 for respiratory conditions,
and as a
relaxant to the nervous system. Contains anti-fungal properties.
SPRUCE OIL
 — Use for inflammation (various itis’s), urinary tract support,
anti-fungal properties, and hypothyroidism in conditions relative to the
bones, skin, sweating.
TARRAGON OIL
 — A digestant (which supports the pancreas, liver). Use
for inflammation (various itis’s), as a laxative, and as an anti-parasitic.
Valuable in cases of anorexia, and for support of the nervous system.
TEA TREE OIL (MELALENCA)
 — A great oil for support of the immune
and lymphatic systems. Useful for shingles, as an anti-fungal, or antiviral.
Good for burns, shock, and eliminating warts.
THYME OIL
 — Anti-parasitic for all types of parasites: fungal, bacterial,
viral, or worms. Use in cases of lung congestion, stress, anxiety and tension
(when adrenal glands need support), skin disorders, thyroid-related problems
(like depression or skin conditions), lymphatic/congestive conditions, tumors,
nausea, gout, cardiac problems, circulation, and throat congestion.
WILD TANSY OIL
 — Provides support for the immune system, lymphatic
system, adrenal glands (especially emotional issues).
WHITE LOTUS OIL
 — Useful as tonic. Uplifting, said to bring euphoria.
Spiritual properties. Immune system enhancing. Anti-cancer properties.
In my sister’s herb shop we have a sauna in which we use essential oils.
This offers a great benefit to the body, especially in assisting elimination
through the skin, lungs, kidneys and even the bowels. Using oils in this way
can literally pull the toxins from your skin. I recommend using Eucalyptus,Birch, Sage or Lavender oil (see their properties and uses above).
Essential oils can also be burned in oil lamps or special essential-oil
burners. They can be used in the bag of your vacuum cleaner, which allows
the essential oils to neutralize many toxic particles that escape from your
sweeper. This method also spreads the oil throughout the area that you are
vacuuming.
Let the aroma of the oils invigorate you and enhance your life in endless
ways.
CHIROPRACTIC AND KINESIOLOGY

Chiropractic is a therapeutic system based upon the interaction of the spine
and the nervous system. A trained chiropractor can use a variety of methods
to manipulate the spinal column, making adjustments to specific vertebrae,
and thereby opening energy pathways and releasing energy blockages to
various parts of the body.
Kinesiology is a feedback system of diagnosis that involves testing the
strength of particular muscles. The theory is that the muscles are weakened
when any part of the body is threatened or weak. By “asking” the body
specific questions, and then testing the strength of the muscles, the trained
kinesiologist can pinpoint which system is in need of attention, and determine
how best to strengthen it.
When used together, chiropractic and kinesiology have saved many
suffering souls. The combination is important, as spinal vertebrae oftentimes
move out of place from toxic, weak muscles. Muscles hold the skeletal
system in place. The body naturally stores toxins in muscles first, in order to
save the vital organs. Dairy products, refined sugars, and starches all cause
lymphatic congestion, which eventually lead to muscle and tissue weakness.
This can leave some muscles weaker than others. The stronger muscles then
begin to pull bones out of place.
Of course, we can also displace our skeletal system through injuries.
When your skeletal system is out of place, you can suffer severe pain and
discomfort. I have seen convulsions occur from spinal misalignments. If you
add detoxification to chiropractic you could truly heal the muscular/skeletal
system.COLON THERAPY

See section 6.9 on “Healthy Bowel Management,” in
Chapter 6
.
COLOR THERAPY

Without color, life would not exist. The energies that make up the millions of
colors create, support and sustain the untold dimensions that exist beyond our
sight. The power of colors to enhance tissue is phenomenal. I developed a
color therapy machine years ago and had great fun experimenting with colors
and their effects upon the body. The sun is the ultimate provider of color
therapy. Full-spectrum rays surround and flow through us, healing and
embracing our cells. All life looks to the “light,” one way or another.
As we have discussed, energy creates, supports, sustains and changes the
universe. This energy manifests from consciousness, and extends out into
creation. As it moves, it gives off colors (light) and music (sounds). These
energies, their colors and music, are both dramatic and subtle. Duality dictates
that colors or energies move between hot (acid) and cold (alkaline), or light
(acid) and dark (alkaline).
Everything that exists has a main energy or energies that support or
sustain it, whether this is a human, animal, plant, planet or universe. An
example of this would be a planet, like Mother Earth, where gemstones play a
major role in channeling these energies that sustain her. There are also lay
lines or electromagnetic energy lines that crisscross the earth. Where they
meet is said to be a place of very high energy—a place where more
spiritually-minded people tend to congregate and live. Sedona, Arizona is an
example of such a place.
Another example of energy centers is found within the bodies of animals
and humans. There are basically seven main energy centers within each of us.
These main energy centers correspond to different aspects or different bodies
that we use. Most people cannot see these types of energies. Those who can
we call psychic; however, anyone can train himself or herself to see these.
Your ability to achieve anything depends upon the degree of your desire for
it. These centers of energy are “seen” as follows:
First CenterDimension
: physical (survival)
Location
: base of spine (fourth sacral)
Color
: red
Second Center
Dimension
: physical (social, healing)
Location
: 2 inches below the naval
Color
: orange
Third Center
Dimension
: emotional (astral, survival)
Location
: solar plexus
Color
: yellow/pink
Fourth Center
Dimension
: emotional (healing, astral)
Location
: center of chest (heart) first, second, third thoracic
Color
: green
Fifth Center
Dimension
: mind (survival)
Location
: throat first through third cervical
Color
: sky blue
Sixth Center
Dimension
: mind (healing)
Location
: third eye, pineal gland
Color
: indigo
Seventh Center
Dimension
: ego (crown)Location
: crown of head, pituitary gland
Color
: purple/violet
Eighth Center
Dimension
: soul itself
Color
: yellow/white
The above main centers are expressed through your physical body and
are called chakras (pronounced: sha’-crahhz).
When one has physical, emotional or mental disease, these centers will
begin to shut down respectively. These energies emanate from and through
your physical body. Your aura, or the electromagnetic energies emanating
from you, can be read and analyzed to determine weaknesses or strengths.
In the aura, white or yellow are the colors of Consciousness. The main
creative and sustaining energies of Earth, divided into five basic influences or
elements, are seen in the aura in the following colors:

Air element = violet
Fire element = red
Ether element = blue
Water element = orange
Ground element = green
The following are examples of colors and the specific tissues that they
affect.
By using different colors, or electromagnetic frequencies, therapeutically,
we can affect tissue in a positive way. It will respond or function in a greater
capacity. Today, we need all the healing power we can get because of the
severe hypo-conditions that most of us have in our cells, tissues, organs and
glands as a result of our diets and genetics.
If you truly wish to become healthy physically, emotionally, mentally
and spiritually, then you must reconnect with God. In this world we are
interconnected with nature, without which life could not exist as we know it.
Nature offers us an abundance of tools to assist us in the quality of our
expression while we live on this planet. Take control. Use all of these tools
available to you, to obtain your goals.
Below is a list of foods and their specific colors. Eat more of the foods
that fit the area of your body you wish to work on.
In creation there is always duality or opposites. Without opposites there
would be only one thing – God! Opposites give us matter, energy, time and
space. There are always two processes or forces at work in nature: anabolism
and catabolism. Anabolism is the process of growth, repair, building,
enhancement and dynamic energy. The essential opposite to this is
catabolism, which is the destructive or the “tearing down” side. This side
affects change; balances out over-growth; maintains the shape and size of
forms; and destroys the weak, to make room for the strong. Catabolism
creates the wastes from metabolism, while anabol


their  financial  Freedom.  They  think  so earnestly  it is going
to be helpful.  Well  do not be disappointed,  but let Me try
to clear  this  for you.  If you  will  give  sufficient  earnest  at-
tention  to your  Presence—as  your  Treasure-house  from
which  all must  come,  you  will  find  outer  conditions  will
harmonize;  and  come  into  harmonious  accord  with  that
which  will  bring  you  the money  supply  you  require!  It is
the ONLY  PERMANENT  MEANS  of doing  it.
If you  try with  the forces  of the outer  world,  to accom-
plish  what  you  desire,  you  may  attain  a certain  amount  of
success;  but  there  is no assurance  of its permanency.  You
see that  manifest  everywhere  about  you.  The  Individual
who  will  turn  to his or her Great  Presence  wholly;  accept
It constantly  as that  one's  Treasure-house,  from  which  all
money  supply  and  everything  else  must  come—all  other
supply—will  have  set into  action,  the Greatest  Law  in the
Universe.  It will  be permanently  sustained;  and  there  is no
human  element  which  can  change  or destroy  it.
That  is the point  I want  to have  you  understand  at this
time  in the world's  activity;  because  the outer  world  is the
most  unstable  condition  which  you  can  possibly  imagine.
So do not depend  upon  the stability  of your  outer  world,
which  is governed  largely  yet in your  commercial  activity,
by the whims  of humankind.  I do not mean,  there  are not
many  honest  sincere  Individuals  for there  are;  but they  are
in the minority.  The  great  majority  of mankind,  feeling DISCOURSE  XVIII  257
tremendous  pressure,  feel  justified  in using  the subterfuge
of human  means  to supply  themselves.
Today,  I shall  acquaint  you  with  the conditions  which
exit in Europe  and  the World!  Mankind  over  the entire
World  is feeling  this  pressure.  With  a great  number  of the
people,  it is acting  as a sense  of fear;  and  their  fear  comes
from  their  desire  for supply.  I plead  with  you—all  of you
earnest  sincere  "I AM"  Students,  erase  that  from  your  feel-
ing world,  by the Call  to your  Presence.  Do not let the fear
of your  supply  enter  into  your  feeling  world.  If you  do, you
build  it up and  make  it most  difficult  for Us to give  you  the
Assistance,  which  will  bring  you  CONSTANT  FINAN-
CIAL  SUPPLY.
We know  quite  as well  as you  do, the need  of it today,
so long  as it is the means  of your  exchange;  but  there  are
perhaps  twelve  Individuals  in the World,  today,  who  have
millions  at their  command,  whose  fear  is the greatest  you
ever witnessed!  It seems  incredible;  but  I tell  you  it is
True;  and  that  is what  has brought  this  tremendous  pres-
sure upon  mankind;  from  the financial  standpoint  and  in
the industrial  world!  They  are trying  to concentrate  and
gather  all within  their  own  control!  I ask you  to watch  it!
All of a sudden,  you  will  find  it is like  an explosion,  and
they  will  find  their  hold  upon  mankind  forever  released!
That  is why  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has  brought  forth
This  "I AM"  Activity;  and  why  We are making  This  Tre-
mendous  Effort  to assist  mankind.  It is to give  the people
the Conscious  Understanding  of the Laws  which  are acting 258 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
about  them;  so they  may  free  themselves  from  this  condi-
tion of fear  and  doubt,  which  bind  them  to all kinds  of
destructive  feeling.
I say to you as students,  you  have  been  affected  here  quite
the same  as other  places  in the United  States;  by vicious
false  gossip  concerning  the Reality  of This  Work,  and  con-
cerning  the Messengers;  but  if you  listen  to it, you  are the
ones  who  are deprived.  Because  some  vicious  Individual
spreads  false  gossip,  it does  not mean  that  it is true;  but if
mankind  accepts  it, then  the people  are deprived.  The  Mes-
sengers  will  go on doing  Their  Work,  because  It is Real!
It is True!  It is Mighty,  but  the  Individuals  who  allow
themselves  to be affected  by vicious  things,  are the ones  who
are the losers.
We cannot  say to Individuals  you  shall  accept  This  Won-
drous  Understanding!  Get  it clearly,  Dear  Ones!  During
this Class,  let Our  Light  anchor  you  so firmly,  that  not a
thing  in your  world  can affect  you  discordantly.  You  should
know  that  forever.  Bear  in mind  This  is not the Messenger
talking  to you;  but the One  who  has come  to be known  as
the Great  Divine  Director.  I Am  that  Cosmic  Being,  Who
is flashing  These  Words  before  him!  Now  hold  That  in
mind!  I Am  the One  who  is Authority  for the Law  of Life;
and if you  will  understand  It, you  will  see I speak  with  Au-
thority.  With  the  obedience  of mankind  to the  slightest
Request,  which  We  ask,  you  will  have  your  Freedom!
Without  obedience,  We cannot  give  you  the Assistance  re-
quired. DISCOURSE  XVIII  259
The rebellion  in a few  of mankind,  when  I sanctioned
the Group  Outline,  showed  they  did  not understand  the
need  of the people  or the mass  of the students.  The  need  of
the Protection  for America,  was  the reason.  Do you  think,
Beloved  Ones,  I would  attempt  to influence  you;  or at-
tempt  to govern  you,  when  I know  as no other  Being  does,
what  your  Free  Will  means?  Therefore,  it is with  the
Greatest  Loving-kindness  We present  These  Laws  for man-
kind's  use.  They  are here  for your  Blessing!
There  is not one  thing  of which  We  talk  that  is not con-
cerning  your  Life;  Its Law  and  Its Action.  There  is nothing
mystical!  Dismiss  every  particle  of such  nonsense!  Your
Life,  the Life  of the Universe  of which  you  are a part,  makes
It the most  practical  thing  in the whole  world  and  activity
of mankind.  There  is nothing  in the physical  world  today,
which  is as practical  as This  Great  Activity  of the Law  of
your  own  Life;  because  you  are dealing  with  Vibration  and
Substance;  and  every  feeling  which  goes  forth  from  you,  is
setting  a cause  into  action  to produce  results  for you.
That  is why  We  know  this.  We  went  thru  the human
experience  in gaining  Our  Freedom,  the same  as you  are.
Knowing  your  Requirements,  We  have  so kindly  offered
Our Assistance;  but if mankind  says  We do not exist;  it is
the Messenger's  own  activity,  which  is giving  this  forth;
then  you  have  lost  to a large  extent,  the


 eater because she was having marital andfinancial troubles. She sought solace in eating rich foods
such as ice cream, heavily sugared pastries and candies.
In time she lost her movie contract because of heroverweight. She was a good actress, but the public makes
severe demands on their heroes! This actress became
depressed and had to seek the services of a psychiatrist.The psychiatrist then sent this actress to me for guidance.
I explained to this actress it had taken months for her
to add this weight to her body and it would now taketime to slim, trim and normalize her weight. She was
determined to lose weight, so she was most cooperative!
First, I put her on a good diet program with fruit for
breakfast, a raw salad with
 2 lightly cooked vegetables –
such as string beans, carrots, squash, collards or stewedtomatoes – for lunch. I took all bread, cereals and animal
proteins out of her diet. In the evening she had the Bragg
Health Salad and the brown rice and lentil casserole
(recipes page 231). Naturally, sugar desserts were eliminated.
I started her on  2 weekly  24 hour fasts for the first  2
weeks. The third week I gave her a  3 day fast and in the
fifth week I gave her a full  7 day fast. After a month of
healthy eating I put her on a 15 day fast. I had her eat for  2
weeks and then put her on a  21 day fast. This eating, then
fasting program did the trick! She got back her lovely figure
(5’2” and a firm, trim 110 pounds). Her eyes became bright,
clear and she regained her youthful sparkling appearance.
Producers, directors, and her many friends were amazed.
When you have been stricken by illness, your new car, your new home, your
new big bank balance – all these fade into unimportance until you haveregained your vigor and zest for living again. –  Peter J. Steincrohn,
M.D.
Fasting provides the magic formula for retaining youthfulness,
natural beauty and a streamlined body! –  Paul C. Bragg117Fasting – Empowers and Improves
Your Health, Looks and Lifespan
Yes, it’s a challenge because our eating habits are so
ingrained in our consciousness that fasting to many
humans is akin to starvation. It is not starvation. Fasting
is one of the oldest remedies known to man. So I sayagain, the mind must control the flesh! “Flesh is dumb!”
It takes intelligence, logic and reasoning to know
when to turn down food. If you are a determined person,if you believe in the law of compensation, you will make
fasting an important part of your life. Don’t let excess
weight make you a sick, old, unhealthy, unattractiveperson! Revolt against fat. Be the captain of your body!
Say to yourself, “I am no longer going to be burdened
with unhealthy, sick, flabby flesh!” Work out an exerciseand fasting program for yourself, and don’t try to get
the fat off in
 a week. It took a long time to get heavy
and it will take a reasonable length of time to melt itaway. You will be so proud of yourself when you slimand trim yourself down to your normal weight with
normal measurements. Your family and friends will also.
Every person is aware of their health and physical
appearance! We all want to look and feel our best. So
let’s do something about it! Fasting and sensible, sane
dieting and exercise is your answer! Be sure you have abathroom scale and get yourself a tape measure. Weigh
yourself and measure your abdomen, hips, thighs and
arms. With determination commit yourself to a seriousprogram of normalizing your weight for health’s sake!
To prove the value of fasting to yourself, get a physical
exam before starting your fasting regimen and get copiesof your blood/cholesterol panel test (see page
138), urine
etc. for your home medical files. After faithfully
following The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle with fasting youwill be amazed at the improvements you have gained.
Fasting is always the best way to take off fat; I am
not going to tell you fasting is always easy. It’s going totake positive thinking and action to attain positive
results! Start today to lose any dangerous excess pounds!118
Exercise, along with fasting, is provided to help us maintain or
restore a healthy physical balance in our daily living for a long, happy life.
 Do waist twists
          and windmills.
Do bicycles
   and leg kicks.Bend at the waist to the sides, then front and back.Important Exercises for Keeping the
External and Internal Trunk Muscles of
The Stomach Fit and Healthy.
Also These Promote Good Elimination.Do these Exercises Daily (10 per set):
You must exercise, for weak muscles of the arms, legs
and entire body indicates a similar condition of the
stomach and heart (a muscle) and other organs.
Do leg
    and buttock          stretches.119How to Gain Weight Using a
Scientific Fasting Program
Thin people frantically try to gain and hold a few
pounds. Gaining weight becomes an obsession with the
underweight person and they are most susceptible toall kinds of weight-gaining diets. Underweight peoplehave come to me in a frustrated and stressed emotionalcondition, begging me to help them put a few poundson their spare frames. Most of them were cold constantly... even on the warmest summer days they wore sweatersand heavy garments! They begged me to give them adiet that would help them gain weight, because theywere ashamed of their skeleton-like bodies.
When I told them there was no such thing as a
weight-gaining diet, they were as shocked as if I hadgiven them a death sentence. But, when I added mostemphatically that there was a program to gain weightwhich included fasting, they would agree to the programbut not on the fasting! They would cry out, “Don’t makeme any thinner than I am! I’m down to skin and bonesnow. If you take my food away from me, I will look likea scarecrow!” Then I had to explain that they were thinonly because their bodies were nutritionally unbalanced.
I told them that food and nutrition are not
synonymous. A diet of unhealthy fats, refined sugar, andcarbohydrates, plus ample milk, cream and morefattening foods wouldn’t necessarily help them gainweight; their body might even get thinner on this diet.They must cleanse and heal their body by fasting andliving a healthy lifestyle and take a multi-enzyme.
Famous comedian & author Dick Gregory, who weighed over 350 pounds,
was inspired by our Miracle of Fasting  book that guided him into a healthy lifestyle
which was life-changing. He traded his bad habits – unhealthy foods, alcohol,drugs, smoking, etc. for healthy habits!!! He now weighs a healthy 150 pounds,and has been in 8 Boston Marathons and is guiding others to reduce and liveon “live foods” and abstain from all the unhealthy, processed, dead foods.Chapter 1 5120People are not nourished in proportion to the
amount of food they eat, but in proportion to how muchthey digest and assimilate. When the organs of digestionand assimilation are maintained in poor workingcondition, eating too many fatty foods in an effort to
gain weight defeats its own purpose.
Being underweight is usually due to faulty health.
It’s futile to stuff a lot of food into the body when
assimilation and digestion are working at a low ebb. Thesecret of normalizing weight (up or down) is to make
the detoxifying system more efficient through fasting.
Then the underweight person rejuvenates the digestiveand assimilative systems to work efficiently.
What the underweight person needs is exactly what
the overweight person needs – a fast that gives the bodya cleansing physiological rest. In both the overweight and
the underweight, the digestive and assimilation systems
have been overworked. This is difficult to explain tounderweight people. They are impatient and want to gain
weight immediately on a diet, but first the underweight
person must realize that the period of physiological restprovided by the fast results in improved digestion andbetter assimilation of foods.
The Body Has Powerful Recuperative Powers
The body has extraordinary recuperative powers
when it is not burdened with an excessive amount of
food. In over  70 years of fasting underweight people, I
have had outstanding success with underweight andemaciated people who learned to have faith in fasting
and a full program of Natural Living.
I have a sister whom I love very dearly who was born
a very tiny baby. I believe she weighed about 3 pounds
at birth. All through her life, my sister Louise was called
“skinny.” When she was a child, everyone would tellmy mother that she should be stuffed with milk and
cream and that she must eat a lot of pork, potatoes, rice,
custards and all the supposed weight-gaining foods. Butthe more my sister was stuffed with all of these so-called
fattening foods, the thinner, weaker, paler and more121lifeless she became! There were many times when my
sister was so weak that she had to remain in bed. And
even during these periods in bed, she was still stuffed
on a so-called weight-gaining diet.
Later, after I had left home and regained my health,
I returned to Virginia near where my sister Louise


 would  like to mention another specic feature of the inner
obstructions that must be met so they can be transcended. It is
necessary to rst understan d that all thoughts and feelings are
powerful agents of creative energy, regardless of whether the
thoughts are true and wise or false and limited. Likewise, whether
the feelings are loving or hateful, angry or benign, fearful orpeaceful, their energy must create according to their nature.
Thoughts and opinions create feelings, and both of them  together
create attitudes, behaviors, and emanations, which in turn create
the life circumstances. These sequences must be connected with,
understood, and fully recogn ized. This is an essential aspect of the
pathwork.
Your fear of your negative feelings is unjustied. The feelings in
themselves are not terrible or unbearable. However, your beliefs and
attitudes can make them so. This process is constantly being veried
by those who follow this path, because they nd that the deepest
pain is a reviv ifying experience. It releases contracted energy and
paralyzed creativity. It enables people to feel pleasure to the degree
they are willing to feel pain.
The same applies to fear. To experience fear in itself is not
devastating: once experienced, the fear instantly becomes a tunnel
through which you travel, not letting go of the feeling of fear until it
carries you to a deeper level of reality. The fear is a denial of other
feelings. When the original feeling is being accepted and
experienced, the knot dissolves. Thus, it is never the feeling itself
that is unbearable. However,  your attitude has the power  to make it
so.
Fear of your feelings makes you cut them o. Thus you cut
yourself o from life. Your spiritual center cannot evolve and
manifest and unify with your ego self unless you learn to fully
embrace all your feelings, allow yourself to be carried by them, and
learn to take responsibility for them. If you make others responsible
for your feelings, you will be in a bind because you will either deny
them or act them out destructively against others. Neither one of
these two alternatives is desirable or can bring any solution.
Freeing Your Spiritual Self
Your spiritual self cannot be freed unless you learn to feel all your
feelings, unles s you learn to accept every part of your being no
matter how destructive it may be right now. No matter hownegative, mean, vain, or egotistical you may nd a corner of
yourself to be—contrary to other, more developed aspec ts of your
personality—it is absolutely necessary that every aspect of your
being be accepted and dealt with. No aspect should be left out or
covered over in the wishful hope that it would no longer matter and
would someho w just go away. It does matter, my friend s. Nothing
that exists in you is powerless. No matter how hidden a dark aspect
might be, it creates life conditions that you must deplore. This is one
reason why you must learn to accept the negatively creating aspects
in you. Anothe r reason is that no matter how destructive, cruel, and
bad it may be, every aspect of energy and consciousness is in its
original essence both beautifu l and positive. The distortions must be
reconverted into their original essence. Energy and consciousness
can become creative again in a positive way only when the light of
cognizance and positive intentionality are brought to bear on them.
Unless you do this, you cannot come into your creative core.
Giving Up Illusions
This is basically the pathwor k. Your only diculty is you cling to
illusions about how you are and how you should be, and to another
illusion that you should not have certain problems. Unless you give
up these illusions and take stock of whatever is in you, you must
remain alienated from your own spiritual essence. That essence is
constantly self-renewing; it is constantly conciliating apparently
insoluble conicts. Your spiritual essence furnishes you with all that
you could ever need for living your life and for completin g the task
you came to fulll through your birth. It is your divine center. You
are thus an expression of all that exists—the all-consciousness. As
long as you remain disconnected from it because you are too afraid
of giving up your little vanity, your longing can never be fullled,
for there is no panacea that can give you what you need and
rightfully wish for without taking the path into and through your
own darkness. Spiritual practices alone cannot fulll your longing,
no matter how much you sit in meditation and concentration.Meditation, and creative visualization, however, can be very helpful
tools when used in conjunction with self-confrontation.
Very, very few people on this earth are willing to undertake the
kind of path I have describe d to you. But for those who have the
courage to go all the way, relentlessly and patiently, what glory
awaits them in their innermost center!
Being Lived Through by the Spirit
The path is glorious when you have progressed beyond the initial
stages in which you battle with your own false ideas that always
create two unacceptable alternatives. When the path opens up from
within you, you begin to experience, maybe for the rst time in
your life, your own potential of being, your own divinity. You will
feel your potential for pleasure and security, awareness of yourself
and others, and therefore your innitely greater power to relate to
others, comprehend them and be with them without fear.
The initial decision to enter a path such as this must be made
realistically if it is to work. Are you willing to give up your illusions
about yourself and your expectations—which come from your
resistance to giving up self-delusions—of what others should do for
you? Are you willing to shed your false fears about what feelings
you should or should not, could or could not experience? If you
make your commitment to yourself to fully accept everything you
now are and to proceed to get to know yourself where you do not
yet know yourself, you will nd it is the most exciting, signicant,
and meaningful journey into your own depth. You will have all the
help you can possibly need, for no one can undertake this journey
alone. The help will be given to you; it will come to you.
When your spiritual center begins to manifest, your ego-
consciousness integrates with it and you begin to be “lived
through,” as it were, by the spirit. Your living becomes a
spontaneous, eortless ow.
Now, are there any questions?QUESTION : In what way was this path dierent in former eras and
cultures?
ANSWER : Humanity’s development in former times necessitated a
dierent appro ach. For example, people in the Middle Ages were
apt to act out their cruel impulses. They were not capable of
separating themselves suciently from their impulses in order to
identify them, own up to them, and assume responsibility  for them.
They felt compelled to give vent to them and becam e wholly
enveloped by them. Therefore people required strict authority from
the outside to keep their lower natures in check. Only when the
human personality became capable of using self-control could the
next evolutionary step be taken. That over-control must now be
loosened up.
In former times the average person was too far removed from his
or her core to seek spiritual life from inside; it had to be projected
outside. This inability to assume responsibility for the self then led
to the creation of an outer devil who would possess an individual
and an outside God who would help.
Now all this has changed. For example, today human-kind’s
greatest hindr ance is egotistical pride. People have accomplished
much with the powers of the ego. They needed to develop these
powers so as to no longer be irresponsible, helpless children. But
these powers must now be exercised from within by one’s own
spiritual center  and not be ascribed to the ego. The pride of the ego
makes this dicult. Question s arise such as: “What will others say?
Will they think me naive, stupid, or unscientic?” It is everyone’s
task today to overcome this pride and this dependency on the
opinions of others. How often do individuals betray their spiritual
truth by mouthing what is supposed to be intelligent without ever
even daring to let their divine selves inspire them! These are the
criteria for the path today.
Every stage in the evolution of spiritual consciousness necessitates
a dierent approach. Howev er, there is one exception. In every era
there always was a small minority of people who were developedway beyond the scope of the average person. For them the path was
always the same. These few formed secret societies that were
unknown and not in the least popular. A group such as yours can
therefore not be a popular movement either, for even today there
are very few people capable  or willing to follow such a path. But
there are certainly many more today who could do so than in
former times; many could, but few will.
I will withdraw now from this instrument through which I am
allowed to manifest. A great spiritual power protects you. This may
seem incompr ehensible for some of you, yet it is a reality, my
friends. There is a


 appreciation that electromagnetic fields
are not alien  to an alive organism, but actually play a rather fundamental and integral role in its
organisation and control, from the cellular level upwards
72-74  - i.e. that an alive organism is itself  an
electromagnetic instrument of great and exquisite sensitivity, and, as such, is just as vulnerable to being deleteriously interfered with (non-thermally) by external electromagnetic fields as is an activated piece of electronic equipment, (although in the latter case the influence of a given field is always the same, unlike the situation with an alive organism.)

B-5. From Non-thermal Effects to Adverse Health Effects

The hypersensitivity of the alive human organism to ultraweak microwave radiation is reflected in the ways in which this kind of radiation has been found to affect a wide variety of brain functions, as
already noted in Section B-3.1  - such as electrical activity ( EEG )
42-50, electrochemistry5-7, 24-26, 36, and
the permeability of the blood/brain barrier34, 35 - and to degrade the immune system13, 14, 27, 28.
Although these effects do not necessarily entail adverse health consequences, there is an undeniable consistency
75 between some of these non-thermal influences and the nature of many of the health
problems reported, such as headache, sleep disruption, impairment of short term memory, and, more seriously, significant increases in the frequency of seizures in some epileptic children when exposed to base-station radiation, and of brain tumours amongst users of mobile phones; it must, however, be admitted that precisely how these influences actually provoke adverse health reactions is at present
unclear.  Thus, the reports of:

a) Headache are consistent with the fact that microwaves are known to non-thermally affect
the dopamine–opiate system of the brain36 and to increase the permeability of the blood-brain
barrier34-35, since both of these have been medically connected with headache77-82.

b) Sleep disruption are consistent with the effect of GSM  radiation on rapid eye movement
(REM)  sleep44 and on melatonin levels13, 14 - the latter being found also epidemiologically, in
the case of RF exposure66.

c) Memory impairment is consistent with the finding that microwave radiation targets the
hippocampus16.

d) Since there is no reason to suppose that the seizure inducing ability of a flashing visible
light does not extend83 to (invisible) microwave radiation (which can access the brain
directly through the skull) flashing at a similarly low frequency, together with the fact that exposure to this kind of radiation is known  to induce epileptic activity in certain animals
33,

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 reports84 of increased  seizure activity in some children that already suffer from epilepsy are
perhaps not surprising.

e) The statistically significant increase in the incidence of amongst users of mobile phones in
the incidence of epithelial neuroma is consistent both with the genotoxicity  of low intensity
microwave radiation, as indicated by the increased number37-38 of DNA  strand breaks85, the
formation of chromosome aberrations and micronuclei in human blood31 (the latter being
corroborated in the case of GSM  radiation by the WTR  Programme60), and with the
promotional  effect of GSM  radiation in the case of transgenic mice that had been genetically
engineered to have a predisposition to develop cancer39.

B-6. The Increased Vulnerability of Pre-adolescent Children

Pre-adolescent children can be expected to be (potentially) more at risk than are adults - as recognised in the recently published Report
86 of the UK Independent Expert Group on Mobile
Phones - for the following reasons:

i)    Absorption of microwaves of the frequency used in mobile telephony is greatest87 in an
object about the size of a child’s head – the so-called ‘head resonance’ – whilst, in consequence of the thinner skull of a child, the penetration of the radiation into the brain is greater than in an adult.

ii)    The still developing nervous system and associated brain-wave activity in a child (and
particularly one that is epileptic) are more vulnerable to aggression by the pulses of microwaves used in GSM  than is the case with a mature adult.  This is because the multi-
frame repetition frequency of 8.34Hz and the 2Hz pulsing that characterises the signal from a phone equipped with discontinuous transmission ( DTX ), lie in the range of the alpha  and
delta  brain wave activities, respectively.  The fact that these two particular electrical
activities are constantly changing in a child until the age of about 12 years – when the delta-waves disappear and the alpha rhythm is finally stabilised – means that they must both be
anticipated to be particularly vulnerable to interference from the GSM  pulsing.

iii)    The increased mitotic activity in the  cells of developing children makes them more
susceptible to genetic damage.

iv)    A child’s immune system, whose efficiency is, in any case, degraded by radiation of the kind
used in mobile telephony, is generally less robust than is that of an adult, so that the child less able to ‘cope’ with any adverse health effect provoked by (chronic) exposure to such radiation.

B-7. But Not Everyone is Adversely Affected

Because both the occurrence of the initial provoking non-thermal effect  as well as  the severity of any
associated adverse health effect depend on aliveness, they necessarily depend on the physiological
state of the organism when it is exposed to the radiation  - i.e. non-thermal effects are non-linear
effects.  Accordingly, it is quite possible that exposure to a low intensity field can entail a seemingly disproportionately large  (non-linear) response (or none at all), and vice versa  (consistent with which

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 is the familiar occurrence of ‘windows’ of response), quite unlike the situation with the predictable
(linear) thermal effects.   Since the physiological state of different people cannot, however, be anticipated to be the same – depending as it does on factors such as the stability of an individual’s brain rhythms against interference or entrainment by the radiation, their already prevailing level of stress, and the robustness of their immune system – it follows that identical  exposure to exactly the same  radiation
can entail quite different (non-thermal) responses in different people (or even in the same person, depending on his/her condition at the time of exposure
88), quite unlike the case of active electronic
instruments.  This is, of course, consistent both with the fact that not every exposed person is
adversely affected (as is also the case with smoking*, for example,
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
* In the case of smoking, it is often claimed that the odds ratio is here much higher than it is in the case of
electromagnetic exposure; but this is necessarily so, because the former compares heavy smokers with non-
smokers, of whom there is effectively no electromagnetic counterpart, everyone being unavoidably at least lightly exposed.
where not all smokers get lung cancer!) and with the difficulties encountered in some laboratory
attempts to replicate non-thermal effects, particularly under in vivo conditions.  For depending on a
person’s genetic predisposition, and the fact that stress is cumulative, it is quite possible that exposure to an electromagnetic field simply supplies the final contribution that raises a particular person’s level of stress above some critical value, thereby ‘triggering’ the manifestation of some pathology that is already in a well advanced state, but which, in the absence of any exposure, would
have remained latent.  On the other hand, as already mentioned in Section B-3.2, difficulties
sometimes experienced in attempts to independently replicate certain frequency-specific non-thermal
effects are actually to be expected,  in consequence of the highly non-linear, non-equilibrium nature
of living systems, whereby even the slightest differences in the physiological state of the biosystems used and in conditions obtaining in a particular experiment can, in consequence of deterministic chaos, assume singular importance.   Accordingly, the oft-repeated statement that......‘ There are no established adverse health effects of
exposure to GSM radiation (of sub-thermal intensity) ’....... is actually quite true, but, in view of the
above, this is necessarily so, thus making the statement essentially vacuous.  The more relevant
consideration is whether there is an established risk to human health.  It must be concluded that such
a risk does indeed exist, but - in view of the above considerations- the actual number and identity of those at risk are necessarily unknown, a priori, although, for the reasons identified, children and
highly stressed people - particularly those with already compromised immune systems (as well as those on certain prescribed psychoactive drugs) - must be considered more vulnerable.   For the Mobile Phone Industry, regulatory bodies and government to deny this risk is not only untenable, but also, more significantly, lays them open  to the charge that they attempted to ‘ shield
the public from uncertainty. ’
89.  There is nothing to be lost - and a lot to be gained - by frankly
admitting the existence of this risk, albeit possibly only to a minority of the public, and, in accordance with the recommendations of the Stewart Report
86, taking the necessary steps to
minimise it, such as those specified in Part A

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 B-8. The Inadequacy of Existing Safety Guidelines

Existing Safety Guidelines, based solely on consideration of the SAR, afford no protection against the
frequency -specific


 I recall several other incidents that I look back on now as humorous. It seemed that
whenever my hospital roommate would be in the lavatory either shaving or
"relieving" himself, that was the time I got the "urge."    When I got that urge I had to move fast  or it was too late. After all, I was having
from 12 to 20 B.M.s a day. There were many times I had to get him out fast with his pants down. Can you visualize me running in and him running out at top speed and
making this quick exchange without bumping each other as we passed through the doorway? Anyone watching would have wondered what the hell was going on.
   This particular roommate was to have a sigmoidoscope examination performed in a
few days and he was petrified and built up a fear bordering almost on hysteria. He
knew I had gone through that test dozens of times and he respected me as an expert.
He asked me to give him pointers on how to cope with this cold steel tube. After all, I did know the secrets of these rear-end matters. So I proceeded to coach him in the art
of proper mental, physical, and hind-end relaxation. This is the secret of it all. So
there we would be, the coach and the student going through the training sessions with
him carrying out my instructions. What would the neighbors think if they had
overheard the conversation? The day came for him to undergo the sigmoidoscope. He was shaking as he was wheeled out of the room, but I reminded him again to follow
my instructions. An hour or two later he was brought back to the room. He was all
smiles. He approached me, shook my hand, and thanked me. He said if it wasn't for
me, he could never have done it. A simple thing, yes, but it made my day.
   Then there were times (it occurred twice) my medicine was brought in while the
nurse stood by to make sure it was swallowed. I glanced at the pills and said to the
nurse, "These aren't mine." She answered, "These are your pills. I prepared them myself. Your doctor ordered them so please take them." I knew what my pills looked
like and these were totally unfamiliar, so I refused to take them until she checked with
my doctor. The nurse left the room and was back in five minutes with an apology.
"Those pills were for the patient in the next room. Here are yours." Do you know
what might have happened if I had not known the difference and swallowed them? They could have killed me. I've often thought of that incident over the years, because
it is a common occurrence that takes place every day.
   There was a rather pathetic incident I experienced before being discharged. There
was an 11-year-old boy across the hall who had such an advanced case of ulcerative
colitis that he had to be fed intravenously 24 hours a day. He looked so small, so frail,
and so frightened. I tried to spend a little time with him each day, but I could see he
was growing weaker. He was wasting away to skin and bones and his doctors
recommended a total colectomy--a complete cutting out of the large bowel, with a bag
provided to collect the waste matter from a permanent opening in the abdomen. This
is one of the most drastic types of surgery. I couldn't see how that shell of a boy, who was listed as critical, would survive whether he had the surgery or not. After leaving
the hospital, I tried to get him out of my mind and could not. However, I did not keep
in touch. I guess, subconsciously, I was afra id for him and for myself: "There, but for
the grace of God, go I." My assumption was that he didn't make it. I almost hoped, for his sake, he did not.
   At the end of five weeks, Dr. Kale decided to discharge me. He said, "I'm pleased
with your progress." I eagerly awaited news of the medication I had been taking, one
of which was the hormone drug prednisolone which I was to take in rather large doses
for an indefinite period of time, with eventual hopes of reducing the dosage until the
drug was stopped. This tapering was to avoid some very damaging and dangerous changes that could take place in my body. I was also instructed to call Dr. Kale in
about two weeks to resume regular treatments, which were to be at approximately
two-week intervals.
   For the next month or two there seemed to be some improvement, or more
accurately, a slight remission. There was ne ver really improvement. But I went along,
taking my medication and hoping that my bouts With diarrhea, which had decreased
to about six to ten times a day, would eventually return to normal and also hoping I
would feel better generally.
   With this seemingly slight improvement these few months, I became somewhat
optimistic and elated. But my elation was short lived because soon the diarrhea increased to about 15 times a day; weight loss was apparent and I was becoming dehydrated from the loss of fluid. I was beginning to run a low-grade fever. Some of
my drugs were discontinued and replaced by  others, such as tincture of opium for
diarrhea (which affected my equilibrium a nd thinking), Sulfaguanidine for some type
of effect on the intestine and bacteria, and Chloroquine for who knows what or why--although it has been used in malaria.
   The combination of all the medicines was playing havoc with my stomach, the
worst effect being indigestion--severe indigestion. Contributing to this was the hormone prednisolone which I had been taking in rather high doses for a number of
months. This drug causes an increase in hydrochloric acid in the stomach. So to
counteract these effects, another drug called Gelusil was given. Is it any wonder why
normal digestion could not take place even if the ability was there?
   The symptoms of drug poisoning were beginning to make themselves evident again:
dry mouth, nausea, dizziness, blurred and double vision, fluctuations in mood from
deep depression to extreme euphoria, blood cell changes, blood pressure deviations,
palpitations of the heart, occasional hot flashes, etc. The double vision made it
extremely difficult and frustrating for me to do my surgical work, which was, many times, confined to very small areas on the foot.
   As the diarrhea increased, there was more weight loss. There was also loss of
minerals, particularly calcium, which cont ributed to muscle cramps. For this I was
given calcium gluconate, which helped somewhat. Dehydration was always a problem
and I could feel myself getting weaker. I was drinking large amounts of water.
   When the dose of prednisolone was gradually lowered, with eventual complete
eradication always in mind, there would be exacerbations to such a degree as to
necessitate increasing the dose again. I had been taking these hormones for several
years, and very subtle changes, dangerous changes, were taking place in my body.
Weight gain was one of them. I had dropped down to about 155 pounds, but now I was noticing an increase. I thought perhaps I was on the road to health. That made me
quite happy and optimistic. With this weig ht gain I experienced alteration in heart
rhythm and severe muscle spasms and cramps in my arms and particularly my legs.
This was beginning to occur with greater regularity and often with such intensity as to
cause my legs to contract and double up. I could not straighten them and I could not
tolerate the pain. It would happen. anytime and anywhere.    The longer one takes these steroids or hormones, the greater is the threat to life and
risk of death, under certain conditions. I was becoming a victim of steroid poisoning. The weight gain was an unhealthy gain due to sodium retention, and we know that
sodium holds water. There was also a potas sium depletion which was responsible for
the severe muscle spasms and irregular heart rhythm. For this I was given potassium
chloride pills to try to replenish my potassium reserves.
   Other signs of this poisoning were moon-face, buffalo hump, and general bloating.
The moon-face is a severe rounding and puffiness, which changed my appearance to
the degree that many people I knew could not recognize me. The buffalo hump was deposits of water and fat along the back of the neck. This made me look even more
distorted, as did the general body puffiness and swelling. Eventually I reached a
weight of 190 pounds. My maximum weight had never been over 170 pounds. I
dreaded shaving in the morning because I knew I had to face that monster in the mirror.
   This situation continued for a number of months. Right along with it was the
continual indigestion which many times kept me awake all night. But it was not just the stomach or colon that was involved. It was the entire body that was now sick; the
small intestine, the liver, and other genera l bodily functions were suffering. What is
sometimes overlooked is the fact that the body is one unit. One cannot isolate a part
and say this is the sick portion. When a part is diseased or ails in some way, the body is sick and suffers as a unit, even though it is always trying to maintain a balance.
   The liver gave me quite a problem. There was always much tenderness in that area.
After


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The W orld’s Water Supply (char t)...........................  2
Water Goes On Forever ...................................  2
The Endless W onders of God-Given W ater.....................  3
Water Penetrates Ever ywhere ...............................  3
The Hydrologic Cycle (graphic) ............................. 4
Hot Mineral W ater Under California Desert ...................  4
Niagara Falls is Committing Slow Suicide .....................  5
Our Oceans and Seas ..................................... 5
Man Cannot Live W ithout W ater ...........................  6
The Five Big Health Builders ...............................  6
Salt (Inor ganic Sodium) is a Health W recker ..................  7
Why the Body Needs Pur e Water............................ 7
Water Flushes T oxins Out of the Body ........................  8
The 70% Watery Human (graphic).......................... 9
Water is Important to Superb Health .......................  10
Chapter 2 : Black Death – Polluted Deadly Waters...... 11
Water! W ater! Ever ywher e – But Not a Safe Drop to Drink! ......  11
Inorganic V ersus Organic Minerals .........................  12
Dangerous Inorganic Minerals & T oxins in Drinking W ater .....  14
Fluorine is a Deadly Poison (photo)........................ 15
The Grim Stor y Behind Fluoridation ........................  16
Shocking Historical Fluoride Facts.......................... 18
The Fluoridation Fiasco (lists) ........................... 18-20
More Fluoride W arnings! ................................. 21
More Shocking Fluoride Updates! (lists) .................... 22-25
Keep T oxic Fluoride Out of Y our W ater! ...................... 25
Danger – Don’ t Drink W ater with Sodium Fluoride ............  26
The best service a book can render you is to impart truth,
 but to make you think it out for yourself. – Elbert Hubbard
vContents
Chapter 2 : Black Death – Polluted Deadly Waters (Continue d)......
We Live in a Sick, Sick W orld ..............................  27
Few People Appreciate Health Until Lost .....................  28
Marvelous Mechanisms of the Body ........................  29
Autonomic Ne rvous System (graphic)....................... 31
The Digestive System (graphic)............................ 32
Normal Arter y Compared to Clogged Arter y (graphic) ......... 33
Brains T urned to Stone ...................................  34
Miracle Functions of the Human Brain (graphic).............. 35
Do Y ou Show Signs of Premature Ageing? (graphic) ............  36
Chapter 3 : Paul C. Bragg ’s Childhood..................  37
Paul C. Bragg’ s Early Experiences W ith Hard W ater............  37
I Discover ed the Miseries Caused by Hard W ater ..............  38
Millions Suffer W ith Joint Pain ............................ 39
Seven T ypes of Joints (graphic) ............................  39
Locations in Body Where Arthritis and Miser y Hit (graphic) .....  41
Boron – Miracle T race Mineral for Healthy Bones .............  41
The Secret of Rain and Snow W ater.........................  43
The Answer to Healthful Living ............................  43
General V iew of Central Ner vous System & Spine (graphic) .....  45
From Sickness to Superb Health ............................  47
Mother Nature and God’ s Way............................ 48
The LaLannes and The Braggs (photo) ......................  49
Paul & Patricia Lift W eights (photo) ........................  50
Chapter 4 : Water & Its Effects on the Human Bod y...... 51
The Stones W ithin Us ....................................  51
Silent, Painless Gallstones May Become Noisy and Painful ......  52
Apple Cider V inegar Combats Gallstones .................... 53
Kidney Stones .........................


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I currently think the best compromise are hamm ermills. The grain dribbles into a chamber full of fast -spinning teeth that literally
pound the grain into powder. Since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much. This type of mill is s mall,
very fast, intermediate in price betwee n steel mills and stone mill, lasts a long time, but when grinding, sounds like a Boeing 747
about to take off. It is essential to wear hearing protectors when using it.
Awareness of bread quality is growing. One excellent new U.S. business, called Great H arvest Bakery is a fast -growing national
franchise chain. They bake and sell only whole grain breads; all their wheat flour is freshly ground daily on the premises in  the
back. Unfortunately, as of the writing of this book, they do not grind their rye flou r but bring it in sacks. I can't recommend their
rye breads. The founder of Great Harvest is a knowledgeable buyer who fully understands my next topic, which is that wheat is  not
wheat.
There are great differences between hard bread wheats; being organica lly grown is no cure -all for making good or nutritious bread.
Great Harvest understands this and uses top quality grain that is also Organic.
When I first stated making my own bread from my own at -home -ground flour I was puzzled by variations in the dough.
Sometimes the bread rose well and was spongy after baking like I wanted it to be. Sometimes it kneaded stickily and ended up flat
and crumbly like a cake. Since I had done everything the same way except that I may have bought my wheat berries from differ ent
health food stores, I began to investigate the subject of wheat quality.
The element in the cereal that forms the rubbery sponge in risen bread so it doesn't crumble and rises high without collapsin g, is
gluten. The word glue derives from gluten. The g luten content of various wheats varies. Bread bakers use "hard wheat" because of
its high gluten content. Gluten is a protein and gluten comprises most of the protein in bread wheat; the protein content and  the
gluten content are almost identical.
Try thi s. Ask your health food store buyer or owner what the protein content is of the hard red wheat seeds they're selling. You'll
almost certainly get a puzzled look and your answer will almost certainly be, "We have Organic and conventional." Demand that
the store buyer ask this question of their distributor/wholesaler and then report back to you. If the distributor deigns to answer, the
answer will be the same –I sell Organic or conventional hard red wheat. Period. When I got these non -answers I looked further and
discovered that hard bread wheats run from about 12 percent protein to about 19 percent and this difference has everything to  do
with the soil fertility (and to an extent the amount of rainfall during the season), and almost nothing to do with Organic or
conventional.
This difference also has everything to do with how your dough behaves and how your bread comes out. And how well your bread
nourishes you. Thirteen percent wheat will not make a decent loaf - fourteen percent is generally considered #2 qu ality and
comprises the bulk of cheap bread grain. When you hear in the financial news that a bushel of wheat is selling for a certain price,
they mean #2. Bakers compete for higher protein lots and pay far higher prices for more protein.
We prefer our br ead about 25% rye, but rye contains no gluten at all. Mix any rye flour into fourteen percent wheat flour and the
dough becomes very heavy, won't rise, and after baking, crumbles. So I kept looking for better grain and finally discovered a
knowledgeable la dy that sold flour mills and who also was a serious baker herself. She had located a source of quality wheat with
an assayed protein content and sold it by the 50 pound sack. When I asked her if her wheat was Organic she said it was either
sixteen or seven teen percent protein depending on whether you wanted hard red spring wheat or hard white spring wheat. Organic
or conventional? I persisted. No, she said. High protein!
So, I said to myself, since protein content is a function of soil fertility and since my body needs protein, I figured I am better off
eating the best quality wheat, pesticide/herbicide residues (if there are any) be damned. Think about it! The difference betw een
seventeen percent and fourteen percent protein is about 25 percent. That perce ntage difference is the key threshold of nutritional
deficiency that makes teeth fall out. We can't afford to accept 25% degradations in our nutritional quality in something that  we eat
every day and that forms the very basis of our dietary.
Please unders tand here that I am not saying that high protein wheats can't be grown organically. They certainly can. The founder of
Great Harvest Bakery performs a valuable service locating and securing high -protein lots of organically grown wheats for his
outlets. But  often as not Organic products are no more nourishing than those grown with chemicals. Until the buyers at Organic
whole food wholesalers get better educated about grain, obtaining one's personal milling stock from them will be a dicey
proposition.
Sometim es Organic cereal can be far worse than conventional. To make a cereal Organic is a negative definition; if it hasn't had
chemicals, then its Organic. Grain is one of the few foods that will still produce economic yields of low quality seed on ext remely
infertile soil or when half -smothered in weeds because herbicides weren't used for reasons of ideological purity. Vegetables will
hardly produce anything under those conditions; carelessly grown fruits and vegetables are inevitably small, misshapen,
unmarket able. But seed cleaning equipment can remove the contamination of weed seeds in cereal grains (at a cost.)
The price the farmer receives for Organic cereal grain is much higher, so it is possible to accept rather low yields or expen d more
money for cleanin g out high levels of weed seeds from the field -run harvest, and still make a good profit. A lousy Organic cereal
crop like this might even make a higher profit because the farmer has been spared the expense of fertilization, of rotation, of weed
control. I  remember once I bought a sack of Organic whole oats that were the smallest, most shriveled, bitterest oats I've ever tried
to eat. We ended up throwing out that tiny, light (lacking density) seed in favor of using the "conventional" whole oats that  were
plump, heavy and sweet.
Wheat is not the only cereal that is damaged by industrial milling. So are oats. Most consumers have never seen whole oats; t hey
look very much like wheat berries. But rolled oats become rancid and stale on the shelf much like wheat  flour on the shelf.
Another pitfall about using whole grains is that to be nutritious they must still be fresh enough to sprout vigorously. A see d is a
package of food surrounding an embryo. The living embryo is waiting for the right conditions (temperatu re and moisture) to begin
sprouting. Sprouting means the embryo begins eating up stored food and making a plant out of it. All foods are damaged by
exposure to oxygen, so to protect the embryo's food supply, the seed is surrounded by a virtually airtight s eed coat that permits
only enough oxygen to enter for the embryo's respiration (yes, seeds breathe slowly). Often the embryo is located at the edge  of the
seed and has its own air intake port. When the seed coat is removed or damaged, the innards are expos ed to air and begin
deteriorating rapidly. In the case of oats, especially rapidly, because oats are the only grass -based cereal that contains large
quantities of oil –five percent oil, more or less. That's why oats "stick to your ribs." Rolled oats become stale and lose their flavor
(and nutritional content) and perhaps become rancid very rapidly. So we make porridge from whole oat groats that we coarsely
grind to grits (steel -cut oats) in an electric seed/spice mill just before cooking.
It is not easy to cook oat grits. They take a lot longer than rolled oats and if not done exactly to the recipe I'm about to give you,
will almost inevitably stick to the pot badly and may also froth over and mess the stove. Here's how to cook them. Coarsely g rind
(like cor n meal) your whole oats until you have one cup of oat grits. Bring exactly four cups of water (no salt) to a very hard boil a t
your highest heat. You may add a handful of raisins. Light or turn on a second, small -sized burner on the stove and set it as low  as
possible. Into the fast boiling water, slowly pour the ground oats, stirring continuously. Take about 30 seconds to pour it a ll or
you'll make clumps. Keep on the high heat until the water again boils vigorously. Suddenly, the mixture will begin rising  in the pot
and will try to pour all over the stove. This means it is all at boiling temperature again. Quickly move the pot to the low b urner;
that instantly stops the frothing. Then cover. Let the porridge cook for 30 minutes, stirring once or twice to p revent sticking


 effort
to be something you are not, such as a separate self. That is why it is so ex -
hausting to be a separate self! If I were to ask you to stand up now and take
a step towards yourself, how much effort would you have to make?

50the ultimate prayer
None!

Yes! Any effort would only seem to take you away from yourself, although
even that is not true, because wherever we are, we are! The same is true
of meditation, which simply means to be knowingly our self rather than
mistaking our self for a cluster of thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and
perceptions.
     However, if we feel that we are something other than this open, empty,
inherently peaceful and unconditionally fulfilled presence of awareness, then
we should make the effort to investigate our self, recognise our self and then
be that knowingly.
     All that then remains is to establish our self as that in all circumstances
and to realign every aspect of our life with this felt understanding.

51 chapter seven
The Silent Presence of Awareness
My silence, life returns to thee
In all the pauses of her breath.
Hush back to rest the melody
That out of thee awakeneth;
And thou, wake ever, wake for me!
alice meynell

awareness is immanent and transcendent

The understanding that we are the awareness that witnesses, knows or is
aware of experience is the first great recognition. It is the first step on the
path to rediscovering our innate happiness.
     In order to arrive at this understanding, we extricate ourself from the
content of experience. We distinguish the knower from the known, the ex -
periencer from the experienced. We have not manipulated or rejected any
aspect of experience; we have simply seen that no experience is essential to us.
     However, awareness does not witness experience from a distance like an
aloof observer. Just as an image does not exist at a distance from the screen
upon which it appears, likewise no experience stands apart from the aware -
ness with which it is known.
     Imagine a magical television screen that is not watched by someone sit -
ting on a sofa but has the capacity to watch the movie that is playing on
itself. It is an aware  screen. We, awareness, are like that. We are utterly, inti -
mately one with any experience and, at the same time, free from and inde -
pendent of it. Awareness is both immanent and transcendent.
     This recognition is often accompanied by a great peace and joy. For so
long we have been oppressed by our conditioning and history, weighed
down by our circumstances and relationships, and now we have the first
taste of our inherent freedom. It is a liberation from the burden we have  you are the happiness you seek
unknowingly carried around with us all our life, which usually becomes
heavier as we get older.
     Now the burden lightens. Occasionally it is discarded wholesale, in one
simple recognition that is so complete and powerful that no experience ever
again has the capacity to veil the nature of our being. More commonly,
as this understanding percolates more deeply into us, the accumulated
burden of experience is gradually eased, and in its place a peace and lightness
emerge from within.
     Later on, we will further collapse the apparent separation between aware -
ness and experience. However, for one who is lost in the drama of experience
and has, as a result, mistaken their self for a bundle of thoughts, feelings,
sensations, activities and relationships, it is first necessary to make the dis -
tinction between the two.

awareness is eternal and unchanging

Having extricated ourself from the content of experience and recognised
ourself as the presence of awareness, the next step is to explore the nature  of
the awareness that we essentially are.
     The essence or essential nature of anything is the aspect of that thing that
cannot be removed from it. Anything that can be removed from a thing is
not essential to it. No movie is essential to a screen because the screen can
exist in the absence of movies. No cloud is essential to the sky because the
sky can exist in the absence of clouds.
     All thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, perceptions, activities and re -
lationships are continually appearing and disappearing in our experience.
They are added to us and subsequently removed from us. They cannot, there -
fore, be essential to us.
     However, there is one element of our experience of ourself that remains
consistently present throughout all changing experience, namely, the fact of
knowing, being aware or awareness itself. It is that to which we refer when
we say simply ‘I’ or ‘I am’, before what I am has been coloured, qualified or
conditioned by experience. It is the constant factor in all changing experience.
     In fact, the presence of awareness is not constant in time; it is ever-present
now. It is only said to be constant in relation to the impermanence of things.
However, being limited, the mind has no knowledge of the eternal and,
54the silent presence of awareness
therefore, construes it in a way that is consistent with its own limitations.
It conceives the ever-present as the everlasting.
     However, if we refer directly to the experience of being aware, that is,
if awareness refers directly to its experience of itself, there is no thought pres -
ent and, therefore, no knowledge of time. In its own experience of itself,
awareness is simply ever-present. It is eternal.
     It is from the ever-present nature of awareness that experience derives its
singularity. A typical movie comprises approximately 150,000  frames, but
when we are watching it we don’t think we are experiencing numerous
images; we feel we are watching one movie. The movie derives its unity from
the singularity of the screen.
     Likewise, we are always having only one experience, from which thought
abstracts and conceptualises what is referred to in Buddhism as ‘ten thousand
things’. What is it that unifies the apparently disparate elements of our
experience? Awareness, the silent presence behind and within all experience.

The presence of awareness is not something that we become, although in
almost all cases its recognition requires some investigation. It is simply our
essential, irreducible nature or true self, the ever-present background of all
changing experience.
     Just as a person in a cinema watches a movie, enjoying the good and bad
characters alike, so we, awareness, witness or are aware of the entire spectrum
of experience, irrespective of its content. And just as nothing that takes place
in a movie changes the basic nature of the screen, so nothing that takes place
in experience changes our essential nature of pure awareness.
     The screen upon which a horror scene appears is the same screen upon
which a romance unfolds. The awareness that witnesses our most ecstatic
moments is the same awareness that witnesses our deepest sorrow.
     Awareness never changes; experience always changes. It is for this reason
that each of us feels that we are now the same person as we were five minutes
ago, five days ago, five years ago or when we were five-year-old children.
     But what is it in us that truly remains the same? The thoughts, images,
feelings, sensations, perceptions, activities and relationships that constitute
‘me’, the person, have changed innumerable times over the course of our
lives. And yet we feel each of these experiences as ‘mine’, betraying our rec -
ognition that there is in us a stable principle to whom  they happen or belong.
55you are the happiness you seek
That stable principle is our self, the immutable presence of awareness that
we essentially are.

It is easy to verify this in our experience. If each of us were to compare the
content of our current experience with the content of our experience as, say,
a five-year-old child, the two experiences would be entirely different.
     If, however, we were to refer to the awareness with which our current ex -
perience is known, and we were to have done so as a five-year-old child, the
awareness in each case would be identical, just as all movies play on the same
unchanging screen, irrespective of their content. Nothing ever happens to
awareness; it does not change, age or evolve. That is, nothing ever happens
to our essential self.
     Each of us has encountered innumerable experiences in our lives, some of
which were painful and traumatic. Whilst these may have left residues in the
deeper layers of our mind, which find their counterpart as subtle tensions and
contractions in the body, nevertheless our essential being, the fact of simply
being aware or awareness itself, remains unchanged and unharmed by them.
     This also accounts for the fact that many of us do not feel that we are
getting any older. In this case, our essential, changeless nature is shining
through the cloud cover of experience. Little do we realise how accurate this
intuition is.
     One might argue that every time we look in the mirror, we are confronted
with evidence of ageing. However, when we look in the mirror we do not
see an image of our self  ; we see an image of our body. The awareness that
perceives the image in the mirror is in exactly the same immaculate, untar -
nished, ageless condition as the awareness that saw the image of our face in
a mirror


,
sodium, nitrates,
fluoride
, hardness, inorganic
minerals that
 create kidney
and gall stones, lead and other heavy metals.

The activated carbon removes most of the bad tastes and smells

Our senses of sight, smell and taste can be easily and
fatally deceived
! In
case you are unaware, most of the
dangerous chemicals
 and substances
found in tap water are colorless
, odorless
 and tasteless. As a
consequence, most people do not
get concerned
 as long as their water
taste okay, smells okay,
and looks
 clear.

Most filter systems use replaceable cartridges

It is not a matter of how easily a filter can be changed, but
rather how
 often
to change it. Most contaminants in water
are measured
 in Part
per
 Million
(PPM). As these chemicals
pass through
 the filter they are attracted to
and absorbed by
the carbon
.  As a result, they begin to accumulate in
larger
quantities than
 what are considered to be safe levels according to
the EPA.
It is
 usually impossible to know at what point the filter is full
and
holding
 all the chemicals it can.
This means that extremely large quantities of chemicals can
easily
be
forced loose by the pressure of the water passing by at
any moment
 when
the filter is full. This will allow high
concentrations of
 dangerous PPMs to be
released into your glass.
 Additional
Challenges with
 Filters

Clogging and Channeling

Carbon filters will clog in many places, forcing the water to go around
the
clog
.  Undissolved solids usually
clog up
 the filter. These clogs will
reduce
the
 normal lifetime of the filter. If
your water
 has a sediment problem, you
will probably
 have to use
separate sediment
 pre-filter to keep clogs
from
ruining
 your carbon water filter.

This continues until an unobstructed path through the filter
is found
. This
process is called channeling. Channeling provides
an unrestricted
 flow for
the water and pollutants to pass through
the filter
, totally negating the
carbon's ability to retain the pollutants.  Unless there was a dramatic
change in the filter's flow, you
would not
 know there was a serious
problem, nor when to change
the filter
.

Rate of Flow and Water Pressure Affect the Filter's Performance

A Case in Point: The most ineffective water filter on the market is the small
one that attaches to your faucet spout where you push a button for the
water to flow through it. The main requirement of a carbon filter is to be of a
size proportionate to the volume of water, rate of flow and water pressure
to allow the suspended pollutants to stay in contact long enough for the
carbon to attract and absorb them. That little filter does not contain enough
carbon for this to happen. The water speeds through in a fraction of a
second, giving up nothing to the carbon it passed through.

Breeding Ground
for
 Mold and Bacteria

Another disadvantage of a carbon water filter is its susceptibility to mold.
The organic substances that are captured by the filter can rot after being
trapped. Therefore, if you leave the carbon water filter unused for
prolonged periods, mold will likely grow inside it. In addition to mold, a filter
can be a breeding ground for bacteria.
Harmful Substances

Carbon water filters don't remove certain harmful substances from your
water. The filter will do nothing to get rid of harmful nitrates or toxic metals
that contaminate the water. Also, a carbon water filter is incapable of
removing high levels of sodium and fluoride.

Ph Value

Many people have water that is too acidic. Unfortunately, a carbon water
filter can't change the pH balance of the water. The minerals that cause
acidity in the water dissolve and pass right through the filter. So if you have
acidic water, it will still be acidic after going through the carbon water filter.

In conclusion, the volume of carbon needs to be in
direct
proportion
 to the
volume of water that it is expected to filter.  Carbon filters are best used as
pre-filters and post-filters for
more reliable
 purification methods such as:



Distillation


Deionization


Reverse osmosis

Why leave substances in the water that you drink if they are
not needed
by your body?  Take everything out and just drink pure
, clear
, healthy
H
2
O! You easily spend hundreds of dollars every
year on
 electronics or
other luxuries that are doing nothing for
your health
 or longevity.  So spend
a few bucks on attaining a
good quality
 product that assures you will drink
clean water every day.  Invest in a water distiller.

CHAPTER 14
40 Years of Fasting
Fasting is one of the Grim Reaper's best kept secrets. Fasting is the
single most important thing in existence that is guaranteed to result in
premium health and a longer life that will be most likely free of sickness,
disease and cancer.
Douglas C. Hoover

Disclaimer:

I recommend two products in this book, one from
Liquid Health
and the other from
Iron-Tek. I found these two products in a search for the
best liquid vitamin and protein. I am adding this after completing this 40 day
fast and a second 21 day fast 13 days later, for a total of 61 days. I took
both products on the 40 day fast and found them to be exceptional.However I have not been paid by either company for this promotion, it is
strictly my own personal endorsement.

I recently completed my third 40 day fast with distilled
water, taking
one ounce (2 tablespoons) of “Complete Multiple” liquid vitamins
and 1-1/2 oz
. (3 t
ablespoons) of Iron-Tek Essential Liquid Amino
Complex daily.

Fasting has been a lifestyle
 for me over the past 40 years
. I went
on my
first fast at age 25, lasting 19 days on just distilled water, with one to two
fasts every 3 years. These fasts ranged from 21 to 30 days until I reached
55 in 2002 in which I gave 40 days a shot on distilled water alone and
made it to 39 days. Why 39 and not 40? It is a long
story;
 maybe I'll share
it later.
This particular fast was accomplished while working 8-10 hours
per day
building rock waterfalls and ponds, handling 6 to 12 tons of rock per week.
What's more, on the 32
nd
 day with no food, only distilled water, to
demonstrate the energy I felt, I personally moved a 6 ton truck load of rock
from where it had been dumped on plywood in the street to the back yard
of a client in less than an hour, using a large landscaper's hand truck. So
much for all the myths touted by the so-called nutrition experts that have
nothing to share but theory, rumors and urban legends, and they probably
haven't fasted more than one day in their life. If they have at all, it was
more than
likely a
 juice fast, which means they are getting plenty of
nutrition and their body is still digesting the food components in the juice.

                          “The American Cancer Society
                           estimates that in 2011 about
                           141,210 people will be diagnosed

with colorectal cancer and about

49,380 people will die.”You’re asking
,
 how is that possible to have that much energy while
fasting
with nothing but distilled water? The human body is using large amounts of
vital energy digesting food, delivering this food throughout the body and
carrying away waste products for elimination. On the 6
th
 or 7
th
 day of a
water fast, the digestive system has finished with its job and can now rest.
In most cases, as a result of fasting for the very first time, all of their
organs associated with digestion finally have a chance to rest.

As a consequence, all that vital energy that was used in digesting
food
24/7 can now be utilized to start repairing the body and eliminating toxins,
stored chemicals and toxic substances, and ridding the colon of impacted
putrefying meat and other waste that has been stuck in its numerous folds
in the colon for even decades. Is it any wonder The American Cancer
Society estimates that in 2011 about 141,210 people will be diagnosed with
colorectal cancer and about 49,380 people wi
ll die of the disease in the
US
? In both men and women, colorectal cancer is the third most
commonly diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death.

If you choose not to exercise while fasting, I
recommend that

you
do
 not
take the liquid protein and only take the “
Complete Multiple” liquid
 vitamins
and if you are


 the urine to be diagnosed,
it should not be that from urinating during the time before four or five
in the morning; since urination at such a time is affected strongly by
the food taken the previous meal, it is not good for diagnosis.
One should use the urine that builds up in the hours around four or
five in the morning. If one does not urinate during the night, then do
not collect the first half of the urination when you rise;
use only the later half.
../ 2}. TlM£ FOR VRfNAl VSlS
There are three aspects of urinalysis:
color, vapor arising from the urine,
and the albumin which is a cloud like substance in the urine.
The time for such diagnosis is after dawn.
../ 3}.. TH£ V£SS£l
The vessel in which the urine is to be placed is most often a
white porcelain cup which is such that its color will not affect
the appearance of the color of the urine.
Otherwise, an aluminum pot can be used.
One should not use vessels that color the urine, such as clay,
copper, brass, or any other colored pot; they make the urine
appear to have another color, and it will be difficult to tell what
the natural color of the urine is.
A white cup is best and not one with a pattern in it.
If it is impossible to get one of these three appropriate types,
one can line another type with a piece of white paper.
../ 4}.. COlORATlO}I CHANG£5
With respect to variations in the urine, the fourth topic, the text
speaks first of the digestive process. In the stomach, food is
differentiated or separated into a nutritious or more subtle part
and a less nutritious or unrefined part. The refined or better
part goes into the blood. The more wasteful product goes into
the intestines. In the intestines it is divided in two, that is, into
solid and liquid parts. The liquid portion of this waste goes
from the intestines to the urinary bladder.
59 With regard to the separation in the stomach, the finer or more
nutritious part goes to the liver. Within this, there is another
separation between the more nutritious and the less, with the
more nutritious part becoming blood and the less nutritious
going to the gall bladder. In the gall bladder there is further
separation, the finer substance becoming lymph.
The more wasteful part become albumin, the cloud-like
substance which appears in the urine; the albumin goes
together with the urine and accumulates in the urinary bladder.
It is because of this separation in the process of digestion that
food which has been ingested affects or transforms the color
of the urine.
The albumin, or cloud-like substance, basically appears in
urine due to blood and bile problems. Therefore, the condition
of the body in terms of heat and cold is indicated in the urine.
Just as in the market place when a merchant has something
illegal to sell and does not actually reveal it, holding it under a
garment, describe it and from that you can tell what he has
hidden, so from the urine it is possible to tell the types of
disorder or lack thereof in a person's body.
v' ;}.. TH£ VRTN£ OF H£Al THY PERSONS
If one looks at the urine of a healthy person, one finds that its
color is more or less the bright, cheerful yellow of the butter
on top of the milk from a "dri", the female counterpart of the
yak [yak only being males]. The odor is like that of the cream
that rises to the surface of milk. The vapor is neither terribly
strong or weak, neither big or small, and the duration of the
vapor-before the urine gets cooler and vapor stops-is neither
terribly long or short. The bubbles or froth are nothing
spectacular- neither terribly long or short, big or small, rather
moderate froth on top of the urine.
The albumin, for a healthy person, is simply mixed up together
with the urine, pervading it. Also, for a healthy person there is
not much chyle {the oily substance normally rising to the
surface of the urine}; just a little bit comes to the surface.
As the vapor gradually vanishes, one finds that a little darker
color converges toward the center of the cup of urine, just as
breath on a mirror gradually converges in the center and
disappears. After the urine has cooled off, its color is light,
clear, and yellowish; it is transparent.
60 v" 6}. TH£ VRlN£ Of' DlS£AS£D 1'£RSONS
Concerning the urine of persons with disorders,
there are two aspects to the discussion:
general and specific diseased urine.
7}. DlAGNOSlNG VRlN£
There are three times for diagnosing the urine:
when it is hot, then when it is lukewarm,
and finally when it is completely cooled off.
There are three times for diagnosing the urine:
when it is hot, then when it is lukewarm, and finally when it is
completely cooled off.
There are nine types of diagnosis that are broken down into
three groups relative to the three times. First, when the urine is
hot, one checks the color, the vapor, the odor, and the type of
bubbles or froth. When it is lukewarm, one checks the cloud
like albumin and the oily chyle that rises to the top.
When the urine is cooled off completely, one checks the time
of the variation of the color, then how it changes, and finally
postponed analysis. When patients are not able to come
themselves, their urine is sent, in Tibet by yak,
in India by other means. It is rather old by the time it arrives,
and so the doctor checks anything, but with a different type of
diagnosis, because the urine the older.
This is called "postponed analysis".
We return to the first of the nine, the color,
which is investigated when the urine is still quite hot.
The urine of a person with a wind ailment ailment is like water
from a mountain spring, light blue in color and transparent.
A bile disorder will manifest in the urine as a more yellow,
perhaps even an orangish, color. If the urine is very pale, or
whitish, this indicates a phlegm disorder.
Question: Is there a difference between the blueness of the
urine or wind disorder and the paleness of a phlegm disorder?
Answer: The urine of a person with a phlegm disorder is a bit
milky as if someone took milk and dropped it into the urine;
you cannot see through it. For the wind disorder it is very
clear, like mountain spring water.
61 If the urine is red, it indicates a blood disorder.
If the urine is rust color, this indicates a lymph disorder.
If the urine is brownish, it indicates a complex disorder of all
three humors- wind, bile and phlegm.
If the color is a mixture of red and yellow, it is a disorder of
blood and bile. If it is a mixture of white and yellow, this
indicates a disorder of both phlegm and bile.
If the urine is yellow, like mustard oil, and oily, it indicates
both a bile disorder and contagious disease.
If it is orange, thick, and has a foul color,
this indicates a type of disorder that spreads from organ to organ or
a general disturbance of the body, such as with a heat ailment.
If the color of the urine is generally dark but has a spectrum of color,
like a rainbow, this indicates poisoning; it could be of any variety of
poisoning- mineral, meat, and so on.
. The second of the nine types of diagnosis is vapor,
which is investigated while the urine is very hot. If the urine
has a large vapor, this indicates a developed heat ailment.
If there is little vapor but it lasts a long time, this indicates
either a hidden heat ailment or an old, chronic heat ailment.
If there is little vapor that lasts a short time, it is a cold ailment,
involving phlegm and wind-an excess of cold in the body.
If there is an alternation in the amount of vapor, then in that
case there exists a combination of heat and cold disorders in
the body. The vapor is seen just as, for example,
you see steam rise from a cup of hot tea.
Bubbles, color, and vapor are visual.
The odor of the urine is, of course, to be smelled.
If the urine has a foul odor and there is albumin in the urine,
this indicates a strong heat disorder. If there is either no odor
or a very slight odor, this indicates a cold disorder.
If the urine smells of different foods such as cabbage, meat,
and so forth, this indicates that the digestion is not working
properly; the digestive heat is not up to par.
62 If the froth or bubbles on the urine have a bluish tint and are large,
this indicates a wind disorder. If the bubbles are small and many
and


 our
obsessions that awake awareness, which is our true nature and our basic goodness, is
hard to accept as our true identity.”
Loch Kelly, fr om  Shift into Freedom
“A wake A waren ess” is the name that Loch Kelly uses for A wareness, and it is just
one of the many dif ferent names  used by teachers past and present to describe what
you are: A wareness, A wake A wareness, Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness,
Being, B uddha Nature, Christ Consciousness, God Consciousness, Spirit, the Self,
Infinite Being, Infinite Intellig ence, Unlimited Being, T rue Nature, T rue Self,
Presence of God, Presence, Presence A wareness, Pure Consciousness, Pure
A wareness, and many others. A ll these words are describing ex actly the same thing
—the A wareness that you are.
“W e’re so smart and our lives are so complex that it’ s hard to believe that simply
discovering awa ke awareness could be the solution to our suf fer ing. It’ s also hard to
believe t hat the most important d iscovery is already here within us; we don’ t have to
go on an odyssey to find it, earn it, or develop it.”
Loch Kelly, fr om  Shift into Freedom
“The great joke is the simplicity of it all.”
Peter Lawry
It’ s a  great joke because what we truly are, what is closer to us than our very breath,
has eluded the majority of humans for thousands of years.
W e’ve missed the simplest, most wonderful discovery because our thoughts have a
hypnotic ef fect on us that keeps  us in our head, oblivious to A w areness. W e usually
give our attention exclusively to the thoughts in our mind an d to everything we
perceive through  our senses, and  with our attention diverted we miss what is always
present—A wareness.
“There i s nothin g wrong with t he body or the mind. The only problem is that we
identify our witnessing presence, consciousness, with them. As  long as we identify
this witnessing presence with the body and the mind, there is no room for this
presence to reveal itself in all its glory.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
“For a moment, take of f the pers ona. It’ s just an item of clothing, threadbare, stained
with years of wear and tear.”
Pamela W ilson
“T o believe that our Self—lumin ous, open, empty A wareness— shares the limits and
the desti ny of the mind and body is like believing that the scre en shares the limits
and destiny of a character in a movie.”
Rupert Spira, fr om  The Ashes of Love
“People think they are a human being, but they’re the Infinite Being. They’ve
mistaken their identity, but who they really are has never left them and is always
present.”
David BinghamY our mind appears only when you have a thought, and it disappears after the
thought has ended. But A wareness never appears and disappears. A wareness is
always p resent, even when you’re asleep. It feels  like A wareness disappears when
you go to sleep and appears again when you wake, and yet you  know when you’ve
had a great nigh t’ s sleep because you say something like, “I slept really well. I slept
like a baby.” How do you know that you slept like a baby? Y ou know it because
A wareness was aware and present the entire time you were sleeping.
When you ask yourself the qu estion, “Am I aware?” immediately A wareness is
noticed. It didn’ t appear; it was a lways present. Y ou simply took your attention from
thinking  and put it on A war eness, and so you became consciously aware.
Everything other than A warene ss eventually ends or dies. W ithout exception, all
material earthly  things come an d go, appear and disappear. Ev ery single thing on
earth—bodies, cities, countries, oceans—appears and eventually disappears. T ake a
moment to think about it, and you’ll see that nothing remains. It’ s all temporary,
even pla net eart h itself, the sun, the solar system, even universes. Nothing is here
forever, except for one thing—A wareness. Y ou, A wareness, are here forever!
Our bodies age, yet when people get older they’ll say they don’ t feel they’ve aged,
and that they feel the same as they always have. They’ll admit that their body feels
older, but the one they feel themselves to be deep down doesn’ t feel like it has aged
at al l. W ithout r ealizing it, they are sensing the timeless A wareness that they really
are.
“When you remember your pa st, your childhood, who is it  that remembers? I
remember. ‘I’ is that which knows the experience, remembers the experience.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D.
The “I” that we call ourselves at five years old, fifteen years o ld, thirty years old,
and sixty years old is the ageless A wareness that has witnessed our entire life.
Five years old: “I... am going to school soon.”
Fifteen years old: “I... can’ t wait to graduate.”
Thirty years old: “I... just got engaged.”
Sixty years old: “I... am not ready for retirement yet.”
“Self-realization is to see that t he changing appearances on the surface of life are
arising w ithin th e permanent, ever -stable A wareness that one truly is and has only
ever been.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
“This is not a fairy tale. This possible thing is as real as a tree, a s real as politics, as
the roots that hold the tree to the ground, as real as the newspaper and its stories. It
is as real as the Red Sox, as the price of gas, as a fight with your  in-laws, as real as a
tuition bill... T he truth is, it is more real than these things, and yet it is hardly seen,
hardly felt, let alone directly known.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the Door“There is not one of us who is not in direct touch with, in possession of, an infinite
Beingness that’ s  all perfect, all present, all joyous and eternal. There is not one of us
who is not in direct contact with That right now! But due to wrong learning, by
assuming, over the ages, concep ts of limitation and by looking  outwardly, we have
beclouded the view. W e have covered over this Infinite Bein g that we are with
concepts of, ‘I am this physical body,’ or, ‘I am this mind,’ or, ‘W ith this physical
body and mind, I have heaps and heaps of problems and troubles.’”
Lester Levenson, fr om  Happiness Is Free, volumes 1–5
“This is the same state that most religions refer to as ‘libera tion’ or ‘salvation,’
because only in this state of tr ue self-knowledge are we free or saved from the
bondage of mistaking ourself to be a separate individual, a consciousness that is
confined within the limits of a physical body.”
Michael James, fr om  Happiness and the Art of Being
Consciousness o r A wareness is also known by some religions  as the presence of
God. When a person has a divine experience—an experience where they feel they
were touched by God—the individual mind and ego drop, which then reveals
A wareness, or the presence of G od. There is a feeling of pure love, infinite peace,
beauty, happiness, and bliss, which cannot be mistaken for anything but divinity.
“In reality, we are the Infinite Being rather than the human being. W e are the Infinite
Being, having a human experience.”
David Bingham
In many  ways, the truth of life a nd of ourselves is actually the complete opposite to
what we have been taught. Inste ad of looking out ward to the wor ld for happiness,for fulfillment, for answers and truth, we need to turn and look inward, because it’ s
only in that direction that we will find everything we’re looking for. Our
breathtaking world, and everythi ng in it, is meant to be enjoyed to the fullest, but the
happiness, joy, love, peace, intelligence, and freedom that are A wareness—your
very nature—can only be found within you.C H A P T E R  2  S u m m a r y
A single belief has pr evented us fr om making the gr eatest
discovery—the belief that we ar e our body and our mind.
Y ou ar e not your body; your b ody is a vehicle you use to
experience the world. Y our body isn’ t conscious.
Believing you’r e your body cr eates the biggest fear of
humanity, the fear of death.
What you  actually ar e never dies.
Y ou ar e not your mind; mind is only thoughts. If ther e ar e no
thoughts, then ther e is no mind.
Y ou ar e not a thought, a sensation, or a feeling, because if
you wer e