of many  others who knew the publishing industry inside out. They seemed
to me to be unaware of the great truth of Victor Hugo: “Nothing is more
powerful than an idea whose time has come. ”
What is an idea but a thought. The experts had their own ideas, and they
acted on them. I too had my idea. I agreed that the easiest way to talk with
everyone in America was throug h the network media, but I believed it wasnot the only way. I could reach everyone in America if I was willing to take
the time, spend the energy, and absorb the risks that go with such an
approach. I was willing and very eager as well. I would use every barrier as
an opportunity to see if I could get past it. And it worked every single time. As much as I was making things happen through my thoughts, I was also
letting things happen by not fighting anyone or anything, by doing it all
with good cheer and love. It was great fun, every single day, every
interview, every new city, every new friend. All very exciting. The months became a year, and my family and I were still on the road. Somehow the financial stuff took care of itself, and then one day, while I
was appearing on radio station KMOX in St. Louis, I received a call from
Arthur Pine, my friend and agent, who informed me that my book would
appear on the New York Times nationa l best-se ller list the following week,
debuting at position number eight. I had accomplished what almost
everyone said was impossible. Without one national television or radio
appearance, I had been able to go to the people of this country and have
enough of those people buy my book to put it on the national best-seller list. I was in awe and in shock. But this was only the beginning of how my internal images, my thoughts,
began manifesting. I was becoming in form what I had been thinking about
each day, and most important, I was opening myself to allowing my
purpose to find me. I had begun clearing myself of the negativity and
judgment that had previously interfered with the flow of my process. Other changes started then. I began exercising each day. Slowly at first,
but very much an everyday thing. In August of 1976 I ran my first mile
without stopping. At the end I was huffing and puffing and in a state of
exhaustion, but nevertheless I finished with a wonderful sense of inner
satisfaction. The next day I made the effort to accomplish this task again. Then again on the following day, and within one week I was running a mile
comfortably. Two months later, I ran eight miles without stopping, and thus
began my running streak, whic h continues today, of eight miles per day,
every day witho ut fail, since October 7, 1976. I became more attentive to
my eatin g habits and gradually discontinued many foods which we now
recognize as nutritionally unsound. The clearer I became, the less negative and judgmental, the more I began
to treat my phys ical self in healt hier ways. As I allowed my purpose to find
me, I began to feel happier and more in harmony with myself. Ultimately itwas as if I forgot about myself and tuned in automatically to my strong
sense of mission and purpose. This is how the enlightenment process seems to work. One proceeds
through a series of phases of first focusing on oneself and consciously
working at improving oneself until the inner tumult disappears. As that
inner turmoil fades, you find yourself feeling much more purposeful in
sharing yourself  with others. When you have an inner authen tic sense of
love and harmony, that is precisely what you have to give away. As my book began to appear regularly on best-seller lists across  America,
the demand for me to make personal and media appearance s increased
dramatically. Shows that previou sly had turned Donna down cold were now
calling to check on my availabil ity. One by one I started making the circuit
stops. And within a few months, the book had catapulted to the top of the
list, where it was to stay for almost two years. Then one day I received the magic phone call that was to lead to the
fulfillment of that image I had had as a young boy watching television back
on the east side of Detroit. Howard Papush of The Tonight Show  staff had been handed a copy of my
book by someone at a party on Long Island. He took the book with him on
his fligh t back to Los Angeles. The next week I received a call from a staff
person for The Tonight Show, asking me if, when I was next in Los Angeles,
I would be willing to come into the Burbank studios for a pre-interview for
the show. Within ten days I was sitting in Howard’ s office talking to him about all
of the ideas that I believed in so strongly. By this time I had done hundreds
of interviews, and I had learned that the best strategy was simply to be
myself. Just me, talking to whoever was interviewing me as if we were in
my living room. Howard and I hit it off beautifully, and to this day remain
very close friends. Within a week I was to make my very first appearance
on The Tonight Show. The guest host that Monday evening was Shecky
Greene, well-kn own Las Vegas comedian. As I stood in the hallway next to
the green room before the start of the show, I noticed a bank of pay phones. I decided to call my wife and share the excitement I was feeling. As I
talked, I noticed  someone using the telephone adjacent to me. It was the
first guest of the evening, the man I had talked to so many times in my own
mind almost nightly nearly a quarter of a century before, Mr. Steve Allen. The evening’ s taping was sensational from my point of view. I had
almost fifteen minutes on natio nal television to tell about the ideas that
were so importa nt to me. It was a dream come true. When I went to the
airport to catch an all-night flight back to the East Coast, I was filled with
elation. Then over a loudspeak er, I heard a page for my name. It was
Howard on the phone to give me the bad news that the show had been
preempted for the first time in many years, because of an overrun at the
Republican National Convention. It would not be show n until an
unspecified future free date. I flew back home wondering if the show would ever be aired, but the
following day I received another  call from Howard, asking me to fly out the
next day to make an appearance with Johnny Carson which would be aired
that week. So I made a third cross-country flight, arrived in Los Angeles,
and did the show  with Johnny on a Wednesday evening. But we had only
six or seven minutes at the end of the show, and because of the shortness of
the interview, Johnny asked me on the air if I could stay over two days and
reappear on Friday evening. I stayed over two days and did the show that Friday evening, and it went
beautifully. A week from the next Monday, the preempted show  aired. So I
had gone from an unknown person who was able to get himself booked
only on local shows to one with three Tonight Show  appearances on national
television, all airing within an eleven-day period. It seemed clear to me that
Thoreau was absolutely right when he wrote, “If one advances  confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”
Your Erroneous Zones  was eventually published in twenty-six languages
around the world. Other books have followed, as have tapes, articles,
international travel for professional speaking engagement s, and an
opportunity for me to make a difference in the lives of millions and millions
of peopl e. I received more money in the first year I was out on my own
without the security of a regular  paycheck than I had in the entire thirty-six
years of my life before then. THE HOW  AND WHY  OF VISUALIZA TION

I am firmly convinced that thoughts are things. Thoughts, when properly
nourished and internalized, will become a reality in the world of form. Yousee, we think in pictures, and these pictures become our inner reality. When
we learn the how and why of this imaging process, then we are on our way
to “success unexpected in common hours. ”

Four  Principles of Effective Visualization
Consider the process of producing thoughts as an inner visualization
without any of the limitations of the physical realm. You can go forward or
backward in thought, and you do not need the five senses to enter the world
of thought; you do it in dreams while you are sleeping. Cause and effect is
not a prerequisite. You can create with thought any pictures that you choose,
and these pictures are the very stuf f of your life. Four basic princ iples will enable you to make this formless realm work
for you in your physical as well as your mental arena. 1. Your actions come from your images. All of our behavior
results from the thoughts that preceded it. If you visuali ze
yourself as incompetent in a given area, and you continuously
reinforce this with a mental picture, eventually you will act out
this scenario. Suppose you are about


 should not be attempted by
those with an enlarged thyroid gland, high blood pressure, or
heart ailments. Benefits: This mudra causes subtle changes in the prana
flow in the body. In particular, it facilitates the flow from the
manipura chakra (the center of subtle prana), to the vishud
dhi (the center of purification). This helps to purify the astral
body and prevents physical disease caused by defective
prana flow. It is also an important practice for
subliminating sexual energy from the lower to the higher
dimensions. (7) Awakening the Bindu-Visargha
A description of how to awaken the sahasrara would seem
to be in order here, but first we will present Satyananda's
technique related to the bindu-visargha (see p. 234), a psychic
center between the ajna and the sahasrara. 127
Sit in a meditational pose with the eyes closed. Be aware of
the natural breath for two minutes (a kind of ajapa-japa). As
awareness of the breath grows, the SO-HAM sound becomes
audible. The breath and the SO-HAM mantra may be felt
anywhere - either in the throat, in the nose, or between the
navel and the throat. If after awhile the mantra changes to
another sound such as OM, it does not matter, but unbroken
awareness of the breath and the mantra must be maintained for
four minutes. Remain fully aware of the breath, whichever
mantra is present. Feel the close relationship between breath
and mantra for four minutes. Next, feel the breathing and the mantra in one straight
line up and down between the vishuddhi chakra and the
bindii-visargha (located at the back of the head, near the top)
for three minutes. As the practices for awakening the vishuddhi chakra and
bindu-visarga are continued, these centers awaken and or
dinarily inaudible psychic sound (nada), is heard around the
bindu-visarga, indicating more precisely its location. (8) Awakening the Sahasrara Chakra
The following is the method used by the author for several
years to awaken the sahasrara chakra and open the Brahman
Gate. As preparation, (i) pawanmuktasana (the "wind-releasing"
asanas), the sushumna regulating exercises, and bhastrika
pranayama (this directly stimulates the kundalini - see
Chapter III), should be practiced. The main practice is performed as follows:
Sit in siddhasana and chin mudra, with the eyes closed. Gently contracting the perineum during inhalation, raise
kundalini up the sushumna and let it stream out into the
universe through the Brahman Gate at the top of the head,
chanting SO. Hold the breath for about two or three sec
onds, visualizing the unification of kundalini with the 128
Creator in Heaven. During exhalation, absorb prana from the
Creator through the Brahman Gate, making it descend the
sushumna to the muladhara, while chanting HAM. Visualize
the unification of prana and kundalini as you retain the ex
halation for two or three seconds. Continue this practice for
10 to 20 minutes. After that, concentrate on the top of the head (the
sahasrara chakra) for 30 minutes or more, chanting OM. Satyananda does not describe any method to awaken the
sahasrara, apparently because he believes it transcends the
limits of the human psyche, and thus is not a chakra in the
true sense. Gorakhnath, however, teaches the following
method in Gorakshashatakam:
While gazing at the tip of the nose, concentrate the
mind and meditate on Lord Shiva in Heaven, or on the
small cavity in the sahasrara at the top of the head (the
dwelling place of Lord Shiva). Diligent daily practice of the methods described above will
bring about various changes in the body, mind, and spirit of
the practitioner. The characteristic effects of awakening each
chakra will be detailed in later chapters. However, the
following general effects can be observed:
• In the early stages of chakra activation and awakening,
unusually sensitive physical and mental states may be ex
perienced. These are only temporary, however, and should
not cause anxiety. Without fail, such phases pass. • The physical body becomes healthy, and the constitution
improves. • The practitioner gains control over his feelings, at the
same time experiencing richer emotions and deeper sym
pathy for others. • Due to increased powers of concentration - thinking,
judgment, and discernment become deeper, more constant,
quicker, and more reliable. • The mind is freed from its attachments. 129
• Impartiality and insight beyond surface appearances are
acquired. • The ability to take effective action toward the fulfillment
of one's goals is strengthened. • Psychic abilities appear. • A direct relationship with the divine world can be
established, at a level corresponding to the practitioner's
spiritual state. • The freedom of mind attained makes it possible to exist
in the realm of enlightenment while living in this world. * Asana, Pranayama, Mudra Bandha and Tantra of Kundalini Yoga by
Swami Satyananda Saraswati have been used as source material for
chapters II, III and IV. V
The Chakras and Nadis
as Described
in the Upanishads
The classic presentation of the eight-fold path of yoga prac
tice described in Chapter I is found in the well-known Yoga
Sutras of Patanjali, probably composed in the 2nd century. However, this text barely mentions the subtle body and its
component chakras and nadis. We do find these two brief
verses in the third chapter which deals with the attainment
of siddhis (spiritual powers):
Through samyama (concentration and medita
tion) on the navel wheel, one obtains a knowledge
of the constitution of the body. (v. 30)
Through samyama on the kurma nadi, one obtains
unshakable patience, (v. 32)
The "navel wheel" refers to the manipura chakra (chakra can
be translated "wheel" or "circle"); the kurma nadi is located
in the throat, and is associated with the vishuddhi chakra. However, more detailed accounts of the chakras, nadis,
and the subtle body can be found in a group of the Upani-
130 131
shads, known as the Yoga Upanishads. The Upanishads are
properly considered a part of the Vedas, the oldest canonical
literature of Hinduism which dates to the early part of the
first millennium B.C. However, the Upanishads under con
sideration here were clearly composed at a much later date,
probably in the 6th century A.D. or later. In this chapter we will
focus upon descriptions found in four texts: Shri Jabala Dar-
shana Upanishad, Cudamini Upanishad, Yoga-shikka Upanishad,
and Shandilya Upanishad. For the sake of comparison, we will
also have occasion to refer to passages in the texts presented
in Chapter V: Shat-chakra-nirupana and Gorakshashatakam. In
later sections, comparisons will be drawn also with the meri
dian system of Chinese medicine, in order to clarify the
nature of the nadis and other aspects of the subtle body
described in these Upanishads. The Yoga Cudamani Upanishad explains the significance of
man's three bodies. It records that at primordial creation,
an empty space (or ether) was created from Brahman, the One,
the highest principle of the universe. From this, air, fire,
water, and earth were sequentially created. These five
"elements" pervade all things and underlie their manifest
form. The presiding deities of these five realms are Shiva,
Ishvara, Rudra, Vishnu, and Brahma respectively. Brahma, the
lord of the earth, is believed to be the creator of gods, angels,
humans, plants, and the like. Lord Brahma endows man with a body composed of the
five elements and divided into three parts. The portion com
posed of physical elements is called the "gross body" (sthula-
sharira); that portion made up of subtle elements is called the
astral (or subtle) body (sukshmasharira); that part which con
tains the causes of all that each human being is as an in
dividual, is known as the casual body (karanashanra). It is
said that all things in existence possess these three bodies. Within the causal body, the three gunas (qualities) - sattva
(purity, wisdom, peace), rajas (activity, passion), and tamas 132
(inertia, lethargy) - exist in a harmonious state of perfect
equilibrium. However, in the astral and physical bodies


 too, that like homoeopath1c med1cme,
urine-extract may be tried and its essence in very minute and subtle
doses of various potencies can be a subject of research. 3. Shri Balakoba Bhave, brother of Shri Vinoba Bhave, states that
urine therapy is a wholesome therapy and is very useful in having
self-help in the field of medicine. 208 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
4. Shri Santabalji considers urine therapy to be a buon of nature
and a blessing bestowed by God on man. 5. Shri Dinubhai Joshi, an advocate of Bombay High Court,
discloses that may an educated and even judges have cured them
selves by urine therapy. The State Governments should open up a
new departmell( for the propagation of urine therapy and should
appoint a minister for its task. Only by such steps· Government. can
provide ary e:->sy and free therapy to the poor and the people at large. · 6. The last but not he least, there is an ancient verdict on urine_
therapy in' Southern Shaivaganga "Tirumandiram" (Stanza 830)
which describes human urine as a divine and most powerful
medicine. God Nandi has shown this sure-cure of (111 diseases. The
truly wise person considers urine as the best of all cures. Its prowess
is indescribable. · All these opinions are worth considering with a detached mind. It
can be seen that almost all religions, all ancient Indian sects
including the jains and the Buddhists have considered urine cure to
be. a sure cure. Even t-Oe modern researchers are als'o slowly but
unreservedly approving the sterling qualities of auto-urine. All these
opinions and verdicts are good eye-openers. PART;V
SOME RECENT SUCCESSES CHAPTER I
BAD COLD AND COUGH
By Hansraj Hans
It was early 1977, january 20, when I met the learned lady
Yashodharaji, her erudition and Spartan devotion to health care
were delightful. Incidentally, I had occasion to ask her to try
.auto-urine daily as a necessary regimen for making the body healthy
and strong. She was th~n 30. It would be an advantage to listen in
her own words to the account of her recovery :
(i) 111 was a chronic patient ofbad cold. Gradually it grew and
doctors diagnosed T.. B. For nine long months' I underwent
allopathic treament. Hundreds of injections, tablets, capsules,
mixtures, etc., were administered. The body grew heavy but there
was no sign of the ailment growing light. Ayurvedic medicines·and
the nature cure rituals proved futile.-Coughing up of blood· an,d
phlegm from the throat could not be stopped. ·
The veteran Acharya Tulsiji sent me to Momasar in 1976 for j '. auto-urine treatment. For 25 days under the supervision of Bhojraj I
Saricheti a long urine-cum-fast treatment was carried out with great
1. ·,
devotion. There were many ups and downs. But I endured
everything with a do-or~die determination. For fifteen fasts the coughing bouts at times were of several
hours• duration, accompanied with severe pain but neve• even
contemplated giving up the fast. Cough is Nature•s sure device of
separation and ejection of saturated mucus. ·
On the 20th day I broke my fast Gradually raising my diet from
liquids, to butter-milk and then milk; I began taking bland food. I
practised the Kunjal for several days. Occasion~tlly ~mall spots of
blood appeared in the vomit. After two mqnthi, I re,umed the fast
which continued for 21 days.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        &it very heavy expendittll1e
· for their medical studfes beeomes a ·great burden to them. So to
meet their expenses and maintain their standard of nfe, they
become prof-essionats and look at their practice only from the
busif'l€Ss point of view and thus the mission for the servke of the
poor is thwarted. In urine therapy, however, there are no such
temptations because there in every patient is a doctor for himself. It CONCLUSION : 173
reserve his. even an illiterate person can p. is a technique by which this own disposal quite freely. health by the natural menas a a well planned
S iptures mean. Proof Self-revealed :. ~rc. ::md experiences of savants. It IS
compendium of great thoug. knowledge to adopt a. generous and
essential for the progre~ ~f ld answer all the quenes and dou~ts
open-hearted attitude an s ou t the same time with a searchmg
on the basis of the scriptures ~nd ado matically and cond~mn. those
mind To stick to onels own views ~ lead to the falsification of
of others repeatedly would necessan ·~dedness in the field of ·ews Such narrow ml. one1
S own ~1
• er to knowledge itsefl. knowledge bnngs dang d any eXternal proof as
· lso does not nee k h s The power of auto-unne a. h the author of Chara a
its utility is self-re~:ale_d. That ~r:S ~nly, I. e., it is anti-poison and
mmed up its qualitieS m two w than this. It deserves all the
~~a tonic. No savant would. sayhmorervice of human health. gaged m t e se · f attention of persons en 'b the properties of urine o
Great Supports : Ayurve~a d~:c;~o:~ animals may be beneficial
eight types of animals. Th~fi u~n: Charak but it is worthy of research
to human beings as, speo le y h ·r own urine on their systems. to have findings of the eff~cts ~f t el et rid of the disease once for
They instinctively use the•r. ur~e ~~s; of human being and human
all The same holds good m t e be as Ayurveda describes hot,
uri. ne too. The urine of a p. erson m::or but it is so only to another
bitter, bile-increasin~ a~d •:fl~m:e to ~se the urine of other person
rsolt I do notthmk It a ~·sa tall rescribed in urien threapy. :d it is notscientific too. It ~s ". ot,:ant/ auto-urin~ therapy. atp~r
That is why urine therapy IS ldn I in exceptional cases I e. n be use on Y. bl 1 uch rare person Is unne ca I urine is not ava•la e. n s. k bite etc. when one s own. I It means that the
~~:e;-it c;n be used in extern~. a~~~c;~~~~ne~~~ally and in drinking
urine of a healthy person c~n e kue-bite or so. t'onally as m sna d' g only very excep 1
• ft a mere cursory rea m
I b · n to opme a er Most of the peop e eg•
U. T. -14 174 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
of the book and without having full deliberation the subject. But on
the basis of my own and others' experience, I can say with all the
emphasis at my command that human urine is harmless and always
beneficial. Used methodically and in proper doses, it is efficacious
in all diseases. I say this not as an authority but on the basis of
experiences of a number of patients from India and abroad. The
statement of the well-known Vaidya like shri Bapalalbhai and a
writer on Ayurvedic subjects, cannot be doubted when he
unreservedly supports urine therapy. He has written on the
experiments which he had carried out as true and enquiring Vaidya. Similarly. the d~scription of two T. B. patients cured by Dr. Gunanidhi Bhatt by means of urine therapy is no doubt genuine. All the descriptions of the cases in this book are genuine facts based
on self-experience. There is absolutely no exaggeration in the
presentation of all these cases. Must B. e Made Universal : The problem is how to make it
universally useful. A number of friends have advised me to start
hospitals where patients can be treated ·exclusively on urine therapy
but I am against it, as I believe that it should become a household
treatment. Every mother should be an adept in it and use it like
homely medicenes. The urine therapy does not require any
expenditure nor does it require any storage. The message of urine
therapy should reach every home and village. It will surely be
evolved into a scientific systme automatically. The intelligentsia can
very well further its progress


	does	the	person. Fortunately,	over	the	past	two	decades	some
ingenious	experiments	have	raised	hope	that	the	mind	extends	outside	the
brain,	and	that	the	qualities	that	you	and	I	cherish,	such	as	love	and	truth,	may
be	embedded	permanently	in	the	field. The	closer	we	can	get	to	showing	that	the	field	is	intelligent,	the	more
credible	it	will	be	that	our	own	intelligence	can	survive	after	death. One	way
to	approach	this	issue	seems	strange	but	turns	out	to	be	very	fruitful:	animal
telepathy. Many	pet	owners	will	attest	to	the	ability	of	a	dog	or	cat	to	know
what	the	owner	is	thinking. A	few	minutes	before	going	on	a	walk,	a	dog	gets
excited	and	restless;	on	the	day	when	a	cat	is	going	to	be	taken	to	the	vet,	it
disappears	and	is	nowhere	to	be	found. These	casual	observations	led	the
ingenious	British	researcher	Rupert	Sheldrake,	a	trained	biologist	now	turned
speculative	thinker,	to	conduct	controlled	studies	to	find	out	if	dogs	and	cats
can	actually	read	their	owners’	minds. One	study	was	very	simple:	Sheldrake
phoned	sixty-five	veterinarians	in	the	London	area
and
	asked	them	if	it	was
common	for	cat	owners	to	cancel	appointments	because	their	cats	had
disappeared	that	day. Sixty-four	vets	responded	that	it	was	very	common,	and
the	sixty-fifth	had	given	up	making	appointments	for	cats	because	too	many
couldn’t	be	located	when	they	were	supposed	to	come	in. Sheldrake	decided	to	perform	an	experiment	using	dogs. The	fact	that	a
dog	gets	excited	when	the	time	comes	to	go	for	a	walk	means	little	if	the	walk
is	routinely	scheduled	for	the	same	time	every	day,	or	if	the	dog	gets	visual
cues	from	its	owner	that	he	is	preparing	to	go	out. Therefore,	Sheldrake
placed	dogs	in	outbuildings	completely	isolated	from	their	owners;	he	then
asked	the	owner,	at	randomly	selected	times,	to	think	about	walking	their
dogs	five	minutes	before	going	to	get	them. In	the	meantime,	the	dog	was
being	videotaped	in	its	isolated	location. Sheldrake	found	that	when	their
owners	started	thinking	about	taking	them	for	a	walk,	more	than	half	the	dogs
ran	to	the	door	wagging	their	tails,	circling	restlessly,	and	keeping	up	this
behavior	until	their	owners	appeared. No	dog	showed	anticipatory	behavior,however,	when	their	owners	were	not	thinking	about	taking	them	for	a	walk. This	suggests	something	intriguing,	that	the	bond	between	a	pet	and	its
owner	creates	a	subtle	connection	at	the	level	of	thought. Polls	show	that
about	60%	of	Americans	believe	they	have	had	a	telepathic	experience,	so
this	result	is	not	completely	startling. The	next	leap	is	quite	startling,	however. After	writing	up	his	results	with	telepathic	pets,	Sheldrake	received	an	e-mail
from	a	woman	in	New	York	City	who	said	that	her	African	gray	parrot	not
only	read	her	thoughts	but	responded	to	them	with	speech. The	woman	and
her	husband	might	be	sitting	in	another	room,	out	of	sight	from	the	bird,
whose	name	is	N’kisi,	and	if	they	were	feeling	hungry,	N’kisi	would	suddenly
say,	“You	want	some	yummy. ”	If	the	owner	and	her	husband	were	thinking
about	going	out,	N’kisi	might	say,	“You	gotta	go	out,	see	ya	later. ”
Greatly	intrigued,	Sheldrake	contacted	the	owner,	an	artist	named
Aimee
Morgana. The	situation	he	found	was	remarkable. African	gray	parrots	are
among	the	most	linguistically	talented	of	all	birds,	and	N’kisi	had	a	huge
vocabulary	of	over	700	words. More	remarkable	still,	he	used	them	like
human	speech,	not	“parroting”	a	word	mindlessly	but	applying	it	where
appropriate;	if	he	saw	something	that	was	red,	he	said	“red,”	and	if	the	object
was	another	color,	he	said	that	color. But	Aimee	had	even	more	astonishing
stories	for	Sheldrake. When	she	was	watching	a	Jackie	Chan	movie	on
television,	during	one	scene	with	Chan	perilously	perched	on	a	girder,	N’kisi
said,	“Don’t	fall	down,”	even	though	his	cage	was	behind	the	television	with
no	line	of	sight	to	the	picture. When	an	automobile	commercial	came	on	next,
N’kisi	said,	“That’s	my	car. ”	Another	time	Aimee	was	reading	the	lines,	“The
blacker	the	berry,	the	sweeter	the	juice,”	in	a	book	when	simultaneously	from
another	room	the	bird	said,	“The	color	is	black. ”
Sheldrake	wanted	to	confirm	this	for	himself. On	his	first	visit,	Aimee
gave	him	a	taste	of	N’kisi’s	telepathy:	she	looked	at	a	picture	of	a	girl	in	a
magazine,	and	with	remarkable	clarity	from	the	adjoining	room	the	parrot
said,	“That’s	a	girl. ”	The	next	step	was	to	conduct	a	formal	experiment. If
N’kisi	could	understand	words	and	also	had	telepathic	abilities,	could	the	two
be	tested	together. Sheldrake	proposed	that	Aimee	would	look	at	pictures	that
corresponded	to	words	her	parrot	already	knew. She	would	sit	in	one	room
while	N’kisi	remained	isolated	in	another. The	bird	would	have	two	minutes
to	utter	a	“key	word”	that	matched	the	picture. If	he	said	the	word	within	that
time,	it	would	count	as	a	hit. If	he	didn’t	say	the	word,	or	if	he	said	it	after	the
two	minutes	were	up,	it	counted	as	a	miss. To	ensure	neutrality,	someone	besides	Aimee	chose	both	the	pictures	and
the	key	words	that	matched	each	one. (This	proved	somewhat	unfair	to	the
bird,	since	the	neutral	chooser	picked	some	words	like	“TV”	that	N’kisi	had
only	said	once	or	twice	before;	the	bird	didn’t	utter	these	words	at	the	right
time	during	the	experiment,	nor
did
	he	say	them	at	all. ) After	all	the	trialswere	over,	the	tapes	of	what	N’kisi	had	said	were	played	for	three	judges,
who	wrote	down	what	they	heard;	unless	N’kisi	distinctly	said	the	right	word,
as	transcribed	by	all	three	judges,	a	hit	wouldn’t	count. The	results	were
beyond	ordinary	comprehension. For	example,	when	Aimee	looked	at	a
picture	showing	scantily	clad	bathers	on	a	beach,	N’kisi	mumbled	for	a	bit,
then	all	three	judges	heard	him	say,	“Look	at	my	pretty,	naked	body. ”	He
didn’t	say	other,	irrelevant	key	words	in	between	saying	the	right	words,	the
bird	only	whistled	and	made	tones. When	Aimee	looked	at	a	picture	of
someone	talking	on	the	telephone,	N’kisi	said,	“What’cha	doin’	on	the
phone. ”	Perhaps	his	most	intr


 had died at that time. Perhaps my most dramatic experience of after -death communication
concerns Bill, the physician I mentioned in Chapter 2, who knew he had
cancer after one instance of dif ficulty in swallowing. He joined ECaP  but
always remained somewhat distant—quiet and observant. His wife had told
others, “He never bought the package.”
Three months after Bill had died of his cancer, a young college student
came to my of fice to interview me. She said she’d been in a healing circle
the night before, and since they knew she was going to see me the next day,
the medium who was directing the circle had asked if there was any
message for me. She handed me a card:
To Bernie
From Bill
With love and peace
If I had known it was
this easy, I’d have bought
the package a long time ago
and wouldn’ t have
resisted so much. When I called his wife, she said, “That’ s what he always told me after
the meetings. He would attend, but he said he couldn’ t buy the package.”
When he was quite sick, I asked him if he was ready to die. He said,
“Considering the alternative, no.” The people in the healing circle knew
nothing about who Bill was, yet there was the same phrase he and his wife
used. “Love and peace” is the closing I use for all my letters. Who elsecould this note be from? How can I help but believe and share this belief
with others? As Elisabeth Kübler -Ross says, “One day all my critics will
agree with me.”
But, whatever explanation you prefer for these experiences, there’ s no
denying that learning to love conquers the fear of death, and can liberate
incredible healing ener gy. The closing lines of Emmet Foxes’  sermon are
the key. “If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and
most powerful being in the world…” You become invulnerable. This, I feel,
is the real future of medicine. Scientists often say you must see in order to
believe, but I know you must believe in order to see. When I was in college
and took philosophy and religion, one day the teacher was discussing St.
Augustine, who said you must love in order to see. I raised my hand and
said, “I thought love was blind.” I never got a satisfactory answer from the
teacher. Now I see that you must love and believe, that is, be open, so that
true sharing can occur, and you will see what is in front of you. In medicine
and science, we are generally told, “Seeing is believing,” and then we are
told what to see, and to ignore everything else. However, the spiritual
message heeded by the true explorer or artist is to open our eyes and see
beyond what we have been told exists. It is my fervent hope that, by showing adults how the mind and spirit
can heal the body and make life worthwhile, I can help us, as parents, raise
a generation of children programmed to be loving and healthy. Too many
children get everything they want and nothing they need. The message to
whisper in your child’ s ear is simply, “I love you unconditionally (not if you
get an A, or become a doctor). Life is full of hurdles, but whatever happens,
you’ll overcome.” Then give them some discipline, not punishment. In
Soviet Geor gia, peo ple drink a toast “T o your three-hundredth birthday.”
We should adopt the same custom. The whole world must confront the same issues, for nuclear weapons
threaten the world as cancer threatens the individual. If we decide to love,
we have a much greater chance of surviving. If we love, we will control the
few who are comfortable being killers. As Gandhi said, “W e must not kill
our enemies, but kill their desire to kill.”
In India the story is told of a holy man who stayed in his monastery
when an army was advancing through the area and killing all the holy men. When a general said, “Don’ t you know I can thrust my sword into your
stomach?” he replied, “Don’ t you know I can place my stomach aroundyour sword?” If we love enough, we become invulnerable, and we can
place our stomachs around the sword and save the world. In India there is
also this traditional saying: “When you were born, you cried and the world
rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries
and you rejoice.” If we can live in accordance with that simple teaching, we
will survive as individuals, and the world will survive as well. As Geor ge
Ritchie wrote at the conclusion of his book Return fr om T omorr ow, “God is
busy building a race of men who know how to love. I believe that the fate
of the earth itself depends on the progress we make—and that the time now
is very short.”
Gandhi’ s teacher Muktananda remarked that Sanskrit has no word for
exclusion. When we can kill our own desire to kill, and learn to exclude no
one, the world will change, and we will return from whence we came—
from the ener gy that chose to love out of its own intelligence. I often tell my patients there are two ways to be immortal. One is to go
to medical school (Doctors don’ t get sick and don’ t die). And the other is to
love someone. As Thornton Wilder expressed it at the end of The Bridge of San Luis
Rey:

And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and for gotten. But the love
will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that
made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the
living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the
only meaning. God has given us free will to make love and life meaningful. This
creates a critical risk because we now have the ability to destroy our
universe if we choose not to love. However, it is only in this critical time that the archetype of the miracle
can appear. When one believes in love and miracles divine intervention can
occur. We have an infinite number of choices ahead, but a finite number of
endings. They are destruction and death or love and healing. If we choose
the path of love we save ourselves and our universe. Let us choose love and life.OceanofPDF.comAppendix
RELAXA TION
The following method, given in the Simontons’  book Getting W ell
Again, was adapted by Dr. Edmond Jacobson from a yoga technique. Instructions can also be found in Larry LeShan’ s How to Meditate  and
Herbert Benson’ s The Relaxation Response. As with the examples of
imaging later on, you are encouraged to have a friend speak these
instructions to you, or record them yourself on tape. A tape is always
available to you in times of stress. The tape is also useful if you fall asleep,
because you are still hearing the message. I don’ t recommend that you use it
to fall asleep, however, unless you need help to relax at night. During the
day, just take any comfortable position and try to listen to it in its entirety. With practice, you may often be able to enter the alpha state by yourself
without the tape. Adjust the lighting so it is soft and restful. If possible, at least in the
beginning, use a quiet room and close the door so you will not be
interrupted. This alone says you are important, that you are willing to take
the time for healing. However, a quiet room is not always essential. Familiar noises may actually be restful, indicating you are in a safe
environment. Using the same place each time is helpful. Just getting into a
favorite chair can immediately set the mood and lead to rapid relaxation. You may find it helpful to play some gentle, soothing music—at low
volume. There are also many prerecorded meditation tapes and records
available that can help you. I especially recommend Pachelbel’ s Canon  in
the recording by Daniel Kobialka. Be sure these instructions from the
Simonton book are spoken quietly and slowly, with pauses where
appropriate. Take a comfortable position in a chair, with your feet flat on the floor, or
lying down on a couch or mat. Feel the pleasant pressure of the chair or
other surface on your buttocks and back. Gently pay attention to your breathing as you let your breaths come in a
natural rhythm, without hurrying them or trying to slow them.Now take a few calm, deep breaths, and as you exhale, think the words
“relax, let go.”
Direct your attention to your face, eyes, and jaw. Feel whatever tension
is concentrated there. Now make a mental image of that tension, such as a
coiled spring, a stretched rubber band, a block of ice melting, or a rope tied
in a knot. Then picture that tense object relaxing, uncoiling, loosening. Feel
that relaxation in every part of your face. Momentarily contract every
muscle in your face, squeeze your eyes and mouth tightly shut, then let
them relax as you continue to see your spring, rubber band, or rope
becoming limp. Experience the relaxation in your face as the beginning of a wave that is
spreading


 that
nature offers. And if you drink two or more glasses of juice
or smoothies every day, you’ll be providing your body with
a continuous replenishment of nutrients that are lost in
normal daily living. Think of your body as a bank: If you
deposit only lower value coins (or empty calories), you
won’t have the cash (or energy) to do the things you want. Worse still, eventually, you won’t have the reserves to
defend yourself against a tough economy (bacteria and
deadly diseases). Eating well and adding two or more fresh juices or smoothies to
your daily routine will top up your nutrient reserves all day long
so that you’ll actually notice a change in your physical well-
being. Take a peek at what you can expect from healthy living in
a glass:
 Glowing skin: Collagen is made up of proteins that forms
the “glue” used by the body to connect and support
tissues such as skin, bone, tendons, muscles, organs,
teeth, gums, and cartilage. Vitamin C is essential in
building collagen. Fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C
— citrus fruit, strawberries, cabbage, peppers — are
essential for healthy skin. Vitamin A, found in apricots,
carrots, spinach, and squash, protects the skin from sundamage. Skin cells are protected from aging by Vitamin E,
found in dark green leafy vegetables, wheat germ, and nuts
and seeds. Bright eyes: Beta carotene, as found in the carotenoids of
fruits and vegetables, is converted to retinol by the body. Retinol protects the surface of the eye, or the cornea, and
is essential for good vision. Vitamin A is so important to
your eyes that a deﬁciency (rare in developed countries)
results in blindness. Buff bones: In the United States, 40 million or more people
have osteoporosis or are at high risk for low bone mass,
according to the National Institutes of Health. Among
several other things, a diet low in calcium and vitamin D
will make you more prone to bone loss. This is something
you can totally control by including calcium-rich foods in
smoothies and getting lots of fresh air and sunlight for
vitamin D. Dark green leafy vegetables, beans, tofu, sesame
seeds, sea vegetables, and oranges contain lots of usable
calcium. Dairy products have calcium with vitamin D
added; yogurt, milk, eggs, and cheese are good sources of
vitamin D.
Jumping into Juicing
Although the water or juice of mainly fruits has been enjoyed
for centuries, it wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century
that two men began to look at raw juice as a medical cure. Called the Roshåft Kur, or raw juice cure, it was revolutionary at
the time, and its developers, Dr. Max Bircher-Benner and Dr.
Max Gerson, used it to promote health and well-being for
patients suffering from fatigue and stress. Just about everyone living in the 21st century suffers from
fatigue and stress at some point. And raw juicing would be aquick and positive step toward repairing the damage to cells
from modern-day stress. Food ﬂows through your gastrointestinal tract, which
extends from your mouth to your bowels, and must be
absorbed through the walls of the stomach and intestines
before it can enter the bloodstream. Like most things
associated with the body, assimilation (absorption of
nutrients) is complicated. For total transport of nutrients
through the intestinal cell wall, key enzymes and minor
nutrients must be present. Once absorbed, nutrients
circulate to and feed all your tissues by way of your blood. Nutrients, which are tiny molecules, are bound up in the
larger cells of carbohydrate, and they’re in the water or
juice of fruits and vegetables. When you juice, you remove
the ﬁber and cellulose tissue in order to leave the pure
water and nutrients. In fact, by juicing, you’re performing
critical steps in the digestive process, which would
normally start by chewing to break down the ﬂesh of fruits
and vegetables. All the nutrients in juice are instantly
available for moving into the blood and, in fact, they’re
completely taken up and on their way to repair cells within
10 to 20 minutes of drinking them. They save the body from
doing digestive work — the gallbladder, pancreas, and
stomach from excreting bile and digestive enzymes and the
liver from separating toxins. Juices are the fastest and easiest way for the body to
take up the nutrients it needs to feed and detoxify itself. If you want to jump-start your adventure into health, jump into
juicing. Today’s juice machines are leaps ahead of the juicers ofyears ago. Chapter 3 ﬁlls you in on how to buy and care for
equipment, but for now, trust me that juicing at home is more
economical, faster, cleaner, and more convenient than ever
before. Savoring Smoothies
Smoothies are the darlings of the healthy-drink world. They
taste divine; they can be as nutritious as a salad and as
satisfying as a light lunch; they’re so easy to make, drink, and
clean up after; and they enrich the diet without adding too
many calories or unwanted fat. Who wouldn’t want to savor
them? Beyond the basics of fruit and fruit juice ingredients, smoothies
are exciting in their range of possibilities and are limited only
by your imagination. Although fruit smoothies are the most
popular by far, vegetable smoothies can be just as rewarding,
and adding milk or organic soy boosts protein and calcium. Smoothies are a delicious, guilt-free alternative to high-sugar,
high-calorie iced drinks. For people who love iced-coffee drinks,
milkshakes, and the like, smoothies make the transition to
healthier drinks easy. You don’t need to feel deprived, and you
don’t have to sacriﬁce taste and texture while enjoying
maximum health beneﬁts. Make your own smoothies and iced
drinks (see Chapter 18) and save money while actually doing
something healthy for your body. With dairy ingredients, nuts and seeds, legumes, herbs, and
protein supplements, smoothies can be used as the occasional
meal replacement (see the breakfast, snack, lunch, and dinner
smoothies in Chapters 16 and 17). Check out the incredible
ingredients that you can add to smoothies in Chapter 14.Here are a couple of the beneﬁts you can enjoy by using herbs
in smoothies:
 Enhanced energy: The University of Maryland Medical
Center says that American ginseng is “widely used to
strengthen the immune system, and increase strength and
vigor.” The American Cancer Society acknowledges that
ginseng is used to provide energy, among other things. One
teaspoon of powdered ginseng in smoothies no more than
twice a day is all you need. Improved memory: Ginkgo biloba increases blood ﬂow to
the brain and is widely used in Europe for treating
dementia. According to the University of Maryland Medical
Center, “A number of studies have found that ginkgo has a
positive effect on memory and thinking in people with
Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.” You can add drops of
the tincture or stir a teaspoon of the powdered ginkgo into
smoothies. I like to savor fruit smoothies made from fresh local fruit in the
morning. I’ve found that if I add 1/4 cup of low-fat cottage cheese
or yogurt, it gives me the protein I need for staying focused
right up until about an hour before lunch. That’s when I make a
vegetable juice as a sort of appetizer, which keeps me sated and
allows me to make really good choices about the lunch I’ll have. In this way, I’ve found a rhythm to getting the most out of juices
and smoothies.Chapter 2
What Juices and Smoothies Are and
What They Can Do for You
In This Chapter
 Deﬁning juices and smoothies
 Understanding the value of juices and smoothies
 Recognizing what juices and smoothies will do for you
Not only are smoothies and juices good for you, but they’re fun,
easy, and convenient, and they taste like an indulgent treat. They make enjoying your local abundance of fresh fruits and
vegetables an everyday pleasure simply by drinking them. They
do so much for your body, and developing this one healthy
habit is as important as deciding to quit smoking. Reaching for fresh homemade juices or smoothies every day
could be the single most important decision of your life. Why? Because it will impact your mental, physical, and emotional
well-being. It will bring about even more changes in your life
and in ways that you can’t begin to know when you start. The quality of your life is only as good as the quality of the
foods that sustain your body. The surest way to attain the goals
of health, energy, and freedom from disease is to eat a diet rich
in whole foods, such as whole grains, legumes, fruits,
vegetables, herbs, nuts, and seeds. Fresh smoothies and juices
are bursting with proteins, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids,
vitamins, minerals, live enzymes, and phytonutrients that are
vital to your health.In this chapter, I give you a close look at what makes a


 best not to heat Goat's milk to more
than 118°F. When Goat's milk is overheated, boiled, or pasteurized, it
is better poured down the drain than fed to children. If pasteurized
goat's milk is fed to the kids of the goat, they will likely be dead
within six months. NATURAL CHILDBIRTH
Baby Eric slipped into the World with a squawk. This is the detailed account of what Diane Vallaster Folton did
during the period of her pregnancy and how Baby Eric has been
thriving on RAW FOODS. No "Baby Formulas. " Read it, and in the
future: GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE. Here are Diane's own words:
There it was, June 1966 and I was pregnant. I was due to have my
first baby at the age of 33. What an astounding and sobering thought. 1 had one month of school still to go. Keeping thirty grade one students
busily occupied, and at the same time attempting to handle the endless
end-of-the-year forms, left me feeling limp. Suddenly the vegetable salads I had been enjoying so much, felt
like sawdust in my mouth — my diet formed a completely new pattern. Roughly, it went as follows:
1,2 and 3 months pregnant: Nothing appealed to me but grapefruit,
and freshly cracked hazelnuts (filberts) eaten three times a day. 4, 5 and 6 months: Though grapefruit was still a staple, I found
myself back to enjoying a wide variety of fruits. By this time we were
in September and the wild blackberries were at their tangy best. We
also managed to find delicious plums, prunes, pears and apples all
69 grown without chemicals. We had read that raspberry leaf tea was
good for pregnancy, so early in September we visited our neighbors'
raspberry field and picked bags of leaves which we dried on trays
and then stored. From September until March first, I consumed at
least a pint of this tea daily. It was difficult to find good carrots, but
we managed to obtain enough for a pint of the precious juice a day. Because I was exhausted after a busy school year, I felt 1 needed a
few supplements to boost me along, so I took daily:
6 kelp tablets, 6 natural calcium tablets,
100 I. U. of Vitamin E,
2 teaspoons of cod liver oil, because we are just not out in the
sun this time of the year in British Columbia, Canada,
and natural Vitamin C in varying quantities. If ever there was any retention of water in my system, I
immediately hunted for a fresh pineapple, if none was available I
found that the unsweetened pineapple juice worked also. I was feeling so wonderful that I never saw a doctor until the
sixth month. Friends were becoming so alarmed that I finally
consented to see one. The doctor could not get over the strong heartbeat
the baby had, that I had no weight gain, and that I had no toxicity. He
believed in natural childbirth so he was pleased with my simple natural
diet. I hiked miles every day. We had two puppies so I always had an
excuse to be out. I took a course in prenatal exercises for natural
childbirth and did them daily in addition to my housework. Then at last March first, Eric slipped into the world with a squawk
and a head of thick, long, curly, black hair. This was remarkable
because most babies today are born with little or no hair. His glowing
color was the talk of the doctors and nurses—no milky white skin for
him. To the amazement of everyone, I was able to breast feed Eric, and
though the milk was slow in coming, I persevered, and soon there
was an ample supply of rich creamy milk, although I had always been
told that such milk is usually blue and watery. The hospital diet was rather dead after the live foods that I had
been eating, but I ordered every live or living food that was offered
on the menu. The nurses were constantly worried that my protein
intake was inadequate, so I was bombarded with huge glasses of
pasteurized milk every three hours. These I fed to the sink and replaced
them with water. My husband and my sister brought a quart of fresh
70 carrot juice to me each day, plus bags of freshly shelled hazelnuts to
supplement my meager diet. The tray of sun-dried fruits that I was
presented with was pronounced "dangerous" as—they said—it would
give the baby diarrhea. I could not see how it could hurt baby or me,
as I had eaten them for ten years and baby had done a beautiful job of
growing on it for nine months already. How wonderful it was to return home to an abundance of all the
foods 1 was used to. I could no longer resist the tray of dried fruits
and, as we expected, there were no ill effects. With all the raw food I was eating (at least 60% of which was
fruit) I was horrified after Eric was born, that he went day after day
without a bowel movement. Finally, on the fifth day home, he produced
a completely normal small stool—no constipation. No diarrhea. Where had the stool been so long. We were mystified, but this
was to be the pattern. How often I wondered if I should give him
enemas. The mystery continued until, by chance, we found an old
baby book on breast feeding, stating that the food was sometimes so
completely utilized that it was not unusual for a wee babe to go up to
seven days without a bowel movement. This pattern continued as long as he had no solid foods. At six
months of age he sipped a little fresh carrot juice, but it was not until
he was nine months old that he had any solid food. Very ripe banana
and a wee bit of avocado, both pressed through a fine strainer, made
up his first solid meal. Thereafter there was no waiting five days for his bowel movement. In the space of a few hours after eating, he produced a stool full of
tiny black threads. I was horrified. Now (I thought) he must have
worms. The public health nurse was due in our area that day. I tearfully
met her at the door and presented the diaper for her inspection. She
immediately wondered what he had eaten, and when I told her just a
bit of banana, she laughed and said: "Well, there are your worms:
banana cellulose. " To this day I find it hard to believe that a soft
banana is so full of cellulose. Eric had only these two foods-banana and avocado — plus a little
carrot juice until he was more than one year old. Slowly, then we
added the pulp of strained soaked raw prunes, dates, and apricots,
usually accompanied by avocado, to his diet. Soon he was having
blended fresh fruits as they came in season. Eric was the chooser of his food, we soon learned. Sometimes he
had only apples for days at a time. Then he would switch to avocado,
and so it went. He loved and still loves, to chew on dried dulse leaves. 71 The only milk he received was breast milk for two and a half
years. Now he drinks carrot juice, nut milk, and we hope to start him
soon on raw goat milk. He has never had a stuffy head, no mucus, no puffiness, no
distended stomach and no swollen glands. Most of my friends were busy feeding their babies pablum, and
from bottles. The pablum supposedly to keep them sleeping all night. Since their babies were unable to digest the starch, it was a never
ending round of colds, flu, pneumonia, diaper rash and allergies. Thankfully we have escaped all of these by following the simple but
rigid laws of Nature. One thing that bothered me about nursing was the fact that I
required more sleep and did not have my usual extra bounding
energy—but I had a happy contented baby instead. I also noticed that
my stomach did not go flat as I had expected, but after Eric stopped
nursing it resumed its normal proportions. Now it is May, 1970,—Eric is three years of age. His diet consists
of raw and dried fruits, fresh raw vegetables and their juices, nuts,
seeds and honey. He is well balanced mentally, well developed
physically, and full of energy and curiosity. My many thanks to Dr. Walker's Program. DO JUICES HELP BONES TO HEAL. HERE'S THE ANSWER. This is the letter I received from Adelle Vallaster, a Home
Economics Teacher, in Kamloops, B. C. Canada:
Finally, after years of planning, Mom and Dad left for Europe,
while we attempted to look after their Health Shop. The postmen
went on strike at this time, a further complication to our situation. AH
communication was at a standstill until that fateful telegram arrived
ten days before Mom and Dad were due home. We were instructed to
send extra money, to have "Bob" meet the plane with his car, and for
us to start planting boxes of wheat grass. Something was radically wrong. There was no way of knowing
what—until they arrived home. Ten anxious days: we learned that a
motorcycle had bumped into Mom as she was crossing a street in
Austria having all but severed her leg.


 STEP  TEST
While fighting a fire, we can really get our heart rate going by doing
something as simple as moving a char ged house-line through a doorway, or
breaking down a door with an ax. But often we’ll need to recover very
quickly, because at any minute we may have to carry out another heart-
thumping task. How quickly your heart rate drops, allowing you to relax and recover
before your next ef fort, is a solid measure of its condition, as well as an
indicator of potential heart disease. A simple and yet ef fective test to gauge what kind of shape your heart is
in is the 3-minute step test. First, take your resting heart rate. Find your
pulse, either on your wrist or on your neck: Count the beats for 15 seconds,
then multiply that number by 4. This is your resting heart rate per minute. Next, find a stair or a box about 14 inches high. Step up onto the stair or
box with your right foot, then your left, and back down, then start again
with the right and then the left foot. Continue stepping at an aggressive pace for 3 minutes, striving to get
your heartbeat to within 80 percent of your maximum heart rate. A good
formula for determining this number is to subtract your age from 220 and
multiply the result by.8. After completing the stair test, sit down and take your pulse again for 15
seconds, and multiply the number by 4. Now, wait 2 minutes and take your
pulse yet again for 15 seconds. The lar ger the gap between the two
numbers, the better. For example, say your heart rate is 155 after doing the 3-minute stair
test. After resting for 2 minutes, your heart rate is 120. The gap between thetwo is 35. However, if after 2 minutes your resting heart rate is 80, the gap
is 75. Lar ger gaps mean your heart is better able to recover from strain. OceanofPDF.com3
LABEL  READING
The devil truly lies in the details. When you’re eating a fresh peach,
sucking on a messy mango, or polishing of f an ear of summer sweet corn,
you know exactly what you’ve got: a whole food product filled with the
best and brightest mother nature has to of fer. The same cannot be said for anything that comes in a can, a box, or a
package. These items can hold any number of dangers, from strange
additives to heaps of fats—things that can destroy everything you’ve been
working so hard to achieve. The only way to know exactly what you’re
eating is to learn to read the labels on these potential enemies. So as you shop in the aisles of the grocery store, I want you to imagine
yourself on your hands and knees, making your way through a pitch-black
building where danger lurks behind every can, box, or package. Luckily, you will be equipped with knowledge, the equivalent of a
flashlight that will allow you to duck and weave your way through the
potential hazards all the way to the check-out counter without a single
scratch. That knowledge will come to you in the form of labels. Labels are the
ultimate test of whether a food is a true or false friend. Let’s begin with the two basic label-reading rules. I first heard them
from a remarkable man named Jef f Novick, a former Kraft Foods major
account manager who spent years convincing the public that they were
buying healthy food products that, in reality, were unhealthy. Jeff now
makes it his mission to teach people the truth about food companies, as well
as how to read labels properly.RULE 1
Never believe the claims on the outside of a package or box. This includes such descriptions as “2 percent fat,” “Reduced fat,” “97
percent fat-free,” “Fat-free,” “Low in carbohydrates,” “Healthy,” “Wheat,”
“Natural,” and many more assertions. The food manufacturer ’s goal in using these terms is to lure you into
purchasing their products. They could give a rat’ s rump about your health. All they care about is their bottom line—not your bottom, or any other part
of you except your wallet. So they say whatever they need to say within the
bounds of the law. RULE 2
Read the nutritional information box as well as the ingr edients list of
every pr oduct. Checking the facts is the only way to know what you are really putting
into your mouth. LET’S RETURN TO RULE 1  with some tips to make it easy to follow. First, let’ s look at several examples of typical claims made on the outside
of a package, box, or container; and learn how to decipher them. 2 Per cent (or  1 Per cent) Fat
A product’ s fat content is most accurately reflected using calories to
determine the amount of fat. However, many companies use weight instead
of calories. This spin factor can make a product appear to be 1 or 2 percent
fat when in actuality it is 30, 40, 50 percent, or even more. Comparisons based upon calories are much more relevant because our
diet is based upon calories rather than weight—what nutritionist or scientist
ever said, “Y ou must eat at least eight pounds of food every day”? Be very leery of products that claim to be 1 or 2 percent fat. Double-
check by reading the nutritional label and determine the percentage of
calories derived from fat. For example, let’ s figure out the amount of fat in an eight-ounce glass of
“2 percent” milk. The number of calories per serving is 120. The number of
fat calories per serving is 45. If you do the math, this comes out to 37.5percent fat. A far cry from the 2 percent most people think they are
drinking! In case you’re curious, 1 percent milk is about 25 percent fat, and
regular whole milk is about 51 percent fat. That’ s the utter truth! Here’ s the rule of thumb: To find the percentage of calories from fat in a
product, first find the number of calories per serving. Then locate the
calories from fat per serving. Next find the grams of fat. To make the math easy, multiply 10 by the
number of fat grams (a measurement of weight). This gives you the number
of calories in each serving from fat. Lastly, divide fat calories by total
calories to get the percentage fat per serving. Fat Fr ee or  Nonfat
Did you know there are products in your house that are all fat, and
nothing but fat, but are allowed to be labeled as nonfat? Namely, cooking
sprays such as Pam. The manufacturer can label it this way because of serving size. The Food
and Drug Administration allows any food with less than one-half a gram of
fat per serving to call itself “fat free.” This food industry trick is used to
create all kinds of misleading labels. In the case of cooking spray, the manufacturers shrink the serving size
down until there is less than one-half of one gram of fat per serving of theproduct (creating 702 servings per container). A serving that small is the
equivalent of holding down the sprayer for one-third of one second! That’ s
right—one-third of one second, which is physically impossible unless you
have the lightning-fast reflexes of Bruce Lee. Zero Trans Fat
Several food companies attempt to pull the wool over our eyes by
making this wonderful-sounding claim in big, bold letters on the front of
their packages. However, if you delve deeper by reading the ingredients list,
about halfway down you’ll often find hydrogenated oils hiding. (These
produce trans fats, which I’ll talk more about on page 1 16.) For example, Mission Tortilla Plus makes a good-looking wrap that
advertises itself as having 0 trans fat (per serving). Turn the package over,
and you’ll see partially hydrogenated soybean oil (a source of trans fat)
staring up at you, blushing. The claim takes advantage of that same FDA
rule that allows food with fat to fib about itself. Multigrain, Cracked Wheat,
Seven-Grain, Stone-Gr ound,
100 Per cent Wheat, Enriched Flour,
Unbleached, Semolina,
or Even Whole Grain BlendSome of these claims can be genuine, but far too often they’re not. Here’ s how to tell: A cracker, bread, or pasta is not really whole grain unless
the first ingredient listed is “whole” followed by the type of grain. For
example, whole oats, whole rye, whole wheat, whole semolina, or whole
durum wheat. The following are not whole grain products: semolina, durum, durum
wheat, enriched durum wheat, bleached flour, unbleached flour, wheat flour,
enriched wheat flour, and unbleached enriched wheat flour.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        The results: “On average, people who remained free from any form of
dementia had consumed higher amounts of beta-carotene, vitamin C,vitamin E and vegetables than the people in the study who developed
Alzheimer ’s disease. ”
The researchers also noted that two risk factors for Alzheimer ’s, family
history and a genetic marker, did not alter their findings. High consumption
of vegetables appeared to of fset the other known risk factors for
Alzheimer ’


 observing silence, and minimizing sensory
experiences, you  access your inner world. Repeated journeys to your inner
world create a pathway to enlightenment. The colo rs we attribute to the crown chakra are violet and w hite. No
earth ele ments represent the seventh chakra, as it’ s a chakra of physical
plane transcendence. The mantr a, or bija (seed) sound, we vocalize for the
seventh chakra is OM. Seventh Chakra Ailments
Diseases and disorders of the se venth chakra include depression, alienation,
confusion, bored om, apathy, spiritual skepticism, and inability  to learn or
comprehend. An out-of-balance crown chakra can also lead to b eing overly
intellectual or feeling spiritually elite or superior. Seventh Chakra Energy
People who reach seventh chak ra ener gy have achieved what is known in
Sanskrit as guru darshana. They see and channel messages from the Divine
and are able to t ransmit those messages to others and become  dispellers of
darkness. They bring enlightenment to others through their wisdom and
healing. The ener gy they receive is pure and unadulterated. Gurus, or spiritual teachers, who  have attained guru darshana ha ve little
ego. Th ey have  overcome the confines of their egos, so seekers in their
presence experi ence only peace, love, and compassion. The persona we
typically extend  outward to others with our own ego disso lves in the
presence of guru darshana. Therefore seekers can experience spontaneous
healing, liberation from past karma, and release when they are with gurus. The pers on livin g in the ener gy of Sahaswara receives a clear channel of
divine knowledge. People livin g at lower levels of consciousness seek
answers from others. They look  for other people’ s opinions a nd, in some
cases, other people’ s approval. Confusion arises as they keep  asking andgetting c onflicting advice. In the end, they don’ t know whom  to trust or
whom to follow. Has this ever happened to you. Y ou spend a lifetime seeking outside yourself for the answers when the
entire tim e the answers were always inside you. They aren’ t lurking around
your intellect or your ego but rather are in your heart and soul. It’ s that
inner knowing that tells you the right answers. Naysayers will try to dissuade you. People will tell you you’re crazy. But wh ile you r choices and answers might be unconventional and
sometimes wacky, you will know what is right for you. W ith confidence
you will be able to say to others, “I don’ t know how I know. I just know. ”
Our Societal Relationship with the Seventh Chakra
W e live in a society of nonbelievers. I understand the boldness in that
statement, but it’ s true. W e are a society that wants desperately to believe. Look at all the fantasy movies being produced. Is it any wonder that the
Harry P otter ser ies is still one of the bestselling book series today. As a
society we want to believe in m agic, superpowers, and transce ndence. Y et
we don’ t. If I were to tell you that I have levitated, would you believe me. W ell,
since you are reading a book on the chakras, you might b elieve me. However, if I w ere to tell your brother, sister, mom, dad, or best friend,
would they believe me. Probably not. Y et I have. But I don’ t share that with
just any one, bec ause they either may not take me seriously or they may
have me locked up. It is my experience that when you suspend your
disbelief long enough to understand that levitation, instant manifestation, or
talking to angels is possible, a world of possibilities opens up to you. I p ractic e and use not only A yurvedic medicine but also hom eopathic
medicine. My eldest child, wh o truly is one of my greatest teachers in
patience, said to me with convic tion the other day, “Y ou know, homeopathy
isn’ t real. It’ s jus t a placebo ef fe ct. ” My eyes opened wide at this statement. “Oh, really,” I answered. This same child was healed of many ailments as
he grew up on homeopathic medicine. “So,” I continued, “you mean to tell
me that when homeopathy is used on babies, small children, and animals, it
has a placebo ef fect. They can have no psychophysical response to
homeopathy because they’re unaware. ”My darl ing chil d is a single representation of society as a whole. W e
have ab andoned intuition and knowledge of the earth’ s gifts in pursuit of
hard-core scientific fact. If it’ s n ot proven, we don’ t believe it. Y et there is
so little we kno w scientifically. In this great big universe, we’ve barely
scratched the surface. So w hat are yo u to do with seventh chakra awareness as you live in
society. The answer: just be who you are. Once you reach sev enth chakra
consciousness, y ou feel no nee d to prove or defend who you are. Y our
knowingness transcends any de sire to convince or persuade others. Y our
light is enough to heal others and bring them to you. As for  those who
aren’ t ready. Y ou have loving co mpassion, an understanding for  where they
are o n th eir journey, and a simple knowingness that the world is perfect as it
is. Living Life in the Sahaswara Chakra
Few people live in the seventh state of consciousness on a daily basis,
because doing so requires transcending the ego. The people who have
succeeded at this include Jesus, Saint Francis of Assisi, Mother T eresa,
Mahatma Gandh i, and Nelson Mandela. I also include Amma, t he modern-
day saint whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting three times and whom I
wrote about in the chapter on the Anahata chakra. My expe rience w ith Amma was one that reflects being in the presence
of a person who is living in the highest state of consciousness. T wo years
ago I was waiting to get my hug from Amma. In order to get a hug from
her, you must go early in the day and get a number. Y ou then wait your turn
to li ne up. When it’ s time, you enter a line where you sit in a ro w of chairs
and move up in the chair line until you are next to her. I was ab out 150 feet
from the  stage where she was sitting, and I felt an ener gy I had n ever before
experienced. Th ere was minimal noise in the room, just a low-g rade hum of
people talking. Spiritual music was playing in the background from a CD,
so I knew the vi brations weren’ t from the music. At that distance from her,
my c hair was vibrating. It felt as if I were entering a dif ferent ener gy field. T o b e honest, it was the strangest sensation I have ever felt. From that point
forward, as I approached the st age, I stayed in this vibrationa l frequency,
which only got stronger. Another time I got a hug from Amma, I had a strong but d if ferent
experience. I didn’ t feel the vibrations, but as I approached the stage and
waited for my hug with just a couple of people ahead of me,  I began to
spontaneously c ry. It wasn’ t a normal cry but sobs. Moments before, I had
felt nothing in particular. I wa sn’ t sad, happy, or stressed. My thoughts
weren’ t on anything in particula r. I just started crying. A good friend, who
had spent time i n Amma’ s ashram in India, explained that when  you are in
the p resence of a being who is living at seventh chakra consciousness, your
ener gy i s cleared just by being near them. Crying was a release, a letting go
of negative ener gy, and some healing occurred. The pow er of healing is another ability shared by those living in  seventh
chakra consciou sness. All who live in the ener gy of Sahaswara have the
power to heal. Light emanates  from their bodies, and often people are
healed just by coming into the ir presence. Many stories in th e Christian
scriptures depict  Jesus healing the sick, but one story in particular tells of a
woman who has a bleeding disorder. She intuitively knows tha t if she can
just touch the cloak of Jesus, she will be healed. And sure enough, when she
does, she is indeed healed. Recognizing Seventh Chakra Imbalances
Imbalances in the seventh chakra can lead to strong limitations. Remember
that eac h chakra has its positive and negative aspects, and the highest
chakra i s no dif ferent. Although  you are an unlimited being, you are bound
in this life by your physical bod y and the human experience. A nd in each
stage of spiritual growth, there can be setbacks. One setb ack of seventh chakra growth is spiritual elit


; they lead to blockages of the
inguinal nodes. In the same way these emotional blockages may also show up
as knots on the sides of the breast and under the bra line, affecting the heart
chakra and axillar y nodes. Emotional and mental stress and blockages mainly affect the energies
and vibrations of the sacral, heart and throat chakras. Prolonged stress
affecting the energies of these chakras may cause sluggishness and congestion
of lymphatic flow in the inguinal, axillary and sub-mandib ular region. Congestion in inguinal nodes may result in fluid retention and lower back
pain, and may also affect the reproductive organs and lead to menstrual
imbalances, uterine fibr oids, endometriosis and fertility issues.If a person has an inability to express emotions it can affect thyroid
function and lymph circulation in the sub-mandib ular area or the jaw line,
manifesting as congestion on the chin and face. This also affects the lymph
nodes in the front and back of the ears, resulting in problems such as tinnitus
(ringing of the ear s). The sacral chakra has a direct bearing on the heart chakra, since
emotional issues also involve the heart and can affect lymph circulation in
that area. Blockages of the axillary lymph nodes in the underarms may cause
swelling or lumps in the area and lymphatic congestion in the chest area,
leading to mastalgia, fibrocystic breast conditions or even breast cancer. This
aspect of health and the process of disease needs more research and
investigation, which may give us insight into the unexplained causes of
various health pr oblems including cancer. OceanofPDF.com6
Chakra aspects and sym bols
Tantra and eastern yogic systems describe the presence of seven major
chakras between the head and up to the base of the torso that correspond to
the major nerve plexuses in the body, while also acknowledging the presence
of varying numbers of minor chakras all over the body. This part of the body
houses our major organs and glands, and the energy metabolism of these
organs and glands is responsible for chakra formation. Each of the major chakras has two aspects: one on the front of the body,
the ventral aspect, and its counterpart on the back of the body, the dorsal
aspect. These can be considered as the front and rear aspects of the chakras,
and are known as vortices (openings). The muladhara (base root) chakra and
the sahasrara (crown) chakra — the first at the bottom and the last at the
crown — have just one funnel-like opening; they are termed single-vortex
chakras. The other five chakras have front and back openings and are known
as double-vortice chakras. The front or ventral aspect of the chakras is related to feelings, while the
back or dorsal aspect is related to the will. Since the ventral aspect is
associated with feelings it is considered to be highly sensitive, therefore it is
recommended that healing work is performed from the dorsal side of a
client. Self-healing can, however, be done from the front. It is also interesting
to note that at the lower part of the body the muladhara and swadhisthana
chakras are connected a t a T-junction, as ar e the ajna and sahasrara c hakras. In tantra symbolog y, each of the chakras is associated with a symbol that
depicts different aspects and has a spiritual r elevance:◼the number of petals of the lotus f lower
◼colour
◼animal
◼deity
◼yantra, or geometric shape
◼bija mantra. See Chapter 8  for the specific symbol of eac h chakra. In tantra practice each chakra has a specific number of petals denoting
the vibration frequency; the higher the number of petals the finer the
vibration. In Hindu spiritual practices the lotus flower is highly revered and
is used with most of the deities. The lotus plant is considered to be the best
example of spiritual ascension since the plant grows in mud, symbolising
tamas or ignorance; moves up through water, symbolising rajas or endeavour
and aspiration; and eventually reaches out of the water and blooms under
the light of the sun, symbolising sattva or illumination. Thus the lotus
symbolises the evolution of man from the lowest state of awareness (tamas) to
the highest sta te of consciousness (sa ttva). Ancient sages envisioned the chakras as moving energy centres and
assigned particular colours to each one. In their 1988 research, Dr Valerie
Hunt and associates stated that the chakras frequently follow the same colour
patterns as mentioned in tantric and metaph ysical litera ture (see Chapter 2 ). In the chakra system animals are an objective representation symbolising
the psychological meaning of the individual chakra. For instance, in
muladhara the elephant represents stability and memory of previous births. In astrology animals are assigned to various zodiac signs, and Chinese
astrology is also based on animal symbols. Certain chakra healers alsorecommend visualisation of the animals and colours associated with each
chakra to dra w in the healing vibra tions for that chakra. Hindu deities are also assigned to various chakras; they represent the
energy vibrations resonating with a particular chakra. For example, the
elephant god Ganesha is the ruling deity of muladhara, as he represents
Earth energy. Ancient sages recommended praying to him at the beginning
of any religious or spiritual ritual, which is still practised, to help remove
obstacles in the ritual as well as in life. Even the deity’s energy can be drawn
upon by praying to the yantra (sacred geometry drawn according to the
vibrations of the deity). However, the best yantra to pray with is shri yantra,
which has nine inter laced triang les of yin and y ang with a point in the centr e;
this is the point of connection with higher consciousness. Meditating on shri
yantra is recommended, keeping the focus on this point to establish a
connection with higher consciousness. A bija or seed mantra is a single-syllable sound. ‘Bija’ means ‘seed’, and
like tiny seeds they have all the wisdom of a tree. A bija mantra contains
spiritual wisdom; it is the creative force and has the vibrations of a whole
verse (mantra). Each chakra is assigned to a particular bija mantra such as
‘lam’, ‘vam’, ‘ram’, ‘yam’, ‘hum’ or ‘aum/om’. The primordial sound of the
universe, aum has three letters. Chanting ‘a-u-m’ generates two vibrations;
the first aspect in the beginning  produces the sound of ‘aa’, which can be
prolonged as ‘aa … uuuu … nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...’ and ending ‘m’,
which marks the culmination. After that the mouth closes. Chanting ‘aum’
regularly leads us to a medita tive state. During a chakra meditation it is recommended we chant a bija mantra
while keeping focus on the associated chakra, then move our breath
vibrations and energy to the respective chakra point. For detailed guidance
on chakra medita tion see Chapter 9.Each of the chakras is depicted as a set of lotus petals; for example, the
muladhara (base root) chakra is depicted as a four-petalled lotus, the
swadhisthana (sacral) chakra is depicted as a six-petalled lotus and so on. A
Sanskrit letter is depicted on each of the petals and is associated with the
particular chakra. The Sanskrit language has 50 letters, each of which is
inscribed on each petal of the chakra from the root to the third eye chakra. The last four letters of the alphabet are inscribed on the four petals of the
root chakra. OceanofPDF.com7
Chakra numbers and planets
When a child is conceived in its mother’s womb and starts growing from a
unicellular being to a multicellular one, the first organ to develop is the brain
and particular ly the hypothalam us. At this stage the sahasrara (crown) chakra
opens. The crown chakra is our connection to higher consciousness, and
with its opening our individual consciousness flows in. This consciousness
comes with the complete blueprint of the child to come in this material
world. According to Hindu philosophy this blueprint is based on our past-life
karma and carries information about our destiny in this lifetime. An
astrologer deciphers this blueprint by understanding planetary positions at
the time of birth. Palmists read the lines on the palm, numerologists calculate
birth/life numbers and psychics use their intuition. All these tools and
methods are used to read the map of consciousness, which also proves that
the universe and our psyche are not random or chaotic but that there is a
certain or der and structur e to them. There are hidden numerical patterns that serve as keys for unlocking the
secrets of the psyche. According to numerology, each number is associated
with a particular planet and planetary influences affect our life and also the
chakras. While exploring the fundamentals


 didn’t y away. ” I asked. “It’s
because you were truly quiet. You were carrying around your inner
silence and projecting it. You may not notice yourself doing it,
because you may think that a silent mind shouldn’t be able to think. You can think and be silent at the same time. They are two dierent
levels of yourself. The thinking mind goes on, yet the silence
remains. ”
What Karin had experienced  was a small window of quietness. I
told her that the world seen through that window is very dierent
from the one we are used to. Far from radiating silence, most of us
radiate hysteria, reecting the mental turmoil inside. When that
inner turmoil subsides, it leaves a space for change to begin. “Your
mind is quiet by nature,” I said, “but you have to settle down to
realize this. Everything sorts itself out correctly and spontaneously
once you become quiet. In the light of calm, steady self-awareness, a
feeling of wholeness will wake up inside you. This wholeness is not
a thoug ht of any kind; it is simply your own mind, empty of thought
but full of you. You do not have to do anything to reach this state;
the process is eortless. You do not even have to consciously let go. A quiet mind is all you need. ”
This, the secon d time I talked with Karin, was also the last. Her
week-long stay at the clinic had only a couple more days to go. We
had been alone in each other’s company for less than two hours, yet
I felt close to her. She has staked so much on being true to herself. Just before we said good-bye, she seemed ready for the rst time to
talk about her future—I mean the possibility that she actually has
one and is not going to waste her life protesting the present or
mourning the past. “I came here to nd out if there was a way to go
back to what I’ve lost, even though my mind already told me there
wasn’t. I have to go on,” she said. “Wouldn’t it be too sad to exist on a memory.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What was the experience that Mark Rutherford had in the woods, and how did it change him?,
A: Mark Rutherford had an experience where he felt a transformation of himself and the world, as if he was no longer separate from the tree he was observing. This experience changed him, allowing him to see the world in a new light.
Q: What was Karin's initial reluctance to participate in the experiment, and how did she respond after it?,
A: Karin was initially reluctant to participate in the experiment, but after it, she looked more cheerful and outgoing. She reported that she had gained a new perspective on her life and was no longer consumed by her anxiety.
Q: What did the rishis believe, and how did they approach their perception of the world?,
A: The rishis believed that the world is not as it appears to be, and that our perception of it is shaped by our own minds. They did not see the world as a fixed, solid entity, but rather as a dynamic, ever-changing process.
Q: What did Stan, the musician, experience, and how did it affect him?,
A: Stan, the musician, experienced a loss of his creative ability and a sense of disconnection from his art. He felt like he had lost his purpose and was struggling to come to terms with his new reality.
Q: What did Evelyn Silvers, a therapist, do with her patients, and what were the results?,
A: Evelyn Silvers used a technique where she guided her patients to imagine they were creating their own endorphins, and the results showed that the patients were able to overcome their addiction and feel a sense of freedom and fulfillment.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>It accompanied my steps to the very door of
the grocery, and if this was not strange enough, when I came out
fteen minute s later, it reappeared and followed me home again. What was I to think?”
Before I could respond, he rushed on. “No, wait. The next day I
went downtown to buy a portable typewriter, only to nd that the
price had gone up by twenty dollars since I had called in the
morning. I objected to the clerk and the store manager, but to noavail. Feeling intensely irrita ted, I bought the typewriter anyway, so
as not to waste the trip, and when I stepped outside the door, do
you know what was there?”
“A patch of sunlight,” I ventured. “A twenty-dollar bill, right at my feet!” Sidney proclaimed,
ignoring me. “Insignicant as these incidents may sound, I began to
feel increasingly funny about them.”
“Funny?”
“Yes—there was a certain tone to these incidents that I would
have to call playful, as if I was being shown a particularly amusing
trick by a clever child—no, by an intelligence I could n’t see or
contact. But let me go on. A week later I was riding alone in the car. It was after dark, and I was in the country, coming back from a
house I had never visited before. One winding rural road led to
another, and after half an hour I admitted to myself that I was
hopelessly lost. “The few houses I passed were all dark and I began to feel
anxious, when all at once my awareness was no longer inside my
head—it reach ed out in front of me, about the length of the car’s
headlights. Just as I noticed this phenomenon, a further expansion
took place, and my awarene ss now pooled out in all directions. It
was a very delicate feeling. How can I possibly describe it? I was
simply everywhere, and without thinking about it, I gave up driving
my car. I still held the wheel and pushed the pedals, but the feeling
of conscious eort was gone. I became this pool of awareness
gliding through the night, not caring where I was bound. “I arrived at crossroads and turned this way or that, apparently at
random, yet in ten minutes I came out onto the highway at precisely
the turno that led back home.”
“Would you call that an experience of your soul?” I asked
quizzically. “If the soul is our portion of an invisible world, then perhaps I
was projecting myself into the territory of the soul. My invisible
extension was alive, and it was undoubtedly me. Everything felt
vibrant in its presence—the car, the land, the sky. A scrap of verse
comes to mind—where’s it from? ‘The stars are wide and alive, theyseem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very
near.’ ”
“How do you feel now?”
“Not like that anymore. There’s been a change, a ripening. I
continue to be intensely conscious all the time, and as the days go
by, there is a sporadic ecstasy that comes over me. In those
moments, the quality of my life becomes sacred. Pardon me for
sounding so awkward; I am new at speaking like this.”
“I’m happy for you,” I said, and added, “You still seem like
yourself, if that is a worry. You’ve always known a lot about
yourself, and I’m not surprised that you are getting to know even
more.”
He gave me a grateful look. “I want to tell you about a very
unusual occurrence. Are you bothered by the idea of miracles?”
“I’m not sure. You implied something in that vein already, didn’t
you?”
“Yes, but you’ve looked into this area yourself?”
“I don’t  seek it out, but stories seem to come my way. I’ve met
people who tell me in all condence that they used to y as
children. They oated down the staircase when no one else was at
home and left their dolls on top of tall wardrobes, which mystied
their parents. Then one day they told Mommy their secret, only to
be assured that ying was impossible. After that, the ability
disappeared. “Of course ying is a very extraordinary claim,” I said, “but quite
a lot of people seem to irt with unusual powers. They can visualize
lost objects and go right to them if they really need to. They answer
other people’s thoughts befor e they are spoken. In a haphazard way,
most of us can foretell the future, although our correct predictions
remain mixed up with assorted projections from our unconscious
minds, wish fulllments and false premonitions. I wouldn’t feel
comfortable saying where ordinary life leaves o and miracles
begin.”
Sidney seemed relieved, but when he started speaking again, it
was with marked hesitancy. “My nights have been sleepless
recently, not from anxiety but because I seem to be—w hat shall Isay?—lled with light. The pressure of ecstasy makes me get up and
walk around restlessly; some times I put on my coat and go out into
the street. Would you believe it, I dance to the moon! I was in this
heightened state one night when I ran across a bedraggled woman
lying on the sidewalk near my home. She was asleep,


 had no unsig htly knobs remaining on either her
knuckles or knees and she could walk and move her fingers without pain within a normal range of movement. The big payoff for
me besides seeing her look so wonderful (20 years younger and 20 pounds lighter) was to hear her  sit down and treat us to a
Beethoven recital. And her blood pressure was 130 over 90. Breast Cancer
    I have worked with many young women with breast cancer; so many in fact, that their faces and cases tend to blur. But
whenever I think about them, Kel ly inevitably comes to mind because we became such good friends. Like me, Kelly was an
independent -minded back country Canuck. At the age 26, she received a medical diagnosis of breast cancer. Kelly had already
permitted a lumpectomy and biopsy, but had st udied the statistical outcomes and did not want to treat her illness with radical
mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy because she knew her odds of long -term survival without radical medical treatment were
equal to or better than allowing the doctors to do everything possible. Nor did she want to lose even one of her breasts. She knew
how useful her breasts were because she had already suckled one child, not to mention their contribution to one's own self -image
as a whole person. I admired Kelly's unusual  independent -mindedness because she comes from a country where universal health
coverage is in place; her insurance would have paid all the costs had she been willing to accept conventional medicine, but
Canadian national health insurance does not cover al ternative therapy. Kelly stayed with me for nearly two months as a residential faster, because she needed to be far from the distractions of a
troubled family life. With financial support from her parents and child -care from her friends she was able to  take time out to give
the recovery of health top priority in her life without worrying about whether her small son was being well cared for. This p eace of
mind was also very important to her recovery. Analysis with biokinesiology showed a pervasively weak immune system, including a weak thymus gland, spleen, and an
overloaded lymphatic system. Her liver was weak, but not as weak as it might have been, because she had become a vegetarian,
and had been working on her health in a haphazard fashion for a f ew years. Kelly's body also showed weaknesses in pancreatic and
adrenal function as well as a toxic colon. Most immediately worrisome to her, biokinesiology testing showed several over -strong
testing lumpy areas in the breasts and over -strong testing lumpy  lymph nodes in the armpits. Cancerous tumors always test overly
strong
    Kelly's earlier life -style had contributed to her condition in several ways. She had worked for years in a forestry tree nursery
handling seedling trees treated with highly toxic c hemicals. She had worked as a cook in a logging camp for several seasons,
eating too much meat and greasy food. And she had also spent the usual number of adolescent and young adult years deeply
involved in recreational drug use and the bad diet that went with it. Kelly started right in on a rigorous water fast that lasted for one entire month. She had a colonic every day, plus body work
including reflexology, holding and massage of neurolymphatic and neurovascular points, and stimulation of acupunctur e points
related to weak organ systems and general massage to stimulate overall circulation and lymphatic drainage. She took
protomorphogens to help rebuild her weakened organs; she took ten grams of vitamin C every day and a half -dose of life extension
vitamin mix in assimilable powdered form; she drank herbal teas of echinacea and fenugreek seeds and several ounces of freshly
squeezed wheat grass juice every day. Twice each day she made poultices out of clay and the pulp left over from making her wh eat
grass juice, filled an old bra with this mixture and pressed it to her breast for several hours until the clay dried. Shortly, I will
explain all the measures in some detail. These physical therapies were accompanied by counseling sessions dealing with s ome severe and long -unresolved problems,
response patterns and relationships that triggered her present illness. Her son's father (Kelly's ex) was suppressive and hig hly
intimidating. Fearful of him, Kelly seemed unable to successfully extricate herself fr om the relationship due to the ongoing contact
which revolved over visitation and care of their son. But Kelly had grit. While fasting, she confronted these tough issues in  her life
and unflinchingly made the necessary decisions. When she returned to Canad a she absolutely decided, without any nagging
doubts, reservations or qualifications, to make any changes necessary to ensure her survival. Only after having made these ha rd
choices could she heal. I one respect, Kelly was a highly unusual faster. Thro ughout the entire month on water, Kelly took daily long walks, frequently
stopping to lie down and rest in the sun on the way. She would climb to or from the top of a very large and steep hill nearby. She
never missed a day, rain or shine. At the end of her month on water Kelly's remaining breast lumps had disappeared, the lymphatic system and immune system
tested strong, as well as the liver, pancreas, adrenals, and large intestine. No areas tested overly strong. She broke the fast with the same discipline she had conducted it, on carrot juice, a cup every two hours. After three days on
juice she began a raw food diet with small servings of greens and sprouts well chewed, interspersed at two hour intervals wit h
fresh juicy fruits. After about ten days on "rabbit food," she eased into avocados, cooked vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains
and then went home. As I write this, it is eight years since Kelly's long fast. She still comes to see me every few years to check out her diet a nd just
say hello. She has had two more children by a new, and thoroughly wonderful husband and suckled them both for two years each;
her peaceful rural life centers around this new, happy family and the big, Organic garden she grows. She religiously takes he r life
extension vitamins and keeps her dietary and life -style indiscretions small and infrequent. She is probably going to live a long,
time. I consider Kelly's cluster of organ weaknesses very typical of all cancers regardless of type or location, as well as being typical
of AIDS and other critical infections by organisms that usually reside in the human body without causing trouble (called
"opportunistic"). All these diseases are varieties of immune system failure. All of these conditions present a similar  pattern of
immune system weaknesses. They all center around what I call the "deadly triangle," comprised of a weak thymus gland, weak
spleen, and a weak liver. The thymus and spleen form the core of the body's immune system. The weak liver contributes to a
highly toxic system that further weakens the immune system. To top it off, people with cancer invariably have a poor ability to
digest cooked protein (animal or vegetable) (usually from a weak pancreas unable to make enough digestive enzymes) and eat to o
much of it, giving them a very toxic colon, and an overloaded lymphatic system. Whenever I analyze someone with this pattern, especially the entire deadly triangle, I let the person know that if I had thos e
particular weaknesses I would consider my s urvival to be at immediate risk I'd consider it an emergency situation demanding
vigorous attention. It does not matter if they don't yet have a tumor, or fibroid, or opportunistic infection; if they don't already have
something of that nature they soon wi ll. Here's yet another example of why I disapprove of diagnosis. By giving the condition a name like "lymphoma" or "melanoma",
"chronic fatigue syndrome" "Epstein -Barr syndrome" or "AIDS," "systemic yeast infection", "hepatitis" or what have, people t hink
the doctor then understands their disease. But the doctor rarely understands that all these seemingly different diseases are
essentially the same disease –a toxic body with a dysfunctional immune system. What is relevant is that a person with the deadl y
triangle must strengthen their immune system, and their pancreas, and their liver, and detoxify their body immediately. If th ese
repairs are accomplished in time, the condition goes away, whatever its Latin name may have been. Now, about some of the adjuncts to Kelly's healing. Let me stress here that had none of these substances or practices been us ed,
she probably still would have recovered. Perhaps a bit more slowly. Perhaps a bit less comfortably. Conversely, had Kelly t reated
her cancer with every herb, poultice and vitamin known to man but had neglected fasting and colonics, she might well have die d. It
has been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine differences, similarities,  and
importances. I want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment  and
useful supporting practices. Echinacea and chaparral leaves, red clover flowers, and fenugreek seeds are made into m edicinal teas that I find very helpful in
detoxification programs, because they all are aggressive blood or lymph cleansers and boost the immune response. These same
teas can be used to help the body throw off