: 1 hour
Serves 2
2 tomatoes, skinned
2 red bell peppers, halved and seeded
2 cloves garlic, sliced
herbs
Skin the tomatoes.  Halve the peppers and remove the seeds (but not the stalks).  Place the
peppers skin-side down in a baking dish.  Place slices of garlic inside each pepper half and top
each with half a skinned tomato.  Bake covered at 3 50° F  (180° C) until tender and sweet  (about
1 hour ). Serve hot or cold, sprinkled with herbs.
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www.thegersonway.comPotato and Celery Root Lyonnaise
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 1-1/2 to 2 hours
Serves 2
1 small to medium onion, thinly sliced
similar amount of celery root, scrubbed (and, if necessary, peeled) and thinly sliced
1 medium potato, scrubbed and thinly sliced
water
Slice all the ingredients thinly. Arrange in layers (onion, celery root and, potato) in a small
soufflé dish. Add a very little amount of water. Bake for 1-1/2 to 2 hours at 325° F (170° C).
The top layer will get crisp while the lower layers should be soft. Serve with green vegetable of
your choice and a salad.
Potato Cakes
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 lb. potatoes
1 large carrot, thinly cut
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 stick of celery, chopped
oats
Parboil the potatoes in their skins until they are hot through  and just beginning to soften.  Put
through the food  mill. (This will also get rid of the skin.) Cut carrot into thin matchsticks.  Chop
the green pepper and celery.  Add these to the potato purée and form into small cakes.  Coat with
oats and bake in the oven  at 325° F (170° C) on a baking sheet sprinkled with oats to prevent
sticking.
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www.thegersonway.comPotatoes and Carrots, Westphalian Style
6-8 small (or 4-5 large carrots) carrots, sliced
3 medium (or 2 large) potatoes, peeled and sliced
1 large onion, chopped
3-4 tbsp. of soup stock
Slice carrots into pan. Peel and slice potatoes and chop onion. Add all together in pan with soup
stock (see “‘ Special Soup’ or ‘Hippocrates Soup ’” in Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and Juices—
The Basic Rules,” p. 106). Let simmer until done, adding a bit more soup stock, if necessary.
When done, no liquid should remain in pan.
Potatoes Anna
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 1 to 1-1/2 hours
Serves 2
onion, cooked
1 lb. potatoes, very thinly sliced
garlic, crushed
yogurt
parsley, finely chopped
Using a 10 -inch flan (or quiche) tin with  at least 1-inch sides, place a layer of cooked onions
(sweated by the Gerson® method, which is done in a covered saucepan over very low heat for
approximately 1 hour) on the bottom of the flan dish   Sprinkle with a little water to stop the
onions from sticking.  Very thinly slice the potatoes and layer them in the dish on top of the
onions.  Sprinkle with crushed garlic and some of the yogurt.  Add an additional two layers, again
sprinkling with garlic and yogurt.  Press down each layer and make sure the potatoes overlap
each other very slightly so there are no spaces.  Cover the dish (e.g., by using a base from a
larger loose-bottomed cake tin).  Bake at 350° F ( 180° C) for about 1 to 1 to 1-1/2 hours or  until
the potatoes feel soft when pierced with a knife.  Check the potatoes while cooking; if they look
too dry, add a little more yogurt.  To serve, turn the potato cake out of its dish and sprinkle with
finely chopped parsley.
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www.thegersonway.comPotato Puffs
baking potato
Take a baking potato and cut it into thin (1/2-inch) slices. Place the slices on the oven rack and,
without any addition, bake at high heat (425° F (218° C)) to puf f. Turn over and lower heat to
325° F (163° C) with oven door cracked open. Bake for another 20 minutes. The slices puff up
and become crisp and tasty, almost like fried potatoes. Done when shiny brown on both sides.
This is marginal food, so eat it occasionally.
Potato Salad
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. small new potatoes
large sprig of mint
1 tbsp. fresh parsley
Dressing:
4 oz. yogurt
little flaxseed oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
Scrub the potatoes and put in a saucepan with a little water.  Gently simmer until cooked but
still firm.  While the potatoes are still hot, slice them and put into a warm dish.  Pour over the
dressing. Finish by sprinkling fresh chopped mint and parsley.
Quick Bake Potatoes
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
potatoes
flaxseed oil
Cut potatoes in half lengthwise and score cut surfaces with diagonal lines crossing each other
(like lattice work).  They will cook in about half the time in the oven at 300-350 ° F (149-177 °
C); when cool enough,  the surfaces can be coated with flaxseed oil.
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www.thegersonway.comQuick Tomatoes and Zucchini
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
2 medium tomatoes, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/4 to 1/2 tsp. sugar (optional)
1 medium zucchini, sliced
Slice the tomatoes and place in the bottom of a saucepan,  along with the crushed garlic and
sugar (if using).  Slice the zucchini  and place on top.  Set on a gentle heat.  When the tomatoes
begin to cook, stir, cover and cook for about 20 minutes.
Ratatouille
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Serves 2-4
8 oz. onions, sliced
8 oz. green/red/yellow bell peppers, seeded and thinly sliced
8 oz. eggplant
4 tomatoes, chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
marjoram
Slice the onions and place in a baking dish.  Seed  and thinly slice the peppers. Add to the dish.
Cut the eggplant s in quarters lengthwise and then into 1/4 -inch slices, and add.  Chop the
tomatoes and finely chop the garlic clove. Add to the dish together with the apple cider vinegar.
Cook very gently in the oven at 3 25° F ( 170° C) until well done.  Can also be cooked on top of
the stove.
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www.thegersonway.comRed Cabbage
1/2 red cabbage, shredded
3 tsp. vinegar
3 large onions, chopped
2 bay leaves
a little soup stock
3 apples, peeled and grated
1 tsp. sugar
Combine cabbage, vinegar, onions, bay leaves and soup stock (see “‘Special Soup’ or
‘Hippocrates Soup’” in Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and Juices—The Basic Rules,” p. X) in a
pan. Stew over low heat for approximately 1 hour. At the 1/2-hour mark, add apples and sugar.
Red Cabbage and Apple Casserole
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/2 hours
Serves 2
medium red cabbage, shredded
apples (cook ing or green), sliced
ju


try
activation,
which
is
carried
out
in
homeopathy
-
the
so-called
potentiation.
The
essence
of
this
method
is
that
by
gradually
diluting
the
substance,
the
substance
itself
practically
disappears
and
only
its
principle
remains
at
the
polar
level.
For
example,
drugs
dissolved
in
distilled
water
in
a
ratio
of
1:1,000
or
1:100,000
retain
their
medicinal
properties.
It
even
turned
out
that
by
increasing
the
degree
of
dilution,
the
effect
of
the
drug
began
to
increase,
potentiate.
After
dilution
to
10
-23
not
a
single
original
molecule
remains
in
the
substance,
while
the
healing
effect
becomes
more
and
more
powerful.
So
for
urine,
your
experiment
with
homeopathy
will
look
like
this:
add
1
drop
of
quarter
urine
to
100
grams
of
distilled
water.
That's
one
dilution.
Then
shake
the
flask
with
the
liquid
10
times.
Next,
you
add
one
drop
from
this
flask
to
another
100
grams
of
distilled
water
as
in
the
first
dilution.
Shake
ten
times.
You
repeat
the
dilution
several
more
times.
If
we
are
to
believe
homeopathy,
the
result
will
be
a
liquid
identical
in
its
properties
to
a
biological
stimulator,
which
simultaneously
acts
on
all
organs
and
very
effectively.
It
is
necessary
to
start
from
small
dilution
multiples
and
gradually
reach
high
multiples.
At
the
same
time,
you
have
to
listen
to
your
body
and
monitor
the
changes
that
take
place
in
it
thanks
to
urinotherapy.
14)
Morning,
daytime,
evening
and
nighttime
urineIt
turns
out
that
there
are
significant
differences
between
these
types
of
urine.
a)
From
3
a.m.
to
3
p.m.,
the
acidic
phase
predominates
in
our
body,
and
from
3
p.m.
to
3
p.m.,
the
alkaline
phase.
That
is
why
the
first
urine
best
heals
various
wounds,
dissolves
tumors,
and
normalizes
the
body's
pH.
b)
Morning
urine
is
most
effective
because
it
is
saturated
with
hormones.
Two
hours
before
waking
up,
the
hypothalamus
is
activated,
followed
by
the
pituitary
gland
and
then
the
other
glands.
The
peaks
of
secretion
of
adrenal,
glycocorticoid,
thyroid,
pancreatic
and
gonad
juices
occur
in
the
early
morning
hours,
and
therefore
morning
urine
is
most
useful.
Never
miss
an
opportunity
take
advantage
of
this
fantastic
"hormonal
cocktail".
Morning
urine
is
especially
effective
in
women's
diseases
(drinking,
tampons),
because
it
relieves
pain
and
the
damaged
mucous
membrane
of
the
genital
organs
heals
better
after
it.
c)
In
the
second
half
of
the
day
and
in
the
evening,
urine
is
saturated
with
substances
from
food,
products
of
daily
metabolism.
It
can
therefore
be
used
as
nutrition.
At
night,
urine
is
excreted
from
your
diseases
(even
potential
ones)
and
you
should
take
it
in
the
morning,
an
odd
number
of
sips.
d)
Kidney
activity
changes
differently
during
the
day.
For
example,
water,
electrolytes,
nitrogen
exchange
products
are
excreted
in
the
morning
and
afternoon,
and
titrated
acids,
ammonia,
and
hydrogen
ions
are
excreted
at
night.
This
example
once
again
proves
that
night
urine,
which
is
secreted
immediately
after
waking
up,
is
best
suited
for
acidifying
the
body.
We
use
this
urine
in
all
cases,
both
for
the
treatment
of
diseases
and
for
prevention
and
strengthening
of
the
organism.
e)
Since
the
gradual
activation
of
individual
organs
takes
place
in
our
body,
the
quantity
and
quality
of
substances
contained
in
urine
also
change.
If,
for
example,
the
liver
is
active,
then
at
that
time
there
will
be
more
substances
produced
by
the
liver
(their
metabolites)
in
the
urine.
If
the
pancreas
is
in
action,
then
most
of
the
substances
produced
by
it
are
in
the
urine.
Therefore,
in
an
effort
to
normalize
and
heal
a
certain
organ,
we
must
know
the
time
of
its
activity,
collect
urine
at
that
time,
activate
it
in
one
of
the
mentioned
ways
and
use
it
during
the
functioning
of
the
relevant
organ.
Let's
say
you
have
a
stomachache
that
is
active
from
7
to
9
o'clock.
You
put
the
urine
collected
at
this
time
in
the
refrigerator
for
3-4
days
and
then
drink
it
warmed
to
body
temperature
or
use
it
for
poultices
again
from
7
to
9
o'clock.
This
is
how
you
cure
your
sick
stomach.
You
can
do
the
same
for
other
organs
as
well,
until
you
reach
100%
recovery.
15)
The
influence
of
diet,
thinking,
emotions
and
individual
body
structure
on
the
composition
of
urine
If
we
eat
more
protein-rich
food,
a
large
amount
of
urea
and
nitrogenous
substances
are
formed,
which
break
down
into
ammonia
and
give
the
urine
a
specific
smell,
in
this
case
rather
an
odor.
Therefore,
the
composition
of
the
food
is
the
most
important
factor
determining
the
taste
and
smell
can.
Food
containing
hemoglobin,
especially
meat,
darkens
a
person's
mind,
makes
it
his
character
explosive,
furious
like
a
predator.
The
author
has
tried
all
variants
of
a
diverse
diet
on
himself,
because
for
several
years
he
has
been
using
his
own
urine,
which
is
the
best
indicator
of
what
we
have
eaten.
The
most
healing
is
urine
after
consuming
natural,
unprocessed
products
such
as
fruits,
vegetables,
various
porridges,
nuts,
honey,
herbal
teas.
In
small
quantities,
in
the
right
combination,
you
can
also
eat
meat,
eggs,
potatoes
or
cottage
cheese.
That
is,
follow
the
principles
of
a
separate
diet.
The
worst
is
the
urine
of
the
refined,
salted,
unnatural
products


ant,	225–26
Ignorance,	46
Illusion,	108,	109,	121,	132
Images,	122,	123
Imagination,	128,	142,	157
Immortality,	29,	46
Impermanence,	120
Impressions,	231
India:
ambivalence	about	karma,	14
belief	in	reincarnation	in,	174,	184
bodhisattvas,	15
contradictory	spiritual	teachings,	12
parable	of	death,	1,	21–23,	35–36,	45–47,	55–57,	69–70,	81–83,	93–94,
107–9,	119–21,	139–41,	155–57,	169–70,	251–54
region	of	Devaloka,	161
seeing	life	flash	before	one’s	eyes	in,	9
Vedic	perspective,	16
view	of	afterlife	in,	2,	97
view	of	consciousness	in,	4,	5
view	of	eternity	in,	29
Infinity,	6,	16,	125
Information,	219–20,	226,	228,	233,	238,	239
Insects,	177–78
Insight,	12
Inspiration,	128,	142
Intellect,	144,	148,	215,	227
Intention,	114,	115
Inter-life	phase,	40
Internet,	255–56
Intuition,	128Islam,	96,	105,	229
Jahn,	Robert,	203–4
Japan,	96,	171
Jesus,	60–61,	63–65,	73,	84,	167,	260,	261
John	the	Baptist,	104
Joy,	149,	150,	164
Judaism,	61,	105
Jyotishis,	240
Karma:
binding	effect	of,	230
on	brain,	179–82,	184
and	reincarnation,	178–79,	183–86
and	soul,	9,	12,	14,	78–79,	171
unpredictability,	178–79,	188
and	wages	of	sin,	71–77
and	witnessing,	13
Karmic	debt,	72,	74
Karmic	suffering,	73
Kindness,	65,	66
Knowledge,	30,	42,	48
Koshas.
See
	Five	Koshas;
specific	Koshas
Krishnamurti,	J.,	231,	232
Language,	147
Laszlo,	Ervin,	205,	206,	210,	213,	220,	267,	270
Life	force,	144,	146–47
Life-forms,	200,	219
Life	story,	98
Light,	197–98,	205,	206
Local	events,	6
Lokas,	4,	29,	161,	185
Lomonte,	Cheri,	135
Loss,	141
Love:
and	bliss,	150
and	meaningful	life,	74
in	mind	field,	215
as	recognition	of	soul,	109
to	outwit	death,	32
universal,	67as	vibration,	10
Lucifer,	75
Luria,	Alexander,	177
Mahabhutas,	3,	261
Maha	samadhi,	253
Malignancy,	126
Manomaya	Kosha,	147,	150,	152–53
Mantra,	116
Materialism,	30,	42,	63,	193,	262–63
Matter,	198,	199,	201–6,	208,	213,	219
Maya	(goddess),	108,	109
McTaggart,	Lynne,	204,	267
Meaning,	90–91,	99,	160,	227,	231
Medications,	42
Meditation,	7,	95,	117
Memes,	228,	229,	230–31,	232,	269
Memory,	87,	113,	147,	176–77,	195,	220–22,	223,	238,	239
Metaphysics,	63,	194
Michelson,	Albert,	197
Mind:
addiction	to	repetition,	97
and	devata	effect,	164
extension	beyond	brain,	195,	215–36,	268
field,	218–24,	227,	228,	231–33,	243
fragmented,	232
and	freedom,	122
in	Indian	parable,	70
invisible	structure	of,	89–90
Manomaya	Kosha,	144,	147,	149,	150,	152–53
and	matter,	202–5,	213
observer	effect,	208–9,	210
parallels	in	universe,	200–201
and	pure	consciousness,	129
restricted	potential	of,	103
as	same	as	world	and	Karma,	188
thoughts	of,	187,	200,	219
Minimal	consciousness,	62
Moksha,	106,	122,	188
Mona	Lisa
,	158
Morgana,	Aimee,	217–18
Morley,	Edward,	197Movie	stars,	159–60
Musical	prodigies,	226
Muslims.
See
	Islam
Myths,	76,	142,	160,	220
Native	Americans,	171
Nature,	42,	146,	152,	179,	241
Near-death	experiences	(NDEs),	7,	37–43,	51,	52,	73,	84,	90,	122–26,	144,
176,	257–58
Nervous	system,	230
Neuron,	172,	180,	184,	221,	222,	241–42
Neuroplasticity,	222,	223
New	Age	movement,	104
Newton,	Sir	Isaac,	194,	198
Nietzsche,	Friedrich,	228
Nisargadatta	Maharaj,	263
Noncommital	people,	51–52
Nonresistance,	114
Nonviolence,	74
Numinous	creation,	142
Observation	without	judgment,	231,	233
Observer	effect,	163,	208–9,	210
Obsession,	13
Obsessive-compulsive	disorder	(OCD),	223–24
Open-mindedness,	52,	53,	114,	231–36
Out-of-body	experience,	176
Oversoul,	104
Oxygen,	200,	237,	241
Pain,	70,	97,	188,	235
Parables,	1
See	also
	Death,	Indian	parable	of
Paradise.
See
	Heaven
Parapsychology,	256
Passion	of	the	Christ,	The
	(movie),	105
Path,	99
Patterns,	211,	222
Pearce,	Joseph	Chilton,	225,	226,	256,	269
Perception,	116,	117,	122
Perennial	philosophy,	29
Persistent	vegetative	state	(PVS),	62,	63Personality,	83,	233,	235
Photon,	205,	207,	210–11
Physical	body,	5,	7,	27,	63,	87,	135,	144,	147–50,	152,	164
Physical	objects,	126–28,	131,	151–52
Physics,	197–99,	202,	205
Plants,	244
Pleasure,	46,	70,	97,	188,	235
Polygraph,	244
Powers,	113–17,	128
Prana,	144,	146,	149,	150
Pranayama	Kosha,	146–47,	152	[ck]
Prayer,	246–47
Projection,	159–64,	166
Proton,	212
Prozac,	223–24
Psychics,	110–12,	202–3,	242–43,	261–62
Punishment,	72,	75,	185
Pure	consciousness,	126,	127,	129,	135,	136,	141,	144,	149,	151
Puritanism,	104
Purpose,	99,	100,	114
Puthoff


 focus, and
move your attention to your heart. By going beyond, you strengthen the
habit of being aware until it becomes just as natural as being unaware.
WEDNESDAY
Being Here
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I am grounded in life’s inﬁnite potential.
I am grounded in life’s inﬁnite potential.
The eighth limb of Yoga, known as samadhi, is about being present,
right here, right now, with as much awareness as possible. You can think of
samadhi  as a deep dive into a state of silent awareness. It is an experience
of stillness amid the chaos around you.
But you and I crave experiences. We crave a little of the chaos,  as does
everyone. So what does samadhi  mean to us? Imagine Albert Einstein
stretched out on a sofa taking a nap. He isn’t thinking about physics; he
looks like anyone else taking a nap. But even asleep he has the awareness of
a genius, and the potential for great thoughts will be activated once more
when he wakes up. In other words, take away any single thought, and what
remains is far more valuable: the potential for deep awareness.
When you hear a voice in your head, its loudness or softness  doesn’ t
indicate how deep or expanded your awareness is. If you are new to playing
a music al instrument and you think, “I will play the piano,” the result is
going to be very different than if a famous virtuoso thinks, “I will play the
piano.” The difference is deter mined by samadhi, meaning that it takespractice to reach this level. Some fish stay near the surface of the ocean;
others live in its darkest depths. Likewise, your thoughts float up from the
level of awareness you have attained and often this is the result of how
much you practice going in and out of these transcendent states.
The benefits of samadhi  are revealed only through personal experience.
As your samadhi  deepens through meditation, the following changes
appear:
THE GIFTS OF SAMADHI
You are able to detect an underlying bliss in everything.
You appreciate your life more fully.
You gain satisfaction simply by being here.
You settle into silent awareness easily.
The outer world no longer dominates your life.
Mood swings decrease dramatically, bringing fewer highs and
lows.
You feel secure in who you are.
Though Royal Yoga bestows upon us priceless gifts, they are not
entirely welcome by the ego-personality, which thrives on emotional drama,
a consta nt stream of desires, a restless search for distraction, and an
avoidance of pain and fear. You can easily be persuaded that this whole
setup is preferable to the boring sameness of silent awareness. But that’s a
false conclusion. The deeper your samadhi, the more fulfilling your
existence becomes. You don’t have to change any aspect of your outer life.
Every experienc e, large or small, allows the light of awarene ss to shine
through.
Exercise
No matter what you happen to be doing or thinking, you are floating at
some level of samadhi. This isn’t something people are normally aware of,
but you can experience your level of awareness with the following exercise.Make a list of three things you like, three things you like a lot, and three
things you deep ly love. Perhaps a TV sitcom or a peanut butter cookie is
something you like, while going to the beach or playing chess is something
you like a lot, and your child or the music of Bach is something  you deeply
love.
Whatever you wrote down, you went to a different level of awar eness to
make your choices. You can verify this by taking each item of your list,
shutting your eyes, and experie ncing it inside as an image or feeling. The
intensity of something you casually like will be shallow comp ared to the
intensity of something you deeply love.
Therefore, simply by being here, which is common to everyone,  you are
expressing the infinite possibi lities of human awareness. This is what
samadhi  is here to show you.
THURSDAY
Three-in-One
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I am the creator of my personal reality.
I am the creator of my personal reality.
Each limb of Yoga gives you more control over some aspect of your
life, beginning with social interactions, emotions, ingrained conditioning,
thoughts, and, finally, your level of awareness. But just as a book on
anatomy is nothing like a living body, we don’t dissect our lives and place
each aspect in its own pigeonhole. Royal Yoga teaches you how to practice
control over this and that, but the whole enterprise would be useless unless
it came togethe r in complete mastery, the way a music student practices
exercises until the day arrives when she is a full-fledged artist, a master of
her instrument.The last three limbs of Yoga draw everything together, bringing  you to
full mastery. The term for full mastery is samyama, which means to “bind”
or “tie together” in Sanskrit. Samyama  is necessary because it unites the last
three limbs of Yoga into one process. The process can be dissected into
three parts as we have seen— dharana, dhyana, and samadhi —but they are
bound together and inseparable, which is why they are referred to as a
three-in-one. (Unwittingly, the Three Musketeers hit upon this in their cry
of “One for all, and all for one.”)
Further, common experience tells us that there have to be three elements
in every  experience: a knower, the object known, and the process of
knowing. Right now, you, the knower, are reading these words, which are
the object of knowledge, while the act of reading is the process of knowing.
You can remove the word reading  and substitute seeing  and hearing. The
five senses contain the same three elements. T o smell the fragrance of a rose
requires a perceiver to bend over it, the fragrance that wafts to his nose, and
the process of inhaling and absorbing the delicious fragrance.
Why do these three elements mean so much if they are present all the
time? Here lies the deepest secret of Royal Yoga. If knower, known, and
process of knowing are separate, your whole life will be led in separation,
but if they are united as three- in-one, then you have attained unity. You
have reached the womb of creation, and from here you can create your own
reality any way you choose. That’ s a breathtaking possibility, which is the
main reason it takes the eight limbs of Yoga to get there. Becoming the
creator of your personal reality is too far a reach unless you approach it one
step at a time.
On our journey we’ve encountered the countless drawbacks and
problems that arise from living in separation. Let me offer a brief reminder
of them.
In separation, the vrittis, or mental obstacles, block the light.
Outer events overshadow your life.
Moods and emotions pull you this way and that.
The constant restless activity of the mind is inescapable.Maya throws up a screen of illusion.
The stream of either/or choices never ends.
Karma, the residue of the past, limits what you can do in the
present.
In an ideal life, none of these drawbacks and limitations exist. They
vanish because what created them in the first place—the state of separation
—has vanished. In Royal Yoga there is one healing for all. It consists in
reaching unity consciousness, which is another way of expressing the state
of three-in-one.  I must undersc ore that unity consciousness isn’t exotic,
mystical, or out of reach. Every time you have an experience, the three
elements of knower, known, and process of knowing automatically come
together. The difference with samyama  is that you are aware of what’s
going on and can control it.
To put it another way, existence can take care of itself. If you think, feel,
and act from a deeper, more expanded level of awareness, everything you
would like to control is able to take care of itself. You are the co-creator of
your reality, however, not its sole creator. That role belongs to creative
intelligence as it flows in, around, and through you.
Exercise
As you undertake the practices of Royal Yoga, you correct the
difficulties that arise from living in separation until they are gone entirely.
Unity conscious ness is built from small steps; it dawns as a completely
unique state all its own. Glimpse s of it are given in rare experien ces we call
“epiphanies” and “revelations,” which come of their own accord and are
totally unpredictable. We have no control over them, and no exercise can
duplicate one.
However, you can promote your evolution to unity consciousness by
taking time to read about someone else’s epiphany. The New Testament, the
Sufi poetry of Rumi, and the ecstatic poems of Rabindranath Tagore were
my first touchst ones of epiphany, and I still turn to them regularly. Theyprovide inspirat ion of a special  kind by conveying a taste of what unity
consciousness feels like. Vicario us revelation has its own genuine feeling of
transcending the everyday world and going into the light.
Today take a little time to inspire yourself by going back to your own
touchstones, the things that


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My First Water Fast

"Our parents had passed away and I was able to do pretty much as I pleased.... After a few hours
of shivering from the cold winds blowing in on my wet body, sure enough within a few hours, I
developed chills, followed by a fever..."

From 1936 to 1939 a friend of mine who had been diagnosed as having heart disease had been staying home and
avoiding work. Fearful of straining his hea rt.
In 1939 he visited a Naturopath who told him that his diagnosis was wrong, that the pain he experienced was due to
gas-pressure against the heart from faulty diet.
The doctor put him on an exclusive orange juice diet for 10 days which resulted in a cur e of his condition and the end
of his invalidism.

I asked my friend to get the name of the doctor who wrote on this subject of Natural Hygiene from this Naturopath,
and the names he recommended were Wm. Howard Hay and Rasmus Alsaker.
I immediately went to  the N.Y. Public Library reading room on 42nd Street, N.Y.C., and read all of their books.
These books referred to about 6 doctors who practiced natural healing and drugless medicine.
While reading the writings of Dr. John H. Tilden, one of 6 doctors, I was startled by his statement that all colds, fevers
and influenzas were nature's attempt to eliminate toxins and free the body of so -called disease.
Could this really be true, I pondered? If so, this radical and shocking fact changed the whole face of dis ease as a
beneficent attempt of Nature to take care of her children and protect them from harm, as opposed to the idea that
these illnesses were caused by bacteria and microorganisms.

I went home that day determined to find out if this was true.
I was 19 years old at the time, living with a sister and 2 younger brothers (our parents had passed away) and was
able to do pretty much as I pleased.
I devised an experiment to test this theory.
It was winter at the time. One night I took a hot bath, opened the wi ndows of my private bedroom wide and laid my
wet body on a plastic waterproof cover I had put over the bed. I was trying to catch a cold or flu, after which I would go
on a water fast to see if it worked as a quick healing and cleansing agent, as used by D r. Tilden in his sanitarium.

After a few hours of shivering from the cold winds blowing in on my wet body, sure enough within a few hours, I
developed chills, followed by a fever, great weakness and prostration.
I stayed in bed 3 days and nights, sleeping  constantly and had no foods or liquids, after which my strength returned
and I felt better than I ever did before. I had lost 10 lbs in the 3 days and I was so inspired and elated by the discovery
of this great, new healing system, that I continued on the  water fast for a total of 10 days.
Then I became a lacto -vegetarian, and began a new life, forever free from all fear of disease. Now I was convinced
that disease was a healing process.

 In the course of my life afterwards, I have always been my own doct or and in the 3 times I had influenza during my
lifetime, I always went on a fast, and the flu NEVER failed to disappear after 3 days. This radical experiment changed
my life forever.

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Another interesting phenomena which I have experienced is, that on 3 occasions in my lifetime, whenever I had a
dead or abscessed tooth causing inflammation and facial swelling, I invariably went on a water fast, and within 13 to
18 days  the dead tooth fell out by itself. Naturally and painlessly.
The dentists I told this to were amazed and said they never heard of this. Yet I saved these teeth as proof of Nature
being able to handle all conceivable physical problems.
Stanley S. Bass, Apr il 12, 1994

 (Note: resting in bed while fasting is much preferable.)  The picture shows me in 1956
on the
38th day of a water fast, while
working. My weight is 158 lb.

Interview with Dr. Bass:
What is important to know before ones first fast?
Fasting is an ancient method, that is usually unequalled in speed and success for many hard -to-reverse diseases. But there are
precautions:
If your body is deficient in something, e.g. minerals, for best results an extended fast (over 9 days) should be avoided. Vegans
can be deficient in proteins and fat. This is a major reason why supervision during your first fast is recommended.
It is usually best to start with a short fast (with bed -rest), then be on a good diet for a couple of months to let the body  build health
and strength, while removing its deficiencies. Then have a second fast of equal length or slightly longer, then a good diet a gain.
In this way you'll avoid possible complications. Breaking the fast in a proper way is also very important.
Dr. Gian -Cursio observed migrating birds falling dead from the sky over New York on many occasions. Since these birds were
fasting, his conclusion was that polluted air, as well as other toxins, can complicate fasts, and that there are times when y ou
shouldn't  do a long fast. Dr. Cursio set a limit of maximum 9 days for fasting and recommended fasting in an unpolluted
environment.
In the old days it was pretty easy and safe to go on a long water -fast.
Nowadays with all food additives, dangerous artificial fats and trans -fats, and potent drugs - all of which may have damaged
people severely - it has become more difficult. E.g. almost all bakeries (and candy and ice cream makers) now use dangerous
cheap artificial fats. Antibiotics can have damaged peoples immune systems. (Example: detoxification of antibiotics during fasting
can give temporary very high fevers.)  Actually it wouldn't surprise me if we within 20 years will get an enormous wave of my stery
deaths, due to the low -quality foods and detrimental drugs we  now give our children.

Also it is better to stay in bed, every day of the fast, with lots of sleep. When it comes to length I think a 10 day fast wi th bed -rest
is better than a 30 -day fast without bed -rest. Almost the only thing you get on a long fast while working is the weight loss, but you
don't get the healing. I would not recommend ANY fast while working, long or short, except possibly the first 2 or 3 days, th at's all.

How should I break the fast?
Correctly ending a fast is extremely important. S ince the stomach and digestive system have been taking a well -deserved rest,
you have to start them up gently. Small portions of raw foods, preferably liquid, is best the first days, before slowly intro ducing
other easy -to-digest (raw) foods, in small port ions, over the next week. Vegetable juices are fine. Avoid fruits and fruit juices since
sugars overactivate the insulin mechanism. If you avoid fruits for the first week after a fast you should not develop the rav enous
appetite that so easily can undo any  weight loss you may have achieved. Note: serious (even life -threatening) problems can
develop if you stuff yourself after a fast, especially with cooked foods.

www.drbass.com/symptoms.html
What Symptoms to Expect when You Improve Your Diet
or
Improving y our diet may cause you to feel sick

"This is how recovery occurs - like the cycles in the Dow Jones Average at the beginning of a bull
market recovery. You feel better, a reaction occurs and you don't feel as well for a short while. You
recover and go even higher."

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INTRODUCTION
If I were asked which is the area of greatest misunderstanding and confusion in the field o f nutrition, I would
immediately be forced to reply, it is the failure to properly understand and interpret the symptoms and changes which
follow the beginning of a better nutritional program.

HIGHER QUALITY NUTRITION
'What is meant by a better nutritional program? It is the introduction of foods of higher quality in place of lower quality
ones.
For example, if a person replaces a protein rich food such a pork with beef, the beef may be considered the superior
of the two - due to its easier diges tibility, lower and less saturated fat content, etc. Similarly chicken is superior to
beef, and fish is superior to chicken because of its more rapid digestibility and lower saturated fat content.
Lima beans, lentils or chick peas, which are


wary	of	signing	an	informed	consent	for	a	diagnostic	test,	tip-off	about	the
degree	of	risk	involved.
If	the	accuracy	of	test	results	seems	questionable,	seek	a	second	opinion.	Be
skeptical	of	any	diagnosis	based	solely	on	a	test.	If	something	is	found	abnormal
and	the	doctor	wants	to	prescribe,	request	to	have	the	test	repeated	before	doing
something	that	could	cause	damage,	be	it	needless	surgery,	biopsies,
medications,	anxiety	or	financial	cost.	Suppose	that	a	particular	medical	test	is
95	percent	accurate.	For	every	twenty	tests	given,	one	false	result	will	occur,
usually	a	false	positive.	If	a	person	has	this	test	twenty	times	in	a	lifetime,	the
odds	are	in	favor	of	at	least	one	false	result.	In	fact,	many	diseases	can	be
“cured”	simply	by	redoing	the	test.	In	1975,	the	Centers	for	Disease	Control	and
Prevention	surveyed	medical	testing	labs	nationally	and	concluded	that	more
than	25	percent	of	all	test	results	were	wrong;	for	certain	clinical	chemistry	tests,
the	error	rate	was	50	percent.	Not	a	lot	has	changed	since	then.
A	study	in	the	May	1997	issue	of
Hippocrates
examined	169	different	kinds
of	medical	diagnostic	tests	and	concluded	that	only	nine	of	them	actually	did
anything	for	the	patient	for	reducing	the	incidence	of	disease.	According	to	the
article,	many	of	these	tests	regularly	led	to	faulty	diagnoses,	resulting	in
unnecessary	treatments	the	patients	did	not	need,	and	people	with	passing	chest
or	back	pain	were	“being	marched	off	to	surgery	to	get	their	hearts	repaired	or
spines	fixed.”
About	70	percent	of	all	pregnant	American	women	undergo	ultrasound
evaluations,	yet	studies	published	in	medical	journals	including
Lancet
and	theCanadian	Medical	Association	Journal
show	that	ultrasound	may	affect	fetal
growth,	resulting	in	babies	with	lower	birth	weight.	In	addition,	children	are
twice	as	likely	to	have	delayed	speech	development	if	they	were	examined	via
ultrasound	as	a	fetus.	A	1995	study	done	at	the	Massachusetts	Institute	of
Technology	and	reported	in
Science
found	that	low-frequency	ultrasound
increases	the	permeability	of	human	skin,	allowing	proteins	to	pass	through
more	easily.	Ultrasound	definitely	affects	the	body’s	tissues,	yet	it	is	presented	to
patients	as	a	procedure	free	of	risks	and	side	effects.
Should	You	Have	Surgery?
Modern	surgery	certainly	is	one	of	the	crowning	achievements	in	modern
medicine.	Surgery	works	very	well	to	correct	physical	problems,	such	as	those
sustained	in	accidents,	sports	injuries	and	from	birth	defects,	but	surgery	does
not	solve	disease	problems.	Unfortunately,	most	surgery	is	performed	to	address
disease	problems,	wasting	resources	and	permanently	damaging	the	patient.
Every	part	of	the	human	body	is	important	to	the	functioning	of	the	whole;
removing	malfunctioning	body	parts	does	not	solve	the	real	problem.	Surgery
should	not	be	performed	unless	there	is	absolutely	no	alternative,	and	there	is
almost	always	an	alternative.
Most	conventional	cancer	treatments—especially	surgery—	are	directed	by
the	mechanistic	belief	system	described	earlier.	Cancer	is	regarded	as	affecting	a
specific	location	or	body	part	that	should	be	removed	physically	or	otherwise
poisoned	and	killed.	Completely	forgotten	is	that	cancer	is	a	systemic	disease
affecting	the	entire	body,	and	that	a	sounder	approach	is	to	restore	cancerous
cells	to	normal	by	addressing	their	deficiency	and	toxicity.
Cancer	patients	who	properly	address	their	deficiency	and	toxicity	may
experience	what	is	termed	“spontaneous	remission.”	A	study	by	Dr.	Harold
Foster	at	the	University	of	British	Columbia	in	1988	found	that	virtually	every
one	of	two	hundred	cancer	patients	who	had	experienced	a	spontaneous	cancer
remission	had	actually	done	something	to	improve	their	cell	chemistry.	Eighty-
seven	percent	had	made	major	changes	to	their	diet,	while	others	had	used
nutritional	supplements	and	detoxification	programs.	Currently,	numerous
alternative	treatments	for	cancer	are	available	(see	appendix	D).
A	heart	bypass	operation	is	another	example	of	unnecessary	surgery.	In	1992,
Nortin	Hadler,	M.D.,	a	professor	of	medicine	at	the	University	of	North	Carolina
Medical	School,	concluded	that	95	to	97	percent	of	the	coronary	bypass
surgeries	done	that	year	were	unnecessary—even	though	patients	usually	aretold	that	without	the	surgery	they	will	die.	In	truth,	almost	all	coronary	disease	is
preventable	with	diet,	supplements	and	exercise.	Likewise,	coronary	disease	is
reversible,	as	pioneers	like	Nathan	Pritikin,	more	recently	Dean	Ornish,	M.D.,
and	others,	have	proven.
How	much	surgery	is	necessary?	Dr.	Robert	Mendelsohn,	in
Confessions	of	a
Medical	Heretic,
said,	“My	feeling	is	that	somewhere	around	ninety	percent	of
surgery	is	a	waste	of	time,	money,	energy,	and	life.”	Dr.	Mendelsohn	cites	an
independent	review	of	people	recommended	for	surgery.	The	study	found	that
most	of	these	patients	did	not	need	surgery	and	half	of	them	needed	no	medical
treatment	at	all.	In	another	case,	a	hospital	oversight	committee	reviewed
surgically	removed	tissues.	In	the	year	prior	to	the	formation	of	the	committee,
the	hospital	performed	262	appendectomies—after	the	committee	was	formed,
the	number	dropped	to	62.	The	committee	found	that	most	of	the	tissues	being
removed	were	healthy!	In	March	1997,	the	Physicians	Committee	for
Responsible	Medicine	published	a	statement	saying	that	only	10	percent	of
hysterectomies	are	justified.	In	addition	to	being	almost	entirely	unnecessary,
surgery	is	risky;	possibilities	exist	for	surgical	error,	complications	from
anesthesia	and	infection,	not	to	mention	the	physical,	mental	and	emotional
shock	to	the	body.
Should	You	Take	Medicine?
All	drugs	have	potentially	damaging	“side	effects.”	Because	a	malfunctioning
cell	is	the	definition	of	disease,	and	drugs	deliberately	cause	cells	to	malfunction,
drugs	cause	disease.	Drugs	are	foreign	to	the	body;	the	mechanism	by	which
drugs	work	is	to	alter	the	body’s	biochemistry	in	order	to	suppress	symptoms.
Side	effects	often	are	worse	than	the	diseases	the	drugs	are	used	to	treat.	Perhaps
these	hazards	would	be	justified	if	drugs	cured	disease,	but	they	do	not,	they
control	and	suppress	symptoms.	Even	with	symptoms	suppressed,	the	true	cause
of	the	problem	may	be	growing	worse	while	the	body’s	natural	healing
mechanisms	are	being	compromised	by	the	drugs.
Billions	of	dollars	are	spent	in	the	war	against	street	drugs,	but	the	number	of
people	killed	and	injured	by	street	drugs	is	minor	compared	to	prescription
drugs.	Prescription	drugs	kill	a	couple	of	hundred	thousand	people	every	year
and	are	a	leading	cause	of	disease	and


 health care systems and increasing
availability of medical facilities to deserving cases are the benefits of preventive health care.
The Governments of the world, World Health Organization, Corporations, Companies, NGOs and
all those who are interested in the welfare/improving the health of people, may consider to get
verified that OP is an important curative as well as preventive measure in the promotion of health
to confirm for themselves, whether these findings are valid and hold good. If the results are valid,
propagate OP at the national level. This will improve health of people at the least cost. A healthy
nation will become a wealthy nation.
Ayurveda texts contain the primary preventive routine to be followed for maintaining health by all
individuals in Swastha Vritha.  They could be suitably modified for the present day conditions and
propagated among the people. Formulation of these rules and educating the people will improve
the health of people at minimal cost and reduce the burden on health services besides being cost
effective. The daily and seasonal practices increase immunity, resistance and preserve the health
of the individual. The practices are preventive, curative and prophylactic for maintenance of
health.
Web site:-www.oilpulling.com – contains all the details given in this small booklet.
 I earnestly request all those who come across this to propagate by any method they think
appropriate. Those with a web site of their own may consider giving a link to this web site.
It is superfluous to state that Media is the major player in spreading the message in the
whole world. I have no doubt left they will give maximum coverage as they had done
before.
<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Omad Orin Looping.
DR Phillips
Introduction.
Omad orin looping has changed my life beyond all recognition. I know it's a
cliché when people say this or that changed their life, but I can say with total
confidence that without omad and orin looping my life would be radically
different to what it is today. Let me explain.
I now get so much more happiness and enjoyment from food. This is what omad
does to you, your enjoyment of any food goes up a hundredfold. Actually that is
an understatement, I now get immense happiness and HUGE enjoyment from
food that it's off the charts, the feeling of looking forward to my one meal every
day, I didn't get this at all before omad orin looping.
Before I got into omad and orin looping I had some very serious health problems
developing. I liked my drink as they say, pints at a time, or bottles of wine. I was
more than partial to junk and processed foods, and even though I would not like
to admit it I was also addicted to tea, and especially coffee multiple times every
day often with snacks. Many other junk snacks that I thought were normal. I
didn't enjoy these things nearly as much as I do now on omad, but even though I
wasn’t enjoying them, I kept consuming them out of habit. As a result of too
much of them I was starting to get fat. I used to eat at least three large meals a
day, with coffee and snack breaks in between and more drinks and junk in the
evenings. I just did this because that is what I always did.
I then had several serious health conditions developing. I was wrongly diagnosed
several times with many different things and eventually an umbrella term that so
many are being told these days “you have I.B.S or irritable bowel syndrome."
The doctors tried to give me medication as they do. Thankfully my parents
brought me up to question everything the drug pushers try to push on their
patients. I also went to a boarding school where one of the teachers taught the
truth about big pharmaceuticals. As a result I hardly ever had any drugs or
anything from big pharma in my life including no jabs, pain killers or antibiotics.
I didn't want to start taking in drugs now, but the doctors never had any
alternative for example healing the body naturally with making changes to
eating and lifestyle. Omad orin looping will never be taught in medical schools,
or the big pharma companies’ profits would tumble.
It got so bad that after some tests they informed me I had something called
gastrointestinal interstitial cystitis. This was on top of other IBS problems, I was informed that part of my intestines had apparently pushed through part of my
colon and was causing all kinds of problems. Constipation, blockages and pain,
something called diverticulitis. They were talking about surgery, and even after
the operation (or perhaps because of it) then I would need  bags fitted front and
back all the time. That would be it for me for life, at my young age in my 40s.
Needing bags to go to the toilet in for the rest of my life. Even with surgery,
having bags to go to the toilet in and going down the drug route, they were
saying this is the only option available to me.
In short I wasn't exactly in the best of health; my energy levels were right
through the floor. I was not only feeling ill and in pain everyday but all kinds of
problems going to the toilet that meant I couldn't go out anywhere without
worrying about my problems. Many other health problems developed head aches
and pain everywhere. Feeling ill every day. My life on the health front was a
misery.
It affected my work, my family life, going out with friends, everything. When you
are in pain and suffering with discomfort so much you are almost willing to do
anything to bring relief. I almost went through with the surgery and to start on
the road taking the drugs and having to go to the toilet in bags fitted that big
pharma push people on. I knew once on that road it's very hard, almost
impossible to get off it, having to take more drugs for the side effects and then
more drugs for those new side effects and so on.
I wondered, just maybe is there a natural way to heal myself and bring relief
from the suffering, pain and discomfort. Is there any way that my wife could
have her old husband back, my kids could have their old dad back who was
actually able to play with them and take them out without getting so grumpy and
short tempered because of the intense pain and discomfort?
I started reading books and doing research. One woman I found in my research
called Martha Christie had more severe health problems to me and wrote a book
called your own perfect medicine. She completely healed herself by drinking her
own orin. I reread the book and listened to her interviews then read and listened
to over 30 other orin therapy books, including the first one in modern times
called ‘The water of life’ by John Armstrong. All available for free download on my
friend Andrew Norton Webber’s website www.aquariusthewaterbearer.com well
worth reading. In fact if you are serious about your health then these books are
essential reading. As essential as listening to all of Andrew Norton Webbers
interviews and talks. Also researching for yourself the validity of how this therapy
works so well.
There are thousands of testimonials of people curing similar things wrong with
them to what I was suffering with. These are real people that you can contact
today, and I did. I have spoken to many and am constantly in touch with
experienced practitioners. There are now large communities online who have a
broad range of knowledge about these therapies.  I tried it straight away. To my
amazement, this perfect medicine worked far better than any big pharma drugs
that I almost went on. As shocking as it was, I was desperate and had nothing to lose. I know it went against my instincts at the time, I just had nothing to lose, I
was willing to try anything at this stage. I soon discovered through further
research that eating less, even getting down to one meal a day worked
exceptionally well with looping your own perfect medicine. These two therapies
together were what cured me and healed my body completely. And I do mean
heal my body completely.
Within a short time I was able to go back to work and function normally. I didn't
need the surgery or to go down the big pharma drug pushers road at all. In fact
my next big scan showed my bowels and intestines had completely healed up
with no evidence that there was ever a problem. I did not have that surgery that
the doctors had previously told me that I absolutely needed, and now the scan
showed there was no need for it at all. I entirely avoided surgery. I honestly did
not have any operation; my body healed itself due to omad orin looping.
Before omad orin looping I had terrible trouble going to the toilet many
unfortunate embarrassing incidents and taking an unusual long time being such
an uncomfortable unpleasant experience.
I am now in the fortune position of being free from pain. My IBS has vanished
altogether and I'm no longer overweight. I eat once per day around 1700 hrs and
always have a good bowel movement the next morning soon after I wake.
Leaving no crap in me at all, feeling so clean and empty and ready for the day. In
fact on the health front I'm now a very energetic happy camper. I'm in my 40s
but feel like I'm in my 20s all over again. I can return to my love of mountain
climbing from my younger days. My wife and I are even talking about having
another baby.
I can fit back into slim fit jeans and tailored shirts and suits


others were loved, came up with similar results. Once
again, the mechanism that causes such immunity is quite
unknown—it is baﬄing to think that evolution has built intothe rabbit mind an immune response that needs to be
triggered by human cuddling.
There is even a possibility, many doctors would contend,
that the mind is a ﬁction, medically speaking. When we
think that it is sick, what is really sick is the brain. By this
logic, the classical mental disorders—depression,
schizophrenia, and psychosis—are actually brain disorders.
This logic has obvious inadequacies: it is like saying that
car wrecks should be blamed on automobiles. But the
brain, being  a physical organ that can be weig hed and
dissected, makes medicine feel more secure than does the
mind, which has proved impossible to deﬁne after many
centuries of introspection and analysis. Doctors are quite
happy not to be called upon as philosophers.
The ability of today’s psychotropic, or mind-inﬂuencing,
drugs to relieve the major symptoms of mental illness, such
as depression, mania, anxiety, and hallucinations, is much
greater than any treatment available in the past. Chemical
psychiatry is likely to vie with its exact opposite, mind-body
medicine, as the medical revolution of our time. It has hard
clinical results to back it up, including numerous
indications that chemical imbalances in the brain are
directly linked to mental illness.
Nothing could appear to be more all-encompassing than
the fullblown madness of a chronic schizophre nic, who
suﬀers from hallucinatory visions and inner voices,
distorted thinking, and often complete physical and mental
disorientation. To ask a schizophrenic what day it is can
throw him into bewilderment and shivering terror.
However, the structural diﬀerence between this state of
mind and sanity may be traceable to one minute
biochemical called dopamine, which is secreted by the
brain. The dopamine connection, known for two decades,
held that schizophrenics overproduce this chemical, which
plays an important role in processing both emotions andperceptions—a hallucinat ion would thus be a perception of
the outside world that has gotten scrambled in the brain’s
chemical coding.
This hypothesis was further simpliﬁed in 1984 when a
psychiatrist at the University of Iowa, Dr. Raﬁq Waziri,
reviewed what was known about the brain chemistry of
schizophrenics and narrowed the defect down to an even
smaller molecule called serine, a common amino acid found
in most protein foods. Serine is thought to be an early link
in the manufacture of dopamine. Unable to metabolize
serine corre ctly, the brains of schizophrenics apparently
overproduce dopamine to oﬀset the lack—the exact process
is still unknown. Could it be that full-blown schizophrenia,
considered the most bizarre and complex of mental
disorders, depends on how well you digest your food?
Earlier ﬁndings at M.I.T. have already shown that the
brain’s basic chemistry is so variable that it can be
modiﬁed by a single meal.
Dr. Waziri bolstered support for his theory by taking a
group of long-term schizophrenics and feeding them a
dietary supplement of glycine, a chemical that serine is
supposed to build as part of the dopamine mechanism.
Perhaps the extra glycine would bypass the serine defect,
Waziri reasoned, and bring dopamine back into balance. In
the trial group, a few schizophrenics responded quite
dramatically—they were  able to stop their medications
without having any psych otic episodes. For the ﬁrst time in
years, their thinking was free from both their disease and
the mind-numbing drugs used to treat it.
A dieta ry approach to mental illness would be far more
benign than current therapies. The possibility of ﬁnding
more dietary  links is also tantalizing. At least one best-
selling diet book has jumped the gun by listing “happy
foods” and “sad foods,” on the theory that the amino acids
in these foods go directly to the brain and are made intochemicals that produce either positive or negative moods.
Milk, chicken, bananas, and leafy greens are among the
happy foods, because they stimulate dopamine and two
other “positive” brain chemicals. Sugary and fatty foods, on
the other hand, are typically sad foods, because they
stimulate acetylcholine, a “negative” chemical. Critics say,
quite justiﬁably, that brain chemicals are not so simple—
can a schizophrenic’s high dopamine levels be considered
positive? Nor does it seem that changing the intake of
amino acids  leads directly to more of a desir ed brain
chemical, just as the amount of cholesterol in your diet
does not directly correlate with the amount in your blood.
If you can eat your way to sanity, or even a better mood,
then the basic issues in mind-body medicine become even
more confused. Can you trust the mind to cure arthritis and
at the same time hold that eating chocolate will make you
depressed? This would imply a self-contradiction, that mind
is dominant over matter except when matter is dominant
over mind. In the current atmosphere of ambiguous
ﬁndings, the two opposite positions—treat the body
through the mind, treat the mind through the body—are
equally up in the air.
None of the confusion has been adequately clariﬁed, and
as a result, the subjecti ve world of the mind remains a
treacherous force, capricious in its ability to heal, equally
capricious in its ability to bring illness. Many doctors,
because of their materialistic bias, would be thrilled to
conclude that chemicals must be the answer to all our
mental and physical mysteries.
I don’t think they can be. In my specialty of
endocrinology, some of the ﬁrst chemicals that aﬀect the
mind, the endocrine hormones, were discovered. Every day
I see patients who display mental symptoms that are
traceable to defects in their hormonal balance—the
distorted thinking of a diabetic going into a low-blood-sugarreaction, the mood shifts of the menstrual cycle, and even a
characteristic depression that is the earliest warning sign
of certain cancers (a tumor in the pancreas, for example,
may be too small to detect, yet it will release cortisol and
other “stress hormones” into the bloodstream, causing the
patient to feel depressed).
Despite this, I see too many ﬂaws in the argumen t that a
deeper knowledge of body chemistry is all we need—the
body has too many chemicals (literally thousands of them),
they are produced in bewilderingly complex patterns, and
they come and go too fast, often in fractions of a second.
What controls this consta nt ﬂux? We cannot leave the mind
out of the mind-body connection altogether. To say that the
body heals itself using only chemicals is like saying that a
car shifts gears using only the transmission. Clearly it takes
a driver who knows what he is doing. Although medicine
has spent several centur ies trying to hold on to the idea
that the body runs itself alone, like a self-motivated
machine, there must be a driver here, too. Otherwise, our
body’s chemistry would be a jumble of ﬂoating molecules
instead of the incredibly  ordered and precise machinery
that it so obviously is.
In a more naïve age, the driver was thought to be a tiny
man, called the homunculus, who sat in the heart and
performed all the gear shifts needed to run the body. The
homunculus went out in the Renaissance, when anatomists
began for the ﬁrst time to dissect cadavers and verify what
was inside them. The homunculus wasn’t found inside the
heart (neithe r was the soul), but that left a huge, glaring
gap between the mind and the body. Many scientists since
have tried to ﬁll the gap with the brain, saying that the
brain’s funct ion is to order and control all other functions
in the physiology; but this answer begs the question,
because the brain is just another machine. The driver still
needs to be there. I will argue that he is, but he hasbecome something much more abstract than the
homunculus or even the brain—he is built into the
intelligent power that motivates us to live, move, and think.
Can that be proved? The next step for us is to work our
way deeper into the body ’s inner intelligence, to try to ﬁnd
out what motivates it. The territory of mind-body medicine
has no givens and no inﬂexible rules, which is all to the
good. For decades,  medicine has known that much disease
has a psychosomatic component, yet dealing with that
component has been like trying to harness the wind. Inside
us there must be a “thin king body” that responds to the
mind’s comm ands, but where could it be and what is it
made of?
EXPANDING THE TOPIC
One of the most baﬄing mysteries touched upon in this
chapter—where does a thought come from?—remains just
as baﬄing today. It may surprise you, but there is no
evidence that the brain is thinking. In


ves,	and	cinnamon	to	your	teas	and
recipes.
•
Switch	to	organic,	cold-pressed	sesame	oil	to	moisturize	your	skin	for	your
abhyanga
	practice.	Sesame	oil	is	said	to	have	warming	properties.
•
Due	to	the	dryness	of	winter,	you	might	need	a	heavier	facial	moisturizer.
Switch	accordingly	and	look	for	one	that	is	oil	based	rather	than	water
based,	as	the	oil	will	provide	a	protective	layer	on	your	skin	and	hold	in
moisture	longer.	Products	containing	pure	plant	oils	like	coconut,	almond,
avocado,	and	primrose	oil	should	not	make	your	skin	break	out.	On	theother	hand,	shea	butter	may	clog	your	pores;	especially	if	you	are	acne-
prone,	avoid	products	on	the	face	that	contain	shea	butter	(though	it’s	great
to	use	on	your	body).	Avoid	products	that	contain	synthetic,	petroleum-
based	oils,	such	as	mineral	oil.
•
Your	skin	will	likely	be	dry	and	dehydrated	not	only	from	the	wind	and	cold
elements,	but	also	from	indoor	heat,	so	make	sure	your	moisturizer	contains
hyaluronic	acid	and	other	humectants	to	attract	more	moisture	to	your	face
and	keep	it	supple.
•
Increase	your
fat	intake	slightly—but	not	dramatically—with	whole	plant
foods	such	as	chia	seeds,	walnuts,	and	avocados.	These	essential	fats	will
nourish	supple	skin.	Just	an	extra	few	tablespoons	of	chia	seed	pudding	(see
kimberlysnyder.
com
	for	the	easy	recipe)	or	another	half	of	an	avocado	will
keep	your	skin	moisturized	from	the	inside	out.	Extra	fat	in	the	winter	may
also	feel	grounding	during	this	dark	period.
•
Use	a	creamy	cleanser	rather	than	a	gel	one.	The	cream	will	have	fewer
stripping	surfactants	and	help	keep	the	natural	oils	on	your	skin	intact
during	these	times	when	you	want	to	hold	on	to	all	of	the	moisture	you	can.
•
Do	a	weekly	at-home	oil	treatment	to	keep	your	hair	protected	from	the
drying	weather.	At	least	once	a	week,	massage	coconut	oil	into	the	tips	of
your	hair	and	throughout	the	strands,	pile	it	into	a	bun	or	tuck	it	into	a
shower	cap,	leave	it	in	for	at	least	30	minutes	to	1	hour,	and	then	rinse	out
and	shampoo	as	usual.
•
Slough	off	dry	skin	cells	with	an	at-home	sugar	scrub.	Combine	equal	parts
coconut	oil	and	organic	sugar	and	then	add	15	to	20	drops	or	so	of	your
favorite	essential	oil.	Keep	the	mixture	in	a	glass	or	BPA-free	container.	In
the	shower,	gently	rub	off	dead	skin	cells	from	your	entire
body,	including
your	elbows	and	heels.	Shaving	is	also	a	great	exfoliator	for	the	large	surface
area	of	your	legs.
•
Stay	active.	It’s	tempting	to	just	curl	up	during	winter,	but	the	diminished
light	and	the	cold	weather	can	contribute	to	depression,	stagnation,	a
weakened
immune	system,	and	sluggish	feelings.	It’s	a	great	time	of	year	to
begin	or	deepen	a	home	yoga	practice,	whether	on	your	own	or	with	a	yoga
DVD.	You	don’t	have	to	expose	yourself	to	the	elements	to	stay	active	and
move	every	part	of	your	body.
•
Honor	the	natural	tendency	for	more	“darkness”	and	allow	yourself	to
rejuvenate	and	rest	by	staying	at	home	more.	Don’t	push	yourself	to	go	out
more	than	you	naturally	like	out	of	obligation.	You	might	feel	that	eveningsat	home	with	herbal	tea,	a	warm	bath,	and	a	good	book	simply	serve	you
more.
•
If	you	live	in	a	place	that	has	limited	sunlight	for	extended	periods	of	time
throughout	the	winter	months,	you	might	want	to	consider	supplementing
with
vitamin	D
3
,	or	getting	a	special	light	designed	to	help	stimulate	vitamin
D	in	your	body.	Vitamin	D	plays	a	vital	role	in	maintaining	healthy,
beautiful	bones,	strong	immunity,	balanced	moods,	and	all-around	health
and	wellness.
•
With	the	very	slowly	burgeoning	light	of	the	winter	solstice	near	the	end	of
the	year,	complete	an	honest	and	deep	assessment	of	where	you	would	like
to	put	your	energy	in	the	upcoming	year	and	what	is	nurturing	and
authentic	for	your	beautiful	spirit	at	this	time.	In	nature,	new	seeds	are
growing	at	the	root	level	now,	and	a	lot	is	taking	place	beneath	the	surface.
This	is	a	great	time	for	you,	too,	to	evaluate	where	you	want	to	plant	your
“seeds,”	which	projects	you	want	to	pursue,	and	where	you	want	to	put	your
energy,	which	will	bloom	later	in	the	year.	You	can	determine	this	only	by
being	honest	and	listening	to	your	heart.
Spring	Lifestyle	Beauty	Practices
In	spring,	life	emerges	again.	No	matter	how	long	the	cold	winter	months	may
seem	some	years,	spring	always	follows.	You	can	see	the	burgeoning	beauty	of
fresh	flower	buds,	leaves,	and	shoots	and	feel	the	urge	to	express	your	natural
beauty	outwardly	with	sundresses,	skirts,	and	perhaps	brighter	makeup	colors.
As	the	light	increases,	you	naturally	feel	like	shedding	the	stagnation	and
heaviness	of	winter.	This	includes	a	tendency	to	start	eating	lighter	and	perhaps
lightening	up	on	your	skin-care	products,	too.	You	may	also	feel	a	natural	rise
in	energy,	a	newfound	spark	of	powerful	inspiration	that	can	now	be	directed
toward	whatever	goals	you	decided	to	pursue	when	taking	stock	in	the	darkness
of	winter.	Here	are	the	best	ways	to	harness	the	beauty	of	spring:
•
Spring	is	the	very	best	time	of	the	year	to	complete	a	cleanse	or	engage	in
some	detoxing.	If	you’re	interested	in	a	liquid	cleanse,	check	out	the	organic,
strategically	designed	ones	offered	from
Glow	Bio	(
myglowbio.
com
)	or	do
your	own	version	by	making	fresh	green	smoothies	or	juices	and	abstaining
from	heavier	foods	for	a	few	days.
•
Lighten	up	your	diet.	This	is	a	great	time	of	year	to	shift	into	eating	more
raw	foods	(though	you	don’t	have	to	eat	100	percent	raw,	by	any	means).Reduce	your	ratio	of
fats	so	you	feel	less	weighed	down.	You	might	want	to
eat	lighter,	broth-based	soups	and	favor	smaller	amounts	of	avocado	and
nuts.	Use	all	oils	sparingly.
•
If	you	indulged	over	the	winter,	it’s	a	great	time	to	reset	bad	habits	and
patterns	and	renew	your	resolve	to	improve	your	eating	habits.	Feel	in	tune
with	the	bursting	energy	of	spring	by	letting	go	of	heavier,	dense,	or	clogging
foods.	Ditch	the	dairy,	refined	sugars,
gluten,	and	excess	animal	protein,	and
eat	more	light,	plant-centric


 hay, and other stale materials used in farm feeds are responsible for the disease in livestock. The extent to which the fatty rubbish in fresh
livestock meat causes arteriosclerosis in humans is uncertain, however it does not
appear to be very great. Fatty rubbish does not seem to occur to any serious extent in fresh milk and eggs. This general area ne eds further research for clarification,
however in later sections I have describe d how superior livestock products can be
obtained.
   The stale foods are also very poor in general nutritive content, for most of the high
quality constituents which are needed to st rengthen us and protect us against disease
have deteriorated and become unavailable.

6. FRESH FOOD — THE CURE FOR ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
   Stale food being the source of the fatty rubbish which causes arteriosclerosis, to
prevent the disease we have only to stop eating stale food, and eat fresh food  instead
according to the diet chart herein.
   But what about the fatty rubbish already clogging our systems? Fortunately Nature
has taken care of this, by designing into the body an efficient house-cleaning system
in which non-living material is attacked and gradually removed. Few people even among doctors seem to know famous scientists have long ago proven that arteries
have their own natural cleansing system. That each arterial deposit tends to go
through a natural cycle wherein it grows, becomes mature, then shells out and heals.
This self-cleansing action can be easily seen by anyone viewing the deposits in a
choked artery, wherein some are obviously new and growing, some fully mature, and others shelled-out craters or fully healed s cars. It is evident that this action would
result in clean arteries if formation of new deposits were somehow stopped.
   Medical scientists of worldwide reputation have been saying for years that
arteriosclerotic deposits tend to be self-cleansing. (Drs. L. N. Katz, Ruth Pick, Ira
Gore, Richard Jones, Campbell Moses, H. Bredt, and others.) Their writings may be
read in ethical medical books as follows: "Atherosclerosis" by Schettler & Boyd, pub.
by American Elsevier, 1969. "Evolution of the Athero. Plaque," by R. J. Jones, pub. by University of Chicago Press, 1963. "Atherosclerosis" by Campbell Moses, pub. by
Lea & Febiger, 1963.
   Many such keen-minded scientists have long predicted that if the formation of new
deposits were stopped, the arteries would in time clean themselves. Practical results of
the Fresh Food Diet have fully vindicated their prediction, at last providing a way to
stop formation of new deposits so the arteries can become clean in a few months.
   As of September 1971 this booklet has been on sale 2½ years, and over 100,000
copies have been sold under guarantee. Less than 1% have been returned for refund.
More than 1,000 people are so happy with results they have re-ordered more copies to
give away, many by the dozens and some by the hundreds. People joyfully tell us
such things as "I avoided a major operation" or "I am able to work again." A few
medical doctors are regularly prescribing the Fresh Food Diet, and are seeing improvement in their patients. The Fresh Food Diet really works, and is rapidly
gaining followers throughout the world.
   Anything which will help build up the general health will speed the cleaning process
and vice versa, so I have included in this book every general health aid considered reliable.

7. THE CHOLESTEROL THEORY — A TRAGIC BLUNDER
   Cholesterol in its natural form is one of the main building blocks of healthy animal
and human bodies, the solid matter of our brains for instance being over 80%
composed of it. It is absurd to say that something we are largely made of would be
harmful for us to eat. And it is not harmful unless it is changed from its natural state by staleness. Cattle and goats develop arteriosclerosis on hay and grain with never a
bit of food containing cholesterol. People ar e dying by the thousands from heart attack
and stroke while on "low cholesterol" diet. The cholesterol theory, now falling by the wayside, was originated in Russia by Dr. N. Anitschkow and S. Chalatow in 1913. These scientists deserve honor for their well-intentioned work, however their finding was one of those unfortunate half-truths which only served to mislead. They fed their
experimental rabbits pure crystalline cholesterol dissolved in vegetable oil, resulting
in the rabbits developing arteriosclerosis. Their mistake was in failing to recognize
that crystalline cholesterol is an unnatural stale substance now known as oxy-
cholesterol, which is not found in fresh food or in the healthy human body. Similar mistakes have been made countless times by other scientists, using various unnatural
mixtures of stale processed foods in feeding trials for testing purposes, and then
assuming the choked artery results were typical of cholesterol foods. The cholesterol
theory for practical purposes is untrue, and its formulation was most unfortunate
because it deceived the world for fifty four years and indirectly caused untold deaths and misery by delaying discovery of th e true cause and cure. Many people have
needlessly been deprived of meat and eggs because of diets based on the deceptive Russian theory.

8. EFFECTS OF FRESH FOOD ON HUMANS
   It has been demonstrated that people adopting the fresh food diet have experienced
many benefits. Even though eating much meat, fat, eggs, and fresh raw milk every
day, blood cholesterol content has dropped  to levels usually found in young children.
High blood pressure has dropped  to normal or below. Signs of arteriosclerosis in the
eyes, etc., have disappeared. Arthritis ha s been cured. Ear noises and high tone
deafness have been corrected. Enlarged pr ostate gland and fibrous enlarged womb
have returned to normal. Tooth decay and dental calculus or tartar have been stopped. Youthful vigor and appearance have been partially restored. Excess fat has been reduced and posture improved. Remarkable improvement in growth and health of
children has been obtained. For example:
   A fifty eight year old black man was prematurely aged, with a bent posture,
shuffling gait, irises of the eyes nearly c overed by the light gray atherosclerotic haze
called "arcus senilis," and skin the color of ashes. Given fresh food and fresh milk,
this man began to straighten up within ten days, and within a month was dramatically
improved. In two months his eyes had nearly cleared up so the natural brown color
was revealed, his skin was a smooth rich br own color, and he walked straight and
strong. Previously scorned as a worn out ol d man, he bought stylish new clothes, grew
a sharp mustache and sideburns, cut a swath among the ladies and had some fights. He told me they said "What is Mr. Ford doing to you? You are young  again!"
   A fourteen year old boy was put on good fresh food after a previous life on stale
food. Initially this boy was chalky pale, had poor thin hair, pimples, narrow shoulders and was a mouth breather with thick half closed eyelids. Receiving fresh food and
new raw milk, in a few months this boy was growing rapidly, had clear ruddy skin
and thick hair, alert eyes and kept his mouth closed. He soon developed a broad
shouldered herculean virility seldom seen in these times, with a muscular six foot two
hundred pound physique of awesome power. He attracted favorable comment wherever he went and was called the "jolly pink giant." But on going away to school
and eating stale food again, this young Hercules became pale and fat, his teeth decayed and he developed a hernia.
   A three year old child who was very th in and wretched, with a sad wizened face and
twisted jaw, was given an unlimited daily supply of new raw milk from a cow eating
green young oat and rye grass. On tasting the milk, this child refused all other food
and drink for several days and drank milk by the quart. Within a few weeks she grew so fast she had to have a whole new set of clothes, and became ruddy, happy and
robust. Upon sighting me even 100 yards away, she would shout "I love your milk, I
love your milk." Previously hardly leaving her mother's arms, this child turned into a
jumping jack. Her jaw straightened up to normal and she became an outstanding child in every way.

9. EXCESSIVE FATNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS
   Normal fat is a fluid oil stored in tiny living fat cells, is springy and well distributed
over the body producing an attractive appearance. But in modern people eating stale
foods, abnormal fat is developed in which many of the fat cells are dead and large
amounts of deteriorated fatty substances accumulate outside the cells as junk material. This is the type of flabby bloated fatness which people find repulsive and go on
starvation diets to avoid. This "stale food" type of fatness is hard to reduce, because
the fat is a semi-dead material which the body cannot utilize in the normal way even though almost starved. On the other hand, fat from fresh food is a "living" material,
and can be rapidly utilized and removed when the food intake is reduced.
   It has been demonstrated that the fresh food diet is


rought together by the energy to do a task. Normally,
successful bus inesses have to plan their growth by
developing bus iness plans and financial budgets. In our
case, our only business plan was to try to keep up with
life’s powerful wave that was carrying us forward. Our
only budget was to hire who ever showed up who could
help us. But no  matter how h ard we tried, it seemed that
life just kept stepping things up to another level.
A perfect example of how our miraculous growth took
place organically can be seen by some unexpected phone
calls I received in the mid-1980s. The first was in the
spring of 1985 from a woman  who introduced herself as
a vice president of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Empire handled New York City and was one of the
largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance providers in the
country. Part of its efforts to convert medical practices in
the area to ele ctronic claims was to sell the doctors a
practice management system. The company had been
developing its own software but didn’t feel it was
competitive w ith The Medical Manager. I was very
honored when  she told me that Empire wanted to drop
its system and market The Medical Manager under a
private label. You certainly couldn’t beat having Blue
Cross Blue Shield marketing your p roduct to its doctors.
Before I could catch my brea th, I was contacted by BlueCross Blue Shield of New Jersey with the same request.
Then came South Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Hawaii,
Mississippi, Colorado, and a few others. All those Blue
Cross Blue Shields ended up marketing The Medical
Manager to the doctors in t heir states. I saw this as a
living le sson in the power of  surrender. For years I had
been willing to let go of my personal preferences and
focus on doing the absolute best I could with what life
presented me. I hadn’t expected anything in return, and I
was very humbled to see what was unfolding.
By the 1986– 88 period, Personalized Programming
had about a dozen employees, most of whom were
programmers. We were a tiny company, yet we were
earning millions of dollars a year in royalties alone.
Systems Plus had very quickly realized the enormous
potential of the medical marketplace and dropped all its
other products to focus exclusively on The Medical
Manager. As head of Personalized Programming, it was
now my job to do business with all these large
corporations. I had never worked at that level before. But
just as life had  given me on-the-job training to become a
builder and a programmer, s he was now training me to
be a corporate  executive. I had already seen too much,
however, to be a convent ional executive. Even in
business, I intended to continue trusting the flow of life
as my ultimate adviser.
One thing I sa w again and again on this ride with life
was tha t the right person would show up at just the right
time. I literally banked on that perfection, and it is
amazing how it kept happening. Even our corporate
attorney, Rick Karl, was into yoga and meditation. It
seemed that life was surrounding me with spiritually
oriented people, not only at the Temple, but also in my
business.
How life managed to do this is perhaps epitomized by
the foll owing p erfectly orche strated sequence of events.
It began when Systems Plus asked us to host arepresentative from a laboratory equipment company
who wa nted to  meet the Medical Manager development
team. It  was rare that System s Plus sent prospects out to
the woods in Alachua, but in this case there was no
choice. Systems Plus staff practically begged me to wear
a j acket, laced-up shoes, and have everyone on their best
professional b ehavior. Paul Dobbins was our visitor’s
name, a nd he had an extensive background as a senior
technical analyst and product manager.
I sent Rick Kar l, our very presentable attorney, to pick
up the gentleman from the Gainesville airport. When he
returned, Rick stuck his head in my office with a grin on
his face the size of the Cheshire cat’s. Then, in walks our
important gues t. The first thing I noticed was that he had
a particular piece of jewelry wrapped around his upper
arm. It looked remarkably similar to the special bangle
that Yoganand a used to wear. As it turned out, it was.
Paul Dobbins was a follower of Yogananda, had taken the
lessons, and had been doing Kriya yoga for many years.
You can  be sure I was shocke d, but imagine how he felt.
He flies  in from St. Louis on this important business trip
to m eet the pre sident of the company that wrote the top-
rated m edical practice ma nagement system in the
country. He walks into the president’s office and sees
pictures of Yogananda all over the place.
At first,  there were no words  between us. Paul just sat
down on the couch and t ook in the beauty of the
moment. The energy in that room was befitting the
presence of a master. I couldn’t keep my eyes open, and
Paul was visibly overcome. A fter sitting in silence for a
while, I  asked him if he would  like to see the Temple. We
walked down the tree-lined road, onto the rustic dirt
path, an d into that holy place adorned with the pictures
of grea t masters. Needless to say, this was not Paul’s
usual business trip.
Paul ex tended his visit through the weekend and
stayed in a small ten-by-ten-foot guest room on Templeproperty. Come Sunday, he didn’t want to leave. Paul
had apparently gotten into meditation on his own, and
he didn’t have many people around him who were into
yoga. H e was overwhelmed by what was going on at the
Temple and the strength of the Gainesville spiritual
community. He came to me after Sunday services with
the inev itable question: “May  I stay and work for you?” I
felt dee p in my heart that Pau l belonged here and that he
really wanted to be p art of the Temple and the business.
But I didn’t feel right about him just leaving the company
that had sent him here, so I told him let’s wait and see
how things unfold.
Some months later, I received a rather panicky call
from Paul. He told me that his company had suddenly
been sold, and his boss and many other employees were
bailing out. Paul was turning in his resignation but
wanted to continue working with The Medical Manager
in some  manner. Life’s message was perfectly clear—it
was time to offer Paul a job.
Paul ar rived in less than a  week with some of his
belongings. We  allowed him to stay in that same ten-by-
ten-foot guest room until he  found a place of his own.
Five yea rs late r, Paul was sti ll living in that tiny room. I
have no idea w hat he did with his belongings, but I do
know that he came to morning and evening services at
the Temple like clockwork.
Paul wa s a tremendous asset  to the company, and he
showed up exactly when he w as needed the most. Shortly
after he  joined the team, we began getting contacted by
the major national laboratories. They all wanted us to
interface The Medical Manag er to their labs. Paul was an
expert i n the field, and we were one of the first practice
management systems to implement electronic
connectivity with the major  lab companies. We could
never have succeeded as we  did without Paul on our
team. W hen I reflect back on how he came to us, it looks
like a gift from  the universe. T wenty years later, Paul stillworked for the company and,  to this day, lives in a home
with his wife and family bordering Temple property. It
appears that some things are just meant to be.3 8.
T h e  T e m p l e  K e e p s  G r o w i n g
M orning meditations took on a whole new meaning as
the software company got larger and larger. Not only
were meditation and yoga essential for continuing my
inward journey, but they were essential for keeping the
mind s ane. So much is demanded of you when you’re
running an organization on which so many people rely
for thei r livelihood. The mind needs time to quiet down
and keep everything in perspective.
Leaving Temp le services on a winter morning after
sunrise, we often find the field covered in a mist of dew.
Giant oaks, pines, and hickory trees embrace the field on
three si des, and the north sid e opens up to that beautiful
rolling pasture that slopes down to the tree-lined stream.
Just standing out there with  a quiet mind is heaven on
Earth.
It wasn’t that way one misty morning in early
December 1988. When we walked out of the quietude of
the Tem ple onto the interior field, we heard the roar of
large machinery coming from the north. To our utter
surprise, we saw giant bulldo zers and other land-clearing
equipment on our neighbor ’s rolling field. We didn’t
know w hat to make of it, so we walked up the hill to


ostimulatetheappetite.'Sul-
phuricacidlemonade'hasbeenusedbyleadworkers
asapreventiveofplumbism(leadpoisoning).Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefromsul-
phuricaciddilutedwithwaterandthensuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Anaemia.
Worseforalcohol;forheat;duringtheevening;mid
morning.
Sulphuricacidpeopleareanaemic,chillytypeswhofeel
hurriedandtremblyinside.Theyusuallyfeelworse
afterdrinkinganythingalcoholic,andtheirworst
timesaremorningsandevenings.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Irritable.Feelingofbeinghurried:whileeating;at
work;whilewriting;whilewalking.Moody.
Inspiteoffeelingabsolutelyexhausted,Sulphuricacid
typesfeelrushedandhurriedinsideanddoevery-
thing'atapace'.Theybolttheirfood,walkquickly,
andworkinafranticway,includingwritingquickly.
Theyfeeldriveninsideandcannotdothingsfast
enough.Theirmoodsmaybechangeable,swinging
frombeingreasonableandagreeabletobeingirritable.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Bruises
SymptomsBruises:bluish-black;slowtoheal.
Sulphuricacidwillfinishthehealingofbruisesthatturn
bluish-blackanddonotclearupinspiteofhaving
beengivenArnicaand/orLedum.
Diarrhoea
SymptomsBelchingsour.Stools:soft;stringy;
yellow.Vomitsour.
Stoolsarebrightyellowy-orange, likesaffron,and
therewillbeafeelingofemptinessandweaknessafter
passingastool.Ifthestomachisupset,therewillbe
sourburpsandvomiting.
Exhaustion
SymptomsWithtrembling.
Worseafterpassingastool.
PeopleneedingSulphuricacidsufferfromextreme
lassitudeand,althoughthismaynotbevisibleonthe
surface,theyfeeltremblyinside.
Hotflushes
CausesMenopause.
Thesehotflushesareaccompaniedbythetypical
Sulphuricacidemotionalandgeneralsymptoms.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Tabacum(Tab.)•159
Thrush(oral)
SymptomsInchildren.Oftongue/gums.
Symphytum(Symph.)
Familyname:Boraginaceae
Commonnames:comfrey;knitbone;boneset;bruise-
wort;blackwort;gumplant;healingplant
Comfreyisahandsomeplantfoundindamp,wet
placesthroughoutEurope,WesternAsiaandthe
USA.ItstallfloweringstemsproutsinJuneandJuly
fromlow,largehairyleaves;theplantcangrowtoa
heightoffourfeet.
Comfreyhaslongbeengrowninthegardensof
countryfolkforitswell-knownhealingpowers.The
name'comfrey'comesfromtheLatinconfirma,'to
form'or'tounite',andSymphytum isfromtheGreek
Symplw,also'tounite'.Theplantinfactcontainsa
substancecalledallantoinwhichstimulatescellsto
healfaster.Culpeperquotesitasbeingso'powerfulto
consolidateandknittogether,thatifthey[theleaves]
beboiledwithdisseveredpiecesoffleshinapot,itwill
jointhemtogetheragain.'Ithasbeenusedexternally
tohealbrokenbones,wounds,burns,piles,scalds,
ulcers,sprainsandgoutyjoints.Theyoungleavescan
beeatenratherlikespinach,andnowadaysthedried
rootsareground,alongwithchicoryanddandelionto
makeacaffeine-free 'coffee'.Forthehomeopathicpreparationthefreshrootis
gatheredbeforetheplantblooms.Itischoppedand
poundedtoapulpthenlefttostandinalcoholbefore
beingstrainedandsuccussed.
GENERALANDEMOTIONAL/
MENTALSYMPTOMS
Thisisaverysmallremedvthathasnotbeenwell
provedbutisofsuchenormousvalueasafirst-aid
treatmentforinjuriestotheeyeandforbrokenbones
thatIhaveincluded ithere.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Brokenbones
SymptomsBonespainful;sticking.
Symphytumeasesthepainandspeedsupthehealing
ofbrokenandfracturedbones.
Eyeinjuries
SymptomsPains:ineyeball;sore,bruised.
Causesadirectblowtoeyeball.
Symphytum isaspecificforinjurytotheeyeballitselfor
tothebonessurroundingtheeye(resultingfrom,for
example,astrayfistortennisball)wherepainpersists
afterArnicahasbeengivenandhasdealtwiththe
swelling.
Tabacum(Tab.)
Familyname:Solanaceae
Commonnames:NicotianaTabacum;tobacco;tabacca
Tobaccoisanannualplantwithlarge,hairy,bitter-
tastingleaves.Itwasfirstknowntoandsmokedbythe
IndiansofSouthAmericaandtheMississippiValley.
In1559theSpaniardsbroughtittoEurope,andthe
plantwasintroducedintoEnglandbySirWalter
Raleighin1586,whenitmetwithviolentopposition.
Kingsprohibited it,Popespronouncedagainstit
inBulls,andintheEastSultanscondemned
tobaccosmokerstocrueldeaths.Threehundredyears
later,in1885,theleaveswereofficialintheBritish
Pharmacopoeia.
Tobaccocontainsavolatileoilcallednicotine,which
isavirulentpoison,producingnausea,vomiting,
sweating,palpitationsandweakness.
Medicinally ithasbeenusedasapowderintheform
ofsnufftocausesneezingandthereforeincreasethe
'healthy'secretionofmucus.Whenchewed, itin-
creasestheflowofsaliva,alsoconsideredbeneficialat
onetime,andCulpepercitessomeoftheusesof
160•Thujaoccidentals(Thu.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Travelsickness
SymptomsWithnausea(seeabove);vomiting(see
below).
Betterforfreshair.
Worseforastuffyroom;formovement;fortobacco.
Thenauseaismoreacutewhentravellingbyboatand
thevomitingwhentravellingbycarortrain(although
vomitingonaboatisalsoquitepossible!).
Vomiting
SymptomsVomiting:exhausting;sour;violent.
Worsebeforebreakfast;formovement.
Causestravelling;pregnancy.
Thefaceispaleanddrawn.
Thujaoccidentalis (Thu.)
Othernames:Arborvitae;treeoflife;whitecedar;
falsewhitecedar
tobaccoasaherbalremedy,forpiles,tokillliceand
worms,asalaxativeand'fortherecoveryofpersons
apparentlydrowned'.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefromthe
driedleaveswhicharecutupandlefttpstandin
alcoholbeforebeingstrainedandsuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Facepale.
Worsebeforebreakfast;forfasting.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Thisisasmallremedywithnostrongemotional
symptoms,althoughthesepeoplemaybesluggish
andconfusedandhavedifficultyinconcentrating.
Theymaybeanxiousandrestless,andmaystarton
fallingasleeporduringtheirsleep.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Nausea
SymptomsNausea:deathly,intermittent;violent.
Betterforfreshair.
Worseinastuffyroom.
Causespregnancy;travelling.
Thenauseaisbetterinthefreshair,althoughthe
feelingofdizzinessisworseforit.Thereisanempty,
sinkingfeelinginthestomach.Thewhitecedarisagraceful,thicklybranchedtree
whichgrowsinswampsandwetlandsofNorthAmer-
icaandCanada.Itgrowsveryslowly,takingover150
yearstoreachaheightoffiftyfeet.
Thename'Thuja'derivesfromtheGreekthero
whichmeans'fumigate'orsacrifice',forinancient
timesthisfragrantwoodwasburntatsacrifices. Itwas
usedbytheEgyptiansinembalmingandemployed
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Urticaurens(Urt-u.) •161
medicinallybytheAmericanIndiansforavarietyof
diseasesincludingmalaria,coughs,goutand
rheumatism.Theleavesandtwigs,boiledwithlard,
weremadeintoasalveformuscularachesandpains.
Thehomeopathicremedyispreparedfromthe
leavesandtwigs,whicharegatheredwhenthetreeis
flowering,choppedandp


olubility in water and solubility in fat solvents such as alcohol, ether, and
chloroform. The term is descriptive rather than a chemical name such as
“protein” or “carbohydrate.” Lipids include true fats (esters of fatty acids and
glycerol); lipoids (phospholipids, cerebrosides, waves); and sterols
(cholesterol, ergosterol). A large portion of a cell’s membrane wall is
cholesterol. The adrenal glands use cholesterol to make cortical-type steroids,
which are, in part, the body’s anti-inflammatories.
So why does cholesterol build up in the lining of the vascular system and
throughout other tissues in the body? This build-up is known as plaque. To
answer this question you must first understand inflammation, or acidosis, and
the role of steroids in the body.
Inflammation simply means that the body is on fire. This inflammation or
fire can exist at low levels or become a raging blaze. Cancer is an excellent
example of a raging fire. As we discussed earlier, inflammation is caused by
acidosis from what you eat, drink, breathe, what you put on your skin, what
you think and what you feel.
Inflammation is diagnosed as an “itis.”
Where
 the inflammation is
discovered will determine what type of “itis” it is. An example of this is
arthritis, which is inflammation of the joints. “Itis’s” are treated by the
allopathic medical community with a steroid shot—like cortisone, prednisone,
or the like. Since we know that the adrenal glands use cholesterol to make
cortical-steroids, the question to ask is: “Why don’t my adrenal glands
produce adequate amounts of their own cortisone?” The answer is that if the
adrenal glands are weak or underactive in the tissue that produces these
steroids, the body cannot adequately defend itself against this strong
inflammation.
Lacking adequate steroids, the body then has no choice but to turn to
water and electrolytes in an attempt to manage this “fire.” But water and
electrolytes also cause edema (swelling) in the area of the inflammation. The
liver will also begin to increase its production of cholesterol, thus giving the
body additional anti-inflammatory compounds. Cholesterol is one of the main
ingredients of steroids.
All of these anti-inflammatory compounds are essential to the protection
of a cell against the highly damaging effects of acids. The creation of plaqueoccurs naturally, chemically, in an acid environment. Alkalization is essential
for the removal of this “protective shield” of plaque which itself can become
a problem.
Most people consume 90-100 percent acid-forming foods. Eating this
way keeps the body’s pH factors acidic. The acid by-products after
metabolism also add to this already over-acid condition,
causing
inflammation (fire), which is a killer of cells. As stated earlier, the body, in its
infinite wisdom, tries to compensate for this by several methods, including:
steroid production, cholesterol (lipid) plaquing, calcium extraction, and
electrolyte or fluid retention. This attempt by the body to alkalize itself is only
self-preservation.
Check for acidity
Buy some litmus papers, also known as pH-testing papers, and keep checking
your saliva and urine, approximately one to two hours after you eat. This will
help you to see what is causing your over-acid condition.

Alkalization is key to tissue regeneration, to the breaking up of stones,
and to the removal of plaqued lipids. Lipid plaquing from
inflammation/acidosis causes poor circulation leading to tissue death, heart
attack and strokes. Acidosis also creates a coagulating of fats and nutrients,
which also leads to strokes, heart attacks, memory loss, graying of hair, pain
in tissues, stone formation and other conditions.
REMOVING THE FIREWALL, SAFELY — It is not difficult to remove this
plaque and to break up lipid-type stones if you consume an 80-100 percent
raw-food diet. Raw foods remove inflammation through alkalization and
increased steroid production, thus dissolving stones and plaqued lipids. This
will unclog the body, increasing blood flow to tissues, which in turn increases
nutrition and energy to cells. This will restore or regenerate these weakened
areas. Such restoration does not take very long if you are persistent with the
diet.
MODULE 5.4
Adrenal Gland Weakness = Female and Male Disorders
 The adrenal glands greatly affect the quality of life that each individual wants
to and
can
 experience. This is why you should always seek to strengthen all
the cells/glands in your body. Your body is your transportation while you are
on this journey in the physical world. Disease and weakness locks you away
from life, while health and vitality make you more a part of it. Enjoy your
adventure into health. It’s more rewarding than you can imagine.
Let’s look at some other problems that can arise when the adrenal glands
are weak and the diet is predominately acid forming.
FEMALE IMBALANCES

Women are especially hard hit in the area of adrenal weakness. One of the
first indicators of this is low blood pressure. With underactive adrenal glands,
blood pressure starts out below 118 systolic and eventually can swing the
other way, creating high blood pressure, or it can keep getting lower.
Another indicator of adrenal weakness for women will be trouble with
the menstruation cycle. In this situation a female is likely to begin her
menstruation early in life, at anywhere from three- to twelve-years-old. (Yes,
I have known of three-year-old females menstruating.) She often has
excessive bleeding and her monthly cycle is not on time. The opposite can
also happen: women having sparse and infrequent periods. However, this is
not as common.
Adrenal weakness in women can also manifest as fertility problems, lack
of sex drive, frigidity, and vaginal dryness. If the adrenal weakness
continues, she can develop ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic issues,
a-typical cells, fibromyalgia, and breast, ovarian, cervical and/or uterine
cancers.
The main issue, of course, is estrogen. Without proper progesterone and
other anti-inflammatory steroids a woman becomes estrogen dominant. The
estrogen levels in her body, especially ovarian estrogen, dominate without the
counterbalance of progesterone. Most estrogens are acidic, especially ovarian
estrogen, which breaks down the inner lining of the uterus each month. Of
course progesterone stops this, and heals the inflamed tissue while repairing
the damaged cells.
Because of estrogen’s ability to break down the uterine lining, birth
control pills are made from estrogen. Estrogen stimulates a woman’s naturalmenstruation cycle. With all this in mind, ask yourself: “Why does a medical
doctor give a woman
more
 estrogen after removing the uterus?” Also, with
the above information, would estrogen build up bones or tear bones down?
Yes, tear down. This is why estrogen replacement programs usually make the
problems much worse.
MALE IMBALANCES

Now let’s take a look at the male issues, which spring from the same adrenal
weaknesses. These imbalances would be prostatitis and prostate cancer. The
same reasons apply: acid-type hormones like testosterone and androsterone
dominate without proper steroids (like progesterone) counterbalancing the
inflammation caused by these acidic compounds or hormones.
A lot of good romance is lost because of glandular weaknesses. This
would include many other conditions that plague men, including erection
problems, impotency, and premature ejaculation. Health brings it all back.
PROBLEMS COMMON TO BOTH

In both males and females with lower steroid production, from underactive
adrenal glands, we also find lower back and pelvic weakness and
deterioration. This also leads into sciatica and other lower extremity nerve
pains, especially when the thyroid is involved. Since the thyroid/parathyroid
affects calcium utilization, we begin to see bone loss, fingernail problems,
and connective tissue issues, including varicose veins, hemorrhoids, macular
degeneration, hernias, heart arrhythmias and aneurysms.
The adrenal glands also create neurotransmitters. When the adrenal
glands are weak, the nervous system can also be involved, causing anxieties,
shyness, feelings of inadequacy, panic attacks, asthma, multiple sclerosis,
Parkinson’s, or any other neurotransmitter weaknesses, including blood
pressure irregularities. It is shocking to see the huge number of reflex
conditions that result from just one pair of glands that become hypoactive.
Add to this the fact that most people have thyroid and/or pituitary weaknesses
as well, and the list of diseases that can result gets longer and longer. There is
nothing mysterious about diseases when you begin to look at the overallpicture.
You are the only one in control. Stop, explore yourself, and rid yourself
of the thoughts, images, and feelings that bind you. Become free and
healthy and your body will readjust itself to match. Become love.
MODULE 5.5
Cancer

Diseases are a natural process or effect born out of a cause. Learn to eliminate
the cause and the effect will also be eliminated. In my opinion, after thirty
years of experience in clinical work and observation with cancer clients, there
are