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1 large onion, diced
1/2 small celery knob, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 large potatoes, diced
1 leek, diced
parsley
2 quarts water
Dice all vegetables. Place vegetables, parsley, and water in covered saucepan and bring to boil.
Lower heat and cover. Simmer 1-1/2 to 2 hours. Mash through food mill.
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
2 medium onions, sliced
1 medium white (or green) cabbage, cut into thin strips
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp. sugar
juice of 1 large lemon
3 oz. raisins
1 qt. water
Slice the onion and sweat gently in a little water for a few minutes until softening. Cut the
cabbage into thin strips and add to onion, mixing well. Add crushed garlic. Chop the tomatoes
and add together with the sugar, lemon juice, raisins and water. Bring to a boil and simmer until
the cabbage is al dente  (about 10 minutes ). Serve this hearty soup as a main dish with bread
followed by fruit for dessert.
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www.thegersonway.comTangy Tomato Soup
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 lb. tomatoes, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 stick celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
little orange juice
yogurt
Chop tomatoes, carrot, celery and onion. Seed pepper and chop. Put all into a lar ge pot and
cover with water. Bring to a boil, turn down the heat and simmer until vegetables are tender.
Purée. Add the orange juice. Reheat gently. Add a swirl of yogurt before serving.
Tomato Soup with Potato and Onion
2 large tomatoes, diced
1 medium onion, diced
2 medium potatoes, diced
1 tsp. wine vinegar
small bay leaf
Dice all vegetables. Place all ingredients in covered saucepan, cover with water and cook over
low flame for 35-40 minutes. Mash through food mill and serve hot.
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Baked Pepper and Tomato Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2-4
3 red bell p eppers
6 large tomatoes
1 medium red onion, finely sliced
3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
juice of 1 large lemon
3 tbsp. fresh, chopped mint
flaxseed oil
Cook the peppers and tomatoes whole until somewhat cooked but still fi rm. Skin the peppers
and tomatoes, chop roughly and place in a serving dish.  Finely slice the onion and very thinly
slice the garlic.  Add to the mixture in the dish.  Add the lemon and mint. Mix well.  Sprinkle with
a little flaxseed  oil.
Baked Potato and Parsnip Rosti*
* Rosti means “broiled” or “roasted” (i.e., top-browned)
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/4 hour
Serves 2
8 oz. parsnips, cored, peeled and coarsely grated
8 oz. potatoes, peeled and coarsely grated
1 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp. fresh chives, finely chopped
herbs
3-1/2 oz. yogurt
a little grated horseradish (optional)
Core the parsnips, and peel and c oarsely grate the potatoes and parsnips into a large bowl.  Add
finely chopped onion, chives, herbs and yogurt.  Mix until well combined. Put the vegetable
mixture into a shallow dish and cover.  Bake for 1 hour at 375°  F (190° C). Remove the lid and
bake a little longer until it begins to brown  and the top is crispy. Serve with a crisp salad or a
vegetable (or both).
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www.thegersonway.comBaked Potatoes
Baked potatoes should be thoroughly washed, not scraped or peeled. Bake in a low oven at 300°
F (149 ° C) for 2 or 2-1/2 hours or, alternatively, bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350 ° F (177°
C).
Baked Potato with Beet
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/2 hours
1 baking potato
1 onion, sliced
cooked beet, diced
yogurt
dill
Bake the potato in its skin.  Slice the onion and cook gently until beginning to soften.  Dice the
beet, add to the onion and warm through.  When the potato is cooked, split it open and spoon in
the beet mixture.  Top with dollops of yogurt and sprinkle with dill.  Serve with a green salad.
Baked Potato with Beet and Onion
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
1 baking potato
1 large onion, peeled
beet, diced and cooked
yogurt
dill
1 tsp. flaxseed  oil (optional)
Scrub the potato and place whole into a casserole dish with a lar ge, peeled onion.  Add a little
water and bake until both are cooked.  Chop the cooked onion and put into a saucepan with the
diced, cooked beet. Heat through.  Split open the potato and fill with the onion and beet mixture.
Mix together the yogurt, dill and flaxseed  oil (if using the flaxseed  oil, wait until the potato is no
longer steaming) and drizzle over the top.  Serve with a green salad.
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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. tomatoes, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 medium onion, chopped
bread crumbs (or a handful of rolled oats)
dill
flaxseed oil
Slice the tomatoes and put into a baking dish.  Crush the garlic, chop the onion and sprinkle over
the tomatoes.  Cover with bread crumbs  (or rolled oats) and bake for about 20 minutes at 325° F
(170° C). Just before serving, sprinkle with dill and flaxseed oil.
Beets
Bake at 300-350 ° F (149-177 ° C) or boil beets in their jackets.
Beets, Cooked and Creamed
3 beets, cooked and chopped
6 tbsp. yogurt
1 tbsp. fresh chives, snipped
2 tbsp. onion, finely chopped
parsley, finely chopped
Put cooked, chopped beets into a saucepan with the yogurt, chives and onion and heat gently.
Put into serving dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
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www.thegersonway.comBeets with Horseradish
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 to 1-1/2 hours
Serves 2-4
6 beets
yogurt
2 tsp. horseradish
chives
Cook the beets until tender.  Remove the skin and cut into quarters.  Combine the yogurt and
horseradish and pour over the beets.  Garnish with chopped chives and erve immediately.
Bessarabian Nightmare
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves 2
tomatoes, skinned and sliced
onions, sliced
red (or green) bell pepper, seeded and sliced
garlic, crushed
herbs
flaxseed oil
Skin the tomatoes.  Slice the tomatoes, onions and peppers.  Arrange in layers in an oven-proof
dish.  Sprinkle with crushed garlic and herbs.  Cook slowly, then chill and serve cold, adding a
little flaxseed oil before serving. A strange name for a delicious dish!
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creases.
But
if
we
start
introducing
these
hormones
or
their
fractions
back
into
the
body,
then
we
can
process
significantly
reduce
the
wear
and
tear
of
the
gonads,
thereby
prolonging
youth,
keeping
youthful
appearance
etc.
If,
taking
into
account
these
peculiarities,
we
compare
the
urine
of
people
of
different
ages,
then
we
get
the
following
picture:
the
urine
of
children
up
to
the
age
of
sexual
maturation
(up
to
12-14
years)
contains
few
sex
hormones,
but
a
huge
amount
of
immune
substances.
The
urine
of
middle-aged
people
-
from
puberty
to
the
age
of
35
-
is
balanced
in
terms
of
the
content
of
immune
cells
and
sex
hormones.
The
urine
of
people
after
the
age
of
35
is
poor
in
immune
substances,
but
it
is
saturated
with
sex
hormones.
After
menopause,
the
composition
of
urine
changes
-
it
becomes
the
weakest:
it
contains
few
immune
cells
and
sex
hormones,
the
entire
hormonal
system
is
out
of
tune.
Of
the
other
substances
found
in
the
urine,
the
following
should
be
noted:
erythropoietin
-
is
formed
in
the
kidneys
and
stimulates
the
formation
of
bone
marrow,
the
enzyme
urokinase
-
helps
blood
flow
to
the
heart,
resembles
nitroglycerin
in
its
effect
and
dissolves
blood
clots,
cortisone
-
a
strong
anti-inflammatory,
anti-aller gic
and
anti-toxic
agent
.
Vitamins,
of
which
about
thirty
are
active
in
the
human
body,
are
represented
in
urine
in
a
small
concentration
in
the
form
of
some
fractions.
Let's
recall
that
normal
human
urine
contains
about
200
items
of
different
substances,
but
that's
not
all.
Substances
produced
in
the
body
during
illness.
At
any
deviation
from
the
norm,
during
illness,
the
organism
begins
to
adjust
its
condition
by
itself
with
the
aim
of
returning
to
normal.
In
these
periods,
substances
that
help
healing
appear
in
the
body,
which
are
not
found
in
a
healthy
organism.
If
germs
appear
in
our
body
with
diseases
that
have
not
yet
manifested
themselves,
then
urine
creates
such
conditions
that
these
germs
quickly
leave
the
body.
As
a
result,
we
observe
a
special
process
similar
to
immunization
in
the
body,
but
only
against
diseases
that
are
currently
active
in
the
body.
This
process
manifests
itself
in
different
ways,
depending
on
the
nature
of
the
germs
of
the
disease:
from
minor
weakness
or
diarrhea
to
a
severe
crisis
lasting
two
to
three
months.
It
is
precisely
the
most
valuable
property
of
urine,
when
one's
own
powers
are
used
for
a
similar
defense
organism,
and
not
a
foreign
material
(drugs)
that
only
pollutes
the
blood.
Every
organism
is
alone
it
produces
these
substances
necessary
for
healing.
Naturally,
these
substances
are
excreted
from
the
body
together
with
urine.
We
will
now
look
at
this
question
in
more
detail.
During
any
pathological
process
taking
place
in
the
body,
the
products
of
the
respective
disease
leave
together
with
the
urine:
dead
cells,
mucus,
pus,
substances
created
by
the
organism
itself
to
fight
the
disease,
and
much
more.
There
is
a
special
area
of
  healing
in
homeopathy
with
the
help
of
nosodes.
For
this
purpose,
the
immediate
causative
agents
of
the
disease
are
introduced
into
the
organism
in
a
highly
diluted
state:
toxins,
pathologically
changed
tissues
and
other
body
secretions.
Based
on
the
law
of
similarity
(the
treatment
of
relatives
by
relatives),
these
substances
can
be
used
to
suppress
the
corresponding
diseases.
Medicines
of
this
type
are
called
nosodes.
Treatment
with
nosodes
has
its
advantages
and
disadvantages.
The
disadvantages
are
that
the
level
of
influence
or
action
of
nosodes
is
one
level
lower
than
homeopathic
medicines.The
advantage
is
that
choosing
the
necessary
medicine
is
quite
simple
compared
to
choosing
a
homeopathic
preparation.
The
complexity
of
choosing
a
homeopathic
remedy
lies
in
the
fact
that
it
is
necessary
to
find
the
substance
that
causes
the
disease
in
question.
If
there
is
a
mistake,
then
instead
of
suppressing
the
disease,
we
"graft"
another
disease.
The
correctly
selected
substance
must
be
matched
with
the
energy
of
the
disease,
i.e.
the
energy
of
the
homeopathic
medicine
must
correspond
exactly
to
the
energy
of
the
disease.
Only
in
this
way,
due
to
the
interference
effect,
will
mutual
suppression
of
the
disease
occur.
If
the
energy
of
the
substance
is
higher
or
lower,
the
disease
will
not
be
completely
cured.
Exactly
as
much
pathology
will
remain
in
our
body
as
there
was
less
or
more
energy
in
the
substance
intended
to
suppress
the
given
disease.
In
the
case
of
urine,
everything
matches
with
100%
accuracy.
If,
for
example,
someone
suffers
from
an
adenoma
or
enlar gement
of
the
prostate,
the
prostate
adenoma
nosode
is
used.
Human
urine
is
saturated
with
all
the
nosodes
that
are
created
by
themselves
diseases,
and
therefore
it
is
an
ideal
healing
material
given
to
us
by
nature
itself.
In
this
direction,
urine
therapy
has
proven
itself
in
most
diseases
and
represents
the
most
modern
method
of
treatment.
During
a
severe
illness,
the
human
body
under goes
an
increasing
breakdown
of
tissues
and
their
excretion.
In
order
for
the
disintegrating
tissue
to
be
replaced
with
a
new
one,
the
organism
must
spend
a
lot
of
energy,
first
on
digesting
food,
transporting
nutrients
throughout
the
body,
transforming
them
into
a
state
in
which
they
can
be
used,
and
only
then
can
a
replacement
for
dead
tissue
be
synthesized
from
them
.
This
is
a
huge
burden
for
a
sick,


	alternate	Christ	story	that	doesn’t	end	with	suffering	and	dying	on	the
cross.
For	anyone	who	wishes	to	read	every	single	word	attributed	to	Christ	in
any	gospel,	official	or	unofficial,	an	invaluable	source	is	Ricky	Alan	Mayotte,
The	Complete	Jesus
	(Steerforth	Press,	1997).	It	is	usefully	arranged	by	topics,
such	as	Commandments,	Parables,	Jesus	Speaking	About	Himself,	etc.
Chapter	5:	The	Path	to	Hell
One	of	the	major	points	I	emphasize	throughout	this	book	is	that	the	afterlife
is	still	evolving,	as	it	must	since	life	as	a	whole	is	always	evolving.	This	is
true	of	hell,	too,	as	described	in	Alice	K.	Turner,
The	History	of	Hell
	(Harvest,
1995),	a	readable	survey	compiled	by	a	freelance	journalist.	Similar	surveys
on	both	heaven	and	hell	have	appeared	regularly,	but	a	more	in-depth
reference	is	Elaine	Pagels,
The	Origin	of	Satan
	(Vintage,	1996).	Her	approach
is	to	trace	Satan,	not	as	a	real	personage	but	as	a	concept	whose	basis	can	be
found	in	anthropology,	psychology,	and	literary	analysis.	Such	a	humaneapproach	appeals	to	me	because	it	shows	so	clearly	and	in	detail	how	the
devil	can	be	considered	our	own	creation.
A	similar	approach	can	be	taken	to	Christ,	who	is	boldly	explained	in
mythic	terms	by	Timothy	Freke	and	Peter	Gandy,
Jesus	and	the	Lost
Goddess:	The	Secret	Teachings	of	the	Original	Christians
	(Harmony	Books,
2001
),	which	puts	Jesus	in	the	context	of	the	ancient	world	and	its	belief	in
the	Goddess.	Here	the	attempt	is	to	fill	in	how	early	Christians	used	Jesus	for
the	archetypal	purpose	of	fulfilling	the	myth	of	God-as-man	that	exists	in
every	ancient	culture.
Chapter	6:	Ghosts
Akasha	is	the	subtlest	of	the	five	Mahabhutas,	the	five	elements	from	which
creation	is	constructed	(the	others	being	earth,	air,	fire,	and	water).	Readers
who	want	to	study	the	system	of	Mahabhutas	might	begin	online	at
http://ignca.nic.in/ps_04012.htm
.	For	traditional	Indian	beliefs	in	Akasha	and
how	they	affected	Western	spirituality,	see	the	online	discussion	at
http://www.saragrahi.org/
.
There	are,	of	course,	many	popular	books	on	ghosts	and	communicating
with	the	dead.	Mary	Roach’s
Spook
	gives	a	readable	survey	of	these	topics,
told	from	a	skeptical	and	amused	point	of	view	that	will	either	immediately
appeal	or	irritate.	Popular	books	by	psychics	that	have	reached	millions	of
readers	include	James	Van	Praagh,
Talking	to	Heaven:	A	Medium’s	Message
of	Life	After	Death
	(Signet,	1999)	and	Allison	DuBois,
Don’t	Kiss	Them
Good-Bye
	(Fireside,	2005).
The	phenomenon	of	psychic	communication	has	been	researched	at	the
university	level	by	psychiatrist	Gary	Schwartz,	whose	experiments	have
engaged	me	personally.	The	same	research	brought	Allison	DuBois	to	light
and	resulted	in	a	television	series	on	NBC,	as	recounted	in	Gary	E.	Schwartz
and	William	L.	Simon,
The	Truth	About	Medium
	(Hampton	Roads	Publishing,
2005).	Schwartz	gives	a	thorough	account	of	his	academic	research,	the
leading	findings	in	the	field,	in
The	Afterlife	Experiments:	Breakthrough
Scientific	Evidence	of	Life	After	Death
	(Atria,	2003),	for	which	I	wrote	the
introduction.
Chapter	7:	The	Invisible	Thread
Readers	who	are	interested	in	the	historical	perspective	of	the	afterlife	may
want	a	survey	like	Harold	Coward,	editor,
Life	After	Death	in	World	Religions
(Orbis,	1997),	which	collects	essays	on	each	faith	by	various	experts.	I	came
up	with	my	own	synthesis,	relying	heavily	on	a	classic	work,	Huston	Smith,The	World’s	Religions:	Our	Great	Wisdom	Traditions
	(HarperSanFrancisco,
1991),	which	is	still	a	model	of	fairness	and	ecumenical	tolerance,	not	to
mention	graceful	writing	and	valuable	insights.	If	there	is	one	book	that	every
person	interested	in	religion	should	begin	with,	this	is	it.
T
EXT	NOTE:
p.	105
	“There	is	no	salvation	for	those	outside	the	Church	…”	is	quoted	from	a
press	interview	with	Mel	Gibson,	cited	online	at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4224452/
.
Chapter	8:	Seeing	the	Soul
The	subject	of	spiritual	materialism	is	incredibly	important	because	so	many
people,	especially	in	the	West,	are	driven	by	ego	needs	even	when	it	comes	to
spirituality.	We	turn	spiritual	to	gain	things	from	the	world	that	we	otherwise
couldn’t	through	work	and	struggle,	and	thus	we	transform	work	and	struggle
into	spiritual	processes.	The	book	that	started	me	thinking	along	these	lines
was	Chogyam	Trungpa,
Cutting	Through	Spiritual	Materialism
	(Shambhala,
2002),	which	is	told	from	a	Buddhist	perspective	but	with	a	Western	audience
in	mind.
Chapter	9:	Two	Magical	Words
It	goes	without	saying	that	eternity	is	indescribable,	but	the	Vedic	rishis	were
comfortable	living	in	unbounded	awareness.	Therefore	their	descriptions	are
the	most	reliable	that	we	possess	in	the	world’s	wisdom	traditions.	It	helps	to
have	someone	who	continues	to	have	similar	experiences.	I	would	point	to
Nisargadatta	Maharaj,	a	humble	Indian	farmer	who	became	a	renowned	guru
in	Bombay	after	enlightenment.	His	book,
I	Am	That
	(Acorn	Press,	1990),	is
one	of	the	purest	spiritual	testimonies	we	have	in	modern	times.	Not	only	is	it
completely	unspoiled	by	any	trace	of	the	guru	game,	which	has	been	played
in	India	for	centuries,	but	Sri	Nisargadatta	seems	to	be	witness	to	a	very
expanded	state	of	awareness,	fully	comparable	to	the	ancient	rishis.	This	is
another	of	the	few	books	I’ve	kept	by	my	side	for	years.
T
EXT	NOTES:
pp.	122–26
	My	account	of	Mellen-Thomas	Benedict’s	journey	into	the
afterlife	comes	from	online:
http://www.near-
death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html
.
pp.	135–36
	The	story	of	Dawn	J.,	the	woman	who	healed	with	miraculous	oil,
is	told	in	Cheri	Lomonte,
The	Healing	Touch	of	Mary
	(DivineImpressions,	2005),	which	contains	dozens	of	similar	firsthand	accounts.
Chapter	10:	Surviving	the	Storm
Readers	who	are	interested	in	theories	of	consciousness	face	a	bewildering
number	of	choices,	and	in	the	context	of	science	almost	all	those	choices	are
materialistic.	That	is,	they	assume	that	mind	arises	from	matter.	Since	I
disagree	with	the	assumption,	I	am	halfhearted	about	recommending


 second, which comprises hundreds
of thousands of chemical reactions in a single cell, is the same act of
creation that took place at the Big Bang and every moment afterward. So
prana links you to eternal creation. Genesis, as Y oga sees it, is now.
Exercise
In your mind’ s eye, see yourself plucking an apple from a tree. Take a
bite of the apple and swallow it. Mentally follow the path of the apple as it
gets digested and gives up its energy. See the energy entering a heart cell
and fueling a single heartbeat. Now ask yourself: At what point did life
leave the apple?  There were only stages of transformation as the fruit went
from the tree to your heart. At each stage, different processes took over.
(We could extend this example to the waste from the digested apple
returning to the earth to nouri sh a seedling apple tree, perpetuating the
circle of life.) Y et the chain of ener gy is unbroken, and so is the flow of life.In this exercise you have grasped the eternal nature of prana. It moves,
it morph s, it is guided from step to step by knowing what it needs to do.
The link between life and consciousness is never broken, thanks to the
vehicle that carries both life and consciousness, which is prana.
OceanofPDF.comWEEK 5
STAYING IN THE LIGHT
(Limb of Yoga: Pratyahara)THIS PART OF THE JOURNEY
Royal Yoga is a journey to reach  the ideal life. The fifth limb, known as
pratyahara, is the turning point in this journey. Here you learn how to live
in the light permanently. Instead  of having a glimpse of love, compassion,
creativity, beauty, truth, and the other values of higher consciousness, they
are now your natural impulses. You get to experience them without the
constantly churning mind blocking the way.
In classic Yoga, pratyahara  is described as “the withdrawal of the
senses,” which isn’t easy to grasp at first. If you are looking at an object—
an apple, a television, another person—how can you not see it? Can you
really withdraw your sense of sight? Yes, and you do it all the time by
tuning out. You stop paying attention to what your eyes report and pay
attention instead to your inner world. You can also hear without listening,
which is why we say, “Sorry, I was distracted and didn’ t catch what you
said.” Your ears reported the sound of someone else talkin g, but your
attention was elsewhere.
Once you tune out, pratyahara  teaches you what to do next: Find the
light and stay there. You know that you have accomplished this feat because
the following things happen:
You experience your body as the gateway to bliss.
You melt away karmic impressions.
You conquer fear.
You see the evolutionary path and take it.
You start living from the level of solutions, instead of the level
of problems.
In Week 5 we will cover the practices that lead to each of these
victories, because that’ s what they are. The root causes of pain and suf fering
are defeated once and for all.MONDAY
At Home in the Light
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I welcome the light as it welcomes me.
I welcome the light as it welcomes me.
The light is where you belong. This is one of the most basic truths
revealed by Royal Yoga. Where  you belong can also be called “home,” so
whatever home feels like, living in the light should feel the same way. The
qualities of home are known to everyone. A child growing up in a secure,
loving family learns what home represents, and these impressions last a
lifetime. Home is, or should be:
Welcoming
Familiar
Safe
Relaxing
Happy
Loving
Nurturing
A child fortunat e enough to experience these things simply by coming
home depends on the parents to create these qualities. In Roya l Yoga, you
discover that they exist in yourself—the light provides them. The fifth limb
of Yoga, pratyahara, teache s you how to settle down in the light, look
around, and know what home really is. It’s the place where you can be
yourself. Ordina rily, you leave home to go out into the world  and come
back again, over and over, throu ghout your lifetime. In pratyahara, making
the light your home is different because you can remain there without ever
leaving.Discovering that this is possible represents a breakthrough. Previously,
the first four limbs of Yoga involved coming and going. You are navigating
constant changes in the world around you, in your experiences, and in the
activity of mind and body. Pratyahara  merges coming and going by degrees
until you become like a still point in the turning world.
Some breakthroughs are drama tic, but this one isn’t because you are
doing very little beyond welco ming yourself home. That’ s why Yoga is
often described as the “journey of the return.” You recognize that the world
“in here” has all the qualities of home, which is very different from the
stories we tell ourselves about hidden demons, dark forces, painful
memories, and even the threat of going insane if we look too deeply inside.
All these stories  are banished when you follow the path laid out by Royal
Yoga. Your inner world isn’t a dark under ground. Instead, it is the gateway
to your true self. The so-called demons and dark forces are just another kind
of vritti  that blocks the light.
In Roya l Yoga, you never fight or struggle against vrittis ; you allow
awareness to dissolve them, which happens by degrees. One of the most
valuable secrets in Yoga is that it becomes easier, not harder, to dissolve the
vrittis  as you go deep er. Pratyahara  teaches you to make the process of
clearing out vrittis  easier, beginning with the following exercise.
Exercise
The most basic practice in pratyahara  is a full-body scan. Find a quiet
place where you can lie down comfortably. Your bed or a soft rug will do.
Lie on your back with your arms by your side. Closing your eyes, take a
few deep breaths to relax.
Go inside and begin to scan your body, starting with your toes, feeling
the experience as you move slowly and steadily toward your head. By scan,
I mean letting your awareness sweep through you as you notic e whatever
comes to your attention. You might notice how hot or cold your body feels,
how light or heavy, how pleasurable or uncomfortable a certain sensationmight feel. Don’ t approach this exercise with any expectations. Using
awareness to sweep your body is the sole thing you need to do.
Once you have finished your full-body scan, relax into the feeling of
being comfortable inside yourself. This is the basic step that Yoga refers to
as “withdrawal of the senses.” You aren’ t focusing on what you might see,
hear, touch, taste, or smell outside yourself. You are simply experiencing
being “in here.”
If you like, you can do a second scan, this time noticing the basic
feeling of comin g home. The qualities you are looking for were listed above
as welcoming, familiar, safe, relaxing, happy, loving, and nurturing. To help
yourself focus, it might help to recall a memory or image of a time when
you felt welcom ed, then let this feeling suffuse your body now. The same
can be practiced with the other qualities. Use a memory of being safe,
relaxed, happy, and so on. For some of these qualities, you probably won’ t
need a memory. Just softly saying the word to yourself will bring up a
matching feeling-sensation.
This exercise deepens the more often you practice it, and you will find
it more and more enjoyable if you make it part of your daily routine.
TUESDAY
Seeds of Karma
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I set myself free from old memories.
I set myself free from old memories.
Royal Yoga shows you how to take control of your life, which strongly
applies to karma. Most people are trapped in their past actions, which are
the field of karma. This happens in a subtle, invisible way. Karma operates
below the level of thoughts and feelings. To escape your karma,  pratyahara
shows you how to go to the level where karmic seeds are plante d. The goalis to stop these seeds from sprouting. The principle is the same as weeding a
garden. It is hard to pull up a full-grown weed, easier to pull up a weed that
is just a seedling, and easiest of all to throw away the weed’ s seed before it
has sprouted.
Karma  is the Sanskrit word for “actio n,” but it doesn’ t refer to every
tiny thing you do or that your body does. Karmas are actions that leave a
memory behind.  Your first day at school, your first kiss, losing money at a
casino, wrecking your car—these are memorable events. If a memory is
strong enough, it can take charge of, color, or even control your life in
various ways. A painful divorce  colors your next relationship, for example.
Because some events are painful to recall, memories of humiliation, defeat,
failure,


ﬁlls us.
The world is not a collection of things. It is a
network of relationships.
All form arises from the formless
realm of potential forms, the source
and origin of the universe.
Life as LOVE,
compassion, JOY,
equanimity, imagination,
and CREATIVITY cannot
be quantied by science.Just as we have a body, mind, and
spirit, the universe has a physical,
mental, and consciousness
component.
People don’t grow old; when they stop
growing, they become old.
Our sense of self determines our
experience of the world.
AWAKENING IS NOT WHO
YOU ARE, BUT DISCARDING
WHO YOU ARE NOT.Love is the EXPERIENCE and
knowledge of one being in many
appearances.Atoms die in waves of potentiality.
Waves are born in atoms of
actuality. The cosmos reincarnates
eternally.
Your physical form was conceived in
a wave of desire.
Desire is pure potentiality, seeking
manifestation.
Just as a wave is a movement of the
whole ocean, you are the energy of
the cosmos.
Don’t underestimate your power.
Your inner potential and cosmic
potential are the same ﬁeld.
The ﬁeld is you and the universe,
just as wave and ocean are one.When you are balanced in
body, mind, and spirit, you
feel joyful, energetic,
restful, alert, and
experience lightness of
being.
Our body is poetry in form and motion. There is
only one temple for the spirit, and it is our body.
Keep it holy.
We are the UNIVERSE
dancing.Both mathematics and music are
the language of the universe,
expressing truth, harmony, and
beauty.
Science is a spiritual quest to know
ourselves.
What we do to the
world, we do to
ourselves. Science
based on the objective
world as separate from
us is dangerous.Synchronicity,
meaningful
coincidence, good luck,
creative response from
the universe, and grace
are synonymous terms.Humility, awe, wonderment, and
delight are qualities of spirit, not just
electrochemical events in synaptic
networks.
Nothing ever ceases to exist. Death is
incubation in the ﬁeld of potentiality
until the next leap of creativity.
Self-awareness is the window to
cosmic consciousness.
e simplest denition of
spirituality is self-awareness.Every moment is a
fork in the road. e
road you take will
shape your future.
Choose love over
fear.
OceanofPDF.comLogic and rationality are the language of the
scientiﬁc mind. Love and wisdom are the poetry of
the spiritual soul.
If your reality is only rational, and has no room for
feelings and the irrational, then your humanity is
incomplete.
Love is a quality of
AWARENESS that allows
SOULS to commune with
each other.Karma or choices in the past create the situations
of the present. How we choose now is a function
of free will. To witness yourself making choices is
the beginning of karmic freedom.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain, the river
of life ﬂows. The key is to let go and ﬂow.If you sacriﬁce your health to make money today,
you will have to sacriﬁce your money to get health
tomorrow.
If you sacriﬁce the present for the future, you will
never enjoy life, for when the future arrives, you
won’t be present.Being awake means that the best time
of your life is neither behind you nor
ahead of you, but now.
Consciousness is the organizing
principle that transforms chaos into
cosmos.
To BECOME the
consciousness of that
which you witness is
LOVE.God is the inconceivable
truth in which we and
the universe are
happening.I AM is all bodies and all minds in
one consciousness, one spirit.
The essence of our being is eternal
possibility.
The law of least effort: “Do less and
achieve more.”
Then graduate to “Do nothing and
achieve everything.”
The law of least effort works
through choiceless awareness, plus
subtle intention, leading to
synchronicity.
A religious experience
encompasses
transcendence, love,
compassion, humility,
reverence for life, and
loss of the fear of
death.Your ANCESTORS are
alive in every cell of your
body as your genetic
activity.In every seed, there is the promise of thousands of
forests. So, too, in desire is the seed of thousands
of manifestations.
As you witness yourself making choices, you begin
the process of awakening.
The ground of existence is not inert
emptiness, but a dynamic ﬁeld
connecting all creation in a single
totality.
Random mutations in evolution are
reminiscent of quantum uncertainty.
Beyond chaos is a creative
organizing principle.Sensations and feelings
in the body are the
KEYS to intuition.ILLNESS BEGINS WITH “I.”
WELLNESS BEGINS WITH
“WE.”The fruit takes time to ripen and then falls
suddenly. Enlightenment works in a similar way.
There is always preparation and awakening.
We are the eyes of the universe,
looking at itself.
All this struggling to learn when we
simply have to remember.
No matter what the situation, there
is a choice.
You will never trust your intuition
until you identify with it.
Self-esteem enters here.Every event has
innumerable causes and
leads to innumerable
eﬀects. Events and objects
are snapshots of the
universe in motion.e only MADNESS
that is sane is the
intoxication of love.Stop playing small.
You are divinity in motion.
To own the world, see inﬁnite
potential in all situations at all times.All boundaries are
conceptual. The universe
boundless outward in the
cosmos, boundless inward in
the atom.
Think cosmically,
communicate globally, actlocally, but with global and
cosmic impact.
To be ALIVE is to be
AWARE and
PRESENT. en every
moment, every
BREATH, is
BENEDICTION,
GRACE, and a
MIRACLE.At the moment of
conception, you had neither
body nor brain, but
awareness was present.In the hall of mirrors, I can see for
miles. Every demon, every enemy,
every torturer is me in disguise.
Through the mirror of relationship, I
see myself.We are the human activity of the
universe, and most of it is
unknowable. We cannot step
outside the universe to see it.
Everything in the visible world has
its roots in the formless invisible.Love can be our
RELIGION beyond
boundaries if we live it,
BREATHE it, experience
it, BECOME it.Self-awareness and
compassion ease our
own suﬀering.
OceanofPDF.comWhen your awareness
is free, you know the
entire universe as your
body.Consciousness alone is.
It conceives, constructs, governs, and becomes the
universe.
The limits of our identity are the limits of our
awareness.
The more universal or cosmic your
sense of self, the bigger your world
will be.
At all times, your world is a
projection of yourself. Expansion of
self to universal awareness is
enlightenment.AWARENESS is a eld in
which minds, bodies, and
universes arise and
SUBSIDE like waves in an
ocean.Spirituality is not a
contrived MOOD or
behavior, but a simple,
unaﬀected humanity.What we are looking for is the one
who is looking.
Only the witness of the mind can know
the mind.
Peace can only be created by those
who are peaceful, and love by those
who have loved.
At all times, what we are aware of
is the qualities of our own
consciousness.
The world is as we are.
e only sane RESPONSE
to our collective insanity is
unconditional LOVE.God is the inﬁnite potential in which
galaxies and universes arise from
nothingness and disappear into
nothingness.
Only God exists. Everything else is
ﬂux—the coming and going of God.LOVE
is the ultimate TRUTH.Lightness of being,
FLOW, and joy are the
outcome of letting go of
what never was.You are the master of your life, not the
mechanisms in your brain or your
body.
Intention and desire alter the material
landscape of the brain.
Neurons and genes turn on and off,
depending on your choices.
Reclaiming consciousness is nothing
other than reclaiming the power of
choice.Angry people SHOUT,
those in love WHISPER,
those who are love become
SILENT.EACH OF US IS THE ONE
MINDReligion has an obligation not to
contradict the known laws of
science.
Science has an obligation not to
reduce rich human experience to
raw data.
Be a child, let go, allow
the rhythms of nature
to cradle you, and the
universe will carry
you wherever your
dreams are cosmic
consciousness.If you obsess over
whether you are
making the right
decision, you are
bas


	the
United	States.	Closer	to	home,	Farm	Verified	Organic,	an	organic	certification
agency,	has	stated,	“the	GM	[genetically	modified]	pollution	of	American
commodities	is	now	so	pervasive,	we	believe	it	is	not	possible	for	farmers	in
North	America	to	source	seed	free	from	it.”	Our	supposedly	uncontaminated
organic	crops	of	corn,	soy	and	canola	are	now	testing	positive	for	the	presence	of
foreign	genetic	material.
As	you	know,	commercial	farming	produces	sick	plants,	which	are	sprayed
with	chemical	fertilizers	and	pesticides	to	keep	them	alive.	To	cut	down	on
pesticide	use,	some	genetically	modified	crops	(such	as	corn	and	potatoes)	have
been	engineered	to	produce	toxic	pesticides	internally.	These	plants	actually
become	their	own	pesticide	factories.	The	long-term	health	effects	of	these
pesticides	are	unknown.	With	such	crops,	the	potential	certainly	exists	for	long-
term	nutritional	deficiencies,	toxicities	and	even	genetic	mutations	in	humans.	A
December	1999	issue	of
Nature
reported	that	genetically	modified	crops
engineered	to	produce	their	own	pesticides	actually	were	poisoning	the	soil.
Pesticides	leaching	from	the	plant’s	roots	were	killing	beneficial	bacteria	in	the
soil,	disrupting	the	soil	food	web	and	threatening	soil	ecology.	This	problem	is
severe.	The	quality	of	the	soil	has	everything	to	do	with	the	health	and
nutritional	content	of	the	crops	it	produces.
Genetically	modified	organisms	are	problematic	because	they	are	extremely
hard	to	control.	Genes	do	not	exist	by	themselves.	They	exist	as	part	of
interactive	networks.	The	splicing	of	genes	results	in	not	only	the	desired
characteristics	but	also	in	other	unpredictable	effects.	Given	that	the	species
developed	by	Mother	Nature	work	just	fine,	why	take	these	unnecessary	risks?“Progress?”	At	What	Price?
The	companies	that	supply	genetically	modified	seeds,	such	as	Archer	Daniels
Midland	and	Monsanto,	believe	they	are	pioneers	in	a	technology	that	can	serve
humankind	and	offer	myriad	benefits	now	and	in	the	future.	Scientists	in	this
field	argue	that	genetically	modified	foods	increase	yields	and	are	necessary	to
feed	this	hungry	world.	They	argue	that	crops	can	be	engineered	to	reduce
environmental	pesticide	pollution,	because	pesticides	are	produced	internally	by
the	plants.	They	argue	that	the	plants	can	be	engineered	to	resist	chemical	weed
killers,	so	farmers	can	use	these	chemicals	without	fear	of	harming	crops.	Future
possibilities	include	engineering	plants	that	are	better	able	to	withstand	harsh
environmental	conditions,	permitting	farming	in	areas	not	presently	suitable.
Another	possibility	is	the	engineering	of	crops	with	increased	nutritional	content.
Clearly,	genetically	modified	foods	present	great	promise,	but	as	always,	we
must	consider	the	whole	picture.
These	foods	also	present	enormous	risks	for	which	there	is	little	financial
incentive	to	investigate	and	plenty	of	incentive	to	overlook.	Safety	tests	for	these
newly	created	species	should	be	at	least	as	rigorous	as	those	for	new	food
additives,	but	they	are	not.	No	single	regulatory	agency	is	in	charge	of
genetically	modified	foods.	Eight	government	agencies	are	involved	under
twelve	different	laws,	none	of	which	deal	specifically	with	genetically	modified
foods.	Biotechnology	companies	do	their	own	testing	and	are	not	required	to
inform	the	FDA	if	they	suspect	a	problem.	Huge	corporations	and	large	sums	of
money	are	involved,	yet	we	rely	on	the	honor	system	alone.	At	the	very	least,
people	have	a	right	to	know	what	they	are	eating.	We	should	insist	that
genetically	engineered	foods	be	labeled	as	such.	In	order	to	make	our	voices
heard,	contact	your	elected	representatives	and	tell	them	what	you	think.
Misleading	Thoughts
About	Birth	Defects
One	of	the	central	points	of	confusion	regarding	genetics	and	disease	is	the
common	misunderstanding	between	genetic	and	congenital	defects.	Most	people
assume	that	a	condition	present	at	birth	is	genetically	determined.	Not	so.	In	a
newborn	baby,	the	environmental	conditions	in	the	womb	contributed	to	every
step	of	its	development.	Defects	caused	by	problematic	conditions	in	the	womb
are	congenital,	not	genetic.
Building	a	baby	puts	a	huge	demand	on	the	mother,	which	can	be	met	onlywith	a	much	higher	than	normal	intake	of	nutrients.	Grave	consequences	often
affect	the	developing	fetus	if	a	mother	fails	to	obtain	proper	nutrition.
Congenital	defects—biochemical	and	physical	defects	present	at	birth—	are	not
determined	by	genes,	but	by	the	same	two	causes	responsible	for	all	disease:
deficiency	and	toxicity.
If	the	mother’s	cells	are	neither	deficient	nor	toxic,	her	baby’s	chances	for	a
healthy	life	increase	dramatically.	As	a	fetus	passes	through	various
developmental	stages,	tissues	and	cells	grow	very	quickly.	Rapidly	dividing	cells
are	at	a	greater	risk	of	suffering	from	insufficient	nutrients,	too	much	of	certain
hormones	or	the	presence	of	certain	toxins.	These	conditions	can	alter	the
development	of	the	baby’s	tissues,	permanently	affecting	the	physical	and
mental	function	of	the	child.
An	unfavorable	environment	in	the	womb	causes	a	developing	fetus	to	make
compromises	in	order	to	compensate	for	deficiency	or	toxicity.	These
compensations	come	at	a	very	high	price,	a	price	that	often	is	invisible	and
impossible	to	measure.	Perhaps	the	newborn’s	nervous	system	is	compromised
and	the	child’s	IQ	will	be	lower	than	it	might	otherwise	be.	Perhaps	the	baby’s
digestive	system	is	not	fully	developed,	leading	to	digestive	problems,	disease
and	shortened	life	span.	Perhaps	the	circulatory	system	is	not	fully	developed,
making	it	impossible	for	optimal	amounts	of	nutrients	and	oxygen	to	reach	the
tissues,	thus	guaranteeing	premature	aging	and	disease.	Perhaps	the	baby	is	born
with	a	cleft	palate,	a	clubfoot	or	a	heart	defect.
Some	of	these	problems	are	obvious	at	birth,	but	most	are	not.	When	they	are
obvious,	we	usually	blame	them	on	genetics,	but	they	are	mostly	congenital.	To
avoid	these	problems,	parents,	especially	prior	to	and	during	pregnancy,	must
follow	the	six	pathways	closely,	optimizing	their	cellular	function	and
minimizing	the	chances	of	congenital	problems	in	their	children.
Choosing	Your	Destiny
Although	perfect	nutrition,	perfect	genes,	a	pure	environment	and	ideal
behavior	do	not	exist,	these	factors	write	the	story	of	your	life,	including	how
many	chapters	you	will	finish.
The	interaction	between	inherited	genes,
nutritional	intake,	the	environment	and	our	beliefs	at	any	point	in	time	are	the
triggers	that	determine	our	current	state	of	health	or	disease,	including	how
long	we	live.
By	changing	the	conditions	inside	your	body,	you	can	signal	your	g


 it controls the osmotic gradient across
the cell wall, for one thing, so it can help transport nutrients – and, for that matter, medicine—across
cell walls. That’s terribly important in a human, but also in a plant.
When you put sodium in a certain concentration on plants, it changes the osmotic gradient stem of
the plant, so it allows copper to get up into a tomato, which needs copper awfully bad to be a good
tomato. Sometimes you go into a garden store and you’ll see copper you can put around your tomato
plants. I guarantee none of that copper is making it into the tomato, because it doesn’t have the osmotic
gradient to get it there. Sodium is very important for humans, animals and plants.
Now, to get back to your original question, about someone like a heart patient that’s on a low-sodium
diet. We’re going to come back to this organic and inorganic thing again. If you give a heart patient
inorganic salt, or sodium, it’s terribly bad for them. If it comes in its organic form in a fruit or vegetable,
it will do no harm. Celery has one of the highest sodium contents naturally of any vegetable, and it’s
totally safe to give a heart patient. Of course, I’m not a doctor—so I have to put in a disclaimer or the
lawyers will be all over my case—but a doctor won’t have a problem with a heart patient taking ocean-
grown celery, which has a high concentration of organic sodium.
Mike : People are familiar with using sea kelp or ocean kelp on their gardens, and they understand that
that contains a lot of trace minerals and macro minerals as well. How is Ocean Grown better than
using sea kelp or other ocean vegetables?
Hartman : Well, the first thing you have to look at is that, just like terrestrial vegetation, seaweed has
different uptakes of sea minerals. So you might have a kelp that only takes up 56, like a tomato, and
you might have a kelp that only picks up 40. So you have to ask yourself, “Has the science been done
that says, ‘Okay, this species of seaweed pickup all 90 like wheatgrass does?’” The first problem is, I don’t
think anybody’s done that research, and the second problem is that seaweed comes to the farm or home
grower as an organic compound, so it’s not readily available to the plant as food. When you put that
kelp product onto your plant, it’s still going to have to compost and break down before it’s available to
the plant.
Mike : It’s like putting manure on the soil, except it’s sea vegetable.
Hartman : That’s right. The good part is that it came out of the sea, and chances are it has more
nutrients and trace elements than manure. But if you have a perfect solution, why not use it? It’s in the
right form, and it has all 90 elements.
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Mike : What about changing the pH of the soil? Does ocean water have any kind of strong effect on
the pH?
Hartman : Well, it’s neutral or fairly neutral. It has a pH of eight, so it’s slightly alkaline. The fact
that it’s slightly alkaline will affect the pH, but I think people fuss and worry about pH a lot only
because what they’re doing is so unnatural, so they have to go to these other extraordinary means to
try to compensate for what they’re doing. I think that what people will find is that pH is much less
important—in fact, maybe not important at all if soil and the plants are getting nutrition.
Mike : I’ve done a lot of experiments with hydroponics and even aeroponics, but I’ve never done it with
ocean water. I’ve already ordered some of your product, and I’m going to try that. Do you know anyone
who’s been doing hydroponics with your product?
Hartman : We do, and many of our customers do. What we do in our office is grow wheatgrass
hydroponically, completely soil-less. It’s very reliable, very easy, and anyone can do it. In fact, if you
contact us through the website, we can send you a 14-page “how to” printout, which hopefully we’ll
post on the website soon so people can download it. It tells you what you need to buy (which is totally
inexpensive), so you can have your own wheatgrass on a shelf in your kitchen, if you’d like. It also
gives you indications of how you would grow other things hydroponically and aeroponically. The big
difference with aeroponics is that a plant dies as soon as the roots get dry, so that’s the key. You’ve got
to keep the roots damp, and if you can do that, it will do very well.
Mike : They also come back quickly once you turn the water back on. I’ve had that experience a few
times. I’ve seen a plant recover in 20 minutes, and it’s just amazing. What about sprouting at home and
using a bit of your product for sprouting?
Hartman : When we grow wheatgrass, we soak it for 24 hours in our diluted solution before we put it
in a tray or before we plant it. One of our customers is a farmer in Montana, and he’s even gone to the
extraordinary extent to soak his wheat seeds before planting them—and I say “extraordinary” because
to get the planting machinery to plant them, you have to not only soak the seeds but dry them back
out, otherwise they won’t go through the planter, but he got tremendous results. It’s the best wheat he’s
ever grown, and he’s been a farmer for decades. So you can soak seeds, and if you get roses in the mail
and you want to give them a good start, just soak them in diluted ocean solution.
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Ocean minerals could revolutionize modern agriculture
Mike : I’m getting the sense that we have the resources on the planet right now to revolutionize food
and farming and health. The answers are all right there, and you’re one of the people reminding us of
the wisdom of nature.
Hartman : You know, our mission is really to get nutrition back in the food supply, and one of my
partner’s responsibility is to work on philanthropic outreach programs. We’re currently involved in one
in sub-Saharan Africa and one in Central America, and we try to show people in those areas that don’t
have access to good health care systems how to grow their way to health.
Mike : What about in the United States? Do you have some kind of long-term plan to help commercial
growers use this product? I mean, what’s your vision? If you could wave a magic wand and see the U.S.
change, what would it look like?
Hartman : I think the first thing people need to understand is the demographics of it. I think everyone
is well aware the “organic movement” is growing by leaps and bounds, and the consumers will drive
the growth of it. They are going to ask their local grocery stores, “Hey, where’s the organic produce?”
So you’ll see it grow, but, at the moment, the organic segment of the market is 2 percent of the market.
We’re going to cater and help the organic folks figure this all out, but you can see that we can do a lot
more good if we go directly after the commercial farmers. Think about all the benefits. It’s much easier
to use than what they’re doing. If, after a three-year period, they choose to use this in only certified
organic inputs, they’ll be considered organic—and they can charge a premium for their food as opposed
to being tied to the commodity markets that they’ve been tied to all these years. Also, commercial
farmers are huge polluters of groundwater—so, really, our mission is to go after the commercial farmers
and systems, because I think that’s where we will do the most good. It will get the best food out to the
most people as quickly as possible, and it’s a very green product, so it will reduce groundwater pollution,
which is just terrible at the moment.
Mike : But to a commercial farmer who’s only looking at the bottom line, does using your product make
bottom-line economic sense to them?
Hartman : Absolutely, it does. The point of farming is to make nutritious foods. What we guarantee
users is that we will give them equivalent yields without all the dangers of chemical agriculture, like
poison and poison runoff. And we feel that very soon, within the next couple of years, users of our
product will be able to charge a premium for their food, because now we have corroborating evidence
that it is producing superior food.
Mike : But does ocean water on commercial farms reduce the need to use pesticides?
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Hartman : Yes, because if [plants] are properly “nutrified,” they are much more immune to diseases.
If your immune system is fully fortified, you’re able to ward off all kinds of things that people with a
challenged immune system can’t.
Mike : So even fungicides are needed less, and infectious disease in plants is less frequent.
Hartman : Absolutely, and Dr. Murray did quite


 future. However,
untreated breast cancer is considered deadly, and today’s
medicine is good at wiping it out over the short run. In a
climate of opinion ruled by fear, people prefer to run the
risks of the cure rather than the disease.
I referred Chitra to the clinic where I work, in Lancaster,
Massachusetts. She stayed for a week and received
treatments; she also learned an outpatient program to use
at home that included a change of diet, some Ayurvedic
herbs, a speciﬁc daily routine including simple yoga
exercises, and instruction in meditation. These measures
look diﬀeren t on the surface, but underneath they all aimed
at bringing her day-to-day existence to a settled, restful
state, buildin g a foundation for healing. In Ayurveda, a
level of total, deep relaxation is the most important
precondition for curing any disorder. The underlying
concept is that the body  knows how to maintain balance
unless throw n oﬀ by disease; therefore, if one wants torestore the body’s own healing ability, everything should be
done to bring it back into balance. It is a very simple notion
that has profound consequences. Chitra was also given two
special mental techniques that went directly to the root of
her cancer. (I will say more about these later.)
—
Chitra followed her program faithfully and came back to
see me every six weeks. She also continued the course of
chemotherapy set up by her doctor at home in New York.
When we talked about that I said, “If I could conﬁdently put
you on nothing but Ayurveda, I would—the deterioration in
your physical state would then be much less. But you came
to me a very sick woman, and we know that the
chemotherapy works as an outside approach. Let’s combine
the outer and the inner and hope that they add up to a real
cure.”
For almost a year I followed Chitra’s progress. She
always listen ed with a trusting attitude, yet as she returned
for each visit, it was clear that she was not improving. Her
lung X rays were still bad, her shortness of breath grew
worse, and she began to look weaker and more dejected as
the disease advanced. Her voice took on a note of panic.
Finally the day came when Chitra did not show up for her
appointment. I waited out the week and then called her
home.
The news was not good. Chitra’s husband, Raman, told
me that she had suddenl y developed a high fever and had
to be hospitalized over the weekend. For some time her
lungs had been seeping ﬂuid into the pleural cavity that
surrounds them, and her doctor suspected that an infection
had set in. Given her grim progno sis, there was no
guarantee that Chitra would ever leave the hospital.Then a very curious thing happened. After a day or two
on antibiotics, Chitra’s fever went from 104 degree s F. back
down to normal, which puzzled her attending physician. It
is very unusual for a high-grade fever to reverse itself so
rapidly if the underlying cause is an infecti on in a
terminally ill patient. Could there be another cause besides
infection? He decided to take chest X rays, and the next
day Raman called me sounding both exhilarated and
confused.
“She doesn’t have cancer anymore!” Raman told me
jubilantly over the telephone.
“What do you mean?” I asked, taken aback.
“They can’t ﬁnd any cancer cells at all—nothing.” He was
almost unab le to contain himself. “Chitra’s oncologist at
ﬁrst was sure that they had X-rayed the wrong patient and
wanted to take some more pictures, but now he’s
convinced.”
Overjoyed, relieved, and unable to explain this sudden
stroke of salvation, Raman regarded his wife’s recovery as
a miracle. When I called Chitra in her hospital room, she
kept crying into the phone, “You did it, Deepak,” while I
kept insisting, “No, no, Chitra, you did it.” I had never
anticipated that such a rapid cure would result from her
treatments, either conventional or Ayurvedic. In retrospect,
I see that her high fever was a kind of burn-oﬀ from the
dying cancer, a process known as tumor necrosis. But the
exact mecha nism involve d has no explanation. If there is
such a thing as a mirac ulous cure, this was one, I was
certain.
Within a few weeks, however, our mutual jubilation began
to change. Chitra’s “miracle” wasn’t holding. It eroded ﬁrst
within herse lf: instead of being able to trust in her
inexplicable recovery, she became conﬂicted, morbidly
afraid that the cancer would return. She called to ask me if
she should resume chemotherapy.“It’s been two months since the cancer disappeared,” I
said. “Does your doctor ﬁnd any new cancer cells?”
“No,” Chitra admitted, “but he thinks that the
chemotherapy cured me and that I should continue with it.”
I bega n to feel frustrated. I knew, as did her atten ding
physician, that the particular chemotherapy Chitra had
received was not known to produce sudden, total
recoveries of this kind, certainly not in advanced cases
where the cancer had begun to spread to other sites in the
body. Also, it was becoming obvious that she was being
worn down past endurance. The chemotherapy had caused
almost const ant nausea, and her hair had fallen out in
frightening amounts, adding to the shame she felt following
her breast surgery. All of this compromised the Ayurvedic
treatments we were trying. If even higher doses of
chemotherapy were given, she would become more
depressed, more prone to infections, and weaker in every
way.
Yet, at the same time, I did not have a strong enough
reason to tell her not to proceed. What if she suﬀered a
relapse in six months and died?
“Go ahead with your chemotherapy,” I advised, “but stick
with our program, too, okay?” She agreed.
For several months more, Chitra remained free of
disease, but she also remained disturbed and mystiﬁed. It
seemed that Chitra’s cancer was easier to defeat than the
sinister doubt that was creeping back into her life, defying
her to be well.
Chitra’s agonizing dilemma is the real starting point of
this book. For her to be well again, she needed an
explanation. What had happened to her? Was her cure a
miracle, as she thought at ﬁrst, or only a tempora ry stay of
execution, as she came to dread? By going deeper into the
mind-body connection, I believe an answer can be found.—
Research on spontaneous cures of cancer, cond ucted in
both the United States and Japan, has shown that just
before the cure appears,  almost every patient experiences
a dramatic shift in awar eness. He knows that he will be
healed, and he feels that the force responsible is inside
himself but not limited to him—it extends beyond his
personal boundaries, throughout all of nature. Suddenly he
feels, “I am not limited to my body. All that exists around
me is part of myself.” At that moment, such patients
apparently jump to a new level of consciousness that
prohibits the existence of cancer. Then the cancer cells
either disapp ear, literally  overnight in some cases, or at the
very least stabilize without damaging the body any further.
This leap in consciousne ss seems to be the key. It does
not have to come in a ﬂash, however. Chitra was cultivating
it deliberately, through her Ayurvedic techniques.
Therefore, her ability to stay at a higher level of awareness
was strikingly correlated with her condition. Somehow she
could motiva te the absence of cancer, but just as easily she
could return to it. (I think of this as being like a violin
string whose  pitch varies as you slide your ﬁnger up and
down it.) The word that comes to mind when a scientist
thinks of such sudden changes is quantum. The word
denotes a discrete jump from one level of functioning to a
higher level—the quantum leap.
Quantum is also a technical term, once known only to
physicists but now growing in popular usage. Formally, a
quantum is “the indivisi ble unit in which waves may be
emitted or absorbed,” the deﬁnition given by the eminent
British physicist Stephen Hawking. In laym an’s terms, the
quantum is a building block. Light is built up from photons,
electricity from the charge of one electron, gravity  from the
graviton (a hypothetical quantum, not yet found in nature),and so on for all forms of energy—each of them is based on
a quantum and cannot be broken down into anything
smaller.
Both deﬁnitions—the discrete jump to a higher level and
the irreducible level of a force—appear to apply to certain
cases like Chitra’s. Therefore, I would like to introduce the
term quantum healing  to describe what happened to her.
Although the term


	even	harder	to	fall	asleep.	So	just	try	to	let	it	go,	and	keep	your	phone
(in	airplane	mode	of	course!)	far	enough	away	that	it	takes	some	real	effort	to
reach	over	and	pick	it	up.
PICK	PRINT
While	e-readers	may	be	convenient	for	your	commute	or	when	traveling,	opt
for	printed
books	at	night.	Reading	from	a	printed	book	at	night	is	actuallyrelaxing	and	can	help	promote	Peak	Beauty	Sleep.
BALANCE	LIGHT	DAYS	AND	DARK	NIGHTS
To	sleep	better	at	night,	get	more
natural	light	into	your	days.	Wake	up	to	the
light	by	opening	your	curtains	and	letting	it	shine	in.	If	you	have	to	be	indoors
for	much	of	your	day	because	of	your	job,	make	an	effort	to	go	for	a	walk
during	the	day,	even	if	it’s	just	briefly	to	run	errands	or	walk	around	your	local
park.	Try	to	eat	lunch	outside	when	the	weather	permits.	Even	in	the	winter,	get
outside	and	into	the	light	as	much	as	possible.	Bundle	up	when	it’s	cold.	The
more	natural	light	exposure	your	eyes	receive,	the	more	in	balance	you	will	be,
in	rhythm	between	the	alternating	beauty	sleeping	and	waking	hours.SHIFT	12:
Establish	Healthy	Sleep	Routines
The	Importance	of	a	Regular	Schedule
We	humans	are	natural	creatures	of	habit,	and	our	daily	routines	establish	our
bodily	rhythms.	One	of	the	best	ways	to	regulate	and	normalize	your	sleeping
schedule	is	to	regulate	and	normalize	all	the	other	rhythms	in	your	life,
including	when	you	eat	and	exercise.	Your	body	will	better	be	able	to	feel	settled
and	ready	for	bed	if	everything	else	in	your	life	is	on	a	regular	schedule,	too.
The	more	you	can	stick	to	as	regular	a	schedule	as	possible	(even	when
traveling),	the	better	your	body	will	“know”	its	expected	routines.	You	will
naturally	settle	into	sleep	at	the	same	time	night	after	night,	and	thus	enhance
your	beauty.
Here	are	some	general	guidelines:
•
Exercise	at	the	same	time	every	day,	ideally	in	the	morning	or	at	lunchtime,
and	avoid	heavy	physical	stimulation	later	in	the	day.	Late	workouts	can	be
overly	stimulating	and	keep	your	mind	and	body	alert.	Try	to	end	workouts
at	least	3	to	4	hours	before	bed.	But	do	make	regular	workouts	a	part	of	your
routine.	A	study	from
Northwestern	Medicine	found	that	exercise	in	general
was	helpful	in	relieving	insomnia.
1
	In	the	study,	adults	who	were	previously
sedentary	and	then	started	doing	aerobic	exercise	four	times	a	week	reported
an	increase	in	sleep	quality	and	vitality,	along	with	less	sleepiness	during	the
day	and	fewer	depressive	symptoms.
2
•
Keep	regular	mealtimes	for	breakfast,	lunch,	and	dinner	(though	the
particular	foods	that	make	up	those	meals	may	vary	with	the	seasons).
•
Always	strive	to	eat	dinner	at	least	a	few	hours	before	bed.	Digestion	slows	at
night	because	your	body	is	meant	to	be	rejuvenating,	not	digesting!	Plus,
feeling	heaviness	in	your	stomach	as	you	are	drifting	off	is	not	a	recipe	for
deep	or	peaceful	sleep.	Ideally,	try	to	eat	dinner	3	to	4	hours	before	bed.	(It’s
really	not
that
	crazy;	if	you	go	to	bed	at	11	p.m.,	aim	to	finish	dinner	at	leastby	8	p.m.,	for	instance).
•
Complete	your
abhyanga
	(see
this	page
)	and	other	skin-care	routines	at	the
same	time	every	day.
•
Establish	a	regular	morning	routine	that	includes	drinking	hot	water	with
lemon	and	allowing	enough	time	for	elimination.
•
Establish	a	regular
evening	routine	(see	below)	and	stick	to	it	to	signal	to
your	body	that	it’s	time	to	wind	down	and	prepare	for	sleep.
•
Keep	your	sleeping	hours	consistent.	This	is	perhaps	most	important	of	all!
It	will	set	your	internal	clock	so	your	body	is	better	able	to	get	drowsy
naturally	and	sleep	more	deeply	once	you	climb	into	bed.	Even	on	the
weekends,	try	not	to	get	too	thrown	off	your	regular	weekday	schedule.	This
will	make	it	easier	for	you	to	maintain	optimal	sleep	patterns	overall.
•
Avoiding	napping.
Ayurvedic	teachings	frown	on	daytime	sleeping	for
adults,	believing	that	it	can	contribute	to	illness.	Napping	may	be	tempting
or	even	a	habit	that	you	love,	but	if	you	find	yourself	engaged	in	irregular
sleep	patterns,	it’s	better	to	avoid	napping	in	general,	especially	after	4	or	5
p.m.
Establish	an	Evening	Routine
While	your	overall	daily	routine	is	important	to	promote	Peak
Beauty	Sleep,	the
most	important	piece	of	this	routine	takes	place	in	the	evening	before	bed.	This
was	discussed	in
The	Beauty	Detox	Power
,	but	because	it	is	so	important	to	help
you	achieve	Radical	Beauty,	we	are	going	to	discuss	it	here	again.
Followed	daily,	a	regular	evening	routine	will	help	you	prepare	mentally	and
physically	for	sleep	by	giving	cues	to	your	internal	clock.	This	will	help	you	get
the	best	possible	beauty	sleep	every	day	and	in	the	long-term,	which	is	where	the
real	benefits	are	to	be	had.	What	you	choose	to	do	for	your	evening	routine	is
completely	up	to	you.	Every	person	will	respond	differently	to	each	activity.
You	can	choose	one	of	these	suggestions,	a	combination	of	them,	or	come	up
with	your	own	ideas	for	how	to	wind	down	in	the	evening	before	bed.	The	most
important	thing	is	that	you	pick	something	that	makes	you	feel	relaxed	and
that	you	do	it	at	the	same	time	every	day	as	often	as	you	can.	Here	are	some
suggestions	for	your	evening	routine.
SIP	SOMETHING	SOOTHING
After	dinner,	sip	some	herbal	tea	or
hot	almond	or	hemp	milk	while	relaxing	orgetting	ready	for	bed.	(See	the	Evening	Replenishing	Elixir	on
this	page
.)
GET	DIM
After	6	p.m.	in	the	winter	or	7	p.m.	in	the	summer,	start	dimming	the	lights	in
your	home.	Try	using	candles	at	dinner	and	in	whatever	room	of	the	house	you
are	in	to	start	reducing	your	exposure	to
artificial	lights.	You	don’t	have	to	go
full	precolonial	style,	but	any	time	you	can	reduce	artificial	lighting,	the	better.
PRACTICE
ABHYANGA
If	you	are	too	rushed	in	the	mornings,	you	can	perform	your
abhyanga
	routine
(see
this	page
)	in	the	evening.	Or	practice	a	shorter	variation	of
abhyanga
followed	by	a	relaxing	hot	bath	or	shower.	If	you	completed	your
abhyanga
	in
the	morning,	a	nice	warm	bath	or	shower	might	be	relaxing	by	itself.
RELAX	TO
MUSIC
Try	a	routine	of	listening	to	some	music	you	find	truly	relaxing.	Music	can	help
to	powerfully	relax	your	mind.	Find	some	music	you	connect	to	with	a	slower
vibration	that


 like myself, arrived at "naturism"
and natural therapy not primarily through concern with illness but as the
practical outcome of a sifting of cultural values and intuitive philosophy
of life, by far the most interesting aspects will relate to how Professor
Szekely reaches his conclusions and the logical consequences  to which
he  carries  them.

ATOMS AND STARS
To the whole vast sidereal, astrophysical and astrochemical
purview, the correlative etheric and ultra-etheric, ultra-atomic and intra-
atomic vibratory milieu through which Professor Szekely traces life in
evolution from nebula to man, I can make but a passing and
meaningless reference here. That man is one with the cosmos, a
microcosm within a macrocosm, has been taught by the seers through
immemorial ages and notably by Edward Carpenter and D. H. Lawrence
among poet-philosophers of recent times. It has remained for Professor
Szekely to give scientific formulation to that "eternal ocean of cosmic
radiations" whereby solar systems and atoms are reciprocally related
and the cells of man's body and the thoughts of his brain vibrate in tune
with   the   farthest   stars.
"The most elementary dynamic formations are those of matter
(matter being merely an aggregate of the movement of atoms), while the
highest dynamic formations are those of currents of thought." So the
long history of this vertiginous dynamism of thought itself is reviewed
by Professor Szekely in terse summaries of nearly a hundred
philosophers from Thales down to date. For as part of his omnilateral
system is included "the entirely new and original application for
therapeutic purposes of the masterpieces of universal literature,
philosophy and the arts based on psychotechnical diagnosis of individual natures." To Professor Szekely's own philosophic formula of
"dialectical correlativism," in which is woven really the whole fabric of
his thesis, I cannot do justice in this outline.

MAN AND TREES
There remains still to be noted the ethnological and ethnographical
backbone of the book. This—if more than the others—has been
Professor Szekely's especial line of research, in which he has made
some original and significant discoveries. As a pragmatic consequence
he is able to correlate all that is be st in the most recent scientific and
cultural developments with a modernistic renaissance of the heliolithic
culture of homo sapiens sylvanus, the original fructivorous man of the
forests and trees. It was from this dominant species, characterised by
maximal longevity and endowed with a cerebral capacity for unlimited
intelligence, that subsequent culture and civilization took its sources.
Identifiable with the Cro-Magnon family, with the pre-diluvian
patriarchs of the Old Testament, and with other legendary figures of the
earliest folklore, this great race received its first severe set-back from
that planetary and climatic disaster recorded as "the Flood." This
destroyed its first optimally favourable natural milieu and caused its
scattered survivors to   become   more    pyrolithic   (fire-using   and
food-cooking) and omnivorous (flesh-eating) in their habits—and much
shorter-lived. It might almost be said that, dating from that event, a
progressive series of enforced adaptations, complicated by human
follies, has brought us down to "the present pessimal milieu of homo
sapiens faber" —the office and factory age of treeless cities and towns
we exist in to-day.
Trees and forests, declares Professor Szekely, "are accumulators
of the cosmic forces and radiations and are the generative source of
cerebral energies." (Italics mine.) Reflecting that it was the forest sages
of India who wrote the profound and unsurpassable Vedas and
Upanishads, one can well believe that this is so. Forests, moreover,
afford the best protection against storms, floods, droughts, extremes of
heat and cold, by acting as natural regulators and distributors of the
moisture and temperature of the air. Modern man, in his commercial,
money-maniac blindness, has devastated and laid waste the green earth.
It is a ruin compared with what it used to be, and man himself—''is a
veritable bundle of rags and bones compared with the perfect, statue-
like forms of his paleolithic sylvan ancestors." The more human beings
have destroyed the forests and cut down the giant trees, the more
frequent and terrible have been the calamities, storms, hurricanes and
cyclones that have descended upon them, raging in recent years with
unparalleled violence. It is cause and effect. Yet still must walnut trees
be felled to make rifle butts, and miles of forests be sacrificed to provide
paper for the Daily Mail!
Those of us who have always loved trees will be wholeheartedly
with Professor Szekely in his campaign to combat every plan for
destroying and cutting them down, to promote re-afforestation over the
whole earth and restore "the Holy Alliance between Men and Trees."
Our "mere sentiments" on the matter are, after all, radically justified,
just as they are when along with Professor Szekely we deplore the
"senseless stupid men who relentlessly hunt down little birds, slaying
them without pity and without remorse"—with the result that crops are
ravaged by vermin and men themselves are plagued by mosquitos and
flies. (News now comes to hand of a modified death-ray soon to be
commercialised for the destruction of vermin and insects and, doubtless,
of more little birds. The pious hope is expressed that it may never be
amplified and turned, on the human insect himself!)
 WORLD CHAOS AND CALAMITY
Yet it would be futile to denounce the world's evils—alas! as so
many still do —with no clear recognition of their root causes in the
world-wide economic crisis and crashing chaos of which they are all
merely symptoms. It would be equally pointless to evolve grandiose and
Utopian conceptions of "omnilateral aristology," "paneubiotics" and
optimal well-being without facing the fact of a corrupt financial system
that can only spell their frustration. Professor Szekely is undoubtedly a
man of great Vision, but he is much too penetrating and
uncompromising a realist—and much too good a natural therapist—to
be guilty of either defect. His is no idealistic flight into phantasy. He
sees through to pauses. His analysis of the present world situation is
among the most masterly I have read. Multiplying unemployment,
poverty amidst plenty, the unprecedented crisis of "over-production,"
the impending fearful collapse of finance, the false foundations and
futility of the League of Nations, the pell-mell preparations for war
(which is only held off for the moment by the very complexity of
interlaced imperialist antagonisms), slave-mentality everywhere,
confusion, jobbery, and antagonism among the ruling classes
(themselves but slaves who lord it over slaves), the desperate attempts
through dictatorships to bolster the bourgeoisie, the whole piled up
impossible impasse—all this is but "the prelude to the frightful disaster
which is soon going to overwhelm humanity in all its intensity." Only, it
would seem, after terrible catastrophe, can come the "Great
Renaissance," for which, however, in the name of humanity we must
even now prepare.

THE GREAT RENAISSANCE
We must, in the words of Romain Rolland, "unite all the spiritual
forces of Life against the forces of Death." In that spirit, too, we must
utter "an unqualified 'No' to war." We must vow our devotion to "the
Optimal and Omnilateral Restoration of All Things." By extending into
Society and social behaviour the paneubiotic law of the healthy body,
whereby every organ functions for the wellbeing of every other organ as
bound up with its own, we must combine to build the kingdom of active
love upon earth. Professor Szekely's remedy is, again, no regress into
"back to nature" primitivism. For him "naturism" and individualism are
necessarily correlated with all that is truly valuable in community and
technological achievement. He believes in the future, yet his motto is
"always and everywhere, Here and Now."
And so when, in conclusion, Professor Szekely outlines his plan
for the new order of self-supporting, co-operative, paneubiotic garden-
communes (one at least having already been successfully established) it
is an eminently realistic and practical plan, and, as far as I can see,
about the only way out. None the less, on that account, will these
communes be devoted to realisation of optimal individual and social
wellbeing through the practise of active  love, the omnilateral pursuit of
knowledge, unison and harmony with the eternal currents of cosmic life.
Professor Szekely has followed his cosmotherapeutie premises to their
logical conclusion, not even faltering before the menace of a world-
disease, imbecility; and impending disaster which may soon reduce all
personal aches and pains to pitiful insignificance. Because of that alone
his book would tower like a giant above all the smug little panderings to
hypochond


 this ordeal. I got word that he hadearned a “trusted-inmate” status at his new facility and was working in the
chapel. I lost touch with David after that.S e c t i o n  V
Something Priceless Is Born3 2.
F r o m  t h e  P e r s o n a l  S e l f  t o  t h e  P e r s o n a l
C o m p u t e r
I t was in the fall of 1978 when, without a clue, an event
took place that changed eve rything once again. It is so
inspiring to look back and see  how a handful of moments
in your life define your destiny. What if life had not
presented those moments to you, or if you had interacted
with th em differently? Over time, everything would be
different.
I thought I knew what was being asked of me by then:
run Bui lt with Love to the be st of my ability, and use the
funds to support the beautiful work being done through
the Temple. As usual, I was w rong, very wrong. What life
had in store for me was muc h grander in both size and
scope. How could I ever have  imagined that I would end
up run ning a $300-million -a-year computer software
company, with  twenty-three hundred people reporting to
me, all without leaving the woods of Alachua or putting
aside m y spiritual pursuits? How could the flow of life’s
events pull that off, especia lly since I had never even
touched a computer in my l ife and was totally content
with my  financ es? As I sit here today, if I were forced to
answer that question, I would utter the word surrender.
My experiment with surrender had taught me to always
be pres ent in the current moment and do my best to not
allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.
Instead, I allowed the reality of life to determine where I
was goi ng. It had certainly le d me on a fantastic journey
up to that point, and it was about to do something
phenomenal with the next thirty years of my life. If youwould like to know how these phenomenal events
unfolded in a p erfectly choreographed sequence, I would
be very honored to share the story with you.
It all began one uneventful day when I walked into a
neighborhood Radio Shack store to pick up something
for Built with Love. On my  way out, I noticed what
appeared to be a plastic typewriter keyboard attached to
a tw elve-inch TV screen. Th e two items had a TRS - 80
COMPUTER  sign displayed above them. As fate would have
it, I  had just encountered one of the first personal
computers on the market. Being a curious person, I
walked up to th e display and punched a few keys. As if by
magic, the keys I touched appeared on the monitor
above. I had never experienced that in my life. I had only
taken an introduction to computers course in college,
and everything we did was on punch cards. We were
never allowed to go near the workstations that were
actually connected to the computer itself.
I was absolutely fascinated by this Radio Shack device.
It opened something inside  of me that can only be
described as love at first sigh t. I stood there playing with
the ma chine for a long tim e. I marveled at typing in
simple and complex math co mputations and seeing the
results pop up. I finally to re myself away from the
display, but I knew I’d be back. From the first time I
touched that machine, there was an inner calling from
the dee pest rec esses of my b eing. I had no choice but to
surrender to that calling. Wh en I returned to the Radio
Shack store a few days later to lay out $600 for their best
computer, I really had no id ea what I was going to do
with the thing when I got i t home. I just knew I was
meant to have it.
My first  computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I
with just 16k o f memory, a twelve-inch monitor, and a
standard cassette recorder for storage. That was all that
was ava ilable at the time. It  came with a simple user’smanual for the BASIC progr amming language, and that
was about it—you were pretty much on your own.
When I got th e computer home, I buried myself in
learning the programming commands and seeing what
they co uld do. For some reason, everything was so
natural to me. It wasn’t like I was learning something
new; it was like I was remembering something I had
always known. My mind became very quiet the moment I
sat d own at th e machine. It was very much like entering
meditation. T he energy would rise up and focus
beautifully at the point between my eyebrows, and a
peace would come over me. Apparently, I was meant to
be working with this computer. I didn’t question it—I
just continued to surrender to what was happening.
Before the computer showed up, I already had two
full-time jobs: Temple of the Universe and Built with
Love. T o find time for my new computer, I began to go
back to work a fter evening services. I would often work
into the wee h ours of the morning, getting only three or
four hours of s leep before rising for morning services. I
was so  passionately inspired while working with the
computer that I didn’t get tir ed. It was clear to me even
then that something very special was going on.
I played  around writing some programs just to get a
feel for what t he thing could do. Within a few weeks I
decided that I was ready to  write a real program. The
first ta sk I gave myself was to write a computerized
accounting system for Built with Love. I had to teach
myself everything. The salespeople at the Radio Shack
store knew nothing about p rogramming, and I didn’t
know an yone e lse to talk to. I just used trial and error as
my teacher.
Once I had co mpleted Built  with Love’s accounting
system, things progressed very rapidly with my
programming. I had made friends with the manager of
the Radio Shack store, and w henever I went in I would
show him printouts of the work I had done. He wasimpressed with what I had go tten the machine to do and
began asking if he could refer some clients to me. To my
surprise, he ended up sending me people who wanted
programs writt en. All of a sudden, I had a new business.
As unbelievable as it seems, this humble beginning was
the bi rth of what was to become Personalized
Programming, a nationwide, multimillion-dollar
software company.
As with everything else in my life since I decided to
follow the flow, Personalized P rogramming j ust started
itself. There were no mee tings, business plans, or
venture capitalists. Just as with the Temple of the
Universe and Built with Love, I simply accepted the
challenge of serving the en ergy that came my way. I
never left the w oods; all of this came to me unasked for
and unwanted. Fortunately, I really loved helping people.
I d idn’t  care if they were com ing to me to learn how to
still tha t voice in their head, to build them a house, or to
write them a program—it w as all the same to me. I
passionately loved programming, and I loved getting to
use that talent to help people.
At first the jobs were small, and I had no idea what to
charge for them. I wrote a grading program for a
University of Florida profess or for $300. I was such a
perfectionist that I just kept making it better and better
before I was willing to give it to him. From the very
beginning of my program ming career, my heart
demanded tha t every line of code had to be the absolute
best I could do. It didn’t ma tter what I was being paid;
everything had to be perfect.
During 1979, I began spending more and more time
sitting in a room programming by myself. When the
manager at Radio Shack as ked if he could refer his
customers to me, I had no idea what to expect. I started
getting calls from Radio Shack stores all around
Gainesville and from stores as far away as Jacksonville.
Soon I was getting more requests than I could handle.Being schooled in economics  and understanding the law
of supp ly and demand, I began raising my prices. It
didn’t help; the jobs just ke pt on coming. Around that
time, I began noticing that every job seemed perfectly
sequenced to advance me to the next level in my
programming career. Though I was sitting in the woods
working alone, let there be no doubt about it, life was
turning me into a professional programmer.
It di dn’t take lo ng for me to realize that writing custom
software took a lot of time, and I was better off selling
available softw are to satisfy my client’s needs. I became a
dealer of one of the top accounting software packages
sold by a company called Sy stems


.The
patientssufferaterribletortureofnotbeingcomfort-
ableinanyposition;theyarerestless,andneedtobe
constantlyonthemove.Theirpainscausethemtoget
upatnight,preventingsleep.Lyingonahardfloor
mayhelp.
LikeArnica,itisalsoaremedyforthesortofphysical
strainthatcancomeonafteraperiodof'overdoing it',
(forexample,gardeningorspringcleaning).How-
ever,withRhustoxthestiffness,achesandpains
actuallyimproveafterabitofgentleexercisewhereas
Arnicatypesstaysoreandbruisedinspiteofany
movingabout(thoughofcoursewithRhustoxthereis
thecharacteristicaggravationonbeginningtomove,
whichthenwearsoff).
Theyhaveafearofflying,mainlybecauseofhaving
tokeepstillforsolongwithoutfreshair.
EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Anxious:indoors;inbed.Confused.Depressed.
Irritable.Restlessinbed.Tearful.
Thisisoneofthemostrestlessremedies;thesepeople
cannotgetcomfortableinanypositionandarethere-
foreconstantlyonthemove.Therestlessness is
causedbyphysicalpain,butitisalsoanervous
restlessness,whichwilldriveapersonoutofbedat
night.Itcanbeseenduringanacuteillnesswitha
feverwhereapersonjustcannotkeepstillbuttosses
andturnsandhastogetup.Theanxietyisworsein
bedatnightbecauseofhavingtobestillthen,espec-
iallyaftermidnightwhenthemindwilldwellon
unpleasantpastevents.
Theyfeelworseinotherwaysatnight,beingirri-
tableandfearfulthen,andtheymayactuallyfeelabit
betterforawalkinthefreshair.
Thepatientsmaysufferfromdepression,which,
thoughnotverydeep,maybeconstant,andtheymay
suddenlyandinvoluntarilyburstintotearswithout
knowingwhy,andtheywillusuallysayso.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPains:inlowerback;insmallofback;
inneck;aching;sore,bruised;rheumatic.With
STIFFNESS.Betterforlyingonahardsurface;formovement;for
walking;forheat.
Worseonbeginningtomove;ongettingupfrom
sitting;forreachingup;forwetweather.
Causesdampweather;draughts;injury;lifting;
sprains.
Thebackfeelsweak,lameandtired,andthepains
compelaconstantmovingaboutinbed.Gettingup
aftersittingdownforalongtimeisextremelydifficult.
Thepainmayresultfromsittinginadraughtorfrom
lifting,orfromasprain,oritmayberheumaticky
painindamp,wetweather,butthereisalwaysim-
provementfromwarmth,andanaggravationonfirst
movement.
Chickenpox
SymptomsSkinrashitchesseverely.
Therewillbegreatrestlessnesswiththeitching,and
alsothecharacteristicRhustoxred-tippedtongue.
Coldsores
SymptomsSoresonlips.
Cough
SymptomsCough:irritating;short;tickling.
Betterforhotdrinks.
Worseforgettingcold;forbeinguncovered;onsingle
partsofthebody;foruncoveringhands.
Causesswimmingincoldwater.
Thiscoughisaggravated ifanysinglepartofthebody
isuncoveredandconsequentlybecomescold.
Diarrhoea
SymptomsStools:mushy;watery.
Causesgettingwet;gettingfeetwet.
Exhaustion
SymptomsExhaustionnervous.Withheaviness;
RESTLESSNESS.
Betterforwalkinginthefreshair.
Worseforslightestexertion;forsittingdown.
Theexhaustion issostrongthattheslightestexertion,
includinggettingupandwalkingabout,isaneffort.
However,agentlewalkoutinthefreshairwillactu-
allyhelp.Itwillbeaccompaniedbythecharacteristic
Rhustoxrestlessness.
Eyeinflammation
SymptomsEyes:sensitivetolight;sore;watering.
Eyelids:gluedtogether;itching;swollen.
Worseformovingeyes.
Causescold,wetweather.
Theeyelidsarestucktogetherinthemornings.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Rhustoxicodendron (Rhus-t.) •143
Fever
SymptomsHeat:alternatingwithchills;dry;burning.
Betterforhotdrinks.
Worseatnighrvevening/mid morning;formovement;
colddrinks;forbeinguncovered.
Thepatientsweatsfromtheslightestexertion,aswell
aswhenlyinginbedandwhenasleep,andwillsweat
overthewholebodyexceptforthehead.Willalso
urinatefrequentlywhilesweating.Hemaygetchilled
afterbeinghotandsweaty;anymovementalsobrings
onchillinessasdoesuncoveringwheninbed.Warmth
willhelpthechilliness.Thefevermaybeone-sided
(thatis,onesidemaybehotwhiletheothersideis
cold).Itmayfeelasthoughthereishotwaterrunning
throughthebloodvessels.
Flu
SymptomsPains;inbones;injoints;inlegs;aching;
snooting;sore,bruised.Withexhaustion(seeabove);
fever(seeabove);sneezing.
Headache
SymptomsPains:inbackofhead;rheumatic;violent.
Betterforgentlewalking;forwrappinguphead;for
movement.
Causeschangeofweather;coldair/wind;damp
weather;gettingwet;lifting.
Hives
SymptomsRash:burning;itching;stinging.With
jointpain(seebelow).
Worseforcold;afterscratching.
Causesgettingwet/chilled;coldair;duringafever.
Hoarseness
Causesover-usingvoice.
Insomnia
SymptomsSleep:restless;sleeplessaftermidnight.
Thepersonhasvivid,work-relateddreams,causedby
strainfromworkingtoohard.
Jointpain
SymptomsPains:aching,sore,bruised;shooting;
tearing.Withheaviness;lameness.Stiffness.
Betterforcontinuedmovement;forexternalheat;for
walking;forwarmcompresses;forwarmthofbed.
Worsefordampweather;duringafever;onbeginning
tomove;atnight;forsitting;whenchilled.
Thepainsareworseforrestandonbeginningtomove;
theyimprovetemporarilybutthepatientsoongets
tiredagain(seeGeneralSymptoms).Thepainscan
alsobebroughtaboutbyover-exertion, forexample
springcleaningorgardening.Mumps
SymptomsGlandsswollen/painful.Withfever(see
above).
Bettertorheat.
Worseforcold;onleftsideofbody.
Thisisoneofthemostimportantmumpsremedies,
providingthecharacteristicgeneralsymptomsagree.The
typicalglandsareaffectedanditisoftentheleftside
thatbecomesswollenfirst.
Sciatica
Betterformovement;forwalking;forheat.
Worseforcold;forcoldcompresses;onbeginningto
move;forlyingonpainfulpart;forwashingincold
water;forwetweather.
Sorethroat
SymptomsThroatdry.Ticklinginlarynx.Voice
hoarse.
Worseforcolddrinks;forswallowing;foruncovering
throat.
Causesstrainingvoice.
Thevoiceishoarse,orstrained,fromtoomuchtalking
orsingingbutitimprovesaftercontinueduse(asdo
Rhustoxjoints!).
Sprains
SymptomsPain.Withstiffness;trembling.
Causesfalling;lifting;twisting.
ItisimportanttouseArnicafirstafteraninjuryora
spraininordertodealwithanybruisingandpossible
swelling.ThengiveRhustoxifthesprainisaccom-
paniedbythetypicalgeneralsymptoms.Asprained
wristwillbeaccompaniedbyaninabilitytogripany-
thingproperlyandstrongly.
Stiffneck
Causesdraughts;gettingchilled;lifting.
Strains
SymptomsWithstiffness;trembling.
Betterforcontinuedmovement.
Worseforbeginningtomove.
Gardeningorspringcleaningcancausethisstiffness
inthejoints.Itisworsewhengettingupafterarest,
andbetterforgentleexercise(whereasArnicastiffness
andsorenessstaysinspiteofgentleexercise).
Toothache
Betterforheat;forwarmcompresses.
Worseforcolddrinks;inwinter.
Causescold,dampweather.
144•Rumexcrispus(Rumex) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Thistoothache isonethatalwayscomesonafter
gettingcoldandchilled;itissensitivetocoldand
betterforheat,forexamplelyingonahotwaterbottle


col)
Found in
: Toothpastes, bath and shower products. Used to make
degreasers and cleansers (oven, car, etc.)Properties
: Thickening agent. Affects endocrine function; has estrogenic
effects; a suspected carcinogen.
Propylene Glycol
Found in
: Antifreeze, make-up, lotions, deodorants, mouthwashes,
toothpaste, hair products (shampoos, etc.) shaving cream, etc. Used
in food processing. Used as solvents.
Properties
: A surfactant or wetting agent. Skin irritant, causing
inflammation and possible damage to skin. May cause kidney, liver,
brain and pancreatic damage and abnormalities. Used to break down
proteins and cellular structures.
Propylgallate
Found in
: Gum, pickles, oils and shortenings, processed foods and meat
products.
Properties
: A preservative. Suspected in liver and pancreatic damage.
Possible link to birth defects.
Red Dye #40 (AI I u ra Red AC)
Found in
: Red pistachio nuts, meats (hot dogs, etc.), gelatin, gum,
cereals, baked goods, many candies, red sodas. Note: #40 is not used
as much today. However, there are many artificial colorings that are
very questionable.
Properties
: A coloring. Suspected carcinogen and possibly linked to
birth defects. Liver and kidney damage. Nerve toxin.
Saccharin
Found in
: Many desserts, drinks and prepackaged foods.
Properties
: An artificial sweetener. Suspected in some cancers (bladder,
etc.) and possible tumor formation. Can affect heart rhythms, GI tract
conditions and skin irritation.
Sodium Erythorbate
Found in
: Meat products, baked goods, many beverages, etc.Properties
: Preservative. Banned in many countries. Suspected in birth
defects and genetic conditions. Highly toxic.
Sodium Laureth and/or Lauryl Sulfate (SLES/SLS)
Found in
: Mouthwashes, shampoos, bubble bath, shaving gels/creams,
toothpastes, shower bars/gels, detergents, car wash soaps, engine
degreasers, floor cleaner, cosmetics.
Properties
: Said to contain nitrosamines and dioxane, which are both
considered carcinogens. Suspected effects include: liver, kidney,
lung and pancreatic damage. May affect calcium utilization causing
teeth, bone and connective tissue weaknesses. May affect nerve and
brain function. Suspected in hair loss, cataracts and poor eyesight,
eye damage/development, shortness of breath, skin irritation/damage,
and death.
Sodium Fluoride
Found in
: Toothpastes
Properties
: Known carcinogen. Affects brain and nerve function;
weakens kidney tissue.
Talc
Found in
: Deodorants, shaving products and skin products.
Properties
: A known carcinogen that causes ovarian cancer in mammals.
Synthetic (Artificial) Flavorings or Fragrances
Found in
: Packaged foods, mouthwashes, deodorants, cosmetics,
perfumes, etc.
Properties
: Many are neurotoxins affecting your brain, nerve, and
endocrine function; many suspected as carcinogens.
Tannin (Tannic Acid)
Found in
: Teas, coffee, beer, wine, soda. Found in many artificial
flavorings, etc.
Properties
: Flavoring. Suspected in liver, pancreatic and GI tractirritation. Occurs naturally in nature, in low doses and buffered.
Toluene
Found in
: Nail polish, feminine products, as well as some cosmetics.
Properties
: Suspected carcinogen, reportedly affects endocrine function.
Research shows possible birth defects as one side effect.
Can affect brain and nerve function.
Conclusion
Many of the toxins listed above have been detected in municipal water
supplies, both above and below ground, including large city water supplies.
Most of these toxins and pollutants come from manufacturing, industrial
solvents, ammunition wastes, pesticides, herbicides, grain fumigants, and
petrochemical use (gasoline,
solvents, oils, cleansers) dumped into the
ground. Boating is also a source of contamination of water supplies.
Reports indicate that over 125 cosmetic ingredients, and hundreds of
others—commonly found in cigarettes, foods, lotions, salves, synthetic
vitamins and many other daily used or consumed substances—are
carcinogenic substances. Hundreds more accumulate in the liver, brain,
kidney, pancreatic, bowel and heart tissue, obstructing proper cellular
respiration and causing inflammation and damage to these tissues.
Many contaminants oxidize and become airborne thus causing liver and
lung damage and cancer. Many more bond with each other to form radical
substances like nitrosamines, which highly accelerate tumor formation and
growth.
A large number of the above-cited pesticides, herbicides, fungicides,
petrochemicals, etc., are hormone disrupters. They inhibit or stimulate the
production of hormones or steroids, like estrogen and testosterone.
Benzene levels in air, water and food have skyrocketed. Benzene is a
known carcinogen, which is used in solvents and food additives, and emitted
from oil refineries, gas stations, rubber (tire) manufacturing plants and diesel
powered vehicles. An astronomical amount of carcinogenic substances are
released into our air and our water from tobacco smoke, gas and especially
diesel emissions, body shops, airports, highways, railways, subways, most
industries, boating, petro-production plants, etc.Radiation is another high source of our cancers. Harmful radiation is
found in dental offices and hospitals (with use of x-rays, nuclear medicine,
and other processes), around high power wires, TV sets, microwave ovens,
cathode-ray computer monitors and most medical diagnostic equipment—
including Cat Scans, MRIs, mam-mogram and x-ray equipment.
Cancer has now reached epidemic proportions, estimated to be in every
other person in the U.S.. According to Kathleen Deoul in her book
Cancer
Cover-Up {Genocide}:
 “One American dies of cancer every minute—the
equivalent of crashing three fully loaded 747s every day! But it doesn’t have
to happen.”
We live in a world of excitotoxins, also called “neurotoxins,” which are
affecting our relationship with the outside world and with ourselves. We have
literally surrounded ourselves with cancer-causing agents—we live in them
and around them, we drink, eat and inject them, and we are constantly putting
them on our skin. Our houses are full of formaldehyde and other potentially
toxic and carcinogenic substances released from carpets, Formica-type
(laminate) cabinets, plywood, glue, curtains, synthetic garments, etc. Your
clothes can be full of toxins, especially if they are dry cleaned.
Perchloroethylene or “perc” —the chemical used in dry cleaning—is
extremely toxic. Spills at dry cleaners can necessitate the removal of the
building and the dirt beneath it.
Plastics are another server of toxins and potential carcinogens. Vinyls
(phthalates) are found in PVC pipes, toys, baby teething objects, baby bottles
and building materials. Never buy distilled water in plastic containers. As
distilled water is void of substances, it therefore creates diffusion, pulling
other substances (like minerals and chemicals) into it.
Even if we stopped using all chemicals today, it would still be too late.
The human species remains steeped in ignorance as it continues to destroy its
own home. No other species does this. Big industry and automobiles are
some of the worst polluting offenders. Many factories that pour millions of
toxic particles daily into the air do not want to use pollution control devices
because of the expense. Although a lot of good research is going on by many
honest individuals, this information seems to get suppressed or buried by a
monetary-based society. But life has no price tag. Everyone must pitch in and
help clean up this world of ours.
Become as free of toxic chemicals as possible.MODULE 4.6
Protecting Yourself From Carcinogens

We are surrounded by and consume hundreds of carcinogenic substances
each day. These substances act as igniters and accelerators. They damage
tissue and inspire immune responses like gasoline enrages a fire. Many of
these are neurotoxins, which attach themselves to your nervous system and
endocrine gland system. This creates hypoactivity, or lowering of the
function of these systems, which can create a multitude of symptoms
including difficulty in breathing, heart arrhythmia, MS and Lou Gehrig’s
disease.
You must take full responsibility for your own health. Even our
government has little concern about the levels of environmental toxicity
Politicians don’t seem to realize that they are affected just as everyone else is.
Why do you think cancer is soaring? The truth has been well hidden by those
who wish to gain from all this. However, they will eventually succumb to
these toxins, just as everyone else is.
PROTECT YOURSELF!

1
.
Live closer to nature, away from factories, power lines and heavy traffic.
2
.
Fill your house with live plants. Philoden-drons (philodendron spp.) are
known to absorb formaldehyde, ammonia, benzene, trichloroethylene
and hydrates, as well as xylene. The following plants are great indoor
plants and will help clean indoor air:
Philodendron (