, where we have a summer
house. Panic ensued—what to do with emer gencies? Well, the number of
emer gencies dropped precipitously until the strike was over—another
wonderful example of how much control we have.
THE MECHANIC AND THE HEALER
The all too common failure to interact fruitfully with patients comes
from the way a physician is taught to be a mere mechanic. In medical
school we learn all about disease, but we learn nothing about what disease
means  to the person who has it.In a study of folk medicine in Taiwan and among Chinese-Americans,
Dr. Arthur Kleinman, of the University of Washington School of Medicine,
attributed the folk doctor ’s often surprising success to treatment of sickness
in the context of the patient’ s psychology and culture. The strong stigma
attached to mental illness in Chinese society means that a Chinese person
often can only conceive of depression, for example, in terms of its physical
symptoms, such as fatigue. Hence any treatment that does not allow the
patient to believe in a physical cause of the problem is likely to be resisted
and remain inef fective.
Kleinman points out a dif ference between disease, defined as the
physical or psychiatric symptoms or damage visible to a doctor, and illness,
the patient’ s subjective experience of the same sickness. The two are often
remarkably dif ferent, especially when a person without scientific
knowledge is treated by a Western physician.
I don’ t recommend going into trances or burning spirit money (unless
the patient believes only in such methods), but we must, like Plato’ s free
physicians, ask patients what they think caused the problem, what threats
and losses (or gains) it represents to them, and how they believe it should be
treated. The typical review of systems that medical students are trained to
use when questioning patients does not uncover time sequences or the
meanings that events have to patients. Even questions like “What did your
father die of?” are rarely pursued to find out whether the patient’ s father
died last week or twenty years ago. Therefore, doctors often have no idea of
the dynamics of the situation, unless patients volunteer those aspects, which
they often don’ t do.
The best results proceed from a “negotiation” in which the practitioner ’s
viewpoint and that of the patient come close enough together for true
communication. If a person fervently believes in religious healing through
the laying on of hands, the clinician must not become an obstacle and
detract from that treatment’ s effectiveness. Even if the physician thinks
such methods are useless, they are likely to help if the patient believes in
them.
I often tell patients how I would treat myself if I had their illness. My
choices may not include some of the things they’re doing. Likewise, their
choices may not include some of the things I would do. But I do not take
away the benefit of their methods by saying they’re no good. Instead I work
to see how our beliefs can mesh. To me the true measure of wholisticmedicine is how well the patient and doctor accept each other ’s belief
system, even though their beliefs may dif fer. Neither one of us forces
something upon the other. That way I can say, “If sometimes your beliefs
don’t work, try mine.”
I recently talked to Vivian, a Christian Scientist who said she had been
attempting—in vain—to cure herself of a severe bladder infection through
prayer. Finally she couldn’ t stand the pain anymore, so she went to the
emer gency room. She said a young, inexperienced doctor gave her
medication that completely cleared up her symptoms within twenty-four
hours. The episode changed her, making her feel that medicines also come
from God and should be used along with our inner healing skills.
Obviously, I will try to talk patients out of spending enormous amounts
of time and money on something I feel is inef fective, but where positive
beliefs are involved I will try to support them. Doing what restores hope is
beneficial. Studies show that spending money and traveling a long distance
actually help a patient get well. There’ s a strong ur ge to be able to say, “I
got my money’ s worth.” Moreover, the ef fort shows a high level of
motivation. Such a patient will invariably listen to the physician’ s advice
and act on it. I used to tell patients to mail drawings and call me until I
realized the importance of their desire to come. A gentleman from Montana,
with cancer of the pancreas, came to me with a 3-month prognosis for
survival. He was alive 18 months later because of his hope. Similarly, a
willingness to give a little will help the patient accept the doctor ’s beliefs,
allowing the medical therapy a real chance to work. When patients have no
faith in the physician’ s system, they will resist treatment consciously, by not
taking their medicine, or unconsciously. In either case, healing will be
thwarted.
The value of identifying with the patient explains why the best doctors
are often those who’ve been seriously ill themselves. Throughout our
training we learn not to empathize with the sick, supposedly to save us
psychic strain. All our terminology emphasizes the separation. Instead of a
“heart attack,” the hospital page operator says “Code 5.” The emotional
distance hurts both parties, however. We withdraw just when patients need
us most. Nurses know how hard it is to find the doctor when a patient is
dying. All our education encourages us to think of ourselves as gods of
repair, miracle workers. When we can’ t fix what’ s broken, we crawl of f to
lick our wounds, feeling like failures.The distance also encourages doctors to feel invulnerable: “It’ s always
other people who are sick, not me.” When I tell a roomful of medical
students, “Almost everybody dies,” they all laugh; but when I say the same
line to a roomful of doctors, there’ s dead silence. We become the best
deniers of all. As Dr. Gordon Deckert, chief of psychiatry at the University
of Oklahoma Medical Center, has observed, “Physicians usually know
exactly what they think and believe, but rarely are they in touch with how
they feel.”
A panel set up by the Association of American Medical Colleges
recently concluded that technological specialization is driving out the
“exquisite regard for human needs” essential to a doctor ’s prime goal, the
relief of suf fering. The main task facing medical schools, said panel
chairman Dr. Steven Muller, is to find ways of fostering that regard, which
must be taught lar gely by example.
Instead, the unspoken ideal instilled in college is a medical machismo—
the superhumanly tough doc who can handle anything without letting it
show. It’s okay to be scared of an exam, but admitting a fear of illness and
death becomes a sign of weakness.
Naturally, after graduation, we M.D.s deny our sadness at a patient’ s
misfortune, our anger at a patient’ s resistance, even our joy at a patient’ s
recovery. We are generally very conscientious about our work, but are often
unable to relax, play, and recuperate. As a result, we overlook all sorts of
warning signals about our own health. No wonder our rates of suicide, drug
addiction, and middle-age death are way above average. Just give one of us
an airplane and pilot’ s license, and then ask an actuary what the insurance
risk is. “For get that thunderstorm,” the doctor thinks. “I have a meeting to
get to. Other people crash, not me.”
In a recent article Glen Gabbard, MD, of the Menninger Clinic
discussed the role of compulsiveness in the physician creating doubt, guilt,
and an exaggerated sense of responsibility. This is reflected in dif ficulty
relaxing, vacationing, and finding family time. In feeling responsible for
things beyond one’ s control, feeling that one is not doing enough, and
confusing selfishness and healthy self-interest.
To paraphrase a story of Larry LeShan’ s: Doctors are busy playing God
when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.
Playing God leads to self-destruction.Many colleges are now trying to teach compassion through courses in
humanistic medicine, but perhaps the admission of more women to the
profession will gradually do more to end this pathetic bravado. The best
physicians are those who can find both the “masculine” and “feminine”
virtues that exist within their personalities—the ability to make tough
decisions and yet remain compassionate and caring. Neither extreme makes
a good physician. You can become too involved to make good decisions,
and you can also make decisions based on diseases and think nothing of the
patient. Combining both is the best way. This has been borne out by studies
showing that those who combine both aspects become more ef fective
doctors and also remain happier amid the stresses of their profession.
It’s important for most patients to know that their doctors themselves
take the advice they give. Yet, feeling immortal, many physicians smoke,
drink too much, eat badly and too much, and exercise not at all.
This is sad enough for the physician, but for the patient it’ s far worse. A
sense of invulnerability makes a doctor discount the fears of the patient,
who lives in no such charmed fantasy. When someone asks, “What should I
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Kamala (jaundice) etc
Eﬀect on Tridosha –
Amla Murabba balances Vata and Pitta Dosha.
Dose – 1 Amla murabba fruit twice a day, preferably taken in the rst part of
diet.
Children can take half a fruit once or twice a day.
How long can amla murabba be consumed?
It can be consumed for a few months time.
Side Eﬀects of Amla Murabba
Because it is a coolant, it is  best avoided during cold, cough and fever.
It is best to avoid in diabetic patients.
Because it im proves weight, it is  not recommended in obese people.
It is best to avoid in indigestion and in “Ama” conditions.
Store in a cool dry place.
Ensure air tight closure of container.
Shelf Life: 1 year
Question: I understand Amla and milk is not advised together however can
Amla Murabba with milk be taken. As Amla is processed/boiled during
murabba process?Answer: It depends on the product. Mix a small piece of murabba in the milk.
If it does not curdle the milk even after half an hour, then it is good to take.153. Amla Shower for
Healthy Hair and Wrinkle
Free Skin
Article by Dr. Manasa
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According to Ayurveda, Amalaki (Emblica oﬃcinalis – Indian Gooseberry) is
the best Rasayana (Rejuvenating agent, Anti-ageing medicine, Immunity
modulator herb).
Its benets are unlimited. It is a medicine, a food inclusion and a plant
which is worshiped in Indian tradition. It’s presence in the premises of our
home is said to be an auspicious sign.
Amalaki is known to ward oﬀ many diseases and prevent as many diseases
when regularly consumed. us Amalaki is not only a part of Ayurveda but
also a part of belief in Indian religion; it is a part of Indian culture.
Amalaki can be used both internally as well as externally. When taken
internally Amalaki helps to prevent many diseases, cures as many and provides
good immunity.
Amalaki has a similar impact when used externally too. Amalaki is skin and
hair friendly. Amalaki is used in many oils, skin cleansers, shampoos, hair
washes and soaps. Apart from having a coolant eﬀect, it prevents damaging of
skin and hair. It can also be used as a skin scrub.
Bathing with Amalaki Water (Indian Gooseberry Shower) – Reference:
Yoga RatnakaraA reference form an old Ayurveda text, Yoga Ratnakara explains the benets of
external application of Amalaki as –
“e person who uses Amalaki for bathing purposes will surely avoid Vali
(premature ageing and wrinkling) and Palita (Premature greying) and will live
a healthy life span of 100 years”
is explanation points out towards the skin and hair protective property of
Amalaki. We can conclude that Amalaki provides a long standing protection to
skin and scalp making them immune to heat, light, pollutants, allergens and
irritants.
Why don’t we regularly use this easily available wonderful herb for bathing
purpose especially after knowing how good it is for skin and hair health?
Benets of Amla Shower
Skin protection and rejuvenation, Twak rasayana – Amalaki provides a long
standing protection to skin and scalp making them immune to heat, light,
pollutants, allergens and irrita nts.
Promotes hair growth, Keshya – strengthens the hair roots and make them
long thick, strong, dark and denser, not allowing untimely greying of hair or
hair-fall.
Natural hair conditioner – Amalaki provides long standing conditioning to
hair and skin, thus making the skin look young and attractive. When used for
a prolonged period, it avoids the ageing of skin by avoiding the wrinkles and
maintaining the texture. e rich Vitamin-C in Amalaki and its anti-oxidant
properties can be credited for its property of skin-hair protection.
Natural coolant property – Apart from this Amalaki would keep the skin
cool due to its coolant property and prevent boils and eruptions due to its
Pitta-alleviating property. us its activity on Bhrajaka Pitta located in skin can
be substantiated.Beautication, soundarya vardhaka – Amalaki keeps up the skin glow and
gives a soft texture, making the skin beautiful and attractive.
Scrub and cleanser, twak shodhana – Amalaki powder or paste when used as
a scrub removes dirt, dead cells and microbes, keeping the skin healthy and
clean.
Note –
Intake of Amalaki simultaneously will help. Regular detoxication with an
herbal laxative (at least at weekends) would work wonders for skin and hairs.
Take the opinion of your Ayurveda doctor before using shampoos and hair
conditioners, though they are herbal. Something else might be better for your
constitution.
You may also require some additional internal medications and treatment
especially in chronic skin and scalp conditions. (Many skin, hair and scalp
diseases are due to metabolic errors, systemic diseases and disorders related
with immunity).
How to Take ‘Amalaki Water’ Bath?
Method 1:
Mix Amalaki powder in water. Use this water for head and body wash (bath)
Method 2:
Apply paste of Amalaki over the body and scalp. Wash oﬀ with water.
Method 3:
Apply paste of Amalaki over the body and scalp. Take bath with Amalaki
mixed water.
Note
Use the same Amalaki paste or powder for scrubbingUse a suitable herbal shampoo, soap and conditioner, preferably having
Amalaki as one of the ingredients
Do not rub the hairs hard during hair-wash
How Long to Use?
Amalaki snana can be practised life long without worrying much.
Excellent properties of Amalaki in a nut shell.
Special Qualities of Amalaki:
Shivam – Auspicious and good in all aspects
Doshanulomanam – Propels Doshas in downward direction for elimination
Deepanam-Pachanam – Good in kindling the metabolic re (appetizer), aids
digestion and metabolism, Digests Ama (metabolic wastes) and prepares them
for elimination.
Aayushyam – Good for life, enhances the life quality of each and every cell
Poushtikam – Nutritive
Dhanya – e person taking Amalaki regularly lives a disease free life devoid of
any fear and thus is blessed.
Vaya Sthapana – Enhances and establishes the life span of an individual (and of
every individual cell also).
Sarvaroga prashamaneem – Alleviates many diseases.
Buddhi-indriya-balapradam – Strengthens brain, intellect and senses.
Medicinal Uses of Amalaki:
Amalaki when taken individually or in combination with other benecial and
compatible compounds is said to alleviate the below said diseases eﬀectively:
Kushta – Skin ailmentsGulma – Abdominal tumors
Udaavartam – Retrograde movement of Doshas and body components
Shosham – Depletion of tissues, Consumption
Pandu – Anaemia, Eﬀects of blood loss
Arsha – Piles/Haemorrhoids
Grahani dosha – Metabolic errors of small intestine, Sprue, Irritable bowel,
Malabsorption
Purana Jwaram – Chronic fevers
Vishama Jwaram – Inconsistent fevers of chronic nature
Hridroga – Heart disorders
Shiro Roga – Diseases pertaining to head
Atisaram – Diarrhoea
Arochakam – Anorexia
Kasa – Coughs
Prameha – Diabetes, Urinary disorders
Aanaaha – Flatulence, Bloating
Pleeha – Spleno – Hepatomegaly
Udaram – Abdominal disorders of recent onset
Kaphaprasekam – Excessive salivation, W ater – brash
Vaisvaryam – Disorders of voice
Vaivarnyam – Discolouration of body due to various diseases and causes
Kaamalam – Jaundice and other liver related diseasesKrimi – Worm infestations
Shvayathu – Swelling and inammation
Tamakam – Dyspnoea, Breathing disorders, Asthma
Chardi – Vomiting
Klaibyam – Impotency, Sexual disorders
Angaavasaadanam – Fatigue syndrome
Vividha srotovibandhaan – Removes many blocks in the cells and channels of
the body
Hridaya – urasaha – pralepam – Heaviness and constricted feeling in the chest
and region of heart
Smriti pramoha – Diseases aﬀecting the memory process
Buddhi pramoha – Diseases aﬀecting the intellect
Amalaki can be individually administered as a single entity or as a part of a
compound. Ayurveda makes adequate use of Amalaki in various preparations


.
CATARRH:
Abundant secretions from the mucous membrane 61 11 30 41
due to the inability of the body to properly assimilate 60
milk and concentrated starches.
CHICKEN POX:
The chicken pox virus propagates in a medium 61 30 1 2
of mucus, particularly that which results from the
waste of the digestion of milk and concentrated
starches and sugars. In the absence of such medium,
naturally the virus cannot exist; but if the child is
brought up on cow's milk, cereals, breads, and
puddings, it is only to be expected that this
microscopic virus—which must eat if it is to live—
will propagate in such fertile soil. A virus is a living
pathogenic microorganism. No living thing can
continue to live without food. If the chicken pox
virus does not happen to appreciate the particular
quality of the mucus present, then Nature will oblige
by furnishing some other virus or germ to do the
scavenging, and, depending on the name given to
this scavenger, another one of the so-called "natural
diseases of childhood" may "develop." A diet of
starches, grains, and milk is fine for the germ, as
these drive the poisons back into the skin, and then
into the body, only to reappear at some early or
distant date under some other classification. The
diagnosis of the Iris has done more to prove this
than all laboratory methods we have found.The same
treatment which has been so effectively used in colds
(See colds) has been efficacious in cases of chicken
pox.
CIRRHOSIS of the Liver:
The direct effect of overworking the liver as a 1 61 30
result of eating too many starches, particularly white
flour, causing the liver tissues to harden.
COLDS:
Same as catarrh but in a less virulent or tenacious 61 11 30 41
form. Colonic irrigations or enemas have proved of 60 23
primary benefit in ridding the body of colds. The (in hot water)
94 prevention of colds is without doubt the simplest
thing in creation. Once we have gone through the
arduous and bothersome process of cleansing the
body of mucus and other waste matter, and have
changed to the mucusless diet of raw vegetables and
fruits (see DIET & SALAD book by N.W. Walker,
D.Sc.) supplemented w ith plenty of fresh juices, the
cause of colds is removed. Vaccines, drugs, and
hypodermic injections are exceedingly profitable to
those who administer them, and it is even within
the range of possibility that some of these persons
may not know that they are many times of no
ultimate benefit whatever.
Read again the chapter with the heading: OH—
SO, YOU HAVE A COLD?
COLIC:
Gas pains in the abdominal regions usually due 61 30
to improper combinations of foods, and to the
retention of waste matter in the system. Infants
brought up on raw foods and juices rarely have colic.
We have found that enemas help to give more or
less instant relief.
COLITIS:
Inflammation of the colon resulting from 61 30 I
constipation, and from mental or organic
nervousness which, of course, disrupts the digestive
processes.The primary cause may usually be traced
to the lack of organic live nourishment for the proper
functioning of the colon. (Read chapter on Oxalic
Acid and on Spinach). Cooked food is composed of
dead atoms which cannot nourish or regenerate any
of the cells and tissues of the body. Cold buttermilk
has been used to soothe the inflamed tissues of the
colon while a change-over to a properly prepared
raw food diet was in progress; but we must remember
that all milk is mucus-forming, so that if it is used
in an emergency, it must be used judiciously. It has
been found that cooked foods, instead of helping to
reestablish normalcy in the colon, have the opposite
effect. Finely grated carrots, and other vegetables
and fruits similarly prepared, all raw, have been a
95 great help when properly made fresh, raw juices were
also used plentifully. Mineral oils, being inorganic,
defeat any attempt to benefit the condition, while
drugs are injurious to the system. Enemas have
proved of immense benefit. The objection to enemas
usually comes from those who need them most but
are not sufficiently informed on the subject of
nutritional and eliminative physiology. The fear that
they are habit-forming is based on lack of
knowledge. Cleanliness — whether internal or
external — is never harmful.
CONJUNCTIVITIS:
Inflammation of the membranes of the eye.
CONSTIPATION:
A colon filled with toxins, resulting in lack of
coordination in the nerve and muscle functions of
the colon and bowel due to excessive use of
devitalized foods in the diet, resulting in
sluggishness of bowel action. Be sure to read
carefully the sections on Spinach Juice and Oxalic
Acid.
CORONARY THROMBOSIS: See Thrombosis.
COUGHING:
The result of the body trying to dislodge and rid
itself of mucus from the breathing passages. Cough
medicines are mostly an excellent means to store up
a future supply of coughs, and are intended for the
gullible. Read the paragraph on Colds. Gargling the
throat with the juice of lemons, straight or diluted
has helped to ease up a cough.
CRAMPS:
In the intestinal region. Pains due to the presence
of gas resulting from foods improperly combined.
In the muscles. Usually due to excessive retention
of uric acid.
CYSTITIS:
Inflammation of the urinary bladder. See
paragraph on Bladder Trouble.
96 DEAFNESS:
Frequently due to the presence of mucus in the 61 11 40 41
auditory channels. Sometimes due to cranial
pressure on the nerves and blood vessels related to
the auditory system. Cranial adjustments, known as
Craniopathy, usually relieve this condition.
DECAY (of bone):
Decomposition of bone tissue due to excessive 61 48 55 46
use of milk and concentrated starches and sugars in I
the diet.
DECAY (of teeth):
Decomposition due to the lack of organic live 61 48 55 46
atoms in the food to nourish the teeth. Excessive 1
use of milk, starches, and sugars are primary causes
of decay.
DIABETES:
Inability of the pancreas to metabolize 61 2 57 50
carbohydrates due to excessive use of concentrated 40 84 85
starches and sugars in the diet. Read section on
String Bean Juice regarding injections of Insulin.
DIARRHEA:
Loose running of the bowels. Usually Nature 1 2
cleansing the colon because you failed to do so when
you should.
DIPHTHERIA:
A disease resulting from the settlement and 61 2 40 30
propagation, usually in the throat, of the diphtheria 47
germ, most common after the removal of tonsils.
The feeding ground of the germ is the accumulation
of body waste due to its improper elimination from
the body and of inassimilable devitalized foods,
principally starches, encumbering the blood stream.
A clean, pure body and blood stream cannot harbor
diphtheria germs. To pollute such a body with
diphtheria poison known as antitoxin and to inject
this poison into a body suspected of entertaining
diphtheria germs, without first using natural
cleansing and preventive means in the way of proper
organic nourishment, is due to a singular lack of the
elementary understanding of the purpose of germs
in Nature.
97 DIZZINESS:
The result of the body getting out of balance 30 61 2 I
because of the accumulation of waste matter in the
system.
DROPSY:
Excessive water in the system due to improper 61 30 29 40
or insufficient elimination through the kidneys. 59 11
DYSENTERY:
A loose running of the bowels as a result of an 6 61 30 1
accumulation of mucus and other waste matter.
Colonic irrigations, have been of great help when
drinking two or three quarts of fresh juices a day.
DYSPEPSIA:
Indigestion due to excessive acidity in the 61 1 2 30
alimentary tract. 15
DYSURIA:
Painful incomplete urination. 30 1 40 59
ECZEMA:
Inflammatory condition of the skin due to 61 2 30 15
excessive acidity of the lymph glands. Also, the
elimination through the pores of the skin of waste
matter which


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from this point onward.
145 Chapter 3
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AIDS Epidemics: Recreational Drugs, Anti-Viral Chemot herapy and Malnutrition, Journal of
Biosciences, June 2003, pp. 396 -398
Incidentally, Rock Hudson died in 1985, officially of AIDS. Less well-known is
the fact that Hudson's male partner had tested negative and had no AIDS symptoms
somethi ng which clearly speaks against AIDS being a viral disease. In the mid-1990s,
American congressman Gil Gutknecht became aware of this and all the other
. inconsistencies and shortcomings of the HIV =AIDS hypothesis. And so he confronted
146 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillio n-Dollar Business
the AIDS establishment's highest operatives with a whole range of critical questions,
including: "Where is the proof that clearly shows that AIDS is a contagious disease?"
But Gutknecht never got a real answer either.312
Incidentally, the blood plasma designed for hemophiliacs is freeze-dried before
its administration, often for long periods. If you hypothetically assume that this
virus does exist, it would not survive such extreme conditions, as mainstream
medicine admits. The Centers for Disease Control states that this drying process of
"human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental
transmission to that which has been observed-essentially zero. Incorrect
interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have unnecessarily
alarmed some people."313
No surprise, then, that in specialist literature, there is not one single clear-cut
case of HIV infection among health care workers who typically deal with blood on a
daily basis.314
Africa: How Well-Kno wn Diseases Are Redefined as AID S
As statistics on HIV infection remain stable or decrease in developed nations, the
AIDS establishment and the media tum their focus to Africa. Headlines and TV news
stories are scary: millions of Africans have died and will die from HIV I AIDS. But in
reality, these are computer-generated estimates from the World Health Organization
(WHO), based on a highly questionable data pool. And they seem grotesquely
exaggerated when one compares them with the population statistics of precisely
those countries where depopulation has been predicted for many, many years.
"Botswana has just concluded a census that shows population growing at about
2. 7 per cent a year, in spite of what is usually described as the worst AIDS problem
on the planet," writes South African author Rian Malan in a cover story for the
British news magazine The Spectator: "Africa Isn't Dying of AIDS." Malan points out
that "there is similar bad news for the doomsayers in Tanzania's new census, which
shows population growing at 2. 9 per cent a year. Professional pessimists will be
particularly discomforted by developments in the swamplands west of Lake Victoria,
where HIV first emerged, and where the depopulated villages of popular mythology
are supposedly located. Here, in the district of Kagera, population grew at 2.7 per
cent a year before 1988, only to accelerate to 3.1 per cent even as the AIDS epidemic
was supposedly peaking. Uganda's latest census tells a broadly similar story, as does
South Africa's."317 318
"AIDS is a huge business, possibly the biggest in Africa," says James Shikwati,
founder of Inter Region Economic Network, a society for economic promotion in
147 Chapter 3
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Children in Uganda getting drinking water from a contaminated water hole. In African countries,
more than half of the population still has no access to clean drinking water. Often, the water
stinks terribly and is contaminated with all sorts of toxins (feces, heavy metals, etc.). According to
WHO, nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide have no access to clean drinking water.
The lack of clean water counts as one of the largest obstacles for advancement and development
in the affected countries, particularly in the African regions south of the Sahara. Referring to
the WHO and UNESCO, the aid organization UNAIDS terms the lack of clean drinking water
as "the most important health topic of our time." In Africa alone, 4,500 children are said to die
daily from contaminated water. 315 In this context, investing many billions (of tax dollars) into the
investigation of the unproven and contradictory thesis that AIDS is caused by a virus, can only be
looked at cynically.
Nairobi (Kenya). In a 2005 interview with Spiegel editor Thilo Thielke, Shikwati
added that, "nothing else gets people to fork out money like shocking AIDS figures.
AIDS is a political disease here: we should be very skeptical."319 But the people in the
control centers of politics, science and media aren't suspicious, so they ignore the
extreme discrepancy evident between perpetual predictions of horror ("Africa will
be depopulated by AIDS") and actual population increases.
It is still firmly assumed that the HIV antibody tests, which are an important
basis for the WHO's AIDS projections, are reliable measurement instruments. But
148 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
Lucy tested so-called HN positive in Bukoba (Tanzania), with a single, unconfirmed blood test
(wealthier countries rypically test twice). From this time, Lucy was considered an AIDS patient,
whereupon a certain Philippe Krynen and his wife Evelyne took her in. They were convinced that,
if people like Lucy were properly treated (without toxic medications), they could achieve stable
health again. This is exactly what happened with Lucy. The Krynens took the young African
women out of her village and helped her get a more stable stone house and a better job. "And
so it came that, within the next four or five months, Lucy began to recover, and also gained back
weight," says Philippe Krynen.
Her old friends saw her with new eyes, and let go of their fear that Lucy could infect them. At
the same time, they began to wonder if Lucy really had AIDS. At any rate, the AIDS stigma had
been imposed upon Lucy, something which often leads to isolation. But now Lucy was doing
fantastically without medication. And indeed, she never developed symptoms of any of the many
well-known diseases that have been redefined under the term AIDS.316
let's take a closer look back to 1994. At that time, the Journal of Infectious Diseases
published a paper on HIV tests with lepers in Zaire, compiled by no less than Max
Essex, who is said to be one of the founding fathers of orthodox AIDS science, and
of the theory that HIV or AIDS originally comes from Af rica.
Essex observed that lepers reacted positively to the HIV test. For this reason,
Essex points out that the results of the tests should be taken with a grain of
salt-above all for patients suffering from diseases like leprosy or tuberculosis. And
in places where these diseases are so widesp read,.particularly in central African
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 invented by my sister, Jane, who is always looking for
creative ways to get greens into her kids’  diet. This recipe works so well
that before long your kids will be asking you for the kale butter instead of
peanut butter.
Use kale butter as a spread for crackers or wraps.
1 bunch kale, rinsed and chopped
½ cup walnuts
½ cup water
Salt to taste
Steam the kale for 5 minutes, until tender. Blend the cooked kale with
the walnuts and ½ cup of the green water from steaming. Add salt to taste if
desired. Process in a blender until smooth.
Cannellini Dip
Cannellini beans are smooth and satiating, and this dip does the trick with
one quick spin in the Cuisinart.
1 can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
1 clove garlic, coarsley chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
¼ teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon dried rosemary
¼ teaspoon sea salt
Cracked pepper to taste
Blend all the ingredients until they form a paste.
Variation:
Add 4 coarsley chopped Kalamata olives.
Tofu Vegetable Spr eadSo hearty and delicious you can use it as you would a tuna or egg salad.
½ pound extra-firm tofu, drained and crumbled
Juice of ½ lemon
1 teaspoon dried mustard
1½ teaspoons white vinegar
¼ teaspoon turmeric
¼ teaspoon paprika
¼ teaspoon sea salt
Cracked pepper to taste
Process all the ingredients until slightly chunky, about 15 seconds.
Variations:
Customize by stirring one or more of the following into the processed
spread:
2 thinly sliced green onions
1 sliced rib celery
3 tablespoons pickle relish
¼ cup diced white onion
Guacamole
Man, guacamole is good—but it’ s not for those trying to lose weight or
lower their cholesterol numbers. Avocados, loaded with nutrients, are also
loaded with calories and fat. That’ s why we use a cucumber to add volume
and lessen the amount of fat in each serving.
2 avocados, seeded and peeled
½ cup chopped cilantro
Juice of 1 lime
1 clove garlic, minced or pressed
1 tomato, chopped
¼ onion (white, yellow, or red), diced
1 cucumber, seeded and diced
Combine the ingredients with a potato masher or fork. For presentation
and to preserve the green color of the avocados, place one avocado seed
atop the guacamole.Variations:
For a simpler version, mash 2 avocados with the juice of 1 lime and 1
clove minced garlic.
Add 1 teaspoon red chili powder or chili sauce.
E2 Sour  Cream
Often, it’ s not what people choose as their main course that matters, but
what they choose to put on top of it. Fat-laden, artery-clogging sour cream
is a perfect example—of the wrong choice. Belly up to the trough with this
excellent E2 Sour Cream and make that enchilada or taco much tastier and
much, much healthier.
Makes 2½ cups
1 package Silken Lite firm tofu
1/3 cup soy milk
3 tablespoons lemon or lime juice
2 tablespoons freshly chopped cilantro or dill
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
Blend all the ingredients together until smooth. Cover and chill for 1
hour before serving to allow the flavors to blend.
Salsa
When I first arrived in Texas as a kid from Cleveland, Ohio, I had no idea
what salsa was. I knew only two condiments: ketchup and mustard. But
after living here for twenty-five years, I’ve come to love a good salsa more
than any other sauce.
This one’ s an Engine 2 specialty. We often whip it up first thing when we
come on shift at high noon, and then snack on it throughout the day along
with healthy crackers, pita bread, or toasted corn tortillas.
1 can tomatoes
1 large jalapeño pepper, diced (remove seeds to reduce heat)
2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 cup cilantro
2 green onions, coarsely chopped
Juice of 1 limeBlend the ingredients together to achieve the desired consistency.
Variations:
This salsa can be served fresh, or simmered on low heat for 20 minutes
and served either at room temperature or chilled. Six small, fresh tomatoes
can be substituted for the canned tomatoes.
Southwest Salsa
This chunky salsa is a great complement to wraps and tacos, and also
wonderful on top of beans and rice.
2 large carrots, sliced into thin rounds or matchsticks
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 cucumber, quartered, seeded, and sliced into matchsticks
4 green onions, chopped
½ cup chopped cilantro
1 clove garlic, minced
1 jalapeño pepper, minced (optional)
4 tablespoons white vinegar
1 tablespoon molasses
Place the carrots, bell pepper, cucumber, green onions, cilantro, garlic,
and optional jalapeño in a bowl. Mix the vinegar and molasses together and
toss with vegetables.
 Southwest Salsa is better on the second day, and keeps well
in the r efrigerator for up to a week.
MANY  TIMES SPICES TAKE YOU only so far. That’ s when it’ s nice to have the
option of calling a reinforcement such as a marinade. A marinade is a blend
of ingredients that, combined with vegetables, tofu, or meat, acts as a great
flavor enhancer. The key is to allow the food to soak in the marinade so it
can penetrate deep inside.The instructions for these marinades are all the same: Mix all the
ingredients thoroughly in a sealed plastic container or baggie. Add tofu (or
chicken or fish if you’re a Fire Cadet in your first week) and shake to coat.
Allow to marinate refrigerated for 30 minutes to 4 hours.
Asian Marinade
Juice of 2 lemons
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger, or 1 teaspoon dried
1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses (more to taste)
Cracked pepper to taste, or ½ teaspoon seeded, minced jalapeño
Island Marinade
1 can crushed pineapple, undrained
4 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses
Red pepper flakes to taste
Mexican Marinade
Juice of 2–3 limes
2 tablespoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
2 tablespoons brown sugar
½ cup chopped cilantro (more to taste)
½ teaspoon seeded, minced jalapeño
Continental Marinade
½ cup white wine
¼ cup country-style Dijon mustard
4 tablespoons agave nectar
2 tablespoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
½ cup chopped dill or 2 tablespoons chopped thyme
Cracked pepper to taste
Celia Sanchez, 40, Jessica Sanchez, 23
Mother and Daughter
Celia: I came down with ovarian cancer and my doctor
recommended I eat a plant-based diet. So I decided to go on Rip’ s
diet—and my daughter decided that she wanted to support me bydoing it, too. It wasn’ t as hard as either of us thought. But both of us
had to learn how to cook dif ferently.
Jessica: All in all, I lost thirteen pounds, and even better, before
starting the diet, I had kidney stones. They went away!
Celia: I’m also grateful because I used to go to the bathroom three
times a week—now I go three times a day. That feels great, too!
SNACKS
Like most people, I love to snack. When I was a triathlete, training
four to eight hours and burning over 5,000 calories a day, I had an
enormous appetite and snacks were a major part of my life—I
couldn’ t go more than an hour without noshing on something. Now,
as a firefighter, snacking helps me pass the hours and soothe the
nerves between emer gency 91 1 calls and the frequent amounts of
downtime.
However, instead of reaching for the typical range of cookies,
donuts, cupcakes, ice cream, candy, and soda pops, which line the
countertops and are staples at almost every firehouse, I reach for a
variety of healthy snacks that work to enhance my health and my
mood rather than hinder them. In fact, snacking on the right foods can
keep blood sugar levels stable and prevent gor ging at meals. Too
many people either don’ t snack, or for get to snack, and subsequently
end up stuf fing themselves silly when the pendulum swings the other
way.
When the snacks you choose are healthy, you stay healthy and
perpetuate a positive cycle of healthy eating.
Here are sixteen of my favorite healthy snack ideas:
1. Fresh fruit: My current favorites are sliced-up watermelon,
honeydew, cantaloupe, mangoes, and black grapes. I always have a
bowl waiting in the fridge.
2. Vegetables: In my refrigerator you’ll almost always find sliced red
and green bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, cherry/cherub
tomatoes, and broccoli. I love dipping these in homemade hummus.
3. Whole grain crackers: These days my choice is the intense Wasa
cracker. I often have up to three; the first with a thin layer of peanutbutter and low-sugar jam, the second just with jam, and if I have a
third, it’ s naked.
4. Soy yogurt: I’m particularly


 you have the
microscope slides  of labeled flukes and their stages to study and
compare. In real life, they vary so much in shape and size that
absolute identification is difficult without experience. Unfortu-
nately in a few hours, just as you are getting proficient, your
magnificent specimens will be drying out and unfit for observa-
tion. To preserve them longer you can seal the edges by painting
around the coverslip with fingernail  clear enamel. Or dribble hot
sealing wax along the edges and then place them in sealed plas tic
bags (one per bag). Melt sealing wax in a metal jar lid. Make an
applicator from a piece of coat hanger wire bent in the shape of a
small square to fit around the coverslip and a handle.
Or take photographs. To take pictures of what you see under
the microscope you will need a photomicrographic camera,
which costs $200.00 and up (see Sources ). It is easy to use. Re-
member to label your pictures so you know which slide they
came from.
Even photographs do not scientifically prove identity of
parasite stages, but it is very good evidence. Proof would re quire
that the saliva or urine sample could be cultured and seen to
produce the known parasite stages.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
502Using A Frequency Generator
Frequency generators come in all sizes and costs and capa-
bilities. If you can purchase one that reads out the frequency for
you in numbers (digital type) and lets you produce a fraction of a
kilohertz by turning a dial, it meets your most elementary needs.
It should also be possible to set it on positive offset (100%
positive) and still give you 5 volts. Then it can be used as a
zapper. You should also be able to select a sine wave or square
wave.
The advantages of having a frequency generator are that you
can do your own diagnosing. You can find, in a few minutes:
1.Which invaders you have by dialing in to their frequen cies.
2.At what frequencies you are broadcasting to the world.
3.What frequencies are used by other living things.
The Theory
Every living animal and every cell type produces  its own
frequencies and responds  to these frequencies as well. We may
speak of frequencies but we really mean waves, waves of en-
ergy. All waves have a frequency associated with them, so it's
not really misleading to say frequencies when we really mean
waves.
When the animal is alive it produces  them, when it is dead it
still responds  to some of them. It is like the opera singer and the
glass goblet. The opera singer produces  frequencies in the air.
The goblet responds  to them because of its structure, not be cause
it's alive. The goblet “picks up” on that particular fre quency of
sound because its own “resonant” frequency is exactly the same.
If the singer sings loud enough the gobletBIOELECTRONICS
503shatters from the vibrations set up in it. An identical goblet, made
of plastic, would not have the same resonant frequency.
There is not merely a structural and chemical difference
between the living and non living. Living  things  are transmit ting
energy of some unique kind. And with your simple device, you
will be able to trap this energy. And measure its exact fre quency.
This is not the same as understanding its makeup and source. We
must leave that to others. But we can observe and use our
observations to track down bacteria and other parasites. We can
track down pollutants. We can measure our health quantitatively
and perhaps in the future predict life expectancy.
The Syncrometer  traps the frequencies that match the ones in
the material on the test plates and delivers them to an audio
speaker in a range that you are able to hear. Instead of test tis-
sues or pathogens, we are now going to use pure test fre-
quencies!  Remarkably, few things have overlapping
The Syncrometer  at left is attached to the handhold. The frequency
generator at right is also clipped to the handhold.
Fig. 85 Setup for finding resonant frequencies.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
504frequencies, making this technique extremely useful for identi-
fication, even without a specimen!
Lesson Eighteen
Purpose:  To search for the intestinal fluke in your body by
listening to its broadcast frequency at 434 KHz.
Method:  Turn on the frequency generator, select a fre quency
a short distance above the one you are interested in, like 438
KHz, turn the voltage (amplitude) down to less than one volt.
Select sine waves. The lead  coming from the frequency generator
will have two connections, usually red and black (ground). We
will not use the black (ground), just tape it out of the way. Pick
up the handhold  and probe  in the usual way. At tach the red lead
coming from the generator to your handhold. This makes two
wires attached to your handhold. Although there is nothing on the
test plates, they must be connected as usual with the switch at
OFF (one plate is still ON).
Turn the Syncrometer  ON. Probe yourself as usual. Your
body's waves are being sent to the capacitor (plate) in the test
plate box. The frequency from the Syncrometer is sent there, too.
And now the 438 KHz waves from the generator are being sent
there as well. Three different frequencies are mingling on the
plate! If the two from your body and the generator are the same,
the circuit will oscillate, and you will hear resonance. Turn the
generator to 437 and probe  again. Next, 436.
Sometimes, you can hear the resonance start to build. Con-
tinue on.
Next try 435. Then 434.
If your body is emitting a frequency of 434 KHz (coming
from a live intestinal fluke inside you) it will be reinforced by
the generator's 434 KHz. The reinforcement will put oscillations
or resonance in the circuit, the same as you are accustomed to
hearing  with the Syncrometer. If there was none, you don't haveBIOELECTRONICS
505the intestinal fluke anywhere in your body. Confirm this by
starting at 430 KHz and working your way up.
If you hear resonance, you do have it. You may wish to ver ify
this independently using a prepared slide of the fluke. Kill your
flukes immediately as described in the next lesson.
Lesson Nineteen
Purpose:  Killing the intestinal fluke with a frequency gen-
erator.
Materials:  A frequency generator, two handholds with alli-
gator clip leads for them.
Method:  Wrap a single layer of paper towel over each of the
two handholds. Wet them under the tap; squeeze out excess
water. Clip them to the red and black wires of the frequency
generator. (We use both wires for this purpose.) Dial up 434
KHz. Set the amplitude (voltage) at 10 volts. Grasp the hand-
holds in each hand and hold on for three minutes. That is all. You
have killed whatever tiny invader has a resonant frequency the
same as the setting on the generator. Remember to zap all the
stages, too; see Pathogen Frequencies.
If your frequency generator has a positive offset  capability,
you can use it like a zapper, and a single session will kill all
pathogens, provided  it is 100% offset and can give at least 5
volts at this setting. When using this technique, the generator can
be set to any frequency from 2 KHz to 800 KHz, and you should
go for 7 minutes. But even a small percentage of nega tive voltage
will ruin this effect and do more harm than good! To be certain
your generator is set correctly it would be best to observe the
output on an oscilloscope.
Experiment with other voltage settings. Notice that less than
one volt is also effective.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
506Lesson Twenty
Purpose:  To find the bandwidth  of a small living animal.
Materials:  A fly, beetle or other insect, Syncrometer, fre-
quency generator.
Discussion: Persons using a Syncrometer  might have  already
tried putting a small insect  on one of the plates. The cir cuit
always  resonates when you join the circuit at the handhold  and
probe. Even the tiniest ant placed in a glass bottle or plastic
baggy will resonate the circuit. Unless it is too far away from the
plate. If it has climbed up the side you will lose the reso nance.
At least one foot  must be touching the bottom of the bot tle. If the
animal is dead this ceases. Obviously the living thing is affecting
the circuit differently before and after death. Is it some kind of a
wave form energy? To find its frequency you must add another
frequency that will reinforce or interfere with the frequency
already on the plate. Adding the generator fre quency does just
that.
Method:  Use the same method as described in the last Les-
son; however for an ant or fly, start at 1,000 KHz and proceed
upward in big steps like 10 KHz. Use the right test plate which is
controlled by the ON-OFF switch. Always listen to the cur


 a weak one. Everyone is
faced with simil ar fears, yet only those people who cannot admi t the threats
hiding inside cope with them by resorting to control.
A controlling person appears to be free from fear; that is the facade that
control presents to the world. We put a high social value on seeming to be
in control of our lives, which further promotes the ego’s belief that its
controlling behavior is working. The unfaced problem here is that control
never actually solves the insecurity that underlies it. On the contrary,
control increases fear by denying that it exists.
What behaviors am I talking about? In clinical psychology many kinds of
behavior are considered control ling—perfectionism, stubborn clinging to a
point of view, intolerance, looking after others’ needs, being disappointed
when expectations are not met, putting up false expectations,
possessiveness, greed, and the tendency to get angry if opposed or
confronted. This list covers a huge spectrum of behavior that many people
would regard as normal. Examine the following list in light of your own
behavior:
Do you keep secrets from your beloved, especially about money?
Do you dominate conversation and expect your point of view to be acknowledged as right?
Do you keep a mental list of the times you have been disappointed by someone you love? Do you
hold grudges?
When you make a suggestion, are you of fended or put of f if it isn’ t taken? Do you secretly believe
you are still right after people ignore you to do what they want?
Have you generally figured out how things really work? Do you not bother to change your beliefs
when you are contradicted or even proven wrong?In the name of love we all resor t to these unloving behaviors at one time
or anoth er. We say, “I love you,” to someone yet secretly keep a tabulation
of his shortcomings. The end of such behavior begins when you see that
control is incompatible with love. “I love you” and “I expect you to behave
my way” come from two totally  separate parts of the psyche—one is of the
spirit, the other of the ego.
Protecting some one else appears to be a way of sheltering her inside your
power, but at the same time it prevents her from challenging that power or
asserting any of her own. If this last point doesn’ t seem imme diately true,
think of dictator s, who always start out believing that their seizu re of power
is for the good of the country. The populace then becomes like powerless
children living by the benevolent grace of a political father figure. Yet
however well disposed to people’ s welfare, dictators inevitably live in fear.
No one is more  to be feared than a person whose power you have taken
away, even if he or she agrees to it. In order to protect this power, the
dictator is forced to impose harsher and harsher controls, putting more
people in fear of him, until things escalate beyond control, and the people
rebel.
Many relationships proceed on the same basis. In the name of love one
person assumes power and the other gives it away. Instead of being drawn
closer, however, the couple discover that they feel increasingly distant, for
the one with the power becomes guilty or domineering, while the one
without power feels resentment and eventually rebels. Control is no solution
to the problem of fear.
HOW FEAR IS REALL Y SOLVED
False solutions point toward real problems. Most of us go into relationships
to find security; we want to be with someone who makes us feel safe. Two
people form a better unit of defense against potential hazards and tragedies
than one. But being with anoth er person, even on equal footing, doesn’ t
resolve fear. Spiritually the answer to fear is simple: you are already safe. If
you felt truly safe, fear wouldn’ t arise. From the perspective of spirit all fear
is a projection from the past, and as long as these projections continue, you
will keep generating fearful situations to accommodate them. Whatever you
most fear—abandonment, rejection, failur e, loss, humiliation—has alreadyoccurr ed to you. The threats you perceive around you now, or coming at
you in the future, are the long shadow being cast by your past.
The reason romantic love makes you feel so safe is not that another
person is there to guard you but that love is there  to guard you. Most people
feel that love has such power only in early childhood. As infan ts we fused
love with the presence of a loving father and mother. As long as they were
there watching over us, we felt both loved and protected. Once we grew up,
however, we learned that our parents had their own frailties and fears, that
they were not as totally secure  in the world as we thought. This lesson
usually came home in a way that brought some shock and disappointment.
The day came when your father couldn’ t keep away a bully because he
wasn’ t there, or when your mother could not take you into her arms to
soothe a hurt. Faced with aloneness, the young child is thrown out of love
and safety at the same time.
But that is where a mistake crept in, for the one lesson—pare nts can’t
always protect you—is true, whereas the other—love can’t protect you—is
not. Unlearning the second lesson is how you stop having to control other
people, for it was in early childhood, almost exactly at the time you were
first left to your own devices, that you started feeling the urge to establish
control.
Despite its appearance of normality, then, control is based on a mistake,
and that mistake is rooted in separation. To be able to relinquish control the
mistake has to be corrected. Learning that the world is safe doesn’ t happen
overnight. The world as a whole  is far too overwhelming, given all the fear
and distrust each of us has inherited. But the love you have for one person
is a safe zone and thus a good place to begin. The beloved is like a harbor in
which your heart takes refuge. In an indif ferent and hostile universe, there is
at least one person who understands, sympathizes, and provides for you.
Somehow, miraculously, this one person is enough to cancel out the hostile
world.
Every day brings many opportunities to replace controlling with
allowing. If you can extend allow ing to your beloved, the effect is to release
you from attachment—both of you are spiritually served by the same act.
The key stances in letting go of control are all forms of allowing:
acceptance, tolerance, nonresistance. Needing to control life, either yours or
anyone else’s, is based on spiritual desperation. Look at your interactionwith your beloved and honestly  confront any fear-based behavior you are
exhibiting. When control is ready to loosen its grip, a definite relaxation
takes place. The facade of the demanding, critical partner who is so quick to
blame begins to melt. You start to feel love once more, not as an idea but as
a sensation in your heart. And at last you find it possible to allow.
When this stage  is reached with the beloved, the healing process begins
to branc h out into other aspects of your life. The following changes will
often be in evidence:
You stop measuring people by whether they live up to your
expectations. Y ou begin to resist the ur ge to correct their mistakes and
give unwanted advice.
You lessen your habit of taking care of others without really caring for
them.
You become tired of trying to keep track of every detail of your life
and bored with people who have always given in to you.
You begin to listen to objections and disagreements instead of using
them to trigger your own opinion.
Unexpected emotions come to the surface. This usually arouses self-
criticism because you can’ t control your feelings anymore as you once
did. At another level, however, this eruption of emotions comes as a
great relief.
Your impatience begins to lessen. Y ou stop living according to the
clock.
You take stress seriously, no longer believing that you thrive on it.
You begin to listen to your body, which has all along been giving you
signals of tightness, fatigue, contraction, and overstimulation.
Your mind gives up calculating every move in advance. Some room is
made for spontaneity.
You stop holding grudges and remembering slights. Resentment begins
to be replaced by tolerance.
You quit setting external goals for yourself and believing that
achieving these goals faster, better, and more tirelessly makes you a
good person.
The most loving  thing you can do for your beloved, if he or she is dealing
with control, is to encourage these shifts, but this is something no one whois still in a state of need can do. In the mind of a needy person, any loss of
attachment equals loss of love. In fact, however, exactly the opposite is true.
The craving to possess and cling is what smothers love. Attachment is that
condition in which your needs overshadow your spirit. So how can you love
without need?
Know the difference between ego and spirit. Ego is needy, but spirit is
not. It exists to give and not to take. It wants to bring joy; it has no hunger
for approval. It does not crave the obedience or agreement of another
person and lives  beyond all demands. When you see yourself in this way,
your relationship will become sacred. Without nonattachment this can’t
happen.


 is Reality
itself.
Since life never ceases bringi ng us a new wave of challenge every
day, the intellectual decision s we make spin on forever. The number
of questions that arise over the tiniest experience is awe inspiring. Is
it desirable or undesirable? To be repeated or not to be repeated?
Right or wrong, good or bad, nice or nasty? Once each decision is
made, it gets led away in memory, to serve as a referenc e point for
future experience. Let us say that my rst time horseback riding
made me feel better / was good / nice / worth repeating. The next
time I think of going riding, these judgments will color my decision.
They do not force me to get back up on a horse, but I cannot totally
discard them either.
Two years ago I gave a lecture in Germany. A woman came up
afterward to say that she worked for a large municipal aquarium
and had often observed an interesting phenomenon there. Whenever
the thick glass partitions in the main tank were pulled out to be
cleaned, the sh would swim  right up to the spot where the glass
used to be, and just before crossing it, they would turn back, warded
o by a barrier that didn’t really exist.
My imagination was quite caught by this observation. Our own
uncrossable boundaries are nothing more than wrinkles in our mind
that another wrinkle labels as too ugly, fearful, loathsome, or
terrifying to confront. If I see an old enemy who insulted me ten
years ago, I will nd it almost impossible to overlook my former
injury. The old judgments crop up in my mind automatically,
erecting a wall, and the person who could be my friend is shut out,
rejected in advance. In turn, when he senses my coldness, his
defenses are raised, until we both nd ourselves hiding behind
barricades that serve no purpose, that lack all reality. The moment
soon passes, and yet there has been no relationship at all, only the
stale repetition of outworn memories. And the most frustrating part
is that my tormentor today is myself left over from yesterday.The rishis pondered this problem posed by the intellect, which is
like a bread knife, constantly  cutting the ow of life into neat slices
of experience, each one labeled and judged. They saw that this
slicing up of reality, although necessary to the thinking process, was
basically false. Life is a river, not a dripping faucet. The rishis
therefore contended that any experience which depends upon slices
of time and space is not an experience at all. It is a ction, a
shadow, a notion of life that has no actual life in it. By endlessly
interpreting the world in bits and pieces, we are losing it at every
instant, allowing it to slip through our ngers like sand. To have
reality that is whole and thus truly real, one must rise above the
intellect, discarding its neat slices of experience. Like day-old bread,
they only go stale anyway.
“I Am the Field”
In place of a world sliced up into bits and pieces, the rishis oer
us a continuum—a owing river—that begins inside our awareness,
expands to create all the things and events “out there,” and then
returns to its source, dissolving back into awareness again.
Ultimately, the rishis’ perception can only be tested by rising to
their state of consciousness. But let us suppose that they might be
right. Then it should be possible, if only for an instant, for us to see
what they saw. A teacher I know from Oregon, now in his early
forties, apparently had just such a glimpse as he was meditating.
The experience began in familiar territory:
When I started to meditate one morning, I felt as if a
powerful magn et was pulling me down into myself. For some
minutes I continued to sink deeper and deeper, using no
eort on my part, until all sense of outside stimuli faded
away. I sat with my breathing stilled, but my mind was alert
in the unbroken silence. I knew that I had transcended to the
point where my individual self had dropped out completely,
taking with it all sense of time, space, direction, or any kind
of thought.At this juncture, a person usually continues to experie nce the
transcendent silence or else begins to rise toward the surface of the
mind, carried by a sudden thought or feeling. However, this time
something new happened.
Out of the absolutely uniform  eld of silence, a faint point of
awareness arose. It was the most delicate feeling of “I-ness,”
just a wisp of personal consciousness, and with it came the
sensation of “turning”—that is the only way I can describ e it.
This turning must have acted  as a spark, because sudden ly I
was surrounded by an enormous expanse of light. There was
nothing existin g but light, and I intuitively knew it to be
intelligence, or consciousness, taking on visible form.
Even though I was sitting with my eyes closed, I could see
that everythin g outside myself was also made of the same
brilliant white light. My body, the tables and chairs, the walls
and windows, the building and all that lay beyond it—
everything was molded from this intelligent light, which
pulsated with life. After a moment or two the light gradu ally
faded. I was left alone, sitting in silence again, but now it was
dierent, as if I had swallow ed the world and for the rst
time felt full.
Extraordinary as this experi ence is, it strikes me as even more
remarkable that my friend found it normal  He said that the
“turning” which sparked his vision could also be called a “self-
reection.” In other words, he felt that behind the alluring surface
of his vision, he was actually catching sight of himself. After a
lifetime of being distracted by things “out there,” he nally saw the
seer. Yet we can’t fully comprehend his experience until we get
closer to what  this inner “turning” of awareness is and how it can
carry us out of ourselves into the eld where light and mind,
nothing and everything, mingle as one.
It is extremely intriguing that the word “eld,” which modern
physicists use to describe the most fundamental forces in nature,
was a divine word in ancient India. When Lord Krishna reveals hisinnite greatness to the warrior Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita, he
says, “Know me as the eld and as the knower of the eld.” The
Sanskrit word, kshetra, can mean a battleeld (Arjuna and Krishna
happen to be talking in the middle of a battleeld, just before two
mighty armies clash), but the deeper meaning of kshetra  comes very
close to what a physicist means when he says “quantum  eld” or
“electromagnetic eld.” These elds are innite and all-pervasive;
without them, reality could not exist. Lord Krishna was making the
same point about himself.
Before there can be a photon of light, there must be the eld of
light; before an individual electron, the eld of electricity; before an
isolated bar magnet, the earth’s magnetic eld. The eld of light
that my friend saw as the source of everything around him was not
a physical eld, however, but a eld of awareness. He was
perceiving his consciousness as light, but this is not so dierent from
ordinary perce ption as it might seem. When we see light, our brains
are actually selecting totally abstract qualities from out of the eld
and interpreting them as light. In fact, everything we see, touch,
hear, taste, or smell has been selected from the innite reservoir of
vibrating energy in the eld.
Think of a rose leaf and a rose thorn. Both are nourished by the
same sunlight, being constantly bombarded by the sun’s entire light
spectrum. Photosynthesis is basically the same in each, and if you
delve into their cellular structure, you would see mostly the same
molecules at work, and their DNA is identical.
The dierence between a leaf and a thorn is a matter of selection.
The thorn takes sunlight and turns it into something hard, sharp,
and pointed. The leaf takes sunlight and turns it into something soft,
rounded, and translucent. By itself, sunlight has none of these
qualities. Could you claim that light is hard or soft, sharp or
rounded? Somehow the vario us qualities get pulled out of the eld
even though they do not appear to be “in” it—the y exist as
possibilities that the eld can manifest.
Like the rose, I practice selection, fashioning my life as my
relationship to the eld alters. In one state of awareness—deep sleep
—I have no interaction with light at all. In dreaming state, I produceimages of light in my head. In waking state, the light appears to be
“out there.” In actuality, the light was always a poten tial of the


and think miraculously. Abunda nce and prosperity will show up when we
do.
Today’ s reality is simply a mirror of yesterday’ s thinking. Now, in this
moment, standing in the field of miraculous possibility, you can disenthrall
yourself from the limits of your past. Nothing binds you except your
thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you
except your beliefs. Think God,  think Jesus, think Light, think Love, think
whatever form of divinity calls to you. And all else will fall away.
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Published books are a collaborative process, in which the author is
surrounded and supported by a team of literary midwives. There is no way
to overestimate the role of this support team in bringing a book to life.
I thank Mickey Maudlin at HarperCollins for his positive response to the
idea of Divine Compensation. His organizing the transcripts of my teleclass
in order to lay a groundwork for the book was a gift without which I
wouldn’ t have been able to write it. I hope our association will continue to
be both productive and fun.
I thank Ellis Levine for his wise and excellent counsel. I’m very grateful
to know that you have my back.
To the brillian t, adorable, young-but-mature-beyond-her -years Liana
Gergely, who spent many hours  editorially assisting my process as I wrote
this book, I bow in deepest salute and gratitude. As a summer intern who
simply appeared “from out of the blue,” she turned out to be a miracle sent
from “a thought  system beyond our own.” I’ve told her this many times,
and I’m happy now to have a chance to tell the world. She is one of those
young people who give you faith in what the future can be.
To all the team at HarperCo llins: executive managing editor Terri
Leonard, production editor Lisa Zuniga, copy editor Kathy Reigstad,
Kathryn Renz, and anyone else who helped make the book into what is
hopefully a gift to its reader, my deepest thanks. Also, to Emilia  Monell for
final help with the manuscript.
To my friends Richard Cooper, David Kessler, Frances Fisher, Roger
Wolfson, and Victoria Pearman, my thanks for the emotional support that
only true friends can give. And thanks to Jennifer Ritchkof f for your
willingness to share your story.To Tammy Vogsland, Wendy Zahler, Drea Dauer, and Jill Angelo, my
thanks for assisting me in holding the earth together while my writer ’s head
was in the clouds.
To my daughter, India, there are no words for the love and gratitude I feel
for who you are and what you are to me. As I’ve said to you from the time
you were a little girl, it is truly an honor to be your mom.
To my readers and audience, particularly those at my lectures in Los
Angeles, I thank you for keep ing me on my toes. The depth of your
searching, and the kindness that you show to me, are the inspirations behind
this book.
There are others who have brought great light to my life, and you know
who you are.
My love and thanks to all ...
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by W alter Last
The health of our cells depends to a large degree on their ability to keep toxic material out. This includes toxic or unbiological
chemicals, endotoxins produced by microbes inside the body and also harmful concentrations of otherwise useful biological
chemicals. Such toxic matter tends to weaken and disrupt the energ y production within cells and is a major factor in disease
processes such as cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Toxic chemicals, together with useful ones, can enter inside the cells only through special pores in the cell wall. In healthy cells the
entrance points of these pores are protected by special gatekeeper chem icals, mainly the calcium salt of 2-aminoethanol phosphate,
also called colamine phosphate or short EAP. This EAP is heavily concentrated at these entrance points and is attached to the cell
wall where it keeps the calcium in a ﬁxed position.
In addition to keeping unwanted chemicals from entering, EAP is also effective in transporting essential minerals through the cell wall
and into the cell. In addition, it helps to maintain and restore a normal electric cell potential between both sides of the membrane.
Because of its vital functions in maintaining the health of cell membranes, EAP has been called the'membrane integrity factor' or
vitamin Mi. With increasing age and disease-related health deterioration we do not seem to be able to produce enough EAP to
protect our cells. This leaves them open to attack by undesirable chemicals and toxins and can cause or contribute to a wide range of
diseases.
EAP salts were developed in the 1960's in Germany by Dr. Hans Nieper and produced by a small chemical company, Dr. F. Koehler
Chemie. Initially calcium EAP was mainly used in the successful treatm ent of multiple sclerosis. Also damaging afteref fects of viral
infections (e.g. chronic fatigue) could be greatly reduced. Other diseases that responded well were allergies, asthma, blood pressure
and circulation problems, capillary bleeding, cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, lateral sclerosis (A.L.S.), leukodystrophy and
osteoporosis.
Varicose veins stopped deteriorating and aging skin was improved. Dr. Nieper actually mentions that patients on long-term EAP
therapy hardly age, neither outwardly nor by some inner criteria. A mixed formulation of calcium, magnesium and potassium EAP is
calming and harmonising


 you're attached to how things should be going, you're going to find suffering in your life.
Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete
happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on Earth.Did you ever notice that some people never have enough, while other people always do?
The winning attitude is one that allows you to think of yourself as a winner all the time while still giving
yourself room to grow.You go out into the world, and you are who you choose to be-and some people will like it, and others
won't. That's just the way it is.
You have the power to become anything that you want to. Set your expectations for yourself, and knowthat you'll become whatever you think about.
Regardless of how absurd your inner callings might seem, they're authentically yours. The willingness to
listen and act on your inspiration, independent of the opinions of others, is imperative.
You'll come to know that the fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are
enough.
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your
spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries.
Be on the lookout to see the God-force everywhere, in every living thing. Be cognizant of how this force
has delivered many blessings to you throughout your life and continues to do so.
Begin observing your thoughts, and notice if you're going in the wrong direction. You can, with conscious
effort, make a U-turn with new thoughts.In virtually every area of your life, the more you give away, the more you get back.
Before beginning your day, spend some time with God during the early morning. In these moments, reflect,
feel the peace, and most important, extend your gratitude.Be grateful to all those people who told you no. It's because of them that you managed to do it all yourself.
When an idea's time has come, it can't be stopped. And the reverse of this is true: An idea whose time
hasn't come can't be created.
The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
Know that for every act of apparent evil, there are a million acts of kindness, and that's where you need to
focus your attention.
Be aware that anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours.
You can throw it away anytime you choose.If you fail to align your thoughts with the success you're capable of attracting, the weight of the dominant
thoughts will tip the scale away from a balanced life.
Every moment that you spend upset, in despair, in anguish, angry, or hurt because of the behavior of
anybody else in your life is a moment in which you've given up control of your life.
Have you considered that risks are nothing more than thoughts that you've convinced yourself are
impossible to implement?Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult a dream may seem.
If you're obsessed with defeating the other guy and winning at all costs, then you're guaranteed to attract
the vibrational equivalent of this thinking into your life-even if you do yoga and stand on your head
chanting mantras every day!
Habits are changed by practicing new behavior, and this is true for mental habits as well.
Go on a rampage of appreciation, rather than discussing the evils of the world, and offer joyful
commentary whenever possible.
If you can imagine yourself succeeding in some area, then you can. Nothing you imagine in your mind is
impossible.
If you feel strongly that you came here for a particular purpose, then you should cultivate energy to match
this dream. Your current financial status is unimportant when it comes to your pursuit of this purpose.If your luck appears to be bad, shift your expectations around. Make every effort to stay in balance with
what you do desire, rather than what you've been attracting.
There are limits to material growth, but there are no limits to inner enlightenment.Name it, and if you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Anything you want to succeed in, you can do-anything! About the Author
Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-
development. He's the author of more than 30 books; has created numerous audio programs and videos;
and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. Six of his books, Manifest Your Destiny,
Wisdom of the Ages, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, and the New York Times bestsellers
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, The Power of Intention, and Inspiration were featured as
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Dr. Dyer holds a doctorate in educational counseling from Wayne State University and was an
associate professor at St. John's University in New York.
Website: www.DrWayneDyer.com
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<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING T O JEHOV AH
Part 2: Our History and Future
by W alter Last
This is the second part of a series of articles based on the Book EXISTENCE – CONSCIOUSNESS by Gabor Paul Sztelek. (1)
For millions of years before Jehovah became a God there had been already many human civilisations on Earth, some with very large
bodies, created by His Brothers. Intelligent beings able to think in abstract terms have lived intermittently on the dry surface for 32
million years. Otherwise not much has been revealed about these ancient times. Destruction usually was due to the impact of large
cosmic objects.
God Jehovah had the ambition to create something very, very good. All initiative, all life in His coming Empire should start from here.
Earth should become the centre of His worlds. He regrets very much that He was not able to achieve this ambition, and by now He
has no inﬂuence over the ﬂow of these events.
The ﬁrst creations of God Jehovah were the Homoludens. They came into being 650,000 years ago but turned out to be only
interested in food and survival; they did nothing to improve their living conditions and think ahead. The original creation was not able
to have abstract thoughts. Later on, God Jehovah improved this aspect,  but could not make them sufﬁciently interested in acquiring
knowledge.
At that time He was not allowed to leave Earth to create on other planets. Therefore, after about 100,000 years, reluctantly and with a
heavy heart, He decided to destroy  the Homoludens culture to make space for a new race better suited for cosmic evolution. The
remnants of these Homoludens are known to us as people who live close to nature, such as the original South Sea Islanders,
Amazonian


 the mouth
is closed, the tongue rests against the roof of the mouth, exerting light
forces that shape the top jaw. Because the tongue is wide a nd U-shaped, it
follows that the shape of the top jaw should be wide and U-shaped also. In
other words, the shape of the top jaw reflects the shape of th e tongue. A
wide U-shaped top jaw is optimal for housing all our teeth.
However, durin g mouth breathing, it is very unlikely that the  tongue
will rest  in the roof of the mouth. T ry it for yourself: Open your mouth and
place yo ur tong ue on your upp er palate. Now try to breathe through your
mouth. While it is possible to draw a wisp of air into the lungs, it will not
feel righ t. It follows therefore th at the tongue of a mouth breather will tend
to re st o n the floor of the mouth  or suspended midway. Since th e top jaw is
not t hen shaped by the normal pressures of the tongue, the end result is thedevelopment of a narrow V -sha ped top jaw. Aesthetically, this contributes
to a  narrowing of the facial structure, crooked teeth, and orthodontic
problems. It has been well docu mented that mouth-breathing children grow
longer faces.
The sec ond way facial structure is af fected by the way we breathe
during childhood is the position of the jaws. The way the jaws develop has
a direct influence on the width of the upper airways. Our upper airways
comprise the nose, nasal cavity, sinuses, and throat. Strong athletic
performance req uires lar ge upper airways that enable air to flow freely to
and from the lungs. Although a  high BOL T score and ef fectiv e breathing
technique are crucial for high l evels of performance, having airways that
function with little resistance is also very advantageous. For example, a
marathon runner who has ef ficient breathing but airways that a re the width
of a narrow straw is not going to get too far.
The nor mal growth of the fac e is forward. Since a mouth-b reathing
child does not rest his or her tongue in the roof of the mouth, the jaws are
unable t o be properly shaped by the tongue, and the natural forw ard growth
of the jaws is impeded. This results in jaws that are set back from their ideal
position, compro mising airflow. For the correct development o f the lower
half of the face a nd airways, it is imperative that a child habitually breathes
through his or h er nose. Breathing through the nose with the tongue resting
in th e roof of the mouth helps to establish the ideal conditions for the
normal development of the face.
I sw itched from mouth to nose breathing during the late 1990s, when I
was in my early  twenties, but i t was only after I met with myofunctional
therapists Joy Moeller, Barbara  Greene, and Karen Samuel in 2006 that I
learned the correct position of the tongue. Until then, I hadn’ t given it a
moment’ s consideration, and most likely my tongue had been flopping
about without a home for the previous thirty-two years. Between them, Joy,
Barbara, and Karen have devo ted almost a hundred years to reeducating
people on the placement of the tongue and facial muscles in order to
address a variety of detrimenta l issues that af fect the development of the
jaws and teeth. S pending thousands of dollars on orthodontic treatment can
be in vain if po or habits such as mouth breathing, tongue th rusting, and
incorrect swallo wing are not addressed. And you may be ab le to avoidorthodontic treat ment altogether if these habits are not permitted to develop
in the first place.
In th e correct re sting position, three-quarters of the tongue should press
gently a gainst th e roof of the mouth with the tip of the tongue placed just
behind t he top front teeth—the s ame place we put the tongue to make the N
sound “nuh.”  Just like nasal breathing, optimal resting tongue posture is not
a recent  discove ry; for thousands of years it formed an important part of
Eastern yoga and the religion o f Buddhism. Y ogi Bhajan, who introduced
Kundalini yoga to the United States in 1968, accredited the upper palate and
the tip of the tongue as the tw o most important parts of the  body. The
ancient Buddhis t scriptures of t he Pali Canon contain passages describing
how the Buddha pressed his tongue against the roof of the mouth for the
purposes of controlling hunger and the mind.
This illustration  shows the facial characteristics of a nasal brea ther and
is based on the Irish International and LA Galaxy soccer captain Robbie
Keane:
Note the  forward position of th e jaws, high cheekbones, airway size,
and wid th of the face. The jaw i s strong and positioned well forw ard so that
the chin  is nearly as far forwar d as the tip of the nose. When  cartoonists
draw illu strations of a dominant male, his strength is often conveyed by arugged and exaggerated jaw. S ocially, a wide facial structure and strong
jawline are considered healthier and more attractive than a recessed chin.
And not only is  the classic squa re jawline more likely to get you a date, it
might also be beneficial to your bank balance. In a paper written by
researchers from the School of Business at the University of California at
Riverside, men with wider faces were found to be stronger negotiators,
commanding a signing bonus of nearly $2,200 more than their narrow-faced
counterparts. In  a separate stud y by the same authors it was found that
companies led by men with wider faces also achieved superior financial
performance.
Throughout our evolution, social anthropologists have regarded facial
appearance as a determinant in establishing societal rank and individual
roles. Beauty is not just skin de ep, and Aristotle was right whe n he stated
that “Beauty is a far great er recommendation than any  letter of
introduction.”
In the image ab ove, the jaws are set back and the airways are smaller,
resulting in diminished athletic performance. Had the jaws bee n in a more
forward position, the nose would be straighter and smaller. Th e eyes look
tired as the fac e sinks downward, and there is poor definition of the
cheekbones. Chronic, habitual mouth breathing is also associated withpostural changes that result in decreased muscle strength, reduced chest
expansion, and impaired breathing. Interestingly, researchers have found
that mouth breathers are more likely to be male.
While the above image is exa ggerated somewhat, these features are
identifiable in thousands of children and adults who have fallen between the
cracks o f the health care system and were not encouraged  to breathe
through their nose. These same individuals often suf fer from poor health,
low ener gy, and reduced concentration. In the words of Dr. Y osh Jef ferson:
“These children do not sleep well at night due to obstructed airways; this
lack of sleep ca n adversely af fect their growth and academic p erformance.
Many of these children are misdiagnosed with attention deficit disorder
(ADD) and hyperactivity.”
Dr. Egil Peter Harvold, an ex pert in orthodontics and craniofacial
anomalies, carried out extensive  research into the development of the facial
structure of monkeys in the 197 0s, discovering that the restriction of nasal
breathing over several years led to a lowering of the jaws, crooked teeth,
and other facial deformities. While today we would consider it  dreadful to
experiment on innocent anima ls in this way, hundreds of thousands of
children take part in a simil ar experiment and experience  the same
craniofacial ano malies due to the ef fects of mouth breathing. D r. Harvold’ s
studies paved the way for the treatment and prevention of th e improper
development of the jaws and fa ce and is accredited almost single-handedly
for introducing a branch of or thodontics known as functional appliance
therapy to North America.
A 2012 study investigating the long-term changes to facial structure
caused by mouth breathing noted that this seemingly “benign” h abit “has in
fact immediate and/or deferred cascading ef fects on multiple physiological
and behavioral functions.” Infa nts and children who breathe through their
mouths due to n asal obstruction  are likely to develop crooked  teeth and a
longer, narrowe r face, permanently af fecting their appearan ce. Mouth
breathing also has a significant impact on the health of the chil d, including
restriction of the lower airways, poor quality of sleep, high stress levels, and
a lower  quality of life. Rese arch has suggested that habitual mouth
breathing may even be connected to sudden infant death syndrome.Hold On to Y our T eeth!
Over the past few years I have been asked to give talks on nasal breathing at
dental c onferences in Europe, Australia, and the United States. Each
conference presents a wonderful opportunity to speak with international
experts in dentistry and related disciplines, including orthodontics. There
are two specific groups within  orthodontics that hold opposing views:
functional orthodontists and traditional orthodontists