ome involved in something that brings our hidden
darkness to the surface. A t these times, the pr overbial
knock on the door feels mor e like a knock in the head; yet
the moments we meet our own disowned darkness ar e notonly some of the most painful, but also the most fertile
times of our life. If we wish to avoid the wrath of the Shadow Eﬀect, we
must do a r eality check with ourselves every day to see if
we ar e acting in ways that could shame, embar rass, or
destr oy our family, car eer, health, or self -esteem. W e must
wake up and consider whether we ar e hiding and denying a
secret life; we must become awar e of habits, behaviors, or
ways of being we ar e keeping fr om others. If we fear what
would happen if our families, cowork ers, or friends look ed
through our e-mails, check ed the history of our most
recently viewed sites on our computers, or r ead the
judgmental, mean thoughts in our minds, we must
recognize these as signs—as ﬂashing r ed lights. Denial is
the culprit that k eeps our secr et life intact and out of sight—
and k eeps us focused on anything but our own indiscr etions. To embrace our shadow and derail the possibility of the
Shadow Eﬀect taking us down, we must open up to a
greater truth about our humanness and what lurks beneath
the surface of the person we believe ourselves to be. When
we engage our minds in investigating the hypocrisy of our
human behavior, we open up to a deeper, mor e meaningful
truth—that all parts of ourselves deserve to be seen, hear d,
and embraced, that every aspect holds a gr eater gif t than
we can see and every feeling deserves healthy e xpression. When they ar e tak en out of the darkness and e xposed to the
light, they will support us in cr eating healthy r elationships,
regaining good mental health, and achieving our potential. The Shadow Eﬀect shatters our perfectly constructed
persona so that we can r einvent ourselves as somebody
other than who we’ve been. Self -sabotage is nothing mor e
than an unwillingness on the part of our higher self to
continue playing the r ole we have assigned to ourselves. Ideally, we embrace our disowned aspects willingly; when
we insist on clinging to our personas, the fallout can be
painful and messy. Ther e are examples of this everywher e. Britney Spears, the all- American Mousek eteer who wor e the
good-girl mask, spirals into self -destruction and becomes a
notorious bad girl. T iger W oods, the all-star golfer with the
nice-guy overachiever mask, acts out and in one day goes
from a super hero to a self -sabotaging cheater. When the
mask of our human persona gets too tight, when ther e is no
more room to gr ow or br eathe, it blows itself up, so that it
can r e-create itself anew. Ther e are literally millions of
examples thr oughout time that clearly demonstrate the
phenomenon of the Shadow Eﬀect. Y et when these little or
massive indiscr etions of others ar e brought to light, we ar e
left shaking our heads, perple xed at their behavior. We call
it a fall fr om grace, but is it r eally a fall fr om grace. Is grace
no mor e than a well-constructed act we show the world,
while our secr et life is hidden fr om those we love. UNCO VERING OUR SHADOW
When we ﬁnd ourselves obsessed with aspects of other
people’s shadows, it is only because they have touched one
of our own. W e are used to thinking that we cannot see
ourselves unless we ar e looking in a mir ror—but this is true
only on one level. The fact is we can see ourselves in living
color by taking note of what we observe in other people. W e
are designed to pr oject onto others the qualities we can’t
see in ourselves. It’s not a bad thing. W e all do it all the
time. P rojection is an involuntary defense mechanism of the
ego; instead of acknowledging the qualities in us that we
dislik e, we pr oject them onto someone else. W e project
them onto our mothers, our kids, our friends, or, even
better, some famous public ﬁgur e we have never even met. Whatever we judge or condemn in another is ultimately a
disowned or r ejected part of ourselves. When we ar e in the
midst of pr ojection, it appears as though we ar e seeing the
other person, but in r eality we ar e seeing a hidden aspect ofourselves. Those we pr oject on hold pieces of our unclaimed
darkness as well as pieces of our unclaimed light. Simultaneously afraid of our own unworthiness as well as
our own gr eatness, we unconsciously transfer these
qualities onto another rather than own them ourselves. You have alr eady e xperienced the power of pr ojection
thousands of times in your life. Y ou walk into a r oom and
feel suddenly enamor ed with someone. Y ou begin a
conversation, and then she starts telling you about her lik es
or dislik es that don’t mesh with your own. Suddenly that
person looks diﬀer ent to you—the trance of pr ojection has
been br oken and you see her in a completely diﬀer ent light. If a moment later she happens to mention that she can get
you courtside tick ets to a game you’ve been dying to see or
that she knows someone who can help you get your latest
project oﬀ the gr ound, you may again see her in a favorable
light and she may seem mor e inter esting. F inally, the
conversation is back on track, but in the very ne xt breath
she starts dr opping names, and when she suddenly r eminds
you of your bragging father -in-law, you feel r epulsed. In
reality, nothing about this person has changed e xcept your
perception of her. This is the power of pr ojection. If you
understand this phenomenon, you will understand why you
can love someone one minute and in the very ne xt moment
ﬁnd that person unbearably annoying. Our unclaimed darkness continually shows itself on the
screen of those ar ound us. W e might see our
submissiveness in our mother, our gr eed in our father, our
laziness in our husband, or our righteous ness in politicians. Projection sounds lik e this: “She’s so self -center ed. ” “ He is
so full of himself. ” “What an idiot. He is such a loser. ”
Projection e xplains why ﬁve siblings can gr ow up in the
same home, and each of them will r ecount a diﬀer ent story
about their par ents, assign them a diﬀer ent set of str engths
and weaknesses, and r emember them as possessing
diﬀer ent characteristics. It’s of ten har d to r ecognize our own bad behavior,
because we ar e continually pr ojecting it on others. The mor e
convinced we ar e of other people’s wr ongdoings, the mor e
likely it is that we ourselves ar e guilty of the same
indiscr etions. A. J., who tends bar at a popular r estaurant,
was headed home af ter a long day’s work and looking
forwar d to spending a quiet evening with his wife and family. A few short minutes into his drive, he suddenly hear d the
noise behind him that we all dr ead—the squeal of a sir en. As
he pulled over, he sear ched his memory to see what he
could have done, but nothing came to mind. He r olled down
his window, and the oﬃcer ask ed to see his license. After he handed over his ID, the oﬃcer leaned in and
asked him, “Y oung man, have you been drinking. ”
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Q: What is the consequence of ignoring our repressed feelings and impulses?,
A: We will not be able to see the truth about ourselves, and our unacknowledged aspects will seek expression in unhealthy ways, potentially leading to self-sabotage and harm to ourselves and those around us.
Q: What is the author's message about the importance of acknowledging and accepting our shadow aspects?,
A: The author emphasizes that it is crucial to acknowledge and accept our repressed qualities and feelings to avoid the Shadow Effect and break free from self-sabotaging behaviors.
Q: What is an example of the Shadow Effect?,
A: The story of A.J., who was initially judgmental and critical of others, but eventually realized he was exhibiting the same behavior and had to confront his own shadow.
Q: How can we avoid the Shadow Effect?,
A: By acknowledging and accepting our repressed qualities and feelings, we can break free from self-sabotaging behaviors and take control of our lives.
Q:


ia	areas	in	the	liver	that
are	damaged	by	the	presence	of	gallstones. Gallstones	are	a	constant	source	of	immune
suppression,	which	leaves	the	body,	and	particularly	the	upper	respiratory	tract,
susceptible	to	both	internal	and	external	disease-triggering	factors. These	include	both
blood-borne	and	airborne	microbes	(believed	to	cause	pneumonia),	cigarette	smoke,
alcohol,	x-rays,	corticosteroids,	allergens,	antigens,	common	pollutants,	waste	matter	from
the	GI	tract,	and	the	like. Further	respiratory	complications	arise	when	handfuls	of	gallstones	that	have
accumulated	in	the	liver	bile	ducts	lead	to
liver	enlargement. The	liver,	situated	in	the
upper	abdominal	cavity,	spans	almost	the	entire	width	of	the	body. Its	upper	and	anterior
surfaces	are	smooth	and	shaped	to	fit	under	the	surface	of	the	diaphragm. When	enlarged,
the	liver	obstructs	the	movement	of	the	diaphragm	and	prevents	the	lungs	from	extending
to	their	normal	capacity	during	inhalation. By	contrast,	a	smooth,	healthy	liver	permits	the
lungs	to	easily	extend	into	the	abdominal	region,	which	puts	pressure	on	the	abdomen	and
squeezes	the	lymph	and	blood	vessels	to	force	lymph	and	blood	toward	the	heart. This
breathing	mechanism	is	often	called	“belly	breathing,”	and	it	can	be	seen	in	healthy
babies,	especially. An	enlarged	liver	prevents	the	full	extension	of	the	diaphragm	and
lungs,	which	causes	reduced	exchange	of	gases	in	the	lungs,	lymphatic	congestion,	and	theretention	of	excessive	amounts	of	carbon	dioxide	in	the	lungs. The	restricted	uptake	of
oxygen	negatively	affects	cellular	functions	throughout	the	body. Most	people	in	the	industrialized	world	have	an	enlarged	liver,	especially	those	who	are
overweight	or	obese. What	doctors	generally	consider	a	“normal-sized”	liver	is	actually
oversize. Once	all	gallstones	are	removed	through	a	series	of	liver	cleanses,	the	liver	can
gradually	return	to	its	original	size. Almost	all	diseases	of	the	lungs,	bronchi,	and	upper	respiratory	passages	are	either
caused	or	worsened	by	gallstones	in	the	liver	and	can	be	improved	or	eliminated	by
removing	these	stones	through	liver	cleansing. Disorders	of	the	Urinary	System

The
urinary	system
	is	an	extremely	important	excretory	system	of	the	body. It	consists	of
the	following:	two
kidneys,
	which	form	and	excrete	urine;	two
ureters,
	which	convey	the
urine	from	the	kidneys	to	the	urinary	bladder;	a
urinary	bladder,
	where	urine	collects	and
is	temporarily	stored;	and	a
urethra,
	through	which	urine	passes	from	the	urinary	bladder
to	the	exterior	of	the	body	(see
Figure	11
). Smooth	functioning	of	the	urinary	system	is	essential	for	maintaining	an	appropriate
fluid	volume	by	regulating	the	amount	of	water	that	is	excreted	in	the	urine. Other	aspects
of	its	function	include	regulating	the	concentrations	of	various	electrolytes	in	the	body
fluids	and	maintaining	normal	pH	(acids-alkalis	balance)	of	the	blood. This	system	is	also
involved	in	the	disposal	of	waste	products	resulting	from	the	breakdown	(catabolism)	of
cell	protein	in	the	liver,	for	example. Figure	11
:	The	urinary	system

Most	diseases	of	the	kidneys	and	other	parts	of	the	urinary	system	are	related	to	an
imbalance	of	the
simple	filtration
	system	in	the	kidneys. About	26	to	40	gallons	of	dilute
filtrate	are	formed	each	day	by	the	two	kidneys. Of	these,	only	34	to	52	ounces	are
excreted	as	urine	(the	rest	is	absorbed	and	recirculated). With	the	exception	of	blood	cells,
platelets,	and	blood	proteins,	all	other	blood	constituents	must	pass	through	the	kidneys. The	process	of	filtration	is	disrupted	and	weakened	when	the	digestive	system—and,	in
particular,	the	liver—performs	poorly. Gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder	reduce	the	amount	of	bile	that	the	liver	is	able	to
produce. Thus,	it	becomes	impossible	to	digest	food	properly. Much	of	the	undigested
food	begins	to	ferment	and	putrefy,	leaving	toxic	waste	matter	in	the	blood	and	lymph. The	body’s	normal	excretions,	such	as	urine,	sweat,	gases,	and	feces,	do	not	usually
contain	disease-generating	waste	products;	that	is,	of	course,	for	as	long	as	the	passages	of
elimination	remain	clear	and	unobstructed. Disease-causing	agents	consist	of	tiny	molecules	that	appear	in	the	blood	and	lymph. They	are	visible	only	through	powerful	electron	microscopes. These	molecules	have	a
strong	acidifying	effect	on	the	blood. To	avoid	a	life-threatening	disease	or	coma,	the
blood	must	rid	itself	of	these	minute	toxins. Accordingly,	it	dumps	these	unwanted
intruders	into	the	connective	tissue	of	the	organs. The	connective	tissue	consists	of	a	gel-
like	fluid	(lymph)	that	surrounds	all	cells. The	cells	are	“bathed”	in	this	connective	tissue. Under	normal	circumstances,	the	body	knows	how	to	deal	with	acidic	waste	material	that
has	been	dumped	into	the	connective	tissue. It	releases	an	alkaline	product,
sodium
bicarbonate
	(NaHCO
3
),	into	the	blood	that	is	able	to	retrieve	the	acidic	toxins,	neutralize
them,	and	then	eliminate	them	through	the	excretory	organs. This	emergency	system,
though,	begins	to	fail	when	toxins	are	deposited	faster	than	they	can	be	retrieved	and
eliminated. As	a	result,	the	connective	tissue	may	become	as	thick	as	jelly. Nutrients,
water,	and	oxygen	can	no	longer	pass	freely,	and	the	cells	of	the	organs	begin	to	suffer
malnutrition,	dehydration,	and	oxygen	deficiency. Some	of	the	most	acidic	compounds	are	proteins	from	animal	foods. Gallstones	inhibit
the	liver’s	ability	to	break	down	these	proteins. Excessive	proteins	are	“temporarily”
stored	in	the	connective	tissues	and	then	converted	into	collagen	fiber. The	collagen	fiber
is	built	into	the	basal	membranes	of	the	capillary	walls. The	basal	membranes	may
become	up	to	ten	times	as	thick	as	normal. A	similar	situation	occurs	in	the	arteries. As	the
blood	vessel	walls	become	increasingly	congested,	fewer	proteins	are	able	to	escape	the
bloodstream. This	leads	to	blood	thickening,	making	it	more	and	more	difficult	for	the
kidneys	to	filter. At	the	same	time,	the	basal	membranes	of	the	blood	vessels	supplying	the
kidneys	also	become	congested,	making	them	harder	and	more	rigid. As	the	process	of
hardening	of	the	blood	vessels	progresses	further,
blood	pressure
	starts	to	rise	and	overall
kidney	performance	drops. More	and	more	of	the	metabolic	waste	products	excreted	by
the	kidney	cells,	which	would	normally	be	eliminated	via	venous	blood	vessels	and
lymphatic	ducts,	are	now	retained	and	adversely	affect	the	performance	of	the	kidneys
even	further.


 fuel. Any car eer, when given to the Holy Spirit, can be used as
part of the plan of the r estoration of the world. No job is too
big or too small for God to use. Y ou have the unlimited
power of the universe within you and so does everyone else. It’s nothing to tak e personal cr edit for, nor anything to feel
guilty about. Our r eal power emanates fr om a for ce that’s in
us but not of us. ‘Be humble befor e God,’ says the Course,
‘yet gr eat in him.’ R emembering this k eeps us connected toour innocence, and as long as we have that, the power will
keep pouring thr ough us. F orget it, and the faucet could be
turned oﬀ at any moment. Stop blessing the universe, and
the universe will seem to stop blessing you. Whatever your
activity, just ask that it be used to bless the world. I remember one day complaining to my girlfriend June
how unhappy I was, and she said, “Marianne, I don’t mean
to be har d on you, but do you ever do anything for anyone
else?” That comment felt lik e a brick to my for ehead,
although I did very little about it at the time. A fter I went
through my period of very deep depr ession several years
later, however, human suﬀering became a much mor e
personally signiﬁcant subject. I thought that if other people
suﬀer ed a fraction as much as I had, then my heart burst for
them and I wanted to be of help. God seemed to say to me
then, “ People suﬀer deeply, and ther e have been people
suﬀering ar ound you all your life. Y ou just didn’t notice. Y ou
were shopping.”
I used to wor ry, as do many people, about what I was
supposed to do with my life. I never seemed to be able to
stick with any one thing very long or mak e money or ﬁnd
any r eal satisfaction in my work. I felt paralyzed. I
remember once asking God to r eveal to me what He wanted
me to know in or der that I might change. I got down on my
knees and work ed myself into a grandiose meditative state. I saw visual images of a glorious sk y and a gr oup of angels
marching thr ough the clouds to bring me His answer. A
couple of cherubs held up a scr oll that they then began to
unfold. My heart started racing as I awaited God’s message,
which I was sur e would be e xtremely important. Slowly the
letters on the scr oll began to for m wor ds: “Marianne, you’r e
a spoiled brat.”The r eason I was paralyzed was because I had lost touch
with the sole memory of why I came to earth. T elling me I
was a spoiled brat was the perfect infor mation, the k ey to
unlock my ener gies. The pr oblem was my selﬁshness. Lik e
actors who have spent so much time lear ning how to act
that they didn’t lear n how to live, and so end up making
lousy actors because they ultimately have nothing authentic
to reveal about life, we sometimes lose our personal power
by for getting why we have it. W e study up on how to run
businesses, not stopping to think about why we’r e in
business e xcept to mak e money. This is not a spiritually
powerful beam, and the universe will tolerate it less and less
as the nineties unfold. 3. PERSONAL POWER
“All power is of God.”
Don’t ask God to send you a brilliant car eer, but rather ask
Him to show you the brilliance within you. It is the
recognition of our brilliance that r eleases it into e xpression. Stable, meaningful e xternal eﬀects don’t occur until we’ve
experienced an inter nal stir ring. Once an inter nal stir ring
has occur red, e xternal eﬀects cannot fail to happen. W e’re
all capable of an inter nal stir ring, and ar e in fact coded for
it. It is our potential for gr eatness. A chievement doesn’t
come fr om what we do, but fr om who we ar e. Our worldly
power r esults fr om our personal power. Our car eer is an
extension of our personality. People who pr ofoundly achieve ar en’t necessarily people
who do so much; they’r e people ar ound whom things get
done. Mahatma Gandhi and P resident K ennedy wer e both
examples of this. Their gr eatest achievements lay in all the
energy they stir red in other people, the invisible for ces thayunleashed ar ound them. By touching their own depths, they
touched the depths within others. That kind of charisma, the power to eﬀect what happens
on the earth fr om an invisible r ealm within, is the natural
right and function of the Son of God. The wor d “charisma”
was originally a r eligious ter m. It means “ of the spirit.” The
new fr ontiers ar e inter nal ones. The r eal str etch is always
within us. Instead of e xpanding our ability or willingness to
go out and get anything, we e xpand our ability to r eceive
what is alr eady her e for us. Personal power emanates fr om someone who tak es life
seriously. The universe tak es us a seriously as we tak e it. There is no gr eater seriousness than the full appreciation of
the power and importance of love. Miracles ﬂow fr om the
recognition that love is the purpose of our car eers. A Course in Miracles  discusses a traditional Christian
concept called “the gif ts of the Holy Spirit.” This idea is that,
when our lives ar e given to the Holy Spirit to use for His
purposes, new talents emer ge within us. W e don’t get our
lives together and then give them to God, but rather we
give our lives to God and then things start coming together. As our hearts open, our talents and gif ts begin to blossom. Many people have told me that once they’r e successful and
have made a lot of money, they will use that success to help
the world. But that’s a delay technique by which the ego
tries to k eep us fr om showing up fully in our own lives. Even
if we don’t yet consider ourselves successful, we can devote
our work now to being used in the service of the healing of
the world. F rom that point of power our car eers will tak e oﬀ. No matter what we do, we can mak e it our ministry. No
matter what for m our job or activity tak es, the content is the
same as everyone else’s: we ar e her e to minister to humanhearts. If we talk to anyone, or see anyone, or even think of
anyone, then we have the opportunity to bring mor e love
into the universe. F rom a waitr ess to the head of a movie
studio, fr om an elevator operator to the pr esident of a
nation, ther e is no one whose job is unimportant to God. When you know this, when you fully live up to the
opportunity to heal, you achieve an ener gy that pushes you
forwar d in worldly endeavors. L ove mak es you mor e
attractive. That means you attract, lik e a magnet. Y ou don’t
just attract people; you attract various cir cumstances that
reﬂect back to you the power of your devotion. Y our
personal power is not something that is going to r eveal itself
at some later date. Y our power is a r esult of your decision to
reveal it. Y ou ar e powerful in whatever moment you choose
to be. The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right
here, right now, is a choice for personal empower ment. A Course in Miracles  tells us that all of the childr en of
God have power—yet no one has “special” power. ‘All of us
are special,’ and yet none of us ar e special. No one has any
more potential than anyone else for spr eading the love and
light of God. Many of our traditional notions of success r ely
on our talking ourselves into the belief that we’r e special
and we have something special to oﬀer. The truth is, none of
us ar e special because special people would be diﬀer ent
and separate fr om others. The oneness of Christ mak es this
impossible. The belief in specialness, ther efore, is delusional
and thus br eeds fear. What a Beethoven, Shak espear e or P icasso has done is
not create something, so much as they have accessed that
place within themselves fr om which they could express that
which has been cr eated by God. Their genius then, is
actually e xpression and not cr eation. That’s why gr eat art
strikes us with the shock of r ecog nition, the wish that wehad


 creating time, psychological time — the stuf f out of
which drama is made. Whenever you are not honoring the present
moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. Most pe ople are  in love with their particular life drama. Their  story is
their ide ntity. The ego runs their life. They have their whole sen se of self
invested in it. Even their — usually unsuccessful — search for an
answer, a solution, or for healing becomes part of it. What they fear and
resist most is the end of their drama. As long as they ar e  their mind, what
they fear and resist most is their own awakening. When you live in complete acceptance of what is, tha t is the end  of all
drama in  your life. Nobody can even have an ar gument with you, no
matter h ow hard he or she tries. Y ou cannot have an ar gument with a
fully conscious person. An ar gument implies identification with your
mind and a mental position, as well as resistance and reaction to the
other pe rson’ s position. The result is that the polar opposites become
mutually ener gized. These are the mechanics of unconsciousness. Y ou
can still make yo ur point clearly and firmly, but there will be no reactive
force be hind it, no defense or at tack. So it won’ t turn into drama. When
you are fully conscious, you ce ase to be in conflict. “No one w ho is at
one with himself can even co nceive of conflict,” states A Course in
Miracles. T his refers no t only to confl ict with other people but more
fundamentally to conflict withi n you, which ceases when there is no
longer any clash between the d emands and expectations of your mind
and what is. IMPERMANENCE AND THE CYCLES OF LIFE
However, as long as you are in the physical dimension and linked to the
collective huma n psyche, physical pain — although rare — is still
possible. This is not to be confused with suf fering, with  mental-
emotional pain. All suf fering is ego-created and is due to re sistance. Also, as long as you are in thi s dimension, you are still subj ect to its
cyclical nature and to the law of impermanence of all things, but you no
longer perceive this as “bad” — it just is.Through allowing the “isness ” of all things, a deeper dimension
underneath the play of opposites reveals itself to you as an abiding
presence, an unchanging deep stillness, an uncaused joy beyo nd good
and bad. This is the joy of Being, the peace of God. On the level of form, there is birth and death, creation and destruction,
growth and dissolution, of seem ingly separate forms. This is reflected
everywhere: in the life cycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree,
a flower; in the  rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations;
and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual. There ar e cycle s of success, w hen things come to you and thrive, and
cycles o f failure, when they wi ther or disintegrate and you ha ve to let
them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for
transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means
you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suf fer. It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in
the mind’ s judgment. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing
can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on a nd on, it
would eventually become mon strous and destructive. Disso lution is
needed for new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other. The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. Y ou must
have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain
to b e drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very  success
became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure
lies con cealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this
world, w hich is to say on the le vel of form, everybody “fails” sooner or
later, of course, and every achie vement eventually comes to naught. All
forms are impermanent. Y ou can  still be active and enjoy  manifesting and creating new f orms and
circumstances, b ut you won’ t be identified with them. Y ou do not need
them to give you a sense of self. They are not your life — only your life
situation. Y our physical ener gy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a
peak. Th ere wil l be times of low as well as high ener gy. There will be
periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be
times w hen everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are notgetting anywhere, not achieving anything. A cycle can last for anything
from a few hour s to a few years. There are lar ge cycles and sma ll cycles
within these lar ge ones. Many  illnesses are created through fighting
against the cycles of low ener g y, which are vital for regeneration. The
compulsion to do, and the tend ency to derive your sense of s elf-worth
and identity from external facto rs such as achievement, is an inevitable
illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or
impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be. Thus,
the intelligence of the or ganism may take over as a self-protective
measure and create an illness in  order to force you to stop, so  that the
necessary regeneration can take place. The cyclical nature of the universe is closely linked with the
impermanence o f all things and situations. The Buddha made this a
central part of his teaching. All conditions are highly u nstable and in
constant flux, or, as he put it, impermanence is a characteristic of every
condition, every situation you will ever encounter in your life. It will
change, disappea r, or no longer satisfy you. Impermanence is als o central
to Jesus ’ s teaching: “Do not la y up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal....”
As l ong as a condition is judged as “good” by your mind, whether it be a
relationship, a possession, a social role, a place, or your physical body,
the mind  attaches itself to it and identifies with it. It makes yo u happy,
makes you feel g ood about yourself, and it may become part of who you
are o r th ink you are. But nothing lasts in this dimension where moth and
rust consume. Either it ends or it changes, or it may under go a  polarity
shift: The same condition that was good yesterday or last year has
suddenly or gradually turned into bad. The same condition that made you
happy th en makes you unhappy. The prosperity of today becomes the
empty consumerism of tomorrow. The happy wedding and honeymoon
become the unhappy divorce or the unhappy coexistence. Or a condition
disappears, so its absence makes you unhappy. When a condition or
situation that the mind has attac hed itself to and identified with changes
or d isappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing
condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were b eing torn
of f your body. W e som etimes h ear of people w ho have lost all their money or whose
reputations have  been ruined committing suicide. Those are the extremecases. O thers, w henever a major loss of one kind or another oc curs, just
become deeply unhappy or make themselves ill. They cannot distinguish
between their life and the ir life situation. I recently read about a famous
actress who died in her eighties. As her beauty started to fade and
became ravaged  by old age, she grew desperately unhappy and became a
recluse. She, too, had identified with a condition: her external
appearance. Firs t, the condition gave her a happy sense of self, then an
unhappy one. If she had been able to connect with the form less and
timeless life within, she could h ave watched and allowed the fading of
her exte rnal form from a place of serenity and peace. Moreover, her
external form would have become increasingly transparent to the light
shining through  from her ageless true nature, so her beauty would not
really have faded but simply be come transformed into spiritual beauty. However, nobody told her that this is possible. The most essential kind
of knowledge is not yet widely accessible. The Buddha taught that even your happiness is dukkha  — a Pali word
meaning “suf fering” or “unsatisfactoriness.” It is inseparable from its
opposite. This means that your happiness and unhappiness are in fact
one. Only the illusion of time separates them. This is not being negative. It is simply recognizing the nature of things,
so th at you don’ t pursue an illusion for the rest of your life. Nor is it
saying that you should no long


 to stimulate new tumor growth! The lady of the house said that she
thought that avocados were served at the Mexican Gerson hospital, but
she is wrong. They are not! The problem here is that the patient or
caregiver should not rely on memory or rumor alone but should refer to
the published information authorized by the Gerson Institute. All these items are clearly set down in Dr. Gerson’ s A Cancer Therapy
and several other sources; and avocados are the second item on the
“Forbidden Foods” list. 3. As part of the lunch, we had a very nice vegetable soup. It contained
some zucchini, peas, celery, onions, and a few other vegeta bles. The
patient asked me how I enjoye d the “Hippocrates soup.” I had to state
that the soup we were eating was not Hippocrates soup as Dr. Gerson
describes it in his book. The combination of ingredients that are supposed
to be in that soup are clearly described in A Cancer Therapy  as well as
the Gerson Therapy Handbook  (former ly, the Gerson Therapy Primer ),
and the ingredients listed are very specific. Hippocrates (referred to by the medical profession as “the father of
medicine”) understood that this special combination of ingredie nts in the
soup has a beneficial, detoxifyin g effect on the kidneys. For this reason,
Dr. Gerson had made use of them. He concluded that the soup ingredients
were so important he wanted patients to eat the “special soup” twice
daily to benefit the kidneys and help them clear toxins from the body. Occasionally, one can add extra tomatoes to give the soup a different
flavor; or one can cut up and roast some onions on a dry cookie sheet (no
fat, butter, or oil) in the oven. Then these extras can be added to the same
basic soup recipe for a tasty treat. However, the basic recip e should
remain unchanged. 4. Phillip’ s wife also thoughtfully offered me some enema coffee, which I
gladly accepted. When I picked it up for use, however, I seriously
wondered whether it was the proper strength. I have used enemas for
many years and know pretty well what the coffee should look like. The
solution being provided seemed too weak to be considered “concentrate”
for a usual dilution of 4 to 1. The lady “thought” that she used the recipe
in the Handbook  and that it was right, but again she was wrong. My
suggestion is that the caregiver must be sure each enema contains theequivalent of three rounded tablespoons of coffee (see A Cancer
Therapy, p. 247). If a concentrate is prepared, each portion must  contain
the three tablespoonfuls of coffee. The coffee enema, too, is so very
important that it is imperative the mixture or solution be correct. Please
check and recheck the preparation of the coffee concentrate created for
internal cleansing. 5. Somew hat less important than the above four points is another one. Phillip does enjoy eating some bread with his meals—quite acceptable. But it is also important to understand that the main requirem ents for
nutrition are the salads, soup, potato, vegetables, and fruit. If all those
foods have been consumed, it is all right for the patient to also have one
slice of unsalted rye bread. Even  so, be aware that bread should never be
the main part of a meal. I have discussed Phillip’ s type of problem with the most experienced
Gerson Therapy  medical doctors whom I know. They affirmed that subtle
aspects of patient noncomplian ce cause them difficulties. Aside from the
above, there are other problems we have run across. The Gerson doctors as
well as myself (when I talk to patients) meet some serious obstacles to
healing. When we ask various  patients about their compliance with the
Gerson Therapy directives (such as the above patient who made serious
errors), for instance, they will assure us that they’re doing everything
“perfectly.” Such patients don’t seem to realize what is wrong with their
version of the therapy. Phillip, too, thought he was “perfect.”
When Gerson therapists try to help, heal, and direct patient s on the
Gerson Therapy, we are relying on the various tools that we have specially
created to give patients and families every possible help and guidance: the
food preparation  videotape (Tape III); the recipes in the Handbook;  the
other four-hour, two-part workshop tapes (Tape II) discussing in detail as
much of the treatment as we can; and, most important, Dr. Gerso n’s original
book. At this point, I need to stress again that the patient must familiarize
himself very thoroughly with this material and review it over and over
again. As Sandra  Whitwell pointed out in her suggestions, you always learn
something new when restudying the Gerson Therapy information. One problem area that keeps coming up is the food preparation. Just
boiling the vegetables and putting them on a plate is not good enough. The
Gerson Therapy Video: vol. 3: Food Preparation initiates the cook into
various ways to make foods tasty. For example, cooked beets when peeledand sliced can be reheated a little with some freshly made applesauce and
stirred. The vege table then resembles Harvard beets. Or the sliced beets can
be dressed with onions, some green pepper strips, and vinegar with flaxseed
oil dressing for a beet salad. During the summer months, these salads (also
potato salad, string bean or butter bean salad, etc.) are very welcome,
refreshing, and stimulating to the appetite. There are many suggested recipes in the back of the Gerson Therapy
Handbook  that have unfortunately been disregarded by some patients. As a
result, the Gerson Institute occasionally receives reports from caregivers
that the patients are weak, losin g weight, and doing poorly. Almost always,
it turns out that they have “crav ings” for pizza, enchiladas, or some other
greasy, salty, forbidden food. They are simply hungry because they are not
eating well-prepared healing and nutritious Gerson meals. Gerson meals offer a distinct advantage: if the patient (or family  member
for that matter) eats fresh, organic food, it is truly satisfying. Frequently we
hear further reports that patients ’ companions who participate in the Gerson
program lose their personal cravings for sweets or heavy desserts. But the
key to success is eating tasty food that is prepared with imagination and
inspiration from the recipes provided. I must remind patients frequently that when they are on a nutritional
therapy such as this one, they are on nothing if they don’t eat! If patients eat
properly, most will gain weight  if they are emaciated. Those who are too
heavy will lose weight on the same regimen. Fruits that are in season in the summer, such as cherries, apricots,
peaches, nectarines, plums, pears, and grapes, are especially valuable—they
are high in the best nutrients: vitamins, potassium, and enzym es. Not far
behind are apples, which are available virtually all year round. Patients
(unless they are diabetic or suffer from candidiasis) should always eat much
fruit at night, first thing in the morning, and anytime between meals. Yet one summer food presents a problem: corn. It is perfectly fine to eat
fresh corn. The difficulty arisin g with corn is that nearly everyone loves it
and during the season is likely to eat it to the exclusion of other  vegetables. That is a very bad idea. The vegetables should provide variety and a large
selection of special healing plant chemicals (phytochemicals) and trace
minerals. Eating  mostly one vegetable is not acceptable and does not fulfill
the purpose. Let the guiding spirit of the patient be: “I’ll do the bestpossible to help my sick body heal” rather than “I’ll see how little I can do
and still get away with it.”
References for Chapter T wenty-One
1
Batchelder, T. “Qualitative research on patient experien ces and
implications for long-term care facilities.” Townsend Letter  for Doctors
& Patients  196:56-61, November 1999. 2
Diamond, W.J. ; Cowden, W.L. ; Goldber g, B. An Alternative Medicine
Definitive Guide to Cancer. Tiburon, Calif.: Future Medicine Publishing,
1997, p. 212. 3
Kleinman, A.; Eisenber g, L.; Good, B. “Culture, illness and care: clinical
lessons from anthropologic and cross-cultural research.” Annals of
Internal Medicine  88:251–258, 1978. 4
Margolis, L.W; Meyler, T.S. “What happens in radiation therapy.” In
Everyone’ s Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer Is Diagnosed,
Treated, and Managed Day to Day, rev. 3rd ed. by M. Dollinger, E.H.
Rosenbaum, and G. Cable. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel
Publishing, 1997, pp. 49-56. 5
Ibid. 6
Ibid. 7
Stern, J.L. “Ovary.” In Everyone’ s Guide to Cancer Therapy: How
Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated, and Managed Day to Day,


 create lines between countries. We
did.” That which separates us is by definition man-made. For centuries, the Ukrainian and Russian people lived like brothers. Similarly, the people of Texas and Mexico have been peacefully crossing
over into each other ’s territories for centuries. Arabs and the Jews were
nomadic friend s for even longer. The modern nation-state is often a
transactional separation of peoples whose hearts have been historically
unified. The ego works on a collective as well as an individual level, always
seeking to separate, to destroy the fragile bonds that unite us. Our task is to
create a world in which appropriate boundaries are reflective of a higher
order of civilization, not a barba ric display of disunity. We must find a way
to determine our borders without closing our hearts. In alchemy there is a term, “separatio,” which means separating out all
the elements in order to purify them, allowing for their rearrangement at a
higher level. Our different ethnicities, cultures, nationalities, sexual and
gender identities, religions, and so forth are magnificent kaleidoscopic
expressions of one internal truth. They are beautiful points on the rim of the
wheel, but they are not the mystical hub. They are not the deep est truth of
who we are. On the level of the deepest truth we are one, and our purpose
on this earth is to learn to live that way. The ego will always strive to keep us separate, and the suffering
engendered by its investment in guilt is intense and ongoing. People die to
preserve the illusion of separation, and God doesn’ t look away from such
suffering. Jesus wept, and so should we. We shou ld weep  for others, and we should weep for ourselves, for we
will reap what we have sown. Collectively as well as individually, the time
for a massive Atonement is at hand. The Law of Cause and Effect meanskarma, and ours is not so very good. From the violence we show to each
other, to violence against other  countries, to violent transgression against
the earth itself, our collective ego is doing what the ego does. Its goal is not
to inconvenience, but to destroy. At this point, many wonder, is it even possible to begin again? As a
species, can we change? Can we heal? The answer is absolutely yes. We can
atone for our errors, make restit ution, and reform our ways. That is as true
for a nation as it is for a person. We will learn to live together in love. We will learn it through wisdom,
or we will learn it through pain. But we will learn. OceanofPDF.comSoul Growth
Spirituality is not something to be practiced sometimes. It is the existential
meaning of every moment. The spiritual journey is continuous and
practical. It is a moment-by-moment decision-making process: How do I
choose to look at a situation, who do I choose to be within it, and what do I
choose to do? Life is about not just what happ ens to us, but also who we choo se to be
in the space of what happens. Every situation is designed by an intelligent
universe specifically for our soul growth, by definition presenting us with
the oppo rtunities to play life either from a place of love or from a place of
fear—from forgiveness, positivity, and contribution, or from blame,
negativity, and victimhood. Every moment we make the choice. We make it either consciously or
unconsciously, but every thought represents a decision, and “All thinking
produces form at some level”* (T-31). That is how powerful we are, and
how responsible we are for our life experience. The life we live is a reflection of thoughts we chose to think before this
moment. Our lives begin to change when we choose to think  differen tly
now. The spiritual journey is a transition from who we used to be and the
life we used to live, to who we would rather be and the life we would rather
live. No one and nothing can decide for you the thoughts you choose to
think. The world would tell us there’ s no road map, nothing but a random
universe in which the highest good is to do whatever we feel like doing, or
would make us the most money, or would get us whatever it is we think we
want. Nothing is a more limited mentality than such a purposeless
perspective. Living our lives in service to a higher  purpos e is the only road to
happiness, because it is the reason we were born. What the ego posits asfreedom is not freedom, but license; it is a prison of our own making. Following Jesus, serving the Will of God, trying our best to be loving
means serving the desires of our own true self. OceanofPDF.comThe Pillars of a Well-Lived Life
The three principles we hold on to as we walk the spiritual path are these:
faith, love, and service. Those are the pillars of righteou sness, or “right use-ness” of the mind. But even  more than that, they are our powers. They are the use of the mind
in ways that lift us above the normal limitations of the mortal world. Who among us has not seen things come together when harmon y exists
among the players in a system, and things fall apart when anger and
negativity prevail? Our faith that anything is possible in the presence of love, our faith that
forgiveness will always interrupt the ego’s tyranny—these are our powers
when we let miracles light the way. The Holy Spirit is the motivation for
miracles and conduit for mirac les. He is never not available to show us
where they are. “I am not absent to anyone in any situation” (T -116). The world can be a miraculous place, and in many ways it is. We hold
our child ren, we fall in love, we build communities. It’s all there. But the
fear-based thought system that dominates the world is like a sword of
Damocles that hangs above us all. The fate of our world literally hangs on
whether or not we can stop attacking each other, attacking the earth, and
attacking ourselves. We need faith that it’ s possible for us, and for the world, to change. We need love to dissolve the layers of fear that saturate the world. We need a consciousness of service to make sure we will. As we increase our ability to embody the love that is the truth of who
we are, we begin to attract mighty companions into our experience. We
meet people with whom there’ s an almost mysterious sense that we were
brought together for purposes higher than our own. We’re no longer driven
to achie ve what  we perceive to be our separate goals, but instead we’redriven by a desire to collaborate with others in creating collective changes
to the world in which we live. The idea that we go to work to make money, to gain power, or for any
other purpose dictated by a consumer -driven culture begins to take second
place to a more meaningful yearning: to create the good, the beautiful, and
the holy. And to create those things with others. The intentional nature of the universe applies not only to our individual
lives but to our relationships as well. We are drawn to people with whom
we can heal and with whom we can create more than we could have created
on our own. This is the regenerative energy of Christ that is emerging in the
world today. Yes, the ego’s wiles are still a danger to us all. But the sense
that God is active, that the spirit of rebirth is upon us, that Jesus walks on
the water even now, is palpable as well. He is order in the midst of chaos, he is wisdom in the midst of
confusion, he is the love that casts out fear. Jesus is in you and me and all of
us, by whatever name we call him. In moments of despair we need but call,
and he will hear, and he will answer. The times ahead migh t indeed be
challenging, but we will not be alone. Love will prevai l, for God alway s gets the final say. What is completely
up to us, to be determined by the exercise of our free will, is how long it
will take to get there—and how much suffering must occur before the
dawning of the light. In the Talmud it is written that in the midst of the
darkest night we should act as if morning has already come. For in a way it
already has. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. OceanofPDF.comChapter Four
He Did Not Die
Teach not that I died in vain. Teach rather that I did not die, by demonstrating that I live in
you. * (T -209)
OceanofPDF.comJerusalem
The Chur ch of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem  contains
two of the holiest sites in Christianity: the place where Jesus was crucified,
and the tomb where his body was taken and from which he resurrected. It’s rather shocking how much history is recorded there, based on
traditions going all the way back to the fourth century. Visitors walk up a
narrow flight of stairs to see the actual site of the crucifixion; in a room
right below, behind glass, one can see the rock onto which his blood was
spilled. To me, one of the


 enough to go around when you can enjoy
the riches of your subconscious mind. In this chapter you can le arn to
make friends with money, and you should al-ways have a surplus. Your desire to be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, mor e wonderful
life. It is a cosmic urge. It is not only good, but also very good. • Money is a symbol
Money is a symbol of exchange. It means to you not only freedom
from want, but beauty, luxury, abundance, and refine-ment. It is
merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation. When your
blood is circulating freely in your body, you are healthy. When money
is circulating freely in your life, you are economically heal thy. When
people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes, and become
charged with fear, there is economic illness. Money has taken many forms as a medium of exchange down
through the centuries, such as, salt, beads, and trinkets of vari ous
kinds. In early times a man’s wealth was determined by the num ber of
sheep and oxen he had. Now we use currency, and other negotiable
instruments, as it is much more convenient to write a check than c arry
some sheep around with you to pay bills. 109  • How to walk the royal road to riches
Knowledge of the powers of your subconscious mind is the means
to  the royal road to riches of all kinds—spiritual, men-tal, o r
financial. The student of the laws of mind believes and knows
definitely that regardless of economic situations, stock marke t
fluctuation, depression, strikes, war, other conditions or
circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardles s of what
form money takes. The reason for this is that he has con-veyed the
idea of wealth to his subconscious mind, and it keeps him supplied
wherever he may be. He has convinced himself in his mind that
money is forever flowing freely in his life and that there  is always a
wonderful surplus. Should there be a fi-nancial collapse of
government tomorrow and all the man’s  present holdings become
valueless, as the German marks did after the First World War, he
would still attract wealth and be cared for, regardless of th e form the
new currency took. • Why you do not have more money
As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I am worthy of a
higher salary than I am receiving. ” I believe most people are
inadequately compensated. One of the causes many people does not
have more money is that they are silently or openly condemning i t. They refer to money as “filthy lucre” or “the love of money is  the root
of all evil. ” Another reason they do not prosper is that they ha ve a
sneaky subconscious feeling there is some virtue in poverty. T his
subconscious pattern may be due to early childhood training,
superstition, or it could be based on a false interpretation of scri ptures. • Money and a balanced life
One time a man said to me, “I am broke. I do not like money. It is
the
root of all evil. ” These statements represent a confused ne urotic
mind. Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will c ause
you to become lopsided and unbal-anced. You are here to use your
 110  power or authority wisely. Some men crave power others cra ve
money. If you set your heart on money exclusively and say, “Money is al l I
want; I am going to give all my attention to amassing money; nothi ng
else matters,” you can get money and attain a fortune, but you have
forgotten that you are here to lead a balanced life. You must also
satisfy the hunger for peace of mind, harmony, love, joy, and perfect
health. By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your
efforts that it was not only the money you needed. You also desired
true expression of your hidden talents, true place in life, beaut y, and
the joy of contributing to the welfare and success of others. B y
learning the laws of your subconscious mind, you could have a million
dollars or many millions, if you wanted them, and still have peac e of
mind, harmony, per-fect health, and perfect expression. • Poverty is a mental disease
There is no virtue in poverty; it is a disease like any ot her mental
disease. If you were physically ill, you would think there was
something wrong with you. You would seek help and do something
about the condition at once. Likewise, if you do not have money
constantly circulating in your life, there is some-thing radic ally wrong
with you. The urge of the life principle in you is toward growth, ex-pansi on,
and the life more abundant. You are not here to live in a hovel, dress
in rags, and go hungry. You should be happy, prosperous, and
successful. • Why you must never criticize money
Cleanse your mind of all weird and supe rstitious beliefs about
money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you
cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lo se
what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize. 111  • Getting the right attitude toward money
Here is a simple technique you may use to multiply money in your
experience. Use the following statements several times a  day, “I like
money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciousl y. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it wi th joy, and it
returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very g ood. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only,
and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind. ”
• How the scientific thinker looks at money
Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper, or iron
in the ground. Would you pronounce these things evil. All evil comes
from man’s darkened understanding, from his ignorance, from his
false interpretation of life, and from his misuse of his  subconscious
mind. Uranium, lead, or some other metal could have been used as a
medium of exchange. We use paper bills, checks, nickel, and silver
surely these are not evil. Physicists and chemists know today that the
only difference between one metal and another is the number and rate
of motion of electrons revolving around a central nucleus. They ca n
now change one metal into another through a bombardment of the
atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold under certain conditions
becomes mercury. I believe that our modern scientists in the ne ar
future will be able to make gold, silver, and other metals s ynthetically
in the chemical laboratory. The cost may be pro-hibitive now, but it
can be done. I cannot imagine any intelli-gent person seeing anything
evil in electrons, neutrons, protons, and isotopes. The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of atoms and
molecules with their electrons and protons arranged differ-entl y. Their
number and rate of motion are different. That is the only way  the
paper differs from the silver in your pocket. • How to attract the money you need
Many years ago I met a young boy in Australia who wanted to
become a physician and surgeon, but he had no money. I explained to
him how a seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself ever ything
 112  necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to ta ke a
lesson from the seed and deposit the required idea in his subcons cious
mind. For expenses this young, brilliant boy used to clean out doctors’
offices, wash windows, and do odd repair jobs. He told me that every
night, as he went to sleep, he used to picture in his mind’s e ye a
medical diploma on a wall with his name on it in big, bold let ters. He
used to clean and shine the framed diplomas in the medical build ing
where he worked. It was not hard for him to engrave the image  of a
diploma in his mind and develop it there. Definite results fol -lowed as
he persisted with his mental picture every night for about four months. The sequel of this story was very interesting. One of the doctors
took a great liking to this young boy and after training him i n the art
of sterilizing instruments, giving hypodermic in-jections, and ot her
miscellaneous first-aid work, he employed him as a technical assistant
in his office. The doctor later sent him to medical school at his  own
expense. Today, this young man is a prominent medical doctor in
Montreal, Canada. He discovered the law of attraction by using his
subconscious mind the right way. He operated an ageold law, whi ch
says, “Having seen the end, you have willed the means to  the
realization of the end. ” The end in this case was to become a medical
doctor. This young man was able to imagine, see, and feel


 admit the pneumococcus, streptococcus, and other forms of bacterial
disease. Arthritis is undoubtedly due to infection built up on a deficiency basis, and may
or may not have some connection with virus diseases. One of the common virus
diseases is poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Here a fine degree of selectivity occurs, as the virus only attacks certain nerve cells. These are nerve cells deep in the body. Apparently the deeper parts of the body have a lower resistance in the person who is
carrying a food deficiency. Disease of the brain is well known to result from food
deficiencies as in the case of the insanity accompanying pellagra. The insanities
following attacks of flu, and the insanities which have been known to be cured after the removal of abscessed teeth are low grade brain infections which have been made
possible by nutritional deficiency. In the case of brain disease, poliomyelitis, and arthritis, we are dealing with internal
parts of the body far removed from body surfaces. The idea that the battle against infection occurs only in the mouth, nose, stomach, and other parts where infectious material actually comes in contact with body cells is therefore entirely erroneous. The
point to be made here is that not only the body areas which come in direct contact with
infection, but every cell in the body, even its most remote parts, is subject to the action
of invading microorganisms in cases where nutrition is below normal. It is quite
obvious that skin, eyes, teeth, gums, and tonsils do have a constant contact with infectious material from the outside. When th e cells of these organs lose their fighting
power by lack of certain vitamins and minerals in the diet, it is easy to see how such
structures are invaded. The connection between bones and joints, brain and spinal cord,
blood vessels and heart is not quite so easy to see; but that it does occur is quite evident. After the outer defenses are broken through the poisonous infectious material is carried
by the blood stream to every inner part of the body. In the mortality records, the disease which leads all others as the cause of death is
heart disease. As the mortality records cl assify heart disease apart from blood-vessel
disease, it does not give a true picture. Blood  vessels and heart are all one organ. Brittle
arterioscelerotic blood vessels are never attach ed to a healthy heart. The same general
disease that produces heart failure also pr oduces disease of the blood vessels. Mortality
records should classify together heart disease and apoplexy. When we add together the deaths as given in the records, of apoplexy and heart disease, we find that they are far
greater in number than any other kind of disease. Even in children rheumatic heart is
very common, and the rheumatic hearts of children result in the heart deaths of young
and middle aged adults. It was formerly thought that the blood stream was an absolutely sterile area. Now we
know that different degrees of blood-stream infection is not at all uncommon. The
person who has an acute cold has showers of germs invading his blood stream. Typhoid
germs are found in the blood stream in the first week or ten days in that disease. A
person with diseased tonsils or gums, abscessed teeth, or other foci of infection in the
body has occasional showers of microorganisms in the blood which come from these foci. The person who harbors chronic infection in any form has an infected blood stream
from time to time. The infected blood stream may produce thickening or hardening of
the valves of the heart. It produces thickening and hardening of arteries. It eventually results in interference with nerve function. Such interference with nerve function may
produce the diseases of the heart which are known as disturbances of rhythm (fibrillation, etc.). In addition to the slowly poisonous effect  of these showers of microorganisms in the
blood stream, on blood vessels, heart, nerves, and nerve centers, there is a tendency for
colonization of the microorganisms themselves in areas of the body that are poorly
supplied with blood. These relatively bloodless areas are the thick layers of fasciae on each side of the spinal column between the muscle layers, the dense tissue of tendons
and ligaments around joints, and the heavy, leathery connective tissue around the back of the neck and under the scalp. The blood stream of even a person suffering food deficiency will soon cleanse itself. However, by hiding in the areas poorly supplied with blood, microorganisms may persist, and with each succeeding blood-stream infection they may multiply in number. This mechanism gives rise to the various  manifestations of the disease known as
arthritis, and when the connective tissue covering of nerves is the place invaded, the disease which occurs is known as neuritis. The disease we describe may select the fasciae of the back. The patient then has spondylitis or lumbago. It may affect the structures in the back of the neck and under the scalp. The resulting disease then is
headache. It may affect the dense ligaments around the knee and ankle, or the sacroiliac joint or other joint. The disease is then known as arthritis. The point here is that headache, neuritis, arthritis, lumbago, and other such painful
conditions are not separate entities, but are simply various manifestations of the same
disease, the disease being the invasion of a part by a lowgrade, old chronic infection, the
infection being permitted to occur because the person is carrying a foci or abscess somewhere in the body. The foci or abscesses which give rise to these various
manifestations of disease occur in persons who have been unable to cope with their
microscopic enemies on account of their resistance being lowered because of inadequate
intake of vitamins and minerals. The evil effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies
here depicted, involving as they do diseases of the digestive organs, lung, heart, brain,
and blood vessels, present a truly depressing picture. But this is not the whole story. The gla nds of internal secretion which preside over all
life processes depend for their proper functioning on a continuous supply of good, rich
blood. The pituitary, which has the seat of honor in this chain, situated at the base of the
brain, is like the driver of a 20-mule team. It directs the activities of all the other glands. It stimulates or depresses according to the ne eds of the individual. It pours out adrenalin
from the adrenal glands when the person is about to engage in a physical struggle, and
pours out insulin from the pancreas when sugars arrive in the stomach which must be
burned. It controls the moving of calcium and the building of bones through the activities of
the parathyroid. It controls the functioning of the gonads, the regulatory mechanism of
menstruation, and protects the fetus until time for delivery. The chain of endocrine glands may also be compared to the keys of an organ. The organist is the pituitary. The
growth of hair, the health of skin, the secretion of various glands in the body--digestion, assimilation, metabolism--all are under the c ontrol of this endocrine chain. The very
thoughts that are produced by the brain are also under its control. We may see how the accidental interfe rence with circulation may influence some
particular gland activity. For instance, the adrenal, which has to do with keeping up the
normal blood pressure, may have tiny clots devel op in some of its vessels. This may be
due to scurvy of the vessel wall, or to microorganisms causing disease of the vessel
wall. This strangles the cells normally fed by such a blood vessel. One such accident may perhaps cause little trouble. However, the tendency is for such
accidents to recur (spontaneously). The piling up of many such accidents will seriously
cripple the function of the organ. After much adrenal tissue has been thus destroyed the person now has Addison's disease. The s upply of adrenal secretion continues to
decrease until death occurs. Due to the specific attraction between certain
microorganisms and certain organs, colonization of germs from the blood stream may
occur in any part of the body, and the process may go on even to the formation of small
abscesses. The effects here described may be mechanical or toxic but are usually a
combination of the two. These biological reactions may produce alteration in any organ that decreases the
normal secretion of the organ. The instance  given in the case of the adrenal may be
duplicated in the thyroid (hypothroidism), pancreas (diabetes), ovary (sterility), etc. In
most cases we assume that the effect of the strangulation of cells or the atrophy of cells
has been due to a poisonous, depressing effect on the substance of the gland in question. In some cases, however, the dose of the toxi c substance is smaller or less potent, and
instead of depressing it may excite the gla nd to increased action instead of having the
depressing effect. In such cases the physiology of the process is reversed. In the case of
the thyroid, the patient becomes afflicted with hyperthyroidism. In the case of the
pancreas, there is an increased secretion and an increased amount of sugar must be
furnished to counteract the increased amount of insulin produced. In the case of the ovary, continuous bleeding may occur instead of normal menstruation. The ultimate
effect in the cases which are stimulated rath er than depressed is to wear out the over-
stimulated cells so that eventually the life of the organ is terminated,


 Likewise,
examining the human brain down to the subtlest chemical
reactions inside neurons and across the synaptic gaps that
separate them says nothing about where thoug hts come
from. This is the simplest refutation of materialism one can
oﬀer, and yet it has profound consequences. Let’s ask the most basic question. How does the brain
produce the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of
the three-dimensional world? In other words, when you see
a red apple, where does its redness come from? Your brain
is completely dark inside;  there is no light anywhere in any
part of the visual corte x, much less the color red. This
mystery doesn’t bothe r most scientists, even brain
scientists. They would simply respond that apples are red,
and how the brain registers this fact comes down to
chemical reactions in the visual cortex. But the notio n that
the color red exists “out there” in Nature is simply wrong. Light is transmitted by photons, which are colorless; in
fact, they are invisible. There is no brightness “out there”
as photons sweep from the stars and certainly no
brightness inside the brain’s total darkness. So if light’s
brightness is neither “in here” nor “out there,” why is the
sun so bright that you can’t look at it with the naked eye for
more than a few seconds? Light’s brightness and color, along with everythi ng else
we perceive, come from “conscious agents,” a term coined
by the farseeing cognitiv e scientist Donald D. Hoﬀman of
the Universi ty of California, Irvine. He proposes  that the
only reality we can know is the reality created by
consciousness. If there is anything that is real but beyond
the human mind, then it won’t be accessible. A conscious
agent doesn ’t have to be human. Every animal speciesexperiences a reality that conforms to its nervous system,
so that a dog’s image of sound reaches much higher than
the human ear can perceive, while the hearing of a
humpback whale reaches much lower (whales can hear one
another’s songs for hund reds of miles underwate r). Some
snakes, inclu ding pytho ns and rattlesnakes, can detect
infrared light through specialized “pit organs” located in
their jaws, and so they “see” into a dimension entirely
closed oﬀ to human perception. Conscious agents fascin ated me because the ancient
Vedic rishis were in complete agreement with the notion
that consciousness is the source of reality. They didn’t push
the everyday world of the ﬁve senses completely out of the
picture. Instead they gave it a lower status known as Maya,
a Sans krit word usually translated as “illusion”—it comes
up later in this book. Maya is the apparent reality “out
there” that all of us naïvely accept at face value, but which
turns out to be no more real than the movie projected on
the screen in a cinema. Consciousness serves as the
projector whose light casts these images while itself
remaining pure light, with no images at all. Let me go into this subject a little more philosop hically
than I did in the original Quantum Healing. The ancient
sages of India, and all philosophers since then, explored the
mind by going inward. But in a scientiﬁc age, we have to
ask: How can thinking about the mind be better than
gathering hard facts about the brain? Because data only has meaning given a certain way of
seeing it. This point was made in the one book almost every
college stude nt reads (if they read any) in the philosophy of
science, Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scien tiﬁc
Revolutions,  published in 1962. Kuhn shattered the notio n
of objective progress in science by arguing that given their
starting assumptions, every scientiﬁc scheme for explainingNature—what he called a paradigm—is right on its own
terms. This groundb reaking insight went back to 1947, when
Kuhn, then a graduate student at Harvard, was wrestling
with how wrong Aristotle had been. Aristotelian physics
was the ﬁrst systema tic explanation of Nature in
mechanical terms, the cornerstone of Western science that
made Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein possible. And yet a
brilliant mind like Aristo tle’s arrived at complete ly wrong
conclusions about such basic things as why objec ts fall to
earth or what heat is. Suddenly Kuhn had an epiphany:
What we call Aristotle’s mistakes in fact weren’t mistakes
at all. If you accept the starting assumptions behind
Aristotelian physics, its description of Nature was valid. Kuhn seemed  to be saying that Aristotle was just as right
as Newton, which to most people, including probably every
physicist, makes no sense. In our time, the accepta nce of
scientiﬁc progress is all but universal, and the triumphs of
modern technology are undeniable. Yet no one has rebutted
Kuhn’s point that we view Nature through our own
paradigm, our worldview. The history of science is a
constant stream of shifting paradigms, one after another. There is no way to step outside the paradigm you totally
believe in. But what if the current paradigm happens to be
absolutely right? A Theory of Everything has been on the
horizon for decades, and we are told that it’s only a matter
of time before the theory  is complete. Kuhn’s point is that
an absolutely correct theory, no matter how much data you
feed into it, cannot be achieved. All you can achieve is the
fulﬁllment of the paradigm you believe in. Eventually
problems will arise that cannot be solved without
shattering the present paradigm so that a new one can be
formed.To a doctor, spontaneous remission from cancer  posed
just such a problem. As long as your medical paradigm
separated mind and body, no way existed for consciousness
(including beliefs, expec tations, fears, wishes, faith, and
hope) to inﬂuence the daily life of cells. Looking beyond
medicine, we have to consider consciousness as a whole. If
the mind can inﬂuence the body, what do we mean by
mind? If brain = mind, the answer to all ills should be a
host of super-pills that alter brain function, steering it in
the direction we want it to go. In eﬀect, this is where
neuroscience thinks it’s heading, because the old paradigm
says so. There is literally no room for consciousness being
the agent of change. In the years since Quantum Healing  was ﬁrst published,
my own thinking has become more sophisticated about the
so-called hard problem of connecting mind and brain. Anyone who ﬂatly says that brain = mind is turning their
backs on what the philosophy of science teaches. 1.Theories are right about what they include and wrong
about what they exclude. 2.No model of reality is big enough to explain reality. 3.Data has no meaning unless it is interpreted, and
interpretations are bound by the observer’s starting
assumptions. In a word, everyone has a story, and everyone believes
their story. Even contradictory stories can be valid and ﬁt
the same data. This startling conclusion applies to everyday
life all the time. Competing stories are told in divorce court
when marriages break apart, in criminal court when
prosecution and defense do battle, and in the corridors of
medicine when two doctors have diﬀerent concepts of
healing. Sticking to your story convinces you that you’retelling the truth when in fact you are just defending a way
of seeing. —
The story told by neuroscience, that brain = mind, is
particularly weak. There is absolutely no data to indicate
that neurons  can think; they merely light up on an fMRI as
thinking occurs, which isn’t the same thing. You could
construct a setup so that a 100-watt bulb lights up over
your head every time you have a bright idea, but that
doesn’t mean  the light bulb caused  the idea. Neuroscience
ignores this obvious ﬂaw when it arrives at the same false
conclusion, using neurons instead of a lightbulb. The current state of total conﬁdence in neuroscience
requires thick blinders. Brain scientists don’t see the dead
end they are walking toward when they promise that
neurons are going to explain where thoughts come from. Not just thoughts, but no color, shape, sound, taste, and
smell will ever be locate d in neurons, and what isn’t in a
neuron isn’t in the brain, either. It would be pointless to tear down the old paradigm
without having somethin g better to oﬀer. In that regard,
Quantum Healing  pointed in the right direction. All the
things the brain is credited with actually should be
assigned to the mind. Once this shift is made,  enormous
untapped potential becomes available. Neuroscience will
continue to do valuable things, in particular ﬁxing the
abnormalities and disorders of the brain connected to a
wide range of diseases. You can’t play Mozart on a broken
piano. Yet the mystery of Mozart’s genius, like all mysteries
of


 a very precise lock called receptors
of the cell walls, or other neurons. This is the br ain, one part speaking to another part. This happens in other parts of the body also. This is where they found them in the
immune system! Immune cells can make the same peptides that the br ain makes when it thinks. Thus
immune cells are conscious little beings. Immune cells make the same chemical chords that the  brain uses for emotion,
through feeling and desires. It has an intellect, i t knows how to discriminate and
remember. It has to decide when it sees a carcinoge n "Is this a carcinogen" Should I
go after it? Should I leave it alone?" It has to re member the last time it encountered
something. In fact, it remembers the last time some body else encountered the same
thing. Immune cells immediately recognise anything that ha s ever been encountered by
any living species. If you are exposed to pneumococ cus for the first time in your life,
your immune cells still remember the last time some body, somewhere in prehistoric
time encountered a pneumacoccus and knows how to ma ke the correct/precise
antibody to it. The immune cell is a circulating ne rvous system. Since then scientists have discovered this is the s ame for every cell in the human
body. When you say "I have a gut feeling about such  and such" you are not
speaking metaphorically anymore. You're speaking qu ite literally because your gut
makes the same chemicals as the brain makes when it  thinks. In fact, your gut
feelings may be a little more accurate because gut cells haven't yet evolved to the
stage of self doubt. The new word is not mind body connection; we litera lly have a body-mind
simultaneously everywhere. If you say "I have a sad heart" a scientist would f ind a heart filled with sad molecules. If you say "I'm busting with joy" a scientist would  find in your skin that it would be
loaded with emipramine an antidepressant, used in t reatment of depression with
psychiatrists. If you say "I feel exhilarated, unbounded and joyfu l" a scientist would find in your
blood, high levels of interluken and interferon whi ch are powerful anticancer drugs. If you say "I feel tranquil" a scientist would find  in your body valium, and it's identical
to the Hoffman La Rouch type, except it's made in p recise doses for the right target
organs. It doesn't make you fell like a zombie. It' s an immunomodulator, it modulates
the activity of the immune system. Even little whit e cells know how to make valium" -
Deepak Chopra, What is the True Nature of Reality
You can see that there is a lot of science out ther e supporting the fact that you are
creating your reality. You are creating your illnes s and injury as much as you are
creating your fortunes or drama in your life. Have you ever wondered why there are some people wh o get sick all of the time? Have you ever wondered why cancer, once treated loc ally, can spread throughout
a person's body? "Western medicine believes the materialism which sa ys that sensory experience is the
crucial test of reality. Therefore, all of their he aling methodologies are also based on
this superstition. There are pills for every ailmen t. This is the magic bullet theory. The number one drug addiction in the world is presc ription drugs. Magic bullets are supposed to get rid of disease an d improve health, but in fact,
these are symptomatic approaches. They relieve symp toms or at best, mask them,
while underlying process remains unchanged. Sometim es they interfere with the
mechanisms of disease. They believe if we know bact eria multiply we can kill them
and we'll get rid of cancer. It doesn't work becaus e mechanisms of disease are not
the origin of disease. We can interfere (enter fear ) with the mechanisms of disease
and the disease simply finds an alternative way of expressing itself. Biotechnical medical intervention is extremely usef ul in acute illness. But it does not
alter the overall expression of disease in a popula tion. It merely changes its
expression. We no longer have epidemics of polio, tuberculosis,  measles, diptheria and
smallpox. But in their place we have a higher incid ence of cancer, heart disease,
degenerative disorders, and obesity. The overall pi cture hasn't changed because
the model that we've structured of the human body i s not the correct model" -
Deepak Chopra, What is the True Nature of Reality? Why have you not seen this on the TV or read it in the newspaper? Why is this
knowledge only in those on the spiritual path? Mayb e it has something to do with
the power that the drug companies have over the gov ernment and media? I'll
leave that one for you to ponder. The fact that you are creating your illness is not a bad thing, this is a fantastic thing,
for if you know that you have created it, then you can cure it. And this is done in the
same way that you created it, with your thoughts. Think about when your ailment started, what was hap pening in your life at that time? How was your work going, how were your relationship s with your family and friends? Then think about the part of your body that it is h appening in. The best books I have read that explain the parts o f the body and the emotions
related are The Body is the Barometer of the Soul II  by Annette Noontil and Heal Your
Body  by Louise Hay
Here are some general tips but the books go into so  much further detail. The left side of the body relates to the feminine a nd the right side relates to the
masculine. So the side of the body can relate to so meone of that sex that you are
having difficulty with or that part of yourself for  we all have masculine and feminine
energy within us. The spine is all about flexibility so where in your  life are you being inflexible? Shoulders are about guilt or shouldering responsibi lity. The hips are about who you really are and about bal ance. The legs and lower body is all about your direction, knees are related to pride and
ego, ankles about inflexibility and guilt. Arms are about holding and accepting the experience s of life. These books that I have mentioned go into the ailme nts as well as the parts of the
body, they are fantastic to mentally go into why yo u have created illness or injury in
your life. Again some very short explanations:
Cancer is deep hurt and long standing resentment. Y ou can then see what part of
the body this relates to and put the pieces togethe r.
Being overweight is to be in fear and needing prote ction. To be running away from
feelings and seeking fulfilment. Stroke is giving up, being resistant to change. "I' d rather die than change"
Pimples are about stagnation, where are you stallin g being true to yourself. Heart attacks are squeezing all the joy out of your  heart in favour of money or
position, etc
There is a lot of information out there and it is y our choice to go forth and heal your
body, or you can leave it up to someone else...your  body, your choice. Hopefully this
article has opened your mind to the possibilities t hat there may be more that you
can do to take responsibility for you health, start ing now...<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Healing Yourself - Quantum Physics, how the
body works
This is an incredibly interesting topic and one tha t can be seen as controversial in the
western world. Please know that I am in no way sayi ng that you should not see a
doctor or seek medical advice. I am simply opening your mind to the possibility of
who you are and what you can accomplish with a simp le thought and intention. Let's start with a simple concept; those with deter mination will get to where they
want to be. If they set their mind to it, then they  can achieve anything. Well this goes
for illness and injury also. If you set your mind t o recovering and getting back to
optimum health and this is your priority, then you will do so. So with intention, you can achieve anything, includ ing healing yourself of illness and
injury. For any of those who are familiar with Quantum Phys ics or have seen the movie
What the Bleep do we Know. You will know that the universe and the human
body are made up of matter. "We think of an atom as a kind of hard ball. What th ey then realised is that it is not
solid, it's this really dense matter right at the c entre, surrounded by fluffy a probability
cloud of electrons popping in and out of existence. And then they realised that not
even this is right. That even the nucleus (the cent re) that we think of as so dense,
pops in and out of existence, just as readily as th e electrons do. The most solid thing
that you can say about all of this insubstantial ma tter is that it is more like a thought,
it's like a concentrated bit of information. " - Wha t The Bleep do we Know


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lemon and coconut milk just before serving. Garnish with freshly chopped cilantro or parsley. Roasted V egetable Barley Risotto
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1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
3 medium-size leeks, chopped
6–8 cups vegetable stock, made flavorful by adding herbs
and leeks
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon basil, dried
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups pearl barley, or ganic

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stock, Braggs, vinegar, basil, and pepper. S auté until the leeks are clear. Add the barley. W ith a lar ge
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stock, if necessary. Sa uté until the barley becomes golden brown or caramelized. Co ntinue to add ½
cup of stock at a time when the mixture becomes dry. Always add enough stock to cover the barley as
it cooks. Keep a lid h andy to use during the cooking process. Continue to check an d stir the barley
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2 zucchini
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1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
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Cover design by Larissa Hise Henoch
Inside design by Lisa Camp and Dawn Von Strolley GroveCONTENTS
Foreword
 by Harvey Diamond
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. I Almost Died
2. Your Potential for Health
3. The New Theory of Health and Disease
4. Choosing Healthy Cells
5. The Nutrition Pathway
6. The Toxin Pathway
7. The Psychological Pathway
8. The Physical Pathway
9. The Genetic Pathway
10. The Medical Pathway
11. A Shift in Perspective
References
Author’s Note: Going Beyond Health
Appendix A: Health Information
Appendix B: Vitamin Supplements
Appendix C: Foods and Personal Products
Appendix D: Alternative Cancer Treatments
Appendix E: Improving Vision
Appendix F: Health-E-America FoundationF
OREWORD
N
ever Be Sick Again
takes the mystery out of disease. This groundbreaking book
presents a revolutionary theory of health and disease: