ments. The	brain,	although	it	constitutes	only	one-fiftieth	of	the	body’s	weight,	contains	about
one-fifth	of	the	total	blood	volume	in	the	body. It	uses	up	vast	amounts	of	glucose. Gallstones	in	the	liver	drastically	reduce	glucose	supplies	to	the	brain	and	the	rest	of	the
nervous	system. This,	in	turn,	can	affect	the	performance	of	the	organs,	senses,	and	mind. At	the	early	stages	of	imbalance,	a	person	may	develop	food	cravings,	particularly	for
sweet	or	starchy	foods,	and	experience	frequent	mood	swings	or	emotional	stress. There	are	other,	even	more	serious	problems	arising	from	the	occurrence	of	gallstones
in	the	liver. The	liver	forms	the	plasma	proteins	and	most	of	the	blood-clotting	factors
from	the	body’s	amino	acid	pool. Occurrence	of	gallstones	in	the	bile	ducts	of	the	liver
increasingly	inhibits	this	important	function. When	the	production	of	clotting	factors
drops,	platelet	count	drops,	too,	and	there	may	be	spontaneous	capillary	bleeding	or
hemorrhagic	disease. If	a	hemorrhage	occurs	in	the	brain,	it	may	cause	destruction	of
brain	tissue,	paralysis,	or	death. The	severity	of	the	bleeding	may	be	determined	by	such
variable	triggers	as	hypertension	and	alcohol	abuse. Platelet	counts	also	drop	when	the
production	of	new	cells	does	not	keep	pace	with	the	destruction	of	damaged	or	worn-out
cells;	this	occurs	when	gallstones	cut	off	the	blood	supply	to	the	liver	cells. Vitamin	K	is	another	element	essential	for	the	synthesis	of	major	clotting	factors. It	is	a
fat-soluble	vitamin	stored	in	the	liver. To	absorb	fats	in	the	intestines,	the	body	requires
bile	salts	that	are	made	available	through	bile	secretions. Gallstones	in	the	liver	and
gallbladder	obstruct	bile	flow,	which	leads	to	inadequate	fat	absorption	and	subsequent
vitamin	K	deficiency. As	discussed	earlier,	gallstones	in	the	liver	can	lead	to	disorders	of	the	vascular	system. When	the	blood	undergoes	changes	and	becomes	too	thick,	blood	vessels	begin	to	harden
and	become	damaged. If	a	blood	clot	forms	in	an	injured	artery,	a	piece	of	that	blood	clot
(
embolus
)	may	lodge	in	a	small	artery	distant	from	the	injury	and	obstruct	the	blood	flow,
causing
ischemia
	and
infarction. If	the	infarction	occurs	in	a	brain	artery,	it	is	called	a
stroke. All	circulatory	disturbances	affect	the	brain	and	the	rest	of	the	nervous	system. The
disruption	of	liver	functions	particularly	affects
atrocytes
—cells	that	form	the	mainsupporting	tissue	of	the	central	nervous	system. This	condition	is	characterized	by	apathy,
disorientation,	brain	fog,	delirium,	muscular	rigidity,	and	coma. Nitrogenous	bacterial
waste	absorbed	from	the	colon,	unless	detoxified	by	the	liver,	may	reach	the	brain	cells	via
the	blood. Other	metabolic	waste	products,	such	as	ammonia,	may	reach	toxic
concentrations	and	change	the	permeability	of	the	blood	vessels	in	the	brain,	thus	reducing
the	effectiveness	of	the	blood-brain	barrier. This	may	permit	various	noxious	substances	to
enter	the	brain	and	cause	further	damage. If	a	large	number	of	neurons	of	the	brain	no
longer	receive	enough	nourishment,	there	is	atrophy	of	neural	tissue,	which	leads	to
dementia
	or
Alzheimer’s	disease. When	a	certain	class	of	neurons	that	are	responsible	for
producing	the	brain	hormone	and	neurotransmitter
dopamine
	suffer	malnourishment,
Parkinson’s	disease
	results. Repeated	exposure	to	certain	environmental	or	internally
produced	toxins	can	also	be	responsible. Multiple	sclerosis	(MS)
	occurs	when	the	cells	that	produce
myelin
	(a	sheath	of	fatty
material	that	surrounds	most	axons	of	nerve	cells)	suffer	malnutrition	and	insufficient
lymph	drainage. The	myelin	sheath	diminishes,	and	axons	become	injured. MS	patients
always	suffer	from	progressive	congestion	in	the	large	intestine;	this	prevents	proper
nutrient	absorption. Cleansing	the	eliminative	organs	and	improving	nutrition	are	among
the	most	powerful	ways	to	halt	and	possibly	reverse	MS. The	liver	controls	the	digestion,	absorption,	and	metabolism	of	fatty	substances
throughout	the	body. Gallstones	interfere	with	fat	metabolism	and	affect	cholesterol	levels
in	the	blood. Cholesterol	is	an	essential	building	block	of	all	our	body	cells	and	is	needed
for	every	metabolic	process. Our	brains	consist	of	more	than	10	percent	pure	cholesterol
(all	water	removed). Cholesterol	is	important	for	brain	development	and	brain	function. It
protects	the	nerves	against	damage	or	injury. An	imbalance	of	blood	fats	can	profoundly
affect	the	nervous	system	and,	thereby,	cause	almost	any	type	of	illness	in	the	body. Removing	gallstones	from	the	liver	and	gallbladder	increases	nutrient	supplies	to	all	the
cells,	thus	rejuvenating	the	nervous	system	and	improving	all	functions	in	the	body. Disorders	of	the	Bone

Although	bone	is	the	hardest	tissue	in	the	body,	it	is,	nevertheless,	very	much	alive. Human	bone	consists	of	20	percent	water;	30-40	percent	organic	material,	such	as	living
cells;	and	40-50	percent	inorganic	material,	such	as	calcium. Bone	tissue	contains	many
blood	and	lymph	vessels	and	nerves. The	cells	responsible	for	balanced	bone	growth	are
osteoblasts
	and
osteoclasts. Osteoblasts	are	the	bone-forming	cells,	whereas	osteoclasts
are	responsible	for	resorption	of	bone	to	maintain	optimum	shape. A	third	group	of	cells,
known	as
chondrocytes,
	are	in	charge	of	forming	cartilage. The	less	dense	parts	of	the
bone,	called
cancellous	bone,
	contain	red	bone	marrow,	which	produces	red	and	white
blood	cells. Most	bone	diseases	occur	when	bone	cells	no	longer	receive	enough	nourishment. Gallstones	in	the	liver	usually	lead	to	lymph	congestion	in	the	intestinal	tract	and,
consequently,	in	other	parts	of	the	body	(see
Disorders	of	the	Circulatory	System
). Good
bone	health	results	from	the	sustained	balance	between	the	functions	of	osteoblast	and
osteoclast	cells. This	delicate	balance	becomes	disturbed	when	nutrient	supply	is	deficient
and	thereby	slows	the	production	of	new	bone	tissue	by	osteoblasts. Osteoporosis
	results
when	the	amount	of	bone	tissue	is	reduced	because	the	growth	of	new	bone	does	not	keep
pace	with	the	destruction	of	old	bone. Cancellous
	bone	is	usually	affected	before
compact
bone
	is. Compact	bone	makes	up	the	outer	layer	of	the	bone. In	generalized	osteoporosis,	excessive	calcium	is	reabsorbed	from	bone,	thereby	raising
the	calcium	levels	of	blood	and	urine. This	may	predispose	a	person	to	form	stones	in	the
kidneys	and,	possibly,	suffer	renal	failure. Gallstones	in	the	liver	substantially	reduce	bile
production. Bile	is	essential	for	the	absorption	of	calcium	from	the	small	intestines. Even


 job interview. You want the
job very much, and someone might have suggested to you
that you should aﬃr m you’ll be getting the job, making that
your goal. But a miracle work er mak es peace our only goal. What that does is to dir ect the mind to focus on all the
factors that contribute to our peace, and leave everything
else out of our conscious consideration. The mind, lik e the
physical eye, is inundated with so many impr essions at one
time, that a built-in censor mechanism brings focus to our
perception. It chooses what we’ll notice and what we won’t.Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally
self-destructive. If our goal is to get the job, then that’s ﬁne
if we do, but if we don’t get the job, we’ll feel depr essed. If
we mak e peace our goal, then if we get the job, that’s gr eat,
but if we don’t, we’r e still peaceful. The Course tells us it’s important to set a goal at the
beginning of a situation, or it will seem to unfold chaotically. If our goal is peace, we’r e programmed for emotional
stability no matter what happens. The mind will have been
directed to see the situation fr om a peaceful perspective. If
we didn’t get the job we wanted, it won’t matter so much. We will truly understand that ther e’s something better
coming up soon, or that this wasn’t r eally the perfect job for
us anyway. We will have faith in God. The miracle is that we
will really feel our faith. It won’t just be positive goo thr own
over our pain. Our emotions ﬂow fr om our thoughts, and not
the other way ar ound. Another pr oblem with setting speciﬁc goals is that they
can be limiting. P erhaps we’r e asking for something good,
when God’s will was that we be given something gr eat. Our
looking over God’s shoulder only interfer es with His capacity
to mak e us happy. Once we truly understand that God’s will
is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for
anything other than that God’s will be done. Once when I was lecturing in New Y ork, a young man
stood up and ask ed me about aﬃr mations. A t that time,
“Hill Str eet Blues” was a popular T.V. show. He said, “I’ve
been writing down ﬁf ty times befor e I go to sleep at night, ‘I
have a r egular part on Hill Str eet Blues, I have a r egular part
on Hill Str eet Blues.’ Ar e you telling me I shouldn’t do that?”
I said, “Y ou can write those aﬃr mations ﬁf ty times befor e
you go to bed at night, and chances ar e good you’ll pull in apart on Hill Str eet Blues because the mind is very powerful. But for all you know, a year will pass, an important dir ector
will be wanting you for the lead in a major featur e ﬁlm, but
they won’t be able to get you because you’r e under contract
for a little part in Hill Str eet Blues!”
The issue underlying our need to tell God what to do is
our lack of trust. W e’re afraid to leave things in God’s hands
because we don’t know what He’ll do with them. W e’re
afraid He’ll lose our ﬁle. If we’r e going to set any goal, let us
set the goal of being healed of the belief that God is fear
instead of love. L et us r emember fr om the Course that “ our
happiness and our function ar e one.” If God is our goal,
that’s the same thing as saying that happiness is our goal. There’s no need to believe that God can’t ﬁgur e out the
details or pr ovide the ways to mak e it happen. 8. GOD’S PLAN
“Only God’s plan for salvation will work.”
Sometimes we car ry an attitude at work because we think
the job is beneath us, or we r esent the fact that other
people ar e the boss and we’r e not. W e’re in a hur ry to get to
the top of the heap. W e don’t r ealize that, as we spr ead
love, we climb naturally. Maybe not most quickly, but
remember the story of the tortoise and the har e. The
tortoise, although he walk ed slowly and steadily, r eached
the goal befor e the quick-footed har e.
“May God’s will be done” is the same thing as saying,
“May I become the best that I’m capable of being.” As we
grow in personal statur e, we gr ow into a mor e responsible
energy. People will want  to hir e us, to work with us. Our
progress will occur easily. Our success will be an eﬀortlessaccomplishment. Things will just happen. You can have a
great resume, but if you have a r otten personality, the going
will get r ough for you somewher e down the line. A good
resume can get you an important interview, but you won’t
get the job unless they lik e you. Much of today’s psychological orientation is brittle. It’s
brittle because everyone is trying so har d, and we’r e all
trying so har d because we think we have to. The way of
surrender is lik e letting God be the sculptor, and letting
ourselves be the clay. In the sculpting classes I took in high
school, we had to spray the clay with water each day or it
would get too dry to work with. That’s how we have to be for
God: malleable, lik e moist clay. If we’r e rigidly attached to
getting something, including getting things to work out the
way we think they should work out, we ar e not r elaxed. W e
then have very little r oom for spontaneous insights. We never r eally know why we’r e going someplace. I have
made what I thought wer e professional contacts that tur ned
out to be personal contacts, and vice versa. In God’s world,
there’s only one work going on, and that’s the pr eparation
of His teachers, those who demonstrate love. A ccording to
the Course, the Holy Spirit uses any situation given to Him
as a lesson in love for everyone involved. But we have to be
willing to give up our attachment to a particular outcome in
a given situation. W e might see a certain pr oject as a
vehicle for making money, for instance, and then feel
disappointed if it doesn’t. W e feel confused because we
thought we wer e following the Holy Spirit’s guidance in
making the eﬀort. But it could be that the r eal purpose of
that particular pr oject was not to mak e money at all. W e do
not always know at the time why the Holy Spirit dir ects us
as He does. The miracle work er’s function is mer ely to follow
instructions in a desir e to serve God. Our compensation,materially and emotionally, will ar rive in God’s own time and
way. One of the r easons we’r e always trying to contr ol the
results in life is because we think the universe, when lef t to
its own devices, is chaotic. But God is the ultimate or der. He
is the principle of constantly e xpanding love in action, in all
dimensions, for all life. His power is thor oughly impersonal. He doesn’t lik e some people mor e than others. He works lik e
a computer. Trusting God is lik e trusting gravity. These ar e important points to r emember :
1. God’s plan works. 2. Yours doesn’t. As stated by the Course, “I need add nothing to His plan. But to r eceive it, I must be willing not to sub stitute my own
in place of it. And that is all. A dd mor e, and you will mer ely
take away the little that is ask ed.” It’s not our job to ﬁgur e
out how to accomplish God’s purposes on earth. That’s not
help; it’s interfer ence. It is mer ely our job to so deeply align
our hearts and minds with His spirit within us, that our lives
then become involuntary instruments of His will. Insights
occur. Situations shif t gear. Our eﬀorts to consciously contr ol
the unfolding of good does not pr oduce good so much as it
brings forth a slightly less tainted brand of human
wilfullness. I have hear d it said that living out of our vision is mor e
powerful than living out of our cir cumstance. Holding on to a
vision invok es the cir cumstances by which the vision is
achieved. V ision is content; material cir cumstances mer e
form. I have a friend who is running for political oﬃce. Having been in politics for many years, his tendency is tothink that his political success depends on


hundred things that you will or may have to do at some future  time but
on the one thing  that you can do now. This doesn’ t mean you sh ould not
do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing yo u can do
now. But make sure you don’ t start to run “mental movies, ” project
yourself into the future, and so lose the Now. Any action you take may
not bear  fruit immediately. Unti l it does — do not resist what is. If there
is no action you can take, and you cannot remove yourself from the
situation either, then use the situation to make you go more de eply into
surrender, more deeply into the Now, more deeply into Being. When youenter this timeless dimension of the present, change often comes  about in
strange w ays without the need fo r a great deal of doing on your part. Life
becomes helpful and cooperative. If inner factors such as fear,  guilt, or
inertia prevented you from taking action, they will dissolve in the light of
your conscious presence. Do not confuse surrender with an attitude of “I can’ t be bothered
anymore” or “I just don’ t care anymore.” If you look at it clo sely, you
will find that such an attitude is tainted with negativity in the  form of
hidden resentme nt and so is not surrender at all but masked resistance. As you surrende r, direct your a ttention inward to check if the re is any
trace of resistance left inside you. Be very alert when you do so;
otherwise, a pocket of resistance may continue to hide in some dark
corner in the form of a thought or an unacknowledged emotion. FROM MIND ENERGY T O SPIRITUAL ENERGY
Letting go of r esistance is easie r said than done. I still don’ t see clearly
how to let go. If you say it is by surr endering, the question r emains:
“How?”

Start by acknowledging that there is  resistance. Be  the re when it
happens, when the resistance ar ises. Observe how your mind c reates it,
how it labels t he situation, yourself, or others. Look at the  thought
process involve d. Feel the ener gy of th e emotion. By witnessing  the
resistance, you will see that it s erves no purpose. By focusing all your
attention on the Now, the uncon scious resistance is made conscious, and
that is the end o f it. Y ou canno t be conscious and  unhappy, conscious
and  in nega tivity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suf fering in whatever form
means that there is resistance, and resistance is always unconscious. Sur ely I can be conscious of my unhappy feelings? W ould y ou cho ose unhappiness? If you did not choose it, ho w did it
arise? W hat is its purpose? Who  is keeping it alive? Y ou say tha t you are
conscious of your unhappy feelings, but the truth is that you are
identified with them and keep the process alive through co mpulsive
thinking. All that  is unconscious. If you were conscious, that is to say
totally present in the Now, all ne gativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. It can only survive in your
absence. Even the pain-body ca nnot survive for long in your presence. Y ou kee p your unhappiness aliv e by giving it time. That is its lifeblood. Remove time through intense pr esent-moment awareness and it dies. But
do you want it to die? Have yo u truly had enough? Who would you be
without it? Until yo u practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you
read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about,
believe in — or don’ t, as the case may be. It makes no dif ference. Not
until you surrender does it becom e a living reality in your life. W hen you
do, the ener gy t hat you emanate and which then runs your life is of a
much hi gher vibrational freque ncy than the mind ener gy that still runs
our world — th e ener gy that created the existing social, political, and
economic structures of our civilization, and which also continuously
perpetuates itself through our educational systems and the media. Through surrend er, spiritual ener gy comes into this world. It c reates no
suf fering for yourself, for other humans, or any other life form on the
planet. U nlike mind ener gy, it does not pollute the earth, and it is not
subject to the law of polarities, which dictates that nothing can exist
without its opposite, that there can be no good without bad. Th ose who
run on mind e ner gy, which is still the vast majority of the  Earth’ s
population, rem ain unaware of the existence of spiritual ener gy. It
belongs to a dif ferent order of reality and will create a dif ferent world
when a suf ficien t number of humans enter the surrendered sta te and so
become totally free of negativity. If the Earth is to survive, thi s will be
the ener gy of those who inhabit it. Jesus referred to this ener gy when he made his famous prophetic
statement in the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the gentle; they
shall have the earth for their possession.” It is a silent bu t intense
presence that dissolves the unconscious patterns of the mind. They may
still rem ain active for a while, but they won’ t run your life anymore. Theexternal conditions that were being resisted also tend to shift or dissolve
quickly through surrender. It is a powerful transformer of situations and
people. If conditions do not sh ift immediately, your acceptance of the
Now enables you to rise above them. Either way, you are free. SURRENDER IN PERSONAL RELA TIONSHIPS
What about people who want to use me, manipulate or contr ol me? Am I
to surr ender to them? They are  cut of f from Being, so they unconsciously attempt to get ener gy
and pow er from  you. It is true that only an unconscious person will try to
use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious
person can  be used  and manipulated. If you resist or fight unconscious
behavior in others, you become unconscious yourself. But surrender
doesn’ t mean that you allow yourself to be used by unconscious people. Not at all. It is perfectly possible to say “no” firmly and cle arly to a
person or to walk away from a situation and be in a state of complete
inner no nresistance at the same t ime. When you say “no” to a pe rson or a
situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear
realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a
nonreactive “no, ” a high-quality “no,” a “no” that is free of all n egativity
and so creates no further suf fering. I a m in a situation at work that is unpleasant. I have tried to surr ender to
it, but I find it impossible. A lot of r esistance keeps coming up. If you cannot surrender, take  action immediately: Speak up or do
something to bring about a change in the situation — or remove  yourself
from it. T ake re sponsibility for your life. Do not pollute your b eautiful,
radiant inner Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give
unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you. If you cannot tak e action, for ex ample if you are in prison, then you have
two choices left: resistance or su rrender. Bondage or inner freedom from
external conditions. Suf fering or inner peace. Is no nr esistance  also to be practiced in the external conduct of our lives,
such as nonr esistance to violen ce, or is it something that just concerns
our inner life? Y ou only need to  be concerned w ith the inner aspect. That is primary. Of
course, that will also transform  the conduct of your outer life, your
relationships, and so on. Y our relationships will be changed profoundly by surrender. If you can
never accept what is, by implication  you will not be able to accept
anybody the way they are. Y o u will judge, criticize, label, r eject, or
attempt to change people. Furt hermore, if you continuously make the
Now into a means to an end i n the future, you will also make every
person you encounter or relate with into a means to an end. The
relationship — the human being — is then of secondary importance to
you, or of no im portance at all. What you can get out of the rel ationship
is primary — be it material gain, a sense of power, physical pleasure, or
some form of ego gratification. Let me illustrat e how surrender can work in relationships. When you
become involved  in an ar gument or some conflict situation, perh aps with
a pa rtner or som eone close to yo u, start by observing how defen sive you
become as your own position is  attacked, or feel the


 materials list. Escarole Lettuce Watercress
Endive Red lettuce Swiss chardRomaine Beet tops (young inner
leaves)Red cabbage (2-3 leaves)
Green pepper
Add 1 medium apple per glass when grinding. Grind, press, drink
immediately. Wash all juice cloths regularly. If pores are clogged and
pressing is dif ficult, discard and use a new cloth. PREP ARA TION OF  VEGET ABLES
Use all vegetables except mushrooms, mustard greens, and carrot greens. Vegetables should be cooked with a minimum of water or soup stock
(perhaps 2 to 3 tablespoonfuls) slowly on low heat until well done. To
prevent burning, place on metal  mat, and place cut tomatoes and/or onions
at the bottom of the pot. These generate juice and make the food tasty. You
can also use celery. Certain vegetables (squashes) contain a lot of water and
need no additional water. Spinach releases much water in cooking—discard
this water. It is bitter and should not be used. Certain other  vegetables
(beets, corn) cannot be cooked  without water. Beets should be cooked in
their jackets and peeled when done. SPICES
Since spices, like other aromatic items (such as pineapples and berries)
can interfere with the healing reaction, Dr. Gerson allowed only certain
relatively mild spices and warned patients to use very small quantities. Use
only those spices on the list below; no others. Allspice, anise, bay leaves, coriander, dill, fennel, mace, marjoram,
rosemary, sage, saf fron, tarragon, thyme, sorrel, and summer savory. Chives, onions, garlic, and parsley can be used in lar ger amounts. SALADSIt’s imperative for the patien t to eat as much as possible of raw
vegetables in the form of salads. These items can be finely grate d, chopped,
or minced, mixed or eaten separately. Here are the vegetables:
Salad Dressing:  Dilute organic red wine or apple cider vinegar with water
to taste. Add a little spray-dried organic cane juice (Sucanat), some herbs,
onion, or garlic. Special Soup
This special (Hippocrates) soup is extremely important, and Dr. Gerson
ordered his patients to have it at both lunch and dinner. Since much of the
Gerson Therapy is directed toward cleansing the liver, this soup  is specially
designed (and Hippocrates did acknowledge its effectiveness) to help
cleanse the kidneys. After patients become used to eating without salt
(usually in one to two weeks after starting the Gerson Therapy), the special
soup is tasty and a delicious start for every meal. The following vegetables should  be used, thoroughly washed, not peeled,
cut into cubes, covered with water, and cooked for 1½ to 2 hours. Put
through a food mill and allow only fibers and peels to remain. (This should
form a thick, creamy soup, not a clear broth!) Allow soup to cool before
storing in refrigerator. Make only enough for about two days. The
ingredients include:
1 mediu m celery knob (root), 2 medium onions (if not in season,
substitute a little parsley only and 3-4 stalks of branch celery), 1½ lbs
tomatoes, 1 lb potatoes, 1 medium parsley root (rarely ever available; if not,
omit but more if desired during  the summer season), 2 small leeks (if not
available, substitute 2 medium onions), several cloves of garlic. Until patients are used to salt-free eating, raw garlic should always be
offered with a garlic press to add a “kick” to soup, vegetables, salad, and so
on. POTATOESBaked potatoes are the most valuable. Potatoes should be used at lunch
and dinner and should only rarely be replaced by organic brown or wild
rice. Pasta shou ld be avoided because it is made from processe d flour that
has no nutritional value. Potatoes can be baked, boiled in their jackets,
mashed with a little soup, peeled after being boiled in their jackets, or cut
up and mixed with salad dressing into a potato salad. Potatoes can also be
baked in a casserole with onion, tomatoes, celery, and so on. After 6-10
weeks, if nonfat yogurt is permitted, add onions, chives, or garlic to the
yogurt for a great dressing for your baked potato. Sweet potatoes may be
used once a week. OATMEAL
A large portion  of oatmeal should be eaten for breakfast, made from
organic rolled oats, ½ cup of oats to 1 cup (or a little more) of water. Cook
slowly until done. Other cereals  should not be used; the oats have a special
purpose: they provide good B vitamins; they are rich in protein s but have a
special property: they provide the patient’ s intestinal tract with a soft
cushion (rather than harsh and grainy cereals) for all the juices to come. You can vary the flavor by addin g different fruit: raw grated apples, papaya
or other fruit; honey or 100 percent pure maple syrup; unsulfured blackstrap
molasses; stewe d prunes or other dried fruit, fresh raw or stewed apricots,
apples with raisins, peaches, bananas, and so on. BREAD
You may use some salt-free and fat-free rye bread only after consuming
the full meal  (rye is more nourishing and easier to digest than wheat, which
is low in nutrie nts and often causes allergic reactions). Remember that
bread should not be the main part of any meal. When bread is dry, it can be
grated and used in recipes requiring bread crumbs. Occasionally you may
also use potato flour, tapioca, and cornstarch. SUGAR AND  SWEETENERSUse organic brown sugar, maple syrup, organic light honey, or unsulfured
molasses up to 2 teaspoons a day (provided there is no hypo glycemia or
diabetes). PEPPERMINT AND  OTHER  HERB TEAS
Peppermint tea relieves nausea, flatulence, and upset stomachs (during
healing flare-up s) and helps digestion. Other herb teas (linden blossom,
tahebo, licorice root, essiac, etc.) are all permitted and can often be useful in
overcoming problems. Herb teas such as chamomile and valerian are
soothing and can help induce restful sleep. Since the patient  should not
drink water, a thermos bottle of peppermint or other herb tea should be
provided at bedside in case the patient awakens at night and is thirsty. SAMPLE  MENU
Breakfast
1 glass (8 oz) of orange juice
Large portion oatmeal with choice of fruit sauce
Organic 100 percent rye bread, unsalted and fat-free, toasted and spread
with honey if desired
Lunch
Plate of salad
1 glass (8 oz)of warm special soup
1 glass apple/carrot juice
Baked potato or other (boiled in jacket, potato salad, casserole, etc.) with
yogurt dressing, when permitted
Freshly cooked vegetables
Dessert: raw or stewed fruit
Dinner
Same as lunch. Vary meals by using different vegetables, different
methods of preparing potatoes, other kinds of salads. Organic brown rice may be used once a week. Organic sweet potatoes may be used once a week in the place of potatoes.OceanofPDF.comGERSON THERAPY SUPPL Y RESOURCES
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referrals that are useful and well researched. All information provided at the
time of printing  is accurate. The Gerson Institute does not own or operate
any of the clinics or related businesses listed and cannot claim
responsibility for the services they provide, their products or their business
practices. Pleas e let the Gerson Institute know if you encounter any
difficulties. When making your Gerson Therapy choices please ensure that any
individual, clinic, support group or business offering the Gerson Therapy or
claiming to be associated with the Gerson Institute is in possession of a
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Institute for more information. For a possible discount from any of these resources, mention that you are
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Specific requirements for the proper juicer were devised by Dr. Max
Gerson. He discovered that centrifugal juicers were unacceptable and that a
separate grinder  and press provide the best juice extraction. Consequently
the following are superior:
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        Scalloped Potatoes
Take a glass baking dish and place one whole chopped onion in bottom. Slice potatoes and place one layer on top of the onion. Then place a layer of sliced tomato on top, another layer of sliced or
chopped onion. Sprinkle with a dash of


 reorients our
relationship to the universe. It reorients our sense of self as well as our
relationship to others. The last thing the spiritual journey does is to distract
us from the practical realities of life. By understanding the underlying
meaning of our life’s journey, we gain power to direct and to redirect its
course. Knowing we are not of this world gives us more power within it. The Messiah is a state of mind, the unconditional love that is a conduit
for our enlighte nment. The question isn’t simply what we need to do; the
question is what quality of personhood we must embody in order to do what
we are asked to do. All of us are being asked right now. In each of our lives
there is some circumstance challenging us to give up a weaker part of
ourselves and emer ge into a stronger place. All of us are wounded by this
world, but it’s our choice wheth er or not to act from the woun d. In acting
from the wound, we perpetuate a wounded world. In choosing to transcend
the wound, we’ll create a world reborn. Jesus wasn’ t putting on some macabre show for the world to witness; he
was changing the molecular structure of the universe. He was opening up
possibilities for change not only for himself but for all the world. Even
those of us who do not relate to his story as Christians can relate to the
metaphysical power of the resurrection and to its transformative effect upon
our lives. Any one person breaking the hold of darkness paves the way for
everyone to break the hold of darkness. And then there is Light. OceanofPDF.comThe Remembrance
The resurrection is the remembrance of who we are. While we’ve been trained by the ego’s thought system to believ e we’re
limited, tempor ary, vulnerable beings within a world of scarcity, in
competition with most everyone and everything, the mystic Jesus means we
are none of those things. We remain who and what God created us to be,
despite any evidence of the material world. No illusion of our guilt, no
disapproval of the world, no mistakes we have made or lies of the earthly
realm can in any way change or nullify the truth as God created it. Whatever our suffering, and whatever its cause, our deliverance from
pain derives from a reinterpretation of reality. Jesus delivers us beyond our
emotional pain by delivering us beyond our mental errors. It is simply an
error in thinking to believe that anything has more power than God. We can
be hurt, wronged, transgressed against, even killed—but the truth of who
we are is not vulnerable to the machinations of the ego, whether our own or
someone else’s. God’ s Truth is the only Truth. The truth of who we are
cannot be hurt and cannot die. As long as our hearts are open to love—as
long as we remember we are one with God—we are miraculously delivered
from the ravages of our crucifixions as Jesus was delivered from his. The point of the crucifixion is not the suffering of Jesus; the point is the
resurrection that followed. The crucifixion was an extreme example of the
ego’s attack on love. The resurrection was God’ s respo nse to the
crucifixion, or the ultimate reappearance of the light after even  the deepest
darkness. Having lived through  the journey of the deepest darkness to the
most glorious light, Jesus looks not for martyrs but for teachers to
demonstrate that same power. We are asked to share in the power of his resurrection now, to bestow its
healing on the world in ways that he directs. We become transformers of thedarkness of the world as we are resurrected from our own crucifixions. God
works miracles for us that we might become miracle workers ourselves. Jesus suffered and then resurrected to demonstrate the spiritual
nullification of suffering. If you or I are going through a terribl e time, let’s
say we’v e been wronged somehow, and Jesus guides us to forgive—telling
us that infinite love will work a miracle in the situation—then had he not
been crucified and resurrected, would we not wonder, But how would you
know? And if a loved one dies and we’re grieving—and Jesus tells us not to
be sorrowful, because the death of their body is not the death of who they
are—then had he not been crucified and resurrected, would we not wonder,
But how can you be sur e? Delving into the mysteries of any hero’ s journey can unlock secrets
otherwise unavailable to our conscious mind. The crucifixion and
resurrection of Jesus are among  the deepest of mysteries. Where  parts of us
have died, God brings our deadened places to new life. He restores the
cosmic order to situations where even the most horrifying chaos reigned
before. Human suffering is inevitable in a world that is permeated with
illusion and fear, yet through the power of forgiveness we can and do
transform it. With every prayer, every moment of faith, every act of mercy,
every instant of contrition, every effort at forgiveness, in time we move
beyond our suf fering and find inner peace at last. We die to who we used to be and are reborn as who we are, thus rising
above the consciousness of darkness, ignorance, and death. Each of us goes
through this repeatedly—we all have our own curriculum, our own
crucifixions, our own battles and trials and tribulations. But each of us has
within us as well the potential  for enlightenment and resurrection, as an
indwelling God Who both calls us out of darkness and delivers us to light. There is a lot of talk in our culture today that glorifies the darkness. Mentally as well as physically, we pick apart our problems and dissect their
every vicissitude. But as import ant as it is to own our darkness, we should
also own our light. Jesus is a name for that light. We should not be
mesmerized by the crucifixion. Understand the darkness, but look beyond it
to the light. The resurrected mind is the light of God within us. It is the mind that
understands. It understands that only love is real, and nothing else exists. It
understands that illusions disso lve in the presence of love. It understands
that the power to transform the world lies in our power to think about itdifferently. Understanding anew, we become new. We are not just
improved; we are changed. Three days after the crucifixion  of Jesus, the women who were closest
to him went to the tomb to claim his body. A great earthquake occurred, and
they were told he was no longer there. “Why do you look for the living
among the dead? He isn’t here,  but has been raised” (Luke 24:5–6, CEB). Once you’ve survived a personal crucifi xion and been resurrected into a
higher level of understanding, the part of your personality that was crucified
by the event no longer exists. That person has been transmuted into who
you are now. You no longer have certain issues, are no longer stuck in
certain patterns of thought and behavior, are no longer blinded  by self, are
no longer chained to the cross of your own self-destructive ego. An internal
earthquake indeed. In psychologica l terms, the resurrection isn’t so much an event as a
process. It is both an awakenin g and a journey, as we emer ge from the
torment of facing our own internal demons into the light of having faced
them down. And the benefits of the journey are cumulative. We become
different because of what we’ve been through. We become wiser, nobler,
more humble, and more aware. We become more peaceful and more open to
the miracles of life. The holiest work of all is finding this wholeness within,
where all the broken pieces of our selves have conver ged in forgiveness and
love. That wholeness is our holiness. Such is the miracle of redemption:
transformation and rebirth. Having been “saved” from ego consciousness, Jesus now has a role of
savior to those of us still lost within it. And lost we are, while we’re
suffering the illusions of the ego mind. Jesus is someone who, his mind
having been completely healed by the Holy Spirit, has been authorized by
God to help anyone who calls to him to do the same. Jesus’ s mind, joined
with our mind, can shine away the ego. This takes more than “believing in him,” however. It takes joining with
him in miracle-minded thought s that are the escape from our mortal hell. The “belief” in God is ultimately meaningless if not matched by lived
experience. According to A Course in Miracles, many conspire with God
who do not yet believe in Him. Where there is love, He is there. Where
there is not love, He is not fooled. It is we who have been fooled. The world of illusion—backed as it is by
a wall of dense material reality— can be as powerful in its effects as is thetruth. But we are beginning to see beyond it. The mortal world is a dream
within which it is our spiritu al task to awaken. Resurrection is our
awakening, for it dissolves the dark illusion of a separated self by
embracing the light of forgiveness and love. God is


 kindness proffered, the love and good will
you send forth, will all come back to you multiplied in many ways. 6. You are the only thinker in your world. You are responsi-ble for
the way you think about the other. Remember, the other pers on is not
 175  responsible for the way you think about him. Your thoughts are
reproduced. What are you thinking now about the other fellow? 7. Become emotionally mature and permit other people to differ
from you. They have a perfect right to disagree with you, and you
have the same freedom to disagree with them. You can disagree
without being disagreeable. 8. Animals pick up your fear vibrations and snap at you. If you l ove
animals, they will never attack you. Many un-disciplined human
beings are just as sensitive as dogs, cats, and other animals. 9. Your inner speech, representing your silent thoughts and feelings,
is experienced in the reactions of others toward you. 10. Wish for the other what you wish for yourself. This is the ke y to
harmonious human relations. 11. Change your concept and estimate of your employer. Feel and
know he is practicing the Golden Rule and the Law of Love, and h e
will respond accordingly. 12. The other person cannot annoy you or irritate you except you
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        An old friend appeared in the dream and said,
“Read  these headlines—do not go. ” The headlines of the newspaper,
which appeared in the dream, related to war and the attack on Pe arl
Harbor. Occasionally, the writer dreams literally. The aforemen-ti oned
dream was undoubtedly a dramatization of the subcon-scious mind
which projected a person whom I trusted and respected. To some a
warning may come in the form of a mother who appears in a dream. 141  She tells the person not to go here or there, and the reason for the
warning. Your subconscious mind is all-wise. It knows all thi ngs. Oftentimes it will speak to you only in a voice that your con scious
mind will immediately accept as true. Sometimes your subcons cious
will warn you in a voice which sounds like that of your mother o r
some loved one which may cause you to stop on the street, and you
find, if you had gone another foot, a falling object from a window
might have struck you on the head. My subconscious mind is one with the universal subcon-scious, and
it knew the Japanese were planning a war, and it also kne w when the
war would start. Dr. Rhine, director of the Department of Psychology at Duke
University, has gathered together a vast amount of evi-dence show ing
that a great number of people all over the world see events be fore they
happen, and in many instances are, therefore, able to avoid the tra gic
event which was foreseen vividly in a dream. The dream which I had showed clearly the headlines in The New
York Times about three years prior to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. In
consequence of this dream, I immediately cancelled the trip as  I felt a
subconscious compulsion to do so. Three years later the Second
World War proved the truth of the inner voice of intuition. • Your future is in your subconscious mind
Remember that the future, the result of your habitual think -ing, is
already in your mind except when you change it through prayer. The
future of a country, likewise, is in the collective subconsc ious of the
people of that nation. There is nothing strange in the dream I had
wherein I saw the headlines of the New York newspapers long bef ore
the war began. The war had already taken place in mind, and all the
plans of attack were already engraved on that great recordi ng
instrument, the subconscious mind or collective unconscious of the
universal mind. Tomorrow’s events are in your subconscious mind, so
are next week’s and next month’s, and they may be seen by a highly
psychic or clairvoyant person. 142  No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is predetermined or foreordained. Your mental attitude, i. e.,
the way you think, feel, and believe determines your destiny. You can,
through scientific prayer, which is ex-plained in a previous ch apter,
mold, fashion, and create your own future. Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. • A cat nap nets him $15,000
One of my students mailed me a newspaper clipping three or four
years ago about a man called Ray Hammerstrom, a roller at t he steel
works in Pittsburgh operated by Jones and Laughlin Steel
Corporation. He received $15,000 for his dream. According to the article, the engineers could not fix a faulty s witch
in a newly installed bar mill which controlled the deliver y of straight
bars to the cooling beds. The engineers worked on the switch abou t
eleven or twelve times to no avail. Hammerstrom thought a lot about the problem and tried to figure
out a new design, which might work. Nothing worked. One afternoon
he lay down for a nap, and prior to sleep he began to think about t he
answer to the switch problem. He had a dream in which a pe rfect
design for the switch was portrayed. When he awoke, he sketched his
new design according to the outline of his dream. This visionary catnap won Hammerstrom a check for $15,000; the
largest award the firm ever gave an employee for a new idea. • How a famous professor solved his problem in sleep
Dr. H. V. Helprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the Uni-versit y of
Pennsylvania, wrote as follows: “One Saturday eve-ning. I had be en
wearying myself, in the vain attempt to decipher two small fragments
of agate which were supposed to belong to the finger rings of some
Babylonians. “About midnight, weary and exhausted, I went to bed and dreamed
the following remarkable dream: A tall, thin priest of Nipp ur, about
 143  forty years of age, led me to the treasure chamber of the te mple. a
small, low-ceilinged room without windows, while scraps of agate and
lapis-lazuli lay scattered on the floor. Here he addressed me as
follows: ‘The two fragments which you have published separat ely on
pages 22 and 26 belong together, are not finger rings. The first two
rings served as earrings for the statue of the god; the two fragments
(you have). are the portions of them. If you will put them toget her
you will have confirmation of my words. ’. I awoke at once. I
examined the fragments. and to my astonishment found the dream
verified. The problem was then at last solved. ”
This demonstrates clearly the creative manifestation of his
subconscious mind, which knew the answer to all his problems. • How the subconscious worked for a famous writer while he slept
Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his books, Across the Plains,
devotes a whole chapter to dreams. He was a vivid dreamer and had
the persistent habit of giving specific instruc-tions to his  subconscious
every night prior to sleep. He would request his subconscious to
evolve stories for him while he slept. For example, if Ste venson’s
funds were at low ebb, his command to his subconscious would be
something like this: “Give me a good thrilling novel which wi ll be
marketable and profitable. ” His subconscious responded
magnificently. Stevenson says, “These little brownies [the intelligences and powers
of his subconscious] can tell me a story piece by piece, like a serial,
and keep me, its supposed creator, all the while in total ig norance of
where they aim. ”
And he added: “That part of my work which is done when I am up
and about [while he is consciously aware and awake] is by no means
necessarily mine, since all goes to show that the brownies have a hand
in it even then. ”
• Sleep in peace and wake in joy
 144  To those who suffer from insomnia, you will find the following
prayer very effective. Repeat it slowly, quietly, and loving ly prior to
sleep: “My toes are relaxed, my ankles are relaxed, my a bdominal
muscles are relaxed, my heart and lungs are relaxed, my hands  and
arms are relaxed, my neck is re-laxed, my brain is relaxed, my  face is
relaxed, my eyes are relaxed, my whole mind and body are relaxed. I
fully and freely forgive everyone, and I sincerely wish for them
harmony,  health, peace, and all the blessings of me. I am at peace; I
am poised, serene, and calm. I rest in security and in peace. A great
stillness steals over me, and a great calm quiets my whole be ing as I
realize the Divine Presence within me. I know that the re alization of
life and love heals me. I wrap myself in the mantle of love  and fall
asleep filled with good will for all. Throughout the night peace
remains


 specific as might be concluded from what has been
said so far. The effects of all vitamins ove rlap and interlace to such a degree that no
disease can be cured by administering one vitamin, and no disease is caused by any
single vitamin deficiency. The single cause and the single cure exist only in
experimental animals in the laboratory. The complexities of civilized life make it impossible that the conditions surrounding
the laboratory animal could ever be duplicated in human existence. It is apparent that
the pellagra cases which show insanity as the outstanding symptom are not suffering
from just a lack of nicotinic acid, or a lack of even all the vitamin B group; but are suffering from a lack of all vitamins, the most extreme deficiency being in the B
2
complex, with emphasis on that part of it which we call niacin-amide. Such a patient undoubtedly also suffers from mineral deficiencies. The concentration of minerals and vitamins in the diets of animals that eat both
vegetable and animal foods (meat, vegetables, fruits, and milk products) is undoubtedly
sufficient to meet the daily needs without setting up much surplus. The vitamins and
minerals supplied to the body is very much like the coal supplied to the furnace. A continuous stream must be kept going in order that the mechanism may function at its
best. Some reserves of vitamin A are to be f ound in the retina and the liver. Some reserves
of vitamin C may be found in the adrenal glands. Some reserves of vitamin D exist in
fats, but these reserves are exhausted in a fe w days or weeks if a constant supply is not
provided. In order to provide an optimum supply, every food taken into the body must
be a vitamin and mineral containing food. Any part of the food intake which has been deprived of its normal, natural vitamin or mineral content dilutes the good food which is
taken by the individual and cuts down his ability to resist infection in just the degree that such a deficient intake constitutes a percentage of the whole diet. The studies made by the author of 2,707 cases of patients suffering with tumors,
cancers, stomach ulcers, colitis, constipation, neuritis, arthritis, heart disease, chronic
headaches, and high and low blood pressure disclose that fact that this group as a group
was consuming 55 per cent white flour products (bread, cookies, cake, pastries, pancakes, biscuits, muffins, etc. ). The sugar taken by this group represented by candy,
marmalade, preserves, jellies, jams, and canned goods containing heavy sugar syrups
added another 20 per cent to the deficient devitaminized, devitalized, demineralized foods. (Report by author to American Rad ium Society, Annual Meeting, Cleveland,
Ohio, 1934. ) The "Food and Drug journal" keeps an accurate record of the export and import of
food products. According to this journal, devitaminized wheat flour products imported
into the city of New York constitute around 55 per cent of the whole food intake. The
consumption of canned goods and sugar brings the percentage down to about the same as the group of 2,700 Midwest persons studied. In other words, the clinical group
suffering from definite disease was eating from 18 to 25 per cent vitamin and mineral
containing foods. The imports of food into the City of New York showed that the food intake of the population of that city measured around 25 per cent vitamin and mineral
containing food, and about 75 per cent dev itaminized, devitalized, demineralized food. The diluting of the acceptable food by foods which had been so changed as to render
them nearly pure carbohydrate (sugar, white flour, candy, etc. ) was the fundamental
error in both groups. And the group presenting well-developed disease evidently
represented only a more advanced stage of the same kind of vitamin and mineral
deficiency, The seven million people represented in the New York group had, in the younger decades, a certain freedom from the diseases mentioned; but they were laying
the foundation for the same serious diseases, as they were suffering from colds, sinus
disease, tooth and mouth diseases, chronic tonsillitis, and other things which provide
foci for the distribution of toxic material into the heart, blood vessels, brain, and
intestinal lining. More slowly and surely, they were laying the foundation for the diseases of the glands of internal secretion --for a failure of function of the pituitaries,
pancreas, gonads, liver, thyroids, parathyroids, and adrenals. The age group which we
examined ranged higher than the group represented by the whole population of New York City. They represented the culmination of years of deficiency, chronic infections,
repeated colds, of headaches, and disease of the mucous membrane. The best evidence that we are not getting the things in our diet which we should get is
the fact that persons in every one of these groups will be better physically and mentally
when put on a high mineral, high vitamin diet, and given large amounts of multiple
vitamin concentrates and minerals to make up for past deficiencies. CHAPTER V
WHAT ARE THE RESULTS
OF OUR DIETARY ERRORS. When a baby is born into the world, it is born into a fight against infection. He is
exposed to many different kinds of infection from the moment of birth until death. The best proof of the ever-present attacking microorganisms being everywhere in great
numbers is the rapidity with which a body decays after death. As long as any life is
present, some kind of a barrier is kept up against infection. The decay that occurs
immediately after death is simply the result of  the already present b acterial life attacking
a now defenseless group of cells. The defenses in our body structures are something that
are tied up with life. Life proceeds normally in the well-nourished cells with no danger
from invading microorganisms as long as the bodily defenses are kept high. There are varying degrees of life pro cesses. The flame of life may burn high or bum
low. In the well-nourished body the flame burns at its optimum, and the defense
mechanisms which have come down to us through thousands of generations function
well. The mechanisms which protect us against the ever-present and varying kinds of
infection may be lowered in various ways. The defense mechanism may be lowered by
long-continued exposure to cold, by fatigue, and by bad diet. In actual experience, the
one which must interest us most is that which has to do with diet. Since it is quite
evident that the diets in use in every civilized country today are not the optimum diets, it
is equally evident that we are all exposed to diseases which result from the barriers
against infection being lowered. Perhaps the most common infections are those connected with the upper respiratory
tract--the diseases ordinarily known as colds, grippe, flu, and pneumonia. These
diseases are largely diseases of the human animal, and undoubtedly affect humans
because of the difference between human and animal diets. The diseases of the respiratory tract affect the nose with its accessory sinuses, through the bronchial tubes
and the lungs. The acute stage of the colds passes off in a few days, but after acute colds
there remains some sub acute or chronic disease of sinuses, tonsils, and bronchial tubes. This may persist for months or years, flaring up with each newly acquired cold and
settling down to a chronic state between colds. These chronically affected areas become foci of infection for the distribution of disease germs to other parts of the body. Small
abscesses may exist in the tonsils or between the tonsils and the pillars. Larger
abscesses may exist in the sinuses, or the symptoms of focal infection may exist without
abscess formation, simply from the absorption of toxic material from the infected mucous membrane lining the bronchial tubes. In experimental animals, these symptoms and the certainty with which they take hold
may be influenced by restricting the vitamin and mineral intake of the animal. There is very great similarity between the symptoms produced in the laboratory animal and the
symptoms as they actually exist in the so-called civilized human existing on a
deficiency diet. Experimental disease of th e gastro-intestinal tract, stomach ulcer, may
be produced by feeding the kind of diets ordi narily consumed in the average household. In India, experiments made by McCarrisson a nd other British observers showed that the soldiers living in areas where stomach ulcer was prevalent also developed many cases
of stomach ulcer. This occurred when the soldiers were kept on a native diet. When put
on a better diet, the percentage of stomach ulcers was reduced to that in ordinary army life. Experiments on animals, giving them the diets of the people of these ulcer areas,
produced stomach ulcer in about the same proportion as in humans. The first treatment for stomach ulcer which attained any great attention by the medical
profession was the so-called Sippy treatment. This treatment consisted in neutralizing
the highly acid condition of the stomach with chalk and other alkalines, but it also
included hourly feedings of milk or cream and orange juice. Sippy knew nothing
whatever of vitamins, and perhaps never thought of such a thing as mineral deficiency in this class of diseases, but through a fortuitous accident his treatment provided the
patient with calcium and also with the vitamins contained in butter fat, milk, and orange juice. This treatment supplies only a part of the whole deficiency needs of a person with this
type of disease, but it was so great an improvement over the deficiency diets which produced the disease that many patients were temporarily cured. Sippy and the others of


 But unlike a stream, these
cascades have no banks; they ﬂow anywhere and
everywhere. They never cease this ﬂow, either, for the
smallest fraction of a second. A brain scientist in eﬀect
stops time to examine a cascade’s components. The
chemicals he wants to ﬁnd are extremely minute—it tookthree hundred thousand sheep brains to yield a single
milligram of the molecul e the brain uses to stimulate the
thyroid. Nor are the cell receptors easy to grasp. They
constantly dance on the surface of the cell walls and
change their shape to receive new messages; any one cell
may contain hundreds or even thousands of sites, only one
or two of which can be analyzed at a time. Science learned
more about brain chemis try in the last ﬁfteen years than it
knew in all of previous history, but we are all still like
foreigners trying to learn English from scraps of paper
found in the street. —
No one has yet been able to grasp how the cascade of
chemicals exactly patterns itself to do all the things a mind
can do. Memory, recollection, dreaming, and all the other
everyday activities of the mind remain a profound mystery
as far as their physical mechanics is concerned. But now
we know that the mind and body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave
tracks in the physical one. Recently brain researchers have found a way to
photograph a thought’s tracks in 3-D, like a hologram. The
procedure, known as PET (positron-emission tomography),
is done by injecting the bloodstream with glucose whose
carbon molecules have been tagged with radioisotopes. Glucose is the brain’s sole food, which it uses much faster
than do ordinary tissues. Therefore, when the injected
glucose reaches the brain, its marker molecules of carbon
can be picked out as the brain uses them, and thus pictured
in three dimensions on a monitor, much the same way a
CAT scan is produced. Watching these marker molecules
shift around while the brain thinks, scientists saw that each
distinct event in the universe of mind—such as a sensation
of pain or a strong memory—triggers a new chemicalpattern in the brain, not just at a single site but at several. The image looks diﬀerent for every thought, and if one
could extend  the portrait to be full-length, there is no doubt
that the whole body changes at the same time, thanks to
the cascades of neurotra nsmitters and related messenger
molecules. As you see it right now, your body is the physical picture,
in 3-D, of what you are thinking. This remarkable fact
escapes our notice for several reasons. One is that the
physical outline of the body does not change drastically
with every thought. Even so, the whole body quite
obviously projects thoughts. We literally read other
people’s minds from the constant play of their facial
expressions; without marking it, we also register the
thousandfold gestures of body language as a sign of their
moods and intentions toward us. Films made by sleep
laboratories disclose that we change position dozens of
times during the night, obeying commands from the brain
that we are unconscious of. Secondly, we don’t see our bodies as projected thoughts
because many physical changes that thinking causes are
unnoticeable. They involve minute alterations of cell
chemistry, body temperature, electrical charg e, blood
pressure, and so on, which do not register on our focus of
attention. You can be assured, however, that the body is
ﬂuid enough to mirror any mental event. Nothing can move
without moving the whole. —
The latest discoveries in neurobiology build an even
stronger case for the parallel universes of mind and body. When researchers looked further, beyond the nervous
system and the immune system, they began to discover the
same neuropeptides and receptors for them in other
organs, such as the intestines, kidneys, stomach, and heart.There is every expectation of ﬁnding them elsewhere, too. This means that your kidneys can “think,” in the sense that
they can produce the identical neuropeptides found in the
brain. Their receptor sites are not simply sticky patche s.
They are questions waiting for answers, framed in the
language of the chemical universe. It is very likely that if
we had the whole dictionary and not just our few scraps,
we would ﬁnd that every cell speaks as ﬂuently as we do. Inside us, the questions and answers go on forever. Just
by itself, a single gland like the thyroid has so much to say
to the brain, to its fellow endocrine glands, and through
them to all the body, that its cascade of conversation
inﬂuences dozens of vital functions, such as growth,
metabolic rate, and much more. How fast you think, how
tall you are, and the dimensions of your eyes, for example,
all depend in part on advice from the thyroid. We can safely
conclude, then, that mind is not conﬁned to the brain by
some neat division set up for our own convenience. Mind is
projected everywhere in inner space. One of the most forward-looking and accomplished
researchers in the ﬁeld of brain chemistry, Dr. Candace
Pert, director of the brain biochemistry division at the
National Institute of Mental Health, has pointed out that it
is quite arbitrary to say that a biochemical like DNA or a
neurotransmitter belongs to the body rather than the mind. DNA is almost as much sheer knowledge as it is matter. Dr.
Pert refers to the entire mind-body system as a “network of
information,” shifting the emphasis away from the gross
level of matter toward the subtler level of knowledge. Is there really any reason to keep mind and body apart at
all? In her own writings, Pert prefers to use one term for
both— bodymind. If this word sticks, it will clearly indicate
that a wall has come crashing down. Pert does not have all
of medical science behin d her yet, but that may change
very quickly. It is becoming clearer every day that the mindand body are amazingly alike. Insulin, a hormone always
identiﬁed with the pancre as, is now known to be produced
by the brain also, just as brain chemicals like transferon
and CCK are produced by the stomach. This shows that our neat division of the body into nervous
system, endocrine system, digestive system, and so on is
only partially right and may soon be outmoded. It has now
been absolutely proved that the same neuroc hemicals
inﬂuence the whole bodymind. Everything is
interconnected at the level of the neuropeptide; therefore,
to separate these areas is simply bad science. A body that can “think” is far diﬀerent from the one
medicine now treats. For one thing, it knows what is
happening to it, not just through the brain, but everywhere
there is a receptor for messenger molecules, which means
on every cell. This explains a great deal about drugs and
their side eﬀects that had not been known. Some drugs
have a bewildering numb er of side eﬀects. If I consult my
Physician’s Desk Reference, which comprehensively  lists
the medications that a doctor can prescribe, I can ﬁnd page
after page under the listing for corticosteroids. The most
familiar corticosteroid (or just steroid) is cortisone, but the
whole family is widely prescribed to treat burns, allergies,
arthritis, postoperative inﬂammation, and dozens of other
conditions. If you didn’t know about receptor sites, steroids would
appear highl y peculiar. Let us say that I prescribe steroids
to a woman who is suﬀering from a diﬀicult  case of
arthritis. The steroids would bring down the inﬂammation
in her joints dramatically, but then a host of stran ge things
might happen. She could begin to complain of being
fatigued and depressed. Abnormal fatty deposits  might
begin to show under her skin, and her blood vessels could
become so brittle that she would develop large bruises thatare very slow to heal. What could link these entirely
divergent symptoms? The answer lies at the level of the receptors. Corticosteroids replace some of the secretions of the
adrenal cortex, a yellowish pad on the top of the adrenal
glands. At the same time, they suppress the other adrenal
hormones, as well as secretions from the pituitary gland,
which is located in the brain. As soon as it is given, the
steroid rushes in and ﬂoods all the receptors throughout
the body that are “listening” for a certain message. When a
receptor becomes ﬁlled, what follows is not a simple action. The cell can interpret the adrenal “message” in many ways,
depending on how long the site stays ﬁlled. In this case, the
receptor stays ﬁlled indeﬁnitely. (The fact that other
messages are not being received is important, as is the loss
of innumerable connections with the other endocrine
glands.) The cell can exhibit extreme reactions from ﬁlling one
receptor. By analogy, look at a moth hanging under the
eaves on a summer night


 became very diﬀerent. The cancer cells had been
defeated but not their memory. Because Chitra remained
extremely anxious about having her cancer recur, she and I
agreed that conventiona l therapy should continu e. At the
same time, she promised to keep up her meditatio n and the
bliss techniq ue I had taught her. I heard nothing for a
month, then she called with bad news: her doctors had
detected a dozen small shadows in her CAT scan that they
interpreted as brain cancer. In a state of extreme fear, she
began an intensive course of radiation, this time
accompanied by experimental chemotherapy. Weakened by the earlier bout with breast cancer, Chitra
endured severe side eﬀects, including depression. She
stopped meditating and no longer returned for Ayurvedic
treatment. Her platelet count dropped severely—platelets
are blood cells critical in the clotting process—which meant
that it was too dangerous to continue the chemotherapy. Chitra’s doctors determined that her bone marrow was
producing antibodies that attacked her own platelets
(probably in reaction to the many transfusions she had
received). They considered a bone marrow transplant, but
tried ﬁrst to exchange the blood plasma. During the
procedure, she had a seizure and soon developed severe
anemia and various infections. At this point Chitra’s case was turning into a mounting
disaster. She refused a blood trans fusion, being horriﬁed at
the thought of getting AIDS. Because of her agitation, she
had to be placed on an intravenous drip of morp hine and
Valium. Her awareness became duller and duller, and she
slipped into a coma, probably induced by shock, followed
by the onset of pneum onia. The doctors informed herhusband that she would probably not recover, and a day
later, without regaining consciousness, Chitra died. She
was the victim not of her cancer but of her treatm ent, and I
cannot help but think death from cancer would perhaps
have been more humane. The passing of this beautifully innocent and devoted
young woman came as a great blow. Although I had no
consolation to oﬀer, I immediately called Raman, her
husband, who was completely shattered. For months we
had both watched Chitra pass into the light of life and back
into the shadow of death, sharing extremes of joy and
despair. Sincere eﬀorts had been made to save her, yet I
cannot expel the bitter taste that comes from knowing, as
all doctors know, the barbarity of our current approach to
cancer. Every day, a physician in practice sees patients who have
undergone some devast ating cancer treatment that has
been declare d a success because the cancer cells are now
gone, disregarding the weakening of the entire body, the
looming danger of recurrent cancer caused  by the
treatment itself, and the state of lasting fear and
depression that so often comes with the cure. To live in
constant fear, even without cancer in your body, is not a
good state of health. The war is not over; it has merely
moved from open skirmishes to underground terrorism. The underlying philosophy in cancer treatment is that the
mind will just have to stand by while the body endures
devastation. In other words, an open clash is actually
encouraged in the mind-body system. How can this be
called healing. In a clash between mind and body, the
patient is ﬁghting on both sides—there is only his body and
his mind. Isn’t it obvio us that when a loser emerges, it will
be he. The vital issue is not how to win the war but how to keep
peace in the ﬁrst place. The West has not arrived at thisinsight, or comprehended  that the physical manifestation of
a disease is a phantom. The cancer cells that patients dread
and physicians battle against are just such phantoms—they
will come and go, raising hopes and despair, while the real
culprit, the persistent memory that creates the cancer cell,
goes undetected. Ayurveda gives us the means to go
directly to the level of consciousness that exorcises this
memory. Thinking of Chitra, I wonder how long it will be
before we broaden our outlook. We ask for heroism from
patients at a time when they have little of it to give, or else
we treat them as statistics, turning survival into a game of
numbers. Ayurveda tells us to place the responsibility for
disease at a deeper level of consciousness, where a
potential cure could also be found. To say that a patient’s awareness is responsible for his
cancer is very troublesome to many people—and so it
should be. Ayurveda as I view it does not agree that there is
a so-called cancer personality, nor does it accept that
superﬁcial emotions, styles of behavior, and attitud es cause
cancer. Some resear chers are convinced that patients who
react with helplessness and depression to their cancer are
more likely to die from the disease than those patients who
have a strong component in their personalities called “the
will to live. ” This seems unarguable, but is it any help. A person aﬄicted with cancer naturally goes through
cycles of emotion; his will to live is susceptible to wild
swings from one extrem e to the other; and there is no
reason to expect that any “typical cancer personality”
proﬁle should emerge. (Some of the original research that
supposedly veriﬁed the “typical cancer personality” was
based on insigniﬁcantly small patient groups, as few as
twenty-ﬁve subjects, all of whom had only one type of
cancer—typically breas t cancer. ) Why should the
psychologically healthy, who already have such a great
advantage, be the only hopeful cases. This is not an empty question. Recently I was on a plane
and happened to sit beside a very lively woman in her
sixties. She struck me immediately as a Yankee of the
classic type— very vigorous, no-nonsense, and full of strong
opinions. Her family had lived in Maine for generations and
had become quite prosperous. Since my head was full of all
the issues involved in cancer treatment, we bega n to talk
about them. The old lady lifted her chin. “I don’t believe any of these
doctors know what they’re talking about,” she declared. “My mother was diagnose d with breast cancer in 1947. She
went and had the lump removed and then came  home to
look after her four children. My father begged her to return
to Boston for a mastectom y, but she said she was too busy
for it, and she was too busy to be sick, too. She went on
perfectly normally like that. After a while my father won
out, and she did go back for the mastectomy, but there
wasn’t any radiation or chemotherapy back then. ”
“What happened to her. ” I asked. “Nothing happened,” the woman answered. “She lived
twelve more years, until she was over seventy, when she
contracted pneumonia. The whole family gathered around
her bed, she told us goodbye, and three days later she
died. ”
Listening to this story, I suddenly saw, with a comb ination
of wonder and sadness, what it was about—the paradox of
being normal. It is absolutely normal to be too busy to be
sick, for that is exactly the kind of awareness that the
immune system thrives on. When you are just yourse lf and
not a “cancer patient,” then the complicated chain of the
immune response, with its hundreds of precise ly timed
operations, goes to work with a vengeance. But once you give in to helplessness and fear, this chain
breaks apart. You start sending out the neuropeptides
associated with negative emotions, these latch onto theimmune cells, and the immune response loses its eﬀiciency. (Exactly how this happens is not known, but the decreased
immune status of depressed patients is well docu mented. ) Here is where the paradox comes in: if you reacted to
cancer as no great threat, the way you react to the ﬂu, you
would have the best chance of recovering, yet a diagnosis
of cancer makes every patient feel totally abnormal. The
diagnosis itself sets up the vicious circle, like a snake biting
its tail until there is no more snake. The reason I felt sadness and wonder at the same  time is
that it sudde nly dawned on me how inﬁnitely beautiful the
immune system is and how terribly vulnerable at the same
time. It forges our link with life and yet can break it at any
moment. The immune system knows all our secrets, all our
sorrows. It know s why a mother who has lost a child can
die of grief, because the immune system has died of grief
ﬁrst. It knows every moment a cancer patient spends in the
light of life or the shadow of death, because it turns those
moments into the body’s physical reality. Cancer, or any other disease, is nothing more than the
sequence of these ﬂeeting moments, each with its own
emotions, its own mind-b ody chemistry. In other words, the


 bite-size
pieces. Add the chopped vegetables into the pot with the cooked barley. Add the roasted red peppers
and the cooked white beans. Add freshly chopped rosemary, mint, and basil to the pot. T oss all
ingredients. Place the risotto into an attractive serving dish and garnish with freshly chopped parsley
and tomatoes. Add your favorite grated cheese for a rich taste. Cranberry and Sweet Potato Chutney
1 teaspoon ghee
½ cup leeks or shallots, chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
2 cups sweet potato, diced into small pieces
1 cup cranberries, dried
1 can apple juice concentrate, or ganic, frozen
½ teaspoon cloves, whole
3 cinnamon sticks
½ teaspoon cardamom, dried
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
½ teaspoon coriander
 In a sauté pan heat the ghee and add leeks. Sauté for 1 minute and then add pepper, Braggs, and the
sweet potatoes. Sauté together for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the cranberries and apple juice. As the apple
juice concentrate begins to melt, add th e cloves and the cinnamon sticks. Add the cardamom,
balsamic vinegar, apple cider vinegar, and the coriander once the liquid is melted and a rolling
simmer is achieved. Allow the mixture to simmer at a reduced heat for up to an h our. The liquid
should reduce to create a smooth yet thick consistency. Serve warm or chilled. Or ganic Field Greens with Apple V inaigrette
1 lar ge Granny Smith apple, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice poured into ½ cup water
¼ cup almonds, roasted
3 cups or ganic field greens
1 cup spinach, washed
¼ cup feta cheese, crumbled
½ cup cherry tomatoes or yellow pear tomatoes
1 cup sunflower or alfalfa sprouts

Dressing
1 cup apple juice
¼ cup balsamic vinegar
¼ cup honey
1 teaspoon tarragon
1 teaspoon thyme
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons basil, chopped
¼ cup olive oil

Soak the chopped apples in the lemon water. Place the almonds on a baking sheet and roast in the oven for 20 minutes or briefly dry sauté them. Combine the dressing ingredients in a blen der minus the olive oil. Blend until smooth. Slowly add
the olive oil and blend until the mixture begins to thicken. Place the greens, drained apples, feta cheese, and tomatoes in a salad bowl. T oss with the dressing. Arrange the salad on a plate and garnish with almonds and sunflower sprouts.Cocoa T ofu Mousse with Almond Praline
2 tablespoons ghee, unsalted butter, or canola oil (for a vegan
dessert)
2 tablespoons apple juice
1 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (T ropical Source)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
12 ounces silken tofu, low-fat, firm or extra firm
¼ cup maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Coconut or fresh fruit for garnish

In a small saucepan, melt the ghee and ap ple juice with the chips and vanilla. Stir frequently to
avoid burn ing. Use a double boiler if you like. When the chips are melted, remove fr om the heat and
stir into a creamy consistency. Set aside. In a blender or food processor, combine tofu, syrup, and vanilla extract. Blend at high speed for
one minute. Scrape the sides down and continue to blend into a smooth consistency. Add the melted
chips to the blender or processor. Continu e to blend until smooth and well incorporated. Spoon the
mousse into small dessert bowls or reserve in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Place in the
refrigerator to chill. Almond Praline
1 tablespoon ghee
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 cup almonds, sliced

Heat the ghee and ma ple syrup in a small sauté pan. Add the almonds. Stirring frequently, coat the
almonds well and sau té until golden brow n. Remove from heat and cool of f. Garnish mousse with
almond praline and coconut or fresh fruit. MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINESpinach and Lentil Soup
Hummus
Quinoa T abouli
Cr eamy T ofu Cucumber and Mint Raita
Ratatouille Stew
Maple W alnut Filo T riangles

Spinach and Lentil Soup
1 teaspoon ghee
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
3 cloves garlic (optional)
1 teaspoon ginger
2 cups leeks or onions
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon rosemary, fresh, chopped
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
½ cup bulgur wheat
1 teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon allspice
1 cup lentils, sorted and rinsed
5 cups vegetable stock
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons tomato paste
4 cups fresh spinach, chopped

In a soup pot, heat the ghee and add the red chili flakes, garlic, ginger, and leeks. Add pepper,
rosemary, and Braggs. Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the bulgur and sauté until gold en brown. Add
the cumin and allspic e and continue to sauté. Add the rinsed lentils, the stock, and  the bay leaves. Bring the soup to a b oil. Add tomato paste and then reduce the heat. Allow the soup  to simmer at a
soft rolling boil until the lentils are soft. Add the spinach and allow to wilt. Divide into soup bowls
with the following garnish. Garnish
¼ cup parsley, freshly chopped
2 cups tomatoes, chopped2 cloves garlic, fresh, minced (optional)

Combine the parsley, tomatoes, and optional garlic and place into individual bowls. Ladle the soup
over the mixture. Hummus
¼ cup parsley, chopped
1 lar ge green onion, chopped, or 1 tablespoon leek, chopped
2 teaspoons minced garlic, or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 cup garbanzo beans soaked overnight and cooked until tender
2 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon cumin
¼ teaspoon cayenne
1 teaspoon dill, dried

Place parsley, green onion, and garlic in a food processor. Use “Pulse” to chop. Add the remaining
ingredients and process until smooth. T aste and adjust lemon juice and/or spices to taste. Hummus
should have a loose consistency but hold together when in a dollop. Quinoa T abouli
1 cup quinoa
2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
½ cup leeks or onions, chopped
¼ cup vegetable stock
2 cups tomatoes, diced, or any combination of vegetables cut
into small cubes (zucchini, squash, carrots, sweet potato)
1 cup garbanzo beans, or white beans, cooked
½ cup Italian parsley, fresh, chopped
¼ cup mint, fresh, chopped
2 tablespoons Kalamata olives, chopped, pits removed
Dressing
¼ cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon dill, dried
½ teaspoon each salt and black pepper
2 cloves garlic, pressed, or 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Add the quinoa and cover with a lid. Reduce the heat and allow to
simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the l iquid is absorbed. Fluf f with a fork and place into mixing
bowl and set aside. H eat sauté pan with ghee or olive oil. Add leeks and sauté briefly. Add vegetable
stock as the mixture begins to dry out. Add 2 cups of vegetables and sauté until lightly browned. Keep the tomatoes fresh. Y ou don’ t need to sauté them. Remove the vegetables from the heat and
cool of f. Combine beans, parsley, mint, an d olives in the bowl with the quinoa. T oss with hands to
combine well (use plastic bags over your hands). In a separate bowl, whisk togeth er the dressing
ingredients and pour over the quinoa mixture. This pilaf can be served hot with an entrée or used as a
stuf fing for vegetables such as artichokes, zucchini, squash. It also makes a great cold salad. Creamy T ofu Cucumber and Mint Raita
6 ounces silken tofu, low-fat, firm or extra firm
¼ cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon dill, dried
2 cucumbers, seeded, peeled, and chopped
½ packed cup mint, freshly chopped
¼ packed cup cilantro, freshly chopped

In a blender or food processor place the tofu, lemon juice, and Braggs. Blend until smooth. Add
the cumin and dill. Remove from the blender and place mixture into a bowl. Add the chopped
cucumber a nd fresh herbs. If the mixture is  too thick, add some apple juice or water to bring it up to a
creamy consistency. Y ou can also use yogurt in place of the tofu. Ratatouille Stew
1 tablespoon olive oil or ghee
2 lar ge leeks, chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid
2 teaspoons Italian spices
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 that many people are not even aware of
any pain, past or present. They busily push it out of sight. Their
problems do not appear as “pain. ” For them, the very rst step is to
become aware that this pain is present and that it hurts innitely
more as long as they have not become aware of it. Many people are
afraid of this pain and like to believe that by ignoring it they can
make it disappear. They chose such a means of relief only because
their conicts have become too great for them. How much more
wonderful it is for a person to choose this path with the wisdom and
conviction that a hidden conict, in the long run, does as much
damage as a manifest one. They will not fear to uncover the realemotion and will feel even in the temporary experienc e of acute
pain, that in that moment it turns into a healthy growing pain, free
of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are also those who tolerate the pain, but in a negat ive way,
always expecting it to be remedied from the outside. Such people
are in a way nearer to the solution because for them it will be quite
easy to see how the childish process still operates. The outside is the
oending parent, or both parents, projected onto other human
beings. They have only to redirect the approach to their pains. They
do not have to nd it. How to Stop Recreating. Only after experiencing all these emotions, and synchronizing the
“now” and the “then,” will you become aware of how you tried to
correct the situation. You will further see the folly of the
unconscious desire to recreate the childhood hurt, the frustrating
uselessness of it. You will survey all your actions and reactions with
this new understanding and insight, whereupon you will release
your parents. You will leave your childhood truly behind and start a
new, inner behavior pattern that will be innitely more constructive
and rewarding for you and for others. You will no longer seek to
master the situation you could not master as a child. You will go on
from where you are, forgetting and forgiving truly inside of you,
without even thinking that you have done so. You will no longer
need to be loved as you needed to be loved when you were a child. First you become aware that this is what you still wish, and then
you no longer seek this kind of love. Since you are no longer a child,
you will seek love in a dierent way, by giving it instead of
expecting it. It must always be emphasized, however, that many
people are not aware that they do expect it. Since the childish,
unconscious expectation was so often disappointed, they made
themselves give up all expectations and all desire for love. Needless
to say, this is neither genuine nor healthy, for it is a wrong extreme. To work on this inner conict is of great importance for all of
you, so that you gain a new outlook and further clarication in your
self-search. At rst these words may give you perhaps only an
occasional glimpse, a temporary ickering emotion in you, but they
should be of help and open a door toward knowing yourself better,
toward evaluating your life with a more realistic and more mature
outlook. Now, are there any questions in connection with this lecture. QUESTION : It is very dicult for me to understand that one continually
chooses a love object who has exactly the same negative trends that one
or the other parent had. Is it reality that this particular person has these
trends. Or is it projection and response. ANSWER : It can be both and it can be either. In fact, most of the
time it is a combination. Certain aspects are unconsciou sly looked
for and found and they are actually similar. But the existing
similarities are enhanced by the person who is doing the recreation. They are not only projected qualities that are not really there, but
are latent in some degree without being manifested. These are
encouraged and strongly brought to the fore by the attitude of the
person with the unrecogniz ed inner problem. He or she fosters
something in the other person by provoking the reaction that is
similar to the parent’s. The provocation, which of course  is entirely
unconscious, is a very strong factor here. The sum total of a human personality consists of many aspects. Out of these, a few may be actually similar to some traits in the
recreator’s parent. The most outstanding would be a similar kind of
immaturity and incapacity to love. That alone is sucient and
potent enough in essence to reproduce the same situation. The same person would not react to others as he or she reacts to
you because it is you who constantly do the provokin g, thereby
reproducing conditions similar to your childhood for you to correct. Your fear, your self-punishment, your frustration, your anger, your
hostility, your withdrawal from giving out love and aection, allthese trends of the child in you constantly provoke the other person
and enhance a response coming from that part which is weak and
immature. However, a more mature person will aect others
dierently and will bring out that in them which is mature and
whole, for there is no person who does not have some mature
aspects. QUESTION : How can I make the distinction as to whether the other
person provoked me or I the other person. ANSWER : It is not necessary to nd who started it, for this is a
chain reaction, a vicious circle. It is useful to start by nding your
own provocation, perhaps in response to an open or hidden
provocation of the other person. Thus you will realize that because
you were provoked, you provoke the other person. And because you
do so, the other again responds in kind. But as you examine your
real reason, not the supercial one, the reason why you were hurt in
the rst place and therefore provoked, according to tonight’s lecture
you will no longer regard this hurt as disastrous. You will have a
dierent reacti on to the hurt, and, as a consequence, the hurt will
diminish autom atically. Therefore, you will no longer feel the need
to provoke the other person. Also, as the need to reproduce the
childhood situation decreases, you will become less withdrawn and
you will hurt others less and less, so that they will not have to
provoke you. If they do, you will now also understand that they
reacted out of the same childish blind needs as you did. Now you
can see how you ascribe dierent motivations to the other person’s
provocation than to your own, even if and when you actually realize
that you initiated the provocation. As you gain a diere nt view on
your own hurt, understandin g its real origin, you will gain the same
detachment from the reaction of the other person. You will nd
exactly the same reactions in yourself and in the other. As long as
the child’s conict remains unresolved in you, the dierence seems
enormous, but when you perceive reality, you begin to break the
repetitive, vicious circle. As you truly perceive such a mutual interplay, it will relieve the
feeling of isolation and guilt you all are burdened with. You are
constantly uctuating between your guilt and your accusation of
injustice you direct at those around you. The child in you feels itself
entirely diere nt from others, in a world of its own. It lives in such
a damaging illusion. As you solve this conict, your awareness of
other people will increase. As yet, you are so unaware of the reality
of other people. On the one hand you accuse them and are
inordinately hurt by them because you do not understand yourself
and therefore do not understand the other person. On the other
hand, and at the same time, you refuse to become aware when you
are hurt. This seems paradoxical, yet is not. As you experience for
yourself the interactions set forth tonight, you will nd this to be
true. While sometimes you may exaggerate a hurt, at other times
you do not allow yourself to know that it happened at all, because it
may not t the picture you have of the situation. It may spoil your
self-constructed idea, or it may not correspond to your desire at the
time. If the situation seems otherwise favorable and ts into your
preconceived idea, you leave out all that jars you, allowing it to
fester underne ath and create unconscious hostility. This entire
reaction inhibi ts your intuitive faculties, at least in this particular
respect. The constant provocation that goes on among human beings,
while it is hidden from your awareness now, is a reality you will
come to perceive very clearly. This will have a very liberating eect
on you and your surroundings. Go your way, my dearest ones, and may the blessings we bring to
all of you envelop and penetrate your body, soul, and spirit, so that
you open up your soul and become your real self, your own real self. Be blessed, my friends, be in peace, be in God.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
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