 the arms. Focus for a moment on
the inside of the elbows, then go to the middle of the palms and feel another pair of minor chakras there. Let the energy ﬂow out the
tips of the ﬁngers and then move up the outside of the arms to reconnect with the microcosmic orbit where you left it.
When you can readily feel the circulating energy and the various centers on its path, you may sometimes use a short-form to quickly
energize and center yourself. Imagine the energy entering the top of the head and rapidly jumping down from one center to the next
to the base of the spine. Then with one inhalation lift the energy to the top of the head and with the next exhalation drop it again down
to the base.
Continue to circulate it in this way until you feel energized. You may, of course, switch the breathing cycle and lift the energy up the
spine during exhalation if that suits you better. In a similar way may you sometimes lead the energy very rapidly around the
macrocosmic with one long exhalation down the legs or arms and with the following slow inhalation back up again. In all this energy
work imagine and feel the energy moving below the surface of the skin. For detailed instructions on daily practices to accumulate
prana and use it for healing see the books by Mantak Chia such as Awaken Healing Light of the Tao (Healing Tao Books) or visit
www.universal-tao.com.
Energizing the Body
In another method, you imagine your spine to be a hollow tube. While inhaling you imagine the prana ﬂowing up the tube to the top
and during the subsequent exhalation you let the energy again drop down the spinal tube to the base. Until you are well advanced in
energy works do not more than ten such breathing cycles at any one time. With all energy exercises involving the spine try to keep it
straight, either sitting up straight (but relaxed) or lying stretched out on the back. However you may practice these exercises
anywhere, anytime, such as when driving or waiting somewhere or walking or doing housework, the more the better.
Another recommended way of cultivating the inner energies is through slow movements while focusing on the sensations that the
awakened energy ﬂows may produce. This is done with exercises such  as Tai Chi. See also www.falundafa.org  for free books and
instructions. However, you may not need to learn the structured Tai Chi sequence and just experiment with your own slow improvised
movements.
Widespread, especially in China, is the practice of Qigong. You draw energy into the body with a combination of breathing,
movements and guided imagery. This is especially effective if done in an energized outside area such as standing barefoot on grass,
in a park, at the beach or in the mountains. There are many books and websites giving instructions in Qigong.
A relatively easy way of learning to feel bio-energy is to shake the body and especially the arms and hands rapidly for about a minute.
At the same time breathe deep and fast and then suddenly stop. Remain completely still with the arms slightly raised in front of your
abdomen or chest as if holding a large beach ball. Concentrate on the sensation in your hands and arms. Then start slowly moving
your arms and your body. Try to intensify whatever energy sensation you feel. When you can feel the energy strongly, you may
mentally lead it to an area of the body where you have a particular health  problem. Alternatively you may radiate the energy out of the
palms of your hands to where you want to energize yourself. It is good to do this as a regular daily exercise.
Finally, you may directly energize a weak or diseased organ or part of the body by feeling or breathing into it. If you keep your
attention focused on a particular area of your body, then you may feel it becoming warm and possibly tingling after some time. You
may then use imagery to intensify the warmth or tingling. Also imagine that your breath or the prana from your breath ﬂows into this
area and accelerates its healing.
Even without a speciﬁc problem, you may focus on one organ after another and in this way energize the whole body. Once you can
easily feel the warmth in a chosen target area, you may develop a sequence by energizing ﬁrst the chakras, starting with the crown
chakra, then circulate the energy a few times, and ﬁnally energize individual organs or areas of the body. Also during your daily
activities try to remain aware of the energies in various parts of your body.
For further information on chakras and energy work see 'The Love Cure '. Actually the best and safest way to develop the chakra
system is by living appropriately in all life situations with a strong ﬂow of a variety of positive feelings. Most healthy individuals have
their 3 lower chakras reasonably well developed. Therefore we need to concentrate mainly on developing the 4 higher chakras. The
quality of our chakra system shows our position on the larger scale of spiritual evolution.
ENERGY  ACCUMULA TORS
Various shapes like pyramids and cones have been shown to concentra te prana. Some healers have patients stay in pyramids with
good results. I also experimented with Reichian orgone accumulators, small pyramids and cones. In one instance I connected a wire
screen placed over the tumor area of a patient to the top of a 60cm high pyramid. After only one treatment the patient developed a
high fever during the night, which is excellent for destroying tumors. In another experiment the energy radiated from a cone over a
short distance produced a strong reddening of the skin as from sunburn, showing that these energies are real. One of my patients
had melanoma metastases recurring after an earlier operation. These disappeared within two weeks mainly from frequent packs of
fresh grass.
On tumors and areas of infection and inﬂammation you may use an energy suction tube to draw off excess energy. Place one end of
a metal tube, about 60 to 150 cm long, in a bucket of cold water or another large volume of water. Lightly press the upper end against
the area of overactivity and keep it in this position for 10 to 30 minutes without holding the tube with the hands. Do this daily until the
condition is normalized.
Bio-energy can be generated not only by certain shapes, such as pyramids and cones, and materials such as crystals and precious
metals, but also by metals and non-metals arranged in alternating layers. This is the principle of the orgone accumulator invented by
Wilhelm Reich. He built large boxes for patients to sit in or smaller boxes, called shooters, from which the energy was directed
through a ﬂexible hollow pipe to the body of the patient.
My understanding of the principle of energy accumulation is as follows. Our planet is enveloped in a deep layer of prana (bio-energy)
generated by the sun. This prana envelope has been observed to move from West to East most of the time. When this prana ﬂow10/30/24, 3:01 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Bio-energies
https://health-science-spirit.com/Energies/Bio-energies.html 7/10encounters a suitable material shape, it forms a vortex around and within this obstruction, similar to ﬂowing water or air forming
vortexes under similar conditions. This increases the prana concentration within the structure. In Reichian orgone accumulators the
prana ﬂow is being condensed by the speciﬁc arrangement of the materials.
When charging drinking water, be aware that prana does not appear to ﬂow or radiate through glass. Therefore it is preferable to
keep the water in high-quality plastic containers for charging with bio-energy, be it exposure to sunlight or keeping it in a pyramid, or
radiating it with a Chi-generator or other commercial energy device. With sun-exposure you may, of course, keep the water in an
open or plastic-covered ceramic bowel.
Pyramid Energy
In pyramids the energy moves as a vortex, entering at the base and ﬂowing out at the apex. Therefore, apex energy is used to
charge and stimulate while an area below a pyramid (shaped as a mirror pyramid) sedates. Inside the effect appears to be slightly
sedating at the base and stimulating higher up.
Pyramids commonly are small-scale replicas of the Great pyramid of Giza. One of the four sides should face magnetic north. The
measurements are height 1 unit, base 1.5708 units and sides 1.4945 units (measured along the midline, not along the edges). The
sides form an angle of 51º 51' to the base. However, newer research seems to indicate that many different pyramid-like and cone-like
shapes have the potential to accumulate energies, even, for instance a three-sided pyramid.
Avoid metal in its construction, espe cially sheet metal or wire mesh (except for copper or precious metal sheeting at the apex). Walls
do not appear to be essential. However, a pyramid-shaped capstone at the apex and a bottom plate will increase the energy
generation considerably. The capstone may be in form of copper sheeting of the top 10 % of the pyramid or of a small copper
pyramid as the apex. Also keep unnecessary metal (e.g. watches) out of the pyramid when using it and place the pyramid away from
strong electrical ﬁelds. One side of the pyramid should point towards magnetic north.
For easy shifting and storage you may


 us in supporting and celebrating it. The way to make a lifelong
enemy is to have someone contribute to our lives and refuse to
acknowledge it. So many people do this with their spouses and fail to
acknowledge the part that their inspiration played in the achie ving of that
success.
Businesses are often problematic because the owners refuse to share their
success with the employees, much less with the customers in any way. The
employees are on an hourly wage, mostly hired locally by an impersonal
distant corporation. It sure feels like that when we go there. They couldn’ t
care less. They’ re going to make the same amount of money whether they
knock their brains out or not, and they know it. The motivatio n has been
zeroed out. The basis for huma n endeavor has been removed. They have
been denied dignity and worth as individuals. Such businesses have gotten
what they paid for, which is nothing. They got mechanical, emotionless,
going-through-the-motions employees. Mechanical food is served by
mechanical peop le in mechanical surroundings in a lackluster manner for a
price. Although it is supposedly cheap, it is really very expensive when we
compare what we get for our dollars.
The efficiency experts and computers have really had their day,
successfully dehumanizing the whole experience. The level of economy in
such establishme nts reaches the chintzy, to the point that we have to ask for
a plastic spoon from behind the counter. The employee turnover  rate is very
high—every time we go there, new faces are behind the counter. What is
the cost of all this chintzy economy? It is staggering to calculate.
By contrast, when I went into Bashas’  supermarket I saw the same
smiling employ ees, year after year. And up over the manage r’s counter,
there was an award plaque. Surprisingly, what did the award plaque say? It
was the annual award to the “friendliest employee.” The award did not go to
the employee with the biggest sales, but to the friendliest. Isn’t that
amazing?
I looked  at the store manager as I asked for a refund to return some
merchandise. He was as friendly  as could be. He gave me my money on the
spot, no questions asked. I offered to put the merchandise back on the shelf,and he said, “No, no, I’ll do it.” I looked at the cashiers and they all looked
friendly. They were friendly year after year. Then I began to look at the
customers at the checkout count ers, and there I saw the most amazing thing.
They seemed to be the friendliest customers in the world. The manager was
friendly; the employees were friendly; the cashiers were friendly; and
presto, friendly customers. Customers were smiling and laughing with the
cashiers. Sitting in the front of the market at little tables chatting  away were
older people, having their afternoon club meeting there, and they were
obviously friendly too.
Some people will go to a city like New York and complain about how
terrible it was, how rude every one was, how unfriendly and cold people
were, and how they couldn’ t wait to get out of there. Other people will say
that it’s the friendliest town they ever visited. Which is true? I always
thought that New York City was like a big small town, in that every
neighborhood is like a dif ferent little community.
People love it when we’re friendly with them, instantly sensing our
intentions. How  could a person possibly be lonely if they’re friendly? If we
talk to every cab driver, waitress, and person we encounter on the street, no
matter where we go, as though  they were old friends, how could we be
lonely? In the big city they don’t delay their responses. They have too much
street savvy. In the press of the multitudes they have no time to waste with
pretense. Conse quently, there’ s no time delay and people are instantly
friendly.
People are sick and tired of being manipulated, pressured, sold, used in a
thousand ways, and having others try to impress them. When they sense our
motives—a non-needy friendliness that doesn’ t want anything from them—
they’re so reliev ed that they drop their guard and instantly start to jabber.
The problem isn’t loneliness; the problem is getting people to be quiet.
People are just dying for someo ne to be truly friendly with them. When I
was a kid, one of my grandmothers always used to say, “Beauty is as beauty
does.” What she meant by that mystified me for years, and then I
understood exactly what she meant.
How long does it take to become a success? The answer is: the blink of
an eye. It takes exactly one second. The second we decide to “be” a certain
way, we’ve got it already. It’s not “out there.” It’s not what we have. It’s not
even what we do. Doing only contributes and having only embellishes. It’s
what we are that creates success. To decide to be a certain way is all that’srequired. No master ’s degree, diplomas, correspondence courses, boring
lectures, or workshops are necessary.
Once we’ve decided to be a certain way, we take on a new importance
and significance to people. Whether we’re in their lives or not makes a
difference to them. Whether we’re going to be at their parties or not makes
a difference to them. People are proud to work for us. They start to act like
it’s an honor to know us. Positive human qualities are contagi ous. People
are like tuning forks in a way—the natural human tendency is like a tuning
fork to sympathetically pick up the hum of whatever note to which we
vibrate.
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If we get the primary concept of this chapter, our basic success in this
world is guarant eed, let me assure you. As I keep repeating over and over,
there is no competition.  Com petition doesn’ t even exist  in the world of the
very successful. On the level of incompetence, ineptitude, mediocrity, and
total sloppiness, however, there is enormous competition. What most people
are talking about when they talk about competition is the whole realm of the
absurd.
There are two basic characteristics of human nature, which we can turn
into assets instead of liabilities: impatience and low frustration threshold.
We can count on these to work for us once we include them in our
understanding of how to effectively operate in this world. Yet for most
businesses, these  are big obstacles—they are some of their biggest excuses
to blame the customers or clients instead of their own inadequacy. We’ll
look at a few examples, prima rily to bring similar experiences up in our
minds so that we can understand the importance of this issue.
On any given day the following scenario can take place a dozen  times or
more in our lives either at home  or in business: We call a company and are
put on hold (why don’t they have a spillover line?). The incompetent
operator, who is probably earning minimum wage, manages to disconnect
us. We have to call back until we finally get properly connected. By now
we’re aggravated as we sit and wait. The person with whom  we finally
connect knows practically nothing about the business. Many companies feel
that an operator  is just an operator. They don’t realize that the operator isthe key to their success—that person’ s whole attitude spells  success or
failure.
After ordering the merchandise  with our credit card hotly in hand, they
inform us they don’t take that particular credit card. Whatever  we want is
out of stock or has been back-ordered. Next, they give us a hard time about
paying for it. If it’s a small item and we would like it shipped UPS with the
bill enclosed, they inform us that we have to apply for credit. Now
inasmuch as this is a little fly-by-night company and we’ve been worth
quite a bit in the business world for something like 40 or 50 years, it seems
like they should  have their own access to credit bureaus, and without saying
anything—simply bring up on the computer whether we’re good for it or
not. Apparently  they want to save the cost of this credit service. By
offending customers they lose more money than if they were paying a
monthly service for automatic computerized credit checks.
After we get over these hurdles, we now wait for the merchandise or the
service, as there’ s no confirmati on provided. When the merchandise doesn’ t
arrive, no explan ation is given. Instead, there are days or weeks of silence.
If it involves a workman, it is apparently a rule of their trade to tell us that
they will be there on Tuesday, finish up on Wednesday, and then not show
up until the next week, if at all. Or they mysteriously leave in the middle of
the job without telling us when they will be back. This standard must be the
rule of many workmen: to leave  the job when it is 95 percent complete so
that we go crazy  trying to handle  the last 5 percent ourselves. A missing nut,
bolt, screw, key, a touchup of just the right color, or whatever it takes


	chapter	on	polio	vaccine	but

physicians	"die	hard"	when	there	are	large	profits	in	sight.	So	a	few	of	these

doctors	are	still	trying	to	revive	the	virus	corpse	by	other	concoctions.	Dr.	Albert

Sabin	is	toying	with	the	idea	of	a	virus	just	between	the	dead	and	the	live	variety

which	according	to	the	U.S.	News	and	World	Report	(May	13,	1955)	"would	be

tamed—weakened	so	it	could	no	longer	cause	polio	but	could	trigger	the	body

into	setting	up	protective	immunity."	(This	would	be	laughable	if	it	were	not	so

pathetic.)

Dr.	Richie	Russell	favors	the	use	of	live	viruses	taken	by	mouth	instead	of

injection.	He	says:

	"It	is	certainly	more	effective	than	the	Salk	method,	and	may	even	involve	less

risk,	for	should	an	oral	(by	mouth)	vaccine	lead	unexpectedly	to	a	febrile	illness,

there	are	still	many	chances	that	no	paralytic	disease	will	develop...When,

however,	poliomyelitis	is	precipitated	by	an	inoculation	the	natural	defences	of

the	nervous	system	seem	to	be	ineffective,	and	nearly	all	such	illnesses	develop

into	a	paralytic	form	of	the	disease	affecting	especially	the	limb	used	for	the

injection."	—"The	Story	of	Salk	Anti-Poliomyeitis	Vaccine",	Dr.	M.	Beddow

Bayly

Dr.	Russell	admits	the	danger	of	injecting	poison	into	the	body	and

acknowledges	the	hazards	of	taking	the	poison	by	mouth	but	suggests	that	it

would	be	a	little	less	damaging	in	this	way.	This	gives	a	choice	of	two	risky,

worthless	methods	with	no	proof	of	any	benefits.

Poison	always	does	serious	damage	no	matter	how	it	is	taken,	so	why	nurture	the

hope	that	any	special	brand	of	"virus"	poison	vaccine	can	ever	be	expected	to	do

any	good?	If	the	physicians	cannot	comprehend	this	simple	fact	then	the	people

will	need	to	do	their	own	protecting	by	avoiding	all	vaccines	and	the	rest	of	the

harmful	practices	of	modern	medicine.

It	gives	us	hope	to	find	a	few	doctors	here	and	there	who	seem	to	be	getting	a

clearer	understanding	of	the	situation.	Among	them	is	Dr.	William	J.	McCormick

who	states:

"The	associated	virus	is	regarded	as	a	biochemical	substance	produced	by	the

disease,	which,	although	capable	of	producing	paralysis	in	experimental	animals

by	catalytic	chemical	action	in	the	nervous	system,	is	not	necessarily	a	means	of

spreading	of	the	disease	under	ordinary	circumstances."	—Archives	of

Pediatrics,	Feb.	1950

Ralph	R.	Scobey,	M.D.	(Archives	of	Pediatrics,	Sept.-	Oct.	1950)	tells	us	that

"the	so-called	virus	of	poliomyelitis	is	considered	to	be	an	endogenous	(growing

from	within)	substance	resulting	from	poisoning."	He	gives	evidence	in	the

article	to	support	this	claim.

J.	E.	R.	McDonagh	(The	Universe	Through	Medicine)	states	that	"the	virus	is

formed	within,	and	does	not	come	from	without."

A	UP	Release,	(Sept.	8,	1950)	reports	the	views	of	Dr.	Joseph	Melnick	(at	the
	International	Conference	of	Biology)	in	these	words:	"He	said	studies	have

shown	that	the	nucleus	of	the	cells	in	the	spinal	cord	may	be	the	place	where	the

polio	virus	is	manufactured	when	the	disease	strikes."

The	total	lack	of	scientific	evidence	that	viruses	cause	polio	or	that	they	can	exist

outside	the	body	and	attack	from	there,	has	forced	the	researchers	to	look	within

the	cause	of	disease.	When	they	(the	whole	healing	profession)	fully

comprehend	this	simple	fact	there	will	no	longer	be	any	fear	of	germs	and	there

will	be	no	vaccines,	disinfectants	or	other	harmful	germicides	used.	The	healing

field	can	then	begin	to	make	rapid	advancement	and	disease	can	be	understood

and	eliminated.

MONKEY	TESTS	ARE	NO	MEASURE	FOR	MAN

It	is	the	blind	acceptance	of	a	false	theory	(of	virus	attack)	that	has	promoted	and

sustained	the	terrible	slaughter	of	thousands	of	monkeys	to	make	a	vaccine	that

can	never	produce	anything	but	disastrous	results.

Even	if	vaccines	were	useful,	an	artificial	laboratory	disease	induced	in	a	healthy

monkey	by	methods	not	experienced	by	man	is	not	a	dependable	means	of

judging	the	effectiveness	of	a	vaccine	in	a	self	induced	cleansing	disease	of	man.

Dr.	Jean	MacNamara	in	the	Medical	Journal,	(Aug.	12,	1933)	emphasized	the

danger	of	applying	facts	determined	in	experimental	poliomyelitis	in	monkeys	to

the	natural	disease	in	man.	He	pointed	out	that	there	are	"marked	clinical

differences	between	the	pre-paralytic	stage	of	poliomyelitis	in	children	and	in

monkeys."

The	Lancet	(Aug.	19,	1933)	discusses	this	same	point	by	saying:

"To	draw	analogies	between	the	pathogenesis	of	poliomyelitis	in	man	and	the

experimental	disease	in	monkeys	might	lead	us	far	astray."

John	A.	Toomey,	M.D.	(Science,	82:200.	Aug.	30,	1955)	stated	that	"the

intranasal	and	intracerebral	inoculation	of	the	poliomyelitis	virus	in	monkeys

does	not	produce	the	same	disease	seen	in	man."	In	an	article	in	the	Journal	of

Pediatrics,	(19:103,	1941)	Dr.	Toomey	gives	evidence	to	prove	that	"no	animal

gets	the	disease	from	another	no	matter	how	intimately	exposed."	For	this	reason

QUARANTINE	FOR	POLIOMYELITIS	IS	USELESS.
Dr.	Patrick	Meenan,	bacteriologist	at	St.	Vincent’s	Hospital,	Dublin,	states

(Lancet,	April	18,	1953)	that	"most	of	the	recent	work	on	poliomyelitis	has	been

done	on	chimpanzees,	which	seem	to	react	to	infection	much	as	man	does."	Of

course	monkeys	and	other	animals	suffer	from	induced	disease	the	same	as

people	but	this	has	nothing	to	do	with	the	cause	and	cure	of	disease.	This

realization	is	slowly	filtering	through	the	muddled	minds	of	some	of	the	doctors,

which	gives	us	some	hope.

Dr.	Patrick	Meenan	shows	us	that	he	is	getting	a	little	closer	to	the	correct

understanding	when	he	says:

"The	fundamental	difficulty	is	to	know	how	far	experimental	findings	can	be

applied	to	natural	infection	in	man.	What	is	the	relation	between	the	disease	in

animals	produced	by	large	doses	of	laboratory	adapted	strains	and	that	in	man

produced	by	small	doses	of	naturally	occurring	virus?	Is	the	pathogenesis	of

poliomyelitis	in	man	the	same	as	in	the	chimpanzee?"

Dr.	E.	R.	Krumbiegel,	City	Health	Commissioner	of	Milwaukee,	Wisc.	reported

(Sentinal,	May	24,	1955)	that	these	tests	on	monkeys	"do	not	rule	out


 conscious and
subconscious minds. Consider that the image of Machu Picchu above is
comprised of 20,000,000 pixel dots, each r epr esenting a BIT of
information r eceived by the nervous system in one second. How much of
that information enters the conscious mind? In the lower pictur e, the dot
r epr esents the total amount of information that is pr ocessed by the
conscious mind. (Actually the dot is 10X mor e than enters consciousness,
I had to enlar ge it because it was bar ely visible.) In contrast, the
powerful subconscious mind pr ocesses all the r emaining incoming
information (the black ar ea) in the same second.
The two minds make a dynamic duo. Operating together, the conscious
mind can use its resources to focus on some specific point, such as the
party you are going to on Friday night. Simultaneously, your
subconscious mind can be safely pushing the lawn mower around and
successfully not cutting of f your foot or running over the cat—even
though you are not consciously paying attention to mowing the lawn.
The two minds also cooperate in acquiring very complex behaviors
that can subsequently be unconsciously managed. Remember the first
day you excitedly sat in the driver ’ s seat of a car, preparing to learn how
to drive? The number of things that had to be dealt with by the conscious
mind was staggering. While keeping your eyes on the road, you had to
also watch the rear and side view mirrors; pay attention to the
speedometer and other gauges; use two feet for the three pedals of a
standard shift vehicle; and try to be calm, cool, and collected as you
drove past observing peers. It took what seemed to be a long time before
all these behaviors were “programmed” into your mind.
T oday, you get in the car, turn the ignition on, and consciously review
your shopping list as the subconscious mind dutifully engages all thecomplex skills you need to successfully navigate through the city—
without even once having to think about the mechanics of driving. I
know I am not the only one out there who has experienced this. Y ou are
driving and having a delightful discussion with the passenger sitting next
to you. In fact, your consciousness gets so caught up in the conversation,
that somewhere down the road it dawns on you that you haven’ t even
paid attention to your driving for five minutes. After a momentary start,
you realize that you are still on your side of the road and steadily moving
along with the flow of traf fic. A quick check of the rear view mirror
reveals that you did not leave a wake of crumpled stop signs and
smashed mailboxes. If you weren’ t consciously driving the car during
that time, then who was? The subconscious mind! And how well did it
do? Although you didn’ t observe its behavior, the subconscious mind
apparently performed just as well as it was taught during your driver ’ s
education experience.
In addition to facilitating subconscious habitual programs, the
conscious mind also has the power to be spontaneously creative in its
responses to environmental stimuli. In its self-reflective capacity, the
conscious mind can observe behaviors as they’re being carried out. As a
preprogrammed behavior is unfolding, the observing conscious mind can
step in, stop the behavior, and create a new response. Thus the conscious
mind of fers us free will, meaning we are not just victims of our
programming. T o pull that of f however, you have to be fully conscious
lest the programming take over, a dif ficult task, as anyone who’ s tried
willpower can attest. Subconscious programming takes over the moment
your conscious mind is not paying attention.
The conscious mind can also think forward and backward in time,
while the subconscious mind is always operating in the present moment.
When the conscious mind is busy daydreaming, creating future plans, or
reviewing past life experiences, the subconscious mind is always on
duty, ef ficiently managing the behaviors required at the moment, without
the need of conscious supervision.
The two minds are truly a phenomenal mechanism, but here is how it
can go awry. The conscious mind is the “self,” the voice of our own
thoughts. It can have great visions and plans for a future filled with love,
health, happiness, and prosperity. While we focus our consciousness on
happy thoughts, who is running the show? The subconscious. How is thesubconscious going to manage our af fairs? Precisely the way it was
programmed. The subconscious mind’ s behaviors when we are not
paying attention may not be of our own creation because most of our
fundamental behaviors were downloaded without question from
observing other people. Because subconscious-generated behaviors are
not  generally observed by the conscious mind, many people are stunned
to hear that they are “just like their mom or their dad,” the people who
programmed their subconscious minds.
The learned behaviors and beliefs acquired from other people, such as
parents, peers, and teachers, may not support the goals of our conscious
mind. The biggest impediments to realizing the successes of which we
dream are the limitations programmed into the subconscious. These
limitations not only influence our behavior, they can also play a major
role in determining our physiology and health. As we’ve seen, the mind
plays a powerful role in controlling the biological systems that keep us
alive.
Nature did not intend the presence of the dual minds to be our Achilles
heel. In fact, this duality of fers a wonderful advantage for our lives.
Consider it this way: what if we had conscious parents and teachers who
served as wonderful life models, always engaging in humane and win-
win relations with everyone in the community? If our subconscious mind
were programmed with such healthy behaviors, we could be totally
successful in our lives without ever being conscious!
T h e  S u b c o n s c i o u s  M i n d :
I  K e e p  C a l l i n g  a n d  N o  O n e  A n s w e r s
While the “thinking-self” nature of the conscious mind evokes images
of a “ghost in the machine,” there is no similar self-awareness operating
in the subconscious mind. The latter mechanism is more akin to a
jukebox loaded with behavioral programs, each ready to play as soon as
appropriate environmental signals appear and press the selection buttons.
If we don’ t like a particular song in the jukebox, how much yelling at or
ar guing with the machine will cause it to reprogram its play list? In my
college days, I saw many an inebriated student, to no avail, curse and
kick jukeboxes that were not responsive to their requests. Similarly, we
must realize that no amount of yelling or cajoling by the conscious mindcan ever change the behavioral “tapes” programmed into the
subconscious mind. Once we realize the inef fectiveness of this tactic, we
can quit engaging in a pitched battle with the subconscious mind and
take a more clinical approach to reprogramming it. Engaging the
subconscious in battle is as pointless as kicking the jukebox in the hope
that it will reprogram its play list.
The futility of battling with the subconscious is a hard message to get
across because one of the programs most of us downloaded when we
were young is that “willpower is admirable.” So we try over and over
again to override the subconscious program. Usually such ef forts are met
with varying degrees of resistance because the cells are obligated to
adhere to the subconscious program.
T ensions between conscious willpower and subconscious programs
can result in serious neurological disorders. For me, a powerful image of
why we should not challenge the subconscious comes from the movie
Shine. In the movie, based on a true story, Australian concert pianist
David Helfgott defies his father by going of f to London to study music.
Helfgott’ s father, a survivor of the Holocaust, programmed his son’ s
subconscious mind with the belief that the world was unsafe, that if he
“stood out” it might be life threatening. His father insisted he would be
safe only if he stayed close to his family. In spite of his father ’ s relentless
programming, Helfgott knew that he was a world-class pianist who
needed to break from his father to realize his dream.
In London, Helfgott played the notoriously dif ficult Thir d Piano
Concerto  of Rachmaninof f in a competition. The film shows the conflict
between his conscious mind wanting success and his subconscious mind
concerned that being visible, being internationally recognized, was life-
threatening. As he labors through the concerto, sweat pouring from his
brow, Helfgott’ s conscious mind fights to stay in control, while his
subconscious mind, fearful of winning, tries to take control of his body.
Helfgott consciously forces himself to maintain control through the
concerto until he plays the last note. He then passes out, overcome by the
ener gy it took to battle his subconscious programming. For that “victory”
over the subconscious, he pays a high price: when he comes to, he is
insane.
Most of us engage in less dramatic battles with our subconscious mind
as we try to undo the programming we received as children. W itness ourability to continually seek out jobs that we fail at, or remain in jobs


 physician-in-Chief of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium, who, in replying to the Koppe
article, in Good H ealtk Magazine for
June, 1899, says of distilled water:
"It is free from germs, free from in
jurious salts, from lime and other sub
stances with which they are found in com
bination, if not always of the same uni
form quality. It is a pity that such an
unscientific and misleading statement
should be allowed to appear before the
public."
Apropos to the above remarks, the fol
lowing from H ealtk Culture is interesting
reading:
"Any chemist will confirm the state
ment that the mineral salts in water are
inorganic in structure, and that no in
organic substances can undergo the proc
ess of digestion and assimilation in the
human system. The soil in which our
grains and vegetables grow is also inor·
ganic in form, but the wheat and potato
which the soil produce arc organized food
materials. One might eat a peck of the
richest loam three times a day and yet
starve his bones, muscles and tissues for
want of nourishment. The mineral salts
in water are nothing more nor less than
the disorganized soil. · They not only fail
to supply any part of the body w_ith nour
ishment, but cause serious trouble."
"Distilled water is the acme of purity.
Nothing can be purer than that which is
absolutely pure. For medicinal purposes,
the highest authorities are agreed that
pure water is preferable to the so-called
l!ledicinal spring waters. The latter all
contain more or less impurities in the
form of earthy salts or organic matter,
which is not the case with distilled wa
ter. For flushing the kidneys, stimulat
ing the sluggish liver, eliminating waste
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matter from the system; indeed for all
affections in which medical waters are be
lieved to be efficacious, pure distilled wa
ter furnishes the long-sought desider
atum."-Dr. R. N. Tooker, Chicago.
Dr. C. W. DeLacy EVJLlls, surgeon to
St. Savor's Hospital, London, says: "The
combinations of lime held in solution in
the water we drink, when taken into the
stomach are soon distributed throughout
the system and deposited in all the tissues
exactly as they are precipitated and form
incrustations on the bottoms of kettles in
which water is boiled. The result is gen
eral induration, partial and often, in some
organs and tissues, complete ossification.
The bones become brittle, the joints ana
muscles stiff and rheumatic; gravel ana
stones form in the bladder, the kidneys,
liver, heart, nerves and brain become in-
. durated and sluggish in their action, all
the bodily functions are impaired, the
nerves weaken, the mind loses its vigor,
the memory fails, senility and death creep
on.
"Used as a drink distilled water is ab
sorbed directly into the blood, the solvent
properties of which it increases to such an
extent that it will keep in solution salts al
ready existing in the blood, prevent their
undue deposit in various organs and struc
tures, favor their elimination by the differ
ent excreta, and tend to remo:ve those
earthy compounds which have already ac
cumulated in the body.
"There is no doubt as to the high value
of distilled water used freely as a retarder
of the ossifying conditions which appear
to constitute the conditions of old age."
Health Commissioner Reynolds of Chi
cago authorizes the following stat~ment:
The public'should be instructed fre
quently of the dangers that lurk in the use
of impure water. They should be taught that most of the lakes and streams in the
country are polluted already, and as the
population multiplies the danger of fur
ther pollution will greatly increase. They
should be taught that water that comes
from wells and springs is not necessarily
pure, for it may flow from a soil that is
polluted. They should be taught that
filtration nor boiling does not remove all
the poisons, while neither removes the lime
or any of the salts it may contain.
It may safely be taught that the only
absolute pure water is that purified by dis
tillation. Instruct the public how distilla
tion can readily and cheaply be done. It
furnishes a fruitful field for the genius
that will devise a small distilling appar
atus for the use of every family.
It would be safe to teach that the gen
erous use of pure water both within and
without the body has never yet done any
harm; that the functional ailments that
afllict the great host of mankind, are in a
great part due to the fact of the imperfect
elimination of wa!!te matter, and that gen
erous libations of pure water is a most·
potent agent to flush them from the body,
through the skin, the lungs, the Jddneys
and the bowels. The diseases caused by
impure water are numerous and fatal."
DR. THOMAS J. H uosoN is the author
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A SPIRITUAL  PATH FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
by W alter Last
Traditionally the main focus for those following a spiritual path has been to transcend the human condition as rapidly as possible.
Much of spiritual practice involves withdrawing from worldly activities either temporarily or permanently in order to reach so-called
higher dimensions.
However, consider a different scenario. Spirit, individualizing as souls, seeks to explore and experience the dense world of physical
matter. For this purpose it forms biological bodies that allow it to become creative and master this world, but the real purpose of
wrestling with physical and biological aspects is to experience itself more fully in the dimensions of feelings and mental conditions.
Therefore, the real focus of a soul may not be to overcome the need for a biological body as quickly as possible, but rather to develop
and train a personality that allows it to be fully functional on these levels, and to experience these worlds as fully as possible. This
may actually be the original and oldest spiritual path, if you want to call it that. The main feature of this original 'path' or condition was
that the incarnation remained aware of who it was and why it was here. The troubles of mankind started when it began forgetting this,
by becoming deeper and deeper enmeshed in karmic issues. Karma is the tie that binds us to this world in ignorance.
Therefore, the key to returning to the original path is to realize who we are and act accordingly. See yourself as a spirit using this
body as a tool to have the adventure trip of a lifetime. Feel yourself as a spirit observing how your body and your personality react to
the varying experiences. Spiritual growth is not meant to happen through suffering but rather by expressing your inner essence in
joyful creativity.
Because of some outstanding karma you are not always in control of what happens in your life, but you can be in control of how you
react to these events, and that will shape your future. By remembering who you are, you will have fun dealing with events in an
appropriate way, in a joyful way, a way that maximizes your experiences. By knowing who you are you also know who your brothers
and sisters are, and you treat them accordingly.
In time you learn more and more to shape your future experiences by your expectations. No need anymore to get out of this body as
quickly as possible once you have ﬁnished your apprenticeship. Just realize that 'there' is no better than 'here' or vice versa, you can
be joyful or whatever you want to be in either place, with or without a biological body. In this way you truly are a free spirit, you can
experience your incarnation as it was originally meant to be.
Spiritual Communities
But there is more! Until now a realiz ed incarnation was very much alone, there were not many others at the same level around to
associate with. It longed for like-min ded company; it longed to live in a spiritual world. The only reason to remain here was to teach
and help advance humanity. However, now there are so many spiritually  realized individuals present that it is possible to form more
highly evolved social structures where a spiritual being can feel at home.
There is no need anymore to leave this planet in order to incarnate in a highly evolved spiritual society on another planet. We can
start forming a


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