 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
1Vz cups lentils
1 vegetable bouillon or I tablespoon red miso
Vz teaspoon dried thyme
218 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 teaspoon dried oregano
1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon sweet Hungarian paprika
Vz teaspoon Spike (optional)
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
1 cup fresh or frozen com (optional)
In soup kettle, bring water to a boil. Add garlic, onion, carrots, celery,
lentils, and bouillon or miso. Return to boil. Add seasonings. Mix well. Simmer, covered, over low heat for 60 minutes. If you want a creamier
consistency, you can puree Vi the soup in blender or food processor. Return to heat and add corn, if desired. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in
parsley. Serves 3 as a main course. HONEY CORN BREAD 35 Min. to 1 Hr. 1 cup yellow cornmeal, or *A cup yellow cornmeal and lA cup bran
1 cup whole-wheat flour
Vz teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
lA cup raw honey
1 beaten egg or 1 teaspoon egg replacer whipped in 1 tablespoon
water
l7/s cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon butter
2 cups fresh or frozen com (optional)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine dry ingredients. Stir in liquid
ingredients. Stir in corn. Do not overmix! Corn bread batter must be a
little lumpy. Pour batter into well-buttered 8-by-8-inch pan. Bake for Vi
hour without corn or 55 minutes with corn until toothpick inserted in
center comes out clean. Cool slightly and cut into 2-inch squares. NOTE: The batter for this corn bread can be prepared hours in advance
and refrigerated (covered) in the baking pan until Vi hour before baking. A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 219 PITA TOASTS 10 Min. 2 whole-wheat pita breads, separated into halves
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 small clove garlic
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
Vi teaspoon dried summer savory
Use garlic press to crush garlic and blend it into butter. Add herbs and
mix well with fork. Spread butter on pita halves. Place under broiler for 5
minutes or until toasted. Serves 4. Freeze 2~2'/2 bananas for tomorrow's shake before going to bed. DAY TWENTY-EIGHT—SUNDAY
BREAKFAST:
Fresh juice, Smoothie (see pages 189 and 201), or Breakfast Fruit
Platter,4 if desired
LUNCH:
Leftover Lentil Soup and Grandma's Coleslaw from yesterday, or The
Properly Combined Sandwich (see page 150), or Banana Shake*
DINNER. Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail, if desired (see page 152)
New York Goodwich (see page 159)
Crusty Roasteds*
Leftover Grandma's Coleslaw, or Summer Greens with Creamy Avocado
Dressing *
BREAKFAST FRUIT PLATTER 15 Min. 1 cantaloupe or Persian melon, cut into bite-size cubes
3 cups watermelon balls
4 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
220 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 large or 2 small papaya, peeled and sliced
2 cups seedless green grapes
6 small bunches grapes
1 large Bosc pear, peeled and cut into spears
On large round platter, combine melons, kiwi fruit, papaya, and grapes. Arrange bunches of grapes around edges of platter, alternating with pear
spears. Serve with Fruit Dip of your choice (see page 170). Serves 6. BANANA SHAKE 3 Min. 1 cup Fresh Almond Milk (see page 195)
2—21/2 frozen bananas (depending on size and desired thickness of
shake)
Nutmeg
In blender, combine Fresh Almond Milk, bananas, and nutmeg to taste. Blend until creamy. Serves I.
CRUSTY ROASTEDS 35 Min. These are a delicious alternative to french fries, and you'll love them if
potatoes are one of your addictions. You'll find them to be a really terrific
"non-fried potato treat." Although they are wonderful, overeating them
will halt your progress. Take it easy! Don't stuff yourself. Look at this as a
treat and not a binge so you can enjoy these roasteds in your new life-style
repertoire. 5 new potatoes
1-2 tablespoons butter, melted
Dash of Spike, Herbit, or seasoning of your choice
Place potatoes in vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for 20
minutes or until they test tender when pierced with tip of sharp knife. Do
not allow them to get too soft. Cool potatoes and cut into '/t-inch slices. Place on cookie sheet, and brush evenly with butter. Sprinkle with sea
soning, and place as close as possible to heat of broiler until crusty and
golden, approximately 10 minutes. It is not necessary to turn them. Serves 2-3. A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFESTYLE • 221 SUMMER GREENS WITH CREAMY
AVOCADO DRESSING IS Min. An assortment of lettuce—several leaves each of butter, romaine,
salad bowl, and red leaf
2 cups spinach
1 cup arugula (optional)
1 small cucumber, peeled and sliced, or 2 pickling cukes, peeled and
sliced
2 cups sprouts—alfalfa, buckwheat, or sunflower
Vi cup olives (optional) or 1 cup enoki mushrooms
Prepare the salad. Wash and thoroughly dry lettuce and break into bite-size pieces, discard
ing center rib. Break spinach into bite-size pieces. Combine lettuce and
spinach in large bowl. Add arugula, if desired, cucumber, and sprouts. CREAMY A VOCADO DRESSING:
1 avocado
1 small clove garlic, minced
'A cup water
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill
Vi teaspoon honey
'/: teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Prepare the dressing. Cut avocado in half. Peel, remove pit, and cut into large cubes. Place all
ingredients in food processor or blender. Process until creamy and
smooth. Use as dressing for Summer Greens, as dip for raw or steamed
vegetables, or as topping on sandwiches. Makes 2 cups. Assemble the salad. Pour xh cup of dressing over greens. Toss well. Add a few tablespoons
additional dressing, if desired. Add olives or enoki mushrooms, if desired. Toss lightly. Serves 2. 222 • FIT FOR LIFE ^
IN CONCLUSION
A J. \- tremendous effort has gone into
perfecting this system over the last fifteen years. Obviously it is not a "hit-
and-run," on-again off-again approach. Its purpose is to put you in har
mony with your physiological needs and your natural body cycles and to
show you how to eat to optimize both. With this information you will
always have control over your energy and your weight. If you are not yet the weight you wish to be, be assured that you will
arrive there if you continue to eat properly combined, high-water-content
meals and nothing but fruit in the morning, just proceed! You are still in
the process of acquiring your LIFEIIME ENERGY LIFE-STYLE. If you con
tinue to do what has been outlined, the weight will continue to come off,
and it will be gone for good as you become more energetic and healthy. If you wish to accelerate your progress, skip around in the program and
emphasize the high-energy days that call for fruit all day with a high-
water-content Main-Course Salad or a New York Goodwich in the eve
ning. These are the days when you will experience maximum weight
loss. Two exceedingly important guidelines should be kept in mind: First,
that concentrated foods, proteins and carbohydrates, should be properly
combined and not account for more than 30 percent of your food intake
• 223 • for any one day; second, fruit is your absolute best friend in the upkeep
and care of your body. Correctly consumed and eaten in sufficient quan
tities, fruit will insure that you will never have a weight problem again. The most important feature of this approach to eating is the fact that
it's a LIFE-STYLE, not a dogmatic set of rules that must be adhered to by
rote. This affords you the opportunity to participate to the extent that it
appeals to you personally. You can pick and choose what areas are attrac
tive to you. If there are certain aspects that appeal to your common sense,
that you feel can be utilized without pressure, let that be your STARTING
POINT! By keeping your destination in mind and doing something, no
matter how little, every day, there will be sufficient momentum to keep
the ball rolling. You will ultimately reach your destination. And you will
reach it a happier, healthier person. The key is DIRECTION, not speed. We're thrilled that we have been able to assist you in losing weight,
and we are doubly thrilled that we've been able to help you


 than the untreated. The drug relieved burn
pain. “From that point on, DMSO usage just spread like wildfire,” Dr. Jacob said
in an interview.
In the United States DMSO is derived from
lignin
, the cement substance of
trees. In Europe and other places it is synthesized from coal, petroleum, or other
organic substances.
Collaborative efforts between Jacob’s staff representing the University of
Oregon Medical School and Herschler representing Crown Zellerbach Corporation
demonstrated in laboratory tests that DMSO would not only pass through the skin
and mucous membranes, but during passage would carry with it a certain number
of other substances. For instance, penicillin can be dissolved in DMSO and be
carried through the skin without a needle. Local anesthetic can be carried the same
way.
In these early studies, DMSO was shown to relieve pain, reduce
swelling, slow
the growth of bacteria, improve blood supply, soften scar tissue, enhance the
effectiveness of other pharmacologic agents, act as a diuretic, and function as a
muscle relaxant. It eliminated the pain of sprains, strains, and arthritis, and even
the pain of broken bones.
Veterinarians used the substance, by prescription, for arthritic conditions or
injuries in animals. In arthritic greyhounds, an injection of either DMSO or
corticoid (a substance that has an action like a hormone of the adrenal cortex) willenable the animal to race again. In six months 60 percent of the corticoid-treated
dogs will have a recurrence, but less than 20 percent of the dogs treated with
DMSO show such recurrence.
THE FDA ENTERS THE PICTURE AND CONTROVERSY
STARTS
The first report on the use of DMSO as a pharmacologic agent was written by
Jacob in 1963 and published February 1, 1964. It caused a flood of trials and wild
enthusiasm over the new “miracle” drug that carried other substances through the
skin and into all organs of the body. It was soon obvious that the chemical could
relieve inflammation and pain in many conditions, some heretofore untreatable any
other way.
The first investigational new drug (IND) application for the clinical study of
DMSO in humans was submitted to the FDA on October 25, 1963, and
subsequently approved. Enormous interest in the drug developed rapidly, to the
point where it began to be used very extensively, especially for the treatment of
sprains, bruises, and minor burns. The drug was supplied at no charge to great
numbers of investigators in general medicine, specialty medicine, and to
paramedical professionals, including physiotherapists, a few dentists, nurses, and
the author of this book, a former practicing podiatrist.
By 1965 an estimated 100,000 patients had received the medication. Studies
were being conducted but the FDA did not consider them to be well enough
controlled to document clearly that the observed benefits were actually due to the
drug.
The New York Times
, in a lead editorial on April 3, 1965, called DMSO “the
closest thing to a wonder drug produced in the 1960s.” An international
symposium of medical scientists in Berlin, West Germany, in July 1965, was held
to exchange information on the effects of DMSO.
Still, when three new drug applications (NDAs) on DMSO were submitted to
the FDA in 1965, all three were turned down. The pharmaceutical companies
Merck, Syntex, and Gibb submitted their NDAs
with the statement that DMSO
was ready to be a prescriptive agent. The FDA denied their statement and
applications, and in fact published its own statement in the
Federal Register
terminating all clinical use of DMSO. The agency cited toxicological studies
showing that high doses of the drug changed the refractive index of the eye lens in
experimental animals. That is, a change occurred in their focusing power and acertain cloudiness came over the lenses.
The agency’s concern was that visual damage might occur in humans exposed
to DMSO. Researchers and bureaucrats didn’t know at that time that the eye
changes were limited to particular species. Nothing happens to monkeys or, most
important, to human beings.
A year later this prohibitive policy was relaxed somewhat. The FDA permitted
new investigations for the clinical evaluation of DMSO in serious conditions, such
as scleroderma, persistent herpes zoster, and severe rheumatoid arthritis, for which
no satisfactory therapy is available.
In September 1968 the FDA published a further revision, a relaxation of its
DMSO policy that allowed topical application to the skin for not more than
fourteen days for less serious disabilities such as acute musculoskeletal
conditions—for example, sprains, bursitis, and tendinitis. This relaxation of rules
was based on a toxicological study of people that provided a reassuring result: no
evidence of human eye toxicity due to DMSO was present.
Yet, again, another NDA submitted by Gibb Pharmaceutical Company in 1971,
stating that DMSO was ready to be prescribed in the United States, was denied.
An NDA, on the use of DMSO for scleroderma, was submitted by Research
Industries Corporation in 1978. The study was planned by Arthur L. Scherbel,
M.D., then Chief of Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, under
supervision of doctors at the FDA and consultants from the National Academy of
Sciences. Dr. Scherbel carried out these studies and saw changes in a treated hand,
as compared to an untreated hand. In three months there was a marked
improvement that was statistically significant. When Dr. Scherbel came to the
FDA for acceptance of his study, it was refused. The NDA was denied.
By 1983, the NDAs tossed aside by the FDA included 1,500 medical studies
performed on approximately 120,000 patients with a variety of health problems.
Moreover, four more international symposia were held by health scientists to
accumulate more information on DMSO. The second symposium conducted was
under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, in March 1966 in New
York City. The third
was sponsored by the University of Vienna, Austria, in
November 1966. The fourth and fifth were again in New York, under the
sponsorship of the New York Academy of Sciences, in January 1974 and
September 1982. All of these symposia reported favorably on the drug.
Because of the ongoing differences among DMSO pioneers and the medical
bureaucrats, Charles C. Edwards, M.D., then Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
asked the National Academy of Sciences in 1972 to review all availableinformation on the effectiveness and toxicity of DMSO. He wanted the National
Academy members to provide the FDA with an independent judgment on these
matters.
The Academy appointed a committee of experts, with six subcommittees, to
conduct the review. The committee ran an active review until 1974. The Academy
was actually a semi-governmental body, not really independent at all. As it
received its financing under an FDA contract, it tended to agree with the FDA
position on DMSO. Specifically, the report finally presented by the National
Academy of Sciences stated that there was inadequate scientific evidence of
effectiveness of the drug for the treatment of any disease, that the toxicity potential
was sufficiently great that the drug should remain an investigational drug, and that
controlled clinical investigations were necessary to demonstrate the effectiveness
of DMSO.
In light of continued lack of evidence of eye damage in humans from the time it
laid down regulations against DMSO, the FDA has concluded that the regulation is
no longer necessary. Thus, finally, on September 21, 1979, the agency published a
Federal Register
 proposal to revoke the regulation. Yet, Jere Goyan, Ph.D.,
former head of the entire FDA, continued to make public statements about the
dangers of eye toxicity. It may have been to justify these statements that he sent
investigators to grab files wherever they could, searching for reports on DMSO
and its relation to the human eye.
Also by 1983, the FDA had sixteen active investigational new drug
applications for DMSO on file. Conditions under study included scleroderma, joint
injuries, and spinal cord injuries. There were no active INDs for the study of
DMSO in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis, which seems
unusual as DMSO use for these conditions is the most popular.
THE PUBLIC REBELS AGAINST THE FDA REGULATIONS
Despite the FDA restrictions on the use of DMSO, tens of thousands of
Americans
still manage to obtain it. Some use a form of the medicine that has been approved
for veterinary use. Some resort to the industrial solvent. Others travel to DMSO
arthritis clinics in Mexico. The drug is passed from person to person, especially
among victims of arthritis.
Even though there is no existing IND arthritis application pending before the
FDA, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are the two main health problems
being treated by layperson exponents of DMSO. The public is rebelling against theimposition of what it considers nonsensical regulations for limited use of


 baking sheet and toast, stirring once or twice, for 5
to 7 minutes or until lightly brown.Coconut T omato Sauce
Makes about 3 cups
Once you make your own tomato sauce, you’ll find it hard to use a
commer cial one—the flavour is just that good. In the summer and early
fall, when fr esh, ripe, home-gr own or local tomatoes ar e abu ndant, you
will be able to quarter them a nd r emove the skin easily using a paring
knife. In  the winter, use 1 can  (28 oz/796 mL) of diced tomatoes and
their juices in place of the fr esh tomatoes.
2  tbsp melted coconut oil
1 onion, chopped
3  to 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 tbsp Polynesian Spice Blend (page 140) or Garam Masala
Spice Blend (page 137)
6 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
1 can (5.4 oz/160 mL) coconut cr eam
10 fr esh basil leaves, chopped
1 tbsp chopped fr esh or egano
1/2 tsp sea salt
1.  I n a ski llet, hea t oil over medium heat. Sauté onion for 5 minutes. Add
garlic an d spice blend and cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes or until
garlic is soft. Add tomatoes and  cream and bring to a boil. Reduce heat
and simmer for 10 minutes or until reduced. Add basil, oregano and salt
and cook, stirrin g, for 1 minute or until heated through. Use imm ediately
or cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.Using the tip o f a paring knife, core and then make an “x” on the
bottom o f each tomato. Drop the tomatoes into boiling water and boil
for 1 minute.
Using a  slotted spoon, lift the tomatoes out of the boiling wa ter and
plunge into a bowl of ice water. Let cool, drain and slip the skins of f.
The tomatoes are now ready to be sliced or chopped.If the tomatoes are not perfectly  ripe, you will need to blanch t hem to
remove the skins.
Orange Coconut Dr essing
Makes 1-1/2 cups
Citrus juices ar e gr eat in dr e ssings—as the acid, they add a brilliant
tone to the oil-a cid mix. W ith coconut in the blend, the citrus is muted,
and the  dr essin g becomes a su btle, cr eamy sauce worthy of all kinds of
raw and cooked fruit and vegetables.
1 tbsp grated orange rind
Juice of 1 orange
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 banana, cut into chunks
1 can (5.4 oz/160 mL) coconut cr eam
3 tbsp melted coconut oil
1 tbsp tahini
1.  In a blender, combine orange rind, orange juice, lemon juice, banana,
cream, oil and tahini. Blend for 30 seconds or until crea my. Use
immediately or cover and refri gerate for up to 6 days. Bring to room
temperature and stir well before using.
T ahini is a paste  made from ground sesame seeds. Depending on the
brand, it may ha ve oil floating on the top, which is easy to stir back
into the paste before measuring. Y ou may need to mash the tahini with
a fork before adding it to the blender in order for it to inco rporate
evenly in the dressing.Sesame Dr essing
Makes 1 cup
I’m partial to sesame in part for its medicinal value as a sour ce of
vitamin E and coenzyme Q10, but mostly for its nutty flavour. In this
cooked dr essing, the sesame sings.
2 tbsp melted coconut oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp fr eshly grated gingerr oot
1 tbsp coconut flour
1 cup chicken br oth
1 tbsp coconut aminos or tamari sauce
1 tbsp tahini
1.  In a saucepan,  heat oil over medium heat. Add garlic and ginger and
cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes. Add flour and stir into a paste.
Whisk in broth and aminos and cook, stirring frequently, fo r 3 to 5
minutes or until sauce has thickened. Remove from heat and stir in tahini.
Use immediately  or cover and refrigerate for up to 6 days. Bring to room
temperature and stir well before using.
T ahini is a paste  made from ground sesame seeds. Depending on the
brand, it may ha ve oil floating on the top, which is easy to stir back
into the paste before measuring. Y ou may need to mash the tahini with
a fo rk b efore adding it to the saucepan in order for it to inco rporate
evenly in the dressing.Sweet and Sour Pineapple Sauce
Makes 2 cups
For suc h a simple sauce, this a dds a tangy finish to dishes. I’ve pair ed it
with Sweet Potato Shrimp Cak es (page 90), but it is so versatile that if I
have it in the r efrigerator, I use it in many other dishes, fr o m chicken
and fish to vegetables.
2 tbsp melted coconut oil
1 onion, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 can (14 oz/398 mL) crushed pineapple and juices
1/2 cup coconut sugar crystals
1/4 cup coconut vinegar
1 ripe banana, mashed Juice of 1 lime
1.  In a saucepan, heat oil over m edium heat. Sauté onion for 5 minutes or
until sof t. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes. Stir in
pineapple and juices, sugar cr ystals, vinegar, banana and lime juice.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 20 to 30 minute s or until
liquid has reduced and sauce h as thickened. Use immediately  or cover
and refrigerate for up to 6 days.  Bring to room temperature and  stir well
before using.Coconut Garlic Mayonnaise
Makes 1 cup
Making your own mayonnaise has definite health advantages, and once
you’ve tried the homemade version, you may never go bac k to stor e-
bought. Serve as a dip or spr ead for sandwiches or add it to r ecipes
that r equir e mayo.
1/2 cup melted coconut oil
1/2 cup avocado oil or olive oil, at r oom temperatur e
1 clove garlic
1 large egg yolk
1 large egg
1 tbsp fr eshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp sea salt
CAUTION:  This is an addit ive-free mayonnaise made with raw eggs,
which m eans that it must be refrigerated immediately after maki ng and
will only keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
A void using homemade mayonnaise in picnic sandwiches or salads
where refrigeration is unreliable  or in dips or sauces that will sit out at
room temperature for longer than 30 minutes.
T o r educe the ri sk of bacteria fr om the shell being transferred to  the
inside, gently wash eggs in soapy water and store them in a  clean
plastic or ceramic egg keeper.
1.  In a glass measuring cup or bowl, whisk together coconut oil and
avocado oil.2.  In a blender, chop garlic. Add egg yolk, egg, lemon juice, mustard and
salt. Blend for 30 seconds or until the mixture reaches the consistency of
a smoot h paste. W ith the motor running, slowly pour the oil mixture
through the opening in the lid. Blend until well combined. Use
immediately or transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate fo r up to 3
days. (The mayonnaise will thicken as it chills.)
For a spiced mayonnaise: In S tep 2, add 2 tsp of any of the spice
blends found in this chapter in place of or in addition to the mustard.
For a Caesar -style dressing: Add 1 drained anchovy with  the
flavourings in Step 2.
For a thinner s alad dressing: Whisk in 1 can (5.4 oz/160 mL)
coconut cream in Step 2.Coconut Y ogurt Mayonnaise
Makes 2-1/2 cups
Adding yogurt  to mayonnaise doubles the yield and r educes the
calories per serving. Strained yogurt is similar to Gr eek-style yogurt
and is often called “yogurt cheese” because it is thick and cr eamy,
almost like cr eamed cheese.
1/2 cup melted coconut oil
1/2 cup avocado oil or olive oil
1 large egg yolk
1 large egg
1 tbsp coconut vinegar
1 tsp sea salt
1 can (5.4 oz/160 mL) coconut cr eam
1 cup strained plain low-fat yogurt (see Recipe Note)
CAUTION:  This is an addit ive-free mayonnaise made with raw eggs,
which m eans that it must be refrigerated immediately after maki ng and
will only keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
A void using homemade mayonnaise in picnic sandwiches or salads
where refrigeration is unreliable  or in dips or sauces that will sit out at
room temperature for longer than 30 minutes.
T o r educe the ri sk


 through the allowance of all that you already have.  Become your original
self and you have won the lottery of earth life.  In that
“original” state, everythin g already is, that could ever
potentially be wanted.  You ha ve only to expand what you
already are.  Everything else is an illusion of resistance to  that natural flow.
/G39/G10/G17/G01/G11/G10/G01/G16/G09/G10/G16/G1A/G09/G01/G1A/G09/G0F/G01/G1F/G10/G01/G10/G0A/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G01/G13/G1A/G1A/G12/G19/G13 on, that they see as
being real?
/G1D/G02/G05/G1A/G06/G10/G05/G01/G06/G03/G01/G06/G0E/G07/G24/G06/G07/G0C/G05/G06/G0D/G02/G07/G03/G0D/G05/G06/G0F/G01/G06/G01/G03/G19/G05/G24/G06/G18/G1A/G06/G10/G03/G04/G01/G05/G0C/G03/G0C/G0E/G06/G01/G07/G06/G01/G02/G05/G06/G20/G17/G05/G05/G10/G06/G0E/G07/G07/G11/G21/G06
or “doesn’t feel good” cue in  their vibrational system.
/G2E/G15/G0B/G0F/G01/G13/G0A/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G1C/G01/G0B/G08/G09/G01/G19/G10/G01/G11/G13/G19/G0C/G10/G0E/G0E/G09/G0C/G0F/G09/G11/G2A/G01/G0F/G15/G0B/G0F/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G1C/G01/G11/G10/G0E/G2D/G0F/G01/G0A/G09/G09/G1A/G2F /G01
/G15/G13/G05/G09/G1A/G07/G0C/G05/G06/G17/G05/G05/G10/G04/G0A/G06/G06/G29/G0C/G1A/G06/G11/G05/G19/G07/G0C/G04/G01/G09/G0F/G01/G03/G07/G0C/G06/G07/G17/G06/G0F/G0C/G0E er tells you that they
feel.  That has simply become a default truth.  Their illusion
has simply become a default trut h.  They do not know this of
course, and therefore believe the truth of it, not knowing any
better to double check their feelin g state, their allowing state, /G15/G07/G16/G0F/G02/G13/G01/G17/G04/G12/G0C/G10/G0B
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/G01/G02/G05/G03/G09/G06/G04/G01/G0F/G01/G05/G06/G07/G17/G06/G17/G10/G07/G14/G0A/G06/G06/G27/G05/G06/G14/G07/G12/G10/G11/G06/G04/G0F/G1A/G06 – is that anger giving you
what you want or pushing it fa rther away?  To be truthful,
most would admit, perhaps even tually, that it has gotten
farther away.
Everyone feels.  You cannot fully disconnect from your
feelings.  Your emotional guidance system is simply the
register of Source energy.  It is  the meter that shows how close
or how far from Source energy yo u have become.  Like a metal
detector, or the game HOT/COLD, it beeps when you are close,
and the trail gets cold as you mo ve farther away.  The cold in
this case is the experience of da rkness.  You have  left the warm
glow of the light.  When it is darker inside, you begin to reach
for a flashlight, or a match.  In the darkness, cold, and anger of
having lost your flow,  often – it is when people find the match
– the vibrational match – to the feeling of light.  Surrendering
at that point of darkness is the release of full resistance, and so
often you will see someone make a complete turn around in this
instance.  Why?  For they have  buoyantly bounc ed and risen
right back up to their true  light.  Without resistance,
they re-instated all that they  originally are.  You see?
So no.  Everyone feels.  Illusi on always shatters when one
goes too far into the darkness.  For on its other side, always,
always – is the light.
We believe in this new, ye t original, paradigm.  Its
transparency will align many to the vibration of their inner
light.  Truth is truth is trut h.  Light is light is light.  /G27/G23/G12/G0F/G28 /G06
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darkness, all will rise to the ultimate of their being – their
Source-full light-filled selves.  It is a learning to fly process.
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as a truth.  If a message does no t feel good, release it.  We are
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its truth any time we “catch” ourselves feeling good!
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There is a time when we all exercise free choice, to begin the
journey of what is rightfully ou rs – the generous abundance of
good feeling flow and the richness it brings to


  is  the  art
of  living  gently  on  the  earth.  We  have  arrived  at  a  time
when  the  consequences  of  our  collective  conscious-
ness are  becoming  more  evident,  a  time  for  every
human  on  the  planet  to  raise  his  or  her  consciousness
with  great  rapidity.  For  this  reason,  I  maintain  that
milk — the  most  sattvic  of  foods — is  very  important
for  the  planet.  The  quantity  and  quality  of  milk  must
be  examined  and  set  right.  A  small  portion  of  milk
goes  a  long  way,  and  it  must  be  organic  milk,  from
happy  cows  and  goats.
While  the  condition  of  a  healthy  and  peaceful  life- depends  foremost  on  the  awareness  of  each  person,
food  is  necessary  to  help  us  remember  our  connec-
tion to  every  aspect  of  the  earth.  Each  food  serves  a
different  purpose  in  the  files  of  cognitive  memory.
Many  nations  have  survived  with  healthy  food  bodies
without  drinking  cow's  milk.  They  have  used  the  milk
of  the  grains,  legumes,  and  nuts  instead.  We  do  not
have  to  share  in  the  bounty  of  the  cow's  pure  milk  to
know  the  scriptural  dharmas  and  peaceful  secrets  of
the  earth  or  to  remain  free  of  disease.  But  when  we
do,  we  sustain  memory,  and  the  faculty  of  peace  in
the  human  heart  is  helped  and  nourished.
When  we  look  at  cultures  that  are  presently  lactose
intolerant,  we  find  two  dominant  factors  at  work.
First,  a  nation  that  has  not  used  milk  as  a  food  for
many  centuries,  or  even  generations,  will  develop  a
normal  intolerance  to  lactose.  Second,  it  has  been
demonstrated  that  those  who  benefit  most  from  a
particular  food  will  be  the  first  to  become  grossly
intolerant  of  that  food  if  it  has  been  tampered  with.
In  the  case  of  milk,  it  is  the  air  and  fire  people  who  are
now  becoming  lactose  intolerant,  and  these  are  the
very  types  who  would  normally  fare  exceedingly  well
with  this  food.  This  rejection  is  caused  by  the  chemi-
cal poisons  in  milk  that  eventually  kill  the  intestines'
ability  to  produce  lactose.  The  adverse  reactions  of
Vata  and  Pitta  types  are  experienced  by  their  intesti
nal  and  gastric  organisms,  which  are  highly  sensitive
to  the  poisons  in  a  food  that  was  once  vital  to  then
health.
As  we  get  older,  our  production  of  lactose  decreases
The  digestive  system  changes  to  accommodate  more
complex  forms  of  food  transmuted  by  tire.  When  we
cease  to  drink  milk  altogether,  the  body  decreases  its
production  of  lactose  to  minute  percentages.  When
we  are  health}'  and  continue  to  chink  £ood  qualit)
milk,  the  intestines  continue  to  produce  sufficient
amounts  ot  lactose  to  aid  the  digestion  oi  milk
In  Ayurveda,  milk  is  highly  recommended  foi  the
Pitta,  or  fire  type,  whose  natural  aggression  and  in
tensity   need   to  he  soothed.   A   Vala,  01    wind   type,
should  also  use  pure  milk,  since  the  wind  dosha  is
harsh  and  depleting.  Milk  is  a  highl)  anabolic  food,
and  Vata  needs  ii  n>  build  bod)  tissue,  plasma,  muscle,
a\]^\  fat,  and  to  buffet  the  nervous  system.  On  the
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other  hand,  Kapha,  the  water  type,  already  has  a  ten-
dency  to  body  bulk  and  to  respiratory  vulnerabilities
and  thus  does  not  need  mucus-forming  milk.
Kapha  types,  who  will  not  generally  use  milk  as  a
food,  will  not  display  a  dramatic  intolerance  for  lac-
tose, since  their  organisms  are  not  dependent  on  that
food  for  their  nourishment.  They  may  demonstrate
many  other  negative  side  effects,  but  not  one  of  out-
right intolerance.  Yet  the  Pitta  types,  who  need  milk
to  buffer  their  gastric  fire  and  high  acidity,  will  de-
velop an  active  and  positive  dependency  on  this  food,
and  will  also  react  with  great  rapidity  and  despair  if  it
becomes  contaminated.
It  is  not  unusual  to  find  fire  types  who  do  not  like
to  lower  their  level  of  intensity  and  thus  will  not  use
this  sweet  coolant.  We  can  actually  regulate  our  levels
of  aggression  or  peacefulness  by  the  use  of  pure  milk.
It  is  also  not  unusual  to  find  water  types  who  choose
to  inundate  their  bodies  with  milk  and,  thus,  rein-
force their  natural  state  of  bulk  to  the  point  of  leth-
argy. Every  food  has  a  quantitative  and  qualitative
application.  If  we  use  less  or  more  than  we  need,  we
dull  our  primal  cognition.  It  is  all  a  matter  of  discre-
tion and  balance.  The  rule  of  the  good  earth  is  simple.
The  very  food  which  is  necessary  nectar  to  the  system
will  turn  to  poison  when  it  is  polluted.  Milk,  like
honey,  has  a  complex  energy  formation.  Both  foods
are,  by  nature,  highly  susceptible.  When  honey  is
cooked  or  used  in  excess,  it  becomes  toxic  in  the  body.
When  milk  is  combined  with  salty,  pungent,  or  ani-
mal foods,  it  becomes  poisonous  to  the  system.  Cer-
tainly the  contaminated  milk  of  today  is  one  of  the
most  damaged  of  all  foods.  The  extent  of  disease  re-
sulting from  its  consumption  is  far  more  devastating
than  we  can  see.
When  we  question  the  use  of  pure  milk  as  an  au-
thentic food,  we  must  clarify  the  facts.  The  present
epidemic  is  caused  by  the  fact  that  milk  has  been
bombarded  by  an  artillery  of  contaminants.  Each  food
has  a  vital  memory,  and  its  inherent  DNA  is  con-
nected to  the  earth.  It  transmits  its  quota  of  memory
to  each  life  that  feeds  on  it.  Every  system  has  its  grace,
and  when  we  step  on  it,  it  will  bite  us.  In  the  present
case  of  milk,


 power. Then they
revere God, because they respect the infinite power that they begin to intuit.
What we can do on a practical level, then, is become the best person we can
become. I’d say to become kind toward all of life in all of its expressions,
no matter what. And that includes oneself: to be willing to forgive oneself,
to see the limitation of human consciousness.
I always feel that the more educated you are about the quality of
consciousness, the nature of consciousness, the easier it is to follow
spiritual principles. If you understand that human consciousness is
intrinsically innocent and canno t control that which it is programmed by,
because it can’t tell truth from  falsehood, you begin to feel compassion
automatically.
OceanofPDF.comChapter 4
OBSTACLES TO
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Oftentimes, the harder one tries to pursue a spiritual path, the more they
can feel like they are getting nowher e, continually pulled down by the cares
of this world or the feeling of desolation and abandonment by the divine. In
this important chapter, Dr. Haw kins discusses these obstacles to spiritual
growth so that you can identify them, overcome or avoid them, and get back
on the spiritual path. Dr. Hawki ns begins by discussing how following false
spiritual teacher s who promise to unveil unknown spiritual secrets can be
one of the gr eatest obstacles to true spiritual wisdom.
There’ s a great deal of spiritual fiction out there. In fact, the best-selling
spiritual books are all fiction. The DaVinci Code, for example. There are all
kinds of psychics who tell all kinds of stories about the end of the world or
the code of God hidden in your genes. That which is spiritual truth is not
invisible nor is it encoded. It’s starkly wide open. There would be no point
to hide the secrets. What kind of secrets are you talking about? There are no
secrets to hide.
Spiritual truth is transparent. For that which is veiled, mysterious,
cloaked, you have to pay money. “Mystical secret of the ancients! Give me
$500! I will whisper the secret of life into your ears!” And then you say this
mantra at the same time, “Oom  boom boomy boom. Oom boom boomy
boom.” You can see the profit motive. Spiritual truth has nothing to gain byits promulgation. It doesn’ t even care if you agree with it or not. Anybody
can repudiate anything I say, and it’s certainly their option.  I have no
quarrel with it. There are no qualifications; you don’t have to be or prove
anything. You don’t have to pay anything. You don’t have to sign anything.
You don’t have to justify. You don’t have to prove that you have any right
or claim.
A true spiritual teacher frees you and so-called charlatans try to bind you.
They try to own you, control you, tell you what to do. Spiritual truth is
freely given. It’s not provisional to conditions or who believe s it or who
doesn’ t believe it—or whether it’s provable or not provable, because what
the world considers provable is not provable. It’s not aligne d with any
particular thing. It doesn’ t have to exist here or there or be on a
mountaintop—as if we can only have a holy order on top of a mountain at
6,000 feet.
RELIGIONISM AND THE DANGERS OF A NARCISSISTIC
EGO
A lot of people think they’re religious and really what they’re practicing
is religionism. The main problem with religion now is we deify the religion
rather than God. The printed word or the teaching of a teacher now
transcends divin ity itself. You find you’re not worshiping God; you find
that people worship the religion rather than the truth of the religion. In the
name of the religion, you have the inquisition. Religionism then eventually
becomes its own opposite.
We know if you add -ism to the end of any area of knowledge, that it
automatically drops to 190. Now it becomes positionalized with narcissistic
gain. So, you have to impose  environmentalism. You have  to impose
liberalism. You have to impose conservativism. The minute it’s an ism—
militarism or antimilitarism—it becomes a crusade, and everybody wants to
get on the bandwagon and get on TV and hold up a placard. The vanity of
the narcissistic ego is unlimited.
• • •Through educati on, you get what the limitations of the ego are, and that
gives you a certain degree of humility to begin with. You realize  that you’re
lucky to have any idea what reality is in the first place, because the ego is so
intent on displacing reality with its own perceptions and projecting them
onto the world that it’s almost impossible to see the reality of the world,
because so much is projection. The media, first of all, by what  they select
have already prejudiced you. They say, “Oh, this is important; that’s why
it’s on the evening news.” Things that are profoundly more important are
never  on the evening news. Only the trivial is on the evening news. The
profoundly important would not be of interest to people.
How did the great shakers and makers of this world arrive at their
conclusions and execute them? That would be worth looking at instead of
the latest titillations and silly amusements we see. How do the great people
think, and why do they arrive at the conclusions they arrive at, and how can
that be contextualized so that we can understand it? How to understand the
world that we see would be far more interesting, but many people are not
that interested in looking past appearance. I’m always interested in what the
essence of a thing is. I know what the appearance is. I can flick on the news
and see it for myself. But what is the essence of that? Is it naivete? Very
often, it is.
Spiritual humility is an attitude I have myself. My mind, in and of itself,
is not really capable of discerning the ultimate truth. That’ s why the great
avatars came to reveal to us that which is unknowable. And to be grateful
all the time is an attitude of humility. To be grateful that you’re interested in
spirituality, you say, “I’m grateful I’m even interested in the subject. I’m
grateful that I’ve come across good teachers along the way. I’m grateful for
the life experiences that have come about, that have revealed truths to me.”
So you must understand that humility is a positionality. It’s where you
stand back and you’re sort of saying, “I have myself been unable to fully
comprehend it.” And you’re constantly asking for revelation. So your
position with God is like a mudra. Your position with God is like yin. It’s
when you stand back and you say, “To thee, oh Lord, I surrende r, and I ask
for your will in the matter.” And then you surrender to what appears to be
most aligned with divinity.
• • •All nega tive feelings are linked with each other. You want something
because you feel unfulfilled. So if something gets in the way, now you get
angry. Now you get frustrated, and you realize that if you get it, now you’re
going to be prideful. But if you’re prideful in your ownership, now you
have to fear that somebody will take it away from you or that you won’ t get
it. And then you get puffed up if you do have it. So one thing leads to
another. Your anger is that somebody is interfering. Negative feelings are all
based on the same delusion. And the delusion is that the source of
happiness is something outside of yourself.
When I get that title, when I get that car, when I get that job, when I get
that income, when I get that—there’ s always a get—when I get that
relationship, when I get that recognition, when I get on the TV program,
when I get on the nightly news, I’ll be somebody. It’s always a gettingness.
If anyth ing stands in your way to getting this, now you hate it and you’re
angry at it, and you want to destroy it. When you see that one thing leads to
another, then if you don’t achie ve it, you feel guilt and self-blame and you
feel worthless. Now you feel depressed.
All the negative feelings are based on the assumption that what you need
is outsid e of yourself. You see yourself as incomplete. And once I’m
famous, once I’m educated, once I’m older, once I’m richer, once I’m...
then I’ll be happ y. No matter what you say, it always puts fulfillment off in
the future. So you’re always coming from incomplete to incomplete,
because you’r e incomp lete. But then when you get what you want, there’ s
always one better. I knew many super rich people back East. And they
always had the saying: No matter how big your yacht is, a bigger one will
dock next to you.
It’s an endless race, and it


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amounts as to cause a tremendous drop in the blood sugar level. Hyper kinetic
(hyperactive) children, according to the latest research, have been found to ingest
large amounts of white sugar and chemical food additives; when these were taken
away from them, they ceased to be hyper kinetic.
   Milk also has no place in the adult diet, since the stomach enzyme rennin, which is
responsible for coagulating the milk, is diminished or lacking, thereby making the
milk very difficult to digest properly. This is why a natural cheese would be better
because it is already coagulated. Pasteurization alters enzymes and vitamins and also destroys an important amino acid (protein building block)--lysine. Then vitamins are
artificially added back. Milk is an insulator and when taken with meals retards gastric
(stomach) digestion. Another interesting fact is that many children who are anemic
are big milk drinkers. Why? Because when they fill up on milk, which has no iron, it
prevents them from eating a proper diet that would contain adequate iron. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 8,  there are many vegetables
that contain two to ten times the amount of calcium as milk. There are also those that contain more iron than liver, such as seeds.
   There seems to me much concern about pernicious anemia in people who don't eat
animal products, particularly vegetarians. The fact is that anyone can suffer a
nutritional imbalance through ignorance, neglect, or as a result of the fast pace of
living. Doctors' offices are full of people with pernicious anemia, almost all of whom eat meat and other animal products.    Best and Taylor state: "The extrinsic factor (vitamin B- 1, 2) is present in liver, beef,
rice polishings, yeast, and other substances rich in the vitamin B complex. It is also found in the intestinal contents of normal persons as well as in the feces of patients
with pernicious anemia. There is, theref ore, no reason to believe that a dietary
deficiency of this factor is the cause of the disease. The basic defect in pernicious
anemia is the failure of the gastric mucosa (stomach lining or membrane) to produce,
at least in effective amounts, the intrinsic fact or. It is now believed that this factor is
essential for the adequate absorption of vitamin B-
12."
   I only mention a few foods to give you an idea of why the average person does not
have a high degree of health. It is not in the scope of this book to analyze every food,
but there is an important fact about raw natural foods (roughage). Drs. David
Kritchevsky and Baruch Modan, of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and Johns
Hopkins Medical School respectively, have  done research on plant fiber (roughage)
and colon cancer. It was found that people who ate a large amount of plant fiber--raw, fresh fruits and vegetables--had a lower incidence of colon cancer. This "roughage,"
which is indigestible, stimulates the colon to get rid of its contents faster, and as this
food moves through the small and lower intestines it takes with it the bile produced by
the liver and the cholesterol contained in the food. The fiber or cellulose keeps the
body from reabsorbing these potentially dangerous substances. So there is also an effect on the lowering of blood cholesterol. People who eat large amounts of
carbohydrate and meat. with little or no roughage show a higher incidence of colon
cancer. The meat and starches tend to stagnate in the intestinal tract, since they do not
stimulate intestinal motility to evacuate them. As a result, there are poisonous waste
products from the putrefaction of these "hung-up" foods, which come in contact with
the intestinal lining regularly and for prolonged periods.
   What's wrong with meat? As soon as the animal is killed, the flesh begins to decay.
As the animals are being killed, they all sense this and build up a tremendous fear
which releases adrenalin into their tissues, which is eaten by the consumer. Most
animals are given DES (diethyl-stilbestrol), a synthetic female sex hormone, to put on abnormal weight. The consumer eats the meat, including the hormone, and this has
been known to cause serious problems, particularly in women. The end products of
meat digestion and putrefaction in the intestinal tract are such poisons as skatol, indol,
phenol, acetic acid, and uric acid, all of which tend to poison the body. The uric acid is responsible for gout and gouty arthritis as well as kidney stones.
   Man is not carnivorous. If he was, there would be no problem with meat eating.
However, many facts stand out to show he is non-carnivorous. A few of these are: The carnivore has an enzyme--uricase--w hich renders uric acid harmless. The
carnivore has a short intestinal canal, whil e man's is extremely long allowing meat
(which is highly putrefactive) to decay even further on its long trip to the outside
world. The carnivore possesses claws; man has fiat nails. The carnivore has a rasping
tongue, man does not. The carnivore has pointed molar teeth for tearing, while man has blunt molar teeth for grinding. The car nivorous animal has no pores; he perspires
through the mouth (panting). Man and the other non-carnivorous animals, with the exception of the elephant, have pores and perspire through the skin.
   Also, as an animal lives and eats it must constantly give off waste products of
metabolism or it will die of its own poisons. When the consumer eats the flesh, he is eating also the waste products of metabolism, which is a part of the meat and still in
it. This predisposes to many of man's diseases.
   Proper foods do not cure. They give to the body all the essential elements it needs to
maintain its natural immunities, its health, and its optimum function. It is through the improper combining of foods--the haphazard habit of putting anything and everything
into one's stomach--that is a cause of many of our ills, both minor and life
threatening.. The purpose of food combining is to facilitate digestion--to make it
easier, less complicated, and more efficient, even in the presence of some so-called
digestive problems. We have certain physiological (functional) limitations of the digestive system (glands, enzymes, juices) and the digestion of different foods
requires special adaptations in the digestive secretions.
   Based on the principles of the chemistry of digestion, he are the rules of proper food
combining:
   1. Never eat carbohydrate (starch) and aci d foods at the same meal. Don't eat bread,
potatoes, rice, etc., with oranges, grapefru it, tomatoes, pineapple, etc. The salivary
enzyme ptyalin, which begins starch digestion in the mouth, is alkaline in nature and
is neutralized or destroyed by mild acids, even to the extent of 0.003 percent. If this
occurs, then starch digestion is delayed and these foods begin to decompose in the
stomach and produce gas and noxious chemicals.
   2. Never eat a concentrated protein and a concentrated starch (carbohydrate) at the
same meal. This means do not eat such items as nuts, meat, eggs, cheese, etc., with
such items as bread, potatoes, rice, cereals, etc. Probably the most common example
is meat and potatoes, or even a hamburger or hot dog sandwich. Next to overeating, this particularly bad combination is probably responsible for more digestive problems
and eventual illness than any other abusive food combination. The digestion of
starches and proteins is so different, that when they are indiscriminately mixed in the
stomach, the digestion of each is interfe red with. The protein digestion requires an
acid medium in the stomach while the starch digestion, which begins in the mouth, takes place in an alkaline medium. The starch digestion cannot be carried on for long
because the increasing stomach acidity soon stops or slows up starch digestion and
this results in putrefaction, gas, and toxic end products of this decomposition. As a
result, the "average" person eating the "avera ge" meal of many courses usually comes
away from the table with the usual fullness, bloating, gas, and, later on, foul stools.
   3. Never eat two different concentrated proteins at the same meal. For example,
don't eat nuts and meat, eggs and meat, nuts and cheese, cheese and eggs, etc., at one meal. Two proteins of different types an d compositions require different types of
digestive juices of varying strength and character pouring into the stomach at different
times, thus reducing the efficiency of digestion. Since people eat more than one or
two meals and since there is protein in al most everything eaten in the properly
balanced diet, one does not have to consume all of his proteins in any one meal. This doesn't mean that several types of meat or nuts or cheese cannot be eaten at one meal,
except this usually leads to overeating.
   4. Don't eat fats with proteins. This means do not mix cream, butter, oil, etc., with
meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Fat


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9 on phobias.) Both have been cleared in my practice with EFT using a
similar approach.
I have helped clients resolve smoke, rash, sinus, food, and other allergies
with tapping. Practitioners have  created entire protocols for allergy clearing
with remarkable success rates. I believe that allergies, like phobias, can
arise because they are linked with bad experiences the person had while
near or involved with the allergen in question. The brilliant primitive brain
mistakenly notes anything near the trauma that happened as something to
avoid. The phobia affects the nervous system; the allergy affects the
immune system.
Tapping on Y our Own Symptoms
for Sickness or Pain
When you don’t know where to start, a great place to begin is asking
yourself what was happening in your life just before or during the time you
got sick. What was going on with your work, family, social life, spiritual
life, relationship s, physical body, or any other important area of your life?Major life stress ors or big emot ional upheavals can be enough to upset the
applecart of health.
Sometimes, the emotional origin s of the illness are rooted in an incident
from a very long time ago that had a serious effect on you but wasn’ t
resolved. For example, Talia wound up very sick after experiencing a
significant and traumatic loss. She had a genetically inherited illness she’d
had her entire life that had never sidelined her until then. Within about three
months of the loss, she went out on disability. We were able to track back
significant events and moments  during those three months that may have
contributed to the issues she was experiencing at the time. We also tapped
on three key specific core stories from her childhood. In the next months,
she had complet ely transformed  her life—she was at work doing what she
loved, volunteer ing, and once again feeling the many possibilities life had
to offer. When you do not even remember the origins of the illness, your
body does.
Places to Start Exploring with
Chronic and Serious Illnesses
You’ll never run out of topics to tap on with this one. These are just a few
suggestions.
1. Tap on physical symptoms  one at a time with Chase the Pain and see
where this takes you. It regularly takes tappers straight to the cause.
2. Ask questions:  What was going on, specifically, within a few months
before, during, or after the time you got sick? Are there upsetting events or
big transitions —losses, moves, job changes, deaths, accidents, divorces,
children moving away, vacations that didn’ t happen, sudden shocks—that
you have not worked through yet? Use what you know and tap on any
specific events that come up.
If there was an upside to this illness, what might it be? What’ s the
downside of getting better? If there were a reason for this illness no matter
how outrageous  or crazy it sounds, what might that be (go with first
thoughts that come to mind).T ake a wild guess and you may uncover adeep-seated unconscious belief from your childhood that you have
outgrown. Then you can go to work tapping on that.
When’ s the first time you felt like this? How does the pain/illn ess make
you feel? Tap on the troubleso me feelings relating to experiencing your
situation.
3. Explore the belief systems,  self-talk, inner critic, fears, and other
thoughts you have about being sick or in pain. What do you believe that
other people think about you because of the illness? What stories are you
making up in your head about what’ s going on with you? Are you angry
with yourself or others that you’re not better? Do you have concerns about
not making financial ends meet? Do you believe it’s your fault you are sick
and that you shouldn’ t be sick?  Are you angry that you don’t have the life
you planned and envisioned?
4. Tap on upset stemming from hurtful things that happen in your day-to-
day life due to your illness, such as hurtful words (or the silen t treatment)
from well-mean ing people who don’t get what you’re going through. Tap
on issues stemming from medica l professionals and your care. For example,
one client let me know that he taps each time before going to the doctor,
while in the waiting room, and after leaving. Tap on specif ic upsetting
events relating to your medical care, problem hospital stays, thoughtless
things that hurt, when you looked to a physician or caregiver for hope and
instead received nothing encouraging. What sort of prejudic e have you
experienced? Has your self-worth and status taken a hit?
5. Are you “shou lding” on yourself?  It shouldn’ t be this way.Tap on those
shoulds!
6. Are you hatin g your body  because it’s causing so much pain? Tap on
that. Rem ember, your body is your partner. Tapping can help you shift your
relationship with your body. I can’t tell you how many times it’s happened
in my office that someone who has been at war with their body is overcome
with emotion when I suggest we thank his or her body for carrying all this
pain for him/her all this time or thank the body for holding up through all ofthis trouble. It’ s big and it’ s deep. It’ s useful to send some positive messages
to your body, too.
7. Tap on the shame, blame, and guilt you have relating to your illness.
Do you blame yourself becaus e you should somehow be able to handle
everything life throws at you? Do you believe the illness is your fault,
somehow?
8. Invoke gratitude.  It seems hard to be grateful when you’re in pain or
feeling miserabl e, but it seems that’s one of the ways out of the pain and
misery. The feelings of gratitude and appreciation actually evoke an
immune-enhancing response. Even if you don’t feel grateful but you feel
hateful, pretend. Or look back in your memory for one good experience,
something you really appreciated, and savor the memory for at least 12 to
30 seconds. See it, hear it, feel it, really note it—it takes longer for your
brain to register the positive. Practice every day. Start a gratitude journal. It
takes practice when you are suffering with illness or pain, but you can do it.
Exercise: T apping in Gratitude for
Your Body’ s Magnificence
Step 1.  Start tapping on the points or your favorite point or the finger points
now.
Step 2. This exercise offers gratitude  for the magnificent body that’s
carried you around all these years. Try this simple way to begin recognizing
how amazing your body is, and shower it with gratitude. Pick one little or
big thing you like about your body to start. If you can’t think of anything,
what about appreciating the fact that your body breathes without you having
to do anything?
Step 3. If strong feelings are coming up because you can’t find anything
to like about your body, this is a great opportunity for you to tap on
identifying what you don’t like and list in your EFT journal any specificincidents that are coming to mind relating to what you don’t like about your
body.
Tap while taking the time to write down everything that comes to mind
about not liking your body. Tap on those aspects one at a time until
resistance subsi des and just one thing (or more) bubbles up that you do
appreciate abou t your body you are willing to tap on. I understand that
when your body is sick, when you have major allergies and have a hard
time eating almost any food without a reaction, when your allergy is to
something like the sun, or when  you have muscle pain no matter what you
do, it can be hard to find someth ing to appreciate or that’s likable. The body
can feel like the enemy even though it’s not. You can simply track the pain
—or you can tap on tail-end ers about finding a positive thing you
appreciate abou t your body. If you thought about something positive and
then had a tail-ender, go with that.
Here’ s some examples:  “Even though I don’t like my body”; “Even
though I find it hard to be grateful when my body doesn’ t do what I want it
to”; “Even though my body isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do”; “Even
though I’m really angry at my body for ….”
Remember to rate your intensity before and after tapping the EFT basic
recipe. When you are able to think about your body with minimal
resistance, you can go to the next step.
Step 4. Tap on the positive body. While I generally don’t believe that
tapping scripts will get at the roots of an individual’ s unique issue, they are
often a good starting point to find hidden treasure, paving the way to
finding out what’ s underneath a certain negative behavior or thought
pattern. Here’ s a tapping script by one of my favorite tappers, Brad Yates,
who offers hundreds of YouTube tapping videos on just about every subject
possible, including insomnia—in which he greets viewers with sleep cap. 23
Brad has kindly allowed me to share his tapping script below. What
follows is just one part. As you know, scripts may not get you to the deepcenter of your own issues


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spectrum of the levels of human capacity for comprehending the nature
of caused all subjects to test strong. And
quarter mile away flee a predator -pertains
consciousness, developing a fascinating
the universe and life itself.
some results were food for considerable
in same subconscious way to our species,
map of the geography of man's
3
4
2. Face your subject and place your left
surmise: whereas virtually all classical
also. There are simply too many experience. This "anatomy of
hand on his right shoulder to steady him.
music and most pop music (including
documented instances of individuals consciousness" produces a profile
of the Then place your right hand on the"classic" rock-and-roll) caused a
having intimate acquaintance with entire human condition, allowing a
subject's extended left arm just above the
universally strong response, the "hard" or
information experienced firsthand by comprehensive analysis of the
emotional wrist,
"metal" rock that first gained popularity
remote strangers for us to deny that there
and spiritual development of individuals,
3. T ell the subject you are going to try to
in the late seventies produced a
are forms of shared knowledge other than
societies, and the race in general. So
push his arm down as he resists with all
universally weak response.
those achieved by rational consciousness.
profound and far -reaching a view
his strength.
There was one other phenomenon which
Or perhaps, more simply, the same spark
provides not only a new understanding of
of inner sub-rational wisdom that canman's journey in the universe, but also a
4. Now push down on his arm fairly
Diamond noted in passing, though
discriminate healthy from unhealthy can
guide to all of us as to where we and our
quickly, firmly and evenly. The idea is to
devoting no deeper analysis to its
discriminate true from false.
neighbors are on the ladder of spiritual
push just hard enough to test the spring
extraordinary implications. Subjects
enlightenment and on our own personal
and bounce in the arm, not so hard that
listening to tapes of known deceits-
One highly suggestive element of this
journeys to become who we could be.
the muscle becomes fatigued. It is not a
L yndon Johnson perpetrating the T onkin
phenomenon is the binary nature of the
question of who is stronger, but of
Gulf hoax, Edward Kennedy
response. Hawkins found that questionsIn this volume Dr. Hawkins brings these
whether the muscle can "lock" the stonewalling the Chappaquiddick
must be phrased so that the answer is
fruits of decades of research and insight
shoulder joint against the push.
incident universally tested weak. While
very clearly yes or no, Like a nerve
into the penetrating illumination of
listening to recordings of demonstrably
synapse that is on or of f, like the most
revolutionary discoveries in advanced
Assuming there is no physical problem
true statements, they universally tested
basic cellular farms of "knowledge," like
particle physics and nonlinear dynamics.
with the muscle and the subject is in a
strong. This was the starting point of the
so much of what our cutting-edge For the first time in our W estern
normal, relaxed state of mind, receiving
work of the author of this volume, the
physicists tell us is the essential nature of
intellectual record, he shows, the cold(4) no extraneous stimuli (for this reason it
well-known psychiatrist and physician,
universal ener gy. Is the human brain, at
light of science is confirming what
is important that the tester not smile or
David R, Hawkins. In 1975 Dr. Hawkins
some primal level, a wondrous computer
mystics and saints have always said
otherwise interact with the subject), the
began research on the kinesiological
linked with a universal ener gy field, that
about the self, God, and the very nature
muscle will "test strong"-the arm will
response to truth and falsehood.
knows far more than it knows it knows?
of reality. This vision of being, essence,
remain locked. If the test is repeated in
and divinity presents a picture of man's
the presence of a negative stimulus (for
It had been established that test subjects
Be that as it may. As Dr. Hawkins'
relation to the universe that is unique ininstance, artificial sweetener), "although
did not need any conscious acquaintance
research continued, his most fertile its capacity to satisfy both soul and
you are pushing down no harder than
with the substance (or issue) being (5)
discovery was a means of calibrating a
reason. There is a rich intellectual and
before, the muscle will not be able to
tested. In double-blind studies-and in
scale of relative truth by which spiritual harvest here, much that you can
resist the pressure and the subject's arm.
mass demonstrations involving entire
intellectual positions, statements or take, and much more that you can
give will fall to his side."4
lecture audiences--subjects universally
ideologies could be rated an a range of
tested weak in response to unmarked
one to one thousand. One can ask, "This
yourself.
A striking aspect of Diamond's research
envelopes containing artificial sweetener,
item (book, philosophy, teacher) T urn the page. The future starts now.
was the uniformity of response amongand strong to identical placebo
calibrates at 200 (Y/N?) at 250 (Y/N?),"
his subjects. Diamond's results were
E. Whalen, Editor Bird Press
envelopes. The same naive response
and so on, until the point of (6) common
predictable, repeatable, universal. This
Arizona, 1995
appeared in testing intellectual values.
weak response determines the calibration.
was so even where no rational link
The enormous implication of these
existed between stimulus and response.
What seems to be at work is a form ofP R E F A C E
calibrations was that for the first time in
For totally undetermined reasons certain
communal consciousness, spiritus mundi,
human history ideological validity could
T o EXPLAIN THA T WHICH IS
abstract symbols caused all subjects to
or as Hawkins calls it, following Jung, a
be appraised as an innate quality in any
SIMPLE can be dif ficult indeed. Much of
test weak; others, the opposite. Some
"database of consciousness." The
subject.
this book is devoted to the process of
results were perplexing: certain pictures,
phenomenon seen so commonly in other
making the simple obvious. If we can
with no overtly positive ox negative
social animals--whereby a fish swimming
Through 20 years of similar calibrations,understand even one simple thing in
content would cause all subjects to test
at one edge of a school will turn
Hawkins was able to analyze the full
depth, we will have greatly expanded our
weak, while other "neutral" pictures instantaneously when its fellows a
spectrum of the levels of human capacity for comprehending the nature
of caused all subjects to test strong. And
quarter mile away flee a predator -pertains
consciousness, developing a fascinating
the universe and life itself.
some results were food for considerable
in same subconscious way to our species,
map of the geography of man's
3
4
Kinesiology is now a well-established
with randomly selected, naive test
for recontextualizing the human locality, impersonality and universality
of science, based on testing of an all-or -subjects.
experience throughout all time. consciousness itself; and, specifically,
none muscle response to stimuli. A
Moreover, we found that this testablePractically, by accessing data to which
from the realization of the observability
positive stimulus provokes a strong phenomenon can be used to calibrate
there has been heretofore no avenue of
of one's own thoughts and motivations,
muscle response; a negative stimulus
human levels of consciousness so that an
approach, our method promises both
their transparency across time. That one's
results in a demonstrable weakening of
arbitrary logarithmic scale of whole
great value in researching history and
every thought and action leave an
the test muscle. Clinical kinesiological
numbers emer ges, stratifying the relative
enormous possible benefit for man's indelible trace forever in the
universe can muscle testing as a diagnostic technique
power of levels of consciousness in all
future. In attempting to emphasize the
be an unsettling thought.
has found widespread verification aver
areas of human experience. Exhaustive
value of this technique as a research tool,As in the case of the discovery of radio
the last twenty-five years. Goodheart's
investigation has resulted in a calibrated
examples have been given of its potential
waves or x-rays, a sudden expansion of
original research on the subject was
scale of consciousness in which the log
uses in a wide range of human activities;
our awareness of the workings of the
given wider application by Dr. John
of whole numbers from 1 to 1,000
speculatively, in art, history, commerce,
universe not only allows but demands a
Diamond, whose books brought the calibrates the degree of power of all
politics, medicine, sociology and the
recontextualization of our world-view.
subject to the public. Diamond possible levels of human awareness.
natural sciences; pragmatically, in Implications of new


 as chickens come home
to roost, the truth will out. Worry, even though presenting a
smooth exterior, will break through; the worker will break
down —disease will claim him for its own. Housewives
who carry a burden of worry become enervated and lose
health. The cause of their worry is lack of control of eating, lack of control of the emotions, lack of care of the body,
and lack of efficiency. Instead of resolutely going to work
to remove all the defects, they are downed by them. An
uncontrollable temper must be downed, or it will down the
one who gives way to it. Gossip is not an admirable qua lity,
and, unless overcome, it will in time drive friends away.
Envy and jealousy are cancers that eat the soul out of those
who indulge them. What is left to love when the soul is
gone?

   When anyone, from indolence and health -destroying
habits, allows  himself to gravitate below the standard
expected of him by his friends, he must not be surprised
when they run away from him.

   Who are the old people who are left alone? Those who
have lived selfish lives —who have demanded
entertainment when they shou ld have been entertaining
themselves. Happiness and entertainment must come from
within —from a love of service, work, books. If this
fountain of youth and pleasure is not found before old age
creeps over us, we shall find ourselves alone. Even in the
midst  of a throng we shall be alone, forever alone. What
could be more pathetic?

   Self-Indulgence. —Self-indulgence is contrary to ethics and brings its condemnation. What about the ethics of
gluttons —what about their religion? Excess in everything
follows o n the heels of abnormal selfish indulgence.
Coming under this head are self -pity and a desire for cure.
Extravagant habits, even if there is an inexhaustible supply,
builds a self -destructive morale, on the heels of which, like
a nemesis, runs the trail to  premature death. The causes are
called heart disease, apoplexy, paralysis, kidney disease,
suicide, etc.; but what is in a name? Names are all
misleading; for the cause —first, last, and all the time —is a
selfish body and mind —destructive self -indulgence.

   A study of nature reveals the fact that man must live for
service; not giving alms, but helping others to help
themselves.

   Self -indulgence in the use of stimulants, even in
moderation, is a constant drain on the nervous system; and
a time comes w hen the last cigar, the last cup of coffee, the
last hearty meal, snaps the vital cord; and the contingency
is always unexpected and a surprise.

   Overwork is said to enervate; but this is an excuse behind
which are hidden many bad habits that kill, rat her than the
work. Work without pleasure in the work is enervating and
disease -building; an unsatisfied mind —a desire to engage in some other work before efficiency has been attained in
the work engaged in; more desire for pay than to do good
work. A work is never well done until it takes on the
individuality of the worker. We should work with the
creative instinct. Our work should be created in the image
of its creator —love of the creator —of the work’ not the
emoluments.

   Dissatisfaction and overwork ed emotions are enervating.
Worry, fear, grief, anger, passion, temper, overjoy,
depression, dissatisfaction, self -pity, pride, egotism, envy,
jealousy, gossip, lying, dishonesty, failing to meet
obligations and appointments, taking advantage of
misunderst andings, abusing the credulity of friends,
abusing the confidence of those who confide in us —all
enervate and in time build incurable disease.

   Grief. —Grief is enervating. Those who are very
enervated and toxemic will be prostrated by grief, and,
unless put to bed and kept warm and quiet, and without
food, may die. Food eaten under such circumstances will
not digest, but acts as a poison. Some people are made
invalids for life by a great grief.

   Shock. —Shock, mental or physical, may enervate so
greatly as to kill by heart failure, or be followed by permanent nervousness. Wrong eating or overeating may
prevent a return to health. The shell -shock that many
soldiers suffered during the World War was converted into
permanent invalidism by tobacco and oth er enervating
habits. Certainly overeating prevents a return to health.

   Anger. —Anger is very enervating. A daily shock of anger
will build profound enervation. A temper that flies at the
slightest provocation ruins digestion and builds
nervousness. Un less controlled, epilepsy may evolve, and
cancer may end life. The chronic grouch is liable to build
ulcer or cancer of the stomach. Those who cannot control
their temper often build rheumatic arthritis, hard arteries,
gall-stone, and early old age.

   Egotism. —Because of self -love, selfishness, misanthropy,
and distrust, the egotist sees unfriendliness in all the acts of
others —every hand is against him. This causes enervation
and Toxemia, which lead on to many nervous
derangements, and even insanity. A misanthrope loves self
above everything and everybody. The moment the nearest
and dearest friend is suspected, the friend’s head comes off
figuratively. The egotist hates all who fail to feed his
vanity. Hate and anger are always on tap, but draped with a
mocking smile when finesse or stratagem demands.
Friendship, honor, honesty, and veracity must go when self-interest is being impinged upon or neglected. Men of
this type have no gratitude. They demand everything, and
give nothing without an ulterior motiv e. Where egotism is
mild, it may not go beyond a disagreeable, overbearing
selfishness.

   Selfishness. —A selfish nature always looks after self first.
A common type of selfishness is interpreted as love of
children. But when a son or daughter marries ag ainst the
father’s wish, disinheritance follows. Why? Because
ambition is piqued. Love is oftener a selfish ambition than
affection. Selfishness leads on to enervation and Toxemia.

   Ambition. —Ambition of a selfish type brings on ill -
health; for it meet s with so many disappointments. Where
successful, it enables the one who succeeds to gratify his
sensual nature, resulting in all the so -called diseases
following in the wake of selfish gratification. A noble
ambition  goes with self -control and service to mankind,
and health and long life are two of the rewards. Ambition
for display, ostentation, gives an evanescent gratification;
but it costs more in wasted nerve -energy than it is worth.

   Thousands of semi -invalid women bring on toxemic
crises as their  reward for giving dinners and displaying
dress, homes, and furnishings.     Women gratify silly, stupid ambitions, and pay for their
thrills in broken health.

   Many waste more energy at an afternoon card party than
they can renew in a week.

   Envy. —Envy of a low and disease -producing type is of a
begrudging nature. The man possessing this kind of envy is
a vandal. He will slip a monkey -wrench into the machinery
of those whom he envies. He will poison reputations by
innuendo.

Who steals my purse ste als trash; ‘tis something,
nothing;
‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to
thousands;
But he who filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. (Shakespeare.)

   When safe, such a person will go the  limit in doing even
bodily harm to those whose merits tower over his. Laudable
envy is that of a desire to equal in success the one envied.
To rejoice in the success of others, and try to equal them,
where the success has been achieved on merit, builds a
healthy mind and body.
    Love and Jealousy. —According to Solomon: “Love is
strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.” Solomon
should have known.

   Shakespeare knew about everything worth knowing up to
his time. He said:

How many fools serve m addened jealousy!
The venomed clamors of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.

   The systematic poisoning of overwrought emotions has
been known since reasoning began; but, aside from
knowing that ‘`a poison is generated in the sys tem” from


- 21
jade stalk, mann ers of moving,
113-14
love-play positions, 100-1 01
penetrat ion, styles of, 114
Nan-tzu, 35
National Inst itute of Mental
Health, 169
Need ham, Joseph, 11, 12, 17
Nco- Conf ucian ism, 18, 26-27,
32, 33, 55, 63,64, 84,
125, 161
Ni Yin -lin, 30
Nichans, Paul, 162
Novels, erotic, 59-6 3, 66-73
Nutr ients, sexual. See
Aphr odis iacs/ sexual
nutr ients
Oklahoma, Un iversity ot� 155
Oneida Com munity, 168
Op en Door Policy, 21
Opium War. First, 20-21
Op ium War, Second. 7
Oral sex, 195, 197
cunnilingus, 96-98. 196,
211-12
tcllatio, 98, 196, 199, 211-13
Kinsey on. 164
StliX&Jntf-PICf!{ ( 69), 211
Org asm, female, 103, 197, 216
avo idance ot� 126 Fn·ud on, 16Y, 233
G spot. 16Y-70, 1 tJH
Kinsey on, Hl7, 169
mal e avoidan ce of <.'jacu lation
and, lOH, 116-iY. 214-19,
2J4-J5
male dynami cs and, 227-J O
Master s and Johnson on,
167, 16lJ
multip le O's wrsus the Big 0.
233 -35
Orgasm, male, 1lJ7. 21 (l. Sec alstl
Ejaculation
delay ing oC 103, 11 H. 234-35
diff erence bt.·tween ejacu lation
and, 103, 16H. 219
female dynamics and, 230-33
Masters and Johnson on,
168, 217
mult iple O's versu s the Big 0,
233 -35
Van de Vclde on, 168
Ostrowsk i. Nancy, 169
Ovid, 81
Pao Pu Tzr4 (Tire Master Who
Embr aces Simplicity ; Ko
Hung), 96
Parr, Thomas, 162
Peacock Tease (love game), 202
Pclliot, Paul, 61, 84
Peng Tsu, 95-96, 116-17
Penns ylvania, University of, 154
Peouy Paviliot1, The (Mou Tan Tin.�;
Tang Hs ien-ts u), 66
Perf ume d Car den, The, 81
Perineum Press (exercise), 179
Perry, John, 169-70
Phoenix Holding Fledgling (inter
course position), 110-11
Phoenix Sporting in the Cinnabar
Grotto (intercourse posi
tion), 112
Pillow Nip (exercise), 181
Max Planck Institut e, 163
Plant of lustful sheep, 137-38
Play. Se£' Love-play
Playing the Flute (love game),
211,212-13
Pluck-and- nurture, 120-29,
162, 168
Po Chu-i, 48, 61 Po Hsing -ch it.·n. 61-63
Poems, notic. 55 -59
lh·ti f.,[ Essay,1, tilt' Supn·mt' }t1y,�f
tilt' f>ft'tiSIIY tlblc ( l11i11P1 il(
Ht·.wm 1111d Et�rth, mu{ Yit1
.md );m,(!, Tile (Po Hsing
chien), 61-(l.'\, HS
Polo, Marco, 25, ()J
Polygamy
Chin<.'S<.', 2(,-27, 41, 53,
1 54, 1 59-60. Set• al.w
Consorts
Western, 168
Pornogr aphy, difference between
erotica and, 54-55
Positions, intercourse, 102-4
Arcane Maid's nine positions,
104-8, 219, 220
Bamboos by the Altar, 110
Bunny Licking Its Fur, 107,
110, 222
Butterflies Fluttering, 1 10, 222
Cat and Mouse Sharing a
Hole, 113
Cleaving Cicadas, 106,
112, 225
Cranes Entwining Necks, 107,
112, 223
Dogs of Autumn, 113
Donkeys of Spring. 113, 225,
229-30,234
Dragons Twisting, 109, 221
Dusky Cicadas Cleaving, 112
face-to-face, 220-22
Feast of Peonies, 113
Fish Eye-to-Eye, 109, 222
Fish Linking Scales, 107,
110, 222
Goat Hugging the Tree,
112, 224
Gobbling Fish, 110
Horse Shaking Its Hoof,
111, 221
Humming Ape Embracing the
Tree, 112, 223
Jungle Fowl Approaching the
Arena, 112
King fishers Uniting, 109, 221
Mandarin Ducks Joining,
109-10, 222
Mounting Tortoises, 106, 109,
112, 221 ltrdc·x
Mystic Master' s Nine Manners
of moving the jade stalk,
1 U-14
Mystic Mast n's Six Styles of
pl·m·tr;ltion, 114
Mystic Mastl'r's thirty posi
tions, IOH-14, 219-21
Phoen ix Holding Fkdgling,
110-1 I
Phomix Sporting in the
Cinna bar Grotto, 1 12
rear-entry, 224-25
riding, 222-23
Roc Soa ring owr Dark Sea,
1 12. 221
Seagulls Soa ring. 1 1 1. 1 12
Shelter ing the Rec lining
Pine, 110
side-by-side, 222
Silkworms Entangling.
toH-9, 221
sitting. 223-24
Soaring Pho enix, 1116
Somersaulting Dragons, 105,
109, 220
Spider Trapped in Its Own
Web, 113
standing, 225-26
Steeds Galloping, 1 1 1
Stepping Tigers. 105, 1 1 1, 225
Swifts Sharing a Heart, 109, 220
Twin Phoenixes Dancing. 110
whimsical, 226
White Tiger Jumping. 111
Wild Duck s Flying Backward,
110, 222
Wild Hor ses Leaping. 111, 112,
221, 228-29, 234
Wrestling Apes, 105-6, 109,
112,221
Pos itions, love -pla y
Conv ersing in Loving Entangle
ment, 100
Exposed Fish Gills. 100
My stic Master's four positions,
100-101
Unicorn's Horn, 100
Whispe ring End earmen ts, 100
Prayer Cushiotl of Flesh, The Uou
Pu Tuan), 70-71
Prescriptiotls of the Elemental Maid
(Su Nu Fat1g), 84
249 Prescri ptions 4 a Thousand
Goldpicces ( Srm Szu-mo),
117, 11H
Prostitution. Sec C ou rtesans
Prudishne ss, versu s lascivious ness.
�4-26
Psycho patltia Scxualis (Krafft
Ebing), 165
Pubic Squeeze (exe rcise),
175-7 7
Rati Rahasy a, 81
Rea r-en try interco urse positions,
224-25. Sa also ittdil'idually
named positions
Red Guards, 21
Redi JOok, 196
Riding intercourse position s,
222-23. Sec also indil'idua lly
named positiom
Roc Soaring ove r Dark Sea (inter
cou rse pos ition), 112, 221
Sacral-Coccygeal Press (exercise),
178-7Y
Saiv a Saha, 17-18
Saliv a Fountain (exercise),


gence and transcendence, this
tradition recognised that any experience can be a portal to one’s true nature,
warning only that one should not be seduced by pleasant experiences into
stopping short of full and lasting happiness.
     As Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said, ‘Increase and widen your desires until
nothing but reality can fulfil them’.*  That is, do not be satisfied with fleeting
122* Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That  (Acorn Press, 2012  rev.). the way of surrender
moments or periods of happiness. Seek nothing less than lasting happiness,
and understand that lasting happiness can only be found in that which lasts.

surrendering the illusory self

Sometimes I feel as if everything in my life has been encouraging me to make
this investigation into the nature of myself, but at the same time I’m afraid of it.
It’s a threat not only to my identity but to my way of life.

For most people, their interest in these matters, and their willingness to
explore their experience in this way, is initiated by reading a book, watching
a video, hearing a talk or having a conversation with a friend. However,
it may also happen that one’s circumstances conspire to initiate this process
without any interest on their part. In this case, the sudden loss of one’s cus -
tomary identity, even if only temporarily, may be accompanied by great fear.
     In extreme cases, it may feel like dying. Indeed, it is a kind of death! But
it is not the death of our self; it is the dissolution of an illusory self: an image,
an idea, a feeling. It is the disentanglement of our self from the elements of
experience with which we previously identified: thoughts, memories, history,
activities, relationships, and so on.
     In the absence of the familiar objects and experiences with which we nor -
mally identify ourself, this unsolicited plunge into our true nature may also
be disorientating and we may shrink from it, preferring our old identity in
spite of the suffering that inevitably accompanies it.
     However, such an experience is like a crack in our familiar sense of
ourself. We may plaster it over, through fear of the unknown, with strategies
that once worked well for us, but we will never be the same again, nor will
the strategies be as effective as they once were, or at least seemed to be.
     In quiet moments, when the mind is open and unfocused, we may be
disturbed by the memory of an unknown but strangely familiar presence
within, inviting us in an unknown direction to which we still seem to have
no access.
     It is also possible that the outer form of our life, which may have served
us well thus far, begins to fall apart, without any corresponding intuition or
revelation of our true nature. The old has broken down but the new has not
yet emerged. In the absence of the correct interpretation, we may feel hopeless.
123you are the happiness you seek
     Previously we would have shrunk from the uncertainty of this new possi -
bility on the brink of which we stand, and reached for the known, the familiar,
the secure. However, in this case the known has lost its credibility. There is
no way forward: the future is an abyss and the present unbearable. For some
of us this crisis will initiate the return journey into the depths of our being;
for others it may lead to a life of resignation, hopelessness or despair.

Once, while attending a retreat with Francis and staying with him and
Laura at their home in southern California, I had a dream. It was the night
before the final day of the retreat, and in the dream, it was also the last
day of  a retreat with Francis, but in a different house. It was a large house
with many rooms, and I was looking everywhere for Francis to say goodbye
to him.
     Eventually I came upon a small room, dark because it had no windows,
in the centre of the house. As I entered from a door in one corner of the
room, Francis entered through a door in the opposite corner. We met in the
middle and embraced. I rubbed his back with one of my hands – a gesture
he would often make when saying goodbye to me – and said, ‘Thank you,
thank you, thank you!’
     I was standing on tiptoes and, feeling a little unstable, reached out be -
hind me for a rail to steady myself. At that moment, a voice inside said
clearly, ‘Don’t hold on to anything you know’. I let go of the rail and our
two bodies dissolved into one another. When our bodies re-emerged, he
said to me, ‘When speaking to people, remember to tell them who it is that
bears the light’.
     So you can give yourself entirely to this understanding. It is not necessary
to worry about the effect it will have on your life. All you will lose is your
unhappiness on the inside and your conflicts on the outside. As you no
longer separate yourself from everyone and everything, you will most likely
find that the universe begins to cooperate with you rather than seeming to
frustrate you.
     You will find yourself leading a creative, productive life, without feeling
that you did anything particular to bring it about. In fact, you didn’t! You
simply ceased separating yourself from the rest of the universe and thus
allowed the universe to fulfil its purpose though you.
124chapter sixteen
Take Refuge in the Now
The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.
lao tzu

the addiction to thinking

Resistance to our current experience varies in degree from a mild sense of
boredom, expectation or lack, which barely registers on the scale of suffering,
to intense aversion. In most cases, our suffering takes place on a scale between
these two possibilities.
     However, irrespective of the intensity of our suffering, we are in almost
all cases motivated to avoid it through the acquisition of objects, substances,
activities, circumstances or relationships. Our avoidance, in turn, varies in
intensity from addiction to substances and activities at one end of the spec -
trum to the comparatively benign activity of compulsive thinking at the
other. In each case, the purpose of the activity is solely to distract us from
the discomfort of our current experience.
     Drugs, tobacco, alcohol, excessive eating and over-working are some
of the most common means that suffice for this purpose. Even spiritual
practice can be appropriated by the separate self or ego to perpetuate the
activity of seeking and resisting which characterise its illusory identity.
However, by far the most ubiquitous means of avoidance is compulsive
thinking.
     Many of the more obvious and extreme means by which we avoid the
discomfort of our current experience are bad for our health and, in some
cases, illegal. However, excessive thinking is neither bad for our health,
at least not overtly so, nor illegal, and is thus the default avenue of escape
for most people.  you are the happiness you seek
     Indeed, thinking seems so innocuous that most people are not even aware
that it is one of the main ways we avoid the sense of lack. For this reason,
it has escaped diagnosis as one of the most successful ways we subtly per -
petuate it. However, when we are determined to find the real cause of our
suffering, we become increasingly sensitive to the more or less subtle means
by which we escape it.
     There are, of course, many legitimate reasons for thinking – a response
to the current situation, planning for the future, evaluating the past, scientific
endeavour, investigative or celebratory purposes, and creativity are amongst
them – but most thinking serves none of these. Its purpose is simply to take
us away from the discomfort of our current experience.
     If we take any train of thought and ask of it, ‘Where are you going and
why?’ the response will often be, ‘I am venturing into the past or future in
order to avoid having to face the discomfort of my present circumstance’.
     In this way, most people believe that in order to find the peace and happi -
ness for which they long they must reject their current experience, which is
deemed insufficient, and venture into the past or future, which seem to hold
the promise of fulfilment. Ironically, our suffering begins  the moment we escape
from our current experience into an imagined future or a remembered past.

In fact, if we want relief from our suffering, all that is required is to return
from our happiness-seeking adventure in the past and future and come back
to our current experience. We must return to the now. Where previously we
sought to escape from our present suffering into a future which we believed
held the promise of happiness, instead we take refuge in the now, the only
place suffering cannot stand. In this way we find, at the very heart of our
experience, the happiness we previously sought by avoiding it.
     Many of our thoughts arise for the purpose of controlling the events of
our life so that they will produce exactly the conditions that we believe are
required for us to experience lasting peace and joy.
     However, our current circumstances are the growing edge of millions of
years of evolution. For instance, the behaviour of a friend, partner or colleague
is the product of centuries of conditioning.