Steamed Vegetable Platter),* or Steamed Artichoke,*
and Caesar Salad (see page 163)
Curried Corn Salad,* if desired
ROMAINE ROLL-UPS 15Min. This is a satisfying finger-food salad whose origin is the burrito. Crisp,
slenderizing romaine lettuce leaves are used as wrappers. They are stuffed
with a mixture of avocado and other vegetables. 1 large avocado
1 large tomato, coarsely chopped
1 small cucumber or 2 pickling cukes, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon red onion, chopped (optional)
1-2 cups mung bean or alfalfa sprouts, or both
1 teaspoon Gulden's Spicy Brown mustard (optional)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 head romaine lettuce, washed and dried
Slice avocado in half lengthwise. Remove seed and set aside. Scoop pulp
from skin into medium-size bowl. Mash thoroughly with fork. Add
tomato and cucumber to avocado. Add onion, if desired, mustard, and
lemon juice. Stir in sprouts. Arrange lettuce leaves around sides of large
bowl in the form of a flower. Mound avocado mixture in center. To eat,
place large spoonful of avocado in center of a lettuce leaf and roll leaf
burrito-style. Serves 2. NOTE: If you are not using the avocado mixture immediately, place it in
a container with the pit. This will keep it from turning brown. BOLLITO MISTO (Steamed Vegetable Platter) 40 Min. 3-4 beets
4 new potatoes, unpeeled, or 4 turnips, peeled
4 medium carrots or parsnips
3 large stalks broccoli with florets
208'FIT FOR LIFE Vi medium cabbage
4 small zucchini
OR
Any vegetable assortment of your choice
Y* cup butter, melted, or Herbed Butter Sauce (see page 210)
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice (optional)
Scrub beets and potatoes or turnips, and peel carrots. Place in vegetable
steamer, covered, over boiling water for approximately 20 minutes or
until tender when pierced with tip of sharp knife. Remove from heat, and
peel beets, and potatoes, if desired. Set aside. Cut thick stalks from broccoli, leaving approximately 3 inches of stem,
and floret. Cut cabbage into quarters. Place broccoli, cabbage, and whole
zucchini in vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for approx
imately 10 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat. Slice broccoli
and zucchini lengthwise. Cut beets, potatoes, and carrots into bite-size
cubes. Arrange green vegetables in center of platter with beets, potatoes, and
carrots around them. Serve with melted butter seasoned with a squeeze of
lemon juice, or with Herbed Butter Sauce. Serves 3-4. NOTE: A high-water-content steamed vegetable meal like this will speed
elimination of excess weight. Make it part of your repertoire. STEAMED ARTICHOKES 50Min. Artichokes are delicious and easy to make. Although not a heavy food,
they are particularly satisfying and filling when you are craving something
heavy. Make them the main part of a meal rather than the traditional
first course from now on. When selecting artichokes, choose those whose
petals have not opened far. The tighter and more compact the artichoke,
the fresher. 4 artichokes
1 bay leaf (optional)
1 clove garlic (optional)
Several stalks celery (optional)
Cut off or trim end of artichoke stem. If desired, snip thorny tip off each
leaf. Wash artichokes, taking care to shake out excess water so they will
not be soggy when steamed. Place in a vegetable steamer, covered, over
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 209 boiling water to which you have added bay leaf, garlic, and celery stalks. Steam for 35-45 minutes, depending on size. The artichokes are ready
when one of outer leaves can easily be removed. Discard bay leaf, celery,
and garlic. Serve with melted butter or Herbed Butter Sauce (see below). Serves 2-4. HERBED BUTTER SA UCE: 7 Min. Vi cup butter
1 shallot, minced
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon fresh chervil or 1 teaspoon dried chervil
1 tablespoon fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
Melt butter. Add shallot, and saute briefly to soften. Pour butter-shallot
mixture into blender. Add mustard, herbs, and salt, if desired, and blend
until smooth. Serve hot, over vegetables. CURRIED CORN SALAD 20 Min. 1 tablespoon safflower oil
Vi cup red onion, finely diced
Vi cup red pepper, finely diced
¥z cup green pepper, finely diced
Vi teaspoon curry powder
Vi teaspoon dried oregano
Vi teaspoon turmeric
4 cups cooked corn (If you are using fresh corn, which is preferable in
summer when it is abundant, steam corn first for 5 minutes, then
cut from cob.) Vz cup pimento-stuffed green olives, sliced
Vl cup mayonnaise
V* teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped (optional)
Heat oil in large skillet. Add onion, and saute until soft. Add red pepper
and green pepper, and saute briefly until they just begin to wilt. Add
210 • FIT FOR LIFE curry powder, oregano, and turmeric, and saute" briefly. Add to corn in a
large bowl. Stir in olives. Add mayonnaise and sea salt, and mix well. Garnish with cilantro. Serves 3. DAY TWENTY-FOUR—WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One. LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Energy Salad (see page 149) or New York Goodwich (see page 159)
DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail, if desired (see page 152)
Garlic Broiled Chicken (see page 198), or Yam Stew"
Celeriac Salad," or French Green Salad (see page 154)
Asparagus Italian Style,* or Broccoli in Lemon Butter Sauce*
YAM STEW 40 Mm. 1 large or 2 small yams, peeled and quartered
2 crookneck squash
2 large zucchini
1 large carrot, peeled and cut into '/2-inch slices
2 cups fresh or frozen lima beans or peas
2 tablespoons butter
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Place yams, squash, and zucchini in vegetable steamer covered, over
boiling water for 5-7 minutes until tender. Remove squash when tender,
and allow yams to continue cooking until tender, approximately 20 min
utes more. In separate steamer, steam carrots and limas for approximately
15 minutes or until tender. If using frozen limas or peas, steam carrots
for 10 minutes, then add peas for another 5 minutes. If using fresh limas
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFESTYLE • 211 or peas, steam them for 20 minutes. Steam carrots for 15 minutes sepa
rately. Place carrots and limas or peas in serving dish. Cut zucchini and
squash into '/2-inch slices, and add to serving dish. Cut yams into 1-inch
pieces, and add to serving dish. Add butter and seasoning. Toss well, and
serve. The variety of flavors and textures makes this dish absolutely de
lightful. Serves 2 as a main course. CELERIAC SALAD 2SMin. 1 medium celeriac (celery root)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Vi cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Cut celeriac into very thin slices. Cut peel from slices, then julienne
each slice. Add lemon juice to 4 cups boiling water. Place celeriac in
boiling water and boil 3-5 minutes or until tender-crisp. Drain well. Combine mayonnaise and mustard. Toss celeriac in the mixture. Serve
at room temperature or chilled. Serves 4. ASPARAGUS ITALIAN STYLE 7 Min. 1 pound asparagus
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Break heaviest part of stalk from each asparagus spear. Wherever stalk
breaks naturally is division between tender and stringy parts of vegetable. In a large saucepan, bring 2 quarts of water to a boil. Add asparagus and
boil, uncovered, for 3-4 minutes until just tender-crisp. Remove as
paragus from water. In serving dish, immediately toss in olive oil and
lemon juice. Serves 2-4. 212 • FIT FOR LIFE BROCCOLI IN LEMON BUTTER SAUCE lOMin. 3-4 stalks broccoli with florets
2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Cut heavy stalks off broccoli, leaving floret and 2-3 inches of stem. Re
serve stalks for Teriyaki Broccoli (see page 168), soups, or vegetable
dishes. Cut each broccoli stem into individual florets.


 destroyed. In this stage of
chronic periodontitis, the teeth become loosened and eventually fall out.
Periodontal disease is the major cause of tooth loss in middle-aged and elderly
people. It is brought on by poor oral hygiene and also by ill-fitting dentures and
badly made artificial crowns and fillings. The early stages of periodontitis are
treated by scaling to remove the calculus and polishing to remove the plaque,
combined with careful oral hygiene. In advanced disease the gingival pockets are
surgically removed by gingivectomy (gum excision).
Now periodontal disease is being treated with indomethacin and DMSO, in
combination. Indomethacin is a drug with anti-inflammatory, antifever, and pain-
killing properties, but containing no corticosteroids. Its mode of action, like that of
certain other anti-inflammatory drugs, is not known.
2
Before this Russian publication, clinical results from the treatment of a
hemorrhagic form of periodontosis were reported from Bulgaria. The clinicians
used a complex herb extract and 15 percent DMSO to rid their patients of
periodontal disease.
3
American podiatrists have found DMSO effective for the treatment of painful
corns, calluses, ingrown toenails, bunions, hammertoes, heel spurs, and even the
inflammation of gouty big toes. DMSO appears to control gout pain after just
seven days of application.
Inflammations such as pink eye from viral invasion go away after a few
applications of DMSO.
All this happens in a way that medical scientists have yet to fully understand.
They don’t know how DMSO actually works. For this
reason primarily, DMSO is
not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for any
other human medicinal use except as a treatment for interstitial cystitis, a condition
that causes scarring and gradual shrinkage of the bladder.
Bruce H. Stewart, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Sheridan
Shirley, M.D., of the University of Alabama, administered DMSO to 213 patients
and found it quickly healed the bladder condition despite the fact that the patients
had not responded to traditional treatment. Before the success of DMSO, people
suffering with interstitial cystitis faced either major surgery of the bladder, or even
its complete removal. They suffered from the urge to urinate as frequently as
every ten minutes.Unlike criteria laid down for studying the use of DMSO for other conditions,
the study on interstitial cystitis was done following an elementary protocol. The
patients were ill, didn’t improve spontaneously, and all forms of treatment were
ineffective. They then received DMSO and improved markedly. DMSO had
eliminated the patients’ health problems and won approval by the FDA for use in
bladder treatment—but only for interstitial cystitis.
THE FDA OBJECTION TO OTHER DMSO USES
“The fundamental problem from the point of view of the FDA is the quality of the
scientific information that is available to support the various claims that are made
for DMSO,” said J. Richard Crout, M.D., Director of the Bureau of Drugs with the
Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Crout made his statement at a hearing before
the House Select Committee on Aging, 96th Congress, held March 24, 1980.
Dr. Crout continued, “I want to make it clear that the Food and Drug
Administration has approved DMSO for the indication for which there is evidence
that meets the statutory standard. We are prepared to approve it for any other
indications when the evidence comes along that it does meet that statutory
standard.”
In brief, the drug can be approved if clinical researchers show substantial
evidence of its effectiveness by providing the FDA with well-controlled trials. The
“possibility” that DMSO is effective, according to the present statute, is simply
not enough. For this reason, the only thing holding up FDA approval of DMSO for
any of the substance’s indications is the availability of well-controlled trials that
meet statutory standards, said Dr. Crout. There is a basic conflict between
the
quality of the scientific evidence available and the statutory standard for approval.
This fundamental confrontation is best illustrated by a new drug application
(NDA) submitted in 1978 by Research Industries Corporation of Salt Lake City,
Utah, the major producer of a human medicinal grade of DMSO in 50 percent
concentration called Rimso-50. Research Industries Corporation wanted to extend
the use of its product and market it for the symptomatic relief of pain and
ulceration in the fingers of patients with scleroderma. Scleroderma is a rare
collagen disorder that results in thickening of the skin from the swelling of fibrous
tissue. It most often involves the hands, especially causing ulcers on the fingers,
and less frequently on other tissues in the body. After detailed review by the
FDA’s Bureau of Drugs staff and its Arthritis Advisory Committee, the NDA was
refused on the grounds that the available clinical trials did not yet demonstrate thatDMSO was effective for scleroderma. Medical science’s current investigative
techniques using double- or single-blind studies seemed inadequate for evaluating
the effectiveness of DMSO in this instance.
Research Industries Corporation relied principally on one particular study to
demonstrate DMSO’s effectiveness against scleroderma. This study had each
patient dip only one hand into a solution of DMSO. The untreated hand was
observed as a control. Both hands had ulcerations of the skin of the fingers, and
investigators thought that DMSO’s effectiveness in healing sclerodermatous ulcers
would clearly be shown by what happened to the two hands.
Dr. Crout described what happened. “There was a general improvement trend
in the healing of ulcers of the fingers in many patients, and in a few this was quite
striking. Interestingly, however, this improvement occurred in both hands in these
patients with scleroderma; that is, both the treated and untreated hands tended to
heal.”
Now, DMSO is different from any other known medical substance in that it is
easily absorbed into the body. Paint an amount the size of a silver dollar anywhere
on your upper body and in thirty seconds you’ll taste it on the tip of your tongue.
It penetrates the skin and travels through the blood stream that fast.
The officials of the Research Industries Corporation argued that both hands of
the affected patients healed because DMSO worked equally well on the hand in
touch with the liquid and on the control hand. Simply, DMSO healed the control
hand by traveling through the blood stream to the ulcer site. Absorption of the
substance into the body from
the treated hand was inevitable because of its unique
power of penetrability. Current techniques utilizing the scientific method as it is
understood today cannot be applied to the study of DMSO.
Dr. Crout said, “Our staff and advisory committee felt, to the contrary, that
improvement of the untreated hand raised the strong possibility that the general
improvement trend in the whole trial was attributable to a nonspecific effect of
DMSO. Everyone agreed that the trial showed that DMSO may be effective, but
few felt that the trial proved the point.
“Because the statutory standard for approval of a drug is substantial evidence
of effectiveness as shown by well-controlled trials, not simply the possibility of
effectiveness,” continued the FDA chief, “we are unable to approve DMSO for
this indication at this time.”
In order for a new drug to be recognized by the FDA it must conform to
section 505 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which holds that the standard for
effectiveness is “substantial evidence” of effectiveness. This means evidence mustcome from controlled clinical investigations conducted by experts qualified by
scientific training and experience to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs.
Dr. Crout declared that applications for an investigational new drug (IND)
submitted for DMSO during the previous eighteen years were faulty. They had not
been assembled into scientifically designed studies. They had not followed that
certain discipline required by research. All INDs must go through a standard FDA
procedure to win approval. The prior investigational new drug applications
submitted by three pharmaceutical companies of national repute were poorly
prepared, said Dr. Crout, and the companies did not know how to present an IND
application to the FDA to show proper evidence of value in the use of DMSO. He
made this statement despite the fact that these same pharmaceutical firms had
previously won approval for other drugs.
FLAWS IN FDA PROCEDURE
Of course, the pharmaceutical companies disagreed. The co-discoverer of the
therapeutic properties of DMSO, Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Associate Professor of
Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School, certainly disagreed. He
believed the advisory committee that made recommendations against FDA
approval of DMSO was biased against DMSO. Dr. Jacob told the House
Committee on Aging: “I am not at all satisfied that the FDA is giving DMSO a fair
shake.”
The DMSO researchers who worked with patients on a case-by-case basis
pointed out that the FDA advisory committee was negatively disposed. The
committee members had never themselves used DMSO as a therapeutic tool. And
this was admitted by Dr. Crout.
The Honorable Claude Pepper, former Chairman of the House Select
Committee on Aging, was inclined to


 arlic for 3
minutes. Add spice blend and g inger and cook, stirring constantly, for 1minute or until onions are soft. Add orange juice, lemon juice and cream
and brin g to a boil. Add bananas, reduce heat and simmer, stirring
frequently, for 15 minutes or until sauce has thickened.
Longer and usually without separate cloves, banana shallots (at left)
are e asy to slice  using a mandol in or food processor. Y ellow sha llot (at
right) is probabl y the most com mon. Y ou will find it in grocery stores
and supermarke ts, but support local growers in the fall, whe n their
crops are abundant. Almost as c ommon as the yellow shallot are  many
dif ferent red varieties, including  this one (in middle), which is called
Prisma.6
S p i c e  B l e n d s,  S a u c e s  &  D r e s s i n g s
Spice Blends
Coconut Jerk Spice Rub
Garam Masala Spice Blend
Hot Spice Paste
Madras Curry Spice Blend
Polynesian Spice Blend
T andoori Spice Blend
V ietnamese Five-Spice Blend
Sauces and Dr essings
Coconut Dr essing
Coconut Blue Cheese Dr essing
Honey Lime Coconut Dr essing
Hot Spiced Coconut Sauce
Coconut Gr emolata
Coconut T omato Sauce
Orange Coconut Dr essing
Sesame Dr essing
Sweet and Sour Pineapple Sauce
Coconut Garlic MayonnaiseCoconut Y ogurt Mayonnaise
Shiitake Peanut Sauce
Peanut Papaya SauceCoconut Jerk Spice Rub
Makes 1/2 cup
Chipotle chile pepper and T ellicherry pepper corns give this typically
Jamaican spice  blend zing. Us e it sparingly at first and add mor e once
your taste buds adapt to the heat.
2 tbsp T ellicherry pepper corns
1  star anise
1/4 cup coconut sugar crystals
2  tbsp sea salt
1 tbsp gr ound chipotle chile pepper
1 tbsp gr ound cinnamon
1 tbsp gr ound allspice
1.  Using a mortar and pestle or small electric grinder, pound or grind
peppercorns and star anise to a coarse or fine powder as desired.
2.  I n a bo wl, com bine sugar crystals, salt, chipotle, cinnamon, allspice and
ground p eppercorns and anise. T ransfer to an airtight glass jar with a lid,
label and store in a cool, dark, dry place for up to 3 months.
T ellicherry peppercorns have a rich, mature flavour because they are
left on the vine to develop.
Chipotle chiles ( Capsicum ) are hot chile peppers (usually jalapenos)
that are smoked to give them a distinct flavour.
Glass is best for storing spices and spice blends. If you can’ t find
dark-coloured glass jars, use clear glass and wrap a piece of paper
around the jar to block the light (use it as a label).Garam Masala Spice Blend
Makes 1/2 cup
This pleasing, complex blend of flavours is naturally sweetened by the
cinnamon, star  anise and nutm eg, and the cardamom seeds add a nice
zip. It’ s  not hot-spicy, but it does impart a rich, addictive flavour to
dishes. I usually use 1 tablespoon of garam masala in r ecipes that call
for it, but you can start with 1  or 2 teaspoons and gradually add mor e
as your taste buds adjust to the pur e, fr esh spices.
4 cloves
One 3-inch stick cinnamon, crushed
1 star anise, crushed
1  nutmeg, crushed
4 tbsp coriander seeds
2  tbsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp black pepper corns
1 tsp cardamom seeds
1.  I n a small dry s killet or spice wok, combine cloves, cinnamon, star anise,
nutmeg, corian der, cumin, peppercorns and cardamom. T o ast over
medium heat, stirring frequent ly, for 3 to 4 minutes or unt il lightly
browned and fragrant. W atch ca refully and remove from the heat just as
the seeds begin to pop or the s pices will smoke and burn. Se t aside to
cool.
2.  Usi ng a  mortar and pestle or small electric grinder, pound or  grind the
toasted spices to your desired c onsistency. T ransfer to an airtight glass
jar, label and store in a cool, dark, dry place for up to 3 months.
Crush whole spices with a mortar and pestle or using a rolling pin.Hot Spice Paste
Makes 1/3 cup
This spi ce blend is one of the h ottest in this chapter, so start by cooking
with small amounts and add mor e as your taste buds adapt.
4 cloves garlic
2 fr esh or dried cayenne peppers
One 1/2-inch piece peeled gingerr oot
One 1/2-inch piece peeled fr esh turmeric or 1 tbsp dried turmeric
One 1/2-inch piece peeled fr esh galangal (optional)
1 to 2 tbsp softened coconut oil
1 tbsp coconut sugar crystals
1 tsp sea salt
1.  U sing a mortar and pestle or sm all electric food processor, pound or chop
garlic, cayenne, ginger, turmeric and galangal (if using) to a paste. Add 1
tbsp oil,  sugar crystals and salt a nd blend to a soft paste, adding more oil
as n ecessary to keep the paste moist. Store in an airtight glass or
porcelain container in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
Spice pa stes are both easy to make and easy to add to recipes, but they
must be stored i n the refrigerator and they do not keep as long a s dried
spice blends. Y ou can turn any o f the spice blends in this chapter into a
paste by blending them with soft or melted coconut oil.
Galangal ( Alpina galanga ) a nd turmeric ( Cur cuma longa ) are the
edible ro ots of plants in the ging er family. Galangal is hotter an d more
peppery in taste than ginger. T u rmeric is slightly smaller in diameter
than gingerroot and the flesh is  bright orange. Fresh turmeric adds a
slight ci trus flavour along with bitter warmth. Y ou can find the freshroots of  both galangal and turmeric in the spring and fall at  Asian
markets. Stock up and freeze them for use later in the seasons.Madras Curry Spice Blend
Makes 1/2 cup
Curry is a blend of spices, not just one spice, and everyone who makes
their own has a secr et curry combination. Feel fr ee to experiment with
the spices and a mounts used in this r ecipe to make it yours. The heat in
this curry blend comes fr om th e mustard, pepper corns and chiles—and
the fr esher they ar e, the hotter they will be. If you like the flavour but
not the heat, r educe the amounts of those spices in this blend to suit
your taste.
2 tbsp fenugr eek seeds
2 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp allspice berries
1 tbsp mustard seeds
1  tsp black pepper corns
One 4-inch stick cinnamon, crushed
10 cardamom pods
5 dried chiles
10 dried curry leaves (optional)
2  tbsp gr ound turmeric
1.  In a small, dr y skillet or sp ice wok, combine fenugreek, coriander,
allspice, mustard, peppercorns, cinnamon, cardamom and chil es. T oast
over me dium he at, stirring frequently, for 3 to 4 minutes or un til lightly
browned and fragrant. W atch ca refully and remove from the heat just as
the seeds begin to pop or the s pices will smoke and burn. Se t aside to
cool.
2.  Using a mortar and pestle or small electric grinder, pound or grind
toasted spices with curry leaves (if using) until coarsely or finely ground,as desire d. Mix  in turmeric. T r ansfer to an airtight glass jar, label and
store in a cool, dark, dry place for up to 3 months.
Fenugreek ( T rigonella foenum-graecum ), a plan t in the legume family,
is the one spice closely associa ted with the flavour of curry, so it is
almost always included in curry  blends. However, the herb kn own as
“curry plant” ( Helichrysum italicum ), which exudes a faint odour of
curry in the leaves, is often confused with curry spice blend, which, if
authentically Indian, does not contain it.
If you don’ t grow your own and can’ t find dried curry leaves,
simply omit them; they are not essential.Polynesian Spice Blend
Makes 1/2 cup
Coconut sugar  and toasted coconut flakes combine with


 one point, I had written the story of my karmic challenge for publication, thinking  at the time that its lessons
could be my purpose;  the message that I was here to teach.  One day, while wrestling with myself about whether or not it really /G14/G0F/G04 /G01 /G0F/G19/G01/G0D/G12/G10/G0B/G01/G10/G07/G01/G0D/G08/G22/G0C/G02/G16/G0B/G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01/G16/G10/G07 ry, I released my concerns
in a prayer.  With that release, a most beautiful gift came to me
from Spirit.  This is a story fr om that day... a story that I
believe can apply to all of us, if we can hear the wonderful wisdom within the natural world.  On the morning of this miracle, I took my daughter to pre-school, which operates in a lo cal church.  When we arrived
in the parking lot, no other parents were there yet.  I looked up and saw a beautiful red-tailed hawk perched on top of the cross, on the outside of the church.  It was so beautiful and so majestic.
It took my breath away.  We hono red each other’s presence for a
while.  I knew at the time that his presence was a gift for me,
but I did not know specifically wh at his animal medicine was.
I tried to take a picture of him with my cell phone, but quite unsuccessfully.  I so wished that I had a camera at that moment,
yet I knew his gift was already etched in my heart.  When I
returned to the parking lot after I delivered my daughter to her
classroom, the hawk was still sitting  on the cross.  I thanked him
and drove away.  And as I drove away, I got a strong feeling -
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would wait for me.  I trusted th at message, noted it, and moved
on with my busy morning.    On the way back out to pick up my daughter at school, I was prompted by Spirit to remember the camera.  As I drove up to the preschool, /G01/G02/G09/G05/G05/G06/G02/G07/G12/G09/G04/G06/G10/G0F/G01/G05/G09 /G09/G01/G0B/G04/G01/G1C/G12/G16/G01/G16/G10/G02/G0C/G0C/G01/G08/G0D/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G05/G04/G01/G07/G03/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01
cross, patiently waiting for me.  Again, no one else was there in the parking lot.  It was just this beautiful hawk and me, the Cosmic Wealth
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hawk still sitting on the cross.  I was overwhelmed with a
feeling of profound love and d eep gratitude.  There was such
honor, love, peace, and gentle strength between us - and all
around us.  And in those feelings, we were one.  He stayed
there patiently while I took pictures of him, and we shared this magically serene experience.  It was still just the two of us, in
this normally busy parking lot of the church, sharing an extended moment of grace.  And then, he flew two feet in front of me, and perched  on the wooden church benches next to me, for another few minutes.  I continued to take pictures of him, and to share this glorious moment.  After about ten minutes, another car came into the parking lot.  As the driver got out of her car, the hawk flew past me again – filling my he art with love, flying above the
cross, and up and away into the clear sun-filled sky.  When I returned home that da y, I searched the internet
to find more information about the red-tailed hawk’s animal
medicine.  Within each anim al, there are divine gifts and
messages that they bring to us, if we are conscious of them as spirit guides.  These are some of the messages of my friend, the red-tailed hawk.  Hawk is known as the messenger.  Hawk is a
specially committed spiritual messenger of grace, who connects the worlds of Spirit and matter.   Hawk symbolizes clear vision
and prophetic sight, the seen and the unseen.  Hawk reminds us to open our awareness, to awaken  from our spiritual amnesia,
and to realign with the original intention and true nature of our soul.  When hawk flies into our life, his clear vision and mighty talons remind us to review our lives and to tear out any of our self-created illusions, allowing our inner truths to surface.
Hawk represents our union and our oneness with our Creator.  And Hawk relays a message for our prayers:  /G01/G02/G05/G06/G0F/G0C/G04/G14/G05/G09/G06/G03/G04/G06
always given /G20/G01/G01/G17/G0B/G04/G03/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G04/G26/G0D/G12/G03/G11/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G13/G07/G03/G16/G13/G02/G07/G08/G16/G03/G04/G16/G16/G09/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G12/G11/G06/G08/G16/G10/G01
our energies and vibrations to /G09/G05/G0D/G05/G03ve the answers to our
prayers.  And as we make these adjustments, we experience  our flow with life’s synchronicit ies.  When we are open, and
we trust our inner vision and ourselves, Hawk shows us that  we are free to fly!Hawk Wisdom 93
 There are several additional things that I wish to share
about this message and this experiential story.  First, in the week following our initial encounter, I saw Hawk a few more  times.  Most of the time, he was still sitting on the cross, above the entranceway to the church.  I watched as many people came  and went, mostly unawar e of his graceful presence right above
them.  Of those who did notice hi m, most were children.  When
I stood there with my camera, thus attracting attention to him, only then did several adults look up and notice that he was there.  A few people even ma de comments abou t how “odd” it
was.  I find this to be an appropriate illustration of what Hawk is precisely trying to teach us, as a divine messenger.  He is
showing us our spiritual amnesi a, calling us to awaken to the
truth of our original nature.  It  also seems illustrative of how
many of us, caught up in our illusions and outer blinders, often
do not see the spectacular, the magical, the mystical, and the truth of the Creator’s creation itself in every day experiences.  There is such magnificence and pe rfection in this world, such
support from Source, Spirit, Sant a, angels, and beyond, that if
we can clear away our self-created illusions, we can see with clear inner vision the broader aerial view.  Essentially, there  are miraculous things happening  all around us, when we are
willing to pay attention in our lives and to appreciate the gifts.
 Second, in the many weeks following my Hawk visit, I listened to my inner guidance system.  It began to speak a clear message to me.  That the story I had written, about my karmic task and my awakening process, was not the ultimate story –  or the public story.  And I realized that my unrest, about  whether or not to publish it, was my inner guidance system communicating with me.  After countless revisions of that story, I had already learned its lessons.  I paid attention to the fact that
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It was then that I knew that I was ready for a new vibrational
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 poor  countries  that  have  been
contracted  to  farm  meat  and  milk  for  U.S.  consump-
tion. The  world  continues  to  be  influenced  by  actions
performed  in  this  unique  country,  actions  that  deny
the  excellence  and  freedom  of  spirit  embodied  in  her
national  symbol,  the  bald  eagle.
The  Sacred  Cow
In  the  Vedic  tradition  each  animal  is  considered  to  be
sacred,  for  it  holds  the  complex  memory  of  life  on
earth.  This  memory  is  safely  stored  by  all  species  that
do  not  expend  breath  unnecessarily.  Because  of  the
willful  and  breath-consuming  nature  of  humans,  we
are  the  most  porous  containers  of  remembrances.  The
animals  are  a  living  reflection  of  our  memory  banks.
They  were  created  to  provide  reminders  of  our  full
potentiality.  More  than  mere  symbols  of  memory,
they  are  the  embodiment  of  memory.  Through  the
reverent  ken  of  the  ancients,  the  customs  of  paying
tribute  to  the  animals  began  and  were  perpetuated
through  timeless  eons.
The  shamanic  cultures  also  observed  animals  by
chase,  capture,  and  sacrifice,  and  identified  them-
selves by  the  name  essences  of  the  animals.  They  rec-
ognized the  manifest  spirit  of  the  animals  to  be  the
direct  reflection  of  universal  memory.  They  learned
to  know  the  earth  through  their  humble  relationship
with  the  animals.  They  celebrated  cleverness  through
the  spider,  gentle  cunning  through  the  fox,  the  terrors
of  the  dark  nature  through  the  bear,  and  the  numinous
beauty  of  the  earth  through  the  totality  of  the  bison.
The  movements  and  appearances  of  animals  clarified
their  deepest  quest  for  spiritual  unity  to  the  earth.
Each  animal  possessed  its  own  rhythm  of  grace,  move-
ment, and  self-nourishing  instincts.  These  are  the
qualities  that  the  human  has  yet  to  learn  of  its  innate
nature.
In  Sanskrit,  every  name  portends  the  cosmic  mean
ing  of  the  bearer's  relationship  to  the  earth.  The  cow
is  called  go.  Go  is  also  the  name  for  the  earth  and  the
holy  scriptures.  Lord  Krishna  was  called  Gopala,  the
one  who  protects  the  cow.  "Protecting  the  cow"  is  a common,  and  ancient,  expression  used  to  infer  the
protection  of  the  scriptures,  the  nurturing  of  the  land,
and  the  celebration  of  the  cow,  who  is  the  manifest
keeper  of  the  memory  of  the  earth's  spiritual  dharmas.
The  cow  and  the  elephant  have  been  the  most
celebrated  and  adorned  animals  in  India.  The  cow  is
the  keeper  of  the  scriptural  memory,  and  the  elephant
is  the  holder  of  the  first  memory  of  plants  and  herbs
on  the  planet.  If  either  became  extinct,  we  would  not
be  able  to  maintain  the  memory  necessary  for  the
survival  of  the  earth.  We  can  be  certain,  however,  that
while  we  keep  these  sacred  lives  in  their  present  mi-
asma of  pain  and  grief,  it  does  not  bode  well  for  us.
The  degree  of  each  animal's  suffering  is  paralleled  by
the  agony  of  the  earth  and  by  human  pain.
The  insidious  suffering  of  the  cows  is  directly  re-
flected in  the  diseases  of  our  food  body.  It  is  no  coin-
cidence that  every  symptom  the  cow  suffers  in  her
captivity  is  mirrored  in  the  present  condition  of  the
human  species.
In  the  agribusiness  of  dairy  and  beef  farming,  the
cattle  wallow  in  freezing  mud  and  excrement  during
the  ice-cold  rains,  they  are  rarely  provided  with  shade
or  shelter,  and  they  are  held  in  the  permanence  of
darkness  and  death  without  mobility,  sunlight,  or
space,  just  to  inhibit  energy  output  and  increase  tat
for  the  butcher.  They  are  pumped  with  more  than
two  thousand  different  chemicals,  antibiotics,  and
hormones,  in  addition  to  stimulants  and  poisons  such
as  arsenic.  The  diet  ot  a  milk  cow  consists  of  highly
concentrated,  roughage  less,  mold  tilled  feed  with
chemical  condiments  ot  these  antibiotics,  pesticides,
nitrate  fertilizers,  and  herbicides.
The  system  victimizes  animals,  tai  mers,  the  world
community,  the  land,  and,  in  the  last  analysis,  the
perpetrators  themselves.  The  mental  agony  ot  the  COW
is  inherited  by  all  those  who  dunk  the  polluted  ama,
which  used  to  be  milk;  we  sutler  the  same  conditions
of  fear,  isolation,  restlessness,  and  melancholia.  The
cows' subtle  memories  are  blackened  In  then  capti\
Ity,  directly  effecting  the  loss  ol  oui  own  memoi ies  ot
spiritual  dharmas.  the  plagues  ol  hyperactivity,
discombobulation,  muscle  pain,  digestive  disorders,
heart  disease,  abdominal  cramps,  excess  gas,  consti
pation,  bloating,  and  atherosclerosis  in  humans  tit
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the  result  of  the  Vata  dosha  going  mad  in  the  cow's
body.  Ulcerations,  rashes,  hives,  fevers,  infertility,  poor
absorption  of  nutrients,  liver  abscesses,  and  violent
deaths  are  directly  linked  to  the  vitiated  metabolic
dosha  of  the  cow.
The  cow's  essential  nature  is  nurturing,  solid,  stoic,
and  providing — like  a  mother.  As  her  pure  Kapha
nature  becomes  distorted,  her  diseases  filter  into  the
human  system  and  create  havoc.  Our  present  epi-
demics of  respiratory  ailments,  sinusitis,  asthma,  ton-
sillitis, and  obesity  are  only  some  of  the  symptoms  of
the  cow's  betrayed  Kapha  condition. The  veal  calf  has  the  most  cruel  fate  of  all.  It  is
taken  within  days  of  its  birth  and  placed  in  a  dark
wooden  stall.  It  cannot  lie  down  or  turn  around.  It  is
fed  only  iron-deficient  liquid  gruel  and  is  chained  to
the  stall  to  prevent  it  from  licking  its  urine  and  excre-
ment, which  it  would  instinctively  do  to  supplement
its  iron  needs.  It  is  slaughtered  after  sixteen  weeks.
Not  surprisingly,  one  out


 no cause; it has no beginning, and it has
no end. You witness the unfoldment of creation. There is no problem with
creation because  it’s what you’re  witnessing. The fact that it’s all happeningspontaneously is not difficult to see. This observation escapes about 99
percent of mankind.
At least 99 perce nt of humanity is completely unaware of this. And we’re
not coun ting on widespread acceptance that you are the context rather than
the content. You are that from which awareness radiates and out of which
consciousness arises. The source is consciousness itself. The light of God is
consciousness. The light of God is your own consciousness. And as you let
go of misidentif ying with that which you are not, it becomes stunningly
apparent.
THE SOUND OF GOD IS SILENCE
Silence calibrates at 1,000. The sound of God is silence. To have sound,
you have to have linearity; you have to have that which is sound and that
which is not sound, and then you have to give a configuration to the sound.
Therefore, mant ras and other things like saying “om” will take you to a
certain level. And beyond that, you become aware of the silence behind  the
sound. And so, the purpose of the sound is to take you to the silence. That’ s
why repeating a mantra can sometimes really just lead to an altered state of
consciousness and the high feeling that you get disappears when you stop
the mantra.
Mantras have limited usages. They can assist at certain points, but you
can’t live your whole life as a mantra. You can, however, live your whole
life as a praye r, because a prayer is a verbalization of a nonlinear
intentionality, a prayer to make your life a prayer to become that—and that
which you are speaks louder than what you say. Essence speaks louder than
perception. The levels of consciousness don’t say that you’re better than
others. It’s not a matter of better, but because of our status-oriented society,
we say it’s better. It’s not better—it’ s different. And very often, to be in a
different state of consciousness that is not appropriate to where you are can
be a hindrance.
To be blissed-out when you’re driving is not so great. You have to pull
over. So, you have to sort of be in what’ s appropriate to the situation. That
begins to adjust  itself automatically. It is true that if you sudde nly advance
to a higher state, you may be quite incapacitated, so it’s good to have
spiritual friends,  and hang out with spiritual people and let them know that
you’re seriously on a spiritual path.LIFTING THE CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL OF MANKIND
People think it’s what you do or what you say or how you behave that
matters. No, it’s the consequence  of that which you are. So that which you
are, if you sit alone in a cave,  is influencing the consciousness level of
mankind. Even if you sit alone in a cave, it radiates out as an energy. So
each one’s contribution raises the level of the sea. People will ask me,
“What can I do to help the world?” The best thing you can do is become the
fulfillment of your own potentia l, because each inch that the sea rises lifts
all the ships afloat. Now, nobody has enough strength in and of himself to
lift a ship, but everybody is contributing.
So when  everyone aligns themselves with spiritual integrity, to be as
unconditionally loving as possible, then we all lift the level of the sea. And
by lifting the level of the sea, we lift everyone on it. So we do what we can
to lift the level of consciousnes s of mankind. And that influen ce then will
have its influence.
The more aligned you are with spiritual reality, integrity, truth, and the
universal love, the more profo undly you’re effecting the world without
having to do anything. Of course, doing good things works. There’s nothing
wrong with that. I’m not saying that. But in and of itself, that which you are
and have become is what is truly influencing the world.
• • •
The willingness  to surrender how you see things, then, begins to
transform how you see and experience life. Instead of being angry and
condemning others, you see that people cannot help being the way they are.
Let’s say there are these teenagers throwing rocks at each other and
provoking the police into attack ing them. You begin to see they can’t help
themselves. As you really go into great depth, you begin to discern the basic
innocence of human conscious ness. The consciousness itself is like the
hardware of a computer, and the ego is like the software. The consciousness
itself is unable to tell truth from  falsehood. It cannot tell wheth er it’s being
programmed, like the Nazis did with the Nazi youth, into falsehood, or
whether it’ s truth.
So then you understand why Christ and Buddha said, “Forgive them for
they know not what they do.” The hardware of the computer is unaltered bythe software. The consciousness of the youth is innocent. So those kids who
threw rocks then are looked at with compassion. You can see that they have
been abused somehow. You see their spiritual abuse. And because of the
innocence of human consciou sness, its inability to discern truth from
falsehood, mankind is led down the path of falsehood.
We can think of the young people in Nazi Germany, being patriotic. It’s
like going to Boy Scout camp— they’re around the campfires, singing songs
and hiking and doing all this for their country, for their fatherland, for the
Führer. How could they have believed anything other than that? If we’d
been there, we would’ve been doing the same thing. You see the innocence.
So we begin to see the basic innocence of human consciousness, and now it
allows us to forgive everyone. You see that everybody’ s being  run by the
programs with which they’ve been programmed. I mean, what else could
they think? People believe the media because television comes across so
fast; they’ve already believed it before they’ve had a chan ce to even
examine their questioning.
The mind gets programmed. And so you see on the one hand, the ego
survives by juicing negativity; on the other hand, it can’t help but do that. It
can’t help but be that which it is. And without the power of spiritual truth,
frankly, it’s unable to transcend itself. The value of spiritual truth is that
without it, nobody would transcend the ego. It’s because of the great
avatars, it’s because of the great power of spiritual truth, and those who
have realized the reality, then there lies the source of their own existence.
That creates the power of the field, and the power of the field is where
people derive inspiration to then transcend their limitations.
We understand then that basically human consciousness is innocent—it
doesn’ t know truth from falsehood. The reason I had to write the book
Power vs. Force is because it staggered me, and I realized man has never
had a chance to know truth from falsehood. The best man has been able to
do is to follow the intellect and end up at a consciousness level of 460,
which leaves you stuck right in the middle of the mind and its dualities, and
therefore war and hatred and all are destined to go on and on and on—
because withou t spiritual energy and truth to transcend it, the mind is
hopelessly caught in its own web. And it gets paid off for getting so, as it
goes round and round and round and ruminates—it gets a payof f. Therefore,
it’s self-propagating.The ego unaided, without external spiritual truth, will forever go round
and round chasi ng its own tail. Each person, as they do what they think is
personal spiritu al work, is actually influencing the entire field. The
prevailing level of consciousness of mankind then progresses as a
consequence of the collective spiritual effort of all of us. Every choice,
every spiritual decision we make reverberates around the universe. Like it
says in scriptur e, “Not one hair of your head goes uncounted.” And we
discovered with muscle testing that that is a fact. Anything anybody’ s ever
done, thought, felt—every decision that’s ever been made—is recorded
forever in the field of consciousness.
People who say they don’t belie ve in karma can do so as a belief system.
But they would still have to explain how it is that all phenomena that have
ever occurred throughout all of history are recorded forever. How do you
explain that every entity that gets born on this planet already has a
calibrated level of consciousness? Therefore, we did not arise out of
nothingness, but out of somethingness. And what is that someth ingness out
of which we all arise into which we all return? That takes us out of the
limitation of the timeframe of the present. And we begin  to see an
experienced life in a greater dimension and the spiritual realiti es that arise
out of contemplating such things encourage our investigation into spiritual
truth, which is the purpose of this kind of work.
I wanted to first present the whole panorama of


 is virtually safe if handled properly, particularly when you compare the fact that there are over 100,000
deaths a year due to the taking of pres cription drugs, according to Drs. Milton
Silverman and Philip Lee (researchers) of  the University of California at San
Francisco (UCSF).
   There are some contraindications to fasting: (1) Fear of the fast; (2) Extreme
emaciation. Sometimes a short fast of one to three days or a series of short fasts with
intervals of proper feeding are beneficial; (3) Extreme weakness or degeneration. In
late or terminal cancer the only value is that fasting will relieve the patient's suffering
and allow him to die in relative peace rather than in severe pain as a narcotics addict.
Regarding cancer, I remember a prominent physician stating that "the single most
important need is early detection." I must disagree with that because early detection
means the person already has cancer. I believe the single most important need is prevention,  whether it be for cancer or any othe r disease. George Crile, M.D., uses the
term starvation instead of fasting, but he stat es: "It is in selective starvation that one of
the great hopes for the future lies. It is possible that ultimately cancer will be
controlled not by attacking the cancer, but by starving it or by altering the
environment in which it lives"; (4) Severe deficiency disease. The person should be built up with proper diet before a fast is attempted; (5) Sometimes with difficult
breathing, as in heart cases and should heart action weaken, the fast should be terminated; and (6) Pregnancy. Lactating mothers should not fast.
   As one gets into a fast, certain developments occur almost like clockwork: The
tongue becomes coated, the breath and taste become foul, and the teeth become pasty.
This is due to the body's unloading of its toxic burden. Almost automatically, after the
third day, true hunger and sincere desire for food subside and you become quite comfortable. As long as this hunger is absent, it indicates that no food is required.
However, one of the main indications for te rminating the fast is the return of true
hunger. This is the body's inner wisdom in action, preventing the entering of the
starvation period. An interesting fact is  that most people have never really
experienced and enjoyed true hunger. True hunger is a comfortable mouth and throat
sensation, as is thirst. The "average" person experiences what is termed "hunger
pangs" or gnawing in the stomach. This is a morbid sensation--not a normal indication of hunger. The years of overeating, smoking, drinking, the use of salt and other
irritants and/or poisons, etc., contribute to  this abnormal sensation of hunger which is
nothing more than irritation (the earliest warning sign of impending and incipient
ulcer and, in some cases, cancer). This inner wisdom is always at work for us, but
most people ignore or are completely unaware of it. The so-called "dumb" animal is aware why aren't we? Observe your pet dog or cat who is supposed to be less
intelligent than the human. He doesn't know about drugs, medicines, or doctors. Yet,
what does he do when he doesn't feel well? He fasts! Other indications for breaking
the fast are that the foul breath and taste become sweet and clean, the heavily coated
tongue becomes pink and clear, salivary secretion becomes normal (it usually is thicker and in smaller quantities during a fast ), the temperature, which may have been
subnormal, returns to normal and the usually dark and odorous urine becomes light and loses its strong odor.
   Contrary to misbeliefs and old wives' tales, fasting does not cause the stomach to
atrophy (wither and become useless) or its walls to adhere or its digestive fluids to
turn upon itself and digest it, does not paralyze the bowels, does not deplete the blood
or produce anemia, does not produce an acidosis that results in death, does not cause the heart to weaken or collapse, does not produce deficiency or malnutritional disease
and its edema (swelling), does not reduce resistance to disease, does not harm the
teeth, the nervous system, glands or vital organs, does not weaken the vital powers or cause mental disturbances. Blood sugar is little depressed; it is synthesized from
protein.
   Fasting, itself, does not cure disease. It gives the body the environment to heal
itself--physiologic rest. However, this is what fasting does do: (1), It gives the vital
organs a complete rest; (2) It stops the intake of foods that decompose in the intestines
and further poison the body; (3) It promotes elimination of metabolic wastes; (4) It
allows the body to adjust and normalize its biochemistry and also its secretions (glandular fluids); (5) It lets the body break down and absorb swellings, deposits,
diseased tissues, and abnormal growths; (6) It restores a youthful condition to the cells
and tissues and in a relative sense rejuvena tes the body; (7) It permits the conservation
and re-routing of energy; (8) It increases the powers of digestion and assimilation
(absorption and utilization of food into the system); (9) It clears and strengthens the mind; and (10) It improves function throughout the body. Of course, if there are
irreversible changes, the results may be poor to none.
   Actually, the fast will have been in vain if the individual returns to his old habits,
and the results will be more or less temporary. Fasting does not make one disease-
proof. Hygienic living is essential after the fast if good health is to be the continued
and permanent result.    Fasting is a means to an end: It is a cleansing process and a physiologic or
functional rest which prepares the body for future correct living.
   In his book, Fasting: The Ultimate Diet  (a worthy contribution on the subject of
fasting), Dr. Allan Cott recommends: (1) "Drink at least two quarts of water every day"; (2) "If the object of your fast is to lose weight, you will lose it that much more
quickly by adhering to a daily exercise program"; and (3) "Exercise as much as you can."
   It is important, to avoid a potential and very real danger, that these
recommendations be re-evaluated and put in a proper perspective: (1) Setting a goal of two quarts or more of water every day is not in harmony with normal physiology. In fact, it is a forcing measure which may cause a mineral imbalance (depletion) from too much flushing of the system with water. Nothing should be forced, whether
fasting or not. The body with its innate wisdom will indicate when to drink, when not
to drink, and also how much to drink. One should use his or her body's own wisdom
as a guide. (During each of my long fasts, I drank only when I was thirsty; some days
I drank two glasses of water, and some days I consumed two quarts.) Excesses enervate the body, particularly the fasting body, and put more of a burden on it. (2)
Regarding Dr. Cott's recommendation of a daily exercise program to lose weight more
quickly while fasting, there's an old adage in biochemistry which says, "Fat burns in
the flame of carbohydrate." Glucose is a refi ned carbohydrate. It stands to reason that
if the body's supply of glucose is conserved and not depleted through physical exercise, fat will burn more efficiently and thus more weight will be lost while
fasting. This is seen regularly at the various natural hygiene institutions. Guests are
usually advised to rest after the second day of fasting. This holds true particularly
during fasts of longer durations. Some have tried it both ways and agree that resting
while fasting produces more beneficial results as well as a more rapid weight loss. (3) My biggest concern is the statement to "exercise as much as you can," which Dr. Cott
recommends during fasting. Some of the crises which take place during a fast are due
to the side effects of drugs being disengaged from the fat tissues. When one is fasting,
the release of deep-seated toxins takes place because of energy from glucose.
However, when exercise is carried out, gl ucose is diverted to the muscles and can
cause a hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). This low glucose doesn't give the body
enough energy to eliminate the deep-seated toxins. This is the reason why so many
people boast of how they can fast for two or three weeks working all the time. The body must expend energy for this work, and the elimination of metabolic wastes and
other poisons are hindered. If these people were to lie in bed and rest while fasting,
they would eliminate much more efficiently and would undergo these healing crises,
which would make them temporarily too "sick" to get out of bed for a while. The
body retraces while in a long fast and toxins from past years are eventually thrown out. You might compare this to a thermometer which, as the mercury rises, passes
through various gradations; as the mercur y falls, it passes back through these
gradations.
   To clarify and help you further understand this very important point, let us
remember that when one


 okayand so is my foot. I’m so grateful for my foot. I’m glad that my foot knows
how to heal.
After twenty minutes there was no pain, only two tiny light pink streaks
left to tell the tale.
Put EFT in Y our First-Aid Kit
After people discover how useful EFT is after physical trauma, it is one of
the first items they later pull out of the toolkit in an emer gency. If your son
has fallen and is bleeding, tap. If your oldest just pulled a hank of hair out
of the youngest’ s head and everyone’ s wailing, tap. If your elderly mother
has just had a fall, tap. If you’re afraid that you will fall on the ice outside,
tap. If you’re being transported  to the hospital, tap. If you can’t use your
hands, imagine tapping inside while tuned in to the fear. If you hear that
someone else has been in an accident, tap. If you fear you’re going to have
a setbac k and never recover, tap. Just tap on all of the awful ideas that come
to mind—so they can release and your immune system can focus on healing
instead of on freaking out.
Resolving T rauma of Serious Accidents and Healing
Sometimes, just one significant trauma can wreak havoc in a person’ s life.
For example, in The Tapping Solution  movie by brother and sister team
Nick and Jessica  Ortner, I recall  a woman featured who had suffered serious
injuries in a car crash on a date, and was told she would have some physical
disabilities for the rest of her life. In the movie, she tapped with experts on
all aspects of the car crash story: what the doctors said, what she didn’ t like
about the date, that the guy was driving too fast, her anger, and more. The
results, after tapping on many aspects during the filming? She experienced
relief from her emotional trauma and physical issues.
Release Fears and Pain fr om Past Accidents
In another case, Michael, a professional motocross racer, had two serious
accidents within a year. Now his career was at a crossroads. While he had
recovered for the most part physically, he was thinking  his way through hisjumps and races, rather than allowing his whole being to flow through at
these critical moments. Naturally, he was no longer winning or even
placing. His career might soon be over, unless that changed.
We tapped several incidents relating to the accident, from the day getting
off to a bad start to the bike not working properly, seeing the turn, landing
wrong, being in the hospital, and finally, realizing that he would not race
again that year. As we tapped, the various parts of his body that had been
injured spoke up and he felt their pain, which then released. Once the
trauma and intensity from the issues we tapped on were neutral, he was
ready to receive the reframes. We provided reassurance to his body and
communicated directly with it, speaking directly to his subconscious, letting
his whole being know that it was far safer to actually not think his way
through the races, but allow the body-mind to flow through the races as it
had in the past. After our first tapping round, he placed. After the second
tapping, he placed again, and he realized he was no longer  thinking his way
through the race.
Going V iral: Colds, V iruses,
Infections, Allergies, and the Like
Now we’ll move on to using EFT to address and provide relief from the
pesky viral maladies that plague  us with sore throats, runny noses, coughs,
fevers, itching, and more.
When you have a symptom or even if you feel that cold comin g on that
everyone else has and believe there’ s nothing you can do—tap. Once you
resolve the emotions underlyin g the sore throat or the cough, those will
often release. Tap on the scratchy feeling, on the itch, the runny nose, how
lousy you feel, not wanting to go to the doctor, the insurance copay, your
frustration with your body, the fear that it’s going to go into your chest, the
difficulty sleepi ng, why do I keep getting this bug, the kids at my son’s
school who passed it on, to whatever the symptoms are. Tap on them one at
a time and allow the emotion to flow out.In most cases, you can tap effectively with children, helping them
manage their pain and their emotions, too. Here’ s an example of how EFT
worked with my six-year -old neighbor friend, Tasha. I happened to drop by
at the time. She was stuck insid e on the first day of vacation, while the rest
of the kids were all outside playing—she could see them from the window.
I asked young Tasha to describe how her sore throat felt. She said, “It
hurts. It’s red. And I can’t talk,” suddenly starting to whisper. I whispered
back, and she laughed. It was a good sign; laughter is truly healing balm.
When you can laugh, fissures begin to appear in the issue, and it may soon
collapse altogeth er. A recent study has found that laughter puts your brain
in the same healing place as meditation, only faster.22
I will often use my sense of humor in a situation or exaggerate
histrionically. If you are ready for this, you will have tapped enough of your
upset down and what you say will land, a more advanced EFT technique.
We all have a natural sense of humor, but sometimes it gets covered up by
hurts.
I asked Tasha: “How big of a hurt is it in your throat? Is it this big?” I
opened my arms wide to both sides of my body. “Or this big?” I bent my
elbows and brought my arms closer together. “Or this big?” I asked, as I
brought the palms of my hands together as if in prayer.
As we talked, I had an intuition  that Tasha’ s illness might be related to
her mom, who had started working again. I suddenly realized that today
was the first day of school vacation  … and Mom  wasn’ t there. I kept my
observation in mind but didn’ t say anything yet.
Tasha hadn’ t been given a say in her mom going back to work, and she
was now getting less of her time. Could the feelings about Mom being
unavailable be stuck in her throat, contributing to its soreness? I was
waiting to see if this would arise as we tapped.
In my client work, I notice that the other person’ s intuition is often
leading them, though they may not be aware of it. For example, when a
long-for gotten story from childhood pops into mind as we are tapping on a
present-day trauma, I will either bookmark it for later, or suggest that we gothere and see what happens, depending on its intensity and their wishes.
Generally, these leaps of logic bring us a wealth of results. Perhaps it’s
intuition or cognition of my experience that when we address earlier issues
that are more foundational or core, we often have a bigger collapse of the
tabletop issue. Maybe it’s your subconscious (after all, it’s about 90 percent
of your mind) doing what it needs to do to help you heal. It’s the limited
consciousness of the ego that can truly be irrational. Y ou can begin allowing
and trusting that your intuition will become increasingly important as you
deepen your EFT work.
Working with little Tasha, we began describing the pain in her own
words, “the stingers in my throat feeling.” We didn’ t use the 0 to 10
intensity scale; I knew she wasn’ t really a numbers person. You don’t need
to have a number, actually; as noted earlier, there are numerous ways to
discern intensity. In this case, I asked her to show me how big it was by
opening her arms as wide as it hurt.
Tasha opened her arms wide out to both sides, and then pulled them in a
little bit. I guess ed it was about  an 8. We made up our statement together,
and I kept in mind that little children need phrases and words they can
relate to: “Even though my throat hurts and it has little stingers in it, I’m an
awesome girl and Mom and Dad love me too.” I’ve also used phrases like
“Even though (the problem), my dog Ralph loves me,” or “ … God loves
me,” or even “my T eddy Bear likes me.”
Within five minutes, Tasha’ s sore throat pain went from arms as wide as
she could make  them to hands  together clasped in prayer position at the
heart—that is, no pain at all in the throat. She still felt run down and had a
runny nose, but she was laughing. Tapping was entertaining to her. We kept
going. A few minutes later, “Mom’ s not here to be with me,” arose as a big
wide-armed upset, as I’d expected. We tapped on the sadness that Mom has
always been here but now she’s not, that Tasha was mad at Mom for not
being there, that she believes Mom should be there with her all the time,
and more. Not surprisingly, tapping on these feelings caused her stuffy nose
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 Success
169
Physical Health and Power
173
23. The Search for T ruth........................................ 1 10
If, as has been said, man learned to lie an
presence of positive or negative
W ellness and the Disease Process
17926. Resolution........................................................ 1 17
hour after he learned to talk, then a
emotional and intellectual stimuli, as wellP A R T  T H R E E :  M E A N I N G
T h e  D a t a b a s e  o f  C o n s c i o u s n e s s
189
Appendix B............................................................ 120
phenomenon such as we are discussing
as physical stimuli.' A smile will make
The Evolution of Consciousness
195
Details of Kinesiologic T esting.......... 120
would be the genesis of the most you test strong. The statement, "I hate
The Study of Pure Consciousness
207
Spiritual Struggle
217
Appendix C............................................................ 122
fundamental change in human knowledge
you," will make you test weak.
The Search for T ruth
225
since the beginning of society, the Before we go any farther, let us
explain Resolution237
V ideotapes.............................................. 122
Appendix A:
transformations it would wreak-in fields
in detail exactly how one "tests,"
Calibrated Levels of T ruth of the Chapters
245
from communications to ethics, in our
especially as the reader will certainly
Appendix B:
most basic concepts, in every detail of
Details of Kinesiological T esting
247
FOREWORD
wish to try this himself. Here is Dr.
Appendix C:
daily existence would be so profound that
Diamond's outline, from his 1979 book,
V ideotapes
251
IMAGINE-WHA T IF you had access to
it is dif ficult even to conceive what lifeNotes
253
Y our Body Doesn't Lie,3 of the
Glossary
269
a simple yes-or -no answer to any
would be like in a subsequent new era of
procedure adapted by him from the
Bibliography
279
question you wished to ask? A
truth. The world as we know it would be
classic description in H.O. Kendall's
About the Author
291
demonstrably true answer. Any question.
Index
305
irrevocably changed, to its very roots.
Muscles: T esting and Function
Think about it.
kinesiology: -n. The study of muscles and(Baltimore: W illiams & W ilkins, 2nd
CONTENT
There's the obvious: "Jane is seeing
their movements, esp. as applied to
ed.,1971).
Foreword.................................................................... 1
another guy." (Y/N?) "Johnny is telling
physical conditioning. [Gk. kinesis, It takes two people to perform a
movement ( kinein, to move) +-logy.)  1
Preface........................................................................ 4
the truth about school." (Y/N?) But it's
kinesiological test. Choose a friend or a
Introduction.............................................................. 10
only a short step to: "This is a safe
The study of kinesiology first received
family member for testing. W e'll call him
P AR T ONE: T OOLS............................................... 13
investment." (Y/N?) or "This career is
scientific attention in the second half of
or her your subject.
1. Critical Advances in Knowledge......................... 13
worthy of my pursuit." (Y/N?)this century through the work of Dr.
1. Have the subject stand erect, right arm
Geor ge Goodheart, who pioneered the
2. History aced Methodology................................... 19
What if everyone had such access?
relaxed at his side, left arm held out
specialty he called applied kinesiology
3. T est Results and Interpretation............................ 24
Staggering implications suggest
parallel to the floor, elbow straight. (Y ou
after finding that benign physical
4. Levels of Human Consciousness......................... 27
themselves immediately. Think again.
may use the other arm if you wish.)
1
2
POWER VERSES FORCE
5. Social Distribution of Consciousness Levels...... 37
What would happen to our ponderous
stimulifar instance, beneficial nutritional
AN ANA T OMY OF
6. New horizons in Research................................... 40and all-too-often flawed judicial system
supplements--would increase the strength
CONSCIOUSNESS
7. Everyday critical point Analysis......................... 45
if there were a clear, confirmable answer
of certain indicator muscles, whereas
8. The Source of Power........................................... 52
to the proposition, "John Doe is guilty as
inimical stimuli would cause those
The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
P AR T TWO: WORK............................................... 57
char ged." (Y/N?)
muscles to suddenly weaken. The
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.
9. Power Patterns in Human Attitudes.................... 57
What would happen to politics as we
implication was that at a level far below
Page No. in the printed Book (in the book as (nn) format)
10. Power in Politics................................................ 60
know it if all of us could ask the
conceptual consciousness the body
ForewordP r e f a c e
1 1. Power in the Marketplace.................................. 65
question, "Candidate X honestly intends
"knew," and through muscle testing wasI n t r o d u c t i o n
able to signal, what was good and bad for
12. Power and Sports............................................... 68
to fulfill this campaign promise." (Y/N?)P A R T  O N E :  T O O L S
it. The classic example, cited later in this
Critical Advances in Knowledge
27
13. Social Power and the Human Spirit................. 72
-and all of us got the same answer?
History and Methodology
39
work, is a universally observed
14. Power in the Arts............................................... 76
(2)
T est Results and Interpretation
51
And what would happen to advertising,
weakening of indicator muscles in the
Levels of Human Consciousness
59
15. Genius and the Power of Creativity.................. 79
period?
Social Distribution of Consciousness Levels77
presence of a chemical sweetener; the
New Horizons in Research
83
16. Surviving Success.............................................. 82
Y ou get the idea. But the idea gets
same muscles strengthen in the presence
Everyday Critical Point Analysis
93
17. Physical Health. and Power............................... 84
bigger, fast. What happens to nationalism
The Source of Power
107
of a healthful natural supplement.P A R T  T W O :  W O R K
18. W ellness and the Disease Process..................... 86
("Nation X is in fact dedicated to the
(3) In the late seventies Dr. John Diamond
Power Patterns in Human Attitudes
1 19
P AR T THREE: MEANING.................................... 91
overthrow of Democracy.")? T o
Power in Politics
125
refined this specialty into a new
government ("This bill does in fact
Power in the Marketplace
133
19. The Database of Consciousness........................ 91
discipline he called Behavioral
Power and Sports
141
22. The Evolution of Consciousness....................... 94
protect the rights of citizens.")?Social Power and the Human Spirit
149
Kinesiology. Dr. Diamond's startling
Power in the Arts
157
21. The Study of Pure Consciousness................... 100
What happens to "The check is in the
discovery was that indicator muscles
Genius and the Power of Creativity
163
22. Spiritual Struggle............................................. 106
mail"?
would strengthen or weaken in the
Surviving Success
169
Physical Health and Power
173
23. The Search for T ruth........................................ 1 10
If, as has been said, man learned to lie an
presence of positive or negative
W ellness and the Disease Process
17926. Resolution........................................................ 1 17
hour after he learned to talk, then a
emotional and intellectual stimuli, as wellP A R T  T H R E E :  M E A N I N G
T h e  D a t a b a s e  o f  C o n s c i o u s n e s s
189
Appendix B............................................................ 120
phenomenon such as we are discussing
as physical stimuli.' A smile will make
The Evolution of Consciousness
195
Details of Kinesiologic T esting.......... 120
would be the genesis of the most you test strong. The statement, "I hate
The Study of Pure Consciousness
207
Spiritual Struggle
217
Appendix C............................................................ 122
fundamental change in human knowledge
you," will make you test weak.
The Search for T ruth
225
since the beginning of society, the Before we go any farther, let us
explain Resolution237
V ideotapes.............................................. 122
Appendix A:
transformations it would wreak-in fields
in detail exactly how one "tests,"
Calibrated Levels of T ruth of the Chapters
245
from communications to ethics, in our


 that it should be looked for at the very
beginning, which meant wi th him the earliest change. He
believed that an intensive study at this stage would discover
cause. This was a mistaken idea of his, which is proved by
the fact that the cause of rheumatism and cancer cannot be
found early or late, and that those who belie ve germs cause
disease cannot find them until pathology is found. It
appears to me, after being in the game for over fifty years, that a plan which has received so much labor without
reward should be abandoned.

   Diagnosis is so fraught with the element  of uncertainty
that no reliance can be placed upon it.

   Research occupies an army of laboratory experts in
hunting the cause of disease, and also cures. They are
doomed to fail; for how is it possible to find cause in
effects?

   The specialist is s o limited in his knowledge of the
philosophy of health and disease that he becomes deluded
on the subject; and this delusion often causes him to see
meningitis, appendicitis, ovaritis —or any disease that
happens to be the subject of his specialty —in every case
brought to him. As a matter of fact, most attacks of disease
of any and all kinds get well, whether treated or not, if they
have not passed from functional to organic.

   This statement needs a little explanation. It is said that
eighty per cent who  fall sick get well, or could get well
without the aid of a doctor. All so -called attacks of disease
of whatever kind are crises of Toxemia, which means
vicarious elimination of Toxin that has accumulated above
the saturation (toleration) point. These cris es may be symptoms which we call cold, “flu,” tonsilitis, gastritis,
headache, or some other light malady. They come today
and are gone in a few days. If treated, we say they were
cured. If they are not treated, we say they got well without
treatment. The truth is that the surplus toxin —the amount
accumulated above the point which can be maintained with
comfort —is eliminated, and comfort returns. This is not a
cure; it is one of nature’s palliations. When the cause or
causes of enervation are discovered and  removed, the
nerve -energy returns to normal. Elimination removes toxin
as fast as developed by metabolism. This is health —this is
all there is to any cure. In a few words: Stop all enervating
habits; stop eating; rest until nerve -energy is restored to
normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured. A
short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people. Those
who are afraid of fasting should not fast. All other so -called
cures are a delusion, and at the most a passing palliation;
but enough such cu res are performed daily to keep a large
army of doctors and cultists in bread, butter, and a degree
of respectability. The cured patients, however, glacier -like,
move steadily down to the river Styx —thousands and
thousands of them years before their time,  many even
before their prime, and all maintaining a false belief
concerning what disease is, and a more foolish notion
concerning cures.
 TOXEMIA SIMPLIFIES THE
UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE

   When a child shows symptoms of high fever, pain, and
vomiting,  what is the disease? It may be indigestion frown
overeating or eating improper food. It may be the beginning
of gastritis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, infantile
paralysis, of some other so -called disease. The treatment,
according to the Philoso phy of Toxemia, may be positive
and given with confidence. There need be no waiting for
developments, no guessing, no mistakes. What is done is
the correct treatment for any so -called disease, named or
not named. Get rid of the exciting causes, whatever th ey
are. Ninety -nine times out of a hundred the stomach and
bowels are full of undigested foods. Wash out the bowels,
and get rid of this source of infection. Then give a hot bath
of sufficient duration to furnish complete relief from any
pain. When discomf ort returns, give another bath. Use an
enema every day, and twice daily if symptoms demand.

   So long as there is fever, rest assured that the bowels are
not cleaned out. Provide plenty of fresh air and water, and
keep the patient quiet. See to it that nothing but water goes
into the stomach until the fever and discomfort are entirely
overcome; then give very light food at first.
    A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk
is liable to develop putrefactive diseases. It is doubtful (and
I believe impossible) if any child brought up on fruit, whole
wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever evolve
diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic
fever—typhoid.

   The methods of the regular practice of medicine are in
keeping with the habits of body and mind that lead to
malignant disease, epidemics, etc. As a man thinketh, so is
he.

   The regular profession believes in antitoxin, vaccine, and
autogenous remedies; and these remedies fit the
psychology of a mode of living  that leads to vicious types
of disease.

   Most people are in sympathy with impossible cures —
cures without removing causes.

   All so -called cures will some day be proved a delusion.
Remember that children will not be sick if they are not
toxemic. Let  the local manifestations be what they may, the
basic cause is always the same —Toxemia plus septic
infection; and if this state is not added to by food, cases treated in this way will be aborted —jugulated, if you
please. Doctors who have seen only regular practice will
declare that the cases recovering in this manner are
irregular and lacking in intensity. Of course, they are not
typical; for they have not been complicated with fear and
disease -building treatment.

   Doctors will say: “Suppose it is a cas e of diphtheria?
Antitoxin should be used, for it is a specific.” What is
diphtheria? A toxemic subject with gastro -intestinal catarrh
becomes infected from decomposition of animal food eaten
in excess of digestive powers. The symptoms are those of
tonsili tis, showing a grayish exudite covering the tonsils or
other parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable,
pungent, fetid breath. There is great prostration. Subjects
developing these symptoms have been living haphazardly.
Their eating has been too l argely of animal foods and
starch —the conventional mixtures —and devoid of raw
vegetables and fruit. The only animal food may be milk,
and the patient a young child. There have been running
before, for a longer or shorter term, gastric irritation,
constipat ion, perhaps several gastric attacks —acute
indigestion.
    In some cases the physical state is so vicious that a severe
development of gastro -intestinal putrefaction may end
fatally in from one to three days. These are the cases
supposed to be overwhelme d by the diphtheritic toxin,
which means an acute protein -poisoning —intestinal
putrefaction —in a subject already greatly enervated and
toxemic.

ACUTE MALIGNANCY DEFINED

   Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects who have been
carrying continuously a sta te of gastrointestinal indigestion
from a surfeit of food, in which animal substances, possibly
only milk, predominated. The entire organism is more or
less infected by the protein decomposition. A feast -day
comes along; an excess produces a crisis; and th e organism,
which is enervated and toxemic to the point of no
resistance, is overwhelmed by septic poisoning.

WHAT CAUSES FATALITY

   Fatal cases in all epidemics are food -drunkards who are
very much enervated, toxemic and infected from
putrescence in  the bowels.     It is a crime to feed anything to the sick. No food should
be given until all symptoms are gone; then fruit and
vegetable juices (never any animal foods not for weeks). A
hot bath should be administered three times daily. Wash out
the bowe ls by enemas every few hours, until all putrescent
debris is throughly cleared out; and, when possible, give a
gastric ravage daily, until the stomach and bowels are
thoroughly cleared of all putrescence. The life of the patient
depends upon getting rid of  the putrid food still remaining
in the bowels, before enough putrescence is absorbed to
cause death. All epidemic diseases are wholesale food -
poisonings among people who are pronouncedly enervated
and toxemic. The poisoning by food is on the order of
poisoning by chemicals.


 35,
38. 156
family system, 19-20
nco-Conf ucian ism, 18, 26-27,
32. 33, 55, 63, 64, 84,
125. 161
Taoism com pared wit h, 10,
14-15
Con fucius, 13, 14, 18, 49
attitude towa rd sex, 35
Cotifucius Says Not, 90-92
Consorts, 25, 40-53, 133, 154,
157, 188
Conver sing in Loving Entan
glement (love-pla y
positio n), 100
Courtesans, 27, 28, 31-33, 45
Cranes Entwi ning Necks (int er
course position), 107,
112,223
Cultur al Revol ution, 21
Cunnilin gus, 96-98, 196
Jade Fou ntain (love game),
211-12
soixante-neuf (69), 211
Danci ng, 192
"Dead entry, live exit" (tech
nique), 102
Deep Diaphragm Breathing
(exercise), 173, 174-75
Deer horn, 142-43
Demon lovers, 33
"Divine mushr oom " (ling-chi h),
141-42
Dogs of Autu mn (int ercourse
positio n), 113 Donkeys of Spring (intercourse
position), 113, 225,
229 -30, 234
Dragons Twisting (intercourse
position), 109, 221
Drama s, erotic, 64-66
Dream of the Red Chamber, The
(Hung Lou Meng ; Tsao
Hsueh-ch in), 66-67, 71-73
Dusky Cicadas Cleavi ng (inter-
course position), 112
Eas tern Empr ess, 39, 40
"Eighteen Fondli ngs " (song ), 186
Ejacu lation, 197, 217. See also
Orgasm, male
acupr essu re and, 119
avoidance/dela ying, 18, 103,
108, 116-29, 156, 162,
167-69, 199,214 -19,
234-35
difference betw een orgasm and,
103, 168, 219
frequency, recom mendati ons,
117, 168
Kins ey on, 185
Mas ters and johnso n on, 168,
217, 218
pluc k-an d-n urture technique
and, 120-29, 162, 168
"sque eze technique," 168, 218
Elemental Maid. See The Classic of
the Element al Ma id; Pres crip
tions of the Element al Ma id
Em press Dowager (Tzu- hai,
Western Empress), 7,
39-40
Enjoyment, sex and, 163-65
Erotica
art (vis ual), 75-77
ballads, 63-64, 73-75
differen ce betw een pornogr aphy
and, 54- 55
dramas, 64-66
nov els, 59-63, 66-73
poems, 55-59
Essenc e of Medical Pres criptions, The
(I Shim Po or I Shirrg FatJg;
Yasuyori), 83-84
Esse ntials of the jade Chamber
(Yu Fang Chih Yao), 84,
95-96, 118 l:'ssentiaiJ of Nurturin� Jjfe,
The 117'
Eun uchs, 25, 38-40, 44-45, 47,
53, 162
Exercises, sexual, 155-58, 1 {,(J,
172-74, 183
Bodyq uak c, 181
Breast Cir cles, 180, 209
Chest Mass age, 179-80
chi-kun._� (life-ener gy skill),
147-49, 156, 157, 173-75
Cinnabar Field Ma ssag e,
177-78, 209
Dee p Diaphr agm Breathing,
173-75
Groin Ma ssag e, 178
Hip Swiv el, 181
Kitt en Stretch, 182
Perineum Pres s, 179
Pillo w Nip, 181
Pubic Squeeze, 175-7 7
Sacral-Coccygeal Press, 178-79
Saliv a Fount ain, 182
Scrotu m Rub, 180
tai chi chuan, 156, 173
Teeth Chatt er, 183
Exposed Fish Gills (love-play
position), 100
Face -to-f ace intercourse positio ns,
220 -22. See also individually
nam ed positions
Feast of Peo nies (interco urse posi
tion), 113
Fei (emperor), 48
Fellatio, 98, 196, 199
Playing the Flute (Jove game),
211-13
soixante-neuf (69), 211
First Em peror of Chin, 6, 48, 76
Fish Eye-to-Eye (intercourse posi
tion), 109, 222
Fish Linkin g Scales (interco urse
position), 107, 110, 222
Five-M ineral Mix, 131
Foot-bindi ng, 28-30
Forepl ay. See Love-play
Freud, Sigmund, 165, 169, 233
Fu Yin, 31
G spot, 169-70, 198
Galen, 168 Games. Sec Love-play
GcnirH <!( Clritlcl, Tlrt' (Temple),
11-12
Gingko, 143-44
Ginseng, 139-41
Goat Hugging the Tree (inter
course position), 112, 224
Gobbling Fish (intercourse posi
tion), 110
Gold �asc Plum (Chi11 Pitr.l! Mci ),
66-69, 70, 71
Grafenberg, Ernst, 169-70
Groin Massage (exercise), 178
Han dynasty
aphrodisiacs/sexual nutrients,
usc ot� 133, 141
consorts, 41-43, 49, 52, 133,
157, 188
emperors/empresses, 6, 41-43,
49, 52, 96, 141, 157, 188
erotica, 75
eunuchs, 40
sexology, 82, 84, 85
Hanfei Tzu, 13
"Harvesting Mulberry Leaves"
(song), 73-74
Harvey, William, 162
Hearing, sense of, 186, 188-89
Heavenly Fountain (love game),
210-11
Heh-teh, 49
Hinduism, 17, 150
Hip Swivel (exercise), 181
HIV, 197·
Homosex uality
in China, 27-28
Kinsey on, 164
Horse Shaking Its Hoof (inter
course position), 111, 221
Hsi Hsiang Chi (The Story of the
Western Chamber ; Wang
Shih-fu), 64-66
Hsi Shih, 52
Hsia Chi, 49, 157
Hsia dynasty
consorts, 41
emperors/empresses, 41, 45
Hsiao, 50
Hsien (imm ortals), 15-16
Hsu Fu, 6
Hsu Ling, 97-98 Hsuan Nu. Sa Arcane Maid
Hsuan Tsung, 4.\ 47-48
Hua Fou, 1 36
Huang Ti. Sa Ydlow Emperor
Hu,m.�?-dri (yellow vetch), 143
Hui Tsung, 32-33
Hui-yiu, 170, 196,204-5,210,218
Hum ming Ape Embracing the
Trel' (imer cour se position),
112, 223
Hrm.l! Lou Mm,l! (The Drea m of tire
Red Chmnbcr; Tsao H�ueh
chin), 66-67, 71-73
I Chi11.f! (The Book of Chan.ec),
10, 18
I Shim Po (I ShinJ! Fat�g; The
Essetlce of A1cdica l Prescrip
tions; Yasuyori), 83-84
I To Mix, 136-37
Ideal Marriage (Van de Vcld


 and the activity of seeking and resisting that is generated by it, the
peace and happiness that is the nature of our essential self shines unob -
structed in our experience.
     It is not the object, substance, activity, state of mind or relationship that
we truly seek. All we truly seek is to bring the experience of seeking to an
end. We desire only the ending of desire.

‘yes’ to all experience

The first words I ever heard Francis say were, ‘Meditation is a universal “yes”
to the totality of one’s experience’. Had I fully understood their implication,
no further instruction would have been necessary. By simply saying ‘yes’ to
our current situation, irrespective of its content, we are, without necessarily
realising it at first, standing in and as our true nature of awareness and open -
ing ourself to its innate qualities of peace and joy.
114suffering is our own activity
     Just as the empty space of a room unconditionally allows whatever takes
place within it without resistance, so our essential nature of pure awareness
is open without resistance to all experience. It is thought alone that rises up
and says ‘no’ to the current experience. If that ‘no’ rises on behalf of the safety
or well-being of the body, then it is a direct and legitimate response to the
current situation.
     Usually, however, the ‘no’ rises on behalf of an illusory self that we almost
constantly try to protect, enhance or fulfil. In fact, the separate self is not an
entity in its own right; it is the  feeling  of defence and lack, and the cor -
responding activity  of seeking and resisting. T o counteract this resistance,
one may simply determine to say ‘yes’ to all experience, unless the safety and
well-being of the body are at stake.
     This universal welcoming of all experience does not, in fact, need to be
practised by the mind. It is the very nature of awareness to allow all experi -
ence as it is. In the absence of an intermediary layer of seeking and resisting,
we, awareness, are naturally and effortlessly surrendered to or in alignment
with our current experience, completely open to it and at the same time free
or independent of it.
     The moment we separate ourself out from the totality as a separate self
or person, we create a state of opposition. The remedy is simple: say ‘yes’ to
experience. In doing so, we align ourself with the universe, moment by mo -
ment, rather than pitting ourself against it.

In fact, it is not even necessary to say ‘yes’ to any experience, for, being in -
separable from the universe, we are always and already one with it. There is
just the indivisible totality of the situation, and we as an apparent individual
are in participation, not conflict, with it, just as a practitioner of Aikido will
flow with their opponent’s energies rather than resist them.
     A friend of mine who used to coach one of the top under-fourteen tennis
players in the world told me that whenever she made a mistake or lost a
point, she would smile. Instead of provoking in herself ‘the failure’ – the ego
that inhibits the free flow of inspiration in an athlete’s game – her smile
would erase the error, leaving her open and relaxed to face the next point
without any residue of the past to sabotage it.
     And I once heard a violinist performing Bach’s solo violin partitas in a
church. At a critical moment, in the silence between two movements, the
115you are the happiness you seek
mobile phone of a woman sitting in the front row rang with that familiar,
persistent ringtone: da da der der, da da der der, da da der der, der der.
Without a moment’s pause, the violinist briefly improvised on the theme be -
fore weaving it into the beginning of the next movement. Bach would surely
have been delighted!
     Actions that are in line with and an expression of the whole tend to restore
balance and harmony in situations that have diverged from it. And when
the response is over, no separate self rises up to claim authorship. As it says
in the Tao T e Ching, such a person ‘acts without doing anything’.
     Welcoming our current experience is not something that we need practise.
It is what we are. This attitude of welcoming is, as such, the natural condition
of our self prior to the arising of the apparently separate self or ego. It is our
default state and, therefore, does not have to be maintained by effort. It is
for this reason that this approach is said to be an effortless path.
     All that is necessary is to cease resisting experience. It is our unimpeded
openness to the current experience that enables our innate happiness to be
fully felt, irrespective of the content of the experience. In the absence of
resistance, our natural state of openness to experience is revealed. Openness
is what we are; resistance is what we do.

116chapter fifteen
The Way of Surrender
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only
take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
tolstoy

the call to return

Just as the transparency of a screen is veiled when a movie begins, so the in -
nate peace and joy that is the nature of our being is obscured when we lose
our self in the content of experience. The ensuing suffering is the inevitable
consequence of our forgetting or overlooking our essential self.
     Suffering is the means by which we are reminded to return from the ad -
venture of experience to our self. In fact, one with a deep interest in truth or
reality does not see suffering as something incorrect, wrong or problematic.
Rather, they welcome it as a reminder that they have invested their happiness
in objective experience, and consider it a loving, if perhaps stringent, invita -
tion to return to their own being.
     Everybody experiences this call to recognise their true nature, although
not everybody recognises their suffering as such. Indeed, most people re -
spond to the experience of suffering by intensifying their search for peace
and happiness in the realm of objective experience, thus further alienating
themselves from the peace and joy that lies within them.
     Shantananda Saraswati used to tell the story of a disciple, a woman
named Kunti, who had one prayer in life: ‘Lord, give me some adversity so
that I may always remember You’. She instinctively knew that the fulfilment
of her personal desires would substantiate the tendency to look for happiness
in objective experience rather than finding it, in her language, ‘in God’s pres -
ence in her heart’. Therefore, she prayed to have that temptation removed.
     Kunti realised that by having her personal desires fulfilled she was
strengthening the ego on whose behalf they arose. By asking for some difficulty,  you are the happiness you seek
that is, by desiring the curtailment of her desires, she was really praying for
the diminishment of her ego, which is another way of saying that she was
praying that God’s presence might be magnified within her.
     Most people’s experience is hard enough without their having to ask for
further difficulties, but the story of Kunti illustrates the depth of love of truth
that is often kindled in the heart of one for whom objective experience has
lost, or is beginning to lose, its capacity to be the source of peace and hap -
piness, and the attitude of surrender that accompanies it.

More important than the content of the prayer is the inner attitude of open -
ness from which it arises. Such is the correspondence between our inner lives
and the outside world that this attitude of surrender compels the universe
to respond.
     After all, the universe and the individual are not two separate systems.
The individual’s desire for happiness is really its desire to be relieved of
everything that seems to render it separate from everyone and everything –
in other words, its desire to return to the universal.
     However, that is said as a concession to the individual’s perspective.
In reality, the individual is only such from its own partial and, ultimately,
illusory perspective. From the perspective of the universal, there is just the
universal. The individual is a point of view of the universal within  the uni -
versal; it is not an entity in its own right.
     What is felt by the individual as its desire for happiness is, in reality, the
universe’s own impulse to restore the natural order. And because such a de -
sire is impersonal, the universe cannot help but fulfil it. Even if the response
is initially only in the form of a book, a meeting with a friend, a video or
a chance encounter, if followed with the same pure intention to find happi -
ness or truth, it will sooner or later lead there.

open without resistance

It is also possible that an attitude of surrender may be brought about as
a result of our circumstances, without any effort on our own part. In this
case, the sheer intensity of the moment will eradicate the filter of thoughts
and feelings through which our experience is usually mediated, allowing
our innate happiness to shine.
118the way of surrender
     Most experience lies within a range of normality that leaves the habitual,
discursive activity of the mind intact, commentating, comparing, analysing,