ruit	and
vegetable	intake.
4,	41,	42
Dietary	fiber,	of	course,	only	comes	from	plant-based	foods,	thus	these
findings	put	a	dent	in	the	idea	that	fiber	or	fruits,	vegetables	and	cereals
prevent	large	bowel	cancer.	Keep	in	mind	that	the	Harvard	studies	are	dealing
with	uniformly	carnivorous	populations,	almost	none	of	which	are	using	a
whole	foods,	plant-based	diet	that	is	naturally	low	in	fat	and	high	in	fiber.	It	is
likely	that	the	potential	protective	effect	of
fiber	or	fruits	and	vegetables	does
not	kick	in	against	colorectal	cancer	until	there	is	a	complete	dietary	shift
away	from	an	animal-based	diet.
Between	the	colon	cancer	and	breast	cancer	findings,	the	Nurses’	Health
Study	has	done	much	to	confuse,	if	not	discredit,	the	idea	that	diet	is	related	to
cancer.	After	these	decades	of	work,	Professor	Walt	Willett	says:
…	increasing	fruits	and	vegetables	overall	appears	to	be	less	promising
as	a	way	to	substantially	reduce	cancer	risk.…	the	benefits	[of	these
foods]	appear	greater	for	cardiovascular	disease	than	for	cancer
4
This	statement	sounds	a	bit	ominous.	Colon	cancer,	historically	one	of	the
first	cancers	said	to	be	prevented	by	a	plant-based	diet,
43–45
	now	is	being	said
to	be	unrelated	to	diet?	And	low-fat	diets	don’t	prevent	breast	cancer?	With
results	like	these,	it’s	only	a	matter	of	time	before	the	hypothesis	of	a	dietary
connection	to	cancer	starts	falling	apart.	In	fact,	I	have	already	heard	people
within	the	scientific	community	beginning	to	say	that	diet	may	have	no	effect
on	cancer.
These	are	the	reasons	that	I	believe	that	the	Nurses’	Health	Study	has	done
considerable	damage	to	the	nutrition	landscape.	It	has	virtually	nullified	many
of	the	advances	that	have	been	made	over	the	past	fifty	years	without	actually
posing	a	scientifically	reliable	challenge	to	earlier	findings	regarding	diet	and
cancer.
This	problem	of	studying	a	population	that	uniformly	consumes	a	high-
risk	diet	and	looking	at	the	differences	in	consumption	of	one	nutrient	at	a
time	is	not	unique	to	the	Nurses’	Health	Study.	It	is	common	to	virtually	all
studies	using	Western	subjects.	Furthermore,	there	is	little	or	no	value	to
pooling	the	results	of	many	large	studies	for	analysis	in	order	to	get	a	morereliable	result	if	all	the	studies	have	the	same	flaw.	A	pooling	strategy	is	often
used	for	identifying	cause-and-effect	associations	that	are	more	subtle	and
uncertain	within	single	studies.	This	is	a	reliable	assumption	when	each	study
is	properly	done,	but	obviously	it	is	not	when	all	the	studies	are	similarly
flawed.	The	combined	results	only	give	a	more	reliable	picture	of	the	flaw.
The	Harvard	researchers	have	done	several	of	these	multi-study	pooled
analyses.	One	such	pooled	analysis	concerned	the	question	of	whether	meat
and	dairy	foods	had	any	effect	on	breast	cancer.
26
	A	previous	1993	pooling	of
nineteen	studies
46
	had	shown	a	modest,	statistically	significant	18%	increase
in	breast	cancer	risk	with	increased	meat	intake
and	17%	increase	with
increased	milk	intake.
46
	The	Harvard	researchers	therefore	summarized	in
2002	a	more	recent	group	of	studies,	this	time	including	eight	large
prospective	studies	where	dietary	information	was	thought	to	be	more	reliable
and	where	a	much	larger	group	of	women	was	included.	The	researchers
concluded:
We	found	no	significant	association	between	intake	of	meat	or	dairy
products	and	risk	of	breast	cancer.
26
Most	people	would	say	“Well,	that’s	it.	There	is	no	convincing	evidence
that	meat	and	dairy	foods	are	associated	with	breast	cancer	risk.”	But	let’s
take	another	look	at	this	supposedly	more	sophisticated	analysis.
All	eight	of	these	studies	represented	diets	that	had	a	high	proportion	of
animal-based	foods.	In	effect,	each	study	in	this	pool	was	subject	to	the	same
flaw	from	which	the	Nurses’	Health	Study	suffered.	It	makes	no	sense,	and
does	no	good,	to	combine	them.	In	spite	of	there	being	351,041	women	and
7,379	breast	cancer	cases	in	this	mega-database,	these	results	cannot	detect
the	true	effect	of	diets	rich	in	meat	and	dairy	on	breast	cancer	risk.	This	would
be	true	even	if	there	were	a	few	million	subjects	in	the	study.	Like	the	Nurses’
Health	Study,	these	studies	all	involved	typical	Western	diets	highly	skewed
toward	the	consumption	of	animal-based	foods,	where	people	are	tinkering
with	the	intake	of	only	one	nutrient	or	one	food	at	a	time.	Every	study	failed
to	take	into	account	a	broader	range	of	dietary	choices—including	those
which	demonstrated	positive	effects	on	breast	cancer	risk	in	the	past.IGNORING	MY	CRITIQUE
Once,	after	reading	a	publication	on	animal	protein	and	heart	disease	in	the
Nurses’	Health	Study,
9
	I	published	a	critique
47
	summarizing	some	of	the	same
points	that	I	am	making	in	this	chapter,	including	the	inability	of	the	Nurses’
Health	Study	to	advance	our	understanding	of	the	original	international
correlation	studies.	They	responded,	and	our	exchange	is	as	follows.
First,	my	comment:
Within	a	dietary	range	[so	rich	in	animal-based	foods],	it	makes	no
sense	to	me	that	it	is	possible	to	reliably	detect	the	so-called
independent	associations	of	the	individual	constituents	of	this	group
when	it	can	be	expected	that	they	share	the	same	disease	outcomes
and
when	there	are	so	many	difficult-to-measure	and	interacting	risk	factor
exposures.	When	will	it	be	understood	that	it	is	the	total	diet	and	the
aggregate	and	comprehensive	effects	of	large	food	groups	that	make
the	greatest	contribution	to	the	maintenance	of	health	and	prevention	of
disease?	The	sort	of	reductionism	embodied	in	the	interpretation	of
data	from	this	[Nurses’	Health	Study]	cohort	runs	the	risk	of	severely
misleading	discourse	on	meaningful	public	health	and	public	policy
programs.
47
Then	the	response	from	Dr.	Hu	and	Professor	Willett:
Although	we	agree	that	overall	dietary	patterns	are	also	important	in
determining	disease	risk	(ref.	cited),	we	believe	that	identification	of
associations	with	individual	nutrients	should	be	the	first	step	because	it
is	the	specific	compounds	or	groups	of	compounds	that	are
fundamentally	related	to	the	[disease	process].	Specific	components	of
diet	can	be	modified,	and	individuals	and	the	food	industry	are	actively
doing	so.	Understanding	the	health	effects	of	specific	dietary	changes,
which	Campbell	refers	to	as	“reductionism,”	is	therefore	an	important
undertaking.
48
I	agree	that	studying	the	independent	effects	of	individual	food	substances
(their	identities,	functions,	mechanisms)	is	worthwhile,	but	Willett	and	I
sharply	disagree	with	how	to	interpret	and	use	these	findings.
I	strongly	reject	the	implications	in	Wil


 literal, absolute definition
of the word ‘s in’ is ‘error ’. This later becomes compounded with
religious dictum s, elaborations, and rankings according to alleged
degrees of seriousness and culpability.
Operationally, there is just one single recurrent ‘sin’, which is that of
error, ignorance, misperception, mistake, or miscalculation. It is a
consequence of a limitation of human consciousness. Self-for giveness is
facilitated by humility and acceptance of this limitation. Realistically,
what is usually appropriate is a ‘decent regret’, as was cited by Bill W.,
the famous founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Excessive guilt and
remorse are a d isguised form of egotism in which the self becomes
blown up, exaggerated, and the  hero of the tragedy, the negativity of
which feeds the ego. Therefore,  release from guilt requires sur render of
this bas ic egot ism because the ego reener gizes itself through the
negativity.
Another egoist position is ‘I should have known better ’, which brings in
the hypothetical, which is always fallacious. (All hypothetical positions
calibrate as false.) W allowing in guilt is feeding the ego a nd is an
indulgence. Therefore, there has to be the willingness to surrender it.
In psych ological terms, the source of guilt, as termed by psychoanalysis,
is th e so -called superego, so nam ed by Freud. This is the part of the mind
comprised of introjected judgments, points of view, and learned content.A hype rtrophied superego can  be the source of excessive guilt or
scrupulosity, or it can be projected onto others, which justifies
vindictiveness in extreme form s as revenge against the ‘evil’ enemy.
This rationalizes  killing others as their being ‘deserving’ of dea th, which
is further supported by culturally distributed propaganda and cult-style
brainwashing by  authority figures (e.g., religious terrorists). Severely
low levels of co nsciousness are reached by those persons who fall victim
to a combination of the Luciferic error (pride, distortion of truth) and the
Satanic error (cruelty, savagery ). Thus, the worst ravages of humanity
have oft en been done in the nam e of God (the classic Luciferic inversion
of g ood and ev il). From a developmental viewpoint that reveals the
limitations of the ego, it can be seen that the perpetrators of sav agery are
themselves the victims of rudimentary levels of consciousness.
From an  analysi s of its origins and dynamics, it can be summarized that
guilt is but another form of egotism in which error is inflated i nstead of
being relinquish ed to a higher  power. God is not a sadist, so self-
degradation or self-punishment serves neither God nor one’ s fellowman.
The ‘Gothic’ side of historic Christianity tended to glorify sackcloth,
ashes, a nd suf fering as penance. W ith greater understanding of the ego
and its mechanism, it can be seen that this mechanism is subtly self-
serving and may lead to extremes of asceticism or persecution (e.g., the
Inquisition).
In psych ology, one process of r elieving guilt is called ‘undoing’, which
has to do with bringing up the  punitive superego (conscienc e) into a
more re alistic view of life and compensating for error so it becomes
more benign and less judgmental and punitive.
In an ideal childhood development, the introjected (identified with)
parental figures are not harsh but supportive and loving as teachers. The
punitive superego may also be projected outward as an aggressive,
judgmental, extreme political positionality that propagates by the ‘juice’
of political hatred. Another expression of this error is the socially
pervasive model  of perpetrator/victim that can be superimposed onto any
social situation. In psychoanalysis, such a device is called ‘projection’ in
order to keep th e conflict repressed instead of becoming conscious and
responsible for it.In classical Freudian terminology, the ‘ego’ is understood and
contextualized q uite dif ferently than it is in spiritual terminology. The
Freudian ego is that aspect of the mind that has to deal with  external
reality, a s well as balance and re solve the inner conflicts between the ‘Id’
(primitive drives) and conscience. Thus, psychological health is equated
with having a healthy, realistic, and balanced personality.
When the malignant superego is  ameliorated and becomes benign, it then
sees auth ority as protective and its role as that of teaching. Thu s, it does
not nee d to be projected onto the external world or turned against
oneself.

Guilt and Memory.
As has been d escribed, the dualistic structure of the ego r esults in
perception (edited linear program) being mistaken for reality. (For
example, the reported percentage of error in eyewitness testi mony in
courts is fifty pe rcent.) Memory and recall are not of reality but of one’ s
perceptions at the time.(See Section I, T ruth vs. Falsehood, for more
information.) Although literal historical facts may be recalled correctly,
their meaning is not understood because, if guilt remains, then the events
were not truly understood from the context of a greater Reality.

T ransformation.
While the psychological/sociological explanations are helpful, they do
not explain the true healing that occurs when these lower levels of
consciousness are transcended. By spiritual alignment, the past
circumstances u nderlying the guilt are recontextualized u nder the
influence of spiritual ener gy. Th is process is occasioned by an  exercise
of the spiritual will, which, by its intention, invocation, prayer, and
declaration, initi ates a process that is not of the ego but of the n onlinear
Self. This process is extensively described in A Course in Miracles (cal.
600), and the e xperience is subjectively miraculous, transformational,
and results in a feeling of pe ace and healing. This phenomenon is
facilitated by participation in spiritual groups where the personal
spiritual ener gy  is augmented by the group’ s intention, support, and
spiritual field (e.g., AA calibrates at 540, the level of Unconditional
Love).As attested to by many thousands of people, negative perceptions and
guilt can  thereb y be replaced by  a positive understanding and a shift in
comprehension and memory. This is the basis for the statement
commonly used in such groups, “I see things dif ferently now. ”V ia this
transformation, formerly hated persons can be for given, the formerly
frightening can be seen as peaceful, and hatred is replaced by
compassion for human frailty. A lthough the transformation is invited by
the personal self, it is occasione d by the invocation of the power of the
spiritual will by which the se emingly impossible becomes not only
possible but an experiential actuality.

Understanding the Ego’ s Mechanisms of Dominance.
Illusion is the secondary, automatic consequence of positionality. What
happens in a miraculous transformation is that the positionality dissolves,
allowing for a g reater contextualization, outside of time and place, by
which the linear content is replaced with the nonlinear (context). The
primary underpi nning of the persistence of negativity is the ego ’ s secret
pay-of f from negativity (‘juice’ ). This secret pay-of f is the ego’ s only
source of ener gy, so it sees for giveness, as well as compassion, as the
‘enemy’. (In totalitarian armed forces, no expressions of benevolence,
sympathy, or compassion are allowed as they are considered signs of
weakness and are strictly prohibited.)
In the spiritual world, the basic dictum is, “There are no justified
resentments.” This statement is abhorred by the ego. “Oh yeah, ” it says,
“but wh at about so-and-so?” It then goes through its laundry list and
litany of horrors, violations of ‘rights’, injustices, presumptive ar guments
of ‘e thics’, ‘morality’, etc. Every counselor, sponsor, or professional is
familiar with such recitations. T o recover, the question one has to face is
whether one wishes to cling to it (and thereby get the ‘juice’) or give it
up. This is the point of decision, without which healing cannot occur.
The decision made at this turning point has actual consequenc es in the
brain’ s p hysiology and its capacity to even comprehend the wisdom of
choosing for giveness instead of hate.(See Brain Physiology diagram,
Chapter 9.)
T o help with acceptance of this necessary step, a strong example can be
useful and supportive. Probably the lar gest and most striking example isthat of the vetera ns of W orld W a r II in which the experience of groups as
well as individu al combatants was horrific to the maximal degree. After
the end of the war, the majority of former enemy combata nts very
quickly for gave each other, even formally saluting each other, and
celebrated the end of the conflict. They shook hands in renewed mutual
respect. There were the


 mind has probably done the same, so very egoic
interaction between tow people is in reality the interaction between for
conceptual mind?made entities that are ultimately fictions. It is therefore
not surprising there is so much conflict in relationships. There is no true
relationship.A New Earth
T H E  M O N K  W I T H  S W E A T Y  P A L M S
Kasan, a Zen teacher and monk, was to of ficiate at a funeral of a famous
nobleman. As he stood there waiting for the governor of the province
and other lords and ladies to arrive, he noticed that the palms of his
hands were sweaty.
The next day he called his disciples together and confessed he was not
yet ready to be a true teacher. He explained to them that he still lacked
the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or
king. He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual
identities and see the sameness of being in every human. He then left and
became the pupil of another master. He returned to his former disciples
eight years later, enlightened.A New Earth
H A P P I N E S S  A S  A  R O L E  V S.  T R U E
H A P P I N E S S
How are you? Just great. Couldn't be better. T rue or false?
In many cases, happiness is a role people play, and behind the smiling
facade, there is a great deal of pain. Depression, breakdowns, and
overreactions are common when unhappiness is covered up behind a
smiling exterior and brilliant white teeth, when there is denial,
sometimes even to one's self, that there is much unhappiness.
Just fine is a role the ego plays more commonly in America than in
certain other countries where being and looking miserable is almost the
norm and therefore more socially acceptable. It is probably an
exaggeration, but I am told that in the capital of one Nordic country you
run the risk of being arrested for drunken behavior if you smile at
strangers in the street.
If there is unhappiness in you, first you need to acknowledge that it is
there. But don't say, I'm unhappy. Unhappiness has nothing to do with
who you are. Say: There is unhappiness in me. Then investigate it. A
situation you find yourself in may have something to do with it. Action
may be required to change the situation or remove yourself from it. If
there is nothing you can do, face what is and say, W ell, right now, this is
how it is. I can either accept it, or make myself miserable. The primary
cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be
aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation,
which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or
the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Instead of making up stories,
stay with the facts. For example, I am ruined is a story. It limits you and
prevents you from taking ef fective action. I have fifty cents left in my
bank account is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be aware that
what you think, to a lar ge extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See
the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being
your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeing is
the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from
unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up
stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well?being
and inner peace, the source of true happiness.A New Earth
P A R E N T H O O D :  R O L E  O R  F U N C T I O N?
Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use
silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the
child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more or that you
are bigger does not mean the child is not your equal. The majority of
adults, at some point in their lives, find themselves being a parent, one of
the most universal roles. The all?important question is: Are you able to
fulfill the function of being a parent, and fulfill it well, without
identifying with that function, that is, without it becoming a role? Part of
the necessary function of being a parent is looking after the needs of the
child, preventing the child from getting into danger, and at times telling
the child what to do and not to do. When being a parent becomes an
identity, however, when your sense of self is entirely or lar gely derived
from it, the function easily becomes overemphasized, exaggerated, and
takes you over. Giving children what they need becomes excessive and
turns into spoiling; preventing them from getting into danger becomes
overprotectiveness and interferes with their need to explore the world
and try things out for themselves. T elling children what to do or not to do
becomes controlling, overbearing.
What is more, the role?playing identity remains in place long after the
need for those particular functions has passed. Parents then cannot let go
of being a parent even when the child grows into an adult. They can't let
go of the need to be needed by their child. Even when the adult child is
forty years old, parents can't let go of the notion I know what's best for
you. The role of parent is still being played compulsively, and so there is
no authentic relationship. Parents define themselves by that role and are
unconsciously afraid of loss of identity when they cease being parents. If
their desire to control or influence the actions of their adult child is
thwarted as it usually is they will start to criticize or show their
disapproval, or try to make the child feel guilty, all in an unconscious
attempt to preserve their role, their identity. On the surface it looks as if
they were concerned about their child, and they themselves believe it,
but they are only really concerned about preserving their role?identity.All egoic motivations are self?enhancement and self?interest, sometimes
cleverly disguised, even from the person in whom the ego operates.
A mother or father who identifies with the parental role may also try to
become more complete through their children. The ego's need to
manipulate others into filling the sense of lack it continuously feels is
then directed toward them. If the mostly unconscious assumptions and
motivations behind the parent's compulsion to manipulate their children
were made conscious and voiced, they would probably include some or
all of the following: I want you to achieve what I never achieved; I want
you to be somebody in the eyes of the world, so that I too can be
somebody through you. Don't disappoint me. I sacrificed so much for
you. My disapproval of you is intended to make you feel so guilty and
uncomfortable that you finally conform to my wishes. And it goes
without saying that I know what's best for you. I love you and I will
continue to love you if you do what I now is right for you.
When you make such unconscious motivations conscious, you
immediately see how absurd they are. the ego that lies behind them
becomes visible, as does its dysfunction. Some parents that I spoke to
suddenly realized, My God, is this what I have been doing? Once you
see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and
that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. A wareness is the
greatest agent for change.
If your parents are doing this to you, do not tell them they are
unconscious and in the grip of the ego. That will likely make them even
more unconscious, because the ego will take up a defensive position. It is
enough for you to recognize that it is the ego in them, that it is not who
they are. Egoic patterns, even long?standing ones, sometimes dissolve
almost miraculously when you don't oppose them internally. Opposition
only gives them renewed strength. But even if they don't, you can then
accept your parents' behavior with compassion, without needing to react
to it, that is to say, without personalizing it.
Be aware also of your own unconscious assumptions or expectations that
lie behind your old, habitual reactions to them. My parents should
approve of what I do. They should understand me and accept me for who
I am. Really? Why should they? The fact is they don't because they can't.
Their evolving consciousness hasn't made the quantum leap to the levelof awareness yet. They are not yet able to disidentify from their role.
Y es, but I can't feel happy and comfortable with who I am unless I have
their approval and understanding. Really? What dif ference does their
approval or
disapproval truly make to who you are? All such unexamined
assumptions cause a great deal of negative emotion, much unnecessary
unhappiness.
Be alert. Are some of the thoughts that go through your mind the
internalized voice of your father or mother, saying perhaps something
like, Y ou are not good enough. Y ou will never amount to anything, or
some other judgment or mental position?


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cle, the staff at Agape Spiritual Center, and the assistants and staff
of all the teachers featured in The Secret.
My precious friends for their love and support: Marcy Koltun-
Crilley, Margaret Rainone, Athena Golianis and John Walker,
Elaine Bate, Andrea Keir, and Michael and Kendra Abay. And my
amazing family: Peter Byrne; my very special sisters: Jan Child
for her invaluable help with this book, Pauline Vernon, Kaye Izon
(deceased), and Glenda Bell, who is always by my side and whose
love and support knows no limits. My courageous and beauti-
ful mother, Irene Izon, and in memory of my father, Ronald Izon,
whose light and love continue to shine through our lives.
And finally to my daughters, Hayley and Skye Byrne. To Hayley,
who was responsible for the beginning of my life and its true jour-
ney, and to Skye, who followed my footsteps in the creation of this
book, and who brilliantly edited and transformed my words. My
daughters are the precious jewels of my life, and they illuminate
every breath I take through their very existence. 4 JOHN ASSARAF
ENTREPRENEUR AND MONEYMAKING EXPERT
We can have whatever it is that we choose. 1 don't
care how big it is. You can have, do, or be anything you want. BOB PROCTOR
PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR, AND PERSONAL COACH
The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness,
health, and wealth.
METAPHYSICIAN, MARKETING SPECIALIST, AND
AUTHOR DR. JOE VITALE The Secret
What kind of a house do you want to live in? Do you want
to be a millionaire? What kind of a business do you want to
have? Do you want more success? What do you really want?
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI
PHILOSOPHER, CHIROPRACTOR, HEALER, AND
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST
This is the Great Secret of Life.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY
PSYCHOLOGIST AND TRAINER IN THE FIELD OF
MIND POTENTIAL
The leaders in the past who had The Secret wanted
to keep the power and not share the power. They kept
people ignorant of The Secret. People went to work, they
did their job, they came home. They were on a treadmill with
no power, because The Secret was kept in the few.
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
VISIONARY AND FOUNDER OF AGAPE
INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CENTER
I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Throughout history there have been many who coveted the knowl-
edge of The Secret and there have been many who found a way of
spreading this knowledge to the world. JACK CANFIELD
AUTHOR, TEACHER, LIFE COACH, AND
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
Alt of this happened because of knowing how to
apply The Secret. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental
healing, healing of relationships.
BOB PROCTOR
You've probably been sitting there wondering, "What is The
Secret?" ill tell you how I've come to understand it.
We all work with one infinite power. We all guide ourselves
by exactly the same laws. The natural laws of the universe
are so precise that we don't even have any difficulty building
spaceships, we can send people to the moon, and we can time
the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second.
Wherever you are—India, Australia, New Zealand,
Stockholm, London, Toronto, Montreal, or New York—we're
all working with one power. One Law. It's attraction! The Secret Revealed 3 4 The Secret
The greatest teachers who have ever lived have told us that the law
of attraction is the most powerful law in the Universe.
Poets such as William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and William
Blake delivered it in their poetry. Musicians such as Ludwig van
Beethoven expressed it through their music. Artists such as Leo-
nardo da Vinci depicted it in their paintings. Great thinkers includ-
ing Socrates, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pythagoras, Sir Francis
Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Victor
Hugo shared it in their writings and teachings. Their names have
been immortalized, and their legendary existence has survived
centuries.
Religions, such as Hinduism, Hermetic traditions, Buddhism,
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and civilizations, such as the
ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, delivered it through their writ-
ings and stories. Recorded throughout the ages in all its forms, the The Secret is the law of attraction!
Everything that's coming into your life you are attracting
into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images
you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking.
Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.
"Every thought of yours is a real thing—a force." The Secret Revealed 5
law can be found in ancient writings through all the centuries. It
was recorded in stone in 3000 BC. Even though some coveted this
knowledge, and indeed they did, it has always been there for any
one to discover.
The law began at the beginning of time. It has always been and will
always be.
It is the law that determines the complete order in the Universe,
every moment of your life, and every single thing you experience
in your life. It doesn't matter who you are or where you are, the
law of attraction is forming your entire life experience, and this all-
powerful law is doing that through your thoughts. You are the one
who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through
your thoughts.
In 1912 Charles Haanel described the law of attraction as "the
greatest and the most infallible law upon which the entire system
of creation depends."
BOB PROCTOR
Wise people have always known this. You can go right back
to the ancient Babylonians. They've always known this. It's a
small select group of people.
The ancient Babylonians and their great prosperity have been
well documented by scholars. They are also known for creating
one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens 6 The Secret
of Babylon. Through their understanding and application of the
laws of the Universe, they became one of the wealthiest races in
history.
BOB PROCTOR
Why do you think that 1 percent of the population earns
around 96 percent of all the money that's being earned? Do
you think that's an accident? It's designed that way. They
understand something. They understand The Secret, and now
you are being introduced to The Secret.
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret,
whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of
abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory
thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts
are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in
their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant
thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law
of attraction in action.
A perfect example to demonstrate The Secret and the law of attrac-
tion in action is this: You may know of people who acquired mas-
sive wealth, lost it all, and within a short time acquired massive
wealth again. What happened in these cases, whether they knew
it or not is that their dominant thoughts were on wealth; that is
how they acquired it in the first instance. Then they allowed fear-
ful thoughts of losing the wealth to enter their minds, until those
fearful thoughts of loss became their dominant thoughts. They
tipped the scales from thinking thoughts of wealth to thinking The Secret Revealed
thoughts of loss, and so they lost it all. Once they had lost it how-
ever, the fear of loss disappeared, and they tipped the scales back
with dominant thoughts of wealth. And wealth returned.
The law responds to your thoughts, no matter what they may be.
JOHN ASSARAF
The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if
I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet wilt
attract to it
You are the most powerful magnet in the Universe! You contain a
magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything
in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted
through your thoughts.
BOB DOYLE
AUTHOR AND LAW OF ATTRACTION SPECIALIST
Basically put, the law of attraction says that like attracts
like. But we're really talking at a level of thought.
The law of attraction says like attracts like, and so as you think a
thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you. Here are more BOB DOYLE 8 The Secret
examples you may have experienced of the law of attraction in
your life:
Have you ever started to think about something you were not
happy about, and the more you thought about it the worse it
seemed? That's because as you think one sustained thought, the
law of attraction immediately brings more like thoughts to you. In a
matter of minutes, you have gotten so many like unhappy thoughts


 from the outside through the middle of your
breastbone towards your spine, while during exhalation you imagine that it moves out again through the same point. After a while you
may feel some pressure or warmth in that area and then you concentrate on this feeling and intensify it.
When thoughts arise, just let them drift past like small white clouds on a blue sky without paying any attention to them; the same with
outside noises, just ignore them. Initially meditate for only 5-10 minutes but gradually extend this to 30 and even 60 minutes, as long10/30/24, 4:46 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Mind Therapies
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is an example of a meditation using guided imagery.
Healing and Love Meditation
Sit or lie relaxed but with a straight spine. Take some slow, full breaths; mentally follow each breath as it continues to ﬂow quietly in
and out on its own. Feel how your body gradually becomes immersed in cozy warmth - you may imagine being in a warm bath.
Then concentrate on the idea that with each inhalation vital energy or prana begins to ﬁll the body. Direct this energy into your
abdomen and feel it becoming very warm. After this, you direct the pleasant feeling energy stream to those areas of the body that are
especially in need of healing.
Finally, you concentrate on the middle of the chest where you create a feeling of intense love and compassion. You may initiate this
feeling by remembering an actual situation or person that invoked such feelings in you previously. After a while you forget the actual
memory and feel love and compassion in an abstract way.
Now imagine that you radiate these  feelings, like being a sun, just radiating love and compassion instead of light and warmth. You
radiate these to all your body areas in need of healing as well as to the outside, ﬁlling the room, the house and ﬁnally all the world.
Realize that you are not the originator of this powerful energy ﬂow, but just a channel through which it emerges from higher
dimensions.
Chakra Meditation
Instead of or in addition to conventional meditation, try the exercises described in The Love Cure. In particular, focus on the energy
center or chakra that dominates the region where the cancer is located. With cancer of the breast and lungs, for instance, focus on
the heart center, with cancer of the liver, pancreas, stomach or upper abdomen on the solar plexus, with cancer of the sexual organs
or glands on the sacral center, and with cancer of the lower bowel also on the base center. With brain tumors activate the head
chakras, and with throat cancer the throat center. For more information see The Chakra System.
Centering
Frequently during the day try to recall the feeling of love and warm conte ntment enjoyed during meditation. If you are not yet able to
do this, try to keep part of your attention focused on your forehead or heart center, or just on your breath while performing your daily
activities.
Initially you may just repeat an afﬁrmation over and over in your mind, this is called a mantra. You may inwardly say: 'I am healed' or
'God loves me' or 'Jesus Christ', preferably in a very short but highly meaningful statement. Even more helpful than repeating a
mantra in your head, is to project it into your heart center and repeat it there.
A highly recommended exercise is to feel and send love from your heart. Whenever you meet someone or think of someone, smile
and silently say: "God bless you" while feeling a wave of love or joy or compassion radiating from your heart center. Another exercise
is to think of someone and extend your arms with palms forward in the so-called Madonna gesture. Again, smile and feel the love, joy
or compassion in your heart. During the day remember this feeling of love in your heart and focus on it.
Initially you may forget a hundred times a day to center, but a hundred times something inside you causes you to remember, until
gradually you can remain centered most of the time, except during concentrated mental activities. Being centered allows us to gather
our energies and gives us strength, poise and serenity; we are more alert, intuitive, mentally and emotionally balanced.
Karezza
Most cancer patients are emotionally rather fragile, and beneﬁt greatly from a close-bonding loving relationship. With a suitable
partner Karezza can provide this in an easy and pleasant way; with Karezza we can be in love everyday. When we radiate love, we
feel invincible, and disease processes cannot touch us.
High levels of testosterone are a negative factor with prostate cancer, while high estrogen levels are detrimental with most breast
cancers. It has now been shown that when we are in love (or create a feeling of love as with Karezza), hormone levels in both
genders become more like each other. In males testosterone levels fall to make them less aggressive, gentler and more spiritual.
Females, on the other hand, produce more testosterone, which makes them bolder, and helps to balance excessive estrogen levels.
In Karezza the emphasis is on the inner feeling awareness as well as on the feeling of complete union with the partner. Orgasm is
avoided or at least minimized. Care sses and slow controlled movements during intercourse generate a steady stream of sexual
energy that is consciously converted into feelings of sublime joy and love. Typically, this may continue for an hour or more. It is not
necessary for the penis to be erect or even inside to enjoy this type of lovemaking. Part or all of the time the tip of the penis may just
touch the entrance of the vagina, or the sexual organs may not touch at all.
Initially concentrate awareness on the sensations at the point of conta ct with the partner, especially in the genital area but also
wherever the skin or a caressing hand touches. This generates pleasant  sensations, which can now easily be converted into a loving
feeling. Open your heart and radiate this love out to your partner, and also envelop both of you in a cloud of love. You may also lie
quietly connected, just to relax and feel close, cared for and protected, without attempting to generate any speciﬁc effects. Preferably
do this daily. For more information see www.reuniting.info.
A Spiritual Philosophy
A spiritual philosophy is our basic belief system about the nature and purpose of our existence. Everyone has a philosophy of life that
forms the basis of their decisions and actions, even if they are not consciously aware of it. With a spiritual philosophy of life we try to10/30/24, 4:46 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Mind Therapies
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I suggest that you contemplate the following outline of a spiritual philosophy as a basis for your healing efforts, suitably modiﬁed
according to your present religious and spiritual beliefs.
Our existence is meaningful and has purpose. This purpose can be expressed in different ways, such as learning to do the will of
God, following Christ, becoming one with our Source or just learning to lead a spiritual life, and manifesting the spiritual attributes of
love and faith.
Whatever it is, it requires a conscious effort, and our health problems show us what we need to learn and provide the opportunity to
advance spiritually. Disease cannot continue to exist if we learn to live in harmony with the natural and divine laws that govern our
existence.
Our individual life-stream is more or less eternal, our consciousness continues to grow and expand. It does not need a physical body
for this. We can live in an etheric body, an astral body, a light body, gaining experiences on many different levels of consciousness.
Our present personality is only a small part of our whole Self, and the goal of our spiritual journey is to become aware of all of
ourselves. Therefore, there is nothing to fear, nothing to lose, we can only gain in experience and expanded consciousness.
Attitude
I regard attitude as the most important single factor in cancer therapy. But what is the right attitude?
The key features are self-responsibility, taking responsibility for our life, and a willingness to learn, improve ourselves, and do
whatever needs to be done.
Regard your disease as an opportunity to learn and grow, not as a punis hment. Whatever the ﬁnal outcome, we can greatly advance
on all levels of our being by seeing our therapy as a great learning and healing adventure, something exciting that stirs us up to bring
all of our inner resources to the surface.
Do not focus on ﬁghting your cancer. Do what needs to be done but focus instead on improving your health.
The main goal is not to save our body, but our soul. Healing the body is just a side effect of healing our soul. We have a willingness to
learn, to change, to do whatever is required to become whole in body, mind and spirit. We will have succeeded when we can ﬁll our
daily lives with love, joy, peace and serenity, regardless of what happens ultimately with our body. But having transformed yourself in
this way, you are much less likely to die of cancer.
Changing Reality
Your reality is that you have been diagnosed as having cancer, and you


occur in the middle of the menstrual cycle. Dr. Rock felt, how
ever, that the statistical evidence was valid; and therefore any
changes in electro-metrics of the living patient, not in the middle
of the cycle, could not be related to ovulation. This terminated
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Dr. Rock's experiment, much to our dismay, but we persisted,
nevertheless, in our study.
With the help of Dr. Dorothy Barton, an extended study
was Illade of a group of women in the New Haven Hospital,
most of whom were nurses living a fairly rigorous existence, with
more regularity than most of us undergo. These women included
subjects of all ages. Some of them were post-menopausal.
One of the interesting consequences of this study was the fact
that about thirty per cent of the women seemed to ovulate in the
middle of the cycle, granting the validity of the electro-metric
technique. But in all probabili ty-accor ding to electrical measure
ments-twa-thirds of the women ovulated over the entire men
strual cycle, even during the menses. This was at variance with
the endocrinological theory of ovulation and was difficult for
many people to accept.
Women over the menstrual period and in the non-fertile
period and those in the so-called menopause, showed no such
electro-metric changes with the passage of time. This was true
whether the menopause was the natural one or one resulting
from surgery of the generative tract.
For a number of years measurements were made on patients,
sent in by surrounding doctors, to time ovulation in their par
ticular instances. One of the patients sent to us was one who had
been married for a number of years without issue. The question
was raised, of course, as to the reason for the infertility. Though
all the known techniques of that time were employed no signifi
cant fact was uncovered to explain why there was no fertile result.
The patient was taught to make the measurements herself and
did them religiously once a day, day-after-day, for many months.
At no time was there any evidence of voltage variations. Subse
quently, when a laparotomy was required, it was found that the
patient had atrophied ovaries, apparently caused by their early
involvement in tuberculosis. At no time had she ovulated and
there were no electro-metric changes.
This raises the question of the necessarily causal relationship
between ovulation and the onset of menst ruation. In the group
of patients studied, moreover, while the great majority showed
fairly regular menstrual periods of the average length, there were
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a number whose menstrual histories were very irregular. One
patient in particular exhibited menstruation only three times in
a year, and yet during that year there were three instances where
there was a marked electro-metric change unrelated to the onset of
menstruation itself and suggested that ovulation had occurred.
The evidence is clear. Like brain waves and heart waves, electro
metric changes occur during ovulation and can be recorded in
the living subject. Furthermore, the results show that ovulation
may take place at any time in the menstrual cycle, although in
the majority of women studied the ovulation record showed the
usual mid-cycle peak. It is equally clear that there is no necessary
relationship between ovulation and menstruation, for either may
exist without the other; ovulation may occur without menstrua
tion and menses without ovulation.
5
Published reports of our experiments with women were read
by the distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Louis
Langman, of New York University and Bellevue HospitaL As a
result, he carne to the writer's laboratory and discussed the ques
tion of whether or not the electro-metric timing of ovulation
could be used in connection with artificial insemina tion. More
over, because the reports indicated that electro-metric records
suggested relationship between the developing ovaries and its
follicle, he further questioned whether or not they might not be
used to detect cancer. The result was a rewarding and very fruit
ful association over a number of years.
Starting with the assumption that the electro-metric peaks
occurring during the menstrual cycle of normal women indicated
ovulation, Dr. Langman decided to use the technique as a means
of determining when best to employ artificial insemination. As
a result, he was equipped with the necessary technical apparatus,
including the electrode, the high input impedance amplifier and
the G. E. photoelectric recorder.
Since Dr. Langman had had indifferent success in a series of
ten cases, using other timing procedures, artificial insemination
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was attempted in those instances when the electro-metric shift
indicated that ovulation had recently occurred. To his and our
delight, the average of successes was considera bly higher using
the electro-metric technique than that employed by other
methods of timing ovulation.
It seemed clear, however, that Dr. Langman's main interest
was not only in the timing of ovulation, but also in the problem
of malignancy in the generative tract in women.
Fortunately, through a grant, and with the cooperation of the
Bellevue Hospital Gynaecological Service, more than a hundred
patients were examined electro-metrically. The records were
kept carefully and a marked voltage gradient between cervix of
the uterus and a reference electrode on the ventral abdominal
wall often appeared on the recording galvanometer.
After a sufficient number of tests had been run to make sure
we were dealing with a valid finding, Dr. Langman and his
assistant examined something in the neighbourhood of one
thousand patients. These patients were on the wards of the
hospital and were subject to a variety of syndromes. They in
cluded fibromas, as well as the usual run of pathological events
in the generative tract of these women. In those that showed a
marked change in the voltage gradient between the cervix and
the ventral abdominal wall, careful watch was kept through sub
sequent laparotomy.
There were a hundred and two cases where there was a sig
nificant shift in the voltage gradient, suggesting malignancy.
Surgical con�rmation was found in ninety-�ve of the hundred
and two cases.
The actual position of the malignancy varied all the way from
the fundus, to the tubes and to the ovarian tissue itself. It is
interesting to note that the electro-metric evidence of sharp volt
age change occurred in malignancies found not only in the im
mediate vicinity of the cervix but also through all the rest of
the generative tract, including the ovary itself. Thus we had an
astonishingly high percentage of successful identification of
r:J.alignancy in the generative tract, confirmed by biopsy.
The fact tha t malignancy in the ovarian tissue was recognized
electro -metrically, and confirmed by biopsy-even though the
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malignant tissue was several centimet res distant from the active
electrode in contact with the cervix-is in line with the dista nt
readings of the EKe and EEe. The order of magnitude of these
changes in voltage gradient was such that the possibility of
changing pH of the generative tract could be ruled out.
Surprisingly enough, these findings were never picked up in
the literature and have not been extended further or repeated
under other conditions. This probably is because it is difficult for
people to recognize that these changes represent changes in the
�eld of the system; and, therefore-as in the case of the EKe and
the EEe-the active electrode need not be in direct contact with
the tissue which is showing the greatest changes in voltage
gradient.
It took over thirty years before the EKe was perfected to the
point where it could become a useful adjunct in the clinician's
office. By that time the empirical results were so clear-cut that
the value of the electro-cardiogram could not be questioned. The
explanation of EKe, however, has never been really unravelled
satisfactorily. The fact that the electrodes do not have to be in
contact with the heart, that the change is exceedingly rapid and
cannot be explained by electro-phoresis or any of the other simple
answers to the transmission of changes of voltage gradient, was
finally ignored because of the value of the empirical results.
Similarly, in the case of the electrical ovulation changes and
the malignancy changes in the generative tract of women, it is
not necessary for the electrode to be in direct contact with the
tissue showing the great change. But the voltage-change is trans
mitted over a distance promptly and in such a form that at
present the only successful explanation is that the electro
metric characters of tissue, in general, and of the generative
tract, in particular, are transmitted by the primary electro
dynamic field.
6
The results reported above suggested that the relationship be
tween ovulation and menstruation was not on quite such a firm
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foundation as had been generally assumed. There can be no ques
tion that the chemistry of the endocrines is an important factor
in these activities of the generative tract. Primarily, however,
the chemistry provides the energy necessary for these activities,
and it has been almost entirely overlooked


 friends or, at least, people he knew. He simply
told them what he had done to help himself. He had "been there" and knew first
hand the agony a cancer patient experiences. Here were people in desperate need of
help. If he knew something that might ease their pain at all, he felt it was his moral
duty to tell them. And many of those who did what he said got well.
People came to see Dr. Kelley in increasing numbers, and they weren't looking to
have braces put on their kids' teeth. Since he had to earn a living for his family but
still felt a moral obligation to help anyone he could, he wrote a slim booklet in 1969
entitled One Answer To Cancer.  In it was the story of his personal encounter with
malignancy and the theoretical explanation of the procedures he used in getting well.
After the publication of One Answer To Cancer,  things really started to happen. As
you might imagine, the American Medical Association, the State Board of Dental
Examiners, and a host of other health-oriented organizations began to get hostile. He
endured a great deal of persecution during this time, and found himself in quite a
dilemma. On one hand, the number of individuals seeking his help was ever
increasing; on the other, charges of "practicing medicine without a license" were
being leveled at him. Eventually, he began seeing cancer patients for a living and
started charging for his services. However, he saw only those people whose doctors
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had referred their patients to him. He consulted with the individual as well as the
physician involved, always working well within the law. At the last count with which
I  am familiar, he has worked with over 33,000 patients in this way.
Dr. Kelley's case load has always been predictably lopsided; until recently, the
only patients who came to him did so after being advised that there was nothing left
to do but buy their burial plots and make out their wills. They had tried everything
else before coming to see him. It is really amazing that he was able to save any of
them at all. A great many of those early patients are alive and well today, singing his
praises to anyone who w ill listen. In the cases of those who he was not able to save,
their quality of life was still drastically improved. Many who succumbed to their
illnesses did so without the reality-distorting drugs they once took for pain relief.
Noting this, many of their relatives became vocal supporters of my father's work as
well.
Dad has helped blaze a trail; he has been a genuine pioneer in his field. I  think the
phrase "health food nut" must have been coined specifically to describe him. It is
difficult now to remember how "far out" his concepts were considered in 1969. Just
as women today take for granted the rights their forerunners worked so hard to win, it
is easy to forget that Dad preached health foods and ecology long before it became
"chic" to do so. When I  was growing up, many of my friends asked me why I  never
had acne at all; I  was too embarrassed to tell them. I  must admit I  am shocked to see
things I  was forced to consume and used to hide frantically (such as granola or carrot
juice) not only socially acceptable but become socially desirable!
When friends came over to play with my sisters and me, there were no snacks we
felt comfortable offering them. There was food in the house, to be sure, but nothing
they might recognize. The milk in the refrigerator was raw goat's milk (we had a goat
in the backyard — that by itself caused a great deal of comment). My mother milled
wheat to make her own flour to bake her own bread. Instead of sugar, the sweetener
our family used was blackstrap molasses. Carob brownies are terrific, but if I  offered
them, I  would have to explain that chocolate was not allowed in our house. People
thought my parents were crazy, and I  didn't really disagree.
Moreover, it wasn't just that we ate differently, Dad used the members of our
family as guinea pigs to check out every new theory he came across in his research.
For instance, he had all the silver fillings taken out of my mouth and replaced with
gold. There had been quite a bit of silver in there, so the procedure took a long time
and was very expensive. I  didn't understand why he wanted to do this, nor did I
bother to ask for an explanation. Nothing Dad did at this time made sense to my
sisters or me; we just rolled our eyes and did as we were told. Just within the last
year, however, I  have heard the news that the composition of silver fillings changes
over time, sometimes producing the same symptoms as does mercury poisoning. This
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is just one example out of hundreds. I  am still discovering on a daily basis just how
much ahead of his time my father has been, and now I  can appreciate the courage it
must have taken to adhere to the truths he found.
Dr. Kelley has never refused any patient. His philosophy is: "Where there's life,
there's hope." When actor Steve McQueen came to him for help, he did not turn him
away although he knew that accepting the man as a patient was actually very
dangerous. McQueen had a rare form of cancer, mesothelioma, which, to date, is
always fatal. Again, he had been told to "get his affairs in order" by every physician
he had seen; they offered him no hope. All the medical community could offer Mr.
McQueen was a short delay of the inevitable by using surgery and chemotherapy.
Steve McQueen was not unlike the rebel and the fighter he portrayed on-screen.
Rejecting the concept of lying in a hospital bed, passively awaiting death, he
preferred to fight to live, even in the face of odds no one could deny. Too, he had
seen his friends (specifically, John Wayne) undergo the procedures the doctors
recommended. He wanted no part of the slow, painful mutilation that held no hope
of survival.
The last thing anyone involved wanted was that the story of McQueen's illness and
subsequent treatment be leaked to the press. McQueen himself did not want the
public to know he was ill; the people surrounding him did not want the star to be
linked with the controversial treatment he was receiving. Dad didn't want to go
public with a famous patient whose chances of survival were so slim. He knew that if
he lost a patient of McQueen's stature, that particular death would be all the public
would remember; the lives he had saved would be overlooked entirely.
But that bastion of American Journalism, The National Enquirer,  unearthed the
story. Possessing an intense hatred for the tabloid, McQueen insisted that he be
allowed to break the news before the Enquirer  could go to press. He wanted to tell his
fans about his illness himself.
Steve McQueen died November 7, 1980, from complications arising after surgery
performed for the purpose of removing dead tumor masses.
The majority of the media never did get the story straight. They had a field day with Dr.
Kelley. I  will never forget watching the Today Show  and seeing my father sit there, verbally
brutalized by Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley, watching him say virtually nothing in his own
defense. He had known the probable outcome of the situation and took the abuse as if it
were his due. In reality, all he had done was try, to the best of his ability, to help another
human being who had no other avenue open. Tom Snyder gave him a fair hearing, and so
did several others; but such was the exception, not the rule.
Dad received a great deal of unexpected support from his old patients and their
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relatives, though; and I  w ill never forget that either. He was swamped with their calls,
letters, and gifts. They stood up to be counted; but, unfortunately, no one really cared
about the lives Dr. Kelley saved — Steve McQueen was dead.
I  worked with my father at the International Health Institute, a privately owned
foundation conducting research in natural healing. When people calling there
discovered that my last name is "Kelley," I  am in for an earful of praise for my father.
They launch into hour-long dissertations about how wonderful Dr. Kelley is and how
his work improved or saved lives of loved ones. It seems to be very important to these
callers that Dr. Kelley's daughter should understand and appreciate the magnitude of
his work; they all take upon themselves the personal responsibility of informing me
who he is and what he has done. He receives thousands of cards and presents each
year from people he no longer remembers. They remember him, though; and they are
grateful for his help.
But no one is more grateful than I. My "healthy childhood" may have caused me a
little embarrassment from time to time, but it has stood me in good stead. Dad has
taught me to search for the truth, even if it means questioning what others readily
accept. I  w ill always be thankful that my father had the insight to find the truth, and
the courage to say so.
Dallas,


and joy.
Recontextualization settles the problems that man
has talked about having to do with sexuality because,
in the subtlety of that inner experience is the recon
nection with the joy ofour innocence.The whole ques
tion of whether God approves of sex disappears.
In the experience of that aliveness, oneness, and
joy, as one moves up to an infinite state of inner peace
and completion (because completion is peace), it is
found that peace is that sense of absolute oneness and
the rejoining with oneness. Within the sexuality that
arises out of the heart is the return to the experience
of being complete. It is the mystical quality oftranscen
dence, a sense of unlimited everywhereness.
When that sense of oneness occurs, it is as though
we transcend all of time, as ifwe have been all of men
forever and all of women forever. We own the source;
we arethatoutofwhichtheexperience arises.We are
no longer at the effect of it but the expression of it,
with its incredible sacredness and beauty.There is the
subtlety of that inner experience as we look ~ithin.
How can this be made practical? Does it sound
like fantasy, like the mystical or the unreal? Does it
sound mythical, perhaps, and not really of men and
women?.There are certain practical ways in which
one can move into it.A way to unfocus from the local196 HEALING AND RECOVERY
ized physicality of the body arises out of the ancient
traditional meditative technique of focusing your
attention on the pOint one inch below your navel and
keeping it there throughout the entire experience. Just
try it. That is a point the Japanese call the 'hara'. It is
used in martial arts where one's foc'us or centeredness
is. Instead of paying attention to the movements of the
body, the manipulations, and the endless anxieties, con
centrate and fix the attention on that spot one inch
below the navel. Hold your attention there no matter
what is happening, and you will fmd that you are some
what removed now. In this state, one becomes the
autonomous participant/observer. The entire experi
ence now takes on a whole different dimension. It is
now spontaneously happening within you, but instead
of being focused on the local, you are now experienc
ing from a more generalized energy field. Try this as a
way to move from that local experience on up to the
heart.Just move into that point called ohara' and notice
the change in the quality of the experience.
When we move out of the localization, we move
into a different energy field. The entire experience is
then one of expansion, an expanded experience
much greater in intensity, much more fulfIlling and
gratifying, subsequent to which we feel joyful and
grateful instead of satisfied. The difference is grati
tude, which is akin to joy. Instead ofthe satisfaction of
desire, which often leaves people with a sense ofloss,
there is sadness.Why does it leave one with a sense of
sadness, loss, incompletion, and lack? It is the result of
putting the source of our sexuality out there some
place in the world instead of re-owning it as part of SEXUALITY
that which we are.The sense of innocence that arises
then puts us back in the Garden of Eden as though
we have not eaten the apple from the tree of good
and evil. It is as though it takes us out of the field of
carnality and puts us back into the field of inno
cence and the awareness of the truth of that which
we truly are. It is, therefore, one of the greatest of
human experiences.
This demonstrates the principle that it is not the
events of life or what is happening but how we con
textualize them that determines the nature of the
experience, whether it is a guilt-inducing, frustrating,
anxiety-provoking, neurotic type of dysfunction, or it
is one of the greatest human experiences. CHAPTER 7
The Aging Process
How does the relationship between body, mind, and
spirit correlate with the aging process? We will learn
how to identify with the aspect of ourselves that is real
and to let go ofthose identifications with that which is
unreal.
Where is it that a human experiences experience?
When our research addressed that area, it was found
that we are not subject to many things that the world
holds to be inevitable.
Aging is a series of identifications as well as pro
grams, stereotypes, behavioral patterns, and scripts.
That which experiences life has no age and is not
subject to aging.We have to ask ourselves ifwe are that
which we are experiencing or if we are the experi
encers. There are the middle-age myths, health pat
terns, sexual patterns, and weight problems that
supposedly occur in middle age to consider, as well as
the statement that the body does what the mind
believes, along with the physics relating to that. Several
facts and ideas will be considered, such as the fact that
the body is really the effect and not the cause and is
subject to what one holds in mind.There is freedom of
choice to elect these various patterns. There is the
adopting of family and social patterns and the influ
ence they have on one's thoughts and beliefs about
longevity.
Feeling that one's life is a contribution or a sharing
makes a difference and is of value. There are some
hypnosis experiments to review; along with some odd
199 200 HEALING AND RECOVERY
things that have occurred in science, including a clini
cal example called 'progeria', and what that means to
us.Aging will be considered asa class phenomenon. We
will also look at sex and age.The whole field of aging
preoccupies everyone as they grow older, and the facts
and fantasies can be examined and redefmed utilizing
the knowledge of the nature of consciousness itself.
The Map of Consciousness again provides an orien
tation to the subject of human behavior and 'who I
am'.To review, the chart is a numerical model showing
the relative strengths, directions of the energy fields of
the levels of consciousness, and their relative power,
starting with death at zero and Bliss at 600, for exam
pie. Apathy at 50 is weaker than fear at 100. Fear has
much less energy than that of Courage at 200.
At Neutral, everything is okay yet has less energy
than Love at 500. Below the level of Courage, or the
capacity to tell the truth, all the energy fields are in a
negative direction, and above this critical level, all
the energy fields go upward. In other words, positive
energy fields are those that nurture, support, and value
life, and hold it as sacred.
The energy fields below 200 are opposed to life, do
not support life, and in fact, at the bottom of the chart,
they become very destructive. Loss of energy, loss of
spirit, deflation, entrapment, inflation, and expansion
are all negative· processes and lead to viewing the
world in a negative way. They also lead to seeing God
in a very negative way or even denying Divinity.
It is necessary to restate the relationship between
body, mind, and spirit to see what this really means
because it is very important in looking at the aging 201 THE AGING PROCESS
process. It is necessary to know and realize through
one's inner reflection and contemplation that the body
is unable to experience itself.This cannot be repeated
too often. The body has no capacity to experience
itself. Knowledge about the body and what is going on
with it arises from its sensations, but sensations in and
of themselves have no capacity to experience them
selves.That experience has to occur in something that
is greater than the body and its sensations, its sensory
mechanism, and that is mind itself. It is because ofmind
that one is aware of what is going on within the sensa
tions. The sensations reveal what is happening within
the body.
Mind alone, as curious as it may seem, has no capac
ity to experience itself.A thought cannot experience its
own thoughtness; a feeling cannot experience its own
feelingness; a memory cannot experience its own
memoryness. In order for mind to be experienced, it
has to be experienced by something that is greater
than itself, and that is the energy field of
Consciousness, which is greater than mind and more
inclusive.
Consciousness itself, and how we know what we
are conscious of, comes from an infinite field with no
limitations, which is called awareness. It is because of
awareness that we know what is going on in con
sciousness. It is because of consciousness that we
know what is going on in mind. Because of mind, we
are aware of what is going on with sensations. Because
of sensations, we are aware of what is going on with
the body. Consequently, that which we are-that which
is aware, that which we really mean by the ultimate 'I' 202 HEALING AND RECOVERY
and the infmite Self, and that which is consciousness
is operationally many levels removed from


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Psychological Support for
the Gerson Patient
By Beata Bishop
Gerson patients and others interested in the therapy often wonder why, apart from one or two
passing references, the psychological aspect of healing does not figure in Dr. Gerson’s
epoch-making book.1  The reasons for this apparent omission are simple. For one thing, Dr. Gerson
wrote his book solely from the point of view of the physician-scientist, excluding all other
considerations. For another, psycho-oncology, a branch of psychology specializing in the care of
cancer patients, did not come into being until the early 1960’s, after Dr. Gerson’s death. However,
by now it has become an important specialty in its own right that needs to be included in any
healing protocol claiming to be holistic.
Holistic medicine is based on the insight that body and mind are two sides of one coin; they
sicken together and must be healed together. Whatever affects the one will affect the other. This
is particularly relevant to the Gerson Therapy, whose powerful effects extend beyond the body to
the patient’s non-physical self as well. While detoxifying the body, the combined impact of the
juices, the food and the coffee enemas reaches the brain and the central nervous system, causing
strong emotional reactions, mood swings and uncharacteristic behavior in the unsuspecting
patient. For that reason alone—and it is not the only one—the psychological side of the healing
journey must be properly understood and adequately handled. Neglecting it poses the risk of
some repressed psychological problem sabotaging the therapeutic process.
Since body and mind interact and influence each other every moment of our lives, it makes
sense to try to ensure that both are in good condition. The therapy works on the body—but what
about the psyche, the inner world of emotions and drives, and is it really important that they, too,
should be in good health? The answer is yes—and here is why:
There is now solid scientific evidence to prove that our moods, emotions and general outlook
have a direct and measurable impact on our immune system. The proof comes from psycho-
neuro-immunology (PNI), a new medical specialty, which has been rapidly developing since
the late 1970s, thanks to a better understanding of brain chemistry and of the subtle connections
that exist on the cellular level of the organism. Put briefly, the limbic system of the brain and the
central nervous system releases certain hormones that fit into receptor sites located throughout the
body, causing them to release other hormones. The quality of these hormones determines whether
the immune system is boosted or weakened, switched on or off; and that quality, in turn, depends
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www.thegersonway.comA positive, hopeful, determined attitude strengthens immune competence, while despair,
negativity and fear weaken it. A traumatic event or lasting depression can overwhelm our cells
and disturb their normal functioning. In that light our every thought and feeling can be seen
as a biochemical happening.  According to neuroscientist Dr. Candace Pert 2, co-discoverer of
endorphins,  “Cells are conscious beings that communicate with each other, affecting our emotions
and choices.” It is equally true that our emotions and beliefs af fect the activity of our cells.
Fear Is The Enemy
As a recovered Gerson patient and practicing psychotherapist myself, I know the devastating
emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis. It is a major trauma, which evokes powerful emotions:
panic, shock, rage—or hopeless resignation and numbing despair. To make things worse, there
is also a sense of isolation, as if having cancer excluded one from the rest of humanity and from
normal everyday life. But the overriding and overwhelming feeling is fear. I know this profound
fear from my own experience, and that of the many patients I have worked with over the past 23
years. Although there are many other life-threatening diseases, probably none of them is able to
induce the same abject, debilitating fear as cancer.
 There are good reasons for this. One is the growing incidence of the disease. Most people
know someone who has died of cancer after much suffering, having endured drastic treatments
with horrendous side effects but no hope of a cure. To find oneself suddenly confronted with
the same fate is truly terrifying for all those who see a cancer diagnosis as an automatic death
sentence. Then there is a non-rational fear, too, that interprets cancer as an intruder, an evil alien
that has breached our defenses, is growing and spreading beyond our control and will eventually
kill us. Panic-stricken patients are in no state to realize that tumors don’t come from outer space
but from their own malfunctioning organisms, where ‘law and order’ on the cellular level has
broken down.
 The shock of the diagnosis is usually made worse by the average physician’s way of
announcing it. Doctors are not trained in the art of communication. They hate to give bad news
and protect themselves by becoming withdrawn, remote and cold, at the precise moment when
the sick person would most need human warmth and support. If the patient then spends time in an
average hospital, the sense of dependence, loss of autonomy and privacy will make the prospects
look even bleaker. The patient becomes a passive sufferer, with no say in what is being done to
him or her. In the telling phrase of the brilliant thinker and author, the late Ivan Illich, “Modern
medicine turns the patient into a limp and mystified voyeur in the grip of bio-engineers.”3
 These observations apply to cancer patients diagnosed and treated in a conventional medical
framework. But as almost all patients come to the Gerson Therapy after that system had failed
them, it is important to recognize their depressed or scared state and do something about it at once. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comOrdinary human empathy and caring demand that we try to dispel their fear and hopelessness.
Just as importantly, in the light of PNI’s findings there are sound medical reasons for urgently
relieving the patients from their huge emotional burden and steer their negative orientation
towards a positive outlook. “No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul,” wrote
the Greek philosopher Plato nearly 2,400 years ago—a powerful endorsement of the body-mind
link in healing from an unimaginably remote past.
 If something deep down in the patient’s inner world does not want to live, even the tried
and tested Gerson program cannot do its best. That something may have nothing to do with the
cancer diagnosis. It could be an almost forgotten early emotional wound, a severe loss, a deep
resentment, or some unfinished business with a loved or hated person. Or else we may be dealing
with someone who conforms to the so-called ‘cancer-prone personality,’ as defined by Lawrence
LeShan4, pioneer researcher of the body-mind link in malignant disease. LeShan, also known as
‘the father of psycho-oncology,’ has observed over several decades that certain personality traits
seemed to pre-dispose some people to cancer. These traits include low self-esteem, difficulty
in expressing anger or aggression, an urge to please others and ignore their own feelings and
needs, and inhibited emotions. The true self of such people has been banished behind a false self,
probably developed quite early in life to ensure parental approval, and maintained in adulthood,
too, when it was no longer necessary.
 Of course this personality profile does not apply to all cancer patients, although in my work
with sufferers I have often come across similar character traits. Together or separately they suggest
a dispiritingly negative outlook on life, which a cancer diagnosis can turn into black despair, and
PNI tells us what that means in terms of reduced immune competence.
 It has been observed that cancer often appears 18 months or two years after some adverse life
event, such as divorce, bereavement, financial crisis, loss of a job or of an important relationship,
and so on. Experience with clients has shown me that those events only represented for them
the last straw; that they had long existed in an impossible existential situation that apparently
could neither be borne nor changed. LeShan and Carl Simonton, M.D.5 call this setup a life trap,
which they describe in detail. My case material bears out its power, and the fact that those who
feel unable to break free eventually reach a stage when they don’t care whether they live or die.
As many of them put it, “Something snapped inside me.” I suspect it was the last strand of their
frayed will to live.
The Role of Stress
 I am often asked whether stress can cause cancer. I don’t think it can, certainly not by itself.
But it can be the ultimate extra burden that pushes an already weakened, barely functioning
immune system over the edge, so that it can no longer dispose of the irregular maverick cells that
every healthy organism produces in vast numbers every day. Yet without the eternal vigilance of Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved


 pain is present), arthritis, bursitis, headaches, migraines, obesity
(weight that is hard to eliminate).
SUGGESTED USAGE
Add to a little water or juice.
General: 1 full dropper 3 to 6 times a day.
Acute: 1 full dropper every 4 hours.
CAUTIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS
None known.
NOTES
1
.
Where inflammation and bone deterioration is present (as in arthritis,
etc.), the thyroid and adrenal glands are always underactive.
2
.
Most thyroid medications (especially Synthroid®) do not affect T4 to T3
conversion well. This means that the thyroid is always hypoactive even
when blood serum levels of TSHs, T4s and T3s appear to be normal
(see
Wilson’s Syndrome).
3
.
Use the Basal Temperature Test (see
Appendix A
) for a more accurate
indicator of thyroid function.
4
.
Also see Glandular System, p. 265.
MODULE 8.4Herbal Rejuvenation for Each Body System

This section contains a recommended diet, plus specific herbs or herbal
formulas for each body system. Some of the Herbal Formulas (Detoxifiers
and Strengtheners) recommended here have already been discussed and
specified in
Module 8.3
:
Power Herbal Formulas.
 For example, “Adrenal
Glands,” “Blood” or “Lungs.” Other Herbal Formulas listed in this section are
simply described by their generic application, such as “Spleen” or Liver-
Gallbladder.” Both the single herbs and the herbal formulas recommended
can be found in many health food stores, or by contacting the herbal
companies suggested in
Appendix C
:
Resource Guide
 at the back of this
book. While different herbal companies may call their herbal formulas by
various names, the point is to find one designed for the particular body
system or organ that needs rejuvenation.
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Heart, vascular system (arteries, capillaries and veins),
and the blood (also part of the digestive system).
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet consisting mainly of fruits will alkalize
(create an anti-inflammatory effect) the vascular system, which creates an
ionic reaction. This means that lipid (cholesterol) plaque and mineral deposits
will dissolve, and red blood cells that have bonded will break free. This will
increase circulation, blood biodynamics, “thin” the blood, and lower blood
pressure. This reduces or eliminates the risk of strokes or heart attacks and
increases oxygenation of your body.
SINGLE HERBS—DETOXIFIERS
Butcher’s Broom
Horse Chestnut
White Oak Bark
Witch Hazel
Red CloverSINGLE HERBS—STRENGTHENERS
Hawthorn Berries
Ginkgo Biloba
Bilberry Leaf
Black Walnut Hull
HERBAL FORMULAS—DETOXIFIERS
Circulation Formulas
Cayenne/Garlic Combo
Blood
Lymphatic System
HERBAL FORMULAS—STRENGTHENERS
Circulation Formulas
Adrenal Glands
Blood
Inflammation/Joints
Endocrine Glands
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Mouth and salivary glands, stomach, small intestines
(duodenum, jejunum and ileum), pancreas, liver, gallbladder.
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet is full of enzymes, nutrition and fiber, all of
which promote better digestion, bile flow and bowel function.
SINGLE HERBS—DETOXIFIERS
Chickweed
Marshmallow
BittersDandelion Root
Dock Family (Yellow Dock, Burdock, Oregon Grape Root)
Ginger
Mint Family
SINGLE HERBS—STRENGTHENERS
Gentian
Dandelion Root
Milk Thistle
HERBAL FORMULAS—DETOXIFIERS
Stomach and Bowel
Circulation (a Cayenne/Garlic Combo)
Pancreas
Liver/Gallbladder
Lymphatic System
HERBAL FORMULAS—STRENGTHENERS
Stomach and Bowel
Circulation (a Cayenne/Garlic Combo)
Pancreas
Liver/Gallbladder
Adrenal Glands
Endocrine Glands
OTHER
 — A Liver/Gallbladder Flush is also recommended (see
Chapter 9
for instructions in applying this.)
ELIMINATIVE SYSTEMS

See Lymphatic System, Immune System, Intestinal System, IntegumentarySystem, Urinary System.
GLANDULAR SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — The pituitary gland, pineal gland, thyroid and
parathyroid glands, thymus, adrenal glands, pancreas (Islets of Langerhans),
glands within the intestinal mucosa, ovaries and testes.
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet promotes glandular function. It also helps
balance hormone and steroid responses, which in turn increases utilization of
nutrients. Creates a homeostasis of body chemistry.
SINGLE HERBS—DETOXIFIERS
Bugleweed Leaf
Dandelion Leaf
Parsley Leaf
Poke Root
Kelp
Saw Palmetto Berries
SINGLE HERBS—STRENGTHENERS
Licorice Root
Astragalus Root
Panax Ginseng Root
Siberian Ginseng Root
Kelp
Saw Palmetto Berries
Chaste Tree Berry
Hawthorn Berries
Bugleweed
Dandelion Leaf
Parsley LeafFalse Unicorn Root
HERBAL FORMULAS—DETOXIFIERS
Lymphatic System
Prostate
Liver/Gallbladder
Circulation Formulas
Blood
HERBAL FORMULAS—STRENGTHENERS
Endocrine Glands
Adrenal Glands
Thyroid Gland
Pancreas
Male Reproductive
Prostate
Liver/Gallbladder
Circulation Formula
Blood
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Spleen, thymus, appendix, tonsils, lymph nodes, lymph
vessels, and lymph fluid.
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet consisting mainly of fruits which are full of
antioxidants and astringents. They clean, enhance, rebuild and restore the
health of your cells. The “kings” of these fruits are grapes and lemons.
SINGLE HERBS—DETOXIFIERS
Poke Root
Blood RootFenugreek
Mild Cayenne Pepper
Cascara Sagrada
White Oak Bark
Cleavers
Red Clover
Blue Flag
Plantain
Red Root
Yellow Dock
SINGLE HERBS—STRENGTHENERS
Yellow Dock
Poke Root
Blue Flag
White Oak Bark
Reishi Mushroom
Maitake Mushroom
Shiitake Mushroom
HERBAL FORMULAS—DETOXIFIERS
Lymphatic System
Kidneys and Bladder
Stomach and Bowel
Liver/Gallbladder
Blood Formula
HERBAL FORMULAS—STRENGTHENERS
Kidneys and Bladder
Stomach and BowelLiver/Gallbladder
Immune System
Blood Formula
NOTE
 — The organs of your eliminative system are tied to your lymphatic
system. Work with both systems. Your lymph and blood send their wastes
into your eliminative channels (this includes your kidneys and colon) to be
excreted.
IMMUNE SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Lymphatic system, which includes the thymus and
spleen, bone marrow, immune cells (lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils,
macrophages, T-lymphocytes, B-cells, helper T and B cells, etc.), liver and
beneficial parasites.
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet alkalizes and helps remove acids, foreign
proteins and substances from the tissues that cause inflammatory immune
responses. This enhances and eases the function of your immune system.
SINGLE HERBS—DETOXIFIERS
Poke Root
Blood Root
Blue Flag
Bugleweed
Red Clover Flower
Fenugreek Seed
Plantain Leaf
Oregon Grape Root
SINGLE HERBS—STRENGTHENERS
Reishi Mushroom
Shiitake Mushroom
Astragalus RootKelp/Bladderwrack
Antler (Elk or Deer)
Panax Ginseng
Echinacea (all types: Purpurea, Angustifolia and Pallida)
Siberian Ginseng
Maitake Mushroom
Schizandra Berries
HERBAL FORMULAS—DETOXIFIERS
Lymphatic System formula
Lymph Nodesformula
HERBAL FORMULAS—STRENGTHENERS
Immune Formula #1, for general use
Immune Formula #2, (Super-Immune) for general use, bone marrow
strengthening and improved B-cell production.
Adrenal Glands
Thyroid Gland
Spleen
Liver/Gallbladder
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Skin, nails, hair, oil and sweat glands.
DIET
 — A living, raw food diet is highly cleansing and strengthening to the
liver and skin. Raw fruits and vegetables alkalize and dissolve fatty deposits
in the skin and liver (stones). These foods also enhance the function of your
thyroid gland and increase body heat and elimination through your skin


 salt!
Death Valley Hike Proved Salt Dangerous
Most people have the preconceived idea that salt lost
through perspiring must be immediately replaced. Many
factories supply salt tablets to their workers. They
mistakenly believe these are helpful! But are these salttablets necessary? In my opinion: “NO!”
To prove definitely to myself that I did not need salt
during extremely hot weather, I went to Death Valley,
California, one of the hottest spots in the entire world
during July and August. On my first test I hired 10husky, strong young college athletes to make the hike
in Death Valley from Furnace Creek Ranch to Stovepipe
Wells, a distance of approximately
30 miles.
The boys had salt tablets and all the water they could
drink... and a station wagon filled with plenty of food
that contained salty foods like bread, buns, crackers,cheese, luncheon meats and hot dogs. They each ate,
drank and took as many salt tablets as they desired. I
had no salt, no food, only water during the 30 mile hike.We began the hike on a sweltering July morning. The
higher the sun rose, the hotter it became! Up went the
heat until at noon it stood at
130 degrees – a dry, hot
heat that seemed to want to melt and defeat all of us!19
Mother Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search,
unseals his eyes, illuminates his mind and purifies his heart.  –Alfred B. Street
Change your mind and change to a healthy lifestyle and your
life and body will sparkle with health and joy! –  Patricia BraggThe college boys gobbled the salt tablets and guzzled
quarts of cool water. For lunch they drank cola drinks
with ham and cheese sandwiches. We rested a half hour
after lunch and then continued our rugged hike acrossthe red hot blazing sands. Soon things were beginning
to happen to those strong, husky college boys.
First, 3 of them got violently ill and threw up all they
had eaten and drunk for lunch. They got dizzy and turned
deathly pale and great weakness overcame them. They
quit the hike immediately! They were driven back to theFurnace Creek Ranch in poor condition. The hike went
on with
7 college athletes continuing. As we hiked, they
drank large amounts of cold w ater, soft drinks and took
more salt tablets. Then suddenly 5 of them got stomach
cramps and became deathly ill. Up came the drinks and
their lunch. These 5 had to be driven back to the ranch.
That left but 2 out of 10 hikers. It was now about 4
pm and the merciless sun beat down on us with great
fury. Almost on the hour, the last remaining salt tablet-eating athlete collapsed under that hot, burning sun andhad to be rushed back to the ranch for medical care.
Only the Non-Salt User Finishes Hike
That left me alone on the test... and I felt as fresh as
a daisy! I was not full of salt tablets and I was not full of
food because I was on a complete fast. The college boys
wanted cold drinks, but I drank only pure distilled water,not chilled. I finished the
30 mile hike in around 102
hours and I had no ill effects whatsoever! I camped out
for the night. The next day I arose early and hiked
another 30 miles back to the ranch without food or salt tablets.
The doctors gave me a thorough examination and
found me in perfect condition! I am ready and willing torepeat this hike across Death Valley, California for any
scientific group that wants to do research on man’s
mythical “need” for salt. (
I get organic sodium from my food. )20
Ruts long traveled can grow comfortable.Historical Proof That Salt is Not Needed
Rommel’s German-Afrikan Corps swept across the
gates of Egypt, fought and lost a hard battle at El Alamein.
Then they retreated over miles of blazing desert. Yet,
when the war was over, the English found the capturedtroops in good physical condition, even though the
German soldiers were not supplied with salt tablets. This
story – just as my own Death Valley hike, which wasalso performed in the blazing desert sun – supports the
findings of many experiments performed on humans
with a non-salt diet under hot desert conditions.
What happens, according to the scientific studies, is
that: after the first few days of becoming acclimatized,
the subjects stop losing salt through perspiration.Apparently there is a normalizing mechanism at work
that conserves the sodium in the body. The comfortable
endurance during all weather conditions of people onrigid, salt-poor diets shows that the “need” for added
salt in hot weather has been greatly exaggerated.
There is enough naturally occurring sodium in most
vegetables, celery, soy beans, seaweeds and other foodsthat have not been processed or supplemented with
common table salt. These natural foods can supply the
needed organic sodium required by the body. Proof ofthis is also found in the past histories of many races
throughout the world who have never used salt.
The Native Americans knew nothing about salt when
the first explorers landed. Columbus and all the explorers
of the American continent found wonderful physical
specimens when they arrived. Sad fact – the physicaldegeneration of people often follows the introduction
of salt, alcohol, refined, fast foods and toxic chemicals!
I have made over
13 expeditions to the far corners of
the earth and I never found the inhabitants to be salt
users. Therefore, none of them suffered from high blood
pressure. In fact, regardless of age, they generally hadblood pressures of
120 over 70, which is perfect. They
did not suffer from kidney or heart diseases, either.21
I have found that distilled water is a sovereign remedy for my
rheumatism. I attribute my almost perfect health largely to distilledwater.  – Dr. Alexander Graham Bell,  Telephone InventorIt’s magnificent to live long if one keeps healthy and youthful. – Harry FosdickHow Much Salt Can the Body Tolerate Daily?
There’s been a great deal of research on salt tolerance.
The American Heart Association recommends that
healthy adults reduce their sodium intake to no more
than 2400  milligrams per day. But the body’s actual
physiological sodium requirement is less than 500 mg
daily. Unfortunately, the average American salt addict
actually consumes daily 2 to 5  times his sodium tolerance!
This extremely high salt figure Americans eat is due
to the excessive amount of “hidden salt” in most all
commercial and “fast” foods. It’s in breads, cheese,prepared meats (ham, bacon, lunch meats, etc.), frozen
and canned veggies, soups and hundreds of staple foods.
I was born and reared in Virginia and many of my
relatives suffered from high blood pressure. They died
early of strokes and kidney diseases because they were
heavy salt, pork, ham, sausage and bacon eaters. Highconcentrations of table salt were used at every meal. By
the time these people were
30 years old, they ached all
over with what they called the “misery”. Their jointswere cemented, and they hobbled around stiffly andwith great pain! I believe that the heavy salt diet of the
average Southerner brought on this “misery”.
The most dramatic wrongful death case against salt
occurred in a Binghamton, New York hospital, where a
number of babies died when salt was inadvertently used
in their formula. An overdose of salt can kill a babyquickly! The body needs natural, organic sodium – not
table salt, an inorganic chemical. You can obtain natural
sodium which Mother Nature provides in organic formin celery, beets, carrots, potatoes, soybeans, turnips, sea
vegetation, seaweed, kelp, watercress, etc. and many
other natural, healthy foods. Remember, only organicminerals can be utilized by your body’s living cells.22Fasting De-Salts The Body Cells and Organs
I have had over 70  years experience with the science
and use of rational fasting. And I have found that in 4
days of complete fasting we can de-salt the body. Theurine will reveal the story of salt. Take a
4 day complete
distilled water fast. Nothing must pass through yourbody for
4 days, except for distilled water and ACV drink.
Drink at least 8 to 10  glasses daily to flush the salt out.
Each morning take a sample of the first urine your
body passes. Put these urine bottles (labeled) on a shelfto settle for
3 weeks, then look at them in the sunlight.
You will see concentrated salt and toxic wastes in the
bottom of the bottle. When this salt is passed from yourbody notice how freely your kidneys will function.Notice how naturally moist your mouth is and how youhave no abnormal thirst. Notice your skin and muscletone. The first thing the body throws off during a fast issalt and the side effects – bloating and edema (dropsy)that goes with salt. Lumpy, waterlogged spots vanishand you become more streamlined. There is a thinnerand more youthful look to your body. Water-bloatingvanishes and you begin to see your natural figure again!
You can hardly believe your eyes! A wonderful
transformation is taking place during your fast. Thepowerful