. The whole procedure should be repeated every bedtime until the
patient starts producing a regular stool on his/her own.
Of course, the diet, which we have discussed, is very important in re
establishing normal gut flora and normalising all functions of your
patient's digestive system, including elimination.
I do not support the use of any laxatives, drug or herbal, particularly in
children. They are designed to work on fairly healthy digestive systems. For
a person with abnormal gut flora they usually are inappropriate. A combi
nation of the diet and supplementation, which we have discussed, would
relieve constipation in most cases. In those cases when it is not enough the
enemas would do the job very effectively.
In conclusion I would like to say that GAPS patients whether it is a child
or an adult should never be left constipated! Constipation is extremely
harmful for the whole body. It lays the ground for all sorts of digestive dis
orders, including bowel cancer, and it produces a huge amount of various
toxins, which poison the whole body. Diet and probiotics as a long-term
treatment and an enema as an immediate remedy would effectively put
constipation in the past for your patient. 5. GENETICS
The word genetics is mentioned a lot in connection with the GAPS condi
tions. Now and then we see articles in various journals where some part of
some gene has been found, which may have something to do with autism,
or schizophrenia, or ADHD/ADD, or dyslexia, or dyspraxia or depression.
We are assured that scientists are working on it and that the genetic cause
of these conditions will be found! Not that it will help the patients or their
families, but it will put our minds at rest that our children were meant to be
disabled and there was nothing we could do about it!
In our modern world genetics is a popular concept. Almost every health
problem is commonly blamed on genetics. We pollute the water we drink,
the food we eat, the air we breathe with industrial and nuclear wastes and
when we get ill we blame it all on genetics. We deplete our soils of minerals
and other nutrients and replace them with pesticides, organophosphates,
weedkillers and lots of other chemicals, we grow our crops on these soils,
we eat these crops, we get ill and blame it all on genetics. We damage our
children's immune systems with vaccinations and antibiotics and blame it
all on genetics. We regularly consume processed foods with virtually no
nourishment for the body andfull of chemicals, detrimental to health, and
when we get ill we blame it all on genetics. We regularly intoxicate our
selves with alcohol, tobacco and drugs and when we get ill we blame it all
on genetics.
If we look at all the epidemics of degenerative disease we have in our
modern times, which are blamed on genetics, it is easy to come to the con
clusion that we all must have very poor genetics indeed! In fact I don't
know how human kind survived for millennia with such poor genetics!
According to the scientific establishment genetics are to blame pretty
much for every misery we suffer. We have epidemics of cancer, heart dis
ease, diabetes, psychological and psychiatric maladies, learning disabili
ties, autoimmune disorders, obesity, etc. etc., the list is very long. These are
all conditions which doctors very rarely encountered too years ago. Have
our genetics changed so quickly to cause these epidemics? Well, for the last few decades genetic research or molecular biology has
received the most money in the western world. A lot of laboratories, which
used to do basic science, have been converted into genetic research.
Billions have been poured into this area in every western country. So, if
every other scientist works in genetics then that is what they know and that
is what they are going to think about when it comes to identifying the
course of any disease. As the old English proverb states: "If the only tool
you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." Obesity? Don't
worry about your eating habits. Just wait, we will find a gene to blame for
it!... Cancer? Do not torment yourself with questions about your life
style, we will pinpoint a gene which caused it!... Learning disabilities? Oh,
definitely must be genetic!
Before the discovery of Helicobacter pylori the medical professionals
talked a lot about genetics causing stomach ulcers, gastritis and stomach
cancer. When the H. pylori was discovered and it was proven to cause
stomach ulcers, gastritis and stomach cancer, nobody talks about genetics
anymore in connection with these disorders, because the real cause has
been found. This example shows just how easy it is for us to blame things
on genetics in order to fill a gap in our knowledge.
Genetics are a very convenient scapegoat. It is something we are born
with, there is nothing we can do about it at the moment. So, wouldn't it be
wonderful not to worry about our food, environment or our life-styles?
Wouldn't it be so convenient to just put all the responsibility for our state of
health on our genetics?
Fortunately, life is not that simple!
Of course there are clearly identified genetic conditions, like phenylke
tonuria, haemophilia and many others, where specific faulty genes have
been discovered. However, these conditions are relatively rare, their inci
dence is fairly stable and they are not the main concern in the modern
world. The real problem in our modern world are the epidemics men
tioned before of cancer, heart disease, autoimmune and psychiatric condi
tions, learning disabilities, diabetes, obesity and many other modern mal
adies, where the numbers of sufferers are growing at a rapid pace. Despite
huge amounts of money spent on genetic research, none of these condi
tions had any clear genetic causes allocated to them. A number of different
genes are thought to have something to do with them, and the more
research is done the clearer it becomes how unclear it all is. GAPS condi
tions are not an exception. Number of research studies have been pub
lished here and there, where scientists suspect different genes, but there is no conclusive evidence for any specific gene or combination of genes
which we can blame for these disorders.
As with other modern epidemics, there is a conclusion that there may be
a genetic predisposition to the disorder rather than a genetic cause. This
predisposition can be made of tens or even hundreds of various genes, how
many and in what combinations - nobody knows yet. But what we do
know is that any predisposition to materialise into a disease has to have
certain environmental conditions, in other words things that happen to us
after we are conceived. Diet is a major part of this environmental condi
tioning.
Let us have a look at studies on identical twins. Identical twins are two
people who have the same genetics and consequently they should have the
same predisposition to the same diseases. However, there are many studies
showing that when identical twins are separated at an early age and live in
different environments with different diets and life-styles, they do not
develop the same health problems at all. Even in schizophrenia, which is
commonly perceived as a "genetic" disease in 50-60% of identical twins,
only one twin develops schizophrenia.
Studies on ethnic emigration also confirm the fact that in the majority of
cases environment, specifically diet, is more important than genetics. For
example, Chinese people, who live in China, are generally shorter than the
western population. However, Chinese people who were bom and grew up
in western countries are generally as tall as westerners. Western diet is
obviously a more important factor here than genetics.
To make the matter even more interesting, there is a large body of
research showing that maternal diet during pregnancy and the diet of a
baby have a major impact on the genetics of that baby. Apparently there
are many genes in a child, which never become active. For a gene to
become operational it has to have certain conditions to express itself.
Depending on the diet of the mother during pregnancy and the diet of the
infant after birth different genes will get expressed. This process does not
stop at the infant stage. Throughout our whole lives our diet has a pro
found influence on gene expression, in other words what we eat changes
our genetics. So, which is the chicken and which is the egg - genetics or the
environmental factors?
Environment: our diet, life-style, pollution, stress, infections, etc., has a
profound effect on what would happen to the child's health since concep
tion. The same environment will shape a lot of the genetics of the child.
Genetics is a very complicated area and despite all our investment into molecular biology we are still very far away from a full understanding of the
role genetics may play in our health. What the science learned so far we
can't put into practical use, in other words there is nothing we can do with
our genetics directly. But, there, is a lot we can do with our environment! By
changing the environment (diet, life-style, etc.) we can make sure that
whatever genetic predisposition the child may have, this predisposition
will not develop into a disease, and at the same time we can alter gene
expression with the correct diet


 (green beans)
small onion, chopped
flaxseed oil
apple cider vinegar  (or lemon juice)
parsley
chives
Cook the beans gently until just tender.  Drain and add the chopped onion.  Put into a serving
dish and toss in the flaxseed oil and apple cider vinegar  (or lemon juice).  Add herbs and serve.
Fruited Red Cabbage
Preparation time: 10 minutes (does not include soaking)
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
4 oz. raisins
4 oz. dried apricots
1 small red cabbage, shredded
2 dessert apples, cored and chopped
apple cider vinegar
a little sugar
Soak the raisins and apricots overnight.  Shred the red cabbage and sweat in a little water until
slightly softened.  Add raisins, chopped apricots and cored, chopped dessert apples.  Toss in apple
cider vinegar, to which a little water and sugar ha ve been added.  Pile into a bowl and serve with
a baked potato.
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www.thegersonway.comGerson® Gardener’s Pie*
*A bit like Shepherd’ s Pie but with vegetables instead of meat
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2-1/2 hours
Serves 2-3
Topping:
1 lb. potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
12 oz. celery root (or sweet potato or onion), peeled and cut into chunks
Peel the potato and other vegetable and cut into small chunks. Add water but only about 1/2 to
2/3 the height of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook slowly until all
the water is gone and the vegetables are soft, and mash. If there is a little water left in the pan,
beat it into the mash mixture.
Filling:
1 small onion (or a few shallots)
2 cloves garlic, crushed
8 oz. carrots, sliced, or chipped or diced (but not diced too thickly)
8 oz. zucchini, cut into half slices, not too thin
8 oz. leeks, trimmed and sliced
2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped
1-2 tbsp. chopped parsley
herbs to taste
2 oz. bread  crumbs
Prepare vegetables and put them into a saucepan in the order listed above. Cook the vegetables
very gently. You may need to use a simmer plate. This could take 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Prepare
topping and bread crumbs. When vegetables are cooked, stir in bread crumbs and pour the
mixture into a pie plate. Top with mashed potatoes. Drag a fork over the top to decorate and
bake for about 45 to 60 minutes at 350° F (180° C). Place pie plate on baking sheet in case of
leakage. Serve with green vegetables and salad.
 Variations:  Change the contents of the pie by adding green beans, peas and/or corn when
in season. Jerusalem artichokes would be also good. You could leave the leeks out of the pie and
purée them to add to the topping instead of the sweet potato, onion or celery root.
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www.thegersonway.comGerson® Roast Potatoes
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
1 baking potato
Cut a baking potato in half (or, if very large, into quarters).  Score across the cut surface with a
knife.  Put into a casserole dish with a little water to just cover the bottom.  Put lid on and bake
in a hot oven at 400-425°  F (204-218° C)  for 1 hour.  Before serving, remove the lid and leave to
slightly brown.
Glazed Beets
Serves 6 to 8
Scrub 9 large beets and boil in 2 to 3 inches of water until tender for 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Add more
water if needed. Peel in cold water. Slice or cut into bite-sized pieces.
Glaze:
2/3 cup fresh orange juice
1 tsp. cornstarch
1-1/2 tsp. cider vinegar
1 tsp. honey (or sugar)
Combine ingredients for glaze. Cook over low flame until thick. Add beets and mix well.
 Variation:  Use 1/2 cup apple juice and 3 tsp. lemon juice in place of orange Juice.
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www.thegersonway.comGlazed Carrots and Turnips with Garlic
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
8 oz. carrots
8 oz. turnips
Dressing :
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 clove garlic, crushed
flaxseed oil
Gently cook the carrots and turnips.  Cut into thin slices and put into a serving dish.  Pour on the
dressing and garnish with cilantro  or dill.
Glazed Carrots with Herbs and Lemon
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. carrots
1 tsp. sugar
a little water
1 tbsp. lemon juice
mint
rosemary
parsley
flaxseed oil
Gently cook the carrots whole.  When beginning to soften, remove from pan and cut into 2 -inch
sticks.  Return to the saucepan with the sugar and a little water.  Heat until the sugar is dissolved,
the water has been absorbed and the carrots are cooked.  Add the lemon juice and herbs and
heat for an additional 2 minutes. Place o n a warm serving dish, add flaxseed oil and serve
immediately.
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www.thegersonway.comGlazed Carrots with Orange and Parsley
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. carrots
1 tbsp. sugar
juice of 1/2  orange
flaxseed oil
Gently cook the carrots whole.  When beginning to soften, remove from the pan and cut into
2-inch sticks.  Return to the saucepan with the sugar and orange juice.  Heat until the sugar has
been dissolved and the orange juice absorbed.  Turn onto platter, a dd flaxseed oil and serve.
Green Beans in Honey and Tomato Sauce
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. fine green beans
Sauce:
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 lb. tomatoes, roughly chopped
1 tsp. honey
herbs
Cut ends off the beans and cook until just tender.  Drain, refresh in cold water and drain again.
To make the sauce, chop the onion and crush the garlic.  Cook them both in a little water until
just tender.  When the onion is soft, add the roughly chopped tomatoes and bring to a boil.
Simmer gently until sauce becomes fairly thick.  Stir in the honey and herbs.  Add the beans and
allow to cool.  Serve at room temperature.
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www.thegersonway.comGreen Chard Rolls
4 leaves of green chard
2 carrots
1/4 head broccoli
1/4 head cauliflower
2 small zucchini squash
1 ear of corn (cut kernels off)
1/2 cup rice uncooked
Sauce:
1-1/2 tomatoes
2 cloves garlic
Put the chard leaves in hot water long enough to wilt them so they will bend. Cut the broccoli,
cauliflower, squash and corn into small pieces and put them in a pan with a little bit of water to
simmer. When cooked, drain the water off. Make a sauce in the blender with the tomatoes and
garlic, and pour this sauce on top of the vegetables and raw rice. Place some of the vegetables/
rice mixture in the center of each leaf and roll them up. Put these in a baking dish with a lid and
bake in the oven at 250° F (121 ° C) for 1 to 1-1/2 hours.
Green Peppers
2-4 green peppers, sliced
2-4 onions, sliced
Stew in tightly covered pot for approximately 30 minutes. Do not add water.
Grilled Eggplant
Pre


urine
must
be,
but
beware
of
burns.
10)
Urine
evaporated
to
one
quarter
of
the
original
volume
In
the
ancient
Indian
texts
of
the
Shivambukalpa,
the
use
of
evaporated
urine
is
recommended.
We
get
it
by
boiling
400
grams
of
any
urine
(fresh,
old,
children's,
mixed)
in
an
enamel
or
glass
(never
iron)
container
until
we
have
100
grams
left.
This
way
we
get
vaporized
"quarter"
urine.
Of
course,
we
can
vaporize
1/4
of
any
amount
of
urine,
but
100
grams
is
the
optimal
dose.
Now
let's
see
what
happens
to
urine
during
cooking:
a)
According
to
Professor
Filatov,
biogenic
stimulators
are
created
in
organic
matter
under
the
influence
of
extremely
unfavorable
conditions.
Boiling
urine
is
just
such
a
condition.
As
research
has
shown,
biogenic
stimulators
originally
obtained
from
tissues
by
cooling
them
to
a
temperature
of
-3-4
degrees
and
keeping
them
in
the
dark
for
4-6
days
are
able
to
withstand
a
temperature
of
120
degrees
C
without
problems!
From
there,
an
important
conclusion
wasmade:
biogenic
stimulators
cannot
be
of
a
protein
nature
(otherwise
they
would
be
inactivated)
and
are
special
heat-resistant
structures.
In
the
urine,
therefore,
high
temperature
forms
biogenic
stimulators,
at
the
same
time
in
larger
quantities
than
in
old
urine.
Urine
cannot
be
evaporated
to
more
than
a
quarter
of
its
original
volume,
because
its
internal
structure
takes
on
the
properties
of
soap.
Armstrong's
recommendation
that
urine
should
not
be
boiled
is
incorrect.
On
the
contrary,
the
recommendation
of
the
old
yogis
is
excellent.
At
the
same
time,
evaporated
urine
does
not
change
its
pH
and
remains
an
acidic
liquid.
But
even
here,
everyone
has
to
choose
according
to
their
nature
and
the
purpose
of
urinotherapy,
whether
they
just
want
to
strengthen
their
immunity
and
energy
or
to
cure
some
disease.
I
put
a
lot
of
faith
in
the
miraculous
power
of
enzymes,
vitamins
and
hormones,
which
is
why
I
don't
boil
urine.
I
haven't
needed
it
yet.
I
also
haven't
covered
myself
with
it
yet,
I
mean
all
over
it.
However,
the
situation
is
different
for
a
sick
person
and
he
should
try
all
options.
Actually,
I
have
to
admit
that
my
teeth
started
to
hurt,
or
rather
tingle,
in
Yemen.
So
I
started
rinsing
my
mouth
with
a
quart
of
urine
and
the
pain
stopped
immediately.
I
also
put
it
as
the
last
dose
in
an
enema
(about
a
glass).
It
seems
to
me
to
give
an
extraordinary
boost
to
my
energy,
which
I
need
much
more
here,
with
the
lack
of
oxygen,
than
at
home.
b)
By
using
evaporated
urine,
we
are
actually
dealing
with
the
alchemy
of
the
body:
we
replace
water
with
an
ordinary
crystalline
structure
with
a
heat-resistant,
heat-resistant
and
stable
structure
of
liquid
crystals,
which
is
very
important
for
our
body.
You
could
say
that
ordinary
carbon
is
gradually
turning
into
a
diamond.
The
theoretical
rationale
for
this
process
is
that
of
the
48
natural
types
of
water
that
make
up
our
urine,
only
the
most
stable
remain.
The
less
stable
ones
simply
evaporate.
Christopher
Berd
in
his
book
"The
Secret
Life
of
Plants"
says
that
the
longer
the
life
of
a
liquid
crystal,
the
more
useful
it
is
to
the
organism
and
the
closer
it
gets
to
the
vital
fluids
of
the
human
body.
Exactly
such
crystals
are
formed
in
evaporated
urine.
In
the
town
of
Hunzakut,
in
one
of
the
Himalayan
valleys
cut
off
from
civilization,
where
the
population
lives
with
an
average
age
of
120,
a
spring
of
miraculous
water
springs
up.
Research
has
shown
that
minerals
in
water
exist
not
as
ions,
but
in
the
form
of
colloids,
which
are
negatively
charged.
Our
evaporated
urine
is
a
colloidal
solution
with
negatively
charged
particles
or
micelles.
Tests
carried
out
with
Hunzakut
water
confirmed
its
unique
properties.
Concrete
made
with
its
help
can
withstand
loads
many
hundreds
of
times
higher
than
concrete
made
from
ordinary
water
(4
tons
per
square
2.5
by
2.5
cm)!
In
addition,
it
is
lighter
and
resists
corrosion.
In
his
book
"Water
Remembers
Everything",
Dr.
Sergeev
says
the
following:
"Common
laws
of
property
change
during
the
aging
of
non-living
matter
and
a
living
organism
have
been
discovered."
From
this,
a
simple
conclusion
follows:
if
the
laws
of
aging
are
the
same
for
inorganic
and
organic
matter,
then
the
body,
as
well
like
ordinary
concrete,
it
disintegrates
at
its
natural
rate.
However,
if
we
change
the
water,
the
concrete
base
and
the
human
organism,
we
can
do
a
lot
to
extend
life
span,
its
active,
creative
period.
And
as
the
Shivambukalpa
text
proves,
our
ancestors
used
the
ability
of
evaporated
urine
to
prolong
life,
to
develop
creative
abilities:
"He
who
massages
his
body
with
the
help
of
Shivambu
(urine)
three
times
a
day
and
three
times
at
night
does
not
lose
the
ability
to
continue
the
family
for
a
long
time.
His
joints
become
strong,
he
gets
rid
of
diseases
and
attains
bliss...
He
who
drinks
urine
within
three
years
acquires
a
body
full
of
strength
and
luster,
knowledge
in
the
arts
and
sciences,
the
gift
of
eloquence,
and
lives
as
long
as
there
is
heaven,
earth
and
Moon."
Change
in
the
internal
structur e
of
urine
during
evaporation.
Micelles
(negatively
charged
particles)
have
been
shown
to
cluster
together
when
the
water
content
of
urine
is
reduced.
These
groupings
are
distributed
in
a
special,
orderly
way


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	All	the	Tagore	poems	are	from	Deepak	Chopra,
On	the	Shores	of
Eternity:	Poems	from	Tagore	on	Immortality	and	Beyond
	(Harmony,
1999).INDEX
The	page	references	in	this	index	correspond	to	the	printed	edition	from
which	this	ebook	was	created.	To	find	a	specific	word	or	phrase	from	the
index,	please	use	the	search	feature	of	your	ebook	reader.
Aboriginal	peoples,	96,	226
Acceptance,	114,	115
Addiction,	13
Adversaries,	99
African	gray	parrot,	216–18,	268
Afterlife:
and	bad	deeds,	74
belief	in,	194
choice	in,	173
Christian	view,	26,	61
and	consciousness,	42,	58,	194
control	of,	182
creation	of	own,	42,	47,	53–54
creative	possibilities	in,	83,	91
dawning	of,	40–42
desire	to	join	loved	ones	in,	10
and	disconnection,	185
expanded	awareness	of,	97–103
Indian	view,	2,	97
and	Judaism,	61
meaningful,	32
nature	of,	26
positions	on,	51–53
powers	needed	for,	113–17
punishment	in,	72
questions	about,	100
and	religion,	41
responsibility	for,	75
self-exploration	as	preparation	for,	102
Tibetan	Buddhist,	38
as	transformation	chamber,	177
Western	view,	2
See	also
	HeavenAging,	223
Agnostics,	51–53
Air	element,	3
Akasha:
and	awareness,	102
and	choice,	88,	103–4
dreams,	84
explanation	of	universe,	205–13
as	field	of	consciousness,	87–89,	106,	167,	203,	211
interpretation	by	various	cultures,	94-95
memory,	220
questions	about	afterlife,	100
reality	of,	195,	197–213
as	source	of	creativity,	95
and	states	of	consciousness,	128,	129–30,	135
Allies,	99
Anandamaya	Kosha,	148–49,	153
Ancestor	worship,	96
Angels,	157–68,	265
Animals,	4,	7,	200
Animal	telepathy,	215–18,	268
Annamaya	Kosha,	147–48,	152
Appreciation,	74
Archetypes,	142,	160,	220
Astral	bodies,	5,	7–8,	15
Astral	planes,	4–11,	13,	14,	16,	176
Astrology,	240
Atman,	30–31,	97,	104,	108
Atoms,	181,	198,	207,	219–21,	238–39,	241
Atwater,	F.	Holmes,	176
Autonomic	nervous	system,	230
Awakening,	39–40,	96,	97
Awareness,	10,	12,	15,	117,	238
change	of,	135
expanded,	97–103
gradations	of,	183
hereafter	as	state	of,	2
of	levels	of	existence,	29
in	pure	consciousness,	141,	151
self-awareness,	76,	114,	115,	188,	195,	201,	202
silence	of,	153
unbounded,	125,	263Backster,	Cleve,	244
Bardo,	38,	39,	41,	183,	257
Beauregard,	Mario,	222
Beauty,	144
Beliefs,	227–28,	232,	233–36
Believers,	51,	52,	75,	113,	194
Benedict,	Mellen-Thomas,	122–26
Big	Bang,	27,	125,	162,	172,	199,	206,	212,	239
Binding	effect,	179–81,	230
Biology	of	Transcendence,	The
	(Pearce),	225
Birth,	24,	239
Bliss,	65,	127,	144,	148–49,	150,	153,	164,	186
Bodhisattva,	15
Body.
See
	Physical	body
Book	of	Revelations,	144
Bowman,	Carol,	175,	266
Brahman,	5
Brain:
beyond	boundaries,	224–27
cells,	222,	224
and	consciousness,	226,	241
death,	37,	43,	62,	215
drugs’	effect	on,	42
electromagnetic	field,	241–42
and	enlightenment,	232
filtering	of	information,	226
as	inert	object,	237–38
inner	clock	of,	27
karma	on,	179–82,	184
neural	impulses	in,	132
neuronal	activity,	172,	180,	184,	221,	222,	241–42
of	savants,	225
thinking	outside	of,	195,	215–36,	268
tumor,	122,	126,	143,	225
See	also
	Mind
Buddha,	13,	65
Buddhism,	38,	39,	102,	152,	183,	231
Bush,	George	W.,	62
Castaneda,	Carlos,	132
Catholicism,	71,	104,	105,	136,	259
Cats,	215–16Causal	planes,	14
Cells,	24,	48,	147–48,	222,	224
Cerebral	palsy,	223
Change,	115,	141,	172,	179,	181
Chaos,	199
Chhandas,	162
Children,	76,	174–76,	225,	226,	257,	266
China,	96
Choice,	99,	103–6,	173,	183–84,	186,	188
Chokyi,	Lingza,	38–39,	258
Christ.
See
	Jesus
Christianity,	25,	26,	31,	47,	61,	71,	72,	75,	88,	105,	171,	172,	259
Church	attendance,	49,	259
Clairvoyance,	242,	270
Clear	Light,	38,	41,	121
Collective	consciousness,	142,	143
Columbia
	space	shuttle,	49
Communication,	164
Complementarity,	208,	244
Compulsion,	13
Consciousness:
action	in,	152
Akasha	as	field	of,	87–89,	106,	167,	211,	229
and	angels,	161–62
boundaries	of,	26
and	brain,	226,	241
after	brain	death,	37,	43
in	causal	planes,	14
and	creation	of	afterlife,	42,	58
creation	within	itself,	87,	137
of	delogs,	41
devata	effect,	164
energy	field,	242,	244
evolution	of,	76
field	of,	247
and	Five	Koshas,	144–51
and	formation	of	other	worlds,	29
at	home	in,	151–53
in	India,	4,	5
and	knowledge,	30
low	ebb	of,	75
and	meditation,	7minimal,	62
in	near-death	experience,	124–25,	126
of	physical	objects,	126,	127–28
powers	of,	114
pure,	126,	127,	129,	135,	136,	141,	144,	149,	151
reality	created	from,	195
rishis	on,	195,	199,	202,	229
Satan	as	creation	of,	75
of	subtle	objects,	126–37,	141–45,	165
survival	after	death,	237–38
theory,	204,	264
as	universal	principle,	199
Con


 space.
Continue the process of expansion until you visualize inhaling air from
the whole room and exhaling it into the whole room. If you are sitting by an
open window, continue expanding, seeing air coming to you from the
neighborhood, then the city, the countryside, never stopping until you
visualize the planet giving you air with each in-breath and receiving the air
back with each out-breath. (If your room doesn’ t have an open window or
any windows at all, visualize an open window.)
A variation on this exercise is to visualize the expansion of light instead
of air. Direct your attention to your heart. Visualize a dot of white light
there. With each in-breath and out-breath, see the dot pulsate, gradually
expanding, the same way you expanded the air going in and out of you.
Watch the pulsing light fill your body, then expand to fill the room, theneighborhood, and the city, until you can see pulsations of light coming to
you in all directions without limit. These two exercises get you in touch
with the infinite field that is your essence.
FRIDAY
Last Stop for Karma
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I allow the light to ﬁnd me.
I allow the light to ﬁnd me.
Every person has a double fate. We are destined to be embedded in
maya —the scheme of magical lies driven by karma. That is our first fate.
But we are also destined to live in the light. Both fates are necessary. Karma
keeps the universe going, like a cosmic machine with an infinite number of
moving parts, perfectly meshing together. Anything that requires moving
parts, connections, and cause and effect comes under the purvie w of karma.
The moving parts can be the chemicals rushing in and out of every cell; the
connections can be the molecula r bonds that keep these chemica ls intact. At
a subtler level, the moving parts can be your thoughts; the connections are
the story you weave from these thoughts.
Out of habit, most people divide their karma along the lines of pleasure
and pain; good karma makes life pleasant, while bad karma brings
discomfort and suffering. But the real issue is karma itself. If you achieved
a life of perfect pleasure without a hint of suffering, you would still be
trapped inside the web of magical lies.
The second fate solves this dilemma. Karma no longer touches you
when you live in the light. No other living creature (as far as we know) can
consciously step out of the karmic machine. Unique on Earth, Homo
sapiens can defy biological programming. If everyone knew this fact, Yoga
would be the path chosen by all of humanity. There would be differentmotivations for this choice. The experience of bliss would entice some
people; others would be drawn by the lure of freedom or the end of pain and
suffering. These are obviously very desirable things, so why isn’t Yoga
central to everyone’ s life?
The most basic answer is that no one told us we had a second fate—the
web of magical lies is the only reality we have ever experienced. A spider ’s
web is gossamer ; it snares its prey by being sticky. The web of magical lies
has its own kind of stickiness. It is convincing. If you are convin ced that the
reality delivered  by the five senses is real, you will be stuck for life. Yet,
somehow, Yoga arose over the centuries as proof that getting  stuck isn’t
inevitable.
The discovery that you can escape, win your freedom, and live in the
light is personal —it is repeated one person at a time. Religion can sweep up
masses of humankind in a vision  of the divine, but Yoga isn’t like that. You
alone can go inside; you alone can experience the light; you alone can make
higher consciou sness your life’s goal. When you do, karma has reached its
last stop. The cosmic machinery, including the machinery of the body, will
keep churning. Nothing can stop it, short of the death of the universe, and
even that event might begin another cosmic cycle.
What karma is doing won’ t be your concern, however. You view it from
a place that is timeless, unchanging, unborn, undying, and whole. This
place can’t be reached by karmic  means. That is, you can’t go anywhere, do
anything, or think up a scheme to get there. If karma could bring you into
the light, why hasn’t it? Because that’s not karma’ s purpose. You arrive at
the light by realizing that it exists. Notice that the word realize  has real
inside it. To realize that you can be free of your karma, you must see the
reality beyond the web of magical lies.
Pratyahara  is the final turning inward that reveals everything. This is
why it is considered a breakthrough. Your inner experiences all lead here,
like all roads leading to Rome and all compasses showing true north. Each
glimpse of the light points you in the right direction. We humans are
designed to respond to love, compassion, truth, beauty, and the other
qualities of the light. The karmic machinery is powerful, but it cannot standup to the light; we instinctively  prefer bliss to pleasure. The experience of
love can overturn a whole life.
The great Benga li poet Rabindranath Tagore phrased it perfectly: “Love
is the only reality, and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that
lies at the heart of creation.” In the end, the light chooses you, instead of the
other way aroun d. Its appeal draws you closer and closer to your source.
However, in pratyahara, there are vestiges of actions you can take that
respond to the light.
HOW TO LET THE LIGHT CHOOS E YOU
Notice any glimpse of the light you experience.
Rest in the experience, letting it soak in.
Value these glimpses and feel grateful for them.
Sustain the light by devoting yourself to being conscious.
These steps aren’t an agenda or a program. They are an attitude you
take once you realize that you have a chance to escape your karma and the
whole karmic machinery. To put it simply, having reached the threshold, it
takes only the tiniest step to cross it.
Exercise
There is no effort involved to live in the light. If you have the right
attitude, the light seeks you out and becomes the place you want to be. A
little practice in adopting the right attitude is helpful, however. Sit quietly
with your eyes closed, and let your mind go to a moment when you
glimpsed the light. This could be a moment of love, truth, beauty,
compassion, or blissfulness. Don’ t force your recollection. Once you have
the intention, a memory will come to you. Sit easily, take a few deep
breaths, and allow an image to arise.
Once it does, the memory will be very pleasant, but it will also tend to
fade. While it is with you, rest in the feeling that surrounds it. Perhaps you
envision seeing your child takin g her first step or a beautiful sunset or anact of kindness that touched your heart. Remain with the feeling and quietly
express your gratitude for it. Say to yourself, “Nothing is more real than
this.”
Let the warmth of the memor y touch you the way the experience
touched you. Sit quietly for a moment or two, breathing deeply before you
get up and resume your day.
OceanofPDF.comWEEK 6
THE POWER OF ATTENTION
(Limbs of Yoga: Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi)THIS PART OF THE JOURNEY
Once you live in the light completely, the journey to find your true self
comes to an end. But, from another perspective, life has just begun. The
entire condition of separation is over, and new horizons open up.
In separation, you faced every  day with either/or choices. The twin
motivations of desire and fear were ever-present; if you made a wrong
choice, things could easily spin out of control. At the very least, everyone’ s
life was overshadowed by the unpredictable arrival of pain and suf fering.
The last three limbs of Yoga are devoted to the ideal life that becomes
possible once you have found your true self. I will treat all three limbs,
known as dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, as one, because they are
intimately joined. Taken together, they provide a map of life in wholeness.
Each limb offers a necessary element if you want to find unity instead of
separation.
Dharana enables you to pay attention so sharply that anything
can be known.
Dhyana enables you to transcend all obstacles to experience
higher consciousness.
Samadhi enables you to reach deeper and deeper levels of
awareness.
At first glance, this trinity sounds abstract and otherworldly. In
everyday life we don’t think in such terms, being occupied with a constant
stream of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and desires. You don’t need to
understand the workings of pure awareness. But the light is nothing but
pure awareness and being able to navigate it opens the possibility of
miracles, as we’ll see in this final week.
MONDAYThe Source
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
My life springs from pure awareness.
My


7. - On Vacation

If you suffer from hay fever, then you will be readily aware that the types of pollens produced differ from region to region,  and
from country to country. And it is possible that you yourself may  notice asthmatic and allergy symptoms if you travel to a very
different environment. This is especially likely for those with a history of hay fever. Your bodies' immune system may well n eed
to adjust to coping in a different country, or region. Please be ar this in mind when you travel.

So long as you keep ingesting regular amounts of vitamin B17 in your diet, you should find that after just a few days or so, your
body readjusts to its new environment and different pollens. Any wheezy ness, sniffing, nose  blowing, itchy skin and so forth
should die away, leaving you back to normal and symptoms free (having completed my program in chapter 3). And if you holiday
back to the same destination again next year, in all likelihood you will have little to no adjust ment problems second time around.

Nonetheless, to assist in combating the risk of an onset of asthmatic/allergy symptoms when on vacation I have at times used a
simple breathing technique.

The technique takes about ten minutes and I perform it once dail y, four or five days before travelling, if I am going somewhere I
have not been before with lush flowers etc. That's the only time I do such exercises. They are very simple. I simply hold my breath
for approximately forty to fifty seconds (or whatever is c omfortable), and then breathe normally for about twenty seconds. Then I
hold my breath again for another forty to fifty seconds, and then breathe normally again for about twenty seconds, and so on...

After ten lots of holding my breath for forty to fifty  seconds with twenty seconds of normal breathing intervals the exercise is
complete.
Reading this now, many of you may think, no way will I ever be able to hold my breathe for forty or fifty seconds. However, y ou
haven't completed my program in chapter 3 yet, and experienced significant improvements in your asthma and allergies, which I
am expecting of you! By the way even if after completing the B17 program in chapter 3, you still might have difficulty in hol ding
your breathe for forty or fifty seconds, b ut do not worry. Simply hold your breathe for a length of time that is comfortable for you,
even if it is only ten or fifteen seconds. With practice you will find yourself getting better at this technique. Never hold your breath
for a length of time that m akes you feel uncomfortable, always use your common sense.

I have simply included this breathing exercise for those of you that travel to various parts of the world. Many of you may ne ver
feel the need to try it. But I'm simply bringing it to your attenti on, as it can help smooth out any adjustment period. I strongly
recommend you take your normal medication with you for your asthma and allergies when travelling! You never want to be caught
off guard. The same is advisable at home too. Keep your normal med icine at hand, wherever you go, as this provides peace of
mind.

Chapter 8. - Dealing With Success

When you find these techniques, as described in chapter 3 working, with your asthmatic condition and allergy symptoms on the
retreat, it may take you a while to fully register what is going on. This is only natural. You will want to make sure that it  is really
happening. And week after week your condition, I believe, will continue to improve.

As time goes by you will become more and more accustomed to dealing with a new sensation of being. Change takes time to get
used to. You've probably been suffering f rom asthma and allergies for years, perhaps even decades. Of course it will take time for
you to get used to not having to deal with your old symptoms. It takes time also to learn to believe that nature really has i ts
remedies there at hand, for us to use.

By the way, if you ever run short of apricot seeds, then don't forget you can eat prune/peach/nectarine/cherry/plum/apple see ds, or
bitter almonds/macadamia nuts, lentils, butter beans and so on...to provide you with vitamin B17. You could even make your  own
bread using millet grain and or adding linseed if you like.

What is contained within our diets has changed so much over the last sixty years or so. Just adding vitamin B17 back into you r diet
on a regular basis, and I hope honey too, brings you that  much closer to nature!

You may find yourself benefiting in other ways from taking vitamin B17 in your diet. Myself, and others have commented how
life seems less stressful.
I would just like to point out here that, if your asthma and allergies do totall y disappear as a result of this program (and I really
hope they do), you have shown a susceptibility to asthma and/or allergies. Thus, if at some stage in the future you stop taki ng the
B17 rich food your body requires, for a prolonged period of time, your  asthma and/or allergies could return.

It is also worth you being well aware that vitamin B17 is also an alternative therapy for healing cancer. There are various c linics
that report extremely high success rates, treating all forms of cancers; with B17 a vitally important component of their cancer
remedies. Cancer it seems may also be strongly linked to a lack of vitamin B17 within ones' diet!

If you know of anyone with any form of cancer I recommend that they take a look at the website www.1cure4cancer.c om as soon
as possible!

Look after yourselves, and best wishes.

Graeme

If you wish to e -mail me to let me know how you get along I would be pleased to hear from you. Unfortunately I cannot promise a
reply if I get completely over -run by e -mails.

This b ooklet is based solely upon my own opinion; others may choose to disagree as they so wish. Various sources were consulted
in the writing of this booklet. The book,' World Without Cancer' by G. Edward Griffin, and statistics from Asthma in America a
landmar k survey, were also consulted.

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How


	by	scientific	method.	As	Lynne
McTaggart,	author	of	the	1996	book,
What	Doctors	Don’t	Tell	You,
wrote:	“For
all	the	attempts	to	cloak	medicine	in	the	weighty	mantle	of	science—a	good	deal
of	what	we	regard	as	standard	medical	practice	today	amounts	to	little	more	than
20th-century	voodoo.”
Doctors	usually	have	little	idea	what	is	wrong	with	their	patients	or	how	to
make	them	well.	And	how	can	one	blame	them?	They	spent	many	years	in
medical	school,	learning	technicalities,	procedures	and	protocols,	and	were
taught	that	“cures”	must	come	from	outside	the	body.	That	is	why	physicians
have	no	faith	or	instruction	about	the	natural	capacity	of	the	human	body	to	heal
itself.	In	fact,	many	argue	that	almost	all	conditions	presented	to	physicians	are
self-limiting	and	spontaneously	resolve	by	the	natural	healing	process,	regardless
of	what	the	physician	happens	to	prescribe.
This	natural	healing	process	must	become	our	focus,	because	the	magnitude	of
sickness	in	this	country	is	astonishing.	More	than	three	out	of	four	Americans
now	suffer	from	a	diagnosable	chronic	disease,	a	dilemma	that	the	modern
medical	establishment	not	only	fails	to	solve,	but	actually	contributes	to.	Things
must	change.	In	March	2001,	The	Institute	of	Medicine	of	the	National	Academy
of	Sciences	issued	a	report	titled,
Crossing	the	Quality	Chasm:	A	New	Health
System	for	the	21st	Century.
According	to	this	report:	“.	.	.	between	the	health
care	we	now	have	and	the	health	care	we	could	have	lies	not	just	a	gap,	but	a
chasm.”	The	report	also	said:	“Health	care	harms	patients	too	frequently	and
routinely	fails	to	deliver	its	potential	benefits.”
The	United	States	has	the	most	expensive,	yet	one	of	the	most	inadequate
health	care	systems	in	the	world.	Our	infant	mortality	rate	is	worse	than	Cuba’s.
According	to	the	World	Health	Organization,	our	overall	health	is	worse	than
that	of	almost	every	European	country,	as	well	as	Australia,	Canada,	and	Israel.
According	to	the	above	Institute	of	Medicine	report,	“.	.	.	a	fundamental,
sweeping	redesign	of	the	entire	health	care	system	is	required.”	The	report	cited
that	“.	.	.	the	nation’s	health	care	delivery	system	has	fallen	short	in	its	ability	to
translate	knowledge	into	practice	and	to	apply	new	technology	safely	andappropriately.”	It	went	on	to	say,	“.	.	.	if	the	system	cannot	consistently	deliver
today’s	science	and	technology,	it	is	even	less	prepared	to	respond	to	the
extraordinary	advances	that	surely	will	emerge	during	the	coming	decades.”
We’ve	spent	hundreds	of	billions	of	medical	research	dollars	on	outmoded
science,	which	explains	why	we	have	not	found	the	cause	or	the	cure	for	a	single
chronic	disease.	Decades	after	President	Richard	Nixon	declared	“war	on
cancer”	and	after	countless	billions	of	dollars	spent,	malignancy	survival	rates
are	not	noticeably	improved.	We	have	yet	to	produce	a	truly	effective	cancer
treatment;	every	minute	another	American	dies	of	cancer.	The	situation	is	similar
with	heart	disease.	We	can	implant	a	new	artificial	heart	surgically,	but	we
cannot	prevent	or	cure	heart	disease.	Why?	Because	so	few	resources	are
devoted	to	study	of	the	body’s	healing	systems	or	to	help	patients	understand
and	support	their	own	health	at	the	cellular	level.	Reallocating	resources	with
these	priorities	in	mind	is	the	direction	medicine	must	take	if	it	is	ever	to	be
effective	in	reversing	our	epidemic	of	chronic	disease.
Everyone	Is	Unique
Interested	only	in	identifying	symptoms,	physicians	do	not	listen	to	their
patients.	Patients	are	regarded	as	machines,	similar	to	every	other	machine;
doctors	need	not	learn	anything	unique	about	individual	people.	A	study	reported
in	the	December	1993	issue	of
Internal	Medicine	News
found	that	70	percent	of
patients	were	interrupted	by	their	doctor	within	eighteen	seconds	after	the	patient
began	to	describe	their	symptoms.	As	soon	as	the	doctor	has	matched	symptoms
to	a	disease,	treatments	follow	established	protocols.	Everyone	with	the	same
“disease”	receives	the	same	treatment.
Such	procedures	completely	ignore	one	of	the	greatest	scientific	discoveries	of
the	twentieth	century:	biochemical	individuality.	Two	people	with	the	same	so-
called	disease	may	need	different	treatments	because	no	two	people’s	cells	are
malfunctioning	for	exactly	the	same	reasons.	Modern	medicine	does	not	teach
physicians	how	to	recognize	or	work	with	each	patient’s	unique	biochemistry.
Even	when	presented	with	scientific	evidence	that	an	alternative	system	works
best,	most	physicians	resist	change	and	fail	to	apply	these	findings.	Their
disease-based	focus	interferes	with	the	essence	of	what	health	care	should	be:	the
optimization	of	health	at	the	cellular	level	based	on	a	person’s	unique
biochemistry	and	life	circumstances.
Resistant	to	ChangeAdopting	a	more	rational	system	of	medicine	would	result	in	an	enormous
reduction	in	health-care	costs	by	eliminating	hundreds	of	thousands	of
physicians	and	closing	thousands	of	hospitals	(not	to	mention	the	potential
financial	ruin	of	drug	companies).	Obviously,	the	economic	incentive	to
maintain	the	status	quo	and	not	change	is	enormous.	Currently,	cancer	is	a
billion-dollar-a-day	“industry”	in	the	United	States,	and	more	people	are
employed	in	the	AIDS	industry	than	there	are	sufferers	of	AIDS.
Modern	medicine’s	efforts	to	protect	money	and	jobs	were	vividly	described
and	documented	in	the	2000	book	by	former	New	York	State	Legislator,	Daniel
Haley,
Politics	in	Healing:	The	Suppression	and	Manipulation	of	American
Medicine.
Haley	points	out	that	in	the	twentieth	century	several	inexpensive	and
highly	effective	cures	for	cancer	were	introduced	in	American	medicine.	The
developers	of	these	cures,	well-meaning	people,	were	naive	and	believed	that	the
world	would	welcome	a	cancer	cure.	What	these	people—among	others,	Harry
Hoxey,	William	Frederick	Koch,	Royal	Raymond	Rife	and	Dr.	Andrew	Ivy—all
failed	to	understand	is	that	someone	who	threatens	the	survival	of	a	prospering
and	growing	industry	with	an	inexpensive	cure	will	not	be	welcomed.	Proven
and	effective	cancer	cures	were	repudiated	and	suppressed	by	the	American
Medical	Association	(AMA)	and	the	U.S.	Food	and	Drug	Administration	(FDA).
Discoverers	of	these	cures	were	isolated,	harassed,	persecuted,	prosecuted,
financially	ruined	and	destroyed,	and	their	treatments	essentially	have	been	lost.
Some	events	described	in	Haley’s	book	are	bizarre	and	are	hard	to	believe,	yet
they	are	documented	by	evidence	presented	at	jury	trials	and	recorded


cured in 2 to 4 days. Practice until the original strength, freshness, calm sleep, good appetite and
good remembrance is back again”.
Are there any adverse reactions with OP?
Dr Karach said: “some people in whom various illnesses are simultaneously manifest, an
apparent worsening of condition is possible. This is due to primary infection first being depleted,
causing secondary infections to dominate temporarily. After a few days secondary infection will
disappear while another may be stimulated into activity. Such symptoms are usually apparent in
persons suffering from chronic or terminal illnesses. Under these circumstances Dr Karach
recommends that the affected person steadfastly continues the treatment even if fevers are
initiated. Dr Karach maintains just when these symptoms appear the oil treatment will facilitate
rapid healing. Should the treatment be broken for one reason or another the overall effects will be
slowed down. For these reasons Dr Karach maintains that an apparent worsening of health is an
excellent sign that disease is progressively being removed from the body”.
Examples : To cite examples: - (a) Itching of the skin during infection and inflammation of an
injury or wound and the same itching may be present in an aggravated manner during cure of the
wound/injury. (b) A bone breaks due to an accident. The pain at the time of setting is more severe
and also during the process of healing.
Advice on how to deal with healing reactions
• Do OP as usual or increase to two or three times a day or even stop for a few days
depending on the severity and your reaction.
• Take medicine under the advice of a doctor for a minimum period, for relief and continue
OP after the reactions is over.
• It is not necessary that there will be healing reactions for all cases. Most of the cases are
chronic and the patient has been suffering for long and possibly under treatment. Healing
reaction appears more severe and one gets the feeling that disease is aggravating. At
such time one is inclined to stop OP, do not stop but continue OP. This is a sure sign
before cure. Recognize it as a reaction and continue OP and you will be cured with in a
short time and you will know the state of disease free health which makes you happy.
Sample testimonies of different disease cured
There are many testimonies of disease cured from different people, differing in age, sex and
duration of disease. More examples are given in my book “Oil Pulling – A Universal Remedy”.
Sample testimonies of chronic diseases cured are appended below for showing the curative effect
of OP.
Forty five year old Asthma and Allergy cured
I am 56 years old. I have been suffering from allergy and asthma from the age of 11 years
when I had my first menses. Whenever I had head bath after monthly periods I was
suffering from asthma, cough and phlegm.  It was very severe. This was lasting for about 3-4
days every month. In addition whenever I had head bath I used to suffer from the same type of
allergy. I had tried all types of treatment for 45 years to get rid of this but without any success. I
was spending my life with medicines but without cure. They had even diagnosed as a heart
problem. I had lost hope of living. Life seamed a big burden and uncertain.
At this stage, on 3rd March 94 I met you (T Koteswara rao) in a marriage and you came to me and
explained to me about OP and encouraged me to practice it. 2 months after practicing my
problems of health became a little more severe and I took them as healing reactions and
consoled myself with the hope that I am going to be cured totally after the reactions. These
reactions lasted for about 2 months. Now after 9 months of OP I have become wonderfully
healthy. Asthma has gone, no pains in the joints or body, no spots or discoloration of the
skin instead the skin has acquired a new shine, digestion has improved and I can eat
anything without the fear of allergy. It is really enjoyable to eat things, which you like
instead of fearing about allergy and asthma.
My advice to all women is, do OP for all your problems you will remain healthy and your looks will
improve.
Ms.V.Lakshminarsamamba, Krishna Dt, A.P
Allergy Asthma- Exhilarating Experience
On the first day of OP Feb 25, 1995, I felt an exhilarating feeling of freshness in the mouth.
Because of OP, addiction to cigar smoking cured on Mar 28, 1995. I was able to work with
increased energy, concentration and less impatience. My nostrils were clear and clean.
I had food allergic asthma from September 1975. By end of March '95, I gave up the use of
inhalers for asthma.
Numbness in hands and legs disappeared in April 1995.
Discomfort in my feet and joints due to walking disappeared by April '95.
The food tastes better and I feel more energetic.
I am enjoying the freshness of mouth, good health and very sound sleep due to OP.
Prof V.R.R.M. Babu, (57 years), Geology Dept, Andhra University, Waltair
Allergic bronchitis with wheezing
For the last three months, my wife and I are doing OP regularly. I suffer from severe running
nose. Now after I started doing OP, the running nose has become very mild and it persists
only for a day or so. I also used to get severe bouts of cough and with great difficulty
manage to get the sputum out. Now the running nose does not follow by cough.
My wife used to develop allergic bronchitis with wheezing due to dust or after severe cold
and on long journeys. She tried OP for three months and did not develop wheezing or
severe cough.
Dr. P.V.R.D.N. Prasad Sarma, (practicing since 1955), Machilipatnam, AP
Cancer cases
Most importantly, I want to write about  three cases of cancer. In two cases, biopsy report
confirms “schirrus type of carcinoma of uterus”.  In the third case, it is malignant growth
of a tumor of a size bigger than tennis ball on the jawbone.  This case is also of a woman on
homeopathy medicines. Within two months of OP, in both cases of carcinoma of uterus
bleeding reduced, general condition improved and they are confident that their disease will
go. You know confidence/faith contributes to cure more than medicine.
In the  case of malignant tumor after a month of OP, pus came out of a hole in the tumor on
the jawbone. The pus stopped after three weeks, the hole closed and the size of tumor
came down to almost normal.  In these cases, my medicines must have given temporary relief. I
am hoping they will totally heal.
In case of joint pains the improvement that would have resulted in eight months with my
medicines, have come within two moths of OP.
For allergy, asthma and tooth diseases, the results are wonderful.  My medicines must have
given o nly temporary relief. I am hoping OP will heal them totally.
Dr.S.Chandramouli, Homeopath, Gollalamamidalam, E.G. Dt., A. P
Constipation – Piles -“With OP Health Is Great Wealth”
I have been practicing OP for the last one year with Til (gingelly -sesame) oil  for fifteen to
twenty minutes daily in the morning without fail. I am 82 years old. I have been suffering from
constipation and piles for the last four decades. I consulted many doctors, used many
medicines but with only temporary relief.
Within two weeks of practicing OP, I started getting relief. There was no pain during motion.
Inflammation and piles decreased. I started having free and clear evacuation. I am sleeping
peacefully and happily at night. Indigestion, lack of appetite has gone. Decades old pain has gone
just by doing OP with gingelly (sesame) oil. Our Ayurvedic treatment is a comprehensive solution
for all diseases. It is good for all to practice. -“With OP Health Is Great Wealth”.
                            Padma Bhusan Sri Kalogi Narayana Rao, People's Poet, Tirupathi, A.P
Diabetes - Pregnancy - Child birth
My age is 41 years. I am a diabetic patient with no children. After doing OP for three months, I
became pregnant. At the time of pregnancy, my blood sugar increased. I stopped OP for about a
month thinking it was aggravating my problem. Having come to know that aggravation is a sign of
cure, I started OP again. The sugar level came down and I continued OP throughout my
pregnancy. After a caesarian operation, I gave birth to a baby. The doctors checked for sugar,
both for the baby and me. We both were free from sugar. The wound healed well and stitches
removed on the seventh day. Doctor was astonished at this. I found OP benefited me in the
following ways:
I weigh 90 Kgs. height 4’11” with weak twisted foot. By walking, the foot used to become septic
and pus used to ooze. By OP and walking daily, I became strong and was able to walk up the
steps without difficulty.
OP reduced sugar gradually and diabetes cured. The skin became clear and shining and the
spots on the body disappeared.
The body became strong, teeth firm; gums healthy and the hair turned black and stopped


 of neurons by age 2, and
by age 30, the number starts to decline. The loss of any
single brain cell is permanent, since neurons do not
regenerate. On the basis of this well-known fact, brain
decline seemed to be scientiﬁcally valid; sadly but
inevitably, to grow old must lead to memory loss, decreased
reasoning ability, impaired intelligence, and related
symptoms.
These time- honored assumptions, however, have now
been shown to be wrong. Careful study of healthy elderly
people—as opposed to the sick, hospitalized ones whom
medicine habitually studi ed—has revealed that 80 percent
of healthy Americans, barring psychological distress (such
as loneliness, depression, or lack of outside stimulation),suﬀer no signiﬁcant memory loss as they age. The ability to
retain new information can decline, which is why old
people forget phone numbers, names, and the reason for
walking into a room; but the ability to remember past
events, calle d long-term memory, actually improves. (One
authority on aging quotes Cicero, who declared, “I’ve never
heard of an old man who forgot where his money was
hidden.”)
In tests where 70-year-olds were matched with 20-year-
olds, the older people performed better than the younger in
this area of memory. After they practiced the other kind of
memory—called short-te rm memory—for a few minutes
every day, the older group could almost match the younger
subjects, who were at their prime of mental functioning.
Perhaps the “prime of life” should be extended. The
secret, as with almost every other “natural” decline in old
age, depends on habits of mind, not the circuitry in the
nervous system. As long as a person stays  mentally active,
he will remain as intelligent as in youth and middle age.
People will still lose over one billion neurons throughout
their lifetime, at an average rate of 18 million per year, but
this loss is compensated for by another structure, the
branchlike ﬁlaments called dendrites, which connect the
nerve cells to one another.
A nerve cell tends to be highly individual in shape, but
typically it has a bulbou s central section from which thin
arms radiate, like an octopus. These arms, or axons, end in
a swirl of tiny ﬁlaments that looked treelike to the early
anatomists, so they named them dendrites after the Greek
word for “tree.” Dendrites, which can vary in number from
less than a dozen to more than a thousand per cell, serve as
contact points, allowing the neuron to send signals to its
neighbors. By growing new dendrite s, a neuron can open
new channels of communication in every direction, like a
switchboard sprouting extra lines.It is not known how a thought is actually formed among
brain cells or how the bewilderingly vast number of
connections interrelate—millions of dendrites come
together at major junctio n points in the body, such as the
solar plexus,  not to mention the billions upon billions in the
brain itself. But experiments have shown that new
dendrites can be grown throughout life, up to advanced old
age. The current view is that this new growth easily
provides us with the physical structure for unimpaired
brain function. In a healthy brain, senility is not physically
normal. A rich multiplication of dendrites might even lie
behind growing wise in old age, a time when more and
more of life is seen in its totality—in other words, more
interconnected, just as the nerve cells are more
interconnected through their new dendrites.
This exampl e illustrates how radically wrong medicine
can be if it insists that matter is superior to mind. To say
that a nerve cell creates thoughts may be true, but it is just
as true to say that thinking creates nerve cells. In the case
of the new dendrites,  it is the habit of thinking,
remembering, and being mentally active that creates the
new tissue. Nor is this an isolated ﬁnding. Curiously
enough, as soon as the concept of the “new old age” was
permissible in the eyes of doctors, our views of many forms
of degeneration began to alter.
As long as you exercise, for example, your body’s
musculature will not wither, and your strength will be
unimpaired for life, altho ugh there will be a slow decline in
stamina. You can train for a mara thon at 65, provided you
are in good physical shape and train sensibly. Similarly,
your heart changes with age, growing less resilient and
pumping less blood per beat, but heart disease and
hardening of the arteries, thought absolutely normal with
old age a few decades ago, are now seen as avoidable, too,
depending on diet and lifestyle. Strokes, another given ofold age, have declined by 40 percent just in the last decade,
thanks to better control of hypertension and less fat in our
diets. A large  perce ntage of “unavoidable” senility has been
traced to vitamin deﬁciency, poor diet, and dehydration.
The overall result of these ﬁndings is that old age is being
drastically reconsidered; a less obvious result is that the
whole body, at any stage of life, has to be rethought.
—
What is happening on every front in medicine is that the
healthy body is showing  itself to be more resilient and
versatile than was hithe rto suspected. Whereas medical
school teache s that germ A causes disease B and is treated
by drug C, nature seems to feel that this is only one option
among many. The mental approach to treating cancer, for
instance, would have been ridiculed a decade ago. But
people do seem able to participate in their cancer
treatment, and even to control the course of the disease, by
using thoughts. In 1971, Dr. O. Carl Simonton, a radiologist
at the University of Texas, met a 61-year-old man with
throat cancer. The disease was very far progressed; the
patient could hardly swallow, and his weight had dropped
to 98 pounds.
Not only was the prognosis extremely poor—the doctors
gave him a 5 percent chance of surviving ﬁve years after
treatment—but the patient was already so weak that it
seemed unlikely he would respond well to radiation, which
is the standard therapy for this condition. In desperation,
but also curious to try a psychological approach, Dr.
Simonton suggested that the man enhance his radiation
therapy through the use of visualization. He was taught to
visualize his cancer as vividly as possible. Then, using any
mental pictu re that appealed to him, he was asked to
visualize his immune system as the white blood cellssuccessfully attacked the cancer cells and swept them out
of the body, leaving only healthy cells behind.
The man said he envisioned his immune cells as a
blizzard of white particles, covering the tumor like snow
burying a black rock. Dr. Simonton had him go home and
repeat this visualization at intervals throughout  the day.
The man agreed, and soon his tumor seeme d to be
shrinking. In a few weeks it was deﬁnitely smaller, and his
response to radiation was almost free of side eﬀects; after
two months, the tumor was gone.
Naturally, Dr. Simonton was surprised and baﬄed,
though elated that the psychological approach had been so
powerful. How does a thought defeat a cancer cell? The
mechanism was totally unknown—in fact, given the ﬁendish
complexity of the immune system and the nervous system,
both of which were obviously involved here, the mechanism
might be unknowable. For his part, the patient accepted his
cure without undue surprise. He told Dr. Simonton that
arthritis in his legs kept him from going stream-ﬁshing as
much as he liked. Now that the cancer was gone, why not
try visualizin g the arthritis away too? Within a few more
weeks, that is exactly what happened. The man remained
free of both cancer and arthritis for a follow-up period of
six years.
This now-famous case is a landmark in mind-body
medicine, but unfortunately it is not the whole story. Dr.
Simonton’s visualization therapy (it has branched out into a
broad mind-b ody program ) does not reliably cure cancer.
One of my patients used it with success to cure herself of
breast cancer, I believe, although she practiced the
technique on her own and not under a doctor’s scrutiny.
Long-term statistical studies, however, dispute whether
such sporadic results are any better than those of
conventional treatment. At present, conventional  therapy
has a big edge. If a woman with breast cancer, for example,detects the tumor while it is still very small and localized,
the chances of curing her (a “cure” means surviving at
least three years without  a recurrence of the disease) are
currently better than 90 percent. In comparison, the
number of spontaneous remissions, at the most generous
estimate, would be well below 1⁄10 of 1 percent. Until a
mental or other alternative therapy outperforms radiation
and chemotherapy, it


	find	yourself	getting	hungry	but	want
to	eat	something	that	is	sleep	inducing	rather	than	stimulating.
SWEET	POTATOES
These	hearty	root	vegetables	contain	muscle-relaxing	potassium	and	are	a	whole,
complex	carbohydrate.	Try	baking	some	sweet	potatoes	and	eating	them	at
dinner	with	a	big	salad.
EVENING	REPLENISHING	ELIXIR
This	elixir	contains	nourishing	essential	beauty	fats	and	spices	known	to	help	soothe	inflammation
and	your	nervous	system.
Mugful	of	hemp	milk
½	teaspoon	powdered	turmeric
½	teaspoon	powdered	cardamom
¼	teaspoon	powdered	cloves
Raw,	organic	honey	or	raw	coconut	nectar,	to	taste
Heat	the	hemp	milk	to	just	under	a	boil,	and	stir	in	the	turmeric,	cardamom,	and	cloves.	Remove
from	the	heat,	add	the	raw	honey,	and	enjoy	hot.
CHERRIES
This	bright,	beautiful	summer	fruit	is	one	of	the	few	foods	that	naturallycontain	melatonin.	A	study	found	that	drinking	tart	cherry	juice	offers	some
slight	improvements	to	the	duration	and	quality	of	sleep	in	those	with	chronic
insomnia.
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CHIA	PUDDING
This	snack,	made	by	soaking	chia	seeds	in	a	liquid	base,	has	a	great	mix	of
complex	carbs,
omega-3
fatty
acids,	and	amino	acids	to	help	you	feel	satiated
but	not	overly	stuffed	and	enjoy	a	great	night’s
sleep.
The
Worst	Foods	for	Sleep
Just	as	there	are	excellent	foods	for	sleep,	there	are	foods	that	are	not	so	great
for	promoting	sleep.	Review	this	list	and	avoid	these	foods	in	the	evening	to
best	support	your	Peak	Beauty	Sleep.
HEAVY
PROTEIN	MEALS
Meals	that	are	high	in	concentrated	proteins	should	be	avoided	late	at	night.
They	take	a	great	deal	of	digestive	energy	to	break	down	and	can	keep	you	up	by
overactivating	digestion.	If	you	are	going	to	have	a	heavy	dinner,	try	to	eat	it
early.	If	circumstances	force	a	late	dinner,	choose	a	lighter,	plant-based	meal.
HIGH	FAT	MEALS
Fat	stimulates	the	production	of	acid	in	the	stomach	while	encouraging	the
loosening	of	the	esophageal	sphincter.	This	can	cause	food	to	spill	up	into	your
esophagus,	creating	heartburn.	Lying	down	to	go	to	sleep	after	eating	heavy,
fatty	foods	makes	it	even	easier	for	acid	to	get	in	all	the	wrong	places.	This	is	a
super	uncomfortable	beauty	sleep	no-no.
CHOCOLATE
While	a	little	piece	of	dark	chocolate	might	quell	your	sweet	craving,	do	not
overindulge	in	chocolate	late	in	night.	Remember	that	it	does	contain
caffeine
as	well	as	theobromine,	another	stimulating	compound	that	can	adversely	affect
your	beauty	sleep.
SPICY	FOODS
These	can	be	overstimulating	and	actually	keep	you	up	at	night.	A	study	out	of
Australia	found	that	on	nights	the	subjects	ate	spicy	meals,	there	were	adverse
changes	in	their	sleep	patterns.
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	The	researchers	also	found	that	subjects	hadelevated	body	temperatures	during	their	first	sleep	cycles,	which	has	been	shown
in	other	studies	to	be	linked	to	poor	sleep	quality.
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CAFFEINE
Even	if	you	feel	you	are	used	to	caffeine,	it	still	keeps	your	body	working.
Research	published	in	the
Journal	of	Clinical	Sleep	Medicine
	found	that	caffeine
ingested	as	early	as	6	hours	before	bedtime	could	negatively	affect	sleep
patterns.
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	In	a	practical	sense,	this	means	you	should	stop	drinking	coffee	(if
you	drink	it	at	all),	green	tea,	or	yerba	maté	by	the	afternoon.	By	the	way,	the
tradition	of	drinking	coffee	after	dinner	is	one	you	should	abandon.	Make	your
own	tradition	with	herbal	tea	if	you’d	like	to	sip	on	something	hot,	and	your
beauty	will	surely	benefit.
NICOTINE
If	you
smoke,	you	should	stop	for	many	health	and	beauty	reasons!	We	are	sure
you	know	this,	and	hopefully	you	are	working	on	eliminating	that	habit	long-
term.	But	in	the	very	short-term	while	transitioning	completely,	be	sure	to
refrain	from	indulging	in	any	nicotine	products	too	close	to	bedtime.	Nicotine
can	be	stimulating,	which	is	not	conducive	to	your	beauty	sleep.
ALCOHOL
This	is	a	tough	one,	because	if	you	do	want	to	have	some	drinks,	you	likely
won’t	have	them	in	the	middle	of	the	day	or	in	the	morning	unless	it’s	a	very
rare	special	occasion,	such	as	a	tailgate	or	a	celebratory	brunch.	The	problem	is
that	even	though	the	alcohol	(especially
wine)	may	feel	as	if	it’s	inducing	sleep,
alcohol	actually	interferes	with	the	restorative	functions	of	sleep.
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	This	means
that	although	it	may	feel	relaxing,	after	a	few	hours	it	may	encourage	you	to
wake	up	during	the	night,	decreasing	the	quality	of	your	overall	sleep.
SUPPLEMENT	YOUR	SLEEP	WITH	VITAMIN	B
12
This	important	water-soluble	vitamin	is	used	for	many	functions	of	the	body,
including	maintaining	energy	and	preventing	fatigue.
Vitamin	B
12
	promotes	healthy
brain	and	cardiac	function	and	helps	us	sleep	better,	as	it	has	a	critical	role	in	the
formation	of	melatonin.	It	also	supports	the	optimal
metabolism	of	fats	and
carbohydrates,	promotes	healthy	cell	growth	and	repair,	and	activates	the	vitamin
folate	in	the	body.	While	it	can	be	stored	in	your	liver	for	some	time,	you	can	get	a
blood	test	to	see	if	your	body	currently	has	the	proper	amount.
Vegans	and	vegetarians	are	definitely	encouraged	to	supplement	with	B
12
because	it	is	found	mostly	in	animal	products,	but	if	you	do	eat	meat,	that	does	not
necessarily	mean	that	you	have	optimal	levels	of	Vitamin	B
12
.	Absorption	andutilization	of	B
12
	might	still	be	compromised	even	if	you	consume	foods	that	contain
it	(such	as	animal	protein,	fortified	cereals,	and	nutritional	yeast).	For	instance,	if
you	are	low	in	hydrochloric	acid,	which	releases	B
12
	from	food,	your	body	may	have
issues	absorbing	B
12
.	Your	stomach	lining	could	also	be	lacking	in	its	ability	to
produce	intrinsic	factor,	a	protein	that	must	bind	to	B
12
	in	the	small	intestine	so	the
body	can	absorb	it.
Check	with	your	doctor	if	you	are	unsure	of	how	much	Vitamin	B
12
	your	body
needs,	but	500	to	1,000	micrograms	(mcg)	is	generally	considered	a	good	daily
amount.	You	can	take	a	B-complex	supplement	to	get	a	balance	of	all	the	B
vitamins.
If	you	really	value	your	sleep,	you	may	have	to	make	some	serious	lifestyle
changes	around	your	alcohol	habits.	This	may	seem	difficult	at	first,	but	once
you	experience	more	daytime	bliss


, due to the stomach's requirement for blood circulation to digest the food or warm up
the beverages.
   Preparation for sleep before bedtime is therefore important. These measures have been found to help sleep come easily:

   1. The evening meal should be eaten early, at least two hours before bedtime.
   2. Avoid coffee, tea, cola drinks, nasal inhalers or drops, or any other stimulants for the last three or
four hours before bedtime.
   3. Minimize the amount of fluids drunk at night, to avoid having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Especially avoid any chilled beverage just before bedtime. If you must have some
beverage at bedtime, let it be warm, neither chilled nor extremely hot, and restrict it to a small cupful or
less, even if it is only water.

   4. Relax and take it easy for at least a half hour before sleep time. During this period avoid exciting
or irritating conversation, work, worry, and physical activity. Going to bed a little early with some light reading matter is a good way to do this.

   5. Do your bathing, hair and skin grooming, etc., before this half-hour pre-bedtime period. That kind
of thing raises the heart rate about the same as other kinds of work.     6. Try not to take problems and worries to bed with you. Our thinking ability is so poor at night we
are not likely to work out anything useful, but we certainly can keep ourselves awake trying. Think about pleasant subjects when you want to go to sleep.

   7. Some people put themselves to sleep by tapping their bodies gently with a fingertip and counting
the taps. Better than counting sheep.
   8. There is one last resort which for many people brings on sleep when all else fails, though I have no idea why: A teaspoonful or two of honey taken at bedtime. Some people keep a small jar of honey by
the bed, so they can take a nip of it if they should lie awake in the night.

   Habitual use of sleep-inducing drugs should be a voided or minimized because in time they may cause
injurious side effects.

GENERAL NOTES
   Some people find that eating pork causes them to have indigestion, with a feeling of fullness and a
greasy aftertaste. This is caused by cooking it too fast, with too much heat. Pork is the most delicate meat of all and if highly heated becomes indigestible. If it begins to sputter and pop, it is too hot, and
should be turned over, basted, or the heat reduced. When slowly cooked, as shown on pages 37 and 38,
fresh uncured pork is easily digested and can be enj oyed as often as desired. It should be cooked slowly
until rawness in the center disappears.

INTRODUCTION
   Arteriosclerosis and its kindred miseries have reached epidemic proportions in
modern times, and though it is widely agreed the disease is caused by food, no
successful explanation has previously been av ailable as to why or how it is caused or
by what foods. Conflicting academic theories have been presented, but the killer rages
unchecked, causing up to 10,000 heart attacks a day in the United States alone.
   There is a growing conviction that there is something seriously wrong with modern
food. There is, and the pitiful results of it are to be seen in every hospital, rest home,
cemetery, mental institution, and school for retarded children in the country.
   Some say our people have become dege nerate, that our morals are undermined, and
our civilization is becoming inefficient and decadent. The truth is that the people are
weakened and debilitated by poor food, with many of them so unhappy and miserable
that they vent their frustration and fury in senseless ways, not knowing where the real
hurt lies. But our old bloodlines are unchanged, our natural heritage of high intelligence, physical strength, and courage yet remain, and will quickly once more
find their full flower as in olden times when food deficiencies are corrected. We are not degenerate, only deteriorated.
   Many have blamed modern foods and advocated impractical fad diets but none have
told us what is actually wrong with the food or what we can do about it in every day
life. These riddles have at last been solved by practical scientific experimentation with
animals and humans under realistic life conditions, the only large scale feeding
research on arteriosclerosis ever backed by private initiative. Now science has at last
shown what is wrong and how we can sele ct the right foods from existing stocks.
   This work stems from controlled scientific experiments and the main body of
authoritative scientific knowledge, as may be noted from the appended list of
professional grade literature. It has no connection with faddism or business interests
of any kind.
   The book has been kept short, simple and inexpensive for use as a practical guide by
the general public.

1. HUMANS ARE BUILT AND RE-BUILT FROM FOOD
   Most people think that adult bodies are built once and for all like a machine and that
food is just a fuel. This is far from true, because our bodies are composed of
individual cells like the bricks of a building, each cell having its own life and death.
These cells are constantly wearing out a few at a time, dying and being replaced by new cells, utilizing mostly new material taken in from our food. Your clothes wear
out, but you don't, because Nature has given you the glorious ability to rebuild
yourself day by day from the food you eat. Since we are constantly being rebuilt in any case, if we improve our food our bodies gradually become finer, stronger, and better looking. Of course younger people r eact faster and have a greater range of
potential improvement, but it is never too late to make a worthwhile betterment, while
life remains.
   Experimental feeding of animals and humans has shown that dramatic
improvements even in old debilitated individuals can be made in a few months by
feeding fresh high quality food. And when pregnant mothers and later their young are
thus fed, the improvement in the offspring is even more amazing. The births are easy, and the babies are strong, beautiful, and fast growing. Food makes the man.

2. WHAT DOES OUR FOOD CONTAIN?
   The manufacturers give us an over-simplified answer, saying that food contains
protein, amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. But ask a bio-
chemist, one of those who spend their lives analyzing materials from living things,
and he will likely draw a deep breath and maybe even sigh a little before replying: Food is from the living bodies of plants and animals, and is the most complex mixture
of different materials ever discovered, a single cut of meat for instance containing
many thousand  different compounds and elements. There are several hundred
thousand different kinds of proteins, the human body alone containing over 50,000 different kinds. There are several hundred diffe rent kinds of fats, oils, and waxes in
various foods, numerous enzymes, hormones, growth factors, natural antibiotics and
so on in almost endless variety. Even more substances in food are being discovered
daily, and it is well recognized that nutrition is a young and immature science. When
one realizes the intricate design which Nature has contrived for the composition of
our bodies and for our natural food materials, it becomes clear that we cannot safely rely on manufactured food which the makers sa y contains what we need. Nature's rule
is that life shall feed upon life,  and only by following this rule can we feel sure of
getting adequate nutrition over long term periods.

3. WHAT IS MAN'S PROPER FOOD?
   All food originally comes from living plants and animals, upon which people lived
directly for many hundred thousands of years as simple food-gatherers and hunters,
eating the tender leaves, nuts, roots and fruit of the plants and the flesh of such fish
and animals as they could catch, for most of this time in a fresh raw condition. This is the kind of food for which Nature designed the human body, and upon which early
men thrived and developed tremendous physical strength with brains fully as large or
larger than ours of today. These things are known definitely from the thick strong bones and skulls of early men and the animals they ate, and from the pictures they drew and chiseled in the caves, found by scientists in many locations. The strength and perfection shown in some of these old skeletons of our ancestors compared with
the thin frail bones, stunted faces and crowded teeth of modern people shows
dramatically that we today have physically deteriorated from a stage reached over
thirty thousand years ago.
   From the bones and various relics unearthed, scientists tell us that men began
farming and living upon grain and domesticated animals less than 10,000 years ago,
which is quite recent compared with man's immensely long history as a hunter and food-gatherer, and much too recent for any change in the basic design of our digestive
organs to have taken place. Even today many thousands of people in remote places eat
the same primitive foods as early men ate and such people commonly have full size,
well developed jaws and facial bones similar to our remote ancestors.
   The past speaks for itself, so let none be lieve that we must have artificial vitamins,
or "polyunsaturated" refined oils, or bread, flour, sugar, or any of the other
manufactured foods which the advertisers would have us think we must eat to


of our ability. I had never in my life been involved in
anything that demanded the level of perfection of that
program. It was like a polish ed diamond by the time it
was done. To me it was a  living entity, and I felt
tremendous respect every tim e I touched it. Just look at
the amazing flow of life’s events that created this
program. I felt like it had a life of its own, and we were
just here to serve it.
It was the beginning of 1982, and after two years of
intense development, we started installing the program
for my origina l two clients. Given that none of us had
ever written such a comprehensive program before, the
installations m oved along very smoothly. I never once
thought about what would happen after those sites were
installed. We were completely focused on writing and
delivering the absolutely bes t system we could because
that was the ta sk life had given us. The program’s destiny
after th e init ial installations would have to unfold
completely on its own—exactly as had happened every
step of the way so far.3 5.
P r e p a r i n g  f o r  L a u n c h
A long wi th the great strides the program was making, I
was pleased to see events unfolding that benefited those
around me, especially Barb, who was working really
hard. Around this time my neighbor Bob Tilchin decided
to move, and the Temple purchased his property. Barb
got to move into that house, and she also got a well-
deserved new office when Personalized Programming
relocated its five employees into a new building on
Temple grounds. I got a nic er office as well, and some
very important events were destined to take place there—
none more important than a destiny-filled phone call I
took while sitting at my computer one day.
We had just finished our first installation of The
Medical Manager, and I was finishing up the manual for
the pro gram w hen the phone rang. It was Systems Plus,
the distributo r of the acco unting program we were
selling. I was a very small dealer of theirs, and they didn’t
generally call me. I had placed a call a few days earlier to
report problems with a new piece of software they were
releasing.
The customer representative at Systems Plus
introduced herself as Lorelei. She was very apologetic for
the problems they were hav ing. At some point in her
apologies and assurances, she told me that I should
remain recepti ve to their new software releases because
they planned on being the leading company for small
business softw are. She said they were expanding beyond
general accounting and were currently looking for a topreal estate package, legal package, and medical billing
package.
When I heard her say medical billing package, she
caught me by surprise. At first I was too embarrassed to
say anything. Systems Plus was this big, Silicon Valley
computer com pany, and I was a guy in the woods who
had taught himself to program. Sure, I had spent the last
two years writing our medical billing program, but it had
only be en installed in one sm all doctor’s office for a few
weeks. Though the voice in my head was assuring me
that Systems Plus would ha ve no interest in my little
software program, I took a breath, surrendered to the
moment, and informed Lorel ei that I had just finished a
medical billing package. She started to say something
and the n stopped. After a br ief pause she said, “Wait a
minute, my boss just walk ed by; let me see if he’s
interested.” I had absolutely no idea what to think.
When Lorelei returned to the  call, she told me her boss
was very interested in reviewing any software that could
do a medical practice’s billing. She encouraged me to
send in the sy stem along with the manual I was just
completing. We got off the phone, and I was stunned.
What had just happened? I had never even thought
about finding a software distributor. Then one of the
industry’s top business software distributors calls me in
the mid dle of the woods in Alachua, Florida, and ends up
asking to see my system. I found out later that when
Lorelei mentioned her boss, she was referring to the
president of the company, Rick Mehrlich, who had just
happened to walk by her desk at that exact moment.
Perhaps now you can see why I have learned to so deeply
honor the flow of life.
It to ok me a week or two to pull everything together
and ship it off to Systems Plus headquarters. There was
something very surreal as I stood there offering the
finished package up to the universe. I had simply been
following the flow. I hadn’t had any expectations, hopes,or d reams about anything. For many years now, I had
just been putting one foot in front of the other serving
whatever was put before me to the best of my ability. To
me, I was not  a computer programmer; I was a yogi
living in  the middle of the wo ods. I had bought a tiny toy
computer for $600 some years earlier, and I had played
around with it. I got tricked into spending two years of
my life writing a medical bil ling package after my mind
had alre ady de cided that writing software was too time-
consuming. No w, without my making a single call, I was
about to send something I h ad programmed off to the
president of a successful software company out in
California. How does such a thing happen—even in a
fairy tale?
A few weeks later, I got a call from Systems Plus
informing me that the company president wanted to fly
out to Alachua  to meet me face-to-face. I agreed, and in
no t ime at all Rick Mehrlich was sitting on the couch in
my office telling me that h e wanted to distribute my
software. He said it was about the best he had ever seen,
and he  could do a great job representing it in the
marketplace. I enjoyed bo th his frankness and his
positive praise, and I immediately felt comfortable
working with him. It is impor tant to understand that the
way I viewed the unfolding events was that this man
sitting before me had been handpicked by the Universal
Force to take my child out into the world. Just as Barb
had sho wn up out of nowher e and turned out to be the
absolutely perf ect person to help me, so this man might
as well have m anifested out of thin air and told me he
had been sent to distribute the software package.
I n either contacted another d istributor nor viewed any
other options. I surrendered t o the perfection of the flow.
As R ick and I shook hands on our intent to enter into a
distribution arrangement, we couldn’t possibly have
known that for the next few  decades of our lives we
would be involved in a fantastic voyage together. Itshould come as no surprise that Rick and Systems Plus
turned out to be the absolutely perfect distributor for
The Medical Manager product. Life had worked its magic
once again.
Systems Plus informed me in September that the
company was going to launch The Medical Manager in
November at the upcoming 1982 Computer Dealers’
Exhibition (COMDEX). Held in Las Vegas each year,
COMDEX was the largest computer trade show in the
country and the second largest in the world. Systems
Plus was planning to featur e the product in its huge
booth, so the pressure was on to get the distribution
agreement sign ed and to ship the finished version of the
software out to California.
It turn s out that the Temple had a large retreat
scheduled for first of Octobe r that year for Ram Dass.
That wa s exact ly the deadline Systems Plus had given me
to s end them t he finished version. Since I didn’t get the
software shipped before lea ving for the retreat, Ram
Dass ended up with it on his  lap the entire drive down.
At one point he asked me in his very no-nonsense way of
speaking, “Is it any good?” I answered him by saying that
I h ad no idea; it could be worth nothing or it could be
worth a  million dollars. Turns out I was off by a few
zeros. I  always  had tremendous respect for Ram Dass, as
do all of us who grew up under his aura of absolute
honesty with one’s self. The perfection of circumstances
that had him h olding that piece of software just before it
launched into the world was amazing to me. Who knows
how these things work? I cer tainly don’t claim to know a
thing. I  watche d how this sof tware was conceived, and I
saw it attract exactly what it needed to not only get
written but to be a leader ri ght out of the gate. It then
magically attra cted its own first-rate distributor and was
now sitting on the lap of one  of the most-respected New
Age spi ritual teachers in the world. This program had a
destiny of its o wn, and it was about to take us all on ajourney, the likes of which we never could have
imagined.S e c t i o n  V I
The Forces of Natural
Growth3


stressfulemotions.Theyusuallysuppresstheiranger,
andbecomeresentful.
Injuries
SymptomsCuts/wounds: painful;tonerve-richparts.
Painstearing.
Worsefortouch.
Causesaccident;childbirth;episiotomy;surgery.
Staphysagria isforwoundsorinjurieswherethereare
feelingsofhumiliation,indignationandanger.This
mightbecausedbyanoperationtoasphincter(anus,
urethra,stomach,etc.),afteranyoperation,especially
ifmorewasdonethanexpected,afteramechanical
childbirthwithpainafterwardsandpossiblystitches,
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Sulphur(Sul.)•155
oritmaysimplybepainfollowinganunpleasant
examination.
Staphysagriawoundsaretypicallycausedbysharp,
cuttinginstrumentssuchasglass;thepains(andthose
followingsurgery)arestinging,smarting.Injuriesto
theeyesoreyelidswherethereisinflammationcan
callforStaphysagriaaslongastheaccompanying
emotionalsymptomsarepresent.
Styes
Thesearesensitivetotouchandareoftenaccom-
paniedbyStaphysagnaemotionalsymptoms.
Toothache
SymptomsPains:spreadtotheears;gnawing;tear-
ing;indecayedteeth.Inchildren.
Worseaftereating;forcolddrinks;duringmenstrual
period.
Thisisforpeoplewhoseteethdecayedandturned
blackearly,andwhohavetoothacheinthedecayed
teeth,especiallywithdrinkingcolddrinks.
Travelsickness
Staphysagria istheremedytoprescribefortravel
sicknesswheretheindividual isextremelydifficult,
stroppyandindignantthatthisshouldbe'happening
tohimorher'.
Sulphur(Sui.)
Othernames:brimstone;flowersofsulphur
Sulphuroccursnaturallyandisanessentialchemical
constituentofalllivingtissue.Itisoneofthesub-
stancesthrownoutbyavolcaniceruption;thesulphur
driesroundtheedgeofthevolcano,andthisissimilar
toa'sulphureruption'wherethepusisaggravatedby
heat,oozesoutandthenformscrustsontheskin.
Itswidecommercialapplicationincludesitsusein
themanufactureofgunpowder,dyes,fungicidesand
insecticides,tohardenrubberandtomakesulphuric
acid.
Ithasalonghistoryinmedicine. Itwasconsidereda
preventiveforepidemicillnesses,and'Flowersof
sulphur'wereburnedtofumigateroomsoccupiedby
peoplesufferingfrominfectiousdiseases(theburning
sulphurproducessulphurdioxide,apowerfuldisin-
fectant).Itwastakenregularly,alongwithmolasses,
to'cleanse'thegut,andhasbeenusedformorethan
2000yearstotreatskindiseases,includingacneand
scabies;otherusesinorthodoxmedicineincludeits
useasalaxative,forchronicbronchialcatarrhandfor
rheumatism.Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefrompure
sulphur(afineyellow-greenish, grittypowder)either
bytriturationorasatinctureinstrongalcohol.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Anaemia.Breathsmells.Complaintsfromchangeof
weatherfromcoldtowarmDischargessmelly;sour;
watery.DislikesmeatFace:red,sallow;redinspots.
Glandsswollen.Likes:spicyfood;sweets.Lips:
cracked;dry;red.Painsburning.Sweat:profuse;
smelly;sour;fromslightestphysicalexertion.
Symptomsleft-sided.Taste:mouthtastesbitter;bad.
Thirsty:extreme;forlargequantities;forwater.
Tongue:white-coated;rededgesandtip.
Betterforfreshair.
Worseforbathing;forchangeofweathertowarm;for
draughts;forexertion;forfasting;forheat;formilk;
around10-11a.m.;forstanding;instuffyrooms;for
warmthofbed.
Sulphurtypescomeinallshapesandsizes,butthey
seemalwaystolookuntidyand/orunwashed,espe-
ciallythechildren,nomatterhowoftentheywashor
changeclothes.Infact,theirmannerofdresswill
usuallygivethemaway-thereisalwayssomething
missingsuchasanoddsock,orahemcomingdown,
oracollarescapedfrominsideajumper(thingsno
self-respectingArsenicumwouldputupwith!).They
areeithercompletelyindifferenttohowtheylookor
donotnoticeiftheyaredirty.Theyhavehotfeet,and
socaneasilywearsandalsthewholeyearround.They
arelazyandtheyhatetowash;theyoftenfeelworse
foritanddonotinfactlookmuchcleanerforit.They
slumpwhensittingandstoopwhenwalkingandare
alwaysworseforhavingtostandupforlong-they
makestraightforabarstoolinapub!
Theyhavemarkedlyredfacesandredlipswhich
canbecomedryandcrackedwhentheyfallill.The
tongueisoftenwhitecoatedwithrededgesandtip.
Theyareextremelythirstytypeswhowillconsume
largequantitiesoftapwaterwhethersickorwell.
Thesepeoplearesensitivetoheatandarealways
worseforbeinginastuffyroomandgettingover-
heated;theyarebetterforfreshair.Theirdischarges
areusuallyhot,smellyandburning.Theysweatpro-
fuselyandfeelworsewhilesweating.Hotflushes
duringthemenopausewillrespondwelltoSulphur,
providingthegeneralandemotional/mental
symptoms fit.
NB.Thisremedyishailedforitseffectoneczemaand
skinrashes,butIstronglyadviseyounottoprescribe
forthesecomplaintswithoutconsultingaprofessional
homeopath,astheaggravationscanbesevereand
needtobemonitoredcarefully.
156•Sulphur(Sul.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Angry.Anxiousintheevening.Confused.Critical.
Depressed.Discontented.Impatient.Indifferentto
personalappearance.Irritable.Lazy.Quarrelsome.
Restless.Sluggishinchildren.
Sulphurchildrenarecuriousandbrightanddrivetheir
parentsmadaskingendlessquestions,mostlypre-
cededwith'Why...?'Astheygrowoldertheyde-
velopintopeoplewithmanyideaswhofinditdifficult
tobringtheseideasfromthelandofdreamsintothe
landofreality.Atoneextremetheyaresuccess-
fulacademicsandattheothertheyareunrealistic
dreamers,ortheso-called'raggedphilosophers'.The
nearesttothisinmoderntermsarethehippieswith
theirendlessidealsandtheories,barefeetandun-
kemptappearances.Theymaystartmanythingsand
neverfinishanything,andthefurtherawaytheyare
fromrealisingtheirideas,thesickertheybecome.
Theseindividualsaresloppy,lazyanddis-
organised;theyfeelconstantlyrushedandhurried
andwouldreallyrathernotworkatalliftheycan
avoidit.Messdoesn'tbotherthem,althoughthey
maygetperiodicalcravingsforasortoflimitedexter-
nalorder.Theyarehoardersandcannotthrowany-
thingaway.However,despitetheiruntidinessand
sloppiness,theymayhaveastrongfeelingofself-
disgustfortheirownbodilyfunctions.Otherremedies
havethissymptombutitiscuriousinsuchaslob!
Sulphurtypesarebasicallyselfcentred,impatient,
irritableandcriticalofothersandhowtheyruntheir
lives;theyhavelotsofideasandtheoriesofhowthey
themselvescoulddoitbetter.Theysufferfromall
sortsofworrieswhichplaguethemintheeveningand
stopthemsleepingatnight.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsBack:feelsweak/tired.Pains:inlower
spine;aching;sore,bruised.Withstiffness;weak-
ness.
Worseafterperiodoflongsitting;forbendingdown;
duringamenstrualperiod;ongettingupfromsitting;
atnight;forstanding;forwalking.
Bedwetting
Thesearechildrenwhoaregenerallydryatnightbut
startbedwettingwhentheyfallill.
Boils
SymptomsBoilsitching.Breastfeedingproblems
SymptomsBreastabscess:inflamed.Breastsred.
Thebreastsmaybeitchy.
ChickenpoxseeMeasles