 mixed with half a li ter of sweet
almond oil or pistachio oil, several times. And all this
should be mixed and kneaded in three liters of a syrup
that is made of water and s ugar alone, and two liters of
honey whose foam has been removed, and placed in a
vessel lined with lead. And the amount that is taken from
it is from four drachmas to half an ounce. Wintertime one
should take it in hot water in which anise has been boiled.
And in medium weather one s hould take it as thick as it
comes. But when it is very hot, or in any climate, it
should not be taken habitually, only once a week. These
are the syrups and the electua ries which your servant felt
should be found in the treasury of your honorable and
august kingdom. Let the Lord extend it together with the
long life of its king.

MIND OVER BODY
My lord, let God prolong his days, should know that
emotional experiences cause marked changes in the body
which are clear and visible to all and bear witness in clear
testimony. You see a man strongly built whose voice is powerful and pleasant a nd whose countenance is
splendid. When he is affected  all of a sudden by a feeling
of great disgust, his facial expression falls and loses its
luster. The light of his count enance changes, his posture
becomes low and his voice hoarse and weak. If he wants
to raise his voice with all hi s power, he is unable to do so.
His strength weakens, occas ionally he trembles from
great debility, his pulsating [b lood] vessels become thin
and powerless. The appearance of his eyes changes and
his eyelids are too heavy to move. The surface of his
body becomes cool and the desire for food is lost. The
cause of all of these manifest ations is that the natural
warmth and the blood en ter deep into the body.
You see quite the reverse in a man whose body is
weak, whose appearance is strange and whose voice is
low. When something happens to him which causes him
to rejoice greatly, you will see how his body becomes
strong, his voice rises, his face brightens, his movements
become rapid, his pulsating [blood] vessels become
strong and wide, his body surface becomes warm and joy
and gladness become manifest in his face and eyelids. His
condition is clear, cannot be hidden and is recognizable
without any effort. And the cause  of all these events is the
spread of the natural heat and of the blood to the surface
of the body. The reactions of all those who fear and hope and
anticipate security and calm are well known, as are also
the various reactions in th e thoughts of those who are
desperate or successful. O ccasionally the man who is
desperate and progresses from sadness to a feeling of
misfortune cannot see ahead because of weakness and the
turbulence of his foresight. But one who is successful
increases the light in his eyes exceedingly, so that it
seems that even the light around him increased and grew.
And this is sufficiently cl ear and needs no elaboration.

HYPERSENSITIVITY
And therefore the physicia ns have commanded the
observation of emotional changes and keeping them
always under consideration, tr ying to equalize them in
health or disease, without al lowing any other behavior to
take precedence. The physician must keep in mind that
the heart of every sick person is narrow and that every
healthy person has an expande d soul and therefore the
physician must remove emotional experiences that cause
a shrinking of the spirit. In this way the health of the
normal person will be extended and this is the law in the
cure of a patient, especially if the illness is concentrated
in the powers of the soul and its  parts, such as a disease of the diaphragm or the brain, causing turbulent thoughts
and melancholy. Special care should be taken in the
observation of the emotional movements. When one is
overpowered by imagination, prolonged meditation and
avoidance of social contact, which he never exhibited
before, or when one avoids  pleasant experiences which
were in him before, the physician should do nothing
before he improves the s oul by removing the extreme
emotions.

PHILOSOPHY AND THEORETICAL MORALITY
But the physician as such will neither explore nor
condemn with his wisdom hyperemotionality. One can
obtain this from philosophy and theoretical morality. Just
as the philosophers have com posed books in the various
sciences, so they composed many books on the
improvement of conduct and the morality of the soul and
the imparting of good habits from which only good
actions can result. And they have warned against base
habits and taught a way of removing from the soul every
bad habit that contri butes to the causation of evil. And all
the theoretical moral teachings, chastisements and
precepts that are taken from the prophets, their preachings
and character, or from later sages, as well as knowledge of their virtuous behavior, will help to improve the
qualities of the soul until they reach such praiseworthy
behavior that can produce  only good acts. And you will
find that those exaggerated emotions can only produce
changes in the ignoble masses, who possess no wisdom,
no philosophical principles and no theoretical morality,
like children, women and the stupid. All these timid souls
are easily startled and terrifi ed and when injury befalls
them or an inevitable misfortune occurs to them, you will
find that their consternation in creases. They pine and cry
and smite their faces and their chests. And it may happen
that the feelings become so intense that an ordinary man
will die from them, immediately or later, according to the
grief and distress he experiences. And when goodness is
bestowed upon those inferior  people by the favors of the
world, their gladness increases  and they think, at the
expense of their morality, th at they have obtained an
exceeding benefit and will continue to crave and to boast,
because of the pleasure they have had. They become
excited, gay and happy above measure, so that some of
them die from an overflow of happiness, as the spirit
melts and dissolves, because of a sudden expansion
outward, according to Galen. And this is caused by the
softness of the soul and it s ignorance of realities.
 THE EVEN KEEL
But those engaged in study and in absorbing
philosophical habits and the moral teachings of the Torah,
acquire strength for their soul s, and they are the true
heroes, as their souls are not  subject to change and get
very little excited. The more a man is disciplined, the less
he is affected by both extremes, good times and bad, so
that when he is favored by a great fortune in this world,
called by the philosophers "imaginary goodness," he does
not get excited nor appear pa rticularly great and good in
his own eyes. And when great misfortune and tribulation
befall him, like the many tribulations that occur in the
world and which the philosophers call "imaginary evils,"
he is neither startled nor terrified, but tolerates them well.
When one contemplates the true essence of things and the
knowledge of the nature of reality, he attains a wisdom
whereby he understands that  the greatest good in this
world does not stay with a man all his days, because it is
inferior in value, being perish able and destructible when a
man reaches his end. For of what benefit is it to man,
since he dies like other living cr eatures? And so it is with
the greatest of the evils in the world. When he considers
death from which he cannot es cape, every evil is less than
the evil of death, undoubtedly. And therefore a change for the worse is less than a change for the worst, which one
cannot escape.

IMAGINARY GOOD AND EVIL
And truly and justly did the philosophers call the good
and the bad things of the world, imaginary good and
imaginary bad things, because many things that one
considers good are really ba d, and many things that one
considers bad are really good. For example: Very often a
man collects a great sum of  money and attains great
prominence and power at the expense of his body and his
soul through the acquisition of evil habits that shorten his
days, thus removing himself far from God whose
closeness is the true a nd the eternal good. How many
times has a rich man been impoverished and a king lost
his kingdom, resulting in the improvement of his body
and in the perfecting of hi s soul with worthy habits,
prolonging his days and bri nging him close to God his
creator, which is the eternal good?
However, your servant has to remark: Let his days be
long or short, this is the opinion of the physicians,
philosophers and some of the thinkers who antedated the
Moslem religion. Generally it may be stated th at what people consider to
be good is really bad and most  of the things that are
considered to be bad are really good. And it is not the
intention of this chapter to explain the truth of these
things, to comment on them or to learn


 of man’s
reasoning on the subject of his discomforts, his pains, and
his sicknesses, he made the monstrous mistake that
something outside of himself —outside of his own
volition —had wished him harm. Man being a religious
animal, he early thought he had in some manner offended
one of his many deities. The history of how man evolved
the idea of disease being an entity is too long to do more
than allude to it in a book of this kind. Any of the old
mythologies may be referred to by those who are curious
enough to look the matter up. That man is still saturated
with centuries of mythological inheritance was brought out
vividly when the germ theory was introduced. It answered
the instinctive for demoniacal  possession! At last man’s search for the demon —the author of all his woes —had
been rewarded, and a satisfactory apology could be made to
his conscience for all his apparent shortcomings. However,
seventy years of vicarious atonement for man’s sins by the
demon germ are waning, and reason be praised if the
microbe is the last excuse that man can make for his sins of
omission and commission before the throne of his own
reason!

   Medical science is founded on a false premise —namely,
that disease is caused by extraneous influences, and that
drugs are something that cures or palliates discomfort. The
term “medical” means pertaining to medicine or the
practice of medicine. Anything used in a remedial way
carries the idea of curing, healing, correcting, or affo rding
relief, and this doctoring is all done without any clear
understanding of cause.

   The words “medical,” “medicine,” “disease,” and “cure”
have become concrete in our understanding, and shape our
thoughts and beliefs. And so arbitrary are these bel iefs that
new schools and cults are forced to the conventional
understanding. They may declare that an impinged nerve is
the cause of any pathology. But they do not trouble
themselves to find why one impinged nerve creates a
pathology and another does not.      The psychologist does not trouble himself to explain why
worry in one subject causes disease and in another it does
not; why hope in one subject cures and in another it does
not; why negation does not always cure; why faith does not
always cure; beggi ng the question by declaring that there
was not faith enough, etc. No fool is a bigger fool than the
fool who fools himself.

   Why should not all new schools of thought be found
harking back to their mother -thought —I say, why not? So
long as the idea th at disease is a reality, an individuality, an
entity, is firmly fixed in the mind, even those in research
work will be controlled and directed in their labors by the
conventional understanding. That is why every wonderful
discovery soon proves a mistaken b elief.

   There is no hope that medical science will ever be a
science; for the whole structure is built around the idea that
there is an object —disease —that can be cured when the
right drug —remedy, cure —is found.

   It is my intention to portray the c ommon, every -day
foibles of scientific medicine so that the people may see the
absurdities concerning disease and cure which they are and
have been hoodwinked into believing by the blare of
science. Then I shall describe the only worked -out rational explan ation of the cause of so -called diseases, hoping, by
contrasting the old and new, to start a few to thinking and
building new brain -cells, which in time may supersede the
old and conventional.

   Until Toxemia was discovered and elaborated by myself
into a medical philosophy there was no real medical
philosophy. The cause and cure of disease is and has been a
medley of guesswork and speculation which has
confounded the best and most industrious medical minds in
every generation.

   Today, as never befor e, the brightest minds in the
profession are delving into research work, endeavoring to
find the efficient cause of disease. But they are doomed to
disappointment; for they fail at their beginning. Why?
Because all the work that has ever been done in searc hing
for cause has been along the line of critical study and
examination of effects; and certainly reasoning minds
cannot believe that an effect can be its own cause. No one
believes in spontaneous generation. The remnant of this
belief was annihilated by Pasteur’s discovery of germs as
the cause of fermentation —a discovery so profound that it
created a frenzy in the medical world; and, as in every
epidemic of frenzy, mental poise was lost. The importance
of the germ as a primary or efficient cause of disea se was accepted nolens volens,  willy nilly. Everyone was swept off
his feet. As in all sudden gushes in change of belief, it was
dangerous not to agree with the mob spirit; hence opposing
or conservative voices were suppressed or ostracized.

   The germ frenzy was fierce for two or three decades; but
now it is a thing of the past and will soon be, if not now, a
dead letter.

   Cause of disease is being looked for everywhere, and no
less a personage than the late Sir James Mackenzie, in
“Reports of the S t. Andrews Institute for Clinical
Research,” Volume I, declared: “The knowledge of disease
is so incomplete that we do not yet even know what steps
should be taken to advance our knowledge.” At another
time he wrote: “Disease is made manifest to us only by  the
symptoms which it produces; the first object in the
examination of a patient is the detection of symptoms, and
therefore the symptoms of disease form one of the main
objects of our study.”

THE VALUE OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY

   Sir James, when living, wa s probably the greatest
clinician of the English -speaking world; yet he had not outlived the medical superstition that disease is a positive
entity, and that the way to find disease is to trace symptoms
to their source. But if a symptom is traced to its so urce,
what of it? A pain is traced to its source, and we find that it
comes from the head. The head does not cause the pain.
Then we find that there are symptoms of hyperemia —too
much blood in the head. The pressure from too much blood
in the head causes t he pain. Then pressure must be the
disease? No. Then too much blood is the disease —
hyperemia? Certainly; too much blood in the head was a
cause. What is it that causes congestion? We find that pain
is a symptom. Pressure causes pain; it, too, is a symptom.
Too much blood in the head causes pressure; it also is a
symptom. Pain, pressure, hyperemia are, all three,
symptoms. In time the walls of the blood -vessels weaken,
and the pressure ruptures one of the vessels. Hemorrhage
into the brain causes death from apoplexy. Is the ruptured
blood -vessel the disease? No. Is hemorrhage into the brain
the disease? No; it is a symptom. Is death from hemorrhage
the disease?

   If the hemorrhage is not severe enough to cause death,
but does produce some form of paralysis —and there can be
many kinds —is paralysis a disease? Haven’t we been
traveling along a chain of symptoms from headache to
paralysis? We have not found anything to which all these symptoms point as disease; and, according to the
requirements of Sir James Ma ckenzie, disease is made
manifest to us only by symptoms. Here we have a chain of
symptoms beginning with pain, ending in hemorrhage and
death or paralysis, without giving us any indication
whatever of cause as understood. Any other chain, namely,
stomach symptoms, ending in pyloric cancer, will not give
any more indication of disease at the various stages than the
foregoing illustration.

   The first symptom we have of any chain of symptoms is
discomfort or pain. In any stomach derangement we have
pain, more or less aggravated by food. Catarrh follows, or
more often precedes, it —or what we call inflammation or
gastritis. Gastritis continues, with a thickening of the
mucous membrane. A time comes when there is ulceration.
This will be called a disease, and  is recognized as ulcer of
the stomach; but it is only a continuation of the primary
symptom of catarrh and pain. The ulcer is removed, but the
symptom of inflammation and pain continues, and other
ulcers will follow. This state eventually merges into
induration or hardening of the pyloric orifice of the
stomach. When this develops, there is more or less
obstruction to the outlet causing occasional vomiting, and,
on thorough examination, cancer is found.
    If we analyze the symptoms from the first pain a nd
catarrh in the stomach, we shall kind the chain of
symptoms running along. The first


could not take urine in the required quantity as the passing of urine was not sufficient. So there was inflammation on the legs which increased gradually. So I had to see a doctor to get that treated. But instead of being cured, I lost 10-11 lb. of water in the form of urine. My weight which was 100 lb. fell to mere 89 lb. and I felt myself extremely weak. As a result there was an attack of paralysis on 21st of September, for which doctors administered injections. The reaction was contrary to the expectation and the passing of urine ceased and there was acute pain. A doctor in neighbourhood was called to ge the urine out but it was not sufficient because there was again obstruction. Twenty-four hours passed and the pain was unbearable. The doctor had to be called again. There is every danger of urinary tube getting inflamed by insertion of instrument again and again. I suggested urine as an antiseptic liquid for this instrument to be used internally. The 201 doctor agreed and followed my suggestion. Then 19 ounces of urine was taken out. It was dense, dirty and red. However, I got some relief and soon after I felt pressure for urination. Urine passed in drops and there was acute burning sensation. For this, the doctor prescribed four tablets of certain medicine. I expressed my doubt the reaction of those tablets.  This set me athinking. Soon I was clear in my mind. What a fool am I? I advise others to adopt urine treatment and am pleased to hear them do so. Why should I not again experiment on myself? The flow of urine increased gradually as I took more and more urine repeatedly.. The burning sensation diminished proportionately. Thus in 8 days my urine was clear and its flow was regular. There was no burning any more and I was saved from a great danger. I am writing this account after one month of the cure and I am now completely free from the trouble.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  URINE TROUBLES  “A lady X aged forty was very recently treated by Dr. Paragjibhai for her urine trouble. Her urination had stopped and there was intense pain into her abdomen. doctors could not even relieve the pain. She was given her son’s urine and in half an hour she began to urinate, pain vanished and she slept soundly thereafter.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  URINE TROUBLES  “Shri Dahyalal M. Zavei from Morvi, Saurashtra, has a business of jewellery at Bombay. He is 81. Being very old, he leads a retired life in his bungalow 'Kuber-Bhavan' at Nasik Road. He had greatly benefited himself by urine therapy and has donated Rs. 1 000/- to Bharat Sevak Samaj for the noble work of the publicity of urine treatment. He writes of his successes:  1. My constipation had been removed to a great extent. Now the stools are of natural colour. 2. Piles are eliminated altogether. 3. Appetite has been revived and I enjoy my meals. 4. A scar of dry ringworm was cleared by urine rubbing. 5. I have no trouble whatsoever in the back. 6. Urination is easy but slight burning sensation is still there due to the narrowing down of the passage. 202 7. Getting up for urination at night is not more than once or twice. 8. Previously as soon as some urine was accumulated, I had to urinate. Now the feeling of urination arises only when the bladder is full. 9. There is no attack of cold or fever or pain in the chest. 10. Eruption near the left ear has gone. 11. Two small spots on the right-hand affected with white leprosy have been almost cleared. 12. lching Sensation disappeared by urine massage in the very beginning. 13. Now everything gets digested without any ill-effect. Thus I have been benefited in a number of ways and there is no exaggeration in what I have stated.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  URINE TROUBLES  “An old gentleman began to have difficulty in voiding his urine. He was advised by a friend to try taking half a pint of his own urine every morning on rising. This was to be followed at the usual time by a light breakfast instead of the customary full meal. Result, in one month after starting the treatment he was rid of his trouble.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  URINE TROUBLES  “A lady, age forty, was very recently treated by Dr. Paragjibhai for her urine trouble. Her urination had stopped and there was intense pain in her abdomen. Doctors could not even relieve the pain. She was given her son's urine, and in half an hour she began to urinate, pain vanished, and she slept soundly thereafter.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  UTERUS INFLAMMATION  “A lady in Dhalni Pole, Ahmedabad, suffered from pain, due to inflammation in the uterus after her marriage. She was treated by doctors but did not have any relief. Her husband was informed that Urine Therapy would eliminate her trouble. She was persuaded to take her urine. One day she took all that she passed. This worked as a miracle, and the serious trouble disappeared within only a day. Before the treatment, she was unable to walk even a little distance. But after the treatment, she could travel freely.” 203  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  UTERUS SWELLING  A woman had swelling in her uterus. It used to pain. She had got herself treated by doctors and vaidyas without success. She was advised to drink urine and put urine soaked cotton inside her vagina by one of my lady patients who herself had some experience of urine therapy. The woman's trouble vanished in three days and never returned.  Miracles of Urine Therapy by Morarji Desai   ***************************** V *****************************  VAGINAL DISCHARGE  “Shrimati Prabhavati is 45 and suffered from.leucorrhoea. She took urine treatment. She fasted on during for eight days, drank urine for one month and massaged with urine during the treatment. She applied urine-soaked cotton in vagina. She was completely cured.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  VAGINAL INJURY  “Shrimati Vaishali Pandit (32 years) was admitted in a hospital for confinement. But there was abortion and she returned home. But as bleeding would not stop she was obliged to adopt urine treatment. It was begun with a three-day urine fast. After the fast she was kept on milk and fruit. She drank thrice daily her own urine and massaged also with it. After a month's treatment under the supervision of Shri K. G. pandit she was completely relieved and well.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  VARICOSE VEINS  Conception G. Sahavedra. { Mexico } 204 "I work in a laboratory and cured myself of varicose veins in the legs. I always had problems with lack of circulation. Now, thanks to God, I am very well."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  VARICOSE VEINS  Bertha Merida { Mexico } "I cured myself of varicose veins that I had in the right leg and my skin improved by getting rid of my acne. Now I feel I am happy. Thanks to God and the Urine, blessed you are Sir."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  VENEREAL DISEASE  “ A young man, twenty eight, was given three days to live. His condition was variously diagnosed as either cancer of the gullet or venereal disease. Through Urine Therapy the patient was completely cured and is still alive.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John F. O'Quinn  VERTEBRA SPRAIN  “ A young woman had a sprain in her vertebral column which developed particularly in the fourth and fifth vertebra, where swelling appeared. She was unable to look straight, forward or side ways, due to intense pain. She could not sleep comfortable. She was taken to Bombay and she was subjected to radium-rays on doctor's advice. But there was no relief at all. Thereafter she was admitted to Mission Hospital, Arand. The plaster of paris was fixed on her back, and for a full 3 1/2  months she kept to her bed. But there was no improvement at all. The pain became more intense day by day.   Finally she was urged to adopt Urine Therapy. The experiment started with rubbing. After seven days, some improvement was noticed in her condition. With the rubbing of 15 days, the swelling on the vertebral column started to disappear. She was also made to fast on urine for a few days as required. Within a month she was completely cured.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  VISION  205 “Chimanlal M. Shah ( Rabari Chaw! Court Road Boriviali, Past Bombay) informs that his friend was able to get rid of his glasses by Urine Therapy.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  VISION  “D. Patel (Morbi, Saurashtra) informs that he could cure his neighbors of their eye-troubles, swellings, and bums by Urine Therapy.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  VISION  “Ratilal Bhavanbhai could


, particularly if larger
quantities of more concentrated foods like seeds and nuts are eaten. Though this diet has ceased to be cleansing, few if any toxins
from misdigestion will be produced and health is easy to maintain.
    "Raw fooders" are usually people who have healed themselves of a serious diseases and ever after continue to maintain
themselves on unfired food, almost as a matter of religious belief. They have become convinced that eating only raw, unfired food
is the key to extraordinarily long life and suprem e good health. When raw fooders wish to perform hard physical work or strenuous
exercise, they"ll consume raw nuts and some raw grains such as finely -ground oats soaked overnight in warm water or deliciously
sweet "Essene bread," made from slightly sproute d wheat that is then ground wet, made into cakes, and sun baked at temperatures
below about 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Essene bread can be purchased in some health food stores. However, little or no healing o r
detoxification can happen once concentrated energ y sources are added to the diet, even raw ones.
    During my days at Great Oaks School I was a raw fooder for some years, though I found it very difficult to maintain body heat
on raw food during chilly, rainy Oregon winters and eventually struck a perso nal compromise where I ate about half my diet raw
and the rest fired. I have listed some books by raw fooders in the Bibliography. Joe Alexander"s is the most fun.

Complete Recovery Of The Seriously Ill
    Its a virtual certainty that to fully recover, a  seriously ill person will have to significantly rebuild numerous organs. They have a
hard choice: to accept a life of misery, one that the medical doctors with drugs and surgery may be able to prolong into an
interminable hell on earth, or, spend several years working on really healing their body, rotating between water fasting, juice or
broth fasting, extended periods on a cleansing raw food diet, and periods of no -cleansing on a more complete diet that includes
moderate amounts of cooked vegetables and s mall quantities of cooked cereals. And even after recovery someone who was quite
ill may have to live the rest of their life on a rather restricted regimen.
    It is unrealistic to expect one fast to fix everything. The body will heal as much as it can in  the allotted time, but if a dangerous
illness has not been fully remedied by the first intense fast, a raw food diet must be followed for three to six months until  weight
has been regained, nutritional reserves have been rebuilt and it is safe to undertak e another extended fast. More than two water or
juice fasts a year of thirty continuous days are not recommended nor should they be necessary unless the life is in imminent danger
and there is no other option.
    The story of Jake"s catastrophic illness a nd almost -cure is a good example of this type of program. Jake was from back East. He
phoned me because he had read a health magazine article I had written, his weak voice faintly describing a desperate conditio n. He
was in a wheelchair unable to walk, una ble to control his legs or arms very well, was unable to control his bladder and required a
catheter. He had poor bowel control, had not the strength to talk much or loudly and most frightening to him, he was steadily
losing weight although he was eating l arge amounts of cooked vegetables and grains. Jake had wasted away to 90 pounds at 5"10"
and looked pathetic when I first saw him wheeled off an airplane at my local airport.
    Jake had seen a lot of medical doctors and had variously been diagnosed as h aving chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic (whatever
that is) meningitis, and multiple sclerosis. He had been treated by virtually every medical expert and many famous alternativ e
practitioners, utilizing a host of old and new techniques, all to no avail. He had even tried intravenous chelation therapy and
colonics. It had also been suggested that he enter a hospital for the treatment of eating disorders and/or see a psychiatrist. He had
tried to gain admittance to a number of holistic fasting institutions bac k east, but they all refused him because they considered the
risk was too high to fast a person at such a low body weight. But I had previously fasted emaciated people like Jake, and the re was
something I liked about his telephone presence. Perhaps this is  why I foolishly decided I knew better than the other experts.
    People commonly waste away and die while eating large amounts of food. Obviously they are unable to digest or assimilate
nutrients or they wouldn’t be wasting. Eating further increases the ir toxic burden from undigested meals, further worsening their
already failing organs. The real solution is to stop feeding them altogether so that their digestive functions can heal. In J ake’s case,
his body’s nutritional reserves had already become sadly  depleted due to poor absorption over such an extended period, so I could
not fast him on water. I immediately put Jake on a rich mineral broth prepared from everything left alive in our garden at th e end
of winter –leaves of kale, endive plants, whole huge  splitting Savoy cabbages, garlic, huge leeks including their green tops, the
whole stew fortified with sea weed. It did not matter too much what vegetables I used as long as there were lots of leafy gre ens
containing lots of chlorophyll (where the most co ncentrated mineral nutrition is located).
    Jake was given colonics every day, but had to be carried to the colonic table because he could not support his own weight.
Whoever had given him colonics previously had not accomplished much for I must say that  Jake had the most foul smelling
discharges that I had ever encountered in administering over 6,000 colonics over many years. It was as if his body was litera lly
rotting from the inside out.
    After 30 days on mineral broth Jake, who really did weigh 90  pounds when he arrived, was only down to 85! When a person
already close to skeletal weight starts fasting, to conserve vital tissue the body goes rapidly into a state of profound rest  so it uses
very little energy, thus it loses very little weight each d ay. This degree of resting also helps heal abnormal body parts earlier. After
one month on mineral broth Jake began to show signs of mineral deficiencies in the form of a fine tremor of the hands, and cr amps
in the feet, so I put him on mineral supplements  too.
    Jake was in my house for a long time. At the end of the second month on broth he started two weeks on raw carrot juice with a
lot of chlorophyll added from sources such as algae (spirulina), wheat grass juice, alfalfa, etc.. This was followed by  two more
weeks on small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables, and then followed by two weeks with added steamed vegetables, and
finally, he achieved a diet which included small amounts of grain, cooked legumes and raw nuts, plus the fruits and vegetabl es
previously mentioned. Jake health steadily improved. He gained control of his bladder, bowels, speech, hands, and legs. He be gan
to exercise in the living room on a stationary bike, and walked slowly up and down our long driveway, picking daffodils in t he
beautiful spring weather.
    Sadly, though I could help his body to heal it was next to impossible to stem the tides of Jake’s appetites or to pleasantly
withstand his tantrums when he was denied; he always wanted more in terms of quantity, more in te rms of variety, and at more
frequent intervals. Though his organs had healed significantly, his digestive capacity was not nearly as large as he remember ed
himself enjoying before he got sick. And never would be. Jake was not happy about the dietary restri ctions necessary for him to
retain his newly attained health, and unwilling to stay within the limits of his digestive system’s ability to process foods.  He had
gained weight and was back up to 120 pounds. It was time for him to go home before I lost my go od humor.
    Jake left with a lot of "good lucks" and stern admonitions to stick to his stringent diet and supplement program. It was a bi g
moment for Jake. He had arrived in a wheelchair three months before. Now he walked unaided to the airplane, someth ing he had
not been able to do for two years.
    Back at home Jake had no one courageous enough to set limits for him. His immediate family and every one of his brow beaten
associates were compelled to give him everything that he wanted. So his appetite and lack of personal discipline got the better of
him. He started eating lots of dates and figs. These had been eliminated from his diet because he was unable to process foods
which such a high sugar content. He also ate larger and larger quantities of gra ins, nuts and avocados, although I had warned him
of specific quantity limits on rich foods. Most sadly, he returned to enjoying spaghetti with lots of cheese grated on top. W ithin
months of leaving my care his paralysis and weakness returned, except that unfortunately for him, he still retained the ability to
assimilate food and maintain his body weight. Ironically, the only ultimate benefit of his fasting with me was to permit him to
suffer a far longer existence in a wheelchair without wasting away and e scaping into death.
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Acknowledgements                                                                                ix
introduction           A Silent Prayer                                                    1
chapter one              The Search for Happiness                                   5
chapter two            Know Thyself                                                    15
chapter three          Are You My Self?                                               21
chapter four           The Art of Self-Enquiry                                    27
chapter five              The Essence of Meditation                                33
chapter six               The Ultimate Prayer                                         43
chapter seven          The Silent Presence of Awareness                       53
chapter eight           The Open, Empty, Aware Space                        65
chapter nine             Peace and Happiness Is Our Nature                  71
chapter ten              A Belief in Separation                                       77
chapter eleven         There Is Only One Self                                     83
chapter twelve         Who Is It That Suffers?                                     91
chapter thirteen      Our Innate Happiness                                      99
chapter fourteen     Suffering Is Our Own Activity                        107
chapter fifteen        The Way of Surrender                                      117
chapter sixteen        Take Refuge in the Now                                  125
chapter seventeen    Attending to Painful Emotions                        133
chapter eighteen      The Unity of Being                                         147
chapter nineteen     The All-Pervasive Spirit                                   157
conclusion                  An Invitation                                                   173
Quotation Sources                                                                                179 acknowledgements
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Cooking With Distilled Water
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................... 70
11
  Comparing Orga
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12
  Mineral Chelates
 Are Not Created Equal …..... 82

13
  Carbon Filters: “Cheapest
” Water Treatment

...  But Are They Effective?
 …......................... 86

14
40 Years of Fasting With Distilled Water
.
…
…
.. 92

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Fasting – Distilled Water – Exercise
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Preface

This book will expose the myths and falsehoods while
revealing the
 truths
about water quality and its relationship to health
and longevity
.

Think of what you need to merely survive. Food? Water? Air? Cell
phones? Obviously, by the book
’
s title, I
’
m going to
concentrate on
 water.
Water is of major importance to all living things;
in some
 organisms, up to
90% of their body weight comes
from water
. Up to 60-70% of the human
body is
water;
 the brain
is composed
 of over 70-72% water, and the lungs
nearly 90%.
Lean muscle
 tissue contains about 75% water by weight, as
is the brain
; body
 fat contains 10-12% water and bone has 20-22% water.
About 83% of our blood is water, which helps digest our food
, transport
waste, and control body temperature. Each day
humans must
 replace 2.5
to 3
quarts of
 water lost through the excretory  system,  with most of it
replaced through drinking, and the rest  from our foods.

So it only stands to reason that the quality and quantity of
water we
replace daily has a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
I will be sharing many statistics and facts in this book while reiterating
some of what I already said in several chapters. We all learn from
repetition, therefore it has been said that the best speakers, teachers and
preachers will tell you what they
’
re going to tell you, then they will tell you,
and then they will tell you what they told you. So you hear it three times!

CHAPTER 1
What Is Distilled Water?

Why is it that water (H
2
O), which is the second
simplest

substance

next to
oxygen (O), seems to be much too complicated for some medical doctors
to
figure out? Not only is water number two in importance,
 it also happens
to be the most important next to oxygen for our survival. For the survival
of the Earth, for that matter. All living things require water to survive and
without a continuous supply, the average human will perish in only a few
days.

Water is required for our bodies to produce blood, lymph, digestive
juices,
lubric
ants, bile, extracellular fluid
 and cytoplasm, the fluid inside the plasma
membrane. It is common knowledge that most municipal and private water
supplies are severely polluted with everything from chlorine,
trihalomethanes, nitrates, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals and
chemicals of every kind, to jet fuel
and pharmaceuticals. Consider
 the factthat since the government established
“
the priority pollutant list
”
 of 126
known cancer-causing chemicals:

Each year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reviews an
average of 1,700 new compounds that industry is seeking to
introduce. Yet the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act requires
that they be tested for any ill effects before approval only if
evidence of potential harm exists—which is seldom the case for
new chemicals. The Agency approves about 90 percent of the
new compounds without restrictions. Only a quarter of the
82,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. have ever been tested for
toxicity. And there are no guidelines for so called “safe” levels in
drinking water established for any of these pollutants.

Some of
these pollutants can be found in every water supply
in
America
,
including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, wells,
and municipal
water supplies.
David Ewing Duncan, National Geographic
 As a consequence of this alarming condition of America
’
s drinking water
sources, the bottled water industry has developed into a $15 billion profit
industry, including bottled waters, sports drinks, water purifiers such as
reverse osmosis (RO)
,
 distillation, filtration, plus the current fad of ionizers
that produce “alkaline” water.

ONE OUT OF 4 DRINKS CONSUMED
IN AMERICA IS A SOFT DRINK!Let’s talk about filtration and distillation.

FILTERS:
  Regardless of the process or the technology behind it,
the
main
 purpose of these devices is to produce the cleanest, purest
,
healthiest
 water possible. The most commonly used method
for cleaning
up tap water is the carbon block filter which removes
the water’s
 bad
taste, smell, chlorine, nitrates and many chemicals.  It is
,
 indeed
,
 the most
economical form of water treatment available
; however
, it comes with
several serious drawbacks:



It does not remove all chemicals present;


Chemicals can build up in the filter to dangerous concentrations
which end up in your body if you don
’
t change the  filter
regularly;


A carbon filter is a breeding ground for bacteria and germs;


The filter can develop channeling from water taking the path of
least resistance.
Therefore, unfiltered water can pass
straight through the
filter, unobstructed.

The second most popular and effective filter system is reverse osmosis.
The RO process involves a special membrane which most pollutants
cannot pass through, in addition to prefiltering and post-filtering, to ensure
that 99% of the pollutants are removed.

The most effective process of rem
oving everything from the water,
including bacteria and cysts
,
 is steam distillation – along with
a post
-
carbon filter to catch any resid
ual volatile gases that escape
with the
steam. Because distilled water is pure, clean H
2
O and
has a
 pH of 7
(neutral on the pH scale of 1 to 14 with “1” being
acid and
 “14” alkaline), it
is used in science and medical
laboratories and
 research facilities
including biology and chemistry
lab
s due
 to
its pure neutral qualities.

Unlike with RO and distillation, filtration and the ionizers do not remove the
hardness or inorgan
ic minerals from the water.

                                                                According to Dr. Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic and the American
Medical Association, Harvard Medical School, along with many doctors
and  nutritional experts, have determine
d that very few of the minerals
found
 in water are
organic
,
 nor are they chelated
or
able  to be absorbed
easily
by our cells and tissues. Consequently,
 they contribute to many
ailments and
diseases related
 to the intestinal tract. They also contribute to
kidney stones
, gall stones, hardening of the arteries and plaque buildup
in
the
 colon. Dr. Charles M
ayo, Founder of the Mayo Clinic, said,
“
water
hardness
”
 is the underlying cause of many, if not all, of
the diseases
resulting from poisons in the intestinal tract.

These (hard minerals) pass from the intestinal walls and get into the
lymphatic system, which delivers all of its products to the blood which, in
turn, distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of much human
disease. Since the ionizers and filters do not remove the minerals from the
water (including chemicals and other toxins), advocates, manufacturers
and sales associates malign the use of reverse osmosis and the distillation
process.

They claim that the minerals in water are good for you and that these two
processes remove the
“
valuable
”
 minerals. They also go so far as to say
that because reverse osmosis and distilled water is so pure, they will leach
good minerals from your body, depleting the supply. Promoters of alkaline
water even say that distilled water is an acidic which causes it to dissolve
even more minerals.
Distilled has a pH of 7 (neutral).

The alkaline water industry is now extremely profitable and has become so
by making false medical claims that
this
water can cure a myriad of
diseases and prevent many others. In order to support their claim that
alkaline water is superior to any other purified water, they must find fault
with the two purest and healthiest water purification processes available.
The main reason for the popularity of the alkaline water machine is
because of the exorbitant profits and the fact that it is sold through multi-
level marketing (MLM). Each machine retails at between $2,000 and
$5,000.Can clean water and dirty water both flow from the same spring?

There are medical doctors such as Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Zoltan
Rona who also promote an


 Wilson, 1983, Law Hospital, Scotland).
Or the Harvard medical researchers who discovered that active "antibodies
to cholera, typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, polio, leptospira and salmonella
have been found in the unconcentrated urine of infected individuals."
(Lerner, Remington & Finland, Harvard Medical School, 1962).
What abut the Scandinavian researcher who, in 1951, conclusively proved
that human urine can completely destroy tuberculosis? It's a deadly disease,
and is now resistant to antibiotics. Isn't it time someone told us that our own
urine is medically proven to be anti-tubercule?
Then there's the research into wounds and burns using urea
(the primary solid component of urine).
As only one research study among many reported:
"In America, urea has been used for the treatment of various infected
wounds and it has been found to be extremely efficient...
even the deepest wound can be treated effectively..•.
Urea treatment has been successful where other treatments have failed.
For external staph infections we found urea preferable to any other
dressing... there are no contra-indications to its use." (Dr. L. Muldavis, 1938,
Royal Free Hospital, London).
Now these medical reports are only a few of the more than 50 research
studies I compiled and published in the book Your Own Peifect Medicine,
but they certainly give an indication of the importance of what we've never
been told about urine by the medical community.
As far back as 1954, the Journal of the American Medical Association
(July issue) reported that "More scientific papers have probably been
published on urine than on any other organic compound."
43 Another publication revealed that "more than 1,000 technical and scientific
papers, related only to low molecular weight substances in urine,
appeared in medical and scientific literature in one single year."
All this fuss about a substance that we're told is a body waste?
I think one of the most interesting pieces of information on urine I came
across was the fact that the amniotic fluid that surrounds human infants in
the womb is primarily urine. Actually, the infant "breathes in" urine-filled
amniotic fluid continually, and without this fluid, the lungs don't develop.
Doctors also believe that the softness of baby skin and the ability of in-utero
infants to heal quickly without scarring after pre-birth surgery is due to the
therapeutic properties of the urine-filled amniotic fluid.
Reports on the extraordinary external benefits of urine abound as well.
Medical studies relate remarkable cases of stubborn or "incurable" chronic,
severe eczema that miraculously disappear with urine therapy. Because urine
is both anti-viral and anti-bacterial, it's ideal for treating cuts, wounds and
abrasions of all kinds. Acne, rashes, athlete's foot and fungal skin problems
respond dramatically to urine soaks and compresses as well.
(You'll f'md complete instructions for using urine therapy internally and
externally in Your Own Petfect Medicine.)
For home use or emergency treatment care for wounds, poisonous bites or
stings, and even broken bones, urine is an incomparable, proven natural
healing agent that provides instantaneous therapeutic benefits under any
circumstances.
For years, people have said to me, "Well, I have heard of people surviving by
ingesting their own urine, but I thought it was just a myth." Myth it isn't.
Medical fact it is. As Dr. John R. Herman remarked in his article which
appeared in the New York State Journal of Medicine in June, 1980:
"Auto-uropathy (urine therapy) did.flourish in many parts of the world and
continues to flourish today.... there is unknown to most of us, a wide usage of
uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous
advantages of this modality. Actually, the listed constituents of human urine
can be carefully checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it.
Percentages differ, but urinary constituents are valuable to
human metabolism."
Your Body's Own Super-Nutrition Therapy
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A.H. Free, published
his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which he remarked
that not only is urine a sterile body compound (purer than distilled water),
but that "it is now recognized that urine contains thousands of compounds,
and as new, more sensitive analytical tools evolve, it is quite certain that new
constituents of urine will be recognized."
44 Among the urine constituents mentioned in Dr. Free's revealing treatise is a
list of nutrients that will knock your socks off. As Dr. Free comments, the
ingredients listed below are only a few critical nutrients found in urine:
Alanine, total..... 38 mg/day
Arginine, total..... 32 mg/day
Ascorbic acid..... 30 mg/day
Allantoin..... 12 mglday
Amino acids, total..... 2.1 g/day
Bicarbonate..... 140 mg/day
Biotin..... 35 mglday
Calcium..... 23 mg/day
Creatinine..... 1.4 mg/day
Cystine..... 120 mg/day
Dopamine..... 0.40 mglday
Epinephrine..... 0.01 mglday
Folic acid..... 4 mg/day
Glucose..... 100 mg/day
Glutamic acid..... 308 mglday
Glycine..... 455 mg/day
Inositol..... 14 mg/day
Iodine..... 0.25 mg/day
Iron..... 0.5 mg/day
Lysine, total..... 56 mg/day
Magnesium..... 100 mg/day
Manganese..... 0.5 mglday
Methionine, total..... 10 mglday
Nitrogen, total..... 15 g/day
Ornithine..... 10 mg/day
Pantothenic acid..... 3 mg/day
Phenylalanine..... 21 mg/day
Phosphorus, organic..... 9 mg/day
45 Potassium..•.. 2.5 mg/day
Proteins, total..... 5 mg/day
Riboflavin..... 0.9 mg/day
Tryptophan, total..... 28 mg/day
Tyrosine, total..•.. 50 mg/day
Urea..... 24.5 mg/day
Vitamin B6..... 100 mg/day
Vitamin B12..•.• 0.03 mg/qay
Zinc..... 1.4 mg/day
As you read over this extraordinary list of nutritional elements, you can
begin to understand why the stories you may have heard of people surviving
on their own urine are true.
But what about other elements in urine that you've heard about?
Clearing Up the Misconceptions
If you asked a person on the street what uric acid is, he or she would
invariably answer that it's a toxic body waste. No so, say medical researchers
at the University of California at Berkeley who in 1982 reported they had
discovered that "uric acid destroys body-damaging, cancer-causing free
radicals and is considered to be one of the physiological factors that enable
human beings to live so much longer than other mammals."
But what about urea? Urea is in urine and isn't that the toxic stuff that
causes uremic poisoning? Actually, medical researchers discovered many
decades ago that urea, far from being a toxic body waste, is an incredibly
versatile, far-reaching and effective medicinal agent.
In numerous medical studies, it was shown that urea is one of the most potent
non-toxic virucidal agents ever discovered. In one particular study, the rabies
and polio virus [sic] were killed so quickly and efficiently by concentrated
urea, that even the laconic researchers themselves were surprised:
"Urea is such a relatively inactive substance and certainly not a protoplasmic
poison such as are most virucidal agents, that it is in a way surprising that
rabies and poliomyelitis are killed so easily by urea solutions" (McKay &
Schroeder, Society of Experimental Biology, 1936).
In reality, Urea is an FDA-approved medicinal agent that doctors and
researchers utilize in an amazing variety of therapeutic modalities. Because
of its remarkable and comprehensive anti-neoplastic (anti-tumor) properties,
it's presently being used in anti-cancer drugs and is extensively studied for
use in cancer treatments.
46 The urea compound drug, glicazide, is used successfully by the medical
establishment in treating both insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent
diabetics.
As a natural diuretic, urea is unparalleled, and is a proven and accepted
treatment in cases of edema or swelling such as excess cerebral and spinal
pressure, glaucoma, epilepsy, meningitis, even premenstrual edema and
many other disorders in which excess fluid is a problem.
As one American neurosurgeon reported regarding a patient who nearly died
form complications following brain surgery:
"Urea was administered intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20
minutes from the start of injection, her blood pressure had returned to
normal.... from this time on her recovery


C h a p t e r  4
Y ou’r e Dr eaming... It’ s T ime to
W ake Up
According to many spiritual teachers and ancient traditions, our entire world,
your life  and everyone else’ s lif e, is nothing more than a dream. They don’ t
say that our wo rld and everything in it is like  a dream, but th at it is literally
made from the s ame substance as our dreams and is equally as illusory. When
you are permanently staying as  A wareness, you will know fo r certain that
your life  and the world are not the reality you thought they we re: they are a
dream.
“This lif e is a dr eam; we’re dreaming we’re a person living in a world that we
are convinced is real. W e don’ t realize it’ s all a dream. The whole world as
now seen is no thing but a drea m-illusion that never was. The truth is just
behind the outward world.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  Happiness Is Free, volumes 1–5
“W e should be open to the possibility that this is a dream and when we do,
everything chan ges dramatically. It actually turns out to be so. If this waking
experience is seen to be a dream, then our behavior changes and we will find
that the respons e coming from the characters or the situation in this dream
also changes.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
“W e are right now in a lucid dream. And part of the dream is that which we
call mind, body, and universe.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D.
“And th e dream  is seamless so  it’ s virtually impossible for pe ople to wake
up.”
My teacher
In your night dreams your mind creates your body, other people (some you
know, so me you don’ t know), cities, towns, houses, vehicles, food, objects,
trees, na ture, an imals, the sun, stars, and sky. It also creates time passing,daytime, nighttime, voices, sounds, and every circumstance a nd event that
takes place in y our dream. Y our mind creates an entire world, it creates a
dream v ersion o f you, and it makes everything seem so real that you don’ t
even question it—until you wake up! Only then do you realize it was a dream.
“Y ou probably have noticed one of the main things about a dream. V irtually
always, the “you” in the dream doesn’ t realize it’ s a dream. That’ s the ironic
thing about dreaming. The char acters in a dream automatically assume they
are w ide awake! The dream cha racters are not awake. The dream experiences
are not real. But in the drea m, none of that has been noticed. Notice
something else about a dream. As far as the dream characters are concerned,
there is nothing beyond the dream. The dream characters have no idea that
there is another, real kind of awakeness. A dream character has no idea of
what it’ s missing.”
Peter Dziuban, fr om  Simply Notice
“While w e are subjected to the night dream, everything seems to  be real. If we
see a tiger, we are afraid because we don’ t know that we are c reating the tiger.
If w e kn ew that  we couldn’ t po ssibly be afraid, could we? This  demonstrates
that an illusion can seem to be quite real while we are subjec ted to it, even
though, when we become awar e of its illusory nature, we understand that it
was we who were creating it all along.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  T ruth Love Beauty
Even if  you’re fully aware th at the world is a dream, you still remain
respectful of its physicality, and of your physical body. Y ou don’ t go and jump
of f a building, because the build ing, the ground, your body, and gravity are all
made of the same dream stuf f, and you will feel it! As one teacher said, if you
come up and pinch me in a dream, I will feel it, because it’ s a dream pinch!“In a dream, ten years may pass by in one minute. Y ou may have a baby and
then be taking it, as a child, to school. When you wake up, you see that the
body in the drea m was an illusion, and the time to which it was subjected was
also an illusion, but from the vantage point of the dream, it seemed to be real.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
“If we take the dream state as an example, there may be a dream that covers a
fifty-year period, but we wake u p and realize that it didn’ t actually happen. It
only seemed real while there was identification with the dream state of
consciousness. The waking state is also only an extremely convincing play
that consciousness is producing.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
“The laws of physics are the laws that apply to this waking d ream. During
night dr eams, th e laws of physics are dif ferent. That is why y ou can fly at
night!”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
No matter what takes place in the “earth” dream, the end is the same for all of
us: we wake up to discover that  it was all a dream! This is why we’re told by
spiritual teacher s to “wake up. ” It means waking up from the illusion and
realizing that it’ s all a dream. W hen we wake up to the truth, we discover that
no one was ever hurt or harmed, and no one died; just like when you wake up
terrorized following a nightmare, and you realize with relief that no one was
actually hurt and nothing bad happened, it was just a dream.
“If you can go to a movie an d see a picture of war and suf fering, and
afterward say ‘What a wonderful picture!’ so may you take this life as a
cosmic picture-s how. Be prepared for every kind of experience that may come
to you, realizing that all are but dreams.”
Paramahansa Y ogananda, fr om  Man’ s Eternal Quest
“Seeing the world as a dream is a great practice, and it will help break its
apparent solidity.”
Francis Lucille
W aking Up
“The greatest healing is to wake up from what we are not.”
Mooji
“It’ s like  shifting  your eyes from one thing to a dif ferent thing. It’ s that subtle.
It’ s like exhalin g. When you’re ready, you’ll do it. Don’ t tell y ourself you’ll
never be ready. Don’ t tell yourself it’ s not possible. It’ s happening all around
you, to people j ust like you. Th ey aren’ t troubled anymore. They used to be.
They are still living their lives. They are brimming in joy. They live lives of
ease, no  matter what is going on. Don’ t be jealous of them. Don’ t doubt them.
Become that way yourself. Y ou will rejoice. Y ou will no t be able to
understand why you let yourself continue so long the other way.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the DoorI can  say with absolute certaint y that I was asleep for several d ecades of my
life. I know I was asleep beca use I can pinpoint the exact day, the exact
moment, and the exact circumstance when I first woke up! Since then I have
had lots of sma ll awakenings, and another major awakening. A wakening is
like coming out of a fog, when suddenly it clears, and you can s ee everything
clearly.
Some people have woken up lying on a couch, walking through a parking lot
to their car, hearing the sound of a bird or something a teacher says, or reading
something in particular. Many have woken up in the midst o f a terrifying
event, or during a personal crisis when their life had hit rock bottom. And for
all of them, it w as only when they woke up that they realize d—they were
asleep.
“Most p eople, even though they don’ t know it, are asleep. They’re born
asleep, t hey live asleep, they ma rry in their sleep, they breed children in their
sleep, th ey die in their sleep w ithout ever waking up. They liv e mechanical
lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else’ s—mechanical
emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. They never understand
the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”
Anthony de Mello, S.J., fr om  A wareness: Conversations with the Masters
Our min d is mechanical, like a program in a computer, so if we’re governed
by o ur m ind, the n our life is mechanical. Maybe you continually  find yourself
with not enough money. This is  the result of a mechanical mind repeating the
same thoughts of “not enough money” over and over again. Y ou empower
those thoughts by believing them, and so you continue to experience not
having e nough m oney. This is th e work of the


 always  immediately obvious how a relationship can be
truly helpful. Sometimes two people are not even conscious of how
important it is that they be together. The relationships or assignments can
be very intense. If one or the other leaves the relationship, one should
not worry; the lesson will come back. It will be repeated, maybe with
another person. Because once readiness and willingness are in
alignment, we attract the mean s for what we need to heal until it’s
healed. It’s helpful to be aware that the ego, being scared of the end,
does not like this, so it’s going  to fight against the means, against the
relationships. Relationships offer endless opportunities for collaboration. They
serve as a backdrop to come together. Collaborative relationships with a
healing purpose contain two qualities: they are undefined, and they are
guided. Those qualities aren’ t typically part of relationships in this
world. The “undefined”  part is very scary to the ego, but it is an essential
entry point. Openness is one of the main doorways to a holy relationship
and thus to freed om. An undefined relationship is about being willing to
be open, to just show up. This is why collaborative relationsh ips don’t
have the rigidity, the expectations, and the demands that linear (time-
based) or special relationships have. When the relationship is undefined,
there isn’t a structure or an agenda already set in place. There isn’t a
standard that the relationship has to meet. There is no role to live up to. You don’t ever have to put any thought into how to keep someone happy
or how to keep the relationship alive. Imagine what that would be like. The “guided” part is very important because this is how it can be
used by the Holy Spirit for healing and the highest good. The
relationship is for a higher purpo se and doesn’ t have a form goal. In fact,you don’t know what outcome is best or how to achieve it. So, it’s
essential to leave space for the Spirit to make it obvious. A collaborative
relationship contains an inspirati on and an agreement to be used together
in some helpful way that benefits the healing of the mind and therefore
blesses the whole universe. Opposing the idea of collaborati ve assignments for healing, the ego
basically says, “Distract yourself, use entertainment and fantasy, and
forget about commitment to a mind-training practice or collaboration. Live it up because you’re going to die anyway. ” The Holy Spirit is
saying there is much more than that. When you reach a certain stage of
maturity, you can be guided into shorter or longer assignments. You can
even have lifelong relationships or partnerships where the teaching-
learning balance  is perfect. And, if you decide to learn it, the perfect
lesson is laid before you and can be learned. This is very optimistic. Spiritually, two are drawn together because of this teaching-learning
balance, and there will be countless opportunities to really get the lesson. It is worth hanging in there when that happens. The Power of Joining
An experience of collaborative joining is an experience of being
connected in mind. It’s an experience of being deeply joined in a shared
purpose: the healing and forgiveness of illusion. Being in colla borative
relationship can be a bit like the 12-step programs, where you have a
sponsor. A sponsor is a trusted brother or sister to join with on decisions,
a joining that shows you the way or guides you. When you link up in
mind with others to join in decision making, you are open to asking and
to be shown the direction. You are not operating from a place of thinking
you already know, where you believe you don’t need to join or listen. Things that weren’t clear before always become clear through joining
and open communication. It’s not that others necessarily know better
than you. Nobod y really knows. It is the joining that is so powerful and
makes the direction clear. It’s a different focus than just trying to
accomplish things. After a while, the joining becomes internalized to a
point where you become really humble as you just ease into a state of
inner listening, flowing, and following. In the ego’s world, the personality and the personal perspective is
the baseline for everything. It is sticky, it is enmeshed, and it is
uncomfortable. There is an underlying low-level anxiety with it that can
increase with different things you do. But your holy companions, your
friends in this purpose, are showing up as symbols of love and support
and saying, “Let’s go on this journey together. Let’s remember  who we
truly are. Let’s be shown our wholeness. Let’s not be tempted to become
depressed. ” There is much more that awaits beyond the dismantling of
the ego. There is an immense sense of freedom that comes with vibrational
connections and collaborations. Being connected to the Spirit, you feel
free. You don’t feel bound to the world. Your mind is not think ing, How
am I going to survive, what’ s going to happen tomorr ow, and how am I
going to deal with this and that., the typical things that the egoic mind is
focusing on. In holy collaboratio n, your mind is lifted into a realm that’s
higher than those doubts, fears, and concerns, and your spirit emanates
from this higher place. It’ s divine. Exercise: Clearing the W ay for Collaboration
Sit quietly and allow a current relationship to come into
awareness. Any relationship  that comes to your mind can be
used. You can repeat this exercise as many times as you’d like
and with any of your relationships. Use your journal to answer the
following questions. 1. How do you define the role you play in the relationship. Examples could be girlfriend, husband, friend, mothe r,
grandparent, or boss. Includ e what expectations you have
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Q: According to the author, what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit in relationships?,
A: The Holy Spirit uses the body as a communication device to help the mind regain awareness that true communication is through the Spirit and the Creator.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the idea of near-death and out-of-body experiences?,
A: The author believes that these experiences show that communication is not limited to the body and that we can begin to loosen the idea that we are powerless.
Q: What is the key to healing, according to the author?,
A: The key to healing is to acknowledge and release all wrong-minded thoughts and beliefs, and to focus on the mind rather than the body.
Q: What is the author's message about the origin of sickness and illness?,
A: According to the author, sickness and illness are a result of wrong-minded thinking and are not caused by external factors or circumstances.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the role of the ego in relationships?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of letting go of the ego's influence in relationships and instead focusing on the mind and the Holy Spirit.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>I wondered how people
could go for healing while at the same time functioning in the world. How do you keep it together? Are you supposed to, on top of the
challenges of keeping a career going and keeping families and
interpersonal relationships together, go inward and work on the healing
of your mind? It does seem to be that certain things fall apart, melt away,
break down, and crumble. But remember, the ego is the one that’s
interpreting the process every step of the way. It’s usually a negative
interpretation, “This hurts too much. It’s too painful. If God is love, why
does it hurt so much in my heart?” The ego gets stirred by these first
glimpses of acceptance in your mind because they are pinpricks in its
façade. But once  you start the forgiveness process with the Holy Spirit, the
more you open up, the more miracles you will start to have. What in the
beginning seem like little glimmers of acceptance here and there —which
are very important—will start to become more stabilized. First there is
an allowance: I allow; I allow; I allow it to look and feel just as it is. I’m
not going to judge it. Then after all of that allowance, you come into a
true state of acceptance. Anothe r word for that is recognition. It is here
that you begin to recognize: “This is really who I am, who I have always
been, the One, the One Spirit.” The ego is the belief that there is no God. Awakening is the experience that there is only God. You can see that
there is zero meeting point between “There is no God” and “There is
only God”! The most difficult phase is the beginning of the turn, but when you
really get into the full swing of the turn of the tables and of the mind,
everything stabi lizes. It feels so natural, so effortless! At that point you
don’t even need  vigilance; it is like being carried along down a peaceful
stream. How dif ficult can that be?At Heart, We Are Just Forgiving Ourselves
Things that have been difficult to deal with keep coming back at us until
we start to realize that the peop le in our lives were just acting out our
beliefs. So, if we seem to be victimized or mistreated or we didn’ t get the
treatment that we felt we deserved,


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expected. Their resolution is often the consequence of recontextualization. Although the personal will and motivation, plus the mind and intellect,
are strong tools, in and of themselves they do not have the strength to
disassemble the ego because they are part and parcel of it. However, once a
seeker becomes devoted, the strength of the spiritual Will via the Presence
of the Self supplies the necessary power. The inner work that arises as a consequence of commitment to
Enlightenment is at times admittedly experientially difficult or even
arduous. Although this is due to resistance, the sheer seeming difficulty may
provoke discouragement or a temptation to abandon the goal. This,
however, is also to be expected and therefore merely included in the
material to be processed. Contemplation results in insights consequent to redefinition and
recontextualization. In the meantime, other spiritual practices continue,
such as meditation, prayer, service, and spiritual group activities. The
letting-go process encounters inner fixations and addictions to various ego
pay-offs and lures. Sometimes periods of retreat are helpful, and at other
times, active involvement in spiritual activities is beneficial. Frequently, the
seemingly impossible obstacle mysteriously and spontaneously disappears
and resolves itself. Aside from ordinary resistances that are innate to the ego itself and
therefore not really ‘personal’, there are inherited propensities as a
consequence of karmic factors. These can sometimes be intuited either by
prayer or even by specific investigation, such as with past-life recall
techniques. Persistent patterns indicate that the source of the problem is still
unconscious. A useful uncovering technique is to presume that there is a
repressed aspect in the unconscious, and that the unconscious is not onlypersonal but also collective, described by Carl Jung as the “collective
unconscious. ” Thus, certain problems are merely the karmic inheritance of
being human. In practice, for example, if other people persistently seem cruel or rude,
it may be beneficial to forgive and pray for help for that hidden aspect in
oneself that is cruel, rude, and unforgiving. These aspects can be accepted
in that they are impersonal to some extent, yet one is responsible for them
as a participant human being. For example, if others seem selfish or stingy,
pray for that aspect in oneself that is that way. It is often surprising to
discover that there is such a deeply repressed hidden trend that may well be
just a consequence of human inheritance and experience. Asceticism
This is a useful practice at various periods by which one accomplishes
detachment from the senses and their endless search for pleasure and
sensation. Success brings a sense of accomplishment. The senses search for
pleasure via amusement, excitement, and the lure of enticements that
increase appetite and desire. Their origination was in the animal phase of
evolution and instinctual in origin. A useful technique to overcome them is
to delay gratification of sensory desires, and before seeking to satisfy them,
surrender either resisting or desiring the sensations themselves, for
example, the craving feeling, and not label them. Actually, one does not
experience ‘hunger’, which is actually a nominalization, a label, and a
diagnosis. The actual physical sensations are merely that and not a ‘need’. When ignored and surrendered, they recede and fade away. Therefore, if
there is a desire, ignore the desire and focus on the actual sensations
themselves. In a surprisingly few minutes, the craving recedes. Another
trick is to only eat when not hungry and to eat prophylactically in
anticipation so as to avoid the resurgence of hunger later. This process is
akin to deprogramming Pavlovian conditioning. Asceticism can be a discipline that is introduced into routine daily life
on a modified basis and maintained as a lifestyle. It leads to economy of
time, energy, money, and other resources. It is freeing to discover how little
one actually requires in order to subsist, function, and enjoy life. Renunciation
This is a traditional type of spiritual retreat from the world and
sometimes done for variable periods, such as even just a weekend. Truerenunciation, however, in its full understanding, is the application of
renunciation to the payoffs of the ego itself and the identification of self
with body, emotions, or mind. By renunciation and dissociation through
surrender and relinquishment, it is discovered that none of them are ‘me’ or
even ‘mine’. In actuality, they are autonomous functionalities. One can
renounce the seeking of gain or worldliness as well as the seeking of
pleasure, excitement, or titillation. One can renounce the assumption that
perceptions are reality or essence. By renunciation, one can withdraw
invested emotional energy and interest in the world without physically
having to depart from it. Formal renunciation as a lifestyle has been and still is an option for
devotees for whom such a major decision is appropriate. Such communities
have prevailing requirements, and monastic orders are well known
(Trappists, Dominicans, Benedictines, Buddhists, the Ramakrishna Order,
etc. ). Most require vows of allegiance and serious commitment. The World
The planet is part of the physical universe and thereby subject to its
transitions and evolutionary phenomena. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,
tsunamis, forest fires, and floods have been recurring over the eons of time,
including the impact of giant meteors that filled the sky with dust and
smothered all of life. It is therefore naïve to assume that phenomena are
consequent to mankind’s follies, frailties, failures, or religious belief
systems. So-called ‘end times’ phenomena are redundant, both before and
subsequent to the emergence of Homo sapiens. Numerous are the prophets
and prophesies that have come and gone. When the great meteors hit and
blanked out the sky, mankind was not yet even born. Contextualizing
earthly phenomena as evidence of the ‘wrath of God’ is primitive, naïve,
and an anthropomorphic distortion of the Reality of Divinity. God is not
emotionally imbalanced or needful of psychological help, spiritual
counseling, or anger-management classes
Even if all these mystifications were true, of what interest is it, anyway,
to the individual seeker. If life on earth is to end in either a few years, or in
the year 6017 or 8095, so what. What does it really have to do with one’s
own level of spiritual evolution. The wise renounce public hysteria or mass
suicides because a comet is sighted somewhere in space. Even if an ‘end
times’ catastrophe were to happen, it would seem to be a better decision topray rather than kill oneself inasmuch as one’s death would be a certainty,
and suicide carries karmic consequences. The evolution of human consciousness expresses its cultural and social
changes that, in turn, reflect karmic propensities and inheritances of whole
groups of people over great periods of time. In the East, karma is a matter
of ordinary acceptance, but that is not so in the Western world, which even
lauds unaccountability and irresponsibility as promoted by moralistic
relativism. By consciousness calibration research, it is demonstrable that every
thought, action, word, or deed is recorded forever, beyond time, in an
infinite field of consciousness for eternity. It is affirmed by consciousness
research that everyone is accountable to the universe (Divinity) by virtue of
Divine Justice. Thus, everyone already has a calibratable level of
consciousness from the very moment of birth. Life is neither accidental nor
arbitrary, nor is it based on anarchy. The stratification of levels of
consciousness are influential by virtue of their prevailing, powerful
‘attractor fields’ (see Power vs. Force) whereby like goes to like by
attraction and alignment. Q: As a spiritual person, what is our responsibility in relation to world
events. A: This depends on one’s current prevailing level of consciousness. Confusion arises from mixing the levels. To act according to the
spiritual principles of mercy, forgiveness, love, and compassion applies
at all levels, of course, but how these are interpreted and what they are
understood to signify regarding action depends on perception and
degree of spiritual maturity. Earthly life affords maximum karmic opportunity to not only acquire
‘good’ karma but also to undo negative karma. For example, whole
populations and groups have accumulated both positive and negative
spiritual consequences as the result of barbaric savagery, just as they do
in today’s headlines. Thus, there are spiritual ‘debts’ as well as benefits. While it is commonly believed that Christianity does not teach karma,
that is not true. It does indeed, but it merely does not use the specific
term. Christianity teaches that sin and virtue have very different
consequences for the soul after death. These include the karmic
alternatives of not only heaven or hell, but also purgatory. In addition, atraditional teaching is that man was ‘born in sin’ due to the fall of Adam
and Eve and is thus karmically affected by succumbing to temptation
and refusing obedience to God. Subsequently, God’s mercy is
represented by the presentation of a savior born for the sake of man’s
redemption. As Jesus said, “None get to heaven but by Me. ”
   In Buddhism, there is the Lotus Land (Heaven


  traveled  to  various  hospitals  to  bring  her  native-
Indian  foods. They  were  all  that  she  needed  from  the  outside  world. She  confided  that  she  chose  to
be  reclusive  since  sympathy  can  kill  someone  faster  than  cancer. Her  recovery  was  miraculous. Maya  returned  to  her  life  profoundly  transformed  and  effected  great  changes  in  her  personal
lifestyle. She  spent  many  years  journeying  and  studying  the  sciences  of  holistic  health,  while  success
fully  aiding  numerous  other  cancer  patients. Among  her  first  studies  was  macrobiotics;  later  she
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her  early  teacher,  Maya  chose  the  life  of  a  spiritual  renunciate  and  embarked  on  the  scholarly  stud)
of  the  Vedas,  the  original  Hindu  scriptures. Although  we  have  since  gone  to  different  states  and
different  pursuits,  our  shared  vision  has  remained  intact. Like  a  pure  white  lily  that  is  rooted  in  the  mud  of  extensive  personal  experience,  Maya  is  indeed
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that  shining  yogi. Her  true  work  has  only  inst  begun. And  I  take  groat  joy  in  watching  the  petals  of
Ik-i  wisdom  open  to  their  lull  glory. \yw  veda:  A  I  ift  oj  Balance V>  ill  bring  benefit  to  everyone  who  is  conscious  of  personal  health  and
oui  global  eu\  Ironment. Barbara  Y.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who is Lord Shiva in the context of the passage?,
A: Lord Shiva is mentioned as the peacemaker in the story about the ocean, and he is also referred to as the one who offered the ocean's bounty equally to both sides.
Q: What is the significance of the elephant Airavata in the story?,
A: Airavata is a symbol for both earth and space, representing the foundation of the living universe and the first subtle energy center, the muladhara chakra.
Q: What is the purpose of the author's book?,
A: The author's book aims to explore the nature of the human universe and the concept of Ayurveda, and to share their personal journey and discoveries in the process.
Q: What is the author's message about the importance of self-reflection and self-awareness?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and self-awareness, stating that one must take responsibility for one's actions and acknowledge the karmic cycle. They also mention that self-reflection is essential for healing and transformation.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the concept of time?,
A: The author discusses the concept of time and its relation to the universe, stating that it is not the same as the timeless nature of the Atman. They also emphasize the importance of recognizing the false and fragmented nature of our memories and the need to re-experience the truth of our being.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Every  species  is  a  form  of  remembering. The  moun-
tain goat  has  the  memory  of  eons  stamped  in  the
structure  of  its  feet,  a  structure  that  defies  gravity. This  creature  was  understood  by  the  sages  to  be  the
living  symbol  of  freedom — freedom  from  the  cycle  of
rebirths. Aja,  the  Sanskrit  term  for  goat,  means  "the
one  that  has  transcended  birth." The  original  human
tribes  knew  the  memory  of  the  universe  because  they
observed  the  wild  animals  with  whom  they  shared  the earth. The  early  humans  knew  their  own  nature  and
sought  to  discover  their  cognitive  memory  by  con-
quering wild  animals. When  they  did  so,  they  inher-
ited that  animal's  power  and  what  it  symbolized. Es-
sentially they  sought  to  remember  that  which  was
forgotten  in  the  brilliant  flash  of  birth. We  are  given
infinite  clues  and  symbols  in  this  universe  to  stir  cog-
nitive memory. The  animals  and  plants  are  powerful
guides,  but  every  grain  of  sand  can  remove  the  fog
surrounding  remembrance  when  we  learn  to  observe. Sadhanas  awaken  the  deeply  embedded  healing
codes  that  are  part  of  the  emergent  cognition  of  a
timeless  universe. There  are  many  sadhanas  that,  when
practiced  with  consistency,  yield  great  inner  fortitude
and  stir  cognitive  remembering. A  simple  walk
through  the  forest,  sitting  in  the  river  or  ocean,  riding
a  horse,  walking  barefoot  on  the  early  morning  grass,
digging  into  the  soil,  sowing  seeds  in  a  garden,  sitting
in  the  self,  observing  silence,  prayer,  chanting,  prac-
ticing yoga  asanas,  dancing,  doing  t'ai  chi,  hiking  in
the  mountains,  swimming  in  a  stream,  smelling
unplucked  fruits  in  an  orchard — these  are  just  a  few
of  the  endless  sadhanas  that  erase  the  invalid  and  give
life  to  the  primal,  cognitive  self. Be  praised,  my  Lord,
For  all  your  creatures,
And  first  for  brother  sun,
Who  makes  the  day  bright  and  luminous. And  he  is  beautiful  and  radiant
With  great  splendor,
He  is  the  image  of  you,  Most  High. Be  praised,  my  Lord,
For  sister  moon  and  the  stars,
In  the  sky  you  have  made  them  brilliant
And  precious  and  beautiful. Be  praised,  my  Lord,  for  brother  wind
And  for  the  air  both  cloudy  and  serene
And  every  kind  of  weather,
Through  which  you  give  nourishment
To  your  creatures. Be  praised,  my  Lord,  for  sister  water,
who  is  very  useful  and  humble
And  precious  and  chaste. 14
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COSMIC    ROOTS
Be  praised,  my  Lord,  for  brother  fire,
through  whom  you  illuminate  the  night. And  he  is  beautiful  and  joyous
And  robust  and  strong. Be  praised,  my  Lord,
For  our  sister,  mother  earth,
Who  nourishes  us  and  watches  over  us
And  brings  forth  various  fruits
With  colored  flowers  and  herbs. St.  Francis  of  Assisi
FOOD   IS  MEMORY
The  Earth  has  been  continuously  refining  herself  from
the  beginning  of  time. Every  species  she  contains
contributes  to  the  evolution  of  the  universe. Each  tree
and  mountain,  cloud,  and  stream  reflects  the  light  of
the  universe. Cosmic  memory  is  held  and  refined  by
the  genetic  code,  the  DNA,  of  all  life-forms. For  this
reason,  cosmic  communion  prevails  among  each  of
the  Earth's  inhabitants. When  we  walk,  run,  or  climb,
each  cell  recalls  its  cognition  from  the  beginning  of
life. The  land  itself  holds  the  cumulative  cognizance
of  all  ten  million  species. Our  motions,  our  actions,
set  the  stage  for