 moon
◼ pingala (right or solar nadi), representing the heating energy of the
sun; and
◼ sushumna, which is closely associated with the spine and spinal
cord at the subtle level. Sushumna runs through the centre of the
energetic spine and corresponds to the spinal canal; chakras are
strung upon it like lotuses. Sushumna, considered to be the most important of all of the nadis, starts
at the muladhara (base root) chakra and culminates at the sahasrara (crown)
chakra. From a numerological perspective 7 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 adds up to 9, which
in a spiritual sense is considered to be the number of completion. This is why
mala or prayer beads have 108 or 54 beads, both of which add up to 9. Our
physical body has nine openings or doorways through which we experience
the world, and the pranas can enter or leave the physical body from these
doorways. The nine body openings are associated with our sense organs: two
eyes, two nostrils, two ears, the mouth, the anus and the genitals. Most of the
nadis begin or ter minate at these openings. Control of the nadis enables us in turn to control the ego, the mind and
the senses, as the pranas moving with the breath kindle the body’s fire and
are carried to the mind. Nadis move in the body through each and every part, being the subtle
counterpart of the physical flow of nervous energy and blood. They are not
described in terms of structures but rather as conduits or channels. Ida
represents conscious energy and knowing, while pingala is vital and life-
giving; they are roughly translated as mind and body. As we discuss the
polarisation of the individual, mind and body themselves are polarised but
complementar y to each other. Ida represents the moon’s energy and pingala
the energy of the sun. Sushumna, representing the spirit or consciousness, is
supreme and is the c hannel for kundalini shakti. The ancient discipline of swar yoga (the yoga of breath) states that our
temperament and nature change according to the dominance of our
breathing nostrils. At any given time our breath does not come in equal
volume through both nostrils, except for a brief period. Most of the time one
nostril is more active and dominant than other one, and this dominance
alternates between left and right nostrils in a r egular pattern. The left nostril is associated with the ida nadi, which connects with the
right hemispher e of the brain, while the right nostril is associated withpingala nadi, which connects to the left hemispher e of the brain. The
movement of energy through these nadis, from one hemispher e to the other,
happens simultaneously with the change of breath from one nostril to the
other. Therefore, when the right nostril dominates pingala is active and the
left hemisphere dominates. When the left nostril dominates ida is active and
the right hemispher e dominates. When both nostrils operate evenly both
hemispher es operate in unison. When energy concentra tes in the left hemispher e, solar energy is drawn
by the right nostril and a person becomes more active, verbal, intellectual,
extroverted, ambitious, creative and masculine. Conversely, when the right
hemispher e dominates it draws on lunar energy through the left nostril, and
a person is characterised by femininity, passivity, introversion, emotional
responses and orienta tion to sight and sound. The three nadis — ida, pingala and sushumna — start from the
muladhara chakra at the pelvic floor. From here sushumna flows directly
upwards within the central canal to the sahasrara chakra, while ida passes to
the left and pingala to the right, crisscrossing each other at each higher
chakra. Sushumna flows inside the central canal of the spinal cord, while ida and
pingala flow simultaneously on the outer surface of the spinal cord but still
within the bony vertebral column. In human physiology, these two nadis
roughly correspond with the two halves of the autonomous nervous system:
the sympathetic and the parasympa thetic. Pingala coincides with the
sympathetic nerves, which are responsible for stimulation and the
acceleration of activities; it tends to utilise a lot of internal energy. The
sympathetic nerves speed up the heart, dilate the blood vessels, increase the
respiration rate and intensify the ef ficiency of the e yes and ear s and so on. The parasympa thetic nerves directly oppose the sympathetic nerves as
they reduce the heartbeat, constrict the blood vessels and slow the breathing
rate so that a person becomes an introvert. The flow of prana in ida and
pingala is completely involuntary. Basically, the pingala nadi represents the
components of action and controls all of the vital processes, while the ida
nadi represents reception and contr ols all of the mental pr ocesses. Ida can be viewed as the energy within the personality, which is passive,
receptive, feminine, negative and yin. At the physical level, it is dark, cold,
lunar, energy-dissipating, entropic, expansive (centrifugal) and relaxing. It is
emotional, feeling, intuitive and non-discrimina tive, which is also the soma-
psychic aspect of a person where energy is inwardly directed and the body
acts on the mind. Ida controls the feeling centres and sense organs
(gyanendriyas), thereby giving us awareness and knowledge of the world in
which we live. Pingala can be defined as masculine, dynamic, active, positive, yang
energy within our personalities. It has a physical and mental side,
representing light, heat, solar energy, creativity, organisation, focus
(centripetal) and contractiv e. It is psychosomatic energy, and directs the
organs of action (kar mendriyas) outwar ds. It is the basic life-giving ener gy. Our body chemistry, which is reflected in our feelings and temperament,
can be altered easily by changing the breath pattern. One of our gurus used
to say that the entire world population could be divided into two categories
of people: one dominant in the left nostril and the other dominant in the
right nostril. Where the left nostril is dominant the ida nadi is overactive and
draws in more lunar energy, which in turn makes people more emotional by
nature. These people are creative, moody and prone to depression; they are
also prone to having a low body tempera ture and low blood pressure. When the right nostril is dominant the pingala nadi is overactive, which
affects the manipura (solar plexus) chakra. These people draw in more solar
energy and are driven, making them very ambitious in life. They push
themselves and others around them to fulfil their life ambitions, chasing
money, power or authority. They tend to be multi-tasker s, as their minds are
always busy planning too many things at one time. These people are
sometimes not grounded and lose focus on the activity at hand. They tend to
have a high body temperature, may have a heated liver and are prone to
hypertension, high b lood pressure, high blood sugar/diabetes, headaches and
migraines. Yoga and tantra have gone hand in hand to devise exercises to restore the
balance of energies to promote wellness. The imbalance of the ida and
pingala nadis can be restored by practising breathing through alternate
nostrils (anulom vilom). The practices of kundalini yoga are focused on the
awakening of sushumna; once sushumna comes to life a means of
communication between the higher and lower centres of consciousness is
established, which leads to the a wakening of kundalini. Granthis
Tantric scriptures talk about three granthis or psychic knots in the physical
body. These granthis represent the three fundamental principles of energy:
creation, sustenance and dissolution. As mentioned previously, ida, pingala
and sushumna rise from muladhara at the pelvic floor; sushumna flows
directly upwards within the central canal, while ida passes to the left and
pingala passes to the right, crisscrossing at each of the higher chakras. Located at the points of cr ossing over are the three granthis. The granthis, which are basically levels of awareness, are named after the
three Hindu deities forming the trinity: Brahma (the energy of creation),
Vishnu (the energy of sustenance) and Rudra (or Shiva, the energy of
dissolution). Granthis pose as obstacles or barriers, and on the path of raising
the consciousness each aspirant has to cross the barriers. During the process
of kundalini movement and spiritual progress our consciousness moves
through the g ranthis. The brahma granthi is located in the region of muladhara, exactly at
the T junction of the muladhara (base root) and swadhisthana (sacral)
chakras. It is the first


 tell you what day of the week it would be. “Another date!” they cry, and the performance is repeated. They will also tell you the date of Easter during the sameperiod of 80,000 years.… Their memory for digits is
remarkable—and possibly unlimited. They will repeat a
number of three digits, of thirty digits, of three hund red
digits, with equal ease. The literature on idiot savants is vast; the twins’ astonishing
talents do not make them unique. Instead, they fall into the well-
studied class of “mental calculators,” which includes people, both
retarded and normal, who can recite from memory the number p to
3,000 decimal places, or tell you how many cubic inches there are
in a solid measuring 7,345,278 yards on one side and 5,478,234
yards on the other. (One eight-year-old savant was posed such a
problem and instantly replied, “Do you want the answer backwards
or forwards?”)
But, to my knowledge, Sacks is the rst observer who had the
insight that the twins were not calculating at all—they were seeing
numbers. Their minds rumm aged in the land of numerals the same
way we rummage for old faces in our memories, but with amazing
precision, clarity, and speed. The argument Sacks makes is simple. On their own, the twins could not perform basic arithmetic. Adding
four plus four baed them, and it was only after years of training
that they could reliably make change in order to ride the bus. The
standard explanation for “calendar idiots” is that they have
memorized a shortcut, a special mathematical formula or algorithm,
that is programmed to give dates without the calculator  having to
run through the calendar year by year. This is how one would
program a computer to name the date of Easter over a period of
80,000 years. But is it really possible, Sacks wonders, for the twins to calculate
at all, even using a shortcut, when they cannot add simple numbers? On the other hand, their ability to visualize had been proven over
and over. If you named any day in their lives after the age of four,
they could tell you the weather, the incidents occurring around
them, and the important political events on that day. Sacks also took
careful clinical note of the look on their faces when they were
coming up with their extraordinary answers: “Their eyes x andmove in a peculiar way as they do this, as if they were unrolling, or
scrutinizing, an inner landscape.”
This look of “seeing,” complete with eyes rolled upward and a
at, monotono us delivery of the answer, as if reciting from a
printout, may seem similar to the look of someone who is mentally
calculating, but how could one account for two other facts? First,
the twins could “see” prime numbers that were ten and even twenty
digits long. Thirty years ago, extracting very long prime numbers
was a laboriou s feat even for the largest mainframe computers, and
there was no known shortcu t. Yet here were the twins, giggling in
their corner, extracting such long primes that Sacks could not check
them in a standard mathematical reference book. Even more mysteriously, it was observed that only one of the
twins had been fascinated by numbers at rst, early in childhood,
and later had somehow passed on his prodigious talents, with no
loss of accuracy, to his broth er. Duplicate masters in every way, the
twins sat for hours in a corner by themselves, murm uring long
strings of numerals and gurgling with shared delight over some
arcane nd that no one else could comprehend. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the twins in fact possessed
a siddhi, one well known in ancient India, called Jyotish Mati Pragya
—the ability to see into the light. At a subtle level, the rishis say,
everything is made of light; light is the nest level of appearance
before creation dissolves into pure consciousness. By some means or
other, the twins attuned their minds to this level of awareness. And
they appeared to know that this was what they were doing. Sacks
writes, “If you ask them how they can hold so much in their minds
—a three-hundred-gure digit, or the trillion events of four decades
—they say very simply, ‘We see it.’ ”
The twins’ methods give us a model for how siddhis work in
general. A siddhi is a ment al ability, no dierent from ordinary
thinking except that it runs deeper. One has to go right to the edge
where pure consciousness is about to emerge into its created forms. To put it in the language of physics, a local intention begins to have
nonlocal results. Instead of being conned inside my skull, mydesire to see a twenty-digit prime number radiates into the eld,
and the eld brings back the answer. It is not “me,”  in the most local sense, who has worked  out the
solution. The eld is acting upon itself, folding question and answer
together until they meet in time and space. My role is simply to
issue the orders, leaving the eld to compute, instantly and
automatically, whatever result I want. The secret to any siddhi is
that you tap into the cosm ic computer using the brain as your
keyboard. Siddhis can come spontaneously, as happened to the twins, but
more often they have to be cultivated. The rst stage is meditation,
which brings the mind into the transcendent; the second stage is to
hold onto the transcendent while thinking a specic thought. This
sounds like a complete contradiction, and it is. The transcendent by
denition is silent and void of thoughts. But the rishis discovered
centuries ago that a person can entertain two states of awareness at
the same time. A siddh i throws together everyday awareness with transcendent
awareness, and when the two are completely blended, nature begins
to respond to one’s most casual desires as commands. In itself, this
is a wondrous development, but it serves a higher end, which is to
rob ordinary reality of its power to keep people ensnared. This is
always the aim of Yoga in all its phases. “Once you realize that the
world is your own projection, you will be free of it,” a guru told his
followers. “Everything existing around you is painted on the screen
of your consciousness. The picture you see may be ugly or beautiful,
but in either case you are not bound by it. Rest assured, there is no
one who has forced it on you. You are trapped only becau se of your
habit of mistaking the imaginary for the real.”
This is how reality appears from a higher state of consciousness. The siddhis are an essential part of reaching such a state, a stepping-
stone. They allow us to exper iment with the world illusion. A friend
recently told me this story: “Several years ago I took my car on a
camping trip through the Far West. One morning in Montana I woke
up thinking how splendid it would be to see a rainbow. Not that I
had much hope for one—the  day was dark and overcast. We startedclimbing a high mountain pass near Glacier Park that was shrouded
in mists. Suddenly, the mists parted, moved aside by invisible
stagehands, and a glorious rainbow connected two peaks directly in
front of me, as if the gods had fashioned a sparkling bridge of light. “It was a dazzl ing sight and an interesting coincidence. We moved
down the Rockies to Wyoming, and the next day I saw an
impressive rainbow in the Tetons, leaping down into the waters of
Jackson Lake. Another rainb ow appeared the following day in the
Green Mountains, another near Aspen the day after that. This went
on for six days. On the seventh I found myself deep in a desert
canyon in Utah. There had been no rain for weeks; the July sky was
broiling hot and completely free of clouds. Around noon I looked up
and saw an impossible vision, a small but vivid rainbow arching
over the narrow white sandstone arroyo we had camped in. What
could have caused it? “I am not the kind of person who jumps to miraculous
conclusions, and a few days later a park ranger told me about an
interesting phenomenon: If the sun is hot enough, its heat can cause
a temperature inversion over the desert. Humidity rising up from
the canyons remains trapped  by the cooler air above, and at times
there are enough water droplets in a thin layer over the canyon rim
to create a rainbow. So in the end, there was a natural explanation
for everything I had seen. Nature herself had the means to make
rainbows. Yet I am left believing that she also has the means to
make them when and where I want.”
The Mind of the Fire
The rishis felt completely comfortable with a quantum fact, that
our solid world is basically built up from vibrations in empty space. However, we are not yet comfortable with a Vedic fact, that this
space that permeates everything is intelligent. It is Chit Akasha, or
“mind space.” Mind space is inside our heads and gives rise to
thought “in here,” but it exists


 the back have nerve pathway connections to the larg e intestines;
weakness in the intestine causes weakness of the back and makes it prone to injury. But the problem is the intestine, not the  back. And the only way to make the back stay better is to heal the intestine. Many athletes have very similar proble ms. For example,
they get knee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee. Or they get shoulder injuries and think their shou lder is
weak. These people are only half right. Yes, their knee or their shoulder is weak. But it could become str ong and almost
uninjurable if the underlying cause of the weakness is corrected. The knee for example, has nerve pathway connections to the adrenal glands and kidneys. The shoulder has similar connections
to the thyroid. The foot is weakened by the bla dder. The treatment should first be on the weakened gland or organ and secondarily,
on the damaged muscle tissue. I have solved numerous sports -related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals and
elimination of food allergies that make the adre nals work overtime. I have fixed bad shoulders by rebuilding the thyroid. In Barry's case, it was the intestine. I asked him about his bowel function and he said that he was never constipated, had "a  daily
bowel movement without a lot of straining." Bu t having given some 6,000 colonics, I knew better. There should have been no
straining; Barry was trying very hard to be regular –he should not have had to effort. Fortunately, it struck him as true that he
needed to detoxify and I managed to convince him t o water fast. He probably figured, why not since he couldn't work anyway. Barry was a tall, skinny man to start with and you would think he hardly carried any fat at all, but he fasted on water for 3 0 days,
receiving a colonic every day, while I did bodywo rk on his damaged back. He sure was constipated and couldn't deny the evidence
that floated by through the sight tube of the colonic machine. By the end of the fast his colon was fairly repaired and free of old
fecal material. And Barry had become a tall, gaunt -looking guy who had lost about 20 pounds you wouldn't think he had to spare. After a few weeks of careful weaning back on to food, Barry felt pretty good, terrific even. He had no back pain and found ou t
for the first time what not being constipa ted meant. It no longer took "not very much effort" to move his bowels; they moved
themselves. That was ten years ago. A few months ago, Barry looked me up, just to say thanks and to let me know that he had n ot
had any more back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or less stayed on the improved diet I had instructed
him about during his fast. Painful Menstruation
    Elsie was twenty. She came to see me because I had helped Elsie's mother overcome breast cancer many years earlier. Elsi e
began to have very painful periods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain. Her nutrition had been generally good because he r
mother couldn't survive on the average American diet and had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism. And like her
mothe r, Elsie had been taking vitamins for many years. A medical doctor diagnosed Elsie as having endometriosis, meaning, the lining of her uterus had migrated to the fallopian tub es,
where it continued to bleed regularly into the abdominal cavity, followi ng the same hormonal cycle as the endometritial tissue that
lines the uterus. The doctor offered to try hormonal manipulation and if this proved unsuccessful, offered a hysterectomy. Th at
would certainly eliminate the symptoms! But Elsie did not wish t o eliminate her ability to have children and preferred not to risk throwing her hormones off balance. So
she came to me. My analysis showed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus. These were secondary to a toxic colon, toxic
because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined
Organic, vegetarian legume -rich diet into toxemia. Checking her foods for allergies I discovered the normal pattern: Elsie was
intolerant to dairy, wheat, eggs, corn, soy and concentrated sugars. Being no stranger to fasting (her mother had fasted at length ten years previously) Elsie undertook a 30 day cleanse on veget able
juice with daily enemas, taking vitamins in powdered form. After the fast I put her o n protomorphogens for her reproductive
organs and pancreas. The gall bladder had healed by itself during fasting –gall bladders usually heal easily. Her maintenance diet
included using pancreatic enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteins and Elsie e liminated most fats so her gall bladder
would not be stressed. The fasting also overcame her allergic reactions to corn and wheat but she was still unable to handle soy
products, eggs or dairy. After six months Elsie no longer needed protomorphogens, had n o abdominal pain and her periods were
normal. You may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the bowels allowed the body to repair the uterus. The large intestine
is a sort of nest that cradles the reproductive organs, including the ovaries, u terus, and in the case of the male, the prostate gland. A
toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in a basket, it contaminates the whole batch. Many problems in the abdominal area  are
caused by a toxic colon, including chronic back pain, ovarian cysts,  infertility, birth abnormalities, bladder infections and bladder
cancer, painful menstruation, fibroids and other benign growths as well as malignant ones, and prostatitis or prostate cancer. Detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part o f the healing of all of these conditions. Irritable Bowels
    Some peoples' lives don't run smoothly. Jeanne's certainly didn't. She was abandoned to raise three little kids on welfare. H er
college diploma turned out to be useless. Jeanne used to help m e at Great Oaks in exchange for treatment. During those early years
she had done a 30 day juice fast with colonics. Twenty years later at age 60, having survived three children's growing up, su rviving
the profound, enduring loss of one who died as an adult, after starting up and running a small business that for many years barely
paid its way, and experiencing an uninsured fire that took her house, she began to develop abdominal pains the doctors named
"irritable bowel syndrome" or "colitis." The MD offered  antibiotics and antispasmodics but Jeanne had no insurance, the remedies
were unaffordable. She also retained considerable affinity for natural medicine. Prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian, and had included large quantities of raw fr uits and vegetables and whole
grains. But the bran in bread was irritating to her bowels, she could no longer digest raw vegetables or most raw fruit. Jeanne's vital force was low; her healing took time. She started on a long fast supported by powdered  vitamins, vegetable broth
and herb teas, but after three weeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop for vegetables to cook into
broth. So she had to add one small serving of cooked vegetable per day, usually broccoli or steamed kal e. This lasted for one more
week but Jeanne, having no financial reserves, had to return to work, and needed to regain energy quickly. Though not totally
healed, she progressed to a maintenance diet of cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements, ver y much like a Macrobiotic
diet. She felt better for awhile but wore down again after another stressful year. Her abdominal pains gradually returned though this time she noticed they were closely associated with her stresses. About one
year after ending  her first fast, as soon as she could arrange to take time off, she began another. This time to avoid extreme
weakness, she took vegetable broth from the outset, as well as small amounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked
vegetable a day for t hree weeks. Again, this rest allowed the digestive tract to heal and the pain went away. She returned to her
Macrobiotic diet with selected raw foods that she could now handle without irritating her bowel. She was now healthier then she had been in man y years. With improved energy and a more positive attitude, Jeanne returned to
University at age 65 and obtained a teaching certificate. Now she is making good money, doing work she enjoys for the first t ime
in 35 years. I hope she has a long and happy lif e. She is entitled to one! A Collection of Gallbladders
    Gallbladder cases are rather ho -hum to me; they are quick to respond to hygienic treatment and easy to resolve. I've fixed lots of
them. But an inflamed gallbladder is in no way ho -hum to the per son afflicted with it. I've been frequently told that there are no
worse pains a body can create than an inflamed gallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone. I hear  from
kidney patients that passing a kidney stone is worse but I've never had a patient who experienced both kinds of stones to give me
an honest comparative evaluation. The only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems is ignoring them (between the bouts of severe pain they can cause)
because then the inflamed gallbladder can involve


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rather than strength in their performance—as soon as they are off their fast. 13133
Nephritis
“Your child has six weeks to live; we can do no more for her. ” The voice was that of the physician
who acted as spokesman for several physicians who had taken part in a consultation. The place: a
modern hospital. The little nine-year-old girl who was the subject of the decision was suffering with nephritis. She had been in the hospital for about two weeks and was bloated from head to foot with an
accumulation of water (dropsy), a development that is characteristic of advanced stages of this
disease. As far as they were concerned she was finished—a nine-year-old nothing. The parents of the child were not willing to give up. People are like that; they cling to hope, and
do not always accept a death sentence of this kind as final. The mother suggested taking the girl
from the hospital and trying
elsewhere. The physician said: “You are free to take her anywhere you
wish and try whatever you think may help. We can do no more. ”
The girl was removed from the hospital, but no other physician was found who would take
charge of the case. Taking the child on her lap, the mother sat in the back seat of the car while the father drove a
hundred-and-twenty-five miles to a
Hygienic
 institution. Arriving there, the father carried the child
inside and presented the hopelessness of the case to the director. “I cannot promise much,” said the
Hygienist
, “but we’ll try. ” After fully going over the history
and symptoms of the case, he told the desperate parents, “We are going to give her a chance to
recover. I believe she can. ”
The suffering child was put to bed and all food withheld. Water was given in infrequent sips. Almost over night the edema began to decline. It passed out in the urine and in watery stools, and,
after a few days, some of the solid matter contained in it was expelled by means of skin eruptions. Soon wrists and ankles that were as large, or larger, than her legs were down to normal size. A
little girl who looked like a rubber baby blown up to oversize was down to “skin and bones. ”
After two weeks of fasting, feeding was resumed. She was fed on fruits and vegetables at first,
with starches, sugars and proteins added after a few days of juicy fruits and leafy vegetables. From
this time forward her progress, although slow, was satisfactory. At the end of nine months the little
girl was dismissed. After the passage of several years the same little girl, now married, again visited the
Hygienist
and was in a state of splendid health. She had developed into a beautiful young woman and was
proud of her exuberant health. There had been no more trouble with her kidneys; indeed, she never
experienced sickness of any nature and was holding down a responsible position. Can we say that this recovery is typical. No. Most cases of Bright’s disease or nephritis, are in
older men and women and the deterioration of the kidneys is greater than in the case of this young
girl, so that all patients do not recover so readily or so quickly—and some of them do not recover
at all. But this case does reveal that death is not always inevitable because the case has been
declared to be
incurable. It reveals the amazing things the body can do for itself in the way of restoration of structure and
function when it is given a fair opportunity. This dying child was not “treated” into good health;
she made her own spontaneous recovery without the dubious assistance of any therapeutic
132measure. Richard Bright, a British physician prominent in the first half of the nineteenth century, noted that
the last illness of many men was attended by the appearance of albumen in the urine or uremic
poisoning. He
investigated the condition of the kidneys in these cases and discovered a
degenerated state that was responsible for the symptoms. Although this condition is technically
known as nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) the disease has long been called Bright’s disease
after the man who first described it. Actually, from a practical point of view, we are not so much concerned about the degenerative
changes that take place in the kidneys, when albumen and granular and bloody casts appear in the
urine or when there is suppression of the urine. When we are confronted with evidences of uremic
poisoning, instead of worrying about the nature of the changes in the kidneys, we need first to think
of the living habits of the patient. Faulty, excessive practices may have caused the degeneration of
kidneys and all the other organs that are involved in the deterioration. Few chronic diseases arouse so much fear and apprehension in the patient’s mind as chronic
Bright’s disease. Yet there is no chronic disease that so quickly improves, and from which the
patient is so likely to make a full recovery as a consequence of a fast, proper feeding and general
Hygienic
 care. These simple changes, however, in the way of life must be made before the
deterioration to the kidneys has reached an irreversible stage. The reason for the terror that a diagnosis of Bright’s disease commonly causes is based on the
fact that the cause of the disease is not removed. Nephritis or Bright’s disease does not develop, neither in the acute nor in the chronic form, in
those of abstemious habits of living. It is a disease of high livers and continuous stuffers. Many
drugs produce inflammation of the kidneys and those who are always drugging themselves may
have to pay for their folly by evolving a serious degenerative change in the kidneys that will
shorten their life. It is well known in professional circles that today the possession of typically healthy kidneys is
rare in adults. Great numbers of people who die of other diseases have been made liable to these
other diseases by the impaired state of their kidneys. A fast in this condition need not always be a lengthy one. Ten days, two weeks, sometimes three
weeks, are usually enough. The condition of the kidneys quickly clears when fasting is instituted. The albumen disappears from the urine, casts and blood clear up. The symptoms of urine poisoning
—headaches, vertigo, frequent and copious urination, bed wetting, getting up frequently at night,
suppressed urine, and scanty urine—soon cease. The urine becomes normal in color and odor and
everything points to the resumption of normal excretion. The regeneration of the kidneys that takes place after the fast is broken will be more thorough,
more complete and more rapid if the diet is abstemious and composed of fresh fruits and leafy
vegetables with but moderate quantities of the heavier foods. Onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leaks, mustard, radishes, cress and other foods containing
mustard oil, which irritate the kidneys, should be omitted from the diet. Grain products are also
best omitted. Flesh, meat extracts, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, tea, coffee, cocoa and
chocolate are not to be thought of for the man whose kidneys are seriously impaired. Excessive
water drinking can serve no useful purpose. Give the kidneys a chance to repair themselves and
they will not disappoint you. 13334
Gallstones
Cholelithiasis
 is the term applied to the formation of stones in the gall bladder and bile ducts. These are derived either partly or entirely from the constituents of the bile, the principal element
being cholesterin which precipitates in crystalline form and combines with inspissated mucus. Although the stones can be a source of much discomfort, and in passing, may be the occasion for
excruciating pain their presence is frequently unrecognized and man may live for years and die of
some other disease without ever knowing he has them. They are found at autopsy in people who
never complained of symptoms that led to a suspicion of stones. Some individuals have what is termed the
lithemic diathesis
, by which is meant that they have a
tendency to build concretions in the form of kidney or bladder stones or biliary calculi when their
health is markedly impaired. Stones may form, in fact, in almost any part of the body—in the
pancreas, in the muscles, in the eyelids, on the valves of the heart, even around the heart, and in the
arteries. Gallstones seem to be more likely to form in the obese than in thin subjects, perhaps
because there is a greater tendency of these obese individuals to overeat. What is called hepatic colic is excruciating pain in the abdomen, in the region of the liver or
gall bladder occasioned by the passage of a stone. Calculi may be so small that they easily pass
through the gall duct, in which case they are expelled without the patient ever knowing that he has
any stones. They may be too large to move into the gall duct, in which case they are not passed. Or they may
be of a size that they are passed through the duct
with great difficulty, and cause intense pain. The
pain starts suddenly at the instant the stone begins to be passed from the gall bladder into the cystic
duct. Agonizing in character, it is transmitted to various parts of the abdomen and chest, often
being felt in the right shoulder. Or the duct may be obstructed by a stone and a few symptoms result, even jaundice being absent. Disease of the gall bladder itself may eventually result from the presence of the stone. If


 man, when the law g overning is obeyed he shall have
what he wants. This noted writer who told me that the Scriptures to prove
anything had long since been outmoded. This is true, only because the
Scripture has been misinterpreted bu t in order that it may not interfere
with out political and economic set up— the profiteering world in other words, high finance. Our Bible teaches there is no li mit to the possibilities of man,
when the law governing is obeyed. These laws of mathematics are of
no value when the law we say 2 times 2 is five. Mathematics are no
more value than Christian economics  when not obeyed, the reason the
Christian economics—the economics of Jesus are of no value is because they have never been applied. Sure they are outmoded. For
this reason Jesus Golden Rule is of no value. It is like 100.00
dollars—no value when not used. Our Christian world and the golden rule of Jesus and all the laws
and teachings of our Bible are of no value, because they are not used. Naturally, noted writers tell me that my Scriptural quotations are of no value because they have long sinc e been outmoded as evidence to
prove anything. This is equivalent to saying that our churches and
their practices and teachings have not any value because they prove
nothing. Because our members do not practice these teachings. These
teachings of Jesus are to be compar ed to money stored in a vault—of
no value because not in use. We may compare our health laws to religious laws or the money
of a miser, of no value because not used. When the laws of health are
practiced or obeyed there can be no disease. The diseases which attack
us have no power when the laws of health are obeyed. The weeds and grass cannot destroy our crops when the soil is properly cared for. Neither will insects attack, when the soil is not impoverished. Neither
will disease attack when our body  is well fed and not mistreated. The trouble is our people, gradua tes of our best institutions, are
not informed along the ways of life and living. Our diseases and our
wars are due to perverted and abused laws which are supposed to
prevent disharmony and would if obeyed. Our nations citizenship
accept disease and war because of the absence of knowledge or
information. We have athletes foot or cancer or ad infinitum because
we have disobeyed the law governing health or prevention of diseases. Humanity has not yet learned that all power was given us to rule and
to have dominion. Through my experience as a dentist studying the human mouth,
why teeth decay, why teeth get loose and fall out without any
extraction has led me into the cause of disease which destroy life. Whatever may be the disease, we create it. It has no power within itself. Nearly every thing along this line which we have been taught
during our past is incorrect and a failure. When the natural laws of life and living are complied with, there
will be no more disease. During my life at the dental chair with my
observations of nearly half a century of why teeth decay and
incidentally why any disease, has left no doubt in my mind that it is due to the food we eat. Whether it be decay or the absence of decay—the power behind the throne is the food we eat. This discovery was based on milk from cows fed on natures food
unchanged from its natural state. During that time of my observations
if the milk which was used had been pasteurized, Hereford would
never have carried the slogan "The Town Without a Toothache." Because of the fact that pasteurizing destroys and disorganizes enough
of the food value of milk to create weak and diseased bodies. Absolutely Hereford is a town without a bad tooth for every child
who used plenty of milk unpasteurized, not only does this apply to
Hereford but to all areas where th e food has not been impoverished—
not to milk only but to other foods. Some of our best medical authorities have formed the conclusion
that the reduction of our infectious diseases is due to the increase in
the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables which aid in the
destruction of disease promoting bacteria. This is further evidence of
my contention that the well person is not subject to disease. I am fully in harmony with Dr. Royal Lee when he says that pasteurized milk is
dear at any price. The purpose of organic gardening is to restore to the garden soil,
the elements which have been destroyed. The plant life has the power
to extract the elements from the earth of which our body is made, when the elements are furnished our body it cannot develop what we call disease. Disease is only a deficiency of these elements. These
diseases are only God's warnings telli ng us we have failed to keep our
body supplied with these values. These values cannot keep our bodies supplied when they are not
in our food. Neither can these values prevent disease when they have
been refined or changed or heated. When we are supplied with all
these values we are immune to disease. We have failed to be a
follower of God. When we failed to keep our bodies immune. We
cannot maintain this immunity when we supply our body with
orthodox conventional food when we keep this up we are atheists and
do not know it. Naturally our diseases are incurable when we continue eating
foods which are refined or changed from their nature. Disease cannot
continue when immunizing foods are fed the body. It should be the purpose of garden clubs to see to it that our soils
are not worn out and that when flowers and foods are grown no
disease will develop—neither in the plant nor in the person who eats
the plant. During my later years the greater part has been spent studying
reading and writing along the line of human behavior. What I have
observed and written mainly, has been on the behavior of Americans. There has been a craving or desire, at  least, to spend enough time in
other countries, in order that a comparison could be drawn. It appears from standing on the sideline watching the wheels go
round that America could not have made a greater failure, even, if this
had been their major object. This country is comparatively young, yet
our soil has been exhausted. What life is left in our soil very little of it
reaches our dinner tables. The report is the best of our young manhood
50% or near that, more or less, has been rejected as unfit for war duty. The last report printed gave our people as 99% defective. The exhausting of our soil and the refining and heating of our
food till it is too impoverished to maintain a fighting people for war
duty. Our fighting must be done without soldiers, unless there is a change in the feed. The entire setup is governed by high finance which points to war as a racket a nd the decay of civilization. This kind of a nation is supported by our so-called followers of
Jesus who said when we are slapped on one cheek, turn the other also. All through the universe and on through the walks of man there
are laws to reckon with. The season of each year—winter, spring,
summer and fall have their laws which we must obey. The laws of
gravitation and the flying of a plane must be reckoned with. And on
down through the life of man the laws which we have to contend with
are flexible but must be obeyed. When we obey these laws there is harmony. The three score and
ten years which were allotted for man centuries ago from my experience it is not the limit of life when the laws are obeyed. When
these laws are obeyed life grows more beautiful with the passing of
the years. Aches, ills, rheumatism, when these laws are obeyed, there
is no disturbance. We are taught, and truthfully, that what we sow we shall reap,
but it appears we have never registered this law in our minds. We do
not yet know that our aches and ills, polio, cancer, heart failure and
bad colds are of our own creation—the reaping of our sowing. Common reason teaches that whatever is someone or power creates it. Rheumatism cannot develop when the blood stream is clean. When the
food is correct the blood stream will always be clean. It takes a clean
healthy blood stream to maintain a happy disposition. Our minds and morals are fed the same as our teeth or kidney. When the brain and nerves are no t well fed, delinquency can not be
controlled. Neither can what we term disease be prevented when the food is
deficient. Neither can the food be good when, the soil is impoverished. People who lie in hospitals, worn an d emaciated, if the food had been
correct they never would have been carried to the hospital. If the food
served in the hospital is correct the patient will get well and go home. I am not talking at random, these reports have been experienced
and lived in my own body. When for years I grew weaker till
everybody expected everyday to hear of my passing. It happened that a sick person asked me to go with her to Dr. Harry Brown's office. While there I asked Harry to look me over. Within a few minutes he
told me I had a bad colon, and that I may be too near dead to clean the
colon but if you will change your food and "stay put" you will get
well. That was 27 years ago. Now I am 84 and the only way that I can
believe I am any older is to look up a calendar. All things are


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 ships while on shore take on water from shore sources, but it is common for
submarines to provide nothing but purified water for months at a time, all with no reported ill
effects. This was confirmed with separate sources at the David Taylor Research Center in
Annapolis, the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the
Navy Environmental Health Center. Finally, the Surgeon General directed the Navy to address
the subject formally in 1972. The conclusion was that drinking distilled water is not harmful. The University of Illinois Health Sciences Library's ONLINE SERVICES department was
contracted to search the MEDLINE database for the several key word groups back to 1980. That search produced 18 articles, but only two relevant ones, both supporting the proposition
8 that the physiologic mechanisms of homeostasis are more than adequate to permit routine
drinking of purified water. Article 1 described experiments in which dogs were given large amounts of distilled water to
lower the blood osmotic pressure while monitoring very closely the pH and C02 of arterial blood
and the breathing rate. They found that the blood osmolality has a direct effect on breathing in
addition to the known effects on kidney function. Thus, homeostasis appears to be controlled
while intentionally consuming low TDS water. Article 2 described experiments with rats which had had their pituitary glands removed
("hypophysectomized rats)", and which therefore should show some damage to the hormonal
control system. They found that the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system worked well even
without a pituitary, suggesting an additional control system leading to the maintenance of
homeostasis. None of the 18 articles, including these two, showed any direct information about the subject
matter of interest, but only that the homeostasis mechanism in living beings has significant
abilities to adapt to different situations and inputs. 9 DISCUSSION OF FIELD EXPERIENCES
There are no known scientific data which clearly demonstrate that the consumption of low TDS
water by humans will or will not lead to harmful effects on the human body. However, a
number of field experiences can be cited which support the premise that the consumption of such
water by humans does not cause such harmful effects. There are no known documented
experiences which show that consuming low TDS water will create any long-term health effects. The U.S. Navy has used distilled sea water for human consumption for approximately 40 years. TDS levels below 3 mg/L have been reported and consumption of this water for months at a
time is common on submarines. No health problems have been reported by the Navy and they
feel low TDS water is safe to drink. The U.S. Army uses reverse osmosis units to provide drinking water for soldiers in the field. They do not consider low TDS water to be a problem and have no minimum standard. The U.S. EPA conducted a project in San Ysidro, New Mexico in which the TDS was dropped
from 800 mg/L to a range of 40 to 70 milligrams per liter. No health effects were observed
during the one year test. Possibly the largest field study of human consumption of low TDS water is within the United
States where municipal systems are delivering water in this category. Millions of people
currently consume such water, and this practice has gone on for decades. Exact data are
difficult to obtain due to seasonal changes, use of blended water from multiple sources, and
changes of sources. However, the following levels have been reported:
Boston, MA
Portland, OR
Baltimore, MD
Lake Tahoe, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, W A.
Denver, CO
New York City, NY 64 mg/L
23 mg/L
89 mg/L
50-64 mg/L
27-154 mg/L
34-47 mg/L
39-216 mg/L
41-283 mg/L
In addition to these areas, thousands of private wells, as well as numerous small municipal
systems in the U.S., produce low TDS water. No known health effects or problems have been
reported as a result of this widespread practice. Thousands of TDS reduction devices have been sold residentially in the United States for
decades. No reports of mineral depletion or health effects are known as a result of the
consumption of this water. In Plains, Texas, where the drinking water was brackish at 1500-2000 mg/L TDS, a change was
made to desalinated water and the residents experienced temporary diarrhea. Because of the
high initial TDS and because of blending, the treated water exceeded 100 mg/L TDS, which is
above the definition of low TDS water established for this report. 10 In Montreal, a study compared the gastrointestinal disorders of two groups; one consumed tap
water, while the other consumed reverse osmosis water. The group consuming the tap water
had a higher incidence of GI infections. While neither of these experiences can be considered
conclusive, no evidence of mineral leaching, the topic of this report, was reported in either case. NASA has reported no ill effects from the consumption of approximately.05 mg/LTDS water
on board space craft. It appears that the possibility that this could have been a problem was
never seriously considered by NASA. In a field test in Boulder, Colorado with about 50 families, an experimental, zero discharge
water system provided drinking water containing about.05 ppm TDS. No ill health effects were
caused as a result of drinking this water. In conclusion, the field experiences cited suggest that there are no long-term ill health effects,
specifically the mineral leaching from human tissue, due to the consumption of low TDS water. 11 CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that the consumption of low TDS water, naturally occurring or received
from a treatment process, does not result in harmful effects to the human body. This is based
upon the following points:
• No public health organization with authority over the drinking water quality
anywhere in the world has enacted or even proposed a minimum requirement for
total dissolved minerals in drinking water. • The human body's own control mechanism (homeostasis) regulates the mineral
content of the body fluids and the discharge of different types of ions from the
body of normal health individuals drinking water with low or high mineral
content. • Several types of scientific literature searches have found no harmful effects to the
human body attributable to the consumption of low TDS water. • Review of the Soviet report has shown that the scientific methods used are
questionable and the conclusions are either vague or unsupported by the data. • Many examples of real-world situations in which large populations have been and
continue to be provided exclusively with low TDS water without any reported
unusual or ill health effects, establishes the safety of consuming such waters by
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        DR. LEE T. ROZELLE  AND DR. RONALD L. WATHEN:  "CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER"   (NOTE: DISTILLED WATER falls under the category of "LOW TDS WATER. " The term "LOW TDS WATER" means water with a low Total Dissolved Solids count. Distilled Water is in the category of "LOW TDS WATER" because it generally has a count of zero parts per million of dissolved solids. ) CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER
A COM1v. ITTEE REPORT
BY
WATER QTJALITY ASSOCIATION
SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
1992-1993. With
Review By
Dr. Lee T. Rozelle
and
Dr. Ronald L. Wathen, M. D. MARCH 1993
II
WOA
Technical. Services INTRODUCTION
Since the beginning of time, water has been both praised for good health and blamed for human
ills. We now know the real functions of water in the human body are to serve as a solvent and
medium for the transport of nutrients and wastes to and from cells throughout the body, a
regulator of temperature, a lubricator of joints and other tissues, and a participant in our body's
biochemical reactions. It is the H20 in water and not the dissolved and suspended minerals and
other constituents that carry out these functions. -
Low TDS water is defined in this paper as that containing between one and 100 milligrams per
liter (mg/L) of total dissolved solids (TDS). This is typical of the water quality obtained from
distillation, reverse osmosis, and deionization point-of-use water treatment of public or private
water supplies that are generally available to consumers in the world. Highly purified (distilled) water is believed by some to help "cure" arthritis by "washing out"
excess calcium and other minerals from deposits in joints. Along with this reasoning, some
people speculate that drinking highly purified water, treated by distillation, reverse osmosis, or
deionization, "leaches" minerals from the body and thus causes mineral deficiencies with
subsequent ill health effects. An isolated report, a summary of Russian studies available through the World Health
Organization, has recommended that fluid and electrolytes are better replaced with water
containing a minimum of 100 mg/L of TDS. However, this may pertain more to situations in
the human body during heavy exertion and sweating. It is the market for sports drinks which
are formulated to help replace the sugar compounds, glucose in the blood and glycogen in the. muscles that are burned in prolonged exercise. Sports drinks are formulated to help replace the


 your
intentions as successes or failures on the basis of your little ego and its time
schedule. Put out your intention, and practice everything that’s written in
this chapter and in this book. and then let go. Create a knowing within,
and let the universal mind of intention handle the details. Step 8: Practice meditation, particularly the Japa meditation, to
attract ideal people and divine relationships. Practice the repetition of the
sound that is in the name of God as a mantra, literally seeing in your mind’s
eye the energy you’re radiating, bringing the people you desire into your
life. You will be astounded at the results. I’ve provided examples
throughout this book of how the practice of Japa meditation has helped
people manifest their dreams, almost like magic. Step 9: Look upon everyone who has ever played any role in your life
as having been sent to you for your benefit. In a universe peopled by a
creative, divine, organizing intelligence, which I’m calling the power of
intention, there are simply no accidents. The wake of your life is like the
wake of a boat. It’s nothing more than the trail that’s left behind. The wake
doesn’t drive the boat. The wake is not driving your life. Everything and
everyone in your personal history had to be there when they were. And
what’s the evidence for this. They were there. That’s all you need to know. Don’t use what transpired in the wake, or the wrong people who showed up
in your wake, as a reason why you can’t attract the right people today. It’s
your past. nothing more than a trail you’ve left behind. Step 10: As always, remain in a state of eternal gratitude. Even be
grateful for those whose presence may have caused you pain and suffering. Be thankful to your Source for sending them, and to yourself for attracting
them to you. They all had something to teach you. Now be grateful for
everyone God sends to your path, and know as a co-creator that it’s up to
you to either resonate with the high, loving energy of intention and keep
those like-energized people in your life, or to give them a silent blessing
and a pleasant no thank you. And the emphasis is on the thank you, for that
is true gratitude in action. In Lynne McTaggart’s fabulous book The Field: The Quest for the Secret
Force of the Universe, she offers us this scientific perspective on what I’ve
written in this chapter: “Our natural state of being is a relationship, a tango,
a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles
that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles
surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other. By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind
of super-radiance to the world. ” [Emphasis mine]
Through relationships with others and by using the power of intention,
we can radiate outward all of the energy necessary to attract what we desire. I urge you to move into this awareness now and know in your heart, just as
the farmer in Field of Dreams knew, that if you build this inner dream,
surely, it will come. OceanofPDF. comIT IS MY INTENTION TO:
OPTIMIZE MY CAPACITY
TO HEAL AND
BE HEALED
“No one can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and
thus offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another
what he does not have. And who can share what he denies himself. ”

— A Course in Miracles
Every single person on the planet has within them the potential to be a
healer. In order to make conscious contact with your inherent healing
powers, you must first make the decision to be healed yourself. As A
Course in Miracles reminds us: “Those who are healed become the
instruments of healing,” and “The only way to heal is to be healed. ” Thus,
there’s a twofold advantage in this intention to be healed. Once you’ve
accepted your power to heal yourself and optimize your health, you become
someone who’s capable of healing others as well. One of the many fascinating observations that David Hawkins made in
his book Power vs. Force is the relationship between a person’s calibrated
level of energy and their capacity to heal. People who calibrated above 600
on his map of consciousness scale (which is an exceptionally high-energyscore indicating illumination and supreme enlightenment) radiated healing
energy. Disease, as we know it, can’t exist in the presence of such high
spiritual energy. This explains the miraculous healing powers of Jesus of
Nazareth, St. Francis of Assisi, and Ramana Maharshi. Their exceptionally
high energy is sufficient to counterbalance disease. As you read this, keep in mind that you too emanated from the highest
spiritual loving energy field of intention, and you have within you this
capacity. In order to fulfill the intention of this chapter, you must, as Gandhi
states in the quotation above, “be the change that you wish to see in others. ”
You must focus on healing yourself so you’ll have this healing ability to
offer others. If you reach a level of blissful illumination where you’re
reconnected to Source and are harmonized vibrationally, you’ll begin to
radiate the energy that converts disease to health. In St. Francis’s powerful prayer, he asks of his Source, “Where there is
injury, let me sow pardon,” meaning, allow me to be a person who gives
others healing energy. This principle has been repeated throughout the
pages of this book: Bring higher/spiritual energy to the presence of
lower/diseased energy, and it not only nullifies the lower energy, but
converts it to healthy spiritual energy. In the field of energy medicine where
these principles are being applied, tumors are bombarded with exceptionally
high-laser energy that dissolves and converts them to healthy tissue. Energy
medicine is the discipline of the future, and relies on the ancient spiritual
practice of being the change, or healing others by first healing ourselves. Becoming the Healing
Reconnect to the disease-free loving perfection from which you came is a
succinct statement of what the self-healing process requires. The universal
mind of intention knows precisely what you need in order to optimize your
health. What you must do is notice your thoughts and behaviors, which are
creating resistance, and interfering with healing, which is the flow of
intentional energy. Recognizing your resistance is something that’s entirely
up to you. You must dedicate yourself to this awareness so that you can
make a shift to pure healing intention. While I was on the treadmill at the gym yesterday, I talked to a gentleman
for five minutes, and in that brief span of time, he regaled me with a
laundry list of ailments, surgeries, heart procedures, diseases, and projected
joint replacements—all in five minutes. This was his calling card. Those
thoughts and recapitulations of bodily afflictions are resistance to the
healing energy that’s available. As I talked to the complaining man on the treadmill, I attempted to get
him to shift even momentarily away from his resistance to receiving healing
energy. But he was absolutely determined to wallow in his disabilities,
wearing them as a badge of honor, arguing vehemently for his limitations. He seemed to cherish and cling to his self-loathing for his deteriorating
body. I attempted to surround him with light and sent him a silent blessing,
congratulating him for doing a treadmill exercise as I moved on to my own
workout. But I was struck by how much of this man’s inner focus was on
disorder, disharmony, and disease as he related to his own body. Reading about the role of thoughts in reports of spontaneous recovery
from irreversible and incurable disease is fascinating. Dr. Hawkins, writing
in Power vs. Force, offers us this wisdom: “In every studied case of
recovery from hopeless and untreatable disease, there has been a major shift
in consciousness, so that the attractor patterns that resulted in the pathologic
process no longer dominated. ” Every case. Imagine that. And look at that
term attractor patterns:We attract into our lives through our level of
consciousness, and we can change what we attract. This is a very powerful
idea and the basis for accessing the power of intention not only in healing,
but in every area where we have desires, aspirations, and individual
intentions. Hawkins goes on to say that “in spontaneous recovery, there is
frequently a marked increase in the capacity to love and the awareness of
the importance of love as a healing factor. ”
Your intention in this chapter is facilitated by looking at the larger
objective of returning to your Source, and vibrating more in harmony with
the energy of the power of intention. That Source is never focused on
what’s wrong, what’s missing, or what’s sickly. True healing takes you back
to the Source. Anything short of this connection is a temporary fix. When
you clean up the connecting link to your Source, attractor patterns ofenergy are drawn to you. If you don’t believe that this is possible, then
you’ve created resistance to your intention to heal and be healed. If you
believe that it is possible, but not for you, then you have more resistance. If
you believe you’re being punished by the absence of health, that’s also
resistance. These inner thoughts about your ability to be healed play a


les worth of boiling
water (or 6-8 cups)1. Pour a kettle full of boiling water down the drain (roughly 3-4 cups)
2. Sprinkle 1 cup of baking soda down the drain, shaking it back and
forth as you pour so it doesn’t just go straight down, but gets on the
sides of the drain as well. 3. Pour ½ cup of vinegar down the drain and wait until the bubbling has
subsided. When it stops,  another 3-4 cups of boiling hot water down
the drain. 289Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Drain CleanerY ou will need… DirectionsHave you ever heard the saying “Minnesota nice?” Well let me tell you-
Minnesota is not nice. Oh the people are lovely, but this state makes
every winter as mean and harsh as it possibly can, and part of that
means sucking any and all moisture out of the air. The result for me is
hair that looks like I’ve been electrocuted on a daily basis, and two dogs
and horse that look at me like I am the wickedest person alive when I
accidently give them a shock. But even if you don’t have a one thousand pound animal getting jumpy
around you, you still probably don’t like static, especially when it fills
your clothes. That moment when you go out in public and then realize
a sock (or worse-underwear) is clinging to your back? Or you pull a shirt
over your head and your hair looks like you just got struck by lightning? It’s no fun. I don’t use fabric softener during the warmer months, but
come wintertime, it’s vital for me. In addition to reducing static, these
softeners also do their job just as their name implies and leave fabric
soft and snuggly. Fabric softener works by coating the fibers of clothes with a thin layer of
lubricant chemicals that make the fibers feel smooth and prevent static
electricity from building up. There’s a much more detailed explanation of
what exactly is going on, but that’s the gist of it.Fabric Softener
-If your clothes are still static-y,
after your put them on, run over
the problem spot(s) with the long
side of a rust-free wire hanger. The metal diffuses any built up
static charge instantly. 290Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingThis recipe isn’t any great secret-its vinegar, water, hair conditioner (optional) and essential oil. Vinegar is an
amazing all-purpose cleaner, and the core of the many homemade cleaners that I use. In this fabric softener it
works as the vinegar’s hydrogen ions bind to negatively charged ions on the outside of the fiber, neutralizing
their charge. The water isn’t needed unless you add the conditioner-I usually opt out of the conditioner as I try to
steer clear of as many chemicals as possible, but it does add a little extra something if you want to use it.Liquid Fabric Softener
-3 cups of white vinegar
-5-8 drops of your favorite
scented essential oil
-If you are using it, add 1 1/2 -2
cups of hair conditioner and 6
cups of water1. Get a container that seals well and add 3 cups of white vinegar before
putting in a few drops of essential oil. Give it a stir, seal it off, and keep it
in a cool dark place out of direct sunlight. It will keep for up to a year. 2. If you decide to use the conditioner, mix it in a pot with 6 cups of
water and warm it over the stove briefly, stirring constantly, until well-
blended. 3. Add ¼-½ cup to an average size load with conditioner, and ½-1 cup if
you are just using the vinegar. 291Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Fabric SoftenerY ou will need… DirectionsI think I may prefer the crystal/powder form of fabric softener-it was the first variety I ever made, and it’s
probably the one I use the most today. It only requires salt, essential oil, and baking soda. It does help with static
a little, but not quite as much as the liquid softener.Fabric Softener Crystals
-2 cups of Epsom salt of
course sea salt
-20-30 drops of your favorite
essential oil or blend of scents
-1/2 cup of baking soda
-A marker
-A container with a tightly
fitting lid1. Mix together salt and your favorite essential oil. 2. Add baking soda and stir until everything is completely blended. Store in a labeled container with a tightly fitting lid out of direct sunlight. 3. Use 2-3 tablespoons and toss in with your clothes before starting the
wash. Put directly in the drum with the load. 292Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Fabric SoftenerY ou will need… DirectionsAll you need to make your own dryer sheets is a batch of the above powder fabric softener!Dryer Sheets
-1 batch of powder fabric
softener
-2 soft, clean, cotton cloths (I
use small dishcloths)1. Run each cloth under water and wring out excess liquid. 2. Lay one side of the cloth in the powder, pressing it in a little with your
fingertips, and then flip and repeat with the other side. Shake off any
excess powder and toss in the dryer with your clothes. 3. Repeat with the other cloth. 293Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Fabric SoftenerY ou will need… DirectionsMost people know they want a sparkling clean, perfectly polished floor,
but what very few people know is that you really don’t need anything
fancy (or toxic) to get the results you want. Truly. These floor cleaners
take a little extra elbow grease, but work beautifully.Floor Cleaner
Mild Mop
-If you have a truly sticky spot on
your floor, use an abrasive cleaner
before using the vinegar spray. 294Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingThis mild mop mixture contains nothing more than vinegar, peppermint essential oil, and water. If you have a
really dirty floor, let the solution sit for 15 minutes or so (after testing a small part of the floor first) or toss on
some baking soda for those truly sticky smudges. Mild Mop
-1 cup of distilled water
-1 cup of white vinegar
-15-20 drops of peppermint
essential oil
-A mop or rag
-Baking soda (optional)1. Mix vinegar, water, and the essential oil in a spray bottle and shake
well. 2. Spray onto the floor and let it sit for up to 15 minutes before scrubbing
with a mop or rag. 295Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Floor CleanerY ou will need… DirectionsThis is almost more of a scrub than a cleaner, and utilizes liquid soap to give it an extra boost. This can also
double as a tile/tub cleaner.Extra Tough Floor Cleaner
-1 ¼ cups baking soda
-1/2 cup liquid castile soap
-White vinegar
-1/3 cup water
-Peppermint essential oil
-A spray bottle1. Mix baking soda, soap, peppermint oil, and water. Pour into a spray
bottle and squirt onto the floor, and scrub. 2. Rinse with scented vinegar diluted with warm water to get rid of any
baking soda or soap residue. 296Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Floor CleanerY ou will need… DirectionsFor those of us who need to smell pine to feel like something is truly clean.Pine Scrub
-1 cup liquid castile soap
-1/8 cup water
-20 drops of pine essential oil1. Mix together water, soap, and essential oil. 2. Shake well, apply to the surface that needs cleaning, and scrub with
the rough back of a sponge. Rinse with scented vinegar if you have a
hard time getting all the soap off. 297Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Floor CleanerY ou will need… DirectionsI love glass in all its forms, especially the big windows that let sunlight stream into our homes. I am a huge fan
of natural light, and can’t have enough windows in a room, but they are sadly fragile, and extremely prone to
smudging and clouding. Let me elaborate on that smudging bit-I have two dogs. Two big, mushy-faced dogs
that like nothing better than to stare out the windows-breathe on them, press their big wet noses up against
them, and lick them (don’t ask me why on that last part.) This results in some serious crusting and smudging. But
the last thing I want to do is reach for store bought cleaner. I despise using it, and I know my pups are going to
be right back at smooshing their faces up against the glass when I am done cleaning, and I don’t want that on
their precious mugs. So I needed an alternative-something that would get the goobers off, but not harm my four-
legged children- and discovered that this natural glass cleaner does a better job than any I’ve used before. Even
better than how well it works is that when I use this, I no longer have to worry about my window-lickers window-
licking. They are free to smudge and smoosh away and I will carry on with peace of mind to clean my windows
again…and again…and again. This recipe contains a


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1976. XVI. Tissue transfonttations over
BCEC in cancer of the breast
Radiographic demonstration in the lung of corona
structures raises the important question of their possi·
ble demonstration in other organs. The variety of
pathological conditions in which pulmonary corona
structures appear indicates that these structural
changes are not specific to particular pulmonary dis·
eases. Nevertheless, the structural changes are suffi·
ciently characteristic to suggest a specific type of reac·
tion in tissue. The lungs happen to be a favourable organ for
radiologic examinations because air provides excellent
contrast with intrapulmonary structures of radiogra
phic water density. The female breast is a similarly
favoured organ, except that fat is the component pro·
viding contrast with the structures of radiographic
water density. Our mammographic collection was therefore re·
viewed to see if tissue changes in the female breast,
similar to those in lung, could be found. Even a brief
review of a series of routine mammograms of breast
carcinomas showed structural changes easily recogniz·
able as similar to corona suuctures around lung le·
sions. A number of structural changes around carcinomas
of the brc.ast have been well described, i.e., radiating
structures, '"skin thickening ", skin retraction and mi-crocalcifications (2, 6, 14, 19, 21, 30, 31, 38, 41, 42,
48, 49, 55, 60, 66, 67, 82). The presence of these
particular structural alterations, however, lacks as yet
a fully acceptable explanation. In part they are even
interpreted incorrectly. Moreover, this chapter idcnti·
fics additional radiographi cally visible structures
around breast cancers, similar to those around lung
cancers. These changes have, to the author's know·
ledge, not been described previously and consist of the
radiolucent "A" zone, the formation of archt$ and arcades
and the presence of circularly arranged structures in the
tissue surrounding certain cancers. Also corresponding
to the corona complex in the Uung are radiating fibrous
srnwurts, skin thickening and skin retraction. We wiU
therefore start to make an inmxluctory identification
of structural components of the corot~a complex of the
breast. Their development and significance will be the
subjt'Ct of further analysis later in this chapter. The mammognphic images shown in this chapter
are all made with compression technique, except for
the xcroradiographs, which do not require compres·
sion. Some of the radiographically demonstrable changes
in tissue around a breast cancer are shown in Fig. XVI: I. Thin radiatit~g structures extend perpendicular·
ly to the surface of the tumour, a "radiolucem" zone is
BCEC in cancer of the breast 203 Fig. XV I: I. Corooa structures around a ductal breast caret·
noma (62-year·old woman). (a) Thin radiating structures
emerge from the surface of the tumour. (b) The same tU·
mour (different exposure aod projection ) shows calcification,
a peritwnoural radiolucent ''A" zone (dark "halo" around
the tumour), so-called skin thickening (corresponding 10 a
hydropic "8" zone), skin retraction and circularly arranged
$tructu~ s (arrow)at the periphery of the radiolucent "A"
zone. adjacent to the tumour and calcijicatio" is in the ru·
mour. In many other cases scattered microcalcifications
are presem. These morphologi c changes in cases of
breast cancer are often accompanied by what is called
thickening and local retraction of the ski11 (Fig. XVI: I b),
which represents a special case of a "B" zone. Some of the radiographically demonstrable coronal
changes in breast cancer are also shown in the xcrora·
diograph in Fig. XVI: 2. A radiolucent zone 2-3 mm
broad surrounds the carcinoma. Many thin radiating
structures extend from the surface of the tumour into
the surrounding breast tissue. The skin adjacent to the
tumour also appears thickened and retracted toward
the cancer. Some microcalcifications were also found
histologically in th.is tumour after mastectomy. As in the lung, corona structures in the breast ac·
company a wide variety of pathologic conditions. Dif·
ferent morphologic observations have been the subject
204 BCEC in cancer of the breast of many fruitless attempts in the past to obtain "reli·
able" diagnostic or radiologic signs of malignancy,
especially in lesions of the breast and lung. Radiogra·
phic demonstration of mammary microcalcifications,
when present in groups of more than 10 particles, has
been considered specific for malignancy (52). "Malig·
nant microcalcifications " are, however, not specific for
malignancy (14, 55). Microcalcifications remain useful
in the mammographic analysis of possible carcinoma
of the breast but their demonstration can no longer be
regarded as pathognomonic of cancer. Similar statemeots can in the author's opinion be
made about many other diagnostic signs in current
use, e.g., radiating fibrous structures, "skin thicken·
ing" and retraction, increased calibre of mammary
vessels and local increase of temperature in the breast. As long as the pathogenesis of these different
changes in tissue remains unclear, attempts to evaluate
their diagnostic and biologic significance will continue
as gropings in the dark. Final proofs of all possible correlat ions between the
observed structural changes around tumours and che.ir
underlying pathophysiology are an impossibility to
present at this time. Nevertheles s, the author hopes
that the evidence from breast lesions, just as from lung
lesions, will focus the reader's attention on the ability
of the concept of activated, biologically closed electric
circuits (BCEC) tO explain structural development in
tissue injury and particular ly around cancers. Like lung cancers, cancers of the breast vary in their
radiographic appearance. One or several of the radio
graphic signs shown in Figs. XVI: I and 2 may be
absent. It is understandab le that variations in the ap
pearance of the tissue around breast tumours have for
a long time been thought to depend on such factors as
the structural or cellular rype of the tumour. Evidence to be: pre-sented in this chapter suggests
that locally polarizing injuries inside a breast carcino
ma act through a BCEC to induce morphologic
changes both inside and outside the cancer. Such in·
juries are commonly encountered in tissue as nonspeci·
fie degrading processes, including inside malignant
tumours. Degradation of tissue can be looked on as
nonspecific, but it still must be regarded as a h.igbly
specific part of • biologic cycle. It represent s the final
phase of living cellular structures. Often it also repre·
sents the beginning of integration of material and encr·
gy into new structures. BCEC systems enable morphology to be regarded as
a manifestation of ongoing physiologic events. As long
as morphology is regarded statically, our possibilities
to understand morphologic variability will be stunted. Electric polarization in breast tumours will now be
described. Correlations will be shown to be possible
between certain morphologica l changes of brt-ast lc·
sions and their electric properties. Fig. XVI: 2. Corona structures around a breast carcinoma
(68-ycar-old woman, xm>radiognpb expoeed without rom
pr<$Sion of the breast). Radiating structures extend pupen-
A. Electric polarization in
breast cancer
In the breast, as well as in the lung or any mher tissue,
any local injury, e.g., focal bleeding or necrosis


! It compels  your  Freedom! It is not
a matter  of can It be accomplished;  but  It does  compel  It
at your  Call! Now  will  you  not accept  This  tonight  in Its Fulness? With  GREAT  FIRMNESS  set about  your  application,
knowing  It cannot  fail. Then,  it only  means  a sufficient
amount  of your  application  to produce  the results  you  re-
quire. Do not waver  in your  application. Go on, and  on, and
on, until  results  are there. I tell you that  you  cannot  fail! All
the Ascended  Ones  tell you  the same  thing,  because  of Their
Own  Achievement! If you  let your  feeling  world  resist,
then  you  but delay  your  Freedom;  but if you  will  call your
Presence  to give  you  now,  the Full  Feeling  of Its Victory,
your  Victory—then,  do you  not see how  quickly,  you  will
enter  into  the Fulness  of Its Power? Joyous,  Wonderful  is the Privilege  within  your  grasp! 56 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
Do not give  way  to human  concepts,  to human  impulses
which  would  say to you:  "Oh  no, no, you  are just deceiving
yourself,  you  are not  gaining  the  Victory  you  think  you
are." That  is what  your  human  intellect  would  say to you. Then  you  say to it: "You  have  no power! No longer  do you
govern  my world! You  have  led me into  limitations  for the
last time! Now  then  step  aside! Get  out of my way! "I AM"
going  into  the Light! "I AM"  going  into  the Light!" The
Life that  enables  you  to speak  Those  Words,  is the Power
which  carries  you  forward  to Victory  in the Light! There
is naught  which  can  stay  your  progress—naught  that  can
stay the Expansion  of your  Light! Stand  firm  and  unyield-
ing! Know  your  Victory  is Certain! Why? Because  God,
the "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  which  is beating  your  Heart
and giving  you  Life  is your  Certain  Victory! Naught
in the world  can  prevent  It—not  even  your  own  human
creation! Remember,  one-third  of your  accumulation  of the cen-
turies  has been  dissolved  and  consumed  for you! One-third
of your  probation  is set aside! Oh,  can you  not,  will  you  not,
accept  THAT  in the  Fulness  of what  It means  to you? Try,  for one  moment,  to comprehend  what  It means! Ask
your  Presence  to give  you  the Full  Comprehension  of what
It means  to you;  of the Great  Assistance  which  is being
given;  of the Great  Cosmic  Light  which  makes  all possible
for you  now. In the great  quantity  of disembodied  intelligences  which
are being  taken  out of the atmosphere  of Earth,  you  will DISCOURSE  VIII  57
be Greatly  Blest. That  could  not be done  before. Will  you
not with  Me,  try in My Radiance,  to comprehend  the Vast-
ness of this? Oh,  the Limitless  Assistance  being  given  to
mankind! It is as your  people  say in California—so  "Un-
usual" ! Beloved  Ones,  enter  into  This  Comprehension  now
—as I utter  Those  Words! Feel  It! Enter  into  your  compre-
hension  so It may  act within  your  world  All-powerfully! I rejoice  that  I have  been  able  to render  you  and  your
city This  Service  and  how  far reaching  It is. Will  you  not
enter  into  it Individually,  and  in your  Groups,  sustaining
the Greatest  Harmony  possible? I do not  ask  you  to be
wholly  Perfect;  but I do ask you  to maintain  Harmony  In-
dividually  and  in your  groups;  so the Completeness  of This
which  is now  set into  operation,  may  claim  Its Great  Vic-
tory before  the end  of this  year! We  are doing  everything
possible  for your  Assistance  and  for your  city. It seems  to
Me all, every  one  in your  city,  should  be willing  to accept
Our Assistance  and  co-operate  with  It, to the Fulness  of all
It means  to you. Oh, how  great  is the  Rejoicing  of the  Great  Host  of
Light;  because  so many  of mankind  are  understanding
This  Great  Presence;  calling  It into  action  for the Blessing
of all. For your  encouragement,  this  morning  in Europe,  a
Transcendent  Miracle  was  performed. I doubt  not you  will
see mention  of it in your  papers. Go on, and  on, and  on,
Beloved  Ones,  in your  Mighty  Call  to your  Presence;  in
your  Mighty  Decrees,  flooding  the  mental  and  feeling
world  of mankind  with  Our  Great  Perfection;  for the Call 58 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
in Those  Decrees  which  are sent  forth  like  a rocket,  does  do
Its Perfect  Work. Great,  Great  is your  Privilege  in giving  This  Assistance  to
America  and  the World! Glorify  yourselves  as you  feel the
Transcendent  Privilege  which  is yours! Tonight,  while
These  Words  are being  spoken  to you,  the Final  Activity  is
being  given  for your  Freedom,  if you  will  accept  It. There  are many  of you  who  have  seemed  to have  the
appearance  of age,  who  can transform  yourselves  in a short
time. Won't  you  try it, knowing  that  your  Life  only  requires
Harmony  in your  feeling,  to Beautify,  Perfect  and  bring
back  to your  form,  its youth  and  beauty ? It is not vain  to
wish  to be beautiful,  in order  to express  Perfection. It is not
vain  to have  a form  of Perfect  Health,  to respond  to your
desire  for Service  to the  Light  and  produce  Perfection! Mankind  just  lost  the way  and  now  is finding  It again,  in
Our Home  of Eternal  Perfection,  the "Mighty  I AM." To-
night,  let us think  of it, as a Great  Home  Coming. Forget
this building,  your  old world  for a moment. FEEL  you
have  entered  into  This  New  World,  where  all the buildings
are Beautiful  and  Perfect;  where  there  is Happiness  and
all good  things. Then  in THAT  FEELING,  charge  your
feeling  world  with  Its Reality,  Eternally  Sustained. As you
go into  the outer  world  again,  you  will  find  Completeness,
Abundant  Supply,  soon  finding  its appearance  in your
world  and  use. Call often  on the Law  of Forgiveness  for all mistakes,  and
then  say:  "Beloved  Mighty  I AM  Presence! thru  your DISCOURSE  VIII  59
Mighty  Violet  Consuming  Flame,  wipe  out all memory,  all
appearance  of mistakes  which  has  found  action  in my
world." See how  soon  changes  will  take  place;  and  in the
place  of that  which  has been  disturbing  and  terrifying,  will
come  Peace  and  Rest  which  passeth  understanding. Then,
out of the Presence  will  pour  everything  you  require. It is
a Law  of your  Being. It cannot  fail! You are the Decreer  of your  world! Decree  Its Perfection! Turn  your  attention  where  Perfection  is, and  Perfection


  in the
human  form  with  such  Obedience,  such  Joy and Happiness
in their  feeling  world;  such  Harmony  maintained,  that
quickly  the Power  of Light  will  bring  into  their  experience,
the Evidence  which  satisfies  anyone—even  the most  skepti-
cal—of  the Povyer  of Light,  to set them  Free  and give  them
the Freedom  which  is their  due"! I thank  you. DISCOURSE  XXII
August  21, 1938
OAKLAND,  CALIFORNIA
Out of the Glory  of all the Presence  of Life  holds  for
you tonight,  I greet  you  in the Name,  Power  and  the Sub-
stance  of Light. Come  with  Me  into  Our  Great  Octave  of Light,  and
while  These  Words  are voiced  to you,  allow  Me to assist
you thru  the Power  of your  comprehension,  to realize  man-
kind  entering  the Gateway  of Freedom. The  Power,  the
Glory  of all which  Life  has so long  wanted  to release  into
your  worlds,  is beginning  to have  the opportunity. It does  not matter  how  much  you  want  a thing  brought
into physical  manifestation,  if you do not comply  with  the
Law  of Life  which  produces  it, still  you  do not have  it! Therefore,  tonight,  It is My Joy to render  a Service  for you,
and at the same  time  render  a Service  for your  city;  for
since  you  are citizens  of Oakland  and  have  your  homes
here,  then  you  need  more  than  just  your  Individual  Free-
dom,  do you not? You  need  the environmental  conditions
which  make  for your  happiness. Beloved  Students,  remem-
ber in all you  call forth  for yourselves,  call forth  the Har-
mony,  Perfection  and  Out-pouring  of Light  from  the
PRESENCE  OF  ALL  LIFE,  TO  YOUR  CITY. In every  city  where  there  are a thousand  or more  stu-
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dents,  those  students—if  they  but realized  it—could  by the
issuing  of these  Mighty  Decrees  and  calling  to the Presence
of Life,  regulate  all conditions  in the city  Harmoniously
and Perfectly! You  don't  see that  yet,  but I assure  you,  We
have  proved  it time  and  again! Therefore,  in coming  into  your  city  for the first  time,
to establish  the Mighty  Out-pouring  of Light  here;  to see
the earnestness  with  which  you  have  sent  forth  these
Mighty  Decrees;  and  the determination  and  steadfastness
of it, you  could  no longer  be denied. Please  understand  Me,  when  I say  to you,  that  when
Life within  you  calls,  do you  really  realize  what  It means ? You think  you  call of your  outer  volition. That  is true,  but
what  is it which  enables  you  to call? It is the Intelligence,
the Energy,  the Power  you  use,  Life  in Its All-powerful  Ac-
tivity! Then,  It is Life  which  is calling. Suppose  an emergency  suddenly  appears  in your  Life  and
with  very  great  earnestness  and  intensity,  you  make  the
Call for help,  for assistance,  for release,  for supply;  then  is
it not Life  which  is making  that  Call,  even  thru  your  outer
volition ? I say to you,  Beloved  Ones,  when  you  understand
all which  acts  thru  you  is the Power  of Life;  then  you  see
and know,  you  are the Director. You  must  be the Director
of your  energy,  your  Life. The  energy  itself  will  not  dis-
criminate  as you  call  it forth;  but  when  you  call  your
"Mighty  I AM  Presence"  into  action,  Love,  Wisdom  and
Power  are acting  in balanced  form. Therefore,  whether  you  outwardly  understood  the  ful-322 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
ness of all which  was  required  or not,  your  motive  under-
lying  would  be correct. It would  be right. When  you  un-
derstand  the Presence  of Life  will  not  release  energy  any
longer  for destructive  purposes;  then  you  will  understand
why  all destructive  creations  of Individuals  or conditions,
are rapidly  becoming  helpless,  to further  interfere  with  or
intrude  upon  mankind,  to limit  or disturb  longer. The Great  Cosmic  Light  which  is steadily  being  re-
leased  to the physical  world,  is doing  a Work  words  fail
utterly  to express. Only  as you  would  see with  the  All-
Seeing-Eye  within  you,  could  you  comprehend  what  I
mean,  because  words  do not convey  it. Yet,  I say to you,  the
achievement  of the past  six months—in  the Calls  of the Be-
loved  Students  all over  America  and  the World,  is a Service
unparalleled  in the history  of the Earth. As We,  in the  first  meeting  here,  established  these
Mighty  Currents  of Energy  for you  individually,  for your
city;  and  for all that  is required  here,  We want  you  to feel
all One. San  Francisco,  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley  and
all the surrounding  environment,  won't  you  feel just ONE ? Won't  you  feel  a Great  Happiness  thru  harmonious  co-
operation  in all you  call forth ? To do that,  means  a Power
released  which  you  would  scarcely  comprehend  at this time. As you  are calling  for mankind's  Freedom  and  the Protec-
tion of America,  you  are rendering  a Service,  which  in-
tensifies  your  own  Individual  answer  to your  requirements
beyond  words  to explain. These  Mighty  Decrees,  We have  suggested  for the Bless-DISCOURSE  XXII  323
ing of mankind  and  the Protection  of America,  are first,
rendering  a Great  Service  to the whole  of mankind;  and
also rendering  a Great  Service  to your  environment;  which
must  produce  COMPLETE  HARMONY  and  the release
of all you  require  in your  Individual  life. You have  all understood  and  heard  it presented  from
various  angles,  it is more  blessed  to give  than  to receive. That  is quite  true,  if you  understand  what  you  are giving! Most  of you  interpret  that  to mean  money  alone;  or the
Out-pouring  of Love  and  Blessings  alone;  or health,
strength,  courage  and  all those  qualities  which  mankind
requires;  but  it is more  than  just  that. The  Call  to Life
means  Absolute  Freedom,  which  your  Mighty  Goddess  of
Liberty  represents  to America  and  the  World. You  will
remember  Those  Great  Ones  represent  to you  Freedom,
Victory  and  Peace. They  are more  than  just  a thought,  Beloved  Ones. Those
Beings  are Real! Those  Beings  have  Cosmic  Power  and
wield  Cosmic  Power! Therefore,  in all you  wish  to have
done,  They  are ready  and  willing  when  you  give  obedience
to Life;  to charge  your  feeling  world,  which  is your  Power-
house,  with  the Qualities  They  possess! The Mighty  Victory  is the Power  of Victory  in action
in your  feeling  world! The  Goddess  of Liberty  is the
Liberty  and  Glory  of Life! The  various  Other  Ones  are
Freedom  and  Peace. When  you  understand  what  the God-
dess