ebelow).
Aconitehelpswithwoundsthatarebleedingexcess-
ivelywherethecharacteristicshockispresent.
Insomnia
SymptomsRestlesssleep.Anxiousdreams.
Measles
SymptomsOnsetsudden.Skinrash:itches;burns.
Withfever;cough.
Suddenonsetwithrestlessness, fever,coughand
thirst.
NBSEEALSOPAGES203-26FORGENERALADVICE,DOSANDDON'TS.
40•Agaricusmuscarius(Agar) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Mumps
SymptomsOnsetsudden.Withfever.
Periodproblems
SymptomsPeriodlate.
Causesfright;shock;gettingchilled;pregnancy.
Shock
Causesinjuries;surgery;childbirth.
ThisisaccompaniedbytheextremeAconite-typefear
andanxiety.Itisusefulduringorfollowingoper-
ations,andforshockedmothersand/orbabieseither
duringorafterlabour,especiallyafastlabour.The
mothermayexperiencesomeshakingwiththeshock,
whereasthebabymayjustbeverystill,withan
anxiousorfearfullookinitseyes.
Sorethroat
SymptomsPains:burning;stitching.
Causesgettingchilled.
Teething
SymptomsCheekshotandred.Withsymptomsof
fever(seeabove).Painfulinchildrenwithrestless
sleep.
Childrentossandturnintheirsleepandbitetheirfists
andscream.Theteethingmaywellbeaccompaniedby
fever.
Toothache
SymptomsPains:tearing;ingoodteeth.
Causescold,drywind.
Retentionofurine
SymptomsInnewbornbabies;inchildrenwho
catchcold.
Thisisespeciallyusefulfornewbornbabieswhodon't
pee,whohavebeenshockedbythebirth(especiallya
fastlabour).
AGARICUSMUSCARIUS (Agar.)
Naturalorder:fungi
Commonnames:flyagaric;bugagaric;toadstoolThispoisonoustoadstoolgrowsindryplaces,es-
peciallyindrypinewoods,inEurope,Asiaandthe
USA.ItisuncommoninEnglandbutabundantin
somepartsofScotland.
Agaricusisthoughttobetheoldestofhallucinogens
usedforritualisticpurposes.Medicinemenatethis
toadstooltoachieveecstaticstates(althoughthese
periodsofgreatanimation,whichwereoftenaccom-
paniedbydancing,singingandtalkingtoimagined
persons,alternatedwithtimesofdeepdepression). It
wasalsoemployedatonetimeinthemakingof
alcoholicbeveragesbutthispracticewasbesetwith
dangersinviewoftheterribledeathsthatsometimes
occurredfromthepoisonings.
Forthehomeopathicpreparation,themushroom is
wellwashed,mashedinamortar,thenequalpartsof
alcoholareaddedtoit.Thisislefttostandforthree
daysbeforebeingstrainedandsuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Clumsy:tripseasilywhilewalking.Trembling.
Twitchy.
Worseforcold.
Thisremedyisaspecificcureforchilblains,especially
ofthefeetandtoes,and,usedwithTamusointment,
willcuremostcasesofstraightforward chilblains
wherenootherstrongsymptomswouldleadyouto
prescribeamore'important'remedy.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Alliumcepa(All-c.)•41
GeneralsymptomsofpeopleneedingAgaricusare
tremblingandtwitchiness,whichmaybesobadthat
theydropthingsorstumblewhenwalking.Theyare
generallyverysensitivetocold,dampweather.
Therearenomarkedemotional/mentalsymptoms.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chilblains
SymptomsChilblains:burning;itching;red.
Worseforcold.
Chilblainsareonthehandsandfeet,orveryoc-
casionallyontheears,butwhichareworseonthefeet.
Theyareterriblypainfulwhenthehandsorfeetbe-
comecold.
Headache
SymptomsEyes/eyelidstwitching.
Worseinthemorning.
Causesalcohol;nerves.
Alliumcepa(aii-c.)
Familyname:Liliaceae
Commonname:commonredonion
Thisplantisuniversallycultivatedasagardenveg-
etable,andithasbeenrenownedforhundredsofyearsamongcountryfolkandherbalistsforitshealing
properties. Ithasbeenusedinavarietyofways:
externallyasapoulticeforacne,chilblainsandarthri-
tis(todrawoutinflammation),andinternallyasa
bloodpurifierandtocleartheintestinesofworms.The
juicehasbeensniffedupthenostrils,droppedintothe
earsorappliedto'blemished'skin;onionwinehas
beenbrewedforthosewithweakchests;andthe
wholeonionhasbeenroastedwithhoneyorsugarfor
stubborncoughs.
TheancientEgyptianssworebytheonion,and
consumedvastquantities.Theyhaveevenwor-
shipped it.Inittheysawsymbolisedtheuniverse,
sincetheybelievedthevariousspheresofheaven,
earthandhellwereconcentric,liketheonion'slayers;
andthereforeEgyptianpriestswereforbiddentoeat
it.
Forthehomeopathicpreparationthefreshbulbis
gatheredinJuly/Augustandchopped,thenpounded
toapulpbeforeitismixedwithalcoholandsuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Homeopathically, thecommonredonionisusedonly
forthosesymptomsthatitiscapableofproducingina
healthyindividual,thatis,streamingeyesandnose.
Anyillnessthatproducesthesesymptoms-beita
coldorhayfever-canbecuredbyAlliumcepa.
Euphrasiaisverysimilarinthatittooproduces
streamingheadcoldsorhayfever,butthereisan
importantdifference:inAlliumcepathenasalcatarrh
burnsandtheeyedischargedoesn't.Thereverseis
trueofEuphrasia,wherethenasalcatarrhdoesn'tburn
andthedischargefromtheeyesdoes.
Therearenomarkedemotional/mental symptoms.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Commoncold
SymptomsNasalcatarrh:burning;onesided;pro-
fuse;watery.Witheyeinflammation;headache;
sneezing;sorethroat.
Betterforfreshair.
Worseinastuffyroom.
Causescoldwind;gettingwetfeet.
Thenasaldischargemaybeonesided,thatis,onlyone
nostrilmaystream.Thecoldsymptoms,especiallythe
sneezing,willbegenerallyworseinawarmroom.
Cough
SymptomsCouch:hacking;irritating;painful.Tick-
linginlarynx.Voicehoarse.
Worseforcoldair.
Thecoughisgenerallybetterforbeinginawarmroom
(thisistheoppositeofthecoldsymptoms).
42•Antimoniumcrudum(Ant-c.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Eyeinflammation
Symptomsofacommoncold(seeabove).Dis-
charge:bland,non-irritating;profuse.Eyeswatering.
Hayfever
Symptomsofacommoncold(seeabove)andeye
inflammation (seeabove).
Worseinthespring;inAugust.
Antimoniumcrudum(Ant-c.)
Othernames:antimoniisulphuratum;sulphuretof
antimony;nativesulphideofantimony
Blackantimonyoccursbothasachemicalcompound
andincrystallineformasthemineralstibnitewhichis
foundinmanypartsofEuropeandtheUnitedStates.
Ithasbeenusedasaveterinarymedicinetocure
horseswithsoreheelsandtofattenpigsandlean,
scabbycattle.TraditioninfactrelatesthataGerman
monkthrewsomeantimonytohispigsandobserved
that,afterpurgingthemviolently, itimmediately fat-
tenedthem.Thismadehimthinkthatbygivinghis
fellowmonksadosetheywouldlikewisebethebetter
forit.Theexperimentfailed,however;theyalldied
andthe'medicine'henceforthwascalledantimonyor
anti-monk.
Itisusedasanalloywithothermetalsforlining
brasses,inbellmetalstomaketheirsoundclearer,and
forpurifyingandheighteningthecolourofgold.
Stibnite(orkohl)wasusedintheMiddleEastasa
powdertodarkentheeyebrows,toprotecttheeyes
fromtheheatofthesunandmakethemmorebeauti-
ful.Nowadays,matchesaretippedwithstibnite,
whichcausesignitionwhenrubbedagainstthered
phosphorus.


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playful, prosperous, open, empowered, free, infinite,
capable, joyful, rising, good, Source-ful, re /G0F/G01/G02/G03/G0E/G07 /G0A/G12/G1A/G2A/G01
strong, creative, limit less, alive, rich, divine, optimal
*If while you are writing the qualities of the desire, something
that you write down triggers a “not good” sentient feeling, either reframe that particular quality to the essence of a “good feeling” word, or don’t includ e it.  Remember, this is for /G1A/G07/G12.
And so you are making your list, while listening to /G1A/G07/G12/G09/G06 inner
guidance system.  Write qualities that make /G1A/G07/G12 feel good about
the truth of your desire.
Step 5.   Notice the /G01/G07/G0C/G05 /G01/G07/G0A/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G27/G08/G12/G0C/G02/G10/G02/G04/G16/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G19/G07/G08/G05/G01/G13/G07/G05/G04/G01/G11/G04/G16/G02/G05/G04/G01/G03/G07/G1C/G20/G01/G01
Simply notice it.  Do you see ho w these qualities are a “lighter”
tone of living?  There is a tone of divinity in these reframed descriptive words.  Their essence is higher, free-e r, lighter, and
more inherently affirming, as opposed to the “denser” tone of the previous heavier experience s and statements found in your An “Already Is” Twist on Living the Law of Attraction 55
initial associated feelings.  This is an indication of how we can
rise to our natural buoyant state.  The proposed words listed above in Step 4 are lighter fee ling, descriptive, experiential
words, that can likely relate to many examples and core desires.  They relate more to our natural prosperous, Source-ful inner selves.  Many people, across many diverse situations and core
desires, will find themselves wi th a similar core list (to those
others are generating), as they work themselves through this essential extrapolating process.  /G1E/G05/G04/G08/G03/G01/G05 /G01 /G11/G04/G16/G02/G05/G04/G01/G11/G02/G0A/G0A/G04/G05/G04/G03/G13/G04/G16/G20/G01/G01
Why?  Because we are boiling ou r lists down to a more core
root, and thus we are getting closer to the heart of who we all really /G0F/G10/G09/G05/G0F/G11/G1A /G01/G12/G05/G04/G09/G01/G10/G0B/G05/G07/G08/G0E/G0B/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G0E/G07/G07/G11/G01/G0A/G04/G04/G0C/G02/G03/G0E/G01/G03/G12/G10/G08/G05/G04/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G2A/G0A/G04/G04/G0C/G01
good” desires.
Our “feel good” inner well-being is the same vibration of
Source energy.  And what flows within us, flows in /G07/G18/G07ry /G06/G01/G02/G03/G0C/G0E /G20/G01/G01
/G18/G0B/G04/G05/G04/G0A/G07/G05/G04/G09/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G2E/G07/G08/G05/G13/G04 -ful core desires and traits are the same
desires and traits as everyone else.  There are many “words”
that can describe the free flowing essence of Source energy;  I
believe those same energy pattern s of words will show up time
and time again, for different people, listing different core
desires.  We are beginning to see the truth of our same core Source root.  Look at your list again.  Notice its lighter, free-er
vibrational tone.
/G24/G0F/G09/G16/G01/G06/G2C/G01/G01 /G39/G04/G04/G0C/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G07/G14/G04/G05/G12/G0C/G0C/G01/G04/G16/G16/G04/G03/G13/G04/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01 core list of qualities.
And find a truth (a “good feeling” feeling) from that list of
qualities that you can easily find already existing within you
/G20/G01/G01
What /G01/G0A/G04/G04/G0C/G16/G01/G0E/G07/G07/G11/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G10/G05/G08/G10/G0B/G0A/G08/G0C/G01 within you already, /G0F/G12/G19/G22/G04/G01/G12/G03 /G09
essential experience /G07/G05 personal trait /G09/G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01/G02/G16/G01 also /G01/G12/G03/G01essence /G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01
/G19/G07/G08/G01/G0B/G12/G14/G04/G01/G02/G11/G04/G03/G10/G02/G0A/G02/G04/G11/G01/G04/G26/G02/G16/G10/G02/G03/G0E/G01/G1C/G02/G10/G0B/G02/G03/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G04/G16/G16/G04/G03/G13/G04/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G19/G07/G08/G05/G01 /G08/G07/G0F/G0D/G03/G07 /G25/G01/G01
In other words, what is an essence of your desire that
is already an essence of you?
 Example:
 Essence of Desire = Essence Within Me:
 Playfully Free, Energi zed, Playfully Alive
These energies describe the “already is” me.  They /G15/G07/G16/G0F/G02/G13/G01/G17/G04/G12/G0C/G10/G0B
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/G0B/G1A/G08/G09/G0B/G11/G1C/G01/G0B/G08/G09/G01/G0B/G01/G18/G13/G1E/G08/G0B/G0F/G13/G10/G0E/G0B/G1A/G01/G16/G0B/G08/G0F/G01/G10/G0A/G01/G17/G15/G10/G01/G0D/G01/G0B/G25/G2C/G01/G01/G0D/G01/G0B/G1A/G08/G09/G0B/G11/G1C/G01
know that I am a playful person, who has a lot of good energy, who has creative and playful ideas, and who likes to laugh freely.  I like to have fun and typically find freedom in the playful essence of many of my life experiences that I can easily and happily recall.  And  so the feeling within my desire, that “already is,” that  I easily connect with is the playfully free and energetically alive feeling of fun-filled freedom.  I can close my eyes and feel the vi brational ease of that truth,
within myself /G05/G0A/G08 /G01/G25/G1C/G01/G11/G09/G19/G13/G08/G09/G2C/G01/G01/G0D/G01/G0C/G0B/G0E/G01/G19/G09/G09/G01/G25/G1C/G19/G09/G1A/G0A/G01
harmonizing through these fee lings of something that
I already am (playful, creative, alive, and free) and
something that I desire (playful healthfulness and /G11/G0D/G0C /G33
ness - and playful freedom).
Step 7. /G01/G01/G1B/G04/G10/G01/G0E/G07/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G0D/G05/G04/G14/G02/G07/G08/G16/G01/G0D/G12/G10/G10/G04/G05/G03/G01/G07/G0A/G01 /G14/G0F/G0C/G01/G03/G0C/G0E /G09/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G16/G02/G0F/G0D/G0C/G19
allow yourself to vibrationally hummmmmmmmmm, in an easy feeling place of knowing that you /G0F/G10/G09/G05/G0F/G11/G1A/G06 are /G01/G10/G


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International School of Detoxification
Dr. Robert Morse
941-C Tamiami Trail
Port Charlotte, FL 33953
(941) 255-1979 (phone)
(941) 255-1815 (fax)
e-mail:
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Rosemary Gladstar
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E. Barre, VT 05649
(802) 476-3722
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Michael Tierra, L.Ac., O.M.D.
P.O. Box 712
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
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(408) 336-4548 (fax)
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Natural Healing Institute
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Dr. John Christopher’s teachings
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Springville, UT 84663
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Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
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Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies
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Boulder, CO 80308
(303) 442-6861
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7527 Kingsway
Burnaby, B.C. V3N 3C1
Canada
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(604) 526-1561 (fax)
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Academy of Oriental Medicine2700 W. Anderson Lane
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Austin, TX 78757
(512) 454-1188
www.aoma.edu
Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive NE
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(425) 602-3090 (fax)
www.bastyr.edu
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4375 St. Catherine Street
Vancouver, BC V5V 4M4
Canada
(604) 602-3330
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2140 11th Avenue South
Suite 305
Birmingham, AL 35205
(800) 995-4590 (toll free)
www.ccnh.edu
Clayton School of Natural Healing merged with The American Holistic
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Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
60 Berl Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M8Y 3C7
Canada
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P.O. Box V559
Montpelier, VT 05602
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126 Park Avenue
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Wholesale herbs, spices and tea.
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Jason Winter’s Tea.
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Fargo, ND 58108(800) 447-4793 (toll free)
(218) 236-9783 (local)
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Economical and affordable for most people.
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(352) 787-8123 (fax)
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 will  go forward,  on, and  on, and  on.
You as Individuals  who  are not  Group  Leaders,  have
only  to be concerned  about  your  own  individual  world,
aside  from  your  Decrees  for the blessing  of America;  but
the Messengers  have  been  the focus  of all the viciousness
of mankind,  and  they  have  remained  untouched  by It!
They  always  will,  but it is because  of their  dynamic  Appli-
cation;  and  they  still  do it and  will  as long  as they  are serv-
ing in the outer  world!
It is imperative!  until  Individuals  have  made  their  As-
cension.  You  cannot  be Free,  without  your  own  dynamic
Application,  because  you  are moving  in the seething  vortex
of human  discordant  creation  all the time.
I thank  you  with  all My  Heart  for your  attention;  and
for that  which  has been  anchored  within  your  feeling  world
to bless  you.  Oh,  it is not  just  the  Words  which  I have 272 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
spoken;  they  but hold  your  attention,  while  into  your  feel-
ing world,  is the Power  of Light  anchored  to bless  you
forever.  It is Our  Great  Victory  for your  assistance.  In these
wondrous  groups  it is the response,  which  makes  it possible
for Us to anchor  Our  Power  of Light  into  your  feeling
world;  which  not only  dissolves  and  purifies;  but gives  you
a Strength  and  Courage  which  sets  you  Free,  if you  but
realize  it.
Things  which  bothered  and  disturbed  you  before,  will
never  do it after  today;  if you  will  just  keep  yourself  re-
minded  of this.  Oh,  I want  you  to know  so much,  how
Really  Free  you  are.  I hope,  I trust  for those  who  attend
This  Class,  before  the ten days  are past,  it will  be My  Joy
to dissolve  and  consume  the human  accumulation  of ninety
percent  of all who  are present.  You  may  be sure,  Beloved
Ones,  to the limit  the Great  Law  of Life  permits,  will  this
be done,  not only  for your  Freedom;  but the Greater  Assist-
ance  you  may  give,  for the Blessing  of mankind  and  the
Protection  of America.
We have  watched  the Individuals  for whom  this  has been
done.  The  release  of their  energy,  their  substance  for use
has in most  instances  been  ten times  that  which  was  released
before  it was  done.  So you know  what  It means  in your  own
individual  lives,  as well  as the Assistance  for America.
Today,  Our  Rejoicing  is very  great.  If you  only  knew
what  the Freedom  of your  America  means  to you;  and  how
those  vicious  claws  have  tried  to enter  into  your  govern-
ment.  They  have  tried  to enter  into  your  industries;  tried DISCOURSE  XVIII  273
to prevent  your  aerial  service;  trying  to cripple  your  Be-
loved  America;  and  this excess  taxation  tries  to enslave  you;
which  is always  the signal  for the final  enslavement  of all
mankind!  Oh,  Dear  People,  it is quite  different  this  time
than  ever  before;  for when  the flood  of Cosmic  Light  strikes
the mass  of the people,  then  courage  goes  forth;  and  they
arise  and  annihilate  their  own  would-be  destroyers.
That  is not  sufficient.  Take  Russia  today  for instance!
One man  has  been  traded  for another  continuously,  since
the Czar  was  disposed  of. Just  changing  one  effect  for an-
other.  That  is not sufficient;  but  from  the Heart  of those
people—there  must  arise  a mighty  sincere  Honest  Individ-
ual, whom  the people  will  at once  see is their  friend;  and
then  would  come  the solution  of the same  problem  in every
country  in the world.
Treachery  and  deceit  in high  places,  has  brought  the
distrust  of the mass  of mankind  and  they  do not  know
upon  whom  they  can depend;  but as the Cosmic  Light  in-
creases  Its Intensification  in the Earth,  We  are trying  to so
adjust  It, there  will  be raised  up in those  countries—Individ-
uals of Power,  which  will  call  forth  the Power  of Light  to
sustain  them  in their  Honesty,  Honor,  Integrity  and  Bless-
ing to their  fellow-man.  It is the only  hope!
We hope  they  will  reach  a great  fruition;  and  possibly
as We find  progress,  We may  ask the Students  of the United
States  to add  a special  Decree  for this.  You  have  been  using
the Decree  that  Ascended  Master  Friends  be raised  up
everywhere—a  most  magnificent  thing;  but  now  decree  a 274 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Great  Honest,  Honorable  Individual  whose  Light  is strong
enough,  be raised  up in every  country  in Europe;  and  the
confidence  of the people  rest there;  so the Power  of Light's
Constructive  Activity  takes  Its Dominion.
One more  thing  I want  to say to you.  You  may  not com-
prehend  it; but at least  in your  attention,  you  can and  con-
template  it, if you  will.  Beginning  in this  Class,  there  will
go forth  a Power  of Radiation  to Russia  and  her people,  to
try to bring  the Great—the  vast  Remedy  which  is needed.
Should  this become  victorious,  then  you  can feel a Gratitude
and Service  rendered  which  will  be beyond  all words  to
describe.  Remember,  the beginning  of this  destructive  ele-
ment  was  in Russia,  in connection  with  the three  individ-
uals in New  York,  who  started  this  frightful  destruction  to
mankind  and  the Earth.
Once  not  so long  ago,  We  thought  there  seemed  to be
no hope  to bring  this  transformation  into  Russia;  but recent
evidence  there,  has given  Us renewed  hope;  so We will  do
Our Utmost  to pour  forth  a Radiation  to the mass  of her
people;  to do what  We  could  scarcely  hope  for a short
time  ago.
You are not only  solving  your  own  problems  and  holding
America's  Protection;  but  see how  It is reaching  into  the
Whole  Earth!  It seems  so fragmentary  to you  I know,  but
in every  country  in the World,  there  are Groups  of "I AM"
Students;  some  places  small,  but enough  so We may  focus
This  Mighty  Power  of Light  at those  points.
In South  Africa,  where  as Washington's  Vision  has DISCOURSE  XVIII  275
shown,  was  to arise  that  great  cloud  to submerge  America;
there  has  been  drawn  and  established  a Mighty  Sincere
Group  of "I AM"  Students.  It is magnificent!  Shall  I tell
you what  they  said  concerning  some  destructive  literature
which  went  even  to Africa?  You  know  how  the sinister
thing,  tries  to do such  things,  tries  to spread  its destruction
everywhere.  When  its destructive  literature  reached  those
students,  momentarily  they  were  shocked.  Then  they


 prime of life because no attention is paid to them!  – Paul C. BraggYou Have
        At Your Command
Mother Nature’s 9 faithful Doctors are ready to help
you attain radiant, glorious health! They are all specialists
in their particular fields of health building. They have
had years and years of experience with millions of
people. Their cumulative record is 100% perfect! They
have never failed a patient. Patients have failed them,
turned their backs on them and ignored them! But they
are kind and understanding and, no matter how manytimes patients have failed them, they still stand ready
to render perfect professional service. They have but one
prescription and that is elixir of life! They are the kindestDoctors in the whole universe! They are anxious and
willing to help everyone who comes to them for Higher
Health. Their professional services are available to all –the young, the old, the rich and the poor. They performno operations, except bloodless ones. They give no toxic
drugs, not even any so-called “wonder drugs”.
You are all familiar with these
9 wonderful life-
changing  Doctors – we all need them. I want you to call
on these 9 Doctors frequently. They are so eager to help
you help yourself to supreme health, youthfulness,longevity and agelessness! This is the Highest Health
you can have; you should have it your entire long life!
These wonderful Doctors will never, ever fail you.
They want to be your personal care givers and also yourfriends. It gives me a most secure feeling that I have at
my command, every day, the world’s great Doctors andit’s my pleasure to introduce you to them. From this
day on, please feel free to call upon them. First, I want
you to meet the Father of them all, the most eminentand the greatest healer and giver of life to everything
on the face of this earth... Doctor Sunshine.140•The ironclad laws of Mother Nature and God.
•Your common sense, which tells you that you are doing right.
•Your aim to make your health better and your life longer.
•Your resolve to prevent illness so that you may enjoy life.
•Make an art of healthy living; you will be you thful at any age.
•You will retain your faculties and be hale, hearty, active and
useful far beyond the ordinary length of years.
•You will also possess superior mental and physical powers!
What Wise Men Say
I saw few die of hunger –  of
eating, a hundred thousand.
          – Ben Franklin
Your health is your wealth.
       – Paul C. Bragg
Health is a blessing that money
cannot buy. – Izaak WaltonWisdom does not show itself so muchin precept as in life  – a firmness of mind
and mastery of the appetite. – Seneca
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee,
and her black attendant, Death. – Milton
Our prayers should be for a sound
mind in a healthy body. – Juvenal
Of all the knowledge, the one most worth having is knowledge about health!
The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person. – Herbert SpencerKEEP HEALTHY & YOUTHFUL BIOLOGICALLY
WITH EXERCISE & GOOD NUTRITION
Always remember you have the following important
 reasons for following The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle:
WANTED – For Robbing Health & Life
The natural healing force within us is the greatest force in getting well.
– Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, 400 BCBe a Bragg Crusader - copy and share with family, friends, clubs, etc.
KILLER Saturated Fats CHOKER Hydrogenated Fats
CLOGGER Salt DEADEYED Devitalized FoodsDOPEY Caffeine HARD WATER
Inorganic Minerals
PLUGGER Frying Pan JERKY Turbulent EmotionsDEATH-DEALER Drugs CRAZY AlcoholGREASY Overweight SMOKY TobaccoHOGGY Overeating LOAFER Laziness141
Doctor Sunshine, the great healer, soothes and
sparkles your body inside and outside!  – Paul C. Bragg
Doctor  SunshineChapter 1 9
Doctor Sunshine’s specialty is heliotherapy and his
great prescription is solar energy. Each tiny blade of grass,
every vine, tree, bush, flower, fruit and vegetable draws
its life from solar energy. All living things on earth
depend on solar energy for their very existence. Thisearth would be a barren, frigid place if it were not for
the magic rays of the sun. The sun gives us light and
were it not for sunshine, there would be no you or me.The earth would be in everlasting darkness.
Human beings were never meant to have pale skins,
not even the fair northern races. Man’s skin should belightly tanned by the sun and should take on a darkerpigment according to his original skin tone. It has been
found that even fair, red-headed people can slowly tan.
Pigmentation is a sign that solar energy has beentransformed into human energy. By enjoying the early
morning or late afternoon gentle sunshine man can gain
more health, vitality and happiness. The people whoare indoors too long have sallow-looking skin. This is
why many women hide sun-starved skins with makeup.
The person who is starved of the vital rays of the sun
has a half-dead look. He is actually dying for the wantof solar energy! Weak, ailing and anemic people are all
sun-starved and – in my opinion – many people are sick
simply because they are starving for gentle sunshine.
The sunshine’s gentle rays have powerful germicidal
properties. As the skin gathers these gentle rays, it storesup enormous amounts of this germ-killing energy. The
sun provides one of the finest remedies for the nervous
person who is filled with anxiety, worry and frustration.142
The law, “Whatsoever a man sows that he shall also reap,” is
inscribed in flaming letters upon the portal of Eternity, and nonecan deny it, none can cheat it, none can escape it. – James AllenSunshine Brings Peace, Relaxation to Nerves
When nervous people lie in the sunshine, its
soothing, gentle rays give them what their nerves and
body are crying out for – relaxation! Sunshine is a health
tonic and a Great Healer! As you bask in the warmsunshine, millions of nerve endings absorb the solar
energy and transform and store them into more Vital
Force energy for your nerves and body.
Perform this experiment to determine the value of
sunshine in the matter of life and death. Find a beautifulpatch of lawn where the grass is like a green carpet.Cover up a small space of that beautiful lawn with a
small piece of wood or metal. Day by day you will notice
that the beautiful grass that was so full of plant blood,or chlorophyll, will start to fade and turn a sickly yellow.
Then the tragedy happens. It withers and dies - death
from sun starvation! The same thing happens in yourbody without the life giving rays of the sun. This also
happens when you fail to eat an abundance of sun-
grown foods such as ripe, organic fruits and vegetables.
We must have the direct rays of the sun on our bodies
and our diet must contain
60% or more of food that has
been ripened by the sun’s rays. When we eat fresh fruitsand vegetables we absorb the blood of the plant – therich, nourishing chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the solar
energy that the plant has absorbed from the sun, the richest
and most nourishing food you can put into your body.“Chlorophyll is liquid sunshine.” Green plants alone possess
the secret of how to capture this powerful solar energy
and pass it on to man and every other living creature.
When you put sunshine on the outside of your body
and
 60% to 70% raw fruits and vegetables in your daily
diet, you are going to glow with radiant health! But theseare powerful and must be taken in small doses at the start,
because your sun-starved body has to slowly get used to
these cleansing, solar-powered foods.143
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. We are all
sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bloodand bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features,any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.  – Henry David ThoreauGentle Sun Rays are Soothing and Best
When you take your first sunbath, start with short
time periods until you can condition your body to longer
exposure. The best time for a beginner to start taking
gentle sunbaths is in the early morning sunshine. Oryou may sunbathe in the late afternoon gentle sunshine.
Five to ten minutes on the nude body is sufficient at
first. Avoid the burning rays between
 11 am and  3 pm.
The best cool rays of the sun are in the early morning.
The same caution should be taken in eating sun
ripened foods – the raw fruits and vegetables. Theaverage person who has been eating mainly cooked
foods will find that if great amounts of raw juicy fruit
and vegetables are suddenly put into the body they cancause a reaction. It’s wiser to add more sun-grown foods
to the diet gradually. Overdoses of solar energy, both
on the outside and inside of the body, go slowly.Regarding exposure to the sun, it’s quite necessary to
use good judgment and always proceed with caution


 seldom receive sucient mature love and
warmth, they continue to hunger for it throughout their lives unless
this lack and hurt is recognized and properly dealt with. If not, as
adults they will go through life unconsciously crying out for what they
missed in childhood. This will make them incapable of lovingmaturely. You can see how this condition continues from generation
to generation.
The remedy cannot be found by wishing that things were dierent
and that people would learn  to practice mature love. The remedy
lies solely in you. True, if you had received such love from your
parents, you would be witho ut this problem of which you are not
really and fully aware. But this lack of receiving mature  love need
trouble neither you nor your life if you become aware of it, see it,
and rearrange your former unconscious wishes, regrets, thoughts,
and concepts by aligning them to the reality of each situation. As a
consequence, you will not only become a happier person, but you
will also be able to extend mature love to others—to your children,
if you have any, or to other people in your environment—so that a
benign chain reaction can start. Such realistic self-correction is very
contrary to your present inner behavior, which we shall now
consider.
All people, including even those few who have started to explore
their own unconscious mind and emotions, habitually overlook the
strong link between the child’s longing and unfulllme nt and the
adult’s present diculties and problems, because only very few
people experie nce personally —and not just recognize in theory—
how strong this link is. Full awareness of it is essential.
There may be isolated, exceptional cases where one parent oers
a sucient degree of mature love. Even if one parent has it to some
measure, very likely the other does not. Since mature love on this
earth is only present to a degree, the child will suer from the
shortcomings of even a loving parent.
More often, however, both parents are emotionally immature and
cannot give the love the child craves, or give it only in insucient
measure. During childhood, this need is rarely conscious. Children
have no way of putting their needs into thoughts. They cannot
compare what they have with what others have. They do not know
that something else might exist. They believe this is the way it
should be. Or, in extreme cases, they feel especially isolated,
believing their lot is like no one else’s. Both attitudes deviate from
the truth. In both cases the real emotion is not conscious andtherefore cannot be properly evaluated and come to terms with.
Thus, children  grow up never quite understanding why they are
unhappy, nor even that they are unhappy. Many of you look back
on childhood convinced that you had all the love you wanted just
because you actually did have some love.
There are a number of paren ts who give great demonstrations of
love. They may overindulge their children. Such spoiling and
pampering may be an overcompensation and a sort of apology for a
deeply suspected inability to love maturely. Children feel the truth
very acutely. They may not consciously think about it, but inwardly
children keenly feel the dierence between mature, genuine love
and the immature, over-demonstrative variety oered instead.
Proper guidance and security are the parents’ responsibility and
call for author ity on their part. There are parents who never dare to
punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is due to guilt
because real, giving, warming, comforting love is absent in their
own immature personalities. Other parents may be too severe, too
strict. They thereby exert a domineering authority by bullying the
child, and not allowing his or her individuality to unfold. Both types
fall short as parents, and their wrong attitudes, absorb ed by the
child, will cause hurt and unfulllment.
In child ren of the strict paren ts, the resentment and rebellion will
be open, and therefore more easily traced. In the other case, the
rebellion is just as strong, but hidden, and therefore innitely
harder to trace. If you had a parent who smothered you with
aection or pseudo-aection, yet lacked in genuine warmth, or if
you had a parent who conscientiously did everything right but was
also lacking in real warmth,  unconsciously you knew it as a child
and you resented it. Consciously you may not have been aware of it
at all, because,  when a child,  you really could not put your nger on
what was lacking. You were outwardly given everything you wanted
and needed. How could you draw the subtle, ne borderline
distinction between real aection and pseudo-aection with your
child’s intellect? The fact that something bothered you without your
being able to explain it rationally made you feel guilty anduncomfortable. You therefore pushed it out of sight as far as
possible.
As long as the hurt, disappointment, and unfullled needs  of your
early years remain unconscious, you cannot come to terms with
them. No matter how much you may love your parents, an
unconscious resentment exists in you, which prevents you from
forgiving them  for the hurt. You can only forgive and let go if you
recognize your deeply hidden hurt and resentment. As an adult
human being you will see that your parents, too, are just human
beings. They were not as faultless and perfect as the child had
thought and hoped them to be, yet they are not to be rejected now
because they had their own conicts and immaturities. The light of
conscious reasoning has to be applied to these very emotions you
never allowed yourself to be aware of fully.
Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood
As long as you are unaware of the conict between your longing
for a perfect love from your parents and your resentment against
them, you are bound to try remedying the situation in your later
years. This striving may manifest in various aspects of your life. You
run constantly into problems and repeated patterns that have their
origin in your attempt to reproduce the childhood situation so as to
correct it. This unconscious compulsio n is a very strong factor, but is
so deeply hidden from your conscious understanding!
The most frequ ent way of attempting to remedy the situation is in
your choice of love partners. Unconsciously you will know how to
choose in the partner aspec ts of the parent who has particularly
fallen short in aection and love that is real and genuine. But you
also seek in your partner aspects of the other parent who has come
closer to meeting your demands. Important as it is to nd both
parents represented in your partners, it is even more important and
more dicult to nd those aspects that represent the parent who
has particularly disappointed and hurt you, the one more resented
or despised and for whom you had little or no love. So you seek theparents again—in a subtle way that is not always easy to detect, in
your marital partners, in your friendships, or in other human
relationships. In your subconscious, the following reactions take
place: Since the child in you cannot let go of the past, cannot come
to terms with it, cannot forgive, cannot understand and accept, this
very child in you always creates similar conditions, trying to win
out in the end in order to nally master the situation instead of
succumbing to it. Losing out means being crushed—thi s must be
avoided at all costs. The costs are high indeed, for the entire
strategy is unfeasible. What the child in you sets out to accomplish
cannot ever come to realization.
The Fallacy of this Strategy
This entire procedure is utterly destructive. In the rst place, it is
an illusion that you were defeated. Therefore, it is an illusion that
you can now be victorious. Moreover, it is an illusion that the lack
of love, sad as that may have been when you were a child, is indeed
the tragedy that your subco nscious still feels it to be. The only
tragedy lies in the fact that you obstruct your future happiness by
continuing to reproduce the situation and then attempting to master
it. My friends,  this process is a deeply unconscious one. Of course,
nothing is further from your mind as you focus on your conscious
aims and wishes. It will take a great deal of digging to uncover the
emotions that lead you again  and again into situations where your
secret aim is to remedy childhood woes.
In trying to reproduce the childhood situation, you unconsciously
choose a partner with aspects  similar to those of the parent. Yet it is
these very aspects that will make it as impossible to receive the
mature love you rightfully long for now as it was then. Blindly, you
believe that by willing it more strongly and more forcefully, the
parent-partner will now yield, whereas in reality love cannot come
that way. Only when you are free of this ever-continuing repetition,
will you no longer cry to be loved by the parent. Instead, you will
look for a partner or for other human relationships with the aim ofnding the maturity you really need and want. In not demanding to
be loved as a child, you will be equally willing to love. However,
the child


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 my head and said, "So now what?" The anesthetist, very startled, said again, "You're supposed to
be asleep!" "Well, I'm not," I repeated. "I'm as wide awake as you." "I can't give you
any more drugs. I've given you enough to knock out a horse," stated the anesthetist. I
assumed he was speaking figuratively, because I knew he was not pleased. But by the same token, I wasn't exactly elated.
   There is no doubt in my mind that this incident was due to the effects of my body
being poisoned with the many drugs I had ingested over the past five and one-half
years, some drugs potentiating one anothe r, others antagonizing each other, some
neutralizing others, and many interacti ng. Who knows what detrimental changes
occur in our bodies. Obviously, among other things, I seemed to have built a type of
immunity or resistance. This was dangerous because it meant I would have to have larger doses of drugs, which can be just as hazardous as being allergic to them.
   So during the course of the surgery, while Dr. Cuttem did his thing on my lower
end, I chatted with the anesthetist at my upper end. All the while, I could hear various cutting and clicking sounds. I didn't particularly like it, but there wasn't much I could
do. After what seemed like hours, in reality it was only about 45 minutes, the surgeon
said the most endearing words, "All done, Jack." I was rolled on my back, put on a
cart, and wheeled to the recovery room where my blood pressure was taken at regular
intervals and I waited for sensation to return to the lower half of my body. The nurse told me I would be here an hour or two, depending on how soon I could wiggle my
toes. It wasn't 20 or 30 minutes and I could feel my feet and wiggle my toes. I called
the nurse and told her I was ready to be ta ken back to my room. She said, "Oh, not
yet. You must be able to wiggle your toes." "Pull back the sheets and take a look," I
told her. She looked and I wiggled. "You're  not supposed to be able to wiggle this
soon," she said in a rather surprised tone of voice. The doctor was informed of this
situation and he agreed to send me down to my room. This little episode was, again, probably the result of biochemical changes due to the years of drugging my system.
   On the way down to my room, I could feel the pain starting. By the time we reached
the room, the pain was so intense that I became unreasonable and ordered my wife and my mother to "get out of the room." I rang for the nurse and told her to give me
something to ease the pain. A few minutes later I received some morphine (1/8 grain)
and some kind words from the nurse, who was very sympathetic. My wife came back
into the room and sat beside me. I tried to keep my mind off the discomfort, but after
30 minutes not only did the pain not ease but it increased in intensity. I rang for the nurse while Corinne tried to hold me down. The nurse said she could not give me any
additional painkiller because of doctor's orders. Well, in language not fit to print here,
I demanded she locate the doctor and have him change those orders because the pain
was driving me wild. The nurse returned shortly with the news that the doctor did not
want me to have any more drugs. When I asked the reason, she explained it was because of possible danger to me due to all the cortisone I had been taking. The answer satisfied everyone but me because I had the pain; but that's the way it was. So
for the next couple of hours I thrashed around in the bed, screamed, and literally beat on the walls with my fists while Corinne cried and was hysterical in her helplessness
and fear.
   As all things do, this came to pass and I fell asleep from exhaustion. I was spent.
This experience, too, was a result of years of drugging. The amazing thing is that after
all these years of disease, of poisoning by the drugs, this hellish surgical experience,
and a host of other things related to medical treatment, I had not blown my mind. I still had my sanity.
   I awoke early in the evening with the bowel spasms present and an uncontrollable
urge to have a B.M. I rang for the nurse; but before she could get to me I jumped out of bed in a wild dash for the lavatory. I didn't make it because the sudden drop in
blood pressure caused fainting and I hit the floor! I was picked up and carried to the
lavatory where, because of fear, I tried to hold myself back. Finally there was no
controlling it and in a few seconds the packing was blown out, accompanied by
extreme pain. From here on it was all downhill. The worst was over, but the immense enervation added another emotional scar to my psyche, not to mention the harm to my
debilitated physical condition.
   Discharge from the hospital came on December 9, 1963. I remember the date well
because I no sooner hobbled home and into bed for a well-earned recuperative period,
when my wife kissed me goodbye and entered the hospital for the birth of our second son. There I was, left to fend for myself and care for our three-year-old son, when I
could barely get around. But my main concern was whether or not the new baby
would be born with any mental or physical defects as a result of my system being
flooded with poisonous drugs over the last five and one-half years. In fact, Corinne
and I debated on whether to have a second ch ild for just this reason. We both thank
God that he was born normal in every respect; a little noisy, but normal.
   A week later, Corinne returned from the hospital with our new son. We slipped back
into the routine of things. I went back to my office and tried desperately to put in as
much time as possible, which wasn't much. I found no joy in getting up in the
morning to face the day. I had no desire or enthusiasm for my work--or anything else
for that matter.
   The new year had arrived. It was 1964. I wondered what this year had in store and if
it would be as bad as last year. What more could happen to me? I wondered! But the
next four or five months brought progressively worse changes in my physical condition. I celebrated a birthday in February--34 years of age, but an old man. It was
tough watching others my age enjoying themselves, taking trips and loving life while I vegetated in my small world.
   It seemed there were no lulls or quiescent periods during these trying years. There
was always something to prevent an even pattern in our lives. It was very difficult for
Corinne to teach school, raise the children, take care of the house, and to try to adjust
to my problem. It matured the both of us and that was to our benefit since we were soon to make some major decisions 'that were to affect the rest of our lives. These
years bring to mind Frank Ward O'Malley, the famous journalist, who was asked for his definition of life. His answer was classic. He said simply, "Life is just one damned
thing after another." How true!
   I saw my doctor regularly every week or two for dietary changes, decreases and
increases of my drug dosages, and regular sigmoidoscopic examinations. Nothing seemed to help anymore. The spasms and diarrhea were increasing again and there
was more bleeding. I was running to the lavatory 20 to 30 times a day. I was already
anemic. Now I was becoming dehydrated and losing weight, having dropped a total of
25 pounds. That put me at about 145 pounds. Low back pain was almost constant and
annoying, as were the ever-increasing cramping and spasms in my feet and legs. This was preventing me from obtaining proper and much-needed sleep, since it would
awaken me several times during the night and I would find my legs contracted right up against my thighs.
   Migrating arthritic pains were becoming prevalent. The aching would travel from
one joint to another, affecting several joints  at one time. Because of all the drugs I was
ingesting, it was all but impossible to take painkillers. If any contained aspirin or even
if it was just plain aspirin, the pain and damaging effects on my stomach made it prohibitive. If the drug had no aspirin, and I tried many, then the potentiating effects
of the other drugs caused many untoward reactions, not the least of which were
confused thinking and a state of stupor. So there was not much I could do except
"tough it out." These previously mentioned symptoms are common in colitis and particularly advanced ulcerative colitis. C'est la guerre!
   It was late spring, 1964, and I seemed to be heading for what I sensed as some
horrible ending. Our family life had dwindled. Social life was virtually over. It took
all the physical and emotional strength I could muster just to go to my office and try
to do


• American Diabetes Assoc. • National Institute of Law Municipal Officers
• American Chiropractic Assoc. • American Civil Liberties Union
• Nat’l Kidney Foundation • American Psychiatric Assoc. • Soc. of Toxicology
15 Millions of Americans drink water spiked with a
sodium fluoride solution. A chemical cousin of sodium,
fluorine is not as toxic as “Hex”... but toxic enough, in
high concentrations, to be used as a standard roach and
rat killer and a deadly pesticide.
Yet this terrible, deadly sodium fluoride, injected
virtually by government edict into drinking water in the
proportion of 1.2 parts per million ( PPM), has been
declared by the United States Public Health Service to
be “absolutely safe for all human consumption”. Every
qualified chemist knows that such “absolute safety” is
not only unattainable, but a total illusion!
The Grim Stor y Behind Fluoridation
16 It was in the year 1939 that a famous institute in the
eastern part of the United States commissioned their
biochemist to find a use for the sodium fluoride wastes
produced by aluminum foundries. Some 45 other
industries also had fluoride disposal problems. Many
were tormented by expensive damage suits arising from
the noxious pollution effects of the poison on livestock
and crops. Oil refineries, metal smelters, tile, brick, steel,
fertilizer and ceramic plants and the Atomic Energy
Commission installations were involved. The cost to
eliminate this deadly chemical was ver y costly. Was there
no way this by-product could be put to a profitable use?
Now this biochemist was a clever and cunning man.
He came up with a big money-making idea: why not
dissolve the stuff in drinking water? He had absolutely no
medical background and had not conducted any clinical
resear ch into the effects of sodium fluoride on our body’ s
chemistr y. His idea went over big with companies who
were burdened by what to do with sodium fluoride wastes.
Russian studies back in the 1970s demonstrated that workers suffering
from exposure to fluoride in the workplace exhibited signs of impaired
mental functioning. – Health Action Network – www.hans.org
From the British Journal Nature, 1986 : Researcher Mark Diesendorf assessed
24 studies from 8 countries and found cavity rates had declined equally in
fluoridated and nonfluoridated areas, showing fluoridation isn’t necessary!
The USA leads the world in heart diseases, strokes, cancers and diabetes! The next step was not difficult... turn the idea over
to clever advertising companies and let them brainwash
the public into believing that the greatest health
measure in modern times had been discovered. Give a
“tall tale” to the gullible American public and if it sounds
scientific, they will bite – hook, line and sinker! So they
used the tall tale that sodium fluoride in drinking water
would prevent tooth decay in children, as they found a
Texas town that had naturally occurring fluoride and it
seemed fewer dental cavities. The public was eager to
hear mor e. At last, a way to prevent tooth decay! Sadly,
most became convinced at first – despite that every smart
thinking person knows that tooth decay comes from
poor nutrition and especially the high consumption of
all the refined sugar drinks, candy and products!
Big business and large professional organizations
have a way of sticking together. Remember, they have
the powerful m edia behind them  because of  econom ic
control exerted by the publishers’ chief sour ce of
income – adver tising! With the aid of all the  television,
radio, newspapers and m agazines, the major business,
professional and social organizations promoted the ‘great
merits’ of sodium  fluoride – although totally false and
dangerous – to the innocent, believing American people.
Any person who publicly questioned this poisoning
of drinking water with sodium fluoride was called
ignorant, uninformed and backward! Most doctors and
dentists surrender ed to these powerful for ces for fear
of being discredited by their professional associations!
But, you can always find some honest and sincere
professionals who fight for truth –  no matter how others
might ridicule them! Extreme pressures were put upon
all U.S. city and state governm ents to fluoridate the
drinking water and still are! Big business and large
professional organizations, which can act like the
Mafia, don ’t take “No” for an answer! They know how
to pressure state, city and water officials to think
and take action their way, often not for good!
17
Health risks associated with our current fluoride intake (exceeds 6 mg/day) can
be described in a nutshell: An intake of 5 mg/day will cause average individuals
to develop crippling deformities of the spine and major joints within a lifetime. 18Fluoridation can cause tooth enamel mottling, poor
health, mongolism in infants and increases the
growth of cancer cells.
We must all demand safe, pur e water! Shocking Historical Fluoride Facts
•	Adolf Hitler sought a means to make people docile
and suggestible. He discovered that odorless sodium
fluoride slowly poisons and makes dormant the small
tissue in the brain’ s left rear occipital lobe that
normally helps a person resist domination. Fluoride
allows muscles to move one way, but not relax. In
large doses fluoride can cause paralysis and death.
•	Sodium fluoride is classified with arsenic and cyanide
as a dangerous poison and is used in rat poison.
Hydrogen fluoride is an industrial pollutant. It is
illegal to sell or give away a fluoride pill of 1 mg.
Fluoride slowly destr oys the body’ s self-repair and
rejuvenation capabilities causing premature ageing,
bone damage and defor mities.
•	Fluoride increases the risk of hip fractures up to 41%.
The Fluoridation Fiasco*
•	In recent years, fluoridation of our water supply has
been shown not only ineffective in preventing tooth
decay, but it poisons the body! How and why should
public health policy and the American media live with
and perpetuate this toxic sham?
•	At first, industr y could dispose of fluoride legally only
in small amounts by selling it to insecticide and rat
poison manufacturers. Then a commer cial outlet was
devised in the mid 1930s when a connection was
made between a water supply bearing traces of natural
fluoride and lower rates of tooth decay. Even after
this connection was proven erroneous, it became a
political, not a scientific issue! Many opponents
originally started out as proponents, but changed
their minds after closer looks at mounting evidence.
They started viewing it as a capitalist-style con job of
epic proportions poured down American throats.
* Excerpts from an article by Gary Null called The Fluoridation Fiasco. More Fluoridation Fiasco Facts:
•	The Sierra Club found in a study that people in
unfluoridated developing nations have fewer dental
caries than those living in industrialized nations. They
concluded “fluoride is not essential to dental health.”
•	In British Columbia, only 11% of the population
drinks fluoridated water,  as opposed to 40-70% in
other Canadian regions. Y et British Columbia has the
lowest rate of tooth decay in Canada, with the lowest
rates of dental caries occurring in areas of the province
where the water is not fluoridated.
•	In 1986-87, 39,000 school children between ages 5
and 17, living in 84 areas around the countr y, were
studied. 3 of the places were fluoridated, 3 were
partially fluoridated and 3 were not. Results showed
no statistically significant differences in dental decay
rates between fluoridated and unfluoridated cities.
•	A World Health Organization sur vey reports a decline
of dental decay in W estern Europe, which is 98%
unfluoridated. Europe’ s declining dental decay rates
are equal to and sometimes lower than U.S. rates.
•	A 1992 University of Arizona study yielded surprising
results when they found that “the more fluoride a
child drinks, the more cavities appear in the teeth.”
•	All the Native American Indian Reser vations are now
fluoridated by law. Childr en living on them have
more incidences of dental decay and other oral health
problems, caused by high sugar, refined foods, etc.,
than do children living in other U.S. communities!
•	Most of W estern Europe has rejected fluoridation on
the grounds that it is unsafe! Sweden’ s Nobel Medical
Institute recommended against fluoridation and the
process was banned. The Netherlands outlawed the
practice in 1976. France decided against it after
consulting with its Pasteur Institute. W est Germany,
now Germany, rejected the practice because 1 ppm
was dangerously “close to the dose at which long-
term damage to the human body is to be expected.”
19
The noblest of the elements is pure water. – Pindar
20 More Fluoridation Fiasco Facts:
•	J. William Hirzy,


 people who,
under stress or when experiencing a loss, eat ravenously in an attempt to comfort themselves. If this goes on for long the pe rson
can expect to create a serious  illness of some kind.
    Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and personality and who is generating the negati ve
emotions. Self generated negative emotions are very difficult to avoid. If you are unable to change your own emotional tone or that
of others around you, then it is important to eat very lightly, eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetab les, raw
juices, steamed vegetables, and small servings of whole grains, nuts and seeds.

Diets To Heal The Critically Ill
    A critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment; therapeutic interventions are racing against death. Can th e
body repair itself enough before some essential function ceases altogether? If there already exists too much damage to vital organs
the person will die. If there remains sufficient organ function to support life, enough vital force to power those functions,  and a
will to live, the body may heal itself if helped by the correct therapeutic approach. But th e therapy does not do the healing; the
body does that by itself –if it can. This reality is also true of allopathic medicine.
    I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person their very best chance of recovery. If a patient
dies while fasting they almost certainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will be more comfortabl e,
with less pain, and with more mental clarity.
    Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the followi ng diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart
failure, very high blood pressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema, pneumonia or other catastrophi c
infections, especially those that seem unresponsive to antibiotics, strokes, emboli, sclerotic vessels as found in arteriosclerosis,
severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission to vital organs.
    Treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing, ideological choice between holistic medicine and A MA style
medicine. It is important for the critically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatment such as drugs or
surgery, these measures can and should be combined with natural healing methods. It is always desirable to qui t all addicting
substances, start a whole foods diet, (as light as possible), and add meganutrition (supplements) to the medical doctor's tre atments.
Few medical doctors are so arrogantly partisan as to assert that natural measures will do any harm as long  as the MD is still
allowed to prescribe as they please.
    Holistic support will not only lessen the side effects of the medical treatments but will speed up healing and often reduce t he
required dose of prescribed drugs. I have had several clients with cancer who chose to have surgery, radiation and chemotherapy,
but stayed on a raw food diet and took high doses of supplements throughout the treatment. These people amazed the attending
physician by feeling good with little if any fatigue, no hair loss, o r flu symptoms. The same can be true of other conditions.

Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
    Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into account in this list.
Hard To Digest: Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all leg umes including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split
peas, lentils, chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seeds and their butters.

Intermediate: all grains –quinoa, amaranth, millet, spelt, rye, wheat, oat s, barley.

Fairly Easy: Brussels sprouts, green beans, green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, raw cultured milk products, asparagus, cabbage,
sprouts especially bean sprouts, kale, other leafy greens.

Very Easy: fruits, vegetable juices, fruit juices, broth (clear).

No Effort: herb tea, water.
    Ethyl always comes to my mind when I think of how much healing power can still be left in a dying body. She (accompanied by
her husband for support) came to Great Oaks School with terminal cancer, heart failure, advanced diabetes, extreme weakness, and
complete inability to digest. Any food ingested just came back up immediately. Ethyl had large tumors taking over the breast,
sticking out from her skull, an d protruding from her body in general. The largest was the one in the left breast which was the size
of a big man's fist.
    She did have one crucial thing going for her, Ethyl was a feisty Irish red head who still had a will to live, and a reason to  do so.
She and her husband, who had just retired, had dreamed their whole life of touring the US and Canada in their own RV the minu te
he retired. The time had finally arrived but Ethyl was too ill to support her own weight (only 90 pounds) and to top it off was blind
from diabetic retinopathy. The doctors had done everything they could to her, and now judged her too weak to withstand any mo re
surgery (she had already had her right breast removed). Radiation or chemotherapy were also considered impossible due to heart
failure. They sent Ethyl home to die, giving her a few days to a month at most.
    Any sensible hygienist trying to stay out of jail would have refused to take on this type of case because it was a cancer cas e
where death was likely. Treatment o f this highly lucrative disease is considered the AMA's exclusive franchise, even when the
medical doctors have given up after having done everything to a body the family can pay for or owe for. Whenever a person die s
under the care of any person who is no t a licensed M.D. there must be an autopsy and a criminal investigation in search of
negligence. If the person dies under the care of an M.D. the sheriff's assumption is that the doctor most assuredly did every thing he
could and should have done and death was inevitable. By accepting Ethyl I had a reasonable likelihood of ending up in trouble; but
being foolish, brave and (stupidly) feeling relatively immune to such consequences (I was under 40 at the time), it seemed
important to try to help her. So, undau nted by the task, regardless of the outcome, I proceeded logically, one step at a time. Today,
with more experience and a modest net worth I wouldn't want to have to defend in a lawsuit, and at age 55. possessing no spar e
five to ten years to give to the S tate to "pay" for my bravery, I would probably refuse such a case. Fortunately I have not been
confronted with this problem lately.
    Since Ethyl was unable to digest anything given by mouth, she was fed rectally with wheat grass juice implants three tim es a
day. She was carried to the colonic table for a daily colonic. Wheat grass and clay poultices were applied to her tumors thre e times
a day. She received an acupressure massage and reflexology treatments during the day, plus a lot of tender loving care. This
program continued for a month during which the tumors were being reabsorbed by the body, including the large, extremely hard
tumor sticking out the flesh of the right breast.
    Ethyl complained of severe pain as the large tumor in her breast shra nk. While it had been getting larger and pressing ever
harder on all the nerves, she had little or no sensation, but as it shrank, the nerves were reactivated. Most people think th at a
growing tumor would cause more pain than a shrinking one. Often the opp osite is true. Pain can be a good sign that the body is
winning, an indicator to proceed.
    By the second month, Ethyl, gradually gaining strength, was able to take wheat grass and carrot juice orally, and gradually e ased
into raw foods, mostly sprouts and leafy greens such as sunflower and buckwheat greens grown in trays. She started to walk with
assistance up and down the halls, no longer experiencing the intense pain formerly caused by a failing heart, and most surpri sing of
all, her eyesight returned, at first seeing only outlines, and then details.
    The third month Ethyl enlarged her food intake to include raw foods as well as the carrot and wheat grass juice and sprouts, plus
vitamin and mineral supplements to help support her immune system and the healing process. All the tumors had been reabsorbed
by her body and were no longer visible, her heart was able to support normal activity such as walking, and nonstrenuous house hold
chores, and her diabetes had corrected itself to the point that she no  longer required insulin and was able to control her blood sugar
with diet.
    Her husband was then instructed in her maintenance and they went home to continue the program. The last I heard from them
they had made two lengthy trips around the US in thei r RV and were enjoying their retirement together after all.
    My treatment worked because the most important factor in the healing of the critically ill person is not give them more
nourishment than their body is able to process. The moment the digestiv e capacity of the sick person is exceeded, the condition
will be exacerbated and in a critically illness, the person is likely


 resis -
tance. Awareness does not need to be made peaceful through effort, practice
or discipline. It only need be recognised as such. That is, it only need recog -
nise or know itself as such.
     In fact, awareness is always knowing itself as it essentially is, but its knowl -
edge of itself is mixed with its knowledge of objective experience and seems,
as a result, to acquire its qualities. Just as a motionless screen seems to move
when a movie begins, so we, awareness, seem to become agitated when we
become entangled in the content of experience.

The inherent peace of awareness is not a temporary state of mind. It is the
very nature  of awareness itself and, as such, does not depend upon what  you are the happiness you seek
does or does not take place in experience. It is prior to, and independent
of, the content of experience and is always available in the background of
experience.
     It is the peace that ‘passeth understanding’, the peace for which there is
no explanation in the content of experience. It cannot be caused; it can only
be recognised. It cannot disappear; it can only be ignored. It is the context
of the mind, not its content.
     We usually first notice this peace in the background of experience and
may only seem to have access to it in between our agitated thoughts and feel -
ings, just as the screen only seems to become visible in between movies.
     However, in time the content of our experience begins to lose its veiling
power, just as a movie loses its capacity to veil the screen. As a result, the
background of peace begins to percolate into the foreground of experience,
which is in turn gradually and progressively permeated by it.
     Awareness is not changed by the content of experience, but the content
of experience is progressively changed by the peace of awareness.

happiness is the nature of awareness

Just as the empty space of a room does not stand to gain or lose anything
from whatever takes place within it, likewise we, awareness, are not enhanced
or diminished by any experience, however pleasant or unpleasant it may be.
Awareness is always in the same pristine condition.
     No experience adds anything to it or removes anything from it. As such,
awareness has no vested interest in experience. It is utterly, intimately one
with experience, open without resistance to it and yet, at the same time,
needs nothing from it. It does not need to be fulfilled or completed by ex -
perience.
     Awareness lacks or wants for nothing. As such, it is whole, complete, un -
conditionally fulfilled, content. From a human perspective this wholeness,
completeness or absence of lack is felt as the experience of happiness. When
we experience happiness we are literally experiencing our essential nature.
Happiness is the taste of awareness.
     Happiness is not a temporary state of mind, or even an emotion in the
ordinary sense of the word. It is the ever-present background of all changing
states and emotions. It is the nature  of our self. As such, we cannot know
72peace and happiness is our nature
happiness as an objective experience; we can only be it. Likewise, we cannot
be unhappy; we can only know  it.
     Happiness is sometimes referred to as the ease of being, because it is to
be found in the simple knowing of our own being as it essentially is.

I well remember the first time it became obvious that happiness is the very
nature of my being. There was nothing extraordinary about it and it was not
preceded by any particular experience. It just dawned on me. One moment
it was not clear; the next moment it was.
     The awareness of being is happiness itself. How could I have missed such
an obvious truth? I looked back over twenty years of study and practice and
realised that all the texts and teachings had been pointing to this simple rec -
ognition.
     I recalled the innumerable attempts I had made in my life to secure hap -
piness through objects, substances, activities, states of mind and relationships,
and now, in the depths of my being, a quiet joy was revealing itself effortlessly.
     Although this understanding would, over the ensuing years, be veiled
from time to time by the old habit of seeking fulfilment in objective experi -
ence, it was never again completely eclipsed. The old habit had been dealt a
mortal wound, and it was only a matter of time before it would dissipate,
gradually giving way to an imperturbable peace.
     This peace was not new, nor was it something extraordinary. It was fam -
iliar, like an old friend with whom I had lost touch and was now reunited.
     It became clear that the answer to the question that had first formu -
lated itself in my mind almost twenty years earlier, ‘What is the source of
lasting peace and happiness?’, lay in the simple recognition of my own
being. In short, it became clear that peace and happiness is the very nature
of our self.

am i ready to know my self?

My experience is so overwhelming much of the time that I sometimes wonder
whether I can ever recognise the presence of awareness.

Everyone is equally qualified to undertake this investigation and recognise
their true nature, simply by virtue of the fact that they are aware. It is the
73you are the happiness you seek
very awareness with which you are currently aware of these words that has
the capacity to soften the focus of its attention from the content of your
experience, come back to itself and recognise its innate peace.
     It is not even necessary to change or get rid of any element of experience,
to still or silence the mind, to change negative thoughts into positive ones,
or to transform unpleasant feelings. Whether we are deeply depressed, madly
in love or simply drinking tea, we are aware of our experience.
     The awareness that knows the experience of depression is the same aware -
ness that is aware of the experience of being in love or the taste of tea. Even
our most confused thoughts arise in the clarity of awareness. Even our darkest
feelings arise in the luminous presence of awareness.

Is it possible that I’m just not ready?

This is a way of understanding, not a path of effort. Any effort would
arise on behalf of a self that deemed its current experience insufficient
and, therefore, in need of improvement. It would not arise on behalf of
the true and only self of inherently peaceful and unconditionally fulfilled
awareness.
     This is a way of recognition and expression: the recognition of what is
always already the case, and its subsequent expression or celebration in our
lives. It has nothing to do with changing or improving a self which, when
investigated, cannot be found as such. And yet, changes do take place in our
lives as an inevitable consequence of this understanding.
     All that is necessary is to cease being exclusively fascinated by or lost in
the content of experience and to return to our self. Strictly speaking, we do
not even need to return to our self. When we get undressed at night, we do
not return to our naked body. It is simply revealed. Our naked body was
there all along, underneath our clothes.
     Likewise, our inherently peaceful and unconditionally fulfilled being
is present behind, and in the midst of, all experience. All that is necessary
is to relax the focus of our attention from the content of experience and
our being will shine by itself. It is, as such, a relaxation of effort, not a
new effort.

This kind of happiness seems out of reach for ordinary people.
74peace and happiness is our nature
No special qualifications, abilities or circumstances are required to recognise
the nature of awareness. No sage – the Buddha, Meister Eckhart, Lao Tzu,
Ramana Maharshi, Anandamayi Ma, Jesus or any other – had privileged
access to the fact of being aware or awareness itself.
     They were ordinary people, like each of us, who simply had a deep de -
sire to know the nature of their being. They understood that happiness
was to be found only in their own being and were passionate about finding
it there.
     Nor does this recognition require special affiliation to any particular
tradition or person. One who has recognised the nature of their essential
being knows that it is not coloured or qualified by any particular tradition,
although they may continue to operate within that tradition, emphasising
its inner meaning rather than its outer form, for the benefit of those who
have yet to understand its full meaning.

Will I know when it happens?

This recognition may take place in contemplative moments, between
thoughts and activities or during them, just as an actress may recognise that
she is not defined by, or limited to, the part she plays in between perform -
ances or during a performance.
     We may not even notice that a specific recognition has taken place.
We simply notice that the almost constant activity of negotiating experience
for the purpose of seeking happiness has diminished, and in its place a cause -
less peace has arisen. Either way, our inherently peaceful and unconditionally
fulfilled nature of awareness does not need to be liberated from the content
of experience. Its nature is already such.
     The recognition may be accompanied by a dramatic relaxation of tension
in the body or agitation in the mind, but this should not be mistaken for
the recognition of our true nature itself. It is just as possible that


 death should oc
cur from old age, per se. If one person
can live to be one hundred or two hundred
years old, why not another? If the hu
man race lived strictly under a rational
hygienic dispensation, death would never occur from old age, under several hun
dred years.
Suggestion is now mainly responsible
for keeping the limit of life at about
eighty years. Fol"thousands of years man
has been taught that he would die at about
the age of 70; consequently when in the
neighborhood of thia age, man begins to
look for death-to expect death-to be
lieve in death-and he is never disap
pointed. The mineral salt deposits in the
body commence to manifest themselves be
tween 40 and 50 years of age. These salts
are derived mainly from ordinary drink
ing water, altho cereals contribute their
share. The presence of an excess of lime
retards the functions of all organs ; all
processes are hindered; the various bod
ily systems act slowly; this favors the
additional deposits of more salts. The
functions of the organs are still more
restricted. We say the man is "aging
rapidly." As the body becomes weaker
the organs become weaker, and mineral
deposits quickly accumulate. The victim
is rapidly becoming petrified. All organs
are clogged; the vital powers are lowered,
and as the petrifaction proceeds, death
approaches; finally the muscles of the
heart become so dense that their elasticity
is gone and death ends all. When one
dies from "old age," he dies because his
body is partially turned to stone. If we
can keep the percentage of water in the
body at 80 or 85, we will never die of
old age. To maintain the proper pro-
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DISTILLED WATER AND LONGEVITY.
portion of aqueous elements in the system,
no liquids but distilled water should be
used for drinking or cooking; and fur
thermore, foods containing a high per
centage of mineral salts, 88 cereals5 should
be eaten sparingly. When the ideal hy-;
gienic race conditions prevail, man will
live on distilled water, nuts and fruits;
and he will understand the art of masti
cation; he will breath pure air twenty-four
hours out of the day; he will spend many
hours daily in the sunshine; he will take
enough exercise to keep the body supple,
and his mind will be free from worry, care
and anxiety; he will not expect death at
any particular year or time, nor will he
think ·about dying; children will not read
the deadly suggestion about "three score
and ten years," and they will be taught
how to build and mould the body by men
tal processes; all suggestions will be for
health, strength and vigor. Bulletins
from the bedside will be abolished, and
"drugs" will exist only in the dictionaries
of. the antiquarian.
The firat step in the physical regenera
tion of the race is a crusade against ordi
nary or "raw" drinking water. When dis
tilled water is universally used humanity
will take a long step forward. It is the
duty of the state to see that only perfect
drinking water is used; we look after cess
pools, drains, noxious odors, plumbing,
adulterated food, etc., and the water sup
ply is more important than all these. If
distilled water was in every home the
board of health would have to go out of
business.
"But a German doctor stated that dis
tilled water is injurious," remarks a read
er. He did, but his statement is false.
His remarks in substance are 88 follows: "By 'chemically pure water' we usually
understand perfectly fresh, distilled water,
whose behavior and properties are well
understood. It withdraws the salts from
the animal tissues and causes the latter to
swell or inflate. Isolated living organic
elements, cells, and all unicellular organ
isms are destroyed in distilled water-they
die, since they become engorged therein.
They lose the faculty, upon which life de
pends, of retaining their salts and other
soluble cell constituents, and consequently
these are allowed to diffuse throughout the
water.
"Distilled water is, therefore, a danger
ous protoplasmic poison. The same poi
sonous effects must occur whenever dis
tilled water is drUnk. The sense of taste
is the first to protest against the use of
this substance. A mouthful of distilled
water, taken by inadvertence, will be spit
out regularly. The water once in the
stomach, the superficial stratum of epithe
lium experiences a powerful distension,
the cella are leached by their salts, die, and
are cast off. This local poisonous effect of
distilled water makes itself known by a
sensation of uneasiness, belching, etc., fur
nishing all the symptoms of a catarrh of
the stomach on a small scale.
"The harmfulness of the process so
much resorted to today, of washing out the
stomach with distilled water, is acknowl
edged; and we find the physicians who for
merly used that agent are now turning to
the 'physiological solution of cooking salt,'
or 'water with a little salt,' or the min
eral waters recommended for the purpose.
The poisonous nature of absolutely pure
water would scarcely. have been recognized
and felt long since, were it not that its
effects in their most marked form can sel
dom occur; for through a train of circum-
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stances •absolutely pure' water can rarely
be found."
The attack on the daily use of distilled
water by an alleged Dr. Koppe was in
spired by the owners of mineral springs
in Europe; and it has been stated-that Dr.
Koppe is-a myth. The statements cred
ited to him are a tissue of falsehoods
there is not a word of truth in any of
them. Distilled water has no deleterious ac
tion on living tissue; distilled water is not
poisonous, but the only elixir of life that
will be discovered. It is quite true that
micro-organisms will die if placed in pure
water; they die because there is no refuse
for them to feed on. This is one of the
strongest arguments in favor of distilled
water. When all the fluids of the body
are made up of distilled water there will
be no fear of germs-a disease germ can
not live in a system that is 80 per cent
aqua pura. The mythical d:>~tor's state
ment that absolutely pure water can rarely
be found is as false as the others. In
every large city of the United States abso
lutely pure water is delivered to your door
at prices varying from six to ten cents
per gallon, while in thousands of homes
are small stills which make an abundance
of absolutely pure, aerated and appetizing
water. All health specialists of the ad
vanced and rational schools of nature
therapy today advocate the drinking of
water, from two to three quarts daily;
it is conceded that perfect health-is im
possible without an abundance of water.
It does not need an argument to show
that this water should be pure, and if an
argument were needed the United States
army and navy have supplied that argu
ment beyond cavil.
The great, ever present danger in
"raw" water is not germs-it is the min
eral matter which is not needed in the human body, as sufficient cell· salts are
furnished in a natural form by the solid
food. The earthy material is simply ref
use; it makes additional work for the
excretory organs, and all of it cannot
possibly be eliminated. Hence, the grad
ual clogging of the system, which brings
on a condition known as "old age."
Knowing that the daily use of dis
tilled water in the army and navy has been
attended by the most gratifying results,
letters were addressed to the government
medical departments asking for definite
and authoritative statements as to the
health giving qualities of absolutely pure
water. Sailors have been under daily ob
servation by medical officers for years;
army officers have had ample opportunity
to study the drinking water question at
short range at home and in Cuba, China
and the Philippines, and the result is that
sufficient evidence has been collected to
settle for all time the desirability of dis
tilled water as a daily drink, and its value
in preserving health.
One of the first labors of the medical
department of the army in the Philippines
was the erection of distilling plants in the
city of Manila; from these plants distilled
water was supplied t_o all the camps and
garrisons in and around the city, and it is
not an exaggeration to say that today
every soldier in the Philippines is within
reach