 cups blueberries
Whisk the flours, baking powder, flaxseed meal, and salt together in a
large bowl. Combine the wet ingredients in another bowl. Form a well in
the center of the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients. Stir the batter
just until the dry ingredients are thoroughly moistened; it will seem very
thin, but it will thicken. Let the batter rest for 15 minutes (spelt flour takes a little longer to
absorb liquids). If you can’ t wait, your pancakes won’ t be as crisp. After the
batter has rested, fold in the blueberries. Cook according to directions for
E2 Basics Pancakes (see page 158). Mighty Muffins
These are the brainchild of my friend Bridget’ s brother, Michael. An
amazing cook and a Buddhist, Michael travels internationally as a chef for
his teacher and others in the Buddhist community. Once cooled, these muf fins keep well in the refrigerator for a week. Eat
them cold or warm them briefly in the oven. Makes 6 lar ge muffins or 1 enormous loaf
3 cups oat bran
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons sweetener
Juice of 1 lemon
1 large apple, grated
6 brown bananas, lightly mashed (leave some chunks)
¼ cup walnuts, chopped or halved
¼ cup raisins
¾ cup water
Preheat oven to 375º. Combine the dry ingredients in a lar ge bowl. Squeeze the juice of the lemon onto the combined apple and bananas. Add
walnuts, raisins, and water. Combine the wet and dry ingredients into one
bowl. Pour into sprayed muf fin tins and bake for 45 minutes or until golden
brown on top. Variations:Bake the batter in a loaf pan, and enjoy hearty slices instead of muf fins. Add three thinly sliced pears or 1 cup of 70 percent pure cocoa chips to
the batter. Quick Bran Muffins
Yes, these come out of a box, but that’ s okay. There’ s no harm in relying on
great products made by quality food companies—especially when they are
quick and delicious. Makes 6 small muffins or 2 small loaves
7-ounce box bran muf fin mix (we like Hodgson Mill or Bob’ s Red Mill)
2 ripe bananas, mashed
½ cup water
Preheat oven to 375º. Mix the ingredients together. Spoon the batter into
a nonstick muf fin tin or mini–loaf pans. Bake for 25 minutes or until a
toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Variations:
Add extras to the batter! Consider:
1 teaspoon Ener -G egg replacer mixed with 1 tablespoon water (this will
make a taller muf fin)
1 diced apple or pear
6 ounces blueberries or raspberries
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup raisins
 Make a double batch of these muffins and fr eeze half of them
for a quick, on-the-go br eakfast or a healthy snack. E2 Fruit and Toast
I’m going to harp on this until I’m blue in the face. I always want you to
use 100 percent whole grain toast, bagels, or English muf fins. I particularly
like the Ezekiel brand whole wheat bread, which you can keep in thefreezer. Simply throw a couple slices into the toaster while you’re getting
out the jam or nut butter, or slicing up some fruit to place on top. Pull the
toast out of the toaster, add your toppings, and head out the door. PB and Banana
Serves 2
4 slices whole grain bread
1 tablespoon peanut butter (see E2-approved Foods)
2 bananas, sliced
Toast the bread. Spread slices thinly with peanut butter. Top with sliced
bananas or the fruit of your choice. Variations:
Substitute bagels or English muf fins for bread. Use any E2-approved nut
butter in place of peanut butter. Add E2-approved jam or preserves. Use any
sliced fresh fruit in place of bananas. Fresh Fruit Extravaganza with Mint
Go to town! Use cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi,
strawberries, oranges, mangoes, watermelon, or blueberries. Serves 2 to 4
1 bunch mint leaves, chopped
Every fruit you consider edible in your kitchen, sliced, diced, or chopped
Zest of 1 lime with juice of ½ lime
Juice of 1 grapefruit or orange, including sections
Remove the mint leaves from their stems, and chop the leaves. Toss the
fruit in a bowl with zest, juices, and mint. For a surprisingly zingy pleasur e, try a squeeze of lemon on
your fruit—especially on slices of watermelon.E2 EASY  LUNCHES. One day Austin firefighter Brad Mendenhaul from Station 8 traveled to
Station 2. “Just because,” he said, “I’m dying to eat some of your healthy
vegetarian cuisine.”
The battalion chief, who overheard him, said, “W ell, then, all you have
to do is go out into the front yard, pick up some twigs and leaves, throw
them in the skillet with some oil, and you’re set.”
The battalion chief is not an E2er. I replied that we wouldn’ t be using any oil. The chief then called me a
freak. I told Brad to ignore the peanut gallery and introduced him to several
Engine 2 favorite lunches that are especially easy to prepare. E2 Sandwiches
Each shift in the Austin Fire Department lasts twenty-four hours. At
Engine 2, we’re called the C shift, which means either coming to work at
twelve noon one day to relieve the B shifters, or getting of f at noon the next
day and waiting for the A shifters to relieve us. As hectic as lunchtime can be, what with all shifts joining in, the meal
has to tide us over until dinner, when we can sit down to a solid, three-
course, plant-based feast. Derick Zwerneman, 35
Firefighter
My first day at Station 2, I got up early and made blueberry muf fins. They smelled great, but when everyone else came down to the
kitchen, they said, “Huh, lot of calories in those.”
I thought, “Who are you jerks?” No one had told me about how
healthy Engine 2 ate. At the time my menu planning was simple—I used to see what
meat was for sale and then my wife and I would plan our meals
around that. If pork chops were on sale, then it was pork chops for
dinner. Now that we eat a plant-based diet, we’re more creative. And
our palates have changed, too. I used to love chicken. Today the smell
of it makes me kind of sick.E2 Basics Open-Faced Sandwich
Years ago, when we were short on time, we’d run to a nearby sub shop and
order the number 1 1 without the cheese and mayo, and ask them to double
up on all the vegetables. Eventually, we’d just say, “An Engine 2.” But a
new owner took over about a year ago and rescinded the half-price discount
for firefighters and police of ficers. So we now make the Engine 2 at Engine
2. Serves 2
4 slices whole grain bread, toasted
E2 spread of choice
1 cucumber with skin on, scrubbed and sliced into thin rounds
1 large tomato, sliced
½ bunch arugula or cilantro
1 cup alfalfa sprouts
Lemon pepper to taste (we like the Mrs. Dash brand)
Lemon or lime juice
Spread each side of bread thickly with E2 spread of choice. Top with
arugula, vegetables, and sprouts. Season with lemon pepper and a squeeze
of lemon or lime juice. Variations:
Top the sandwich with chopped cilantro, green onions, salad greens,
avocados, shredded raw beets, or carrots. Ann’ s Panini with Hummus, Mushr ooms, and Spinach
At the firehouse we have great old iron skillets that weigh as much as
concrete bricks. They come in handy because the key to making a fantastic
panini is to get a hefty amount of weight on top of the sandwich as it cooks. You can prepare this in one of two ways: Place an iron skillet (or other
heavy object) on top to smush the sandwich, or be decadent and purchase a
panini maker and use as directed. I got one for Christmas. It sears perfect
lines on top of the bread. You’ll know it’ s ready when the hummus drips
over the sides like melted cheese, the outside is crispy, the inside soft. This dynamite recipe comes from my mother, Ann. And by the way, for
those of you who don’ t know, panini is an Italian sandwich.Serves 2 (or one ravenous fir efighter)
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
Tamari or Bragg Liquid Aminos to taste
4 slices whole grain bread
Healthy Homemade Hummus (see page 236)
4 green onions, chopped into rounds
½ cup chopped cilantro
3 handfuls baby spinach
Sauté the mushrooms on medium heat in a nonstick skillet for about 5
minutes or until soft. Season lightly with tamari or Bragg’ s. Spread all 4
bread slices thickly with hummus. Sprinkle


love. For this story isn’t about Mrs. Dalal. A Westerner would be skeptical
that she had achieved anything of value by dying for her husban d, assuming
that was what  had happened. The point of the story lies in my
grandmother ’s deepest beliefs:
A man and a woman can r eflect divine love in their love for each other. Loving your beloved is the way you love God. Human love survives death. If you could hold the same beliefs, your love would contain a profound
power and meaning. Actually, I shouldn’ t deprive Mrs. Dalal of her own
meaning. The neighbors whispe red that she was murmuring “Rama” when
she died. Anyon e who can say God’ s name at such a moment might well be
wooing her lover. Looking back, I now realize that for her, death itself was
a healing. How many modern people in the W est can say the same? Despite the fact that love is important to everyone, few of us could deny
that love is in a crisis—no deeper crisis exists. Either love isn’t a powerful
enough force to save us from our darker nature or something has happened
to turn us away from love. Perhaps love was never the answ er we were
looking for. Any of these possibilities could be true. If they are, however, to be
human is truly tragic. In his last major work, Civilization and Its
Discontents,  Sigmund Freud painted a picture of human nature that is
grimly unloving. Humans, he asserted, are motivated by an instinct for
sexual gratification that society can barely keep in check. They  are born to
take sadistic satisfaction in the plight of enemies; they will use ruthlessviolence to obtain money, powe r, and sex; and only the threat of retribution
from someone more powerful keeps this violence in check. According to
Freud, Christ’ s injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself is a psychological
impossibility. Every adult has seen enough of life to agree at least partially with this
devastating assessment, and modern psychology, by and large, is based on
it. The famous Milgram pain experiments from Yale in the 1950s
demonstrated that when ordere d to give electric shocks to strangers in a
laboratory settin g, average people would follow such orders willingly, even
when the subjects screamed in agony and begged them to quit. Where is
love in all of this? The dir ect experience of spirit is the only lasting foundation for love. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, in some profound way we were
created for love to the very depths of the human soul. This spiritual vision
of huma n nature  has prevailed against all odds. Its roots go back in India
more than two thousand years to the Vedic scriptures. Veda is Sans krit for
“truth” or “know ledge.” The hymns of the Rig Veda are considered to be
humanity’ s oldest devotional expression, but as it expanded into thousands
and thousands of scriptures, Veda continued to emphasize the same point:
the human being is a mirror of God. Our being and God’ s Being are one. In the Vedic view we are not passive observers of reality but creators, as
God is. The mask of matter disguises our true nature, which is pure
awareness, pure creativity, pure spirit. Like light streaming from a bonfire,
reality streams from us, and our choice is to emanate love or non-love. Contrary to Freud’ s dark view, the Vedas say that it is much more natural
for us to create from love than non-love. They declare that humans “are
born in bliss, sustained in bliss, and return to bliss again after death.” This is
a drastic shift in perception from modern psychology, and yet to be truly in
love always brings a new perception—everyone can validate the sudden
ecstasy and bliss that makes romance so sweet. But to have a complete
vision of love means being willing to under go a much more total shift of
perception. When you per ceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love—you will be love.In spiritu al terms, to be love is only natural. It is our departure from love
that is unnatural. The ancient scriptures recognized man’ s violence and saw
it clearly : one of the most important teachings of Veda is the Bhagavad-
Gita, which is set on a battlefield before a murderous war. Yet in the Vedic
tradition an unbroken successio n of saints, seers, masters, and sages have
seen beyond violence and expressed themselves as follows:
Life is love and love is life. What keeps the body together but love? What is desir e but
love of the self?... And what is knowledge but love of truth? The means and forms may be wrong, but the motive behind is always love—love of the me
and the mine. The me and the mine may be small, or may explode and embrace the
Universe, but love remains. The voice is that of a South Indian master, Nisar gadatta Maharaj,
speaking to followers in the late 1970s. The expression “life is love and
love is life” has such ancient roots that no idea is more venerable. Yet this is
a love we have lost contact with in our own age, distracted as we are by
sexual attraction, unstable emot ions, and religious dogma. Love based on
the experience of spirit gives rise to the possibility that we can return to our
true nature, throwing aside our unloving behavior as a bad and very long
dream. A love based on “higher” values espoused by the world’ s religions
seems, as Freud pointed out, impossibly ideal. The scriptural injunctions to
love the Lord with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy might  are legion. Yet there is sober truth in Emily Dickinson’ s mournful little poem:
Sometimes with the Heart
Seldom with the Soul
Scarce once with the Might
Few—love at all. If all our attempts to find a spiritual foundation for love have shown
themselves to be so wanting, where can we turn? Spirit can only be called on when it is real, and it can only be real if it is
real for you. In other words it has to be you. This is exactly what the Vedas
teach. Rather than “soul,” they equate spirit with “Self,” not the everyday
self with its thoughts, wishes, needs, and drives but a higher Self that is
silent and eternal. The difference is explained in a classic Vedic metaphor:every person is like a piece of gold. If you were a gold ring, a gold watch, a
gold chain, you could say “I am a ring, a watch, a chain,” but these are
temporary shapes. In truth you are just gold—that is your essence, no
matter how the shape changes. In the same way, we each have  a self, defined in modern psychology as
an image developed over time. It is a mysterious fusion of ego, personality,
and memory that everyone amasses between infancy and early childhood. Being complete ly personal, your self is also completely isolated and
separate from every other self. Yet, if you saw yourself truly, you would no
longer identify with this haphazard, ramshackle thing, your self. In truth
you are the Self, created from the same spirit that in infinite form is called
God. You are one grain of gold, compared to which God is all the gold that
exists, and yet you can rightfully say, “I am gold.”
We all draw upon the higher Self for identity, life, awar eness, will, and love. The Self that Lord Krishna teaches about in the Bhagavad-Gita  is an
eternal aspect of human nature that transcends all individuality, all change
in time and space. Speaking of the immortal “dweller in the body,” Krishna
declares,
Weapons cannot cut him,
Fire cannot burn him,
Water cannot wet him,
Wind cannot blow him away.... He is eternal and pervading everything,
Subtle, immovable, and ever the same. What is important here is that the Self is a real experience. It is not an
ideal, far removed from ordinary reality—which is how most of us think of
the soul—but as close to you as breath. The Self is love’ s source, and
therefore it is more real than the things that block love—anger, fear,
egotism, insecurity, and mistrust. Those qualities, however widespread they
may be in socie ty, are temporary; they grow up over time and have to be
learned. The Self, by contrast, is secure in peace and safety; it knows only
love because its experience is only of love. When you interact with another person, you are free to feel anything,
from the deepest hatred to the deepest love. You may be repelled orattracted; you can convey rejection or acceptance. But at the level of the
Self, you always meet another person in love. The person you love r eflects your shar e of universal love. If you learn to look deep enough, you
will see that your r eality is only love. In a famous passage the V edas declare,
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm,
As is the atom, so is the universe. As is the human body, so is the cosmic body,
As is the human mind, so is the cosmic


 consciousness
Number: 8
Planets: Saturn, Ketu
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Essential oils: brahmi, jatamansi, rosemary, frankincense, holy basil, sage, lotus
Crystals: blue sapphire, amethyst, sugilite, clear quartzThere are two higher centres in the brain that are commonly referred to in
kundalini yoga as bindu and sahasrara. Bindu, meaning ‘a point’, is located
at the top back of the head, where Hindu Brahmins keep a tuft of hair. It is
also called bindu visarga, which literally means ‘falling’ or ‘drop’; this is
represented as a crescent moon and a white drop, which is the nectar
dropping down to the vishuddhi chakra. From this point down oneness
divides itself into many; it is the seat of nectar or amrit, which feeds our optic
system.From ajna one moves to sahasrara, which is located a little above the
fontanelle. Located at the top of the cranium and associated with the
cerebral plexus, this chakra is the place of void (emptines s) or sunya
(nothingness). This is the plane of tejas (light), the seat of enlightenment,
whereby the yogi becomes illuminated just as the sun aura becomes light and
radiant. This is depicted as a golden hollow or aura around the pictures and
images of ascended masters. In chakra symbolog y it is depicted as a circle
like a full moon, and above this sphere is an umbrella of an inverted 1000-
petalled lotus. Sahasrara is supreme. It is associated with the pineal gland, and is the
seat of higher awareness or our connection to universal consciousness. When
we are conceived consciousne ss comes to the child through the crown
chakra, then it travels through sushumna nadi all the way down to settle at
the muladhara chakra, as our kundalini shakti. Through our spiritual
practices we try to raise this consciousness back to the crown chakra so that
we can connect and mer ge with univ ersal consciousness once ag ain. All of our chakras are within the realms of the psyche. Sahasrara acts
through nothing while at the same time acting through everything. It is the
centre of super consciousness, where all polarities integrate, thus passing
beyond the ever-changing samsara. The opening of this chakra leads to a
state of transcendence and hence may be called the attainment of
Buddhahood. Sahasrara is associated with the seventh layer, the ketheric template. Located at the top of the cranium or cerebral plexus, sahasrara synchronises
all colours (hence it is white light) and encompasses all senses and their
functions; it has all-pervading power. When kundalini is raised up to the
sahasrara chakra the yogi becomes realised and the illusion of the individual
self is dissolv ed.Sahasrara is the culmination of the progressive ascension of kundalini
(consciousness) through different chakras. Up to the sixth chakra the yogi
may enter a trance in which activity or form still remains within this
consciousness; however, in the sahasrara chakra the prana moves upwards
and reaches the highest point and the mind establishes itself in a pure void or
sunya (zero), the space between the two hemispher es. While meditating the
focus should be at the crown chakra, visualising the white light enveloping
your body. At this point all activities of the mind — feelings, emotions and
desires — are dissolved and the yogi attains a state of true bliss or sat-chit-
ananda (truth being bliss). As long as the yogi stays in this physical body he
retains non-dual consciousness. Imbalances and the tools to heal them
The sahasrara chakra is the point of transformation, from the mind/bod y
trap and moving beyond sense consciousness. We live in a sensory world,
with sense consciousness perceiving the world and constantly producing
uncontrolled thoughts. A person can be a great scientist, artist, thinker,
educator or healer, but until the time ‘I’-ness is present this chakra will
remain blocked. At times there may be a feeling of lightheadedness, a sense
of disconnection with the world; this is also a sign of an imbalanced crown
chakra and indica tes a need to be g rounded. The most important tool for crown chakra healing and balancing is to
practise dhyana (meditation); through dhyana we are able to awaken the
guru within. Dhyana can be achieved by concentra ting on the universal form
of God; when this concentra tion reaches the phase of non-dual consciousness
all thoughts and distractions stop and the yogi is able to establish a
connection with the higher self. While meditating the focus should be on the
top of the head, the sea t of the cr own chakra.The best crystals for the crown chakra healing are amethyst, sugilite and
clear quartz. When lightheaded or disconnected it is better to use grounding
crystals similar to those used f or the muladhara (base r oot) chakra. In Ayurvedic aromatherapy, when crown chakra balancing and
grounding is required we use essential oils representing the earth element
such as patchouli, valerian root, angelica root or jatamansi. Other useful oils
include brahmi, lavender, holy basil, blue or white lotus, ylang ylang and
rosemary. OceanofPDF.com9
Chakra healing
The holistic approach to health fully acknowledges the integration of mind
and body; the well-being of one depends on the good health of the other. Disease is an imbalance of the energies manifesting in the physical body. Chakras are the barometers of our health, and an imbalance of a chakra is
an indication of the e xistence of a disease in an y of the or gans associa ted with
the imbalanced chakra. Disease first affects our energy body before
manifesting in the physical body, therefore we feel out of sorts before we fall
sick. Chakra healing is preventative, as we can avoid a potential disease
manifesting in the ph ysical bod y by balancing the c hakras. There are devices and tools that can measure the energy field, take
chakra/aura pictures and check chakra health and vibrations through bio-
feedback. Energy is universal, and we shape it with our thoughts and
feelings. We can help balance the chakras and alter our state of mind using
several modalities. Different cultures have a variety of energy healing tools,
so we have options available to us for balancing our energies and managing
our mental and emotional str ess. Tantra encompasses yoga and Ayurveda. Ayurveda is based on the
science of life and longevity using plants and minerals for healing the body,
while yoga is described as the union of mind, body and spirit. Ashtanga yoga
encompasses eight aspects of life and offers practices to help balance our
energies. The principles established in yoga are universal, providing overall
development and the evolution of consciousness. Various practices in hatha
yoga and pranayama help us become centred and quieten the mind, therebyhelping balance chakra energies. There are many other systems of healing
that have been developed by different cultur es to balance ener gies. Chakras respond very well to energy work that is mainly intuitive, and we
also have tools such as crystals, aromatherapy essential oils, colour therapy
and sound therapy. Some use the term ‘alternative therapies’,  whereas we
call them ‘complementar y therapies’ as we can use more than one modality
and integrate them to get a desired healing effect. We like to integrate
aromatherapy with lymph drainage alongside using crystals and wands. Some of the complementar y modalities ar e explained in this c hapter. Yoga
The basic nature of yoga was well defined in four words by Patanjali in Yoga
Sutra 2: Samadhi Pada: ‘Yogas chitta-vritti-nir odh’ (yoga is the inhibition of the
modifications of the mind). Yoga has been practised for thousands of years as an effective tool to
improve physical, mental and spiritual health. The word ‘yoga’ is derived
from the Sanskrit word yuj, meaning to ‘unite’ or ‘join’; it represents the
union of the mind, body and spirit and the union of the individual
consciousness and cosmic consciousness.Yoga encompas ses the elementar y training of the body to promote
normal healthy and peaceful human activities. Patanjali called yoga soma-
psychic, or mind over body. The aim of yogic discipline is not so much to
cultivate the body for physical strength, quick reflexes or develop muscles but
to create a mental make-up through poise, balance and mental endurance. It
provides the practitioner with an ability to control the modification of the
mind. Health practitioner s today consider the intrinsic health of a human being
along with the outer development of the body. The importanc e of this was
realised thousands of years ago by ancient Indian yogis. Yoga and meditation
t


 saints had been harmed. In memory of this miracle, the devotees of Saint Constantine
celebrate his name day, May 21, by walking into a pit of burning
coals, and not just walking: they perform a stomping dance on the
red-hot cinders, holding aloft icons of the two saints. Perhaps a
hundred devout rewalkers, called Anastenarides, are scattered
throughout a few villages in northern Greece; almost all of them
trace their roots back to Kosti. To show  their unshakable faith and their contempt for the re,
the Anastenaria dancers pick up glowing embers, smashing them
into a shower of sparks with their bare hands. One devotee named
Stephanos spent ve months mesmerized before his home re,
putting out the live coals with his hands hour after hour until hismother begged him to stop, for fear that she would not have any re
left for baking her family’s bread. Without their religious faith, the Greek rewalkers are certain
that they would be burned. They each “belong to the saints,” having
surrendered themselves to divine authority in exchange for their
extraordinary powers. Walking into the re sets a person aside from
normal society  for the rest of his life; he is said to have an open
road, which means that the saints can guide him anywhere they
choose. One of the rewalkers is a peasant farmer named Mihalis. He
recounted how he feels durin g his ery dance: “If you have an open
road, then you don’t feel the re as if it were your enemy. You feel
as if it were your husband or your wife. You feel love for the re;
you have courage. What you see isn’t a mountain; it’s nothing. That
way you go in freely. But if you go in of your own will, then you
have fear and doubt. It seem s like an enemy, like a mountain. If
your courage is from the Saint, then you really want to go into the
re. The power comes from outside. You’re a dierent person. ”
At the outset of this book I mentioned that some paranoiacs can
no longer draw the line between their own mind and God’s. In their
madness, these people take personal responsibility for averting wars
and natural disasters. Mihalis and his cohorts are caught in a similar
confusion, but from the opposite pole. They cannot accept that their
power to walk on re is personal, or even specically human. They
insist that it must come from God, through the saints’ intercession. It
would be inexplicable to them if someone walked on the coals
without being devout. In fact such a person appeared in their midst. In 1985 a tall,
smiling, handsome American arrived on Saint Constantine’s feast
day in the village of Langadas, where the Anastenaria rite is
performed. At a restaurant he showed around a photograph of
himself rewal king in Oregon, and he was immediately permitted to
join the local ceremony. The year before, an Italian spectator had
attempted to enter the re and had been severely burned. The Greek
rewalkers took this as conrmation that one cannot defy the re
without the saints. But this year’s visitor was something no one had ever seen, a
rewalk instructor. Outside the conned world of the Anastenaria
cult, rewalking had become a star turn in the human potential
movement, with rewalk “seminars” being held every  weekend
throughout the West Coast. In its New Age guise, walking into the
re was a form of psychotherapy. It was considered a liberating
experience, perhaps endow ed with spiritual overtones but not
narrowly religious. Therefore, when the visitor, named Ken Cadigan,
entered the Anastenaria re, two worlds collided. At rst there was no open conict. “Ken managed to make his
way through the crowd to the site of the rewalk togethe r with the
Anastenarides,” Danforth writes. “He danced around the re with
them for a few minutes. Then, after [their leader] Stamatis crossed
the re, Ken went across too. He was dressed in white and held his
hands high over his head. ‘I didn’t have the dance down  right,’ he
said. ‘I just went boogying across. ’ ”
We do not know what went through the minds of the Greek
rewalkers, but a sinister gesture ensued. “After Ken crossed the re
two or three times,” Danfor th writes, “he saw Stamatis motion to
another Anast enaris to take Ken through the re with him. The
Anastenaris grabbed him by the arm, but Ken broke free. He went
back into the re again, and this time he stayed in for a long time;
he really danced  in the coals. Just then the Anastenaris grabbed his
arm a second time, held him in the re, and stepped on his foot. …
Ken broke free again and left the re. ”
The local crowd had been cheering for the tall stranger, and
several reporte rs now besieged him with questions. How did he
walk on re without being a devotee. Had he been burned at the
end. Cadigan joked about the incident and refused to attribute any
malice to the man who had accosted him. Privately, however, he
was sure that the Anastenaris had pushed him into the coals hoping
he would be burned. In fact, he had been. One of the peculiarities of rewalking is that belief plays such a
critical part in it. A skeptic can enter the re one step behind a
believer, and only the skeptic will be burned. An experienced
rewalker can be distracted by someone shouting at him from thesidelines and suddenly get burned also. Since the re is the same
temperature for all (hot enough to sear esh in a matter of seconds),
one is convinced that awareness must be playing a crucial role. There are reports of people who have been severely burned when
they rashly stepped onto the coals despite an inner voice that tried
to halt them with a sharp warning of “Don’t do this. ” At the same
sessions, other s have walked in without harm. There is no scientic
explanation for what causes these variances, or for that matter, for
how the feat of rewalking is accomplished. In this instance, when
Cadigan was drawn into the ugly mood of his assailant, he lost his
power to remain unharmed. Danforth notes that even though
Cadigan’s burns went deep enough to expose the nerves in his foot,
he felt no pain either on the re or afterward. As he gathered his data, Danforth moved among the
Anastenarides, who buzzed with talk after the American left. Quickly and reexively the Greek rewalkers retreated into
rationalization: they claimed that their visitor had walked too
quickly across the coals, that he had not really danced, that he had
left the ceremony early because he had been burned. In this way the
cultists retained their ties to the saints and their exclusive right to
an open road. Yet the main theme of their spiritual life—acquiring power and
freedom in the re—is the same espoused by New Age practitioners. “You are burne d by fear, not by re” is a popular sentiment among
American rewalkers. In both camps the re is a symbol for inner
barriers that one must break through in order to prove that reality is
more than the senses perceive. But we have to probe deeper and
ask, “What is the link between the subjective world of the re
walker and the burning coals. ”
The rewalker thinks  he can enter the re safely, and therefore he
can. His thought causes the re to become harmless, which implies
that the re understands  him. The Greek rewalker s accept this
assumption: they frequently say that the re beckons them. They
know to walk onto the coals only after the re says “yes. ” It is
dicult to avoid the conclusion that the re is in fact intelligent. If the idea of intelligent re is too shocking, we could say that one
continuous eld of mind-stu links the rewalker and the re. When a person thinks, that is one vibration in the eld; when the
re cools down, that is another. So it is all eld speakin g to eld,
without any mystery to it. Mihalis does not really walk into the re;
he walks into the outskirts of his own mind. Two Fullnesses
It is hard to deny that our reality remains stubbornly intact
because our logic is stubbornly rational, geared solely to the events
of the waking state. A dreamer can y because defying gravity in a
dream is


 to avoid this kind of a scene. Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of her immediate family. They put her in a hospital,
where Marie had a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that  they had done everything that should have been
done, the self -righteous parents went back home. Marie never recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospital
surrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever -so-sympathetic turns  maintaining an emotional round -the-clock vigil. Marie's death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I did not yet understand the total effect of la ck of
ethics and irresponsibility on illness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have sought treatment three
years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded this question and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with  my
knee on her chest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody and was never fully honest in any of her
relationships, including with me. I think she only came to Great Oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was t rying to
pretend that nothing was wrong. All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene
gave her that, which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it. The name for this game is "secondary gain. " A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire;
they get love, attention, revenge, sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick people receive to o
much secondary gain they never get well. One of  the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever -enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really want them to get bet ter. My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealing with a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my famil y life
suffers; my personal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And then some of these people go and wast e all
my help to accomplish some discreditable secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others. Constant Complaints
    Alice was a middle -aged woman who couldn't understand why she had always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had
been this way ever since she could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Job -like. She did everything the
proper way. Doing things correctly was important to her, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the ri ght causes,
did good works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store –and made sure it was organically
grown. But in spite of Alice's righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of constant, minor complaints. She was constantly
exhausted, so much so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatigue syndrome (whatev er
that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these, and had many acute illnesses like cold s that hung on
interminably and would not go away. She had a constant post -nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life, her body was a millstone around
her neck. I've had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of headaches; sometimes cons tant yeast or bladder
infections. Whatever the complaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone who is seriously
ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything  wrong with them,
though they will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection, or an antihistamine for sinus sym ptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is low ered again and the very
same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedi es
and antidepressants. If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fi x and afterwards are amazed
that it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could have been. Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and al so
took synthetic thyroid hormone –the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid, which was partly
correct –but the thyroid medication didn't give her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand st yle
for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought. I put Alice through my usual two hour first -time-visit thorough analysis. For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved
tiny samples of everything she ate, wrapped them in plast ic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer. Along with these
food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices,
prescription medications, over the counter drugs, oils, g rains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and
fruits. Even her water. Her entire kitchen. By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions. I  also
tested the integrity of her organs and glands and  in the process, got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints. Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest
the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetar ian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairy products and had especially
been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many he alth
food store shoppers these days mistakenly beli eve that, because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they especially need to
boost their protein intake with dairy and soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and
unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to d igest than cooked meats. Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts an d
citrus. Most people don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sp routs. The doctor was right about
one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had not noticed that her heart was weak. Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest do ctor
will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin, accept the fact that y our
body is not perfect and don't worry about it. A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any p ossible
reason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay. They
rarely find anything "wrong" and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something "serious" to treat be cause
their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people
whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain. Biokinesiology is actually a far more s ensitive system of analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so
total organ failure can be prevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by a medical doctor. Fi rst I
put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week on fresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy
vegetables juice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After six weeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a
life extension megavitamin formu la, discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had already been taking)
and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She
also began taking pancreatic enzy mes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods she
was allergic to; the diet primarily consisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. On her mainte nance
diet Alice had a profound res urgence of energy and rediscovered a sense of well -being she had not known for decades. She began
to feel like she had when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid
hormones and instead, supported her  endocrine system with protomorphogens. A Rampaging Infection
    At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate inheritance and went "native" in the Fiji Island s in
the South Pacific. He spent about four months hanging out w ith the locals. Life there was so much fun that John completely forgot
that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of his organs were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly  simon -
pure life. But the jovial, accepting, devil -may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party, even more so because John


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that being in balance and free of addiction is much more exhilarating!CHAPTER FIVE
YOU’RE NOT  W h a t  YOU EAT; YOU’RE WHAT
YOU  B e l i e v e  ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT
B A L A N C I N G  Y O U R  D E S I R E  T O  H A V E  Y O U R  B O D Y
F E E L  G R E A T,  W I T H  W H A T  Y O U  F E E D  I T
A N D  H O W  Y O U  E X E R C I S E  I T
“Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God;
take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.”
— NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
“By believing passionately in something that still does
not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we
have not sufciently desired.”
— NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Y
our beliefs reflect the current re lative state of health that your body
is in, just as much as your diet and exercise regimen do. If you
desire a glorious ly healthy body but behave in unwholesome w ays,
you’re o bviously going to be out of balance. But even more tel ling are the
kinds of thoughts and beliefs that you have about your health. Obviously, just like everyone else, you want to have perfect health. So
let’ s put this idealistic wish at the top rung of an imaginary ten-step ladder. There, at the apex of your desires regarding your health, is this longing for a
body that’ s healthy and feels gre at. Now, visualize this ten-rung ladder with
these two questions in mind. 1. At what rung of the ladder are your behaviors  in relation to your
tenth-rung desire? 2. At what rung of the ladder are your beliefs about your behaviors
in relation to your tenth-rung desire? I’d m ake a calcu lated guess that anyone who’ s overweight, and  so out of
shape that walking up a few f lights of stairs leaves them b reathless, is
contributing second-rung ener gies to tenth-rung desires. In other words,
they’re way out of balance. The same is true for people with any number of
physical maladies attributable to lifestyle, such as ulcers, high blood
pressure, indigestion, palpitations of the heart, and so on. T o c reate a ba lance where you can honestly say that your body is
enjoying its optimal level of hea lth and that you’re grateful to live in such a
glorious House of God means m aking some new decisions around the two
questions I’ve posed. It may be surprising to read that I’m not s uggesting a
radical change in diet or adv ocating that you embark on an exerciseprogram designed for a bodybuilder or a marathon runner (although these
are disti nct possibilities). No, I’m suggesting a radical realignment in the
ener gy of the beliefs you give to the tenth-rung desire. If you’r e overweight, out of shape, and suf fering unnecessarily from
physical maladi es that are relat ed to your lifestyle, this radica l idea may
require a lot of determination to overcome your disbelief. So begin right
now by rereading the title of thi s chapter. Isn’ t it strange to think that your
diet or lack of exercise aren’ t completely responsible for the state of your
health? Maybe it has to do with what you believe. The sec ond quo te at the begin ning of this chapter was writte n by the
author of Zorba the Gr eek. Zorba is one of the most passionate fictional
characters ever created, house d in a body that wasn’ t a bo dybuilder ’ s
dream. Nikos Kazantzakis encourages us to practice believing passionately,
because out of t hat belief the de sire will be created. Y our tenth -rung desire
to en joy living i n a healthy body  will manifest when you suf fici ently desire
it. And this is precisely how you can correct the imbalance that has one end
weighted down to the ground by behaviors and beliefs that are d iametrically
opposed to what you desire. Rebalancing Your Health by Realigning Your Beliefs
Deepak Chopra, my friend and colleague of many years, once observed:
“Y our b rain pro duces a chemical that relays the news of your h appiness to
all 52 million of your body cells—who rejoice and join in.” So picture
yourself as you’re about to enjoy a hot-fudge sundae or a piece


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reading and writing along the line of human behavior. What I have
observed and written mainly, has been on the behavior of Americans. There has been a craving or desire, at  least, to spend enough time in
other countries, in order that a comparison could be drawn. It appears from standing on the sideline watching the wheels go
round that America could not have made a greater failure, even, if this
had been their major object. This country is comparatively young, yet
our soil has been exhausted. What life is left in our soil very little of it
reaches our dinner tables. The report is the best of our young manhood
50% or near that, more or less, has been rejected as unfit for war duty. The last report printed gave our people as 99% defective. The exhausting of our soil and the refining and heating of our
food till it is too impoverished to maintain a fighting people for war
duty. Our fighting must be done without soldiers, unless there is a change in the feed. The entire setup is governed by high finance which points to war as a racket a nd the decay of civilization. This kind of a nation is supported by our so-called followers of
Jesus who said when we are slapped on one cheek, turn the other also. All through the universe and on through the walks of man there
are laws to reckon with. The season of each year—winter, spring,
summer and fall have their laws which we must obey. The laws of
gravitation and the flying of a plane must be reckoned with. And on
down through the life of man the laws which we have to contend with
are flexible but must be obeyed. When we obey these laws there is harmony. The three score and
ten years which were allotted for man centuries ago from my experience it is not the limit of life when the laws are obeyed. When
these laws are obeyed life grows more beautiful with the passing of
the years. Aches, ills, rheumatism, when these laws are obeyed, there
is no disturbance. We are taught, and truthfully, that what we sow we shall reap,
but it appears we have never registered this law in our minds. We do
not yet know that our aches and ills, polio, cancer, heart failure and
bad colds are of our own creation—the reaping of our sowing. Common reason teaches that whatever is someone or power creates it. Rheumatism cannot develop when the blood stream is clean. When the
food is correct the blood stream will always be clean. It takes a clean
healthy blood stream to maintain a happy disposition. Our minds and morals are fed the same as our teeth or kidney. When the brain and nerves are no t well fed, delinquency can not be
controlled. Neither can what we term disease be prevented when the food is
deficient. Neither can the food be good when, the soil is impoverished. People who lie in hospitals, worn an d emaciated, if the food had been
correct they never would have been carried to the hospital. If the food
served in the hospital is correct the patient will get well and go home. I am not talking at random, these reports have been experienced
and lived in my own body. When for years I grew weaker till
everybody expected everyday to hear of my passing. It happened that a sick person asked me to go with her to Dr. Harry Brown's office. While there I asked Harry to look me over. Within a few minutes he
told me I had a bad colon, and that I may be too near dead to clean the
colon but if you will change your food and "stay put" you will get
well. That was 27 years ago. Now I am 84 and the only way that I can
believe I am any older is to look up a calendar. All things are possible with the law when it is obeyed. When (as a rule) a fellow is ill, it is
self created. We were placed in th is world to "choose whom we will
serve. " Natural law is God in action. Wh en humanity lives in harmony
with this law it means the end of disturbances—no more ills. Man was made after all other things were ma de. He was given the power to rule,
to have dominion, to choose whom or what he may desire. Whether
good will, hate, health, disease or wars—these, any one of them, may
be had for the asking or determination to secure them. These have no
power within themselves—man must operate them. What we have been taught, pr acticed and operated must be
eliminated. I say this because the results have not been desirable,
when a thing or method does not work—good sense says discard it—
whether it be political, economical or  food habits. All these have been
a failure. Only a dummy will stay put when in the way of traffic. Our methods, ideas of life and living have proven a farce. The
disturbances, aches and ills have disturbed th e traffic. We have
reached that place in life where it is  difficult to secure food which
contain the values which promote perfect health. As an example of
one item, bread is the main item of food values. We have reached that
place where bread is no longer the "staff of life" but the means of
creating disease and death, because it is refined. When our popular white bread is used exclusively, it never fails
to produce death before disease ca n appear. The white man does not
use white bread exclusively therefore he lingers with disease. Many of
these diseases become incurable, because the food which produce the
disease is not discarded. We have now of late years, been told of whole wheat, but is it. Most of it has been contaminated with chemicals to make it whiter and
fluffy and prevent moulding till it would be better food if left on the
shelf. The safest way to maintain health and vitality now a days is to
secure a mill of your own or use your friends mill. There is a way to
secure wheat which has not been chem icalized, and of late individual
small mills can be had. Anyone wa nting information will do well to
contact Lee Engineering Company, Milwaukee, Wis. I have one of
these mills, and also a cheaper mill. One mill grinds fine—the other
grinds coarse for cereal where I use every grain I furnish several of my
friends. Every family should possess their own individual mill. Dealers in
the community should keep on hand wheat for retail distribution and they will if people who want good  food will co-op with the dealer. The dealer, grocery or what, can ope rate a mill and grind wheat while
you wait or buy coffee and sugar which is not fit for food. There is a way to have what anyone wants. We are admonished
to make our choice. Hoping or wishing must be backed by action and
determination. We crea te our worn out soil, we create our denatured
and refined foods which results in bad health and disease. We were
placed here to rule. If we don't want what we have, we should get rid
of it. I discarded my bad health, you can get rid of yours, if you don't
know how, there is a way to find out. This boomerang, "The Town Without a Tooth Ache" makes me
sore. This slogan was inaugurated b ecause I found so little caries, but
it applies to all diseases. There are no diseases other than what we
create. The parents when supplying raw milk to these children they
did not know this milk would prevent caries. When arthritis, polio or
what have you, develops some one creates it. These disturbances or
happy occasions of whatever nature someone is the creator, but the bad food or rather useless food is not all the cause, but it did not
prevent. Most of our foods are to be eliminated because they have no
immunizing powers. Raw milk is not the only food in the Hereford
area which would prevent dental caries or prevent any other disease. The reason I discovered this was Dr. C. A. Pierle, Ph. D. gave me the hunch. Raw milk being the only food used the year round, therefore, I gave my attention to milk—heated m ilk being particularly dead milk,
will not prevent any disease. All good food is supposed to contain plenty of immunizing
values, but our popular foods today have been refined, adulterated and
heated till its immunizing powers have been destroyed which opens the gate leading to the cemetery. GENERAL CAPTION:
On the following pages are photographs of eight representative
Hereford citizens who have lived here for most of their lives and, as
the accompanying mouth photographs demonstrate, have lived to
middle age or older, with perfect sets of teeth. With but one exception, all the persons in the group have been
heavy milk drinkers from their childhood up. Most of them like
buttermilk and drink lots of it. All ta ke their milk raw. It is produced
on mineral-rich Deaf Smith County grass and feedstuff. Practically all these persons regularly eat fresh, home-grown
vegetables and eat raw vegetables and raw fruit right along. Most of
them eat meat either sparingly or moderately. Nearly all live on white
bread from milled flour. Thereby they lose the most valuable body-
building minerals which, the spectograph analysis shows our home-
grown wheat to contain. But to offset that they get the missing
minerals in raw milk. All of them eat sparing


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reactivity to carbon dioxide. Blunted chemoreceptors are recognized as
a common result of obstructive  sleep apnea. Ivancev et al. tested the
hypothesis that repeated breath  holds, which are an integral part of
breath-hold diving, blunt cerebrovascular reactivity to hypercapnia. T wo groups of seven elite bre ath-hold divers and seven non-divers
were inv olved in  the test. The study noted that breath-hold diver s had a
greater toleranc e to carbon d ioxide, lar gely the result of lower
breathing frequ ency. The findings of the study were “that the
regulation of the cerebral circulation in response to hypercapnia isintact in  elite breath-hold divers, potentially as a protective mec hanism
against the chronic intermittent cerebral hypoxia and/or hyper capnia
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al. s howed that bradycardia a nd peripheral vasoconstriction were
accentuated in breath-hold divers compared with non-divers. In
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T his b ook would not have been possible without the spirited su pport of
Oxygen Advantage coaches and athletes and gifted advice from a number
of ex traordinary  people. In parti cular, I would like to thank my book agent,
Doug A brams, a nd his team, in cluding Lara Love, who spurred me on to
rewrite the entire original manuscript, providing insights, clarity, and
editing to help e nsure that I communicated my message just “ as if I were
talking to a fell ow down at the  pub.” T o Cassie Jones and the publishing
team at W illiam  Morrow, thank you so much for your dedicated support and
commitment in making this book a reality. Thank you, Claudia Connal and
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and New Zealand. Also helping me along this jou rney was Jo Gatford, who weaved her
magic through 95,000 words, knitting the final manuscript into a readable
and digestible form. T o my colleagues, including Dr. Alan Ruth, whose attention to detail
astounds me, T om Herron, Eoin  Burns, Carol Baglia, Don Gord on, Eugenia
Malyshev, Dr. Charles Florendo, T om Piszkin, and W illiam L. Robbins—
thank yo u so much for dropping your work to read through the manuscript,
providing honest and direct feedback on what needed to be changed and
where. James O’T oole, Eamon Howley, and Danny Dreyer—thank you for
providing encouragement and b elief that the message imparted in this book
would be valuable to athletes. Thank y ou to Sarah Gallagher for her expertise in checking papers,
adding studies, and clarifying  others to ensure that I interpreted the
information on cardiovascular health accurately. Special thanks to Dr.Joseph Mercola, who has devoted his life’ s work to educating the public
about si mple, safe, and ef fective preventative measures to ensure good
health. Dr. Mercola, the world needs more people like you! T o soccer coach Don O’Riordan and the dedicated players of Galway
WFC, thank you for your assistance in tailoring the Oxygen Advantage
program to a team sport environment. I m ust also than k my illustrator, Rebecca Bur gess, who always comes
out on top with beautiful images that communicate the content visually. Thanks also to my wife, Sinead, who, with her great sense of  humor,
insisted that my acknowledgment to her shouldn’ t be as boring as my usual
ones. W ell, you can be the judge of that! T o my beautiful daugh ter, Lauren,
may you grow up as a nasal breather. And fin ally, tha nk you to my readers for taking a chance on me by
buying and reading this book. I hope you derive lifelong benefits from the
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 what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men—that is genius.”
Take this awareness and apply it in your life. Another genius tells us just
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CONNECTION
“Man is in the process of changing, to forms that are not of this world;
grows he in time to the formless, a plane on the cycle above. Know ye, ye
must become formless before ye are one with the light.”

— adapted from The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
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OF A PERSON
CONNECTED
TO THE FIELD
OF INTENTION
“Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.”

— Abraham Maslow
A person who lives in a state of unity with the Source of all life doesn’t
look any different from ordinary folks. These people don’t wear a halo or
dress in special garments that announce their godlike qualities. But when
you notice that they go through life as the lucky ones who seem to get all
the breaks, and when you begin to talk to them, you realize how distinctive
they are compared to people living at ordinary levels of awareness. Spend a
few moments in conversation with these people who are connected to the
power of intention and you see how unique they are. These people, whom I call connectors to signify their harmonious
connection with the field of intention, are individuals who have made
themselves available for success. It’s impossible to get them to bepessimistic about achieving what they desire in their lives. Rather than
using language that indicates that their desires may not materialize, they
speak from an inner conviction that communicates their profound and
simple knowing that the universal Source supplies everything. They don’t say, With my luck things won’t work out. Instead, you’re much
more likely to hear something like, I intend to create this and I know it will
work out. No matter how you might attempt to dissuade them by pointing
out all the reasons why their optimism ought to be curtailed, they seem
blissfully blind to reality-check repercussions. It’s almost as if they’re in a
different world, a world in which they can’t hear the reasons why things
won’t work out. If you engage them in conversation about this idea, they simply say
something like, I refuse to think about what can’t happen, because I’ll
attract exactly what I think about, so I only think about what I know will
happen. It doesn’t matter to them what’s happened before. They don’t relate
to the concepts of failure or it’s impossible. They simply, without fanfare,
are unaffected by reasons for being pessimistic. They’ve made themselves
available for success, and they know and trust in an invisible force that’s
all-providing. They’re so well connected to the all-providing Source that it’s
as if they have a natural aura preventing anything from getting through that
might weaken their connection to the creative energy of the power of
intention. Connectors don’t place their thoughts on what they don’t want, because,
as they’ll tell you: The Source of all can only respond with what it is, and
what it is, is infinite supply. It can’t relate to scarcity, or things not working
out, because it’s none of these things. If I say to the Source of all things, “It
probably won’t work out,” I’ll receive back from it precisely what I sent to
it, so I know better than to think anything other than what my Source is. To the average person who has fears about the future, this all sounds like
mumbo jumbo. They’ll tell their connector friend to do a reality check and
look realistically at the world they live in. But connectors aren’t distracted
from their inner knowing. They’ll tell you, if you choose to listen, that this
is a universe of energy and attraction, and that the reason so many people
live lives of fear and scarcity is because they rely on their ego to fulfill theirdesires. It’s simple, they’ll tell you. Just reconnect to your Source, and be
like your Source, and your intentions will match up perfectly with the all-
providing Source. To connectors, it all seems so simple. Keep your thoughts on what you
intend to create. Stay consistently matched up with the field of intention,
and then watch for the clues that what you’re summoning from the all-
creative Source is arriving in your life. To a connector, there are simply no
accidents. They perceive seemingly insignificant events as being
orchestrated in perfect harmony. They believe in synchronicity and aren’t
surprised when the perfect person for a situation appears, or when someone
they’ve been thinking about calls out of the blue, or when a book arrives
unexpectedly in the mail giving them the information they needed, or when
the money to finance a project they’ve been intending mysteriously shows
up. Connectors won’t attempt to win you over to their point of view with
debates. They know better than to place a lot of energy on arguing or being
frustrated, because that attracts argumentation and frustration into their
lives. They know what they know, and they aren’t seduced into constructing
a counterforce of resistance to people who live otherwise. They accept the
idea that there are no accidents in a universe that has an invisible force of
energy as its Source that continuously creates and provides an infinite
supply to all who wish to partake of it. They’ll tell you plain and simple if
you inquire: All you have to do to tap in to the power of intention is to be in
a perfect match with the Source of everything, and I’m choosing to be as
closely aligned to that Source as I can. To connectors, everything that shows up in their life is there because the
power of intention intended it there. So they’re always in a state of
gratitude. They feel thankful for everything, even things that might seem to
be obstacles. They have the ability and desire to see a temporary illness as a
blessing, and they know in their heart that somewhere an opportunity exists
in the setback, and that is what they look for in everything that shows up in
their life. Through their thanks, they honor all possibilities, rather than
asking their Source for something, because that seems to give power to
what’s missing. They commune with the Source in a state of reverentgratitude for all that’s present in their lives, knowing that this empowers
their intention to manifest precisely what they need. Connectors describe themselves as living in a state of appreciation and
bewilderment. You’re unlikely to hear them complain about anything. They
aren’t fault-finders. If it rains, they enjoy it, knowing that they won’t get
where they want to go if they only travel on sunny days. This is how they
react to all of nature, with appreciative harmony. The snow, the wind, the
sun, and the sounds of nature are all reminders to connectors that they’re a
part of the natural world. The air—regardless of its temperature or wind
velocity—is the revered air that is the breath of life. Connectors appreciate the world and everything in it. The same
connection that they experience with nature they feel toward all beings,
including those who lived before and those who have yet to arrive. They
have a consciousness of the oneness, and therefore they make no
distinctions such as them or those other people.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        I use the word resistance here,
as I have several times in Part II of this book. Thoughts such as the
following are actually a form of resistance to having your intentions
manifest: This stuff isn’t practical. I can’t just materialize my ideal person
by my thoughts. Why should I be treated any better than all of those others
who are still waiting for Mr. Right. I tried this before, and a real idiot came
into my life. These are thoughts of resistance that you’re placing right in the
way of Source sending you someone. Resistance is lowered energy. Source
is high, creative, expansive energy. When your thoughts are low-energy
vibrations, you simply can’t attract the high-energy people you need or
desire. Even if they came rushing up to you announcing: Here I am, how
can I serve you, I’m willing and able, and carrying a sign saying I’M
YOURS, you wouldn’t recognize or believe them while you’re so busy
trying to attract more of what you can’t have and don’t deserve. Step 6: Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract. As I’ve
touched on before, if you want to be loved unconditionally, practice loving
unconditionally. If you want assistance from others, extend assistance
whenever and wherever you have the opportunity. If you’d like to be the
recipient of generosity, then be as generous as you can, as frequently as youcan. This is one of the simplest and most effective ways of attracting the
power of intention. Match up with the forthcomingness of the universal
mind from which everyone and everything originates while extending it
outward, and you’ll attract back to yourself all that you intend to manifest. Step 7: Detach from the outcome, and practice infinite patience. This
is the crucial step of faith. Don’t make the mistake of evaluating


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-A shaker
-A bowl1. Fill your shaker with baking soda, and then pour it into a bowl. 2. Make little indents with your fingers in the baking soda, and fill them
with essential oil. 3. Mix thoroughly with a fork, and pour back into shaker. 313Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented Baking SodaY ou will need… DirectionsThis is a particularly invigorating blend of smells that will brighten up any room you use it in.Citrus & Rosemary Baking Soda
-10 drops of citrus essential oil
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-A fork
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oils to them. 3. Mix well with a fork and pour back into shaker. 314Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented Baking SodaY ou will need… DirectionsWhite distilled vinegar-the golden child of natural home cleaning! This
bio-degradable acidic liquid is the natural bi-product of fermented
vegetables, fruits, and grains. It breaks down odors, helps kill off germs,
bacteria, mold, and cuts through grease and grime. On top of all of this
you don’t have to wear rubber gloves and a heavy duty mask when
using it! I love it because I don’t feel guilty using it around the many
dogs that come through my home (mine used to sneeze at the offensive
smell of toxic cleaners!) and I know it is much safer for little ones than
pretty much any other option. Some people hesitate when it comes to
using vinegar (“won’t it smell bad?”) but I can guarantee you it smells a
whole lot better than the other stuff out there. I actually think that the
smell of plain vinegar is nice and clean-and it doesn’t linger like you
think it might-but this scented vinegar, along with scented baking soda,
is truly my staple cleaner. These are three of my favorite kinds.Scented Vinegar
- As an acid, vinegar it can even
break down some mineral/lime
deposits. -Use vinegar to get rid of any
dried baking soda residue in little
nooks and crannies that might
stick after you clean with it. -Experiment with scents, and
you know you can always adjust
the amount according to your
preferences. -Pour a little of your scented
vinegar onto a clean cloth and
wipe a surface-smelling it directly
from the bottle doesn’t always
give the most accurate idea of
what it will smell like when you are
using it. -Buy vinegar in gallon jugs and
scent the whole thing at once-this
is easy and cost-effective. 315Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingI love the fresh smell of citrus with vinegar; it just adds a little extra something that makes it feel like things are
that much cleaner. The citrus I am referring to is orange, although you can use lemon if you prefer.Citrus Vinegar
-1/2 teaspoon of citrus
essential oil
-1 gallon of white distilled
vinegar1. Drop the essential oil into the vinegar, close the lid, and give it a good
shake. Add more or less if you prefer. 316Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented VinegarY ou will need… DirectionsTo add a little extra germ-killing/disinfecting power to your vinegar, mix in some tea tree oil.Tea Tree Oil Vinegar
-3/4 of a teaspoon of tea tree
essential oil
-1 gallon of white distilled
vinegar1. Add the tea tree oil to a gallon of vinegar. Replace the cap on the
vinegar and shake well. 317Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented VinegarY ou will need… DirectionsThis relaxing scent is probably my favorite to use when cleaning the bathroom-I think it’s an old association I
have with keeping a little lavender sachet in the bathroom for as long as I can remember.Lavender Vinegar
-1/2 teaspoon of lavender
essential oil
-1 gallon of white distilled
vinegar1. Add lavender essential oil to 1 gallon of vinegar. Replace the cap on
the vinegar and shake well. 318Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented VinegarY ou will need… DirectionsIf you like a piney scent, adding fir essential oil to your vinegar is a great way to get it. I enjoy using this to clean
floors.Fir Vinegar
-1/2 teaspoon of fir essential oil
-1 gallon of white distilled
vinegar1. Mix essential oil into vinegar. Replace cap and shake well. 319Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Scented VinegarY ou will need… DirectionsY ou’re being force-I mean happily attending-a wedding. How are you going restore your dusty, scuffed, leather
shoes to the beautiful shiny creations they once were without using something toxic when many commercial
products can contain things like turpentine? Short of painting them or going over them with a permanent black
marker, as I once watched a friend of mine do, it seems hard to naturally restore luster to leather. Luckily, it’s not-
and there are no markers involved.Shoe PolishOlive oil and lemon juice just have a way of restoring the shine to your shoes. Olive Oil & Lemon Juice
-1 tablespoon of olive oil
-2 teaspoons of lemon juice
-Two soft clean cloths1. Mix olive oil and lemon juice. 2. Soak cloth and then wring out extra moisture. 3. Polish shoes. Let the mixture soak into the shoes for a minute or so
and then buff them to a high shine with a soft, clean, cloth. 321Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Shoe PolishY ou will need… DirectionsSame concept as the olive oil in the above recipe, but coconut oil has a slightly different make-up.Coconut Oil
-1 tablespoon of coconut oil
-2 clean soft cloths1. Warm coconut oil to a consistency that is easy to apply to your shoes. Dip cloth in it and shine, letting the oil soak in before buffing with a dry,
soft, cloth. Y ou can also simply scoop out a solid bit of coconut oil and
rub it in without warming it first. 322Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Shoe PolishY ou will need… DirectionsI know, shoes and banana peels don’t usually go well together, but when it’s on your shoe and not under it, a
banana peel can really be a good thing. The natural oils on the inside of a banana peel can help bring out the
best in our shoes, so don’t throw that peel away yet.Banana Peel
-1 banana peel
-A dry, soft, cloth1. Take a banana peel and rub the inside of it in a circular motion over
your shoes. Let it sit for a minute, and then buff your shoes with a clean
soft cloth. Make sure there is no leftover banana bits on your shoes
when you’re done. 323Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Shoe PolishY ou will need… DirectionsStainless steel looks great in the kitchen-until it gets all smudged up with grease and fingerprints. The cleaners
can get expensive though, especially if you have a lot of steel. The alternative? Vinegar, baby oil/olive oil,
dish soap, and water. The acetic acid in vinegar cuts through anything left behind from the soap (instead of
just smearing it around) while the soap also cuts through the smudges. A few drops of olive oil will give your
appliances a fabulous shine to have them looking new and polished again.Stainless Steel Cleaner
-1/2 cup of water
-1/4 cup of baking soda
-A spray bottle
-2 or 3 good squirts of dish
soap or liquid castile soap
-White distilled vinegar
-A few drops of olive or baby
oil (optional)1. Mix water, baking soda, and several good squirts of mild dish soap or
liquid castile soap in a spray bottle, and give it all a good shake. 2. Spray onto surface and let it sit for a minute. 3. Using a slightly dampened cloth scrub the steel clean. 4. Follow this with a spritz of vinegar to polish it off. A few drops of baby
oil or olive oil on a clean soft cloth rubbed on afterwards will give it a
nice, healthy, glow as well. 324Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Stainless Steel CleanerY ou will need… DirectionsI am going to share a rather embarrassing story with you about chemical
toilet bowl cleaner. Before making the switch to natural cleaners, I had
bought some in a spray can and thoroughly filled my toilet with it. I had
lit a match (one of the best deodorizers in an emergency!) and tossed
it into the toilet, not realizing the implications. With a whoosh flames
erupted all around the rim of the toilet bowl. Frantically huffing and
puffing I blew them out and flushed the toilet. It was a terribly unnerving
experience, not helped by my ever-thoughtful significant other who said
afterwards, “what if you had been sitting on it?!”
Granted this was just an all-around silly situation, and looking back I
really only have myself to blame for being so ignorant, but you live and
you learn. Y our toilet bowl erupting into flames is probably one of the
less-likely


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water will disappear froni the oedematous "B" zone
tissue and move instead to the previously dry anodic
tissue. Compression and peripheral dislocation of ves
sels around the tumour will result from this new move
ment of water. Osmotic inflow of water entering the
degrading tissue will also be enhanced by electroosmo
tic inflow. The phase of liquefaction of the necrotic
tissue now ensues. Under the influence of an elecrric field, the perme
ability of capillaries also changes. Combined with
changes in hydrostatic pressure, the electric field ef
fects will modify local content of water in the various
parts of the electric field. The regional distribution of
water is therefore one factor which is demonstrable by
radiographi cally observable chllllges of radiopacity in pul
monary tissue. Simultaneously, radiographic differences of opacity
are produced also by media other than water. Dehydra
tion around a lung tumour will increase compensawrily the
amount of air around the tumour, radiographically en
hancing the radiolucency of tills water-depleted zone. Changes of radiographic opacity further may he
produced by electrophoretic transport of materials, e.g.,
cellular debris and macromolecules, which may pos
sess varying attenuation coefficients for x-rays. Field-induced increase of c•pillary permeability can
also explain the fmding in angiography of the so-called
contrast enhancement effects (page 176) around neo
plasms, abscesses and haematomas (6, 9, 12). Contrast
enhancement may also be incrt~aS<. '<l by capillary
thromboses, causing blindly ending vascular pockets,
which in turn may lead to redistributi on of blood flow. Spomaneously occurring dymophy of perirumoural tis
sue may follow thromboses in capillaries and other
small vessels near a lesion in the lung during spontane
ously or artificially polari?.ed electropositive phases of
the tissue. Thl'Se electric effects may also enhance
other structural changes in the perirumoural tissues,
e.g., circular displacemem of strucrures, and the devel
opment of "A" and "B" zones. During the elecrrone
gativc: phase these aJtc:ratiom; are abo enhanced by the
development of perifocal oc<lcma, local destru<lion of
red blood cells and their laking of blood pigment (page
180). Vascular narrowing s and thromboses around a po
larizing lung lesion can be demonstrated by densitome
try. In 1946 Marchal (7) reponed that vascular pulsa
tions are often decreased on roentgen densitometry
around carcinomas of the lung. He described this finding
as a sign of malignancy. Now it appears likely that
vascular narrowings and thromboses caused the de·
crease in observed pulsations, which in the present
study have been found to develop spontaneously
200 Corona structures in the lung around polarizing tumours. These elecrric field effects
on vessels are absent around oonpolarizing malignant
rumours. They can, however, also he found around
polarizing granulomas or benign rumours. It is the
author's opinion, therefore, that the decreased pulsa
tions around o tumour are not n volid radiolog ic sign of
malignancy. A VICC-system will also permit electrophoretic trans
ports of anions and caticns in interstitial spaces (Fig. XV: I a). Some of these charged units are nonperme
able, e.g., cells and macromolecules. These oonper·
meable ions accumulate in the inner and outer parts of
the "rumour barrier·", leading to a charge separation
not unlike a Donnan distribution of ions at a semiper·
meable membrane. This analogue includes also a net
accumulation of charge, a "slipping plane" (see Fig. X: 8) outside a polarizing lesion. An excess of counter
ions is then rrapped in the outer boundary of the
rumour barrier and in adjacent surrounding tissue,
panly as an effect of electrophoret ic transports within
the VICC. The "slipping plane" of an outwardly de
creasing concentration of cations will even present an
amount of charge which may exceed the charge of the
central degrading process. This is in turn an effect of
cum. :euu aliun (adsorption ) fun.:cs. The rcsuJliu~ cxce:s.s
of charge of the periphery of such a centrally polariz
ing lesion does not represent thermody namically avail
able energy, except during the time of development of
the "slipping plane". The surface wpography oj a polarizing body influences
structural development by modifying the induced elec
trical forces (page 95). This effect is explained as
follows: when the surface of a charged body has pro
truding edges, so-called c<lge enhancement will devel
op in the electric field. The induced electric field will
become monger along imaginary "field lines" starting
at the protrusions. These.. lines" proceed straight in
the tissue and may alter the configurations of existing
structures. Movable dielectric compounds, e.g., cells,
debris, macromolecules, etc., tend to orient them
selves along the field lines. In this way, radiating
structures will start to develop around any polarizing
degrading tumour or granuloma provided with small
protrusions on its surface. In vivo, such radiating
structures may extend several em into the tissue. This
observation indicates that the electric field is produced
within a closed electric circuit. Corresponding electro
static fields can only influence material close to the
charged body. Experiments with electrically charged bodies and
nonienic corpuscular grains (Chapter X) showed, on
grounding the terntinals, that the grains spontaneously
produced several free zone!, each several millimerres in
diameter, close to the terminal$. These zones were as
cribed to the effects of concentration forces among the
grains. After a potential difference was applied be· tween th: terminals, the grains formed radiating struc
tures by dipole induction in the dielectric material. Arch·
es and arcades were also produced as a consequence of
interactions among concentration forces, edge en·
haneemcnts and the applied electric field forces. The
modulati~n of edge enhancement by supporting matrice<
could also be simulated (Fig. X: 4). Thus far, we have based our discussion mainly on in
vitro experiments of the effects of induced closed elec·
tric circuits on dielectrics, matrices and concentrat ion
forces. The corona structures in vivo are, however,
also partly explained by closed circuit effects on trans·
port of ions. The closed circuit structural changes produced in
vitro wctc also produced in vivo in dogs (Chapter XI)
and demonstrated radiographically in vivo around tu·
mours in patients (Chapters Ill, IV). The structura l
changes are not specific to the biologic type of tissue. As we will see shortly (Chapter XVI), closed circui:
electric forces are also capable of inducing changes in
the quahty of the different components in a tissue. Such mechanisms, for example, are involved in quali·
tativc differentiation of radiatirJg fibrouJ tissue struc
tures. The radiating structures which are radiographically
visible a10und lung tumours can be seen histologica lly
to consis! mainly of fibrotic material (3). This material
contains both retractible hygroscopic fibres and colla·
gen fibres, which are nonhygroscopic. Like ordinary
scar tissue, radiating structures around a lung lesion
may contract. The contraction explains the develop
ment of changes here described as lamellae and retrac
tion pockus filled with pleural fluid (Chapter Ill). Lo
cal dehydration of tissue in the hydropenic zone bas
been interpreted as leading to the contraction of fibro
tic radiating structures. Electrochemical polarization within a BCEC will
produce boundary phenomena at the inner and outer
barriers of a centrally nl'Crotizing tumour. Varying
profiles of potential appear in and around a tumour,
depending