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When I told girlfriends I was writing a book about
women, most of them said something like this: “For us, for women
who have been to hell and back. ”
How strange that this should be the club we belong to: women
who have been to hell and back. But we all understand  what that
means. It’s a membership badge we wear with knowing looks and
lines on our foreheads. Most of us have known at least one divorce
or one devastating breakup, whether we were married or not. Other
circumstances can get us into the club as well: abortion,  disease, a
variety of public or private humiliations, drugs, alcohol, the death of
a loved  one, incompetent parents, sick children. It’s everything we
thought life would never be like. We don’t feel self-pity so much as
fear and deep grief. Such has been our womanqu est. It is conscious and discip lined, or
unconscious and unbridled. Whether we’ve learned anything or not,
our suering has shaped who we are, and for better or for worse
we’ve been changed by the past few years. We are not who we
would have been had we not descended. We have a lot of stories
and a lot to edit. In writing this book, I have no purpose other than a creative spill
of my own guts. But that in itself is a passionate purpose, and I have
seen how like my guts are to those of other women. The
relationships, careers, children, dreams, betrayals, hopes, wins,Marianne Williamson
Los Angeleslosses—all these form my landscape too. Our feelings have blended.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who is the author of the book being discussed?,
A: Marianne Williamson
Q: What is the author's purpose in writing this book?,
A: The author states that her purpose is to "consciously and deliberately" share her own experiences and the experiences of other women, and to explore the crucial role of women in the world today.
Q: What is the author's message to women about their power and worth?,
A: The author emphasizes that women have the power to reclaim their worth and worthiness, and that they should not look to the external world for validation, but rather seek inner guidance and connection with the divine.
Q: What is the author's stance on the concept of beauty and the expectations placed on women?,
A: The author argues that true beauty comes from within, and that women should not try to conform to societal standards of beauty, but rather focus on cultivating their own inner light and spiritual connection.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the concept of "the Queen" and the importance of self-acceptance?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of embracing and honoring one's own power and divinity, and encourages women to focus on their inner strength and connection with the divine, rather than seeking external validation or approval.
Q: What is the author's message to women about their relationships and societal expectations?,
A: The author advises women to stop trying to conform to societal expectations and instead focus on embracing their own inner power and spiritual connection, and to recognize that their worth and power come from within.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>They
know much more than I did. But women my age and older who
didn’t know until now should continue to blossom as long as we’re
breathing. For me and for many other women forty and over, the
pieces of the puzzle have only just begun to t together. What mature women want is this: the lightheartednes s of our
youth with the added depth our suering of the past few years has
given us. Through the grace of the Goddess, it is within our grasp to
have both. Genuine spiritual experience transforms our suering
into something beautiful and lifts the heavy burdens  from our
hearts. The older we get, the lighter we can become. It takes eort
to move in this direction, because it is counter to the ways of the
world, but running counter to the ways of the world is the purpose
of our lives. The enlightened system isn’t set up so that we work hard, nally
nd joy, experience it for a relatively short time, and then grow old
and die. Unless we strive for an expanded, more compassionate
vision of age and aging, the achievements we seek here are at best
cruel mockeries of our pain-lled eorts. Let us imagine  a woman’s life improving as she ages. Age doesn’t
have to be bad. It could, in fact, be magnicent, if we would take
our spiritual lives more seriously. Throughout our twenties and
thirties, we care so much about what the Joneses think, even if we
think we don’t. These two decades are the time when we’re most
tempted to try to live for others. Around forty, it occurs  to us thatthe Joneses are either going to like us or they’re not, that the
Joneses have holes in their socks too, thank you, and that we have
less control over what other people think than we ever imagined. And other people shouldn’t have so much control over what we
think either. There’s too much “you should  … you should not” told
to women these days. Wheth er a woman takes hormones, wants to
have a face-lift, wants to admit her age, or wants to talk about
menopause is nobody’s busin ess but her own. There’s privacy in a
woman’s heart  that should never be violated, and certainly not in
the name of feminism. We are doing the best we can. Whatever we
come up with on our journey to expanded consciousness, let us have
and let us


 shoals? If so, the greatest lesson you can learn is now possible,
for your ship never would have grounded if the proper navigator were
charting the course. Y our surface self and egoistic nature have been at the
helm, and the limited perception of surface mind could not possibly know
of the uncharted shoals. Now your ship is aground, and the only way that it
can be freed is to give over command to the master who knows these waters
well. Surrender is the principle by which ultimate control is gained. The
bossy surface self continually tries to run the show and its enamoring cry of
“I, I, I” may easily delude the whole consciousness into limited life and
knowledge, but when a person runs into suf ficient pain and dif ficulty, a
crack appears in the hard veneer of the ego and a light is let through which
illuminates all for one startled instant of awareness. Then the person knows
that their life and self are in the hands of something greater than they are,
that their identity with the surface mind has always been an illusion, which
in this moment of enlightenment they are freed from. Creative people af fect us as being rich in possibilities. They are ripened
trees that drop their fruit, and we scarcely can be near them without
attaining to some unexpected good. Creative people’ s attitudes have an
aspect of abundance, as if they have some mystical tie with a horn of plenty,
not of material things necessarily, but of ideas and of possibilities that give
a universal note to everything they do. A good thing is ef fective and
generative. It grows and propagates and makes room for itself. It springsinto being through an irresistible creative ur ge of universal mind, and the
vehicle of its manifestation always is the person with an artistic attitude
toward life. Ralph W aldo Emerson wrote, “The true artist has the planet for
his pedestal.” They see the possibilities inherent in all things and are
discoverers in the universe and interpreters for their less enlightened
fellows. Freeing Y our T alent

Each person is by some secret liking connected to a particular aspect of life. When we have become freed of the repressions, limitations, and inhibitions
imposed upon us by our education and training, we are able to expose this
subconscious preference and by it attune ourselves with the creative talent
that naturally is ours. Such talent has limitless possibilities for
manifestation. It need have no connection with the so-called arts and may
be as simple a thing as a talent for kindness or love. It may be a talent for
speaking, for persuasion, for teaching, for research, for study. It may be in
science or business, but wherever it is it will prove on exposure to be vastly
superior to the abilities of people who are guided solely by competitive
aims and egoistic desires. It will proceed out of an inexhaustible fount, be
superior to us as people, seem to use us rather than we use it. Our ordinary
mortal selves will live with our talent in a constant state of startled delight. We will know it is a visitation of something above and beyond us, will treat
it at all times with loving care, follow it, obey it, never command it. The most completely frustrating thing that can happen to the individual life
is for inherent talent to fail to develop. Such failure only can come about
through the ego controlling the nature, restricting the individual’ s growth in
the direction intended. The torrent of creative ener gy that exists in every human being becomes
dammed up only with the gravest danger. Resentment, bitterness, hate, and
hostility are the emotional maladjustments that result from a frustratedcreative nature, and these inevitably find their counterparts in physical
illness. Heart trouble, circulatory disease, arthritis, rheumatism, cancer,
ulcer are all psychosomatic symptoms resulting from dammed-up creative
energy. It not only is imperative that we free our talent in order to become
fulfilled as individuals, but it also is important that we free it in order to live
physically vigorous lives, in order to have healthy bodies. These ends can
be accomplished only by lowering our egoistic barriers, by turning our lives
over to the Divine to be used for whatever purpose our basic natures are
best suited. When we are able to do this, we become natural persons,
blending into our tasks and our work in such a manner that we seem an
extension of our activities and they an extension of us. W e achieve an
effectiveness in action that is directly proportional to the degree that we
have turned our lives over to the Secret Self, and the manifestation that
comes through us of superior action and skill is not possessed by the surface
self but uses it as an instrument to ef fect its purposes in the world. Your Separate Star

True artists we all are inherently, for each of us reflects an image in the
growing body of humankind of the one mind and intelligence that lies
behind creation. W e paint a picture as we go through life of that mystic and
occult realm whence we originated and to which we one day will return. When we depart, the picture remains, with our signature in the corner, and
is just as surely the representation of what we saw and felt and heard and
attempted to communicate as is the picture of the painter, signed and hung
upon the wall of the gallery. And in the final analysis who is to judge which
vision is the most beautiful or worthwhile, for if someone lives the life of an
artist, their hand is guided by a will other than their own, and what is
wrought through them is wrought at the behest of the Divine, whose deft
brushstrokes are gradually adding to the picture of eternity and infinity. Throw of f the egoistic bonds that hold you and allow the Secret Self to
shine through. Y ou will become the artist incarnate. A talent will begin todevelop in you toward which your whole nature can be lent. Y ou will begin
to do the work that only you can do, that will fulfill you as a human being
and as an aspiring soul. Wherever your heart leads, you may joyfully
follow, with an inner certainty that you are acting in accord with the deepest
motivations of life. Each for the joy of working
And each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the thing as he sees it
For the God of things as they are. — RUDY ARD KIPLINGOceanofPDF.com
11

How to Use Y our Sixth Sense

Today the existence of a sixth sense is well r ecognized. Supersensory
ability has been r ecorded thr ough the centuries but only r ecently under
laboratory conditions; now its existence is finally and irr evocably
proved. Under sixth sense may be lumped all paranormal phenomena
such as thought transfer ence, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis, which in
parapsychology ar e called ESP, extrasensory per ception. Intuitive
understanding of cir cumstances comes thr ough the use of the sixth
sense, and its range and scope ar e vastly gr eater than those of the other
five. The Dimly Seen W orld

The physical sensory or gans reveal to us the barest indication of what
actually is encountered in the material world. They record vibrations. Each
sense records a tiny segment of the total spectrum of vibrations. The
recording of all five senses is only an infinitesimal part of that total
spectrum. A million times more remains untold about each object we
encounter than is ever revealed to us by our physical senses. W e move
about in a world that we obtain only the dimmest impression of. Objects
that we regard as solid are not solid at all, but are merely enclosures of
higher vibrations, and everything exists in a constant state of movement andflux. Form is merely the imprisonment of movement within dimension, and
in the final analysis all things are far more mental than physical. Now that physical science has been able to reduce the smallest bit of matter
to nothingness, has found basic substance to be ener gy or intelligence, even
the most materialistic of researchers has been forced to the inevitable
conclusion that all things are basically ideas, that they are held in form as
concepts in some universal intelligence. It is through this universal
intelligence that we discover the sixth sense, that we arrive at spiritual
enlightenment. It is the immersion of ego in this intelligence that provides
salvation for the individual, allowing them to live their life in a state of
attunement and harmony. The psychological act of shucking of f the little
self and attaining to a lar ger self is what the great mystics speak of when
they record their arrival at the “moment of truth.”
There is a vast and great mind that is responsible for the construction of the
universe, that is in a very real sense the universe itself, and this infinite and
eternal intelligence creates only from its own substance, and everything it
creates is inherently itself, not something dif ferent, except through the
limitation imposed upon it by its becoming partial and incomplete. Everything in creation is a manifestation of the one mind and intelligence
that underlies all. Each person therefore has within them a supermind which
is free of limitation and restriction, and this mind, working beneath the level
of conscious intelligence, is capable of absolute and truthful guidance in all
things because it understands and perceives all things. Moments of Illumination

Universal mind is a manifestation of the Secret Self,


: Bach —Sleepers Awak e
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION FLAME: Rimsky Korsakov —Russian Easter Overture
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION FLAME: Vivaldi —Spring from the "Four Seasons"
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION: Mahler —Symphony #2 in E Minor
MEDIT ATION: SERAPHIM: Rubinstein —"Angelique Reve"
MEDITATION: TWIN FLAMES: Fri ml—"Indian Love Call"
MEDITATION: UNION OF TWIN FLAMES: Wagner —"Isolde's Transfiguration"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Hovhaness —"Mysterious Mountain"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Richard S trauss—"Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Schumann —Symphony #4
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Tchaikovsky —Trepak from the "Nutcracker"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Wagner —"Ride of the Valkiries"  MOTHER MARY: Schubert —"Ave Maria"
RAPHAEL AND MARY —"Whispering Hope"
NADA: Leoncavallo —"Mattinata"
ORION: Sibelius —Symphony #2
PEACE AND ALOHA: Rachmaninoff —"18th Variation"
PORTIA: Johann Strauss —Radetzky March
RATNASAMBHAVA: Arrigo Boito —“Final Psalmody” from prelude to Mefistofele
RAY: BLUE: Beethoven —The Heavens Are Sounding
RAY: BLUE: Bruckner —Symphony #9
RAY: BLUE: Respighi —St Michael, Archangel
RAY: BLUE: Sibelius —Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)
RAY: BLUE: Smetana —Die Moldau
RAY: BLUE: Wagner —Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
RAY: BLUE: Wagner —Lohengrin Prelude Act 3
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Gliere —Dance of the Golden Fingers
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Grieg —Dawn
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Pachelbel —Gigue
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
RAY: LOVE: Borodin —"Polovestian Dances"
RAY: LOVE: Kr eisler—"Caprice Viennois"
RAY: LOVE: Mascagni —The Lord Now Victorious from "Cavalleria Rusticana"
RAY: LOVE: Puccini —Intermezzo from "Suor Angelica"
RAY: LOVE: Puccini —"Musette Waltz"
RAY: LOVE: Saint -Saens—"The Swan"
SALAMANDERS and SYLPHS: Grieg —"Anitra' s Dance"
SANAT KUMARA: Jean Sibelius —"Finlandia"
SERAPIS BEY: Giuseppe Verdi —Celeste Aida from "Aida"
SURYA: Aloha O
THOUSAND -PETALED LOTUS: Fryderyk Chopin —Etude in A Minor 'Winter Wind' Op. 25
No. 11
VAIROCHANA: Mahler—Symphony  #3 (Finale)
VENUS: Rachman inov—Symphony #2 (3rd movement)
VICTORY: Beethoven —Victory Symphony
ZARATHUSTRA: Schubert —Symphony #9

COSMIC CLOCK - COMPOSERS/KEYNOTES

GOD POWER : 12 o'clock line —Capricorn
Giacomo Puccini - "O Mio Babbino Caro" ("O My Beloved Daddy")  from Gianni Schicchi
"Un Bel Di" ("One Fine Day")  from Madam e Butterfly
"Humming Chorus" from Madam e Butterfly

GOD LOVE : 1 o'clock line —Aquarius
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no. 41 ("Jupiter") in C Major
Franz Peter Schubert - "Ave Maria"  Felix Mendelssohn - "Wedding March" from  A Midsummer Night's Dream
"War March of the Priests"

GOD MASTERY : 2 o'clock line —Pisces
Frédéric Chopin - "Polonaise," op. 53 in A -flat Major
George Frideric Handel - "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah
"Lo, the Conquering Her o Comes"  from Judas Maccabaeus

GOD CONTROL : 3 o'clock line —Aries
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto no. 2 in C Minor
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini  18th variation
Johann Sebastian Bach - Passacaglia in C Minor  "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
"Sleepers Awake"
Magnificat in D Major
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Joseph Haydn - "Hymn to the Sun" from The Seasons
Bach -Gounod - "Ave Maria"
Nikolay Rimsky -Korsakov - "Song of India"

GOD OBEDIENCE : 4 o'clock line —Taurus
Johannes Brahms - Brahm's Lullaby Wiegenlied ( "Cradle Song")  op. 49 no. 4 (Uriel's keynote)
Franz Lehár - "Thine Is My Heart Alone"  from Das Land des Lächelns
Peter I lyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no. 1 in B -flat Minor

GOD WISDOM : 5 o'clock line —Gemini
Robert Schumann - "Traumerei"
Charles -François Gounod - "Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust
"Sanctus" from Saint Cecilia Mass
"Benedictus" from Saint Cecilia Mass
Edvard Grieg - "Ich Liebe Dich" (I Love Thee)
Concerto no. 1 in A Minor  (meditation on Circle and Sword of Astrea)
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"  from Peer Gynt Suite
"Morning" from Peer Gynt Suite
Richard Wagner - "The Evening Star" from Tannhauser  (keynote of Royal Teton Retreat)
"Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin
Prelude from Tristan and Isolde
"Love and Death" from Tristan and Isol de
Preludes to Act I and III from Lohengrin
"Good Friday Spell" from Parsifal
"Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla"  from Das Rheingold
"Magic Fire Music" from Die Walküre
Sir Edward Elgar - "Pomp and Circumstance," Military March  op. 39 no. 1 in D
(El Morya's keynote)
Ernst Eichner - "Andante" from Concerto  for Harp and Orchestra no. 1 in C Major

 GOD HARMONY : 6 o'clock line —Cancer
Christoph Willibald Gluck - Overture from Orfeo and Euridice
"So I Mourn Her Death"  from Orfeo and Euridice
Gustav Mahler - Resurrection, Symphony no. 2
Stephen Collins Foster - "Beautiful Dreamer"  (Mother's keynote)

GOD GRATITUDE : 7 o'clock line —Leo
Sigmund Romberg - "Golden Days"
"One Alone" from The Desert Song
"Deep in My Heart"
Carrie Jacobs Bond -"I Love You Truly"
 Adolphe Adam - "O Holy Night"  (meditation on the Immaculate Conception)

GOD JUSTICE : 8 o'clock line —Virgo
Antonin Dvozák - "Going Home" from Symphony no. 5, op. 95  From the New World
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major
Giovanni Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass
Missa Brevis
Amilcare Ponchielli - "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda
Estelle Lenci - "Crowning Rose ”

GOD REALITY : 9 o'clock line —Libra
Ralph Vaughan Williams - "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
"The Lark Ascending"
"Fantasia on Greens leeves" (Lanello's keynote)
Mass in G Minor
Camille Saint -Saens - "The Swan" from Carneval des Animaux
Giuseppe Verdi - "Celeste Aida" from Aida  (Serapis Bey's keynote)
"Triumphal March" from Aida  (Ascension Flame keynote)
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

GOD VISION : 10 o'clock line —Scorpio
Johann Strauss, Jr. - "Emperor Waltz"
"The Beautiful Blue Danube" waltz, op. 314
"Vienna Blood"
"Tales from Vienna Woods"
Alessandro D. Scarlatti - Sonata no. 345 in A Major
Franz


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n o s e s,  s o  t h a t  n e i t h e r  o u r  a b d o m e n  n o r  o u r  c h e s t,  h e a v e s. 5 b )  W e  c a r r y  o n  u n d e r - b r e a t h i n g  a n d  s l i g h t l y  a b b r e v i a t i n g  o u r  i n - b r e a t h. W e  d o  t h i s  s o  t h a t  w e  c a n  m a i n t a i n  r i g h t  t h r o u g h  t o  t h e  e n d  o f  t h e
e x e r c i s e,  t h e  s e n s e  o f  a  s l i g h t  s h o r t a g e  o f  a i r  t h a t  w e  a t t a i n e d  b y  h o l d i n g
o u r  n o s e s. T h a t ’ s  a l l. T h a t  i s  t h e  a b s o l u t e l y  c l a s s i c  v e r s i o n  o f  t h e  s t a n d a r d  e x e r c i s e  i n
t h e  t e c h n i q u e  o f  V o l i t i o n a l  E l i m i n a t i o n  o f  D e e p  B r e a t h i n g. I t  i s  t h e  e x e r c i s e
A c a d e m i c i a n  B u t e y k o  a l w a y s  o f f i c i a l l y  d e s c r i b e d  a s  t h e  b e d r o c k  o f  h i st e c h n i q u e. B u t  9 9 %  o f  t r a i n e r s  t e a c h  o n l y  E x e r c i s e  N o  3  a n d  t h a t  i s  b a d. V e r y  b a d. C o m m e n t a r i e s
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a n d  n o  l o n g e r. B e c a u s e  w e  a r e  a i m i n g  t o  a c h i e v e  a  s e n s e  o f  a  v e r y  s l i g h t
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	live	virus	with	the	paralyzing	sting	bred	out	of	it	gives

the	patient	a	mild	non-paralyzing	disease	that	induces	a	lifetime	immunity. The

"dead	virusers"	are	said	to	be	more	concerned	with	the	element	of	risk,	claiming

that	the	live	virus	can	always	turn	to	a	paralytic	type. Salk,	of	course,	is	a	dead-to-center	dead	viruser. Salk’s	being	chosen	for	this	job

was	no	matter-of-chance	happening. In	his	medical	student	days	at	New	York

University	he	was	one	of	the	bacteriology	pupils	of	Dr. Thomas	Francis,	Jr.,	head

of	the	department. Was	it	fate	spinning	the	wheel. Let’s	see. After	graduation

and	internship	at	Mt. Sinai	Hospital	in	New	York,	the	National	Research

Counsel,	on	the	basis	of	some	work	he	had	done	as	a	student	on	flu	virus	under

Dr. Francis,	awarded	Salk	a	fellowship	at	the	University	of	Michigan,	where	he

worked	again	under	Dr. Francis. Together	they	developed	the	flu	vaccine	now	on

the	market. It	just	so	happens	that	this	very	same	Dr. Francis	was	in	charge	of	the

evaluation	of	the	whole	polio	project	sponsored	by	the	Foundation,	and	it	was	he

whose	history	making	report	on	that	fateful	April	day	stirred	the	nation	and	the

world	into	a	frenzy	and	enthusiasm	that	exceeded	anything	ever	before	accorded

a	medical	discovery. The	reception	and	reaction	well	befit	the	dawn	of	a	new	era. To	return	to	Salk—the	Francis	influence	was	felt	again. When	the	University	of

Pittsburgh	decided	to	set	up	a	virus	laboratory	of	its	own,	Salk	was	asked	to	take

over. He	transferred	his	work	to	Pittsburgh	where	he	has	been	ever	since,	and

where	the	final	stages	of	the	vaccine	research	were	carried	on. There	may	be	no

implications	in	the	association	of	Drs. Francis	and	Salk,	but	the	sequence	and

turn	of	favorable	events	surely	points	a	finger	of	suspicion,	especially	at	the	big

business	aspect. Personally,	I	prefer	to	think	of	them	as	a	happy	combination	that

unfortunately	worked	the	wrong	side	of	the	street. The	respective	parts	each	played	in	the	huge	drama	must	remain	conjecture,	but

it	was	Salk	who	came	in	for	the	big	hero	worship. At	any	rate	both	helped	forge

another	link	in	the	chain	of	medical	advance	that	is	fast	reducing	the	human	race

to	a	state	of	medical	mesmerism. It	doesn’t	take	too	much	imagination,	with

things	going	as	they	are,	to	calamitously	view	the	supposed	success	over	the

summer	scourge	as	the	beginning	of	our	fall. The	Hygienic	perspective	naturally	rejects	the	whole	affair	and	shares	none	of

the	enthusiasm	for	this	newest	millennium. We’ve	seen	far	too	many	of	them. To

our	way	of	thinking,	all	the	vaccines	and	all	the	antibodies	they	can	arouse	do

not	answer	the	basic	questions	of	where	do	the	viruses	come	from;	why	do	they

attack	as	they	do	in	the	good	old	summertime;	and	how	do	they	get	into	the

human	body. As	I	understand	it,	medicine	has	failed	to	definitely	establish	a	true

portal	of	entry	for	the	virus,	and	this	has	brought	forth	the	further	controversy	of

endogeniety	and	exogeniety. There	are	many	theories. Some	investigators

consider	the	virus	as	an	enzyme-like	substance	with	a	deranged	cell	proclivity. Others	see	the	virus	as	a	biochemical	substance	that	goes	haywire. Others	think

oh	well,	why	go	on. Your	guess	is	a	good	as	theirs. As	far	as	we	are	concerned,

it	all	boils	down	to	this:	We	don’t	see	why	we	should	put	our	bodies	to	the	extra

effort	of	producing	antibodies,	to	combat	dead	viruses,	to	produce	artificial

immunity	to	something	we	needn’t	have	had	in	the	first	place. Frankly,	it	all

sounds	too	Quixotic. Moreover,	windmills	are	out	of	style. We	now	have

windbags	and	not	imaginary	ones	either. But	to	get	back	to	Salk. Despite	the	unquestioned	brilliance	of	his	mind,	in	our

opinion	he	is	barking	up	the	wrong	alley. The	logic	of	that	mind	cannot	make	up

for	the	incorrectness	of	its	premise. In	this	game	of	polio	research	(and	that’s

what	it	has	turned	out	to	be)	he	intercepted	the	ball	and	carried	it	across	the	line

to	a	delusive	touchdown. It	so	happens	the	goal	posts	of	victory	happened	to	be

his	own,,	and,	well—"that,	wont	win	any	games. " In	the	final	score,	if	I	may

continue	the	metaphor,	I’m	sure	the	superior	ground	strategy	of	polio	will	easily

overpower	the	aerial	astigmatics	of	Salk	and	his	team. Any	qualified	coach	or

judge	would	advise	Salk	to	discard	his	theoretical	illusions	and	reconstitute	his

attack	and	defense	formations	on	more	practical	considerations	than	the	color	of

his	opponents’	uniforms	or	some	similar	superficies. This	might	explain	to	him

the	fact	that	polio	cannot	be	beaten	by	concentrating	on	its	symptoms	because

they’re	simply	a	camouflage	when	evaluated	on	a	prima-facie	basis. The	Hygienist	does	not	accept	symptoms	at	their	current	face	value. He	uses

them	as	legal	tender	to	gain	entrance	to	the	deeper	vaults	of	the	human	body

wherein	the	foundation	stones	of	disease	are	more	easily	discernible. As	these

stones	are	laid	so	does	he	deduce	the	weaknesses	in	the	human	structure. In	this

way	the	active	as	well	as	the	potential	factors	are	brought	out	into	the	clear	light

of	scientific	evaluation;	etiology	and	prognosis	are	more	truly	estimated;	and

acute	and	chronic	disturbances	are	nipped	in	the	bud	of	their	origin. The	fact	is

nobody,	Salk	included,	can	follow	the	phantasmagoria	of	symptomatology	and
	come	to	a	true	understanding	of	any	disease	for	the	simple	reason	that	symptoms

are	only	symptoms,	not	causes. Or	is	that	too	elementary	for	men	of	Dr. Salk’s

caliber. His	error	is	not	one	of	logic	but	rather	of	the	superficial	premise	upon	which	he

launched	his	whole	research	program. Mankind’s	error	exists	in	its	being

constantly	deluded	by	the	specious	type	of	reasoning	men	of	medicine	employ

and	base	their	conclusions	on. We	forget	that	logic	is	a	means	to	an	end,	that	it

can	serve	the	villain	and	the	saint,	the	misguided	and	the	well	grounded,	the

people	and	their	exploiters. In	this	instance,	the	end	served	is	surely	not	ours,	for

had	it	been,	Salk	would	have	probed	deeper	than	the	symptoms	of	polio	to	get	to

the	underlying	bottom	of	the	problem. He	would	have	explored	other	approaches. He	would	have	considered	other

premises	than	the	germ	theory	of	the	disease. He	might	have	given	thought	to	the

possibility	that	perhaps	virology	was	not	the	only	beginning	to	so	serious	a

study. He	might	have	glanced	back	through	history’s	pages	and	refreshed	his

memory	on


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for help. Even if you "waver from the path" and gain unwanted weight or
experience a state of low energy, years from now you will always have the
tools to turn the situation around and regain your vitality. You can al
ways depend on the natural laws of life, and this system is built on those
laws. You have taken responsibility for your body. Thinner, looking and
feeling better every day, you can enjoy every minute of your newfound
vibrant energy. You have put in the effort to obtain it, and you most
assuredly deserve it! HEALTH AND VITALITY, WITH ALL THEIR BENE
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 sides with rubber
pads filled with ice, and their body temperature
has been maintained in the range of 32.2 -29.4°C
for 5 days. The temperature dropped to 27.7°C
in one case, but without any consequences. Dur-
ing the hibernation period, patients didn’t  uri-
nate or defecate, their respiratory and cardiac ac-
tivities practically stopped, and they were un-
conscious. Subsequently, the patients were
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fee. 2 -4 days later, hibernation was induced
again. In total, each p atient had hibernated for
about 40 days. Patients didn’t remember any-
thing about their hibernation. After awakening,
they didn’t experience any unpleasant sensa-
tions. On the contrary, the pain caused by their
tumors diminished or completely disappeared,
and their overall condition improved. Patients
experienced weight gain and increased appetite.
In the cases where the brain was affected by me-
tastases, there was an improvement in mental
activity. A significant decrease in the size of the
tumors (sometimes u p to 50%) and a delay in re-
lapse were also observed. The rate of tumor
growth during relapses was significantly re-
duced.
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took biopsies of tumors prior to patients’ expo-
sure to hibernation, during their hiberna tion,
and following it. The comparison of the results
of two biopsies demonstrated clear changes in
the treatment process. For instance, blood ves-
sels in the tumors narrowed down and disap-
peared. After being affected by the cold for 48
hours, tumor cells s tained poorly, they swelled,
and the protoplasm was granulated. Destructive
changes were also observed in the chromaffin
apparatus. However, as the authors of this
method determined, all of these changes in tu-
mors were not permanent, with the exception of
two cases where tumors and metastases disap-
peared completely in two women with breast
cancer.
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in malignant tumors to their direct exposure to
cold, but the current data on hypobiosis may
change this point of v iew. Cold is only one way
of introducing a person into the state of hypo-
biosis, but it may be different, and changes in tu-
mor tissues were caused by hypobiosis or the
deep body disintegration to the cell level, which
occurs during hypobiosis.

Day 9. Based on my practice, I consider this day
to be one of the most important for treatment.
If you reach this stage, try to put all of your ef-
forts, patience, and will into going through it.
During this period, your body temperature may
rise and you may experience headaches. Patients
often want to douse themselves with cold water.
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most interesting thing is that the whole body
burns, but legs and arms are cold, even in the
summer. Your heart rate can increase signifi-
cantly, which is a reaction to a fever. This day
can be considered a real crisis aimed at treating
and rejuvenating the body. If you feel very weak,
it’s best to lie down in a cool place, preferably
near the river. Silence is very important on thi s
day. Time will pass very slowly, so it’s advisable
to engage in some sort of activity. The most im-
portant thing is to understand that there are only
a few hours left, but they mean a lot to the treat-
ment of your body. You can engage in massage
if you wan t, but if you don’t feel the desire to do
it, it’s best not to. Weight loss approximates 1 -
1.5 kg.
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aging effect. Why is the body rejuvenated?
Dry fasting leads to more powerful body reju-
venation than other types of fasting because sick,
altered, and weak cells can’t withstand extreme
and harsh conditions. They die and disintegrate.
Which ones are preserved? They are cells with a
proper structure, and efficient and wise genetics.
They are the ones that didn’t panic, survived and
remained active.
Thus, fasting helps to get rid of useless, weak,
sick, and harmful cells, and they’re eliminated
from the body. These cells are parasites. They
don’t perform their functions, work, and duties.
It’s best for you to get rid of them in time, rather
than let them die naturally, since they can only
recreate the same lifeless and inefficient
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progeny can’t surpass them in quality. Only
strong cells survive fasting. They divide and
quality is improved. Their substitutes will have
the properties of parent cells. When cells exist in
comfortable conditions, they get used to a con-
stant level and volume of incoming nutrition
and liquid. They lose the ability to effectively up-
grade and recov er. Cells seem to be too lazy to
launch the tissue self -renewal mechanisms. As
soon as the supply of nutrition and liquid to the
gastrointestinal tract stops, fundamentally new
conditions of existence are created in the body.
During dry fasting, old biomol ecules are “de-
stroyed,” unstable cells die and disintegrate
(compensating the deficit of energy and nutri-
ents). At the same time, new cells, capable of
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This mechanism explains the fact that the stom-
ach can even digest nails after dry fasting.
Nowadays, it’s no secret to anyone that thera-
peutic fasting results not only in a general invig-
orating effect, but also in positive sexual changes
in both men and women. In male patients, sex-
ual attraction to the opposi te sex increases; erec-
tion and the quality of seminal fluid improve. It’s
no wonder men in many cultures underwent a
fasting treatment course before conception to
get strong and healthy offspring. In female pa-
tients, libido increases along with the sensiti vity
of erogenous zones. It’s possible to eradicate
menstrual irregularities and menopausal symp-
toms and improve the ability to conceive and
bear children.
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therapeutic effects of fasting on all organs and
systems. After all, our sexual health is directly
dependent on the overall condition of the body,
and any problems in this sphere are associated
primarily with its malfunctioning. During fast-
ing, all organs and systems are detoxified, cell
nutrition improves throughout the body, and
the quality of biosynthesis is enhanced. Endo-
crine glands begin to function better, and hor-
monal balance improves. Fasting leads to rejuve-
nation.
Besides, the experiments of S.A. Arekalyan
showed an improvement in the reproductive
functions of animals during apportioned fasting.
The same changes occur in humans. Fasting
brings your body state closer to that of a young
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increased attraction to the opposite sex. Long -
term fasting has the greatest impact on the sex-
ual system, which leads to deeper detoxification
and renewal of the body, though short -term fast-
ing also has this positive effect (fasting until a
crisis, mid -length fasting).
Inadequate intake of nutrients by the body and
their subsequently limited delivery to cells pro-
long their life by activating intracellular autoph-
agy - splitting and processing damaged mito-
chondria and other cellular structures, which
can later be used as new cellular material for vital
functions. In turn,  young


 us  to eat
cooked foods.
If you eat cooked foods, you stand the risk of becoming an emotional vegetable— someone who becomes evermore
dependent upon their cooked food “fix.”

Another One Bites the Dust …
The following is an excerpt (slightly edited for space) from an actual post to my online discuss ion group on
VegSource.com. It exemplifies the stories I hear every time I meet someone who tr ies try to go raw without eating fruit.
Predictably, such people experience constant hunger, disordered eating, digestive problems fr om overeating nuts,
intense sweet cravings, a sense of needing to "fill the void” with poorly combined dehydrated sweets, ma ssive overdosing
on fats, guilt, low energy, and general dissatisfaction with food—and often bingein g and purging, as well.
See if you recognize yourself or someone you know as you read this candid account of a high-fat raw fooders who is
desperate to find a program that works. Especially take note of the second paragraph, where the author descr ibes her
conception of “a healthy, simple way of eating.” The diet she outlines probably  totals about 1,600 calories, and a minimum
of 40% fat … and her program devolves from there.

There is much I love about being raw. It makes a lot of sense to me and for the m ost part I feel much better than I ever did
eating cooked foods. What I do not love about the raw food lifestyle is the effect n uts and dehydrated foods have on my system. It
is very hard for me to find the right balance. When I do feel like I have f ound “the right way to eat” for me, an old inner demon
creeps in and pushes me off my center, which throws me into a tailspin.
When I began this second stint with 100% raw, it was very easy for me to go bac k to a healthy, simple way of eating. My diet
consisted of apple lemon ginger juice in the morning with powdered green f ormula, [with four large apples this might be 450
calories—DG]  lunch was usually a green salad with avocado and some kind of cultured veg etables, and dinner was some version
of the same or maybe a prepared raw meal from the market. [Two large salads combined would likely contain not more than
1,000 calories: 600 from two avocados and up to 400 from vegetables—DG]
I experimented with flaxseed and other dehydrated crackers to find they c ongested me (I would eat too many and get bloated
and constipated.) I started running more in April, and for a while I seeme d to find my groove with the food and exercise. I noticed
that I started to crave sweets, so I started adding more fruit to my diet li ke oranges and nectarines. But I am afraid the sugar in the
fruit had a negative affect on my body because now I can’t get off of t he raw sweet snacks. If I have a bag of dates I can easily go
through a pound of them, so I stay clear of those as best I can.
I also have a hard time controlling the quantity of nuts I consume. I tri ed my darnedest to not buy raw dehydrated nuts, nut
treats, and raw desserts. But the problem is that now that I allowed mysel f the sweet fruits and raw desserts I tend to want more.
I feel a bit ashamed to admit this, but I pretty much finished off an entir e jar of cashew nut butter in one sitting. My willpower
feels so small right now. It is amazing how different my personality a nd attitude can be. It feels like old cooked food demons are
creeping in. There is no way for me to keep fun foods in my home for fear that I w ill consume them all. I know the simpler the diet
the better, but often the will is weak and my body suffers.
About a month ago, my attitude went from enthusiastic and cheery to irri table. I felt very fatigued and hot tempered, and my
diet started going from clean to not so clean. My running decreased and was n’t as consistent as it had been, and my sleeping habits
started getting bad; I can’t wake up early anymore. My attitude has  not been very positive, and I feel depressed most of the time.  Concerned, I have started adding B 12  supplements and hemp seed oil. I can’t seem to get back to a clean way of e ating. I
almost feel like I need to get some sort of blood test to see if I am deficient in  any areas or to measure my level of candida. I do not
want food to be the deciding factor for how I feel. I really want food to be uni mportant. I want to remain raw … but eating to live,
not living to eat. I know that raw can work for me as long as I am able to either  stay away from those foods that are difficult to
digest or simply consume them in smaller quantities.

Isn’t it hard to go raw?
Learning how to eat a raw food diet properly takes time, patience, and yes, effor t. Although I provide a blueprint for doing it
healthfully, most people find it challenging to adopt the raw diet 100% the fi rst time out, unless they get professional guidance. It
seldom occurs overnight, and in fact, can take years to accomplish.
Because our taste buds have been exposed to, and our brains have experienced t he excitement of salt, sugar, and spices, we
may miss those tastes initially when they are no longer part of the da ily diet. However, most people find that the tradeoff for good
health and longevity is more than worth living without a few of the ha rshest flavoring agents.
Once the taste buds are no longer exposed each day to these stimulants an d excitotoxins, they once again develop an
appreciation for the taste of fresh fruits and vegetables. You can becom e an extremely discerning person, with taste buds that can
easily recognize the differences among various qualities of fruit.
Of course, it is far more pleasant to be healthy than it is to be sick, and far  less expensive, too. Weighing all factors with a
longer-term perspective, I would say it is easier to eat raw than eat c ooked.

What advice do you have for new raw fooders?
Those new to the raw food diet often fall victim to their own innocence, coupl ed with their inquisitive nature. Most people,
when trying a new diet, want to find out as much about it as possible, and often  as quickly as possible. The raw food diet, which is
so radically different from the others, often leaves people bewil dered about “what to do.” Nutritional and other health concerns can
overwhelm them, especially when social pressures about their diet fr om peers, family, and friends beset them.
Fortunately, there is a huge amount of information available about raw  foods on websites, in books, and from counselors. But
beware: most of the “leaders” who offer this information have little  education, experience, or professional training in nutrition or
health creation.
Newcomers do not have enough perspective to be able to discern the valid infor mation from the dangerous or the sound
science from the well-marketed infomercial. We can quickly end up with  a situation where the blind are being led by the semi-
sighted.
My advice is to be certain that you seek guidance from someone who has reac hed stability in his or her own food program. I
recommend increasing the consumption of whole fruits and vegetables a nd minimizing any use of supplements, super foods, or
condiments of all types. Eat simply at each meal, reducing the total num ber of ingredients while obtaining variety in your diet
throughout the seasons.

Do fruits and vegetables have enough nutrients?
The very best quality water, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phyton utrients, enzymes, coenzymes, fiber, protein,
carbohydrates, and fats all  come from organically grown fruits and vegetables grown in highly com posted, living soils. They are
complete nutritional packages and provide all the nutrients we need, in t he proportions and ratios our bodies require for proper
functioning. No man-made vitamin tablet or other supplement can com pare with Nature’s handiwork.
Of all foods, fruits are richest in vitamins and water, and second riche st in minerals and fiber, while vegetables and leafy greens
are richest in minerals and fiber, and second richest in vitamins an d water. Vegetables supply minerals and fiber so far in excess of
our needs that the quantity supplied in fruit actually comes closer to m eeting our needs. (As I have stated elsewhere, consuming
more than we need of any nutrient is not better, and in fact creates nutritional imbalances, despite marketin g hype to the contrary).
Fruits, being far higher in calories than vegetables and thus capabl e of fueling us adequately, should comprise the majority of
our diets. Some fruits, however, do actually fall short in terms of minera ls, so it is important to include some vegetables in our diet to
make up for the eventual lack that could develop on a fruit-only diet. Nonethe less, in every category, the nutrient content of fruit
comes closer to matching human nutritional needs than that of any oth er food group.
We need small quantities of both proteins and fats. So,


 extraordinarily useful and simple tools for at-home
allergy detection. My clients have succeeded at using this approach withoutsupervision. Coca’s test works on this simple principle: pulse elevations arecaused by any allergic reaction. If you know what your normal range of pulserates are, you can isolate an offending food or substance and eliminate it. Successwith Coca’s Pulse Test requires only motivation and a little perseverance, becausein order to test for food allergies, the diet must be restricted for a few days andyour pulse must be accurately taken at specific intervals during the testing period.
The test is based on measurement of the resting pulse rate, something most
people have no difficulty learning how to do. The resting rate is how fast the heartbeats after a person has been sitting still, comfortably relaxing for three to fiveminutes. When a person is active the heart beats faster than the resting rate. Onemeasure of aerobic fitness is how quickly the heart is able to return to its restingrate. Well-trained athletes’ hearts can adjust from working very hard to a restingrate in only a minute or so; those who are deconditioned can take three to fiveminutes for their heart to slow from even mild exertion to its stable, resting pace.Those who cannot readily find their own pulse on their wrist or throat caninexpensively purchase a digital watch that gives a pulse reading; this kind ofwatch is used by athletes to make sure their training pulse is in an acceptablerange.
Preparatory to doing Coca’s Pulse Test it is necessary to as much as possible
eliminate allergic food reactions. This requires the application of discipline for afew days before testing begins. Allergic reactions can go on for several days after
a food has been eaten and if you are having a reaction to something eaten many
hours or several days previously, it may obscure a reaction to a food just eaten.
1. Stop smoking entirely for at least five days before you do a cigarette test;
allergies to cigarettes can take five days to clear. Besides, you shouldn’t smoke,anyway!
2. For the first three days, count your resting pulse immediately after
awakening in the morning (for one entire minute), and record the reading.
3. During the first three days, take your resting pulse half an hour and again
one hour after each meal. It if has elevated more than 12 beats above the restingrate you found upon arising that morning, you may assume that some food at themeal you just ate was an allergen. Temporarily, eliminate from your diet all thefoods eaten at the previous meal until you can check them one-by-one a few dayslater. At the end of these first three days you may not have many foods left thatyou can eat. That is okay and to be expected; it is time to begin adding foodsback to the diet.
4. Most people who are allergic to foods are allergic to one or more of the
following: corn, wheat, milk and cheese, yogurt, meat, alcohol, tobacco. It wouldbe very wise to eliminate these foods too for the first three days, until they aretested.
After three days on this regimen, you can assume that many of your usual
allergic food reactions have ceased or at least diminished significantly and that youprobably can get reasonably accurate testing results on individual foods. A goodindicator of having problems with food allergies in general can also show upduring these initial days. If you have eliminated a large number of foods and yourresting pulse upon awakening has slowed down by several beats, you can assumeyou are allergic to foods you were eating.
I would not be at all surprised that by the end of the third day you were only
eating a very few fruits and vegetables and had eliminated everything else. A moreeffective variant of the testing procedure calls for a three or four day water fast to
clear all allergies with absolute certainty, and then to introduce foods one at a time
as described below.
On the fourth and subsequent few days, take your resting pulse upon arising
and then eat a modest quantity of a single food: for example, eat a slice of bread,or a medium sized glass of milk, or an orange, or two tablespoons sugar indissolved in water, or a few dried prunes, or a peach, or an egg, or a medium-sized potato, or a cup of black coffee without sweetener, or a few ounces ofmeat, or a stick of celery, or half a cup of raw cabbage, or an onion, or a date, ora few hazelnuts, etc. Count the pulse one half hour later and again one hour aftereating the test item.
If any food raises the resting pulse over 12 beats per minute above your
morning resting pulse, that food should be eliminated; you are certainly allergic toit or can’t digest that much of it. If your pulse has not returned to its morningresting rate one hour later, you are still having an allergic reaction to the food youate previously and cannot get a decent result on another food until either yourpulse slows again or until the next morning. You may, however, continue to eatother foods that you know do not provoke allergic reactions. Because reactionsto a food may not clear for many hours, it is wise to eat only small quantities ofindividual foods if you wish to test many of them in a single day. If a food causesno acceleration of pulse (at least 6 beats above your estimated normal maximal)that food can be tentatively labeled non-allergenic.
After a few days of testing one food an hour, you will become weary of the
routine and wish to eat more normally. It may also occur that you cannot testmore than one or two foods a day from the very first day because allergicreactions do not clear quickly enough. No problem, the testing period can go onat a lower level of intensity for many weeks, trying one new food each morningupon arising. As you eliminate allergens from your diet one by one, your restingpulse should drop somewhat and it should be easier to discern allergic reactions.After you have worked through all the items in your normal dietary, it would be
wise to retest the foods a second time, breaking your fast with one different test
item each morning. This second testing round may reveal a few more allergicreactions that were obscured by other allergic reactions the first time through.
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 whole earth; all
have failed! but this new King who is coming, He is going to be the King of this planet as well as the universe. There are souls that are so small, that are limited to this univer se and to this planet, but there are
going to be souls that are not limited to  this planet or this galaxy. They
are going to be able to be sent on missions, and shall travel faster than the speed of electricity or the speed of light.
This book also tells us of, or predicts the use of drugs. It predicts
the fall of churches. It predicts that some men will be lost.
It is the greatest book I have ever read. I don't use it; I memorize
it! I carry it with me and I mark it. I leave something to show that this passage has blessed me, and I hope it blesses you.
I recommend this book because it has given me life anew, and it
did something that no other book has ever done. It showed me that I did not have to die to go to Heaven, that I am there already, but one 155 day I shall be promoted to glory. This cationic body will be trans-
formed into an anionic body. This raiment that I have on will be
burned to a crisp, and I will be clothed in light.
I will be clean, perfect again. I will be made young again, and I
will never grow old. This book called the Bible did all of this for me. If it did it for me, and I am nothing, what can it do for you?
The Bible has taught me how to cleanse the temple. It taught me how to be fearless. It taught me how to be filled with holy boldness. It taught me how to drink pure distilled water from the fountain
that shall never run dry.
It taught me how to sing, even though I've never learned to carry a
tune. It did teach me how to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
It taught me how to love the unlovable. It taught me how to serve, and not  expect anything in return, and
yet how to be a steward of much.
It taught me about banking, and that the Bank of Heaven cannot
be broken. It taught me there are three things necessary to draw on that bank: One, that I must be born into the Kingdom; two, that I must make deposits (my tithes and my works); three, that I can draw as much as I had deposited if I had enough faith.
The Bible can show you how all your needs and all your wants are
supplied.
It can tell you what to do each day. It can be the joy of your heart. It can condemn you when you make a mistake until you repent. It gives you the desire not only to repent but to be perfect. "Be ye perfect," thus says the Lord. It teaches you how to stand in tribulation. It teaches you how to be a saint, an adult saint; and the saints are
insult-proof.
And, greatest of all, it teaches you how to pray without ceasing,
and how to love, how to be a lover. Because God is love, and the more you love, the more like God you are. This is the purpose of THE BOOK, to become like our Creator. To walk in the footsteps of His 156 lovely Son, the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, the
Rose of Sharon, the Lion of Judah who can break every chain and re-
new your faith, again and again.
I love the Bible because I love the Author, the One who inspired
the writers of it.
The Bible taught me about angels. It taught me how to open my
eyes that I can see angels. It taught me how to listen to the voice of the angels as they guide me.
It taught me how to see people who are humble, humble servants
of God. And to'say, "Thank you, Lord, for those servants."
It taught me how to pray for people. It taught me patience. It taught me how to forgive and forget. It taught me that absolute forgiveness is absolute forgetfulness. It showed me where I came from, why I am here, and where I am
going... if I serve Him, if I faint not, if I make restitution for the mis-
takes that I make, if I ask forgiveness, and if I forgive.
It has made me fearless. I fear not  what men can do to me, but I do
have one fear. My greatest fear is th at I will do something that the Ho-
ly Spirit will be removed from me!
 Dear God, dear Father, take everything I have. Strip me and leave
me nothing, absolutely nothing. Leave me friendless, leave me broken, leave me hungry, leave me starving, leave me ill, but remove not Thy Holy Spirit from me. So, here I am, Lord.
Speak, thy servant heareth. You said that your sheep know Your
voice. Continue to speak that I may know You better. I will listen; I will obey. I will be a good boy. Lord, how I need You! I can 't live without You, Father. I need more of Your power.
I need more o[your Holy Spirit to strengthen me day by day. Father, I thank you for the many friends that You have given me.
Send me people that I can divide some o[ the love with that You have given to me when my cup overflows.
Thank you for letting me hear the heavenly music, the music of the
spheres. 157 · Thank you, Lord, for little kitty-eats that lick up the spilled milk.
Thank you, Lord, for little puppy dogs that eat the crumbs that fall
from  Your table. Thank you, Lord, for letting me like up the milk.
Thank you, Lord, for letting me eat the crumbs that fall from Your ta-ble. Thank you, Lord, thank You, thank You! Dear Lord, may I leave some of the crumbs for others and not use them all myself Amen.   158 CHAPTER 22
THE MAN CAREY A. REAMS

Working with Carey A. Reams on his book, CAREY A. REAMS,
A "MOSES" FOR HEALTH, I discovered a very unique and godly
man. Therefore, as his friend and publisher I write the following:
Mr. Carey A. Reams, the man nobody truly knows, however,
some of his friends know him much better than others, and they never cease to be amazed at his counselling, knowledge, his recall of events and accuracy.
He is a man dedicated to God as  fully as he knows how. He will
not admit that he is humble. He says he does not know whether he is humble or not. He says he does not know whether he is a genius or not. He has no argument with those who wish to call him humble, or a genius. He defines genius as a person who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing, and he does not claim any such knowledge or wisdom.
Mr. C. Reams is a quiet man who hates publicity with a passion. No one can excite him in any way. At times he may be filled with
righteous indignation and put on an  act that he could chew you up, but
in one second after it's over he is as calm as the Sea of Galilee after Jesus said, "Peace, be still." He is only filled with righteous indigna-tion when someone tries to interfere with a command that God has given him to carry out.
He is a man very difficult to describe. He does not think as most
people think. When asked why, he says that mathematics is a language and he thinks and dreams in mathematics, so before he can answer a question he has to express it in words so as to be understood. He often speaks in parables and likes giving examples.
He frequently answers questions by asking questions. He is very
quick to say when he does not know the answer.
He is a man of true love of his fellow man and he does everything
he can to lighten someone else's load. "If I cannot lighten someone 159 else's load, I will not make it heavier. If I cannot be a part of the an-
swer, I will not be a part of the problem," he says.
Mr. Reams does not get excited when he is falsely accused. In fact, he smiles and says that he enjoys it. He tells that he loves
trouble, and if he goes three days without any trouble then he starts some because nothing is accomplished as long as everything runs smoothly.
He calls the daily paper the devil's Bible. His name appears often
in the devil's Bible, and when asked, "Do you know what the newspa-per said about you?" he said, "Is my name on the front sheet?"
If you said, "No," then he said, "I don't want to hear it. If I don't
make the front sheet, I don't want to be bothered about it. And I even care very little about what Satan says about me on the front sheet."
Reams also says, "When everything else in the world fails to make
you ill, just read the daily newspaper, or get the morning news and if that doesn't make you sick, you are in pretty good shape. Or else, if
that doesn't make you sicker, then there is hope for your recovery."
Reams is a superb teacher and gives God all the credit for every-
thing


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 – Surprisingly we have fermented raw meats available in our culture.
Salami, cold smoked salmon, and corned beef are a few examples. Ceviche is an example where acid
from lemon or lime cooks the food (raw fish) while it marinates. These types of no-heat cooking
methods make protein easy to digest and taste good.
Protein Balance
The different ways to cook and prepare proteins are designed to increase your assimilation of
protein and hopefully help heal any intestinal damage or poor digestion. Eating a high protein diet
does not work for many people because we need to eat adequate amounts of fat with our proteins. So
do not be shy about enjoying fat with your protein. Proteins go well in combination with vegetables or
grains.
Many people have slightly damaged intestinal walls where partially digested protein can
permeate directly into the bloodstream.
1b
 If you have this condition, you generally will not feel very
well after eating a lot of protein. In the worst case your joints could swell in an autoimmune reaction
to the proteins in your bloodstream. Eating small amounts of proteins with larger amounts of cooked
vegetables helps people with problems assimilating protein. Dentist Melvin Page estimated that we
should eat a minimum of 1/15 th of our body weight in protein per day. To get your minimum or
average protein intake, take your desired body weight and divide it by 15. For example, someone
who weighs 150 pounds should eat at least 10 ounces of protein spread throughout the day. Dr. Pagethought that more small meals with protein spread throughout the day would help control and balance
your blood sugar. You can eat more protein than this, but for most people less than this amount is not
advisable.
Low Quality Proteins
Factory-farmed meats and eggs promote a profit-driven system of disease in which animals are
misused and mistreated. The cesspools from these factory farms pollute the air and the environment
including water supplies. Factory-farmed animals many times are barely allowed to move, are loaded
with drugs and chemicals to keep them alive, and are not fed their natural diet. It is unwise to eat the
unhealthy meat from these animals. Choose fresh grass-fed meats whenever possible.
Conventional packaged lunch meats contain many harmful food additives. Avoid those. Organic
packaged meats like salami, bacon, hotdogs, sausages and so forth can be health-promoting but it
really depends on how they are processed and what ingredients are added. Use those foods with
caution to ensure they are not negatively affecting your health.
Protein Powders
I know of some case studies in which people got tooth decay from consuming protein powder.
The significant processing of most protein powders renders the protein hazardous. Some high-quality
protein powders made from high-quality animal foods may be of benefit to people, but this is not
known for certain. What is the point of consuming protein powder when you can have real, healthy
protein? For example: If whey protein is healthy, then simply drink whey every day. That way you get
safe protein and probiotics as an added bonus. If you feel that you need more protein in your diet then
have real and natural proteins like eggs, fish, or beef. Soy protein blocks iron absorption even when
all the phytic acid has been removed;
2b
 this is an example of one of the many hazards of protein
powders.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is perhaps even more important to tooth remineralization than calcium. Phosphorous
is in most foods. However it is highly concentrated in dairy products like milk and cheese, in the
organs of land and sea animals, in muscle meats and proteins including eggs, and in grains, nuts and
beans. One has to be careful in using grains and beans for phosphorous sources because some grains,
like white rice, do not contain much phosphorous. Meanwhile other whole grains contain
phosphorous in a form that is not absorbable. Vegetables do not contain much phosphorous. Three and
a half ounces of a hard cheese provides 0.6 grams of phosphorus; the same amount of beef, chicken or
fish contains about 0.25 grams. Four cups of raw milk provide 0.9 grams of phosphorus. Organ meats
are generally much richer in phosphorous than muscle meats. Dr. Price’s nutritional recommendation
for phosphorus is 2.0 grams per day. This recommendation is double the US National Academy of
Sciences dietary reference intake.
Eggs
4 eggs contain 0.5 grams of phosphorous. Eggs from pastured chickens, ducks or other animals
are rich in tooth-decay-fighting vitamins and minerals.Fermented Foods & Enzymes
Enzymes act as catalysts in most of the biochemical processes in our bodies. When we cook our
food completely at temperatures above 150°F, its enzyme content is destroyed. When you eat a
cooked meal, it is vital to include and consume both raw and/or fermented foods with the cooked
food. Enzymes help us digest our foods. One way to get these enzymes is through the use of fermented
foods. Fermented drinks include rejuvelac, kefir, and beet kvass. Fermented foods include fermented
radish, cabbage (sauerkraut), pickles, fermented sweet potatoes and yogurt. Fermented vegetables are
a great way to consume your vegetables. Recipes for fermented foods can be found in
Nourishing
Traditions
 by Sally Fallon. Taking enzyme supplements or high quality probiotics is another method
to help your body assimilate food and achieve balance.
Fermented or Uncooked Food
Have something raw or fermented with every meal that otherwise is of exclusively cooked food.Vegetables for Minerals
We are told to cook our meat, chicken or fish completely to avoid harmful bacteria. Meanwhile
even many health-oriented people think we should have our vegetables raw to preserve nutrients and
enzymes. But uncooked vegetables contain a host of plant toxins including enzyme inhibitors,
oxalates, saponins, and lectins. Besides a few exceptions such as lettuce or cucumber, raw vegetables
are difficult to digest. Only people with strong digestive powers can do well eating lots of uncooked
vegetables. For the rest of us, we need heat or fermentation to break down the vegetable cellulose.
Unless you have very strong digestive fires, eating a great deal of raw vegetables is not healthy
because of the plant toxins. Vegetables should be prepared such that they should be easy to digest and
assimilate, as well as taste good.
If you visit a farm you can watch goats or cows madly salivate over grass. I have noticed that
reaction does not occur with humans. That is because we are not made to eat too many uncooked raw
fibrous vegetables. Raw vegetables can irritate the intestinal lining especially if the lining is already
inflamed. Cooked vegetables and fruits have their cellulose broken down so they are easier for us to
digest. I recommend usually eating cooked vegetables or fruit with some type of fat like butter or
cream. To me, a soft cooked piece of broccoli with some butter or cheese is much easier to digest
than a piece of raw crunchy broccoli. When vegetables are juiced, the cellulose is removed and the
nutrients are free to be assimilated. However too much vegetable juice may expose you to
unnecessary plant toxins and even excess sugars, depending upon which vegetables you are juicing.
Dark, leafy-green vegetables need to be eaten cooked, as the nutrients are released through
cooking. The bottom line is to prepare your vegetables in a way that tastes good to you. Do not force
yourself to eat raw vegetables to try to be healthy.Are Grains the Hidden Reason for many Modern Diseases
including Tooth Cavities?
9,000 years ago around 7,000 BC wheat and barley were first cultivated. Corn and rice
followed 2,500 years later in 4,500 BC. According to human fossil records, prior to this time period,
tooth decay was virtually unknown. Teeth recovered from Pakistan dating to around 5,500 BC show
signs of being drilled, presumably because of cavities. For the last 5,000 years the average rate of
tooth decay has been climbing. The rise in the rate of tooth decay has also been seen in Native
Americans who switched from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to a more heavily corn-based diet.
3b
 The
cultivation of grains has fostered the evolution of civilization, allowing city centers to emerge in
which large groups of people live together such as in ancient Egypt. Grains also made it possible to
raise large armies as it resolved the logistical problem of feeding thousands of soldiers.
In Weston Price’s field studies, a diet centered on white flour, refined sugar and vegetable fats
was devastating to the health, teeth and gums of native peoples worldwide. From this evidence even
Dr. Price himself concluded that consuming grain products in their whole form would resolve a part
of the problem of tooth decay. The natural health community, and now even the US Government and
food manufacturing giants, have embraced and promoted the view that whole grains are better for our
health.
Beyond the fossil evidence connecting grains to tooth cavities is over one hundred years of
scientific research that connects whole grains with a variety of diseases. This evidence is further
consistently confirmed by the nearly daily e-mails I receive from stressed-out healthy eaters
wondering why their previously cavity-free children now have tooth decay. There is one clear
response that over and over again proves to be correct: whole grains.
Considering modern humans (
Homo sapiens
) are about 200,000 years old, large amounts of
grains constitute a very recent addition to the


alamus, internal capsule, and piriform cortex, while the survivors showed contralateral hemi -
plegia and impaired consciousness.
226 The authors of this study postulated that the
positive actions of DMSO in the postischemic period may have been due to its action as a platelet deaggregator. This idea seemed reasonable because previous studies had shown that agents, such as methohexital and in this case DMSO, are able to protect the endothelial membrane in ischemic blood vessels, thus allowing prosta -
cyclin to be released from endothelial cells at the site of ischemia to inhibit platelet aggregation.
227 This notion is the basis for using tPA to dissolve cerebral vessel clots
made up of platelet aggregates and clopidogrel or aspirin to prevent further platelet aggregation.
The assumption that DMSO could function as a platelet deaggregator was con -
firmed in a later study in rats whose carotid arteries had been occluded.
Dujovny and his team
102 examined experimentally occluded carotid arteries using
scanning electron microscopy and observed within these vessels heavy deposits of platelets, red cell clumps, fibrin, and endothelial flattening in untreated control ani -
mals. Animals treated with intravenous DMSO (2 g/kg) given 1 h prior to carotid occlusion revealed endothelial preservation and no platelet or fibrin clumping.
102
The findings by Dujovny et al.102 suggested that the beneficial action of DMSO in
experimental brain trauma and cerebral ischemia may have been due, at least partly, to the protective effects by DMSO on the microcirculation by decreasing platelet aggregation and thus preventing the evolution of postischemic reperfusion injury.
This effect on platelets by DMSO seems entirely plausible from the point of view
that present therapy for arterial thrombosis consists of administering platelet deag -
gregators such as cyclooxygenase inhibitors (aspirin), ADP receptor inhibitors (clop -
idogrel, ticlopidine), adenosine reuptake inhibitors (dipyridamole), PDE inhibitors (cilostazol), and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists that can block the plate -
let receptor for fibrinogen (tirofiban). What class of antiplatelet drugs DMSO might belong to remains to be determined.
DMSO IN MISSILE INJURY TO THE BRAIN
From a historical point of view, one of the more wretched creations introduced to society is the invention of the pistol not for hunting or target practice but for the sole purpose of killing people. Since the 1970s, firearm deaths have increased dramati -
cally in the United States every year. Statistics indicate that in 1988, there were about 34,000 gunshot deaths in the United States and many of these were cranial gunshot wounds. By comparison, Canada statistics show 1450 deaths from gunshot wounds
around the same period.
228 In large U.S. cities, gunshot wounds to the head rank as
the highest cause of all trauma to the brain.
Bullets fired from guns tend to be classified as low velocity (<300 m/s) or high
velocity (>300 m/s), but this is a technicality since both high- and low-velocity bullets 173 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
act similarly in creating their pathology. High- or low-velocity missile wounds to the
head tend to result in a temporary cavity that produces bursting injuries of the tissue, including blood vessels. When key blood vessels are damaged and bleeding cannot be stopped, the patient will likely die from blood loss at the site of injury.
The trajectory of a bullet through the brain carries a major significance as it
crushes structures along its track. Bullets that cut through the brainstem, or the ven -
tricular chambers where spinal fluid is located, are especially lethal.
Gunshot wounds to the head are nearly always fatal and, in the best-case scenario,
can leave the victim with severe neurological disability. It is estimated that two-thirds of the victims shot in the head die before reaching a hospital.
When a high-velocity bullet hits the head, the skull often shatters into small
pieces, creating not only more wounds to the brain but also a source for infection. Gunshot wounds to the head are classified as penetrating, where the bullet remains lodged in the brain, or perforating where the bullet exits the brain.
If the patient with a gunshot wound to the head reaches the hospital, a number of
critical systems must be addressed if the patient is to survive. These include treating high ICP, low oxygenation, hypertension, falling cerebral blood flow, and rising cere -
brovascular resistance that must be treated aggressively if the patient is to survive with a good outcome. If a hematoma is confirmed by CT scan, a craniotomy and surgical evacuation of the clot can be performed, but high ICP may persist. The high pressure in the brain may respond to mannitol treatment but a rebound effect where ICP returns higher than before mannitol treatment is often seen.
229
When patients are deeply comatose and there is minimal evidence of brainstem
function in the absence of an intracranial hematoma that might be causing the coma, a fatal outcome is nearly always certain.
An important study was reported by Brown and his colleagues
230 from the
Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, a hos -
pital which is classed as a level 1 trauma center. Trauma centers are designed to take care of severe injuries such as car crashes, explosions, and gunshot wounds.
The study by Brown and his associates
230 was prompted by the horrific rate of
deaths due to gunshot wounds to the head seen in many large U.S. cities, including Chicago, in the 1980s, which dismally continue to this day. The objective of the study was to find out the clinical usefulness of mannitol as a treatment for a mis -
sile injury simulating a gunshot wound to the head and to compare this osmolyte to untreated controls. In addition, because DMSO had already been shown to be effective in nonhuman primate brain trauma, and in focal ischemic brain injury, the effects of mannitol were also compared to animals treated with DMSO.
Seven rhesus monkeys were included in the study. After anesthesia, monkeys were
monitored for ICP, cerebral blood flow, CPP, cerebrovascular resistance, blood pressure, and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, along with blood gases and hema -
tocrit.
230 A BB pellet missile was fired at a velocity of 90 m/s through a burr hole made
in the right cerebral hemisphere. Animals received either mannitol (0.05 g/kg, 25% solu -
tion) or DMSO (0.05 g/kg in a 50% solution) as an intravenous bolus 1 h following injury, and these doses were repeated when ICP rose above 20 mm Hg pressure. All parameters were measured 1 h after treatment was initiated. Animals were killed 6½ h after the last measurements were made. The results are summarized in Figures 8.7 through 8.10.174 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
The ICP rose in all animals 1 min after injury and fell significantly 1 h following
DMSO, reaching pre-injury levels after 6 h.230
In untreated animals, mean arterial pressure briefly rose after injury and decreased
progressively for the next 6 h until death. DMSO dramatically reversed the hypoten -
sive process 1 h following injury230 (Figure 8.7).
DMSO was able to stabilize mean arterial pressure, cerebral blood flow, CPP, and
metabolic rate of oxygen consumption 1 h following treatment. ICP was also reduced
to preinjury levels by DMSO.230100
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FIGURE 8.7  Mean arterial pressure plunged 1 h after injury in untreated controls (dark
circles) but remained stable following DMSO (triangles) treatment beginning 1 h after treat -
ment. (Adapted from Brown, F.D. et al., Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 411, 245, 1983.)
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3020mL/100 g tissue/min10
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FIGURE 8.8  Cerebral blood flow dropped to more than 50% after injury and rose after 1 h
following DMSO (triangles) as compared to untreated controls (dark circles). (Adapted from
Brown, F.D. et al., Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 411, 245, 1983.)175 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
Cerebral blood flow rose markedly after DMSO ( Figure 8.8), and this rise par -
alleled those seen for the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen ( Figure 8.9) and CPP
(Figure 8.10) as compared to significant decreases in untreated animals.230
CPP is the difference between the mean arterial pressure and the ICP and repre -
sents the vascular pressure gradient across the cerebral beds. It is now well recog -
nized that low cerebral blood flow and CPP are potentially harmful in patients with
brain trauma and are associated with poor outcome.231,232
What is less clear is whether altering cerebral blood flow or CPP will lead to clini