flight from San Francisco to Seattle, during which I was
editing an article on the source of addiction. In an uncanny and poignant
moment of synchronicity, the obese woman sitting next to me, with whom
I had been conversing off and on during the flight, ordered yet another snack
and, turning to me with a sigh of relief which thinly veiled the look of despair
in her eyes, said, ‘The more I eat, the better I feel’.
     Little did she know that the smile I gave her was not only in response to
the succinctness with which she had expressed the very syndrome about
which I was currently writing but, more importantly, contained a prayer that
one day a pause might open up in her cycle of lack, avoidance and fleeting
fulfilment, in which the background of peace for which she longed would
make itself known to her.
     Many people are forever in search of new objects, experiences or rela -
tionships in order to mask the unbearable void they feel in the centre of
themselves, without realising that what they really seek is to be brought into
harmony with the now, irrespective of its content, so as to taste the peace
and joy of their true nature.

Each of us is faced with a simple choice at every moment: to embrace our
current circumstance and respond to it from that position of openness, or
to view the situation through the filter of our past conditioning and reject it
on that basis. If we welcome whatever we are currently experiencing – the
state of our health, the behaviour of our partner, colleague, parent or child,
or the unfolding of events in the world – the same happiness that we would
feel on winning the lottery will be released in our current experience.
     Imagine the freedom of leading a life in which we know that our happi -
ness is not dependent on anyone or anything. The peace and joy that is the
nature of our being would be our constant companion, sometimes present
quietly in the background of experience and sometimes overflowing into the
foreground.
112suffering is our own activity
eroding the layers

Almost all psychological suffering is the activity of seeking and resisting that
is triggered by our deeply ingrained tendencies. It is, as such, our own activity.
It is never imposed on us from the outside. If we find ourself blaming some -
one or something for our unhappiness, it simply indicates that we have not
yet clearly understood the mechanism of suffering.
     If we think that the loss of our faculties, the behaviour of our partner, the
state of our bank balance or the condition of our health is the cause of our un -
happiness, we are mistaken. None of these can cause unhappiness unless we give
them permission to do so, in which case they will do so. As soon as we withdraw
that permission, we immediately take responsibility for our own suffering.
     Happiness is the inevitable consequence of facing one’s moment-by-
moment experience without resistance. Each time we face our current ex -
perience with this attitude of openness and surrender, we are, without
realising it, undermining and gradually eroding the subliminal store of ten -
dencies and preferences that lies in the depths of our mind.
     Likewise, every time we allow our responses and actions to be governed
by this subliminal layer, we are strengthening it and setting ourself up for
unhappiness in the future.

Shantananda Saraswati used to tell a story about Krishna and his companion
on a journey. At the end of the first day’s walking, they came to the mansion
of a wealthy man and asked if they could rest there for the night. The wealthy
man commanded one of his servants to show them to the cattle shed, where
they found a place to sleep in the straw. On leaving in the morning, Krishna
cast a spell over the man that caused his wealth to double.
     The following evening, they came to the house of an impoverished farmer
who had only one cow, whose milk he relied on as a source of nourishment
and income. They asked the farmer for a place to stay, and in response he
cleared out his own modest bedroom for them, shared his meagre evening
meal with them, and himself went to sleep in the shed.
     The next morning Krishna thanked the farmer and cast a spell on his cow
that caused it to become sick and die. After several hours’ walking, Krishna’s
companion could no longer restrain himself and asked him to explain why
he had treated their hosts so unfairly.
113you are the happiness you seek
     Krishna replied that the wealthy man had numerous attachments and he
had simply doubled them, thereby causing him more misery, while the
farmer had only one attachment that stood between him and causeless hap -
piness, and he had simply removed it.
     In the context of our exploration, we could liken the two men’s at -
tachments to the storehouse of residual energies that remain in our heart
long after the event which provoked them has disappeared. Krishna was
strengthening the influence of this storehouse in the wealthy man’s life.
In doing so, he was intensifying the rich man’s tendency of seeking and re -
sisting, thus increasing his suffering.
     By causing the poor man’s cow to die, Krishna was undermining the
strength and density of his residual tendencies, purifying his heart of the last
vestiges of belief that happiness is dependent on circumstances, thereby
enabling him to fully experience that causeless joy.
    External circumstances are not responsible for provoking seeking or
resisting within us; they are our own responsibility. Instead of reacting
emotionally and impulsively, we take a step back from the conditioned
layer of likes and dislikes which characterises the separate self or ego and,
standing as the presence of awareness, face all experience without resis -
tance.
     In the absence or neutralisation of the intermediary layer of likes and dis -
likes,


	eat	the	lowest	amount	of	total
protein,	79%	of	it	comes	from	animal-based	foods.
9

In	other	words,	virtually
all	of	these	nurses	are	more	carnivorous	than	an	average	American	woman.
They	consume	very	few	whole,	plant-based	foods.
This	is	a	crucially	important	point.	To	get	further	perspective,	I	must
return	to	the	1975	international	comparison	by	Ken	Carroll	shown	earlier	in
Charts	4.7
	to
4.9
.
Chart	4.7
	is	reproduced	here	in
Chart	14.3
.
This	chart	became	one	of	the	most	influential	observations	on	diet	and
chronic	disease	of	the	last	fifty	years.	Like	other	studies,	it	was	a	significant
part	of	the	reason	why	the	1982
Diet,	Nutrition	and	Cancer
	report
recommended	that	Americans	cut	their	fat	intake	to	30%	of	total	caloric
intake	in	order	to	prevent	cancer.	This	report	and	other	consensus	reports	that
followed	thereafter	eventually	set	the	stage	for	an	explosion	of	low-fat
products	in	the	marketplace	(“low-fat”	dairy	products,	lean	cuts	of	meat,
“low-fat”	sweets	and	snack	foods).
Unfortunately,	the	emphasis	on	fat	alone	was	misguided.	Carroll’s	study,
like	all	the	other	international	comparisons,	was	comparing	populations	that
mostly	ate	meat	and	dairy	to	populations	that	mostly	ate	plants.	There	were
many	more	differences	between	the	diets	of	these	countries	than	just	the	fat
intake!	What	Carroll’s	graph	really	shows	is
that	the	closer	a	population	gets
to	consuming	a	plant-based	diet,	the	lower	its	risk	of	breast	cancer.CHART	14.3:	FAT	INTAKE	AND	BREAST	CANCER	MORTALITY
But	because	the	women	in	the	Nurses’	Health	Study	are	so	far	from	a
plant-based	diet,
there	is	no	way	to	study	the	diet	and	breast	cancer
relationship	originally	suggested	by	the	international	studies.
	There	are
virtually	no	nurses	that	eat	a	diet	typical	of	the	countries	at	the	bottom	of	this
graph.	Make	no	mistake	about	it:	virtually	this	entire	cohort	of	nurses	is
consuming	a	high-risk	diet.	Most	people	who	look	at	the	Nurses’	Health
Study	miss	this	flaw	because,	as	Harvard	researchers	will	point	out,	there	is	a
wide	range	of	fat	intake	among	the	nurses.
The	group	of	nurses	who	consume	the	least	fat	eat	20-25%	of	their	calories
as	fat,	and	the	group	of	nurses	who	consume	the	most	fat	eat	50-55%	of	their
calories	as	fat.
10
	At	a	casual	glance,	this	range	appears	to	indicate	substantial
differences	in	their	diets,	but	this	is	just	not	true,	as	almost	all	women
uniformly	eat	a	diet	very	rich	in	animal-based	foods.	That	begs	the	question,
how	can	their	fat	intake	vary	dramatically	while	they	all	uniformly	consume
large	amounts	of	animal-based	foods?
Ever	since	“low-fat”	became	synonymous	with	“healthy,”	technology	has
created	many	of	the	same	foods	that	you	know	and	love,	without	the	fat.	You
can	now	have	all	kinds	of	low-fat	or	no-fat	dairy	products,	low-fat	processed
meats,	low-fat	dressings	and	sauces,	low-fat	crackers,	low-fat	candies	and
low-fat	“junk	food,”	like	chips	and	cookies.	In	other
words,	you	can	eat
mostly	the	same	foods	as	you	did	twenty-five	years	ago,	while	substantially
reducing	your	fat	intake.	But	you	still	retain	the	same	proportion	of	animal-
and	plant-based	food	intakes.
In	practical	terms	this	means	that	beef,	pork,	lamb	and	veal	consumption	isdecreasing	while	lower-fat	chicken,	turkey	and	fish	consumption	is
increasing.	In	fact,	by	consuming	more	poultry	and	fish,	people	have	been
increasing	their	total	meat	intake	to	record-high	amounts,
11
	while	trying	(and
largely	failing
12
)	to	reduce	their	fat	intake.	In	addition,	whole	milk	is	being
consumed	less,	but	low-fat	and	skim	milk	are	being	consumed	more.	Cheese
consumption	has	increased	by	150%	in	the	past	thirty	years.
13
Overall,	we	are	as	carnivorous	now	as	we	were	thirty	years	ago,	but	we	are
able	to	selectively	lower	our	fat	intake	if	we	so	desire,	due	to	the	wonders	of
food	technology.
To	illustrate,	we	need	only	to	look	at	two	typical	American	meals.
14,	15
Meal	#1	is	served	in	a	health-conscious	home,	where	the	main	grocery
shopper	in	the	family	reads	the	nutrition	labels	on	every	food	item	he	or	she
buys.	The	result:	a	low-fat	dining	experience.
Meal	#2	is	served	in	a	home	where	the	standard	American	fare	is
everyone’s	favorite.	When	they	cook	at	home,	they	make	the	meal	“rich.”	The
result:	a	high-fat	dining	experience.
CHART	14.4:	LOW-FAT	AND	HIGH-FAT	AMERICAN	DINNERS
(ONE	PERSON’S	DINNER)
Low-Fat	Meal	#1
High-Fat	Meal	#2
Dinner
8	oz.	roasted	turkey
4.5	oz.	pan-seared	steak
Low-fat	gravy
Green	beans	almondine
Golden	roasted	potatoes
Herb-seasoned	potato	pockets
Beverage
1	cup	skim	milk
Water
Dessert
Nonfat	yogurt
Apple	crisp
Reduced-fat	cheesecake
Both	meals	provide	roughly	1,000	calories,	but	are	markedly	different	in
their	fat	content.	The	low-fat	meal	(#1)	contains	about	twenty-five	grams	of
fat,	and	the	high-fat	meal	(#2)	contains	just	over	sixty	grams	of	fat.	In	the
low-fat	meal,	22%	of	the	total	calories	come	from	fat,	and	in	the	high-fat
meal,	54%	of	the	calories	come	from	fat.
The	health-conscious	home	has	managed	to	create	a	meal	that	is	much
lower	in	fat	than	the	average	American	dinner,	but	they’ve	done	it	without
adjusting	their	proportionate	intakes	of	animal-	and	plant-based	foods.	Both
meals	are	centered	on	animal-based	foods.	In	fact,	the	low-fat	meal	actually
has	more	animal-based	foods	than	the	high-fat	meal.	In	effect,	this	is	how	the
nurses	in	the	Nurses’	Health	Study	achieved	such	a	wide	variation	in	fat
intake.	Some	nurses	simply	are	more	diligent	about	choosing	low-fat	animalproducts.
Many	people	would	consider	the	low-fat	meal	to	be	a	triumph	of	healthy
meal	planning,	but	what	about	the	other	nutrients	in	these	meals?	What	about
protein	and	cholesterol?	As
it	turns	out,	the	low-fat	meal	contains	more	than
double	the	protein	of	the	high-fat	meal,	and	almost	all	of	it	comes	from
animal-based	foods.	In	addition,	the	low-fat	meal	contains	almost	twice	as
much	cholesterol
	(
Chart	14.5
).
14,	15
CHART	14.5:	NUTRIENT	CONTENTS	OF	TWO	SAMPLE	MEALS
Low-Fat
Meal	#1


mitters, such as norepinephrine and
serotonin. The propensity to depression includes strong genetic and
karmic factors and is often familial. It is also correlated with
vulnerability to alcoholism. It is estimated that at least one-third  of adults
will have a serious or moderately severe degree of depression at
sometime in their lives.Clinically, depression usually necessitates professional help. T o
complicate it further, it is also dif ficult to dif ferentiate true su icidality
from the relatively more frequent suicidal gestures or threats that arise
from a dif ferent problem, usua lly involving interpersonal relationships
and resentments.
Depressions of a serious degree can be worked through under
appropriate conditions, but the y are really indicative of the need for
psychiatric or other professiona l clinical help, as well as protection and
support. The loss of hope and the will to live, along with the
accompanying depression, frequently occur in lonely isolated  persons,
the elderly, and in ordinary people who have gone through the
psychological depletion of severe stress, such as divorce, financial
disaster, loss of loved ones, and the process of grieving itself. S uicide is
a leading cause of death in adolescents.
Like other illnesses, major emotional problems are comprised of
physical, mental, and emotional components. There may also be
additional interpersonal and social factors as well as karmic in fluences.
Recovery may require addressing any or all of the factors. Even a
seemingly simple physical problem such as undiagnosed f unctional
hypoglycemia may be a major contributor. (Many depressives have
recovered simply by avoiding sugar.) Failure to seek or accept
appropriate help is frequently due to pride (spiritual), denial
(psychological), or simply ignorance (karmic). The mood fluctuations
then af fect interpersonal relations and even employment (e.g., workplace
homicides and rages). W ith humility, all the contributing factors can be
examined, and recovery from even very serious, near -fatal conditions can
be achieved, as is seen in spiritually-based recovery groups.

The Attraction of Death.
Although there is the common presumption that everyone fears death and
has an aversion to it, paradox ically, death is also, under ap propriate
conditions, seen as an attraction (the end of suf fering) or as a final act of
revenge, heroic sacrifice, or an extreme acting out of self-pity.  There is
also ‘the romance of death’ by which it is celebrated for its intrinsic
drama (legends, opera, and fiction, such as Romeo and Juliet ).The thrill of death pervades the Roman Coliseum, dueling, the racetrack,
and acts of war. T o ‘flirt with death’ is also an attraction of high risk-
taking ( e.g., as represented by motorcyclists’ jackets and tattoos with
skull and crossbones).
Death ca n also be ceremonial (h ari-kari) and is solemnly celebrated via
funerals with the casket draw n slowly by horses in State  funeral
processions.
Freud postulated an intrinsic death instinct termed ‘Thanatos’ (in
contrast to ‘eros’, the life instinct) that is buried deep in the primitive
unconscious w here it exerts a potential influence that can be
strengthened by indoctrination (kamikaze pilots, Islamic suicide
bombers, cult mass suicide). Currently there is a long waitin g list of
zealous volunteers among Islamic extremists (“W e worship death, not
life,” sa id bin Laden.) There is therefore the ‘Cult of Death,’ which is
glamorized to impressionable, n aive youth who are induced to commit
not only  suicide but also simu ltaneous mass murder of the innocent.
There were numerous kamikaze  volunteers during W orld W ar II. Thus, a
dramatic exit has a unique attraction and the glamour of drama. Most
commonly, suicide is an act of despair and desperation consequent to the
loss of faith or hope.

Spiritual: The Dark Night of the Soul.
The state of feeling abandoned by God and being hopeless results in a
global f eeling of depression and may include an alteration of the
experience of time comparable to the experiential lower levels o f Hell as
described by Dante: “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” This state
may also be a transitory phase as a consequence of intense inner spiritual
work, es pecially in a devotee w ho throws all caution to the wind and
explores the deepest levels of co nsciousness, at which depth the devotee
intuitively sense s that it is necessary to relinquish the ego and re move all
doubt. Thus, this state may represent the need to reach inner validation of
spiritual truth before total aband onment of the ego itself. Oddly, this can
be the very route taken by the devoted atheist who is proving whether
actual G odlessness is true or eve n survivable. Severe spiritual depression
can repr esent th e last toehold of the ego as it fights for survival. The
ego’ s ba sic illusion is that it is G od and that without it, death will occur.Thus, w hat is described as ‘the dark night of the soul’ is actually  the dark
night for the ego.
Confrontation w ith the core of the ego may be unexpected  and the
consequence of letting go of att achments, along with the ego’ s illusions
and cherished false spiritual/religious beliefs and fantasies about God,
e.g., God will respond to intense entreaty or bar gaining (‘rattling the
gates of Heaven’):“O God, look how I suf fer for thee.”
Paradoxically, th e dark night o f the soul is often a sign of significant
spiritual progres s for it is not really the soul (higher Self) but the ego that
is in the dark. S ome comfort can be obtained by recalling the  spiritual
dictum that one can only go as high as they have been low, or that Jesus
Christ sweat blood in Gethsema ne, or that the Buddha reported that he
felt as though hi s bones were being broken and he was being attacked by
demons.
In the pits of spiritual despair and black hopelessness, the necessary
Knowingness to  be followed is that, spiritually, all fear is illusion. The
reason it is safe to let go comple tely of all that one holds dear, al ong with
the belief that the inner core of the ego is the very source of life itself, is
because it is not the source, no matter how intensely the experience may
seem. The last barrier to relinqu ish and turn over to God is the seeming
irreducible substrate of the core of existence itself. The reason it is safe
do so is because that is not true.
W ith the surrender of what seems to be the very source, irreducible core,
and ess ence of one’ s life, th e door swings open when karmically
appropriate, and  the Presence shines forth with the Radiance of Divinity.
The pers onal ‘I’, along with th e mind, dissolves into the Infin ite ‘I’ of
the Eter nal, with its profound peace and state of Oneness beyond all
time. This state is not a consequence of the mind or the ego but r ather the
replacement when they cease to function. The final steps take courage,
conviction, and surrender at gr eat depth. It is here where T ruth in the
form of  the vibration and the  aura of a true teacher is of maximal
assistance (the historical ‘grace of the guru’), as is the calling upon one’ s
chosen master, Savior, or ultima te spiritual reality, be it Buddh a, Christ,
Krishna, or God directly.
Another form of the dark night  of the soul arises as a consequence of
experientially falling from a high state (such as devotional joy orecstasy), as has been well described in the lives of the Christian saints. It
is as though one has been ‘deserted by the Beloved’. (See Butler ’ s Lives
of the Saints.) This may arise because one has ‘used up their good
karma’, subsequ ent to which the remainder of karmic attachments and
proclivities surface to be processed out and surrendered to God.  Some of
these ar e deep, such as self-hat red, resentments of God, and cherished
beliefs t hat are often attached to beliefs about suf fering itself (e.g., that it
will leverage God’ s favor, etc.).
In th e dark night of the soul, fa ith in certain beliefs is pitted against the
actual Reality. All beliefs about God are second-hand information
derived from others and handed  down, and thus, even these have to be
surrendered. The reason for this can be found by examining the analogy
of the fact that o nly a cat truly knows what it is to be a cat by virtue of
being a cat. It does not know  ‘about’ being a cat and has no belief
systems. Therefore, all erroneou s beliefs about God are extraneous to the
experiential Rea lity. The door to Enlightenment is through the deep
honesty of unknowingness.
The experience of Divinity wit hin as Self, or God Immanent,


increase in crime and drug?related of fenses in the past twenty?five years.
The prison population of the United States has gone up from just under
300,000 in 1980 to a staggering 2.1 million in 2004. The war against
disease has given us, amongst other things, antibiotics. At first, they
were spectacularly successful, seemingly enabling us to win the war
against infectious diseases. Now many experts agree that the widespread
and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has created a time bomb and that
antibiotic?resistant strains of bacteria, so?called super bugs, will in all
likelihood bring about a reemer gence of those diseases and possibly
epidemics. According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association, medical treatment is the third?leading cause of death after
heart disease and cancer in the United States. Homeopathy and Chinese
medicine are two examples of possible alternative approaches to disease
that do not treat the illness as an enemy and therefore do not create new
diseases.
W ar is a mind?set, and all action that comes out of such a mind?set will
either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, willcreate a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one
that was defeated. There is a deep interrelatedness between your state of
consciousness and external reality. When you are in the grip of a mind?
set such as war, your perceptions become extremely selective as well as
distorted. In other words, you will see only what you want to see and
then misinterpret it. Y ou can imagine what kind of action comes out of
such a delusional system. Or instead of imagining it, watch the news on
TV tonight.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of
the human mind. When you recognize it for what it is, you no longer
misperceive it as somebody's identity. Once you see the ego for what it
is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. you don't
take it personally anymore. there is no complaining, blaming, accusing,
or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that's all.
Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suf fering from the
same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others. Y ou do not
fuel the drama anymore that is part of all egoic relationships. What is its
fuel? Reactivity. The ego thrives on it.A New Earth
D O  Y O U  W A N T  P E A C E  O R  D R A M A?
Y ou want peace. There is no one who does not want peace. Y et there is
something else in you that wants the drama, wants the conflict. Y ou may
not be able to feel it at this moment. Y ou may have to wait for a situation
or even just a thought that triggers a reaction in you: someone accusing
you of this or that, not acknowledging you, encroaching on your
territory, questioning the way you do things, an ar gument about money....
Can you then feel the enormous sur ge of force moving through you, the
fear, perhaps being masked by anger or hostility? Can you hear your own
voice becoming harsh or shrill, or louder and a few octaves lower? Can
you be aware of your mind racing to defend its position, justify, attack,
blame? In other words, can you awaken at that moment of
unconsciousness? Can you feel that there is something in you that is at
war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that
needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character
within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you
that would rather be right than at peace?A New Earth
B E Y O N D  E G O :  Y O U R  T R U E  I D E N T I T Y
When the ego is at war, know that it is no more than an illusion that is
fighting to survive. That illusion thinks it is you. It is not easy at first to
be there as the witnessing Presence, especially when the ego is in
survival mode or some emotional pattern from the past has become
activated, but once you have had a taste of it, you will grow in Presence
power, and the ego will lose its grip on you. And so a power comes into
your life that is far greater than the ego, greater than the mind. All that is
required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness
and ego are incompatible. A wareness is the power that is concealed
within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose
is to bring that power into this world. And this is also why becoming free
of the ego cannot be made into a goal to be attained at some point in the
future. Only Presence can free you of the ego, and you can only be
present Now, not yesterday or tomorrow. only Presence can undo the
past in you and thus transform your state of consciousness.
What is spiritual realization? The belief that you are spirit? No, that's a
thought. A little closer to the truth than the thought that believes you are
who your birth certificate says you are, but still a thought. Spiritual
realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel
is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things
that continuously pass away. The Buddha was probably the first human
being to see this clearly, and so anata (no self) became one of the central
points of his teaching. And when Jesus said, Deny thyself, what he
meant was : Negate (and thus undo) the illusion of self. If the self ego
were truly who I am, it would be absurd to deny it.
What remains is the light of consciousness in which perceptions,
experiences, thoughts, and feelings come and go. That is Being, that is
the deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my
life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it,
but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness. The only thing thatultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential Beingness, the I Am,
in the background of my life at all times? T o be more accurate, can I
sense the I Am that I Am at this moment? Can I sense my essential
identity as consciousness itself? Or am I losing myself in what happens,
losing myself in the mind, in the world?A New Earth
A L L  S T R U C T U R E S  A R E  U N S T A B L E
Whatever form it takes, the unconscious drive behind ego is to
strengthen the image of who I think I am, the phantom self that came
into existence when thought a great blessing as well as a great curse
began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of
connectedness with Being, the Source, God. Whatever behavior the ego
manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to
stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for
more. And, of course, the need to feel a sense of separation, that is to say,
the need for opposition, enemies.
The ego always wants something from other people or situations. There
is always a hidden agenda, always a sense of not enough yet, of
insuf ficiency and lack that needs to be filled. It uses people and
situations to get what it wants, and even when it succeeds, it is never
satisfied for long. Often it is thwarted in its aims, and for the most part
the gap between I want and what is becomes a constant source of upset
and anguish. the famous and now classic pop song, (I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction, is the song of the ego. The underlying emotion that governs
all the activity of the ego is fear. The fear of being nobody, the fear of
nonexistence, the fear of death. All its activities are ultimately designed
to eliminate this fear, but the most the ego can ever do is to cover it up
temporarily with an intimate relationship, a new possession, or winning
at this or that. Illusion will never satisfy you. Only the truth of who you
are, if realized, will set you free.
Why fear? Because the ego arises by identification with form, and deep
down it knows that no forms are permanent, that they are all fleeting. So
there is always a sense of insecurity around the ego even if on the outside
it appears confident.
As I was walking with a friend through a beautiful nature reserve near
Malibu in California, we came upon the ruins of what had been once a
country house, destroyed by a fire several decades ago. As weapproached the property, long over grown with trees and all kinds of
magnificent plants, there was a sign by the side of the trail put there by
the park authorities. It read: DANGER. ALL STRUCTURES ARE
UNST ABLE. I said to my friend, That's a profound sutra [sacred
scripture]. And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that
all structures (forms ) are unstable, even the seemingly


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by W alter Last
  INTRODUCTION
Nutrition is the main tool with which I helped patients overcome a wide range of diseases claimed
medically to be incurable. Unnatural nutrition is one of the major causes of most of our diseases, while
natural nutrition is an equally powerful agent in curing these diseases and rejuvenating our bodies.
I feel that my training and work experience as research chemist, biochemist and toxicologist, together
with that of practising nutritionist and natural therapist, allow me an insight that would not have been
possible if I had worked only as a conventional scientist or as a natural therapist.
There is presently a growing trend in conventional medicine to acknowledge the importance of
nutrition in causing and curing diseases. Health authorities even conduct  public awareness campaigns
about nutrition through the mass media. While this newly found ofﬁcial interest in itself is a positive
development, the actual information that is conveyed is not likely to reduce the overall rate of chronic
diseases. In fact I believe that most of our modern diseases are directly linked to the poor quality or
misleading information provided by ofﬁcial health authorities, and since the ﬁrst edition of this book
conditions have further deteriorated.
Here just a few examples. US health agencies even now still maintain that food grown with chemical
fertilizers and pesticides is as safe and nutritious as organically grown food; that it is beneﬁcial to add
ﬂuoride to water, that chlorinated water is safe, or that pasteurized milk products are as healthy as
fresh and raw products. They, as well as the authorities of the EU claim that medical drugs are safe,
effective and the preferred form of treatment for diseases, while nutritional supplements and herbs
used by natural therapists are dangerous and need to be tightly controlled.
Another example is the US health campaign in the 1980’ s to vilify fats and promote carbohydrates
instead. While overweight and obesity rates had been steady before this, they more than doubled and
tripled since then, increasing the rate of diabetes and other diseases by the same amount.
Finally, the medical habit of prescribing antibiotics without protecting the natural intestinal ﬂora has
resulted in most individuals now having dysbiosis – bad or pathogenic microbes in the intestines and
in the blood, and severely compr omised immune systems, causing multiple allergies, asthma,
autoimmune diseases, arthritis and other inﬂammatory conditions. This has prompted me to put
intestinal sanitation on top of the steps required for health improvement.
The information in this book, on the other hand, has grown out of practical experience in the
prevention as well as the cure of most of our chronic and medically incura ble diseases and is therefore
more useful.
Most of our commonly eaten foods contribute to gradual health deterioration and the development of
chronic diseases. This book explains in detail why and how our everyday 'problem' foods cause our
diseases and how potent health foods can be used to cure these diseases and rejuvenate our bodies.
Healing Foods gives the theoretical explanations so that you, the reader, can make intelligent and
informed choices. Depending on your health goals and present health problems, you may either make
some gradual adjustments to your present diet or decide to go all the way and experiment with the
most powerful health diet designed to cure incurable diseases and rejuvenate body and mind. The
reward in terms of improved health is generally proportional to the ef fort.
Walter Last - Mackay, Australia 2007
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Originally published by Penguin Books Australia in 1992, now out of print.
Updated and modiﬁed for the Health-Science-Spirit website in 2003, revised Hungarian edition in 2007.
HEALING FOODS
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CHAPTER 1
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Basic Health Improvement
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The Road T owards Disease
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The Road T owards Health
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Intestinal Sanitation
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Fasting & Cleansing
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Allergy T esting
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General Diet Rules
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Food Groups & Diets
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Health Diets
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High Quality Diet
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Hypoglycemia Diet
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Raw Food Diet
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Recipes
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Water & Juices
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CHAPTER 3
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Amino Acids
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Digestive Enzymes
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Herbs
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Health Foods & Nutrients
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Health Diets
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Minerals
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Supplements
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Vitamins
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Chemicals & Food Problems
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Cow's Milk & Lactose
Problems
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Meat & Fat
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There are different theories on the Internet about the way acidiﬁed sodium chlorite or MMS works. From published scientiﬁc
information I came to the following conclusions about the mode of action of MMS. I was especially interested to understand why
MMS appears to react preferentially with pathogenic microbes and diseased cells rather than with healthy body cells.
1) MMS is an alkaline solution of sodium chlorite. When acidiﬁed, as with citric acid, it forms the unstable  chlorous  acid. At a pH of
2.3 approximately 31% of sodium chlorite is converted to chlorous  acid, 10% at a pH of 2.9, and 6 % at a pH of 3.2. In addition 1 to
3 % of chlorine dioxide are being formed.
The pH of acidiﬁed Sodium chloride (ASC), also known as acidiﬁed MMS,  before dilution with water or juice for drinking is 2.3 to 2.5.
Normally the stomach passage is not likely to make it more acid as most people take it after a meal with higher
stomach  pH. Therefore, the solution may pass the stomach with about 20 to 30%  chlorous  acid, 1 to 3% chlorine dioxide and the
rest as sodium chlorite. However, in individuals with unusually high gastric acid levels much higher amount of chlorine dioxide may
be produced, possibly causing nausea and vomiting.
In the duodenum  chlorous  acid and chlorine dioxide will react with microbes and body chemicals. But the duodenum and the rest of
the digestive tract has a higher or more alkaline pH, and this will convert much of the chlorous  acid (but not the chlorine dioxide)
back to sodium chlorite. With small to moderate doses of ASC all or most will now be absorbed as sodium chlorite, but with high
doses also chlorous acid and especially chlorine dioxide will go in high amounts into the blood.
 2) Because of its weak oxidizing potential of 0.7 sodium chlorite (S.C.) does not react with most of the sensitive groups of normal
body cells which would  be oxidized by chlorine dioxide with an oxidati on potential of 0.95, or chlorous  acid with an even higher
oxidation potential of 1.58. This explains the long retention time of S.C. in the blood, and that it can still appear in the urine after 3
days or more.
 3) As we have seen, in acid conditions S.C. is converted into highly reactive chlorous  acid. S


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peace of mind = not being afraid to “catch” this or that, and not being afraid of cancer and other degenerative
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<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>CANCER MIND THERAPIES
Be realistic - expect a miracle!
by W alter Last
Our mind is the most important healing factor in cancer therapy. With the mind we decide which therapy we want to adopt, how much
effort we put into it and how strongl y we believe in our ultimate success. With our mind we can mobilize deep inner resources and
open ourselves to healing energies and spiritual guidance. Clinical studies have shown that mind therapies are more effective in
cancer therapy than any other properly evaluated conventional therapy.
There are a number of useful steps and mind tools, such as a spiritual philosophy, prayer and afﬁrmations, visualization or guided
imagery, meditation, and emotional therapy. Key aspects for overcoming cancer are forgiveness and defusing fear and emotional
shocks.
Emotional Therapy
Many cancer individuals are inhibited in their emotional expression. Often they are unselﬁsh, quiet and dependable, the caring and
enduring partner in a relationship. However they also tend to harbor resentments as they hold back in expressing their anger or their
own needs. For them, family and partner come ﬁrst, while they sacriﬁce their own desires and dreams. This then inhibits their life
force, their inner drive and vitality. This type of behavior has been called the ‘Type C Personality’  as compared to the Type A
Personality with the opposite character traits, and a susceptibility to heart disease.
These emotional cancer causes need to be rectiﬁed in order to give any additional therapies a chance to work. If you have the
opportunity and ﬁnancial resources, see someone who specializes in emotional therapies, otherwise just work with your partner or a
friend.
Sit down and write in as much detail as possible about ‘the worst experience of your life’. Get into the emotional side of it. Then
preferably share it with a trusted person. Also search your mind and write and talk to someone about your other resentments, hurts,
disappointments, losses and shattered dreams.
If you are unable to write, use a tape recorder.
Practice expressing yourself forcefully; even exaggerate gestures and body movements. Remember incidents that you did not like
and induce and release anger by kicking and punching something, cry, scream if possible. Afterwards formally forgive yourself as well
as everyone else for past hurts and mistakes.
Practice expressing emotions and feelings with your body. Read poetry aloud and with feeling, express feelings through dancing and
arm and hand movements, also through pantomime. Find another dream, something worthwhile and exciting to do after you have
recovered from your disease.
Be assertive, especially with medical and other authorities; make sure that your emotional needs are being met. Preferably get
together with other cancer sufferers in weekly sessions for emotional group therapy and support as well as sharing information and
meditating and visualizing together. Inform yourself and take control of your therapy program. Your emotional transformation, learning
to express your needs and emotions, is the part of winning the battle with cancer.
To sum up:
In addition to any of the other therapies:
1. Learn to feel your negative emotions and express them appropriately
2. Learn to feel your emotional needs and move towards fulﬁlling them
3. Uncover and release all resentments
4. Forgive yourself and others for anything you or they may have done
5. Learn to speak out, become assertive, trusting your own knowledge and intuition
6. Find a dream that you would love to make come true in coming years
7. Become enthusiastic about your future and your present life.
Keep these points in mind and move towards changing your behavior in small steps in your daily life whenever an opportunity
presents itself. In addition, use mind  improvement methods, such as meditation, afﬁrmations and guided imagery or visualization to
help you shape yourself and your future, as you want it to be.
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We attract what we fear. One of the most basic forms of fear is the fear of dying. You may overcome this by seeing yourself as an
immortal soul that temporarily inhabits and operates a biological body to gain certain experiences. Numerous near-death experiences
show that death, or shedding the biological form, is generally a liberating and pleasant event for the consciousness, and you may
even have similar experiences during meditation.
Another aspect is a fear of pain and dependence on others, and especially in an impersonal and technological hospital setting.
However, by using a holistic progra m you remain in charge. There is hardly any pain on raw foods, except from radiation and
chemotherapy. If death is inevitable, then holistic therapy lets you spend your last days in a digniﬁed way. Instead of trying to cling to
the body, or being drugged semi-c onscious, this can become the spiritual high point of your life as you prepare in prayer and
meditation for the liberation of your soul.
After the shock revelation that you have cancer, you must gradually progress to hope, belief and faith - faith in your spiritual guidance
and that all will be well. You just do your best and the rest is in God's hands: 'whatever will be will be', there is nothing to be afraid of.
This inner transformation can be achieved with the indicated mind tools. Preferably develop a daily routine, which includes prayer,
afﬁrmations, relaxation, guided imagery and meditation.
Forgiveness
The key and cornerstone of emotional healing is forgiveness. As long as we cannot unconditionally forgive, ourselves as well all
others, we remain trapped in past negative emotions. This prevents us from fully loving ourselves as well as all others. Even worse,
resentment that has become bitterness seems to be one of the key cancer-causing emotions. It seems to be especially associated
with cancer of the pancreas and liver.
Start by writing a list of everyone that you feel has hurt you in the past or whom you may have hurt. Recall especially your
relationships with each one of your parents, with your siblings, other relatives and partners. Think of incidents that may have caused
anger, resentment, disappointment, sadness, fear or insecurity.
Then mentally go through each incidence and feel into yourself to see if there is still any trace of that old hurt feeling within you. If
there is, then go more deeply into it, try to reach the bottom of it. Exami ne that hurt feeling from all sides. It may then just evaporate
so that you cannot ﬁnd it anymore. However, if there is still some or even a lot remaining, then you just make a mental decision to
free yourself of this ballast. Do some deep breathing, and with each exhalation you imagine blowing it into a balloon. When you have
transferred all the hurt into the balloon, close it up and let it ﬂoat of f into the blue sky for the universe to take care of.
Now you imagine being in the presence of the one that had hurt you and you formally and lovingly forgive this person. A very
important person to forgive in this way is you. Forgive yourself for all the distress and hurt that you caused other people. If you are
not quite ready to forgive everyone unconditionally, then come back to this step after you have worked some more on your belief
systems and adopted a spiritual philosophy of life. Basically, you need to realize that you are not doing a favor to others by forgiving
them, but to yourself by freeing yourself from destructive emotional toxins.
This is not different to cleaning your biological body of chemical toxins. An alternative possibility is to write a letter to everyone against
whom you still feel a residual resentment and therefore, are not able to fully forgive. Write down in detail what exactly was it the other
one did and how it affected you. Then formally forgive and express your love and appreciation. Finally you may either give or mail this
letter to the recipient or you may just burn it and hand it over to the universe.
The New Medicine of Dr Hamer
The fundamental emotional cause of cancer is an unexpected emotional shock. This may be the loss of a partner or close relative, a
job, business, ﬁnancial security, or it may be a betrayal, or


 is possible to compensa te automatically
for the effect of filament battery variation. By operating the two
tubes at slightly different filament voltages, a condition can be
reached whereby a small fluctuation in the filament battery pro
duced no variations in the current to the galvanometer. This is
important: since any strong battery shows slight variations in
voltage, which in turn would lead to unsteadiness in the instru
ment zero.
The circuit described is of considerable value to the physicist
for certain work, but its usefulness to the biologist is minimal.
The principal reason for this lies in the fact that in all commercial
vacuum tubes a current flows in any external circuit connecting
the grid and the filament. This so-called grid current is independ
ent, within considerable limits, of the resistance in the external
circuit and, hence, will cause potential differences across resistors
in the grid circuit in proportion to the value of the resistors. It
is easy to see that if the specimen is connected across the input
terminals, a fictitious potential difference will register on the
galvanometer which may, in point of fact, be many times larger
than the true potential difference. This, of course, would in
validate completely any results so obtained.
In order to convert the Wynn-Williams bridge into a practical
biological instrument, it was obvious that the spurious grid
current should be eliminated. The method employed to balance
the grid current used the well-known principle of floating grid.
It is known that if the grid of a vacuum tube otherwise operating
normally is isolated from electric contact within the other ele
ment in the tube, the grid current will acquire a certain potential,
a floating grid potential. If the grid is now biased by means of a
battery to precisely this potential, it is found that the grid current
is eliminated. In order to achieve this practically a variable grid
bias on the input tube was employed in conjunction with the in
put switch. The value of the grid leak employed in the original
instrument was chosen to be 10 megohms. The actual dynamic
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input impedance of the 112-A at floating grid is probably several
times higher than this figure, but 10 megohms has proved itself
to be a good value in practice.
In the more than thirty years that these high input impedance
amplifiers have been used, improvements have been made chiefly
in the type of vacuum tube used. The basic circuit has not been
altered, except that it has been possible to eliminate the Wynn
Williams balance because modern tubes are constructed with
such rigorous controls that it is not difficult to get two tubes
that are reasonably well balanced. It is interesting that over the
last thirty years more and more amplifiers have been built with
high input impedances, many of which are well above the 10
megohms used in this original and subsequent circuits. As a con
sequence, the reliability of the measurement has been enhanced
very considerably. *
Once we had a reliable instrument to measure the very min
ute electrical voltages in living systems, the problem of connect
ing the instrumen t to the system became a matter of prime
importance. For it was dear that in order to evaluate the potential
gradients of a living system, an electrical circuit must be estab
lished in which only potentials arising in the system could affect
the measuring instrument.
It is impossible to measure bioelectric potentials with any elec
trode in direct contact with living tissue, because an electrode, if
reversible, has a potential conditioned by the connection of a
particular ion or, if not reversible, has a potential of an unknown
or uncertain magnitude. Electric contact can be made with a salt
solution, however, if the salt be physiologic ally balanced with
the ionic concentration of the system being measured, thus re
ducing to a minimum any potentials arising from a dissimilarity
of fluids at the point of contact, or, if the salt solution be a nor
mal environment, the contact potentials are, indeed, a part of the
total bioelectric potential.
* Today sensitive and stable vacuum tube voltmeters are com
mercially available. A suitable American instrument for measuring
L-fields is the Hewlett Packard DC Vacuum Tube Voltmeter Model
412A. See illustration. No doubt there are excellent European
equi valen ts.
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Of the known electrodes reversible to the ionic constituents of
Ringer's solution, for example, only those reversible to the
chlorine ion have been developed to the perfection demanded by
this technique. For the range of chloride ion concentration found
in solutions that are in physiological equilibrium, the silver
chloride electrode is much more reproducible than the earlier
much-used zinc electrode and can be used in the same solution
that makes electrical contact with the living system, thereby
avoiding liquid junction potentials. Silver chloride electrodes have
been used by physical chemists in many exact electromotive
force determinations and have been found to be stable and repro
ducible to within ten microvolts or better, when directly com
pared in the same solution.
The original electrodes were designated as Type Two by
Harned and consisted of silver obtained by heating silver oxide,
supported on a platinum wire, and silver chloride formed by
subsequent electrolysis in a hydrochloric acid solution. These
were complicated to make, cumbersome and difficult to apply
practically in the field. Moreover, the original requirem ent that
we should be able to measure voltage gradients down to a sensi
tivity of roughly ten microvolts, proved to be unimportant. In
the beginning, however-since it was not clear from the liter
ature just what magnitudes of the standing potential in living
systems might be expected-it was necessary to aim at maximum
sensitivity. Subsequently, however, many hundreds of thou
sands of determinations have made it abundant ly clear that in
most living systems, except perhaps the very small unicellular
systems, the voltages developed are of the order of millivolts.
The current technique used to make electrodes to bridge the
gap between protoplasm and amplifier was devised with the aid
of a physical chemist, Dr. Leslie E. Nims, formerly of Yale and
now of Brookhaven. Fine silver wire or rod of any suitable dimen
sion is either chlorided by electrolysis in He} or KCI solution or,
following the recommendation of Shedlowsky, is dipped into
molten silver chloride which can be obtained at most manufactur
ing chemists. Usually, it is necessary to make many electrodes
and to pair them up so that between any two electrodes there is a
minimum of self-potential.
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In the early experiments the electrodes were placed in a physio
logical salt solution in reasonable ionic balance with the salt
content of living systems and connected the living protoplasm to
the electrode chamber by a salt bridge. For precision work, this is
probably the method of choice, but since the magnitudes are in
the order of millivolts, the whole procedure can be simplified very
considerably by using an inert salt paste.
For this purpose, the Parke-Davis 'Unibase', developed as a
foundation for most of the skin creams, can be utilized if, to it,
is added sodium chloride. The concentration of sodium chloride in
the 'Unibase' paste does not seem to be greatly important for
ionic balance between the paste and the protoplasm can be
reached in a reasonable time. As a matter of interest, electrodes
imbedded in a 'Unibase' salt paste and placed in chambers in con
tact with the cambium of trees have been used for more than
two decades, with considerable success. Most of these electrode
placements will remain adequate over long periods of time--
weeks and months-but they can be replaced so readily that it
is not difficult to continue long-time studies using this technique.
Since the type of measurement being made sets the conditions for
the type and dimensions of the electrodes, and since the areas to
be measured in a living system are limited only by the surface
area of the organism, specific directions for making electrodes and
electrode chambers can be omitted.
With properly designed electrodes, measurements can be made
all over the surface of any living organism from slime mould,
through experimental animals, to and including man, with more
than adequate reproducibility. The ingenuity of the investiga tor
is the only limit on either the type of electrode to be used or the
placement of the electrode. In general, the electrode that is con
nected to the ground lead of the amplifier is usually put some
where on the Hving system at some distance from the area which
is being under investigation. The so-called 'hot' electrode, then, is
placed as dose as common-sense dictates to the area under in
Vestigation. What is recorded, therefore, is not specifically a value
or a magnitude that is in itself important, but the relationship
between any two values measured by the instrument. This makes
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it clear that we are dealing with relatednesses, rather than abso
lute magnitude.
It has been known since the time of Willard Gibbs that it is
impossible to assign a given magnitude to a potential of any
part of the


as to help digest the food that enters
the small intestine from the stomach. Different kinds of enzymes work on protein, on
fats, or on starch and sugar. By the action of these powerful enzymes, large particles
of protein, fat or starch are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces, until they
are small enough to pass through the wall of the small intestine and be used in the
human body for nourishment. Enzymes remaining in the small intestine serve there to
digest food coming into the intestine from the stomach. These enzymes in the
intestine also can be absorbed through the wall of the small intestine into the body,
and travel in the blood stream to distant locations in the body where they are needed.
Why don't these powerful enzymes start dissolving the very tissues that they are
passing through? How can these enzymes travel to the tumor and only digest the
cancer, without harming the person's body in which the cancer is growing? The
secret to how the enzyme can tell the difference between "good tissues and bad
tissues" lies in a difference as small as the difference between your right hand and
your left hand. Almost all the billions of tiny molecules in the body are either right
handed or left-handed. As an example of right and left handedness, let's look at a pair
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of mittens. In a pair of mittens you find one for the right hand and one for the left
hand. They are mirror images of each other, but if you tried to put the right-handed
mitten down on top of the left-handed mitten, they would not match. In a mysterious
way, the human body uses only right-handed sugar molecules but only left-handed
protein molecules.
The above paragraph has discussed right-handed sugar molecules and left
handed protein molecules. Logic raises the question where are the mirror image
substances? Where are the left-handed sugar molecules and the right-handed protein
molecules? These are found within the placenta, which is made of trophoblasts.
These are also found within the trophoblast-like tumor cells. What difference does
this make for the enzyme trypsin?
We know that the enzyme trypsin acts on cooked left-handed proteins and living
(non-cooked) right-handed proteins. Normally, when we eat a meal, the cooked left
handed proteins, which we eat, are digested in the small intestine by the trypsin
released by the pancreas. Trypsin does not act on the organs of the human body,
because these are living left-handed protein. However, trypsin is very effective at
breaking down living right-handed proteins. And where did we say living right
handed proteins could be found? These living right-handed proteins are the substance
comprising the cancerous tumor. So, the trypsin can travel via the bloodstream to the
tumor, and its action there is on the protein mass that makes up the tumor. It breaks
down the protein mass of the tumor and "liquefies" it.
As further explanation, this cancerous tumor needs an enzyme with which it can
digest the organ or tissue of the human where the tumor is located. It uses human
tissue as food. To obtain its needed enzyme, the tumor itself makes the enzyme! This
tumor-made enzyme is called "malignin" which does digest human protein. Malignin
is a cancer growth stimulator. Malignin stimulates growth of a cancerous tumor,
thereby producing more malignin, causing increased tumor growth which makes
further malignin in a progressively expanding growth sequence.
Thus, a growing cancer tumor continually makes increasing amounts of its own
growth stimulator in a progressively expanding sequence. This malignin is the mirror
image enzyme to trypsin. In other words, trypsin and malignin are mirror images of
each other, as your right hand and left hand are mirror images of each other. As
trypsin acts on living right-handed protein, namely the tumor mass, so malignin acts
only on living left-handed proteins, namely human tissue.
Trypsin in sufficient quantities can begin to break down the cancerous tumor but
not fully digest the cancerous tumor. During the breakdown process, trypsin produces
some intermediate proteins and needs a second enzyme to complete their digestion,
i.e. "liquefaction". Therefore, to be successful, the enzyme treatment for cancerous
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tumors must include both of these enzymes in sufficient quantities to render the
products of tumor digestion harmless.
These enzymes work by traveling through the bloodstream to the site of the tumor
and digesting the specific protein of the tumor mass, without harming the body's
tissues at all. This fascinating story of the matching right and left handed molecules,
trypsin and malignin, was explained almost a century ago by a Scottish professor by
the name of John Beard, D.Sc. He published his work in London in 1911. His
revolutionary book was entitled, The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Its Scientific
Basis. At that time some cancers were treated by direct injection of the enzymes near
the cancer mass. Now, we realize that injecting the enzymes is unnecessary, since
swallowing capsules containing the enzymes will also work. Trypsin w ill only digest
the protein of the tumor, thus it can safely travel through the body. The ability to
target the tumor in such a specific and successful manner makes the use of surgery,
radiation, and chemotherapy obsolete.
To read more by
Professor Kathy P. Fairbanks, Ph.D.,
please refer to her article;
"The Scientific Basis of the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Cure"
in chapter XII, For Doctors Only
Healing Crisis
Many people are caught off guard and fail to understand and frequently
misinterpret the symptoms and changes, which follows a change to a healthier
metabolic life style. Many of these symptoms and changes are unpleasant but they are
short in duration and sporadic and are a necessary part of the healing process. There
are several reasons why this happens:
1. The body and mind begin to show changes, because the quality of nutrients
coming into the body are of a higher quality than the tissues of which the
body is made of. The body then begins to discard the lower grade materials
to make room for the superior materials
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2. Indigestion, heartburn and burping usually start soon after you are on the
program. This often indicates that you have been deficient of these nutrients
for a long time. The body's digestion almost always improves.
3. Suppressed body functions often will be stimulated to detoxify, sometimes
inducing colds, diarrhea, fevers, swelling, ache, boils and vomiting. These are
temporary and are part of the healing process. The body will return to at least
the same level of health as before if not superior.
4. Nervousness, headaches, fatigue, irritability and depression often happen
when you cut out the artificial stimulants such as sugar, chocolate, coffee,
tea, soda, tobacco, caffeine or drugs. It is important to get rest and sleep.
Once the artificial stimulants are eliminated, the body is ready for the
building process.
5. Skin eruptions, boils or acne. The skin is the largest eliminating organ, so the
concept of toxins coming out through the skin is easily understood, even if it
is hard to face.
6. Aches pains and arthritis will often get stirred up, even if you have not been
suffering with it for years. This happens as the body is cleansed.
This sounds discouraging but, the healing crisis doesn't last very long and the benefits
of cleansing the body of these toxins and disease elements are vitally important. It is
always better to go through the small healing crisis than a major health crisis.
Program Failure
We have observed that approximately 3% of cancer victims do not respond well.
In a careful review of those individuals, we have found one or more reasons which
account for this:
1. Those who insist on playing doctor and use a little of everything in their
metabolic program.
2. Those who suffer from other conditions such as congestive heart failure,
Ascites (fluid collection in the lungs or abdomen), broken bones, biological
warfare infections etc.
3 Enzymes Inhibitors -  If the person carefully follows our Program for 3 cycles
and does not become toxic, something is wrong. The physician should
diligently search for the blocking agent and resolve the cause, which is
usually root canals, cavitations, fear syndrome, heavy metals such as
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mercury, aluminum, copper, iron, cadmium, lead, etc., or man created
biological warfare agents such as anthrax, tularemia, hepatitis A, B  and/or C,
brucellosis, eboli, liver blockage etc.
4 Parasite Syndrome -  We have a multitude of parasites attacking us each day.
From the microscopic creatures distributed to us in our water, food and air to
the Establishment creatures in white coats in the local hospital. The disease
causing parasite invasion into our society is also caused by the "open door -
unlimited immigration and invasion from dirty, filthy and contaminated third
world hoards promoted by the wicked diabolical Establishment. This
genocide of our people is ever ongoing and never ceasing.
History tells us of another time when the Establishment's medical community used
parasites to commit genocide. They use microscopic parasites now. Then they used
big parasites. George Washington was murdered by physicians who used large


 of Consciousness, one
can see that the process going on in consciousness at 180 HEALING AND RECOVERY
this energy level is that of entrapment. Within con
sciousness at this level, once a person wants some
thing, that wanting begins to dominate. The desiring
ness and wantingness run the person.Temporary grati
fication fails to suffice because of the negativity of the
field, and leads to endless frustration, wanting, and crav
ing. There is no completion, no feeling of finality, and
no feeling of happiness; there are only enslavement
and sexual addiction.
True happiness does not prevail until one reaches
the higher energy fields; therefore, trying to find happi
ness through the endless creation of satisfaction and
the cycling of desire creates frustration. Frustration
feels good when it is temporarily satisfied. It feels good
when one stops banging one's head against the wall,
but that is not the same thing as happiness. The desir
ingness and cravingness continue. It is because of this
physicality and the energy field that all the moral ques
tions arise.
Why do religion and morality address this kind of
energy field, and why is it called 'carnal'? Lower-energy
sexuality is held in mind in a lower viewpoint, and
therefore the whole question of morality then address
es itself to that which is carnal. Carnality arises from
looking down on one's animal nature instead of accept
ing it, being happy with it, being grateful for it, and say
ing it is intrinsically beautiful when it is not judged or
held in a degrading manner.
How does one get out of this cycle to experience
sexuality from a much different energy field and get
relief from it? How does one let go of being 'at the
effect of' or controlled or dominated by this instinct 181 SEXUALITY
and run by the repetitive recycling of it? How can one
view sexuality from a different energy field so that it is
experienced as a totally positive experience?When it is
held and viewed from a different level of conscious
ness, all the questions and problems begin to disap
pear. Then there are no such things as manipulation,
withholding, frustration, or being run by desire, danger,
and resentment. There is no feeling of lack if the desire
is not fulfilled. Desire creates the fear that it will not be
fulfilled, or grief that is has not been, or apathy, anger,
frustration, or self-blame.
The bottom of the Map shows that guilt is accom
panied by self-hatred. Holding sexuality from this level
links to a view of the world of sin and suffering, of
hopelessness and sadness. From a lower viewpoint, the
whole subject of sexuality becomes frightening.
Sex becomes competitive when it is used in a
seductive manner, or.in a manipulative energy field of
competition. Used as a symbol of status, sexual attrac
tion becomes an illusory 'power' symbol, and the
adornment of the human also becomes a symbol ofsta
tus and another way of controlling, manipulating, and
trying to influence one's sense of self-worth. Worry,
anxiety, shame,wantingness, and resentment arise from
this energy field, which often leads to hatred. Thus,
there are stabbings, violent murders, and suicides based
on the infatuation, seduction, and manipulation of one
by another, along with the triangulations of the situa
tions and the unconscious exploitations that occur
based on this desiringness and attractiveness. The
denial about this is visible, along with the contempt
(e.g.,'trollop', 'whore','bitch',etc., or carnal rap music). 182 HEALING AND RECOVERY
There is also pridefulness about sexual morality,
which is seen as contempt, denial, or religious conflict.
Prideful people often hold all sexuality from a con
temptuous 'looking down their nose' viewpoint and
see anyone who indulges in that kind of activity as
being debased by a low animal nature. They presume
that everyone else is run by it in the same way they are.
People who hold contempt for sexuality are projecting
their own way of being with it onto others and saying,
"Aren't they carnal? Aren't they animal?"
In contrast with such views, high-energy sex, with a
different energy field and a different way of being with
it, then transcends all these problems-competition,
frustration, fright, guilt, regret, worry, and anxiety. How
can we imagine enjoying ourselves in a human endeavor
that is taking place in this whole energy field while
secretly feeling that God is probably going to pUnish us
for it because the view of God that emerges out of this
field is punitive? We are certainly separated from Him,
and if we get any enjoyment or happiness, very likely
there is expectation or retaliation in the end.
Some people cannot stand the intensity of this con
flict between a driving biological urge, a psychological
need, and religion, so they just avoid it altogether and
via atheism, which just eliminates the guilt.They have
to either let go of their view of God and religion, or let
go of their sexuality. For some people, this is an impos
sible conflict to resolve, and many of them end up as
atheists because there is no way for them to handle
their humanness and their views of God.
How does one move out of being run by that con
flict in order to experience these experiences from a 183 SEXUALITY
different energy field? We will contrast it with an energy
field of lovingness, with sexuality as an expression of
lovingness, as a sense of aliveness, and of being with
the truth of that which one is. In order to have that
kind ofexperience, one has to let go of the lower energy
field in which sex is really experienced as a local phys
ical phenomenon. Then there are all kinds of preoccu
pation with anatomy, such as men's preoccupation
with their fitness as a sexual partner, and women's
focus on the physical attributes of the body.
Along with the physicality, there are emotionality
and sentimentality. Emotionality plus physicality is the
expression of love-the'mad, passionate' embrace
and the expression of the emotionality of wanting
ness and desiringness. "Oh, how I want you! ""Oh, how
I crave you! ''''Oh, how I must have you," and the thrill
ofall that is what the movies and the media often por
tray. Ifone lets go of those perceptions, what kind of
experience is possible? What kind of experience
would happen if sex were no longer just local or a
negativity? How would it be perceived ifit happened
out of the heart, out of an energy field of 500, out of
the space of being with the reality and the truth of
that which one is?
First, it is necessary to talk about how to let go of
this driven energy field, how to avoid being run by it,
how to experience sex without conflict, and how to
transcend the cravingness ofthis energy field that causes
all the problems. How can we experience it from a
much higher level?
There is a technique that has worked with weight
problems, with pain, and with a great variety ofillnesses. 184 HEALING AND RECOVERY
The basic principle works the same no matter what the
situation is. When the energy, feeling, expression, or
desire comes up, first, let go of labeling it or calling it
anything. Let go of the fantasies, images, and pictures,
and instead, allow the experience of what it is and the
sensations of it to occur. By letting go of resisting them,
they progressively diminish. The solar plexus energy
fields of desiringness, cravingness, and wantingness
eventually run out.
When looking at wantingness, it is apparent that it
is not really a pleasurable bxperience. It is not pleas
ant to stand in front of the store window, looking at
what is inside with a feeling of wanting, desire, and
frustrated craving. Ifwe look at it and cancel the con
tent of the 'what', whether it is diamonds, a fur coat,
or someone else's body, we realize that the experi
ence itself is unpleasant. To want and not have, espe
cially at this moment, is unpleasant. To want a steak:
and smell it cooking but not be able to eat it is really
frustrating. If a steak is held in front of a dog's nose
and he is not allowed to eat it, what is he experienc
ing? Is he experiencing happiness? Is he glad to be
alive? Ifthis continues long enough, the dog will end
up with anger and rage at the frustration of his desir
ingness. It is not a pleasant feeling.
The illusion is that it is the desire itself that brings
sex into our life.Actually, the opposite is true.The want
ingness and desiringness are blocking sex from coming
into our life, as well as the full enjoyment of it when it