 is going from one nearby port to another and has to reach its
destination before dark when the direction of the winds is n ot ideal. If the sailor, instead of paying strict attention to
the rules of sailing, gives in to the pleasure and exhilaration of fast sailing with the wind, he will have abandoned his
purpose and sailed his boat to totally different and unknown shores, and in the dark. The odds are that he and his
boat will not survive the trip. On its jou rney of life, the human body is just like a sail boat. If the mind abandons purpose and forgets the design of
the body, and gives in to the overstimulation of the palate with artificial and non-representative products ( such as
spices), in the long run, the body chemistry may not be able to deal with cons tant false informati on and not suff er
damage. It is primitive and simplistic thinking that one could easily lace water with  all sorts of pleasure-enhancing chemicals
and substitute these fluids for the natural and dean water that the human body needs. Some of these chemicals,
caffeine, aspartame, saccharin and alcohol, through their constant lopsided effect on the brain, unidirectionally—
single mindedly—p rogram the body chemistry w ith results contrary to the natural design of the body. Very much like
the sail boat in the dark that will get beached in uncharted shores if its sailor gives in to the pleasures and
exhilaration of fast sailing in place of sticking to the rules of sai ling with safety in mind, the intake of wrong fluids will
affect the life of anyon e who  continually consumes them. As it has been explained so far, the human body has many different indicators whe n it runs short of water. At these
times, it needs only water. As it has been explained, it will com plicate matters if one gives the body artificia l taste-
enhancing fluids on a regular basis and in full substitution of the water needs of the body. One should remember that caffeine is sim ilarly an addictive drug, the use of which has become "legal." Children, in
particular, become vulnerable to the addictive properties of these caffeine-containing beverages. Stimulating the
body at the early stages of life of a child with pleasure-enhancing chemicals in beverages, in some will program the
senses to use harder addictive drugs when they reach school age. Thus, the long-term and constant use of sodas in general, and diet sodas in particular, should be assumed to be
responsible for some of the more serious health problems of our socie ty. Disto rting the physical appearance of the
body as a result of excess f at storage is the first step in this direction. Some manufactu red beverages should only
be used sparingly, if at all, by younger people, whe n the right programs for the future health of a child is the aim of
parents. Dr. Marcia Gutkowski is a nutrition consultant. After reading my book, she convinced her daughter Donna to begin
changing her habit in fluids intake. The result has astounded the mother and daughter. The following is the
transcript of Donna's testimonial. Dear Dr. BatmanghelidjApril 25,1994 I
My mother asked, that I write to you and tell you about my recent weight loss success. I know that I could have a
much  more successful loss if I would follow your formula and curb my eating habits, along with starting a regular
routine of exercise. Howe ver just getting myself to get off of 6 to 8 cans of Mountain Dew a day is a miracle in itself. Within the last 9 months to a year, I have successfully been able to keep 35 excess p ounds of baggage off. I am
able to wear clothes that I thought would never touch my body again. I also have just about reached my goal size
for my upcoming wedding. Eve n my fiancé had to admit that lam looking much  better than when he first met me five
years ago. My success has been contributed to faithfully drinking 1/2 my body weight in ounces in water every day. Wherever I
go, so does my water. To work, shopping, even my long 7 hour long car rides. (That does make for a lot of rest area
stops, but they are worth it.) I do treat myself to an occasional mineral water or beer when I go out, but I have
usually gotten my quota of water in for the day. One interesting thing that I have noticed howeve r is that once I have finished drinking my quota of water, I have
absolutely no desire to drink anymore. Also I have found that I'm not thirsty a nymore and it will usually take me
awhile to drink some other type of beverage whether it be juice, milk, beer, mineral water, etc. I am looking forward to Octo ber 1st which is my wedding day when I can walk down the aisle looking better than I
have looked in 15 years, since I graduated from high school. It will also be nice to put my weight on my new drivers
license without having to cringe for the first time in my life. Thanks for the smaller me!!!! Donna M. Gutkowski
It is now February of 1995. Donna is happily married.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Failing a capacity adjustment to the
"water volume" by th e blood vessels, gases would separate from the blood and fill the space/causing "gas locks. " This property of lumen regulation for fluid circulation is a most advanced design within the principle of hydraulics
and after which the blood circulation of the body is modeled. Shunting of blood circu lations a normal routine. When we eat, most of the circulation is directed into the intestinal
tract by closing some capillary circulation elsewhere. When we eat, more capillaries are opened in the
gastrointestinal tract and fewer are open in the major muscle systems. Only areas where activity places a  more
urgent demand on the circulatory systems will be kept fully open for the passag e of blood. In other wor ds, it is the
blood-holding capacity of the capillary bed that determines the direction and rate of flow to any site at a given time. This process is naturally designed to cope with any priority work without the burden of maintaining an excess fluid
volume in the body. When the act of digestion has taken place and less blood is needed in the gastrointestinal
region, circulation to other areas will open more easily. In a most indirect way, t his is why w e feel less active
immediately after a meal and ready for action after som e time has passed. In short, there is a mechanism for
establishment of priority for circulating blood to any given area—some capillaries open and som e others close. The
order is predetermined accor ding to a scale of importance of function. The brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, and glands
take priority over muscles, bones, and skin in blood distribution—unless a different priority is p rogrammed into the
system. This will  happen if a continued demand on any part of the body will influence the extent of blood circu lation
to the area, such  as muscle development through regular exercise. WATER SHORTA GE: POTENT IALS FOR HYPERT ENSI ON
When we do not drink enough water to serve all the needs of the body, som e cells become dehydrated and lose
some of their wat er to the circulation. Capillary beds in some areas will  have to close so that some of the slack in
capacity is adjuste d for. In water shortage and body drought, 66 percent is taken from the water volume normally
held inside the cells; 26 percent is taken from the volume held outside the cells; and 8 percent is taken from blood
volume (see Figure 13). There is no alternative for the blood vessels other than closing their lumen to cope with the
loss in blood volume. The process begins by closing some capillaries in less-a ctive areas. Ot herwise, where will the
balance come from to keep these capillaries open. The deficient quantity must come either from outside or be
taken from another part of the body. It is the extent of cap illary bed activity throughout the body th at will ultimately determine the volume of circulating
blood. The more the muscles are exercised, the more their capillaries will open and hold a greater volume of blood
within the circulation reserves. This is t he reason why  exercise is a  most impo rtant compone nt for physiol ogical
adjustments in those suffering from hypertension. This is one aspect to the physiology of hypertension. The capillary
bed must remain open and full and offer no resistance to blood circu lation. When the capillary bed is clo sed and
offers resistance, only an increased force behind the circulating blood will ensure the passag e of some fluids
through the system. Another reason why th e capillary bed may become selectively dosed is shortage of water in the body. Ba sically,
water we drink will ultimat ely have to get into the cells—water regulates the volume of a cell from inside. Salt
regulates the amount of water that is held outside the cells—the ocean around the cell There is a very d elicate
balancing process in  the design of the body in the way it  maintains its co mposition of blood at the expense of
fluctuating the water content in some cells of the body. When there is a shortage of water, som e


Fellatio, 98, 196, 199
Playing the Flute (Jove game),
211-13
soixante-neuf (69), 211
First Em peror of Chin, 6, 48, 76
Fish Eye-to-Eye (intercourse posi
tion), 109, 222
Fish Linkin g Scales (interco urse
position), 107, 110, 222
Five-M ineral Mix, 131
Foot-bindi ng, 28-30
Forepl ay. See Love-play
Freud, Sigmund, 165, 169, 233
Fu Yin, 31
G spot, 169-70, 198
Galen, 168 Games. Sec Love-play
GcnirH <! ( Clritlcl, Tlrt' (Temple),
11-12
Gingko, 143-44
Ginseng, 139-41
Goat Hugging the Tree (inter
course position), 112, 224
Gobbling Fish (intercourse posi
tion), 110
Gold �asc Plum (Chi11 Pitr.l! Mci ),
66-69, 70, 71
Grafenberg, Ernst, 169-70
Groin Massage (exercise), 178
Han dynasty
aphrodisiacs/sexual nutrients,
usc ot� 133, 141
consorts, 41-43, 49, 52, 133,
157, 188
emperors/empresses, 6, 41-43,
49, 52, 96, 141, 157, 188
erotica, 75
eunuchs, 40
sexology, 82, 84, 85
Hanfei Tzu, 13
"Harvesting Mulberry Leaves"
(song), 73-74
Harvey, William, 162
Hearing, sense of, 186, 188-89
Heavenly Fountain (love game),
210-11
Heh-teh, 49
Hinduism, 17, 150
Hip Swivel (exercise), 181
HIV, 197·
Homosex uality
in China, 27-28
Kinsey on, 164
Horse Shaking Its Hoof (inter
course position), 111, 221
Hsi Hsiang Chi (The Story of the
Western Chamber ; Wang
Shih-fu), 64-66
Hsi Shih, 52
Hsia Chi, 49, 157
Hsia dynasty
consorts, 41
emperors/empresses, 41, 45
Hsiao, 50
Hsien (imm ortals), 15-16
Hsu Fu, 6
Hsu Ling, 97-98 Hsuan Nu. Sa Arcane Maid
Hsuan Tsung, 4.\ 47-48
Hua Fou, 1 36
Huang Ti. Sa Ydlow Emperor
Hu,m.�?-dri (yellow vetch), 143
Hui Tsung, 32-33
Hui-yiu, 170, 196,204-5,210,218
Hum ming Ape Embracing the
Trel' (imer cour se position),
112, 223
Hrm.l! Lou Mm,l! (The Drea m of tire
Red Chmnbcr; Tsao H�ueh
chin), 66-67, 71-73
I Chi11.f! (The Book of Chan.ec),
10, 18
I Shim Po (I ShinJ! Fat�g; The
Essetlce of A1cdica l Prescrip
tions; Yasuyori), 83-84
I To Mix, 136-37
Ideal Marriage (Van de Vcldc),
4, 168
Immortality
chi (life-energy) and, 16, 119,
126, 127, 146-58
Taoist search for, 6-7, 15-16,
85, 121, 124, 162
Imperial School of Medicine, 84
Incest taboos, 25
Institute for Advanced Study of
Human Sexuality, 138-39
Institute for Sex Research, 164
Intercourse positions. See Posi
tions, intercourse
Interpretation of the Cultivation of
Truth by the Great Immortal
of the Purple-Gold Glory,
118
Iridescent Maid (Tsai Nu), 82,
95-96, 116-17
Jade Fountain (love game), 211-12
Johnson, Virginia. See Masters
and Johnson
Jou Pu Tuan (The Prayer Cush ion of
Flesh ), 70-71
Jou-tsun.f?-Yun g (broom rape),
132, 135
Journal of Urology, The, 144
Jung le Fowl Appr oach ing the
Arena (intercourse
position), 112 Kmtl ll Sutrcr, 81. 85
Kao Tsung. SO "�ao-tang Fu" (Sung Yu). 56
1\.arc;: �'' (Stockham), 16H
Kt:g cl, Arn old, 16(!-(17
Kegd exer cise, Hl(l-67, 231
Kingf ishers Uniting (intercourSl'
posi tion). 1m. 221
Kinse� Al& ed, 164, 1 65, 167, 169
on ljacu lation, 1H5
on femaleorgasm, 167,169
on homo sexuali ty, Hl4
on love-play. 164
on masturbation, 164
on oral sex, 164
Kissing. Sec also Oral sex
in Chinese cultur e, 3-4, 191
erotic, 193-95, 203. 210-11
Kitten Stretch (exercise). 1H2
Ko Hung, 96
Kolodny. Robert, 166
Krafft-Ebing, Richar d von,
165, 166
Kuan Tsung, 7
Kuang Hsu, 40
Kublai Khan, 63
Kuhn, Franz, 70
Ladas, Alice K.. 170
Ladas, Har old, 170
Lamaism, 6, 7. 18, 125. 150
Lao Ai, 48
Lao Tzu,l3, 14
Lasciviousne ss versus prudishness. �4-26
Later Shu dynasty, 46
Lesbianism, 28
Li Licn- ying. 40
Li Shih-chen, 137
Li Sze-szc, 32-33
Li Tsung-hsuan, 84-85
Li Tzu-che ng. 53
Li Yu. �9. 46-47
Liao dynasty, 188.. Liflg-d1ih ("divine mushroom ). 141-42
Liu Ching. 117
Liu Tsu ng-yu an. 89-90
Love-play, I 15
bridgi ng the sexual gap. 184-8h
danci ng. 192 Index
Four Attain men ts, Nine
Essences, Five Des ires. 98-99
gen ital caressin g, 195-99
genital secr etions. 197
heari ng, sense of, 186, 188-89
Heavenly Fou ntain, 210-11
import ance of. 93-95, 165-66
Jade Fountain, 211-12
Kinsey on, 164
kissi ng, 3-4, 191, 193-95, 203,
210-11
love points, 157-58, 179, 194,
196, 204-10. 218
Mas ters and Johnson on, 166,
171, 184
oral sex, 96-98, 164, 195-97. 199, 211-13
Peacock Tease, 202
Playing the Flute, 211-13
positions, 100-101
prelude to, 191-93
pressing on at, 193-95
sight, sense of, 186
Silk Tease, 203
smel l, sense ot� 186-88, 191,
1lJ3-94
Sniff- Kissing, 203
soixat�t£·-m·uf (69), 211
Spid er's Legs, 203
Spring Butterfly, 201-2
taste, sense of, 186, 188,
1lJ2, 194
Three Fou ntains, 210-12
three peaks, lJ5-lJ8
Tongue: Sweep, 203
touch, sense: of, 1M6-87, llJ2-lJ6
Twin Fou ntains, 211
as two-way game, 18lJ-lJI,


the	constant	grip	and	torture	of	their	minds. Often,	I	pass	by	a	man	on	Shop
Street	in	Galway. He	is	so	tormented	that	he	openly	voices	the	contents	of	his
mind	in	the	street. His	mind	has	completely	taken	him	over. He	is	pressed
down	with	thought. He	is	depressed. Many	of	us	are	similar	to	the	man	on	the	street,	except	that	we	don’t	talk	out
loud. Instead,	we	have	internal	mental	chatter. We	think	about	the	same	thing
day	in	and	day	out,	with	little	resolve	or	reduction	in	thinking. Watch	your
thoughts	and	you	will	have	no	doubt	that	the	Western	human	mind	is	truly
mad. Thinking	for	practical	purposes	is	fine,	as	it	serves	a	function. However,	most
of	our	thinking	is	not	for	practical	purposes. Most	thinking	is	spent	on	insane
repetitive	worry	and	anxiety. If	you	could	eliminate	your	repetitive	thought	activity	by	50%,	you	would	be
very	happy	indeed. If	you	could	eliminate	all	repetitive	and	useless	thinking,
you	would	live	a	life	of	bliss. Thinking	makes	you	unhappy. Less	thought	activity	makes	you	happy. Thinking	is	a	disease. Control	your	mind	or	allow	your	mind	to	control	you

H
uman	thinking	began	tens	of	thousands	of	years	ago. It	is	the	single	most
important	function	that	differentiates	our	ability	from	animals. Thinking	is	very	useful	for	practical	situations. We	need	to	remember	how	to
drive	a	car,	decide	what	choice	to	take,	determine	a	strategy,	plan	an	event,
deal	with	a	specific	situation. You	might	want	to	go	to	the	shop-	you	think
about	what	foods	are	not	in	the	cupboard. You	organize	flights-	you	think
about	best	dates,	price	and	destination. You	write	a	letter-	you	think	about
what	you	need	to	say. You	go	to	petrol	pumps	to	fill	your	car-	you	decide	on
what	pump,	how	much	money	to	spend. You	contact	a	supplier	you	think
about	what	you	need,	what	quantities,	what	price	and	when	it	will	be
delivered. Somebody	might	have	overcharged	you	decide	on	what	you	are
going	to	say	and	you	say	it	to	them. Thinking	when	used	in	this	instance	for
practical	purposes	is	fine. It	is	necessary	and	is	productive. However,	95%	of	our	thinking	is	not	used	to	deal	with	a	practical	situation. Most	thinking	is	unnecessary	and	repetitive. You	will	realize	this	as	you
observe	the	activity	of	your	mind. You	are	walking	in	a	beautiful	quiet	park	and	instead	of	experiencing	the	sun
at	the	back	of	your	head,	the	beautiful	sight	of	flowers	around	you	and	the
wonderful	sounds	of	children	at	play,	your	attention	is	wrapped	up	giving	out
about	your	neighbor	who	gave	you	a	lecture	yesterday,	or	your	boss	who	was
unhappy	with	your	work,	or	the	other	driver	who	blew	the	horn	at	you,	or	that
you	need	to	pay	your	mortgage	at	the	end	of	the	month. This	kind	of	thinking
is	torture. It	does	nothing	to	help	your	situation. It	does	nothing	to	help	you. Continuously	thinking	like	this	will	drive	you	into	depression. You	are	not	only	driving	yourself	insane,	you	are	missing	out	on	the	wonders
that	life	has	to	offer	you. Quietening	the	mind
R
egardless	of	the	extent	to	which	thoughts	have	taken	over,	everyone	has
the	capacity	to	take	back	control	of	his	or	her	mind. A	still	mind	is	just
covered	up	with	mental	noise;	therefore,	anything	that	helps	to	de-clutter	your
mind	will	allow	stillness	to	resurface. Your	choice	is	to	keep	running	the	thoughts	through	your	head	and	experience
the	consequences,	or	become	a	good	gardener	of	your	mind,	root	out	the
weeds	and	allow	only	the	flowers	to	grow. A	sleeping	gardener	is	not	attentive
and	will	soon	have	a	jungle	of	weeds. A	good	gardener	is	awake. He	knows
exactly	what	is	happening	and	will	guard	his	territory	with	a	keen	eye,
removing	the	weeds	as	soon	as	the	first	shoots	appear. Be	a	good	gardener	of	your	mind. A	mind	that	is	being	observed	is	an
unsuitable	environment	for	anxiety	and	depression	to	take	root. Both	require	a
lack	of	awareness	as	a	suitable	breeding	ground. A	still	mind	enables	us	to	relate	far	better	to	life	and	to	live	life	instead	of
paying	attention	to	useless	thinking. No	longer	is	so	much	of	our	energy
wasted	on	harmful	escapades	and	we	can	instead	focus	with	better
concentration	on	what	we	truly	choose. Although	learning	how	to	take	back
control	of	our	mind	is	very	simple,	just	like	the	good	gardener,	attention	is
required. Do	you	want	to	live	a	life	free	from	worry	and	unhappiness. The	next	section	lists	simple	self-help	breathing	and	awareness	practices	that
deal	with	the	physiological	and	psychological	aspects	of	depression,	anxiety
and	stress. Thinking	for	practical	situations	is	useful. Thinking	that	is
repetitive	and	unnecessary	is	a	hindrance. Chapter	2

	The	Buteyko	Method

T
he	Buteyko	Method	was	developed	in	the	1950s	by	Russian	doctor
Konstantin	Buteyko. His	method	has	been	practiced	by	hundreds	of	thousands
of	people	for	a	variety	of	conditions	including	asthma,	blood	pressure,
sleeping	difficulties,	anxiety,	stress,	panic	attacks	and	depression. As	a	young	doctor,	Buteyko	spent	many	months	sitting	at	sick	patients’
bedsides	observing	their	states	of	health. He	noticed	that	each	person’s
breathing	got	heavier	as	his	or	her	health	deteriorated. As	their	illnesses	advanced,	he	saw	that	his	patients	breathing	movements
from	their	chests	and	tummies	increased,	that	their	breathing	became	more
audible,	that	their	breaths	became	faster	and	that	they	sighed	more	and
breathed	through	their	mouths. In	time,	he	was	able	to	predict	the	onset	of
death	just	by	observing	their	breathing. This	raised	a	fundamental	question	for	Buteyko:	was	it	his	patients’	sickness
that	contributed	to	their	heavy	breathing	or	was	it	their	heavy	breathing	that
contributed	to	their	sickness. At	the	time,	Buteyko	suffered	from	severe	hypertension	that	was	going	from
bad	to	worse. He	began	experimenting	by	breathing	less	and	quietening	his
breathing. Within	a	short	while,	the	pains	that	he	had	experienced	for	months
went	away. Over	the	following	decades,	Buteyko	extensively	researched	this	subject	and
had	a	dedicated	laboratory	to	further	his	findings. His	method	was	brought	to
the	West	in	1990	and	is	now	taught	in	many	countries. Breathing,	such	a	vital	factor	for	life,	must	meet	certain	conditions. Severe
over	breathing	can	be	fatal	if	sustained	over	a	short	period. Therefore,	it	is
plausible	to	accept	that	negative	health	effects	will	result	from	less	severe	but
still	excessive	breathing	over	a	long	period. Normal


	cancer	might	be	readily
controlled,	even	reversed,	simply	by	decreasing	the	intakes	of	the	promoting
nutrients	and/or	increasing	the	intakes	of	the	anti-promoting	nutrients. We	initiated	more	studies	using	several	different	nutrients,	including	fish
protein,	dietary	fats	and	the	antioxidants	known	as	carotenoids. A	couple	of
excellent	graduate	students	of	mine,	Tom	O’Connor	and	Youping	He,
measured	the	ability	of	these	nutrients	to	affect	liver	and	pancreatic	cancer. The	results	of	these,	and	many	other	studies,	showed	nutrition	to	be	far	more
important	in	controlling	cancer	promotion	than	the	dose	of	the	initiating
carcinogen. The	idea	that	nutrients	primarily	affect	tumor	development	during
promotion	was	beginning	to	appear	to	be	a	general	property	of	nutrition	and
cancer	relationships. The
Journal	of	the	National	Cancer	Institute,
	which	is
the	official	publication	of	the	U.S.	National	Cancer	Institute,	took	note	of
these	studies	and	featured	some	of	our	findings	on	its	cover. 52
Furthermore,	a	pattern	was	beginning	to	emerge:
nutrients	from	animal-based	foods	increased	tumor	development	while	nutrients	from	plant-based
foods	decreased	tumor	development. In	our	large	lifetime	study	of	rats	with
aflatoxin-induced	tumors,	the	pattern	was	consistent. In	mice	with	hepatitis	B
virus-altered	genes,	the	pattern	was	consistent. In	studies	done	by	another
research	group,	with	breast	cancer	and	different	carcinogens,	the	pattern	was
consistent. In	studies	of	pancreatic	cancer	and	other	nutrients,	the	pattern	was
consistent. 52,	53
	In	studies	on	carotenoid	antioxidants	and	cancer	initiation,	the
pattern	was	consistent. 54,	55
	From	the	first	stage	of	cancer	initiation	to	the
second	stage	of	cancer	promotion,	the	pattern	was	consistent. From	one
mechanism	to	another,	the	pattern	was	consistent. So	much	consistency	was	stunningly	impressive,	but	one	aspect	of	this
research	demanded	that	we	remain	cautious:	all	this	evidence	was	gathered	in
experimental	animal	studies. Although	there	are	strong	arguments	that	these
provocative	findings	are
qualitatively
	relevant	to	human	health,	we	cannot
know	the
quantitative
	relevance. In	other	words,	are	these	principles
regarding	animal	protein	and	cancer	critically	important	for	all	humans	in	all
situations,	or	are	they	merely	marginally	important	for	a	minority	of	people	in
fairly	unique	situations? Are	these
principles	involved	in	one	thousand	human
cancers	every	year,	one	million	human	cancers	every	year,	or	more? We	need
direct	evidence	from	human	research. Ideally,	this	evidence	would	be
gathered	with	rigorous	methodology	and	would	investigate	dietary	patterns
comprehensively,	using	large	numbers	of	people	who	had	similar	lifestyles,
similar	genetic	backgrounds,	and	yet	had	widely	varying	incidences	of
disease. Having	the	opportunity	to	do	such	a	study	is	rare,	at	best,	but	by	incredibly
good	luck	we	were	given	exactly	the	opportunity	we	needed. In	1980	I	had
the	good	fortune	of	welcoming	in	my	laboratory	a	most	personable	and
professional	scientist	from	mainland	China,	Dr.	Junshi	Chen. With	this
remarkable	man,	opportunities	arose	to	search	for	some	larger	truths. We	were
given	the	chance	to	do	a	human	study	that	would	take	all	of	these	principles
we	had	begun	to	uncover	in	the	lab	to	the	next	level. It	was	time	to	study	the
role	of	nutrition,	lifestyle	and	disease	in	the	most	comprehensive	manner	ever
undertaken	in	the	history	of	medicine. We	were	on	to	the	China	Study.4
Lessons	from	China

	A	SNAPSHOT	IN	TIME
Have	you	ever	had	the	sensation	of	wanting	to	permanently	capture	a
moment? Such	moments	can	grip	you	in	a	way	you	will	never	forget. For
some	people,	those	moments	center	on	family	close	friends	or	related
activities;	for	others	those	moments	may	center	on	nature,	spirituality	or
religion. For	most	of	us,	I	suspect,	it	can	be	a	little	of	each. They	become	the
personal	moments,	both	happy	and	sad,	which	define	our	memories. It’s	these
moments	in	which	everything	just	“comes	together.”	They	are	the	snapshots
of	time	that	define	much	of	our	life	experience. The	value	of	a	snapshot	of	time	is	not	lost	on	researchers	either. We
construct	experiments,	hoping	to	preserve	and	analyze	the	specific	details	of	a
certain	moment	for	years	to	come. I	was	fortunate	enough	to	be	privy	to	such
an	opportunity	in	the	early	1980s,	after	a	distinguished	senior	scientist	from
China,	Dr.	Junshi	Chen,	came	to	Cornell	to	work	in	my	lab. He	was	deputy
director	of	China’s	premier	health	research	laboratory	and	one	of	the	first
handful	of	Chinese	scholars	to	visit	the	U.S.	following	the	establishment	of
relations	between	our	two	countries.THE	CANCER	ATLAS
In	the	early	1970s,	the	premier	of	China,	Chou	EnLai,	was	dying	of	cancer. In
the	grips	of	this	terminal	disease,	Premier	Chou	initiated	a	nationwide	survey
to	collect	information	about	a	disease	that	was	not
well	understood. It	was	to
be	a	monumental	survey	of	death	rates	for	twelve	different	kinds	of	cancer	for
more	than	2,400	Chinese	counties	and	880	million	(96%)	of	their	citizens. The	survey	was	remarkable	in	many	ways. It	involved	650,000	workers,	the
most	ambitious	biomedical	research	project	ever	undertaken. The	end	result
of	the	survey	was	a	beautiful,	color-coded	atlas	showing	where	certain	types
of	cancer	were	high	and	where	they	were	almost	nonexistent. 1
CHART	4.1:	SAMPLE	CANCER	ATLAS	IN	CHINA
This	atlas	made	it	clear	that	in	China	cancer	was	geographically	localized. Some	cancers	were	much	more	common	in	some	places	than	in	others. Earlier
studies	had	set	the	stage	for	this	idea,	showing	that	cancer	incidence	also
varies	widely	between	different	countries. 2–4
	But	these	China	data	were	more
remarkable	because	the	geographic	variations	in	cancer	rates	were	much
greater	(
Chart	4.2
). They	also	occurred	in	a	country	where	87%	of	the
population	is	the	same	ethnic	group,	the	Han	people.CHART	4.2. RANGE	OF	CANCER	RATES	IN	CHINESE	COUNTIES
Cancer	Site
Males
Females
All	Cancers
35–721
35–491
Nasopharynx
0–75
0–26
Esophagus
1–435
0–286
Stomach
6–386
2–141
Liver
7–248
3–67
Colorectal
2–67
2–61
Lung
3–59
0–26
Breast
—
0–20
*	Age-adjusted	death	rates,	representing	#	cases/100,000	people/year
Why	was	there	such	a	massive	variation	in	cancer	rates	among	different
counties	when	genetic	backgrounds	were	similar	from	place


—the	most
powerful	among	them	have	yearly	budgets	in	the	hundreds	of	millions	of
dollars. These	food	companies	and	associations	use	whatever	methods	they	can	to
enhance	their	products’	appeal	and	grow	their	market. One	way	to	accomplish
this	is	to	claim	nutritional	benefits	for	the	food	products	they	sell. At	the	same
time,	these	companies	and	associations	must	protect	their	products	from	being
considered	unhealthy. If	a	product	is	linked	to	cancer	or	some	other	disease,
profits	and	revenue	will	evaporate. So	food	business	interests	need	to	claim
that	their	product	is	good	for	you,	or,	at	least,	that	it’s	not	bad	for	you. In	this
process,	the	“science”	of	nutrition	becomes	the	“business”	of	marketing. THE	AIRPORT	CLUB
While	I	was	getting	the	China	Study	off	the	ground,	I	learned	of	a	committee
of	seven	prominent	research	scientists	who	had	been	retained	by	the	animal-
based	foods	industry	(the	National	Dairy	Council	and	the	American	Meat
Institute)	to	keep	tabs	on	any	research	projects	in	the	U.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the main issue with the Nurses' Health Study, according to the author?,
A: The study is flawed because it does not consider the impact of a whole diet and focuses on individual nutrients, which is misleading and can lead to incorrect conclusions.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the Harvard researchers' approach to studying diet and disease?,
A: The author disagrees with the Harvard researchers' approach, stating that it is flawed and misleading, as it does not consider the context of the entire diet and only focuses on individual nutrients.
Q: What is the main issue with the Airport Club, as mentioned in the text?,
A: The Airport Club is a group of scientists who work for the dairy industry and have a vested interest in promoting their products, which can lead to biased and misleading research.
Q: What is the author's criticism of the reductionist approach in science?,
A: The author argues that reductionism is a flawed approach, as it ignores the context and only focuses on individual nutrients, which can lead to incorrect conclusions and mislead the public.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of the government in promoting healthy eating habits?,
A: The author believes that the government should be promoting a healthy diet and lifestyle, rather than simply providing vague recommendations, and that they have failed to do so.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Relative
to	total	calorie	intake,	only	5–6%	dietary	protein	is	required	to	replace	the
protein	regularly	excreted	by	the	body	(as	amino	acids). About	9–10%
protein,	however,	is	the	amount	that	has	been	recommended	for	the	past	fifty
years	to	be	assured	that	most	people	at	least	get	their	5–6%	“requirement.”
This	9–10%	recommendation	is	equivalent	to	the	well-known	recommended
daily	allowance,	or	RDA. 5
Almost	all	Americans	exceed	this	9–10%	recommendation;	we	consume
protein	within	the	range	of	about	11–21%,	with	an	average	of	about	15–16%. 6
The	relatively	few	people	consuming	more	than	21%	protein	mostly	are	those
who	“pump	iron,”	recently	joined	by	those	on	high-protein	diets. It	is	extremely	puzzling	that	these	new	government-sponsored	2002	FNB
recommendations	now	say	that	we	should	be	able	to	consume	protein	up	to
the	extraordinary	level	of	35%	as	a	means	of	minimizing	chronic	diseases	like
cancer	and	heart	disease. This	is	an	unbelievable	travesty,	considering	the
scientific	evidence. The	evidence	presented	in	this	book	shows	that	increasing
dietary	protein	within	the	range	of	about	10–20%	is	associated	with	a	broad
array	of	health	problems,	especially	when	most	of	the	protein	is	from	animal
sources. As	reviewed	earlier	in	this	book,	diets	with	more	animal-based	protein	will
create	higher	blood	cholesterol	levels	and	higher	risks	of	atherosclerosis,
cancer,	osteoporosis,	Alzheimer’s	disease	and	kidney	stones,	to	name	just	a
few	chronic	diseases	that	the	FNB	committee	mysteriously	chooses	to	ignore. Furthermore,	the	FNB	panel	had	the	audacity	to	say	that	this	10–35%
recommendation	range	is	the	same	as	previous	reports. Their	press	release
clearly	states,	“protein	intake	recommendations	are	the	same	[as	previous
reports].”
I	know	of	no	report	that	has	even	remotely	suggested	a	level	as	high
as	this. When	I	initially	saw	this	protein	recommendation,	I	honestly	thought
that
it	was	a	printing	error. But,	no,	it	was	correct. I	know	several	of	the	people	on
the	panel	who	wrote	this	report	and	decided	to	give	them	a	ring. The	first
panel	member,	a	long-time	acquaintance,	said	this	was	the	first	time	he	had
even	heard	about	the	35%	protein	limit! He	suggested	that	this	protein
recommendation	might	have	been	drafted	in	the	last	days	of	preparing	the
report. He	also	told	me	that	there	was	little	discussion	of	the	evidence	on
protein,	for	or	against	a	high	consumption	level,	although	he	recollected	there
being	some	pro-Atkins	sympathy	on	the	committee. He	had	not	worked	in	the
protein	area,	so	he	did	not	know	the	literature. In	any	event,	this	importantrecommendation	slipped	through	the	panel	without	much	notice	and	made	the
first	sentence	of	the	FNB	news	release! The	second	panel	member,	a	long-time	friend	and	colleague,	was	a
subcommittee	chair	during	the	latter	part	of	the	panel’s	existence. He	is	not	a
nutritional	scientist	and	also	was	surprised	to	hear	my	concerns	about	the
upper	limit	for	protein. He	did	not	recall	much	discussion	on	the	topic	either. When	I	reminded	him	of	some	of	the	evidence	linking	high-animal	protein
diets	to	chronic	disease,	he	initially	was	a	little	defensive. But	with	a	little
more	persistence	on	my	part	about	the	evidence,	he	finally	said,	“Colin,	you
know	that	I	really	don’t	know	anything	about	nutrition.”	How,	then,	was	he	a
member—let	alone	the	chair—of	this	important	subcommittee? And	it	gets
worse. The	chair	of	the	standing	committee	on	the	evaluation	of	these
recommendations	left	the	panel	shortly	before	its	completion	for	a	senior
executive	position	in	a	very	large	food	company—a	company	that	will
salivate	over	these	new	recommendations.A	SUGARCOATED	REPORT
The	recommendation	on	added	sugar	is	as	outrageous	as	the	one	for	protein. At	about	the	time	this	FNB	report	was	being	released,	an	expert	panel	put
together	by	the	WHO	(World	Health	Organization)	and	the	FAO	(Food	and
Agriculture	Organization)	was	completing	a	new	report	on	diet,	nutrition	and
the	prevention	of	chronic	diseases. Professor	Phillip	James,	another	friend	of
mine,	was	a	member	of	this	panel	and	a	panel	spokesperson	on	the	added
sugar	recommendation. Early	rumors	of	the	report’s	findings	indicated	that
the	WHO/FAO	was	on	the	verge	of	recommending	an	upper	safe	limit	of	10%
for	added	sugar,	far	lower	than	the	25%	established	by	the	American	FNB
group. Politics,	however,	had	early	entered	the	discussion,	as	it	had	done	in
earlier	reports	on	added	sugars. 7
	According	to	a	news	release	from	the
director-general’s	office	at	the	WHO,
8
	the	U.S.-based	Sugar	Association	and
the	World	Sugar


raspberries, peppermint tea. FRIDAY
BREAKFAST:  Blueberries, dates stuffed with peanut butter,
clabber milk. LUNCH:  Tossed salad, lemon bread, cactus apple, pumpkin
seeds, coconut cream. DINNER: Banana-date salad, ground sirloin steak, sweet corn,
fresh peach pudding, clabber milk. SATURDAY
BREAKFAST:  Fresh figs, kumquats, coconut cream. LUNCH:  Brazilian salad, whole wheat bread, cheddar cheese,
crookneck squash, cranberry cocktail. DINNER:  Apple salad, baby beef liver, sliced beets, orange ice
cream, fenugreek tea. SUNDAY
BREAKFAST:  Elderberries, black walnuts, date milk. LUNCH:  Fruit cole slaw, fresh lima beans, spinach, sun-dried
apricots, energy cocktail. DINNER:  Avocado surprise, Steak Tartar, sweet potato, honey
dessert, alfalfa seed tea. MONDAY
BREAKFAST :  Nectarines, sprouted wheat served with milk
and honey, sesame milk. LUNCH:  Salad bowl, black walnut bread, avocado, sunflower
seeds, liver cocktail. DINNER:  Banana treat, sea bass, cauliflower, uncooked cherry
pie, red clover tea. TUESDAY
BREAKFAST:  Muskmelon, muesli porridge, peach milk. LUNCH: Banana-celery salad, uncooked vegetable soup,
loganberries, squash seeds, clabber milk. DINNER:  Tossed salad, Steak Tartar, kale, prune and walnut
candy, buttermilk. WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST:  Pears, sun-dried apricots, sunflower milk. LUNCH:  Apple salad, strawberry bread, goat cheese, mung
bean sprouts, peanut milk. DINNER:  Rainbow salad, porterhouse steak, white potato,
raspberry ice cream, strawberry leaf tea. THURSDAY
BREAKFAST: Wild grapes, sprouted rye served with milk and
honey, energy cocktail. LUNCH: Pepper salad, cottage chee se, strawberries, banana,
vitality cocktail. DINNER:  Banana-date salad, ground round steak, broccoli,
uncooked apple pie, rose hip tea. FRIDAY
BREAKFAST:  Grapefruit, pumpkin seeds, eggnog. LUNCH:  Vegetable-nut salad, orange bread, cheddar cheese,
asparagus, carrot juice. DINNER:  Honeydew salad, fresh halibut, rhubarb, uncooked
apple pie, goat milk. SATURDAY
BREAKFAST:  Concord grapes, pecans, clabber milk. LUNCH:  Tossed salad, black walnut bread, fresh peas,
canteloup, sesame milk. DINNER:  Avocado-orange salad, Steak Tartar, summer
squash, peach ice cream, fenugreek tea. THE CONCLUDING  PICTURE
   Modern nutritional science has clearly demonstrated the
superiority of raw foods over those which have been heat-
processed. Through biochemistry and physiology it has shown the theoretical advantages of consuming raw foods. Through animal experiments involving many thousands of
animals, it has demonstrated under controlled observation
that animals thrive better on the raw diet. In nature it has
noted that freedom from disease is dependent in great measure upon the exclusive use of raw foods. With humans it
has been equally successful and has shown how physical
development is better, and immunity to disease is higher, in
proportion to the quantity of raw food being consumed. In
large clinics and sanitariums it has shown that raw foods have specific therapeutic values. And through the science of food
selection, and the art of food preparation, it shows how raw
food therapy can be applied on the most efficient basis in
modern life. What this all means in terms of human life and survival is
easy to understand. Man created his first and primary cause of
disease with the discovery of fire and its application in the art of cooking and refining of foodstuffs. In primitive life he
employed the less destructive methods of cooking to a
moderate degree and thus was able, in some cases, to retain a
relatively high degree of physical excellence, though below
probable optimum standards. In civilization he has applied the more severe forms of heat-processing to nearly all his
foods, and the consequences have been tragic in many ways. Man today occupies the unique position of being the most degenerated mammal on the face of the earth. With a
philosophy of medicine that has been developed through the
centuries, and the existence of drug and medical facilities
which involve directly or indirectly the expenditure of
billions of dollars annuall y, he fails to even a pproach the physical excellence which is the norm of the animal kingdom. For this the widespread consumption of heat-processed foods
has been largely responsible, as the existing evidence so clearly shows. But the final outlook is not a pessimistic one. It is indeed
optimistic to the highest degree. A return to natural foods—uncooked and unrefined—offers man a future which
otherwise would appear only in the realm of fantasy. A sharp
reduction in the prevalence of human disease is now possible
within the present generation. A definite prolongation in the
span of life is also possible within a single generation. And to future generations the future is even brighter. Disease may be
reduced to its normal insignificance; life may reach its normal
biological limits, and the pathology of senility will be
replaced by the normal changes of senescence. Such are the
possibilities now before us. They may be reached through an improvement in all of the hygienic phases of our existence. Of these, it is clear that the consumption of raw food is the
most important and will do more than any other single factor
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 overcome disease. The carrot juice diet
involves taking one glass of carrot juice every three hours or more if you like. You can do this for ten days, twenty days or  even
longer. I had one man on carrot juice for a whole year. That is a long time. This particular man lived in Monrovia and had an
extreme condition of the bowel but through the carrot juice diet, he got rid of it. Dr. Kirschner, who wrote the book on juic e
therapy, came here to talk over this man’s case because he found out how I had kept him on juices for so long a time. The man
passed off mucus and catarrh continually from that bowel. It was almost unbelievable what was eliminated - being even black at
times. This was simply accumulated toxic material that was necessary for him to get rid of. BREAKING A FAST
In breaking a fast, if you go five, six or seven days on water, then go one or two days on juices, either vegetable or fruit. Take one
8-oz glass ever y three hours. You have eliminated the enemas one or two days I beforehand and you are starting in to work for
good bowel movements now. I After the two days of juices, start the first thing in the morning on the third day with sliced o r
peeled oranges. Th e bulk of an orange is probably one of the finest things for the bowel. If you do not want to use oranges, you can
use a finely shredded carrot that has been steamed or wilted for one minute. This acts to help clean out the toxic materials. You can
do this  for breakfast and lunch. Then for the evening meal, you can start out with a small salad. Have a glass of juice at 10:00 am and again at 3:00 pm. The next day you can have fresh fruit for breakfast along with juice. Have juice at 10:00 am. For lunch, you can have a small salad and juice. Have another glass of juice at 3:00 pm. At the evening meal you can have a salad, one cooked vegetable and juice. The next day you can have the same as the day before, except that you could have an extra vegetable at  noon and again at night, if
desired. You may also have an egg or a tablespoon of nut butter for the morning meal. The next day, you will start on Dr. Jensen’s Regular Diet, except for no starches. The day following, you can have both starches and proteins  in your diet. NOTE:
Here is a simple thing for you to remember when considering the basic requirements for good bowel management. Your food
should in some way contribute to the BLM in the bowel. BLM is Bulk, Lubrication and Moisture. These three combine to provide
an ideal bowel environment. Bulk creates the mass whereby good evacuation is assured. Lubrication provides an easy flow of
materials through the digestive tract all the way to the anus. Moisture prevents the drying out of feces and constipation from
developing. If your food item does not contribute to BLM, then don’t eat it. GRAPES
Four pounds of grapes a day is a good amount for a grape diet and you should average a pound or so every three hours. These
grapes should be the grapes that have seed s since these are the most vital of all grapes. Man has gone to using hybrid foods too
much. Those foods that were brought to us in the beginning are the foods that have lots of seeds. They are the vital foods. S o I
believe the grapes that have seeds are t he best. The Concord, Fresno Beauty, Red grapes and Muscat, all are good grapes to use. I
don’t say that you have to use the seeds. You can chew them finely if you like. A good thing to help eliminate catarrh is fou nd in
cream of tartar which surround the seeds. So make sure you get all the material off the seeds when you are eating them. When
chewing grape skins, you’ll find that they are very bitter but that bitterness is high in potassium. Potassium is a great cle anser in
the body. Gayelord Hauser made h is name with potassium broth. It is a great cleanser and detoxifier in the body. Especially in the
beginning of the grape diet, I think you should use enemas. Toxic materials accumulate and it is well that we keep things mov ing
along. You can go on grapes five to ten days without any supervision, but if you stay on them longer, it is well to have someone
around who has been used to giving the grape diet. That person should be able to take care of you with any reaction you might
have that may be strange to y ou. Many times these reactions are nothing more than a healing crisis or an elimination process. WATER REMEDIES
Sitz Baths. Water should come up five inches on the body. The feet are never in the water. The baths should only be for the p elvis
and the pelv ic organs. This is wonderful for congestion in the pelvis and sluggish bowels. These baths are best taken in the evening
just before going to bed. However, they can be taken the first thing in the morning before going to work. The cold sitz bath is an
effective, though violent way of stopping bedwetting. Take cold water, sitting in it four to five minutes every morning before
going to school or before beginning the daily program or routine. This will help with bladder and prostate, problems in gener al. A
gentler approach is to take two sitz baths every morning. The first for one minute, hot; the second for one -half minute, cold. Do
this for five changes, going from one to the other. The treatment should continue for a period of three months. BENEFITS OF THE ENEMA
Enemas can be beneficial in restoring healthy bowel regularity. This is why I believe enemas should be used every day for a y ear
by those who have problems with a sluggish, irregular or underactive bowel. Many ingredients can be added to enema water to
increase its effectiveness in some specific manner. Coffee enemas help detoxify the liver. Flaxseed tea enemas relieve
inflammation in the bowel. Bentonite, a clay water, when added to enema water assists in absorbing and mobilizing toxins from
the bowe l wall. Acidophilus culture taken orally is helpful in detoxifying the bowel and in building friendly bacteria. Acidophilus
implants can also be inserted rectally over night. I believe that each of the many health professions and approaches to health care  have a special value. I do not believe, however,
that any therapeutic method —no matter how sophisticated - can effectively overcome disease in a toxic -laden body. The toxins
must be eliminated first. Nor do I believe that any drug -based therapy can restor e or rejuvenate tissue damaged in the course of
chronic disease. Only nutrients from foods can do that. I believe when we work with nature, we get the results nature intends  us to
get. A clean body nourished by natural foods and uplifting thoughts will put  anyone on the path to right living that brings health as
a natural consequence. It is interesting to note that the famous beauty queen, whom I knew, Mae West, was a great believer in  the
benefits of the enema. She started every day with a morning enema. I ’m sure that this simple practice greatly contributed to her
unusual vitality, bright -mindedness and long lasting attractiveness, as true beauty is but a reflection of the beauty within. A WORD ABOUT COLONICS
Colonies, as administered today, vary greatly in their effects due largely to the expertise of the colonic technician. We feel that in
some respects colonic therapy is taking advantage of people by making them believe that long and costly treatments are necess ary. Also water applied under pressure is potentially hazardous. Those individuals with known or suspected serious bowel problems
should approach pressurized colonic treatments with extreme caution. Those practitioners who administer colonic therapy prope rly
are offering a useful service to the pu blic. This service can be greatly enhanced with the addition of sound dietary counseling so
as to eventually overcome the need for colonic therapy. Without this knowledge, the colonic recipient is merely digging holes  and
filling them again —a net zero towa rd building a better health quality. Many professionals giving colonies today are getting
successful but temporary results. The reason for this is that just getting rid of the toxic waste in the bowel is not the com plete
answer, although it is the first st ep along the correct path. Unless proper exercise, diet and right living are practiced, good and
lasting results will not be achieved. We must be interested in making bowel tissue changes. REVITALIZING BROTH
This is a broth that was used during my sanitar ium work dealing with very sick people who had to be nourished back to health. It is
very easy to digest. Use 5 or 6 of these non -gas-forming vegetables, such as: Beets, carrots, potato peeling, celery, parsley, okra (if
possible), chayote pear or any squa sh. Do not use any of the sulfur vegetables: cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli or onions. Add: 1 C. cut up vegetables; 1 pint water; 2 tablespoons Soybean Milk Powder. After either liquifying, blending or shredding vegetables, place in a pot with other ingred ients and let simmer 3 -5 minutes over a
very low flame. This is only to break down the fiber and release enzymes. Strain and


 seemingly dead is now alive. This damsel really was not dead,
she was only asleep. You fed her in this silence because you have meat no
one else knows of. You gave her food and she became a resurrected living
reality within your world. Then you can share your joy with me and I can
rejoice in your joy. The purpose of these lessons is to remind you of the law of your own be -
ing, the law of consciousness; you are that law. You were only uncon -
scious of its operation. You fed and kept alive the things you did not wish
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havento express within this world. Take my challenge and put this philosophy to the test. If it does not work
you should not use it as a comforter. If it is not true, you must completely
discard it. I know it is true. You will not know it until you try either to
prove or disprove it. Too many of us have joined “isms” and we are afraid to put them to the
test because we feel we might fail; and, then, where are we? Not really
wanting to know the truth concerning it, we hesitate to be bold enough to
put it to the test. You say, “I know it would work in some other way. I do
not want to really test it. While I have not yet disproved it, I can still be
comforted by it. Now do not fool yourself, do not think for one second that you are wise. Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you
will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not
in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am
teaching in this world it is far better to have you a successful, satisfied
person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I
hope you will be bold enough to challenge this instruction and either
prove or disprove it. Now before we go into the silence period I shall briefly explain the tech -
nique again. We have two techniques in applying this law. Everyone here
must now know exactly what he wants. You must know that if you do not
get it tonight you will still be as desirous tomorrow concerning this objec -
tive. When you know exactly what you want, construct in your mind's eye a
single, simple event which implies fulfillment of your desire, an event
wherein self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself
as though you were on the screen, you be the actor in the drama. Restrict the event to one single action. If you are going to shake a hand
because that implies fulfillment of your desire then do that and that only. Do not shake hands and then wander off in your imagination to a dinner
party or to some other place. Restrict your action to simply shaking hands
and do it over and over again, until that handshake takes on the solidity
and the distinctness of reality. If you feel you cannot remain faithful to an action, I want you now to de -
fine your objective, and then condense the idea, which is your desire, into
a single phrase, a phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, some
phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful?”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenOr if I felt thankful because I thought someone was instrumental in bring -
ing my desire to pass, I could say, “Thank you,” and repeat it with feeling
over and over again like a lullaby until my mind was dominated by the
single sensation of thankfulness. We will now sit quietly in these chairs with the idea which implies fulfill -
ment of our desire condensed to a single phrase, or to a single act. We
will relax and immobilize our physical bodies. Then let us experience in
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        The walls, the obstacles, the problems, crumble of their own weight if I
can reach the point of stillness within me. The man who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the
world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it mani -
fested. There is all the difference in the world between holding the idea,
and being held by the idea. Become so dominated by an idea that it
haunts the mind as though you were it. Then, regardless of what others
may say, you are walking in the direction of your fixed attitude of mind. You are walking in the direction of the idea that dominates the mind. As we told you last night, you have but one gift that is truly yours to give,
and that is yourself. There is no other gift; you must press it out of your -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenself by an appropriation. It is there within you now for creation is finished. There is nothing to be that is not now. There is nothing to be created for
all things are already yours, they are finished. Although man may not be able to stand physically upon a state, he can
always stand mentally upon any desired state. By standing mentally I
mean that you can now, this very moment, close your eyes and visualize
a place other than your present one, and assume that you are actually
there. You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you
are amazed to find that you are not physically there. This mental journey into the desired state, with its subsequent feeling of
reality, is all that is necessary to bring about its fulfillment. Your dimen -
sionally greater self has ways that the lesser, or three-dimensional you,
know not of. Furthermore, to the greater you, all means are good which
promote the fulfillment of your assumption. Remain in the mental state defined as your objective until it has the feel -
ing of reality, and all the forces of heaven and earth will rush to aid its
embodiment. Your greater self will influence the actions and words of all
who can be used to aid the production of your fixed mental attitude. *****
Now we turn to the book of Numbers and here we find a strange story. I
trust that some of you have had this experience as described in the book
of Numbers. They speak of the building of a tabernacle at the command
of God; that God commanded Israel to build him a place of worship. He gave them all the specifications of the tabernacle. It had to be an
elongated, movable place of worship, and it had to be covered with skin. Need you be told anything more. Isn’t that man. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you. ” (1 Cor 3:16). There is no other temple. Not a temple made with hands, but a temple
eternal in the heavens. This temple is elongated, and it is covered with
skin, and it moves across the dessert. “And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the
tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was
upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire
by night. ” (Num 9:15, 16). The command given to Israel was to tarry until the cloud ascended by day
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand the fire by night. “Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year,
that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the chil -
dren of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was
taken up, they journeyed. ” (Num 9:22). You know that you are the tabernacle, but you may wonder, what is the
cloud. In meditation many of you must have seen it. In meditation, this
cloud, like the sub-soil waters of an artesian well, springs spontaneously
to your head and forms itself into pulsating, golden rings. Then, like a
gentle river they flow from your head in a stream of living rings of gold. In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends. It is in this
drowsy state that you should assume that you are that which you desire
to be, and that you have that which you seek, for the cloud will assume
the form of your assumption and fashion a world in harmony with itself. The cloud is simply the garment of your consciousness, and where your
consciousness placed, there you will be in the flesh also. This golden cloud comes in meditation. There is a certain point when you
are approaching sleep that it is very, very thick, very liquid, and very
much alive and pulsing. It begins to ascend as you reach the drowsy,
meditative state, bordering on sleep. You do not strike the tabernacle;
neither do you move it until the cloud begins to ascend. The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep. For when a man goes to sleep, whether he knows it or not, he slips from a
three-dimensional world into a fourth-dimensional world and that which is
ascending is the consciousness of that man in a greater focus; it is a
fourth-dimensional focus. What you now see ascending is your


 said, "That's even worse because you
put all your creation and creativity in it." 114 The Secret
He's a gorgeous-looking man with all these actresses around
him because that's the work he does, and he doesn't have any
romance. I asked him, "What do you want?" "I want to date
three women a week." I said, "OK, paint it. Paint yourself with
three women, and hang it in every corner of your living space." Six months later I saw him and asked, "How is your love
life?" "Great! Women call me, they want to date me." "Because that's your wish," I said. He said, "I feel great. I
mean, for years I did not have a date and now I have three
dates a week. They're fighting over me." "Good for you,"
I said. Then he told me, "I really want to stabilize. I want
marriage now, I want romance." I said, "Well, then paint it." He painted a beautiful romantic relationship, and a year later
he got married, and he's very happy. This is because he put another wish out. He wished it in
himself for years without it happening because his wish could
not manifest. The outer level of himself—his house—was
contradicting his wish all the time. So if you understand this
knowledge, you just start playing with it. Marie Diamond's story of her client is a perfect demonstration of
how Feng Shui reflects the teachings of The Secret. It illustrates how
our thoughts create powerfully when we put them into action. Any
action we take must be preceded by a thought. Thoughts create the
words we speak, the feelings we feel, and our actions. Actions are
particularly powerful because they are thoughts that have caused
us to act. The Secret to Relationships 115
We may not even realize what our innermost thoughts are, but we
can see what we have been thinking by looking at the actions we
have taken. In the story of the film producer, his innermost thoughts
were reflected in his actions and surroundings. He had painted
many women, all turning away from him. Can you see what his
innermost thoughts were? Even though his words were saying he
wanted to date more women, his innermost thoughts did not reflect
that in his paintings. By deliberately choosing to change his actions,
it caused him to focus his entire thought on what he wanted. With
such a simple shift, he was able to paint his life and call it into exist-
ence through the law of attraction. When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your
actions don't contradict your desires. One of the most wonderful
examples of this is given by Mike Dooley, one of the teachers fea-
tured in The Secret, in his audio course, Leveraging the Universe and
Engaging the Magic. It is a story of a woman who wanted to attract
her perfect partner into her life. She had done all the right things:
She got clear about what she wanted him to be like, made a detailed
list of all of his qualities, and visualized him in her life. Despite
doing all these things, there was no sign of him. Then one day as she arrived home and was parking her car in the
middle of her garage, she gasped as she realized that her actions
were contradicting what she wanted. If her car was in the middle
of the garage, there was no room for her perfect partner's car! Her
actions were powerfully saying to the Universe that she did not
believe she was going to receive what she had asked for. So she
immediately cleaned up her garage and parked her car to one side, 116 The Secret
leaving space for her perfect partner's car on the other side. She
then went into her bedroom and opened her wardrobe, which was
jammed full of clothes. There was no room for her perfect partner's
clothes. So she moved some of her clothes to make space. She had
also been sleeping in the middle of her bed, and so she began sleep-
ing on "her" side, leaving space for her partner. This woman related her story to Mike Dooley over a dinner, and sit-
ting next to her at the table was her perfect partner. After taking all
of these powerful actions and acting as if she had already received
her perfect partner, he arrived in her life and they are now happily
married. Another simple example of "acting as if" is a story of my sister
Glenda, who is the production manager of the film The Secret. She
was living and working in Australia, and she wanted to move to
the United States and work with me in our U.S. office. Glenda knew
The Secret very well, and so she was doing all the right things to
bring forth what she wanted, but months were passing by and she
was still in Australia. Glenda looked at her actions and realized she was not "acting as
if" she was receiving what she had asked for. So she began to take
powerful actions. She organized everything in her life for her de-
parture. She canceled memberships, gave away things she would
not need, and she got her suitcases out and packed them. Within
four weeks, Glenda was in the United States working out of our
U.S. office. The Secret to Relationships 117
Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your
actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they're
not contradicting what you've asked for. Act as if you are receiv-
ing it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it
today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expec-
tation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are
sending out that powerful signal of expectation. LISA NICHOLS
Inside relationships it's important to first understand who's
coming into the relationship, and not just your partner. You
need to understand yourself first. JAMES RAY
How can you ever expect anyone else to enjoy your company
if you don't enjoy your own company? And so again, the law
of attraction or The Secret is about bringing that into your
life. You've got to get really, really clear. Here's the question I
would ask you to consider: Do you treat yourself the way you
want other people to treat you? When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat
you, you can never change the way things are. Your actions are
your powerful thoughts, so if you do not treat yourself with 118 The Secret
love and respect, you are emitting a signal that is saying you are
not important enough, worthy enough, or deserving. That sig-
nal will continue to be broadcast, and you will experience more
situations of people not treating you well. The people are just
the effect. Your thoughts are the cause. You must begin to treat
yourself with love and respect, and emit that signal and get on
that frequency. Then the law of attraction will move the entire
Universe, and your life will be full of people who love and re-
spect you. Many people have sacrificed themselves for others, thinking when
they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To
sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of absolute lack,
because it is saying, "There is not enough for everyone, so I will go
without" Those feelings do not feel good and will eventually lead
to resentment. There is abundance for everybody and it is each
person's responsibility to summon their own desires. You cannot
summon for another person because you cannot think and feel for
another. Your job is You, When you make feeling good a priority,
that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close
to you. DR. JOHN GRAY
You become the solution for you. Don't point to another
person and say, "Now you owe me and you need to give me
more." Instead, give more to yourself. Take time off to give to
yourself, and in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where
now you can overflow in giving. The Secret to Relationships 119
Many of us were taught to put ourselves last, and as a consequence
we attracted feelings of being unworthy and undeserving. As those
feelings lodged within us, we continued to attract more life situa-
tions that had us feel more unworthy and not enough. You must
change that thinking. "Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so
much love to self will seem very cold, hard and
unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a
different light, when we find that 'looking out for
Number One,' as directed by the Infinite, is really
looking out for Number Two and is indeed the
only way to permanently benefit Number Two." "To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until
you become a magnet." Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody. Therefore it is imperative that you tend to You first. Attend to your
joy first. People are responsible for their own joy. When you tend
to your joy and do what makes you feel good, you are a joy to be
around and you are a shining example to every child and every
person in your life. When you are feeling joy you don't even have
to think about giving. It is a natural overflow. 120 The Secret
The reason you have to love You is because it is impossible to feel
good if


 has ever been available
in any of the Pacific Island groups. The intelligence and aptness with which these men were able to
learn the fundamental principles, and their skill in carrying out a highly commendable prophylactic
operation was indeed remarkable. I gave them pieces of soap and asked them to carve a
reproduction of an extracted tooth which was given as a model and in which they were required to
increase all diameters to a given amount. Their work would probably equal if not exceed in
excellence that of the first effort of 90 per cent of American dental students. Many of these natives
are very dexterous with their fingers and are skilled artists in carving wood and other material. A great service could be rendered to these people who are in the process of modernization, but
who have no opportunity for dental assistance, by teaching some of the bright young men certain of
the procedures for rendering first aid. They could be compensated by contributions of native foods
and native wares much as our itinerant dentists were in earlier days. The people would not have
money to pay an American or European dentist for his service until trade is carried on with
currency. Nearly all these racial stocks are magnificent singers for which Nature has well-equipped them
physically. Their artistry can be judged by the fact that they sing very difficult music
unaccompanied and undirected. A large native chorus at Nukualofa, in the Tongan Group, sang7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 81/250without accompaniment "The Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah with all the parts and with
phenominal volume and modulation. Much of their work, such as rowing their largest boats, and
many of their sports are carried out to the rhythm of hilarious music. Many of the island groups recognize that their races are doomed since they are melting away
with degenerative diseases, chiefly tuberculosis. Their one overwhelming desire is that their race
shall not die out. They know that something serious has happened since they have been touched by
civilization. Surely our civilization is on trial both at home and abroad. The nutrition of the primitive Polynesians is continually reinforced with animal life from the sea
which includes both soft- and hard-shell forms. The incidence of tooth decay varied from 0.6 per
cent for the most isolated groups to 33.4 per cent for the modernized groups. Those individuals
living in their native environment on their native foods have universally normal facial and dental arch
form reproducing the characteristics of the race. Those living on the normal environment except for
using the imported foods of white flour, sugar, sugar products, syrup, polished rice, and the like,
have in the succeeding generations marked changes in facial and dental arch forms. REFERENCE
1. FERGUSON, R. A. A dental survey of the school children of American Samoa. J. Am. Dent. A., 21:534, 1934. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 9
ISOLATED AND MODERNIZED AFRICAN TRIBES
AFRICA has been the last of the large continents to be invaded and explored by our modern
civilization. It has one of the largest native populations still living in accordance with inherited
traditions. Accordingly, it provides a particularly favorable field for studying primitive racial stocks. This study of primitive racial stocks, with the exception of some Indian groups, has been largely
concerned with people living under physical conditions quite different from those which obtain in
the central area of a large continent. Sea foods are within reach of the inhabitants of islands and coastal. regions regardless of
latitude. The inhabitants of the interior of a continent, however, have not access to liberal supplies
of various forms of animal life of the sea. It was important, therefore, in the interest of the
inhabitants of the United States, Canada, Europe, and other large continental interiors, to study
primitive people living under environments similar to theirs. Africa is one of the few countries that
can provide both primitive living conditions and the modern life of the plains and plateau country in
the interior. The great plateau of eastern and central Africa has nurtured a score of tribes with
superb physiques and much accumulated wisdom. We are concerned to know how they have
accomplished this, and whether they or any other people can survive in that environment after
adopting the formulas of our modern civilizations. Considering that the most universal scourge of
modern civilization is dental caries, though it is only one of its many degenerative processes, it is
important that we study these people to note how they have solved the major problems of living in
so severe and disciplining an environment as provided in Africa. This was done during the summer of 1935. Our route took us through the Red Sea and down7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 82/250the Indian Ocean to enter the African continent at Mombasa below the equator and then across
Kenya and Uganda into Eastern Belgian Congo, and thence about 4,000 miles down the long
stretch of the Nile through Sudan to the modernized civilization of Egypt. This journey covered
most of the country around Ethiopia and gave us contact with several of the most primitive racial
stocks of that country. These people are accordingly the neighbors of the Abyssinians or
Ethiopians. Since the various tribes speak different languages and are under different governments,
it was necessary to organize our safari in connection with the local government officials in the
different districts. During these journeys in Africa which covered about 6,000 miles, we came in contact with
about thirty different tribes. Special attention was given to the foods, samples of which were
obtained for chemical analysis. Over 2,500 negatives were made and developed in the field. If any
one impression of our experiences were to be selected as particularly vivid, it would be the
contrast between the health and ruggedness of the primitives in general and that of the foreigners
who have entered their country. That their superior ruggedness was not racial became evident
when through contact with modern civilizations degenerative processes developed. Very few of the
many Europeans with whom we came in contact had lived in central Africa for as much as two
years without serious illness or distinct evidence of physical stress. That the cause was not the
severity of the climate, but something related to the methods of living, was soon apparent. In all the
districts it was recognized and expected that the foreigners must plan to spend a portion of every
few years or every year outside that environment if they would keep well. Children born in that
country to Europeans were generally expected to spend several of their growing years in Europe
or America if they would build even relatively normal bodies. One exacting condition of the environment that we encountered was the constant exposure to
disease. Dysentery epidemics were so severe and frequent that we scarcely allowed ourselves to
eat any food that had not been cooked or that we had not peeled ourselves. In general, it was
necessary to boil all drinking water. We dared not allow our bare feet to touch a floor of the
ground for fear of jiggers which burrow into the skin of the feet. Scarcely ever when below 6,000
feet were we safe after sundown to step from behind mosquito netting or to go out without
thorough protection against the malaria pests. These malaria mosquitoes which include many
varieties are largely night feeders. They were thought to come out soon after sundown. We were
advised that the most dangerous places for becoming infected were the public eating houses, since7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 83/250the mosquitoes hide under the tables and attack the diner's ankles if they are not adequately
protected. We rigidly followed the precaution of providing adequate protection against these pests. Disease-carrying ticks were so abundant in the grass and shrubbery that we had to be on guard
constantly to remove them from our clothing before they buried themselves in our flesh. They were
often carriers of very severe fevers. We had to be most careful not to touch the hides with which
the natives protected their bodies from the cold at night and from the sun in the daytime without
thorough sterilization following any contact. There was grave danger from the lice that infected the
hair of the hides. We dared not enter several districts because of the dreaded tsetse fly and the
sleeping sickness it carries. One wonders at the apparent health of the natives until he learns of the
unique immunity they have developed and which is largely transmitted to the offspring. In several
districts we were told that practically every living native had had typhus fever and was immune,
though the lice from their bodies could transmit the disease. One also wonders why people with
such resistance to disease are not able to combat the degenerative diseases of modern civilization. When they adopt modern civilization they then become susceptible to several of our modern
degenerative processes, including tooth decay. Dr. Anderson who is in charge of a splendid government hospital in Kenya, assured me that in
several years of service among the primitive people of that district he had observed that they did
not suffer from appendicitis, gall bladder trouble, cystitis and duodenal ulcer. Malignancy was also
very rare among the primitives. It is of great significance that we studied six tribes in which there appeared to be not a single
tooth attacked by dental caries nor a single malformed dental arch. Several other tribes were found
with nearly complete immunity to


ists to realize that they cannot
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear-that they cannot make a
Beethoven or an Einstein out of a sow's-ear type of nervous
system. The basic problem is to find out the capabilities of a par
ticular nervous system and, by practice and experience, help it to
develop into the most efficient apparatus possible for that par
tindar and unique type. 6
All this is also relevant to the current demand-or hope-for
a unified religion. Those who think this is possible are doomed to
disappointment because we are all different and respond differ
ently to the ideas which others suggest to us. Religion can never be an organized set of regulations. It is a
purely personal matter, depending on the human individual's re
actions to his religious upbringing or teaching and to the ideas
which may originate in his own mind about his relationship to
what he believes to be the Designer, Organizer or Operator of the
Universe. It makes little difference what you call this qnalitative attribute
of the Universe -whether YOll call it God. or the Universal Mind
or something else. The fact is that your relationship and mine
with this thing outside ourselves- something which is greater
than ourselves-is a purely personal matter between us and it,
123 THE CONTINUING ADVENTURE
which cannot be organized or legislated by religious groups or
in courts of law. Since nobody knows the origin of the Universe, an infinite
variety of opinions about its Originator is inevitable. Hence
the enormous number of religious faiths and groups around the
world, some of which appeal to vast numbers of individuals and
some to a mere handful. It is often djfficult to get general agree
ment on the interpretation of a set of facts. When there are no
facts-in the accepted sense of the word-to interpret, it is obvi
ous that general agreement among large numbers of different
individuals is impossible. Each individual, then, has to solve the problem of his relation
ship with the Originator for himself in order to reach a con
clusion which is satisfying to him. There may be others who
reach the same conclusions and also find them satisfying. But
these should not be imposed on those who do not because, in the
long run, each individual has to solve his own problems. Nature revels in infinite variety. Far from trying to impose uni
formity on mankind-or on anything else-she makes every
thing different. Our brains and bodies are all a little different
from every other brain and body in the world. Even our finger
prints are different; among the many millions of fingerprints on
file around the world, no two identical ones have ever been found
-even among the many thousands of prints of 'identical' twins. *
L·fields are the tools which Nature uses to indulge her zest for
variety; and we know no way to blunt them. In dealing with
human nature, therefore, we should temper our idealism with
realism and-like the wisest politicians-should confine our
selves to 'the art of the possible'. In our modern civilization, of course, a certain amount of
uniformity-in laws, regulations, procedures, printed forms and
so on-is both necessary and unavoidable. But if we are to har
monize man-made laws with Nature's, we should neither seek
-nor hope for-greater uni formity in regulating human con
duct but should do our utmost to keep it to tbe minimum and,
where possible, to reduce it. It is the aim of some of the theorists and most of the dictators
* Confirmed by the F.B.1. 124 THE CONTINUIN G ADVENTUR E
of this age to regulate the human race down to a dreary con
dition of mediocre uniformity. Perhaps, then, one of the most
important things we can learn from the fields of life is that in
Nature precise organization and infinite variety can and do go
together. We are likely to get further faster in the solution of our
problems if we strive to imitate Nature, however difficult that
may be. 7
Nobody knows what those early Vikings really expected to
find when they set sail across the Atlantic. Perhaps they dreamed
of fabulous and mysterious territory to conquer. But when they
landed they found nothing too mysterious or unfamilia r-just
a large and obvious continent to explore. It has been much the same with our voyage of discovery. What
ever we expected to find out when we started, we have found
nothing myst erious-nothing that need surprise us. We knew before we started that, in the non-living world, fields
and atoms are related attributes of matter and that neither can
exist without the other. It was reasonable to suppose, then, that
living systems-composed as they are of atoms and their fields
-should contain electrical fields capable of determining the
pattern of the structure and of maintaining it through constant
changes of chemical flux. This seemed the more likely because the electro-encephalo
graph and the electro-cardiograph had established the existence
of electrical phenomena in living systems. And physicists know
that wherever potential di fferences exist in conducting media
currents flow and fields are the inevitable result. The existence of L-fields, then, seemed as logical and probable
as the existence of new lands across the ocean must have seemed
to the Vikings. But, as with them, the problem was how to find
the hoped-for goal. As with them, too, the goal was invisible. But
here we had an advantage over the Vikings: we are accustomed
in this age to dealing with the invisible. THE CONTINUING ADVENTURE
We cannot see electro-magnetic fields but we not only know
they exist but also put them to work for us in various ways. We
have never seen electrons but we know how to use them. We
know, too, that they are present in the nucleus of the atom; and
it is perfectly clear that the properties of the atom are, in part
interaction between the electrons and the whole atom and, in
part, the contact which the atom has with other atoms. So, in
contrast to the Vikings, we expected the result of our quest to
be invisible. Like them, however, we had to devise suitable equipment
for our voyage of discovery. They had to build new ships to
plough through stormy seas. We had to find new means to ex
plore an ocean without causing any ripples on its surface-in
strument s which would draw no current from the organisms
measured. As related earlier, this took three years; and it would
be interesting to know if the Vikings were able to equip them
selves more rapidly! Though our goal seemed reasonable and attainable, it should
be stressed that, when we started out we had no certainty of
reaching it. However logical an hypothesis may seem, one can
never be sure that it can be validated by experiment. The ships
of scientific exploration can founder in the seas of experimental
problems as easily as longboats can sink in the North Atlantic. But it is this element of uncertainty that gives zest to any voyage
of discovery because, without it, there could be no hope of find
ing the unexpected. Though, in any exploration, the unexpected is always wel
come and exciting, the more clearly one can visualize in advance
what one hopes to find, the easier it is to devise the right kind
of experiment to validate the hypothes is. If one knows what one
is looking for, too, there is less risk of wasting time down blind
alleys. We were fortunate, then, that our original hypothesis was
sufficiently close to experimentally-demonstrable fact to save us
from much wasted time and effort. We were lucky in the fact
that science had reached a stage which justified the belief that
electrical measurement s of living forms could be made, that they
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would exhibit pattern and would serve as at least one measure of
a controlling electrical field. Over the years-as related in these pages-this belief has been
justified by experiment. Wherever we made electrical measure
ments of living systems we found voltage gradients; and in all our
experiments we found that the voltage gradients in living systems
without any exception are organized in patterns. And the re
sults of these many years of experimentation leave no reason
able doubt tha t the �eld characteristic of a living system is a basic
property of life. Moreover, since the field of a living system is an ordered pat
tern, it must be a part of the overall or general pattern which
represents the Universe. It can be argued, therefore, that the
Universe is an electrical field and that everything that exists in
it is a subsidiary or component part of the total field. This, of course, is not new. 'Vlhat is new is that it is now pos
.sible to make valid, repeatable measurements of the subsidiary
fields which are associated with living forms. This shows that
living systems are not some special creation-introduced into the
Universe at some particular time or place-but are an integral
part cf the pattern-that is, of the law and order-of the
Universe. Someone once asked the question: 'What is this electricity
which constitutes a field?' A distinguished physicist gave the best answer that the author
knows: 'Electricity is the way Nature behaves.' This electricity, then, which can be measured and shown to
have order and pattern, is not some strange and


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begins to suffer the effects of poor assimilation of fat-soluble nutrients, which may
play a role in the development of eczema, psoriasis, dry skin, falling hair, tendonitis,
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night blindness, accumulation of calcium in tissues, and sometimes prostate
enlargement in men. Hemorrhoids due to blockage of the portal vein draining the
liver are often the result of this congestion. The Liver-Gallbladder Flush
The importance of cleansing the debris from the liver and gall bladder, thus
keeping the bile free flowing, cannot be overemphasized. This can be effectively
accomplished by doing the Liver-Gall Bladder Flush (a form of which at one time was
widely used at the world famous Lahey Clinic in Boston, MA), which is necessary
even if one has had their gall bladder removed. The four basic active principles in this
procedure are:
A. Apple juice (high in malic acid) and ortho-phosphoric acid, which acts as a
solvent in the bile to weaken adhesions between solid globules. B. Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate), taken by mouth and enema, which allows
magnesium to be absorbed into the bloodstream, relaxing smooth muscles. Large
solid particles which otherwise might create spasms are able to pass through a
relaxed bile duct. C. Olive oil, unrefined, which stimulates the gall bladder and bile duct to contract
powerfully, thus expelling solid particles kept in storage for years. D. Coffee enemas, which consist of a coffee solution retained in the colon. They
activate the liver to secrete its waste into the bile, enhancing bile flow and further
relaxing the bile duct muscle. The Liver-Gall Bladder Flush is one of the most important procedures for persons
over 15 years of age. If one is above 15 years of age and his or her physician gives
approval, he or she should do this the first week of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer
Cure Program, and should, with his or her physician's approval, repeat it every 2
months. The steps in doing this are not difficult and are as follows:
For 5 days prior to the "Flush," consume as much apple juice or cider as the
appetite permits, in addition to regular meals. You may add a total of 90 drops of
Phos-A per quart of apple juice or cider each day. Nutritional supplements should
also be taken during this time. The first preference for juice would be freshly juiced
organic apples, and secondly, apple juice or cider (unsweetened and preferably
organic if possible) purchased either from the health food or grocery store. A person
should be sure to read the labels carefully and obtain a juice that has no additives
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If one is a severe hypoglycemic, is diabetic, or has difficulty tolerating the juice or
cider, he or she may take 20 drops of Phos-A with each meal (90 drops daily) in
water or some type of juice other than apple. Due to the high acidity, it is wise that
one brush his teeth or rinse out his mouth with M ilk of Magnesia or baking soda
solution after taking the ortho-phosphoric acid. At noon on the sixth day, one should eat a normal lunch. Two hours after lunch, 1
or 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) dissolved in 1  to 3 ounces of
warm filtered, distilled, reverse osmosis water should be taken. The taste may be
objectionable to some. If so, the mixture can be followed by a little citrus juice if
desired (freshly squeezed if possible). 1. Four hours after lunch, one should take a 1-quart coffee enema with one-fourth (1/4)
cup of Epsom salt dissolved in it. This should be retained for 15 minutes and expelled. The coffee should be made as strong as one can tolerate but no stronger than 6
tablespoons of ground coffee per quart of water. 2. Five hours after lunch take 1  tablespoon of Epsom salt, dissolved as the previous dose
(Step 3). 3. Six or seven hours after lunch, one may fast if desired. However, it is preferable to have
a fresh fruit salad with shipped cream, using as many fresh fruits or berries in season as
possible. The whipped cream is necessary to cause gall bladder contractions. Use
heavy, unpasteurized whipping cream as a dressing on the salad, whipped with a little
raw (unheated) honey if desired. One can eat as much as desired of the whipped-
cream-covered salad. If fresh fruit is unavailable, frozen berries such as strawberries,
blueberries, boysenberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc. can be used. These should
also be covered with whipped cream and a large portion eaten. Take citrus fruit or juice
after the cream and fruit meal, if desired. For hypoglycemics, the cream should balance
the fruit. However, each hypoglycemic should adjust the amount of salad eaten to his
individual tolerance. 4. At bedtime, there can be 1  of 3 choices (Note: Olive oil stimulates the gall bladder and
bile duct to contract powerfully, thus expelling solid particles kept in storage for years. All juice should be freshly squeezed if possible):
A. Take one-half (1/2) cup of unrefined olive oil or 6 tablespoons of Formula F
followed by a small amount of orange, grapefruit, or lemon juice if the oil taste is
objectionable. B. Take one-half (1/2) cup of unrefined olive oil or 6 tablespoons of Formula F
blended with one-half (1/2) cup of orange, grapefruit, or diluted lemon juice. C. Take 4 tablespoons of unrefined olive oil or 4 tablespoons of Formula F
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followed by 1  tablespoon of citrus juice every 30 minutes until 6 ounces of
oil have been consumed. This choice is preferable for those who are
unusually weak or who have had gall bladder problems in the past. It has
been found helpful to rinse the mouth with an alcohol base drink like
Sherry to cut out the residue of the oil taste. If an alcohol base drink is
unobtainable, try a natural carbonated drink, or club soda. (Do not
swallow the alcohol drink or the carbonated drink.) D. (Note: If one should vomit during the consumption of the oil and juice, the
procedure should be continued until it is finished. It is not necessary to
make up for the amount that was vomited. Nausea felt during this process
usually indicates stimulation of the gall bladder and/or liver.) 5. Immediately upon finishing the oil and juice (or while taking it), one should go
to bed and lie on the right side with the right knee drawn up toward the chin
for 30 minutes before going to sleep. This encourages the oil to drain from the
stomach, helping contents of the gall bladder and/or liver to move into the
small intestine. 6. If one feels quite ill during the night, another strong coffee enema with one-
fourth (1/4) cup of Epsom salt dissolved in it may be taken. 7. If there is a strong feeling of nausea the following morning, one should try to
remain in bed until it subsides somewhat. Vomiting should not be forced. 8. Upon arising, one must take another strong coffee enema with Epsom salt in it
or, 1  hour before breakfast, take 1  tablespoon of Epsom salt dissolved in 1  to 3
ounces of warm distilled or filtered water. 9. If one continues to feel nauseous or very sore in the upper abdomen even after
the enema, a light diet of sprouts, fruit (raw or steamed), yogurt or kefir, and
freshly extracted vegetable juices (especially with beet greens in them) should
be resumed. If one finds that the Metabolic Formulas cause discomfort
immediately after the flush, they may be omitted for three days. Helpful Hints
1. Taking one hydrochloric acid tablet at bedtime w ill help reduce any nausea
during the night. 2. If you have a tendency to get nauseated from the oil, take 2 tablespoons of
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3. Placing a hot water bottle over the liver area (under the right ribcage) during
the night also helps relieve nausea. Note: One should not be frightened by the above references to nausea, vomiting,
soreness of the abdomen, etc. Chances are that the symptoms won't be severe
enough to cause vomiting or soreness of the abdomen, as this happens only very
rarely. Many people complete this procedure with minimal discomfort, and nearly
everyone feels much better after completing it. Flushing the liver and gall bladder in
the manner described (if the gall bladder is present) stimulates and cleans these
organs as no other process does. Oftentimes, persons suffering for years from gallstones, lack of appetite, biliousness,
backaches, nausea, and a host of other complaints w ill find gallstone-type objects in
the stool the day following the flush. These objects are light to dark green in