izing conditions applied, a disturbed environment led to a disturbed way of life. It was not a
big step unfortunately for the minimal amounts of alcohol in natural
foods to give way to the higher amounts made available in especially fermented fruits, in accord with the rising subhuman arousals of a disturbed existence. So the fermented juices of fruits became linked to the Dionysian cults; as innocence was lost, so
these evidently became more orgias tic and lascivious. Quite early in
human history alas, alcohol became an active agent in dehumanization, as it still is. To say that beauty goes with h ealth, and that health is the
reward of wholeness, requires a defi nition of beauty distinct from its
usual sexy involvements. Necessarily natural beauty is designed to
enshrine sexual love, but this is different from the beauty, which is
no more than a veiled invitation to licence, evident in entertainment, in fashion, in the novel, in a romanticized sexuality not so far from embellished pornography. Natural b eauty demands purity, and is
inseparable from love. In the eyes of love, provided there is no
untoward blemish, what could be seen as sexually plain could
appear as of great beauty, a matter of internal light rather than of outward provocation, of wholeness rather than surface. That the human being, when truly human, is particularly attuned to this definition of beauty is made eviden t in art. Indeed, when it is the
'sexy' kind of beauty that prevails, one has not to do with art, but
with pornography. It is a fact, which anyone can put to the test, that a return to a
natural dietary not only restores health, but beauty as just defined. The foul breath, and humiliating body odours, supporting a vast artificial industry, give way to a na tural sweetness. It is remarkable
how fragrant the skin becomes on such a diet. The common greasy
patches on forehead and nose, the dilated pores and psoriasis, the crinkly piggy fat and sagging which deform give way to a clarity, a firmness and a harmony of movement even in long abused bodies,
and the eyes, those true portals to the soul, become bright and alive. There is enough evidence to sustain hope, that even advanced so
called incurable disease can yield to a natural restoration,
particularly when this is accompanied by a supporting restoration in human faith. But sadly, in some of the most terrible ills against which all the
skills of medicine and science remain largely powerless, the cancers and mutilations of ageing, mostly the results of human mischief and
misunderstanding of nature, the body has no experience of reaction
and defence. Death must then come, and be faced, as it must anyway, however joyful and wonderful life has been. In a civilization geared to the worship of material power, death is a most terrifying, utterly humiliating event. As nothing but an animal,
knowing only material things, death is totally unacceptable, and
those who say that they have resigned themselves to it on such terms, have in truth only shut their eyes to its ultimately humiliating power. Contemplating the wholeness and progressive achievements of life, it would be a contradiction of the entire enterprise of
Creation to produce a creature aware of itself, and so of death,
without some compensatory adaptation. Such compensations have perennially come in the form of a transcendental belief that the human being is not entirely in bo ndage to time and space, a belief
lost in the present crisis of materialism. It will have to be restored, if human beings are to recover a dignified and meaningful place in the
Creation. There is no reason why it should not be a perfectly natural
restoration. There are pointers today even in science that so called material reality is much more than space, time and substance. But while this is at present a challenge  for the individual to face for
himself, nature has equipped the human to face death, in making
death itself the culminating 'high' to living. Even following the
terrible and prolonged torments of disease, there is abounding evidence that death can come as an ecstasy, although it would seem
that the 'high' of dying is more likely to be the reward for a life lived wholely and in respect of natural law. Just as there is a natural way to living, so there is a natural way
to dying, one completely ignored by the modern age, one in fact
actively rejected by the medical profession. It is a simple way, practised by all other cultures. At the end of a long life humanly lived, the intimation of death comes with a kindness that robs it of fear. On the contrary, there is a welcome and a reassurance about it. When death comes sooner, shortcutting the natural span, death can
still be met by a letting go, when a ll hope is gone, by simply fasting
out. For those who have regularly practised the fast in the course of living, there will be the reassurance that this simple act brings with it intimations of transcendence, of purity and glory which thoroughly defy the apparent finalit y of material things. Fasting out
implies abandoning the sacrament of eating for the sacramental act
of dying. The same hallowing, reverential, grateful approach is needed, the same envelopment in  beauty, joy and purity. The
timeless association of the human and the floral should not follow, but precede death; flowers should be for the dying, not for the dead,
the reminder in such wonderful things, that nature is profoundly
humanly attuned, and that wherever the Creation goes, there will its chosen creatures, in rapturous joy and fulfilment, go also. 16. Hints for the Millennium

In happier times, fruits and salads feature more predominately
in the dietary, just as they go out in darker times. The head gardener
of James II, was of the opinion that an ordinary salad should have at least 30 ingredients (mentioned in the Popular Encyclopaedia of
Gardening, by H. H. Thomas and G. Forsyth). The tender roots of
daisy, of fennel, of angelica and campion, as well as of carrot and parsnip were used. Leaves of wild and cultivated plants, whose names are likely to sound foreign to many a city-dweller but which abound, were also popular—dandelion, cowthistle, primrose, violet, tarragon, rocket, sage, hyssop, marigold, marjoram, leek tops,
purslane, cowslip, basil, borage, chevil, daisy, vine and marrow
tendrils, sorrel, scurvy grass, broom  and elder buds and many other
things, procurable without cost by the diligent. Flowers were also added liberally, those of dandelion, angelica, nasturtium, rose, primroses, etc. The happy Elizabethans were especially fond of
salads, and seldom had a meal without one. Just as fruits should be available at all times, the humanizing
decoration in every room, in ev ery office, and eaten whenever
desired, so the salad should form the artistic focus of every meal. As John Evelyn, the salad authority of the seventeenth century remarked, the picking and preparing of salads is a great and
legitimate art, giving much pl easure and healthfulness in its
practice. If one has no back garden, many things can be grown from
seeds in boxes, from the common'mustard and cress' to the
germinating shoots of cereals, of wheat, barley, maize. If you buy or
are given roses, eat one. If you are lucky in having something of a
garden, or access to a growable patch, there is no limit to your contribution to health and joy. Ma ny vegetables allowed to flower
make beautiful flowers, e. g., the Jerusalem Artichoke, which,
incidentally, is delicious grated raw with olive oil, giving very much
less wind than when cooked. This is true regarding the artichoke as
well. There are few more beautiful flowers than the enormous nettle
of the artichoke. Cardoons are easier to grow in England than artichokes proper. The hearts are delicious raw, and the leaves can be wrapped with newspaper and blanched, the tips eaten raw and the rest cooked as a delicious vegetable. To extend the role of fruits, when they are scarce or expensive,
the 'rawcost' of the Scandinavians and the Swiss can be resorted to. The principle is to batter the fibres of the harder parts of roots and leaves so as to make them approach  the softer consistency of fruits,
enabling them thereby to be eaten in the larger quantities needed for
meeting the needs of vitamin C and bulk generally. Although this
can be done by hand chopping and macerating, there are many mechanical gadgets which save much time. As earlier mentioned, one should not become geared to a fixed
pattern of eating in a family; even  in entertaining, spontaneity can be left greater opportunities, and meals should be joyfully prolonged
with long intermittences—many courses need be no more than attractive snippets. It is however usually more convenient to prepare
the day's eating after a breakfast of cereal, fruit and light tea or
herbal. The main meal is best taken during the day, not late at night. For those working, fruits and bread and spread can be taken during the day, and the main meal taken on returning, followed by exercise and recreation.


ics. Since today’ s readers
like to know who an author is a nd what led to the unique discoveries in a
book such as th is, the following is a brief narrative introduction to the
author and his trademark Map of Consciousness®. ABOUT DR. HA WKINSDr. Haw kins w as born in 1927  in W isconsin and grew up during the
Great D epression. Religiously, h is family was Episcopalian, and he served
as an altar boy and sang in the boys’ choir. However, his profound spiritual
experiences occurred outside of any religious context. At age three, sitting in a little wagon, he had a stunning awareness of
existence. Reflecting on that moment from childhood, he told a group of us:
“It was as if there had been total darkness, oblivion, and then suddenly giant
cleave li ghts cam e on. I saw I w as back in a body and I was not happy!” He
explained that in previous lifetimes he had been a devout Hinayana
Buddhist and followed a pathway of negation to the V oid (“Nothingness”),
believing it to be the ultimate spiritual goal. But it was not, or else he
wouldn’ t have ended up back here in a body! Instantly, with the realization
of e xistence, there was the f ear of nonexistence. It was a preverbal
confrontation with the paradox  of Nothingness versus Allness, a highly
advanced spiritu al gateway (“conundrum” was another word he used to
describe the confrontation with seeming opposites) that he did  not resolve
until decades later, and his teaching on the V oid is one of his most important
contributions to spiritual aspirants. (See Chapter 8.) “W ith th at kind of a childhood, this was a strange life to begin with!” He
often chuckled at the oddities o f his life. “Frankly, other child ren seemed
extremely boring, and so I esc aped into Plato and Socrates. While other
boys we re playing stickball, I was reading Aristotle and listening to the
weekly opera program!”3
He w as also ver y industrious. By age 12, he had the longest newspaper
route (17 miles) in the region ; with no electricity along the highway,
everything was pitch black. One time a winter storm hit, and gusting
subzero winds toppled over his b icycle, scattering all the newspapers. As he
describes in Chapter 8, he pun ched his  way into a crusted snowbank on the
side of the road to get out of the freezing wind. No sooner had h e burrowed
into the snowba nk than he melt ed into the Infinite Presence of  Love. The
experience was so unfor gettable that 70 years later, when I as ked him to
describe that state of Infinite Love, he didn’ t miss a beat: “All negative
emotion—fear, impatience, frustration—disappeared. Instead  there was
only the Radiance of Infinite, timeless, everlasting, all-encompassing Love,
which was not dif ferent than the Reality of what I was, what I am.”4
Compared to this Infinite Love, the “God” of religion now seemed
irrelevant to the young David. At age 16, his belief in religion disappearedaltogether. One day, while walking in the woods, an awarenes s of human
suf fering throug hout the ages suddenly overwhelmed him, like a massive
dark cloud. In that moment, he blamed God for all the suf fering in the world
and became an atheist. Y et, des pite the  collapse of reli gious belief in God, he had a relentless
inner drive to get to the truth of existence: “There was an inner core within
consciousness that was desperate to reach some greater truth.”5 Born with
an excep tionally high IQ, he eas ily mastered the world of science, theology,
medicine, and psychiatry, through the intellect. After service on a
minesweeper in the U.S. Navy during W orld W ar II, he completed medical
school w hile holding three jobs and soon became the head psychiatrist,
running a lar ge hospital in New Y ork and publishing a plethora of scientific
articles based on his clinical r esearch. He went through many years of
psychoanalysis with one of the leading Freudians at that time. He was a
dedicated Zen Buddhist meditator, sitting for an hour in the mor ning and an
hour in the eve ning. Y et all of these investigations only brought deeper
despair. Though  he had reached the pinnacle of worldly success, he was
confronted with a vast and way-less inner darkness. The crisis culminated in 1965 w hen he was 38 and at the point  of death
due to a progressive and fatal i llness. All his ef forts to pursue the truth of
existence via the intellect had failed, and he found himself in a state of
extreme anguish  and despair. Ju st before he was about to die, the thought
flashed through his mind, What if ther e is a God? And with that, he called
out a prayer—“If there is a God, I ask Him to help me now”—and he
surrendered totally to “whatever God there might be,” not expecting much. Immediately he went into “oblivion.” It took him 30 years to recount the
earth-shattering aftermath: “[T]he oblivion suddenly disappear ed and was
replaced by the stunning splend or of the Light of Divinity that shone forth
as the radiance and essence of Allness.”6
His consciousness had been completely and suddenly transfigured. The
mind an d its mental patterns were gone forever, replaced by the Presence,
“an infinite, all-encompassing awareness which is radiant, complete, total,
silent and still.”7 A peac eful in ner silence prevailed, as there were no
images, concept s, or thoughts. I n fact, there was no “person” left to think;
all s eparateness  between him and others dissolved, and he saw the same
beautiful, timele ss perfection in everyone around him: “A radiance shinesforth from everyone’ s face; eve ryone is equally beautiful.”8 In this state of
nonduality, each  living thing “i s aware of every other, and all things are
interconnected and in communication and harmony by means of awareness
and by sharing t he basic quality of the essence of existence itself.”9 Nothing
is be tter or wors e, higher or low er than anything else. “All sen tient beings
are equa l... All things are intrinsically holy in the divinity of their
creation.”10
Dr. Hawkins, in Power vs. For ce, says that the work on the Map of
Consciousness “ began in 1965,” by which he means this transf iguration of
his o wn consciousness. He may well be the first person trained as a clinical
scientist/physician to under go the transformation classically termed
“Enlightenment,” or unio mystica —and th en been  able to context ualize the
condition in lectures and books. While many of us have transient moments
of “flow,” intense joy, or self-tra nscendence at certain peak experiences (the
birth of a child,  athletic feats, s tage performance, creative work, mountain
climbing, or lovemaking, to n ame a few) or even life-alteri ng spiritual
transformations (near -death experiences, for example, or beatific visions), it
is ex ceedingly rare for a person’ s consciousness to be transfigured suddenly
and permanently into  a nondual stat e. Historically, most such people either
leave the  body (death) or remain in “God-shock,” unable to speak about the
state of ego dissolution, when all sense of a personal self dissolves—like
sugar melting into warm water. As W illiam James tells us in his classic The
V arieties of Religious Experience, the  mystic exp erience is “inef fable”—
impossible to describe.11
In the wake of this transfiguration of consciousness, Dr. Hawkins’ s life
was nev er the same, and it took years to adjust to the changes. The nervous
system felt strained, like “high-tension wires burning with high-voltage
ener gy.” In social interactions, he felt bewildered when people referred to
his body  as “David,” because he knew himself to be everywhere and one
with everything: “Somebody would ask me a question and I would wonder
who the y were talking to!” Whe n he looked into the eyes of oth ers, he saw
only “the one Se lf.... There isn ’ t any separate you, there, and me, here.”12
The blissfulness  and self-completion made it dif ficult to summon interest in
normal function ing. The old m otivations of income and success were
irrelevant. The only motivation  strong enough to pull him back into thebody and the w orld of form, he said, was love: “Love becomes the sole
motivator of the continuance of physical existence.”
Each tim e it is e xtremely dif ficult to come back into the body.... Y


, many parasite cleanses using different herbal formulas, and during those times I also did not see any worms. The worms starting on Day 8 were a huge surprise. It’s what motivated me to continue beyond 10 days.I prepared for this water fast by ﬁrst doing a 7-day colon cleanse using the Arise and Shine products and taking one enema daily. From that, I went straight into the pure water fast.Initially I decided to try the ‘old school’ Natural Hygiene method of not doing any enemas at all during the fast. Luckily I decided to change my mind after a few days of no bowel movements and feeling rather bloated and full. Perhaps the worms would have showed up sooner had I started enemas on the ﬁrst day.Since I did the water fast at home on my own, I put a few ‘emergency’ measures in place to best prepare for any situation. I bought 3 coconuts and a few limes to keep in the refrigerator just in case I needed something in a hurry. I also made sure that I had some raw apple cider vinegar (naturally high in potassium) which I could easily add to water and drink if need be.I put an auto-responder on my email account and I told my neighbor about the fast and asked that she check in on me once every day to make sure I was ok.After that, I was ready to begin!Warning: There are several photos of parasites at the end of this book (*Please Note: These photos have now been moved to the end of the book so as not to distract or offend anyone.). If you have an aversion to seeing intestinal roundworms, you may want to read this journal and proceed to the photos with caution. Every worm that came out was photographed and measured for purposes of documenting the experience and sharing this information with as many people as possible.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!55The First Week: HeadachesDay 1So far everything is ok except that I have a headache. Perhaps I am doing too much computer work. Had a natural bowel movement.Day 2Again, headache. Seems to last for hours and is mostly in the front of my head. Very strange because I haven’t drank any coffee and I never normally get headaches. Having some slight leg cramps as well. If that continues I will take one capful of raw apple cider vinegar in water. So far it’s ok.  Had a natural bowel movement.Day 3Headache again, sometimes lasts for 6 hours at a time! So strange. Having some heartburn too. Can’t lie down it’s so bad. Decided to take a few drops of fresh lime in water to calm it down. It seems to have worked. Had a natural bowel movement.Day 4Headache, wow, can’t believe the intensity. Heartburn again too. Sleep is becoming very light and restless. Spending a lot of time on the computer working on my website. Maybe that’s the reason behind the headaches? At least the work is keeping me mentally focused and not thinking about food. No bowel movement today.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!56I’m using all natural Peppermint Oil to smell and put under my nose when the headaches come on. Other than that, I just relax and wait for the headache to pass.Day 5Today I started to have liver pain (in the right side). Wow, very strong! Well things are deﬁnitely happening. I also had this pain when I did the Jameth Sheridan Parasite Cleanse program back in April. I don’t normally ever have liver pain. I’m spending all of my time at home and trying best to sleep when tired and relax when needed. Still, I ﬁnd myself drawn to doing work more than I should be. Really it would be best to simply rest, listen to music, do some light reading and rest more. I’m trying to lay in the sun for 45 minutes every day. This really seems to be good for me.Day 6Feeling better today, more happy and more connected to Source. Still having the liver pain, difﬁcult to sit up at times. Often it feels better to lie down. I decided today to do a water enema and I successfully passed some old ‘poo’ so I was very happy with the decision. As I re-read The Essene Gospel of Peace, it reminded me that they recommend to do a daily water enema and personally, I feel that this method works for me best. I’m using bottled mineral water for the enemas since I am unable to get distilled water where I’m at.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!57Day 7I was feeling ok until the evening, then suddenly I started to feel very bad and needed to lie down immediately. I felt hot, had nausea and leg cramps and felt really unwell.After about 5 - 10 minutes, I felt something ‘shift’ in my gut and felt instant and immediate relief, and not only that, but a complete sense of euphoria! It was unreal.I meditated for 2 hours in this state of complete bliss. After, I fell asleep into a deep, comfortable state and when I woke up, I didn’t even know where I was! Amazing!!I had no more headaches or heartburn after. No bowel movement and no enema today.Reading Cleanse & Purify Thyself by Dr. Richard Anderson today reminded me that I should be taking a probiotic after every enema and at night before bed.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!58The Second Week: WormsDay 8This morning I had a water enema in the morning...and I passed a 5” worm!! O.M.G.What a total shock! It must have been what was ‘detached’ or unblocked last night. All makes sense to me now!The worm appears to be ascaris, a type of round worm which is very common. This is the same type of worm that I saw 15 years ago on my ﬁrst colon cleanse, but I had no idea whatsoever that there were still some in me!!I felt immediately better after releasing it.I’ve now decided that I will absolutely be doing an enema every day and for sure, I will continue beyond 10 days. I know that these worms are like cockroaches...when you see one, you know there are more. It sounds disgusting, but it’s true.I also have no headaches today.Throughout the day, the pain in my liver got progressively worse. As luck would have it, my organic coffee arrived today from Hong Kong. I decided to take advantage and do a coffee enema. After reading various opinions online about doing coffee enemas during a water fast, I had a few reservations and was a little bit worried about rapid mineral loss.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!59I wasn’t sure what to do, but I felt very strongly that the coffee enema was a good idea. So, as a precautionary measure, I took one capful of raw apple cider vinegar (acv) in water and drank that before the enema, and I repeated the same again afterwards as well. I felt totally ﬁne. If I had to do it again, I would not have taken the acv. Later, when I re-read Dr. Richard Anderson’s book Cleanse & Purify Thyself, I saw that he recommends a coffee enema during water fasting when feeling unwell. That made me feel more reassured that I did indeed do the right thing. Of course, with coffee enemas, organic coffee is a must. The liquid should be retained for at least 12 minutes before releasing.I followed-up the coffee enema with a pure water enema to fully rinse the colon. After, I felt much better, and I even had more energy. For sure the worm has inspired me to continue.Day 9I feel very energized, have clarity of mind, no liver pain and no headaches! Amazing!!Another worm was released today during the enema - this one more than 15 inches!I realized today that the full moon was on Day 7, and on Day 8 I started releasing the worms. I don’t know if it’s related or not, but it is certainly interesting to note. Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!60We deﬁnitely know that worms are more active over the full moon and that their life cycle and egg laying also are governed by the moon.Day 10This morning at 8:30am, I had some pretty severe pain in the descending colon and I knew I had to do an enema right away. The result - a big ‘ball’ of worm the size of a rubber ball was released! When straightened, the length of the worm was over 3 feet long!! Beyond words. I am continuing longer on this fast for sure.Day 11Enema at 11:30am, and yep, more worms. Just over 2 feet in total this time; almost uneventful compared to the 3-foot worm yesterday.This is really without a doubt the most powerful and rewarding cleanse I have ever done. It is truly awe-inspiring to witness the body releasing these worms safely and at it’s own natural pace. All I have to do is trust.I have not felt any hunger whatsoever and haven’t even thought about food once. I am so focused now on ridding my body of this evil, vile ﬁlth that I can easily continue this water


seva divided as if in two parts. in the first life he
loved to eat, drink, walk with friends. Played football,
interested in literature, physics, astronomy - all except
health, and the second... However, all in order. Fatal figure
Leshkovtsev V olodya was born in an ordinary working family. in 8 years, he
lost his father, who died at the age of 37 years. Very small
in an accident lost his right arm. However, it is not
prevented him from graduating with honors from one of the best schools in Moscow
Malaya Bronnaya. Later he also studied the physical
Faculty and the Faculty of Philosophy IFLI. By the way, he
and could not make the final choice between the natural
and humanities, and became a physicist in the humanities. Until
his former classmates created the atomic and hydrogen bombs,
He created the journal "Kvant", which grew more than one generation
gifted children. Alas, life is not spoiled, Vladimir Alekseevich. the age of 37
dying of cancer, his beautiful wife. in 37 years - again 37 - dies
in a car accident a son, whom he had after his wife's death
educated one. He was not yet forty, when the flu suffered by the legs,
he developed severe deforming polyarthritis. Completely
refused only hand. Leshkovtsev was then the scientific secretary
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218Department of Physics and Astronomy of the USSR, and it advised
best doctors. and they all spoke in one voice: in this case
medicine is powerless, the patient is doomed. Ahead of him are not waiting for anything
except impending immobility tormenting pain and heavy
end...
- Why just me or tried to treat: from physiotherapy to
hormones, but I was getting worse and worse. And how many recipes
traditional medicine has tried! I even sent from China
some kind of medication - tincture on the bones of the tiger: a terrible thick
oily 96-degree poison. Maybe, chronic artritnikam
It helps, but I drank a half liter without any result. In this case, all the doctors confirmed that food is necessary:
is in fact that if you do not eat, will not be forces to fight the disease. And I, like any illness, did not have any appetite. For two months conventional treatment I lost 10 kilograms, although
daily forced myself to eat. A few years before the disease Leshkovtsev accidentally hit on the lecture
Dr. Nicholas Norbekova "Treatment of Hunger", who had
small department of 25 beds in the loft of the Institute of Health Resort. Remember that the doctor brought with him cured by
fasting from severe asthma USSR People's Artist Ruben
Simon and Suren Kacharyana. - When pripeklo myself, I decided to find Norbekova. and then it turned out that his department broke up in 1953, and the
Doctor died in 1956 in Kharkov. I managed to learn that in Moscow
remained one of his students - a nutritionist Arkhipova. After listening to me,
Taisa G. said that my disease will never hunger
treated. But she remembered that of the 226 patients treated in their department
chronically ill elderly none during the fasting did not complain of pain
in the joints. So why do not we try - all the same after losing
nothing. January 9, 1961 Vladimir Leshkovtsev supper at the last
times. - The hardest part was the 20-day - was vomiting. I am even willing to
to quit fasting, but Arkhipov said: all right, take
warm water with soda and drink as you can. Fits in 12 glasses. After that I came from a huge amount of green stringy
mass, many years "lived" in the stomach, and I felt with anything
incomparable ease. A 21-day fasting first straightened up and began to act
hand. And the finish was still 24 days, but then on Leshkovtsev
did not know this: any time he had planned. In total, he fasted 45 days. On 46 th day of his first
had a dream: he sits in his favorite restaurant on the square
Mayakovsky, in front of him in aspic sturgeon with horseradish, team meat
halophyte, pork chop...
- Our bodies - amazing brain. Reworking all reversible
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219and excess, he gave the signal that it's time to stop fasting, returning
appetite, and disappearances in the first days of fasting spittle. this
time I lost 22 kilograms. Hunger
- Within 45 days of fasting you are rid of the paralysis of the joints. Almost
fantastic! No less fantastic, all that time you spent on
one of only water. - Not a gram of any food. Only water. Best of all - alkaline. I drank Borjomi. - It is hard, perhaps, was it? Especially the first time? - The first time, the appetite famously reminded us of ourselves. But continued
it is not long, about a week. Going outside, I could not bear
pass itself zanyuhannoy product tent. All long
inspected and sniffed - very canine scent work out. Cheese, sausage, fish - which smells divine! I sniffed and thought
What if scrambled, all-all-all pereprobuyu. - Can all starve or have any contraindications? - First, and this I want to emphasize especially, can starve
only under medical supervision, with a doctor who owns it
method. Such specialists in our country quite a bit -
approximately 200 people. mostly students who died two years
ago, Professor Osipov Nikolayev, who wrote
wonderful book "Fasting for the sake of health." Secondly, it is impossible
hungry people suffering blood diseases, endocrine
system, some mental illnesses, cancer
patients. - How much are you now? - Eighty-second year. - Over 43 years have passed since your recovery,
relapse was not? - The disease is very taught me a lot. first of all, I realized
that our body has enormous reserves, which not only we,
but most of our doctors do not know anything. Coped
with the disease, I started looking and studying these reserves. ultimately
created his own system of healing that saves me
Throughout all these years. All these stories show that against the will of man and his
a great desire to recover any powerless, even "incurable
disease. Rheumatoid arthritis - an inflammatory disease of the joints,
characterized by a chronic progressive course. Is one of the most common joint diseases. Women
there are 2-3 times more often than men. Causes of
Rheumatoid arthritis is not installed. Much importance is attached
immunological disorders, including autoimmune
process characterized by the elaboration of lymphocytes and antibodies
against its own tissues. 220
220If you simply say that some kind of infection or chemical
connections so alter the normal structure of the tissue that
own immune system begins to perceive it as alien
and destroys it. In the dry fasting is a global
purification, the burning of an alien, the destruction of infections. SG
in the first place qualitatively and quantitatively restores
most important of rights - immunogenetic system,
reinforces barriers to cells, organs and systems, and revives the depot
(Microcirculatory bed) and, equally importantly, provides
long-term (prolonged), therapeutic and preventive
effects on the body. When I first started dry fasting, the very first
My patient was a man with rheumatoid arthritis. Fingers
hands and feet were deformed, all the joints were pain, he
without pills and injections could not even stand up. Pass technique of dry
starvation, he agreed immediately. Prior to meeting with me he went through all the
traditional treatments: herbalists, psychics, acupuncture
etc. "Sergei Ivanovich, I have no way surprised, I think
not be worse, but I instinctively feel that there is a chance. " When I
he said that during the passage of dry fasting can be
insomnia, he said: "I was not surprised by this, I'm so eight years
did not sleep from the pain. " He was a former athlete, he had the will
awesome. Starvation is well tolerated. When I was doing medical
bypassing it, or read or listened to music. It took seven days, shifts
No, all the symptoms of the disease at the same level. On the eighth
day, I thought to myself that here will be the night, I'll put out
starvation, perhaps all this is useless, and his illness is cured
impossible. True, in the evening he became very lit joints. When the morning of the ninth day I went to see him, I saw how he wrung
from the floor, and his eyes were tears. The first time in eight years, he
could be wrung out without pain. He was hungry for eleven days, pain
all the joints are gone, reduced deformation, increased volume
movement and even a few resorbed rheumatic nodules. Here
for the past seven years, he had no exacerbations, it was removed
with a disability, as he stopped attending the clinic works
driver. Each year, comes to us in Altai on preventive
courses. I always think to myself, but if I stopped


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commercial yogurt to sanitize the intestinal tract. Caution:  Some individuals with Candida are highly sensitive to all
fermented foods. Fermented liquids, such as Kefir or Kombucha, tend to be rather acidic
and this can cause overacidity problem s in sensitive individuals. You can
reduce this problem by partly neutralizing the acidity with sodium
bicarbonate, magnesium carbonate, magn esium oxide or dolomite
powder. Prebiotics
Prebiotics or the food that we provide for our intestinal flora is usually
even more important than the relatively few probiotic bacteria that we can
supply as supplements. These nutrients determine which microbial
species will thrive and which ones will n ot do well. The easily digestible
carbohydrates from sugar and grain products favour Candida and other
yeasts but can also lead to overgrowth of various bacteria in the small
intestines. The most suitable microbes for intestinal sanitation are on the skin s of
fresh raw organic vegetables and berries, and these also provide the
perfect nutrients for their microbes to keep growing in our intestinal tract. This is how we evolved. You may clean the leaves in water but do not
add any microbicides. Best puree (w ith energised water) in a high -speed
blender and also use fresh veggie salads. Commercially available soluble but indigestible fibre, called FOS or
fructosoligo -saccharides, helps to stimulate the growth of beneficial
intestinal bacteria. While preferable to simple carbohydrates for our
intestinal flora, FOS can also be used by some pathogenic bacteria in
the colon. Legumes  are high in a type of soluble fibre, raffinose, that is only broken
down in the large intestines. It is an excellent food for bifidoba cteria. Raffinose  is also found in members of the cabbage family, asparagus
and other vegetables. 59
 As a side -effect, legumes tend to produce wind or flatulence which can
be reduced by sprouting or soaking overnight and  replacing the water
before cooking. T his also improves the absorption of minerals by
reducing the amount of phytic acid in the seeds. Lentils and peas cause
fewer problems than beans but  sprouted mung beans are also good. When soaking beans add a few drops of Saturated Solution of Potassium
Iodide or SSKI to inactivate an enzyme inhibitor that causes increased
wind. Inulin  is another supplement to feed bifidobacteria in the colon. It i s a
fine white powder with a slightly sweet taste. The usual intake of inulin is
from 5 to10 grams or 1 to 2 teaspoons once or twice daily. Increase
gradually as it may cause loose bowels and increased wind or flatulence. This cannot be entirely avoided bu t experiment to keep it in acceptable
limits. Also,  the amount of inulin needs to be adjusted according to the
amount of legumes used which can create an additional gas problem. Inulin is widely distributed in vegetables, and especially their roots. The
highest amounts are in Jerusalem artichokes, chicory roots, onions,
leeks, artichokes and dandelion leaves. Very beneficial is resistant starch or RS. It feeds mainly the microbes
in the colon, good for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel diseases
and colon cancer. You get RS by adding a small raw potato (avoid any
with green skins) when blending vegetables. To make isolated RS blend
some peeled potatoes and refrigerate. After a short time,  the RS granules
accumulate at the bottom and you can pour off t he liquid. 100g of raw
potato provides a recommended daily amount of 25g RS. For a good article on RS see Resistant -Starch  at
www.gestaltreality.com/2014/02/27/resistant -starch -a-concise -guide/
Increased wind is a common drawback with all prebiotics. This can be
minimized by only slowly increasing the amounts of prebiotics and  using
psyllium before breakfast and possibly other m eals. Psyllium reduces
wind by removing toxins and excess microbes. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *  60
 Chapter Five
MICROBES & PARASITES
Eliminate Harmful Microbes & Parasites

All chronic diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases are
associated with a proliferation of pathogenic microbes and parasites. Due to antibiotics, steroidal drugs, birth control pills and chemotherapy
our natural intestinal bacteria have been ba dly damaged, and pathogenic
microbes, especially fungi and mycoplasmas, are out of control. Also,  microbes from childhood vaccinations may still be present, and
there tend to be infection foci in root -canal treated teeth and often in
scars from surgery. A ll of these greatly weaken our immune system and
allow pathogenic microbes to invade the blood and internal organs. Now
we become susceptible to frequent infections and immune disturbances
such as autoimmune diseases, allergies, diabetes, heart disease and
cancer. This can only be reversed by keeping fungi and other microbes under
control to give the immune system a chance to recover. Therefore,
antimicrobial therapy is essential at the start of a holistic health program. But fungi are very tenacious and ha ve ways to stay in hiding as spores
or protected by biofilms, and when we become careless or stressed, they
may try again to invade the blood. This means we need to continue for a
long time with a low -key antimicrobial maintenance program, and step it
up periodically, or whenever we are under prolonged stress or notice any
undesirable microbial activity. INFECTIONS AND IMMUNE SUPPORT
Often casual viral or bacterial infections re -ignite conditions that were
previously under control, such as diabetes or autoimmune diseases. Therefore, whenever there is an acute infection or a flare -up of a chronic 61
 problem, it is advisable to take strong antimicrobial action immediately. Greatly increase the strength and variety of antimicrobial remedies, and
in addition use any of the following measures that seem to be
appropriate. Fever  is a great help in fighting infections by killing heat intolerant germs
and strengthening the immune response. Keep it up with hot baths, hot
teas and sweating. Very high temperatures may be reduced with cold
packs around the calves, cool baths and blue li ght. If the fever is too
concerning seek professional help. During an acute infectious disease
use mainly a light diet with plenty of raw food as salads and juices. Viral infections:  in addition to general antimicrobial methods also use  a
high intake of vitamin C, selenium and zinc. Take 5 x 2g of sodium
ascorbate or buffered vitamin C, 3 x 15 - 20mg of zinc, 200mcg of
selenium, up to 3 x 2g of L -lysine and up to 3 x 200mg of alpha -lipoic
acid. With hepatitis also add silymarin/milk thistle. In life -threat ening
situations try intra -venous vitamin C in addition to bowel tolerance
vitamin C and high doses of CDH (see below under MMS). Bladder infections:  Take the simple sugar D -mannose, half to one
teaspoon in water every 2 to 3 hours; this eliminates infecti ons based on
E-coli within a few days. If it does not help then try 15 drops of a saturated
solution of potassium iodide (SSKI) in a lot of fluids every 3 to 4 hours for
up to several days or alternatively one very high dose of CDH. Recurrent
bladder infec tions tend to be caused by mycoplasmas and fungi, often
lodging inside the bladder wall. Non -acidified MMS is useful for this, also
DMSO with added Lugol's solution applied over the bladder or 25%
DMSO instilled into the bladder with a catheter. Candida
The most common symptoms are thrush (oral or vaginal), itching and
skin infections. As a cause of Leaky Gut Syndrome or when invading the
blood,  it devastates the immune system, and causes or aggravates food
allergies, autoimmune diseases, cancer,  schizophrenia, depression,
anxiety, brain -fog, memory impairment, hyperactivity, autism, 62
 menstrual problems, miscarriage, and most other diseases. Dr Shaw has shown that Candida generates organic acids and other
chemicals that interfere with the metaboli sm:
www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles -1/2015/11/13/candida -and-
overgrowth -the-problem -bacteria -by-products?r q=Candida
Acetaldehyde causes mainly the mentioned brain and mental problems,
while tartaric acid causes muscle pain and chronic fatigue, and arabinose
cross -linking and vitamin -mineral deficiencies (mainly vitamin B6 and
zinc). For treatment see Overcoming Candida. All of the remedies in the Antimicrobial Program are also good fungicides. In addition,  fungi may also be controlled by direct contact with strong
alkalizers, such as sodium or potassium bicarbonate. Bicarbonate
solution is effective for rinsing the mouth, sinuses or vagina, or as packs
over sites of fungal infection and tumours. Candida in the gastro -intestinal tract and blood can usually be cleared


 societies flourishing in the Orient for millennia which taught
Taoist methods of chi cultivation. With aging all bodily systems become less efficient. Among
these is the hormonal system, which regulates important electro-
magnetic reactions. If hormonal secretion declines from optimal
levels, the body must necessarily weaken. The relations between the hormones, sexuality and aging have
not been fully elucidated. However, many researchers in the van-
guard of medical science feel that the hormones regulating growth
and sexual development play a critical role in aging. These are
produced in the pituitary, thyroid and gonads. The testes have a double function: besides being the factory
for the sperm, they produce male hormones, among which is tes-
tosterone. The Sertoli cells in the testes produce another hormone,30 Taoist Secrets Of Love
inhibin. When not ejaculated, these hormones go into the blood
stream and are carried to every part of the body. DIAGRAM 9
Pleural Cavities
Diaphram
Peritoneum
Bladder
Sexual Kung Fu fills the cranial cavity with Chi. This overflows & begins filling other body
cavities with life-force, retarding the aging
process & strengthening the body's immunity to
disease.The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 31
Much evidence points to the link between harmonious sexual
activity and the retardation of aging. Loving sex stimulates high-
quality hormonal secretion. The presence of these hormones in the
blood appears to slow the aging process. With Taoist cultivation
one produces unusually potent hormones because one focuses en-
ergy directly on the endocrine glands, stimulating them to much
greater levels of activity. Because the hormonal energy is con-
stantly circulated within the body instead of being ejaculated, a
successful student of Taoist loving finds himself with ever-increas-
ing amounts of energy as he grows older. This increased circulation of sexual energy also redistributes
the chi within the body's storage system. As we grow older and our
life force is depleted, our body cavities increase in size and are
gradually filled with fat or various kinds of pollution that speed the
aging process and lower the quality of our final years. The Taoist
method draws sexual energy up from the testicles and fills the
spinal and cranial cavities with ching. When full, this overflows
and begins to fill the chest and abdominal cavities with rejuvenat-
ing life force. These reservoirs of chi within the body supply the raw mate-
rial used to make the body virtually impervious to disease in the
method known as "inner alchemy" to the ancient Taoists. This
process of refining the "Elixir of Immortality" or the "Pill of Im-
mortality" may be described in biological terms as storing the
body's life-force and then returning it to its source. The chi is
moved from these reservoirs within the body cavities into the deep-
est centers of the brain and bones. The secret of packing chi into
the bone marrow is well known to highly achieved masters of Tai
Chi Chuan and other internal martial artists. They know that mus-
cle power cannot survive the aging process, but that bones survive
for thousands of years. This practice which I will describe in an
upcoming book on Iron Shirt Chi Kung, is dependent on retention
of sperm power. Recent scientific studies show the importance of bone marrow
to the production of disease fighting white blood cells. These scien-
tists will eventually catch up with the ancient Taoist masters and
figure out the full connection between healthy sex, hormones and
bone marrow and the prevention of aging and disease.32 Taoist Secrets Of Love
DEATH AND SEX IN THE NATURAL WORLD
"... When the living organism, whether vegetable or animal,
achieves its aim, which is a new seed, its organism deteriorates." —Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man
Nature perpetuates its species through sex. In the male seed she
concentrates the parent's essential elements. The theme of paren-
tal sacrifice for the offspring is repeated in all life forms, from
amoeba to walrus, praying mantis to orchid. One may readily glimpse the death in generation by consider-
ing the Emperor Moth's brief span. This large moth travels many
leagues across the countryside in quest of his female: "The famous
principle of the struggle for life is here the struggle to give life, the
struggle to die. Although they can live three days in quest of the
female, they perish as soon as the fertilization is complete. "*
Plants, too, are subject to these laws. After a plant goes to
seed or bears fruit, it dies or enters a period of dormancy. Gar-
deners know that a plant prevented from going to seed outlives its
more precocious brothers. Most fruit-bearing trees do not produce
fruit until they are five or ten years old. During this period they
devote their entire biological force to the growth and strengthening
of tissue. Later in their life, plants split their vital force between repro-
duction and tissue maintenance. When they grow old they need all
of their remaining energies for survival: they withdraw power from
the sexual sphere and bear no more. Some male insects may increase their lifespan several fold
simply by not spending their seed. One may object that an insect's
sex life has no relevance to ours. Yet the insects excel brilliantly in
sexual invention and effectiveness. They comprise more than half
of the total animal weight on earth. They far surpass human erotic
variety. The insects make D.A.F. de Sade, Saint Anthony, and
David Bowie look like a troop of boyscouts discovering sex for the
first time. Insects work the web of material life with particular intensity. Their power to impose their definition of life is manifest in their
*Carlos Suares, The Cipher of Genesis (Shambhala 1978).The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 33
numbers, gigantic age and breadth of habitat, garb and custom. Marxist-Socialist deification of the State but weakly mimicks their
pitiless genius for collective organization. Rather than staggering
them, nuclear war will offer a rare occasion to spin new organs to
create an abundancy of new life forms. In all forms of life the reproductive act exhausts essential
energies. The offspring consume bodily stores of nutrition to get a
grip on their new life. Vital organs suffer the most depletion be-
cause they contain the densest concentration of nutrients. Among
humans, the female sacrifice of her bodily energy is unavoidable in
the passage to birth. The male, likewise, must surrender the po-
tency of his seed at least once to fertilize the female ovum. Nature warrants the sacrifice worthwhile, for it fulfills her
goal of multiplying life. She intends the old to make way for the
new. But amongst all material creatures, only man has the force of
will to oppose Mother Nature. "Not distance, not the difficulty of
the journey, not the danger of approach foils instinct (in the animal
kingdom). In man, who sometimes has the force to escape the
sexual commandments, disobedience may have fortunate results. Chastity in a human being can function like a transformer,
changing unused sexual energy into intellectual or social energy. Among animals, this transformation of physiological values is im-
possible. "*
It is the very possibility of transforming our instinctual and
essentially animal sexual energies into something higher that
makes us human, and potentially divine. The failure to direct our
sexual energy upward is a failure to fulfill our deepest human po-
tential. That is why unconscious sex with ejaculation of the male
seed is a kind of mini-death seen so often in the plant and animal
kingdoms. Two hundred to five hundred million sperm die upon a
single ejaculation. The expenditure of subtle energy is even much
greater than these huge numbers suggest. If this spent seed leads to any kind of rebirth in the man, or in
the woman, receiving new life, this loss or death is in harmony with
nature. But without transforming these mini-deaths into a sharing,
a love, a child, or a higher awareness of some sort, this act of sex
becomes a mere killing of the potential life energy stored in the
seed. Perhaps that's the connection between sex and violence. *Suares, op. cit.34 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Those radically opposed to abortion and contraception might as
well begin their campaign against men who kill their potential life-
force by ejaculating needlessly. Although the Taoists have no concept of sin, they might say
that man has fallen to his current weakened psychic state in large
part because he has squandered his sexual energies over the last
several millennia. The Chinese legends speak of a golden age when
all men lived in harmony with nature and transmuted their seed up
as naturally as you or I breathe. Whether or not this is literally true
is irrelevant—the kernel of truth in the story is that man is capable
of a much higher existence than what he now accepts. The story
bears a striking resemblance to the Biblical story of Adam and
Eve's fall from grace after tasting the forbidden fruits of sexual
love. In this sense, the end of the Taoist cultivation is to regain the
lost paradise which still exists within every man and woman, their
original nature. The major function of sex in nature is to create new life and to
perpetuate the species. Yet in our time humanity has been fruitful
and multiplied itself to the brink of overpopulation and its atten-
dant ecological horrors. The abuse of sexual power through indis-
cr


 becomes your new Source of pleasure, expressed in
the wonder and bewilderment you feel. Y es, of course you continue to enjoy
your meals, but your pleasure is in being at one with what allows it all to
transpire. You know that you can’t find, hear, see, or touch the Source, yet it’s
always available  and can never be depleted. The music that you hear isn’t
the Tao; the Tao is the invisible energy that fills the empty spaces that give
you so much joy. And that happiness you feel is the eternally available and
longed-for pleas ure of transcending the physical limitations of a human
body. Touching the Tao is way beyond any of the sensory pleas ures that we
somehow believe will satisfy that longing for transcendence. Addictions beco me impossible because you no longer try to get worldly
pursuits to satisfy you. It’s like realizing that you can fly when you’ve been
walking faster and faster, but never getting enough speed or altitude—you
kept trying to satisfy a natura l longin g to be aloft through the pleasure of
rapid walking. Now you observe the way nature flows: You clearly see it
never asking for more, never using up more, and absolutely never
demanding that it be provided with more than is necessary to maintain a
perfect balance. The realm of passing pleasures is no longer your central
place of 35th Verse self-identification. You’re at peace, feeling secure and
happy because you’ve changed your worldview to include the infinite Tao... how could addictions ever compare? Imagine a heroin addict believing that peace, security, and happiness are
available with an inexhaustible supply of opiates. That scenario is
impossible because the pleasure  that drugs bring lasts but a few seconds,
and then the opposite of peace, security, and happiness clicks in. The addictkeeps trying to fly by running faster—ultimately he comes to despise his
life and destroy himself in the process. Such is the destiny of those who
seek the pleasures of the world of the senses to fulfill their longing and
natural ability to transcend the physical plane. Here’ s what Lao-tzu is offering  you in this profound verse of the Tao Te
Ching:
Notice the eternal bliss that’ s always with you— even when the
delicacies ar e out of sight! Change your way of thinking of yourself as a totally physi cal being. Instead, recognize that worldly pleasures that tend to be overdone are
attempts to transcend the physical, which isn’t going to happen without
tapping into your natural connection to the Tao. Stop equating sensory
delight with the Tao-inspired bliss that’s available to you. Enjoy all that you
experience through the senses: Love your fine dining, bask in the melodies
of your favorite music, and be appreciative of the excitement of sexual
energy. But notice that this is all coming from your sensory self, which is
happily adaptab le to this world. Then seek your “Tao self,” which
transcends the physical, and explore its pleasures. Reexamine what true, lasting, enjoyment is. Even though the ef fects of the
Tao may initially have no appeal to your seeing, hearing, touching, tasting,
and smelling faculties, they’ll fulfill the longing you’re trying to sate with
worldly pursuits. When you’re chasing any passing fancy, begin
recognizing its value in the here and now, but stop trying to get it to satisfy
a greater longing. Introduce transcendent thankfulness to your everyday life. Make it a daily practice to give thanks for the presence of the eternal Tao
that’s always with you. From an appreciative viewpoint, the world that you
formerly desired  will begin to look different. In the grateful Tao awareness,
feelings of being incomplete when worldly pleasures are unavailable are
replaced with a transcendent thankfulness. What used to be a need for a
worldly delight is replaced with gratitud e and contentment for being aware
of the aspect of you that is the Tao, free of physical and earthly limitations
and confinement. Living with conscious appreciation of the Tao will attract
more people and experiences, enriching your balance of morta l and eternalawareness. Open yourself to the unlimited love and abundance of the Tao
and you’ll attract more of that same love and abundance to you. Your world
has changed because you see the Tao where you previously only noticed
your mortal self needing worldly pleasures. Do the T ao Now
Go on a 24-hou r fast. When you feel hunger pangs, switch your thoughts
to gratitude for the eternal force that’s always with you. Warmly let your
physical self know that it will be fed when the fast is over, then switch to
the Tao self that’s unaware of hunger. Enjoy the different nature of the Tao
self by concentr ating on locating its energy flowing through your body. It
will reveal itself—perhaps as contented, exhilarated, or blissfu l. Note the
difference between how this feels compared with worldly pleasures. OceanofPDF.comOceanofPDF.com36th Verse
Should you want to contain something,
you must deliberately let it expand. Should you want to weaken something,
you must deliberately let it gr ow str ong. Should you want to eliminate something,
you must deliberately allow it to flourish. Should you want to take something away,
you must deliberately grant it access. The lesson her e is called
the wisdom of obscurity. The gentle outlasts the str ong. The obscur e outlasts the obvious. Fish cannot leave deep waters,
and a country’ s weapons should not be displayed. OceanofPDF.comLiving in Obscurity
A large part of your growing-up life lessons revolved around the words
Notice me! You were taught that the more attention you received,
particularly for being a “good little person,” the more status and approval
you’d get from your peers (as well as the adults you knew ). Become
number one, you were told, earn that gold star, win that championship, get
the best grades, become valedic torian, attain that letter sweater, gather up
trophies, and so on. Such lessons were all about rising to the top of the
crowd and evaluating yourself based on how you stacked up competitively
with everyone around you. When you change the way you think about your place in the great scheme
of thing s, you’ll discover that “the wisdom of obscurity” allows you to
eliminate competition from your life and retreat into quiet strength. In other
words, Lao-tzu is asking you to take it easy and base your view on entirely
new criteria. As you do, your world will begin to reflect a gentle, low-key
soul who outlasts those who measure their strength by how much status
they have compared to their peers. This verse opens with the idea of understanding the dichotomous nature
of the material world and then encourages you to become an astute observer
of your life. Feeling belittled means that you must know what it’s like to be
important; the idea of being weak grows out of having known what it’s like
to feel strong. As one translation of the Tao Te Ching (The Way of Life
Accor ding to Lao Tzu, translated by W itter Bynner) reminds us:
He who feels punctur ed
Must once have been a bubble,
He who feels unarmed
Must have carried arms,
He who feels deprived
Must have had privilege... Avoid the pitfalls of feeling weak, unimportant, stressed, or fearful by
transcending the thinking that got you there in the first place. Keep in mindthat if you feel weak, you must  have had the opposite perception of being
strong at least once. If you experien ce stress, you have an idea of what
being unstressed is like. By becoming independent of the need to compare
yourself and fit in, you choose the path that Lao-tzu calls “the wisdom of
obscurity”—that is, you release your need to be more anything in the eyes
of others. Lao-tzu concludes this elegant verse with the metaphor of fish leaving the
deep water—when they try to examine the surface and see the “big world”
beyond those depths, the little guys no longer endure because they’re
captured by a net. Hence, you find the great lesson of this 36th verse: Stay
under the radar and you’ll outlast all who strive to be recognized. When you
shift to this viewpoint, your desire for obscurity will surpass your need to
be seen as strong and above everyone else—and you won’ t end up all alone
in your trophy room! Here’ s what Lao-tzu offers you from 25 centuries ago, when he dictated
this enduring tome of wisdom:
Strive to know oneness by seeking awar eness of opposites. Make every effort to stay in a state of oneness in your mind. For example,
if you’re tired, remind yourself that you know what being rested is like. Recognize the opposing feelin g so that you can know both of them
simultaneously. Do this with any sensation: If you’re depressed, weak,
jealous, unloved—anything—the antithesis of what you’re going through is
within your experiential fram ework. Seek the 36th Verse opposite feeling
right in the mom ent and be at one with it in your mind, for this will provide
you with a balanced sense of being at peace within yourself. This is
oneness, wherein you entertain extremes and use your mind to be like


“It	just	happens,”	I	said. “It’s	physical.”	I	couldn’t	believe	we	were	going	into
this	topic. At	least	one	of	us	looked	comfortable. Baba	said,	“Physical	attraction	just
happens,	yes. But	it	masks	something	deeper. This	is	another	mystery	of	the
soul,	and	you	should	know	about	it.”
Baba	lay	back	and	stared	up	through	the	leaves	gently	swaying	in	a	calm
breeze. Flickers	of	sunlight	played	over	his	wrinkled	face,	and	his	expression
looked	so	deep	and	far	away	that	he	could	have	been	thinking	about	some	girl
of	his	own—a	lost	love,	perhaps? “I’m	not	thinking	of	a	person,”	he	said,	picking	up	my	thoughts. “I’m
thinking	of	how	to	show	you	something. Ah!”
He	sat	up	with	a	gleam	in	his	eye. “Imagine	that	you’ve	just	met	a	beautiful
girl. The	two	of	you	are	attracted	to	each	other,	and	you	begin	to	see	her	every
day. One	day	you	notice	that	she’s	wearing	a	necklace	with	a	shiny	stone
pendant. ‘What’s	that?’	you	ask. She	doesn’t	seem	to	hear	your	question,
because	she	keeps	talking	about	something	else. “For	some	reason	that	shiny	stone	sticks	in	your	mind. The	next	time	you	see
her,	you	say,	‘Oh,	you’re	wearing	it	again.’	‘It’s	nothing,’	she	says,	and	starts
talking	about	something	else. Only	now	the	stone	looks	a	little	bigger	and
shinier. “Now	your	curiosity	is	piqued,	so	you	return	the	next	day,	and	the	stone	hasgotten	very	large	and	shiny. What	if	it’s	a	diamond? you	think. Maybe	she’s
wearing	a	diamond	that’s	so	valuable	she	doesn’t	want	to	tell	me	about	it
. “Can	you	imagine	how	this	story	will	turn	out?”	Baba	asked. “She	never	tells?”	I	said	doubtfully. “That’s	right. But	the	diamond	just	keeps	getting	bigger	and	bigger	in	your
eyes,	until	you	are	sure	it	must	be	the	most	precious	jewel	on	earth. That’s
how	attraction	grows	into	deep	love. You	have	to	make	only	one	little
change.”
Baba	tapped	me	on	the	chest. “The	diamond	is	in	there. You’ll	never	see	it
and	she	will	never	talk	about	it,	but
	when	you	are	attracted	to	a	girl—or	when
a	girl	is	attracted	to	a	boy—love	shows	you	something	precious	that	you	can’t
stop	wondering	about.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
It’s	easy	to	be	attracted	to	somebody;	it’s	even	easy	to	fall	in	love. But	Baba
wanted	me	to	go	deeper. Loving	someone	else	for	the	spirit	inside	is	like
finding	a	precious	jewel	that	only	grows	more	fascinating. The	steps	on	this
path	are	the	same	as	Baba	outlined:
You	notice	something	special	that	catches	your	eye. You	become	intrigued. The	thing	you	notice	grows	in	your	eyes. As	it	grows	it	becomes	more	and	more	special—you	begin	to	find	it
precious. So,	what	could	this	mysterious	thing	be	that	attracts	you	and	then	turns	into	a
diamond? Everyone	could	come	up	with	a	different	answer,	but	the	following
three	things	are	at	the	top	of	my	list. K
INDNESS
There	is	something	incredibly	touching	when	you	find	a	kind	person. Kindness	comes	so	naturally	to	them	that	they	don’t	notice	it,	because	theyaren’t
trying
	to	be	kind. You	know	what	it’s	like	to	force	yourself	to	“do	the
right
	thing”	when	you	don’t	want	to. I’m	sure	you’ve	done	the	right	thing	by
visiting	a	sick	patient	in	the	hospital	or	spending	time	with	an	older	relative	or
volunteering	for	a	good	cause. Kindness	doesn’t	always	come	easily,	but
when	it	does,	the	person	whose	heart	is	naturally	kind	is	able	to	fascinate	me
year	after	year. My	love	never	grows	old. Kindness	can	also	be	called
courtesy	of	the	heart. C
OMPASSION
Compassion	is	kindness	carried	a	step	further. That	makes	it	even	more	rare. Most	people	can	stop	to	give	spare	change	to	a	homeless	person,	but	few
would	ask	if	that	person	needed	medical	help	or	a	hot	meal	and	then	see	that
he	got	it. When	I	see	compassion	in	someone’s	eyes,	I	am	reminded	of	a
parable	about	some	horsemen	crossing	a	stream. They	call	for	the	ferryman,	who	shouts	across	the	stream,	“How	many	of	you
are	there?”
One	of	the	horsemen	says,	“Let	me	count.”	He	counts	and	shouts	back,
“There	are	nine	of	us.”
“Really?”	the	ferryman	calls. “I	counted	ten. Count	again.”
So	the	horseman	does,	and	again	he	shouts	that	there	are	nine. The	ferryman
takes	his	boat	across. “What’s	the	matter	with	you?”	he	says	in	exasperation. “Every	time	you	count,	you	get	nine	because	you	forget	to	count	yourself.”
The	horseman	looks	confused. “I’m	supposed	to	count	myself?”	he	says. Compassionate	people	are	exactly	like	that. They	are	so	selfless	that	they
forget	to	count	themselves. In	our	society	forgetting	to	count	yourself	can
make	you	seem	foolish	or	naive,	but	to	me	it’s	one	of	the	most	lovable
qualities	anyone	can	possess. P
EACE
This	is	another	rare	quality	to	find,	because	most	people	are	at	peace	only
when	their	surroundings	are	peaceful. It’s	not	hard	to	be	at	peace	when	you
come	from	a	happy,	contented	home	and	have	happy	and	contented	friends. But	some	people	can	be	at	peace	anywhere,	even	on	a	battlefield. The	ancient
philosopher	Socrates	served	in	the	army	as	a	young	man,	and	everyonearound	him	was	amazed	by	his	ability	to	be	in	danger	and	yet	show	complete
calm. The	same	is	true	of	the	world’s	saints	and	sages. The	reason	that
wisdom	and	peace	go	together	is	that	you	have	to	look	deep	to	get	past	all	the
reasons	for
not
	being	peaceful. These	reasons	are	everywhere. People	feel
angry	or	afraid,	they	worry	that	things	will	fall	apart	or	they	worry	that	things
have
already
	fallen	apart—the	list	never	ends. But	there	is	only	one	reason	to
be	at	peace,	and	that’s	because	your	soul	is. Peaceful	people	seem	to	show
you	their	soul,	and	that	makes	them	fascinating	without	end. I	could	add	a	lot	more	qualities	to	this	list. I’ve	been	attracted	to	people
because	they	are	courageous	or	completely	honest
	or	truly	wise	about	human
nature,	or	they	just	have	a	joyful
something
	in	their	eyes. Find	the	hidden
jewel	in	every	person	and	keep	noticing	it	every	day. I	promise	that	it	will
become	the	most	precious	diamond	on	Earth.Shopping	for	People
A
s	soon	as	we	reached	the	village,	I	ran	for	the	vendor	who	sold	sug


 by glutamate during brain trauma due to the development of oxidative or metabolic stress. 54
Moreover, this excitotoxic  process by glutamate, which can damage or kill neu-
rons, was reported to be blocked by DMSO.54
The treatment of brain edema after MTBI presents a challenge for many clini -
cians. Considerable animal and human studies indicate that DMSO can quickly lower edema and ICP following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). 41,43–45,61,159
These findings suggest that DMSO at lower doses than those used for severe, closed head injury may be beneficial to mild brain trauma. This concussion is supported by the pharmacological properties of DMSO, including its antiedema property, its potent diuretic action, its anti-inflammatory properties, and its increase of cere -
bral perfusion. 160 Moreover, its blocking effect of excessive glutamate, sodium, and
calcium entry into cells and efflux of potassium ( Figure 8.3) that can induce cyto -
toxicity demonstrates that it can therapeutically target the biochemical cascade described in animal and human brain following MTBI (concussions) or severe TBI. 50,51,54
DMSO COMBINED WITH A GLYCOLYTIC INTERMEDIATE
Because brain injury can lead to an impairment of mitochondrial oxidative phos -
phorylation with the loss of ATP as well as to the formation of cytotoxic free radicals,
de la Torre and his group161 reasoned that combining DMSO with an intermediate
of anaerobic glycolytic metabolism, fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP), might be more
useful than either drug alone in preventing the neuronal and energy compromise associated with severe, concussive head injury in a mouse model. 161158 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
FDP is an intermediate of anaerobic glycolytic metabolism and has been shown to
restore the activity of the Embden–Meyerhof pathway and oxidative phosphorylation
when administered during prolonged hypoperfusion states.162 FDP can also inhibit
oxygen-free radicals, stimulate anaerobic glycolysis, and increase the production of ATP, the main energy fuel of cells and neurons. 163 It is this activity by FDP that may
limit injury to the brain following ischemic-hypoxia.163
The combination of DMSO + FDP to treat experimental brain trauma in mice thus
seemed a reasonable option to prevent or restore loss of ATP in ischemic brain cells while simultaneously reducing progressive cerebral edema caused by the injury. 161
Consequently, it was believed that FDP would act primarily to protect ischemic brain tissue from energy substrate depletion, a common outcome after brain trauma, while DMSO would act to stabilize cell membranes from excess free radical formation and abnormal Ca
+ entry into cells while reducing ICP by improving CBF.160
Both FDP and DMSO have each been reported to be useful when administered in
head injury42,45,61,163 or cerebral ischemia in animals or humans.159,163,164 FDP has been
shown to prevent the ischemic-induced loss of ATP and accumulation of intracellu -
lar Ca2+ in experimental animals, possibly by stimulating glycolysis while inhibiting
gluconeogenesis.164 The administration of FDP during brain ischemia would seem to
be particularly useful, since it readily crosses the blood–brain barrier (arias) and can yield twice as many moles of ATP as glucose. 164
In an experiment to test the synergic potential of DMSO-FDP, male CD-1 mice
weighing 22–29 g were restrained and their heads were positioned under a head injury apparatus with their chins resting firmly on a flat surface at the base of the apparatus. 161 The apparatus consisted of a 25 cm long glass shaft held vertically by
clamps on a ring stand and a tubular lead cylinder weighing 40 g. The lead cylin -
der was allowed to drop 20 cm through the shaft onto the center of the head, thus creating an 800 g/cm force injury on the cranium. An imaginary line was drawn coronally just anterior to the ears in order to create a consistent injury site on the animal’s head. This head injury mouse model has been previously used to screen the effectiveness of potential pharmacological agents after brain trauma. 165 FDP was
given at 350 mg/kg in a 10% solution, and DMSO was administered at 1 gm/kg in a 28% solution both intravenously via the tail vein. All mice were pretested on the string prior to head injury, and all were able to
grasp the string for a 90 s trial period and to travel with ease from the center of the string to one of the end posts holding the string. The extent of motor deficits reflected by the reduced ability of mice to remain gripping the string after head injury has been shown to be inversely proportional to the increased severity of the head injury. 166
Following head injury, testing showed 11 of 12 mice treated with DMSO + FDP
retained sensory function as compared with 5 of 12 mice given vehicle nontreatment, 8 of 12 treated with DMSO only, and 7 of 12 treated with FDP. 161 The combination
of DMSO + FDP significantly protected mice from motor deficits after injury, as
indicated by an increased mean grip test score (76.3 s) shown by this group 1 h after
head injury when compared with vehicle nontreated (5.8 s), FDP-treated (20.8 s), and DMSO-treated (19.6 s) animals. The pattern of protection continued for at least 2 h after head injury, with all groups showing some improvement over the previous grip 159 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
test taken 1 h after head injury. However, the only significant protection after 2 h was
observed in the group treated with DMSO + FDP. Two hours after head injury, the group treated with FDP + DMSO had a mean grip test score of 86.5 s, which was significantly better than from the DMSO only (33.8 s), FDP only (24.3 s), and vehicle nontreated groups (12.2 s). 161
This study was the first to demonstrate that the combined DMSO + FDP given to
mice that have been subjected to a moderate 800 g/cm concussion head injury can significantly modify the sensory-motor deficits, incidence of mortality, and histopa-thology. DMSO + FDP appeared superior in reducing the trauma-induced neurologi -
cal deficits and fatal outcome to either agent administered alone. Besides the improved sensory-motor function of mice treated with DMSO + FDP,
a possible fringe benefit to the head-injured brain where inadequate cerebral perfu -
sion is expected may be the ability of these two agents to allow RBCs to maintain their deformability. Under normal conditions, RBCs with a 7–8  µm diameter can
squeeze through capillaries that are 3–5  µm wide so that oxygen can be delivered to
the tissues. The RBCs’ viscoelastic properties or deformability is possible because of a spectrin–actin interaction within the erythrocyte, which is dependent on its stored ATP and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate. 167
If 2,3-diphosphoglycerate or ATP stores are reduced by ischemia-hypoxia
(Heckler/Marcel), it is probable that RBCs will increase their rigidity and thus be unable to adequately perfuse the cerebral microvasculature. This consequence would prevent optimal oxygen delivery to neurons and glial cells, which rely on oxy -
gen for the elaboration of ATP and for their basic cellular metabolism. Infusion of FDP raises the concentration of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate,
168 allowing RBCs to deform
normally and consequently facilitating oxygen disassociation from hemoglobin169,170
during ischemia-hypoxia. Conversely, DMSO is reported to promote the formation of ATP from ADP
171 and to preserve mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, thus
ensuring ATP production after experimental brain ischemia172 This activity could
additionally favor RBC deformability during tissue ischemic-hypoxia, a process that would improve cerebral perfusion. Another advantage of adding FDP to DMSO is that FDP has been shown to be
effective in preventing ischemic injury to the brain
173,174 ostensibly by inhibiting exci -
totoxic release of glutamate during brain ischemia and preventing ATP loss by sub -
stantially increasing the flux of glucose into the pentose-phosphate pathway. Indirect evidence has also demonstrated that FDP can modulate cerebrovascular tone, myo -
cardial contractility, platelet aggregation, and blood pressure,
175,176 systems that can
exacerbate damage following severe head injury. The exact mechanism for the synergic activity demonstrated by the DMSO + FDP
combination has not yet been determined, but it may be assumed to lie in the abil -
ity of each agent to address different but critical metabolic abnormalities associated with the pathogenesis of severe head injury, for example, ATP loss leading to neu -
ronal energy deficiency, metabolic acidosis, abnormal Ca
2+ entry into cells, platelet
aggregation, inflammatory response, cerebrovascular constriction, glutamate toxic -
ity, ICP increase, and free radical formation. This drug combination is reviewed in terms of its effect


take off” for you, then, when you
choose for it to. You have not so chosen  as
yet. You have procrastinated, prolonged,
protracted, protested. Now it is time that
you promulgated and produced what you have been promised. To do this, you must
believe the promise, and live it. You must
live the promise of God. The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you g et hung up. You
can accept “His son,” “offspring,”
“likeness,” but you recoil at being called
“His equal.” It is too much to accept. Too
much bigness, too much wonderment —too
much responsibility. For if you are God’s
equal, that means nothing is being done  to
you—and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more
villains —only outcomes of your thought
about a thing. I tell you this: all you see in your world is
the outcome of your idea about it. Do you want your life to truly “take off”? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak, and act as the God You Are. Of course,  this will separate you from
many —most —of your fellow men. They will
call you crazy. They will say you
blaspheme. They will eventually have
enough of you,  and they will attempt to
crucify you. They will do this not because they think you
are living in a world of your own illusions
(most men are gracious enough to allow
you your private entertainments), but
because, sooner or later, others will
become attracted to your truth —for the
promises it holds for them. Here is where your fellow men will
interfere —for here is where you will begin to threaten them. For your simple truth,
simply lived, will offer more beauty, more
comfort, more peace, more joy, and  more
love of self and others than anything your
earthly fellows could contrive. And that truth, adopted, would mean the
end of their ways. It would mean the end of
hatred and fear and bigotry and war. The
end of the condemning and killing that has
gone on  in My name. The end of might -is-
right. The end of purchase -through -power. The end of loyalty and homage through
fear. The end of the world as they  know it —
and as you have created it thus far. So be ready, kind soul. For you will be
vilified and spat upon, called names, and
deserted, and finally they will accuse you,
try you, and condemn you —all in their  own
ways —from the moment you accept and adopt your holy cause —the realization  of
Self. Why, then, do it? Because you are no longer concerned with
the acce ptance or approval of the world. You are no longer satisfied with what that
has brought you. You are no longer  pleased
with what it has given others. You want the
pain to stop, the suffering to  stop, the
illusion to end. You have had enough of this
world a s it presently is. You  seek a newer
world. Seek it no longer. Now, call it forth. Can you help me to better understand how
to do that? Yes. Go first to your Highest Thought about
yourself. Imagine the you that you would  be
if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say,  and how
you would respond to what others do and
say. Do you see any difference between that
projection and what you think, do, and say
now? Yes. I see a great deal of difference. Good. You should, since  we know that right
now you are not living your highest  vision
of yourself. Now, having seen the
differences between where you are and
where you want to be, begin to change —
consciously change —your thoughts,
words, and actions to match your grandest
vision. This will require tremendous mental and
physical effort. It will entail constant,
moment -to-moment monitoring of your every thought, word, and deed. It will
involve  continued choice -making —
consciously. This whole process is a
massive move to  consciousness. What you
will find out if you undertake this challenge
is that you’ve  spent half your life
unconscious. That is to say, unaware on a
conscious level of  what you are choosing in
the way of thoughts, words, and deeds until
you experience the aftermath of t hem. Then, when you experience these results,
you deny that your thoughts, words, and
deeds had anything to do with them. This is a call to stop such unconscious
living. It is a challenge to which your soul
has called you from the beginning of time. That k ind of continual mental monitoring
seems as though it might be terribly
exhausting — It could be, until it becomes second nature. In fact, it is your second nature. It is your
first nature to be unconditionally loving. It is
your second nature to choose to  express
your first nature, your true nature,
consciously. Excuse me, but wouldn’t this kind of non -
stop editing of everything I think, say, and
do “make  Jack a dull boy”? Never. Different, yes. Dull, no. Was Jesus
dull? I don’t think so. Was the Buddha
boring to be around? People flocked,
begged, to be in his presence. No one who
has attained mastery is dull. Unusual,
perhaps. Extraordinary, perhaps. But never
dull. So—do you want your life to “take off”? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want  it to b e—and move into that. Check
every thought, word, and action that does
not fall into harmony with that. Move away
from those. When you have a thought that is not in
alignment with your higher vision, change
to a new thought, then and there. When
you say a t hing that is out of alignment with
your grandest idea, make a note not to say
something like that again. When you do  a
thing that is misaligned with your best
intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was
involved if you  can. I’ve heard this before and I’ve always railed
against it, because it seems so dishonest. I
mean, if you’re sick as a dog, you’re not
supposed to admit it. If you’re broke as a
pauper,  you’re never supposed to say it. If you’re upset as hell, you’re not supposed
to show it. It  reminds me of the joke about
the three people who were sent to hell. One
was a Catholic,  one was a Jew, one was a
New Ager. The devil said to the Catholic,
sneeringly, “Well, how  are you enjoying the
heat?” And the Cathol ic sniffled, “I’m
offering it up.” The devil then  asked the
Jew, “And how are you enjoying the heat?”
The Jew said, “So what else could I  expect
but more hell?” Finally, the devil
approached the New Ager. “Heat?” the
New Ager  asked, perspiring. “What heat? ”
That’s a good joke. But I’m not talking
about ignoring the problem, or pretending it
isn’t there. I’m talking about noticing the
circumstance, and then telling your highest
truth about it. If you’re broke, you’re broke. It’s pointless
to lie about it, an d actually debilitating to  try
to manufacture a story about it so as not to
admit it. Yet it’s your thought about it —
“Broke is bad,” “This is horrible,” “I’m a bad
person, because good people who  work
hard and really try never go broke,” etc. —
that rules ho w you experience  “broke -
ness.” It’s your words about it —“I’m broke,”
“I haven’t a dime,” “I don’t have  any
money” —that dictates how long you stay
broke. It’s your actions surrounding it —
feeling sorry for yourself, sitting around
despondent, not trying to f ind a way out
because “What’s the use, anyway?” —that
create your long -term reality. The first thing to understand about the
universe is that no condition is “good” or
“bad.” It just is. So stop making value judgments. The second thing to know is
that all conditions are temporary. Nothing
stays the same, nothing remains static. Which  way a thing changes depends on
you. Excuse me, but I have to interrupt you
again here. What about the person who is
sick, but  has the faith that will move
mountains —and so think s, says, and
believes he’s going to get  better...only to
die six weeks later. How does that square
with all this positive thinking,  affirmative
action stuff? That’s good. You’re asking the tough
questions. That’s good. You’re not


“W e are right now in a lucid dream. And part of the dream is that which we
call mind, body, and universe.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D. “And th e dream  is seamless so  it’ s virtually impossible for pe ople to wake
up.”
My teacher
In your night dreams your mind creates your body, other people (some you
know, so me you don’ t know), cities, towns, houses, vehicles, food, objects,
trees, na ture, an imals, the sun, stars, and sky. It also creates time passing,daytime, nighttime, voices, sounds, and every circumstance a nd event that
takes place in y our dream. Y our mind creates an entire world, it creates a
dream v ersion o f you, and it makes everything seem so real that you don’ t
even question it—until you wake up! Only then do you realize it was a dream. “Y ou probably have noticed one of the main things about a dream. V irtually
always, the “you” in the dream doesn’ t realize it’ s a dream. That’ s the ironic
thing about dreaming. The char acters in a dream automatically assume they
are w ide awake! The dream cha racters are not awake. The dream experiences
are not real. But in the drea m, none of that has been noticed. Notice
something else about a dream. As far as the dream characters are concerned,
there is nothing beyond the dream. The dream characters have no idea that
there is another, real kind of awakeness. A dream character has no idea of
what it’ s missing.”
Peter Dziuban, fr om  Simply Notice
“While w e are subjected to the night dream, everything seems to  be real. If we
see a tiger, we are afraid because we don’ t know that we are c reating the tiger. If w e kn ew that  we couldn’ t po ssibly be afraid, could we? This  demonstrates
that an illusion can seem to be quite real while we are subjec ted to it, even
though, when we become awar e of its illusory nature, we understand that it
was we who were creating it all along.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  T ruth Love Beauty
Even if  you’re fully aware th at the world is a dream, you still remain
respectful of its physicality, and of your physical body. Y ou don’ t go and jump
of f a building, because the build ing, the ground, your body, and gravity are all
made of the same dream stuf f, and you will feel it! As one teacher said, if you
come up and pinch me in a dream, I will feel it, because it’ s a dream pinch!“In a dream, ten years may pass by in one minute. Y ou may have a baby and
then be taking it, as a child, to school. When you wake up, you see that the
body in the drea m was an illusion, and the time to which it was subjected was
also an illusion, but from the vantage point of the dream, it seemed to be real.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
“If we take the dream state as an example, there may be a dream that covers a
fifty-year period, but we wake u p and realize that it didn’ t actually happen. It
only seemed real while there was identification with the dream state of
consciousness. The waking state is also only an extremely convincing play
that consciousness is producing.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
“The laws of physics are the laws that apply to this waking d ream. During
night dr eams, th e laws of physics are dif ferent. That is why y ou can fly at
night!”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
No matter what takes place in the “earth” dream, the end is the same for all of
us: we wake up to discover that  it was all a dream! This is why we’re told by
spiritual teacher s to “wake up. ” It means waking up from the illusion and
realizing that it’ s all a dream. W hen we wake up to the truth, we discover that
no one was ever hurt or harmed, and no one died; just like when you wake up
terrorized following a nightmare, and you realize with relief that no one was
actually hurt and nothing bad happened, it was just a dream. “If you can go to a movie an d see a picture of war and suf fering, and
afterward say ‘What a wonderful picture!’ so may you take this life as a
cosmic picture-s how. Be prepared for every kind of experience that may come
to you, realizing that all are but dreams.”
Paramahansa Y ogananda, fr om  Man’ s Eternal Quest
“Seeing the world as a dream is a great practice, and it will help break its
apparent solidity.”
Francis Lucille
W aking Up
“The greatest healing is to wake up from what we are not.”
Mooji
“It’ s like  shifting  your eyes from one thing to a dif ferent thing. It’ s that subtle. It’ s like exhalin g. When you’re ready, you’ll do it. Don’ t tell y ourself you’ll
never be ready. Don’ t tell yourself it’ s not possible. It’ s happening all around
you, to people j ust like you. Th ey aren’ t troubled anymore. They used to be. They are still living their lives. They are brimming in joy. They live lives of
ease, no  matter what is going on. Don’ t be jealous of them. Don’ t doubt them. Become that way yourself. Y ou will rejoice. Y ou will no t be able to
understand why you let yourself continue so long the other way.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the DoorI can  say with absolute certaint y that I was asleep for several d ecades of my
life. I know I was asleep beca use I can pinpoint the exact day, the exact
moment, and the exact circumstance when I first woke up! Since then I have
had lots of sma ll awakenings, and another major awakening. A wakening is
like coming out of a fog, when suddenly it clears, and you can s ee everything
clearly. Some people have woken up lying on a couch, walking through a parking lot
to their car, hearing the sound of a bird or something a teacher says, or reading
something in particular. Many have woken up in the midst o f a terrifying
event, or during a personal crisis when their life had hit rock bottom. And for
all of them, it w as only when they woke up that they realize d—they were
asleep. “Most p eople, even though they don’ t know it, are asleep. They’re born
asleep, t hey live asleep, they ma rry in their sleep, they breed children in their
sleep, th ey die in their sleep w ithout ever waking up. They liv e mechanical
lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else’ s—mechanical
emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. They never understand
the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”
Anthony de Mello, S.J., fr om  A wareness: Conversations with the Masters
Our min d is mechanical, like a program in a computer, so if we’re governed
by o ur m ind, the n our life is mechanical. Maybe you continually  find yourself
with not enough money. This is  the result of a mechanical mind repeating the
same thoughts of “not enough money” over and over again. Y ou empower
those thoughts by believing them, and so you continue to experience not
having e nough m oney. This is th e work of the mind’ s limiting thoughts, while
A wareness is absolute abundance. When you wake up and begin living your life as A wareness, your life will be
beyond anything you can imagine now. Y ou will find the world utterly
magnificent, bur sting with beauty and loveliness, and you will see with clear
eyes tha t everything is on track, nothing is out of place, and all is well. When
our min d is running our life, w e’re prevented from seeing the world as it
really is. The ego ic mind takes issue with most things and objects to them  vehemently. Through its ego-centeredness and inability to see the full picture, it will judge,
criticize, and find fault, and d ue to its limited perspective o f life, it must
perceive problems. “W aking up is unpleasant, you k now. Y ou are nice and comfort able in bed. It
is irritating to be woken up. That’ s the reason the wise guru will  not attempt to
wake people up. I hope I’m g oing to be wise here and make no attempt
whatsoever to wake you up if yo u are asleep. It is really none of my business,
even though I say to you at times, ‘W ake up!’”
Anthony de Mello, S.J., fr om  A wareness: Conversations with the Masters
There’ s one purpose in life for every one of us—to wake up to who we are,
A wareness, and enjoy this incre dible spectacle