	and	should	be	seen	as	such. To	go	into	war	as	anything
other	than	a	truly	last	resort,	much	less	for	cooked-up	reasons—or	to	greet	it
with	rallying	cries	like	it’s	a	sports	event—are	the	signs	of	a	nation	having
lost	its	heart,	for	sure,	and	possibly	its	mind. This	attitude	is	not	pacifism	per	se. We’re	living	in	an	era	that	poses	a	new
set	of	questions. Other	generations	could	argue	about	the	moral	validity	of
this	war	or	that	war;	we	don’t	have	the	luxury	of	that	debate. Our	moral
challenge	is	to	move	beyond	war,	period. Some	seem	to	think	that	we	can	continue	to	manufacture	more	nuclear
bombs,	put	weapons	into	outer	space,	create	ever-more-pernicious	methods	of
chemical	warfare,	and	make	further	sales	of	arms	to	other	countries	to	the
tune	of	hundreds	of	millions	of	dollars—not	to	mention	embark	on	further
military	misadventures—without	ultimately	starting	to	lose	our	own	cities	andour	own	people	in	massive	numbers. Such	people	are	either	in	such	denial,	or
so	blind,	or	possessed	of	such	cold	hearts,	that	they	should	never	again	be
endowed	with	either	our	governance	or	our	trust. Anyone	who	doesn’t	understand	the	wave	of	new	thinking	and	enlightened
perspective	that’s	sweeping	the	planet	today	is	someone	whose	time	in	power
should	end. There’s	a	new	conversation	in	the	air,	and	all	of	us	should
contribute	our	voices	to	it	as	best	we	can. It	is	time	to	redesign	the	world—not
along	traditional	economic	geopolitical	lines,	but	along	deeply	humanitarian
ones—in	which	the	amelioration	of	unnecessary	human	suffering	becomes	the
new	organizing	principle	of	human	civilization. It’s	easy	to	laugh	at	baby	boomers	when	we	say	such	things. After	all,	isn’t
that	what	we	said	in	the	’60s. And	what	did	that	lead	to. Well,	it	led	to	the
end	of	one	war,	and	that’s	not	nothing. And	it	arguably	would	have	led	to
much	more,	had	Bobby	Kennedy	and	Martin	Luther	King,	Jr.,	not	died	in	part
for	believing	it. The	mistake	of	the	’60s	generation	wasn’t	that	we	didn’t	have
the	right	goal;	it	was	that	we	didn’t	yet	realize	that	we	ourselves	must	be	the
means	by	which	the	goal	is	achieved. In	the	words	of	Gandhi,	“The	end	is
inherent	in	the	means. ”	We	must
be
	the	change	we	want	to	see	happen	in	the
world,
because	otherwise	the	change	will	not	happen. We	didn’t	know	that
then	but	we	know	it	now. We’re	more	sophisticated	about	politics,	and	we’re
more	sophisticated	about	love. We’re	becoming	what	author	Andrew	Harvey
calls	“sacred	activists. ”	We	got	here	late,	but	we	got	here. We	arrive	with	gray	hair	and	irony:	The	generation	that	declared	war	on
hypocrisy	has	become	among	the	most	hypocritical	of	all;	the	generation	that
sought	to	replace	guns	with	flowers	has	more	often	replaced	flowers	with
guns;	and	looking	at	the	clock,	we	have	about	ten	minutes	left	to	awake	from
our	stupor	and	retrieve	our	moxie. Our	greatest	failure	now	isn’t	one	of	politics	so	much	as	of	imagination. We
need	to
imagine
	a	world	at	peace,	and	then	work	backward	from	there. The
world	can	only	be	at	peace	when	more	of	its	people	are	fed,	housed,	and
educated;	when	more	of	its	people	are	given	the	medical	care	they	need;	when
more	of	its	women	are	free;	when	more	of	its	opportunities	are	available	to
more	of	its	population;	and	when	more	of	its	resources	are	shared	equitably. These	things	wouldn’t	just	“be	nice”—they’re	essential	keys	to	a	survivable
future. Imagine,	for	a	moment,	the	$600	billion	or	more	a	year	that	the	United
States	now	spends	on	our	military	and	defense	(and	that	does	not	include	the
war	in	Iraq). Going	back	30	years,	what	if	we’d	spent	the	majority	of	that
money	on	such	humanitarian	concerns	as	mentioned	above. What	if	morepeople	in	the	world	had	seen	American-flag	decals	on	schools,	roads,	and
hospitals	in	their	communities	than	on	military	installations. Would	it	have
been	so	easy,	then,	to	stir	up	so	much	hate	against	us. Is	it	possible	that	there
wouldn’t	even	have	been	a
9/11. Such	questions	are	ridiculed	by	the	political	status	quo,	but	at	this	point	no
conscious	person	is	stopped	by	the	derision	of	the	status	quo. Those	who	look
at	the	world	today	through	a	lens	more	relevant	to	the	way	things	were	60
years	ago	are	not	the	ones	to	lead	us	forward. We’ll	move	forward	only	with	a
new	vision	of	where	we	want	to	go. And	there	is	no	way	we	can	get	there	if
we	forget	our	deep	humanity. We	need	to	do	more	than	just	defeat	an	enemy;
we	need	to	create	more	friends. In	the	words	of	Martin	Luther	King,	Jr.,	we
must	make	the	world	a	“beloved	community. ”
Politics	and	economics	have	to	mirror	our	spirituality	or	else	they	mock	it. Humanity	will	change;	the	only	issue	is	whether	we	do	so	because	we	grow	in
wisdom	or	because	the	pain	of	not	changing	becomes	so	intense	that	we	will
have	no	choice. A	nuclear	bomb	would	ruin	everyone’s	day	and	everyone’s
business. There	is	nothing	astute—financially,	or	in	any	other	way—about
doing	whatever	we	want	to	do	without	worrying	about	its	effect	on	others. Such	thinking	shoud	be	repudiated	now. It’s	time	to	transcend	modernity’s
limited	perspective	and	lay	claim	to	a	more	enlightened	worldview. It’s	said	that	when	Ralph	Waldo	Emerson	visited	Henry	David	Thoreau	in
jail	after	he	was	sentenced	for	his	protests	against	the	Mexican-American
War,	he	asked	his	friend	what	he	was	doing	in	there—and	Thoreau	responded,
“What	are	you	doing
out	there. ”	That’s	how	it	feels	to	be	someone	shouting
“Foul. ”	at	the	top	of	your	lungs	today;	anyone	who	isn’t	doing	so	must	be
nuts. Age	gives	you	a	sense	that	what	you	know	is	what	you	know,	and	whoever
doesn’t	agree	with	you	no	longer	has	the	power	to	make	you	change	your
mind	or	shut	you	up. The	only	justification	you	need	for	having	an	opinion	is
that	it’s	your	opinion. You	might	be	right	and	you	might	be	wrong,	but	under
no	condition	will	you	be	silent	about	what	you	believe	any	longer. As	Jesus
said	in	the	Gospel	of	Thomas:	“That	which	you	have	will	save	you	if	you
bring	it	forth	from	yourselves. That	which	you	do	not	have	within	you	will
kill	you	if	you	do	not	bring	it	forth. ”
One	of


 and that it is a thought form. We are not
actually experiencing a burning; instead, we are going
inside to an experiencing of the experience, which has
no words. We go beyond the words to the experiencing 313 PAIN AND SUFFERING
of the experience. When the animal experiences it, it has no words
about it; it is just what is going on. Why do we not call
up our animal nature and just be with what is being
experienced without saying anything about it. It is
because all these thoughts bring in complicated pro
grams and belief systems, and we then become subject
to the effect ofthese thoughts. IfI say to myself,"1 have
an ulcer," then a group of programs arises that go with
'ulcer'. Because of the nature of the mind, we begin to
experience all the programs because of the power of
the mind. The most difficult concept for people to
grasp when they enter research work in the field of
consciousness itself is the realization of the power of
the mind and how influential it really is. We just cannot
be careless about our thoughts. Once we understand the power of the mind and
the nature of thought, we begin to realize that one of
the principles of consciousness is that we are subject
only to what we hold in mind. This one sentence is the
key to the healing ofall illnesses, pain, and suffering. We
are subject only to what we hold in mind. The mind
is extraordinarily powerful. The great. difficulty that
people have is in comprehending how powerful the
mind is. Therefore, in dealing with pain or suffering of
any kind, it is first necessary to discontinue, let go, and
cancel all our belief systems about that. Research has
shown that it is the belief system itself which literally
creates the experience. The incident is an expression of
that belief system. It is as if the mind justifies what it
believes to be true. We can know if this is true by beginning to cancel 314 HEALING AND RECOVERY
the belief that pain and suffering are the same thing. In
handling pain, either acute or chronic, we have to can
cel all thoughts since they are really belief systems. Instead, we have to go for radical truth, radical in that
we release everything except the wordless experienc
ing of what is literally being experienced and let go of
the resistance to it. When we do that, we will experi
ence relief from the suffering, and curiously enough,
we will reach a point ~here we do not care whether
the 'pain' is present or not. That may be a difficult thing to accept in the begin
ning because the mind wants to be rid of the pain. This
therapeutic approach is to accept it instead, to let the
sensations be present but move away from them. In
other words, it is like the pain is circumscribed, and
now we begin to disengage from that localized pain. It
is the same as when we experience morphine with the
pain ofa broken ankle. The pain is present, and then we
begin to feel ourselves move away from that pain. It is
no longer us or ours. In that example, the narcotic does
what we are explaining can be done by consciousness. The narcotic does not actually do it, but it enables our
consciousness to make this very move. However, we
can learn to make this very move without being trig
gered by a narcotic. In the past, I have had to do that. I have been
severely allergic to any kind of analgesic, narcotic, or
anesthetic for many years, and over those years, I have
had all kinds of severe illnesses and accidents, plus sur
gery without anesthesia. Out of necessity, instead of
resorting to those usual methods of treating pain, I
have had to investigate and discover the capacity and 315 PAIN AND SUFFERING
power of consciousness itself. I found that all the anal
gesics did was allow consciousness to exercise its own
power. Therefore, we can own thatwe have the power
within our own consciousness to achieve the same
results without the analgesic. We begin to move away from the pain by letting go
of resisting it and not wanting to change it. We just let
the sensations be present and then shift our way of
being with them to the pOint where we do not care if
they exist. It may sound amazing that we do not even
care if they are present. It is very simple. We have been
upset over many things in our lives. We have felt that
we have to do something about them, but suddenly at
one point, we let them go and are indifferent to them. For example, there might have been a problem in the
back yard that ~as driving us crazy, and one day we
said, "Oh, the heck with it. " Suddenly, we moved' from
trying to do something about it, to control it, to change
it, and exert our will, to just letting it be there. (When
we try to change people, places, or circumstances, we
see that we are up against the impossible, and the only
thing we create is suffering). The minute we just let it
be, our experience of it disappears. We move up to a
state of painlessness in the presence of pain. The sensations coming from a painful injury are
going on, and who cares about it. The sensations from
the amputation are going on, but I do not care about it. It makes no difference. Ifthey are there, they are there,
and if they are not there, they are not. That all comes
about through the very simple practice in which we
are totally indifferent. Most of the pain I have experi
enced in my own life eventually disappeared of its 316 HEALING AND RECOVERY
own. It may take minutes in the case of an acute injury,
or it may take months for chronic pain. Other people
have reported the same experiences from using this
technique. I had one illness that took well over a year of con
stantly letting go, constantly releasing, and constantly
surrendering before it finally disappeared, so I know
that the sensations will eventually disappear, but I am
not doing these things to try to achieve that. That
would be trying to change it and get rid ofit. I do know
as a matter of clinical observation that as a person lets
go of resisting the pain, there comes a point where
they don't care ifit is there or not, and then suddenly
one morning they wake up and it is gone. We don't let
go of resisting it in order to get rid of the pain-that is
a happy side effect. When we reach the point where
we do not care whether the pain is present or not, then
what difference does it make, because at that point,we
are immune to the pain. It is very good to know that our mind has this
power and capacity, and that all we need is someone to
point it out to us and encourage us to try itsowe can
see that it works. There is no need to be in a state ofsuf
fering over pain of any kind. Pain is one thing; suffering
is another. We have to say that over and over to ourself
and begin to utilize these techniques. Then we will
experience there is a'me' that is separate from the
pain. It is like we are not connected with it anymore,
and we are something even greater than and beyond
that which is painful. What is the meaning of life's experiences. The
meaning determines how we experience them, how 317 PAIN AND SUFFERING
we feel about them. Isn't that so. It does not make any
difference at all what happens in the world if we can
be with it in a certain way. It is not what is happening
out there but how we are with it. People who are quite
evolved can be with situations that look dramatically
tragic and yet be unaffected by them. One of the things we can do about pain is to con
sciously progress in the movement and growth of our
own consciousness. Pain proneness comes about as a
result of holding a lot of negative thoughts and feelings
within ourselves. Spiritual work and evolution have an
overall value. The whole process offorgiveness was not
really heard about much except within religion, and
now it has become almost a social phenomenon. When
we. go about our social life now and somebody brings
up a resentment, the other people will look at the
person because they know the next step for them is to
learn how to forgive it, or they will be at the painful
effect of it. All pain and suffering come about as a result of
what we are already holding in mind. Why are some
people so susceptible to pain and suffering, and for
others, it is very transitory. The pain and the suffering
go through the surface of them but not into their core. They can get extremely upset over something, but who
they really are within remains unruffled. Somehow
there is a differentiation between who one is and the
experience. The true Self is totally unruffled and allows
the experience to flow through the self. The upset,
such as emotional conflict or whatever it happens to
be, may last for hours, but the true inner Self does not
even participate in the upset. That is the differential 318 HEALING AND RECOVERY
between what is


 almost all people. For
proper absorption of B12 orally, the body needs the so-called ‘intrinsic factor,’ which very few Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 159Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.compeople have. So they must get B12 faster and more efficiently by intramuscular injection. By the way, if the injection is correctly delivered into the ‘gluteus medius’ (as Dr. Gerson
instructed), not into the ‘gluteus maximus,’ as most doctors and nurses wrongly do, it is entirely
painless. Q:  Beet is generally considered a very healthy vegetable. Why is it not used in the juices? A:  Beet IS a healthy vegetable and it is all right to use it as such. Dr. Gerson avoided it for
juicing, probably because it is very sweet (beets are used in sugar production). Also, it is a
powerful cleanser, and patients already undergoing systematic detoxification should not be
given any extra cleansing substance. However, small amounts used occasionally as vegetable
will not do any harm. Q: Since these days even organic produce is lower in nutrients than it used to be, shouldn’ t
patients be given extra vitamins and minerals? A: It’s true that organic produce is not as rich as it used to be. However, synthetic vitamins and
minerals, which the pharmaceutical industry uses in its supplements, are almost always poorly
absorbed. Moreover, some are outright damaging (see Appendix II in “A Cancer Therapy ”),
such as Vitamins A and E and several of the B vitamins. A & E are found in fish oils and soy
oil. These have to be avoided, since the fatty substances stimulate tumor growth. The only B
vitamins that are important to use are B3 (niacin) and B12. The others disturb the metabolism; Dr.
Gerson found that they cause damage to the patient. Even if organic foods are lower in nutrients, with 13 glasses of freshly made juice a day
the patient’s body is thoroughly flooded with vitamins and minerals in their living, active form,
that even the sick body is able to assimilate—and they are being  given in truly huge amounts,
to replenish the sick, damaged organs. Pharmaceutical vitamins and minerals, even so-called
‘organic’ ones from plant sources, are usually not, or only poorly absorbed, so that some go into
the system and others do not. This causes new imbalances. Q: Why can’t a cured patient after a year or two start eating a normal diet? A: In theory a ‘cured’ patient could start to eat a ‘normal’ diet. But what is normal? Canned,
tinned, preserved with chemicals, artificially flavored and colored, frozen food? Most patients
no longer want to eat this type of stuff and know that it is not healthy or indeed ‘normal.’ Not
only that, they are unwilling to return to the very foods that caused their disease in the fi rst
place! The next question is: what exactly is a cured patient? How do we know if the organs are fully
restored, and whether the immune system can function despite the input of toxic artificial food? Will the defenses be lost or weakened again? How soon?Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 160Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comThere is more and more information showing that meat and all animal products (cheese and
all dairy produce, fish, poultry and eggs), are heat damaged, making proteins largely damaging
to the human body rather than providing it with healthy nutrition. (see T. Colin Campbell’s book,
“The China Study”). Q: What lifestyle changes should a recovered patient introduce? A: The patient must bear in mind that household chemicals (cleansers, bleaches, solvents,
polishes and paints) are toxic and must be avoided. Also, many—in fact most—cosmetics
applied to the skin enter the blood stream and are toxic and should be excluded. Especially
harmful are underarm gels, creams or sticks to block perspiration. Healthy perspiration is
odorless. The body attempt to detoxify through perspiration; blocking it forces the toxins back
into the lymphatic system. (see Chapter 5, pg. 41 )
Q: How long will I have to do the therapy? How long until the tumor is gone? How long until
the pain is gone? How long until I can exercise? How long until I can eat (whatever)? A: Questions beginning with “How long …?” cannot be answered with any certainty. It all
depends on the questioner’s individual circumstances and condition. How large is the tumor,
how far has it spread? How old is the patient, and how much damage has he/she suf fered from
drugs or surgery, or inflicted on him/herself with junk food, smoking and other self-destructive
habits? How faithfully will the patient and family follow the therapy, day in day out for
whatever time is necessary? Hence no precise answer in terms of weeks or months is possible. But there is an overall answer that my son Howard learned in the US Navy. When faced with
the possibility of hanging on to the bridge of a submarine that temporarily submer ged due to a
high swell, he asked: “ How long  will I have to hold my breath?” The incredulous senior officer,
after pausing for a few seconds to assess this neophyte, simply said, “As long as it takes!” Can’ t
improve on that. Q: Carrot juice is high in sugars. From several sources we hear that carrot juice feeds
tumors. Is that true? A: All fruit and many vegetables contain complex carbohydrates, which are not actual sugars,
but form the basis of human nutrition. Contrary to the false claims of some practitioners, carrot
juice does NOT feed tumors. If it did, the Gerson Therapy would kill every cancer patient! The
truth is that carrot juice plays a very important part in healing. Rather than harming patients,
it supplies them with plenty of beta carotene, which is converted in the body to Vitamin. A,
and with many other vitamins. Moreover, as one of the most complete sources of minerals, it
contains most of the essential ones in an easily absorbed form. Carrot juice is even high in plant
proteins and as a result represents an excellent provider of total nutrition and healing.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 161Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
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Q: With all the enemas being used in the course of the two years on the therapy, will I
become dependent on enemas forever? A: Certainly not! Please bear in mind that the purpose of the enemas is not to clear stools from
the intestines; indeed, they only reach part of the colon and don’ t interfere with evacuation. This explains why some Gerson patients are able to pass normal stools between enemas. If
constipation was a problem before embarking on the therapy, once the liver and the intestines
are fully restored, the patient develops “regular” bowel movements. The enema routine need
not threaten the recovered “regularity,” and in most cases, when the therapy has come to an end,
normal evacuation takes over without a hitch. In exceptional cases, when this does not happen,
at worst the patient will have to take a half-strength enema daily as a morning routine. To quote
Dr. Gerson’s emphatic rule,
“Never let the sun set on a day when you haven’t moved your bowel!”
Q: Since this therapy bans animal products, where do I get my protein? A: It is a mistake to believe that all protein is of animal origin. On the contrary. Most vegetables
contain very adequate amounts of protein that is easily absorbed, well digested and assimilated. Thanks to these qualities it produces healing, rather than feeding tumor tissue, bringing on
arthritic conditions, damaging kidneys, and giving rise to other health problems caused by the
heavy consumption of animal protein. Carrot juice, a mainstay of the Gerson program, is high in
protein; so are potatoes, oatmeal, and most vegetables. It is no accident that the strongest and largest land animals, i.e., elephants, bulls, orangutans,
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Life After Gerson
By now it should be clear that recovering from a life-threatening disease on the Gerson Therapy
is a difficult journey: a long and hard process, demanding courage, patience and perseverance—
and certainly worth every ounce of effort. Besides defeating the potential killer, this way of
healing is also a great investment in a long and healthy future. We have many recovered patients
on record who enjoy excellent health and vitality well past


” A FAST

The best time to “break” a fast will be discovered by listening to your inner
guidance or intuition. You know your body better than anyone. Listen to it. You’ll know when you have had enough. (But also, be fair and honest with
yourself, knowing that desire can creep in even though you may not actually
be hungry.) After about three days or so, one generally loses the desire
for
eating. This is because the body is starting to use that digestive energy forcleaning and healing. When you start feeling hungry again, this is a good
sign that you are ready to start eating. Remember to start with fruits only. Another way to determine how long to fast is the tongue-examination
method. This is the old-fashioned method that I’ve used for years. When you
start fasting, your tongue will become coated with a thick white, yellow,
green, or brown substance. The more toxic you are, the thicker and darker
this coating becomes. Of course the healthier you are, the less your tongue
will coat when you fast. If you fast until your tongue becomes pink again,
you will have done a tremendous job of cleaning your body out. Detoxification is an ongoing process that can take years. That sounds
worse than it is. Health should become one of your hobbies. Spend a good
year or so aggressively working on yourself; then set your new lifestyle in
motion with balance and harmony. This will be the new, healthier, vibrant,
cleaner and more aware you. As you grow spiritually, always seek to balance
your lifestyle and eating habits with your spiritual awareness. The more you
expand your awareness, the healthier and more energetically you will want to
eat. You want your physical body to keep up with you. Have fun on your
journey of health, vitality, and spirituality; there is nothing like it. HOW TO “BREAK” A FAST

It is very important how you break a fast, and depends on how long you’ve
fasted and what type of fast you did. A general rule of thumb would be:
Break most fasts with a day or two of eating fresh, raw fruit, only, for every
three days of fasting you have done. This is especially true after juice or water fasting. The longer you fast, the
more days you should spend eating just fruits before you start with heavy
vegetables. I have known of a case or two through the years where an
individual died from breaking a fast incorrectly. One man died from breaking
an extended fast with boiled potatoes. Being a sticky, gluey starch, I can
understand how it locked his bowels up. Always try to keep your bowels moving. When you’re on a juice or
water fast, this is not always possible. In
Module 6.9
 we will discuss bowel
health and management. Please Buy a JuicerN.W Walker lived to be a healthy 107 from juicing. What more proof do you
need? Try a glass of carrot, spinach and celery juice today. Raw fruit and vegetable juices are a powerhouse of nutrition. A glass of
carrot juice contains 6–8 carrots, giving 6 times the nutrition of a simple
carrot. This is what I call a “High Electrical” Drink, a powerhouse of energy
and amino acids. Drink 2–4 glasses each day of your favorite vegetables or fruits. Read
Vegetable and Fruit Juices
 by N.W Walker. MODULE 6.8
Two Great Fruit Juice Fasts

LEMONADE FAST

HOW TO MAKE LEMONADE:
2 tbsp. lemon or lime juice (approx. 1/2 lemon)
1/2 to 3/4 tbsp. genuine Maple Syrup (not maple-flavored sugar syrup)
pinch of Cayenne Pepper (optional)
Combine the juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper in a 10-ounce glass and
fill with medium/ hot distilled or R/O water. (Cold water may be used if
preferred.) Use fresh lemons or limes only; never use canned lemon or lime
juice, or frozen lemonade or lime juice. Cayenne Pepper may be used with this formula as it adds extra vitamin C
and B-complex. It also increases warmth for an additional lift. For those not
used to hot peppers, start with a dash and increase it as you are able. You
may eliminate the pepper if you wish. Pure sorghum, black strap molasses or
honey may be used as a lesser replacement when maple syrup is not available. You might wish to make a quart of lemonade for the whole day. FOR A FULL QUART OF LEMONADE:10 cups distilled water
1 1/2 cup of fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup of pure maple syrup
Shake well and refrigerate

HOW TO TAKE THE LEMONADE:
Drink this lemonade as much and as often as you want, but drink only this
lemonade, no other foods or drinks. This fruit juice fast can be done for 1, 2,
3 or up to 10 days easily. GRAPE JUICE FAST

HOW TO MAKE GRAPE JUICE:
A juice extractor or juicer is necessary. Juice a quart of grapes (seeds and small stems as well). Any type of grape is okay; however the dark, seeded ones are the best. And always try to use organic grapes. HOW TO TAKE THE JUICE:
Drink this grape juice as often and as much as you want. Grapes are high
in antioxidant and astringent properties, which help remove toxins from the
body. Eating grapes and drinking Grape Juice only makes for an excellent
fast. I have “fasted” people for over twenty days on just grapes. A 5- or 10-
day grape or grape juice fast is superb and extremely beneficial. Grapes and lemons are two of nature’s greatest lymphatic cleansers and
“tumor busters.” I have seen lymphomas gone in forty-five days and stomach
cancer gone in fifty-nine days using these fruit juice fasts in combination withherbal therapy and a raw food diet. MODULE 6.9
Healthy Bowel Management

Poor bowel management lies at the root of most people’s health problems. I
have been teaching colon health for the last thirty-five years. My friend, the
late Dr. Bernard Jensen, was teaching this for well over sixty years. Having
worked with over
300,000
 clients, Dr. Jensen’s research has concluded: “It is
the bowels that invariably have to be cared for first before any effective
healing can take place.” As a matter of fact, the natural health field mainly got
started
 around matters of the gastrointestinal tract. Bowel wisdom is generally a topic that few people desire to discuss. Yet,
keeping the bowels (intestinal tract) healthy and in good shape is one of the
best ways to keep out of the grip of toxicity and cell enervation. Your gastrointestinal tract is the center or hub of your body, just as the
hub of a wheel is the supporting part of a wheel. It is one of the main organ
systems of your body. Now the real question should be, “How do we save
and regenerate the GI tract, which is as important as the heart?” Without
digestion, absorption
and
 elimination we die. This canal—mouth through
anus—is how you introduce energy and chemistry from foods into your
body. From the colon on is where and how we eliminate our wastes, which is
vital to the survival of your body. The proper elimination of wastes from
food digestion and cellular metabolism is as important as the ingestion of
your foods. As we learned in
Chapter 2
, the small bowel is divided up into three
parts: the duodenum, where digestion takes place, which is about 10 inches
long; the jejunum, for both digestion and absorption, which is approximately
9 feet long; and the ileum, for absorption, which is approximately 13 feet
long. The large intestine is called the colon, which is 5 feet long and divided
up into the cecum, ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid and rectal
sections. Each section of the colon has been linked to different organs and
glands of the body and has an effect upon these tissues, good or bad. When
you were in the embryo stages of life, this colon plus the spinal cord were the
first two areas of the body that were formed. You will find all your geneticweaknesses in the colon first, then reflected to organ, gland, nerve, or other
tissues within the body. Your bowels take the brunt of abuse from acidic-toxic foods and drinks.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        TAKE IT EASY

Because raw fruits are so powerful in detoxifying and restoring vitality it is
important to note here that one can detoxify too fast. This can lead to extreme
cleansing symptoms. I have witnessed many severe reactions such as:
multiple abscesses popping out in the mouth, tumor-like swellings all over the
body, the skin actually opening and oozing pus, and even spitting out tumors. This is only because the individual jumped immediately from a typical diet of
dairy foods, flesh foods and toxic chemicals to a highly pure and cleansing
one of fresh, raw fruits. A fruit diet will stir up the toxins and mucus in the
body in an aggressive manner, leaving you with some very noticeable side
effects. However, if you consume an all-raw food diet of both fruits and
vegetables for a few weeks first, this


 Foot Book! Famous Dr. Scholl said, “The Bragg Foot Program is the best”.85Fasting Pulls Out Toxins and Poisons
In time I put him on a 7 day fast. The first three days
were rough because he was now eliminating largeamounts of toxic poisons. He vomited some mucus andyellowish-green bile during the first
4 days. When
nauseated it’s best to drink water, then vomit toxins outthat have collected in your stomach. You will feel betterright away. The
5th day he broke out in a cleansing rash
that lasted a few days, then vanished. The odor that camefrom his body and breath was almost unbearable! Hegave me a specimen of his first urine  every morning.He sealed it tightly, dated it and stored it on a shelf tosettle. Be sure and do this. Fasting is a cleansing-healingmiracle! The proof is the foul urine that comes out! I am well-acquainted with the sickening odor of
putrid urine, being a health practitioner. In my manyyears in the health field, I’ve spent time in hospitalsand health spas inspiring patients to cleanse; recovertheir health; be strong; always live a healthy lifestyle;and treasure and protect their life! After his
7 day fast, I eliminated more refined foods
and gave him more raw fruits and  raw vegetables. Afterseveral more weeks, I put him on a
 10 day fast. This was
a much easier fast for him, but he still eliminated heavyamounts of toxins. This is called the “latent poison” thatbecomes concentrated in the cells of the body. It takestime with regular fasting and a cleansing diet of freshorganic fruits and salads and the Bragg Vinegar Drink(page
230) to slowly dislodge these deeply stored toxins. Often people will say to me, “Well, with all due
respect to your philosophy of living, I am a perfectlyhealthy person. I eat what agrees with me, drink all thecoffee I want and eat what normal people eat.” But Iknow better, I know poisons are accumulating in theirtissues. I know some day it will break loose and theywill become deathly ill with a variety of illnesses – aches,pains, headaches, colds, flu, rashes, etc. – as this healingcrisis is trying to clean out the toxins. That’s what diseaseand sickness are – Mother Nature trying to cleanse andpurify the burdened body of toxins, accumulated since
childhood, by pushing these toxins out!86
No man can violate Nature’s Laws and escape her penalties! – Julian JohnsonYou Pay For Your Sins Sooner or Later
Many people inherit constitutions of steel through
heredity. They can laugh and flaunt at God and Mother
Nature’s Laws and seem to get away with it! Inevitably
the day of reckoning always arrives, the day whenMother Nature starts a purification by some form of
elimination. I have seen so-called healthy people who
thought they could eat and drink anything, smoke, losesleep and work
 long hours – suddenly collapse with a
heart attack, stroke or illness. Sadly, I have seen many
of these powerful people go to an early grave due totheir disregard of common sense health laws! So I knew that my student had to be handled very
carefully. It pleased me that he kept up his programpersistently and faithfully. It took almost a year of weekly
24 to 36 hour fasts and strong adherence to The Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle to defeat his annoying body odors.Today that man has a sweet, clean breath. There is no
longer any putrid odor exuding from his body. He is an
entirely different man. He not only defeated the enemieswithin his body, but he looks and feels
 20 years younger. He’s now handsome, youthful and vigorous, with
personal magnetism. He’s more relaxed because he has
a healthy body and a healthy, peaceful mind. Now itmust be very plain and obvious to you why I use fasting
as an effective, safe method of detoxifying the body. Most
people wait until something happens to their healthbefore they take action – and sadly it’s often too late! An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cures! Those of you who are reading this book should not
wait until Mother Nature shocks you into detoxification. Isn’t it far more logical and sensible to give your body a
physiological rest every week for
 24 to 36 hours? Isn’t it
good, sound reasoning for you to take a  7 to 10 day fast
from time to time and give your body a chance to purify
itself? Give your body a chance to get rid of anyaccumulated toxins! In our modern, complex civilization
we are absolutely bound to pick up poisons and toxins.87Fasting Promotes Healthy Elimination
I have explained to you very thoroughly that this is
a world filled with toxins and poisons. Our only salvation
is to be faithful with a regular program of fasting. This
fasting strongly promotes a healthier colon and goodelimination. It helps keep the body cleaner and healthier
by regularly purging out the vicious toxins. It can mean
a whole new, cleaner  life, because when you are healthy,you have more joy, peace and energy in your life..Colon in spastic constipation.Proper position in relation to organs:
 1) stomach 2) appendix 3) cecum 4) ascending colon  5) transverse colon 6) descending colon 7) sigmoid flexure 8) rectumB. The Spastic Colon
Normal Colon  S ick Colon
 A. The Normal Colon
   D. The Sagging Colon
 Colon in engorged constipation.Ptosis, or sagging, of transverse
colon, accompanied by
displacement of stomach. 1
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Good elimination is vitally important for your health and longevity!C. The Engorged Colon88How to Conduct a 3 Day, 7 Day & 10 Day Fast
To Detox, Repair, Rebuild and Restore Health
A fast of 3 days or longer should be conducted under
ideal conditions. You should be able to rest any time you feel
the toxins passing out of your body. During this time youmight feel some discomfort. You should rest and relax quietly
until the toxins have passed out of your body. It’s best to be
at peace and alone when possible. This brief period ofdiscomfort will leave as soon as the loosened toxins have
passed out through your kidneys, lungs, skin, etc. During longer fasts don’t tell others you’re fasting. Why
not? During a fast you must keep in mind only positive
thoughts of the cleansing and the renewing miracles
happening in your body. Often others are ignorant anduninformed about fasting and project negative thoughts. Our fasting is such a very personal and quiet time that
many years ago I went into the Santa Monica Mountains inCalifornia and bought a tract of land in the wilderness of the
Topanga Canyon near Malibu. There I built a retreat cabin,
identical to Thoreau’s at Walden Pond. In that naturalseclusion, Patricia and I enjoy the quiet and peace for our
fasting time. If it’s possible for you to get away to some
secluded place and do your fast in Mother Nature’s splendorwith fresh air and solitude, you will enjoy better results! There are also some very fine health spas throughout
the world where all the conditions are perfect for a restfulfast. Inquire at health stores for any located in your area. Many of the Bragg students who fast regularly tell us that
they use their vacation as a period of fasting and purificationof body, mind and soul. Often they will go to some beautiful
spot to rent accommodations and take their fast in seclusion. I am not saying it’s necessary to go away to fast. Your homeis your castle and hopefully you will be cozy and peaceful
there. The Bragg family all regularly fast. When any one is
fasting, we have great consideration for them. We have anagreement not to ask each other how we feel during the
fast. Fasting is so personal that no one can do anything for
you during the fast, so it’s best not to discuss it with others.Relax and be thankful for your miracle cleansing. When you are on a fast of 3 days or more, you are really on
Mother Nature’s and God’s miracle operating table. Nature is ridding you of the waste, mucus, toxins
and other foreign substances in your body.89How to Break Long Fasts
How to Break a 7 Day Fast
Remember that when you have been on a 7 day fast
your stomach and the  30 feet of intestinal tract have
contracted. When you are ready to break the fast, don’t
overeat, please eat and chew your food slowly as directed:
Around 5 to 6 pm at the end of your 7th day fast, peel
and cut up  4 or 5 organic tomatoes (or canned, salt-free
tomatoes), add cup distilled water, and garlic (mashed) ifdesired, bring to boil and turn off heat. When cool enough
to eat, serve in bowl with liquid. Spray some Bragg Aminos
over top and a dash of Bragg Vinegar and Bragg Olive Oil.Eat as much as desired. Around mid-morning of the
8th
day, have a medium salad of chopped cabbage, grated beets
and carrots, with half an orange or


 theory,  and with  any discussion
which  < l o e s  n ot immcdiately get clown to concrete
applications. This  is why the behavior o( Western
civilization might be described,  in  general,  as "
fuch  Ado About  'oth- ing. " The propcr mcaning
o( "theory" is not idle  speculation but vision,
and it was rightly said that  "whcre  there  is no
vision  the people  perish. " But vision  in this sense  < l o e s  not mean  clreams
and ideals for the future. lt means understanding
of life  as it is. of what we are, and what we are
doing. With - out such  understanding  it is
simpl}'  ridiculous  to
talk of being practica. and getting rcsults. lt is
like walking busily in a fog: you just go rouncl and
round. You do not know  where  you are going. nor
what  re- sults  you  really  want. To minds that think in this way, what we
have  discussecl so far may secm  too theoretical. These ideas  are all very  wcll,  but do they  w o 1 k. Yct
I must  ask, "What do you mean by work. " The
usual "working  test"  of a philosophy  is
whether  it makes  people  THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
better and happier, whether it results in peace, co-
operacion, and prosperity. Yet chis is a
meaningless  criterion without much "theorctical"
undcrstanding. What do you mean by happiness. What are ··bcucr"  pcople bettcr for. About what
will you co-operate. What  will you do with  pcacc
ancl  prosperity. The answer  to these  qucstions  depends  entirely
on
what we are and what we actUally wanc now. If,
for example, we want at the same time both peace
and isolation,  brotherhood and security  for "I,"
happi - ness and permancnce, our wants are
contradictory. Their  results,  howcver  practica. we
may  be about  getting thcm, will be funher
contradictions. le is the old story of wanting to
have your cake and eat it-to which the only
possible conclusion  is that you put it in your
stomach  and keep  it there  umil  you have  violcnt
indigcstion. 1f wc muse  be nationalists  and have  a
sovereign
state, we cannot also expcct to havc world peace. If wc want to get everyching at che lowest
possible cost,  we cannot expect to get the best
possible quality, the  balance  between  the two
being  mediocrity. If we make it an ideal  Lo be
morally superior, we cannot at the same  time avoid
self-righteousness. lf we cling  to belief in God, we
cannot likcwise have faith, since  faith  is not
clinging  but lctting  go. When we have made up our minds as to what
we do want,  thcre remain  indeed  many  practica. and technical  problems. But thcre  is no point  at
all in
106  THE  TRANSFORMATION  OF LIFE
discussing these uncil we havc made up our minds. There  is, in turn,  no possibility  of making up our
minds so long as they are splil in two, so long as "I"
am onc thing ancl "expcrience" another. lf thc mind
is the directivc force bchind aclion, che mind and its
vision of life muse be healed befare action can be
anyching  but conflict. Something must therefore be said about the healed
vision of life which comes with foil awareness, for it
involvcs a decp Lransformation of our view of the
world. As well as words can describe it, this trans -
formation consists in knowing and fceling that the
world  is an organic  unity. In the ordinary way, we "know" this as a matter of
information but do not feel it to be true. Certainly
most pcople fccl separare from everything that sur -
rounds them. On the onc hancl therc  is mysclf, and
on che othcr the rest of thc univcrse. I am not rooted
in the earth  like a tree. I raule around  indepencl -
ently. I seem to be thc centcr of everything, and yet
cut off and alone. I can feel what is going on inside
my own body, but I can only guess what is going on
in othcrs. My conscious rnind  rnust have  its roots
and origins in the most unfathomable depths of be-
ing, yet it fecls as if it lived ali by itsclf in this cight
little  skull. Nevertheless, the physical reality is that my body
exists only in relation to chis universe, and in fact I
amas  attached  to it and dependent  on itas a leaf on  a
107   Tl-. E WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
trce. I fcel cut off only because I am spliL wilhin
my- self, becausc I try Lo be divided from my own
feel- ings and sensations.,,vhat I feel and scnse
thcrefore  seems  forcign  Lo me. And on being aware
of Lhc un - rcality of this division, thc univcrse <loes
not sccm  foreign  any more. For I am what I know; what I know is I. The scnsa -
tion of a house across the street or of a star in
outer  space is no less I than an itch on the sole of
my foot  oran idea in my brain. In another scnse, I
am also  what  Ido not know. I am not aware of my
own  bra in as a brain. In just the samc way,  I am
not aware of the house across the street as a thing
apart from my  sensation of it. 1 know my brain as
thoughts and feel - ings, and I know the house as
scnsations. In the same  way and sense that I do
not know my own brain, or  thc house  as a thing -
in-itself,  I do not know  the private  choughts  in
your  brain. But my brain, which is also 1, your brain and
the thoughts within  it, as well as the house across
the street,  are ali forms  of an  inextricably
interwoven  process callcd the real world. Conscious or uncon - scious ofitas I may be, it is
all I in the sense that the  sun, the air, and human
socicty are justas vital to me as my brain  or my
lungs. Jf, then,  this brain  is my
brain -unaware of it as I am-the sun is my sun,
the air my air, and society  my society. Certainly I cannot command  the sun to be egg -
shaped,  nor force  your  brain  to think
differently. 1
108   THE  TRANSFORMATION  OF LJFJ -:
cannot see the inside of Lhe sun, nor can I share your
prívate  feclings. Yet ncither  can I change  the shapc
or structurc of my own brain, nor havc a scnsation of
itas a contraption likc a cauliílowcr. 1311t if my brain
is noncthclcss  I, thc sun  is I, thc air  is I, and socicty,
of which  you are a mcmber,  is also  1-for ali thcsc
things  are j usl  as csscntial  to my existcncc  as my
brain. That there is a sun apart from my sensation of it is
an infcrencc. Thc fact that  I havc a brain,  though  I
cannot  sce Íl, is likcwisc  an infcrencc. \Ve know
about  thcsc  things  only  in thcory,  and not by irn-
mcdiatc  expcricnce. ílut this "externa)"  world  of
theorctical  objccts  is, apparendr,  just as much  a
unily  as che "interna. '' world  of expcrience. From
expcricnce  I infcr that  it exists. And  bccause cxpcri -
encc is a unity -I am mr sensations -1 must  likcwisc
infcr that this thcorctical univcrsc  is a unity, that  mr
body  ancl  the worlcl


 indeed, apart from water, it is about the only substance
whose range is so wide as to be non-toxic even in amounts several hundred times the normal requirement. Furthermore, it is easily metabolized and excreted when in  excess without taxing in any way
the alkaline reserves of the tissu es. The only condition under which
large doses of vitamin C are questionable is when large amounts of
dairy products are eaten. The vitami n C, which is an acid, may form
kidney stones by combining with the calcium in these products. But then as we shall claim, dairy products are not a part of normal human food. In relation to their size, children need more food than adults. There is no need for so called 'protective' foods, high in protein,
provided children can eat whole foods when ever hungry, and the calamitous sweets are kept away. Left to themselves, children will eat often, ignoring the regularity of meals favoured by adults, which is well and good. The meal regularity is in fact one more device for eating more, even when not hungry, for, like the dogs of Pavlov,
meal times can become the means of a cortical conditioning which
stimulates even a jaded and overtired stomach. It is thoroughly misguided to gi ve children such supplements as
vitamin A and D, particularly in such disgusting and loathed forms
as the fish liver oils. The body is designed to make its own needs of
these vitamins, in the case of the vitamin A from the carotenoid
pigments abundant in the colourfu l tissues of plants, and in the case
of vitamin D, from light irradiation of the skin. Since both these vitamins are stored in the liver, occasional supplies will suffice. Except in the more extreme latitudes, where humans should not be living anyway, there is sufficient light to make vitamin D, provided
sufficient skin surface is exposed. A clear indication that these
vitamins should not be eaten as such, is the recent discovery that children who have been adminste red fish oils over a prolonged
period have a lower I.Q. than other children. Life is preponderantly water, a nd almost all land animals need a
regular supply of it. On an ideal human diet, so much water is
contained in the fruits and vegeta bles, that very little water is
needed. The addition of salt and other unnatural items completely upsets the water balance; as ever y one knows, thirst can become
obsessive after a heavy meal. The need for water increases in hot weather. Unlike appetite, thirst is a reliable guide of body needs; it
is unwise to drink except when thirsty. The universe is a whole, and all things aspire to wholeness. Food reflects the wholeness which is life; all the constituents are interdependent. One often finds that if a particular vitamin deficiency is treated, others previously not apparent become
manifest. This means that when th e ideal diet for any particular
species of animal prevails, there is  no need to fuss about proteins,
calories, vitamins and minerals. Some items of food, commonly consumed but doubtfully a part
of the normal human dietary, will now be examined, with a view to ascertaining the physiological cost th ey entail. For some, the price is
evidently too high; others have a certain value as emergency foods. Milk. Generally considered a 'protective' food, except by the
Chinese who look upon it as an obnoxious excrement. The milk of the different mammals varies considerably. The short-lived species
have made no attempt to remove substances which could, over a
number of years, jeopardise the longevity of the animal. So it is that cow's milk is high in those substances, the cholesterols and saturated fats, which slowly clutter up the blood vessels—cows and bulls do not live long enough for it to matter. In elephants, and in the higher primates, however, the composition of the milk is quite
different. Not only is protein lower, but the saturated fats are
replaced by less saturated and unsaturated, and the cholesterol is low. Furthermore, the first milk fed to infant elephants and primates, the colostrum, is particular ly rich in unsaturated fats. It is
now realized that the quality of the blood vessels is determined by
the early feeding of the young; to give cow's milk to a baby elephant
or a primate is to predispose its blood vessels and heart to lifelong damage by saturated fats. The autopsies of quite young people today show often extensive circulatory damage, most likely due to the common habit of drinking cow's milk from infancy. Skim milk is less harmful, but one can doubt that the proteins
of cow's milk are minutely identical  to those of the human, the one
needed for rapid growth, the other for. slow development. Cream is a particularly dangerous food. Margarine, made from soft vegetable fats by saturating them
with hydrogen, is no better than but ter, although they have little or
no cholesterol, for their fat molecules are very much larger than those of human milk fat, and result in the deposition of fats as hard as those of animal food in the tissues. The soft margarines, made
from partly hydrogenated vegetable fa ts, to which is added oils rich
in unsaturated fats, are suspect, in  view of the chemicals used in
their manufacture, and of the reports of serious disease following
their experimental use in animals. Vegetable  'butters' made from emulsified nuts should be excellent, provided no emulsifying or other chemical agents are used in their manufacture. If one likes some fat on one's bread, the ancient device of Mediterranean peasants of dripping a little olive oil on the bread, rubbed with a
little garlic, is a good one. Kephir, Yogourt, etc. Widely and anciently praised as a 'health'
food, the fatty constituents rema in much the same, although the
growth of bacteria and yeasts, producing an acid medium, is
favourable to anti-putrefactive cond itions which should be helpful. But one should preferably not eat foods that putrefy. These preparations made with skimmed or defatted milk are preferable. Cheese. Hippocrates had noticed that cheese adversely affects a
significant number of people, an indication that it is not a natural
food. It has recently been incriminat ed in migraine. The hard, fullfat
cheeses are more suspect than the li ghter kinds made with whey. At
the most cheese should only be used occasionally, and in small amounts not so much as a food item but as a condiment. Eggs are designed to meet the extremely rapid growth of
reptiles and birds, and as such, are the opposite of human needs. Their extremely high content of cholesterol makes them a dangerous food, perhaps the most dangerous. Furthermore, they are the vehicle of many viruses, known and unknown. Coffee, tea, chocolate. The popularity of these items comes not
only from their stimulating properties, but from their very high content of purines and other extractiv es. On a'mixed' diet, the body
over-reacts against such extractives in the foods, thus engendering a drug-like demand for more, to mop up the body's over-production of
defensive substances, resulting in a vicious circle of ever-increasing
demand. If one must have hot drinks, many herbal teas are harmless. Weak tea seems less harmful than coffee. Vegetable oils. Although the unsaturated fatty acid content of
different vegetable oils varies, thus affecting their value for
eliminating saturated fats from the body, no vegetable oil contains
the saturated fats abundant in all animal oils. Therefore, on a vegetarian diet, it is a matter of taste what oil one prefers. Olive oil, for instance, has a low content of unsaturated fats, but is tasty and good. The only safe fats, however, are those that have been cold
pressed, out of contact with metal contamination; it is virtually
impossible to obtain such oils today. Commercial processes entail the use of dangerous solvents, and high temperature extraction responsible for undesirable changes in  the oil itself, quite apart from
anti-oxidant chemicals used to prevent rancidity. One vegetable oil, rape seed oil,  is toxic, and is being phased
out of use. However, it is still the cheapest oil on the market. It is usually sold without a reference to its source, as just'salad' or
'frying' oil, and is widely used in  food processing and in restaurants. Potatoes, cassavas and starchy roots. The toxicity of the
alkaloids of potato have already been mentioned. Cassava contains deadly prussic acid and will rapidl y kill when eaten raw. The real
menace of such items is that they tend to reduce the consumption of cereals, which should be the main source of calories in combination with fruits. Bread, biscuits
Fresh cereal grains can be nibbled like nuts, but once dried,
something has to be done to them so  that they can be eaten. The best
way is to soak them and allow them to germinate. Germinating
grains are about the richest sources of a battery of indispensable
vitamins. Some should always be set to germinate in succession in some corner of the home, or office. Soaked grains can be mashed, pounded and moulded into thin
wafers, which can then be dried in a low oven, or yeast can be
added, and the dough baked as bread. The damp conditions
prevailing, and the moderate temperatures necessary, are not critical. Lightly cooked groat or porridge, goes back to the Palaeolithic. Unfortunately,


 is not the strong est. This need for temporary relief sometimes takes precedence
over the part of me that “knows better,” since cooked food definitely does not  promote health for me. Dr. Graham also showed me
the addictive power of cooked foods, and my heated supper can easily turn into an al l-I-can-eat, vegan buffet unless I consciously
plan my meal beforehand. However, even then I end up allowing more cooked food becau se of my addiction, which presents itself
with the very first bite. It is actually freeing to see this addiction. I am working to be strong enou gh to stop eating cooked foods entirely, for when I
feel emotionally, spiritually, and mentally secure, I abhor the drugge d effect that cooked foods, especially grains, give me. My goal is
to be complete and connected, and the 100% low-fat, raw diet is an important truth  in the big picture of health. I emphatically believe from experience, that all of my physical sympt oms, including candida, are secondary to the greater
picture of my system originally shutting down because of the trauma I  experienced when I was a young child. Our bodies are meant
to heal when allowed to do so, and now is the time for me. I am happy to have finally  found a teacher in Dr. Graham, who is a
leader by example and an enthusiastic supporter of the intrinsic wisdom  within all of us to heal. Jacky Dees, West Bend, Wisconsin
For many years, I had a candida overgrowth with severe symptoms. The sym ptoms were the classic ones—itching, burning,
that “yeasty” feeling, digestive problems, constipation, acne, f atigue, depression, plus many, many more. In desperation, I tried
everything I could think of to get rid of it. I read every book, pamphlet, article, a nd website I could find about candida. I spent gobs
of money and time trying to cure myself. I had tried conventional medicine, alternative medicine, supplement s, therapies, homeopathics, cleanses, mini-fasts, “candida
diets,” naturopathy, and hypnosis, and I even had my mercury dental fil lings replaced. Y ou name it, I tried it. When nothing worked,
I had basically resigned myself to the fact that the candida was here  to stay. I would spend the rest of my days feeling like garbage,
and I was only 33 years old. Depression set in, and my life turned darker and darker. On my darkest day of all, I decided to go
raw, cold turkey. That was January 2002. During my search for a cure, I had been reading about the raw food diet on the I nternet. I started out using the high-fat raw
diet, and over the course of the next year or so I lost 30 pounds and looked like a skele ton (I’m 5'3" and I was down to 85
pounds). About half of my hair had fallen out, my teeth hurt, and I was basica lly an empty, human-shaped shell walking around just
trying to get through each day. The amount of fat I was eating was incredibly high, but I had no idea that i n reality, I was eating very few calories. During this
time, on the advice of the high-fat raw diet promoters, I ended up on the “c andida diet” for nearly a year (no fruit, only raw veggies
and fat and tons of supplements). I was convinced that someday the candida ove rgrowth would just go away and all would be well
again. But … that day didn’t come. One day I was reading a popular high-fat raw message board, and I kep t seeing people there bad-mouthing Dr. Graham’s
high-fruit, low-fat diet. I became curious about this guy. I did a search, f ound his website, and eventually found my way to the
V egSource message board hosted by Dr. Graham. I’ve been reading it  daily ever since. I believe it has literally saved my life. The thing I was struggling with on the high-fat, almost-no-fruit  diet was that I desperately wanted to eat fruit but was frightened
away from doing so. After reading some of Dr. Graham’s V egSource messag es on candida, I was absolutely thrilled to learn that I
could eat fruit. Just reading that lifted my heart up to the skies. Also, w hen I read that my candida overgrowth could be gone within
weeks on this diet, I could hardly believe it. Could it be? I had been fighting i t for six years, and it could be gone literally within WEEKS?! At this point, I figured that I had nothing to lose. Nothing else had worked, why  not try this? I started to eat bananas. More
and more bananas. I dropped the fats and ate tons of fruit. And guess what? It h appened. Gone. Within weeks. I had a consultation with Dr. Graham in June 2003 and what he taught me was  incredibly enlightening. He educated me about
80/10/10rv  and suggested healthy changes to my lifestyle. I began working on improv ing these aspects of my life. … And then the bottom fell out from under my world. My father, who had been battling cancer for 14 years, was rapidly
nearing the end. I was flying home every other month to see him “one las t time.” For comfort, I turned to eating cooked food—and
not the “good” kind either. I mean junk, and lots of it. My father died a couple day s after Christmas 2003; thankfully I was able to
be with him during his final hours. I’m happy to say that after I came home from the funeral, I picked myse lf up, dusted myself off, and began 80/10/10rv  with a
vengeance. I’ve stuck with it ever since, and each day is better th an the last. My junk-food binge put the 30 pounds back on, plus
more, so I’m working on getting fit and healthy again. One day at a time. I h ave a long way to go, but I haven’t felt this good since I
was in my mid-20s. Today, I am a 37-year-old female, 5'3" tall, and about 120 pounds. I eat approximately 2,000 cal ories per day and exercise
daily. Most days, my lunch consists of 11–12 bananas plus celery or let tuce, and for dinner I eat fruit in season and a large salad. I
keep overt fats to only a couple of times a week. My goals are to lose the excess  fat, build some muscle, and improve my overall
fitness. Signs of improved health have returned—my hair grew ba ck, my skin cleared up, my teeth stopped hurting, and my digestion
is improving. I’m also working on getting more sleep, sunshine, and fres h air. It’s been, and continues to be, a fantastic journey. I thought it was worthwhile to tell my story to let people know that this die t and lifestyle do work to get rid of a candida
overgrowth. I know firsthand. I was severely losing the battle against  candida when I started the 80/10/10rv  lifestyle. Now, I’ve not
only beaten it, I’ve left it in the dust and gone on to win so many more ba ttles. The weapon to beat candida overgrowth is in the palm of your hand. If you de cide to you use it, I promise you, you won’t be
disappointed. Valerie Mills Daly, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
For the first forty years of my life, I was totally immersed in the sta ndard American diet, depending a lot on processed foods
and, as time went on, the fast food world as well. After the birth of my childr en in my mid-twenties, my body weight gradually
increased, but my overall health was okay, at least to my way of thinking a t that time. Sure, I would get colds and flu now and then,
and yes, I wasn’t as eager to run around in the park after my kids, and yes, t he stairs seemed to be more of a challenge, but overall I
saw myself as a fairly healthy person, even though the excess weig ht (at this time 70 pounds over my lowest adult weight) did not
please me. Just before turning 40, I married my second husband, and his children were at tempting to be vegetarians, of the egg- and
dairy-eating variety. As a way of connecting with the kids, I began  to investigate this way of life, and decided it wouldn’t really be
that hard to change. So, for the next five years, we ate a mostly vegetar ian diet, during which time I put on another 70 pounds. I also
began to have problems with my health. During this time, I also saw my husband dealing with several health  issues which included high blood pressure, Type 2
diabetes, and gastric reflux. I also witnessed the severe side effect s of the various medications he began to take to deal with these
issues, and I found myself wanting to avoid the same kind of experience. However, as time went on, my health problems began to multiply. I became ast hmatic, which was very frightening. I also
began to have problems with gastric reflux and a hiatal hernia. For the  first time I had problems with blood pressure, and when I was


 Eye of the I, 210. 23. Power vs. For ce, VHS (Sedona, AZ: V eritas Publishing, 1996). 24. I: Reality and Subjectivity,  219. 25. Power of Love, 586–87. 26. Eye of the I, 257. 27. Power of Love, 570. 28. Personal communication, 2010. 29. I: Reality and Subjectivity, 219. 30. Power vs. For ce, A.O.A. Ed., xxv–xxvi. 31. Dialogues, 21.I N D E X
A
ABC of success, 155 – 180
aesthetics and, 162 – 164
aligning compass for, 178 – 180
attraction and, 164 – 166
enjoyment and, 159 – 161
everyday principles for, 177 – 178
experiencing reality of true Self for, 155 – 157
graciousness and, 175 – 177
identifying with, 156
intention and, 157 – 159
nobility and, 167 – 170
Practical Application for, overview, 133 – 135
quality and, 170 – 172
reliability and, 166 – 167
serviceability and, 161 – 162
sharing and, 172 – 174
study-group questions about, 312
Acceptance
addiction and, 191
embracing who/what you are, xix
ener gy level of, 75 – 76
spiritual principle of, 295
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 242
addiction recovery, 181 – 209
addiction and experiencing, 217 – 218
addiction and seeking higher state of consciousness, 181 – 184
consciousness in recovery for, 188 – 193
ener gy fields and, 184 – 186
healing power of loving group for, 199 – 202
motivation to give up addiction, 186 – 188
Practical Application for, overview, 133 – 135
Serenity prayer for, 202 – 203
study-group questions about, 312 – 313
T welve Steps for, 193 – 199  ( see also  Alcoholics Anonymous)Advaita  (nonduality), 60 – 61
Advancing Consciousness. see also  guid ance for spiritual seekers; spiritual  truth; transcending
barriers to higher consciousness
ego and resistance to change, 205 – 206
letting go for, 205 – 209
overview, 20, 21 – 22
aesthetics, success and, 162 – 164
Agape, 261
Alcoholics Anonymous
ener gy field of, 191
founding of, 16
sponsors for, 279
T welve Steps of, 8, 21, 81, 193 – 199, 222
aller gies, 140 – 145
Anatomy of an Illness, The  (Cousins), 142
Anger
addiction and, 191
ener gy level of, 70
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 239 – 240
animal kingdom, evolution of consciousness and, 107 – 108
Apathy
addiction and, 188
ener gy level of, 66 – 67
letting go of, 206 – 209
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 236 – 237
attraction and attractor patterns
ABC patterns, 45 – 47, 50
application of, 48 – 50
aversion vs.  attraction, 219 – 235
defined, 43
inherent attractor pattern, 46
of life, 50
overview, 23, 25, 31 – 33
scientific background of, 42 – 48
success and, 164 – 166
synchronicity and, 42
awareness, 220 – 221
B
Bailey, Alice, 226
Bannister, Roger, 280
barriers, transcending. see  transcending barriers to higher consciousness
beauty, 284behavioral kinesiology. see  kinesiologic method/kinesiology
Behavioral Kinesiology  (Diamond), 322
being, as evolution phase, 95 – 97, 301 – 302
Bohm, David, 46
boy/girl theory, 225 – 226
brain. see also  ego
Brain Function and Physiology, 105 – 107, 112
etheric (ener gy) brain, 104
left- and right-brain comprehension, 10, 15, 23, 27 – 30, 45
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), 162
power of mind over body, 138 – 142
prefrontal cortex, 89, 101 – 102, 141
British Empire
Chamberlain and, 113
Churchill and, 110
Gandhi and, 48, 50, 54 – 55, 110, 179
Buddha and Buddhism
belief in God and, 59 – 60
Buddha-nature, 260 – 261
Eightfold Path, 7
ener gy field of Buddha, 37, 296
Hawkins’ following of, 2, 4
path to Enlightenment, 22, 285
pathway to surrender and, 244
bum/old man, Levels of
Consciousness example, 85 – 89
butterfly ef fect, 44
C
calibration. see  consciousness calibration
causality
as barrier to advancement in consciousness, 88, 124 – 125
deterministic linear sequence and, 45
evolution of consciousness and, 119 – 121
synchronicity and, 41 – 42
Chamberlain, Neville, 113
change, resistance to, 205 – 206
chaos theory, 43, 61 – 62
Chidatmananda, Swami, 19
Christianity. see  Jesus
Churchill, W inston, 110
collective unconsciousness, 12, 40comfort, 286 – 287
compass, aligning, 178 – 180
compassion
evolution of consciousness and, 116 – 117
observing, 289
self-compassion, 149 – 151
conflict, 235
consciousness. see also  consciousness calibration; evolution of consciousness; Map of Consciousness
for addiction recovery, 188 – 193
age of person and, 56
calibration lists for spiritual aspirants, 327 – 332
Correlation of Levels of Consciousness and Societal Problems, 85
curiosity of/familiarity with nature of, 290 – 291
database of, 40 – 42
levels of, 299 – 300
making leaps in, 297 – 298
process going on within consciousness itself, 53 – 54
seeking higher state of, 181 – 184
“unified field of everything,” 47
“Consciousness and Addiction” (Hawkins), 187
consciousness calibration
calibration, defined, 57 – 58
defined, 20
discrepancies in, 323 – 324
disqualification and, 325 – 326
evolution of consciousness and, 99 – 103, 117 – 119
history and methodology, 316 – 317
intention and, 91 – 92
limitations of, 325
testing technique for, 317 – 321
understanding, 35 – 39
convenience, 166
Correlation of Levels of Consciousness and Societal Problems, 85
Courage
addiction and, 191
calibration of, 38
ener gy level of, 72 – 73
as Map of Consciousness benefit, xv
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 241
Course in Miracles, A  (workbook), 278
courteousness, 178
Cousins, Norman, 142
Crick, Francis, 325D
database of consciousness, 12 – 13, 40 – 42
Davidson, Richard, 141
Declaration of Independence, 50
depression, 147 – 148
Desire
ener gy level of, 69 – 70
Serenity vs.,  53
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 238 – 239
deterministic linear sequence, 45
Devotional Nonduality, 9, 297, 343, 347
Diamond, John, 11, 322
dif ficulties, overcoming, xvii – xviii
Divine States, 261 – 266
Doctors W ithout Borders, 235
doing, as evolution phase, 95 – 97, 301 – 302
dominance, field of, 45
dying, fear of, 272 – 273
E
Eccles, John, 141
Ecstasy (drug), 184
Ecstasy (emotion)
letting go for, 206 – 209
Satchitananda  and, 256
transcending barriers to higher consciousness,


 This mechanism of elimination of various endotoxins confirm
Clinical observations on recent years. Increasing the number of
middle molecules in the urine of patients with mild or moderate
endogenous intoxication against various diseases
prevents or reduces the processes of their accumulation in the blood. However, it was noted that a significant increase in the number of
endotoxins in the blood leads to the fact that the intensity of their
excretion by the kidneys in the urine is reduced. Initially, these data
cause of some perplexity. Why does the body refuses to
from such an effective means of detoxification? Further experiments and observations have allowed some
shed light on the sequence of emerging events. Permanent or a sharp increase in education in the body
various endotoxins leads to their on-accumulation in the structures
secretory apparatus of the kidneys. and the authority to
toxins, he becomes their target. Toxins have
a devastating effect in the kidneys start failures -
reduced the intensity of excretion of toxins. One manifestation of violation of detoxification function of the kidneys, the
In our opinion, may be a rise in blood pressure. We explain the situation. As a specialized organ of detoxification of the body,
kidney structure with an increase in endogenous intoxication
intensify the process of trapping the toxins that may be partially
collected as a filtration membrane, and accumulate
in the epithelium of the tubules. Membrane filtration kidney is working almost
the principle of a simple filter. One of the important conditions for effective
of the renal filter is the presence on its surface
negative charge. This charge is partly "discouraged" from
seepage through the filter of a molecule of blood plasma as carrier
negative charge. to these molecules belong to the first
relatively low molecular weight blood proteins, such as albumin. This prevents unnecessary loss of protein organism
in the mechanism of formation of urine. It is interesting that in the normal state of the molecule necessary
human blood in the main are presented negatively charged
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181particles. When a large number of endotoksi-new,
especially the average molecular weight substances, which are
positive charge, filters, portable radio begins to increase. However,
as the number of output toxins positively
charged particles are all in larger quantities to meet
on the surface of filter-ration of the membrane, thereby reducing
filtration efficiency. Another mechanism for removing
toxins through the kidneys is a secretory mechanism based
on the active trapping toxins surface cells
(Epithelium), kidney tubules and their subsequent transfer of the
in flowing through the tubules of ultrafiltrate. As in the first mechanism of renal elimination pathway of toxins, and in
second election at-accumulation of toxins in the cellular structures
filtration and renal secretory apparatus inevitably leads
to kidney damage. Kidney simply can not cope with their
problems - there is a relative renal insufficiency. The appearance of lesions usually requires
serious medical care. Noted that when effective
treatment of patients with different pathologies start improvement in their
state accompanied by an increase of endotoxin in urine that
evidence of rehabilitation detoxification function
kidneys. But what is this blood pressure, you may ask. All
The fact that the decrease in efficiency of detoxifying
kidneys causes the body to search for additional reserves. After
the need to remove the toxins is not reduced, but on the contrary, grows. and then, apparently, include a mechanism to increase the filtration
pressure. Filtration pressure - a pressure difference between
intravascular space and the cavity, where the filtered
primary urine. Depends on this difference including the level of
blood pressure. Thus, in order to somehow compensate for the renal
failure on a background of continuing to endogenous
intoxication, the body increases blood pressure. There is hyper-Purton. If in such cases does not hold
diligence, and focus only on basic
symptoms, you can put an incorrect diagnosis - hypertension
disease. Indeed, increased blood pressure in this
case - only a consequence and cause of the other - in an ongoing
endogenous intoxication. Lowering blood pressure
only vasodilating necessary medication will be
address symptoms rather than causes of the disease. Why dry fasting helps in the fight against chronic
Disease
- Naturally, the biggest holiday during starvation gets
Gastrointestinal tract. Now all the powers of the body sends to restore
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182protective and neutralizing the function of liver and gastrointestinal tract. - Fasting improves the excellent work of the liver. It causes mild
cholagogic effect, restores the liver cells. - The dry fasting the body does not do any water or food. During dry fasting is replacing the old "dead water"
on the water of life, synthesized by the body. If the body does not enter the food and "dead" heavy water,
then in fact our blood does not get many harmful substances,
Blood is constantly clean our bodies, that is actually
the same composition of the blood will be cleaned several times through
filter elements, that is, blood will be almost perfectly
net. Consequently, all processes in our body-related
with blood, will be performed almost perfectly. Simple as that,
therefore, our immune system gets a good holiday. - As we already know, during the dry fasting is
incineration toxins, we can say in his own firing - each
cell in the absence of water, runs inside a fusion
reaction. This process speeds up the recovery. Reacting
increase in body temperature, the organism causes a slowdown
microorganisms. Immune system becomes easier to track down
and kill all the alien and change. - When the SG achieved higher concentrations of biologically
active substances, hormones, immune cells
and immunoglobulins in body fluids. I have repeatedly
wrote that any infection is very difficult to adapt to live without
water. - Second acidotic crisis - and autolysis occurs more
deadlines. If at the beginning of starvation autolysis tissues
was the sole source of nutrition, during the second
acidotic crisis autolysis longer performs the function of
Natural surgeon. - Extreme conditions can not stand diseased cells,
degenerate, weak. They die and decompose. So
way, fasting helps reject unwanted, weak,
painful and harmful. The most important feature of starvation in
chronic diseases is the rapid elimination of waste, the rapid
relieve the body of accumulated toxins - cause
disease, and further correct way of life helps to bring
energy and health. Mistakenly assume that one fasting, even for a long,
can completely clear the body of accumulated toxins. Toxins that have accumulated over many years can not be removed immediately
a few days or weeks. In chronic diseases
required to spend three or more courses of fasting in order to achieve
measurable improvements in every case individually. It all depends
from the neglect of the process, and more - from the very obstinacy
patient in achieving stable therapeutic effect. Binding
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183condition for such persistence is a repetition of preventive
course of starvation every year, and if necessary, and a series of fasting
(Fractional) for several consecutive years to achieve
final healing. There are many striking examples of how,
seemingly doomed to death patients who persevere
repeated prolonged courses of fasting, after a few years
become healthy individuals. The most effective dry fasting for cystic
tumors in the body. Here, the body operates better
any surgeon, and eliminating the cause and effect. When the body does not
enters the water, in such circumstances he can not afford to find
it pathological fluid formations, whatever, wherever
they may be. Ovarian cyst - the pathological formation of ovarian tissue,
consisting of a cavity bounded by a capsule and filled with
fluid. depending on the contents of the cysts are divided into:
follicular, corpus luteum cyst, mucinous, endometroidnye,
dermoid. "I always wanted to have children, but doctors have told me that without surgery
I can not get pregnant, so it all started. As far as myself
remember, always ached colds. Cost freeze
little knees or feet, urinary system inflammation
instantaneously, and without the antibiotics will not do it. Immunity
simply zero. When I was examined by a gynecologist and made
Ultrasound, the results were abysmal: the tubes were impassable
the entire length of practice, were soldered to the uterus, in
right ovary liquid formation with clear smooth contours,
homogeneous content. I realized that if nothing changed, and not
do for your body, then I'll be for life is barren. Also
I had a lot of problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Gastritis, cholecystitis, chronic colitis (terrible constipation, bowel
did not work). I realized that everything in the body is connected, and treat
their gynecological problems without treatment, the gastrointestinal tract is meaningless. Began to search for information online, and stumbled upon a site Sergei
Ivanovich about dry fasting, I really liked the saying:
"The most effective dry fasting for cystic
tumors in the body, here the body operates better
any surgeon, and eliminating the cause and effect. " I switched
on lacto-vegetarian diet, completely abandoned
meat, cleaned the liver, intestines. Then he made a seven-day
Wet starvation on Arakelyan, began to train the body
to dry starvation at home. First day after
week two, week three. Even what I did, gave
I huge improvement, I have earned a good gut,


 from the tumour to spill into the blood, and dormant micro -
metastases already present to spring into life years earlier than they  5
 would otherwise have done, see : Cancer Therapy – A New Direction. However, even these metastases do not normally kill. Tumours only kill
directly if they press on vital structures, or indirectly if they are attacked
and release large amounts of toxins. Instead, most cancer patients die
either early in the treatment due t o strong inflammations or much later
from cachexia - severe weight -loss and muscle wasting due to
progressive anaemia from the destruction of erythrocytes (red blood
cells) by viral and fungal -type blood microbes. This is the main cause of
death from cance r.
There is also increasing evidence that cancer is associated with a
degeneration of body cells into fungal cells, metastatic cancer cells look
and behave exactly like invasive hyphal fungi, see “Is Invasive Cancer a
Hyphal Fungus?”
Eliminating hyphal Candida and k eeping  the blood free of microbes is a
simple way of preventing death from cancer. The s afest ways to prevent
malignancy are alkalising, intestinal sanitation, intensive antimicrobial
therapy, and avoiding the emotional shock of a cancer diagnosis. Instead,  just assume that you already have cancer or may develop it, and
then adopt the Health I mprovement Program. For treatment, see: Overcoming Cancer. THE HEALTH -IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
We can only reverse the relentless deterioration of our health by
removing causative negative factors and  replacing them with positive
steps and habits. This means practicing natural living  such as  good
nutrition, proper breathing, physical activity, improved emotional and
menta l attitudes. In addition,  we use specific healing methods,
uppermost of which are the removal of pathogenic microbes, wastes and
toxins from the body. Before you search the Internet for specific remedies to cure your health
problem, try to get the basics right, then many diseases may simply
disappear while others will greatly improve. This then makes it easier to 6
 use specific therapies for complete healing of any remaining symptoms. In addition, this program is also a recipe to regenerate and rejuvenate a
disabled or aging body. The Health Improvement Program (HIP) includes the following subjects:
1. Nutrition:  Adopt a high -quality diet
2. Intestinal Sanitation:  Clean out & sanitize your intestines
3. Antimicrobial Therapy:  Eliminate harmful microbes
4. Cleansing:  Remove metabolic wastes and toxins
5. Healthy Living  and reducing all kinds of pollution
6. Energy Healing:  remove energy blockages and recharge yourself
7. Mind Tools:  replace negative beliefs and emotions with positive ones
8. Healing groups:  Form or join a health or healing group
The following is an overview of the necessary steps with links to more
detailed Internet articles. This book provides this information in a more
condensed form. Initially focus on one chapter  at a time, but with each
additional chapter  continue practicing what you have previously learned. 1. Improve your nutrition : Maximise unprocessed and raw food, and
minimise chemicalized, refined and problem food – see: Food Groups
and Diets ;  alkalise the body;  Alkalizing with Sod ium Bicarb onate a nd
Calcium Citrate,  use food suitable for your body type and conditi on, and
pay attention to food combining. See General Diet Rules. Discover and
break addictions and allergies. See Allergy Testing  - and  use suitable
supplements. See Health Foods and Nut rients. Diet rules are designed to guide us towards healthier eating  habits. There
are different schools of nutrition, which do not always agree on the same
principles, and sometimes even contradict each other, just as in politics,
religion and other areas of human endeavour. My diet rules are based
on the principles of the earlier 'nat ure cure' movement, modified by
clinical nutrition research and my own experiences. The less ideal the diet and the more polluted the body, the more are specific 7
 remedies, supplements and other therapies needed to overcome chronic
diseases. Conversely, on an ideal diet, combined with antimicrobial therapy
and cleansing, specific interventions can be kept to a minimum. Improving our diet usually requires a considerable shift in eating habits
and re -education of our taste buds. It also takes considerably mor e time
and energy for food preparation. This is not easy. Therefore, it is best to
make changes gradually, first moving towards a high -quality diet, and
then experimenting with periods on mainly fresh raw foods for maximum
healing, rejuvenation and mainten ance of optimal health into old age. However, do not rely too much on 'expert' advice. Ultimately it is best
learning to trust your intuition and your body to tell you what it needs. At
different times you may need different foods. 2. Intestinal Sanitation consists of two parts: thoroughly cleaning out
your gastro -intestinal tract and in particular the bowels or large intestines,
and removing any overgrowth of harmful microbes and parasites, and
restoring again a healthy intestinal flor a. See Intestinal Sanitation. The main tools for doing this are flushes, colonics, laxative food, and the
possible use of hydrochloric acid supplements to impro ve digestion of
proteins and absorption of minerals. A good way to eliminate harmful
microbes and re -establish a healthy gut flora is by flushing with psyllium
hulls, garlic and sodium bicarbonate followed by probiotics. 3. Eliminate harmful microbes  and p arasites  with antimicrobial
remedies as outlined in The Ultimate Cleanse. For more details see: Overcoming Candida. Also try an Electronic
Zapper  to clean the blood. Antimicrobial therapy in combination with intestinal sanitation is
commonly the most important step for overcoming chronic health
problems. Because of the widespread use of antibiotics, fungi and
related microbes such as Candida and mycoplasmas are now at the core
of most of our modern diseases, devastating our immune system and
generating powerful toxins. 8
 Without an effective antimicrobial program all other therapies and
supplements tend to give only limited results. After an intense initial
phase, contin ue for a long time with a low -key maintenance program. Whenever microbial problems resurface, or routinely once a year, repeat
an intensive antimicrobial program. To give you an understanding why it
can be so very difficult to overcome chronic infections  see:
http://mpkb.org/home/pathogenesis/microbiota/biofilm
4. Remove metabolic wastes:  Cleansing is needed to move further
towards optimal health. Gradually our cells, tissues and blood vessels
become more and more clogged up with waste products and toxins,
thereby making our metabolism, blood circulation and body functions
ever more ineffic ient. Periodic raw food diets are excellent to remove these wastes. To properly
cleanse we need to take in less energy from food than we need for our
daily activity, then the body is forced to start digesting not only these
waste residues but even cysts, tumours and other unhealthy tissue. In addition to cleansing liver and gallbladder we clean our blood
vessels to improve the blood circulation. See: Cardiovascular Disease. Chronic inflammations due to microbial infestations as well as wastes
and toxins lead to hypercoagulation of the blood with excessive blood
clotting. This means fibrin structures combine with lipi ds and calcium to narrow
blood vessels, block capillaries, and restrict blood flow to the brain, heart
and other organs. These blockages can gradually be removed with
organic acids ( e.g., lemon), garlic, and especially fibrinolytic enzymes
such as Nattokina se and Serrapeptase. As we get older calcifications tend to increase. Combined with
hypercoagulation this causes increasing stiffness, rigidity, cramps,
muscle pain, chronic fatigue, hypertension, loss of memory, deep vein
thrombosis, heart attacks, strok es, and generally declining body
functions. Helpful are increased intake of boron, magnesium and organic
acids as from lemon juice or vinegar, as well as ascorbate/MSM and 9
 carbon dioxide/CO2 therapy, see: Fasting and Cleansing. 5. Create natural living conditions  for yourself and your family by
minimising synthetics and plastics, pollution and harmful radiation in your
home, see: Electromagnetic Pollution. Sanitis e your teeth by removing
mercury amalgam fillings and root -canal filled teeth, see: Dental
Problems. Cultivate mild sun exposure, walking barefoot, being in natural
surroundings. See: Healthy Living. Strengthen the body  with regular
exercises such as yoga, tensing and stretching or suitable outdoors
activity, see: Exercises. 6. Learn to work with energies  and overcome specific problems with
reflexology, acupressure, massage, ear acupuncture, magnet and
meridian therapy - see the relevant articles in Healing the Body. A main aim is to facilitate a free flow of energy in the acupuncture
meridians. From an energy point of view most of our health problems are
due to blockages in these energy flows, commonly associated with
muscle tension, calcification and emotional as well as tissu e scars. Stagnating energy flow  cause s inflammation and


. 2. Breath Energy: Body absorbs cosmic energy from the inha-
lation and exhalation of air. Those who breathe properly—relaxed,
deep breaths to the abdomen—will receive more energy. 3. Food Energy: The purity of chi received from food will
depend on quality of diet and ability of body to digest and assimi-
late nutrients. 4. Meridian Energy: Comes from different types of body cells
that produce the energy. It courses through the acupuncture chan-
nels linking all the vital organs and glands. 5. Pulsation Energy: The deep rhythm of your body, felt es-
pecially in veins and arteries, also seen in biorhythm energy flue-16 Taoist Secrets Of Love
tuations that harmonize our emotional, mental and physical bodies. 6. Sperm (Ovarian) Energy: "Ching" is the sexual essence
that exists from birth but grows more powerful when fed by other
types of chi (food, breath, etc.) Sex essence is the source of all
energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien). 7. Spirit Energy: "Shien" is the light behind our personality,
the ability to discriminate, human self-awareness. At its purest
level, it is our very being. 8. Wu Chi: The emptiness, or void from which all chi energies
originate and must return. (Original Chi)
DIAGRAM 4
THE CYCLE OF SUBTLE ENERGY
Wu Chi (Nothingness)
Yang/Heaven
Shien, Ching
and Chi
Reunite
Ching Chi,
Sexual essence
underlies all
procreationT'ai Chi
(Pure polarity)
Yin/Yang duality
underlies all existence
Five primordial elements
(Fire, water, earth, metal, wood)
Various kinds of Chi energy
Outside Chi energy is
converted to Ching Chi
inside the body
•Yin/EarthSun
Food'WaterWhat Is Chi Energy? 17
The goal of Taoists is to cultivate the life energy to the highest
level possible, bringing good health and deep fulfillment of the
human aspiration for wholeness. The early sages observed the nat-
ural process of the raw chi of the universal elements—sun and
earth, food and air—being transformed into ching, or sex energy,
and in the male stored as sperm. The next step is far more subtle
and difficult to observe. The sperm energy is mixed with the chi of
the human vital organs and refined into shien, or spirit. In short,
sex energy offers a link between our biological and metaphysical
identities, between the animal and the divine. Sexual ability gives
man the divine power to re-create himself, but it also binds him to
his animal body and that of his lover. *
The Taoists believe that you can use any substance or force
that exists in the universe to feed the process of cultivating your
spirit, and thereby free yourself of the limitations of your animal
body. Everything has energy in it, and human consciousness can
absorb that energy if it so desires. But some substances are easier
for the human body to change into a useable form than others. For
example, you can absorb the energy from eating a good hot meal
more easily then you can from sitting on the beach under the sun. The solar energy is too raw and too powerful to be easily "di-
gested" by the body. Sunlight will burn you severely if you try to
absorb too much. But your body can easily assimilate a plate of
food and function for a long time on the calories and nutrients
digested. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUNGER AND SEXUAL DESIRE
What is the difference between food and sex as energies that our
bodies crave to be fed? Many people confuse the hunger for food
and sex as being similar biological desires that are both necessary
for survival. Clearly they are connected, as many people feeling
sexual frustration turn to food for gratification. An imbalance in
*If you are interested in a fuller elucidation of the working of chi energy in the spiritual
realms, read two books by Taoist Master Ni, Hua Ching: "Tao: The Subtle Universal Law"
and "The Taoist Inner View of the Universe and the Immortal Realm" (College of Tao, 117
Stonehaven Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049). There are many volumes in Chinese on this
subject, but I feel these are the best translations and commentary on the Taoist canon
available in English. Ni's translation of the I Ching is preferred over those of western
scholars, who don't understand fully the esoteric aspects of these classic texts. His transla-
tion is titled "The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth. "18 Taoist Secrets Of Love
ching (sex) energy ranks as a major cause of obesity—when you
are sexually frustrated, food is the easiest substitute. The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex
(ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been
refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or
"absorb" than a raw substance like food. Food must be broken
down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual
essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milli-
seconds to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or
the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our
entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling. Thus sexual energy potentially has a far higher value than
food as a kind of "nourishment" needed for human emotional
maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also consid-
ered a department of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-of-
factly. A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love
making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, ex-
pressed through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most
potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb"
that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which
governs our organ vitality and general immunological system. People become obsessed by their relationships as the ex-
change of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of
sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get
complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible
and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchang-
ing and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible. It can be known only through your feelings and intuition. A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly culti-
vated, and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous,
sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral
energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough,
divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it. Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other exam-
ples of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate
the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real
woman's "yin" sexual energy. The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food
and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufac-
tured and stored inside your body. This precious substance—What Is Chi Energy? 19
sperm, with its extraordinary power to mate with a female egg and
create another life—is manufactured and stored in your testicles
for safekeeping. The point is that you are free to tap into your
supply of sex energy at anytime by drawing the sperm power from
the testicles. DIAGRAM 5
The modern character for fire can be
interpreted as: the primordial element
of fire, physical fire, or psychic heat
burning beneath the Taoist cauldron. If you run out of sperm your body automatically makes more. This allows you to be physically ready for your lover at all times. Even if you are alone, without a lover, and never intend to procre-
ate, your body produces the sperm and transforms it into creative
sexual energy. So you can always transform this stored sex energy
into spirit, your pure awareness, and express it through creative
personality at will. So in fact "ching" is internal energy that nour-
ishes us night and day without ceasing. The process of refinement
is partly automatic, and partly voluntary. We can either help or
hinder the process of transforming our sex energy into creativity
depending on how aware we are of our internal process. Yet, like
breathing, we draw on this source of energy constantly without
being aware of it. Freud stumbled partially upon this truth many millennia after
the Taoist masters had clearly mapped out the role of sex in shap-
ing our destiny. Freud didn't realize that the mental neuroses he
discovered could be healed by cultivating the sexual and other Chi
energies within the body. When these energies are re-balanced
through proper love-making and meditation, the mind is re-pat-
terned and freed of old traumas and habits. Taoist cultivation of
one's sexual energy is an extremely powerful tool for self therapy. So powerful, in fact, that it should be used only by those who have
achieved a certain degree of integration in the body, mind, and20 Taoist Secrets Of Love
spirit. Severly imbalanced individuals may release more energy
than they can safely deal with, and should see a psychiatrist before
attempting to learn the Taoist methods. DIAGRAM 6
The average male spends about Vs of
his lifetime to produce sperm. This energy
can be cultivated for health & spiritual
development.100% Life force