 Pershing rockets
in [the German federal state] Baden-Wuerttemberg had only compromised the sex
lives of the Germans, they would have been gone a long time ago."164
Der Spiegel generated its own "grotesque street ballads," like the story "of the
Munich German teacher, infected with AIDS through mere French kissing. 'I didn't
even have sex with him,' the 26-year old said, bewildered. She cannot work anymore
and is waiting for death." Or a woman from Dusseld orf, who purportedly destroyed
her life during a holiday adventure in Portugal and lamented, "I only slept with him
once."J6s
These stories clearly impede the search for truth, because they suggest that
the conditions illustrated are true, although nobody has verified the facts in
question-and much speaks for the fact that the illustrated conditions do not
represent the truth.
AID S Is Not a Sex ually-Transm itted Disease
And so, the simple and yet "politically incorrect truth is rarely spoken out loud:
the dreaded heterosexual epidemic never happene d," Kevin Gray, of the US magazine
Details reported to his readers' in early 2004.166 The "degree of epidemic" in the
population of developed nations has remained practically unchanged. In the USA,
for example, since 1985, the number of those termed HN-infected has remained
stable at one million people (which corresponds to a fraction of one percent of the
populatio n). But if HN were actually a new sexually transmitted virus, there should
have been an exponential rise (and fall) in case number s.167
117 Chapter 3
Additionall y, in wealthy countries like the USA and Germany according to official
statistics, poppers-consuming homosexuals have always made up around 50% of all
AIDS patients, and intravenous drug users about 30%-a further seven percent are
both. With this, almost all AIDS patients are men168 who lead a self-dest ructive
lifestyle with toxic drugs, medications, etc. In contrast, the official statistics say that
in poor countries:
- a much larger proportion of the population has AIDS
-men and women are equally affected and
-primaril y, malnourished people suffer from AIDS169
This clearly shows that AIDS symptoms are triggered by environmental factors
like drugs, medications and insufficient nutrition. And it clearly speaks against the
presumption that a virus is at work here "that moves like a phenomenon of
globaliza tion-just like data streams, financial rivers, migration waves, jetplanes
fast, borderless, and incalculable," as the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit urgently
warned on its front page in 2004.170
Such a pathogen would inevitably have to attack all people in all countries of the
world equally: men and women, straight and gay, African and German�and not, as
statistics reveal, in a racial and gender-biased way, attacking certain populations at
different rates. In this context, Details writer Gray mentions a joke which made the
rounds in the New York City Department of Health when the accumulation of AIDS
statistics began: "What do you call a man who [says he] got AIDS from his girlfriend?
A liar!"171
In fact, the largest and best-conc eived studies on the subject of sex and AIDS
show that AIDS is not a sexually transmit ted disease. 172 173 174 The fact is glaringly
obvious in the most comprehens ive paper on this topic: Nancy Padian's 1997 study
on seroconversion rates among couples, published in the American Journal of
Epidemiology with an observation period of ten years (1985 -1995). In it, not a
single case could be uncovered in which an HIV negative partner eventually became
"positive" (or "seroconverted") through sexual contact with his or her HIV positive
partner. That is to say, the observed transmission rate was zero.175
118 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
Stem 18/1987
119 Chapter 3
23 April 1984: Gallo's TV Appear ance
Carves the Virus Dogma in Stone
American virologist Robert Gallo and US Health Minister Margaret Heckler
stepped in front of the cameras on 23 April1984, with an important message: "Today
we add another miracle to the long honor roll of American medicine and science.
Today's discovery represents the triumph of science over a dreaded disease. Those
who have disparaged this scientific search-those who have said we weren't doing
enough-have not understood how sound, solid, significant medical research
proceeds. "176
The media immediately passed the news on to their audiences, without
questioning what kind of "medical research" had led these scientists to believe what
would soon become the dogma of the AIDS establishment: that AIDS can only occur
in the presence of a viral infection, and that the virus dramatically destroys the
patient's helper cells (T cells). Gallo and Heckler then promised that an AIDS vaccine
would be ready by 1986.177
The public is still waiting for this promised vaccine. And the rest of us who have
questioned the HN = AIDS theory are still asking for evidence of Gallo's thesis that
a virus is involved in the onset of AIDS symptoms like the rare cancer Kaposi's
sarcoma, the lung disease PCP, herpes zoster, the deficiency-caused tuberculosis,
and a growing number of other diseases and disorders added to the "AIDS-related"
list yearly. Neither can the AIDS establishment explain why even AIDS patients in
the end-stage have very few helper cells said to be "infected" with what is termed
HN (although the orthodoxy precisely alleges that HN attacks and kills these T
cells). For this reason, the collapse of the immune system cannot be plausibly
explained by the HN = AIDS theory either. In 1985, the specialist publication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences drew attention to this helper T cell
"paradox."178
Gallo's papers were first printed in the journal Science weeks after the press
conference. Thus, prior to his spectacular TV appearance, and for some days
afterwards, nobody was able to review his work. This presented a severe breach of
professional scientific etiquette, especially as review later showed that Gallo's studies
did not deliver any proof for the virus thesis.179
But nobody opposed these very serious breaches of public trust. Instead, Gallo
cast himself-surfing on the global wave of virus panic-as an infallible researcher.
And the journalists believed him, so this virus-dr iven AIDS plan quickly embedded
itself in the media, and from this time onwards it would drive all public information
on AIDS. The words "virus," "cause," and "AIDS" were inseparably linked-and the
world believed that AIDS is contagious. Scientific journalists around the globe were
120 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
"The probable cause of AIDS has been found," asserted US microbiologist Robert Gallo at a press
conference on 23 April 1984 (at his left, then American health minister Margaret Heckler).
Source: TV documentary "AIDS-The Doubt" by Djamel Tahi, broadcasted on German Arte
Television, 14 March 1996.
thrilled to have a great story about a sexually transmitted epidemic, not to mention
a brave medical hero and savior in Robert Gallo.
The fact that most of the world fell for Gallo's theory hook, line and sinker was
confirmed in an investigation by Steven Epstein. The sociologist analyzed AIDS
reports in leading specialist magazines in the opinion-shaping time from 1984 -
1986. It was shown that, among published texts referencing Gallo's Science paper,
the proportion that described the virus = AIDS hypothesis as a fact jumped from 3%
to 62% between 1984 and 1986.
"Expressions of doubt or skepticism [of the virus thesis]-let alone support for
other hypotheses-were [in contrast] extraordinarily rare throughout this period
from 1984 to 1986," Epstein argues.180 "Findings such as these certainly support
[culture critic Paula] Treichler's claim-that Gallo and his close associates established
a network of citations that served to create the impression of greater certainty than
Gallo's own data warrant ed. In circular fashion, each article points to a different one
121 -
Chapter 3
as having provided the definite proof; the buck stops nowhere."181 This had a huge
influence on the mass media (and with it on public opinion), which typically merely
regurgitates information printed in Nature, Science or other specialist journals. 1B2
New York Tim es. Chief Medical Rep orter Altm an's Cozy
Rela tionship With Epidemic Author ities
The reports of much of the mass media also influenced the content of scientific
journals, according to a study published in 1992 in the New England Journal of
Medicine. Even top scientists trust mass media sources like the New York Times, 183 a
paper that often serves as the measure for other mass media. That is why editors
often ask American journalists pitching their story ideas, "Has the New York Times
broken the story yet?"184
But, how objective and sound was the New York Times' coverage of AIDS? Epstein
also investigated this and found that in the specialist publicat ions between


 completely before
refrigerating.The second method is the traditional method of using a medium to lar ge
saucepan with two parts water to one part rice. Allow about 50 minutes.
1 cup uncooked short- or long-grain brown rice
2 cups water or vegetable stock
In a medium saucepan bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Add the rice and
wait for the water to come to a boil again. Turn the heat down to a simmer
and cover for 45 minutes. Remove from heat and leave alone for 5 minutes
before serving.
The third method is the easiest and produces a perfect rice every time—
the rice cooker. For those of you who are always on the go, a rice cooker is
a must-have item on the E2 Diet. Turn it on and walk away. Allow 30
minutes.
1 cup uncooked short- or long-grain brown rice
1¼ cups water or vegetable stock
Place rice and water into the rice cooker, and push the start button. The
rice cooker will automatically turn of f when the rice is done. Dig in!
Finally, for those of you who have zero time in your day, there is now a
precooked brown rice in most freezer sections. Whole Foods makes a 365
brand precooked brown rice that can be ready lickity split. Allow 3 minutes
in a microwave and 6 minutes on a stove top.
In Micr owave:
Put desired amount of 365 brand rice in a microwave-safe dish. Cook on
high for 1½ to 2 minutes per cup of rice. Let stand for 1 minute. Remove
and serve.
On Stove T op:
To maintain moisture while heating, add 1–2 tablespoons water and keep
covered. Heat rice on medium-low heat in a saucepan or skillet. Stir
frequently until heated through (about 5–7 minutes per cup of rice).
E2 Dinner  PlatesAn E2 dinner plate is a meal of plant-savvy foods that complement each
other well in taste, texture, and presentation.
Dinner plates were a big hit during the original Engine 2 Pilot Study, in
which we of fered fourteen dif ferent combinations. Here are five that
complement each other wonderfully.
They also make great leftovers when placed in a green leafy wrap,
toasted pita, or corn taco.
E2 Black Beans and Rice
This is a mainstay dinner dish that is as basic as they come and, oh, so
good. Just like my morning bowl of cereal, I’ve been eating this meal for
more than three decades. This is also a great meal to serve when you’re
having extra guests over for dinner.
Serve with healthy chips or warm corn tortillas.
Serves 3 to 4
2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
1 to 1½ cups water or vegetable stock
1 tablespoon Bragg Liquid Aminos
1 teaspoon chili powder
2 to 3 tomatoes, chopped
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 can water chestnuts, drained
1 cup corn, fresh, frozen, or canned
2 red, yellow, or green bell peppers, seeded and chopped
1 bunch cilantro, rinsed and chopped
1 avocado, peeled and sliced
3 cups cooked E2 Brown Rice (see page 175)
Salsa (see page 240) or tamari to taste
Heat the beans with water or stock, Bragg’ s, and chili powder. Place the
chopped vegetables and cilantro in individual bowls. To serve, place several
big spoonfuls of brown rice onto lar ge plates and ladle beans on top. Add
generous handfuls of chopped vegetables, cilantro, and avocado on top of
the beans. Add salsa or tamari to taste.
Variations:
Drizzle with E2 Sour Cream (see page 239).Use pinto or kidney beans in place of black beans.
Red Beans over  Quinoa with Kale
For our honeymoon, Jill and I hiked the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, the
religious citadel of the Incan Empire. During the four -day excursion, hikers
are required to hire porters, a guide, and a cook. We requested plant-strong
meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and our helpers ably rose to the
occasion.
Our guide, Fisher, told us about the holy grain that the Incan warriors
used for stamina and strength—quinoa, which is a cousin to green leafy
vegetables and wonderfully high in protein. We had this for dinner one
night with red beans and greens and it put a kick in our step the next day.
Serves 2 to 4
4¾ cups water
2 cups quinoa, rinsed in a mesh sieve
1 onion, chopped
2 bay leaves
1 clove garlic, minced
2 green bell peppers, seeded and chopped
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
2 cans kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 bunch kale, rinsed and coarsely chopped
For Cooking Quinoa:
Bring 3¾ cups of the water to a boil. Add the rinsed quinoa, stir once,
and cover. Cook on medium heat for 25 minutes. If any water remains, cook
uncovered for a few minutes longer. The quinoa should not be soggy.
Remove from heat, and let the quinoa sit covered for 10 minutes. Fluf f
gently with a fork.
For Kidney Beans:
Sauté the onion and bay leaves on medium heat in a sprayed saucepan
for 5 minutes, until the onions are translucent. Add the garlic and bell
peppers, and cook for 5 minutes, until the peppers soften. Add the thyme,
vinegar, beans, and remaining 1 cup of water, and cook on low heat for 5minutes, until broth thickens. You can speed this process by mashing the
beans a few times with a potato masher.
For Cooking Kale:
Place coarsely chopped kale with ¼ cup of water in a lar ge covered pot
on medium heat. Cook the greens for 3–5 minutes, stirring occasionally,
until wilted and tender. Serve on a plate with each ingredient nestled side by
side.
Variation:
For Fir e Cadets during W eek One. Add cooked fish or chicken to the
dinner plate before serving.
 To rinse quinoa, use a coffee filter or handheld mesh strainer
with small holes because the grains ar e very small.
E2 POP QUIZ
Q: Which has more cholesterol, a 3-ounce piece of red meat, or a 3-
ounce piece of chicken breast, or a 3-ounce piece of tuna?
A: The red meat, chicken, and fish all have the same amount of
cholesterol—80 milligrams.
Tofu Steaks and Mushr ooms with Mashed Potatoes and Gr een Beans
These steaks have all the taste and texture of a five-star steakhouse
restaurant, but you won’ t have a food hangover the next morning, nor will
you be doing any permanent damage to your arteries. Serve tofu steaks and
vegetables side by side on lar ge dinner plates.
Serves 2 to 3
1 pound extra-firm tofu, drained and cut into 6 slices
8 ounces sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
Cracked pepper
1 cup arugula or baby spinach2 green onions, thinly chopped
10 small red potatoes, scrubbed and halved
½ cup milk substitute
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, chopped
2 16-ounce cans green beans (or 1 pound frozen or fresh)
1/8 cup water
1 tablespoon Bragg Liquid Aminos
2 tablespoons home-toasted sesame seeds
For T ofu and Mushr ooms:
Press the tofu with a kitchen towel to remove excess water. Place the
tofu and mushrooms in a lar ge nonstick skillet. Season with soy sauce and
pepper. Cook together on medium heat for 10 minutes, turning the tofu once
to ensure even browning. Place the cooked steaks and mushrooms over a
handful of fresh arugula or spinach on a dinner plate. Sprinkle the steaks
with green onions. Reserve the skillet for the green beans.
For Mashed Potatoes:
Steam the potatoes for 10 minutes, until tender. Place in a lar ge bowl,
and mash with the milk substitute, rosemary, and pepper.
For Gr een Beans:
Cook the beans on medium heat in a covered skillet with water for 4
minutes or until tender and bright green in color. Season with Bragg Liquid
Aminos. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
 Double the tofu r ecipe and save for futur e tacos, salads, and
quick snacks.
Roasted Bell Peppers, Baked Sweet Potatoes, and Galloping Gr eens
with Cashew Sauce
This dinner plate is bursting with so much color (and so many antioxidants),
you’ll think you’ve been jettisoned into a rainbow. The strong, salty flavor
of mustard greens is deliciously paired with the buttery sweetness of sweet
potatoes.I love roasting bell peppers. My favorite method is using a gas burner
cranked up to high and turning the peppers with tongs. When completely
blackened, immediately place them under cold water and, using your
fingers, peel of f the black outer skin until a glistening, slick underbelly
reveals itself.
Spruce up the galloping greens with a cashew or walnut tamari sauce.
Both are Engine 2 favorites. Derick loves these sauces so much he’ s been
caught putting them on his breakfast cereal.
Serve vegetables side


 place of the
potentiometer.) Make sure you have good batteries installed. Test
the circuit by briefly touching the Probe to the Handhold. The
speaker should produce a sound like popping corn. If it does not,
check that your alligator clips are not bending the spring
terminals so much that other wires attached there are loose.
Finally, turn switches OFF.
Making Test Plates
This is the box you attach to the basic Syncrometer  circuit.  It
has test plates to put your test substances and tissue samples on.
The wiring in it is arranged so that you can test for a toxin in a
product, as well as search in yourself. This means you can search
for Salmonella  in the milk or cheese you just ate, not just for
Salmonella  in your stomach.
Only if the resonant frequency of an item on one plate is
equal to the resonant frequency of an item on the other plate will
the entire circuit oscillate or resonate! This implies the two
plates have something in common. By putting a known pure
sample on one plate you can reliably conclude the other sample
contains it if the circuit resonates.
You may build a test plate box into a cardboard box (such as
a facial tissue box) or a plastic box. Here are the instructions for
the cardboard box model.
Test Plates Parts List
•Stiff paper.
•Aluminum foil.
•A facial tissue box is easiest. A plastic project box, about
7” x 4” x 1½,” makes a more durable product, but requires a
drill, and you should discard any metal lid it comes with.BIOELECTRONICS
461•3 bolts (tapered heads) about 1 inch long, 1/8 inch diame ter
and 6 washers and nuts to fit.
•toggle switch with OFF-ON positions.
•Alligator clip test leads.
Test Plates Assembly
Cut two 3-1/2 inch squares out of stiff paper such as a milk
carton. Cover them with 4½ inch squares of aluminum  foil,
smoothed evenly and tucked snugly under the edges. You have
just made yourself a set of open capacitors. Turn the box upside
down and draw squares where you will mount them at the ends of
the box. Don't actually mount them, to save wear and tear on
them, until the rest of the box is complete.
Mount the ON OFF switch on the front of the box, under neath
the right hand plate. Line it up so ON is downward and OFF is
up. (An electronics shop can determine this for you at the time of
purchase.) Label the box with ON and OFF signs.
Two bolts will be reserved for the plates. The third bolt is
used as a terminal where the current from the oscillator circuit
will arrive. Make a hole on the side of the box, near the left hand
plate and mount the bolt so it sticks half way inside and halfway
outside the box. It does not matter whether the head  is inside or
outside. Tighten it there with a nut  on each side of the box. Label
it TERMINAL. It merely means connecting place.
Mark the center of each square that you drew and each ca-
pacitor you built. Pierce first with a pin; follow with a pencil
until a round hole is made at the center. Mount each plate with a
bolt, fastening it below with a nut. Washers are optional.
The left side connection (terminal) gets attached to the left
plate (bolt) with an alligator clip. Use another clip to attach the
same left plate (bolt) to the ON OFF switch (there are two con-
nections, use either one). Finally attach the ON OFF switch
connection you didn't use to the right plate (bolt). Make sure theTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
462connections at the switch are not touching each other; you might
tape them to guard against this.
All these connections should be checked carefully to make
sure they are not touching others accidentally. But if you leave
the box open so you can see any problems and use clear tape
around connections to prevent accidental touching to the wrong
connection, it should work OK.
Finally, trace your current. It comes  in from the Syncrome ter
at the main terminal on the left. It is brought to the left plate.
When the switch is ON it is simultaneously brought to the right
plate. Notice that the plates are not connected to anything else.
They are simply capacitors, letting current in and out momen-
tarily and at a rate that is set by the frequency of the oscillator
circuit, about 1,000 hertz. This frequency goes up as the resis-
tance (of the circuit or your body) goes down.
The probe  and handhold  allow you to include yourself in the
Syncrometer  circuit. You grasp these when testing. This makes
you part of the circuit.
The speaker lets you “listen” to the current. As resistance
drops, current goes higher and frequency goes up. As frequen cies
go higher in the circuit, pitch goes higher. You will be comparing
the sound of a standard “control” current with a test current.
Using The Syncrometer
Fill a saucer with cold filtered tap water. Fold a paper towel
four times and place it in this dish. It should be entirely wet.
Cut paper strips about 1 inch wide from a piece of white,
unfragranced, paper towel. Dampen a paper strip on the towel
and wind it around the copper  pipe handhold  to completely cover
it. The wetness improves conductivity and the paper towel keeps
the metal off your skin.BIOELECTRONICS
463•Start with the test plate switch at OFF.
•Turn the control knob (potentiometer) on, and to near
maximum.
•Touch each p late with the probe, while holding the copper
pipe with one hand. Only the left plate should give you a
sound from the speaker. Turn the test plate switch ON.
Now both plates should give you a sound when the probe
touches them.
•Turn the test plate switch OFF again.
•Pick up the handhold, squeeze it free of excess water.
•Pick up the probe  in the same hand, holding it like a pen,
between thumb and forefinger.
Dampen your other hand by making a fist and dunking your
knuckles into the wet paper towel in the saucer. You will be
using the area on top of the first knuckle  of the middle finger  or
forefinger to learn the technique. Become proficient with both.
Immediately after dunking your knuckles dry them on a paper
towel folded in quarters and placed beside the saucer. The de-
gree of dampness of your skin affects the resistance in the cir cuit
and is a very important variable that you must learn to keep
constant. Make your probe  as soon as  your knuckles have been
dried (within two seconds) since they begin to air dry further
immediately.
With the handhold  and probe  both in one hand press the
probe against the knuckle  of the other hand, keeping the knuckles
bent. Press lightly at first, then harder, taking one half second.
Repeat a half second later, with the second half of the probe at
the same location. There is an additive effect and you get two
chances to listen to the current. All of this takes less than two
seconds. Don't linger  because your body will change and your
next probe will be affected.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
464Subsequent probes are made in exactly the same way. As you
develop skill, your probes will become identical. Plan to
practice for one or two hours each day. It takes most people at
least twelve hours of practice in order to be so consistent with
their probes that they can hear the slight difference when the
circuit is resonant.
For reference you may wish to use a piano. The starting
sound when you touch down on the skin should be F, an octave
and a half above middle C. The sound rises to a C as you press to
the knuckle  bone, then slips back to B, then back up to C-sharp as
you complete the second half of your first probe. If you have a
multitester you can connect it in series with the handhold  or
probe: the current should rise to about 50 microamps. If you have
a frequency counter the frequency should reach 1000 Hz. You
should arrive at C-sharp just before the probe becomes painful.
Two things change the sound of the probes even when your
technique doesn't change.
1.The patch of skin chosen for probing will change its prop-
erties. The more it is used, the redder it gets and the higher
the sound goes when you probe. Move to a nearby loca tion,
such as the edge of the patch, when the sound is too high to
begin with, rather than  adjusting  the potentiome ter.
2.Your body has cycles which make the sound go notice ably
higher and lower. If you are getting strangely higher sounds
for identical probes, stop and only probe  every five
minutes until you think the sound has gone down to stan-
dard. This could take five to twenty minutes. Learn this
higher sound  so you can avoid testing during this period.
You may also find times when it is impossible to reach the
necessary sound without pressing so hard it causes pain. You
may adjust the potentiometer if that helps.BIOELECTRONICS
465All tests are momentary


 cover up the way ego creates separation, however, as it asserts
“I” over “you.”Being in dharma heals separation by making “us” a reality, not as a unit
of two but as unified spirit. You are acting in dharma whenever you allow
rather than oppose. Allowing results in statements such as these:
Is there something you need? How can I help?
I see what’ s going on with you. I want you to know it’ s okay.
Go ahead. I’ll be here.
I know exactly what you mean.
You’re right.
When you come  from love, these are not just verbal formulas. Unity makes
another person’ s viewpoint completely clear; you understand someone who
is outside yourself. What make s this possible is the realizatio n that your
beloved isn’t outside yourself— she is only outside your ego, he is only
expressing needs that are not the core of himself. At the core you and your
beloved are not separate, since needs, likes and dislikes, desire s, and lack
are all outside the core.
Dharma is a vision of spiritual equality. When you per ceive life thr ough this vision, separation
ends.
Following your dharma in the deepest sense means not merely adhering
to rules of righteous conduct or obeying the laws set down by society—
there is no fixed  formula for finding the Way. Being in dharma signifies that
you have set a spiritual goal for yourself and are dedicated to reaching it. As
relationships today struggle to survive, they need a new reason to justify
themselves, which makes this broader meaning of dharma essential.
SURRENDER AND  “THE WAY”
When you first think of the word surrender, you probably associate it with
defeat. This is a natural association from the ego’s viewpoint. In any
situation where struggle dominates, no one is acting out of love, and it’s
inevitable that only one side can win. You only have to remember the last
argument you were in to realize  that arriving at a place of mutu al love was
the furthest thing from your mind.But there is another meaning to surrender, as you can remember from the
experience of falling in love. Falling in love allows you to surrender to what
you deeply desire, not what someone else is trying to impose. Imagine a
trivial incident: your mate asks you to help clean up the house when you are
watching TV or reading a book  you don’t want to break away from. How
do you frame this situation?
Ego frames it as “You want me to do something I prefer not to do. I’ll
decide whether to give in or not.” Spirit frames it as “I see that you need
me.” Notice that the outcome is not what is at stake. Whether or not ego
gives in, it is still framing the incident as a conflict. Its main concern is to
keep power on its side, therefore it must win the conflict. Winning means
either saying no and getting away with it or saying yes and feeling
magnanimous. The aim of both outcomes is to avoid defeat.
Spirit has no such ulterior motives. It acknowledges the other person’ s
need, but it neither takes respon sibility for that need nor opposes it. In this
way the other person is seen as real, because whenever you need something,
your need is your reality.
The only true need anyone has is to be seen as r eal.
A lot of the time we are lost in unreal needs. Your mate could be asking
you to clean house for dozens of reasons. She may be angry or feel upset
that household work is all left to her. She may feel demeaned, ignored,
overwhelmed, anxious, compulsive, controlling—or she may just need help
cleaning the house. The absenc e of ulterior motives is what marks spirit.
The neediness of an insecure ego doesn’ t get disguised by other tactics.
When you are in spirit you don’t feel the urge to manipulate, cajole, seduce,
demand, beg, or insist. You simply allow, and in that you make an open
space for love to flow.
Does this mean  that a “spiritua l” person always gets up from  TV or a
book to clean the house? No. Spirit never acts in a fixed way. In general, to
hear that someo ne you love needs you does result in fulfillin g the need.
There are certain  loving instincts that come naturally when you are in touch
with spirit:
You don’ t oppose.
You put feelings over results.You want to help. Service gives rise to feelings of joy.
You put another ’s wishes on the same plane as your own.
These instincts develop and mature through surrender over the years. But
if you go back again to the experience of falling in love, you will see that
these aren’ t learned responses. Love already contains them. Love
automatically means release from ego conflict and struggle. A single
experience of falling in love isn’t a complete release, since struggle
inevitably return s, but lovers get at least a glimpse of the Way. Whether
they can articulate it or not, this is what they discover:
It takes no ef fort to love.
The state of being has its own innate joy.
Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough.
Life is safe.
Flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live.
Resistance never really succeeds.
Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
These are the realizations that bring a person out of struggle. Struggle is
born of the ego’ s isolation; it ends when you can find the W ay and surrender
to its guiding force.
Struggle appears to be against others or against yourself, but in r eality it is always against
dharma. In dharma ther e is no struggle.
Since one of man’ s most prized qualities is his ability to strugg le against
adversity, a life of nonstruggle falls far outside our current worldview. Yet
to come from love obviously cannot be a struggle. How are the two
reconciled? The answer lies in free will. Humans can choose  to end the
struggle and come from love—every day this possibility is precisely what
you face in your relationship, for example. Marriage is a testing ground and
a mirror. It tests your willingness to believe in love as the solution. It
mirrors the beliefs you actually operate under, which are either in love or in
non-love. Strugg le and surrender are the two poles of free will. Because all
of us believe in love some of the time but not all, we are fated  to lead our
lives in conflict unless we find a way to resolve this dualism. Hence the
importance of dharma.
In the case of animals and plants, dharma operates automatically; there is
no need for self-doubt and questioning, and no chance of straying from thepath. Growth and behavior are both innate. The tiger has no remorse for its
predatory natur e, no empathy for its prey, no ability to change into a
peaceful grazer of grass if it wanted to. If tigers are to evolve into different
kinds of creatures, the move must occur to the whole species by increments
that take thousands of years.
In mode rn scientific terminolog y the unfolding of the genetic code that
makes a banyan tree different from a tiger lies at such a deep level within
cellular memory  that, short of dying, nothing a creature does in the way of
behavior can divert its preprog rammed DNA. In spiritual terminology, a
creature’ s dharm a is more powerful than any single individual; it upholds
life on a set path as long as a species is able to find a fit environment for its
survival.
Dharma operates for humans too, but in a way that allows for free will.
Each of us grows from a single fertilized egg into a matur e person as
dictated by our unique genetic code. Our genes put us on a timetable written
into our cells. Your first set of baby teeth did not stop coming  in because
you found their growth painful and cried; puberty was not hastened or
delayed by your emotional confusion.
Yet within this pattern set for our species, you have tremendous freedom
to act, to think, to feel. You make choices that influence your happiness far
beyond your prospects for survival. The fact that we are both determined
and free has been a puzzle for many centuries. The Vedas teach that human
beings are capable of personal  evolution, not just the evolution of the
species. A person who is motivated by anger, selfishness, distrust, and
jealousy always has a choice to evolve and achieve a new level where love,
compassion, forgiveness, and truth replace these lower drive s. In other
words, spirit responds to your vision of it, and the higher your vision, the
more you will evolve.
Choosing your own dharma determines completely how happy, successful, and loving you will be
in your lifetime.
By the standards of our culture, this is a startling statement, for we
believe in randomness, accident s, and unforeseeable influences. We do not
believe that spirit is constantly responding to our vision. On the path,
however, these random elements are a mask. There are no accide nts in spirit—everything happening around you is a reflection of your current spiritual
state. If your spiritual state is confused, anxious, and doubtful, then there is
limited power of dharma operating in your life. You are detached from the
natural laws that are meant to uphold each person


 is that it runs complet ely against the grain of normal love,
which is based upon relationship. The love that exists between
husband and wife is not the same as that between mother and child.
The dierence is based upon the type of relationship the two people
have. Where there is no relationship, it is hard to see how love can
ow.
In this case, though, Patrick had no relationship whatsoever with
the derelict. They were total strangers who had every reason to feel
suspicious and hostile toward each other. However idealistically one
may want to feel, a shambling, smelly man in raggedy clothes is an
object of love to practically nobody; usually he is an object of
revulsion whom we assiduously avoid in order not to be exposed to
feelings of fear and contempt.
But it is at the point where all relationship ceases that the
opportunity for unconditional love actually arises. When you have
no relationship to another person, you are automatically thrown
back upon yourself. The feelings that come out have no basis in
what you need or want from others—they simply come out. If I get
bumped in the street and feel angry, the emotion arises
spontaneously. I may feel guilty about it the next mom ent, but in
that split second it was the only choice my self could make. My level
of awareness did not oer me a better response. In Patrick’s case, his
level of awareness had leaped far beyond its normal limits; this
expansion dictated the response that spontaneously poured from
him. I imagine  his meditation on the park bench was not the sole
cause of this sudden change ; in India they speak of the “Yoga of
desperation,” a breakthrough into higher consciousness resultingfrom a predica ment so terrible that the psyche can nd no other
way out.
Whatever the precise mechanism, Patrick found himself in a state
transcending normal perception. Like a yer breaking through a
dense cloud layer to nd blue sky and brilliant sun above, he
discovered that to look at anything was to see it in the light of love.
He could not help himself, just as I could not help my anger on
being bumped in the street.
The rishis speak of unconditi onal love, in fact, as a transcendental
quality that becomes infused into the mind during meditation. When
the mind goes beyond normal waking awareness, the transcending
process brings  one in contact with unconditional love in its silent,
unmanifest state. “Unmanifest” means that this love is not directed
at anything; it simply vibrates within the nature of the silent
witness, like a radio signal silently waiting for a radio to pick it up.
At the end of meditation, the person returns to the waking state
bringing some of this transcendental quality into his everyday
consciousness. A new vibration has been added that alters, however
subtly, the person’s former awareness.
This explanation is a twist on the usual understanding of
unconditional love. By denition, you can love someone
unconditionally only if your love does not alter no matter what the
other person does. This aspect of “no matter what” implies a
superhuman eort of will. One cannot help but imagine a plaster
saint who returns rudeness, anger, jealousy, inconsideration, and
every other sort of unloving behavior with sweetness and light. For
all its apparent goodness, this situation smacks of self-denial and
even masochism.
The rishis’ version of unconditional love contains no eort at all.
A person who feels love “no matter what” is simply following his
nature. In truth, this is all that can be asked of anyone. Acting
according to your own level of awareness is inescapable. In order to
smile at the stranger who bumps into me on the street, I need to feel
like smiling; otherwise, my behavior will be calculated. As we saw
before, calculation is the primary strategy of the false self. It has to
calculate when to smile because it is too afraid to show theemotions actually being felt. Tact and diplomacy, which most of us
applaud as “nice behavior,” can also be seen as the subtle skill of
lying.
All of us are radiating our awareness out into the world and
bringing its reection back to us. If your awarenes s contains
violence and dread, you will meet those qualities “out there.” On
the other hand, if your awareness contains unconditional love, the
world, even the eyes of a derelict, will mirror that love. The curative
value of this kind of awareness is enormous, as I would like to
illustrate with a moving story told by R. D. Laing.
At the age of fourteen, a Scottish boy named Phillip came home
from school one day and found his mother on her bed in a pool of
blood. A long-term tuberculo sis patient, she had died from a sudden
hemorrhage in her lungs. Instead of consoling the boy and helping
him to overco me his shock and grief, Phillip’s father berated him,
telling him again and again that he had killed his mother by putting
her through the exhaustion of pregnancy, birth, and raising him.
This went on for two months. Then Phillip came home from school
to nd that his father had committed suicide.
Six months later, Laing came  across the boy in a Glasgow mental
ward, in a bizarre state of psychological and physical deterioration.
As Laing vividly recalls, “He smelled awful. He was incontinent of
urine and feces, given to staggering and walking peculiarly. He
gesticulated in strange ways without speaking, seem ed almost
completely self-absorbed, and could not care less about his
surroundings and the people in them.”
Although he was in the midst of doctors and nurses whose job
was to care for him, Phillip had pushed the limits of compassion. He
was too strange and disgust ing for anyone to be around for more
than a few minutes, much less to help. He had developed a stutter,
along with a peculiar collect ion of tics: blinks, darts of the eye, and
twitches in his cheeks, tongue, hands, and ngers. Worst of all was
his total I-could-not-care-less attitude, which had alienated the other
patients and turned the whole sta against him.
Two months in the hospital made little change in Phillip’s
condition. “There was no question of the diagnosis,” Laing recounts.“He was an acute (probably becoming chronic) catatonic
schizophrenic. When he had anything to say, it was clear that he
was hallucinated, very paranoid, and very deluded.” Laing felt
drawn to this shattered creature. Phillip had no remaining relatives
or family friends to take him in. That he would be put away for the
rest of his life was a foregone conclusion.
Instead, Laing took Phillip home with him, to his wife and three
children under the age of four. He made this extraordinary decision
because, when talking to Phillip alone in his oce, outside the
setting of a psychiatric ward, he noticed that the boy became
calmer. Phillip started to talk intelligibly, and although his talk was
about “crazy” things—his feeling that the ward was a gigantic
sphere with himself as a pin in the center, his visitations by
interstellar beings, his hallu cination that a black man’s voice was
speaking gibberish to him in the night—he did not seem completely
gone. His tics and twitches also subsided in Laing’s oce. For an
hour at least he controlled his bodily functions, and most telling of
all, a shadow of gratitude passed over his rigid features when Laing
oered to help him.
Laing had the insight that perhaps the doctors and nurses were
keeping  Phillip crazy simply by the way they felt about him. “Phillip
generated in everyone  who came near him mixed feelings of
revulsion, at the sight of him and the smell of him, and feeling sorry
for him, just because he was so repulsive, as well as at his evident
misery. The result was that hardly anyone could resist trying to
appear to him to be kind and loving, but eeing out of sight and
smell of him as quickly as possible—not because they could not
stand him, but for some other necessity.”
Phillip was being kept crazy because the attempt to love and care
for him was tinged with hypo crisy and he knew it. As soon as Laing
took the unheard-of step of bringing a catatonic schizophrenic into
his home, Phillip improved with astonishing speed. His incontinence
ended the mom ent he entered the house. Within a couple of weeks
he had stopped staggering, although he still shook. He began to talk
falteringly but coherently. Three months later he was well enoughto be moved into a foster home. The threat of a lifetime spent
locked up in a mental ward had been removed.
Laing did not use psychothe rapy on Phillip while he was under
his roof. The boy was treated honestly, without emotional
hypocrisy, which meant that what was good or bad about him was
reacted to as such. Fifteen years later, he returned to the house to
report his progress. As Laing puts it with a shade of dry wit, “He
was married, had two


  it’s written that we should be less
concerned about our own readiness, and more consistently aware of His.
There is a story in the Gospel of Thomas in which Jesus tells his disciples
to go into the countryside and “teach the gospel” (by which he meant
simply, “demonstrate love”). Wanting more specific direction, they ask him
what they should say, to which  he responds, “I’ll tell you when you get
there.”Think about that story in light of my scriptwriter friend. Her most
powerful preparation for a meeting with a TV executive would be,
obviously, to write the best script possible. But after that? Surrender the
meeting. Pray for whoever is going to be there. Ask that everything that
happens in the meeting serve  the highest creative possibility for all
concerned. Know that she doesn’ t have to decide in advance every word
she’s going to say at the meeti ng, because He Who lives within her will
reveal all things with a miraculous quality she can’t possibly formulate with
her rational mind.
Her greatest power lay in empty ing her mind of all thoughts— aiming for
the Zen “beginn er’s mind”—and  praying that they be replaced by His. Once
she’d done her work and had all the information she needed in her
conscious mind,  her subconscious could take it from there. Her mind could
formulate a pitch, but only her spirit could be inspired and inspire others.
In summation, there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be
positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass.
Amen.
OceanofPDF.comChapter 11
Job vs. Calling
One of the most positive transitions you can make is from viewing your
work as a job to viewing it as a calling. A job is an exchange of energy in
which you do a material task and someone provides money in exchange. A
calling, however, is an organic field of energy that emer ges from the
deepest aspects of who you are. It is the fulfillment of what God has created
you to be and do. Approaching your work as a job versus appro aching it as
a calling makes all the difference in whether or not you dwell in the
miraculous universe.
You have a calling simply because you are alive. You have a calling
because you are a child of God. You have a calling because you’re on this
earth with a divine  purpos e: to rise to the level of your highest creative
possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally,
psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more
beautiful place.
As you do this, your entire life becomes your ministry—a way to serve
God and to serve the world.

The best way to summon your  true calling is to put
yourself in service to God.

If you’re thinking of money only as something you get in exchange for
doing a job, then you’ll never be free of limited thought forms surrounding
money. We are heir to the laws that rule the world we identify with. If youidentify only with the material  plane, you place yourself at the effect of
pretty severe economic realities of scarcity and lack. If you identify with the
spiritual plane, you’re under no laws but God’ s.
“I’m looking for a job,” “I’m trying to figure out what I should do,” and “I
don’t know how I’m going to make ends meet” are sentences that confuse
the universe. A child of God doesn’ t have to “look for a job”; a child of God
doesn’ t have to “figure out what to do”; a child of God doesn’ t have to
worry about “how ends will meet.” A child of God is simply a magnet for
all things good. The you who thinks of life as a struggle, or a place where
you’re on your own, is not the real you. The real you already  has a God-
given function, and the universe is set up to support it.
The best way to summon your true calling is to put yourself in service to
God. The following daily prayer is from A Cours e in Miracles:  “Where
would you have me go? What would you have me do? What  would you
have me say, and to whom?”
While a job is separate from the rest of our lives, a calling is a fulfillment
of the rest of our lives. By striving to be the best we can be, we create the
internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we
want  to work, we want  to creat e, we want  to be productive  and serve others
and share our gifts with the world.
Often it is not external forms of obstruction that hold us back, but rather
internal ones. And nothing relea ses us internally more than the desire and
the willingness to serve.
The world can give you a job, and a job can be taken away. But a true
calling puts you in a career zone that cannot be taken away. It reflects your
willingness to do what you feel inwardly led to do in order to help heal the
world. The universe then registers your true substance, your true
seriousness, and your true purpose.
Some things you do will bring forth worldly wealth; other things you do
will not directly  bring forth wealth at all, but—being the right things to do
—will summon wealth miraculously from other sources.
Losing a job does not mean losing your calling, because as a personal
ambassador of God, you have been given a permanent assignment. You are
here to represent Him who sent you, and He does not change His mind
about you. You are never unemp loyed by God. And that’s true not just about
you; it’ s true about all of us.Anything that appears to separa te us from each other is not the deepest
level of our identity. We all have  different jobs, but the same ministry. Some
of us are technic ians, some of us are mathematicians, some of us are writers
and artists, some of us are salesp eople, some of us don’t even work as work
is define d by the world—but our value, individually, is determined not by
what we do but by the consciousness with which we do it.
We’re all here to be available channels for the love that heals all things. A
job takes a form,  but our ministry is content. Even if you lose your job, you
still have your ministry, because it is part of who you are. Your life has no
less value if you’re not employed as the world defines it. If you’re kind to
people, if you’re compassionate, if you pour your excellence into whatever
you’re doing, then you’re doing the job God sent you to do. From that will
emer ge the next form that’s needed to host the energies you’re bringing
forth.
Does that mean you don’t have to “look for a job” as the world defines it?
Of course you do! But you do it with a different consciousness. You don’t
show up for a job interview thinking, “How do I impress them? I really
need this job.” Rather, your process goes more like this:
1. You place your need for work in God’ s hands.
Surrendering a situation to God means surrendering your thoughts  about
it. You’re programming your mind to think thoughts that are the most
creative, positive, insightful, and beneficial. You’re not giving up
responsibility or turning your power over to something outside yourself;
you’re taking the highest  respons ibility for your circumstances, asking God
to make your mind a literal touchstone for miraculous breakthroughs. You
walk forward in confidence that God provides.
2. While alert to every opportunity that presents itself, you put
enthusiastic  ener gy into brainstorming and creating new
possibilities.
You remember that the universe is infinitely abundant, like an orchard
filled with fruit that’s just for you. But if you’re hung ry, you can’t simply
look at an orcha rd from the side of the road! The universe brought you theorchard; you yourself have to pick the fruit. You are willing to meet
opportunity with positivity and faith.
3. You pray and meditate, asking for internal guidance as to whom
to call, what to do, and so forth.
When you meditate and pray, you literally emit different brain waves. You
receive impulse s of insight and creativity that do not flow easily into an
anxious mind. You enter the internal temple, the engine room from which
you generate the probabilities of success. “I’m too anxious to meditate” is
one of the most self-sabotaging  things we can say. When we meditate, we
stop being  anxious.
4. You realize that you can’ t know what or where your next job
should be.
You trust that there is a perfect plan for the unfolding of your highest
good, which your rational mind cannot formulate. God’ s plan works, and
yours doesn’t. You cannot know how your part fits best into a larger plan
for the healing of the world, but God does. Your job is merely to open your
mind and open your heart so that a higher consciousness can then flow
through you.
5. Before you go to a job interview, audition, or meeting, you blast
every person you’re going to be with—and the situation itself—
with light and love.
Your goal becom es simply giving and receiving


 the chicken to the saucepan to
reheat.
6. To serve, place the chicken on plates.
Pour over the sauce and top with
almonds and sesame seeds.
Peanut Sauce with King
Prawns and Fragrant Rice
(Nigerian)
Serves 2–4
 250 g jasmine rice (or any otherfragrant rice)
 2 red bell peppers, seeds removed
 2 red fresh chilli peppers
 1 onion, chopped
 2½ cm ginger, crushed
 1 garlic clove
 10 ml water
 200 g large king prawns
 1 tbsp unsalted peanuts, roasted
 10 g fresh thyme, chopped
 15 g fresh coriander, chopped
 1 chicken stock cube
 ½ tsp salt
 ½ tsp black pepper
 1 tsp curry powder
1. Boil the rice using the cookinginstructions on the packet.
2. In a food processor, blend the red
peppers, chilli, onion, ginger, garlic
and water until smooth.
3. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and
simmer on a low heat for 15–20
minutes. Then add the prawns.
4. Blend the peanuts and herbs in a food
processor. Add to the sauce and mix
well.
5. Add the chicken stock cube, salt,
pepper and the curry powder. Mix and
cook for 10 minutes.
6. Spoon the rice onto a plate, top with
peanut sauce and serve.
Chilli Crab with Spinach(Singaporean)
This recipe is one of Singapore’s
national dishes. If you enjoy shellfish,
you’re going to love this crab recipe
made with rich-tasting tomato and chilli
sauce.
Serves 2–4
 1 tbsp ketchup
 125 ml water
 1 tbsp soy sauce
 1 tbsp tomato paste
 1 tsp corn flour
 1 tbsp sesame oil
 2 shallots, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed
 2½ cm ginger, crushed
 1 tbsp red chilli, crushed
 200 g baby spinach
 450 g crabmeat
1. In a medium bowl, mix the ketchup,
water, soy sauce, tomato paste and
corn flour.
2. Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the
shallots for 5 minutes.
3. Add the garlic, ginger and chilli and
cook for 1 minute. Add the spinach and
cook until just wilted, which takes
about 2 minutes.
4. Stir in the sauce and the crabmeat and
simmer over a medium heat, stirring
occasionally for 5 minutes. Serve withrice.
Wasabi Salmon Burgers
(Japanese)
Try cooking these over a barbecue. Add
some breadcrumbs to add hold. Perfect
for a summer’s day with any kind of
salad.
Serves 2–4
 2 tbsp soy sauce
 1 tsp wasabi powder (use more if
required)
 ½ tsp honey
 450 g salmon fillet, skinned 2 spring onions, chopped
 1 egg, lightly beaten
 2½ cm ginger, minced
 1 tsp sesame oil
 4 tbsp grape seed oil
1. Mix the soy sauce, wasabi powder and
honey in a small bowl until smooth. Set
aside.
2. Chop the salmon with a large knife into
5 mm pieces and transfer to a bowl.
Add the spring onions, egg, ginger and
sesame oil. Mix thoroughly.
3. Form the mixture into 4 burgers. The
mixture will be moist and loose, but it
holds together when the first side is
cooked.
4. Heat the grape seed oil in a non-stickfrying pan over a medium heat. Add the
burgers and cook for 5 minutes. Turn
and continue to cook until they are firm
and fragrant, which takes about 5
minutes.
5. Spoon wasabi sauce evenly over the
burgers and cook for a further 30
seconds.
Summer Couscous
(Israeli)
Serve hot or cold, with grilled fish or
chicken.
Serves 4
 225 g couscous
 300 ml boiling water 2 carrots, finely chopped
 2 celery stalks, finely chopped
 1 green pepper, chopped
 4 spring onions, chopped
 4 sprigs parsley, chopped
 50 g raisins
 4 tbsp olive oil
 Juice of ½ lemon
 1 garlic clove, crushed
 ½ tsp salt
 Black pepper
1. Place the couscous in a medium bowl
and add the boiling water. Cover and
let stand for about 20 minutes or until
the water has been absorbed and the
couscous has cooled slightly.2. Add the finely chopped vegetables,
herbs and raisins.
3. In a small bowl, mix the oil, lemon
juice, garlic, salt and pepper. Add the
mixture to the salad and toss to blend.
Ginger Fried Rice
I tend to vary the type of rice I use when
making this recipe. You can try this with
Thai, Jasmine or any other fragrant rice.
Add some more vegetables such as sweet
corn if preferred.
Serves 4–6
 3 tsp sesame oil
 2 eggs, beaten 6 spring onions, chopped
 2½ cm ginger, minced
 500 g long-grain brown rice, cooked
 150 g frozen peas
 100 g mung bean sprouts
 2 tbsp oyster sauce
1. Heat 1 tsp of sesame oil in a wok over
a medium heat. Add the eggs and
scramble. Transfer to a plate and set
aside.
2. Pour the remaining oil into the wok.
Add the spring onions and ginger and
stir fry for about 2 minutes until
fragrant. Add the rice and peas and stir
fry for about 4 minutes until hot and
beginning to stick to the wok.
3. Add the bean sprouts, oyster sauce andthe eggs. Stir fry, breaking up the eggs
for about 2 minutes. Serve
immediately.
Bengali Fish
A Bengali meal without fish is apparently
incomplete. Fish is prepared in the most
nutritious and delicious way to
complement any Bengali meal. Salt and
turmeric are the simplest marinade for
fish in Bengali cooking.
Serves 4
 1 kg cod fillets
 1 tsp turmeric
 6 tbsp mustard oil or grape seed oil 1 tsp salt
 4 fresh green chillies, chopped
 2½ cm ginger, crushed
 2 garlic cloves, crushed
 2 onions, chopped
 2 tomatoes, chopped
 425 ml water
 15 g fresh coriander, chopped
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C or Gas Mark
4.
2. Cut the cod into bite-sized pieces.
3. In a small bowl, mix the turmeric, half
the oil and salt together. Pour over the
fish. Place on a baking tray and bake
for 10 minutes. Remove and set aside.
4. In a food processor, blend the greenchilli, ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes
and remaining oil into a paste. Pour
into a saucepan and simmer for 10
minutes. Remove from the heat and
gently place the fish in the sauce
without breaking up the fish.
5. Return the saucepan to a medium heat.
Add the water and cook for 15–20
minutes.
6. Garnish with coriander and serve.
Lamb with Potatoes
(Delhi-
style)
Serves 4–6
 2 tbsp grape seed oil 2 onions, chopped
 5 garlic cloves
 400 g lamb, diced
 400 g tomatoes
 1 tbsp cumin
 1 tsp coriander
 ½ tsp turmeric
 ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
 3 tsp salt
 400 g potatoes, diced
 200 g red lentils
 700 ml water
1. Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the
onion, garlic and lamb for 15 minutes.
2. Add the tomatoes, cumin, coriander,
turmeric, pepper and salt. Cook on ahigh heat for 10–15 minutes.
3. Add the potatoes, lentils and water.
Simmer on a low heat for 1 hour and
10 minutes. Serve when cooked.
Chicken Kadai
(Indian)
This is one of my favourites because of
the mixture of spices and chilli. Kadai is
an Indian cooking pot that looks like a
wok, a handle on each side. Serve this
with naan bread, chappati, or perhaps
with basmati rice.
Serves 4
 2 tbsp grape seed oil
 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped
 2½ cm ginger, minced
 450 g skinless chicken breast, diced
 3 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
 1 tsp turmeric
 2 tsp garam masala
 ½ tsp chilli powder (or to your taste)
 Juice of ½ lemon
 1 tsp salt
 2 tsp coriander to garnish
1. Sauté the onion, garlic and ginger in oil
for 10 minutes.
2. Add the chicken, tomatoes, spices,
lemon juice and salt. Mix until the
chicken is thoroughly coated and sauté
for 5 minutes. Cover and simmer overa low heat for 45 minutes.
3. Garnish with coriander and serve.
Curried Lentils with Sweet
Potatoes and


—even after
strenuous activity—was a clear indication that Alan was pushing his bodytoo hard during competition. A s I expected, his BOL T score measured 15
seconds, meani ng that his breathing volume was much lar ger than
necessary. The breathlessness he experienced after exercise showed that his
body was struggling to compen sate. I explained to Alan that although he
was clea rly fit and capable of w inning races, he was literally su bjecting his
body to abuse. At the time, he was suf fering from a dry coug h and head
cold as a result of his exercise, but if he continued in the same way, the
ef fects of overbreathing might not always be so mild.
My adv ice to Alan was to adapt his cycling to the capabilities of his
body. First, he n eeded to increase his BOL T score to at least 35 seconds to
align his  breathi ng volume with his metabolic needs. I asked Alan to switch
to nasal breathin g during as mu ch of his training as possible, reverting to
mouth breathing only when absolutely necessary. Since the nose of fers a
smaller entry for breathing than  the mouth, nasal breathing se ts a limit to
the volu me of air taken into the lungs. Nasal breathing is a grea t barometer
for training intensity, and my objective was for Alan to match his exercise
to his capabiliti es by not pushi ng himself past the point whe re he could
maintain nasal breathing. This is a safe and easy-to-implement approach,
enabling a gradual but steady increase of BOL T score, which in turn allows
for a sensible increase in intensity and duration.
One small land-based mammal has managed to confound the
overwhelming evidence to support the negative ef fects of oxidative stress.
For the past few  decades, scientists have studied the naked mole rat—a
bald, blind creature that looks like a hot dog with teeth and lives for up to
twenty-eight years, almost eigh t times longer than any other rodent. The
naked mole rat lives in East Africa, where it is considered a pest by local
farmers as it burrows tunnels underneath fields and eats vegetable crops.
The brea thing rate of the naked  mole rat is very low in compa rison to
other ro dents, an d it lives in crowded colonies where there is little oxygen
and high levels of carbon dio xide. As such, the naked mole rat is an
excellent embod iment of the “less is more” theory of breathing. This might
also explain how, despite living  with high oxidative stress from a young
age, the naked mole rat maintai ns good health and longevity, and in all the
years this rather ugly animal has been studied, it has never been known to
develop cancer.  Even when scientists have injected the mole rat with
cancer -causing agents, the dise ase was resisted. Exactly why the nakedmole rat  is immune to cancer is  unknown, but some scientists are hopeful
that finding an answer may prov ide the key to unlocking a cure for humans.
Living congruently with nature’ s system of checks and balances seems to be
the key to a long and healthy lif e. The naked mole rat does this remarkably
well, given that researchers have discovered that the negative af fects of high
oxidative stress may be of fset by high carbon dioxide levels.
Maintaining Y our Fitness During Injury or Rest
The cost of an injury to an ath lete can be devastating. Not on ly does the
athlete have to endure the pain of the injury, but he or she also faces a drop
in m orale and the risk of decreased physical performance due to a lapse in
training. Although a few days’ r est from a regular exercise routine can lead
to improved performance, several studies have shown that a rest period of
around four weeks results in detraining ef fects on the body, including:
•  Increase in body weight
•  Increase in fat mass
•  Increase in waist circumference
•  Decrease of VO 2  peak
When you have worked so hard to increase VO 2  max and maintain your
fitness, the ef fects of detraining can be enormously disappointing,
especially when it becomes a recurrent event. For some, high-intensity
exercise may be the source of a repetitive cycle of injury and  detraining;
when th e body responds to in jury with inflammation, free radicals are
produced, which  may lead to further muscle damage. There is, however, a
way to prevent lapses in your regular routine, as well as maintaining fitness
if yo u suf fer an injury. The Oxygen Advantage program provides a solution
to both the risk o f injury and the  limits an existing injury may place on your
abilities. Practicing the Breathe Light to Breathe Right exercise along with
breath holds can help to increase VO 2  max and the oxygen-carryingcapacity of the b lood while reducing lactic acid and improving  blood flow.
This optimal combination mean s that partial fitness can be maintained even
in the case of injury or extended periods of rest.
A si gnificant bonus of the Oxygen Advantage program is that it can be
performed durin g rest or during  exercise, and does not require an athlete to
be injury -free. S ome of the ben efits of high-intensity exercise can even be
obtained by adding breath-hold exercises to a gentle walk. Improving the
way you  breathe during rest an d exercise will have positive repercussions
on y our general health as well as your athletic performance, r educing the
risk of injury and enabling you to perform beyond your previous limits.CHAPTER 11
I m p r o v e  O x y g e n a t i o n  o f  Y o u r  H e a r t
O n th e morning o f September 11, 2001, I received a phone call from my
wife, Sinead, telling me to switc h on the news. Listening to the accounts of
what had taken place in New Y ork City and at the Pentagon, I felt a chill go
right thr ough me. The tragedy felt even closer to home as Sinea d and I had
visited that wonderful city just three months prior.
On that same day, another tragedy unfolded, although it did not receive
the s ame coverage as the terrorist attacks. In the United States a lone, 3,000
people lo st their lives to heart attack and stroke—two of the top three killers
in the United States. The same tragedy occurred on W ednesday, September
12, and again o n Thursday, September 13, repeating itself eac h and every
day ever since. And while the falling of the T win T owers will ju stifiably be
remembered forever, the victims of cardiovascular disease are only
remembered by  their nearest and dearest. W e cannot predict when a
catastrophic eve nt like 9/11 will  occur, but we can help ourselves to extend
and enri ch the time we have to l ive and enjoy the company of those around
us by taking care of our bodies and especially our hearts.
Understanding a simple and scientifically proven way of keeping our
blood vessels healthy is invaluable to living life to the full. In this chapter,
we explore the role of the gas nitric oxide, along with techniques for
optimal breathing in order to maintain good cardiovascular health.
In 1867  the Swedish chemist, inventor, and industrialist Alfred Nobel
invented dynamite by combinin g the chemical nitroglycerine with silica to
form a less vo latile explosive  than nitroglycerine alone. Although his
invention was initially intended to be used for blasting rock for industry, it
later became synonymous with  war and destruction. A few years afterNobel’ s invention, doctors disco vered that this same chemical was ef fective
in helpi ng to reduce high bloo d pressure and treating the cardiovascular
condition known as angina pectoris. In the human body, nitrogly cerine—the
same ma terial used to make explosives—converts to the gas nit ric oxide to
provide amazing benefits for cardiovasular health. In his later years, Nobel
suf fered from heart disease, and when doctors tried to prescribe
nitroglycerine to relieve his condition, he declined it, writing to  his friend:
“Isn’ t it the irony of fate that I  have been prescribed nitroglycerine, to be
taken internally!  They call it T rinitrin, so as not to scare the chemist and the
public.” It was u nfortunate that Nobel could not envision how a chemical so
destructive outside the body could actually help it internally.
In 1 896 Alfred Nobel suf fere d a stroke and died. In his w ill, the
majority of his wealth was endowed to provide “prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.”
Although the motives of Nobel remain unclear, many commentators,
including Albert Einstein, were of the view that this final act was an attempt
to reliev e his conscience and promote world peace. T o ameliorate the
negative ef fects from the invention of dynamite, Nobel ensured that a
prestigious ceremony would tak e place each year to recognize those who
make the greatest positive contributions to life.
In an  iro nic twis t of fate, nearly


 his patients beginning in 1951. Dr. Revici wrote about his findings
ten years later in his textbook published in 1961. In fact, you will discover that Dr. Revici had achieved
results long ago in the treatment of ar thritis that sometimes exceed those discussed in The Arthritis
Cure, especially with rheumatoid arthritis. ( The Arthritis Cure  offers no breakthrough in the treatment of
rheumatoid arthritis, whereas Dr. Revici‘s approach has produced quite positive result s in the treatment
of that condition for several decades.)
As useful as those books are, they merely peek into a much deeper body of
work. With this book you‘ll have insights into and, in many cases, answers for
the major diseases such as cancer, AIDS, heart disease, arthritis,
depression, alcoholism and so on — all based on science, not speculation. In
addition, you‘ll learn about real medicine that not only controls cancer and  21
 other diseases, but actually gets rid of them. And you won‘t have to rely on a
strict diet to obtain help.
Wouldn‘t you like to have access to medications without side effects that
could actually make bones attacked by cancer grow back while
simultaneously making your pain vanish?
Wouldn‘t you like it if you (or a loved one) had cancer, AIDS, arthritis,
depression or asthma, and you could be able to monitor your progress at
home?
If you were feeling a li ttle under the weather with a headache or other
malady, wouldn‘t it be great if you could check out your acid/alkaline balance
in just seconds simply by exhaling?
Wouldn‘t you like to have access to real anti -viral medications for such things
as colds,  flus, pneumonia — even AIDS and Ebola?
Wouldn‘t you like to see medications that could remove drug and alcohol
addiction quickly and effectively without side effects or withdrawal?
You can. They have existed for nearly 30 years — thanks to Dr. Revici.
But surely, if any of that were possible, we would have heard of them before
or, at the very least, organized medicine would be taking advantage of Dr.
Revici‘s discoveries. In this book you will learn the sad details of how the
seemingly impossible task of keeping these medicines from most of the
general public for half a century has been achieved.
You‘ll also discover, however, that organized medicine has been
incorporating principles of Revici‘s work for years — only they d on‘t know it!
Today there is a lifesaving medication to speed up the development of
premature babies‘ lungs that is used by physicians across the land. Its
genesis comes directly from one of the fundamental tenets of Dr. Revici‘s
original textbook, Research In Physiopathology As Basis For Guided
Chemotherapy: with Special Application to Cancer, first published in 1961
and recently brought back into print.
When Drs. John Clements and Julius Comroe isolated the lipid responsible
for that mechanism, t hey had no idea that Dr. Revici had already been
applying that principle for many years. Nor did they know that the seed for
their discovery came from Revici himself. Common medicine still hasn‘t
caught up with the far -reaching ramifications of that wor k, which includes
effective treatments for invasive cancer. It is also likely that if Revici‘s name
had been attached to the Clements/Comroe discovery, it never would have
seen the light of day. Why? Because doing so would have required
acknowledgment and acceptance of the Revici Method itself.
On Christmas day of 1996, the Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA) published the results of a major study which demonstrated the
remarkable effects of selenium in halving lung and colon cancer i ncidence  22
 and deaths. Dr. Revici began using selenium effectively in the treatment of
cancer in 1954. While the editors of JAMA still struggle with the toxicity
problems associated with selenium, Revici easily solved that challenge more
than four decades earlier. Despite the prejudice towards the man, his findings
are beginning to take hold in the form of basic medical knowledge and
practice among physicians. Emanuel Revici‘s name might be controversial in
the high halls of common medi cine, but his discoveries are diamonds. As a
reader, you will be able to select the gems of your choosing.
A few scientists already have. The former University of San Diego Professor
Gerhard Schrauzer, an internationally recognized mainstream cancer
researcher, has recently compared Dr. Revici to Hippocrates and Paracelsus.
One physician -turned -inventor, who is also a longtime expert in steroids, has
said that Dr. Revici is 50 to 100 years ahead of his time just in his knowledge
of those substances.  In 1961, a group of world -renowned scientists that
includes 14 Nobel prize winners was similarly impressed, so they awarded
Dr. Revici their prestigious annual medal. As far back as 1955, a physician
was asked by a businessman who was considering suppo rting Revici‘s
research in cancer to look into it. After researching it, Dr. Louis E. Burns
wrote the following.
You requested that I look into Dr. Revici‘s treatment of cancer.
This I did, and find it beyond my wildest expectations …. His
results are amazing.
What I have attempted to do is to provide some of the most important
discoveries that Revici has made in a form that can be understood and used
by you, the reader. Since I am very much a lay person, you will find that I
don‘t use a lot of technical verbiage or scientific jargon. Still, I was pleased to
hear from one physician who is familiar with Dr. Revici‘s work and who had
read the manuscript. She said that it helped her to understand his approach
even more than she alr eady did. People often ask me how I, a freelance
writer, came upon this story. Quite simply, I was interviewing Congressman
Peter DeFazio of Oregon who told me about a bill he had introduced in the
House of Representatives called ―The Access to Medical Treatment Act.‖ He
also told me about a hearing on it that had taken place in the Senate two
weeks earlier. One of the witnesses at the Senate subcommittee hearing was
Vernon Morin, who testified on behalf of his five -year- old daughter, Issy. His
testimony was stunning. (You‘ll meet Issy within these pages.) After a two -
hour, long -distance conversation regarding Dr. Revici‘s work, I met Vernon on
his small farm in southern New Jersey. Since that time, as the facts have
unfolded, the story has exceed ed any expectations I might have had. (If you
haven‘t read Dr. Seymour Brenner‘s foreword yet, you are in for an eye -
opening essay.)
My first meeting with Dr. Revici took place on September 13, 1994, exactly
one week after his 98th birthday. The memory  of seeing him as I walked
down a hallway has stayed with me ever since. There sat a tiny man with a
small, peaceful smile from behind a huge desk. On the walls were two framed
Periodic Tables of the Chemical Elements. One was to his left. Towards the  23
 bottom of it, was a large color drawing of its originator, the Russian chemist,  24
 Dmitri Mendeleyev.
The other chart was on the wall behind him to his right. It had been sent to
him by some medical students from Germany. The chart was entitled, ―The
Revici Periodic Table‖ (see appendix B). This book is the first to explain in
plain English the dramatic impact of Revici‘s new look at an old chart.
A few of the many people I ha ve interviewed suggested that I be careful not
to make Revici out to be a saint. Yet, at the same time, they stressed that he
is exceedingly generous and kind. From my own research it appears that his
many virtues exceed his few weaknesses — probably mo re so than is true for
most of us. I believe you will see that as you read on.
The central focus of this book concerns much more significant matters — at
least from a medical standpoint. It is about a man who has devoted nearly
every waking hour of hi s long life to making illness less of a burden for
people. Because that has been his focus, I have attempted to do the same by
concentrating mostly on his work and his many discoveries. In addition I have
translated some of those principles so you can a pply them personally if you
wish.
Since that first visit I have spoken with him on numerous occasions. Based
on audio tapes of some talks from the mid -1980‘s, it is clear that his
advanced age causes him to speak in simpler terms than when he was
younger. As a result some of these quotes will be in simple language — or
even in somewhat broken English — while others are not. Although his
syntax might not always be textbook, you‘ll see that his thoughts are to the
point. When I was interviewing hi m, I found the simplicity of his expression
often added to its impact. Therefore, I have chosen to share with you his own
words, unfiltered by a grammar text


98-109.
Heidenmann, A.; Volkner, W.; Mengs, V Genotoxicity of Aloe Emodin in vitro and in vivo. Mutat Res.
1996 March. 367 (3). 123-133.

Ishii, Y.; Tanizawa, H.; Takino, Y. Studies of Aloe III. Mechanism of cathartic effect. Mechanism of
action of Aloe-emodin-9-anthrone, decomposition product of barbaloin in causing significant increase in
water content of the rat large intestine. Chem. Pharm. Bull (Tokyo). 1990 Jan. 38(1). 197-200.

Ishii, Y; Tanizawa, H; Takino, Y. Studies of Aloe IV Mechanism of cathartic effect (3), Biol. Pharm.
Bull. 1994 Apr. 17(4) 495-497.
Ishii, Y.; Tanizawa H.; Takino, Y. Studies of Aloe Vera. Mechanism of cathartic effect (4). Biol. Pharm.
Bull. 1994 May. 17(5); 651-653.

Koch, A. Investigations of the laxative action of Aloin in the human colon. 41st Annual Congress of the
Society of Medicinal Plant Research. Dusseldorf, Germany. 1993 Aug 31-Sept 4. Planta Medica. 59
(Suppl. 7) 1993.
Krumbiegel, G; Schutte, H.V.; Rhein and aloe-Emodin kinetics from senna laxatives in man.
Pharmacology. 1993 Oct. 47(Suppl.1) 120124.

 Mahmoud; Hazem; EI-Sibaie; El-Borollosy; El-Kady. Microbiological studies on the Phyllosphere of the
desert plant Aloe Vera. Extraction of Anthraquinone-glycosides and Anthraquinone-aglycone from plant
leaves, tested as anti-microbial substances against 6 pathogenic and non-pathogenic micro-organisms.
1986. Egypt. J. Microbiol. 21(2) 229-238.

Malterud, K.C.; Farbrot, T.L.; Huse, A.E.; Sund, R.B. Antioxidant and radical scavenging effects
of anthraquinones and anthrones. Pharmacology. 1993 Oct. 47 (Supp 1.1) 77-85.

Mapp, R.K.; McCarthy, T.J. The assessment of purgative principles in Aloes. Planta Medica. 1970. 18.
361-365.

McKeown, E. Anthraquinones and anthracenic derivatives absorb U.V. light. Cosmetics and
Toiletries. 1987 June. 102. 64-65.

Odes, H.S.; Madar, Z. A double-blind trial of a Celandin, Aloe Vera and Psyllium laxative preparation in
adult patients with constipation. Digestion. 1991. 49. 65-71. A20

Rauwald, H. W; Voetig, R; 7 hydroxyaloin, the leading substance from Aloe Barbadensis in the European Pharmacologica. Arch Pharm. 1982. 315(5). 477-478.

Sendelbach, L.E. A review of the toxicity and carcinogenicity of anthraquinone derivatives.
Toxicology. 1989. 57. 227-240. A9
 Siegers, C.P; Siemers, J.; Barettom, G. Sennosides and Aloin do not promote dimethylhydrazine-
induced tumours in mice. Pharmacology. 1993 Oct. 47 (Suppl. 7) 205-208.

Siegers, C.P; von Hertzberg-Lettim, E.; Otte, M.; Schneider, B. Anthranoid laxative abuse - a risk
for colorectal cancer? Gut. 1993 Aug. 34(8) 1099-1101.
Sydiskis, R.J.; Owen; Lohr; Rosler; Blomster. Inactivation of Herpes simplex virus by
Anthraquinones isolated from plants. J Dental Res. 1989 June. 68. 935.

Sydiskis, R.J.; Owen, D.G.; Lehr, J.L.; Rasler, K.H.; Blomster, R.N. Inactivation of enveloped viruses by anthraquinones extracted from plants. Antimicrob-Agents-Chemother. 1991 Dec. 35(12). 2463-2466.

Westendorf; Marquardt; Poginsky; Dominiak; Schmidt. Genotoxicity of naturally occurring
Hydroxyanthraquinones. Evaluation of mutagenicity and cell-transforming activity. Mutat. Res.
1990 Jan. 240(1).1-12.

Wolfe, D.; Schmutgte, C.; Westendorf, J.; Marquardt, H. Hydroxyanthraquinones as tumour promoters:
enhancement of malignant transformation of C3H mouse fibroblasts and growth stimulation of primary
rat hepatocytes. Cancer Res. (USA). 1990 Oct. 50(20). 6540-6544.

SECTION IX - GENERAL REVIEWS

Ahmad, S.; Kalhoro, Z.; Kapadia, Z.; Badar, Y. "Aloe" A biologically active and potential medicinal
plant. Hamdard. 1993. 36(1). 108-115. A23

 Brown, J.P. A review of the genetic effects of naturally occurring flavonoids, anthraquinones and related
compounds. Mutat Res. 1980. 75. 243-277.

Bruce, W.G.G. Medicinal Properties in the Aloe. Excelsa 5. 1975. 5768.

Cole, H.N.; Chen, K.K. Aloe Vera in oriental dermatology. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology. 1993. 47. 250.

Crewe, J.E.. The External Use of Aloes. Minnesota Medicine. 1937. 20. 670-673.

Danhof, I.E. Aloe in cosmetics - does it do anything? Cosmet Toilet. 1987. 102. 62-63.

Davis, R.N. Biological activity of Aloe Vera. Seigen, Oele, Fette, Wachse (Germany). 1993 Sept. 119.
646-649.

Fischer, J.M. Medical Use of Aloe Products. US Pharm. 1982 Aug. 7. 37-45.

Flagg, J. Aloe Vera Gel in Dermatological Preparations. Am Perfum Cosmet. 1959. 74. 27-29.
Gjerstad, G.; Riner, TD. Current status of Aloe as a cure-all. American Journal of Pharmacy. 1968. 140.
58-64.

Goldberg, H.C. The Aloe Vera Plant. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology. 1944. 49. 46.
Grindlay, D. Aloe Vera. The Garden. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. 1985. 110, 534-535.

Grindlay, D. Medical use of Aloe Vera. General Practitioner (London). 1985 June.

Grindlay, D., Reynolds, T The Aloe Vera Phenomenon: A Review of the Properties and Modern
Uses of the Leaf Parenchyma Gel. J. Ethnopharmacol. 1986. 16. 117-151.

Haller, J.S. A drug for all seasons, medical and pharmacological history of Aloe. Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med.
1990. 66(6). 647-659. A14
Harendal, B.E. Whole leaf Aloe Vera: almost a panacea. Health Conscious. 1992. 13(1). 14-17.

Harrison, J. Aloe in Dentistry. Health Conscious. 1992. 13 (1) 19-24.

Klein, AD, Penneys, NS. Aloe Vera. J. of Am. Ac. Derm. 1988. 18(4,1) 714-720.

Leung, A. Aloe Vera update: new form questions integrity of old. Drug Cosmet Ind. 1985 Sept. 137-42,
44-46.

Marshall, J.M. Aloe Vera Gel: what is the evidence? The Pharmaceutical Journal. 1990. 360-362.
 McKeown, E. Aloe Vera. Cosmetics & Toiletries. 1987. 102. 64-65.

Natow, A.J. Aloe Vera fiction or fact. Cutis. 1986. 37(2). 106-108.

 Reynolds, T. The compounds in Aloe leaf exudates: a review. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society.
1985. 90. 157-


 had been given. Let them learn
from a role model. And I taught what they would need as a basis for
understanding the molecular -transport equations.
After several years during which I published articles in physics journals
on the most rudimentary preliminaries, there began to be excitement about
my work. Students who had no intention of specializing in science enrolled
in my classes just to hear the “common sense” that came through in my
lectures. I was annually chosen the most popular teacher at the university.
My lectures filled the lar gest auditorium. Complaints abounded from my
colleagues because I was “not teaching physics but running a sideshow.”
The dean of the college firmly reminded me that I was not to have so many
uninvited guests in my classrooms, since they were depriving the paying
students of parking spaces in the student parking lots. However, thedepartment chairman, who was seeking a way to get rid of me, was told in
no uncertain terms that I was not to be interfered with, since I was single-
handedly keeping the physics department alive by luring students into my
classes.
I knew I was popular with the young people, but I didn’ t want them to
follow my lead like groupies or cult worshipers. I wanted them to
understand how I had first learned about reality and then simply decided to
live in it. Because of my reputation on campus, I persuaded the manager of
the campus cinema, a student-operated business that showed movie classics,
to present my tapes of Eykis.
There was very little advance publicity, but many of my students and
their friends attended. I expected them to be skeptical, as the media
professionals had been, but kinder because of their regard for me.
As the tapes were shown I became oblivious to the audience. My eyes
streamed with tears as I saw her beauty and nobility again. She was alive
and as lovely as ever. Her truth beamed down like sunlight between the
gray cloud of Earthly pettiness and neuroses. It was painful to see the tapes
ending, but as I had lived their creation, I was prepared for their final
moments. I was not prepared for the audience reaction.
First there was silence. Not a calm stillness, but the electric, utter silence
before the storm. Then, like a human cyclone, the audience began to rise
and roar, clapping, shouting, whistling, shaking each other, laughing,
screaming, weeping, jumping on the rattling folding chairs, tearing their
programs to confetti. Gradually a chant for the “author” began. I stepped
forward, simply to calm them.
In seconds the students raised me on their shoulders and carried me
around the theater like a hero. I was stunned, but joyous that Eykis had been
welcomed at last. T o clear the building the manager said the tape show
would be repeated the following evening, but only if the patrons left the
place immediately. We left, but could not disband. A lar ge crowd descended
on the nearby pizza shop. Filled to capacity, the place throbbed with the
quickened beat of debate and delight. Every table was the scene of young
people ar guing about the meaning, the impact, the clarity of the film. I
couldn’ t sit still for any one conversation. I zigzagged about the restaurant
drinking in the scene, devouring the triumph of Eykis. Who needed beer
and pizza!Again and again I was asked, “Who is Eykis really? Is she from
Hollywood? What accent was that? W ould she come back for interviews?”
No one accepted the most obvious—she was what she said she was—a
Urantian.
The films were shown the following night to a packed house. While the
tapes were playing, the manager tried to persuade me to allow copies of the
tapes to be made and shown on other campuses through the intercollegiate
film network. I saw an opportunity to reach a receptive audience on a wide
scale, but I wanted to protect Eykis from misuse of the films. I told him he
could continue presenting the films locally but the originals would remain
with me after each showing. Until I had a copyright, there would be no
exporting, and with a copyright, no exploiting. At the end of the second
night’ s program the reaction was much the same—reverent silence
exploding into wild delight or fierce denial. There were no neutral reactions
in the house.
For several weeks the tapes were viewed by students and faculty. Word
spread and students from other universities appeared on campus hoping to
get in. Local newspapers reported the reaction of viewers and sent reporters
to get the “real story” from me. Everyone wanted to meet the actress who
had played the role of Eykis. No one believed my “foolish publicity stunt”
of insisting that she could not be found on Earth.
Years before, just after my return from Uranus, I’d had several copies
made of the Urantian Formulas  and put them in safekeeping in various
places, including my memory. I was glad they were not readily available,
because not long after the Eykis tapes were duplicated and released for
national campus distribution, both my apartment and my laboratory were
ransacked. Someone was taking interplanetary travel very seriously. The
police said that whatever the bur glars were after was not found, so they very
well might go after the source—me!
Most people, including the scientific community, regarded the tapes as
science fiction as far as Eykis’ role was concerned. I did not try to change
their minds while the fear of kidnaping haunted me. But I continued my
lectures in class and wrote more bits about the formulas, adding pieces to
the puzzle to entice physicists all over the world to speculate in the correct
direction.
In a remarkably short time there were tremendous changes. First on
campus and then everywhere I went people were wearing buttonsproclaiming, “Eykis lives!” or “I like Eyk!” There were pins with an
enameled eye in the center circumscribed by the slogan, “Keep an Eye on
Reality!” Bumper stickers announced “Happiness Is the W ay” and “Keep It
Simple!” A landscaping service advertised with a drawing of Eykis holding
a bouquet: “Cultivating your own garden? See us for ideas!” An art student
hung a banner over the campus chapel door, “The kingdom of heaven is
within. Please enter.” I was afraid Eykis’ message was being taken too
lightly. Students were “zapping” imaginary lasers of guilt and hurt feelings
by aiming their index fingers like pistols. Did they get the real message
along with the amusement?
Our Earthly problems were serious and Eykis had been sincere. W as all
this levity and casual quotation really the way to make an impact?
Apparently yes. Over a matter of months the films became the source of
much discussion. In schools, classes in psychology, sociology, medicine,
religion, philosophy, political science, and business administration
discussed the films. Politicians at all levels were seen wearing Eykis
buttons and voting on legislation dealing with health care, defense budgets,
education, and all the vital issues Eykis had discussed. Their consciousness
was raised and their constituents were aware. Holistic medical clinics
developed overnight. Corporations held seminars on how Eykis’ ideas
applied to business. T ranscripts of the tapes were presented on stages across
the country by the most talented performers. Ecumenical conclaves issued
declarations of support for the philosophy.
While I gloried in the evidence of impact on the emotional, spiritual, and
physical health of the people of my country, I was not really aware of how
quickly the Eykis influence would spread. The films were subtitled in forty
languages and distributed all over the world. Even where the tapes were
censored, uncut copies were smuggled in, causing an uproar impossible to
suppress. Then came the telegram: I had been awarded the Nobel Prize for
physics for my research in molecular transport!
After much thought, I decided that the Urantian Formulas  were a gift to
the Earth, not to me, and that as the teacher, I must now convey the full
knowledge of the Formulas as well as the gifts of Eykis. Eykis had wanted a
worldwide audience initially, and I could not then provide it. Now, because
of the bur glary scare, I dared not draw international attention in any
sensational way. But once the Formulas were shared, there would be nothreat to them or me, and the solemn presentations of the Nobel Prizes
would create the distinguished audience Eykis had sought.
In great happiness and haste, I asked for and received a week’ s leave
from the university, prior to the Nobel ceremonies. My friends thought I
traveled to Sweden, but my actual round trip was of considerably greater
distance. However, I arrived in Stockholm on the proper day, thrilled to
meet with the giants of the Earth in the civilized cordiality of that sparkling
capital city.
That evening, the presentations were made in formal glory. The subdued
elegance could not diminish the excitement. The atmosphere was a fine
combination of proud self-esteem and deepest respect for the assembled
masters. When it was my turn to receive my prize, my heart raced. The
bright lights of glowing chandeliers and popping cameras blinded me, yet
lit


ivities were determined by an automatic
recording system for measuring biological impedances,
developed and described by T edner (73). The actual
determinations of resistivity of the vessel walls and test
liquids were carried out in cooperation with Mr B. T.
Tedner (M.Sc.) and Mr H. Larsson (M.Sc.). In this
system, a constant current of 10,uA is sent through the
test object via the outer platinum electrodes in the
glass tubes and an external reference resistor. The
potentials developed between the measuring electrodes
and over the reference resistor are then fed into two
differentia l amplifiers via four high-impedance input
amplifiers. The omputs from the differential amplifi
ers are connected to a network analyser system wbicb Amplitude
CdBlr--~~-~
25
Fig. XII: JZ. Amplitudes of potential
drop across walls of blood vessels (dog) 20
by alternating current of different fre·
quencies. A 10 microampe re constant
current ranged in frequency from 100
to 1 MHz over (a) 0.9% NaCl, (b) wall
of femoral vein, (~) wall of femoral ar-
tery, (d) wall of femoral ar<ery after 15
small local injury of the vessel. Each
tracing consists of recordings from 160
discrete, logarithmically spaced fre-
quencies. Sample$ for determinadon
of resistivity were compared at tO
kHz. From these recordings imped- 10
ance values and then resistivities were
calculated.
100
measures ampliwde ratio and phase angle between the
inputs at a given frequency. This system consists of a
digital synthesizer and a network analyser controlled
by a calculator. The ratio between the two potentials is
recorded. Because amplitude readings are obtained in
decibels, the impedance is calculated from
Z=Rlo•o l2o
where Z is the impedance, R the reference resistance
and dB the amplitude value determined by the ana·
lyser. The calculator is programmed 10 sweep auto·
matically from one hundred Hz to one MHz at 160
logarithmically- -spaced discrete frequencies. The resis
tivity e of the vessel wall is then calculated according
to the formula
R.A
n =--,where R = Z-R
~ I ",
and I is the thickness of the vessel wall, A the internal
cross-sectional area of the glass tube (1.3267 mm2), R.
the resistance of the vessel wall and R, the resistance
of the column of saline solution between the measuring
electrodes. R. is determined by subtraction of R, from
Z, the total resistance. The measurementS of the saline
solutions were made at temperatu res ranging from
23•c to body temperature, yielding resistiviry values of
0.70 to 0.62 ohm-mat I to 10kHz, which is in good
agreement with earlier values from the literature (8,
22).
Fig. XII: 12 shows amplitude curves at different
frequencies for (a) saline solution, (b) fresh vein and
(c) fresh anerial walls in situ. An example (d) is also I k lOOk IM
Frequency(Hzl
given of the effect on resistivity of an arterial wall in
situ after the production of a visible local ischaemic
tissue injury.
The amplitude curves in Fig. XII: 12 show a rela
tively rapid fall around 10 kHz, which is interpreted as
caused by the lowering of the inductive resistance by
high frequencies. Below 10 kHz lhe prominence of
this effect decreases.
The resistivities of the femoral arteries and veins in
20 measurements of the 5 dogs were compared with
the resistivity of 0.9% NaCl (0.62 ohm-m at 23•C).
The immediate determinations of resistivities of the
vessel walls, before obvious damage was produced by
the glass tubes, showed values for the vein varying
between 60 to 116 ohm-m at I kHz and 20 to 79 ohm
m at 10 kHz and 37•c. For the artery, values of
81-121 ohm-m were obtained at I kHz and 4S-67
ohm-m at 10 kHz and 37°C.
The variations depended partly on the difficulties of
measuring the thickness of the vessel walls, which
varied between 0.03-0.05 mm for the vein and
0.10-0.15 mm for the artery. Two other factors were
the injury necessitated by the dissection of the vessels
free from surrounding tissues, which may have partly
damaged the vasa vasorum, and the direct damage by
the glass tubes. Values of resistivity decreased at the
end of each examination. For example, examination of
an artery which had a directly visible ischaemic region
around the glass tube gave 36 to 54 ohm-m at I kHz
and 8.0 to ll.5 ohm-mat 10kHz {Fig. XII: 12d).
The results of these examinations indicate clearly
that the resistivity of femoral arteries and veins is of an
Biologicall y closed electric circuits 127 Applied voltage
50 mil
SBmv~.. -...,11-Applied voltage
ISOmV
Fig. Xll: 13. In vivo de<ermination of resiSiivity to DC
pulses across the wall of a dog's femoral artery. Method of
Burger and van Milaan: amplitudes (11A) and potential dif·
fcrcnccs (mV)when SO and ISO mV pulses were applied
(pulse duration: O.S second). The distortions in the tracings
are C'dused by polarization of the electrodes. Initial deflec.
lions were used to obtain a relative measure of resistivity.
order at least 100 to ISO times higher than the
resistivity of saline solution, which in turn is known to
have roughly the same order of resistivity as blood
plasma, serum and interstitial fluid.
b) Pulsed direct currem
Resistivity studies with direct current are of consider·
able interest, as this type of current represents electric
transports in vivo. Attempts were therefore made to
study resistivity of blood vessels with a technique
developed by Burger and van Milaan (8). In this way,
information on the resistance of walls of large vessels
in comparison to resistance of the intravascular con·
ducting medium, the plasma, should be possible to
obtain.
As in determinations of resistivity with alternating
current, many sources of error can interfere in deter·
minations of resistivity with direct current. It is evi·
dent that an application of DC pulses will ionize the
test material and change its relative conductivity dur·
ing each pulse. The applied potential will furthermore
produce ionic separations, providing electromotive
forces in the opposite direction. This effect means that
the test current builds up a galvanic potential.
When potential difference is constant within cer·
tain limits, the degree of i(mization is a dynamic event
which initially increases exponentially the actual flow
of current per unit time. This observation is well
known since julius Tafel (72). On prolonged applica·
tion of direct current, different counteracting reactions
will contribute to decelerate the current. Moreover,
the same technical difficulties are encountered in both
DC and AC determinatio ns of resistivity of a vessel
128 Biologically closed electric circuits wall, i.e., geometric measurements of specimens and
avoidance of injury to tissue.
These experiments were performed in five dogs,
using the same rype of preparation of femoral vessels
and electrodes in glass tubes as was employed in the
determinatio ns of resistivity with alternating currents.
A series of 10 DC pulses (0.. 5-1.0 sec duration each)
was applied over 25, 50, 100 and ISO mV through the
vessel wall in one direction and then in the opposite
direction.
Polarizati on caused a dis·tortion of the measured
deflections of potential. It is therefore necessary to
define how the measuremen ts were obtained and the
results analyzed.
Fig. XII: 13 shows tracings of measured currents
and potential differences through the vessel wall dur·
ing application of 50 and!50 m V potential pulses over
the current-supplying electrodes. The distortions of
these potentiAls arc in principle eaSy to undetStand,
despite the complicated nature of the underlying ki
netic events.
For the actual measurements the high initial potcn·
tial and peaks of current have been used. In the well
known formula
I R=-·o A -
R = resistance, Q = specific resistance, I = length,
A = cross-sectional area. R is determined by the
simultaneous measurements of voltage drop and cur·
rent flow through the specimen.
In these experime nts (as well as in determinations
with alternating current) no clear difference could be
observed when current was passed from outside to
inside or vice versa.
Table XII: 5 presents the actual measureme nts