 I often add avocado to my salad – veggies
and avocados are excellent lubricant s in promoting
healthy elimination for  the gastrointestinal tract. I make it a hard and fast rule to always eat my salad
first. I do this for several reasons. First I think we musteducate our
260 taste buds to accept only natural foods. Therefore when you have raw foods, either a raw vegetable
salad or a fruit salad to start the meal, you educate your
taste buds to enjoy and want clean, live, healthy foods. Most people start a meal with a broth or soup with
sandwiches or bread. This is wrong in my opinion. Tomake the taste buds keen, sharp and alive – having yourraw health salad or fresh fruits first starts the digestivejuices flowing for raw foods are rich in natural healthyenzymes. All this contributes to good nutrition. I urgeyou to always eat something raw at the beginning ofeach meal. You will find in time your taste buds willbegin to reject devitalized, unhealthy foods that you maybe tempted to eat. As you re-educate the taste buds toenjoy more fruits and salads, you will find that you canand should increase the daily amount of raw, live foodsyou eat to
60% to 70%  of your total intake – it’s the healthiest. Healthy, healing dietary fibers are organic fresh vegetables, fruits, salads
and whole grains and their products. These health builders help normalizeyour blood pressure, cholesterol and also promotes healthy elimination. 92The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
Promotes Super Health & Longevity
Remember that raw foods are the live, vital foods. They are as Mother Nature made them. They’re whole,natural, live foods – vibrating with enzymes and solar
energy. Most people want food that stimulates them –
the sugars, fats, salt, heavy, overcooked and refined foods
that have little food value. They want fast foods and
most of them have been stripped of their goodness. The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle consists of eating a diet
of
60% to 70% fresh, live, organically grown foods; raw
vegetables, salads, fresh fruits and juices; sprouts, rawseeds and nuts; all-natural
100%  whole grained breads,
pastas, cereals and nutritious beans and legumes. These
are the no cholesterol, no fat, no salt, “live foods” thatproduce the body fuel that helps produce healthy, lively
people. Healthy “live foods” and fasting are the main
reasons people become revitalized and reborn into a freshnew life filled with youthfulness, health, vitality, joy andlongevity. There are millions of healthy Bragg followers
worldwide proving this lifestyle works miracles. Vegetarianism Versus Meat Eating
Over the  long years that I have been a Nutritionist,
the controversy of “Vegetarianism versus Meat Eating”
has raged furiously. Both sides present the most scientificreasons for their side of the story. I am not going to try
to persuade you to be either a vegetarian or a meat eater. There are hundreds of books written on both subjects. Cabbage (raw) has amazing properties. It stimulates the immune system, kills
bacteria and viruses, heals ulcers, and according to Dr. James Balch in Prescription
for Cooking and Dietary Wellness, your chances of contracting colon cancer can bereduced by up to 60% by eating cabbage weekly. Dr. Saxon-Graham states that
those who never consumed cabbage were three times more likely to develop colon
cancer. A Japanese study shows that people who ate cabbage had the lowestfatality rate from any cancer. Therapeutic benefits have also been attributed to
cabbage in relation to scurvy, gout, rheumatism (arthritis), eye diseases, asthma,
pyorrhea, and gangrene. See our Bragg Salad Recipe (page
 231). Cooking destroys
the cabbages healing  properties. We love cabbage and also we make a variety of
sandwiches wrapped in cabbage leaves instead of bread. Try this – so delicious. Eat Plenty of Cabbage – The Miracle Cleanser and Healer93I Prefer the Healthier Vegetarian Diet
Over the years of following a program of fasting and
eating a diet containing an abundance of raw organic
fruit and vegetables, my body has become so keen that
it practically tells me what to eat at every meal. Afteryears on this healthy vegetarian diet, my body has lost
the desire for meat, fowl and fish. My diet is composed
of organic raw fruits and vegetables, cooked vegetables,beans, legumes, brown rice, etc. with raw nuts and seeds
and their butters, raw wheat germ and Brewer’s yeast. This is what my body seems to thrive on. But
occasionally there were times when my body told me to
eat a piece of meat or a piece of fish, or to have some
natural cheese or a few fertile eggs. In other words, mybody developed an instinct for the selection of foods. Sometimes I go 4 or
 5 years without tasting eggs, etc.,
then my body will telegraph that I need some. Listeningto my inner voice has helped me enormously. Basically I have been a vegetarian by nature most of
my life. I was reared on a large farm in Virginia wherehundreds of hogs and cattle were slaughtered regularly,so killing has always been repulsive to me. I have never
been a hunter or a fisherman because I do not like to
take another life. I have made
 13 expeditions to distant
lands and I have found many robust, healthy people
living on a vegetarian diet. On the other hand, I have
found people in other cultures who also enjoyed higherhealth and yet included animal products in their diets. I roamed the South Seas for over a year at one time and
in those far flung islands I found supermen and wonderwomen. They not only lived on an abundance of fresh
fruit and vegetables, but they included fish, fowl and
some meat in their diet. So you see I have tried to be asfair as I could about this question of Vegetarianism versus
Meat Eating. I feel that as we cleanse and purify our
bodies we develop a keen sense of what is healthiest
and best for us to eat. Keep a daily journal and see. Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being
and an individual’s physical and mental condition. Health depends uponnutrition more than on any other single factor. –  Dr. Wm. H. Sebrell, Jr. 94Eliminating Meat is Safer and Healthier
Most uninformed nutritionists call meat the #1 source
of protein. Those proteins coming from the vegetable
kingdom are referred to as the #2 proteins. This is a sad
and terrible mistake. It should be the other way around. In this day and age, almost all meat is laden with
herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and other chemicals
that are sprayed on or poured into the feed which theseanimals consume. They are also pumped full of
hormones, antibiotics, growth stimulators and all kinds
of drugs to fatten them up and keep them from dyingfrom the extremely unhealthy conditions most of them
live in. This is not to mention the admitted fact that
many of them are fed the dead, ground up carcasses ofother feed lot animals who, for a variety of reasons, didn’t
make it to the slaughterhouse. Speaking of the slaughterhouse, what kind of
chemical reaction do you suppose would occur in your
body if somebody put a choke chain around your neck
to keep you in line, shoved you onto a conveyor belt,and made you watch in horror as all of those in line infront of you were beheaded one by one. Well, your body
would be pumped so full of adrenaline from all that fear
you wouldn’t know what hit you. Unused adrenaline isextremely toxic. If you think for a minute that most of
the meat that you consume is not packed with this toxic
substance, you’re sadly mistaken. Also, consider the fact that cattle, sheep, chickens,
etc., are all vegetarians. When you eat them, you are
just eating polluted vegetables. Why not skip all thewaste and toxins and just eat healthy, organic vegetables. And what about that myth that you have to eat  meat
to get your protein. If that were so true, where do yousuppose farm animals, especially horses, get all their
protein. They are vegetarians. They get their protein
from the grains and grasses that they eat. You are nodifferent. You can get the proteins you need from the
large variety of whole grains, tofu, raw nuts, seeds, beans,
fruits and vegetables that God put on this planet for
your health. See Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233. 95Meat Has Toxic Uric Acid and Cholesterol
Meat is the major source of toxic uric acid and
cholesterol, both harmful to your health. If you insiston eating meat, it should be an organically fed sourceand not eaten more than 2 to 3 times weekly. Fresh fishcan be the least toxic of the flesh proteins, but bewareof fish from polluted waters. They can be loaded withmercury, lead, cadmium,
DDT  and other toxic
substances. If you are unsure of the waters the fish comefrom, don’t risk eating it. Avoid shellfish – shrimp, lobsterand crayfish. They are garbage-eating bottom-feeders(the rats and flies of the water world). They eat decayingscum and refuse off the bottoms of the oceans, lakesand rivers. Chickens and turkeys are a sick


 is a false
problem. "Christ" is the realization  that there  is
no separa  te "l." "I do nothing  of myself .... I and the Father  are one....   Before  Abra -
ham  was,  I am." If thcre is any problcm at ali, it is to see that
in this instant you have no 'T' to surrenclcr. You
are completely free to do this at any momem, and
noth - ing whatever is st0pping you. This is our
freedom. We are not, however, free to improve
ourselves, to  surrender ourselves, to lay
ourselves open to grace,  far all sucl1 split -
mindedness is the denial and post - ponement of
our freedom. It is trying to eat your  momh
instead  of bread. Is it neccssary  to undcrlinc  the vast  diffcrcnce
be-
tween the rcalization that ''I ancl the Father are
one,"  and the statc of mind of thc pcrson who, as
we say,  "thinks he is God"? If, still thinking that
there is an isolated "I," you identify it with God,
you become  the insufTerable ego -maniac who
thinks hirnself suc - cessful in attaining thc
impossible, in dorninating  experience, and in
pursuing ali vicious circles to satisfactory
conclusions. I am the master  of my /ate;
I am the caf,tain  of my soul! 1 47 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURJTY
When the snake swallows his tail he has a
swelled  head. It is quite another thing to see
that you are  your "fate," and thal there is no one
either to master  it orto  be mastered,  lo rule  orto
surrender. Must we also insist that this loss of "l" in God
is not a mystic miasma in which the "values of
per- sonality" are obliterated? The 'T' was not, is
not, and  never will be a parl of human
personality. There is  nothing unique, or
"differenL," or interesling about  it. On the
contrary, the more human beings pursue  it, the
more uniform, uninteresting, and impersonal
they become. Thc faster things move in circles,
the sooner they become indistinguishable blurs. It is ob - vious Lhat the only interesting people
are interested  people, and to be completely
interested is to have  forgoLLen  about  "l."
We can see, thcn, Lhat the basic principies of
philosophy, religion, and melaphysics may be
undcr - stood in Lwo cntircly differcnl ·ways. They can be  seen as symbols of the undivided
mind, expressions  of the truth tbat in each
moment life and experience  are a complete
whole. "God" is not a definition of  this stale but
an cxclamation about it. Ordinarily,  howevcr,
they are uscd as anempts to srnnd outsidc
oneself  ancl  the universe  to grasp  them  and to
rule
them. This process is circular, however complex
and devious. Because  men  have  been  circling  for so many
ages,
148 REI.IGION  REVIEWEO
the powers of technology have availed for little
save  to speed the process Lo a point of unbearable
tension. Civilizalion is ready to fly apan by sheer
centrifuga}  force. In such a prcdicament thc self -
conscious type  of religion  t0 which  we have  so
long been  accustomed  is no cure,  but part  of the
disease. If scientific  thought has weakened its
power we need have no re - grets, for the "God"
to which it could have brought  us was not the
unknown RealiLy which the name sig- nifies, bul
only a projecLion of ourselves -a cosmic,
discarnalc  'T' lording  it over  Lhe universc. The true  splendor  of sciencc  is not so much  that
it
names and classifies, records and predicts, but
that it  observes and desires to know Lhe facts,
whatever they  may turn out to be. However
much it may confuse  facts with conventions, and
reality with arbitrary di - visions, in this openness
and sincerily of mind it bears  sorne resemblance to
religion, underst0od in its other  and decpcr sense. Thc greater the scienti sl, the more  he is
imprcsscd with his ignorance of reality, and the
more he realizes that his laws and labels,
descriptions  and definitions, are Lhe products of
his own thought. They help him to use thc world
for purposes of his  own devising rather than to
understand and explain  it. The more he analyzcs the universe into
infini - tesimals, thc more things he finds to
classify, and the more  he perceives  Lhe relativity
of all  classification. 1 49 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
What he does not know seems to increase in geo -
metric progression to what he knows. Steadily he
ap- proaches the point where what is unknown is
not a  mere blank space in a web of words but a
window in che mind, a windo,v whose name is not
ignorance but  wonder. The timid mind shuts this winclow with a bang,
and is silent and thoughtless about what it does
not know  in order  to chatter  the more  about  what
it thinks it knows. lt fills up che uncharted spaces
with  mere repetition of what has alr eady been
explored. But the open mind knows that the most
minucely ex- plored tcrritories bavc not rcally
been known at all, but only markecl  and measured
a thousand  times  over. And the  fascinating
mystery of what  it is that  we mark  and measure
must  in the end "tease  us out of thought" until the
rnind forgcts to circle and to  pursue its own
processes, and becomes aware that to be at chis
moment  is pure  miracle. In ways that differ but little,  chis is the  last
word  of Western and Eastern wisdom alike. The
Hindu  Upanishads  say:
He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him
God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is
comprchended knows him not. God is unknown to those
who know him, ami is known to those who do not know
him at ali. Goethe says it in words which, to the modero
mind,  may  be plainer:  RELIGION  REVIEWED
The highesl lo which man can auain is wonder; and
if lhe prime phenomenon makes him wonder,!el him
be contenl; nothing higher can it give him, and
nothing  funher  should  he seek  for behind  it; here  is
the limit. Or lhere  are lhe words  of St. John of thc Cross,  one
of che greatesL  seers  of lhe Christian  tradition:
Onc of lhe grcatesl favors beslowed on the soul
tran - siently in lhis life is to l!nable  il to see so
distinclly and  lo feel so profoundly thal it cannot
comprchend God at  al!. These souls are herein
somewhal like the saints in heaven, where they who
know him most perfeclly perceive  most clearly that he
is infinitely incomprehensible;  for those who have
the lcss clear vision do nol perccivc so clearly as do
lhesc others how greatly he transccnds thcir  vision. In such  wonder  there  is not hunger  but [ulfill -
ment. Almost  evcryone  has known  it, bue only  in
rare  instants  whcn  thc startling  beauty  or slrangc -
ness o[ a scene drcw the mind away from its self-pur-
suiL, and for a moment made it unable Lo find words
for the  fecling. Wc are, then,  most  fortunatc  to be
living  in a time  when  human  knowlcdge  has gone
so far that it begins  to be at a loss  for words,  not at
the strange  and marvclous  alone,  but at the most
ordinary things. The dust on  the shelves has become
as much of a mystcry as the remotesL stars;,ve know
cnough of both to know that we know noLhing. Ecl-
dington,  the phy5icist


 one reaches a condition when the eyes are half closed, without any effort. One can think of pleasant things, or attempt to cut out stray thinking altogether, to think of darkness, of colour, of light, of smoke, or non corporeal things. Cutting out sound, in noisy environments, by ear-lugging duri ng periods of relaxation or
meditation, is indispensable. The universe is a creative enterprise; in its lapses of destruction,
it cannot be said to exist. So the human place in the cosmos is a creative one; all whole, human thinking is creative, and it is only when humans are properly human that they can be said to exist fully
as far as the Creation is concerned. The creative attitude becomes
the measure of cosmic fitness, the qualification for belonging meaningfully in the scheme of things, the only assurance against alienation. Although there are some activities patently destructive
and antihuman practised in most societies, the majority of living functions and activities have a creative potential. If this is realized,
it can be developed in many of the common tasks of living, in many
hobbies and interests, individually and socially. But the amateur practice of some art, of any art,  of any activity with an aesthetic
content, is the supreme means of exercising the creative obligation. Although it is possibly more helpful to become involved in artistic expression, no matter how amateur, to be engaged in the
appreciation of any art is in itself a creative experience, whether it
be the simple act of reading, of listening to poetry or music, of appreciating nature, of looking at pa intings or sculpture, of trying to
sense the possible aesthetic content in  any situation by removing the
clutter and confusion, the hi deous and the obstructing. By
developing the aesthetic sensitivities, as this book has from the start
emphasized, one becomes all the mo re effectively human; while this
can be exercised in the most important arena of food and feeding, it should clearly become an all-reconciling life-attitude. 17. Notes and Readings

An account of the evolution and significance of the humanizing and
the aesthetic sensitivities can be found in my books, Art into life
(London 1958) and Art as understanding (London 1963). Human
History (London 1954), by the great anatomist and anthropologist,
Sir Elliot Smith, remains the most convincing scientific support for
an Arcadian' view of man, for a natural goodness and decency. The
role of mother-love in the evolution of the mammals, the prelude to
the humanizing sensitivities, is dealt with by F. Alverdes in his,
Social Life in the Animal World (London 1927). See also M. Burton's, Animal Courtship (London 1953). For the innate urge to beauty  in matter, made evident in
crystals, minerals and molecular structure, and for the resulting sustaining aesthetic theme in nature's creativity generally, in art as in mysticism, see my, The Crystalline Theme (Academy Books,
1975), Sir Alister Hardy's, The Living Stream (London 1965) is an
inspired biologist's account of th e aesthetics and the directiveness of
evolution, culminating in the human being. Support for the significance of the human sensitivity to beauty
comes from an unexpected quarter, the renowned physicist P. A. M. Dirac, who contends in a very readable article in the Scientific American May 1963, p. 45, that beau ty in a scientific theory is the
best assurance to its validity. Ugly theories are wrong theories. Support for the natural sensitivities fro m the arts, especially poetry,
and for the Arcadian view of man, come in a delightful book, The
Golden Feast, by R. Walker (London 1952). Scientists no longer insist that animal foods are necessary. Although it is rarely admitted that man is not properly adapted to
such foods, many authorities accept that a vegetarian dietary can be quite adequate, as does the eminent pathologist Rene Dubois, in his, Man Adapting (Yale 1965). Recently, the protein controversy has flared up again, with
increasing insistence that previous estimates have been far too high. As Drs Miller and Payne point out (Strategy for a hungry world. Nature, Vol. 25, 20 Sept 1974), there is no shortage of protein for the poor peoples of the world as long as there is enough cheap cereal available. To attempt to fill the so called protein gap by increasing the availability of animal protein at the sacrifice of
primary food production is illogical. P. V. Sakhatme (Nature, Vol. 248, March 1974), claims that protein standards are in excess by nearly 60 per cent. In a recent study in New Guinea, good health was found to be maintained, on essentially vegetable foods, 53 per
cent less than the standards usuall y considered necessary. Fish was
plentiful, but was not sought or eaten by the inhabitants (New
Scientist, Monitor, 25 June 1973). Dr D. McLaren also criticizes the nutritionists attempts to make available more animal protein at the expense of primary cereals (Lancet, 1974). The conclusion that the fantastic creative pilgrimage of cosmic
evolution has mind as its destiny, finds support from scientists, as in Nature, Vol. 249, p. 208, 17 May 1974. See also W.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the most serious consequence of not consuming vitamin B12?,
A: The most serious consequence of not consuming vitamin B12 is damage to the nervous system, which can be irreparable.
Q: What is the recommended daily intake of vitamin B12?,
A: The recommended daily intake of vitamin B12 is not specified in the text, but it is emphasized that a supplement is necessary to ensure the ideal human diet.
Q: What is the recommended way to prepare grains?,
A: The recommended way to prepare grains is to soak them in water for a certain period, then germinate them, and finally dry them in a low-temperature oven.
Q: What is the recommended way to relax and reduce stress?,
A: The recommended way to relax is to engage in activities that promote a sense of wholeness and harmony, such as meditation, contemplation, and gentle physical activity.
Q: What is the recommended way to cook grains?,
A: The recommended way to cook grains is to lightly cook them, avoiding overcooking, as this can lead to the loss of nutrients and the formation of toxins.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Still unique as a document by a biologist, running against the
popular views of bestiality and promiscuity, is H. S. Jenning's, The
Biological Basis of Human Nature (London 1930). It is an
incrimination against science and civilization that the facts, and the theme presented, have not been s ubsequently developed. For a more
recent account of society, without the usual lip service to the hoof and claw mentality, see Lawrence D. Sahlin's, Origin of Society,
Scientific American. 207, 48, p. 76, September 1960. For the effects of cortical (i.e., social) conditioning on sexual
behaviour, see G. S. Ford and F. A. Beach, Patterns of sexual
behaviour (London 1965). In his Comparative Study of Human
Reproduction (Yale 1945), C. S. Ford provides statistical evidence
for a more specific affective human sexual pattern, especially in
matters affecting reproduction a nd breeding, which is where one
would expect any genetical directiv es to have the most relevance. The lie to the popular (and financially rewarding) supports for
man's natural aggressivity, is ably called by the anthropologist Ashley Montagu, in his, The Direction of Human Development
(London 1957). Although the Bestial as opposed to the Arcadian
vision of man was backed by most scientists in the past, today it is largely promoted by the popularizers of science, who have found a lucrative market, and an enormous  journalistic support, for thus
justifying the public's bestialiness, as in Robert Ardrey and
Desmond Morris. The fact that this success depends on a biased
sifting of facts, an often blatant extrapolation from insufficient data or from animal data inapplicable to man, as well as in a skilled misinterpretation for effect, has not been missed by the majority of
serious scientists. For a discussion, see J. Lewis and B. Towers, Naked Ape or Homo Sapiens? (London 1972). This book also
brings out the interesting suggestion that the apparent 'nakedness' of
the human body is due to a transformation of the skin into an extremely sensitive emotional route, which concurs with the erotic transfiguration of the entire human body through beauty and sensitivity for the purposes of sexual love. Quastel's work on the possibility of mind-disturbing substances
formed in the human gut, is to be found in a book edited by Joseph Needham, Perspectives in Biochemistry (Cambridge 1937), the
more recent work by S. S. Kety and others is in an article, New
perspectives in psychopharmacology, in Beyond Reductionism,
edited by Arthur Koestler, P. D. McClean's, The paranoid streak in
man, on which Koestler based his notions  of a faulty evolution of
the human brain, is to be found in the same book. Kuru, a fatal disease of the Central Nervous System in


 beyond local
causality as an explanation for phenomena, and I saw it was the  response of
consciousness itself, which is nonlocal and nonpersonal.”19
Dr. Hawkins referred to the “database of consciousness” as the source for
this knowledge beyond time and place. Jung called it the “collective
unconscious.” Who hasn’ t experienced suddenly tapping into this database
via intuition, synchronicity, dreams, or premonition? Clearly  there is a
repository of shared knowledge, part and parcel of our int erconnected
consciousness, that is dif ferent from the information we retrieve through
intellectual stud y. How is it that a dog knows when his owner is leaving
work? V ideo fo otage shows that the dog goes to the door at precisely the
time wh en the owner starts to h ead for home, from miles away. T o give an
example from recent experience : How is it that one’ s deceased grandfather
appears in a dream to say that a relative has throat cancer, and it turns out to
be tr ue, down to  the precise loc ation, stage of disease, and response of the
relative? Dr. Hawkins instantly saw that kinesiology was a mechanism by which to
access this unseen database of consciousness, “revealing the m issing linkand bridge between the mind and the body”; it was the interface between
the visible dimension of the material world and the unseen (yet very real)
dimension of mind and spirit, with the human body serving as the
instrument of truth detection. How could this work? Because protoplasm
has alwa ys dif ferentiated betwee n life-af firming and life-threate ning stimuli
as a matter of s urvival. The body goes strong toward that whi ch supports
life (tru th) and turns away from that which negates life (nontruth). The
muscle response is involuntary, not determined by one’ s beliefs or biases. For example, when our consciousness focuses on a benign subject matter
such as Mother T eresa, our pupils constrict, and other muscles inst antly and
involuntarily go strong; we have no control over it, and our personal feeling
about her doesn’ t matter. One  of Dr. Hawkins’ s colleagues, Dr. David
McClelland, did a fascinating study on his medical students at Harvard,
demonstrating that even those who ridiculed Mother T eresa showed an
immune-enhancing physiological response to Mother T er esa, a film
depicting her everyday work with the poor.20
Dr. Haw kins found that “everything in the world, including thoughts,
concepts, substances, and ima ges, calls forth a response that can be
demonstrated as  positive or neg ative.... All that ever is or was, without
exception, radia tes forth a frequ ency and a vibration as a permanent imprint
in the imperson al field of cons ciousness and can be retrieved by this test
through consciousness itself.”21
Having seen that the world’ s suf fering stemmed from ignorance, due to
the lack of mean s to tell truth from falsehood, he poured all his  ener gy into
researching the method of clinic al kinesiology as a tool for discerning truth. He conducted the muscle-testin g procedure on thousands of test subjects,
both ind ividually and in groups, of people of all ages and backg rounds. The
results were universally the same. One of the favorite demonstrations in
lectures of 1,000 people was  to pass out 500 unmarked  envelopes
containing artificial sweetener, along with 500 identical  envelopes
containing or ganic vitamin C. The audience was divided up into pairs to test
the two dif ferent envelopes, not knowing what was in them. It was an
electric moment  when the envelopes were opened and the audie nce realized
that eve ryone h ad gone strong in response to the or ganic vitamin C and
weak in response to the artificial sweetener. That kin d of actual experience with the method is very helpful. Because
the test is a nonlinear method that bypasses the mind, an ordinary person,looking at it from the outsid e, would be prone to doubt it. But if,
experientially, their arm goes weak while holding in mind the ener gy of a
closed envelope (for example, Hitler ’ s photo inside) and strong with a
dif ferent closed envelope (for example, Mother T eresa’ s photo inside), and
this is done in many subsequent tests with dif ferent items, that person then
experientially knows that the method “works” even if they don’ t understand
its m echanics. Indeed, there ar e many things we use in daily life, fully
trusting them just because they “work” yet with no intellectual
understanding of their mechanics; for example, who among  us totally
understands how  the Internet w orks, and yet don’ t we rely on i t constantly
as a source of guidance? Dr. Hawkins found he could use this method to calibrate the levels of
consciousness, as he describes in Chapter 1. H e thus put into our hands a
“map” that shows the entire terrain of human experience. Throughout his
many endeavors, as a psychiatrist, physician, clinician, consciousness
researcher, anim al lover, and spiritual teacher, Dr. Hawkins’ s goal has
always b een to alleviate suf fering. When asked to define his “function in
the world,” he responded: “T o be that which I am to the world and explain it
as c learly as possible in order  to facilitate spiritual awareness and thus
contribute to the relief of the suf fering of mankind.”22 Th e Map of
Consciousness e mer ged as the primary teaching tool to facilitate spiritual
awareness and thereby alleviate suf fering. He said the purpose of the work was to comprehend th e sudden
transformation of consciousness he had under gone,  classically termed
Enlightenment, to integrate it with scientific discovery, and then to put it in
a format that was understandable to the left brain of W estern readers. He
said, “It is the realm of the mystic communicated to the left brain.”23
The Map of Consciousness, in brief, lays out the whole spectrum of
consciousness from the “lower” levels of Shame, Guilt, Apathy, Grief, Fear,
Desire, Anger, Pride (that is, levels of for ce  dominated by egotistical
drives), to the median levels of Courage, W illingness, Accepta nce, Reason
(that is, levels of power  dominated by personal integrity), to the more
expanded levels of Love, Unconditional Love/Joy/Healing, Ecstasy, Peace,
and Enlightenm ent. These “higher” ener gy fields are a carrier wave of
immense life ener gy. They are increasingly free of personal go als and are
the domain of saints, mystics, arhats, and avatars.Note: “h igher” and “lower” are terms of convenience for the linear mind
and do not expre ss actual reality. In Reality, there is no such thing as higher
or lower, for all life serves the whole by virtue of what it is. I s a tall tree
better than a sho rt tree? A cat better than a squirrel? As Dr. Haw kins writes,
“Everything reveals the miracle of existence and, therefore, everything,
without exception, is equal to everything else by virtue of its existence.”24
Marriage with Susan: Sharing the Map with the W orld
Once Dr. Hawkins had developed the Map of Consciousness, h e was not
certain what to do with it. He  shared it locally with addictio n recovery
communities. (In New Y ork, h e had been close  friends with Bill W ilson, the
co-founder of Alcoholics Anony mous.) But beyond that, he wa s hesitant to
discuss it, because he believed that the muscle-testing method could be used
by anyone to find out the truth about anything, and what if it were put to
nefarious ends? (Upon further research over the years, he discovered that
only a person w ith integrity was allowed access to truth. See Appendix A
for details on the method.) The fort unate partnership with his wife, Susan J. Hawkins, made possible
the publication of his findings and the sharing of his inner condition
through books and lectures. “Sh e was the fulcrum,” he often said, and he
was nev er onstage without her. Her capacity for or ganization, joined with
keen intuition and heartfelt ex pression, facilitated the interfacing of his
inner knowledge with the world. When I asked Susan what it was like to
marry him and then to share him with thousands of other people from
around the world, she said: “I t’ s simple. When you love someone, you
support their destiny. I loved m y husband. That meant I had to share him
with the world.”25 It  is in  lar ge thanks to her com mitment and capacities
that we have h is body of w ork. I myself witnessed many times, in
conversations at their home, when her encouragement was the fulcrum that
empowered his ener gy to do another book, another lecture, another satsang. Over time, people traveled from faraway places to attend his lectures and
to be in his presence,


 weeks. The muscle twitching is much more infrequent, the ear ‘popping’ has almost ceased entirely, I have had no headaches, and even the ‘gurgling’ is signiﬁcantly less. I feel my body becoming stronger every day. I feel that I have more energy now than I did even one week ago. My mind is sharper and clearer. I am sleeping soundly for 8 hours every night. I look better and better every day. This gives me hope. I’ve probably lost another 5 kg or 10 pounds. Can you imagine how much weight the worms alone added? No wonder my belly was distended. It was full of worms!Some interesting news from my neighbor - she started passing ascaris worms on Day 5 of her fast and has been passing worms every day since! We are truly have parallel experiences. It is unbelievable! She has also done colon cleansing for years and never saw one worm released during her cleanses. Fascinating!Day 26No worms in the enema today, although I am sure there are still more there. Call it a ‘gut’ feeling...haha. Sorry, bad intestinal humor!Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!75Last night I had terrible cramping in my gut for hours...no gurgling though...an interesting shift and possibly a good sign! I can’t help but think that it’s the ascaris eggs either detaching from the walls of the colon or just hatching and dying off right away.I’ve decided to add the parasite killing measures into my daily routine for the rest of the fast. I’m taking the black walnut/wormwood/clove tincture 2x daily once in the morning and once in the evening. I am also drinking one glass of garlic ‘infused’ water every day at 3pm.There are some who may look down on this as me not really doing a pure water fast. Believe me, I struggled with the decision. I am not taking any lemon and lime or juices; other than these special herbs, I am only drinking water. As I said before, I do think it is important to let go of the ego during times like this and listen to your inner voice to do what is best for your body. My inner voice is saying that I do not want even one ﬁlthy vile worm or parasite living in my pure and perfect temple of love!I have also been burning sage daily in my house, in the bathroom where the worms are being released and on and around my bed which is where I have been spending the most of my time. I really feel that these worms have an evil energy in them, a desire to take energy away from their host and a vile and dirty consciousness. As they are coming out of my body, I feel a strong desire to cleanse the space around me.My neighbor brought me back some sage from her visa run to Kuala Lumpur, so it was perfect timing. She taught me a great trick to make the sage last longer. You simply break off a few leaves at a time and burn Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!76them individually rather than the whole stick at once. Even a few leaves ﬁlls the air with plenty of smoke, and it’s true...you’ll get much more use out of the sage. I have a candle holder with holes in it that I am able to wedge the leaves into for burning.After a lot of thought today, I decided to start adding more clove into my herbal arsenal as well. Clove is the component of the black walnut/wormwood/clove combination that is really known to kill parasite eggs. As Dr. Hulda Clark says, ‘Black walnut hull and wormwood kill adults and developmental stages of at least 100 parasites. Clove kill the eggs.’I went to the market this afternoon and bought some dried clove, then ground it up in a mini-food processor so it became a powder. I then made a tea using about 1 tsp. of the clove powder, letting the powder settle to the bottom. Within minutes, I had more cramping in the colon, same as last night. Die-off effects I hope!Some people may say that the clove is no good for healing purposes if it has been irradiated. Most likely the clove bought in a supermarket is an irradiated version; it is really impossible to say. Still, my feeling is that it’s better than nothing. This is all I have access to where I am, and I believe in doing the best you can with what you have. My immediate feeling of ‘cramping’ in the colon after taking the clove tells me that something happened, and most likely, it is working.Day 27It’s been 3 days now with no worms released. Could this be the light at the end of the tunnel? Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!77Last night I had more gurgling and cramping in the gut, so much so that I was sure I would see a worm this morning. It’s very possible that I am in the ‘eggs’ only phase now. Surely they will be unhappy to hatch and ﬁnd no food. Yeah!Every night I seem to be staying awake later and later. Last night I was up until 4:30am. Once I do fall asleep, I am able to sleep soundly for a good 7-8 hours. I’m not sure why this is happening because I normally go to sleep early every night. One thing I do know is that worms are most active between 3 and 4 am. In a way, I am glad that I am awake during this time so I can be conscious and stronger energetically against them. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide! It’s check out time for all worms, thank you very much!Today was a day of ups and downs, highs and lows. One hour I would feel exhausted, weak and totally drained; then I would suddenly become fully energized and feel ready to take on the world. I had several waves of this all day. Of course this can happen during any type of cleanse, but for me I really hope it is a sign that the end is near. After 27 days of drinking only water, I certainly would like to enjoy life as an ‘eater’ again.Tonight I feel that I have some signiﬁcant clearing in my ears, and wow...this feels great too. I even feel like my hearing has improved. I have also been thinking a lot about breaking my fast and being sure that I have a maintenance plan in place so that the worms stay well and truly gone. I’ve been researching some about different herbs to take and natural foods that are anti-parasitic and particularly good against worms. I Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!78already have the ‘humaworm’ formula on its way to start a 30-day course. After, I plan to take triphala, which is an Indian herb that helps strengthen and repair the colon. Also, in talking with a dear raw food friend of mine who also recently had worms, I decided to buy some digestive enzymes which I will take with the triphala for a period of 30 days. If the digestive enzymes seem to help, I will continue to take them longer.In terms of foods, I plan to drink at least 1/4 cup of raw apple cider vinegar daily for at least one month, and eat one raw clove of garlic before every meal. After each meal, I will take a probiotic capsule. This is really my chance to have a fresh clean start with my body and my health. I only want to go forward from here, and never be so infested with ﬁlthy worms again!My neighbor is still releasing worms on her fast too. She says she is passing about a ‘handful’ of worms every single day! We are just in utter amazement of what is happening to our bodies. It is so great to have someone going through what I am experiencing. I feel truly blessed!Day 28I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw another very long worm released during my morning enema today. After 28 days of only water, how are they possibly still more worms inside of me? I don’t know if I was relieved or angry to see this one today. I guess in a way, I was disappointed and somewhat frustrated because I thought the end was near. Eventually, I became more grateful and just accepted that this is what it is, and I am doing everything I can to create a pure and perfect temple.Personal Story - 40-Day Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!79The worm I saw today could have been about 1.5 feet long at his heyday; but since he also has not eaten in 28 days, he was very skinny. When I tried to move him to take the photographs, he broke up into a few pieces. I’m quite sure that it was originally all one worm. I cannot even imagine how fat and prosperous he was once living high on the hog inside of me. Yuck!Energetically, I am feeling better and better. I feel more focused and clear-minded, and I don’t feel nearly as weak as I did at the start. I seemed to have maintained the same weight for about 1 week now, and I’m actually very happy about that. It’s not my goal to get too thin on this fast. I simply want to clear out all of the worms.It’s really hard to imagine that I have already achieved 28 days of a water fast. I feel quite proud of myself


 I think one of the most
sacred in nature, and if a man can have a great desire and attitude
then why not help this natural way with the help of their
Hidden vast opportunities that are revealed during
starvation. Prostatitis and prostate adenoma
Prostate adenoma. The term "benign
prostatic hyperplasia "means that in the prostate
formed a small nodule (or nodules) that grows
and gradually compresses the urethra. If
urethra does not pass through the prostate
gland, the disease generally does not manifest like. And so
as in patients with BPH men disturbed urination, it is
and is the main manifestation of the disease. BPH
has a benign growth that is does not give metastases (not
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200spreads to other organs). This fundamental difference
adenoma of prostate cancer. According to statistics, every second man over 50 years of appeals
a doctor about prostate adenoma. It is believed that
the disease eventually develops in 85% of men. These figures
confirm the fact that prostate adenoma - the most
common urologic diseases. What happens to the prostate gland in the development of its
adenomas. Causes of disease
Causes of prostate adenoma today
day is not fully understood. It is believed that prostate adenoma
Cancer is a manifestation of male menopause. So
way sick BPH risk profile of each elderly
man. Found no significant correlation between the occurrence of
adenoma of the prostate and sexual activity, sexual
orientation, use of tobacco and alcohol, migrated
inflammatory and sexually transmitted diseases genital mutilation. Prostatitis - an inflammation of the prostate (prostate). Chronic prostatitis is the most common
urological disease in men younger than 50 years and the third
frequency of urological diagnosis in men older than 50 years (after
benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer), accounting for 8%
outpatient visits to the urologist. The frequency of prostatitis
increases with age and reaches 30-73%. Impact of the disease
the quality of life comparable with myocardial infarction, angina pectoris,
Crohn's disease, which causes also a significant
psychological and social problems in patients with prostatitis
men of working age. The development of prostatitis is associated with the penetration of infection
sexually transmitted diseases, aided by anatomic
location of the prostate (prostate cancer). Pathogens
infectious form of prostatitis are bacteria, viruses,
Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, Chlamydia, Trichomonas, fungus. Infection, mainly transmitted infections from urinary
bladder, urethra, rectum, through the blood
and lymphatic vessels pelvis get into the prostate
gland (prostatitis). Prostatitis may be non-infectious nature. Prostatitis is an acute or chronic. Chronic considered
One of the most common inflammatory
urinary tract: prostatitis affects about 73% of men. I had a lot of men with chronic prostatitis and BPH
prostate. Of course, someone completely cured their disease, others
it reached only improve. The most important thing in this disease should be
take several courses of dry fasting, making weekly
waterless dry hunger strike, once a year prophylactic course
starvation and comply with all the doctor's recommendations. To my great
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201Unfortunately, not everyone wants it, this explains the return
recurrence of disease after the famine. It is very hard to help those men,
who have been the most powerful antibiotics. Here is obtained
paradoxical situation - an infection only trains, survive
only the strongest bacteria, and immunity decreases, cell
immune system fail to fulfill their direct duties,
Why fight the infection, if for you it is someone who does. Of course, in such cases can be helped only a few
rates of starvation. The first hunger cleanses the body, and above all
of antibiotics raises the immunity. The second hunger begins
treated well, and the third - trailing. I would like to tell you about
most interesting cases of cure of prostatitis and adenoma of its
practice. When I worked in Tyumen, in which only began to apply the methodology
dry starvation me to the consultation came a man of about
fifty. he had chronic prostatitis, prostate adenoma
and viral hepatitis with (he was entered at the time of infection
dental procedures). Of course, he mainly wanted to
get rid of the adenoma. He was very strong-willed and stubborn. Dry
starvation endured very well, every day, walked the 5 km
forest. Passed two courses of SG to 7 days. Most interestingly, he not only
got rid of the adenoma, but also to cure hepatitis C. This was the only
case in my practice, when such a serious disease has been
cured in such a short period. I think a big role in this
played, it's that he was involved in sports, quarterly, brushed liver
did fasting days and never took medication
therapy. But most importantly - he recently became infected with hepatitis and the virus
had not yet started their destructive activities. Every year he comes to us in Altai, makes semerochku dry
hunger. When a medical examination at work, he
was the healthiest of their peers. I always tell my patients that dry fasting is ideally
treats the initial stages of any disease. The second case. This was a young athletic guy
(CCM Judo), he already had seven years' seniority "prostatitis
violation of the potency, frequent pain, especially after eating
alcohol and cold, with aching pain in the lumbar spine,
in the joints, which appeared to have allergy to antibiotics,
which it regularly "stuff" and. with lost hope. been lost, because all these years was observed in many ways,
number of recommended specialists and drank all rely
tablets and getting different procedures, tried to be treated by the healers
psychics, as well as acupuncture and so on and so forth. and all were treated
his prostate, but no one was treating the cause, the organism as a whole. When
This urologists somehow not interested in the problems with the gastrointestinal
intestinal tract, periodontal disease and progressive loss of hair. The usual approach is all co-morbidities, and
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202They have other doctors. with the same point system associated
Disease does not exist, this is only partial external investigation
underlying systemic disorders in the body. 16 years he never missed
single girls and never protect themselves, earning a whole bunch of
sexually transmitted diseases. My friend has a doctor on the ultrasound said that
it is very rarely seen such a horrible, ugly prostate
iron at such a young age, she was covered in spikes and
calcifications. Passed three courses SG, two of seven and one nine. When
we went with him to do ultrasound, I would probably worry more than he. When he came into office, then after a while called me
Doctor: "Look, Sergei, I was first in my life I see
resorbed to such spikes. Now this guy has already had two children,
once a year, making seven-day IG for prevention. I phoned a man from Krasnoyarsk, asked to know, you can
Does help with fat hepatosis, I asked the age, he replied
- 67 years. I have been in the practice of such cases, I told him to
He was well prepared and came. When he came to us at
Altai, it appeared that he had not only hepatosis, but chronic
prostatitis and prostate adenoma, he told me: "I believe that
These problems have every man in my age, they all
still incurable, that talk about it. " Yet it turned out that
younger than his wife of twenty years. He took two courses of fasting
relatively normal. Generally, the older the person, the
better he is fasting, probably for the entire life of the organism
trains to all, and, of course, the purification process during the
starvation are not as strong as a young body. Exactly two months later he called me, said he did ultrasound
Liver fine. A month later I was on a business trip
in Ekaterinburg, he invited me to visit. When we sat
at the table, he called me on the balcony, put his arm around on - a friendly,
and said: "Thanks for all the potency, Sergei I
Now, as the young. " I have always been convinced that one of the great
the benefits and advantages of fasting is a natural
extension of the quality of life, no Viagra here even hold a candle
no good. Pursuing the treatment of prostatitis, I discovered for myself interesting
phenomenon after the passage of the dry fraction of starvation;
the body is completely freed from pathogenic microorganisms,
but if the spouse is a gynecological problems
with infection, during sexual intercourse with the spouse can get
and will aggravation, which will take place gradually. It turns out that
together with living people, even in the family, there is a constant exchange
microflora, it is they have done overall. And, if one family member,
left for some time, changing conditions, partially freed
from pathogenic organisms, then at his new appearance in the family is
new infection. Next immunity prevails, and all normal. The body, neutralizing the bacteria, lives with them in partnership,
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 D. Try to obtain vitamin D 3 from sun exposure  or a capsule of
5,000 IU/day. Vitamins A a nd D 3 are best taken in nearly equal amounts
as they balance each other in their effect on bones. Vitamin E exists in 8 different forms as tocopherols and tocotrienols of
which alpha tocopherol is the most common variety. While it is beneficial
to get all forms of vitamin E from a good and varied diet or from
supplements, to protect oils from becoming rancid in the bottle or in the
body use mainly alpha tocopherol. Open vitamin E capsules and
squeeze a suitable amount into any freshly opened bottle of oil, also rub
on aging skin. Avoid synthetic d,l alpha tocopherols, natural vitamin E is
d-alpha tocoph erol. Always add vitamin E to fish oils, linseed oil  and any 35
 polyunsaturated oils. Lecithin (or choline), trimethylglycine and inositol  protect the liver from
fatty degeneration. To improve the absorption of oils from capsules open
them and mix with lecithin and food. Without emulsifying, oils may remain
in a puddle on top of the stomach and not absorb properly. This also
applies to other oil -soluble nutrients, such as coenzyme Q 10. The amino
acid L -carnitine helps to improve energy by channelling fa tty acids into
cells, even better is the related acetyl L -carnitine. Sometimes fat -soluble nutrients, such as vitamin E, lutein (a carotenoid),
or coenzyme Q10 are supplied as powders in capsules or tablets. They
are not absorbed in this form, and instead need to be dissolved in oil. Therefore,  before or during ingestion mix the powder or crushed tablet
with some oil and lecithin for better absorption. Even better, mix all fat -
soluble nutrients with coconut oil. Other Vitamins
You may take a multivitamin tablet or B vitamin complex as health
insurance. For some problems it is beneficial temporarily to take much
higher doses of specific vitamins as indicated below. Always start with
low doses and increase gradually. Vitamin B1  or thiamine is e ssential for the carbohydrate metabolism,
deficiency may show up as dementia, depression, dermatitis, fatigue,
irritability, and problems with the digestion, heart and nervous systems;
weak calf muscles make it difficult ri sing up from a squatting position. With suspected deficiency take several hundred mg. It may need
hydrochloric acid supplement for absorption. Vitamin B2  or Riboflavin is indicated with inflammations of the eyes (pink
eye) or when red capillaries are visible in the sclera, the white part of the
eye, try 100mg; it also helps with oxidative energy production and
migraines. 36
 Vitamin B3 or Niacinamide in high doses can greatly increase energy
levels, and is especially good with muscle weakness, cold hands and
feet, and brain problems such as brain fog, dementia, depression,
schizophrenia and anxiety; try 2 or 3 x 250 to 500mg with food. Niacin  is the acid, flushing form of vitamin B3; 50 to 250mg may be taken
on an empty stomach to flush the skin for rejuvenation and clean out
capillaries in the skin. Sensitive individuals may start with 25mg after
meals. Always start with a low dose and increase gradually. After taking
it for a while you need to increase the dose or interrupt flushing for a
week or two. It also lowers elevated blood fat le vels. Vitamin B5,  Pantothenic acid or calcium pantothenate is very beneficial
with weak adrenal glands and low blood pressure, especially during
periods of stress; try 250 to 500mg 2 or 3x daily. Vitamin B6  or Pyridoxine  is especially important for the protein
metabolism and problems with the hands, the nervous system, and
emotional conditions such as depression and anxiety problems. Deficiency also shows as poor dream recall and is commonly caused by
pyroluria. Several hu ndred mg may help but pyridoxal -5-phosphate (the
activated form) usually gives better results. Vitamin B12 or cobalamine  is not well absorbed and often deficient. This
causes lack of energy and possibly anaemia and nerve problems. For
better absorption kee p a crushed tablet under the tongue. However,
vitamin B12 needs to be converted into the two active forms
methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. This may not be possible with
weak liver functions and then causes a wide range of symptoms –
neurological, psychiatric, hematological, vascular and gastro -intestinal. See a list of symptoms at: www. healthline. com/nutrition/vitamin -b12-
deficiency -symptoms
Vitamin C,  ascorbic acid or ascorbate in large,  divided doses is not only
helpful in emergencies such as acute infections, burns or poisoning but
also to provide more energy, and for healthy blood circulation and
connective tissue, see Alternative Oxygen Supply fur ther down. 37
 Antioxidants  also protect against cross -linking damage. Generally,  use
a wide range of antioxidant supplements and foods. Try 4 to 10mg of the
oil-soluble astaxanthin  a day, it is one of the strongest antioxidants and
especially good for the br ain and skin. Alpha lipoic acid  is another strong antioxidant that protects oil soluble
as well as water -soluble biochemicals. It also chelates toxic metals. For
health improvement use  up to several hundred milligrams daily in divided
doses but start with low doses because it chelates mercury and can
cause temporary reactions. Minerals
Most important are usually boron, chromium, copper, iodine,
magnesium, selenium, sulphur and zinc. A fair supplemental amount of
selenium is 100mcg, and of zinc 30mg per day. Boron  is essential for the parathyroid to regulate calcium and
magnesium, and so prevent or treat arthritis and osteoporosis. Try about
10mg/day as 100mg borax, see Chapter 5 or The Borax Conspiracy. Calcium:  There is usually enough calcium in the diet, deficiency comes
from malabsorption and low stomach acid due  to Candida, and from
deficiencies of boron, magnesium and vitamin s D3 and K2. However, to protect and repair your teeth frequently rinse your mouth
with lime water (calcium hydroxide) e specially after acidic meals or
drinks. On teeth it can then react with phosphates in saliva to form
calcium phosphates and gradually fill small holes. Chromium  as Cr(3) is important for reg ulating the blood glucose le vel,
and generally  the carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. Copper  is necessary for many enzymes, especially for the metabolism
of iron and formation of red blood cells, connective tissue, elastic blood
vessels, pigmentation of skin and hair, and nerve functions. It is strongly
anti-inflammatory, and copper blood level i s high during infections and
cancer, most effective is copper salicylate, best absorbed through the
skin. Copper salicylate, is a powerful anti -inflammatory remedy and
fungicide, see:  Copper and Zinc Salicylates. 38
 Iodine  helps to protect the mucous membranes from invading  fungi. The
listed values of iodine in food, including kelp and seaweed, are actually
for iodide, there is no iodine in these. Individuals with liver and oxidation
problems have difficulties oxidising iodide to iodine and often are
severely deficient. The solution is to take several drops of Lugols daily,
supplying 6. 5mg per drop. This helps  to protect not only from fungi but
also from the development of cysts and cancer in bowels, breasts,
ovaries, prostate and uterus. Furthermore, iodine is essential to activate tissue regeneration. Instead
of Lugols you may use the weaker Iosol, or in the US Iodoral tablets. Iodine can cause a strong reaction with individuals on stimulating
medications for thyroid or heart, or when on steroids, or with overactive
thyroids. In these cases,  it is essential to start with very low doses, e.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
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A: There is no specific diet recommended for individuals with blood group O in the provided text.
Q: What is the recommended dosage for vitamin C and MSM?,
A: The recommended dosage for vitamin C is not specified in the text, but it is mentioned that it can be taken in large, divided doses, and it is recommended to start with a low dose and gradually increase as needed.
Q: What is the recommended method for eliminating Candida overgrowth in the body?,
A: The text recommends using a combination of intestinal sanitation, antimicrobial therapy, and alkalizing the body, and also suggests using psyllium, garlic, and other antimicrobial remedies.
Q: What is the recommended method for testing for allergies?,
A: The text recommends an elimination diet for 5 days, and then reintroducing one food at a time to test for allergic reactions.
Q: What is the recommended method for alkalizing the


 questioning for an identity that is their
own by natural right, if only they knew how to claim it. The proper
understanding of the function of sexual love in their personal evo-
lution would go far to correct these excesses. Education about
methods of chi cultivation of all types, but especially of the sexual
energy is the most direct solution. Teenagers will never give up
their sexual desire, but it is not far-fetched that many of them
would be interested in improving it if they knew how. SEX AND THE SUPER ATHLETE
There is a widespread belief among many professional sports
coaches that an athlete who makes love the night before a big game
loses his competitive edge. This is a controversial topic and a sur-
vey of existing opinion on the subject is inconclusive. Clive Davis,
editor of the Journal Of Sex Research, looked into the effects of
having sex before competition and concluded "You can always
find anecdotal reports to support any position you want to take, but
certainly you couldn't support either side medically." Top-ranked prize-fighters are the most vociferous in contend-
ing that they cannot violate natural laws without paying a stiff
price. Ken Norton publicly stated that he gave up sex for eight
weeks before his first fight with Ali and abstained for a similar
length of time in subsequent Ali fights. "A couple of times in my
first 10 or 11 fights, when I didn't abstain from sex, I think it hurt
me." Norton said that he believed that "9 out of 10" fighters give40 Taoist Secrets Of Love
up sex while training for a bout. Joe Frazier, who also fought Ali,
felt very strongly about the damaging effects of ejaculatory sex: "If
you mess around before a fight you don't have any reserve energy
left." It is rumored that the great Muhammed Ali observed strictest
sexual continence for as long as one year before his bouts. He
didn't publicize this because he keeps his training methods secret. The Taoist approach to sexuality resolves the dilemma facing
a male athlete who is forced to choose between losing his competi-
tive edge or his woman. An athlete can have the best of both
worlds by learning the secrets of conserving and transforming sex-
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        When lovers are in close embrace subtle Yin and Yang energies are
concentrated into vortexes from the sexual region to the head and
eventually remain in the head at all times. WHY HAS THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF SEX
BEEN KEPT A SECRET. Our race has finally grown aware of the need to conserve natural
resources, lest we consume ourselves to total ruin. Fresh water,
soil, forests, and fuels must be spared, food produced more effi-
ciently, building and transportation accomplished with less waste. We have already exhausted a major portion of the readily recover-
able riches of the planet. The cost of basic commodities skyrockets
because, with the few resources left, we continue to over produce
inefficient machines such as cars and unproductive military arma-
ments—tanks, missiles, etc. Everyone is eager to conserve natural resources, but few even
dream of conserving the most critical resource of all: one's own
vital energies. The careful harboring of the energy stored within
man's seed is a truly rational energy program. Yet this aspect of
conservation is entirely overlooked by politicians and health
experts. 6 Taoist Secrets Of Love
One reason for this neglect is simply general ignorance of the
ancient and highly secret methods used in the past. Taoist Masters
gained knowledge of these methods through unknown millenia of
relentless searching for the secret principles animating matter. These methods are the fruit of many generations of inspired medi-
tation by sages coupled with my close observations on modern life. This book fashions into a unified whole my personal experience of
the teachings. The Taoist masters felt bound to reveal their potent secrets to
only the most select disciples, those who had proven their devotion
to the Master's ideals by years of arduous self-sacrifice and ser-
vice. Why did the Masters feel so strongly compelled to hide their
tremendous knowledge from the public. The reason for this secrecy is not easily comprehended by the
western public today. The mass media have fostered a state of
mind in which anyone's life is everyone's business: the most inti-
mate details of private sex life are the most greedily lapped up. Advertisers assure their clients today "Nothing sells unless it is
sexy. " This mentality has made sex, in America, into a disposable
commodity, making it harder in our private lives to experience sex
as an intimate pleasure that can be cultivated over time to ever
deepening levels. Today sex is often consumed and thrown away
as soon as the lover becomes old or an inconvenience. Even the
women in the harem of Chinese Emperors and aristocrats fared
better, being assured of material comfort for life in exchange for
their sexual favors. The court society favored the position of men,
but at least the female sexual energy was respected for its healing
benefits and honored as being necessary for the spiritual develop-
ment of the male. A classic Taoist story tells of a woman who learned the pro-
cess of sexual transformation and exchanged her yin energy with
her lover's yang energy and thereby achieved Immortality. She
thus became the guide to ancient emperors on the subject of love. There is a recorded historical instance of a palace maid in 690 A. D. becoming the Empress on the death of the Emperor. Empress Wu,
respected for her mastery of the art of love, ruled wisely for several
decades until her death. The ancient Taoist masters were not superstitious. They were
natural scientists who laid the foundation for amazing technologi-
cal advances in medicine, chemistry, biology, navigation, andMale Sex Energy Is Stored In Its Seed 7
many other fields that would not be discovered by western scien-
tists until 2000 years later. Nor did they crave exclusive possession
of their potent knowledge. They had their reasons for secrecy, and
their reasons were well-founded at the time. They were custodians
of the doctrine taught to them by their masters, and feared the
misuse of the great force unlocked by the secret principles. Per-
haps, they felt an obligation to protect the public from its tendency
to distort the purest teaching to suit its own base instincts. In rural
China, which was much less populous then, someone with such
esoteric knowledge could easily become a chieftain or a king. A
warrior could use his power to defeat his opponents. The Taoist Masters thus thought it dangerous to spread their
teachings too widely, and passed them on to only a few chosen
disciples before departing their earthly life. To guarantee that the
formulae not be used for selfish purposes, these Masters often
transmitted to each disciple only a part of the doctrine. Thus, only
if the disciples banded together and shared their learning could the
supreme potencies be unleashed. If anyone selfishly withheld his
learning, they would never receive the whole doctrine. In the
course of many generations, fragments of the innermost secrets
came to be regarded as the whole. My attempt is to reunite many
disparate parts into an organic whole which I believe similar to the
most ancient and complete teachings. WHY REVEAL THE SECRET NOW. Why violate the traditional Chinese teaching method and expose to
the general public these powerful principles. The simple reason is
that the historic moment is already late. The human condition is
too desperate to deprive our species of a potentially great infusion
of vital energy. If the human race is not quickly infused with a new
life energy to render it more harmonious than it has been for most
of the last 2,000 years, we are all, earthly Masters and mortals,
threatened with an untenably harsh existence, if not extinction. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market,
test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. Our race
spends its brief span fiddling with statistics, black boxes, noxious
chemicals, and above all, with meaningless words. A majority of
Americans daily pass more than six hours in a mesmerized trance
induced by a colored shadow dancing in a box of glass. These8 Taoist Secrets Of Love
machines have inadvertently become instruments of our own de-
struction; a tv programmed mind is not a free mind. Too few de-
vote even one second to entering deeply the great current of life
hidden within ourselves. Yet all the technological energy is eagerly
sought is an apish imitation of the electrifying ecstasies found hid-
den within the body and mind. There are positive signs; in Taoist thinking, any excess even-
tually leads to its opposite. Despite the current mediocrity of most
popular culture, there are tremendous forces driving the race into
expanded consciousness. It is clear that the reason for the chaotic
state of planetary affairs is the revolutionary advance in human
consciousness. In simplest terms, hydrogen bombs hover above us
only because we are clever enough to conjure them up. Hatred
contains the seeds of love. We have created a crisis in order to
force a solution demanding that we restore our balance with one
another and nature. Among the most important implications of this soaring up of
consciousness is that the ordinary man will be admitted to


 fluff.”
“He stays with the firm and not the flimsy.”“He stays with the true and not the false.”
OceanofPDF.comLiving Within
Your Own Nature
Here’ s the message behind this seemingly paradoxical verse of the Tao Te
Ching: Your nature is to be good because you came from the Tao, which is
goodness. But when you’re trying to be good, your essential nature
becomes inopera tive. In your effort to be good, moral, or obedient, you lose
touch with your T ao nature. There’ s one sentence in this verse that I pondered for days before writing
this short essay: “When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.” I felt perplexed
because it seemed so contradicto ry to what the Tao Te Ching was teaching. Finally, in a moment of contemplation while I meditated on a drawing of
Lao-tzu, it became clear to me: Natur e is good without knowing it were the
exact words I heard in my meditation. I then understood what Lao-tzu
seemed to want me to convey about this somewhat confusing (to me) 38th
verse. Live by your essential nature, the T ao, which is oneness; it has no polarity. Yet the moment  that you know you’re good, you introduce the polarity of
“good” versus “bad,” which causes you to lose your connection to the Tao. Then you introduce something new—you figur e that if you can’t be good,
you’ll try to be moral. And what is morality but standards of right and
wrong that you try to uphold? As Lao-tzu seems to be saying to me, The
Tao is oneness; it has no stand ards for you to follow. In other  words, the
Tao just is; it isn’t doing anything, yet it leaves nothing undone. There’ s no
morality; there is only the unattached Tao. It isn’t right and it isn’t fair, but
it is essential nature, and you’re encouraged to be true to your own. As morality is lost, the idea of ritual surfaces, so you try to live in
accordance with rules and customs that have defined “your people” for
centuries. But I could almost hear Lao-tzu saying: The Tao is infinite and
excludes no one. Rituals keep you disconnected from the Tao, and you lose
them by trying. So you rely upon laws, further dividing yourself and
creating chaos for yourself. Again, the Tao just is its own true, essential
nature—it has no laws, rituals, morality, or goodness. Observe it and livewithin its nature. In other words, act without being concerned for your own
ego. Give as the Tao does, without condition or trying to be good, moral, or
just. Just give to all without preference, as Lao-tzu advises. I admit that living by this 38th verse may be the total opposit e of what
you’ve learned in this lifetime. It certainly represents both an intellectual
and a behavioral challenge for me at times. You may appreciate knowing
that many of the scholars whom I researched regarding this verse said that
Lao-tzu wrote it (and the next one) in response to his opposition to
Confucius, his contemporary who laid out specific edicts and codes of
conduct for the people. What Lao-tzu seemed to be saying to me through
meditation was: Trust your own essential natur e. Let go of all polarities and
live in the indivisible oneness that is the Tao. The dichotomies of good/bad,
right/wrong, proper/improper, legal/illegal, and the like can be difficult—
just remember that when they surface, the T ao is lost. Here’ s some more advice for you, through me, from Lao-tzu:
Live in your essential natur e by r ejecting artificial principles. These principle s in descending order are goodness, fairness, rites, and
laws. Artificial goodness is an attempt to live by not being “bad,” so you
allow others to decide where you fit in on a goodness scale. Affirm: I am of
the Tao, a piece  of God, and I need no human-made device to confir m it. Goodness and God-ness are one, and I trust who I am and will act from this
perspective. I am staying with this truth and not what is false. Furthermore,
see that the Tao isn’t concerned with fairness—give of yourself knowing
that this is an artificial contriva nce that cannot exist from a perspec tive of
oneness. You are from, and will return to, that oneness, regardless of your
opinions about it. So open up generously without desiring to be treated
fairly. Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs. Relinquish rites that you feel compelled to follow simply because they’ve
been that way in your lifetime, and particularly in your family. Peacefully
affirm: I am free to live, trusting in the eternal Tao. I do not have to be as
my ancestors were. I relinquish ancient rituals that no longer work or that
perpetuate separation or enmity. Remind yourself that goodness isn’t
accessed by obeying laws; rather, it is what resonates with your essentialnature. You don’t need any sort of code to decide what is proper, good,
moral, ethical, or legal. Trust yourself to be an instrument of love by
surrendering to your highest nature rather than being seduced by mortal
laws. This poem from  the 16th-century mystic Saint John of the Cross, titled “A
Rabbit Noticed My Condition,” beautifully describes this attitude:
I was sad one day and went for a walk;
I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take mor e than that to help at times — to just be close to
creatur es who
are so full of knowing,
so full of love
that they don’ t—
chat,

they just gaze with
their marvelous understanding. Do the T ao Now
Spend a day consciously choosi ng to notice one of God’ s creatures, such
as a dog, a butterfly, a moth, a spider, an ant, a fish, a cat, a deer, or
whatever attracts you. You can learn a lot from them about trusting your
inner nature. They are, as the poet says, “so full of knowing.”
OceanofPDF.com39th Verse
These things fr om ancient times arise fr om one:
The sky is whole and clear. The earth is whole and firm. The spirit is whole and full. The 10,000 things ar e whole, and the country is upright. All these ar e in virtue of wholeness. When man interfer es with the T ao,
the sky becomes filthy,
the earth becomes depleted,
the equilibrium crumbles,
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loves and nourishes all things but does not lord it over them. ” The T ao is the
informing principle of God, not nature’ s lord and master. A power -hungry
and ego-dominated control freak it’s not. Feeling superior is a human
creation. The Tao doesn’ t act as boss, forcing itself on you or anyone. It
simply allows all of creation to reveal itself with perfect timing. and all
that is revealed is sacred because it’ s a piece of the ego-free T ao. I sugges t that you create some quiet time to reread this verse and reflect
on the sacred nature of everything in your life. Include past experiences that
you’ve blamed for preventing you from having the abundance, health, or
happiness that you’ve wanted and even expected. Ponder the advice that
there’ s a time for it all: Just as you must breathe in to breathe out, you may
experience what it is to be ahead by also having a “being-behind
experience. ” All of those times that you felt betrayed, abandoned, abused,
frightened, anxious, or incomp lete—they all came about according to a
natural law that also led you to feel cared for, protected, loved, comforted,
and whole. There’ s a time for everything, including what you’re
experiencing today. Begin recognizi ng that every moment of your life is in accordance with
the Divine Tao. By doing so, you’ll shift from judgment (and perhaps
anger) to gratefulness for being able to feel both exhausted and rested,
scared and safe, unloved and cared for. All of it is a part of the natural law. Your “ego-mind” tries to protect you from pain by insisting that you can
learn to eliminate some aspects 29th Verse of your life. However, the sage
within you desires to be more harmonious with the perfection  of the Tao. How do you allow this. Lao-tzu urges you to avoid the extremes, the
excesses, and the extravagant, and know that all is unfolding perfectly, even
if your thoughts tell you that it’s imperfect. Those thoughts must also have
their own time, and in the natural flow, they’ll be replaced by new ones. which will show up on time as well. Here’ s what I believe this verse from Lao-tzu offers you from its 2,500-
year-old perspective:Give up needing to contr ol. Begin a conscious program


reated	you	two	months	ago	can	walkinto	the	room	today,	and	all	you	see	is	how	much	you	resent	them. Appearances	are	considered	superficial,	but	actually	they	turn	out	to	be
extremely	powerful	because	we	buy	into	the	judgments	we	make	on	the	spot. Just	remember	that	making	an	impression	goes	both	ways. Half	the	time	you
are	looking	at	others,	and	half	the	time	they	are	looking	at	you. You	can	walk
down	the	hall
	at	school,	and	no	matter	how	you	act,	every	single	person
looking	at	you	will	create	their	own	impression	of	who	you	are. What	this
means	is	that	working	hard	to	create	an	impression	is	self-defeating. You	can’t
make	people	see	you	the	way	you	want	them	to. You	also	have	the	same	power,	right	this	moment,	to	see	any	person	in	any
way	you	choose. Use	this	power	well. Don’t	make	the	same	assumptions
everyone	around	you	is	making. Be	honest	and	open	every	time	you	look	at
anyone. Friends	and	enemies	are	created,	not	born,	and	the	place	where	they
are	created	is	in	your	heart. The	girl	you	might	dislike	has	somebody	else	who
loves	her. So	if	you	look	with	an	open	heart,	you	will	find	those	same
qualities. That’s	what	it	means	to	hold	someone	in	your	heart. You	allow	the
bonding	process	to	start	naturally,	and	in	time	a	stranger	feels	like	part	of	you.Looking	in	the	Mirror
D
o	you	think	girls	are	mysterious?”	Baba	asked. “Very	mysterious,”	I	said
without	hesitating	a	second. We	were	still	walking	around	the	village,	with	its
bustle	of	animals	and	people. “Do	you	know	why?”	he	asked. I	grinned. “I	guess	I	have	my	whole	life	ahead	of	me	to	figure	it	out.”
But	Baba	was	already	fumbling	for	something	in	his	pockets. “Here	it	is.”	He
pulled	out	a	small	mirror	and	held	it	beside	his	face. “What	do	you	see?”
“Is	this	a	trick	question? I	see	my	face,”	I	replied. “Perfect! You	get	the	point?”
I	shook	my	head. “Girls	are	mysterious	because	boys	are	looking	for	themselves	and	finding
someone	else	instead.”
“I	don’t	know	about	that. I’m	not	looking	for	myself,”	I	protested. “I’m
looking	for	a	girl	I	like.”
“Just	think	about	it. What	do	you	see	when	you	look	in
	a	mirror? You	see
what	you	like	and	what	you	don’t	like. Mostly	the	latter,	right? Mirrors	show
every	flaw. I’m	sure	you	spend	the	required	hours	before	a	mirror	when
nobody	is	looking.”
“The	witness	refuses	to	answer,”	I	said. Of	course	Baba	was	right. “Nobody	looks	in	the	mirror	to	see	themselves	as	they	really	are,”	Baba	said. “They	always	look	for	an	image. And	that’s	true	when	boys	look	at	girls	or
girls	look	at	boys. “The	image	you	have	of	yourself	holds	power	over	you. It	magnifies	what
you	think	is	good	and	bad;	it	is	filled	with	fantasies	about	the	future	and
memories	of	the	past. Which	is	why	girls	seem	so	mysterious. Boys	don’trealize	that	they	are	looking	at	their	own	dreams	and	fears.”
I	thought	this	was	pretty	interesting	but	at	the	same	time	pretty	confusing. “Let’s	say	I	see	a	really	attractive	girl. I	like	her	shape,	the	way	she	walks,	her
smile. How	am	I	seeing	myself?”
Baba	shook	his	head. “You’re	seeing	what	you	want	for	yourself. If	you
happened	to	be	in	a	bad	mood	and	wanted	to	pick	a	fight,	you’d	see	in	that
same	girl	exactly	what	you	needed	to	make	an	argument	break	out. The	mirror
is	magical. It	always	shows	us	what	we	want	to	see.”
Baba	grew	quiet	and,	I	think,	a	little	sad. “When	people	fall	in	love	they
should	look	beyond	the	image	in	the	mirror,”	he	said. “But	that	isn’t	easy. When	you	love	an	image,	you	are	loving	something	stuck	in	your	mind. Your
soul	has	a	different	idea	about	love.”	Baba	took	the	hand	mirror	and	tilted	it	to
the	sun. “See?”	he	said. “I	can	show	you	the	sun’s	image,	but	if	the	sun	appeared	only
in	a	mirror,	it	would	have	no	power	to	nourish	the	planet. Love	nourishes	you
when	you	look	at	it	directly;	it’s	just	a	pretty	thing	when	you	look	at	its
reflection. Think	about	that.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
I	did	think	about	what	Baba	said,	and	the	more	I	thought	about	it,	I	could	see
that	everyone	is	putting	up	an	image. Boys	aren’t	really	looking	at	girls,	and
girls	aren’t	really	looking	at	boys. Their	images	are	looking	at	each	other. What	if	a	boy	feels	insecure? He	may	find	a	girl	who	is	totally	devoted,	but	in
his	mind	she	will	talk	to	other	boys	too	much,	flirt	when	his	back	is	turned,
and	give	a	hundred	little	causes	for	jealousy. That’s	how	powerful	a	mental
image	can	be. (Think	of	the	millions	of	people	who	worship	movie	stars	and
pretend	that	the	real	person	is	incredibly	glamorous	off	the	screen,	incredibly
brave	and	romantic. In	reality	actors	aren’t	different	from	ordinary	people,	but
their	image	says	they	have	to	be.) Only	at	the	soul	level	is	a	real	person	looking	for	another	real	person. Deep
down,	the	heart	can’t	be	fooled	by	images—not	for	long,	at	least. It
understands	that	love	has	to	be	honest. When	you	love	someone,	you	find	the
courage	to	say,	“You	are	my	mirror.”	You	look	into	your
	beloved’s	eyes	and
accept	what	you	see,	including	your	own	imperfections. If	you	do	that,suddenly	the	imperfections	don’t	seem	so	horrible. The	secret	is	that	you	feel
loved,	and	that	feeling	melts	through	the	image	in	your	mind. It’s	incredibly	stressful	to	live	up	to	an	image. Images	strive	to	be	perfect. Images	are	afraid	to	shatter;	they	have	to	stand	apart	and	never	show
weakness. When	you	begin	to	see	yourself	honestly	in	the	mirror	of	another
person,	a	lot	of	that	stress	begins	to	fade	away. It’s	such	a	relief. And	when
the	image	finally	vanishes,	love	can	relax	and	blend	into	the	joy	of	another
person’s	heart.Good	Versus	Evil
L
ooking	back,	I	think	it’s	strange	that	I	didn’t	ask	Baba	lots	of	things. Like,
“Where	do	you	come	from? How	did	you	learn	so	much,	some	kind	of
school?”	I	never	really	found	out	any	facts	about	him	at	all. Maybe	I	didn’t
want	him	to	be	too	real,	with	an	ordinary	life	like	everyone	else’s. I	liked
being	in	a	world	that	was	just	Baba	and	me,	at	least	for	three	days. But	there	was	one


 a 3 h time window following isch -
emic stroke onset.199 This time window is often difficult to obtain due to the onset of
symptoms in a stroke patient who often waits several or more hours before seeking
medical help at the emergency department. The effect of the large number of failed human trials that followed dramatic pre -
clinical results obtained primarily from rodent research has visibly reduced current levels of funding among the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research of new neuroprotective agents. 194
Another major reason for the lack of progress in ischemic stroke can be found in
the difference between human brain and those of smaller mammals such as rodents, marmosets, and rabbits. Human brain is gyrencephalic (cortex convoluted with gyri and sulci), and those of many smaller animals are lissencephalic (smooth cortex). Human cortex and subcortex are highly organized, which includes deep gray nuclei and white matter tracts like the internal capsule. 200 Moreover, human brain lacks the
collateralization of cerebral vessels found in rodents and other small mammals so their vulnerability to ischemia is enhanced. These species differences between human and rodent brain can be diminished
when nonhuman primates are used to mimic human ischemic stroke. This has been the recommendation of the Stroke Therapy Academic Industry
Roundtable (STAIR), a collaborative group made up of industry, academic mem -
bers,
201 and other many independent investigators.202–204
This group met to discuss the failure of finding therapy that could be useful in
human stroke and came to the conclusion that stroke research would benefit from using an animal with a gyrencephalic brain such as macaque rhesus monkeys. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR USING
NONHUMAN PRIMATES IN CNS INJURIES
The use of macaques and other nonhuman primates comes with the ethical chal -
lenges that need to be considered and that involve the need to eradicate or dimin -
ish pain, emotional stress, and depression associated with the neurological deficits
following experimental stroke. This can be achieved to some extent by providing proper analgesia during and after surgery and intensive veterinary care to com -
pensate during the recovery period. 205 The trade-off in using a nonhuman primate
model would likely accelerate the discovery of a treatment that could reverse or significantly limit the neurological and cognitive deficits seen after human or ani -
mal stroke. Another more vulgar consideration in using nonhuman primates is their high
cost, specialized technical personnel needed, veterinary care, and enriched
living environment, factors that can discourage most researchers with limited
research budgets. It should be emphasized that the use of successful therapy against ischemic
stroke induced in nonhuman primates does not guarantee success in human stroke. 164 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
A number of examples support this conclusion. For example, the experimental radi -
cal trapping agent NXY-059 was used in marmoset monkeys 4 h after permanent
MCA occlusion and obtained excellent therapeutic results 10 weeks after treatment, resulting in fewer neurological deficits and better neurohistologic picture when com -
pared to saline controls. 206,207 When NXY-059 was tried in human ischemic stroke in
a randomized, double-blind study comprising 3190 patients, it was found ineffective when given 6 h after stroke onset. 208
Thus, the recommendations of the STAIR group for using nonhuman primates for
ischemic stroke research have not been validated except for one instance, the use of intravenous DMSO. After canvassing the extensive stroke literature, DMSO appears to be the only agent that has so far shown significant neuroprotection in nonhuman primate ischemic stroke and human ischemic stroke. 209,210 The medical use of DMSO
in humans is discussed in Chapter 9. ROLE OF DMSO IN EXPERIMENTAL STROKE
The brain region vascularized by the MCA is the most commonly affected area fol -
lowing a cerebral infarction. The reason is due to the large size of the MCA and the direct flow it receives at an angle from the internal carotid artery (ICA) providing the easiest path for thromboembolism. The MCA is therefore a vessel of choice in studying stroke in animals. In nonhuman primates, DMSO was studied in 20 rhesus monkeys ( Macaca
mulatta ) subjected to ischemic stroke via a transorbital approach to visualize and
clip the MCA under direct microscopy. 209 The animals were divided into four groups:
(1) shams, surgery but no occlusion (N = 2); (2) saline controls (N = 8), surgery and clipping of the MCA; (3) clipping of the MCA and treated with 3 mg/kg dexametha -
sone (N = 5); (4) clipping of the MCA and treated with DMSO (N = 5) 2.5 g/kg 50% solution mixed in saline. All treatments were given 4 h after occlusion of the MCA with the clip still in place. The occluding Mayfield clip was removed after 16½ h, and a second intravenous dose of dexamethasone or DMSO was repeated for all treated animals 30 min after clip removal. All animals were given a full neuro -
logical examination daily for 7 days following occlusion of the MCA. After 7 days, animals were killed for neurohistological analysis. Arteriograms were taken in all animals before occlusion, 30 min after occlusion, 16½ h after occlusion, and 30 min following unclipping of the MCA ( Figure 8.6). Table 8.2 summarizes the results of
the neurological examination after 16 h with the MCA clip in place and at 7 days following removal of the clip. 209
Mean average cerebral blood flow measured near the MCA prior to clipping was
89 mL/100 g tissue/min. This value dropped by 43%–54% after MCA clipping and essentially returned to preocclusion values with no significant group differences fol -
lowing unclipping. Angiographic changes following MCA occlusion can be summa -
rized as follows. ICA narrowing (arterial spasm?) was seen at the level of the siphon
in all animals 30 min following MCA occlusion ( Figure 8.6). All animals except
two saline controls survived the initial MCA clipping. Postmortem tissue weights
showed DMSO attenuated cerebral tissue edema when compared to dexamethasone or saline controls.165 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
After 16½ h and with MCA still occluded, the narrowed carotid was still seen
in the saline- and dexamethasone-treated groups. No narrowing of the ICA was
observed in animals treated with DMSO209 (Figure 8.6). Reperfusion of the posterior parietal and temporal branches of the MCA was
more pronounced 30 min following unclipping of the MCA in DMSO than in con -
trols or dexamethasone-treated animals. Moreover, brain swelling of the trauma -
tized hemisphere examined at postmortem was moderately high in controls, mildly reduced in the dexamethasone group, and absent in DMSO-treated monkeys. 209
Postmortem histological examination of the ischemic hemisphere revealed less
structural damage of the inferior thalamic peduncle and fewer chromatolytic and
Pre-o cclusion
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e)( f)
(g) (h) (i)Control
DMSO
dxms16½ h po st clip 17½  h po st clip
FIGURE 8.6  Arteriograms of rhesus monkeys showing characteristic vascular response
after 16½ occlusion and 17  h when MCA was deoccluded. Saline-treated controls (a–c), DMSO treated (d–f), and dexamethasone treated (dxms g–i) before and after deocclusion of the MCAt. Panels (a), (d), (g) show preocclusion vascularization prior to MCA occlusion. Treatments were given 4 h after clipping the MCA and repeated shortly before clip was removed. At 16½ h after clipping, no blood flow is seen filling the MCA or its branches and severe narrowing of the ICA at the siphon is visible in saline controls and dexamethasone treated (b, h arrow), but no narrowing of ICA is observed in DMSO treated (e arrow). After unclipping at 17½ h, ICA narrowing continues in controls (c bold arrow) and dexamethasone (i bold arrow). No narrowing of ICA seen in DMSO (f bold arrow). In addition, the perical -
losal artery and posterior parietal vasculature is absent in saline controls (c double arrows) and significantly reduced in dexamethasone (i double arrows). In DMSO (f double arrows), these vessels are seen to have recovered substantially as compared to preocclusion arte -
riogram. (Adapted from de la Torre, J.C. and Surgeon, J.W., Stroke, 7(6), 577, November–
December, 1976. )166 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
swollen neurons in the pre-occipital cortex and caudate-lentiform region in DMSO-


eur only exists in the space of that
which is not grand. The soul, therefore,
never condemns that which is not grand,
but blesses —seeing in it a part of itself
which must exist for another part of itself to
manifest. The job of the soul, of course, is to cause
us to choose the grandeur —to select the
best of Who You Are —without con demning
that which you do not select. This is a big task, taking many lifetimes, for
you are wont to rush to judgment, to call  a
thing “wrong” or “bad” or “not enough,”
rather than to bless what you do not
choose. You do worse than condemn —you actually
seek to do harm to that which you do not
choose. You seek to destroy it. If there is a
person, place, or thing with which you do
not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion
that goes against yours, you make it  wrong. If there is a thought tha t contradicts yours,
you ridicule it. If there is an idea  other than
yours, you reject it. In this you err, for you
create only half a universe. And  you cannot even understand your half when you have
rejected out of hand the other. This is all very profoun d—and I thank you. No one has ever said these things to me. At least,  not with such simplicity. And I am
trying to understand. Really, I am. Yet some
of this is  difficult to grapple with. You seem
to be saying, for instance, that we should
love the “wrong”  so that we can know the
“right.” Are you saying we must embrace
the devil, so to speak? How else do you heal him? Of course, a
real devil does not exist —but I reply to you
in the idiom you choose. Healing is the process of accepting all, then
choosing bes t. Do you understand that? You cannot choose to be God if there is
nothing else to choose from. Oops, hold it! Who said anything about
choosing to be God? The highest feeling is perfect love, is it not? Yes, I should think so. And can you find a better des cription of
God? No, I cannot. Well, your soul seeks the highest feeling. It
seeks to experience —to be —perfect  love. It is perfect love —and it knows this. Yet it
wishes to do more than know it. It wishes
to be it in its experience. Of course you are seeking to be God! What
else did you think you were up to? I don’t know. I’m not sure. I guess I just
never thought of it that way. There just seems to be  something vaguely
blasphemous about that. Isn’t it interesting that you find nothing
blasphemous abou t seeking to be like the
devil, but seeking to be like God offends
you—
Now wait minute! Who’s seeking to be like
the devil? You are! You all are! You’ve even created
religions that tell you that you are born in
sin—that you are sinners at birth —in order
to convince yourselves of your own evil. Yet
if I told you you are born of God —that you
are pure Gods and Goddesses at  birth—
pure love —you would reject me. All your life you have spent convincing
yourself that you are bad. Not only that you
are bad, but tha t the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad,
power is bad, having a lot is bad —a lot of
anything. Some of your religions have  even
got you believing that dancing is bad, music
is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you’ll
agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad,
loving is bad. No, no, my friend, you may not be very
clear about many things, but about one
thing  you are clear: you, and most of what
you desire, are bad. Having made this
judgment about yourself, you have decided
that yo ur job is to get better. It’s okay, mind you. It’s the same
destination in any event —it’s just that
there’s a  faster way, a shorter route, a
quicker path. Which is? Acceptance of Who and What You Are right
now—and demonstration of that. This is what Jesus did. It is the path of the
Buddha, the way of Krishna, the walk of
every Master who has appeared on the
planet. And every Master has likewise had
the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things,
and more, shall you also do. Ye t you have
not listened. You have chosen instead  the
far more difficult path of one who thinks he
is the devil, one who imagines he is  evil. You say it is difficult to walk the path of
Christ, to follow the teachings of the
Buddha, to hold the light of Kri shna, to be
a Master. Yet I tell you this: it is far more
difficult to deny Who You Are than to accept
it. You are goodness and mercy and
compassion and understanding. You are
peace  and joy and light. You are
forgiveness and patience, strength and
courage,  a helper  in time of need, a
comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time
of injury, a teacher in  times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the
highest truth; the greatest  peace and the
grandest love. You are these things. And in
moments of your life you  have known
yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these
things always. Chapter 4
Whew! You inspire me! Well, if God can’t inspire you, who in hell
can? Are You always this flip? I meant that not as a flippancy. Read it
again. Oh. I see. Yes. However, it would be okay if I were being
flip, wouldn’t it? I don’t know. I’m used to my God being a
little more serious. Well, do Me a favor, and don’t try to contain
Me. By the way, do yourself the same  favor. It just so happens I  have a great sense of
humor. I’d say you’d have to when you  see
what you’ve all done with life, wouldn’t you? I mean, sometimes I have to just  laugh at
it. It’s alright, though, because you see, I
know it’ll all come out all right in the end. What do You mean by that? I mean you can’t lose in this game. You
can’t go wrong. It’s not part of the plan. There’s no way not to get where you are
going. There’s no way to miss your
destination. If God is your target, you’re in
luck, because God is so big, you can’t  miss. That’s the big worry, of course. The big
worry is that somehow we’ll mess up and
not get to ever see You, be with You. You mean “get to heaven”? Yes. We’re all afraid of going to hell. So you’ve placed yourself there to begin
with in order to avoid going there. Hmmmmm. Interesting strategy. There You are, being flip again. I can’t help it. This whole hell thing brings
out the worst in Me! Good grief, You’re a regular comedian. It took you this long to find that out? You
looked at the world lately? Which brings me to another question. Why
don’t You fix the world, instead of allowing
it to go  to hell? Why don’t you? I don’t have the power. Nonsense. You’ve the power and the ability
right now to end world hunger this  minute,
to cure diseases this instant. What if I told
you your own medical profession  holds
back cures, refuses to approve alternative
medicines and procedures because  they
threaten the very structure of the “healing”
profession? What if I told you that  the
governments of the world do not want to
end world hunger? Would you believe  me? I’d have a hard time with that. I know that’s
the populist view, but I can’t believe it’s
actually true. No doctor wants to deny a
cure. No countryman wants to see his
people die. No individual doctor, that’s  true. No
particular countryman, that’s right. But
doctoring  and politicking have become
institutionalized, and it’s the institutions that fight these  things, sometimes very subtly,
sometimes even unwittingly, but
inevitably...because  to those institutions  it’s
a matter of survival. And so, to give you just one very simple
and obvious example, doctors in the West
deny the healing efficacies of doctors in the
East because to accept them, to admit  that
certain alternate modalities might just
provide some heal ing, would be to tear at
the very fabric of the institution as it has
structured itself. This is not malevolent, yet it is insidious. The profession doesn’t do this because it is
evil. It does it because it is scared. All attack is