 baked vegetables. About 2 weeksafter the fast, I experienced a sense of exhilaration and
well-being that I had never known in my entire life!
From that time on my health and vitality grew by
leaps and bounds! That was not my only fast under Dr.
Rollier’s supervision. He started me out with a
24 hour
weekly fast and in the next 9 months, put me on a 7, 14
and 21 day fast. Between fasts I was fed an alkaline diet.37
When you live The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle you can help activate
your own powerful internal defense arsenal and maintain it at top
efficiency. Remember bad, unhealthy eating habits make it harder
 for your body to  fight illness and stay healthy! –  Paul C. Bragg
What wound did ever heal but by gentle degrees. – William Shakespeare
Little things are like weeds – the longer we neglect them the larger they grow.Keep Your Stomach Healthy & Alkaline
Because acidosis is more of a negative than a positive
ill, you should beware of it. Have you ever said, “Oh,
I’m a little off color; low on energy; a bit blue for no real
reason. Everyone has their off days. It seems to be a partof life.” Nothing of the kind! You can maintain yourself
in a state of consistent good health, not spasmodic good
health. You can come to consider your body a finemachine, one that with proper care will never go wrong.
At the first suspicion of acidosis, analyze your diet. A
grayish tongue, a snappish temper, a flushing of the face;these are not too trivial to heed! They are signs of red
flashing danger! Perhaps today they might not amount
to much, but tomorrow they will be more insistent.Acidosis is insidious and accumulative in its action; and
it is today, not tomorrow, that you should begin to
defend yourself, for life is self-defense. Your adversaryhas you at a disadvantage, and what you lack in stamina
you must make up for in living a healthy lifestyle!
Beware then of acidosis and all of the evils it invites.
Apart from asking for trouble from invading germs,chronic acidosis will lead to high blood pressure and
followed by arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
Thus, the wr ecking chain is working: over-acid dietary
autointoxication, high blood pressure, stiff arteries and
eventually premature death. High-sugar, high-fat and high-
protein diets promote acidosis. Stay away from them! Eata healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grains from
organic sources. At the first danger sign, be strong and
give up all unhealthy habits and faithfully live The BraggHealthy Lifestyle. This will guide you to super health!38
Bragg Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar with the “Mother” is the #1 food
I recommend for maintaining the body’s vital acid-alkaline balance.
– Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Author of “Conscious Eating” and “Spiritual Nutrition”Perfect pH Balancer – Apple Cider Vinegar
Another safeguard to keep pH acid/alkaline balance
healthy is to enjoy the healthy Bragg Organic Raw Apple
Cider Vinegar Cocktail three times daily. Drink a glass
upon arising, another an hour before lunch and one anhour before dinner. Read page
161, 238, and recipe page 230.
Important
Parts of the
Digestive
System
39
The word “vegetarian” is not derived from “vegetable,” but
from the Latin phrase, homo vegetus, meaning among theRomans, a strong, robust, thoroughly healthy man. –
Paul C. BraggChapter 4
Fasting Fights Deadly
Acid Crystals
Toxic Acid Crystals Can
Cement Your Joints to Make You Stiff
Stand on any street corner and watch the average
person hobble along. Their feet, knees, hips, spine and
head seem to be cemented. There is no free-swinging
movement in their locomotion. Let’s look at their feet.They seem to pick up their feet heavily and lay them
down flatly. Their knees seem to be completely cemented
and stiff. There is little movement in the swinging hipmotion, their spines are rigid and so are their heads. All
of the elasticity and resiliency seems to have gone out
of what should be a free-swinging body.
Crystals Are Cement – Not Lubrication
Between the moveable joints of every bone in the
human body, Mother Nature has placed an abundant
supply of a lubricant known as synovial fluid. Take alook at a youngster who is, say
10 years of age, and watch
the easy movement of every moveable joint in his body.Why is this?  I know that your answer would be, “This
child is only
10 years of age. I am 66. I can’t have the
same freedom of motion in my joints as a child of 10
does.” My answer to you is, “Why can’t you? Years havenothing to do with the amount of synovial fluid thatallows the joints to move freely and easily. There is justone thing that cements your body’s moveable joints andthat is the build-up of toxic acid crystals.”
Age is not toxic. Just because you live
 50, 60  or 70
years, there should be no diminishing of the supply of
synovial fluid due to your calendar years.
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Water flows through every single part of your body, cleansing
and nourishing it. But the wrong kind of water – with inorganicminerals, harmful toxins, chemicals and other contaminants canpollute, clog and gradually turn every part of your body to stone.USA leads the world in heart diseases, strokes, cancers, arthritis and diabetes!How Toxic Acid Crystals Build in Your Body
Despite the fact that I am way past 85, I pride myself
on having the most flexible body, regardless of my age,
and I feel ageless! I can perform difficult yoga postures
with ease while standing on my head. Few people inthe world can do this regardless of age.  Mother Nature
can’t stiffen and cement one person’s body as they age
and yet allow me to have the flexibility of a youngster.
There are 4 great eliminative systems in our bodies
that get rid of the poisons created by our daily living. By
nature, we eat food, we drink liquids and we breathe air.Most humans eat too much food, eating by habit rather
than by hunger. They have been brainwashed to believe
that they must have scheduled meals by the clock. I knowfrom long experience as a Physical Therapist that people
with these grotesque shapes have not been able to burn
up these so-called regular meals. They have beenconditioned to eat breakfast whether they have hunger
or not, so they load up on ham, bacon, eggs, hot cakes,
sugared doughnuts and sweet rolls, toast, jelly, jams,fried potatoes, pancakes, w affles, pork sausage, coffee,
hot chocolate and dry processed (unhealthy) cereals.
The body doesn’t have enough Vital Force energy to
continually masticate, digest, assimilate and eliminate theseheavy breakfasts. There is always a toxic residue left...
where does this toxic residue go? It is concentrated and
crystallized as deposits in the moveable joints in the body.It’s a slow process that few sense until the joints start to
give them trouble. It takes years of wrong eating to create
these heavy concentrations of acid crystals and toxins inthe moveable joints. When these calcium-like spurs attach
themselves to the joints and calcified substances replace
the synovial fluid, it’s then that the pains and aches arefelt in the moveable joints of the body causing pain.41The
Bones
of the
Human
Body
Bone, like all living tissue, requires adequate
nutrition for health and growth. Bones needsufficient levels of minerals, especially calcium,
phosphorous, magnesium, manganese, zinc,
copper and silicon, plus vitamins A, C and K.Vitamin D and boron are necessary to ensure
proper intestinal absorption and utilization of
calcium. Live The Bragg Healthy Lifestyleto keep the bones healthy and strong!HEALTHY BONES:
Back View
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body. We are all sculptors and painters,
and our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. –  Henry David ThoreauFront ViewExcerpt from the Bragg Back Book. See back pages for booklist.42
Make me aware that there is more  to life than measuring its speed.
Periodic fasting keeps you connected to your body’s natural tendency
to cleanse and rejuvenate. – Pamela Serure, The 3-Day Energy FastJoint & Back Pains – Curse of Mankind
The toxic crystals first attack the feet, and their 26
moveable bones in each foot. The force of gravity sends
the toxic crystals down into the feet. Gradually the feet
and ankles start to stiffen, because the toxic acid crystals
are taking over and replacing the lubrication in the jointsof the feet. Instead of having flexible feet, they become
stiff and tire easily (
read page 138). They ache, burn and
cause tremendous misery. (Do read our Foot and Back books.)
From the feet and ankles, the toxic acid crystals move
upward, causing many people to suffer from pains in
the knees. As time marches


, it would be
extremely general, as follows:The time comes when seeking is over and realization begins. First the
mind becomes aware of its own activity while standing apart from it.
Ordinarily we are immersed in our own inner dialogue; the stream of
thoughts, wishes, fears, and fantasies running through our heads keeps us
fixated. We buy into a mental drama that has no conclusion. The mind gains
its restless energy from our participation. Being fixated on your own ment al
drama is all it takes to cause the drama to work itself up.
At certain moments, however, the fixation is not so alluring. Some part of
ourselves detaches from the mind’ s activity—the first stage of ecstasy is
just this faint awareness of being a witness to the drama rather than an
engaged participant. The observer has begun to put a slight distance
between itself and the observed.
The second step is the stilling of the mind. This is not achieved by force
or indeed by any action at all. Doing anything is the opposite of being still.
Because we have spent our whole lives in activity, non-doing is extremely
unfamiliar. Most of the time it occurs by accident—out of the blue, one
notices that the stream of consciousness has ceased, like turning  off a water
tap. Sexual activity is so often associated with ecstasy because it is one of
the few times that most people can be fully distracted from their minds.
Whether a person tries to make it happen or not, what creates stillness in the
mind is simply that the observer  is able to continue to stand apart for longer
than a moment.
Gaining some distance between the observer and the observed is so rare
that the second stage of ecstasy occurs quite infrequently. For most of us the
excursions away  from mental activity last only a few seconds. But if we
manage to achieve the second stage, stillness takes on a surprising aspect.
Our attention reveals to us that silence has its own dynamism. The still
mind, though devoid of thoughts, quivers and vibrates all the same. There is
a kind of trembling anticipation  that can go one of two ways. Either a new
thought will be born to bring back the internal dialogue or the faint
trembling of silence will lead to even deeper silence.
Poised here at the edge of ecstasy, you cannot make your mind choose
one way over the other. Even people who have experienced silent mind
many times, such as in prolonged practice of meditation, do not go past the
front room of silence at will. But if the mind chooses to plunge into deeper
silence, the third stage has been reached. This deeper silence doesn’ t quiver;it cannot be disturbed by even the faintest activity. One experiences it like
the softest black velvet or the deepest dark cave. Anyone who has come this
far is now truly “standing outsid e.” Of course it would be just as accurate to
say that you are standing inside, because inside and outside have lost their
difference. Y ou are merely there where ecstasy is.
The fourth and final stage requires nothing new on your part—once your
attention has been captured by deep silence, the inner transformation is
complete. What ever is to happ en next dawns of its own accord. One is
brought face to face with pure Being, pure awareness, pure joy. In ancient
Sanskrit terms, sat chit ananda,  eternal bliss consciousness, reveals itself. A
Christian saint might call the same experience “the face of God.” The poet
of the Song of Solomon put it in lover ’s terms:
My eyes are radiant with your spirit;
my nostrils fill with your fragrance.
My ears delight in your music,
and my face is covered with your dew.
But these are images only. The fact that ecstasy exists is the promise that
kindles our faith on the path to love; tastes of it are the water that refreshes
our quest. We take faith from those living masters who have reached the
goal. They stand apart from us, yet they are clothed in the same flesh and
bones; they move, act, breathe, and live as the rest of us do. Only secretly,
in their realized  souls, do they know with utter certainty that, like the two
birds in the tree, they are Self while we are self.
I often turn to a few pages of dialogue between an Indian discip le and his
master that bring this contrast to life for me. The disciple is resisting the
idea that there is anything beyond the world of the senses. He is the
questioner; the answerer is the South Indian master Sri Nisar gadatta
Maharaj:
Q: Is your world full of things and people as is mine?
A: No, it is full of myself.
Q: But do you see and hear as we do?A: Yes, I appear to see and hear and talk and act, but to me it just happens,
as to you digestion or perspiration happens....
Q: If you are the world, how can you be conscious of it?
A: Cons ciousness and the world appear and disappear together, hence they
are two aspects of the same state.... As long as the mind is there, your
body and the world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective,
enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on
the thread of memory.
Q: So is yours.
A: Oh, no. I live in a world of realities, while yours is of imagi nings. Your
world is personal, private, unsha reable, intimately your own. Nobody can
enter it, see as you see, hear as you hear, feel your emotions and think
your thoughts. In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-
changing dream, which you take for life. My world is an open world,
common to all, accessible to all. In my world there is communit y, insight,
love, and real quality; the individual is the totality.... All are one, and
the One is all.
As many times as I have read this passage over the years, it never fails to
move me at a level deeper than emotion or memory or even insight. I feel
brought face to face with the real, and I stand in awe of a person who can
say of the mate rial world that it is the merest speck fleeting through his
mind. But it is also heartening to realize that such great masters began as
ordinary people. The only difference between them and any one of us is that
the masters set foot on the path,  beginning the journey of soul- making that
leaves time behind. Eventually  the path ends, and the foundation of our
world, which stands upon mem ory and mind, crumbles, leaving a new
world of unimaginable realness. Understandably, Maharaj’ s disciple was
intensely curiou s about what this new world is like, but his master could
only answer him from a place beyond words:
Q: How do you know that you are in the supreme state?A: Because I am in it. It is the only natural state.
Q: Can you describe it?
A: Only by negation, as uncaused, independent, unrelated, undivided,
uncomposed, unshakeable, unquestionable, unreachable by effort....
And yet my state is supremel y actual, therefore possible, realizable,
attainable.
There may be those who would find this a discouraging description,
riddled with paradox. How can the unreachable be reached or the
indescribable be real? I can only turn to those arrows of light that hurtle at
us from that world, the moment s of ecstasy that quiet all doubt and still all
questionings. It takes a long time before such experiences born in the
deepest silence can be translat ed into time and space. A life filled with
chaos is extreme ly difficult to fill with ecstasy. While you are caught in the
ecstatic moment, however, all of reality seems like a miracle. The very root
of the word miracle  reminds us that it derives from the Latin mirar e, “to
behold with rapt attention.” No better definition of ecstasy has ever been
given.
To those  who have gained entry  to ecstasy there is no reason to ask for
more. No transformation is as all-embracing, and after returning to the
everyday world,  the great gift seems to be not the intensity of remembered
joy but the revelation of truth. One moment of genuine ecstasy removes a
lifetime of doubts—you realize once and for all that spirit is real. You know
from firsthand experience that you are the divine essence. In that sense
ecstasy is the most immediate and yet the most far off of experiences. It is
immediate because it is unden iable; it is distant because it will take a
lifetime to secure ecstasy as a permanent reality. Fortunately this journey,
itself creates ecstasy, being the path to love.
OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Cultivating Inspiration
ONE OF THE most beautiful proofs of ecstasy is delivered in a moment of
inspiration. I have already discussed signals from spirit which hint at a
reality beyond that perceived by the five senses. But inspirati on is much
more than a hint—when you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a
world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated
from within. This inner light is truth, and when we suddenly see the truth,
we gain insight, clarity, and objectivity.


 law,  you must not separate from
it, but adjust to the law gr adually and for a prolonged
time so that the change will not be felt. And a man must
never change his habit all of a sudden. If he does he is
bound to get sick. But the acute ly ill must not deviate
from their habits, during the course of their disease they
must not change their customs, even with the best of
intentions.

GOOD AND BAD GARMENTS
It is well known that there are animals whose meat is
constitutionally contradict ory to the nutrition of men, such as the meat of the wo lf and the fox. And some, like
lamb, is very fit. So it is with the various furs for
garments. The best for human garments are sheep's hides
and the most dangerous are fox's hides. The intelligent
physicians have mentioned it a nd this is the truth. About
this [your] servant noticed that the garment which the
Arabs call kirtas is very bad, but the garment called in
Arabic alsanjab [squirrel] is praised by the physicians.
Then remember that the fur of cats is dangerous to wear,
or even to inhale their odor, therefore beware of them and
their odor. However, it has b een advised to inhale the
aroma of pigeons and to have them always in the house,
because they insure one agai nst neurological afflictions
like hemiplegia, spasms, cramps and tremor of the limbs.
As long as he sees pigeons before him he will be
protected from the above illn esses, provided he removes
their droplets and does not al low the latter to collect,
because they pollute the air and spoil it. Equally good
against neurological diseases is the eating of pigeon meat.

THE GAZELLE, RABBIT AND WILD ASS
The best of game is the gazelle. The rabbit also has
benefits that have been pr oven by experience. Eating its
brain helps against head noise s, and its meat in general helps against head noises and neurological illnesses. The
rabbit's hide warms much and helps in neurological
diseases, particularly in old men. And the wild ass has the
property of greatly strengthen ing the vision, as has been
proven by experience. When one  eats its meat or holds
the eyes over its meat when it is being boiled, he
strengthens the vision and opens up the closed nerve
cavities. This has been proven by experience. It will also
strengthen the vision of an ass's eye and will be helpful to
its weakness.
This is all that [your] slave wanted now for the needs
of my lord. Let God in His mercy give strength to his
kingdom for ever and ever. Let Him lengthen the days of
my lord, keep him steadily in good health, and make him
successful in both worlds [this and the world to come].
As [God] has promised His servants and the gathering of
His friends. He created hi m and honored him with His
grace and goodness. To the bestower of souls let there be
endless praise. He sustains life with grace. Oh, God, Thou
art our strength!

As is the wish of his servant Moses ben Maim-on, the
Sephardi [Spaniard]. <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Deepak Chopra
The Seven
spiritual
laws
of
Success
Contents
Acknowledgments
......................................................................................................... 3
Introduction
.................................................................................................................. 4
The law of pure potentiality
........................................................................................... 6
The Law of Giving
...................................................................................................... 1 1
The law of  karma   or cause and
effect......................................................................... 15
The law of least effort
.................................................................................................. 19
The law of Intention and Desire
.................................................................................... 23
The law of Detachment
............................................................................................... 28
The law of  dharma   or purpose in life
......................................................................... 32
Summary and conclusion
............................................................................................. 35ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to express my love and gratitude to the following people: Janet
Mills for lovingly nurturing this book from conception to comp letion. Rita
Chopra, Mallika Chopra, and Gautama Chopra for being the living
expression of The Seven Spiritual Laws.
Ray Chambers, Gayle Rose, Adrianna Nienow, David Simon, Geor ge
Harrison, Olivia Harrison, Naom i Judd, Demi Moore, and Alice Walton for
their courage and commitment to a vision that is awesome, inspiring, lofty,
noble, and life-transforming. Roger Gabriel, Brent Becvar, Rose Bueno-
Mur-phy, and all my staff at the Sharp Center for MindBody Medicine for
being inspiring examples to all our guests and patients. Deepak Singh,
Geeta Singh, and all my staff at Quantum Publications for their unflagging
energy and dedication.
Muriel Nellis for her unflinching intention to maintain the highest level of
integrity in all our endeavors.
Richard Peri for being such a great example of self-referral. Arielle Ford for
her unshakable faith in self-knowledge and her infectious enthusiasm and
commitment to transform the lives of so many people.
And Bill Elkus for his understanding and friendship.
INTRODUCTION
Although this book is titled The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, it could
also be called The Seven Spiritual Laws of Life, because these are the same
principles that nature uses to create everything in material existence
everything we can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. In my book, Creating
Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibili ties, I have
outlined the steps to wealth consciousness based on a true understanding of
the workings of nature. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success form the
essence of this teaching. When this knowledge is incorporated in your
consciousness, it will give you the ability to create unlimited wealth with
effortless ease, and to experience success in every endeavour. Success inlife could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the
progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your
desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of
wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work,
and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more
spiritual approach to success and to affluence, which is the abundant flow
of all good thing s to you. With the knowledge and practice of spiritual law,
we put ourselves in harmony with nature and create with carefulness, joy,
and love. There  are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one
component. Moreover, success is a journey, not a destination. Material
abundance, in all its expression s, happens to be one of those things that
makes the journey more enjoyable. But success also includes good health,
energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom,
emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of
mind. Even with the experience of all these things, we will remain
unfulfilled unles s we nurture the seeds of divinity inside us. In reality, we
are divinity in disguise, and the gods and goddesses in embryo that are
contained within  us seek to be fully materialized. True success is therefore
the experience of the miraculou s. It is the unfolding of the divinity within
us. It is the perce ption of divinity wherever we go, in whatever we perceive
in the eyes of a child, in the beauty of a flower, in the flight of a bird. When
we begin to expe rience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity   not
occasionally, but all the time   then we will know the true meaning of
success. Before defining the seven spiritual laws, let us understand the
concept of law. Law is the process by which the unmanifest becomes the
manifest; it  s the process by which the observer becomes the observed; it  s
the process by which the seer becomes the scenery; it  s the process through
which the dreamer manifests the dream.
All of creation, everything that exists in the physical world, is the result of
the unmanifest transforming itself into the manifest. Everyth ing that we
behold comes from the unknown. Our physical body, the physical universe
anything and everything that we can perceive through our senses   is the
transformation of the unmanifest, unknown, and invisible into the manifest,
known, and visible.The physical universe is nothing other than the Self curving back within
Itself to experience Itself as spirit, mind, and physical matter. In other
words, all processes of creation are processes through which the Self or
divinity express es Itself. Consciousness in motion expresses itself as the
objects of the universe in the eternal dance of life. The source of all creation
is divinity (or the spirit); the process of creation is divinity in motion (or the
mind); and the object of creatio n is the physical universe (which includes
the physical body).
These three components of reality   spirit, mind, and body, or observer, the
process of observing, and the observed   are essentially the same thing. They
all come  from the same place: the field of pure potentiality which is purely
unmanifest. The physical laws of the universe are


 outside of the body.
Occasionally the waste -products are f orced to enter the
blood because of faulty dressings; then septic poisoning,
with death, follows.

THE DEADLY GERM

   It should not be forgotten that unobstructed free drainage
from wounds, ulcers, canals, ducts, keep them aseptic (non -
poisonous). The deadly germ  on the hands, lips, drinking -
cups, hanging -straps of street cars —in fact, found
anywhere and everywhere —is not deadly until it gets
mixed up with man’s deadly dirty, filthy physical and
mental habits. There are people who cannot be taught
clean liness; they either scrub their bodies raw or neglect
them overtime. It is an art to wear clothes and maintain a
state of cleanliness conducive to health. Venereal and all
skin diseases, including the eruptive fevers, are fostered by
clothes. There is some thing more than prejudice,
fanaticism, and partisanship in my reiterated allusions to
the congenerie relationship of syphilis, vaccination, and
smallpox. The kinship would have been settled long ago if vaccine and vaccinia were not commercialized. Will tho se
with millions invested, and turning out large dividends,
willingly be convinced that they are engaged in the
wholesale syphilization of the people? It is not in keeping
with our commercialized religion.

   The deadly germ  must be mixed with retained, pent-up
waste -products before it becomes metamorphosed into its
deadly toxic state. The dog or other animal licks it out of
his wound. When the “deadly germ” is osculated into the
mouth, and from there into the stomach, it is digested. The
normal secretion s of the body, on the outside as well as on
the inside of the body, are more than enough to get away
with all the “deadly germs” allotted to each person.

   Normal persons are deadly to all germs and parasites
peculiar to the human habitat.

   Normal p eople have no need of heaven or hell; these are
conjurations of ignorance and filth on the search for
artificial immunization. Truth immunizes the germ fallacy.
   Cures and immunization are the products of a civilization
that does not civilize. Creedal r eligion is a cure and an
immunization for those who would be good if evil did not
betide them.
    Self -control and a knowledge of the limitations of our
privileges bring to us the best in life; then, if we are
contented to live one world at a time, we sh all have the best
preparation for the tomorrows (future) as they come. If we
live well today —live for health of mind and body today —
we need not worry about the germs that come tomorrow.

   Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental
offspring of those who have preached fear of God, devil,
hell, and heaven in the past. They do not know that the fear
which they inculcate is more to be dreaded than the object
of their warning. Fear does a thousand times more harm
than any other one cause of Toxemia.

   Nature goes her limit in the prevention or absorption of
any and all poisons. The indurated wall built at the base of
ulceration is a conservative measure —it is to prevent
absorption. In the matter of prevention, nature sometimes
goes too far, and bui lds tumors and indurations so dense as
to obstruct the circulation; then degeneration takes place,
with slow absorption of the septic matter. This poisoning
takes place very insidiously. It is called cachexia, and the
names given to this pathology are syph ilis or cancer; or, if
of the lungs, it is called tuberculosis.

    This may be thought a very great digression from the
subject of Toxemia; but, as all pathological roads lead to
Rome —the unity of all diseases —an apology is not
necessary.

THE MEDICAL  WORLD IS LOOKING FOR CURES

   The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure
disease, notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs
no remedy —she needs only an opportunity to exercise her
own prerogative of self -healing.

   A few years a go a sick doctor offered dollars for a cure
for cancer. If he had known the cause of disease, instead of
being scientifically educated, he would not have died
believing in the possibility of a cure, after nature had
passed her eternal fiat of unfitness in his case. Cancer is the
culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of
Toxemia from faulty elimination. Forcing the bowels to
move is an old and conventional method of so -called
elimination which gets rid of the accumulation in the
bowels, causin g an extra amount of water to be thrown out
by the kidneys and bowels; but this forcing measure adds to
enervation by its overstimulation, and further inhibits
elimination proper —elimination of waste -products in the blood, the source of all disease -produci ng toxins. The most
powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature
rest, and she needs no so -called cures. Rest means: Stay in
bed, poise mind and body, and fast. Nature then works
without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear -
mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the
warning: “It is dangerous to fast; you may never live
through it.” These wiseacres do not know that there is a
vast difference between fasting and starving.

   Here is a hint for those kill -joys who  are afraid to allow
their patients to fast: You know, or think you do, that
people who are forced to stay in bed from injury never do
well, and this is especially true of old people. Why?
Because they are overfed.

GERMS AS A CAUSE OF DISEASE

   Germs as a cause of disease is a dying fallacy. The
bacteriological deadmarch is on, and those with their ears
to the ground can hear it. Intuition is forcing the active
medical minds to fortify against the coming revulsion; they
are buckling on the armor o f endocrinology.
Endocrinology, focal infection, autogenous and synthetic
remedies, vaccine and serum immunization, are some of the high points in the science of medicine today; but there is a
lack of fundamental unity to the system; and nature abhors
chaos as she does a vacuum.

   Toxemia accepts the germ (organized ferment) as it does
the enzyme (unorganized ferment). Both are necessary to
health.

   My theories have received but little attention except from
plagiarists. A few, a very few, physicians know what I
stand for. Those few, however, are enthusiastic, and have
proved to their own satisfaction that the theory has a
universal application. Many attempt to work Toxemia
along with some little two -by-four pet curing system —it
means petting a little personal pride; but it will not work.
Toxemia is big enough for the best in any man.

   What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy
of cause that gives a perfect understanding of the cause of
all so -called diseases? To know cause supplies even  the
layman with a dependable cure and an immunization that
immunizes rationally. Dependable knowledge is man’s
salvation; and when it can be had with as little effort as that
required for a thorough understanding of the Philosophy of
Toxemia there is litt le excuse for any man, lay or
professional, to hazard ignorance of it.
   Toxin —the designating poison in Toxemia —is a product
of metabolism. It is a constant, being constantly generated;
and when the nerve -energy is normal, it is as constantly
eliminate d as fast as produced.

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

IMPORTANCE OF NERVE -ENERGY

   Without nerve -energy the functions of the various organs
of the body cannot be carried on. Secretions are necessary
for preparing the building -up material to take the place of
worn -out tissue. The w orn-out tissue must be removed —
eliminated —from the blood as fast as it is formed, or it
accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be
poisoned. This becomes a source of enervation.

   Elimination of the waste -products of tissue -building is
just as  necessary as the building -up process. As these two
important functions depend on each other, and as both depend on the proper amount of nerve -energy to do their
work well, it behooves all people who would enjoy life and
health to the full to understand in  what way they may be
frugal in using nerve -energy


.goodmanlivingwell.com/urine.htm  http://all-natural.com/urine.html  http://urotherapy.com   <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>www.landesbioscience.com Dermato-Endocrinology 17[Dermato-Endocrinology 1:1, 17-24; January/February 2009]; ©2009 Landes Bioscience
The ultraviolet-B (UVB)—vitamin D—cancer hypothesis was
proposed in 1980. Since then, several ecological and observational
studies have examined the hypothesis, in addition to one good randomized, controlled trial. Also, the mechanisms whereby vitamin D reduces the risk of cancer have been elucidated. This report aims to examine the evidence to date with respect to the criteria for causality in a biological system first proposed by Robert Koch and later systematized by A. Bradford Hill. The criteria of most relevance are strength of association, consistency, biological gradient, plausibility/mechanisms and experimental verification. Results for several cancers generally satisfy these criteria. Results for breast and colorectal cancer satisfy the criteria best, but there is also good evidence that other cancers do as well, including bladder, esopha-geal, gallbladder, gastric, ovarian, rectal, renal and uterine corpus cancer, as well as Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Several cancers have mixed findings with respect to UVB and/or vitamin D, including pancreatic and prostate cancer and melanoma. Even for these, the benefit of vitamin D seems reasonably strong. Although ecological and observational studies are not generally regarded as able to provide convincing evidence of causality, the fact that humanity has always existed with vitamin D from solar UVB irradiance means that there is a wealth of evidence to be harvested using the ecological and observational approaches. Nonetheless, additional randomized, controlled trials are warranted to further examine the link between vitamin D and cancer incidence, survival and mortality.
Introduction
The solar ultraviolet-B (UVB)—vitamin D—cancer hypothesis
was first proposed in 1980 by Cedric and Frank Garland to explain the geographical variation of colon cancer mortality rates in the United States for 1950–1969, highest in the Northeast and lowest in the Southwest.
1 They showed a rough correlation for the cancer mortality rates with annual hours of sunshine. They later showed that dietary vitamin D and calcium were inversely correlated with colorectal cancer risk
2 as well as prediagnostic serum 25-hydroxyvi-
tamin D [25(OH)D].3 They also linked solar UVB and vitamin D
to reduced risk of breast4 and ovarian5 cancer. Gary Schwartz added
prostate cancer in 1990.6 After the publication of the Atlas of Cancer
Mortality in the United States, 1950–94,7 William Grant determined
that 14 types of cancer had mortality rates inversely correlated with solar UVB levels for July.
8,9
Much of this pioneering work was accomplished using the
ecologic approach, in which populations and risk-modifying factors are averaged for geographically defined populations. The ecologic approach is particularly well suited for this particular task for several reasons: solar UVB is the primary source of vitamin D for most people on Earth; the amount of vitamin D generated from casual solar UVB irradiance in summer, sufficient to raise serum 25(OH)D by 10–15 ng/mL,
10,11 is sufficient to reduce the risk of many types
of cancer by 10%–40%; and vitamin D seems to play an important role in fighting cancer in the disease’s later stages.
12,13
As convincing as the ecologic studies are to those intimately
involved therewith, they have not met with universal acceptance. Even their having been would still not be sufficient to establish a causal relation between solar UVB, vitamin D production and cancer risk reduction. However, an approach exists that one can use to evaluate whether the association can be considered causal: apply the criteria for causality, originally postulated by Robert Koch to show that tubercu-losis was caused by a bacterium,
14 and codified in recent times by A.
Bradford Hill.15 Others have also discussed applying these criteria.16,17
Although these criteria were developed with respect to “causal” rather than to “preventive” agents, there is no a priori reason why most, if not all, criteria would not also apply to preventive agents.
The Hill criteria are as follows:(1) Strength of association,(2) Consistency (repeated observation),(3) Specificity (one agent, one result),(4) T emporality (exposure precedes effect),(5) Biological gradient (dose-response relation),(6) Plausibility (e.g., mechanisms),(7) Coherency (no serious conflict with the generally known facts
of the natural history and biology of the disease),
Correspondence to: William B. Grant; Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center
(SUNARC); P.O. Box 641603; San Francisco, California 94164-1603 USA; Tel.: 1.415.409.1980; Email: wbgrant@infionline.net
Submitted: 11/09/08; Accepted: 11/10/08Previously published online as a Dermato-Endocrinology E-publication:
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/dermatoendocrinology/article/7388Review
How strong is the evidence that solar ultraviolet B and vitamin D reduce
the risk of cancer?
An examination using Hill’s criteria for causality
William B. Grant
Sunlight Nutrition and Health Research Center (SUNARC); San Francisco, California USA
Key words: association, breast cancer, colon cancer, dose-response, ecologic, mechanisms, observational, supplements, viral infections
Vitamin D and cancer: Causality?
In general, the cancers fall under the categories of digestive tract,
female organs, urogenital organs and hematopoietic cancers. These
cancers are generally those that are common in Western developed countries. Smoking is an important risk factor for many of these types of cancer,
48 as are diets high in animal products.9,49,50 Among
other factors, smoking reduces serum 25(OH)D levels.51 Because
many of these cancers are related to diets high in animal products, insulin-like growth factor I is a likely risk factor.
52 Vitamin D
compounds can affect the growth-promoting pathways of insulin-like growth factor I.
53 Because these cancers have reasonably high
incidence and mortality rates, they are easy to study.
Evaluation Using Hill’s Criteria for Causality
Strength of association. Satisfying strength of association requires
a strong correlation between a measure of vitamin D and reduced risk
of cancer. One index of serum 25(OH)D level is solar UVB dose. Solar UVB is the primary source of vitamin D for most people on Earth, and in summer in the United States and Europe, casual solar UVB irradiance is sufficient to increase serum 25(OH)D levels by 5–15 ng/mL depending on such factors as amount of body surface area exposed, skin pigmentation, age and body mass.
11,23 Reducing
the risk of breast and colorectal cancer by about 50% requires a vitamin D level of 10–15 ng/mL.
54,55 Thus, summertime solar UVB
is sufficient to significantly reduce the risk of cancer. Also, those diagnosed in summer or fall in Norway have significantly increased survival rates,
13,32 and vitamin D also reduces the risk of cancer with
a one year lag time after starting supplementation,12 indicating that
vitamin D is important in reducing the risk of cancer in the later disease stages. Thus, one can use ecological studies of cancer inci-dence and mortality rates to look for a beneficial effect of vitamin D. Cancer data in the United States are particularly useful in this regard because the solar UVB dose for July
8 is asymmetrical, much higher in
the western states than in the eastern states at the same latitude. The (8) Experimental verification (randomized, controlled trial) and(9) Analogy with other causal relationships.A link need not satisfy all of these to be considered causal;
however, the more that are, the better the case that is made. As Poitschman and Weed
16 and Weed17 have indicated, some of these
criteria are not particularly relevant, such as specificity, which applies more to a microorganism that causes a particular disease.
This work aims to evaluate the extant literature on UV irradiance,
vitamin D and cancer risk reduction for the 16 types of cancer for which the most evidence has been obtained.
Approach
Using the National Institutes of Health and National Library of
Medicine’s PubMed database (http://www.pubmed.gov), we searched the journal literature for reports of correlations with indices for solar UVB and/or vitamin D. Those selected for inclusion in this review generally found a significant correlation with UVB or vitamin D, whether direct or inverse. Those with insignificant correlations generally did not have enough values in the beneficial range to find a significant result, often because until the past several years, 400 IU/day was thought to be an adequate intake of vitamin D for many health benefits. After many such randomized, controlled trials before 2004 failed
18—most notably the
Women’s Health Initiative, which generally found no benefit of vitamin D and calcium supplementation for hip fractures,
19 colon cancer20 or
diabetes21—it was realized that an intake level of 400 IU/day has one
primary benefit: reduced risk of rickets. Some studies, which we discuss as well, reported increased risk of several types of cancer with respect to higher solar UV doses or serum 25(OH)D levels.
Findings


 become a breeding ground for unhealthy bacterial life forms. The he avy
mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host for putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the
toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on t oxic
substances. Here i s the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. Bernard Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through
Bowel Management. [2] All maladies are due to the lack of certain food principles, such as mineral salts or vitamins, or to t he
absence of the norma l defenses of the body, such as the natural protective flora. When this occurs, toxic bacteria invade the lower
alimentary canal, and the poisons thus generated pollute the bloodstream and gradually deteriorate and destroy every tissue, gland
and organ of the body. Sir Arbuthnot Lane. [3] The common cause of gastro -intestinal indigestion is enervation and overeating
When food is not digested, it becomes a poison. Dr. John.H. Tllden, Impaired Health: Its Cause and Cure, 1921. [4] a clogging  up
of the large i ntestine by a building up (on) the bowel wall to such an extent that feces can hardly pass through. autointoxication is a
direct result of intestinal constipation. Faulty nutrition is a major underlying factor in constipation. The frequency or qua ntity of
fecal elimination is not an indication of the lack of constipation in the bowel. Bernard Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through Bow el
Management.

    I am not a true believer in any single healing method or system. I find much truth in many schools and use a w ide variety of
techniques. The word for my inclination is eclectic.
    The most effective medicine in my arsenal is water fasting followed closely in potency by other, less rigorous detoxifying di ets.
Colon cleansing ranks next in healing power. In fact it is difficult to separate colon cleansing from fasting because detoxification
programs should always be accompanied by colon cleansing. Further down the scale of efficatiousness comes dietary reform to
eliminate allergic reactions and to present the body  with foods it is capable of digesting without creating toxemia. Last, and usually
least in effectiveness in my arsenal, are orthotropic substances (in the form of little pills and capsules) commonly known as
vitamins or food supplements.
    Interestingly, acceptance of these methods by my clients runs in exact opposition to their effectiveness. People prefer taking
vitamins because they seem like the allopaths' pills, taking pills demands little or no responsibility for change. The least popular
prescript ion I can write is a monodiet of water for several weeks or a month. Yet this is my most powerful medicine.
    It is possible to resolve many health complaints without fasting, simply by cleansing the colon and regaining normal lower
bowel function. Colo nics take little personal effort and are much easier to get people to accept than fasting. So I can fully
understand how perfectly honest and ethical naturopaths have developed obsessions with colon cleansing. Some healers have
loudly and repeatedly (and w rongly) proclaimed that constipation is the sole cause of disease, and thus, the only real cure for any
illness is colon cleansing.
    Even though it is possible to have a lot of successes with the simple (though unpleasant to administer) technique of co lon
cleansing, degenerated lower bowels are the only cause of disease. I prefer to use bowel cleansing as an adjunct to more comp lete
healing programs. However, old classics of hygiene and even a few new books strongly make the case for colonics. Some of t hese
books are entirely one -sided, single -cause single -cure approaches, and sound convincing to the layperson. For this reason, I think I
should take a few paragraphs and explain why some otherwise well -intentioned health professionals have overly -advocate d
colonics (and other practices as well).

Most Diseases Cure Themselves
    If you ask any honest medical doctor how they cure diseases, they will tell you that most acute disease conditions and a smal ler,
though significant percentage (probably a majorit y) of chronic disease conditions are self -limiting and will, given time, get better
all by themselves. So for most complaints, the honest allopathic doctor sees their job as giving comfort and easing the sever ity of
the symptoms until a cure happens.
    This same scenario, when viewed from a hygienist's perspective, is that almost all acute and many chronic conditions are simpl y
the body's attempt to handle a crisis of toxemia. For two reasons the current crisis will probably go away by itself. The pos itive
reason is that the toxic overload will be resolved: the person changes their dietary habits or the stressor that temporarily lowered
their vital force and produced enervation is removed, then digestion improves and the level of self -generated toxins is r educed. The
negative reason for a complaint to "cure" itself is that the suffering person's vital force drops below the level that the sy mptom can
be manifested and the complaint goes away because a new, more serious disease is developing.
    I view this  second possibility as highly undesirable because strong, healthy bodies possessing a high degree of vital force are
able to eliminate toxins rather violently, frequently producing very uncomfortable symptoms that are not life -threatening.
However, as the vital force drops, the body changes its routes of secondary elimination and begins using more centrally located
vital organs and systems to dispose of toxemia. This degeneration producing less unpleasant symptoms, but in the long run,
damages essential org ans and moves the person closer to their final disease.
    A young vigorous body possessing a large degree of vital force will almost always route surplus toxins through skin tissues a nd
skin-like mucus membranes, producing repeated bouts of sinusitis, or  asthma, or colds, or a combination of all these. Each acute
manifestation will "cure" itself by itself eventually. But eventually the body's vital force can no longer create these aggre ssive
cleansing phenomena and the toxemia begins to go deeper. When th e allopathic doctor gets a patient complaining of sinusitis, they
know they will eventually get a cure. The "cure" however, might well be a case of arthritis.
    This unfortunate reality tends to make young, idealistic physicians become rather disillusio ned about treating degenerative
conditions because the end result of all their efforts is, in the end, death anyway. The best they can do is to alleviate suf fering and
to a degree, prolong life. The worst they can do is to prolong suffering.
    Thus, the  physicians main job is to get the patient to be patient, to wait until the body corrects itself and stops manifesting the
undesired symptom. Thus comes the prime rule of all humane medicine: first of all, do no harm! If the doctor simply refrains from
making the body worse, it will probably get better by itself. But the patient, rarely resigned to quiet suffering, comes in dema nding
fast relief, demanding a cure. In fact, if the patient were resigned to quiet suffering they would not consult a doctor. So i f the
doctor wants to keep this patient and make a living they must do something. If that something the doctor must do does little or no
harm and better yet, can also alleviate the symptoms, the doctor is practicing good medicine and will have a very high cure rate
and be financially successful if they have a good bedside manner. This kind of doctor may be allopathic and/or "natural," may  use
herbs or practice homeopathy.
    The story of Dr. Jennings, a very successful and famous or infamous (depending on  your viewpoint) physician, who practiced in
Connecticut in the early 1800s exemplifies this type of approach.
    Dr. Jennings had his own unique medicines. Their composition was of his own devising, and were absolutely secret. He had
pills and colored b itter drops of various sorts that were compounded himself in his own pharmacy. Dr. Jennings' patients generally
recovered and had few or no complications. This must be viewed in contrast to the practices of his fellow doctors of that era,
whose black bags were full of mercury and arsenic and strychnine, whose practices included obligatory bleeding. These techniques
and medicines "worked" by poisoning the body or by reducing its blood supply and thus lowering its vital force, ending the bo dy's
ability to man ifest the undesirable symptom. If the poor patient survived being victimized by their own physician, they were tough
enough to survive both their disease and the doctor's cure. Typically, the sick had many, lengthy complications, long illness es, and
many " setbacks" requiring many visits, earning the physician a great living.
    Dr. Jennings operated differently. He would prescribe one or two secret medicines from his black bag and instruct the patient  to
stay in bed, get lots of rest, drink lots of water,  eat little and lightly, and continue taking the medicine until they were well. His cure
rate was phenomenal. Demand they might, but Dr. Jennings would never reveal what was in his pills and vials. Finally at the e nd
of his career, to instruct his fellow m an, Dr. Jennings confessed. His pills were made from flour dough, various bitter but harmless
herbal substances


 of being.
Now awareness of being outshines the drama of experience.
     Awareness of being is known in each of us as the sense of ‘being myself’
or the knowledge ‘I am’ before it is coloured or qualified by experience.
Therein lies the peace of our true nature. When our self is divested of all the
limitations it acquires from experience, that for which we long above all else
shines by itself.
     In the Christian tradition, the same understanding is illustrated in the
parable of the Prodigal Son. In this story, the youngest son of the king is dis -
satisfied with life at home and embarks on a great adventure in the world,
seeking fulfilment. In spite of his numerous experiences, nothing fully sat -
isfies him and he ends up in despair, reduced to looking after pigs and eating
their food, until at last he ‘comes to his senses’ and remembers the abundance
of his home.
     This is symbolic of one who has exhausted the search for fulfilment in
objective experience and recognises, or at least intuits, that they are looking
for happiness in the wrong place and must return ‘home’. That is, they
10the search for happiness
remember the peace and happiness that is the nature of their being and re -
solve to return there.
     This remembrance is not the memory of something that we once
possessed and have now lost, but the recognition of something that lies
deep within us but that, until now, has been veiled and was thus inac -
cessible.

Some of us have to go to the brink of despair before recognising that we are
seeking peace and happiness in the wrong place. For others, a relatively mild
dose of failure, loss or sorrow is enough to prompt the intuition that objective
experience can never be a source of lasting peace and happiness, and to initi -
ate an investigation into the nature of our self.
     Either way, there comes a point in many of our lives when we under -
stand, or at least intuit, that the peace and happiness for which we long can
never be found in an object, substance, activity, circumstance or relation -
ship. This understanding does not imply that we lose interest in the world
or that we no longer engage with objects, activities and relationships, but
simply that we no longer do so for the purpose of finding peace, happiness
and love in them.
     No one would be reading this book if the search for happiness in objec -
tive experience had succeeded. In fact, one who is reading this book is almost
certainly doing so precisely because this search has failed sufficiently often
that they are at least beginning to suspect that they may be looking in the
wrong place.
     At some point a crisis is precipitated in our life in which we realise that
we have tried everything – the conventional objects that are on offer in the
world, and the less conventional states of mind that are available in the
religious and spiritual traditions – and seen that nothing has ever, or could
ever, give us the lasting happiness we seek.
    As a result of this we may have the courage and the clarity to face
a simple, unavoidable fact: nothing can make us happy! Likewise, we under -
stand for the same reason that nothing can make us unhappy, unless and
until we give it the power to, in which case it will do so.
     T o seek peace and happiness in objective experience is destined to fail.
It is a recipe for disappointment and, in time, despair.

11you are the happiness you seek
the original pandemic

At the time of writing, many people are concerned that they may be infected
with a virus that will cause sickness and possibly death to themselves or their
loved ones. I do not mean to disparage such concern, or the attempts that
individuals, communities and nations are taking to minimise the spread of
the virus. I only want to point out the attention we give to this virus whilst
ignoring another malady that has infected the vast majority of people with -
out their realising it.
     This malady is the belief that peace and happiness is dependent upon ex -
ternal circumstances. We have allowed a single belief to steal our innate hap -
piness, to rob us of the one thing we love above all else. And yet, so
ubiquitous is this condition that we do not even realise it as such; we consider
it the natural state.
     This syndrome has a simple symptom: suffering! Our suffering, whether
it be an intense emotion of hatred, anger or jealousy that erupts temporarily
in response to a particular circumstance, or simply a mild but chronic feeling
that something is missing, is the litmus test that indicates we have overlooked
our essential nature or being and that, as a result, its innate peace and hap -
piness has been obscured.
     Just as physical pain is a signal from the intrinsic intelligence of the body
letting us know that the body requires attention, so suffering is a message
from the happiness that lies in the depths of our being: ‘You are looking for
me in the wrong place! I am not caused by anything outside of you. I am
the nature of your being; there is no other place to find me. T urn towards
me and I will take you into myself.’
     As the Sufi mystic Bayazid Bastami said, ‘For thirty years I sought God.
But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker
and I the sought.’  * Whenever we are seeking happiness, it is in fact our
innate happiness that is seeking us. The happiness we seek is the happiness
we are.
     The great understanding that lies at the heart of all the main religious
and spiritual traditions consists of two essential insights: happiness is the
very nature of our self, and we share our being with everyone and everything.
12* As quoted in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism  (HarperCollins, 1997 ). the search for happiness
     The second insight will be touched upon towards the end of this book.
As regards the first, in order to liberate this happiness from its hiding place
in the depths of our being and bring it out into our lived and felt experience,
it is necessary to go to one’s essential being or self and recognise its nature.
     This is why self-knowledge stands as the foundation of all the major
religious and spiritual traditions. It is the great understanding that gives us
access to the peace and happiness that is our very nature.
13 chapter two
Know Thyself
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted
by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for their self,
which is solely due to the fact that happiness is their real
nature. Hence, in order to realise that inherent and
untainted happiness, which indeed one daily experiences
when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential
that one should know oneself.
ramana maharshi

In the Christian tradition it is said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you’.
What is the kingdom of heaven if not a realm of eternal happiness? The es -
sential message of Christianity is that this realm of eternal happiness lies
within us; it is the nature of our being.
     In the Vedantic tradition of India we find the same understanding con -
densed into three Sanskrit words, sat chit ananda. Sat refers to being, chit to
knowing, consciousness or awareness, and ananda  to peace or happiness.
Thus, sat chit ananda  means simply that to know the nature of one’s being
is happiness itself.
     In Buddhism it is said that the very nature of one’s mind is inherently free
from any imperfection. Cautious not to objectify happiness as a state of mind,
the Buddhist teaching refers to it simply as the end of suffering. Thus, all that
is required to access that happiness is to know the nature of one’s mind.
     Indeed, if we were to distil the essential understanding contained in all
the great religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions into a single phrase,
it would read something like this: ‘Happiness is your nature’ or ‘You are hap -
piness itself’.
     It follows that in order to access the peace and happiness for which all
people long above all else, all that is necessary is to understand the nature of
one’s self. For this reason, the words Know Thyself  were carved onto the  you are the happiness you seek
entrance to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, thus standing at the very origin
of Western civilisation.
    We all seek happiness, but most of us seek it in objective experience.
In the approach that is being suggested in this book, we seek peace and hap -
piness at its source, namely, in our self or our being. For this reason it is some -
times referred to as the direct path to peace and happiness.

a softening of attention

What does it mean to know oneself? In the early 1980s, I went with my
brother Andrew to a series of Alfred Brendel’s recitals of Beethoven’s piano
sonatas in London. During these recitals my attention was in general fully
absorbed in the music, but from time to time I noticed a softening of its focus.
     On one occasion, my attention relaxed sufficiently that I became aware
not only of the music but of the fact that I was listening to the music.
In other words,  I became


 clump together and settle out. SODIUM BISULFATE or
sulfur dioxide: added to correct an over-supply of chlorine in the water.
SODIUM FLUORIDE or hydrofluorosilicic acid
–
 an unstable poisonous
corrosive acid known primarily in the form of its salts. Proclaimed by the
government to help fight tooth decay.

Thirty-two people die every day from bladder cancer in the USA.
Although
the National Academy of Sciences has identified
as carcinogens
 twenty-
two of the chemicals found in drinking water,
the vast majority of theestimated 1,200 chemicals so far detected in drinking water have not yet
been tested.
  Little is known
about the
 adverse health effects of many of
these chemicals, especially  in the minute amounts that may be present in
drinking water.
 What about the additional threat of combining the chemicals
in water
 with
those found in our foods? Such effects are not
always immediate
, though.
It may be decades, even generations,
before certain
 health problems
appear. And it may be just as long
before scientists
 can be sure of the
risks. With the aid of
modern technology
, water utilities are doing all they
can to clean up
the water
. However, regardless of the fact that the
chemicals
and other
 cancer causing substances are at safe levels and
considered fit
 for human consumption, based on government
safety
standards
, should we still drink it?

Do they drink their own? Los Angeles boasts of its water quality.
“
Despite
spending $1 million in the last two years to assure
Los Angeles
 residents
that their tap water is not only safe to drink
but also
 top quality, City
officials spent $88,900 in public
money during
 that time on bottled water
from private firms.
The Department
 of Water and Power, which supplies
the City
’
s
water and
 promotes it, spent the most on bottled water,
paying
$
31,160.
”

Atlanta Journal Constitution
01/04/06
.

Since water is the most important single element for
supporting
life
, second
only to oxygen, should it not be something that
you know
 something
about? We can live without food for 40 days,
but will
 die if we go without
water for, at most, 6 days. Water
serves three
 major purposes in our
bodies:

1.

It controls body temperature.
2.

It is the solvent for the foods we eat, carrying the nutrients to
every cell of our body.
3.

Water replaces bodily fluids such as blood plasma, lymph
,
digestive
 juices, bile, etc., and washes and bathes every cell
,
flushing
 and carrying away waste materials and toxic poisons.

If water is so vital to our health and existence, shouldn
’
t we
drink the
healthiest water possible? What would that be, you ask?
The answer
 is:
Distilled water.  Distilled water is true H
2
0, one part hydrogen, two parts
oxygen
, and

nothing else.
Rainwater would be pure distilled water if
itwere
 not for air pollution. The same goes for any water source
on our
planet, because it has come into contact with the earth,
and our
 earth is
polluted. Consequently, these pollutants are
picked up
 by H
2
0 and the
H
2
O becomes a formula of “H
2
0 + whatever
it picks
 up.”

Impure water is usually distilled by boiling it and capturing the steam
in the
process. The detractors of drinking distilled water most often use the
argument that it doesn
’
t contain any minerals. But they forget about one
important fact: that the minerals our bodies need are supposed to be
ingested as part of our food, not water.

The minerals that are found in water are inorganic and cannot be
assimilated or chelated by the body. The minerals our bodies need are
organic, the kind found in fruits and vegetables. Minerals get absorbed into
the cells of the food directly from the soil.  Water is not our source for
minerals, food is.  Because water is used to replace our bodily fluids and
clean our bodies, it makes sense to use the cleanest water possible.

Water is to our bodies as gas and oil are to our car. If the engine doesn
’
t
receive enough oil it begins to overheat and the various parts begin to
wear down. As a consequence, if any one part on an engine fails, the
whole engine is affected.

Water regulates body temperature by causing us to sweat; as the sweat
evaporates heat is pulled from our skin and water moistens our tissues
such as those in the mouth, eyes, nose and throat. Water protects the
body
’
s organs and tissues, lubricates joints, prevents constipation, carries
nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and carries away waste for elimination.
An adequate supply of water lessens the burden on the kidneys and liver
by flushing out waste products. Water helps dissolve minerals and other
nutrients to make them accessible to the body and aids in the elasticity of
muscles.

If water
is that critical for the health of every bodily cell,
how
important
 would it be
with regard to the water
’
s quality? Would
it make
 sense to attempt to wash
your dishes in a sink of
dirty water
? Of course not, and neither does it
make sense to
drink dirty
 water and expect it to clean your cellular
system. I
’
ll
cover the
 relationship more thoroughly later on.
So why drink distilled?

Distilled water is the only water that can be
called Water (
H
2
O) – a
molecule of 2 parts Hydrogen and 1 part Oxygen, period. Plus
nothing
more
! All other “water” is actually H
2
O plus something.  That “something”
could be whatever the water came into
contact with
 and was able to
dissolve, absorb and retain. In nature, water is heated by the sun causing it to turn to
its gaseous
 form,
evaporating, rising into the upper atmosphere
, cooling
 and condensing into
tiny droplets and gathering to
form clouds
. As the droplets cool further, the
molecules
clump together
, becoming heavy, then fall back to earth as
distilled water
 (this process is called the hydrological cycle). Unfortunately
,
our
 atmosphere is polluted by ozone, particulate matter,
sulfur dioxide
,
nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide. Read more:  National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Unfortunately, by the time this pure distilled water reaches
the
earth
, it is
H
2
0 + volatile organic compounds (VOCs) +NO
x
 + CO
+ numerous
carcinogenic chemicals. But it doesn’t stop there.
After the
 mildly polluted
water reaches ear
th it
 begins on a journey
of absorbing
 and dissolving
everything it contacts on the surface
of the
 ground prior to soaking into the
soil or running off into
storm drains
. At this stage, the once pristine water
cleans the oil, dust
, dirt
 and toxic residue off the streets, highways and
parking lots
, including
 fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides from
yards
, gardens
 and farmlands and the list goes on.

There is not one stream, river
,
 lake or underground aquifer that is
pollution-free.

Guess where the food and beverage processing industry,
cities and
municipalities get their water? You guessed it, those
same rivers
, lakes
and ground water.

These are the chemicals found in San Diego,
CA, drinking
 water:

20 Total Contaminants Detected (2004 – 2009):Aluminum, Bromide,
Barium (total), Manganese, Nitrate, Monochloroacetic acid, Dichloroacetic
acid, Trichloroacetic acid, Monobromoacetic acid, Dibromoacetic acid,
Total haloacetic acids (HAAs), Chloroform, Bromoform,Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, Total trihalomethanes
(TTHMs), o-Xylene, m- & p- Xylene, Combined Uranium (pCi/L), Gross
beta particle activity (pCi/L)  Note: Information on violations is drawn
directly from EPA
’
s national violations database in the Agency
’
s Safe
Dri
nking Water Information System.
I reside in San Diego, where over half the population drinks from the tap.
After all, why not? If the water was unhealthy, wouldn
’
t our caring,
compassionate, ever expanding government warn us? The facts are,
according to California
’
s Department of Public Health, San Diego
’
s drinking
water system contained eight chemicals exceeding health guidelines as
well as two chemicals that exceeded the EPA
’
s legal limit. In total, 20
contaminants have been found. One of those in excess of the EPA limit
was trihalomethanes with one being chloroform. The other was
manganese, a natural element


, when stirred, pop quickly, it indicates a bile disorder.
If the bubbles remain static on the surface of the urine like the
bubbles of saliva, as if you spit into water, this indicates a phlegm
disorder. If the bubbles have a reddish tint, this indicates a blood
disorder. If they are varicolored like a rainbow, this indicates
poisoning. If they form in the cup and then very quickly disband like
a flock of pigeons or doves who are dive-bombed by a hawk and go
off in all directions, this indicates an old disorder which now
pervades the body; it has become serious.
Four points have been described for urinalysis while the urine is still
hot: color, vapor, smell and froth.
When the urine has become lukewarm, one analyzes the a1bumin
and the oily chyle. The albumin or cloud-like substance in the urine
appears, for the most part, only in cases of heat disorder- illnesses
of blood and bile. If, when the albumin forms in lukewarm urine,
it is very subtle, like a hair on the arm, this indicates a disorder of the
wind. If the albumin forms on the surface like the wool-like film on
the edge of a stream, this indicates a disorder of blood and bile.
If the albumin forms subtly on the surface of the urine,
like the white tips of the hairs of a rabbit, and you almost have to
squint to see it this indicates a phlegm and cold disorder.
If the albumin forms like a cloud bank pervading the urine, this
indicates a lung disorder such as tuberculosis. If the albumin is like
pus in the body, possibly in the stomach or kidneys.
If the albumin congeals on the surface in little grains like sand, this
indicates a disorder of the kidneys.
Remember that when albumin appears in the urine, it usually
indicates a heat disorder, as it basically arises from bile and heat.
If the albumin appears on the surface, this indicates a heat disorder
of an organ in the upper part of the body, specifically the heart or
lungs. If the albumin appears in the bottom of the urine, it indicates a
disorder of the kidneys. If it is in the middle, it indicates a disorder of
either the spleen or the liver. If the albumin pervades the urine, this
indicates that the physical constituents as well as the heat/cold
factors of the body have been disturbed, agitated by the winds.
63 Concerning the thickness of the albumin, if it is quite thick,
this indicates a heat disorder. If it is very thin, this indicates a
cold disorder, though, as mentioned above, the presence of
albumin generally indicates a heat disorder.
The color of the albumin will be that of the urine of the
particular person at that time. For example, a bile disorder will
make the albumin orange. Or, for example, if the urine itself
were like rainbow color from poisoning, the albumin would
likewise be of different colors.
If the chyle-which, being an oily substance, always comes to
the surface of the urine-is thin, this indicates a cold disorder.
If it is quite thick, it indicates a heat disorder.
Sometimes the oily chyle is quite thick, becoming noticeable
when the urine sites for fifteen or twenty four hours, gradually
congealing at the surface, like butter on Tibetan tea.
If it is quite substantial, the doctor can delicately take it off the
surface of the urine with a thin instrument. Then he puts a few
drops of it on a hot red coal, and if its smell is like that of
barley or other grains when heated, this indicates that there is
a disorder that will cease by itself and thus does not need to
be treated.
If the oily chyle forms on the surface in crisscrossing bands,
this indicates a tumorous growth, not necessarily cancerous.
This phenomena occurs for all types of tumors.
Subsequent analysis will reveal what type of growth it is.
There are also times when a spirit or malignant being,
a non-human being, can be recognized from this oily
substance when it forms certain patterns or shapes on the
surface of the urine. This is just mentioned in passing, to be
discussed in detail later on.
This completes the second major section,
the diagnosis to be done while the urine is lukewarm.
64 TESTIMONIES OF PATIENTS CURED WITH
UROTERAPIA TESTIMONY
Persm-tal experirnce~
My name is Sonia Rodriguez,
I lived worried about the physical and emotional well being of human kind all this
time and I have looked for a solution to their health problems.
I have always been in the health services.
I lived mortified seeing my Brothers desperate having examinations with many
doctors and still they remained ill. I am 25 years working in the pharmacology
Chemistry laboratory of clinical analyses, and I never found the answer to true
health. Then I had to live in my own experience with different diseases in my body
and look for the cure. I looked in all medicines.
Allopathic, natural allopathic, homeopathic and without finding health.
When I was tired to look for health in medicine in the world of "scientific Men"
I took refuge in God. There it was. I found the true healing,
Not only health but also integral healths with complete peace and harmony.
Man may have thousands or millions of dollars in his banking account
and may be able to travel everywhere to seek health but he will not find it.
To aU countries he will look for health and he will not find it
because health is free and comes from God given means..
It is a gift and a blessing.
When I took refuge in God, I found the most beautiful answers.
God is a Perfect God and made the world, air, water, nature, and Man perfect.
God as a Perfect Father did not forget disease.
He knew that his children of this world would die, be damaged, or ill with cancer,
AIDS, and many a multitude of other diseases.
He did not forget us and gave us our own medicine, in fact our own pharmacy.
If you take refuge in God, you are going to find the solution to all and each one of
his problems as mental, physical and spiritual.
God lives in each one on us and is an inner friend who is always ready to help.
Alone you must give him the key and deposit all your confidence with him and
wait patiently for the answer.
In him you will find the help that you never had imagined.
You will feel within you, a great divine blessing in where you go
to obtain wisdom and understanding.
You will have ears to hear and eyes to see.
As Jesus said,
" a man blind does not see more than one who does not want to learn,
and the one that does not know is like that who does not see ".
65 Mlf T estimDHlf*
As a result of a supernatural fact in the year of 19941 found that when ingesting
my own urine, we can have an amazing and incredible treatment of our diseases.
I am cured of cysts in the breast, problems of the right mitral valve of the heart
and pain in my shoulder. 1 also had an accident of being infected with a needle
from a patient with AIDS. I began to take my own urine and fasted for four days
and after the third fast of four days, the cysts of the bust disappeared.
The problems of the heart faded with no future pain.
I have never had problems with the infected needle accident of the H.I.V.
I must mention that my examinations are completely negative.
I have recovered my health, thanks to God.
f promised to God to present this therapy to as many people as possible
without any interest of profit.
As a result of this fact,
I began to distribute conferences all over the Mexican Republic,
without receiving a cost for admission
I make this with love to so many of my Mexican Brothers and Sisters
and worldwide friends. Within my experiences in the conferences
I have had attendance that vary between 500 to 2500 people.
My eyes saw something very important.
AU my brothers and sisters are ill who come to my conferences.
I have requested them to raise their hand who are patients under medical
treatment. ft is incredible the amount of ill people. AU raise their hands.
My question is how would it be in this world if all would have this knowledge of
urine therapy? I thank God for this knowledge and I request him to bless all
who are sick as he gave me when giving me my good health.
By feedback, I successfully obtained an endless amount of testimonies from
thousands of people who have cured themselves and others who have shown
remarkable improvement in different diseases.
Incredible information, began to arrive from different parts of the world.
There where different book authors in all languages, sending such valuable
information here in Mexico. I have information from France, Italy, Germany,
Japan, India, USA, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, and Brazil with testimonies of
incredible and wonderful treatments with the therapy of the urine.
My Internet site brought 34.000 pages of interesting and abundant information
that speak of the urinary therapy and that thanks to God are curing many people
only and nothing more


 has told you.
“If y ou t ake the way it works, a  human being wakes up in the m orning and for the first
moment there’ s just stillness; th en there’ s a re-engagement of th e mind, the mind kicks
in and starts saying, ‘What ha ve I got to do today? How old am I? What are my
problems? How  am I going to stop all these things going wrong?’ There is complete
identification with the story; you pull your boots on and of f you go again.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
Another story our mind has convinced us of is the story about time. T ime is a very
convenient tool that enables us to all work from the same calendar and clocks so that
we can coordina te our lives with each other and with everything that’ s happening in the
world. B ut as Einstein discover ed, time is relative; ultimately, there’ s really no such
thing as time. T ime is an illusion—a mental concept created by the mind.“If y ou try to get your hands on time, it’ s always slipping through your fingers. People
are sure time is t here, but they can’ t get hold of it. My feeling is  that they can’ t get hold
of it because it isn’ t there at all.”
Julian Barbour, physicist, excerpt fr om Adam Frank’ s book  About T ime
All that really ex ists is this pres ent moment, and try as you might, you will not be able
to find any event or circumstance that happened at any other time than the present
moment.
If you try to imagine a world without time, you won’ t be able  to do it because your
mind can’ t comprehend it. Y our mind is always either in the past or in the future; it’ s
not aware of this present moment. If you stop and are present right now, you will notice
that ther e is no thought. It’ s one of the reasons why the mind has been able to prevent
so many  of us from realizing who we really are, because A wareness can only be
recognized in this present moment!
If yo u d on’ t thin k your mind creates time, then see if you can find time outside of your
mind.
“T ry and find any evidence of the past without thought. T ry as hard as you can to find
any past apart from the current thought of it. It’ s impossible.”
Peter Dziuban, fr om  Consciousness Is All audiobook
Now try and find the future without thought. T ry really hard.
It’ s not possible to find any evidence of the past or the future without thought. No one
has ever been able to step into the past or into the future. When anything happened in
the past,  it happened in the pre sent moment. When anything happens in the future, it
always h appens in the present m oment. Check it for yourself. G o back in your memory
to when  you first rode a bike as a kid. When you were actually riding your bike, were
you riding it in the past? Or were you riding your bike in the present moment? When
you woke up th is morning, did you wake up in the past, or d id you wake up in the
present moment?“The past and fu ture cannot be e xperienced. They can only be mentally processed. Past
and future exist only in the form of thought.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Great Sweetening: Life After Thought
“The only evidence we have of the Earth’ s past is rocks and fossils. But these are just
stable st ructures in the form of an arrangement of minerals we examine in the present.
The point is, all we have are these records and you only have them in this Now.”
Julian Barbour, physicist, excerpt fr om Adam Frank’ s book  About T ime
When I was first told that time doesn’ t exist, my mind went crazy with all kinds of
thoughts trying to prove that tim e does exist! Like, what about old buildings? Aren’ t
they pro of there’ s a past? But when I really examined it, I realized that when the
buildings were built they were built in the present moment.  And if I am standing
looking at the old building, I’m also looking at it in the present moment, and anyone
who has looked at the same building also looked at it in the present moment. Eventually
as I exam ined e ach thought that came up trying to prove time is real, I saw that every
one of them was false because there is only the present moment.
“Whether you like it or not, you’re in the moment. There’ s only one moment, it’ s
infinite, and you can’ t be anywhere else but in it.”
My teacher
“Now is  not a m oment in time, sandwiched between the two vast spaces of past and
future. This present Now is the only Now there is—the eternal Now. It has not come
from anywhere and is not going anywhere.”
Rupert Spira, fr om  The Ashes of Love
If you can just open yourself to  the possibility that time is an illusion, it will help set
you free.
“The future never comes. Think of that: the future never comes. There is only ever the
present. In the present, there is the feeling of not missing life. Of not having anywhere
to get to, anything to get done. The present is where it is happening. And it isn’ t
happening anyw here else. It su re as heck isn’ t happening in the mind, with all the
wondering abou t what’ s ahead, and the going over (and over) something that has
already come and gone.”Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the Door
“The past is made of memory, the future of imagination. Neither has any existence
outside the realm of thought.”
Rupert Spira, fr om  The Ashes of Love
The min d constantly fixates on the past and the future, neither of which exists, but
which ju st the same causes us stress and worry. Y ou think to you rself, “I’m running late
for our meeting. My boss and work colleagues are going to be furious with me. I was
late last week too. I could get fired over this.” Instead of believing those thoughts as
facts an d certainties, be aware that they’re just  flimsy thoughts. They’re fabricated
stories. But if you believe your mind, it will  become true.
The mind’ s storytelling is nothing more than one of its mechanical programs, and yet it
has managed to convince most of us that its stories are true—the story that time is real,
the s tory that we ’re a body and a mind, the story that we are a  separate person who is
born and dies. All of these things combined play their part in constructing the reality
that we experience, but they are all in the mind, and therefore nothing but mental ideas.
“It’ s not you that people like or dislike; it’ s their stories of you.”
Byr on Katie, fr om  A Mind at Home with Itself
Don’ t believe a story your mind tells you if it’ s something you don’ t want; otherwise,
you will brand yourself with it. W atch the mechanics of your mind, and don’ t accept a
single st ory or thought about yourself that is anything but perfection and goodness,
because perfection and pure goodness are the fact of what you r eally  are!
A war eness Is Y our W ay Out
“What is a thought? A movement of ener gy. What is a feeling? A movement of ener gy.”
Peter Lawry, fr om the talk “Consciousness Unlimited”
What you are, In finite A warenes s, can never be af fected by thoughts. So become aware
of your thought s and see them for what they are—just a thoug ht, just ener gy passing
through.
“A t hought is like a bird flying by. Let the bird fly past without analyzing it. ‘Where are
you going? What kind of bird a re you? Where’ s your family? How old are you?’ Just
let the bird fly past.”
My teacherY ou don’ t have to eliminate you r mind or go to war with your mind. Y ou will add even
more power to your mind if you try to do that. A wareness is your way out of the turmoil
of the mind. Jus t become aware of your thoughts so that you no longer believe them.
Y ou can’ t be aware of your thoughts and believe them at the same time, because
A wareness of your thoughts prevents you from identifying with them as though they
were tru e. Whe n you observe your thoughts instead of getting  lost in them, you see
them for what they are: something that you can either choose to believe, or not.
“Who you are does not need a thought to hear. Doesn’ t need a thought to see. Doesn’ t
need a thought t o sense your bo dy and your surroundings. Who you are is thought free.
A wareness is hearing, seeing, sensing everything first without any thought.”
My teacher
Remember, you r thoughts aren’ t aware of you; you are the A w areness that is aware of
your thoughts.
“When y ou are willing to really look at how seriously you take yourself, your mind can
start to feel at peace, with a little warm breeze drifting around in there


 giant, all-encompassing belief. In fact, it’s such
a large belief that, like Jonah and the whale, it literally swallow s up all
the other ones. This means that with forgiveness, you have the
experience that all specific belie fs are completely untrue. So, forgiveness
puts you in a state of complete open-mindedness, acceptance,  and all-
inclusiveness. Practically, this means that you won’ t ever get into an argument
again because you know that there are no specific beliefs that are truer
than others; they are all equally false. All the labels and all the things
that people seem to defend, such as different cultures, religions, and
beliefs associated with different ethnicities, will have zero significant
differences to you. You will have an experience of the unified awareness
in which everything is one. Everything is mind, and you’re identified as
that. You’ve completely transcended arguments, debates, the belief in
right and wrong, and opinions. When you come  from a place of forgiveness, you come to see that
all meaning is in your heart, and you will bring that beautiful meaning to
everything that you look upon. You take that love in your heart, and you
let it pour out on absolutely everything. Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder, and when you’re beholding with the eyes of love, you can’t
help but to see and extend that love. Many witnesses are called forth. This is the way the dream lights
up. Witnesses of love, peace, and harmony begin to flood the mind. Witnesses of love replace witnesses of fear, guilt, shame, and pain.Witnesses of happiness, joy, and freedom sprinkle throughout the mind
and the dreamscape. My frien d had an experience of this as he was walking down  the
street right after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11 in New York. He was
walking along and was very happy, doing his Course in Miracles  lesson
of the day. All of a sudden, he had a doubt thought, What if my joy
disturbs these people’ s sorrow? This doubt thought brought about
witnesses of fear, and all of a sudden, he could smell the stank  and see
all the misery. He perceived the mourning of a particular man who was
walking across the street. He caught himself and thought, I’d better
continue on with my lesson of the day. Then, remembering his Course
lesson for the day, his percep tion shifted, and the man who looked
sorrowful, now looked bright, clear, and happy. He went over, looked my
friend right in the eyes, and started rapping the following powerful
words: “I can see…by the way that you feel…that you know…that none
of this is real!” He became a witness of joy and lightness. Through forgiveness, you just emanate and radiate the truth. This is
where the miracle appears in awareness. You stay in the truth of
innocence and refuse to see your brother or sister as something they are
not. And when you hold this presence and vision of innocence, they are
lifted up to remember who they are too. It’s the most loving and
compassionate experience ever. And it’ s truly shared!Chapter 17
Extending from Within
True giving and true service is with the Holy Spirit; it is an experience
not in form. It is a state of mind where you experience what you truly
give. It is so different from the world’ s concept of giving, where the gift
is somet hing in form that you would lose as a consequence of giving it. If you give it away, it’s gone, it’s used up, kiss it good-bye, and you’ll
never see it again. And if you keep giving that way, they’ll have more,
and you’ll have less. Y ou can see how the ego finds giving very strange. True Giving
There is a powerful teaching in A Course in Miracles : “To have, give all
to all.” This teaching contradicts  the entire ego belief system. So, what is
true giving, true extending? The Holy Spirit says just give me your mind,
and I will take care of everythi ng else. If you’re worried, sad, or tired,
you are not really giving. But if you are inspired and connected  to your
Divine Source, you give true and amazing inspiration; you share joy,
peace, and love. There is no tiredness or loss, only extension. This is
because it is by sharing God’ s gifts of joy and love that you keep them. This can only be understood through experience. “All that I give is given
to myself.” This teaching of the Holy Spirit is a very strange notion to
the ego. But to us, it’s the perfect answer. “All that I give is given to
myself” is a divine principle. It’s the experience of having a relationship
with God. Withholding something in the present is not the way of the Spirit. Planning for the future is not the way of the Spirit. We’ve all been into
withholding in one way or another. “Don’ t put all your eggs in one
basket.” “Alwa ys save for a rainy day.” We have been taught to
withhold, that it is prudent to withhold, even in relationships. “Don’ tgive it all away, string them along a little bit, make them work for it,
make them chase, and make them pursue.”  Who taught us this stuff? If
God gives His love unconditionally, then why wouldn’ t we want to give
it too? We associate giving with loss and sacrifice. But from a miracle-
minded perspec tive, giving is completely different; giving in form is
irrelevant. It comes down to not actually knowing your best interest and
opening up to being guided in terms of form. When you give miracles
away, the giver and the receiver both have more! We know that about
love: when you extend love to somebody, you feel more love in your
heart. This is the way that we were created by God: to give love just like
He does. As soon as the ego tries to put a price on this, it is not love
anymore. It is just another exchange. Developing trust is to learn to give as God gives: give love and
grow in trust. As you extend love, you will experience that the universe
is giving  you everything back, and you will naturally grow in trust. In
the end, from trusting and allowing the support that’s given by the Holy
Spirit from moment to moment,  you will come to experience that giving
and receiving are the same. T rue receiving is true giving. That realization
is nothin g less than the awakening itself. When you are receiving Spirit
from moment to moment, you are also giving Spirit. That is the nature of
Spirit. It is not personal, and it is always extending. The expe rience of
trust, joy, contentment, and peace is a sign that you are in touch with
Spirit, and being  in touch with Spirit is true giving. Receiving and giving
become one. When your dreams become happy, you know that you’re just at the
point of getting your final lesson. This final insight is learning that what
you have is what you are. This means that “having” is an experience of
your divine Self—safe, free, and at home. Remember that in oneness,
there is no difference between having and being as there is in the dream. In the state of being, the mind gives everything always. To have is no
longer associate d with an ownership of things or of having self-
importance. Without attachments, you become free. That’ s why Buddha
taught to empty your mind of everything you think that you think and
everything you think you are. He was saying let go of the false
identifications that relate to this world and come into a still, tranquilmind, which is beyond this world. That’ s what Jesus was teaching as
well. Whereas Buddha might have called it the void, Jesus would have
said, “Yes, go into the void and come through the void to the Kingdom
of Heaven, to full joy, to full happiness, to the fullness of Holy Spirit.”
That’ s what this journey is all about! How to Be Truly Helpful
We all want to do good. And we all do what we believe makes us happy. Kahlil Gibran wrote a beautiful little book called The Prophet. He said
that when you work, you should work with joy and love. True service
can be an opportunity to let the personality be washed away. There are
many volunteer s of service all over the world. Millions of people are
involved in service, but many of them experience burnout. They burn out
in their volunteerism. How does this happen? The ego must be involved. The ego will try to hijack service for its own purposes: “Save the hungry,
save the poor, save Mother Earth, save the dolphins, save the whales for
God’ s sake, save the tuna! Save the environment. Save your country.”
They get very angry about the obstacles in the way and eventually angry
at themselves for not being able to cure the problems. This is not going
to work. The ego has hijacked the concept of service. If service  does not
lead to joy, you are following the imposter, the ego. When I was growing up, people told me to always look out for
number one. And I said, “Who is