 spiritual growth and
here in light of current discoveries in
skepticism stems from fear. The more
(10)
phenomenon occurs independently of the
maturation to the most advanced levels
advanced theoretical physics and the
optimistic manner of accepting
test subject's own opinion or knowledge
of consciousness, even enlightenment
nonlinear dynamics of chaos theory.
information arises from self confidence.of the topic, and the response has proven
itself.
Calibrated levels, we suggest, represent
Either style works and each has its pros
cross-culturally valid in any population
powerful attractor Fields within the
By use of the kinesiological testing
and cons. I have been faced, therefore,
and consistent through time. The test
domain of consciousness itself, that
procedure described herein, unlimited
with the problem of presenting my data
results thus fulfill the scientific dominate human existence and therefore
information about any subject, past or
in a (1 1) manner that will satisfy both
requirement of replication and, therefore,
define content, meaning, and value, and
present, is universally available. But the
approaches.
reliable verification by any investigator.
serve as or ganizing ener gies for
realization that everything is knowableThis book is, therefore, oxymoronic in
This technique provides, for the first time
widespread patterns of human behavior.
about anything or anyone, anywhere, at
style, written to facilitate both so-called
in human history, an objective basis for
any point in time, creates at first a
This stratification of attractor Fields
"left" and "right-brain" comprehension.
distinguishing truth from falsehood
paradigm shock. This reaction arises,
according to corresponding levels of
In actuality we know things by a holistic
which is totally verifiable across time
generally, from realization of the non-
consciousness provides a new paradigm
pattern-recognition. The easiest way to
5
6
grasp a whole new concept is by comprehend such subjects from (12) a
participate in the database, everyone by
There's nothing here that is surprising tofamiliarity. This kind of understanding is
purely intellectual viewpoint would be a
virtue of his birth has access to genius.
them. They have always known they
encouraged by a style of writing staggering enterprise requiring a
lifetime The unlimited information contained in
were connected to the database; we
characterized by "closure." Instead of
of study. Instead of essaying so
the database has now been shown to be
adults have merely for gotten it. The
using only sparse adjectives or examples
formidable a task, I have tried to extract
readily available to anyone in a few
inherent genius of the child is close to the
to express thoughts, they are instead run
the essence of each subject and work
seconds, at any time and in any place.
surface, which is why it was children
out and completed by use of repetition.
only with these essences.
This is indeed (13) an astonishing who saw that the emperor was notThe concept is then "done," and the mind
Even a rudimentary attempt to explain
discovery, bearing the power to change
wearing new clothes. Genius is like that.
is left at ease. Such an approach is also
the workings of the testing technique
lives, both individually and collectively,
I will have been successful if by the end
desirable because the mind that reads
fundamental to this book, which seems
to a degree never yet anticipated.
of the book you exclaim, "I always knew
Chapter 3 will not be the same as the
initially to transcend known laws of the
The database transcends time and space
that." What is contained herein is only (14)
mind that read Chapter 1.
universe, inevitably leads us into the
and all limitations of individual a reflection of that which you already
For that matter, the idea of having to start
intellectual territories of advanced
consciousness. This distinguishes it as aknow, but don't know that you know. All
from Chapter I and read progressively to
theoretical physics, nonlinear dynamics
unique tool for future research and opens
I have hoped to do here is connect the
the end is merely a fixed left-brain
and chaos theory. I have therefore
as yet undreamed-of areas for possible
dots to let the hidden picture emer ge.
concept. This is the pedestrian path of
attempted, as much as possible, to
investigation. It holds forth the prospect
This book makes a huge promise,
Newtonian physics, based on a limited
present these subjects in non-technical
of the establishment of an objective basis
perhaps the biggest promise that has ever
and limiting view of the world in which
terms. There is no need to worry that
for human values, behaviors and belief
been made to you. It can provide you the
all events supposedly happen in an A-B-some erudite intellectual capacity is
systems. The information obtained by
means by which you may detect if you
C sequence. This form of myopia arises
required to digest this material. It is not;
this method reveals a new context for
are being misled. (Y ou need never read a
from an outdated paradigm of reality.
we will circle around the same concepts
understanding human behavior and a new
book or buy into any major teaching
Our wider and far more comprehensive
over and over until they are obvious.
paradigm for validating objective truth.
again without testing it first-it's too
view draws not only upon the essence of
Each time we return to comment on an
Because the technique itself can be used
dangerous and too costly.) The level of
the most advanced physics, mathematics
example, greater comprehension will
by anyone, anywhere, at any time, it hastruth of this work itself has been
and nonlinear theory, but, as well, upon
occur. This kind of learning is like
the capacity to initiate a new era of
calibrated at 750 (see Appendix A) which
intuitions that can be experientially surveying new terrain in an airplane:
on human experience based on observable
is unusually high for this time in this
validated by anyone.
the first pass it all looks unfamiliar; the
and verifiable truth.
culture. I pray this is already a partial
In general, the challenge in presenting
second time around we spot some points
W e have at our fingertips a means of
fulfillment of the promise.
this material lies in the paradox of
of reference; the third time it starts to
accurately distinguishing truth from My hope as author has been that this
comprehending nonlinear concepts in a
make sense, and we finally gain
falsehood, workable from unworkable,
work might undo the very sources oflinear, sentence-by-sentence structure. familiarity through simple
exposure. The benevolent from malign. W e can pain, suf fering and
failure, arid assist the The fields of science from which the data
inborn pattern-recognition mechanism of
illuminate the hidden forces, hitherto
evolution of human consciousness in
emer ged are of themselves complex and
the mind takes care of the rest.
overlooked, that determine human each of us to rise to the level of joy
that dif ficult enough: advanced theoretical
T o quell my own fear that perhaps,
behavior. W e have at our disposal a
should be the essence of man's
physics and the mathematics thereof,
despite my best ef forts, the reader might
means of finding answers to previously
experience.
nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory and its
not get the essential message of the
unresolved personal and social problems.
The work comprehended by this book
mathematics, advanced behavioral study, I will spell it out in advances
the Falsehood need no longer hold sway averbegan in January, 1965 and was finally
kinesiology, neurobiology, turbulence individual human mind is like a
computer our lives.
finished in June, 1994. Much of the
theory, as well as the philosophical
terminal connected to a giant database.
Though the subject matter has proved
material was originally developed in the
considerations of epistemology and The database is human
consciousness easy to teach in lecture or videotape (see
course of work on a doctoral dissertation.
ontology. Beyond this, it was necessary
itself, of which our own consciousness is
Appendix C) my problem has been to
The findings reported in the study were
to address the nature of human merely an individual expression, but with
work it into readable form. The proofs
independently derived by the use of the
consciousness itself, an uncharted area at
its roots in the common consciousness of
can be complex. The demonstrations,
research tool elucidated herein, the
the perimeter of which the sciences haveall mankind. This database is the realm of
however, are ultra-simple. Children get it
kinesiological response. The work
all drawn back. T o conclusively genius; because to be human is to
right away and follow with delight.
evolved spontaneously, without reference
7
8
grasp a whole new concept is by comprehend such subjects from (12) a
participate in the database, everyone by
There's nothing here that is surprising to
familiarity. This kind of understanding is
purely intellectual viewpoint would be a
virtue of his birth has access to genius.
them. They have always known they
encouraged by a style of writing staggering enterprise requiring a
lifetime The unlimited information contained


cure. Get rid of cause and stay rid of it, then health returns
and abides perpetually.

 Retrospection

   MORE might have been said, and no doubt better said,
about how we human beings vandalize our minds and
bodies; but enough has been told for open -minded people
to see that the only nemesis on our heels is our habits. O.
W. Holmes, in his “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,”
had this to say concerning habit:

   Habit is the approximation of the animal syst em
of the organic. It is a confession of failure in the
highest function of being, which involves a
perpetual self - determination, in full view of all
existing circumstances.

   Autonomy or self -government is met at the threshold of
life by all the conven tional superstitions, and educated into
a lot of habits, such as curing without removing cause.
This, combined with man’s inclination to hedonism (the
doctrine that pleasure is the only good), leads to a life of
failure, in spite of man’s potential desire to rise above the
forces that hold him down. “Toxemia Explained” will help
all who study it carefully to understand what disease is, and
how it is brought on. This knowledge will help the wise.
and self - controlled to sidestep disease, and the medical
octopus that unwittingly vandalizes the sick.     The profession is made up of an army of educated men;
and I believe the majority are gentlemen, and are
endeavoring to serve humanity. Education and ethics, when
established on fallacy and given the prestige of  numbers —
given an overwhelming majority —can make the fallacy
true, so far as the herd is concerned.

   All I ask of laymen or the profession is honestly to put
my philosophy to the acid test. Yes, prove, if possible, that
I am mistaken, and then give me what is coming to me!

   Man makes his own diseases. This book tells how he does
it. And he is the one who can bring back health. He and his
subconsciousness alone can cure. Doctors cannot cure.
Only very rarely is surgical vandalism a dernier resort,
unless bad treatment forces unnecessary emergencies.

The body is strong or weak, as the case
may be, depending entirely on whether
the nerve -energy is strong or weak.
And it should be remembered that the
functions of the body are carried on
well or badly ac cording to the amount
of energy generated.  A Few Suggestions

   THE following suggestions may be of assistance to those
who wish to maintain their present state of good health, or
help them to bring themselves from their present state of
impaired health  to that of good health. Those who are badly
handicapped, and who wish more detailed information, will
have to have the advice fitted to their particular cases
through individual instructions.

   The first thing on awaking in the morning, the Tilden
system of tensing exercises should be practiced for from
fifteen to thirty minutes. (See exercises at the end of this
chapter.) Following the exercise, go to the bathroom and,
while standing in warm water, take a quick, warm sponge -
bath. Then follow this with plenty of dry -towel or friction -
mitten rubbing. At night, before retiring, give the body a
thorough friction rubbing again. If not convenient to take
the warm sponge -bath in the morning, use the dry rub in the
morning and the warm sponge -bath at night befo re retiring.

   Eat three meals a day and no more; no eating nor drinking
between meals. Use the following rules to guide you in
“when to eat, when not to eat, and how to eat”:
    Rule No. 1. —Never eat unless you have been absolutely
comfortable in min d and body from the previous mealtime.

   Rule No. 2. —Thoroughly masticate and insalivate every
mouthful of starchy food, and give the rest of your food
plenty of attention.

   Rule No. 3. —Never eat without a keen relish.

   If the bowels do not move  during the day, before retiring
at night use a small enema —a pint of warm water. Put it
into the bowels and allow it to remain for five to ten
minutes; then solicit a movement. Proper mastication, right
combinations of food, and plenty of tensing exercise  to the
abdomen will bring about proper bowel action.
   As to what to eat —For those in ordinarily good health the
following rules will serve as a guide:
Fruit Breakfast
Starch Lunch
Regulation Dinner

or

 Starch Breakfast
Fruit Lunch
Regulation Di nner
   The regulation dinner may be taken at noon in place of
the lunch, if it is more convenient.

   Fruit Breakfast. —Any kind of fresh fruit or berries
followed with either milk, fifty -fifty (half warm milk and
half hot water), or teakettle tea (hot w ater with two or three
tablespoons of cream to the cup).

   Starch Breakfast. —Toast, Shredded Wheat, Triscuit, Rye
Crisp, well -baked muffins, corn bread or biscuit, griddle -
cakes, waffles, cooked cereal (any one of foregoing),
followed with fresh or cook ed fruit, without sugar. The dry
starches should be eaten with a little butter, and not soaked
up with milk or cream. This insures thorough mastication.
The cereals should be taken with a little cream and salt —no
milk or sugar. The griddle -cakes and waffle s may be
accompanied with honey and butter, followed with teakettle
tea.

   If desired, the starch breakfast may be followed with
fresh fruit instead of a beverage.
    Starch Lunch. —The same as the starch breakfast.
Occasionally a piece of plain cake a nd ice -cream.

   Fruit Lunch. —The same as the fruit breakfast.
Occasionally a piece of fruit pie and a piece of cheese, or
some form of dessert, followed with fresh fruit.

   Regulation Dinner. —No. 1: Meat, two cooked non -
starchy vegetables, and a com bination salad.

   No. 2: Starch, two cooked non -starchy vegetables, and a
combination salad.

   Meat: Any kind of fresh meat, cheese, nuts, eggs, bacon,
fish, or fowl.

   Starch: Potatoes (sweet or Irish), macaroni, rice, Hubbard
squash, dry beans a nd peas, tapioca, pumpkin, or any of the
starches listed above.

   Cooked Non -starchy Vegetables: Beets, carrots, parsnips,
cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, green corn,
green beans and peas, asparagus, onions, eggplant, salsify,
tomatoes,  cucumbers, celery, spinach, greens, summer
squash, etc.
    Combination Tilden Salad: Lettuce, tomatoes, and
cucumber; lettuce, celery and apple; lettuce, apple, and
orange, or any other fruit. Dress with salt, oil, and lemon
juice.

   Regulation Dinne r No. 1 —should be taken every other
day, and Dinner No. 2 the alternate days.

   Of course, there are many variations and additions to the
above suggestions, but details cannot he gone into in this
book. Those who wish to have more detailed suggestions
should read the monthly periodical, Dr. Tilden’s Health
Review and Critique, and his Cook Book.

 DR. Tilden’s Tensing Exercises

   Begin by tensing the leg muscles from the toes to the
body, as follows: First extend the toes as far as you can;
then grip, as it were, by forcing the toes forward toward the
heels, and at the same time make the muscles of the legs
hard to the body. Completely relax. Do not repeat the
tension again until muscles are soft; then tense again,
repeating the contraction and e xtension.

   Tense the hands and arms in the same way. Extend the
fingers as far as possible, making the muscles hard to the
shoulders; then grip the fingers and shut the fist, hardening
the muscles to the shoulders. Do this five times; then tense
the le gs five times; then the hands and arms again.

   Fold a pillow and put under the shoulders, so that when
the head drops back it will not touch anything. Lift the head
forward, the chin to the chest; drop the head back again as
far as it will go; then lif t. Do this four or five times. Then,
with the pillow still under the shoulders, lock the fingers
under the head, allowing the head to rest in the hands.
Swing the head from side to side, up and down, and rotate,
carrying each movement as far as possible.
    Then push the folded pillow down under the hips and go
through the leg movements of riding a bicycle. Then, with


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1 )(l, 117, 119, 121. 124-2 6,
14h-63, 166-70, 172-7 h,
179, 182, 1HJ, 185, 190-9 1,
194, 197,216 -18,231-33
Taste, sense of, 186, 1 HH, 1Y2. 194
Teeth Chatter (exercise), 183
Tern pic, Robert, 11-12
"Ten Fragrances" (poem),
188, 191
Three Fountains (love game),
210-12
Ting Wen-cheng, 8
Tongue Sweep (love game), 203
Touch, sense of, 186-87, 192-96
Tsai Nu (Iridescent Maid), 82,
95-96, 116-17
Tsao Hsueh-chin, 71
TsuiShih.51-52.91-92
Tu Mu, 31
Tung Chih, 39
Tung Hsuan Tzu. See The Mys tic
Ma ster of the Grotto
Twin Fountains (love game), 211
Twin Phoenixes Dancing (inter
course position), 110
Tzu-hai (Empress Dowager, West
ern Empress), 7, 39-40
Unicorn's Horn (love-play posi
tion), 100
Vajrayana Buddhism, 17-18
Van de Vclde, Theodor e, 4, 168
Van Gulik, R. H., 17
Victorian ism, 161, 165, 167, 233
Virginity
obsession with, 25
wedding-night loss of, 57-58,
61-62
Visit to an Immor tal Grotto, A
( Yu Hsien Ku; Chang
Wcn-chcng), 60-61
Voronoff, Serge, 162
Wang (empress), 50 Wang Chao-d nu:n, 52
W.mg Shi-fu, M-6 6 ltrdex
Wl'i ( l'lll pl·ror, A. n. 290-307). 49
Wei, Princl' ot: 35
Wl'i Chung (tcnth- Cl'ntu r y
l'lllPl'ror). 45
Wes£l'rn Empress (T:r.u-hai,
Empress Dow.lgl·r). 7,
JtJ-4 0
Whimsical inter cour se positions,
22(>. St>c,,/so indi t,idually
lllltllc d positi om
Whippk and Perry (Beverly and
John), 16lJ-70
Whispering Endearm ents (love
play position), 100
White Tiger Jumping (intercourse
position). 111
Wild Ducks Flying Back-
ward (intercourse
position), 110, 222
Wild Horses Leaping (itHercoursc
position), 1 11, 112. 221,
228 -29, 234
Wrestling Apes (intercourse posi-
tion), 105-6, 109, 112. 221
Wu (Han emperor). 141
Wu San-kuei, 53
Wu Tse-tien. 50-5 1,90-91
Wu Tsung, 46
Wu Tzu-tu, 118
Wu-chia- pi (wu-c lzia), 143
Yang (Sui emperor). 36-38,
52. 136
Yang (Imperial Concubine),
47- 48
Yang Tieh-yai (scholar), 30
Yang. See Yin and Yang
Yao Niang, 28-2 9
Yasuyori, Tamba, 83-84
Yeh Tch-hui, 84
Yellow Emperor (Huang Ti), 41,
81, 82, 88, 93-95, 98-99,
103-4, 115, 117
Yellow vetch (huan.�-chi), 143
Yen Feng, 7
Yin and Yang. 5, 9-11, 15, 18, 39,
42, 56, 61-62, 81, 82, 89,
93-95, 101' 122. 137, 147,
155, 166, 184, 189, 200
symbols of. 22-24 Yu Hsicn-chi, 31
H1 Fan.e Chih }iw (Essc lltial s 4
the Jade Ch amber ). 84,
95-96, 118
Yu Fang Pi Clmeh (The Secret Art t�{
the Jadt> Chamber ), 84, 86, 89, 117, 118
y,, Hsim Ku (A Visit to an Immor tal
Grotto ; Chang Wen-cheng),
60-61
Yuan dynasty, 6, 125
consorts, 45-46 emperors/ em presses, 45-46
erotica, 63-64, 66
Yuch Ling, 48
Zen Buddhism, 12, 17, 144, 147,
150, 151, 217 A1out the Author
VALENTIN CHu was born and educated in Shanghai. As a winner
of an international writing award, he was invited to be a guest ob
server at United Nations headquart ers in New York. He worked
as a correspondent for Time magazine in Hong Kong, then as an
editor at Time-Life Books in New York and, later, at Reader's Di
gest General Books. His byline articles have appeared in Time,
L�fe, US. News & World Report, The New Leader, and the US. Con
gressional Record, and in periodicals in Britain, France, Italy, and
the Far East. For the past decade, Chu has been a student of an
cient Chinese sexology. He has always been fascinated by the in
terplay between East and West, in sexology and other fields. He
now lives in the San Francisco Bay area. <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>

If Transmission Through Exhaled Breath Hasn't
Been Proven, All Other Findings Are Irrelevant
Dear friends,

People around the world are bei ng led into an increasingly down trodden and disease-
laden state, not by some viral i nfection but by wildly unscient ific “science.”  A study
published in the April 2020 Natur e magazine that reports that w earing masks can slow
the spread of the virus is an example of such deception.  As I will show, the authors of
this article repeatedly make uns upportable claims, and even pre sent data that
cast doubt on their own methodology.  The peer reviewers of Nature apparently
didn’t catch these obvious contr adictions.  Let’s look in some detail at the statements
and claims (in italics below) in this paper.

“We found that the majority of participants with  influenza virus and coronavirus infection
did not shed detectable virus in re spiratory droplets or aerosols.”

This statement imp lies that the authors looked for and found de tectable virus in
some respiratory droplets and ae rosols (but only in a minority of their subjects, who
were actively sick — itself a surprising finding).  It is widel y known that the only way to
prove the presence o f a virus in a sample is to actually see th e virus under electron
microscopy.  There is no menti on of having done any electron mi croscopy on any
sample. When they claim they did not detect virus, what they me an is that the surrogate
PCR test, which detects fragments of genetic material, was posi tive.  However, nowhere
in the medical literature is ther e conclusive proof that this g enetic material originates
from any novel virus.

“Another limitation is that we did not confirm the infectivity of coronavirus or rhinovirus
detected in exhaled breath.”

The premise of mandating the wear ing of masks is that it preven ts transmission of
disease. Neither this study, nor any other study we’ve seen, proves tran smission
of any disease through exhaled breath. Amazingly, these author s acknowledge they
didn’t even attempt to prove trans mission. What’s more amazing is that this study is
being used as evidence that wearin g masks is an effective metho d of preventing or
lowering the incidence o f disease transmission. If transmission through breath can’t
be proven, then all other findings  in this study are rendered i rrelevant.

"After one or more of the candidate respirat ory viruses was detected by the viral panel
from the nasal swab, all the samples from the same participant (nasal swab, throat
swab, respiratory droplets and aerosols) were  then tested with RT–PCR specific for the
candidate virus(es) for determinat ion of virus concentration in  the samples. Infectious
influenza virus was identified by viral cultur e using MDCK cells as  described previously,
whereas


 make to counteract that habit that
seems to require an effort.
     T o illustrate this, take the example of a closed fist. The natural condition
of the hand is open and relaxed. However, a hand which has been clenched
for some time will become accustomed to this new position which, if main -
tained, will seem to become its new norm. In order to return the hand to its
natural position of openness and relaxation, an effort will initially be required.
130take refuge in the now
     Once the hand has been open for some time, no effort will be required
to maintain it; it has simply returned to its natural position. In fact, the effort
to open the hand was not really a new effort. It was simply the relaxation of
a previous  effort which had become so habitual that it was no longer noticed
as such.
     The return to our true nature of peace and happiness proceeds in a similar
way. What may at first seem to be an effort to disentangle our self from the
content of experience is, in fact, the relaxation of a previous effort of which
we were unaware. It only seems to be an effort because we had become so
habituated to an almost constant state of more or less subtle seeking and
resisting.
     In time, as we become accustomed to resting in or as being, less and less
effort will be required, because the habit of losing our self in, or identifying
our self with, the objective content of experience will have become weakened
by practice, just as a rocket requires less energy to navigate space once it has
escaped the gravitational pull of the earth.
     At some point, resting as being is felt and understood to be our natural
condition. As we abide more and more in our self, our deep-seated tendencies
gradually come to the surface and are dissolved. The almost constant state
of dissatisfaction that seemed to have accompanied us most of our life simply
leaves us, without our necessarily even noticing.
     At this point, no further practice is required. The practice of returning
again and again to our essential being turns into the love of simply being.
And in that love of simply being, the peace and joy which is our nature
shines forth.

131 chapter seventeen
Attending to Painful Emotions
In the depths of winter, I finally learned
that within me there lay an invincible summer.
albert camus

three ways to attend to painful emotions

From the non-dual perspective, what is the best way to deal with really intense,
painful emotions?

The impulse to avoid the dissatisfaction of our current experience can be fol -
lowed in one of three directions: one, outwards towards an object, substance,
activity or relationship in an attempt to escape the discomfort of it; two,
inwards to the self on whose behalf the sense of lack arises; or three, towards
the feeling of lack or dissatisfaction itself.
     The first approach could be called the way of avoidance and is the default
approach for most people. The second could be called the way of self-enquiry
or investigation, and the third, the way of openness.
     In the way of avoidance, the intense, painful emotion is considered un -
bearable and we distract ourself from it with objects, substances, activities
and relationships. In this case the sense of lack, and the separate self or ego
on whose behalf it arises, will remain intact, albeit temporarily masked by
the distraction. However, as soon as the object, substance, activity or rela -
tionship has passed or changed, the underlying sense of lack will resurface.
     In an attempt to avoid it, we may again turn away from it towards the
distraction of our choice, only this time a slightly stronger dose will be
required. In this way a perpetual cycle of lack, avoidance, temporary fulfilment
and inevitable failure will lead eventually to despair and, often, addiction.
     T o illustrate the difference between the second and third approaches –
the way of enquiry or investigation and the way of openness – imagine  you are the happiness you seek
a professional boxing match. When the two boxers are at a distance of about
one metre from one another, they are dangerous and in danger. In the in -
terval between rounds, each goes to his respective corner, where he is safe.
However, during the fight itself it is not possible for either boxer to retire to
his corner. So what does a boxer do if he wants respite from the intensity of
the fight? He comes close to his opponent and wraps his arms around him
in a ‘clinch’, thereby neutralising him. He finds safety in closeness.
     The path of self-enquiry is the equivalent of the break that the boxers
take between rounds. That is, in self-enquiry we increase  the apparent dis -
tance between our self and our suffering. We disengage from the struggle
with our emotions, trace our way back through the layers of our experience,
and come to rest in and as the presence of awareness.
     In reality, awareness is so utterly, intimately one with all experience that
it cannot separate itself from any experience and stand at a distance from it,
any more than a screen can be separated from an image. At the same time,
awareness is utterly free and independent from the content of experience.
So the analogy of the boxers retiring to their respective corners is simply
meant to illustrate this disentanglement from the content of experience and
the return to the peace of our true nature.
     In other words, in the way of enquiry or investigation, we turn away from
the feeling and investigate the suffering self: Who is this ‘I’ on whose behalf
my suffering arises? The way of self-enquiry is, as such, an inward-facing
path, in which we turn away from the unpleasant emotion and question the
‘I’ at its heart, thereby tracing our way back to our essential, irreducible
being, the presence of awareness. It is often initiated, at least in the early
stages, by a process of negation or discrimination, in which we discard every
aspect of our experience that is not essential to us: ‘I am not this, not this,
not this’. In the Western tradition it is known as the Via Negativa.

In the way of openness, we turn towards  the unpleasant emotion and em -
brace it.  This is like the clinch during the boxing match. We decrease  the
distance between our self and our suffering. We turn towards  it. We embrace
the danger, neutralising it in our welcoming presence.
     In fact, we need not turn towards any afflictive emotion; it would be
enough to cease turning away from it. The presence of awareness that we
essentially are is already turned towards, or open without resistance to,
134attending to painful emotions
all experience. This openness is what we are, not what we do. It does not
need to be practised.
     However, all psychological suffering arises because we have temporarily
forgotten or overlooked that we are this resistanceless presence of awareness
and, as a result, have mistaken our self for a separate self or ego. Therefore,
it is legitimate to suggest to this apparently separate self or ego that it turn
towards the suffering that it would normally seek to avoid.
     Some courage may initially be needed as we face the discomfort of the
sense of lack from which we have been in flight for much of our lives. How -
ever, by facing the sense of lack in this way we will be withholding from it
the one thing that it requires for its survival, namely, our resistance to it.
     By welcoming what was previously unacceptable to us we are, without
necessarily realising it at first, taking our stand as the presence of awareness,
and it is only a matter of time before the peace and joy that is its very nature
will begin to emerge and percolate into the foreground of experience.
     In the way of openness, we go deeply into the emotion itself and find at
its very core the peace we previously sought by avoiding it. It is a path in
which we turn towards  the content of experience. It is the way of surrender,
of embrace, the way of ‘yes’, the Via Positiva.
     T o summarise the distinction between these two approaches, when we
say, ‘I feel lonely’, there are two elements to the experience: I, myself, and
the feeling of loneliness. In the way of self-enquiry or investigation, we explore
the ‘I’ and ignore the loneliness; in the way of openness, we embrace the
loneliness and ignore the ‘I’.
     It is legitimate to explore either of these approaches. Both pathways,
if followed all the way, lead to the same conclusion, namely, the dissolution
of the sense of separation and the suffering that inevitably attends it, and the
return to the peace and happiness that is our natural condition.

investigating the ‘i’

I understand this approach in theory, but can you give an example of what the
way of investigation looks like in practice?

Imagine someone were to say to you, ‘Isn’t it a beautiful day today?’ Would
you be upset by it?
135you are the happiness you seek
No.

You hear the words, you register their meaning and they vanish without leaving
any trace in you, and without your wanting either to hold on to them be -
cause they are so pleasant or to get rid of them because they are so unpleasant.
But imagine that someone


expenditures,	including	food	bought	by	individuals,	government	and	business,
exceed	$700	billion	a	year
.
1
The	massive	drug	company	Pfizer	had	$32	billion	in	revenue	in	2002,
while	Eli	Lilly	&	Co.	chalked	up	over	$11	billion.	Johnson	and	Johnson
collected	over	$36	billion	from	selling	their	products.	It’s	not	an
overstatement	to	say	over	a	trillion	dollars	every	year	is	riding	on	what	we
choose	to	eat	and	how	we	choose	to	treat	sickness	and	promote	health.	That’s
a	lot	of	money.
There	are	powerful	players	that	compete	for	your	food	and	health
dollars.
Individual	companies,	of	course,	do	what	they	can	to	sell	more	of	their
products,	but	also	there	are	industry	groups	that	work	to	increase	generaldemand	for	their	products.	The	National	Dairy	Council,	National	Dairy
Promotion	and	Research	Board,	National	Fluid	Milk	Processor	Promotion
Board,	International	Sprout	Growers	Association,	American	Meat	Institute,
Florida	Citrus	Processors	Association,	and	United	Egg	Producers	are
examples	of	such	industry	groups.	These	organizations,	operating
independently	of	any	single	company,	wield	significant	influence—the	most
powerful	among	them	have	yearly	budgets	in	the	hundreds	of	millions	of
dollars.
These	food	companies	and	associations	use	whatever	methods	they	can	to
enhance	their	products’	appeal	and	grow	their	market.	One	way	to	accomplish
this	is	to	claim	nutritional	benefits	for	the	food	products	they	sell.	At	the	same
time,	these	companies	and	associations	must	protect	their	products	from	being
considered	unhealthy.	If	a	product	is	linked	to	cancer	or	some	other	disease,
profits	and	revenue	will	evaporate.	So	food	business	interests	need	to	claim
that	their	product	is	good	for	you,	or,	at	least,	that	it’s	not	bad	for	you.	In	this
process,	the	“science”	of	nutrition	becomes	the	“business”	of	marketing.THE	AIRPORT	CLUB
While	I	was	getting	the	China	Study	off	the	ground,	I	learned	of	a	committee
of	seven	prominent	research	scientists	who	had	been	retained	by	the	animal-
based	foods	industry	(the	National	Dairy	Council	and	the	American	Meat
Institute)	to	keep	tabs	on	any	research	projects	in	the	U.S.	likely	to	cause
harm	to	their	industry.	I	knew	six	of	the	seven	members,	four	of	them	quite
well.	A	graduate	student	of	mine	was	visiting	with	one	of	these	scientists	and
was	given	a	file	on	the	committee	activity.	I	have	never	learned	exactly	why
the	file	passed	hands.	Perhaps	the	scientist’s	conscience	was	getting	the	better
of	him.	In	any	case,	the	file	was	ultimately	given	to	me.
The	file	contained	minutes	of	committee	meetings,	the	latest	being	held	at
Chicago’s	O’Hare	Airport.	From	then	on,	I	have	called	this	group	of	scientists
“The	Airport	Club.”	It	was	run	by	Professors	E.	M.	Foster	and	Michael
Pariza,	faculty	members	of	the	University	of	Wisconsin	(where	Alf	Harper
was	located),	and	was	funded	by	the	meat	and	dairy	industry.	This
committee’s	main	objective	was	to	have	members	observe	projects	that	might
do	“harm”	to	their	industry.	With	such	surveillance,	the	industry	could	more
effectively	respond	to	unexpected	discoveries
from	researchers	that	might
make	otherwise	unanticipated	news.	I	had	learned	well	that,	when	the	stakes
are	high,	industry	was	not	averse	to	putting	its	own	spin	on	a	story.
They	listed	about	nine	potentially	damaging	projects,	and	I	had	the
dubious	distinction	of	being	the	only	researcher	responsible	for	two	of	the
projects.	I	was	named	once	for	the	China	Study,	which	one	of	the	members
was	assigned	to	watch	over,	and	once	for	my	association	with	the	American
Institute	for	Cancer	Research	(AICR),	especially	my	chairing	of	the	review
panel	that	decided	which	research	applications	on	diet	and	cancer	got	funded.
Another	panel	member	had	the	task	of	keeping	an	eye	on	the	AICR	activity.
After	learning	of	The	Airport	Club,	and	of	the	individual	assigned	to
watch	over	me	at	the	AICR	grant	meetings,	I	was	in	a	position	to	see	how	his
spying	was	going	to	unfold.	I	went	into	the	first	AICR	review	panel	meeting
after	learning	of	the	Club	with	an	eye	on	the	spy	who	was	keeping	an	eye	on
me!
One	might	argue	that	this	industry-funded	“spying”	was	not	illegal,	and
that	it	is	prudent	for	a	business	to	keep	tabs	on	potentially	damaging
information	that	might	affect	its	future.	I	agree	completely,	even	if	it	was
disconcerting	to	find	myself	on	the	list	of	those	being	spied	on.	But	industry
does	more	than	just	keep	tabs	on	“dangerous”	research.	It	actively	markets	its
version,	regardless	of	potentially	disastrous	health	effects,	and	corrupts	the
integrity	of	the	science	to	do	so.	This	is	especially	troubling	when	academicscientists	do	the	spying	and	hide	their	intentions.POWERFUL	GROUPS
The	dairy	industry,	one	of	the	sponsors	of	The	Airport	Club,	is	particularly
powerful	in	this	country.	Founded	in	1915,	the	well-organized,	well-funded
National	Dairy	Council	has	been	promoting	milk	for	almost	a	hundred	years.
2
In	1995,	two	major	milk	industry	groups	put	a	new	face	on	their	old
establishment,	renaming	it	Dairy	Management,	Inc.	The	purpose	of	this	new
group	was	“to	do	one	thing:	increase	demand	for	U.S.-produced	dairy
products,”	to	cite	their	Web	site.
3
	They	had	a	2003	marketing	budget	of	more
than	$165	million	to	do	it.
4
	In	comparison,	the	National	Watermelon
Promotion	Board	has	a	budget	of	$1.6	million.
5
	A	Dairy	Management,	Inc.,
press	release	includes	the	following	items
4
:
Rosemont,	Illinois—National,	state	and	regional	dairy	producer
directors	have	approved	a	budget	of	$165.7	million	for	a	2003	Unified
Marketing	Plan	(UMP)	designed	to	help	increase	dairy	demand.…
…	Major	program	areas	include:
Fluid	Milk:	In	addition	to	key	ongoing	activities	in	advertising,
promotion	and	public	relations	efforts	targeted	to	children	ages	six	to
twelve	and	their	mothers,	2003	dairy	checkoff	efforts	will	focus	on
developing	and	extending	partnerships	with	major	food	mar	keters,
including	Kellogg’s®,	Kraft	foods®	and	McDonald’s®.…
…	School	Marketing:	As	part	of	an	effort	to	guide	school-age
children	to	become	life-long	consumers	of	dairy	products,	2003
activities	will	target	students,	parents,	educators	and	school	food-
service	professionals.	Programs	are	underway	in	both	the	classroom
and	the	lunchroom,	where	dairy	checkoff	organizations	look	to	widen
the	success	of	last	year’s	School	Milk	Pilot	Test.…
…	Dairy	Image/Confidence:	This	ongoing	program	area	aims	to
protect	and	enhance	consumer	confidence


 has be en recontextualized, harmonized, and
balanced with responsibility and conscientious, internalized morality.
Guilt can then be accepted when it is recontextualized as being
protective, a safeguard, and a mechanism of learning.
Guilt is  unpleasant because it is associated with loss of love and
disapproval of internalized par ental figures, along with loss of self-
esteem. It is often used as a too l to control others (‘guilt monge rs’). It is
also sym bolic o f rejection, disgrace, and loss of status. From religion, it
becomes closely associated wi th sin and fear of the God w ho threw
Adam and Eve o ut of the Garde n of Eden, which marked the onset of the
historic origins of the karma of simply being a human and thus prone to
error and defiance of Divine authority. Upon examination, the error
appears to be on e of uncontrolled infantile curiosity, so the serpent was
successful in tempting the curious inner child who is gullible and naive.
A useful interpretation and use  for guilt is respect for parameters and
boundaries. Thereby, guilt and fear are matured into caution and wisdom.
This results in respect for mor al precepts and boundaries that replace
guilt and  eventuate as character traits that support survival, success, and
happiness.
The ego  also hates those who m ake it feel guilty, which contr ibutes to
immature hatred  of all authority that is then misperceived as being
arbitrary, authoritarian, and repressive instead of benignly pr otective.
Because guilt is viewed as painful, another mechanism to avoi d it is by
denial a nd projection of responsibility onto others via blame, whichameliorates the  pain of the conscience and, in addition, justifies
externalized hatred that otherwise might have been used to attack the
self. Soc iety is therefore eager to accuse and af fix blame, and it  searches
endlessly for guilty culprits upon whom blame and hatred can be
guiltlessly projected (e.g., the paradox of ‘hating sin’).

Unconscious Guilt.
In norm al persons, deviation from truth and honesty results in the
accumulation of guilt that is th en repressed because of its unpleasant,
painful n ature. Thus, over time, a sizable reservoir of guilt accumulates,
which escapes attention or awareness unless discovered by periodic,
fearless inventor ies. This is a very common condition that contr ibutes to
social di scord an d contention. Moral/ethical lapses are often excused by
rationalization, but the unconscious mind is not fooled by deception and
innately knows when it is being lied to by self or others.
A comm on social source stems f rom the current proclivity for persuasive
politicalization of all aspects of society that then requires rationalized
justifications. This results in distorting evidence that would weaken the
positionality. An example would be the ar guments against any reference
to relig ion or Divinity in pub lic. The ar guments ‘against’ cite the
constitutional “m ake no law respecting an establishment of a religion,”
but t hen purposely do not finish the cited sentence that goes on t o say “or
prohibiting the free exercise the reof.” The Constitution is Deistic but not
theistic, a major dif ferentiation.
The presentation  of half-truths i n order to win a position is rat ionalized
and the guilt suppressed. Examples abound regarding opposition to
social programs that opponent s purposely fail to report are strictly
voluntary, or the support of perpetrators’ rights that ignore the rights of
victims. Accumulation of social guilt eventuates as overt projected
accusations or vilifications that then require further justification
reinforced by further subtle distortions and elaborate rhetoric.
Guilt an d hatred  are ameliorated by the acceptance of the limitations of
the e go/mind with its inherent s tructure and operational defects. Instead
of hatred, it becomes sad to see people destroying their own live s as well
as the lives of o thers. It is also  quite apparent that there is no profit in
hating them. The capacity for for giveness arises from accept ing withhonest humility the limitations inherent in the human condition itself,
which is, after all, merely on a learning curve of the evo lution of
consciousness. It was only in the last twenty years that the overall
consciousness level of mankind even crossed over the level of T ruth at
200, and seventy-eight percent of the world’ s population still calibrates
below 200, (forty-nine percent in America).

Guilt and the Pr ocess of Spiritual Evolution.
Spiritual aspiran ts often ask wh ere to begin the inner work and how to
proceed. First, there is usually a period of acquisition of spiritual
knowledge through study, by visiting spiritual groups, or attending
lectures, meetings, or retreats. Then begins the focus on the inner journey
of self-e xploration that, to be successful, should have some overall
direction rather than proceeding in sporadic fits and starts that all too
often result in discouragement or abandonment of the project altogether.
V ery imp ortantly, before taking an inner moral inventory, it is essential to
become knowledgeable about on e’ s own conscience and how it operates.
It is important for it to become benign and be utilized constructively, for
if no t re contextualized, it ends up with self-blame or an increase of guilt,
shame, or the lo ss of self-esteem. It must be clearly seen that a ll defects
are intrinsic to the ego structure itself, which is naive and u nable to
discern appearance from essenc e. It actually does not have the capacity
to know truth from falsehood about either the world or the personal self.
It is best to speak to the inner conscience and commit it to bec oming a
useful ally and teacher rather  than a sadistic self-perpetrator. It is
important to decisively bind its purpose to be educative. One must make
a decision that a  mature conscience is a useful tool and a help ful guide
with which one is in accord by the choice of one’ s own will. By exercise
of the will, the conscience can then be prohibited from becoming just
another self-indulgent, wallowing-in-guilt, paradoxically egoistic
perpetrator.
It is good to be aware that wearing sackcloth and ashes may be
melodramatic, but it is useless to the world or spiritual integrity and is
actually a sly self-indulgence. Guilt can be replaced with just a decent
regret as  an inherited human limitation, in contrast to which perfection is
an equa lly unrealistic idealization. Guilt is alleviated by acceptance oflimitation that, in turn, is a positive consequence of humility. Thereby,
guilt can be rejected as merely another form of self-indulgence.
Self-honesty requires courage, humility, patience, and compassion for
the i mmature aspects of the con science, which, after all, arose o riginally
as a  product of childhood. Therefore, it has a tendency toward
exaggeration, or alternately, to being dismissed if it stands in the way of
impulsiveness. The task is to honestly acknowledge inner defects or
faults of character without trigg ering guilt attacks of self-hatred, anger,
or resentment of self or others.
The ego /mind is a learned set of behaviors, and the ultimate g oal is to
transcend its programming and functioning by virtue of the power of the
Radiance of the Self, which recontextualizes life benignly. The Presence
of the Self is experienced as  compassion for all of life in all its
expressions, including its evolution as one’ s personal sel f. As a
consequence, for giveness replaces condemnation, which is a si gn that it
is no w safe to proceed deeper into serious inner inventory witho ut undue
stress.
The above process represents th e collective wisdom of the total ity of the
very suc cessful twelve-step sel f-help groups, as well as others. It also
represents the basic premise that  is followed in in-depth analysis, such as
psychoanalysis, where the basic rule is to always approach the
exploration of intrapsychic conflicts first from the side of the superego. It
is al so h elpful to  remember that the world benefits from wisdom and not
from hatred, blame, or guilt. On the road of inner discovery, one comes
across memories and events that are deserving of regret and simply result
in the decision to do better.
Another very useful tool in spiritual and therapeutic work is a sense of
humor to  of fset the downside of the worldly theater of the absur d and its
outrageous slings and arrows. Humor is the consequence of seeing
through the illusions of paradox.
While th e great teachers taught that the basic human defect is ignorance,
it is  even more  helpful to see  human limitation as naïveté, which is
primarily a shortcoming. W ith adequate preparation, inner work and
rigorous self-honesty can be taken on safely without falling into shame,
despair, hopelessness, self-condemnation, depression, or loss of self-esteem. As the crook remarked when caught red-handed, “W ell,
nobody’ s perfect, are they?”
While w orld religions have formal periods


 of
form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to
the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.A New Earth
G I V I N G  U P  R O L E? P L A Y I N G
T o do whatever is required of you in any situation without it becoming a
role that you identify with is an essential lesson in the art of living that
each one of us is here to learn. Y ou become most powerful in whatever
you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means
to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity. Every role is a
fictitious sense of self, and through it everything becomes personalized
and thus corrupted and distorted by the mind?made little me and
whatever role it happens to be playing. Most of the people who are in
positions of power in this world, such as politicians, TV personalities,
business as a well as religious leaders, are completely identified with
their role, with a few notable exceptions. They may be considered VIPs,
but they are no more than unconscious players in the egoic game, a game
that looks so important yet is ultimately devoid of true purpose. It is, in
the words of Shakespeare, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing. Amazingly, Shakespeare arrived at this conclusion
without having the benefit of television. If the egoic earth drama has any
purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suf fering on
the planet, and suf fering, although lar gely ego?created, is in the end also
ego?destructive. It is the fire in which the ego burns itself up.
In a world of role playing personalities, those few people who don't
project a mind made image and other are some even on TV, in the media,
and the business world but function from the deeper core of their Being,
those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply
themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly
make a dif ference in this world. They are the bringers of the new
consciousness. Whatever they do becomes empowered because it is in
alignment with the purpose of the whole. Their influence, however, goes
far beyond what they do, far beyond their function. Their mere presence
simple, natural, unassuming has a transformational ef fect on whoever
they come into contact with.When you don't play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do.
There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of yourself.
As a result, your actions have far greater power. Y ou are totally focused
on the situation. Y ou become one with it. Y ou don't try to be anybody in
particular. Y ou are most powerful, most ef fective, when you are
completely
yourself. But don't try to be yourself That's another role. It's called
natural, spontaneous me. As soon as yo are trying to be this or that, you
are playing a role. Just be yourself is good advice, but it can also be
misleading. the mind will come in and say, Let's see. How can I be
myself? Then, the mind will develop some kind of strategy: How to be
myself. Another role. How can I be myself? is, in fact, the wrong
yourself. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how
doesn't apply here because you are yourself already. Just stop adding
unnecessary baggage to who you already are. But I don't know who I am.
I don't know what it means to be myself. If you can be absolutely
comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you
are the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality other than
something that is already defined.
Give up defining yourself to yourself or to others. Y ou won't die. Y ou
will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you.
When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem.
Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function
or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence.
Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption,
one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am
not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in
order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I
can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath
your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one
with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some,
superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to
anyone. T rue self?esteem and true humility arise out of that realization.
In the eyes of the ego, self?esteem and humility are contradictory. In
truth, they are one and the same.A New Earth
T H E  P A T H O L O G I C A L  E G O
In a wider sense of the word, the ego itself is pathological, no matter
what form it takes. When we look at the ancient Greek root of the word
pathological, we discover just how appropriate that term is when applied
to the ego. Although the word is normally used to describe a condition of
disease, it is derived from pathos, which means suf fering. This is, of
course, exactly what the Buddha already discovered 2,600 years ago as a
characteristic of the human condition.
A person in the grip of ego, however, does not recognize suf fering as
suf fering, but will look upon it as the only appropriate response in any
given situation. The ego in is blindness is incapable of seeing the
suf fering it inflicts on itself and on others. Unhappiness is an ego?created
mental? emotional disease that has reached epidemic proportions. It is
the inner equivalent of the environmental pollution of our planet.
Negative states, such as anger, anxiety, hatred, resentment, discontent,
envy, jealousy, and so on, are not recognized as negative but as totally
justified and are further misperceived not as self?created but as caused
by someone else or some external factor. I am holding you responsible
for my pain. This is what by implication the ego is saying.
The ego cannot distinguish between a situation and its interpretation of
and reaction to that situation. Y ou might say, What a dreadful day,
without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever
condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is
dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that
is created by That resistance. In Shakespeare's words, There is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. What is more, suf fering or
negativity is often misperceived by the ego as pleasure because up t the
point the ego strengthens itself through it.
For example, anger or resentment strengthen the ego enormously by
increasing the sense of separateness, emphasizing the otherness of others
and creating a seemingly unassailable fortress?like mental position ofrightness. If you were able to observe the physiological changes that take
place inside your body when possessed by such negative states, how they
adversely af fect the functioning of the heart, the digestive and immune
systems, and countless other bodily functions, it would become
abundantly clear that such states are indeed pathological, are forms of
suf fering and not pleasure.
Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that
wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it
will get you what you want. Otherwise, who would want to hang on to
negativity, make themselves and others miserable, and create disease in
the body? So, whenever there is negativity n you, if you can be aware at
that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or
believes it has a useful purpose you are becoming aware of the ego
directly. The moment this
happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the
ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.
If in the midst of negativity you are able to realize At this moment I am
creating suf fering form myself it will be enough to raise you above the
limitations of conditioned egoic states and reactions. It will open up
infinite possibilities which come to you when there is awareness? other
vastly more intelligent ways of dealing with any situation. Y ou will be
free to let go of your unhappiness the moment you recognize it as
unintelligent. Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego. The
ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own
little aims. Intelligence sees the lar ger whole in which all things are
connected. Cleverness is motivated y self? interest, and it is extremely
short?sighted. Most politicians and businesspeople are clever. V ery few
are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short?lived and
always turns out to be eventually self? defeating. Cleverness divides;
intelligence unites.A New Earth
T H E  B A C K G R O U N D  U N H A P P I N E S S
The ego creates separation, and separation creates suf fering


. Quantum physicists tell
us that the entire Universe emerged from thought! You create your
life through your thoughts and the law of attraction, and every
single person does the same. It doesn't just work if you know about
it. It has always been working in your life and every other person's
life throughout history. When you become aware of this great law,
then you become aware of how incredibly powerful you are, to be
able to THINK your life into existence. 16 The Secret
LISA NICHOLS
It's working as much as you're thinking. Any time your
thoughts are flowing, the law of attraction is working.
When you're thinking about the past, the law of attraction's
working. When you're thinking about the present or the
future, the law of attraction is working. It's an ongoing
process. You don't press pause, you don't press stop. It is
forever in action, as your thoughts are.
Whether we realize it or not, we are thinking most of the time. If
you are speaking or listening to someone, you are thinking. If you
are reading the newspaper or watching television, you are think-
ing. When you recall memories from your past, you are think-
ing. When you are considering something in your future, you are
thinking. When you are driving, you are thinking. When you arc
getting ready in the morning, you are thinking. For many of us,
the only time we are not thinking is when we are asleep; however,
the forces of attraction are still operating on our last thoughts as
we fall asleep. Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good
thoughts.
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has
a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in
the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of
those thoughts.
What you are thinking now is creating your future life. You create
your life with your thoughts. Because you are always thinking, you The Secret Revealed 17
are always creating. What you think about the most or focus on the
most is what will appear as your life.
Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law. You cre-
ate your life. Whatever you sow, you reap! Your thoughts are seeds,
and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.
If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring
into your life more situations for you to complain about. If you are
listening to someone else complain and focusing on that sympa-
thizing with them, agreeing with them, in that moment, you are
attracting more situations to yourself to complain about.
The law is simply reflecting and giving back to you exactly what
you are focusing on with your thoughts. With this powerful knowl-
edge, you can completely change every circumstance and event in
your entire life, by changing the way you think.
I had a student named Robert, who was taking an
online course I have, part of which entails email access
to me.
Robert was gay. He outlined all of the grim realities of his
life in his emails to me. In his job, his coworkers ganged up
on him. It was constantly stressful because of how nasty BILL HARRIS
TEACHER AND FOUNDER OF
CENTERPOINTE RESEARCH INSTITUTE 18 The Secret
they were with him. When he walked down the street, he was
accosted by homophobic people who wanted to abuse him in
some way. He wanted to become a stand-up comedian, and
when he did a stand-up comedy job, everybody heckled him
about being gay. His whole life was one of unhappiness and
misery, and it all focused around being attacked because he
was gay.
I began to teach him that he was focusing on what he did not
want. I directed him back to his email that he sent me and
said, "Read it again. Look at all the things you do not want
that you're telling me about. I can tell you're very passionate
about this and when you focus on something with a lot of
passion, it makes it happen even faster!"
Then he started taking this thing about focusing on what
you want to heart, and he began really trying it. What
happened within the next six to eight weeks was an absolute
miracle. All the people in his office who had been harassing
him either transferred to another department, quit working
at the company, or started completely leaving him alone. He
began to love his job. When he walked down the street, nobody
harassed him anymore. They just weren't there. When he did
his stand-up comedy routines he started getting standing
ovations, and nobody was heckling him!
His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on
what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted
to avoid, to focusing on what he did want. The Secret Revealed 19
Robert's life changed because he changed his thoughts. He emitted
a different frequency out into the Universe. The Universe must de-
liver the pictures of the new frequency no matter how impossible
the situation might seem. Robert's new thoughts became his new
frequency, and the pictures of his entire life changed.
Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no mat-
ter what has happened in your life, you can begin to consciously
choose your thoughts, and you can change your life. There is no
such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of
your life can change!
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
You attract to you the predominant thoughts that you're
holding in your awareness, whether those thoughts are
conscious or unconscious. That's the rub.
Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not,
now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of
The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming
aware! Aware of the knowledge, aware of the law, aware of the
power you have through your thoughts. 20 The Secret
DR JOHN DEMARTINI
If you look very carefully when it comes to The Secret, and the
power of our mind and the power of our intention in our daily
lives, it's all around us. All we have to do is open our eyes and
look.
LISA NICHOLS
You can see the law of attraction everywhere. You draw
everything to yourself. The people, the job, the circumstances, the
health, the wealth, the debt, the joy, the car that you drive, the
community that you're in. And you've drawn them all to you,
like a magnet. What you think about you bring about Your whole
life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.
This is a Universe of inclusion, not exclusion. Nothing is excluded
from the law of attraction. Your life is a mirror of the dominant
thoughts you think. All living things on this planet operate through
the law of attraction. The difference with humans is that they have
a mind that can discern. They can use their free will to choose their
thoughts. They have the power to intentionally think and create
their entire life with their mind.
DR. FRED ALAN WOLF
QUANTUM PHYSICIST, LECTURER,
AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of
wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. I'm
talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. The Secret Revealed 21
Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It
says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering
into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing
that is being perceived.
If you think about the analogy of being the most powerful trans-
mission tower in the Universe, you will see the perfect correlation
with Dr. Wolf's words. Your mind thinks thoughts and the pictures
are broadcast back as your life experience. You not only create your
life with your thoughts, but your thoughts add powerfully to the
creation of the world, If you thought that you were insignificant
and had no power in this world, think again. Your mind is actually
shaping the world around you.
The amazing work and discoveries of the quantum physicists
over the last eighty years has brought us to a greater understand-
ing of the unfathomable power of the human mind to create.
Their work parallels the words of the world's great minds, in-
cluding Carnegie, Emerson, Shakespeare, Bacon, Krishnamurti,
and Buddha.
BOB PROCTOR
If you don't understand the law that doesn't mean you should
reject it. You may not understand electricity, and yet you
enjoy the benefits of it. I don't know how it works. But I do
knew this: You can cook a man's dinner with electricity, and
you can also cook the man! 22 The Secret
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
Oftentimes when people begin to understand the Great Secret,
they become frightened of all the negative thoughts that they
have. They need to be aware that it has been scientifically
proven that an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more
powerful than a negative thought. That eliminates a degree of
worry right there.
It really does take many negative thoughts and persistent negative
thinking to bring something negative into your life. However, if
you persist in thinking negative thoughts over a


 you may add a few grains of Himalayan pink
sea salt, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, or a tablespoon of tahini
to the chopper before you begin pulling the string. That way, they will
be nicely blended into your broom salad. Enjoy as often as you wish!
Variations: Include any vegetables from the sample grocery list to this
mixture that you may be craving. The body may have a certain request
that you may wish to honor.
Garnish: You may wish to chop half of an avocado to place on top
of your salad before you consume it.
Miche’s Million-Dollar Sunlight Foods Salad
During my lengthy raw vegan period, I invited my cousins for dinner
one night. They were used to dining in Michelin-starred establishments
throughout the globe, and they said, “Michelle, you could make a mil -
lion dollars with this salad!” This salad is the staple of my diet, along
with my broom salad, and it changes according to the seasonal organic
vegetables I find at my local farmers’ markets.
Chop:
3 tbsp. raw cabbage
1 head of fennel
1 cup of sprouts (broccoli sprouts are my favorite, but alfalfa
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½ cup dandelion greens (if available in the spring)
1 endive
1 cup lacinato kale
1–3 tbsp. of fresh herbs (preferably cilantro, since it has
potent chelation properties and helps expel heavy metals
from the body)
You may have to make this in batches in the chopper and then toss the
ingredients chopped into a large salad bowl. Mix all the ingredients
together in the salad bowl, then add the following ingredients, which
should be hand-cut, not chopped in the vegetable chopper:
1 avocado chopped in cubes
2 tbsp. sundried tomatoes
½ cup (or more if you like) of artichoke hearts (I prefer the
marinated buffalo artichokes from Whole Foods)
2 tbsp. Kalamata olives (raw if possible)
3 tbsp. raw, organic, non-GMO hemp seeds
T oss with Miche’s Salad Dressing, and top with Brad’s cheddar raw
veggie chips.
Miche’s Salad Dressing
Mix the following (which makes one serving; adjust quantities for more)
with a whisk:
2 tbsp. raw, organic tahini
3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
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Dash of Himalayan sea salt
T ouch of cayenne pepper or turmeric powder (if desired)
Blend to your desired consistency, and toss with Miche’s salad.
Raw Carrot Avocado Ginger Soup
Chop one cup of carrots, and blend in the Vitamix with one avocado,
one clove of garlic, one tablespoon of ginger juice (juiced in juicer),
one tablespoon of lemon juice, and a dash of Himalayan pink sea salt.
If you are at least five days out of your dry fast, you may add a touch
of cayenne pepper or a touch of cumin and coriander powder to make
it curried soup. Blend with at least one cup of hot water, or add more
if you like a watery soup. This nutritious soup serves one person.
Fennel Gazpacho
In the Vitamix, blend one entire bulb of fennel with one clove of garlic,
one avocado, and half of a cucumber. You might also add one half cup
of cherry tomatoes if lectins and nightshade vegetables and fruits do
not aggravate your digestive system. Add one cup of water and lemon
juice, if desired. Blend until smooth, and garnish with fresh herbs—
cilantro or parsley would be nice choices.
Miche’s Garlic Broccoli Soup
This is a warm, cooked, nourishing soup for the winter or for a heart -
ier meal.
Steam two cups of broccoli for five minutes until it is cooked al
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into the Vitamix. Add one cup of cilantro, one to three cloves of garlic,
the juice of one lemon, and a dash of sea salt. Blend until smooth (at
least two minutes). Enjoy warm!
Dr. Filonov’s Fish Soup
Dr. Filonov finds fish soup to be a nourishing, healing meal to be enjoyed
during the up-building phase of the exit. His wife, Valentina, and his
cook Tania make exceptional versions of this soup. Wash and chop two
carrots, two stalks of celery, one potato, one leek, and one cup of dill.
Add these to a medium-sized soup pot with one tablespoon of extra vir -
gin olive oil, two bay leaves, and a dash of Himalayan sea salt. T urn the
heat to medium for three to five minutes, and stir the ingredients with
a wooden spoon until the olive oil is coating the vegetables and they are
starting to soften. Add one quart of spring water and one to two pounds
of cod with the skin removed. It will break apart into pieces. Bring the
soup to a boil for one minute, and then turn the heat to medium low
so that the soup can simmer until the vegetables are soft and the fish is
cooked. Do not overcook; the vegetables and fish should preserve their
vitality. Enjoy this nourishing soup from Siberia.
Frozen Coconut Cream with Cardamom
Even Dad, the Ben & Jerry’s aficionado, lights up with delight when I
take a package of frozen coconut meat out of the freezer. This is a win
that is sugar-free and has antimicrobial properties in the coconut.
Allow one package of frozen meat from Exotic Superfoods to semi-
thaw until there are still some frozen chunks but it is pliable. Add it to
the Vitamix along with one half to one cup of either coconut water or
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of cardamom, one teaspoon of vanilla, and one pitted date (optional).
Cinnamon and nutmeg are also delicious choices. If you are feeling
decadent, you may even add two tablespoons of raw cacao to your
treat (not to be confused or substituted with cocoa powder). Blend the
ingredients in the Vitamix until you achieve your desired consistency.
Place the mixture in serving-size containers, and freeze it partially. If
you allow it to freeze entirely, it will be quite solid and take some time
to thaw.
Night Caps and Morning Potions
Better Beet It:  For a nice warm morning drink, juice one beet, one to
two inches of ginger root, and one lemon. Add one cup of hot water,
and mix it all together with a spoon.
Chamomile Thyme:  Boil a quart of water, and pour it over a fresh
bunch of thyme leaves and two tablespoons of dried loose-leaf cham -
omile. Let it steep for ten minutes. Strain it through a sieve into your
cup with a squeeze of lemon or with local, organic honey. It’s always
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Putnam’s Sons, 2003), 367.
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. In all of these measurements,
the axilla containing the implanted foreign material was negative
to the opposite axillary region.
It is cIear from these findings that the crest of atypical growth
in the host organism produced measurable and reproducible
electro-metric correlates. The rapidly growing tumours devel
oped higher potentials more quickly than the slow-growing im
plant. The foetal tissue started off rather promptly but early
reached an electro-metric peak and thereafter declined to zero,
subsequen tly to appear as a polar reversal which, in turn, re
turned to zero. The slow-growing implants started late but ex
hibited an electro-metric curve paralleling the essential slope
of the rapidly growing tumours, but reached their lower maxi
mum at approximately the same time as the rapidly growing
tumours.
These experiments on mice, of course, offered valuable con
firmation of our findings that atypical voltage-gradients in the
fields of women are associated with malignancy.
60 CH APTER FOUR
The Ubiquitous Field
1
While we were carrying out experiments on men and women we
were also exploring the electro-dynamic fields in other forms of
life because we wanted to assure ourselves that these fields are
a universal property of all living forms and are not confined to the
higher forms of life.
We explored the fields of a frog's eggs-as mentioned in the
first chapter-not only to satisfy ourselves that something so
small and relatively simple possessed a field but also to find sup
port for our theory that the field controls the growth and de
velopment of the form.
Using micro-pipettes filled with salt solution and connected to
the voltmeter we found different voltage gradients across differ
ent axes of the eggs. We marked the axis of the largest voltage
gradient with spots of Nile blue sulphate and later found, as the
eggs developed, that the frog's nervous system always grew along
the axis with the highest voltage gradient. This was an indication
that the field is primary-the matrix that shapes the living form.
Next we looked for a living system with some unquestioned
design or pattern, the field of which could be examined through
growth and developm ent. The nervous system of a vertebrate
offers a pattern which can be analysed and which, we hoped,
would yield some clues to the nature of the forces or laws which
determine the pattern.
Our choice fell on salamanders for our experimental animals
because they are easily obtained and can be observed from the
egg stage up to adult form; and the changes in the form as it
grows and develops can be observed and described with great
accuracy.
61 THE UBIQUI TOUS FIELD
Amphibia, too, are admirably suited to the experimental
analysis of the growth and development of the nervous system.
They are vertebrates and, therefore, have a head and tail axis,
a bilateral symmetry, a right side and a left side, a dorsal and
ventral side. This is the most elementary aspect of the pattern
of organization of the vertebrate nervous system.
Moreover, by using microsurgical methods, it is possible to
perform operations on the nervous system, to remove parts of
it and to observe the consequences to its development. Pieces
can be transplanted from one part of the nervous system to an
other in order to examine the results.
Finally, salamanders are easily raised in the laboratory, with
no serious problems of care. No anaesthe tics are necessary and
they are abundant in the spring of the year.
We were reinforced in our choice of salamanders by the evid
ence, slowly increasing over the years, that they possess certain
electrical properties.
We started with numerous experiments on the developing
embryos of salamanders, because an analysis of the embryology
of the nervous system promised data to support our Field Theory.
In the first place, as the embryo is an aquatic animal, it was
necessary to determine whether or not there were any significant
electro-metrics of the embryo. Potential measurements were
made, therefore, in the embryo from a point in the cephalic
region, and another in the caudal region. These were studied over
periods of time and showed characteristic changes with the
growth and differentiating of the embryo itself.
It soon became clear that there is an electro-metric correlate of
the longitudinal axis of the salamander nervous system. There
is also a bilateral symmetry between the right side and the left
side of the axis, as might be expected from everything else we
know about the developing organism.
To run down this problem a little further, measurements were
made of the unfertilized egg of a salamander, using the animal
62 THE UBIQUITOUS FIELD
pole as a reference point, and a moving electrode around the
equator of the egg in the four quadrants of the development. It is
well known, of course, that the salamander egg at this stage is a
sphere, showing little or no differentiation grossly except the
difference between the animal and vegital pole. But there is no
differentiation, so far as can be observed, in the quadrants of
the sphere. Measurements were made, therefore, in the unfertil
ized egg between the north, or animal pole, and four points on
the equator.
It was found from these measurements that there was one point
on the equator which showed a marked increase in the voltage
drop between the reference electrode and the point. The latter
was marked with a spot of Nile blue sulphate so that it could be
followed through the subsequent period of development. It was
found-as our theory had suggested-that the point on the
equator which marked the greatest voltage drop from the animal
pole marked the head end of the developing salamander.
A longitudinal axis of the developing nervous system was then
established in the unfertilized egg. This maintained itself
throughout the succeeding growth period and, surprisingly
enough, there was no significant change in the electro-metrics of
the unfertilized egg after fert ilization.
This is astonishing, because fertilization is supposed to be a
critical point in development. But apparently-in the sala
mander, at least-the electric field properties of the egg are
established quite independently not only of the fact of fertiliza
tion but also of the plane of ingress of the sperm head into the
egg. This suggests, at once, that the design of the living embryo
is an electro-metric correlate which can be recorded objectively
during the process of growth and development and turns out to
be one of the constant factors during this whole process of
developme nt.
One of the strange things about developmrnt that has always
been known is the extraordinary constancy in which the direc
tion of development moves. As a distinguished friend of mine
once said, 'The growth and developm ent of an embryo would
seem to be the result of the fact that some kind of a factor sits
on the embryo during its �ntire development and gives direction
63 THE UBIQUI TOUS FIELD
to it.' From the evidence at hand, up to date, it would seem
fairly obvious that the one constant factor in growth and develop
ment-which include not only the increase in the numbers of
cells, but also their differentia tion-is the field of the organism.
All these measurement s were made using silver-silver chloride
electrodes immersed in micropipettes and connected to the high
input impedance of a suitable amplifier with a galvanometer or
a recording galvanometer in the output. At the suggestion of
one of my early colleagues, Dr. Leslie F. Nims, now at Brook
haven Laboratories, on Long Island, it was noticed that as the
micropipette electrodes were pulled away from the surface of the
embryo, a voltage gradient could still be recorded. In fact, drop
off of voltage gradient carried on as far as one or one and a half
millimetres from the embryo.
This is truly extraordinary, for it makes it clear that the field
properties of the embryo radiate through the medium of the
liquid environment in which the embryo lives.
Now this could occur only if the source of these potential
gradients was the result of field activity. As a matter of fact, if
one stops to think about it, if one puts a battery of any kind in a
conducting medium, the battery very soon is exhausted, since
the external medium acts as a low resistance shunt across the
positive and negative poles of the battery. But in the embryo,
although we have the same kind of voltage gradient as is present
in the battery-at least so far as the measurable characteristics
are concerned-nevertheless the field properties of the embryo
do not short out in the liquid.
These experiment s led to a further analysis of the field proper
ties. It was suggested that if an embryo were rotated mechanic
ally underneath two micropipette electrodes, there should be a
constant rise and fall in voltage gradient as the head and tail axis
of the embryo passed underneath the micropipette electrode.
This experiment was set up with a mechanic ally revolving stage
on which was placed a half-grown salamander embryo and the
recorded output of the high input impedance amplifier trans
mitted to a G-E photoelectric recording galvanometer.
The result was extraordinary, for there was a sine wave out
put from the revolving embryo, the frequ


 and today, 27 years after his
diagnosis, he still follows the Kelley Program, remains cancer-free and is in excellent
health. Although a single course of MOPP can cause sterility, Mr. Stirling now has
two children of his own and a third by marriage.
In summary, Mr. Stirling suffered widely metastatic, stage IV Hodgkin's disease.
After an abbreviated course of MOPP, the disease recurred explosively. However, Mr.
Stirling's cancer went into remission, apparently for good, as he pursued only the
Kelley Program. Update December 1998; Scott and family are doing fine, cancer free,
healthy and happy in San Diego.
Lung Cancer Testimonial
Philip Bonfiglio
Mr. Philip Bonfiglio is a 52 year-old man from Ohio, who has survived 13 years
since his diagnosis of metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.
In early 1974, Mr. Bonfiglio, a heavy smoker, developed a persistent upper
respiratory infection and cough. He consulted his family doctor, who prescribed a
course of antibiotic therapy. Despite the treatment, the symptoms only worsened, and
in March Mr. Bonfiglio returned to his physician. At that time a chest X-ray revealed a
3-centimeter (cm) mass in the upper lobe of the right lung.
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Mr. Bonfiglio was admitted to Akron City hospital on April 7, 1974, and the
following day went for exploratory chest surgery. He was found to have a large
inoperable tumor in the right lung that had metastasized to many lymph nodes. These
findings are clearly described in the operative note: "A tumor approximately 4 cm in
greatest diameter was found in the periphery of the posterior segment of the right
upper lobe (of the lung). In the area below the azygos vein were multiple nodes,
which extended posteriorly up along the vena cave and acquired a maximum
diameter of about 3.5-cm. Because of the massive involvement of the mediastinum,
curative resection was not feasible."
Evaluation of a biopsy specimen confirmed: "Poorly differentiated carcinoma
consistent with squamous cell type." In addition, all lymph nodes removed at surgery
were positive for metastatic disease.
Mr. Bonfiglio's doctors recommended a course of cobalt radiation treatment, which
he began while still hospitalized. Nevertheless, he was told that even with such
treatment, his chances of surviving one year were dim. In the discharge summary, the
attending physician wrote: "The patient, due to the metastatic nature of this
carcinoma, does have a poor prognosis."
Mr. Bonfiglio completed the suggested regimen of 5,000 rads to the lungs as an
outpatient. When the tumors continued to grow despite the radiation, a course of
intensive chemotherapy was proposed. But since his disease was believed incurable,
Mr. Bonfiglio refused all further orthodox treatment. Instead, Mr. Bonfiglio decided to
investigate unconventional cancer therapies. He soon learned of Dr. Kelley,
consulted with him and began the Kelley Program in late spring.
Over a several month period, his persistent respiratory symptoms resolved, and
within a year, Mr. Bonfiglio says he felt better than he had for a decade. Today, 13
years after his diagnosis, Mr. Bonfiglio still follows his nutritional protocol and is in
excellent health with no sign of his once metastatic disease.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung is one of the most deadly of cancers. The five
year survival rate for patients with stage III disease, regardless of treatment, is less
than 5%.(1) Stanley reports a median survival of only 24-27 weeks in 32 symptomatic
patients, such as Mr. Bonfiglio, with unresectable tumors.(2)
In summary, Mr. Bonfiglio suffered inoperable, mestastatic lung cancer, which did
not respond to a course of cobalt therapy. It therefore seems appropriate to attribute
this patient's long-term survival to the Kelley program.
References:
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1. Devita, VT, et al. Cancer — Principles and Practice of Oncology. Philadelphia; J.B.
Lippincott Company, 1982, page 409.
2. Stanley, K.E. "Prognostic factors for Survival in Patients with Inoperable Lung
cancer." Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 65:25-32, 1980.
Colon Cancer Testimonial
Robert Beesley
Mr. Robert Beesley is a 67 year-old man from Iowa who has survived nearly 12
years since his diagnosis of metastatic colon cancer.
In mid-1975, Mr. Beesley first became fatigued, and developed severe constipation
alternating with episodes of watery diarrhea. Some months later, after noticing bright
red blood in his stool, he consulted his family physician who referred him for tests at
a local clinic.
At that time, a barium enema revealed a large, 5.7-cm. mass in the right colon,
which was believed to be consistent with cancer.
On July 7, 1975, Mr. Beesley was admitted to Iowa Methodist Medical Center for
further evaluation. A liver-spleen scan was Positive for a "suspicious defect of the left
lobe of the liver." It measured approximately 2.5 centimeters in diameter.
Other studies, however, including chest X-rays, showed no sign of metastatic
disease. The following day Mr. Beesley went to surgery for removal of the right half of
his large intestine.
In addition to the colon tumor, he was found to have unresectable metastases in
both lobes of the liver, described in the operative note as "two lesions in the liver,
one in the right and one in the left lobe of the liver." The right one was larger than the
left, measuring about 2 by 2 cms.
Review of the specimen confirmed a fulminant grade III Adenocarcinoma
extending into the adjacent tissues, as described in the formal pathology report:
"The rectal pouch is filled with bulky ulcerated neoplasm, which is almost
completely circumferential measuring 10 by 6 by 2 cm. Tumor infiltrates directly into
the contiguous mesentery (the tissues adjacent to the large intestine)" — Mr. Beesley
was told he might live three to six months, at most.
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The attending physicians, believing him beyond cure, recommended neither
chemotherapy nor radiation.
After leaving the hospital on July 21, 1975, Mr. Beesley decided to investigate
unorthodox approaches to cancer. Later that summer, he learned of Dr. Kelley,
consulted with him and began the Kelley program. Mr. Beesley continued the full
Kelley regimen for seven years before tapering down to a maintenance program,
which he still follows. Today, despite the initial terminal prognosis, he is in excellent
health and cancer-free. Although he has not been formally evaluated since his
original surgery 12 years ago, Mr. Beesley believes his continued survival is proof
enough of his cure. Colon cancer, when metastatic to the liver, is invariably rapidly
fatal.
Pestana and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic report a mean survival of only 9.0
months in 353 patients presented with liver involvement.(1) In similar studies,
Bengmark describes an average survival of only 7.8 months(2), and Morris a median
survival of 11.4 months.(3)
Obviously, Mr. Beesley's progress represents a most unusual outcome for this
disease.
As a footnote to this case, the author was surprised to learn that supporters of
Lawrence Burton, an unconventional therapist with a clinic in the Bahamas, had been
advertising Mr. Beesley as a "Burton Success." When I  mentioned these reports to Mr.
Beesley, he explained that he received several weeks of Burton Therapy in the fall of
1975 — after he had already improved significantly on the Kelley program.
Furthermore, Mr. Beesley claims he never finished the prescribed Burton protocol,
and never received any further treatment from Burton. Mr. Beesley himself attributes
his recovery to his many years on the Kelley regimen and not to Burton.
Unfortunately, I  have found over the years that many unorthodox therapists
repeatedly claim Dr. Kelley's long-term patients as their own; misrepresentation
obviously does not help cancer patients.
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American Journal of Surgery 108:826-829, 1964
2. Bengmark, S. and Hafstrom, L. "The Natural History of Primary and Secondary
Malignant Tumors of the Liver." Cancer 23:198-202, 1969
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Breast Cancer Testimonials
Sonia Nemethy
Mrs. Sonia Nemethy is a 53-year old woman alive more than 17 years since
diagnosed with breast carcinoma. She first noticed a painless mass in her right breast


 lived and remained productive to a
very old age. It is accepted that an eighty-six-year-old
conductor can lead a whole symphony orchestra and
have a thirty-four-year-old wife and a young baby at
home. It is a somewhat accepted occurrence with that
lifestyle. Many humorists and writers live to very
advanced ages, as do many people who do research
and study physics. Performers such as George Burns
and FredAstaire also lived long lives.
In other words, the numerical, chronological age
has no power within itself. It is our beliefs about it,
how we hold it in mind, and how we genuflect to all
the belief systems that go with it and that we have
bought into throughout the years that have power.
How is it that some people are dancing and performing
at age eighty, and other people at age fIfty-nine are
ready for the grave?
I have a friend who, at age fIfty-nine, looks like he is
seventy-five. It is as if life is all over for him. He has
already had two coronary bypass operations. The way
he holds himself-the weakness and his whole body
stance-shows what he believes old age must entail.
The first thing to realize is that we have options.We
can choose to be different and to let go of the belief
systems in our family. We can look back and begin to 208 HEALING AND RECOVERY
find where the belief systems about middle age and the
aging process came from. "What constitutes them? We
can look at our own childhood and see what the rela
tionship was with our parents, and also look at the time
when their parents were middle-aged. "When looking at
our middle-aged parents, we can remember the pat
tern, which can be seen like a photograph.
To some people, middle age means haVing a beer
belly, sitting at home feeling tired and discouraged,
watching television, and complaining about life with
remarks such as, "I don't have the energy for that any
more." Or getting the thought, "Well, you are over the
hill," and the men start to wink at each other. "Hey,
George, what? Are you a little over the hill there?"
meaning middle age and forgetting about a sex life.All
these programs go into the impressionable mind of the
naive child who is creating a picture of what mother
looks like-tired and bedraggled. She no longer cares
for her appearance and does not bother going to the
beautician anymore because middle age to her now
means sort of retiring from life.
Then we see people looking forward to retirement
and their views of that, including retiring from life.The
whole attitude is, "We'h go to Sunset Hills now and
slowly wait for the sun to set.We'll join the old people's
fadeout club, get progressively weaker, and watch each
other go." That is an option. However, George Bums
did not buy that option, nor did Alan Greenspan, or
FredAstaire.Think of all the great composers and writ
ers, the politicians, and the powers that run this world
who are well into their sixties, seventies, and even
eighties. As they got older, their power, wisdom, and 209 THE AGING PROCESS
ability in the world grew ever stronger, not weaker.
Look at all the thought systems and beliefs about what
is supposed to happen to the body, all the thoughts
about what we think aging must entail.
We can look at our pictures and the relationship
with our parents. Did we love our parents?
Interestingly, that love can be the very reason for that
identification. It is because we love them that we
pattern ourselves after them. If we admire our father
who. then develops this middle-aged pattern, we identify
with and pick up the pattern, not for negative reasons,
but out of admiration, innocence, and love for him,
along with family loyalty.The same is true of the rela
tionship with grandparents. We get an idea ofwhat old
age looks like:
Interestingly, I had a relatively negative view ofmid
dle age, but I also had a relatively positive view of old
age; therefore, I looked forward to that time. At age sev
enty-six, my grandfather was up on the roof putting on
a new one, and my other grandfather was dignified and
elegant, so I looked forward to old age.That is the time
when we can put on our spats and best hat, dress up in
our best clothes, and live a really aristocratic, enjoyable
life. For once, we can just be who we really are. It is
going to be over before long, and therefore we do not
have to cater to anybody any 10nger.We can really be an
elegant and very loving, wonderful person, so to me,
old age was not something ofa faltering decrepitude. It
has been that way for other people, however, so we can
see that there is an option. It is about whom we love
and identify with. It is all the programming that we got
from television and the movies, along with the image of 210 HEALING AND RECOVERY
what aging means. The television commercials are
designed to appeal to those fears of aging.
Of course, what we fear we hold in mind, and
what we hold in mind tends to manifest, so the fears
of old age, the very things we begin to fear, are the
very things that begin to manifest. It is helpful to
return to the realization that there is an option to not
buy any of these pictures. Whatever picture is bought
is what is going to manifest in our life; therefore, we
have to be careful about what we buy into. We
become the guardian of our mind. We look at it and
see what it does believe, and then we forgive it for
what it picked up over the years. It did not know of
its own innocence and therefore picked up all of the
programs, stories, and scripts, and unwittingly, we find
that we are beginning to act them out.
If we want to know what life scripts we bought
into, all we have to do is look at our own life and our
physical self. The physical self is a reflection of what
we have bought, and we may not even remember hav
ing done so due to amnesia about remarks overhead
throughout childhood. People look into their memory
'and say,"I don't remember ever believing such a thing."
Actually,we are unconscious most of our lives and have
amnesia about most of it because of the millions of
things we do remember. What we do not realize is how
many seconds there are in one day. Do you remember
what happened each second of each day? We are lucky
if we can remember what we had for breakfast yester
day.Therefore, a great deal of what went on in our life
is operationally forgotten in that it is not available for
immediate recall. In looking at the body, we can see 211 THE AGING PROCESS
what programs were picked up; what its belief systems
were; what was thought to be valuable or loved, or its
reverse; and what it feared and brought about into
manifestation because the fear was being held in mind.
The patterns of aging also follow a certain class
phenomenon, and in the picture of age and aging, there
is increasing longevity. It is now very normal for people
to live longer, and even though they live longer, they
are energetic and functional into a very advanced age.
They see old age as a time of increased stature and
value. This can be contrasted with a different social
view where power and value come out of physical
strength, and the aging patterns are more rapid. For
example, in the area of sports, a participant at age thirty
two is already considered old, and at forty is considered
to be an old man in the field. When certain classes of
laboring people reach age sixty-five and retire, it is pret
ty much over, and from sixty-five onward, there is the
pattern of moving into Sunset Hills, along with indo
lence and the loss of energy, interest and aliveness.
There is the giving up of life as though retiring from a
job means retiring from life. It is as if the job was the
only thing that gave meaning and value to life, and now
that the person is no longer classified as a 'worker',
they no longer have value in the world.
There is the failure to look at oneself in a more
holistic, total way and see value as something other
than productivity in the workforce and the capacity to
bring home a paycheck every Friday. There is the fail
ure to see oneself as something other than just a
prOVider, or just the mother of the children.
In women, the pattern of the aging process does 212 HEALING AND RECOVERY
not really start until the children grow up and leave
home. Suddenly, the mother joins her husband in the
pattern of retiring from life.The father retires from the
job, and the mother retires from raising the children.
Both of them are now unemployed, with lessened
value in their own eyes.Although they make a few spo
radic attempts at being of some use in society, they do
not really believe it. Therefore,