 previously, the author has taken the time and
trouble to report the hard scientific research conducted around the world in
the past 20 years regarding this field I’m calling intention. In a chapter that
is relevant here, called “The Healing Field,” McTaggart describes a number
of research studies. Here are just five of the intriguing conclusions that
researchers have come to concerning intention and healing. I present these
to you to stimulate an awareness of your potential for healing the physical
body you’ve opted for in this lifetime, as well as the corollary capacity to
offer healing to others. (I haven’t reiterated the obvious need for a healthy
diet and a sensible exercise routine, which I’m assuming you’re aware of
and practicing. Bookstores now have entire sections on healthy alternatives
for this purpose.) Five Conclusions about Healing from the
World of Hard Research
1. Healing through intention is available to
ordinary people, and healers may be more experienced or
naturally talented in tapping in to the field. There’s physical
evidence that those who are capable of healing through
intention have a greater coherence and a greater ability tomarshal quantum energy and transfer it to those in need of
healing. I interpret this scientific evidence to mean that
deciding to focus life energy on being in coherence with the
power of intention gives you the capacity to heal yourself and
others. This means essentially abandoning the fear that
permeates your consciousness. And it also means recognizing
the fear-based energy promoted by much of the health-care
industry. The field of intention has no fear in it. Any disease
process is evidence that something is amiss. Any fear
associated with the disease process is further evidence that
something is amiss in the working of the mind. Health and
peace are the natural state when that which prevents them is
removed. Research shows that healing through intention,
which is actually healing through connecting to the field of
intention, is possible for everyone. 2. Most authentic healers claim to have put out
their intention and then stepped back and surrendered to
some other kind of healing force, as though they were
opening a door and allowing something greater in. The most
effective healers ask for assistance from the universal Source,
knowing that their job is to be uplifting and allow the Source
of healing to flow. Healers know that the body is the hero, and
the life force itself is what does the healing. By removing ego
and allowing that force to flow freely, healing is facilitated. Medically trained professionals often do the opposite of
allowing and uplifting. They frequently convey the message
that the medicine does the healing, and communicate disbelief
in anything other than their prescribed procedures. Patients
often feel anything but uplifted and hopeful, and diagnosis and
prognosis are usually fear based and excessively pessimistic to
avoid legal proceedings. Tell them the worst and hope for the
best is often the medical operating philosophy.The ability to heal yourself seems to be available to those
who have an intuitive knowing about the power of the Spirit. The healing inner speech has to do with relaxing, removing
thoughts of resistance, and allowing the spirit of light and love
to flow. A powerful healer from the island of Fiji once told me
about the efficacy of the native healers. He said, “When a
knowing confronts a belief in a disease process, the knowing
will always triumph.” A knowing is faith in the power of
intention. A knowing also involves an awareness of always
being connected to this Source. And finally, a knowing means
getting one’s ego out of the way and surrendering to the
omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient Source, the power of
intention, which is the source of all, including all healing. 3. It didn’t seem to matter what method was used,
so long as the healer held an intention for a patient to heal. Healers relied upon profoundly different techniques, including
a Christian image, a kabbalist energy pattern, a Native
American spirit, a totem, a statue of a saint, and incantations
and chants to a healing spirit. As long as the healer held firm to
an intention and had a knowing beyond any and all doubts that
he could touch the patient with the spirit of intention, the
healing was effective as measured by scientific validation. It’s crucial for you to hold an absolute intention for yourself
to heal, regardless of what goes on around you, or what others
might offer you in the way of discouragement or “getting real.”
Your intention is strong because it isn’t ego’s intention, but a
match-up with the universal Source. It’s God-realization at
work in your approach to healing and being healed. As an infinite being, you know that your own death, and the
death of everyone else, is programmed in the energy field from
which you emanated. Just as all of your physical characteristics
were determined by that future pull, so, too, is your death. So
let go of fear of your death, and decide to hold the same
intention that intended you here from the world offormlessness. You came from a natural state of well-being, and
you intend to be there in your mind, regardless of what
transpires in and around your body. Hold that intention for
yourself until you leave this body, and hold that same invisible
intention for others. This is the one quality that all healers
shared. I encourage you to emphasize it, too, right here, right
now, and don’t let anyone or any prognosis deter you from it. 4. Research suggests that intention on its own
heals, but that healing is a collective memory of a healing
spirit, which can be gathered as a medicinal force. Healing
itself may in fact be a force that’s available to all of
humankind. It’s the universal mind of intention. Further,
research suggests that individuals and groups of individuals
can gather this collective memory and apply it to themselves
and to those who suffer with epidemic diseases as well. Since
we’re all connected to intention, we all share the same life
force, and we all emanated from the same universal mind of
God, it’s not so far-fetched to assume that by tapping in to this
energy field, we can gather healing energy and spread it to all
who enter our enlightened spheres. This would explain the
enormous collective healing power of saints, and make the
case for each of us holding the intention to eradicate such
things as AIDS, smallpox, worldwide influenzas, and even the
cancer epidemic we live with today. When illness is viewed in isolation, it’s disconnected from
the collective health of the universal field. Several studies
report that the AIDS virus seems to feed on fear, the kind of
fear that’s experienced when a person is shunned or isolated
from the community. Studies on heart patients reveal that those
who felt isolated from their family, their community, and
especially their spirituality, were more susceptible to disease. Studies on longevity show that those who live longer have a
strong spiritual belief and a sense of belonging to a community. The capacity to heal collectively is one of the powerfulbenefits that’s available when you raise your energy level and
connect to the faces of intention. 5. The most important treatment any healer can
offer is hope for the health and well-being of those who
suffer disease or trauma. Healers do a self-analysis of what’s
present in their consciousness before they focus on someone in
need of healing. The key word here is hope. The presence of
hope conveyed boils down to faith. I would also call it
knowing, a knowing that connection to one’s Source is a
connection to the source of all healing. When we live this way,
we always see hope. We know that miracles are always a
possibility. Staying in that mind-set, fear and doubt are
banished from the landscape. If you give up hope, you change
the energy level of your life to vibrate at fear and doubt levels. Yet we know that the all-creating Source of intention knows no
fear or doubt. My favorite quote from Michelangelo is on the value of
hope: “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is
too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Just imagine—the intention of healers and the hopes they have
for themselves and others may be even more important than
the medicine being offered. The simple thought of dislike
toward another impedes the potential for healing. Lack of faith
in the power of Spirit to heal plays a deleterious role in the
healing process. Any low-energy thoughts you have undermine
your ability to heal yourself. All five of these research-backed
conclusions lead us to an awareness of the importance of
shifting our focus and connecting to the all-healing field of
intention and harmonizing with it. From Thoughts of Sickness to
Intentions of WellnessYou’re probably familiar with the phrase “And God intended, ‘Let there
be light!’ and there was light,” from the Old Testament. If you look in an
English-Hebrew dictionary, you’ll find that the English translation of the
Hebrew can be read as: “And god intended...” The decision to create is
the decision to intend. To create healing, you can’t have thoughts of illness
and anticipate your body falling victim to disease. Become aware of the
thoughts you have that support the idea of sickness as something to be
expected. Begin noticing the frequency of those thoughts. The more they
occupy your mental landscape, the more resistance


 or coconut oil. I myself use shea butter.Solid Deoderant
-2 ¼ teaspoons shea butter/
coconut oil
-1 tablespoon grated beeswax
-2 ½ tablespoons of jojoba oil
-1 tablespoon of arrowroot
powder
-1 teaspoon of baking powder
(optional)
-Empty deodorant sticks
-3 drops of tea tree oil, plus
any other essential oil of your
choosing1. Use a 2 cup glass Pyrex to make a double boiler by setting it into the
pan with water. Add beeswax and jojoba oil and melt. If you are using
coconut oil instead of shea butter, add it now. 2. When everything has melted, turn off the heat and quickly stir in shea
butter and arrowroot powder before adding your essential oils. Use
whichever scent suits your fancy. 3. Work quickly but carefully to pour the mixture into your deodorant
sticks, setting the cap lightly on each of them. 4. Allow the deodorant to cool completely before twisting it up. Use as
you would any other deodorant! This will keep for up to 4 months. 243Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DeoderantY ou will need… DirectionsThis is about as easy as it gets-baking soda and arrowroot powder are all you need for an odor-absorbing
powder deodorant. Adding dried herbs such as lavender, or even a few sprigs of rosemary, makes a great
addition if you want it scented.Powder Deoderant
-1/2 cup of baking soda
-1/2 cup of arrowroot powder
-2 tablespoons of dried
lavender, or herb of choice 1. Stir the baking soda and arrowroot together, and pour into the
container you are storing it in. When the container is about halfway full
add your herbs if you are using them, and then pour in the rest of the
powder. 2. Use a powder puff to apply to underarms. I suggest keeping a few
puffs on hand in case you need to apply after you’ve already started
sweating. 244Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DeoderantY ou will need… DirectionsThis gel deodorant is softer than the others, and easier to apply if you are a man and have a hard time traversing
your underarm…terrain. It still has the same core ingredients-baking soda, arrowroot powder, and coconut oil-
plus vegetable glycerin for the “gel” factor and any essential oils you want to add for scent. Homemade Gel Deoderant
-1/4 coconut oil
-2 tablespoons vegetable
glycerin
-2 tablespoons of jojoba oil
-3-4 tablespoons of baking
soda
-3-4 tablespoons of arrowroot
powder
-Essential oil for scent
(optional)
-An empty deodorant stick1. Use a 2 cup glass Pyrex to make a double boiler. Melt your coconut oil
and jojoba oil together and remove from heat. 2. Stir in vegetable glycerin, baking soda, arrowroot powder, and 10
drops of your chosen essential oil if you are using it. 3. Pour into a deodorant stick and let cool for 24 hours. This will keep
for up to 4 months. 245Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DeoderantY ou will need… DirectionsThese are loose scrubs, not made into bars or cubes like the others
(although I do love those!) A face scrub is the same as a body scrub
in that it exfoliates skin, sloughing away old built up cells, dirt, and oil,
and leaves your skin smooth and cleansed. The difference is that face
scrubs are gentler than body scrubs, which tend to involve coarse salt
as the main means of exfoliating. These scrubs use sugar instead, which
works in a gentler manner than, say, Epsom salt. There isn’t a whole lot
of difference between brown sugar and white sugar, just that brown
sugar is softer, which is something to keep in mind if you particularly
sensitive skin.Face Scrubs
-The recipes involving fresh fruit
should be kept in the refrigerator
and will last up to 5 days. I
recommend making these in
smaller batches so you can use
them up in time. -Do not use a face scrub more
than 2-3 times a week (maximum),
otherwise you risk drying out or
irritating your skin. -Feel free to double or triple the
batches, keeping the ratios the
same. I make smaller batches for
myself since I find I don’t need
very much for it to exfoliate my
skin well. -I usually put the shelf life of
the scrubs up to 2 weeks, since
chances are wet fingers will
be scooped into it, and water
encourages the growth of micro-
organisms. This is, again, why
I make small batches. If you
were to scoop some out prior to
your shower, and take it in in an
individual bowl, then the shelf life
would be that of the oil you are
using. 246Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingWhile I tend to favor essential oils in scrubs, I love the refreshing smell and sensation of this particular one,
which uses fresh kiwi. Another bonus-the little kiwi seeds also work to exfoliate! This will leave your skin clear
and bright, and it’s perfect for use in a morning shower.Kiwi Sugar Scrub
-2 tablespoons of white sugar
-1 tablespoon of jojoba oil or
any liquid oil
-1/2 kiwi1. Cut your kiwi in half and scoop out the fruit, avoiding the core as best
you can. Mash up the kiwi well. 2. Mix sugar and oil in separate bowl, adding in the kiwi at the very end,
and blend the entire mixture. 3. To use simply scoop some up with your fingers in the shower and
apply to face, massaging over your skin in a circular motion with your
fingertips. Y ou may also scoop a little into the empty kiwi skin and use it
as a sort of natural loofa to apply. 247Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Face ScrubsY ou will need… DirectionsThis classic combination never gets old, but it’s imperative that you don’t add too much vanilla essential oil;
otherwise you end up with a scrub that smells too sweet. If you’re giving this as a gift, a whole vanilla pod
nestled on top adds a lovely touch. Y ou can also scrape the seeds into the scrub itself. Vanilla extract isn’t
generally a good idea to use as the alcohol in it can dry your skin out.Vanilla Brown Sugar Scrub
-5-8 drops of vanilla essential
oil
-2 tablespoons of brown sugar
-1 tablespoon of jojoba oil or
any liquid oil1. Blend jojoba oil and vanilla oil. 2. Stir the oil blend into the brown sugar. 3. Store in a container with a tightly fitting lid out of direct sunlight. 248Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Face ScrubsY ou will need… DirectionsWhile using a scrub is generally an invigorating experience, there’s no reason to shy away from scents that are
more relaxing. This pleasant lavender scrub can get you in a calm and relaxed mental state that’s appropriate for
the beginning or the end of the day.Soothing Lavender Scrub
-2 tablespoons of white sugar
-1 tablespoon of jojoba oil or
any liquid oil
-3-5 drops of lavender
essential oil1. Mix your essential oil and jojoba oil, and then stir thoroughly into
sugar. 2. Store in a container with a tightly fitting lid. 249Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Face ScrubsY ou will need… DirectionsWhen I first made lotion, I was all about the soft, scoop up type. I still
love the “classic” kind of lotion, but my new-fangled obsession with
lotion bars has been growing rapidly. I think I like the longer shelf life,
how fun it is to play around with shapes, the ease of carrying around,
and the ease of use. It takes a bit of getting used to the feeling when
you apply it though, as it needs to be more solid than other lotion to
hold its “bar” shape. The following recipe adheres to my preferred
consistency of the bar. If you find yourself unhappy with how soft or hard
your lotion bar is, tweak the amount of beeswax you are adding. Keep in
mind that if it is too solid your lotion bar will not soften in your hands and
go on smoothly-rather it will rub in the most irritating way over your skin
and leave waxy clumps. If it is too soft, you have a slippery mess. When
you get it just right though, lotion bars are lovely, versatile, skin-care
companions.Lotion Bars
-A little beeswax goes a long,
long, way in lotion bars. -Use soap or silicon baking molds
to experiment with fun shapes
(they make perfect gifts!) They
also make it easy to remove your
bars. -Hold the lotion bar in your hands
to warm and soften it before
applying. -If you are using a baking pan for
the soap bars, designate one for
this use, as the beeswax is hard
to get


 arteries
or veins in the direction of the cathode should accumu
late in these vessels by the opposing electric field force
of the cathode. This experiment demonstrates that artificial electric
polarization can cause a chemical compound to accu
mulate locally in a tissue. It also shows that the polari
tie.s of the electric field and of the charge of the
compound are not the only factors which determine
where the compound will accumulate in an in vivo
experimen t.
L. Direct current studies
in the dog's lung
The directly observable tissue changes by direct cur
rent in mesenteric tissue were also studied in the lun.gs
of dogs. 192 Activation of VICC Platinum strings, 0.25 mm thick, were coated with
Teflon. The coat was removed for a length of 0.5-2.5
em at each end of each string. One end was then
inserted for a distance of 0.5-1.0 em into the tip of an
ordinary biopsy needle, I mm thick and 16 mm long. Bending the string at the tip of the needle formed a
hook. The string-containing needle was then inserted
percutaneously under fluoroscopic control into the
lung of an anaesthetized dog. The needle was re
moved, leaving the string electrode in place. The hook
served the purpose of keeping the electrode in place.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        The use of artificial electric polarization of
tissue during relatively short periods of time is there
fore not necessarily comparable with what we can
expect to encounter in many biologic situations. Nev
ertheless, relatively brief application of direct current
of high density may be helpful as a guide for under·
standing structural and functional mechanism s of tis·
sues. When a DC potential is applied between two plati
num electrodes in a living tissue, several effects can be
noticed. The quantity of charge transported between
the electrodes can be determined as the product of
Activation of VICC 173 current and time, expressed in coulombs (amp-sec). Thus, a current of one rnA over 24 hours gives 86
coulombs and is equivalent with 10 rnA over 2. 4
hours. Current per unit· time can be increased by
increasing the vohage between the electrodes. If the
total quantity of current transported is held constant,
differences of electrode potential may lead to differ·
ences in quality of material in the tissue. Such effects
can be explained by the fact that different materiab
possess different specific energy levels of ionization. Moreover, different materials possess different molec
ular and ionic adsorption characteristics, which each
vary with electrode potential, actual concentrations
and the properties of the tissue matrix. The covering
of an electrode by adsorbed molecules is characteristic
for all materials and solutes. In this way different
electrode potentials can be expected to affect the com
petitive adsorption s of different molecules and there
fore the qualitative composition on the electrode sur
faces and in the supporting media between the elec
trodes. Increasing voltage will increase the speed of ioniza
tion of tissue (see also Chapter XVII) and enhance the
effects of polarization. Gas fonnation, for instance,
will be more extensive and produce more pressure
effects when electrode potentials arc large rather than
small, under conditions of equivalent total charge
transport. Experimental demonstration of these effects
is described in Chapter IX in the studies of pressure
changes and electrical induction of transport of water
in cotton wool and lung tissue. Gas formed at the electrodes may interfere with
conductivit y. Heat may also be liberated at relatively
high voltages, leading to evaporation of water and
coagulation of protein. Furtbermore, the catalyzing
action of the material of an electrode will vary with
varying electrolyte composition. A number of different factors in tissue influence the
effects of different electrode voltages at equal total
amounts of transported charge. Blood circulation, con
vection, diffusion, regional changes in conductivity,
matrix effects, buffering by fluids, etc., will each af
fect ionic transports. These influences may be evident
already from the fact that the circulation of blood and
lymph will in varying degree supply and remove mate
rial in the electric field. The total effect of these factors
per unit time relates also to the current density in the
electric field. ln this way a variable biologic influence
of qualitative and quantitative changes can be estab
lished between the electrodes. When anodic and cathodic reactions develop in a
tissue, secondary effects can also be expected. For
example, ionization product; in the electric field
should interfere indirectly with zeta potentials of cells
and modify the transmembranous ionic transports of
individual cells. Experimental support for these as-
174 Activation of VICC sumptions will also be presented in terms of the behav
iour of blood and fat cells (Chapter XVI). Our immediate interest now will turn to some gross
morphologic expressions of the functions of the postu
lated biologically closed electric circuit, as simulated
by leading electric current between electrodes in tis
sues. A. Materials and methods
Initial experiments could not be performed easily in
the lung because of the technical difficulties connected
with direct visual inspection of this organ in vivo. Because the actual problems appear to be of a general
biologic character, the easily accessible mesentety and
omentum of dogs were used in a series of 20 experi
ments. In this way it was hoped that some additional
direct evidence might be obtained for the existence of
the proposed VICC. ln these studies platinum elec
trodes were used. Control experiments were also performed in kidneys
and lungs of dogs. In these experiments as well as in
the experiment$ on mesenteric tissue, Evans blue dye
or a radiographic intravascular contrast medium (Urn
gratin~, 50%) was injected intravenously or intraarter
ially at the same time as direct current was applied
between the electrodes. Dogs were anaesthetized with intravenous sodium
pentobarbital. A radiopaque plastic catheter (internal diameter, 1. 5
mm) was introduced via a femoral artety or vein and
placed in the aorta or inferior vena cava with its tip at
the approximate level of the diaphragm. A platinum
string was introduced through the catheter and used as
one electrode at the tip. A midline incision was made in lhe abdomen and a
piece of mesentery or omentum carefully pulled out
through the incision and placed on a glass plate for
support. Another platinum electrode was then placed
against the mesentery. In other experiments both elec
trodes were placed against the mesentery. A DC potential difference was then applied between
the platinum electrodes. The potential was obtained
by means of a,-oltage generaror in series with a mil
liampere meter of high accuracy. Voltage differences between 100 mV and 10 V were
tested. When morphologically visible changes were
produced, the experiments could be checked or modi
lied rc~tedly in the same animal with a fresh piece of
mesentery. The vessels and other tissues of the mesentery were
inspected at different magnifications with an operating
microscope. Photographs were taken of the mesenteric
electrode and surrounding tissues. The mesentery un
der and around the electrode was excised at the end of the experiments and fixed in formalin on a glass slide
before fuation. Staining was usually performed with
haematoxylin and eosin before microscopy. B. Charging and discharging
of tissue
When 100 mV DC voltage was applied between one
electrode resting against the mesentery and one elec
trode in the aorta or vena cava, one to several mi
croamperes could be observed to pass between the
electrodes. The current increased continuous ly, ftrst
slowly and then more rapidly. After a wbile the Oow of
current decreased or became interrupted, usually from
gas produced at the electrodes. In this way the tissue became electrically charged,
as shown in Chapter VI (Fig. VI: 13). When the exter
nal power source was then disconnected and the two
terminals short-circuite d over a microampere meter,
such a charged "biologic battery" was found to dis
charge. Similar discharge from a carcinoma and granu
loma, spontaneous ly polarized, is shown in the pa
tients in Figs. VI: II and 12. C. Diapedetic bleedings
Diapedetic extravasation of red blood cells is one of
the early visible changes around the electropositive
electrode. This extravasation can be seen in Fig. XIV: I as many sites of bleeding along small arterial
branches after the application of DC current in small
quantity (1. 0 pA, 30 min, 1. 0 V). This voltage repre
sents the potential difference actually measured be
tween the electrodes. Focal arterial contractions a. nd
associated intraarterial thromboses also interrupt the
blood stream


 the students'  attention  to
their  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"  prepares  them  for It. If they
will FEEL  the Directions  given,  there  is not a thing  in the 32 THE  "7 AM"  DISCOURSES
world  which  can prevent  their  Freedom,  Success  and  their
Ascension. I want  you  to realize  tonight,  if you  will,  Precious  Ones,
there  is no time  in human  Life  and  experience,  when  man-
kind  has not been  guarded  by Those  Great  Ascended  Be-
ings and  the  Great  Cosmic  Beings! Otherwise  mankind
would  not exist  today;  because  of the accumulation  of the
discordant  creations,  which  the people  have  drawn  into  the
atmosphere  of Earth. Their  accumulated  discord  is the so-
called  astral  or psychic  world! In it, there  is nothing  but
destructive  qualities,  generated  and  brought  forth  by man-
kind  thruout  the countless  centuries;  ever  since  mankind
turned  away  from  the  Acknowledgment  of each  one's
"Mighty  I AM  Presence";  and  that  is many,  many  centuries
ago! (On December  2, 1939,  the Ascended  Masters  finished  consuming  the astral
or psychic  plane  over  the United  States  of America;  and  they  removed  all
the discarnates  over  America  at the same  time.) I would  not  care  to even  draw  your  attention  to the
length  of time;  but  today,  for the first  time  in the history
of the Earth,  there  has  been  released  This  Knowledge  of
the Ascended  Masters  in Its minutest  detail;  so mankind,
if the people  will  take  advantage  of this,  thru  their  calls  to
the Presence,  can  free  themselves  wholly  and  completely! By the Use  of the  Violet  Consuming  Flame,  they  can
release  themselves  from  every  discordant  thing,  which  they
have  ever  drawn  about  them. The  Individual,  who  is foolish
enough  not  to wish  to use the Violet  Consuming  Flame,
will remain  in his chains  and  limitations. Without  the Use DISCOURSE  III  33
of It, you cannot  free  yourself  from  your  own  creations;  and
so far as It being  harmful  is concerned,  that  is positively
foolish;  for the reason  the human  cannot  produce  the Violet
Consuming  Flame! Your  Presence,  Who  is All Perfection,
is the Only  One,  aside  from  the Ascended  Masters,  who  can
produce  that  Violet  Consuming  Flame. At your  call,  the
Presence  rushes  It thru  your  body  and  thru  your  world  of
activity  and  creations;  dissolving  all discordant  creations
from  you  and  your  world. That  is the way,  It sets  you  Free
and is the Means  by which  you  can,  thru  the Assistance  of
your  Presence  and  the Call  to the Ascended  Masters,  so pu-
rify your  body,  the Presence  can  enable  you  to make  the
Ascension. The use  of the Tube  of Light  about  you  is IMPERA-
TIVE  today! If you  wish  to move  in your  world,  untouched
by the discordant  human  creation  about  you,  It is the only
way you can do it. While  the Messengers  are here  with  you,  We  shall  en-
deavor  to make  this  so absolutely  clear  in every  detail;  all
those  who  want  to, may  have  the Clearness,  the  Under-
standing  and  the Power  released  within  them,  of the Appli-
cation  which  will  set them  Free  during  this  class. We have  no desire  to intrude  anything  upon  any  one;
but Precious  Ones,  there  must  be Tremendous  Power  in
This  Light  being  released  thru  these  Blessed  Messengers,
when  there  is such  furious  opposition  to them  as there  is
today! Never  has  such  vicious  violent  opposition  touched
anything,  which  has  ever  come  forth  in America,  as these 34 THE  "7 AM"  DISCOURSES
two Precious  Ones  have  had  to face,  in the carrying  forth  of
This  Light! They  have  never  asked  anything  of any  one,
except  to love  his or her  own  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"
and harmonize  himself  or herself! They  have  never  given
forth  anything  but  Love,  Kindness  and  Harmony! Yet
this viciousness  persists;  and  even  the concentration  of it
going  on all over  the United  States;  by individuals  trying
to interfere  with  the Spreading  of This  Light. In Los  Angeles,  in the Pan  Pacific  Class,  Beloved  Ones,
everything  was  attempted  the human  could  think  of, to try
and prevent  that  class. Well,  it was  more  wonderful  than
ever! Much  of the same  thing  is being  done  in New  York,
to try to prevent  the class  here;  but the class  will  go on un-
touched!" (And  it did!) These  unfortunate  individuals,  who  think  they  are op-
posing  the Ballards  and  accusing  them  of all kinds  of things
—every  word  of which  is falsehood,  do they  think  for one
moment,  they  are opposing  the Ballards ? The  Ballards  have
not a thing  to do with  it, except  to carry  This  Light;  and
they  have  had  the Courage  to face  the "lions  on the path
and make  them  Airedales,"  as Mrs.  Shinn  says. Dear  Hearts,
it is the Great  Cosmic  Light  which  these  unfortunate  indi-
viduals  are facing,  not the Ballards! If Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ballard
should  suddenly  ASCEND,  do you  think  This  Work
would  stop ? As your  phrase  is used—"Not  on your  Life." You see We very  often  use your  own  expression,  because
it goes  home  clearly  ofttimes. I tell you,  Dear  Ones,  those
unfortunate  beings  will  meet  their  own  destruction—every DISCOURSE  III  35
one of them—who  opposes  This  Light  and  these  Blessed
Ones. They  give  forth  nothing  in this  world  but Love  and
kindness! They  do give  forth  the Truth  which  will  liberate
and free  every  one  of mankind;  if each  one  will  apply  It
with  earnestness  and  determination. It will  not apply  Itself! After  the Messengers  returned  from  Honolulu  last  sum-
mer,  Their  Work  so far as their  Requirements  in This  Ac-
tivity  were  concerned,  was  finished. Saint  Germain  came
to them  in His  Tangible  Body  and  said:  "Now  you  are
Free"! If you  wish  to do so, you  do not  have  to go on
and battle  farther  in this,"  and  they  said:  "Our  joy is to
serve. If we can be of further  Service,  then  we are ready  to
continue  on;  until  enough  of mankind  understand  their
own  "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  to hold  the Balance  for man-
kind  and  set the rest of them  Free." Do you  wonder,  Beloved  Ones  of New  York,  why  the
Messengers  have  been  so unyielding  and  firm;  in demand-
ing and  holding  every  one  firm  and  close  to the Books
which  Beloved  Saint  Germain  brought  forth ? Because  the
Truth  is there  Unadulterated—the  Ascended  Masters'


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ish from  their  world  forever. In the Power  of Our  Great  Light;  Goddess  of Liberty,
Victory  and  Goddess  of Light. in Thy  Trinity  of Action,
clothe  these  Beloved  Ones  in Thy  Garments  of Light;
which  hold  Thy  Radiance  in constant  action  about  them;
fills and  charges  their  worlds  with  Thy  Dynamic  Action  of
Courage,  Strength  and  Victory  of the Light. I thank  you. DISCOURSE  XVIII
April  24,  /93S
DETROIT,  MICHIGAN. Beloved  Students  of Detroit,  I am grateful  for this  op-
portunity  to render  a Service  to you  today,  in preparation
for the coming  Class,  which  I trust  will  be acceptable  to
all of you. The  need  of mankind  today,  is warding  off the
destructive  conditions  which  exist,  where  destructive  In-
dividuals  are trying  to impose  themselves  upon  mankind. We firmly  believe  with  your  co-operation,  that  ninety  per-
cent of the destructive  intent  which  it was  thought  would
be released  upon  mankind,  may  be avoided. I am saying  this  for the first  time  in Our  Experience,  or
the Messenger's  experience,  in conveying  it to mankind. So much  has  been  accomplished  by the Mighty  Decrees
of the students,  thruout  America  and  the World. We Our-
selves  could  not have  believed,  We could  find  such  response
from  mankind. I say to you  Beloved  Ones,  you  will  never
know  until  you  are Ascended  Beings,  the Service  you  have
rendered. So many  times,  you  have  thought  you  were  not
rendering  much  Service,  yet you  were  earnest  and  sincere
in releasing  These  Mighty  Decrees. It is very  wonderful  and
it has  made  possible  so much,  which  We  could  scarcely
have  hoped  for,  that  Our  Rejoicing  I think,  is far greater
than  yours. 278 DISCOURSE  XVIII  279
On the opening  day  of This  Class,  there  will  be a Greater
Release  and  Action  of the Cosmic  Light  into  the human
octave,  than  has  been  thus  far. It means  everything. The
Messengers  even  do not know  it; but why  do you  suppose
it happened  that  you  have  a twelve  day  Class  here. The
Messengers  started  in to have  a ten day  Class  as usual,  but
it so happened  it became  a twelve  day  Class. There  must
have  been  a far Greater  Reason  for It than  the outer  human
knows. Will  you  please  give  attention  and  comprehend
these  things  which  seem  just  ordinary. From  the  Inner
Standpoint,  they  are most  extraordinary;  because  It is the
Action  of the Divine  Law  of your  Being,  or shall  We  say
the Being  of Life. Because  of what  will  be released,  not only  for your  blessed
selves  here  and  the people  of Detroit,  who  may  not even
be interested,  Its far reaching  Activity  will  pour  out into  the
World. That  is the reason  why  this has become  a twelve  day
Class. Even  the blessed  ones  who  are in charge  of the Ca-
thedral,  thought  those  two  days  were  taken;  yet  it was
found  they  were  not. There  is a Governing  Power  and  In-
telligence,  Precious  People  which  once  you  comprehend
It makes  you  stand  firm. The  Understanding  and  Ac-
knowledgment  of your  Power  to use  these  Inner  Laws,
frees  you  from  human  conditions. You  bring  these  Laws
into action  in the human  octave. Then  you  will  understand,
you are no longer  subject  to the conditions  which  exist  here. Believe  Me when  I say,  you  can move  in the world  un-
touched  by the conditions  about  you;  if you  are firm  enough 305 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
in the Acknowledgment  of your  Presence. It will  release  Its
Tube  of Light  about  your  human  body  and  your  feeling
world;  to make  you  Invincible  to the impact  of human  cre-
ation  around  you. (Wave  of hand  which  repels. ) Beloved
Ones,  if you  saw  from  Our  Standpoint,  as you move  among
the creations  of mankind,  you  would  see a sudden  action,
constantly  sending  its impact  against  the human  form. If you  do not believe  in, understand  or call  your  "I AM
Presence"  into  action,  to hold  Its Tube  of Light  about  you,
discordant  conditions  constantly  affect  you  just  like  that—
(waving  motion  of hand)  everywhere  you  move. When
discord  reaches  into  your  physical  body  and  affects  you
physically,  it has first  acted  in your  feeling  world. Most  of
the time,  you  are wholly  unaware  of it, except  when  you
are conscious  of some  disturbance. As you  come  to comprehend  these  Simple  Laws,  every-
thing  is just  the Natural  Practical  Law  of Life;  which  it
is your  Right  and  Privilege  to use in the Fuller  Understand-
ing, to which  you  have  not yet become  accustomed. It does
not make  any  difference  what  your  manifestations  have
been  up to date,  in your  Acknowledgment  of the Presence
of Life;  it is nothing,  to what  you  can  call  into  action,  as
you go forth. Pardon  Me,  if I digress  just  a moment,  since  the Vibra-
tory Action  is Right. I want  to place  this  before  you. In
all the seeming  opposition  to This  "I AM"  Activity—for
no reason  at all, and  all the falsehoods  which  have  been
uttered  concerning  the Messengers  and  the Work,  during DISCOURSE  XVIII  281
the Washington  Class;  the Great  Cosmic  Laws  were  set
into action,  which  will  cause  opposition  to disappear  from
the Earth. Watch  it. We do not talk  to hear  Ourselves,  but
We state  Laws. We never  refer  to a personality,  when  We
are stating  These  Laws;  except  in some  specific  instance,
where  work  was  required. Know  and  feel  the Power  in the last Decree  you  issued
in the opening  of the meeting. If you  know  that  Decree
with  the  All-power  of your  feeling,  you  will  find  your
world  adamant  against  human  disturbing  conditions. When  you  can say to all the appearance  world  and  human
creation:  "You  have  no power". Mean  It and  feel  It with
the Infinite  Power  of Light. which  is your  Being,  then
you will  find  yourselves  Invincible  within  the Presence  of
Light. It is Invincible  and  you  can  move  in the  world
everywhere,  releasing  the Inner  Power;  and  yet not accept-
ing the outer  into  your  feeling  world,  which  limits  and  dis-
turbs  you. Therefore,  today  as the atmosphere  becomes  more  and
more  stilled  and  harmonized  in the room;  I want  to render
for you  a Service,  which  it has been  My Joy so many  times
to do. It is the releasing  and  dissolving  wherever  possible
of your  human  creation. So you may  have  a Greater  Release
from  the pressure  which  has often  caused  you  to fail in the
achievement,  which  you  would  so love  to have  had. Let Me urge  you  today


hamstrings) along the posterior chain is too tight (TED) or the
patient can’t stabilize their core well enough to allow the hips to
shift back and the spine to flex (SMCD). We are finally  coming around to the idea that functiona l
breathing, recruiting a strong diaphragm with appropriate timing, is
a big part of core stabilization. When breathing is dysfunctional, it
can create a SMCD. What also happens, however, is that TEDs  will
cause an individual to change their breathing patterns. For insta nce,
people often hold their breath  in order to try to overcome the
dysfunction. A TED can therefore cause a breathing pattern
disorder, which in turn can cause or exacerbate a SMCD. So,
breathing can be, and often is, central to both types of dysfunc tion. If you can’t breathe functionally through a particular movement or
posture, then you don’ t “own” that movement or posture. This has significant implications for professional athletes. It also
contributes to the huge rise in incidence and cost of repetitive strain
injury in many occupations and workplaces. The other overlooked and interesting application of functional
breathing is for cognition in sport, especially team sport. I always
tell the hockey players I work with that, while the mistakes you see
players make, especially towa rd the end of a game, are often
attributed to “pressure,” they are also, at least in part, due to the
continual hyperventilation you see on the bench during recovery. During recovery, players breathe through an open mouth, resulting
in a decrease in cerebral blood flow that impacts their ability to
think clearly. Nasal, functional breathing during recovery from an
acute anaerobic bout, makes a difference to cognitive ability which
is vital for perfo rmance. I’m not aware of any study backing this up,
and I’m not sure how such a study could be designed, but I have
seen it in action, and it makes sense. —Paul SlyFUNCTIONAL BREA THING IS FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH
Tim Anderson is cofounder of Original Strength and has been a personal
trainer for more than two decades. He is a well-known author and a sought-
after speaker. He has written and cowritten books on this subject, including
The Becoming Bulletpr oof Project. As I was preparing the final manuscript
for this book, Tim wrote to me with the following practical explanation of
the science we have covered in this chapter:
Strength starts with breath. Proper breathing literally strengthens the
body from the center out. The diaphragm is the chief spinal
stabilizer of the inner core muscles. When it is functioning properly,
when it is being  used to fill the lungs from the bottom to the top, it
rhythmically dances with the pelvic floor. This dance, which also
involves the transverse abdominus and the multifidi, stabilizes the
spine and pelvis. When the diaphragm is functioning properly, the
pelvic floor and the other spinal stabilizers are getting the
stimulation they need to function properly. This is the foundation  for
a strong, powerful and ef ficient moving body. A body  that has a properly functioning diaphragm, a nasal
breather who keeps their tongue  on the roof of their mouth and fills
their lungs up from the bottom to the top, has a nervous system that
feels safe to express itself without restriction. Not only does this
result in better performance in speed, strength, power and efficiency,
it results in a more resilient and durable body, a body that is less
prone to injury. Trying to expres s strength and power while mouth breathing not
only throws the nervous system into the sympathetic mode, it causes
the body  to recruit prime movers to stabilize the spine because the
inner core unit’s chief stabilizer (the diaphragm) is not functioning
optimally. This compensation can lead to poor performance and
even injury. It may help to think of the body  as an “X”. Functional breathing
creates a body with a solid center, a reflexively strong inner core
unit. When the body has a strong center, the forces it creates  and
encounters can easily and efficiently travel from one side of thebody to the other, through that solid center. The result is a body that
can move with grace, ease, and power. Dysfunctional breathing creates instability of the spine because
the inner core muscles are not able to properly do their job. This
means when the body creates or encounters force, those forces
cannot efficiently travel through  the center of the body. Instead, they
may end up in regions of the body they shouldn’ t causing movem ent
issues, pain, or injury. Typically, the body of a dysfunctional
breather, does not express optimal, fluid posture, or ease of
movement. It lacks a poetry of movement because the body cannot
express its full movement potential. I like to tell people that breathing properly, nasal breathing with
your tongue on the roof of your mouth, filling your lungs up from
the bottom to the top, gives you a center of strength. It makes  the
body and mind strong and resilient. Improper breathing, mouth
breathing, filling  the lungs up from the top, rarely filling the bottom
of the lungs; gives the body a soft or hollow center. It leaves  the
body and mind weak and fragile. In other words, mouth breathing  can create fragility while nasal
breathing can create resiliency. —Tim Anderson
OceanofPDF. comACHAPTER SIX
WHEN BREATHING MAKES YOU HURT
PAIN IS A SIGN OF DYSFUNCTION
s we have been discussing, the diaphragm, the primary respira tory
muscle, is essential for stabilizing the core, spine, and posture. Dysfunctional breathing can compromise the body’ s fundamental
stability. Poor breathing patterns can also cause pain in sometimes
unexpected places. Over time, poor breathing patterns create faulty
movement patte rns that lead to pain and injury in the muscles, tendons, and
joints. For instan ce, if you breat he into the upper chest, alteratio ns occur in
the position of your lower ribs, which need to move up to allow enough air
into the lungs. The result is likely to be pain or dysfunction in part of the
spine. If you continually neglect the primary muscles that hold your body
upright, such as the core and the diaphragm, the body will compensate by
overusing smaller muscles that aren’ t really designed for the job. This is
why muscular adaptations caused by breathing pattern disorders can
contribute to all sorts of pain conditions that you might not intuitively
associate with breathing. For example, paradoxical breathing, a
dysfunctional breathing pattern in which the abdomen contracts on
inhalation and expands on exhalation, often coexists with muscle
imbalances and pain in the cervical spine. Weakness in the pelvic floor
muscles can show up as injuries in areas as varied as the knee,1,2 ankle,
anterior cruciate ligament,2 and lower back. 3 Problems in the hands can be
caused by tension in the should ers and neck stemming from dysfunctionalbreathing. 4 Poor blood flow to the brain caused by chronic hyperventilatio n
can result in excruciating headaches. 5
Imbalances in the autonomic nervous system, which can be influenced
by breat hing, can also lead to pain. For the body to move, the nervous
system and muscles must work together. If problems exist in either system,
the other will adapt to compen sate. This is why autonomic dysfunction
caused by psychological stress can display as physical symptoms. Stress has been clearly identified  as both a contributing and a risk factor
in musculoskeletal injuries and chronic pain. In one 2012 study, researchers
observed patien ts with ongoing shoulder and neck pain and found that
sympathetic activation was dominant and the parasympathetic system was
suppressed, suggesting an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. 6
When the nervous system is in a state of heightened arousal, the body is
likely to adjust breathing patte rns to restore homeostasis. This alters the
recruitment of respiratory muscles, impacts motor control, and leads to
chronic or acute musculoskeletal pain. Another valuable window into how well the body’ s systems are
functioning is provided by myofascial trigger points. These are tender areas
in the muscles that often cause referred pain, a phenomenon where pain
originating in one place shows up elsewhere in the body. Trigger points
manifest as muscle stiffness, weakness, dizziness, nausea, and postural
distortions. 7 Left untreated, they can result in ongoing disruption of
movement patterns. Trigger points can be activated by psychological stress. In 1994, researchers observed what happened to a trigger point under
different conditions, including mental stress induced by an arithmetic task. The results showed that the trigger point was stimulated during stress,
suggesting that physical pain is directly influenced by the emotio ns. 8 A new
paper from 2020 suggests that the stronger stimulation of the baroreflex that
occurs during guided slow, deep breathing may offer a “cheap-and-easy
way to ‘behaviorally’ stimulate  the afferent vagus and reduce  pain,” but
still, not much is known about this pathway. The stimulation and function
of the barorecep tors have not been well studied in research examining the
impact of slow, diaphragm breathing on pain,


 the Boston Neurobehavioral Institute (Harvard
Medical School)  applied the same principle to the treatment of two children
with severe developmental problems. Parents, caretakers, and teachers were
taught to modify the children’ s breathing to eliminate hyperventilation in
order to prevent seizures. The technique was successful in both cases.98
It is widely recognized that poor health is associated with lower
parasympathetic tone.99 This is certainl y the case in people with epilepsy. Those people who have intractable—hard to control—seizures have lower
vagal tone than those whose epilepsy is controlled. A 2010 study links the
fact that slow breathing exercises are known to increase parasympathetic
tone in healthy people with the theory that slow breathing exercises in
people with epilepsy might cause a similar increase in parasympathetic tone
and reduce seizure frequency. Slow breathing improves conditions
including hypert ension, asthma,  anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder,
and it affects cortical activi ty and seizure thresholds through the
chemoreceptors, baroreceptors, and pulmonary stretch receptors. The
researchers suggest that slow breathing might also reduce seizure activity
by lessening anxiety. Few epileptics are aware of the link between seizures and breath ing, but
various studies demonstrate that breath retraining can successfully reduce
the severity and frequency of epileptic seizures, just as hyperventilation can
be (and is) used to induce seizures for EEG studies. While many factors
contribute to epilepsy, and resea rch on the therapeutic application of breath
retraining is still limited, hyperventilation is known to play a significant
role as a seizure trigger. Therefore, breathing exercises to correct
hyperventilation and normalize the imbalance of blood CO2 are likely to
prove helpful for people with epilepsy. Epilepsy is not caused by poor
breathing, but it is certainly exacerbated by it. While there is not enough
research to conclusively demonstrate that breathing reeducation will be
effective for everyone who suffers with epileptic seizures, the benefits of
healthy breathin g patterns, for general well-being and for reducing the
feelings of anxiety and panic that can happen as the result of living with an
unpredictable condition, will doubtless help build a better qualit y of life. To
my understandin g, while not all forms of epilepsy are breathin g-related, it
simply doesn’ t make sense for children and adults affected by epilepsy thatchronic hyperventilation and breathing pattern disorders are not addressed
in treatment. NICKY’S ST ORY: OVERBREA THING AND OVERREACHING
I am including Nicky’ s story for several reasons. She shared her journey
and research because her own life has changed so much for the better. More
important, her story also illustra tes what happens when we try too hard, go
at a new idea all guns a-blazing, and try to apply perfecti onism to a
breathing practi ce. Overall, Nicky’ s experience is one of courage and
persistence, and it provides invaluable insight. Nicky wouldn’ t have described herself as anxious. After all, she never
had panic attack s. She liked to be in control of her life and was organized,
efficient, and had good attention to detail. She wasn’ t aware that anything
was wrong with her breathing, but she would frequently lose her train of
thought in conversation, and her focus was poor. Her heart often raced, and
she sometimes had palpitations,  which her doctor assured her was normal. But she was irritable, hypersensitive to noise, and had ongoing digestive
issues. She knew this was related to a low level of intermittent anxiety, but
she couldn’t pinpoint why, as her life was not particularly stressful. If she
drank coffee, it would often bring on feelings of anxiety, and alcohol, which
she drank only rarely, would cause disturbed sleep. She was exercising for
at least an hour most days, but this seemed to make her more  tired rather
than fit and energized. She recovered slowly and had sore, aching muscles
most of the time. Nicky did every thing at a hund red miles an hour, driven by a never -
ending to-do list. If something  went wrong, her reaction was emotional,
angry, or tearful. She had strong physiological reactions to many of her
thoughts, regularly had nightmares, and was beginning to have night
sweats. She noticed that her breathing was irregular and that she frequently
sighed and yawned. Sometimes she would find herself breathing gently,
become frightened, and try to breathe more deeply to correct it. After all,
she had learnt in yoga that deep breathing is good for you. When she
couldn’ t sleep, she used deep breathing to relax.Nicky also had nocturnal epile psy, irregular grand mal seizures, only
ever between 1 and 5 a.m., and intermittent partial complex seizures during
the day. Before a grand mal seizure, she would experience extreme
hyperventilation. Her husband would try to wake her, hoping to stop the
ensuing seizure, but neither of them knew if this was actually helpful. After
a grand mal seizure, she would sleep for two days, and during the following
weeks, she would have hundred s of very intense partial compl ex seizures,
like aftershocks with diminishing frequency. Her concentration and memory
were badly af fected. She could get lost driving around her own small town. A brain scan found no physical cause for Nicky’ s seizures. She felt like
a zombi e due to the side effects of her medication, and she was told that she
was at risk of going into “status.” This is where seizure after seizure occurs
until the heart fails. Her neurologist said that her seizures had to be fully
controlled, and she was prescribed Lamotrigine. On it, she had no more
seizures, but she still had regular episodes of nighttime hyperventilation. Then in 2016, Nicky took part in a breathing course. She had decided to
attend the instructor training, alongside the group course, to try to fix her
husband’ s chron ic snoring. At the start of the course, her BOL T score was
just 8 seconds, and she breathed at 20 breaths per minute during rest. Her
breathing was irregular, audible, and 50% through the mouth. Her blood
CO2 levels were between 26 mmHg and 32 mmHg, while a reading of
between 35 mmHg and 40 mmHg is considered normal. As the week of training progressed, she experienced a high level of
stress. She was frustrated that none of her healthcare providers had
identified the link between her breathing dysfunction and many of her
health problems. She had, for example, suffered severe postnata l depression
with both of her children, after births that were out of control and full of
fear and pain. The course also triggered an incredibly strong cleansing
reaction and a mounting concern over her seizure threshold. The breathing course had opened Nicky’ s eyes to the fact that her
breathing was incredibly unhea lthy. But it also became appar ent that she
should have learned much more slowly how to breathe functionally. She
should not have been in a group course at all, given the extent of her
hyperventilation and epilepsy, combined with her perfectionist tendencies. Instead, her training should have begun with awareness, then suppressingsighs, then full time nasal breathing, and moved slowly on to posture and
diaphragm breathing. Only once her BOL T score was about 20 seconds
should she have begun practicing with air hunger. After the course, it took Nicky two distressing weeks to be able to
breathe without trying to control every breath. She had resolved to stop
breathing in the old way immediately but couldn’ t work out how to breathe
functionally. She tried to implem ent everything she had learned at once. As
a result, she found herself on the edge of a panic attack most of the time. She experienced the following problems:
• She started using her diaphragm properly and it ached constantly, making it
impossible to switch her focus away from her breathing. • She changed her posture overnight and again experienced pain. Sitting was
uncomfortable, and she preferred to stand. • She stopped sighing and tried to breathe through her nose at all times. She tried to
retrain her breathing while speaking and began to lose weight because she didn’t
like the ef fect eating had on her breathing. • She tried to do the breathing exercises as taught but the reduced breathing
destabilized her respiration. • She experimented with her breathing, counted her breaths, and tried all sorts of
things to no avail. By lying down and reducing her breathing she could get her
breathing rate down to four or five breaths per minute, which felt good. When she
stopped the practice, her breathing became rapid again. She wondered whether
going from one state to the other was dangerous. By now, she had become very concerned about her seizure threshold. Her husband had to go away for a night, and she was terrified to go to sleep
without him there to wake her if her breathing changed. During the day, she
was so focused trying to work out how to breathe that she could barely do
anything else. Her breathing instructor advised her to ease up, stop taking her pulse,
stop practicing breath holds and counting her breaths, and just breathe
softly and gently through the nose, one step at


 We
are numb to our own creative juices. No one held a space for our
gorgeousness, and now we can’t nd it. As maidens, we were
crushed. We were treated with suspicious looks at the very moment
someone shoul d have been turning up the applause. We don’t know
how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted. We were
like lava channeled into plastic molds. Recently, I met a woman in her early twenties who was deeply
depressed. Looking at her, I saw myself fteen or twenty years ago. I
recognized every desperate feeling, every horried thought. I asked
her why she felt so sad. She told me she felt misundersto od by her
father, who didn’t want to pay for her therapy or for her to move to
another city. She said she was trying to make her way in the world
but kept falling down. She couldn’t stay with any career for very
long; she felt fat; she felt inadequate; she felt embarrasse d and kept
thinking that other people were laughing at her. The reality, in this instance, is that of an exquisitely beautiful
young woman, as fat as the pope is Jewish and as lacking in brains
as Susan Sontag. Here is a girl who doesn’t know how to nd her
glory. But that’s what our twenties are for, I told her. They are the time
when the maiden turns into a woman, the princess becomes aqueen, the child grows up. They are not the time to concentrate on
our parents so much as they are the time to concentrate on
ourselves and our own abilities. Her father’s money came with a
very high price tag, as it usually does. What she wanted in a
protector was not to be found in Daddy but in God. The peace and
security she was looking for could be found only within herself,
through a search for a higher, more noble life, and an embrace of
the glory within her. I told her that a career grows out of who we are; who we are
doesn’t grow out of a career. Her goal must not be to nd a job but
to become a magnicent woman. That is the mystical calling of
every woman’s  heart, and it is our core task as we grow up. Later on
in life, we are often bound by things, by responsibilities, by people,
and situations that keep us tied to certain spaces and times. But a
young woman must y free, away from Mommy and Daddy, away
from the dense conventions of the world, away from childhood and
into the arms of the Goddess, who awaits her. A hysterical
depression can then become a magnicent adventure. When I myself was about her age, I worked for a man who was,
and still is, a master at logos. His intellect is staggering. At the time
I knew him, I was a maiden,  a young woman like my friend, whose
thoughts were scattered like wind through a half-built house. I knew
many things that I could not yet articulate. I felt dierent from
others, unable to play the parts assigned to me by the world in
which I lived. As for the man, I knew he couldn’t truly see me. But
still I felt that one day my life would turn out ne, and I knew he
would be surprised when it did. Everything he spoke of was factual; everything could be measured
and proved by the scientic mind. I, with my feelings bruised and
scorched, knew that the lessons I was learning were not from the
intellect but from the trials of my heart. I knew these lessons had
more to do with where the world was going than did any of his facts
or gures. The heart would be the language of tomorrow because
the heart is where our pain is. Recently, I read that he had said of me, “She was the last person
in the world you would have ever expected to be a success.” Ilaughed when I read that. I understood his thinking. The feminine
way seems weak to the masc uline prejudice; and when I worked for
him, I was a developing feminine spirit. Lots of tears, lots of drama. For thousands of years, the woman’s way, our way, has been kept
underground. Unlike Mary, we are not prepared for our role. No
gracious, institutionalized structure is unrolled like a red carpet to
usher us into our glory. We come into it covered in mess from our
rocky ascent. But now the Goddess is returning—she is making her way up—
and people without eyes to see will be completely in the dark about
the journey of women all around them. As the Goddess begins to
make her claim on them, there will be more, rather than fewer, girls
who appear to make no sense. The Goddess makes a dram atic entry. When a system is ooded with new and radical impressions, it
seems to implode before making a quantum leap forward into
something dierent. Thus, there are millions of girls who are
depressed to a degree beyond what their families and friends nd
normal, but who are actually undergoing the feminine journey into
full and actualized consciousness. One day they will be queens, and
the transition wouldn’t have happened had they not cracked up
when they did. The princess does become a queen if she stays the road. It is as if
there were a beautiful enchantress in a luminous bubble. She stands
before us and beckons for us to become her. Faith in her invokes our
best. We change. We become unlike who we used to be. It is the
miracle we sensed when we were little girls: that one day we would
live lives of joy in enchanted castles. Let us seek all that is true and loving and good about womanhood
and ask for the blessings thereof, for ourselves and others. We ask
that our womanhood bless our communities, our families, our
friends. We ask for wisdom and guidance that we might reach the
highest vibration of humanit y of which we are capable. We look to
God and his many teachers, to the Goddess and her many faces, to
show us what we do not know. From here we grow, more each
passing day, into the wome n God would have us be. There is nohigher prayer. From there we shall know joy, and this is what we
were born for. Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except
in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves. When we are
without joy, we grope in the dark. When we are centered  in joy, we
attain our wisdom. A joyful woman, by merely being, says it all. The
world is terried of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway. Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how
good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things
unfold according to our own plans. How often that’s happened—we
married the right man, had the children, got the job—and  we’ve still
known despair. Joy is what happens when we see that God’s plan is
perfect and we’re already starring in a perfect show. It demands that
we have the audacity to embrace the knowledge of just how
beautiful we really are and how innitely powerful we are right
now—without changing a thing—through the grace that’s
consistently born and reborn within us. Such an embra ce is not arrogant but humble; it is not crazy but
realistic. It is an appraisal of our lives through the eyes the Goddess
gives us. I have not known a lot of joy, but I have known some. When I am there, in that golden circle where everything feels
wonderful for no apparent reason, I try to memorize the feeling, the
terrain, the scenery. I have noticed how full I feel at those moments,
with an overwhelming sense  of lightness about all things. I know
that this is our natural state and that the purpose of our lives is to
achieve it consistently. For now, joy is a gift, an act of grace that’s here when it’s here
and not when it’s not. But perhaps joy can be practiced. Perhaps we
can decide to be happy, to give joy before waiting to receive it. This
is not denial but armation  of the power inside us. Embracing joy
heals depressio n. Then we become the ones who teach the meaning
of joy to our children, as well as allowing them to teach it to us. We
bring joy to one another, to men, to children, to God. Just knowing
we’re meant to do this increases its presence within us. Our deciding
to be joyful demonstrates our willingness to relinquish the petty and
negative preoccupations that stand in its way. When we give theseup, a more joyful life has a chance to emerge. The Goddess doesn’t
ght our pain; when she is in our hearts, the pain is gone. I think women can have it all, but not immediately. The various
forces of our power take years to develop fully. One of the ideas we
must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective
vigor is that a woman’s life goes uphill at forty. The French


 of that divine will that
inexorably leads humankind upon the path of evolution. The surface mind
and ego are products of the five senses, of that knowledge that we acquire
during the period of our lifetime, and since they are the results of limited
knowledge and partial experience, they are the poorest vehicles for theconduct of action. Absolute ef fectiveness comes to those who immerse ego
in universal mind and allow the Secret Self to guide them. Their
psychological position is that of a listener; their inner mind and heart
become attuned to a wider consciousness, a greater sense of being;
impressions, knowledge, and intuitive ur gings come to them from out of
this source with an authority greater than anything received through their
sensory or gans. “Ever and anon the trumpet sounds from the hid battlements of eternity,”
wrote the English poet and mystic Francis Thompson. And to each of us as
we go through life, a moment comes, however fleeting, when a crack
appears in the hard wall of consciousness, and we see through briefly, into
regions of eternal light and infinite knowledge, and in that moment we truly
are possessed of a sixth sense; something paranormal happens, some
example of intuitive knowledge; we read the thoughts of others or see at a
distance or understand coming events. Such an experience leaves us shaken. Our absorption in the material world is for gotten for the moment. W e begin
to see the astounding possibilities of mind and consciousness. W e become
convinced that when we deal with material things we deal with results, not
causes; we know that all causes exist in mind. W e begin to perceive infinite
possibilities, vast scopes, subtle nuances that have been hidden from us by
our limited consciousness. Such understanding may come to us from a
small event or lar ge. It may result from such a simple thing as the sudden
apprehension of the thoughts of another person. A light may burst upon us,
and we may have sudden knowledge of a coming event. Perhaps one of our
dreams comes true, or a loved one materializes and instructs us as to a
course of action. In any case, intuitive phenomena come to all people. The
dice player ur ging the goddess of fate to smile on their next cast does not
always beseech Lady Luck in vain. Sometimes they open up a channel
between themself and omnipotent intelligence, and the dice repeat magic
numbers at such length as to reduce mathematical odds to absurdity. Intuition and Reason
 Intuition is much more reliable than reason, for reason charts its course with
limited access to facts, while intuition has at its fingertips all the knowledge
that has ever existed, that ever will exist. Using the sixth sense, however, is
not such a simple matter as trusting one’ s life to one’ s feelings. It is very
easy to fall into the trap of being guided by the emotions, under the
misapprehension that emotions are intuitive feelings. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. Emotion is a wild horse, running away with the
inhabitant in the body, and those who are ruled by emotion are in the grip of
something worse than limited knowledge; they are the blind tool of egoistic
fears, hates, envies. Such a life is an idiot’ s tale, without design. Reason can
control the emotions, and reason is a far better guide. Reason is limited in
both ef fectiveness and knowledge, however, and when it has achieved
sufficient supremacy over the emotional nature, it may safely be
subordinated to the guidance of intuition; thus the whole life is brought to a
level of competence and attunement. Charles Steinmetz, the celebrated engineer of the General Electric
Company, wrote, “Some day people will learn that material things will not
bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and
powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories to the
study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly
been scratched. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement
in one generation than it has seen in the past four.”
Reason enables us to deal ef fectively with our immediate surroundings, but
only within the scope of the information available to the five senses. Reason
tells us we may go coatless on a sunny day, but the storm that is gathering
over the horizon is outside the scope of reason, and when it rains in the late
afternoon, reason has been wrong. The wider consciousness in the depths of
each of us must be trusted before our actions can be guided with a
knowledge of all factors. Reason is a tool, and logic is an ef fective method
of thinking, but each is only a means and no more reliable than the
information fed into it. In the eyes of the world intuitive people often act
unreasonably, for their actions are based upon a secret knowledge that is
hidden from more logical minds. Reasonable people have dif ficulty
discerning between the emotionally guided person and the intuitively
guided person. T o them, they are both unreasonable. They see that theemotionally guided person is almost never right, and they correctly attribute
this fact to such a person’ s psychic blind spots. They see the intuitively
guided person act unreasonably but with continued success, and they
attribute this to luck rather than to any ef fective means of coping with the
world. In consequence, the reasonable person is almost as blinded as the
emotional person, for the reasonable person has shut their eyes to the
possibilities of intuitive knowing. Logic and Science

The scientific approach to the solution of problems works from ef fect to
cause. Knowledge of a particular problem is contained in those facts
observable in the ef fect under scrutiny. This ef fect is the field of ef fort, and
logic is the method by which science works from the ef fect to the cause
which produced it. This procedure has made remarkable advances, but for
the most part they have been within the realm of known facts. Now and
again a creative thinker joins the laboratory armies and in one intuitive flash
spans years of painstaking experiment. Albert Einstein stated that his theory
of relativity was revealed to him in a moment of inspiration, and the
simplicity of the eventual mathematical formula, E = MC², could not have
been hidden from an army of researchers unless its significance was outside
the scope of their consciousness. All science and mathematics are in the end
philosophical, for they attempt to penetrate the mysteries of the universe
and the secret of life, and they represent the ef forts of humankind on the
boundaries of awareness to extend that awareness unceasingly. To recognize that there is a mind within us that knows the answers to all our
problems is the first step to acquiring the use of the infallible sixth sense. It
is not necessary to find a solution in the material world. In point of actual
fact the solution can never be found there. The secret lies within ourselves,
and we need go no farther than our very room to find each answer. There is
tremendous comfort in discovering within oneself an infinite and eternal
mind that holds the answer to each problem, to realize that the solution toeach perplexing situation may be found simply by searching one’ s soul. But
we are suf ficiently out of joint with life, we may find it extremely dif ficult
to commune with our inner and deeper nature, and may even become
neurotic through having severed psychic ties with our originator. When we
look into the reaches of our soul, those trackless corridors stretch toward
infinity and appall us with their emptiness; we are frightened and seek
quickly to return to the uneasy security of our material existence. It takes
courage to look upon the many faces of the Secret Self. The Divine does not
reside alone in beauty, comfort, love, and harmony, but is equally resident
in ugliness, hardship, hate, and discord. The Secret Self attains its purpose
in all areas of endeavor by the conflict of opposites, and before we are able
to live as mature human beings, we must accept all sides of life as being
part of an absolutely sure and perfect plan for the working out of the
purposes of the Divine. God Sense

The sixth sense is a God sense, an identification, however momentary, with
the Secret Self, which enables us, in that instant, to perceive future, past,
and present in one instantaneous tableau, to contain all space and time
within the confines of our own consciousness. Such awareness, if
constantly possessed, would make all our actions infallible, and the purpose
of evolution must lie in just such an end as this; the beginnings of such a
development are already perceivable in the lives of many people. The Ouija
board, the divining rod, the crystal ball, and the star gazer have been with us
since the dawn of recorded history. Such phenomena definitely are
indicative of humanity’ s recognition of a power of intuition — a sixth
sense. This paranormal facility of the mind has been lar gely ignored in the
past century of material conquest, but now that the searchlight of scientific
examination is being brought to bear, it appears inevitable that mental and
spiritual advances will overshadow material advances in the years ahead.A new approach, a new concept is necessary before investigation of the
paranormal will yield results. The methods of science have not
demonstrated that they are adaptable to the study of a world that is
invisible. By means of the


 liked to read. I said
that I was drawn to an internal  spiritual path, and while books played an
important part in that developme nt, I was not currently reading much on the
subject. She replied that the only spiritual author she would recommend
was a man named Dr. David R. Hawkins. A month or so later, a copy of Power vs. Force arrived in my mailbox;
shortly thereafter, my friend and I met in Sedona, Arizona, to attend one of
Dr. Hawkins’ s lectures. He spoke for just over an hour before taking a
break, and I immediately made my way outside and wept. They were tears
of gratitude, to be sure. The next several years passed quickly for my wife and me, between
growing our business and raising five sons—however, we made time to
attend Dr. Hawkins’ s lectures and eventually volunteered to help in any way
possible. Once he reached his 80s, his lecture schedule slowed, but a life-
enhancing message always came through when he spoke. It was heartbreaking when “Doc ” passed. He was and is a gift from God
for me and thousands of others. And then in 2015, I learned that Doc had
left an unpublished manuscript entitled Success Is for You. As a lifelong
entrepreneur, I have certainly experienced both success and failure and
could not wait to read what Doc had to say on the subject. Many years ago, when I had a company called Illuminations, I worked
with a wonderfu l man who was instrumental in building Starbucks from a
small company into a global brand. One day he told me a story about the
importance of living a “one-hat life.” He said that most people you meet
wear many hats: one at work, another at home, and yet another in their
spiritual life. He learned that people are at their best when they know whothey are and have one clear set of values that equally apply to all of life’s
activities. Dr. Haw kins’ s body of work helps us to discover our one hat—that is,
who we are—and to provide a context for all of life’s experie nces. In the
pages of this newly discovered  book, he weaves his understan ding of life
into practical and immutable observations about universal princi ples and the
distinctions between perception and essence. To those  who are familiar with Doc’s work, you will love how Success Is
for You weaves what you already know into the world of business and
success. You will smile at his stories, including the one about the restaurant
that insists on serving only raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing, even
though the customer simply wants the familiar Thousand Island or bleu
cheese. On the other hand, if you are unfamiliar with Dr. Hawkins, this book
serves as a perfect introduction, providing profound insights that allow you
to focus on and achieve that which you desire. To those who already have a business, Doc explains that there is only one
customer we serve and why. Or if you intend to start a business one day,
this book is an invaluable resource—read it first, and then keep it handy. Upon receiving the manuscrip t, I decided to read it and apply the
principles myself. Immediately, I was reminded of those qualities that have
brought the greatest satisfaction  in my work life. I also discovered places
where I was stuck and subsequently found freedom. Several months later, I was feeling quite stressed about work, and my
wife suggested that I connect again with Doc’ s manuscript. Honestly, in the
moment her suggestion was irritating, but the following day I picked it up
and reread a section. Immediately, the stress passed. I decid ed to move
Success Is for Y ou to a permanent spot on my desk. Think of this book as a primer for business and life. It was written by a
humble man who achieved greatness; a brilliant man who channeled his
gifts into helping others, buildin g a world-renowned medical practice in the
process; and, moreover, a spiritu al man who saw in you all that you were in
this very moment. I am eternally grateful to have met Dr. Hawkins and humbled to be asked
to write these words. If you are reading them, my prayer is that this may be
that serendipitous moment when  you are introduced, or reintroduced, to an
eternal message of possibility and kindness that will serve you forever.— Wally Arnold
Founder of Popcornopolis
Founder of Illuminations
Santa Monica, California, 2015
OceanofPDF.comPREFACE
Who among us would not like to be successful? How many people do we
know who aspire to mediocrity, or worse, to fail intentionally? Likely no
one. If everyone  wants to be successful, then why do so few people attain
true success in our world? In this book, Dr. David R. Hawkins explores
these issues and offers pragmatic guidelines that direct us to the source of
real success—a way of being in the world. This manuscript was originall y drafted in 1991. Since then, almost
everything in our world has changed technologically. The proliferation of
the Internet’ s availability worldwide has made many earlier information
systems obsolet e. Nevertheless,  we will discover that the basic principles
for building success remain much the same. Dr. Hawkins enco urages us to
try these timeless principles for ourselves. Readers will see that Dr. Hawkins draws on his personal experience as a
World War II veteran, businessman, psychiatrist, and scientist to illustrate
the points he wishes to make. Some of the examples he uses naturally
reflect earlier time periods in his life. (How many movie theaters currently
use answering machines?) Still, the points he makes are not lost, despite
their references to things that more recent technology eclipses. The
combination of his humor and unpretentious communication style makes us
feel a part of the journey he lays out before us. Throughout Dr. Hawkins’ s life, he was a man committed to loving others,
reducing unnecessary suffering, and promoting others’  success. What he
accomplished in his lifetime—which was quite sizable—was a consequence
of who he was and a reflection of the integrity with which he conducted
himself. He was successful in virtually everything he undertook. Consequently, the principles he outlined in this book were born of personal
experiences across many decad es of his life and numerous ventures; they
have been proven effective. Like most super successful people, Dr.
Hawkins was humble, approacha ble, kind, generous, compassion ate, loving,joyful, humorous, and supportive of life in all of its expressions. To be in
his presence was an immeasurable gift. It is from a grateful heart that this book is offered to all who truly wish to
be successful. — Donna L. Robinson, Ph.D.
Editor
OceanofPDF.comI N T R O D U C T I O N
The Road to Fame and Fortune
I’m pleased as punch that you bought this book. Why? Because my joy in
life is delighting  and watching people prosper, grow, flourish, and become
successful. The secret of my own success is yours. Most books on the topic of success are written as “how-to” manuals. In
this world there  are three level s of existence: There is “havin g,” there is
“doing,” and there is “being.” Lots of people will tell us to “do,” but not
how to “have” out of “being.”  Once we become successful—which has
nothing to do with fame and fortune, but is actually a level of awareness
—“having” is the automatic consequence. All of the men and women we see out there frantically strug gling for
success are on the level of wanti ng to “have.” They think that the way to get
something is to desire it, and then work like crazy for it. The only reason
they “do” is so they can “have.” People can wear themselves out year after
year in the marketplace at this level of awareness; they may or may not
achieve a modicum of success. What is success? Well, I’m not impressed by the millions that others have
made. I’m impressed by the millions that they haven’ t made. To be rich and famous is so easy. It’s such a snap that it’s painful to
watch all the people out there in the world struggling, suffering, and
sacrificing fruitlessly, going around in circles when the path they’re
following is certain to lead to failure. We can tell the instant a new business opens up whether it’s going to
make it or not. The earmarks of failure are there already. Wrong place,
wrong location, wrong name, wrong motivation, wrong product, wrongtime, wrong image, wrong attitu de, wrong employees, wrong colors, wrong
design, wrong ambience, wrong  music, lousy food, poor service, long waits,
inferior quality, shoddy packaging, and on top of that, the worst mistake of
all: the obvious intent to only serve one’s own selfish interest and exploit
the public for personal gain without providing any needed service to their
lives. We have  observ ed all of the above at the restaurant we won’ t go back to,
the store we avoid, the employees who were obnoxious, the business
transactions that were perfuncto ry, and the places where we made purchases
because they were the only ones available. We can learn a lot from others’


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i n t o  y o u r  n o s e  a n d  f l o w s  o u t  a g a i n. D i f f u s i o n. I t  i s  a s  t h o u g h  w e  w e r e  t o
s q u e e z e  d r o p s  o f  v i o l e t  i n k  f r o m  a  f o u n t a i n  p e n  i n t o  a  g l a s s  o f  w a t e r. I t
d i s s o l v e s  o f  i t s  o w n  a c c o r d. B y  d i f f u s i o n. A t  t h i s  p o i n t,  w e  c a n  w r a p  u p  E x e r c i s e  N o  2. I  t h i n k  t h a t  e x t r a - m u r a l
s t u d e n t s  m a y  d e r i v e  m o r e  b e n e f i t  f r o m  t h i s  d e s c r i p t i o n  t h a n  t h e y  w o u l d
f r o m  a  p r a c t i c a l  c l a s s,  b e c a u s e  n o  o n e  t h e r e  i s  g o i n g  t o  e x p l a i n  t h i n g s  t o
t h e m  i n  s u c h  d e t a i l. Y o u  w i l l  b e  l u c k y  i f  t h e y  m e n t i o n  i t. M o r e  o f t e n  t h a n
n o t  –  a l a s  –  t h e y  w i l l  o n l y  t e l l  y o u  a b o u t  s t o p p e r i n g  y o u r  n o s e. N o w  y o u  s h o u l d  p r a c t i c e  E x e r c i s e  N o  2  f o r  t w o  o r  t h r e e  d a y s,  l o g g i n g  i n
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p u l s e  r a t e. H a p p y  p r a c t i s i n g. P. S. I t  i s  a l w a y s  b e t t e r  t o  d o  t h e  e x e r c i s e  t o  m u s i c. A t  t h e  B u t e y k o  C e n t r e
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p i e c e  o f  m u s i c  r e l a x e s  y o u. P l a y  i t  q u i e t l y,  b e c a u s e  y o u  s t i l l  h a v e  t o  l i s t e n  t o
y o u r  b r e a t h i n g  –  o t h e r w i s e  h o w  w i l l  y o u  r e d u c e  t h e  d e p t h  o f  y o u r  b r e a t h i n g
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w i t h o u t  i t,  t h e n  p u t  i t  o n. I t ’ s  m o r e  f u n. C H A P T E R  3
A u x i l i a r y  E x e r c i s e  N o  3. M a x i m u m  P a u s e  u n d e r  L o a d
E x e r c i s e  i n  w a y s  t o  b l o c k  t h e  w o r k  o f  t h e  n o s e
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c o l l o q u i a l  w o r d s  f o r  t h e  e x e r c i s e  o n  h o w  t o  b l o c k  t h e  n o s e. A c a d e m i c i a n
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m a n y  t r a i n e r s  d o. W e  a r e  t a l k i n g  a b o u t  s q u e e z i n g  t h e  t i p  o f  t h e  n o s e  s h u t
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incredible	incidence	of	beriberi	among	the	white	rice	eating	peoples	of	the

Orient. He	might	even	have	seen	the	related	significance	of	this	latter	condition

to	the	present	problem	of	polio	in	the	symptoms	of	its	advanced	stages	known	as

polyneuritis,	in	which	control	of	the	muscles	of	the	feet,	legs	and	arms,	and	in

severe	cases	of	the	trunk	too,	is	affected. He	might	have	learned	that	these	too

were	epidemic	diseases	and	were	endlessly	ascribed	to	various	germs,	and	that	in

the	final	analysis	all	medical	research	in	their	behalf	turned	out	to	be

meaningless	medical	meandering	down	the	insidious	avenue	of	infection;

proving	that	medical	research,	if	not	a	disease	in	itself,	is	surely	a	pathological

compulsion	in	most	cases. In	the	end	pellagra,	scurvy	and	beriberi	turned	out	to	be	diseases	of	dietary

deficiency	that	could	be	controlled	by	the	simple	process	of	putting	back	into	the

nutriment	of	nature	some	of	the	vital	elements	that	commerce	saw	profit	in

removing. These	and	many	more	correlatives	could	he	have	seen	had	his

immunological	perspective	recognized	the	true	relationship	of	Virology	to

Symptomology,	as	that	of	tweedledee	and	tweedledum. Hygienists	do	not

discredit	the	presence	of	the	three	guilty	viruses. We	say	that	they	are	merely	a

symptom	of	polio	rather	than	the	cause. And	we	openly	admit	our	skepticism	of

any	approach	to	the	problem	of	polio	that	systematically	or	unwittingly	ignores

the	basic	enervating	and	toxemic	forces	that	nurture	the	soil	of	its	growth	in	the

human	body. Furthermore,	we	look	askance	on	any	data	that	disregards	the	clues	inherent	in

the	study	of	the	comparative	eating	habits	of	our	own	rich	country	with	its	high

polio	rate	as	against	the	eating	habits	of	the	poor	countries	of	the	East	with	their

low	polio	incidence. Our	superiority	in	the	matter	of	advanced	sanitation	and

hygiene	apparently	offers	no	advantages	in	the	way	of	polio	prevention,	or	at

least	not	where	our	respective	diets	remain	the	same. The	one	clear	spot	in	the

statistical	panorama	is	the	difference	in	the	overall	consumption	of	white	sugar. Explicitly,	their’s	is	but	a	fraction	of	ours. It	may	stun	you	to	learn	that	in	the

year	1939	the	per	capita	consumption	of	white	sugar	in	China,	where	only

sporadic	cases	of	polio	were	seen,	was	3. 2	lbs.,	whereas	in	the	United	States

103.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's opinion on the polio vaccine?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the vaccine and believes it is a scam, stating that it is not a cure for polio, but rather a way for the medical industry to make a profit.
Q: What is the author's stance on the concept of "germs" causing disease?,
A: The author does not accept the idea that germs or viruses cause disease, instead, they believe that disease is caused by a disordered imagination or fear.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the Salk vaccine?,
A: The author believes that the Salk vaccine is a hoax and that it is not a solution to the problem of polio. They also state that the vaccine may actually cause more harm than good.
Q: What is the author's view on the medical industry?,
A: The author is highly critical of the medical industry, accusing them of profiteering and prioritizing profits over the well-being of the public.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of vaccines and serums?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the use of vaccines and serums, believing that they are ineffective and potentially harmful.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Not	many	years	ago	the	‘big

bugs’	in	the	medico-scientific	field	had	the	effrontery	to	calmly	state,	in	their

public	meetings,	that	the	‘appendix’	served	no	useful	purpose	in	the	body	and	the

tonsils	were	the	remains	of	our	‘gills’—left	over	in	our	bodies	when	man

emerged	from	the	sea	as	a	land	animal. Now,	students	realize	that	the	appendix

helps	to	keep	the	cecum	on	the	safe	side	by	holding	the	putrefactive	bacteria,	in

that	blind	sewer,	at	a	safe	level	and	that	the	tonsils	play	important	parts	in	killing

disease	organisms	that	would	otherwise	get	into	the	lymphatic	circulatory

system. "Yet	in	many	quarters	the	yanking	out	of	tonsils	for	a	fee	and	the	chopping	out	of

the	appendix	for	the	doctor’s	wife’s	fur	coat	continue	unabated. Gall	bladder

operations	are	still	sending	unfortunates	to	the	insane	asylums	as	of	yore	and	the

so-called	‘fixing’	of	stomach	and	intestinal	ulcers	by	‘removing	a	section	of	the

anatomy’	with	a	knife,	is	still	considered	good	‘practice’. Yet	even	the	most

obstinate	medical	physician	and	surgeon	KNOWS	that	ulcers	are	caused	by	too

strong	stomach	chemicals,	digesting	the	mucous	membrane,	and	that	the	proper

treatment	is	merely	to	reduce	the	strength	of	such	digestive	chemicals. Smallpox

vaccine—which	has	spread	syphilis	throughout	the	civilized	world	is	still

‘obligatory’	in	many	parts	of	the	universe	and	the	Schick	vaccine—that	arch

killer	of	Japanese	babies	in	the	hands	of	our	army	‘brass	hat	doctors’—is	still

being	used	as	a	‘professional	fee	getter’	although	it	still	curtails	the	infant

population. "Altogether	,	the	situation	seems	to	be	getting	worse—not	better. And	the	Salk

vaccine—for	all	its	blatant	propaganda,	for	all	its	high	endorsement	by	the

Public	Health	Department	of	our	kindly	government—is	failing	dismally	just	as

Duon	H.	Miller,	of	Coral	Gables,	Florida,	predicted	it	would	fail. "Let	us	look	again	at	this	rotten	laboratory	concoction—this	Salk	vaccine	made

from	the	diseased	kidney	of	a	tortured	monkey. If	you	will	recall,	the	proponents

of	this	polio	medicine	never	CLAIMED	that	it	would	PREVENT	POLIO. Those

gentlemen	of	the	dollar	sign	merely	said	that	it	would	PROBABLY	prevent	the

paralysis	which	followed	or	accompanied	the	usual	polio. They	KNEW	that

nothing	that	could	be	‘shot’	into	the	clean	bloodstreams	of	the	youngsters	would

lower	the	sugar	content. And	manifestly	it	was	the	excessive	sugar—taken	into

the	infant’s	body	in	the	summertime	in	the	shape	of	ice	cream,	cola	and	other

soft	drinks,	candy	and	like	sweets—that	BROUGHT	ON	POLIO. No	question	about	that! All	medical	books	show	that	polio	does	not	exist	in

those	countries	where	the	consumption	of	sugar—refined	sugar—is	less	than	90

pounds	per	person. "Well,	anyway,	the	American	people	were	sold	a	‘bill	of	goods’	by	those	stuff-
shirted	individuals	back	of	this	Salk	concoction. And	it	was	the	sainted	‘March

of	Dimes’	parasites	who	did	that	‘selling’. No	question	about	it—the	‘March	of

Dimes’	had	to	come	up	with	some	new	‘gadget’	to	keep	the	dimes	rolling	in	so

that	the	motley	array	of	individuals	on	that	expanded	payroll	m