	infinite	sequence	of	lifetimes	is	obviously	quite	possible. This
formulation	is	in	agreement	with	the	ancient	sages,	the
Vedas
,	and	the
teachings	of	Krishna,	Buddha,	and	Hinduism,	as	well	as	other	ancient
religions. At	very	advanced	levels	of	consciousness,	enlightened	sages	are	able	to
recall	prior	lifetimes	that	are	often	described	as	having	been	very
numerous. In	the	out-of-body	experience,	also,	people	remember	that	their
energy	body	has	inhabited	prior	physical	bodies. Young	children	are	also
prone	to	recalling	prior	lifetimes,	and	studies	show	this	to	be	a	rather
frequent	occurrence. A	sage	was	asked	how	real	previous	incarnations	are
and	he	replied	that	they	are	as	real	as	this	one—no	more,	no	less. The	interest	in	whether	one	has	had	previous	lifetimes	is	more	than	just
a	reflection	of	the	ego’s	vanity	or	self-interest. Of	more	importance	is	that
the	understanding	of	how	divine	justice	works	out	clarifies
misunderstandings	about	the	nature	of	the	ego. It	also	clarifies	Christian
teachings	that	“As	ye	sow,	so	shall	ye	reap”;	“People	who	live	in	glass
houses	shouldn’t	throw	stones;”	“Those	who	live	by	the	sword	die	by	the
sword”;	“Not	a	hair	on	your	head	goes	uncounted”;	and	“Every	sparrow
that	falls	is	noted.”
					Jesus’	comments	about	reincarnation	are	brief	and	appear	in	Mathew
11:7-14	and	17:10-13	where	he	states,	“Elias	(Elijah)	has	come	back	as
John	the	Baptist.”
					Christianity	is	focused	on	the	choosing	of	virtue	over	sin	or	good	over
evil	as	the	importance	of	the	fate	of	the	soul	takes	precedence	over	the
subject	of	reincarnation.Q:	Spiritual	destiny,	or	karma,	then,	is	set	by	choice	and	personal
responsibility? A:	The	most	powerful	determining	factor	is	intention	and	decision	of	the
spiritual	will. The	idea	that	contextualization	and	thought	or	action	set	up
an	energy	pattern	of	a	calibratable	level	of	power	versus	force	is	the	basis
of	the	spiritual	path	called	Karma	Yoga,	which	means	that	all	actions	can
be	sanctified	by	their	dedication	to	God. Even	the	simplest	action,	such	as	peeling	a	potato,	can	be	accompanied
by	resentment	or	by	devotion	to	life	out	of	joy,	knowing	that	one	is
supporting	life	through	life. In	gratitude	for	the	gift	of	life,	one	dedicates
that	life	back	as	a	gift	to	God	through	selfless	service	to	His	creation	as	all
of	life. With	this	dedication,	one	validates	the	sacredness	of	all	life	and
treats	it	with	respect. When	we	stop	to	assist	a	helpless	beetle	with	a	twig
so	it	can	turn	over	off	its	back	and	resume	life,	the	entire	universe	knows	it
and	responds. To	acknowledge	and	support	the	value	of	all	life	supports	one’s	own,
which	is	part	of	that	life. What	is	generally	meant	by	the	term	‘soul’	is	the
capacity	to	experience	life. The	Self	shines	forth	as	awareness	of	existence
in	all	that	lives. The	deer	and	all	animals	enjoy	their	lives	to	the	same
degree	as	people	do. They	derive	joy	from	their	existence	and	experience
of	life. There	is	a	documentary	film	about	the	lives	of	giant	otters	in	the	wilds
of	Peru. They	are	territorial. In	the	movie,	a	lone	male	who	had	a	whole
lake	to	himself	was	filmed. It	stayed	all	alone	for	months	and	finally,	the
filmmaker’s	patience	was	rewarded	when	another	otter	discovered	and
appeared	in	the	lake. The	film	showed	the	meeting	of	these	two	lonely
otters	and	their	joy	of	finding	each	other,	which	was	overwhelming. They
did	endless	summersaults	and	dances	together	out	of	their	pleasure	and
happiness. Their	joy	was	stunningly	obvious	even	to	the	most	ignorant
person. Whether	animals	are	capable	or	not	of	linear	logic	and	its
concomitant	languaging	is	really	irrelevant. What	is	significant	is	that	on
the	level	at	which	life	is	actually	lived	(the	subjective),	the	experience	of
animals	and	their	joy	in	life	is	equal	to	that	of	humans. Q:	In	using	the	consciousness	research	method,	is	it	true	that	any	and	all
information	is	available	to	anyone? A:	That	is	true. One’s	inner	life	is	actually	a	public	document	that	can	be
accessed	by	anyone,	anywhere,	at	any	time. No	secrets	are	possible;	all
stands	revealed. This	does	not	really	seem	so	surprising	in	an	age	when
modern	technological	software	programs	already	exist	that	enable	theindividual	Internet	user	to	access	and	download	any	file	in	existence	from
any	computer	in	the	world. All	information	on	the	Internet	is	in	the	public
domain;	likewise,	most	public	as	well	as	private	locations	are	under
continuous	video	surveillance,	including	even	the	public	streets. The
surveillance	and	recording	of	all	human	activities	go	on	continually	via
satellite. Every	fingerprint	leaves	not	only	a	unique	identifying	pattern	but
also	a	traceable	DNA	pattern	as	well. Computers	track	and	analyze	every
purchase	and	transaction. Credit	bureaus	record	all	financial	patterns	in
detail. It	would	seem	that	privacy	is	really	a	fantasy	of	a	bygone	era. An
honest	person	finds	all	this	rather	reassuring	because	then	honesty	and
innocence	are	documented. However,	a	dishonest	or	guilty	person
probably	reacts	to	these	realizations	with	fear. It	is	a	certainty	that	in	both
this	world	and	the	next,	all	stands	revealed	and	accountability	is	a
certainty. For	it	to	be	otherwise,	the	universe	would	have	to	have	been
created	as	unjust,	which	is	not	possible	as	an	expression	of	the	nature	of
Divinity. Q:	Is	it	necessary	to	have	a	guru? Some	spiritual	traditions	say	it	is
. A:	Everyone	already	has	a	guru—the	Self. The	Presence	of	God	is	ever
present. By	Grace,	the	Holy	Spirit	is	that	aspect	of	divine	consciousness
available	to	all. Because	one’s	ego	blocks	off	awareness	of	the	Self	that	is
within,	it	is	reconnected	to	Truth	by	contact	with	the	spiritual	master,	the
avatar,	or	spiritual	teachings. The	spiritual	sage	has,	by	means	of	greater	spiritual	evolution,	closer
contact	and	identification	with	the	Self	and	so	is	able	to	speak,	teach,	and
be	of	help	and	guidance. The	hearing	of	spiritual	experience	is
inspirational	to	others. All	spiritual	growth	is	by	consent	of	one’s	free	will. A	true	teacher	does	not	impose	their	will	on	others	but	makes	their
understandings	available	to	all. The	enlightened	teacher	does	not	charge
for	information	because	that	which	was	received	as	a	gift	is	given	out	as	a
gift. The	teaching	that	is	shared	is	of	a	higher	calibration	and	has	by	itself
the	capacity	to	catalyze	spiritual	advancement. To	merely	hear	a	great
teaching	is	itself	the	consequence	of	spiritual	merit. To	act	on	it	is	of	even
greater	benefit. The	Buddha	is	al


 know that
the shadow is not r eal. Ther e is negative denial, and ther e is
positive denial. Y ou ar e simply denying what is not ther e.
When you ar e needy, that is not the r eal you. When you
are acting out, that is not the r eal you. When you ar e angry,
that is not the r eal you. The r eal you is a divine, loving, and
changeless being. It can become temporarily invisible,
hidden behind a shadowy veil, but it cannot be uncr eated,
because God cr eated it. It is always ther e.
The shadow is an illusory self, the mask of an imposter. It
has “ real” eﬀects within the mortal world—fr om sabotaging
yourself to r epelling others—but for giveness means
extending your per ception beyond the r eal to the R eal,
beyond mortal darkness to the eter nal light. And when you
see that R eality, in yourself or others, you gain the power to
invok e it. W e heal when we feel for given. W e heal in the
presence of compassion. If you r eally want someone to
change, the miracle lies in your ability to see how perfect
they alr eady ar e.
The shadow does not leave when it is attack ed; it heals
when it is for given. W e do not tak e oﬀ our shadowy mask in
the pr esence of someone who blames us, but rather in the
presence of someone who says thr ough wor ds or behavior,
“I know this is not who you ar e.” W e miraculously heal in the
presence of someone who believes in our light even when
we ar e lost in our darkness. And when we lear n to see
others in the light of their true being, whether they ar e
showing us that light or not, then we have the power to
work that miracle for them.Forgiveness is an action, but it springs fr om an attitude. It
can be diﬃcult to for give someone whose behavior has hurt
us, unless we have gr ounded our per ceptions in a constant
eﬀort to see beyond the darkness of the personality. Spiritual practice is k ey to our power as light-bear ers, for
we cannot e xtend peace if we do not cultivate it. Our
thoughts and attitudes need persistent training in a world so
intent on convincing us that we ar e who we ar e not and that
we ar e not who, in fact, we ar e. The thinking of love is
completely opposite the thinking that dominates this world;
that is why we must be constantly reminded  of the light. Just as you tak e a shower or bath in the mor ning to get
yester day’s dirt oﬀ your body, you do your spiritual practice
in the mor ning to get yester day’s thinking oﬀ your mind and
heart. The world is constantly luring us into thoughts of fear
rather than love—attack, defense, anger, judgment, and so
forth. It would constantly convince us that the shadow is
real and that the light is not. “That person is a jerk. That
person is to blame. That person is guilty.” Or, conversely, “ I
am a jerk. I am to blame. I am guilty.” Yet projecting guilt
onto yourself is ultimately no less blasphemous than
projecting it onto others. Real for giveness means knowing that no one is actually
guilty. All of us ar e innocent in the eyes of God. It is our light
and not our darkness that is r eal. “RESIST YE NOT L OVE”
Given that Buddha was enlightened under the Bodhi tr ee
and paved the way for a life of compassion, given that
Moses simply touched the sea and it parted, given that
Jesus was r esurrected and r ose above death, you’d think we
would tak e those things mor e seriously.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        As my dear friend Br ent BecV ar
shares, refusing to for give those who have hurt us “is lik e
being a dr owning person whose head is being held under
water by someone else. A t some point you r ealize that you
have to be the one who ﬁghts your way back to the
surface. ” The only way to battle heartache and the
oppressive natur e of our shadow is with for giveness and
compassion. F orgiveness doesn’t happen in our heads, but
in our hearts. It unfolds when we e xtract the wisdom and
the gif ts from even our dark est e xperiences and emotions. Forgiveness is the hallway between the past and an
unimaginable futur e. Stories lik e these demonstrate that we ar e all living in
accor dance with a gr eater plan and that, indeed, everything
happens for a r eason. Nothing occurs by accident, and ther e
are no coincidences. W e are always evolving, whether we
are awar e of it or not. Of tentimes this evolution is painful,
but the pain serves an important purpose. It is a necessary
ingredient in our divine r ecipe. By feeling the ache of
loneliness, our hearts open to r eceive mor e love; by
overcoming the people and situations that have oppr essed
us, we r ealize the depth of our str ength. When we ar e
willing to acknowledge that our pain, traumas, and
heartaches have in fact equipped us with wisdom essential
for our gr owth, we naturally for give and even bless those
who came into our life to teach us those diﬃcult lessons. Our lives ar e divinely designed for each one of us to get
exactly what we need to deliver our own unique e xpression
to the world. Our mind may tell us that bad is bad, good is good, and
that we can never r eally be all that we dr eam of being, but if
our shadow could talk, it would tell us otherwise. It would
tell us that our brightest light can shine only when we’ve
accepted our darkness. It would r eassur e us that ther e is
wisdom in every wound. It would show us that life is a
magical jour ney of making peace with both our humanity
and divinity. Our shadow would tell us that we deserve
better, that we matter, that we ar e mor e than we ever
dreamed possible, and that ther e’s light at the end of the
tunnel. As we embrace our shadow, we ﬁnd out that we ar e living
a divine plan, a plan so important, so vital for our own
evolution as well as for the evolution of humankind. Lik e the
lotus ﬂower that is bor n out of mud, we must honor the
darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s
experiences, because they ar e what allow us to birth our
most beautiful self. We need the messy, muddy past, the
muck of our human life—the combination of every hurt,
wound, loss, and unfulﬁlled desir e blended with every joy,
success, and blessing to give us the wisdom, the
perspective, and the drive to step into the most magniﬁcent
expression of ourselves. This is the gif t of the shadow. OceanofPDF. comPART III
OceanofPDF. comOnly Light Can Cast Out Darkness
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In a world so ﬁlled with tender magic—fr om sleeping infants
to childr en playing, to lovers smiling, to friendships that last,
to ﬂowers blooming, to the violet hope of sunrise, to the
ﬁery magniﬁcence of sunset, to the brilliance of the body, to
the fragile glories of natur e, to the wonder of animals, to our
capacity to for give, to the mer cy of God, to the kindness of
strangers, and a list that could go on and on until it’s clear
that ther e really is no end to the manifold e xpressions of
love on earth—ther e is, as well, something else. And what is that. Why—in a world wher e we can be moved to tears by a
work of art—does ther e also e xist molestation, rape,
innocents with slit thr oats, unjustly held prisoners, starving
childr en, tortur e, genocide, war, slavery, and all manner of
horriﬁc and unnecessary suﬀering that e xists for no other
reason than that someone is cruel enough to inﬂict it or
someone else doesn’t car e enough to stop it. What for ce
exists, in our minds and in our world, that pr oactively and
seemingly ine xorably moves to cause the suﬀering and
destruction of living things. Why, if God is love, does evil e xist. We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy
that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. W e hope for
love and success and abundance, but we never quite for get
that ther e is always lurking the possibility of disaster. We


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 reservation. It’s relinquishing any resistance to what is. 14. Thinking that you are the physical form that you’re occupying, with its
psychological make-up, and the stories that it tells itself about who it is
and what has happened to it during its lifetime, is an illusion. 15. Know yourself as something that is beyond form. To lose yourself in
some form is suffering. 16. Every time that you react to a form that arises in the stillness or the
spaciousness that exists around everything that there is, you identify
more and more with the world of form. 17. An exercise that Eckhart Tolle recommends in order to become more
aware of the present moment is to stop a few times throughout the day
and look around the room you’re in as if you had just been born into that
room, even if it’s just for a few seconds. Simply allow your entire self to
be present and alert in the room, and enter the moment more fully. Don’t
think about what you’re looking at; just look at it. 18. Most of your suffering is self-created. Almost all suffering arises out
of your interpretation of something that is; that is, it comes from your
thoughts about the situation, not from the situation itself. 19. There comes a point in which a person says, “I’ve suffered enough”,
and at that point they’re ready to listen to the message that there’s
another way to live. There’s another way to live that does not create
further suffering. This way of living is when you stop mentally arguing
with what is, and when you stop identifying with the world of form and
with the mind-created self. 20. When you stop inflicting suffering on yourself, you’ll stop inflicting
suffering on others. 21. You’ll never be able to arrange the world of form exactly as you wantit, and you’ll never be able to accumulate all of the forms that you think
that you need in order to be yourself, if you identify your sense of self with
the world of form. It’s in the nature of the world of form that nothing
stays fixed for very long. 22. The world of form will never make you feel complete and happy. Stop
demanding that people, places, and situations make you happy and fulfill
you. You need to go deeper, instead of staying at the surface. 23. When you see the inability of the world to make you happy, and when
you notice the short-lived nature of whatever forms you encounter, you’ll
begin to step out a state of unconsciousness and start to become more
enlightened. 24. Accept what is. If someone cuts you off in traffic, it’s like a sudden
gust of wind. You don’t personalize a gust of wind, so don’t personalize
the fact that another car just cut in front of you. It’s simply what is. 25. The ego is habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through
your mind continuously. It’s about being trapped in thought and in
mental noise. 26. Even your mental chatter is surrounded by stillness; simply tell
yourself, “I’m full of mental noise, and that’s OK. ” This will allow you to
move beyond it. 27. The pain-gap is the gap that exists between your rigid expectations ofhow things should be, and the way things are. Acceptance of what is
releases you from the discomfort of the pain-gap. 28. Whatever you think that the world is withholding from you, you are
withholding from the world. Give to the world, and to others, whatever
you think is being withheld from you. This applies to all of the following:
Love;
Recognition;
Assistance;
Appreciation, and so on. If you don’t think that you can give it because you don’t have it, just
pretend. Soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. 29. If you don’t have a good relationship with the now, then you can’t
have a good relationship with life, because life takes place in the now. 30. Worry is repetitive, negative thought patterns. There are three
methods you can use in order to step out of the stream of negative
thinking:
First, move into the present moment by taking a few deep breaths. Second, you can step out of the stream of negative thinking by placing
your attention on the feeling of aliveness in your body: in your hands,
your arms, your legs, and so on. A third method you can use is to place all of your attention on anobject in your environment. Source: “30 Pearls of Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle,”
from daringtolivefully. com

        Section summary:

Please summarize each paragraph (point) separately while maintaining accuracy and brevity. Point #01-02 & Point#03

These two points emphasize becoming conscious of 'now' – letting thoughts occur within us. We're asked NOT TO REACT nor judge these internal dialogues BUT RATHER BECOME AWARE OF THE PRESENT MOMENT -THE NOW ITSELF-

This allows our inner selves discover hidden dimensions beneath appearances. Points 04&05

Tolerance towards surroundings gives rise to tranquility. When exposed to chaos/chaos outside oneself,you could take refuge inside silence,

You may realize how trivial most circumstances appear upon reflection. **End**

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Q: According to Eckhart Tolle, what is the key to not reacting to external events?,
A: Instead of reacting to the content that arises in your life, allow it to be and become aware of the stillness that underlies everything.
Q: What is the goal of the recommended exercise in point 17?,
A: To become more aware of the present moment and release yourself from the discomfort of the pain-gap.
Q: According to the text, what is the source of most suffering?,
A: Almost all suffering arises out of your interpretation of something that is, which comes from your thoughts about the situation, not from the situation itself.
Q: What is the purpose of the three methods for stepping out of negative thinking?,
A: To move into the present moment and become aware of the stillness that surrounds all events.
Q: What is the relationship between having a good relationship with the now and having a good relationship with life, according to Eckhart Tolle?,
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	accumulation	of
gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder	(the	nose	is	likely	to	return	to	center	once	the	stones
are	removed). Eyes

Skin	color	under	the	eyes	is	yellowish. This	indicates	that	the	liver	and	gallbladder	are
overactive. A
dark,	even	black	color
	in	the	same	area	results	when	the	kidneys,	bladder,
and	reproductive	organs	are	overtaxed	because	of	a	prolonged	disorder	of	the	digestive
system. A
grayish,	pale	color
	occurs	if	the	kidneys	and,	occasionally,	the	lungs	are
malfunctioning	owing	to	improper	lymph	drainage	from	these	organs. Also,	the	endocrine
system	may	be	affected. Water-containing	bags	under	the	lower	eyelids. These	are	formed	as	a	result	of
congestion	in	the	digestive	and	excretory	organs,	which	results	in	inadequate	lymph
drainage	from	the	head	area. If	these	eye	bags	are	chronic	and	contain	fat,	this	points
toward	the	presence	of	inflammation,	cysts,	and,	possibly,	tumors	in	the	bladder,	ovaries,
fallopian	tubes,	uterus,	and	prostate. A	white	cloud	covers	the	pupil	of	the	eye. The	cloud	consists	mostly	of	mucus	and
degenerate	protein	particles. It	indicates	the	development	of	cataracts	brought	about	by
longstanding	poor	liver	and	digestive	performance. Constant	redness	in	the	white	of	the	eye. This	condition	is	caused	by	the	protrusion	of
capillaries,	indicating	disorders	in	the	circulatory	and	respiratory	functions. White	or
yellow	mucus	patches
	in	the	white	of	the	eye	show	that	the	body	is	accumulating
abnormal	amounts	of	fatty	substances	because	the	liver	and	gallbladder	have	amassed
large	quantities	of	gallstones. When	this	occurs,	the	body	has	a	tendency	to	develop	cysts
and	both	benign	and	malignant	tumors. A	thick	white	line	covers	parts	of	the	periphery	of	the	iris,	particularly	the	lower
parts. This	indicates	the	accumulation	of	large	amounts	of	cholesterol	in	the	blood
circulatory	system. The	lymphatic	system	also	has	major	congestion	and	fat	retention. (
Note:
	If	you	wish	to	understand	the	connection	of	the	eyes	and	iris	with	the	various	parts
of	the	body,	I	recommend	that	you	study	the	science	of
iridology,
	or	eye	interpretation.) The	eyes	have	lost	their	natural	luster	and	shininess. This	signals	that	both	the	liver
and	kidneys	are	congested	and	unable	to	filter	the	blood	properly. “Dirty”	blood,	loaded
with	toxins	or	waste	products,	is	heavier	and	more	sluggish	than	clean	blood. The
thickened	blood	slows	circulation	and	reduces	oxygen	and	nutrient	supply	to	the	cells	and
organs,	including	the	eyes. If	this	condition	persists,	the	cells	will	deteriorate	and
inevitably	age	or	die	off. The	eye	and	brain	cells	are	especially	affected	because	the	blood
has	to	flow	against	gravity	to	reach	them. Most	vision	problems
	are	the	direct	or	indirect
result	of	reduced	blood-cleansing	capacity	by	the	liver	and	kidneys. Clean	and	nutrient-rich	blood	from	a	healthy,	efficient	liver	can	flow	easily	and	nourish	the	eye	tissues	better,
thereby	improving	most	eye	problems. Tongue,	Mouth,	Lips,	and	Teeth

The	tongue	is	coated	yellow	or	white,	especially	in	the	back	part. This	indicates	an
imbalance	in	the	secretion	of	bile,	which	is	the	major	cause	of	digestive	trouble. Toxic
residues	of	undigested	and	fermented	or	putrefied	food	linger	in	the	intestinal	tract. This
blocks	lymph	flow	in	the	thoracic	duct	and	prevents	toxins	and	microbes	in	the	throat	and
mouth	area	from	being	removed. Teeth	impressions	on	the	sides	of	the	tongue,	often	accompanied	by	white	mucus
discharge. This	indicates	weak	digestion	and	inadequate	absorption	of	nutrients	from	the
small	intestine. Pimples	on	the	tongue. They	are	indicative	of	poor	digestion	and	the	presence	of
fermenting	and	putrefying	food	in	both	the	small	and	large	intestines. Cracks	on	the	tongue. These	are	signs	of	long-term	intestinal	trouble. When	food	is
not	being	mixed	with	a	sufficient	amount	of	bile,	it	remains	partially	undigested. Undigested	foods	are	subjected	to	bacterial	putrefaction	and,	thereby,	become	a	source	of
toxicity. Constant	exposure	of	the	intestinal	wall	to	the	toxins	that	these	bacteria	produce
irritates	and	injures	it. The	resulting	lesions,	scars,	and	hardening	of	the	intestinal	walls	is
then	reflected	by	the	cracks	on	the	tongue. There	may	be	little	or	no	mucus	discharge	on
the	tongue. Repeated	mucus	discharge	into	the	throat	and	mouth. Bile	may	regurgitate	into	the
stomach,	thereby	irritating	its	protective	lining	and	causing	excessive	mucus	production. Some	of	the	bile	and	mucus	may	reach	the	mouth	area. This	can	create	a	bad	(bitter)	taste
in	the	mouth	and	give	rise	to	frequent	attempts	at	clearing	the	throat,	which	sometimes
involve	coughing. Mucus	discharge	without	this	bitter	taste	results	when	food	is	not
digested	properly,	and	toxins	are	generated. The	mucus	helps	to	trap	and	neutralize	some
of	these	toxins,	but	as	a	side	effect,	it	causes	congestion. Bad	breath	and	frequent	burping. Both	signs	point	toward	the	presence	of
undigested,	fermenting,	or	putrefying	food	in	the	GI	tract. Bacteria	acting	on	the	waste
material	produce	gases,	which	can	be	very	toxic	at	times,	hence	the	bad	odor	emanating
from	the	breath. Crust	formations	at	the	corners	of	the	mouth. This	indicates	the	presence	of
duodenal	ulcers,	caused	by	regurgitation	of	bile	into	the	stomach,	or	by	other	reasons
discussed	earlier. Ulcers
	in	various	parts	of	the	mouth	or	on	the	tongue	show	thatinflammation	or	ulceration	is	occurring	in	the	corresponding	parts	of	the	GI	tract. For
example,	a	mouth	ulcer	on	the	outside	parts	of	your	lower	lip	points	to	the	presence	of
ulcer	lesions	in	the	large	intestine. Herpes	(“cold	sores”)	on	the	lip	corresponds	to	more
severe	inflammation	and	ulceration	of	the	intestinal	wall. Dark	spots	or	patches	on	the	lips. These	marks	occur	when	obstructions	in	the	liver,
gallbladder,	and	kidneys	have	resulted	in	slowness	and	stagnation	of	blood	circulation	and
lymph	drainage	throughout	the	body. There	may	be	advanced,	abnormal	constriction	of
blood	capillaries. If	the	color	of	the	lips	is	reddish	(dark)	or	purple,	this	indicates	that
heart,	lung,	and	respiratory	functions	are	subdued. Swollen	or	expanded	lips. This	condition	indicates	intestinal	disorders. If	the	lower	lip
is	swollen,	the	colon	suffers	constipation,	diarrhea,	or	both,	alternating	between	them. Toxic	gases	are	formed	from	improperly	digested	foods,	which	gives	rise	to	bloating	and
abdominal	discomfort. A	swollen	or	enlarged	upper	lip	indicates	stomach	problems,
including	indigestion,	frequently	accompanied


 his being a good
politician. But part of the decay of our social or der has come
about because we ar e gover ned by so many people who ar e
politicians rather than leaders. L yndon Johnson was a gr eat
politician but not much of a leader. John K ennedy was a
great leader but not much of a politician. The str ength of a
positive vision for America, thr ough its inspirational eﬀects
on all the people who want desperately to see our nation
healed, will do mor e to get someone elected than any
amount of conventional politicking. It will touch our hearts. I told my friend that the k ey to a successful campaign
would be to sur render the campaign to the Holy Spirit and
ask that it be used as an instrument of His peace. My friend
said that sounded gr eat, but he needed to ﬁgur e out how to
do that. I told him he didn’t have to ﬁgur e out anything. “ All
you have to do is to be willing,” I told him, “and the Holy
Spirit will enter wher e He is invited. Y ou’ll be brilliant. Y ou’ll
be charismatic. Don’t try to ﬁgur e out your message; just
ask God what He would have you say. Step back and let Him
lead the way.”
A silent prayer befor e every speech and every political
appearance would help bring his ener gies in line with truth. Once I accompanied him to a political rally, and in the car
on the way, he shar ed with me some understandable
judgments of certain people who would be ther e. “Pray that
your per ceptions be healed,” I said to him as we walk ed into
the building. “Y our goal is to lead us into a compassionate
society, but you can’t give what you don’t have. Start by
being compassionate towar ds the people at this rally. As
your mind is healed, its eﬀect on others will be automatic. You won’t even have to think about what to say. The perfect
words will come right out, because love will guide your
mind.” That’s what it would mean to let God run his
campaign.And so it is with any business. Befor e the meeting, or the
interview or the session, or whatever, try saying this prayer :
“Dear God, I sur render this situation to you. May it be
used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to
give love and to r eceive love. May all the r esults unfold
accor ding to your will. Amen.” Whatever you do, do it for
God. We are strong enough to do any job He asks us to do. Don’t be concer ned about your own r eadiness, says the
Course, but be consistently awar e of His. It is not you doing
the work, but the spirit who is within you. F orgetting this
causes fear. A Course in Miracles  says that the pr esence of
fear is a sur e sign we’r e trusting in our own str ength. “If you
are trusting in your own str ength, you have every r eason to
be appr ehensive, anxious and fearful.” Of ourselves, none of
us have the capacity to work miracles. W ith ‘the power that
is in us but not of us,’ however, ther e is nothing we can not
do. 9. SALES TO SERVICE
“Love would always give incr ease.”
When we ar e motivated by the desir e to sell, we ar e only
looking out for ourselves. When we ar e motivated by the
desir e to serve, we ar e looking out for others. Miracles shif t
us from a sales to a service mentality. Since in the r ealm of
consciousness we only get to k eep what we give away, a
service mentality is a far mor e abundant attitude.”
The thought system that dominates our cultur e is laced
with selﬁsh values, and r elinquishing those values is a lot
easier said than done. The jour ney to a pur e heart can behighly disorienting. F or years we may have work ed for
power, money and pr estige. Now all of a sudden we’ve
learned that those ar e just the values of a dying world. W e
don’t know wher e to sear ch for motivation anymor e. If we’r e
not working in or der to get rich, then why ar e we working at
all? What ar e we supposed to do all day? Just sit home and
watch TV? Not at all, but thinking so is a temporary phase many
people go thr ough—when the values of the old world no
longer have a hold on us, but the values of the new don’t
yet grab your soul. They will. Ther e comes a time, not too
long into the jour ney to God, when the r ealization that the
world could work beautifully if we would give it the chance,
begins to e xcite us. It becomes our new motivation. The
news isn’t how bad things ar e. The news is how good they
could be. And our own activity could be part of the unfolding
of Heaven on earth. Ther e is no mor e powerful motivation
than to feel we’r e being used in the cr eation of a world
wher e love has healed all wounds. We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but ar e rather
inspir ed by the vision of a healed world. Inspiration
rearranges our ener gies. It sour ces within us a new power
and dir ection. W e no longer feel lik e we’r e trying to car ry a
football to the ﬁnish line, clutching it to our chest and
surrounded by hostile for ces. W e feel instead as though
angels ar e pushing us fr om behind and making straight our
path as we go. Purity of heart will not mak e us poor. The e xaltation of
poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A
person acting fr om a motivation of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority, that worldly success
is a natural r esult.Give all your gif ts away in service to the world. If you
want to paint, don’t wait for a grant. P aint a wall in your
town that looks drab and uninviting. Y ou never know who’s
going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it
away in service to your community. At my lectur es in L os
Angeles, I gr ew so tir ed of hearing actors moan about not
getting jobs. “ Go to hospitals, to r etirement homes, to
mental institutions,” I said. “Ther e was acting befor e ther e
were acting jobs. If you want to act, act.” Some people who
heard me for med a gr oup called the Miracle Players, and
they did just that. “I don’t want to do it because I can’t mak e a living doing
it,” is a very weak beam to send into the universe. I lectur ed
on A Course in Miracles  for at least two years befor e it
became the sour ce of my income. When I started lecturing, I
had no idea it would become my pr ofession. Some things
you do for no other r eason than because they’r e the right
thing to do. “I’ll do this because it serves, even if I’m not
paid,” is a very high beam. It says to the universe that you
must be very serious. And when you get serious about the
universe, the universe gets serious about you. I never felt the need to advertise much for my lectur es. I
ﬁgured if they wer e of genuine inter est to people, then
people would hear about them. That’s not to say that
advertising is bad, as long as the motivation for advertising
is to infor m people as opposed to manipulating them. Ar nold
Patent wr ote that if you genuinely have something to say,
there is someone who genuinely needs to hear it. W e don’t
have to invent an audience so much as we have to hone the
message we plan to give them once they get her e. Serving
three people is as important as serving thr ee hundr ed. Once
we’re clear about how to deal with a small following, a lar ge
following will develop automatically, if that would serve the
world. Our power lies in our clarity about the r ole our workcan play in the cr eation of a mor e beautiful world. The
miracle is to think of our car eer as our contribution, however
small, to the healing of the universe. The ego’s world is based on ﬁnite r esour ces, but God’s
world is not. In God’s world, which is the r eal world, the
more we give, the mor e we have. Our having a piece of the
world’s pie doesn’t mean ther e’s less for anyone else, and
someone else having a piece of the pie doesn’t mean
there’s less for us. So we needn’t compete, in business or
anywher e else. Our gener


everywhere: in the life cycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree,
a flower; in the  rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations;
and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual. There ar e cycle s of success, w hen things come to you and thrive, and
cycles o f failure, when they wi ther or disintegrate and you ha ve to let
them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for
transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means
you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suf fer. It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in
the mind’ s judgment. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing
can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on a nd on, it
would eventually become mon strous and destructive. Disso lution is
needed for new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other. The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. Y ou must
have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain
to b e drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very  success
became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure
lies con cealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this
world, w hich is to say on the le vel of form, everybody “fails” sooner or
later, of course, and every achie vement eventually comes to naught. All
forms are impermanent. Y ou can  still be active and enjoy  manifesting and creating new f orms and
circumstances, b ut you won’ t be identified with them. Y ou do not need
them to give you a sense of self. They are not your life — only your life
situation. Y our physical ener gy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a
peak. Th ere wil l be times of low as well as high ener gy. There will be
periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be
times w hen everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are notgetting anywhere, not achieving anything. A cycle can last for anything
from a few hour s to a few years. There are lar ge cycles and sma ll cycles
within these lar ge ones. Many  illnesses are created through fighting
against the cycles of low ener g y, which are vital for regeneration. The
compulsion to do, and the tend ency to derive your sense of s elf-worth
and identity from external facto rs such as achievement, is an inevitable
illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or
impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be. Thus,
the intelligence of the or ganism may take over as a self-protective
measure and create an illness in  order to force you to stop, so  that the
necessary regeneration can take place. The cyclical nature of the universe is closely linked with the
impermanence o f all things and situations. The Buddha made this a
central part of his teaching. All conditions are highly u nstable and in
constant flux, or, as he put it, impermanence is a characteristic of every
condition, every situation you will ever encounter in your life. It will
change, disappea r, or no longer satisfy you. Impermanence is als o central
to Jesus ’ s teaching: “Do not la y up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal. ”
As l ong as a condition is judged as “good” by your mind, whether it be a
relationship, a possession, a social role, a place, or your physical body,
the mind  attaches itself to it and identifies with it. It makes yo u happy,
makes you feel g ood about yourself, and it may become part of who you
are o r th ink you are. But nothing lasts in this dimension where moth and
rust consume. Either it ends or it changes, or it may under go a  polarity
shift: The same condition that was good yesterday or last year has
suddenly or gradually turned into bad. The same condition that made you
happy th en makes you unhappy. The prosperity of today becomes the
empty consumerism of tomorrow. The happy wedding and honeymoon
become the unhappy divorce or the unhappy coexistence. Or a condition
disappears, so its absence makes you unhappy. When a condition or
situation that the mind has attac hed itself to and identified with changes
or d isappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing
condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were b eing torn
of f your body. W e som etimes h ear of people w ho have lost all their money or whose
reputations have  been ruined committing suicide. Those are the extremecases. O thers, w henever a major loss of one kind or another oc curs, just
become deeply unhappy or make themselves ill. They cannot distinguish
between their life and the ir life situation. I recently read about a famous
actress who died in her eighties. As her beauty started to fade and
became ravaged  by old age, she grew desperately unhappy and became a
recluse. She, too, had identified with a condition: her external
appearance. Firs t, the condition gave her a happy sense of self, then an
unhappy one. If she had been able to connect with the form less and
timeless life within, she could h ave watched and allowed the fading of
her exte rnal form from a place of serenity and peace. Moreover, her
external form would have become increasingly transparent to the light
shining through  from her ageless true nature, so her beauty would not
really have faded but simply be come transformed into spiritual beauty. However, nobody told her that this is possible. The most essential kind
of knowledge is not yet widely accessible. The Buddha taught that even your happiness is dukkha  — a Pali word
meaning “suf fering” or “unsatisfactoriness. ” It is inseparable from its
opposite. This means that your happiness and unhappiness are in fact
one. Only the illusion of time separates them. This is not being negative. It is simply recognizing the nature of things,
so th at you don’ t pursue an illusion for the rest of your life. Nor is it
saying that you should no longe r appreciate pleasant or beautiful things
or condi tions. But to seek something through them that they cannot give
— an identity, a sense of perma nency and fulfillment — is a recipe for
frustration and suf fering. The whole advertising industry and consumer
society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer
sought to find their identity through things. T he more you s eek happiness
in th is w ay, the more it will elud e you. Nothing out there will ever satisfy
you exc ept temporarily and superficially, but you may need to
experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth. Things
and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things a nd conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you
joy. No thing can give  you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as
the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of p eace, thestate that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not
something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain. Many people never realize that there can be no “salvation” in anything
they do, possess, or attain. Those who do realize it often become world-
weary and depressed: If nothin g can give you true fulfillment, what is
there left to strive for, what is the point in anything. The Old T estament
prophet must have arrived at such a realization when he wrote: “I have
seen eve rything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a
striving after wind. ” When you  reach this point, you are one s tep away
from despair — and one step away from enlightenment. A Buddhist monk once told me : “All I have learned in the twenty years
that I have been  a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All th at arises
passes away. This I know. ” What he meant, of course, was this: I have
learned to of fer no resistance to what is ; I  have learned to allow the
present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things
and conditions. Thus have I found peace. T o o f fer no res istance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and
lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a
certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your
inner dependency on form is g one, the general conditions of y our life,
the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions
that you  though t you needed fo r your happiness now come to you with
no strug gle or ef fort on your  part, and you are free to enjoy and
appreciate them  — while they last. All those things, of course, will still
pass aw ay


 1 tsp potato starch, and 2 tsp brown
sugar. Place cherries in saucepan with water to cover.Cook 10 minutes over low flame. Add potato starch dissolved in 2 tsp cold water. Add to boiling cherries. Cook 2 minutes longer. Chill and serve. Currants
¼ lb red currants and 3 tsp brown sugar. Clean and wash currants thoroughly before removing stems. Place in dish, add sugar, and serve. Buttermilk or yogurt (if permitt ed) sweetened with brown sugar may be
used for sauce. Fruit Combination
3 cups fresh cherries and apricots (halved, sliced, pitted), 2 cups water, ½
cup brown sugar, and 2 tsp cornstarch dissolved in
  cup cold water. Place fruit with water and sugar in saucepan. Boil gently, slowly for 10 minutes. Add cornstarch. Cook 3 minutes longer. Cool and serve. Glazed Pear Halves
4-5 ripe pears and 4 tbsp honey or Sucanat (or ganic dried cane sugar). Cut ripe pears into halves, and core. Add about 4 oz of water to honey or Sucanat and mix well. Place pear halves in baking dish and pour sugar mixture over fruit. Bake in slow oven (Z75°F) until done. Baste with juice if necessary. Frozen Y ogurtSD DAIR Y¼ cup stewed fruit (cherries, apricots) and 1 1b fat-free yogurt. Spoon yogurt into a thin mesh strainer that has been lined with two layers
of cheesecloth, and place it over a deep bowl. Let it drain into the bowl in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Spoon the drained yogurt into ice cube trays and freeze. Mix fruit and yogurt cubes in a food processor or the grinder of your K &
K juicer or Norwalk® juicer until the consistency is thick and smooth. Serve immediately. Oatmeal Cake
4 cup oatmeal (dry oats), 2 grated or blended carrots, honey and raisins as
desired. Combine all the above ingredients in a baking dish. Put in the oven without a lid and bake for 45 minutes at 250°F. Oatmeal CookiesDAIR Y
1 cup applesauce, 1 cup rye flour, 1 cup raisins, ½ cup churned
buttermilk, ½ cup brown sugar, ½ cup molasses, 2 cups oatmeal, and 1 pkg
yeast. Mix and let stand 10 minutes. Drop from teaspoon and bake in moderate oven about 20 minutes. PashaYN (Uncooked Cheesecake )DAIR Y
¼ cup fresh orange juice strained, ½ cup chopped dried fruit, 4 cups soft
or medium curd cottage cheese, ½ cup honey or ¾ cup brown sugar, plus
raisins, dates, papaya, peaches, prunes, etc. Mix all ingredients. Pour batter into a strainer or colander lined with a clean cotton cloth
(muslin). Cover with a plate to weight it down. Place in a bowl or pan and refrigerate for 5-10 hours or until dry and
firm.Turn out onto a plate and slice. Good as is, or on a slice of Essene bread. Peaches
½ 1b peaches (skinned) and 2 tsp brown sugar. Wash peaches. Place in boiling water ½ minute, drain and peel. Cut in halves. Remove pits and place in saucepan with boiling water. Cover. Simmer for 10 minutes. Cool. Add sugar and serve chilled. Pears
1 large pear (peeled, cored, halved) and 1 tsp brown sugar. Place pears in saucepan with water to half cover. Add sugar and cook 30 minutes
Plums
½ lb plums and 2 tsp brown sugar. Wash plums, cut in half, and remove pits. (Plums can also be cooked
whole.) Place in saucepan with water to cover. Cook 15 minutes. Remove, cool, and add sugar. Serve chilled. Prune and Apricots (Dried)
½ lb of each of the prunes and apricots plus 1/3 cup barley. Soak prunes and apricots overnight in water to cover. Use same water and boil with barley.Cool and serve. Prune and Banana Whip
1 cup dried prunes (soaked, cooked), 2 small bananas, ¼ lemon juice, and
1 tsp brown sugar. Whip together thoroughly and put in refrigerator for 1 hour. May be served in slices decorated with sweetened yogurt (if permitted). Pumpkin Pudding PieYN (Unbaked)
Pinch of allspice, pinch of coriander, pinch of mace, 2 tsp unsulfured
molasses (optional), one 8” or 9” pie crust, ½ cup tapioca, 1½ cup dates,
pitted and chopp ed, 1
 cup apple juice  or water, and 1½ to 2 cups mashed
pumpkin. Soak tapioca and dates in juice overnight. In morning, stew over low flame using a burner pad to dif fuse heat. Cook for 30 minutes until thick, stirring frequently to prevent sticking. Purée tapioca and pumpkin in Foley food mill or processor. Add spices and molasses. Pour into prepared pie crust and chill thoroughly (may put in freezer for
several hours until very firm); otherwise cutting will be a problem. Serve with a dollop of honey-sw eetened yogurt cheese (see under Apple
Tart) if desired (and permitted by physician). Variation: Use cooked squash, yams, or sweet potatoes in place of
pumpkin. Thin Buttermilk CrustDAIR Y
1¼ cup oat flour,
 cup churned buttermilk, apple juice or water (cold),
2 tsp honey, pinch allspice or mace, and 1 tsp Featherweight (sodium-free)
baking powder (optional). Mix dry ingredients. Add honey and just enough liquid to make a stif f dough. Knead lightly to mix.Roll out on floured board or between layers of waxed paper. Carefully place in 8” or 9” pie plate which has been thoroughly coated
with oat flakes to prevent sticking. Trim excess dough and flute edges or make indentations with fork. Chill crust, then bake at 325°F for 10-15 minutes or until lightly
browned. Note: This will not be your traditional flaky crust, so roll out thin. Raised Pie CrustYN
1 cup oat flour, ½ cup potato flour (or use more oat flour), 1 cup triticale
or whole  wheat flour, 1 tsp hone y or brown sugar, ½ cup warm water, and 1
tsp baker ’s yeast. Sprinkle yeast into warm water mixed with honey. When frothy add flour and mix well. Let rise in a warm place for 1 hour. Knead on floured board for 5 minutes. Let rest for 10 minutes and roll out on floured board. Place in 8” or 9” pie plate that has been thoroughly coated on the bottom
with rolled oat flakes. Flute edge. Let rise for 15 minutes. Bake at 375°F for 20-25 minutes. Variation: Omit yeast; use just enough cold water to make a stif f dough. Roll out between sheets of floured wax paper. Carefully place in pie plate. Chill crust. Then bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes. Essene Br ead CrustYN
2 cups Essene bread crumbs, ¼ cup honey, and 3 tsp oat flour. Toast slices of bread in slow oven until lightly brown. Let cool. Grind coarsely by running through grinder or Norwalk®. Add flour, then honey.Press into pie plate that has been well coated with rolled oat flakes. Chill for 1 hour. Bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes. Roll, then fill. Rhubarb
½ 1b rhubarb (washed and cut into 1” pieces), 2 to 3 tsp brown sugar (to
taste), and 1 tsp cornstarch (if desired). Place washed rhubarb in saucepan. Simmer 15 to 20 minutes. Dissolve cornstarch in a little cold water. Add to rhubarb and allow to stew a few more minutes. Cool and add sugar. Note: Combine rhubarb with other sweet fruits such as apples, peaches,
or apricots (fresh or dried). Stewed Fruit Combinations
Together, use pears and plum s, plums and applesauce, peaches and
plums, apricots and plums, apricots and sliced apples, or peaches and pears. Note: Stewed fruits may be served on toasted rye bread by placing a thick
layer of fruit on top and allow ing it to soak through for ½ hour before
serving. Sunshine SmoothieSD
In a blender or food processor container, combine 1 cup nonfa t organic
yogurt, ½ cup orange juice, 2 tbsp honey, 1 cup cut-up fresh fruit, and ½
cup crushed ice (made from distilled water); process until smooth. Sweet Potato and Apple BakeGSG12 oz sweet potatoes, 3 eating apples, allspice, a little brown sugar, and a
little water. Cook the sweet potatoes gently in their skins until tender. Allow to cool. Slice and put into baking dish, alternating with layers of apple. Over each layer, sprinkle some water, a little


 the Light, and in
cleaving to the light we become transformers of the dark. In darkness, there
is only war and death; in light, there is peace on earth and good will to one
another. OceanofPDF.comIf God Is in the Cockpit
Jesus lived as a man, yes, and was the full manifestation or embodiment of
the Holy Spirit. That is amazing and awe-inspiring. But it is no less
amazing that he lives within us now, no longer embodied but still alive. He
lives in another realm of consciousness and we can meet him there. The crucifixion was the last useless journey into fear, the final
demonstration that the power of love overcomes all other. The message of
the resurrection is that in the presence of love, the ego has no power. The
truth of who you are cannot be crucified. The insults we relate to that need not affect us, the memories we hang
on to that need not torment us, the things we fear that we need not even
think about—think how different your life will be when you’re no longer
held back by the fearful dramas  of this world. The ego has assigned to us
the life of a slave, imprisoned within a tiny cell of our own making,
crouching withi n it and unable  to spread either arms or legs, much less
grow wings. The resurrection is the realization that this need not be. If others lied
about you, it doesn’ t matter. If you failed at something in your past, you can
let it go and be more successful now. If someone doesn’ t want to be with
you any longer, the form of the relationship has changed but the love that
was ever there lives on. That is what it means to grow our wings. It means
we fly above the illusions of this world, to heights from which we can be
more ef fective at helping others to be released from theirs. This isn’t abstra ct, it’s practical. It is the transition from chronic stress to
inner peace. Whenever someon e tells me God is their copilot, I laugh. If
God’ s in the cockpit, as far as I’m concerned He can take the wheel. We can step back and let God lead the way* (WB-291). We can
surrender all we have and all we are, asking to be used for a higher purpose
than our own.We are asked to be His hands and feet; we are the faucets, we’re  not the
water. The awesome power of God is within us but not of us. We’re not its
source; we’re its conduits. Think of the universe as wired for the electricity
of God. All of us are lamps. It doesn’ t matter the shape of the lamp, the
design of the lamp, or how old the lamp is. What matters is whether or not
the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, we plug in. With every moment of forgiven ess, we
plug in. With every “Jesus, you take this,” we plug in. He is the heart’ s
intelligence, far greater than our own. Our spiritual liberation doesn’ t lie in bursting out but in melting in. Our
gentleness is stronger than our harshness, our humility is strong er than our
arrogance, and our flexibility is stronger than our self-will. Where there is love there cann ot be fear. When the mind summons
Jesus, fear subsides. You literally feel a difference in the energy of your
body when an issue is given over to the intelligence of the heart. Nervousness is replaced by inner peace. I have felt this personally. Havi ng both succeeded and failed at various
things in my life, I’ve had a lot of time to think about the dif ferences. Where I failed, I see that I walked ahead of the truth. I thought I had to
figure everything out. I tried to exert my self-will. I walked ahead of God. Where I succeeded, I surrendere d to something greater than myself, not
as an act of obedience but as an act of power. I remembered that of myself
I’m just one person challenged by powers much greater than mine; in
service to him, I’m aligned with a power beyond the powers of the world. Looking at the world today, one realizes that, as they say in Alcoholics
Anonymous, our best thinking got us here. And as Einstein made clear, the
thinking that got us here is not the thinking that will lead us out of here. That is why there is a spiritual revival on the planet today. It’s why so
many are ready to humble ourse lves before a power greater than our own, a
power that can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. There is a way. There is a door to a world we want, a world of peace
where we are free to love and to be loved. There are many names on the
door, and one of them is Jesus. If when you look at the door you see his
name, he is ready to swing it open in any moment that you say yes. Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go
beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so
bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps,will make you pause befor e you realize the world you see befor e you in the light reflects the truth
you knew, and did not quite for get in wandering away in dr eams. * (W -131)
IMAGINE JESUS
Sit comfortably and imagine Jesus living within you. Literally melt into his
energy and allow his to melt into yours. Breathe in his being. Stay with that visualization for a minimum of five minutes, if you
can... As you walk around today, remember that he is closer than your breath
to you. With every conscious thought that he is there, dysfunctional
energies dissolve and melt away. They go back to the nothingness whence
they came. Dear God,
Please do for me what I cannot do for myself. Overrule the darkness and fill me with Y our Light. Help me to see the innocence in everyone. Lift my soul
and r enew my body. Open my eyes that I might see
the love that is always ther e.
Amen
OceanofPDF.comHe Did Not Ignore
How does the entire world evolve  or get saved from the catastrophe of our
collective self-d estruction? It’s lovely to think that we as individuals can
heal our thoughts and thus chan ge our lives. But isn’t there more at stake
than just your salvation or mine? In an age of constant wars, environmental
degradation, and all manner of other global disasters, are we not challenged
collectively to spiritually evolve? Resurrection is a new sensibility  arising on the earth today. It is brought
about by those who sense that there is another world possible and who
know in their deepest being that it’s our purpose to bring it forth. This is not
a religious perspective, althou gh it is a sacred one. People from all
religions, and no religions, are awakening to the truth of the heart today. Humanity is giving birth to a new historical era. Labor happens when it
happens, but the laboring mother still has to push. The creation of a new
world is not always easy, and it is rarely appreciated by the protectors of the
old. Jesus is a mystical aid to both directing and enduring the process. From our collective resurrection will emer ge a transformed world. It
will still be a dream compared to God’ s ultimate reality, but a happy dream
from which awakening occurs more naturally* (T-383). There will be no
war, no poverty, no needless suffering. Humanity having remembered its
identity and purpose, the world will be a different place. Form will be
secondary to the primacy of spirit. Our consciousness rising, unimportant things will mean less to us. The
arc of evolution  is bending in the direction of justice, and we were born to
be its benders. Even if we are so irresponsible as to manifest global
catastrophe, and there are only a very few people left on the planet at the
end of that, those few will look at each other and say, “This time let’s do
things dif ferently.”The mystic is led by the heart, yes. But seeing the body through a
spiritual lens, we gain more physical life force with which to do the heart’ s
bidding. The mystic’ s life is one of neither physical nor intellectual laziness. It is not a life of negative denia l regarding the problems of the world. The
aspirant doesn’ t say that since only love is real and everything else is an
illusion anyway, there’ s nothing  for us to do except to try to heal our own
lives. There is no spiritual justification for ignoring the suffering of the
world. The fact that something  is happening within a realm of illusion
doesn’ t mean it doesn’ t matter. Jesus wept; he did not ignore. Jesus doesn’ t ignore the hungry; he feeds the hungry. He doesn’ t just
talk about peace ; he wages peace. He doesn’ t demonize the poor; he helps
them. All those things will take a miracle, given the ego-driven institutional
resistance to letting such value s lead. But he is with us to provide those
miracles


 be not judged. For with what judg-ment ye jud ge,
ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured  to you again. MATTHEW 7:1-2. A study of these verses and the application of the inner truth s
therein contained represent the real key to harmonious relati ons. To
judge is to think, to arrive at a mental verdict or conclusi on in your
 166  mind. The thought you have about the other person is your thought,
because you are thinking it. Your thoughts are creative, therefore, you actually create in y our
own experience what you think and feel about the other person. It is
also true that the suggestion you give to another, you give to your self
because your mind is the creative medium. This is why it is said, For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged. When you know this law and the way your subconscious mind
works, you are careful to think, feel, and act rights toward the other. These verses teach you about the emancipation of man and revea l to
you the solution to your individual problems. • And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you
again
The good you do for others comes back to you in like measure; and
the evil you do returns to you by the law of your own mind. If a man
cheats and deceives another, he is actually cheating and deceivi ng
himself. His sense of guilt and mood of loss inevitably will at tract loss
to him in some way, at some time. His subconscious records his
mental act and reacts according to the mental intention or motivation. Your subconscious mind is impersonal and unchanging, neither
considering persons nor respecting religious affiliations or in stitutions
of any kind. It is neither compassionate nor vin-dictive. The wa y you
think, feel, and act toward others returns at last upon yourself. • The daily headlines made him sick
Begin now to observe yourself. Observe your reactions to peo ple,
conditions, and circumstances. How do you respond to the events and
news of the day? It makes no difference if all the other p eople were
wrong and you alone were right. If the news disturbs you, it is your
evil because your negative emotions robbed you of peace and
harmony. 167  A woman wrote me about her husband, saying that he goes into a
rage when he reads what certain newspaper column-ists write i n the
newspaper. She added that this constant reaction of anger and suppressed rage
on his part brought on bleeding ulcers, and his physician
recommended an emotional recon-ditioning. I invited this man to see me and I explained to him the way his mind
functions indicating how emotionally immature it was to get angr y
when others write articles with which he disapproves or disagrees. He began to realize that he should give the newspaperman fre edom
to express himself even though the latter disagreed with him
politically, religiously, or in any other way. In the same manner, the
newspaperman would give him freedom to write a letter to the
newspaper disagreeing with his published statements. He l earned that
he could disagree without being disagreeable. He awakened to th e
simple truth that it is never what a person says or does  that affects
him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters. This explanation was the cure for this man, and he real-ized tha t
with a little practice he could master his morning tan-trum s. His wife
told me, subsequently, that he laughed at himself and also at w hat the
columnists say. They no longer have power to disturb, annoy, and irritate him. His
ulcers have disappeared due to his emotional poise and serenity. • I hate women, but I like men
A private secretary was very bitter toward some of the g irls in her
office because they were gossiping about her, and as she sa id,
spreading vicious lies about her. She admitted that she did not  like
women. She said, “I hate women, but I like men.” I discovered also
that she spoke to the girls who were under her in the offi ce in a very
haughty, imperious, and irritable tone of voice. She pointed out that
they took a delight in making things difficult for her. There was  a
 168  certain pomposity in her way of speaking, and I could see where  her
tone of voice would affect some people unpleasantly. If all the people in the office or factory annoy you, isn’t it  a
possibility that the vibration, annoyance, and turmoil may be due  to
some subconscious pattern or mental projection from you? We k now
that a dog will react ferociously if you hate or fear dogs. Anim als pick
up your subconscious vibrations and react accordingly. Many
undisciplined human beings are just as sensitive as dogs, cats, a nd
other animals. I suggested a process of prayer to this private secretary who hated
women, explaining to her that when she began to identify herself with
spiritual values and commenced to affirm the truths of life, h er voice,
mannerisms, and hatred of women would com-pletely disappear. She
was surprised to know that the emotion of hatred shows up in a
person’s speech, actions, in his writings, and in all phases of  his life. She ceased reacting in the typical, resentful, and angry way. She
established a pattern of prayer, which she practiced reg ularly,
systematically, and conscien-tiously in the office. The prayer was as follows: “I think, speak, and act lov-ingl y,
quietly, and peacefully. I now radiate love, peace, toler-ance, and
kindliness to all the girls who criticized me and gos-siped ab out me. I
anchor my thoughts on peace, harmony, and good will to all. Whenever I am about to react negatively, I say firmly to my self, ‘I am
going to think, speak, and act from the standpoint of the principl e of
harmony, health, and peace within myself.’
Creative intelligence leads, rules, and guides me in all my ways.”
The practice of this prayer transformed her life, and she found that
all criticism and annoyance ceased. The girls became co-worke rs and
friends along life’s journey. She discovered that there is no one to
change but myself. 169  • His inner speech held back his promotion
One day a salesman came to see me and described his diffi-culties in
working with the sales manager of his organization. He had been with
the company ten years and had received no promotion or recognition
of any kind. He showed me his sales figures, which were greater
proportionately than the other men in the territory. He said that the
sales manager did not like him, that he was unjustly treated, an d that
at conferences the man-ager was rude to him, and at times r idiculed
his suggestions. I explained that undoubtedly the cause was to a great de-gree within
himself, and that his concept and belief about his superior b ore
witness to the reaction of this man. The measure we mete, shall be
measured to us again. His mental measure or concept of the sales
manager was that he was mean and can-tankerous. He was filled with
bitterness and hostility toward the executive. On his way to wor k he
conducted a vigorous con-versation with himself filled with crit icism,
mental arguments, recriminations, and denunciations of his sales
manager. What he gave out mentally, he was inevitably bound to get back. This salesman realized that his inner speech was highly des tructive
because the intensity and force of his silent thoughts and emot ions,
and personally conducted mental condemnation and vilification of the
sales manager entered into his own sub-conscious mind. This broug ht
about the negative response from his boss as well as creati ng many
other personal, physical, and emotional disorders. He began to pray frequently as follows: “I am the only thinker in my
universe. I am responsible for what I think about my boss. My sa les
manager is not responsible for the way I think about him. I ref use to
give power to any person, place, or thing to annoy me or disturb m e. I
wish health, success, peace of mind, and happiness for my boss. I
sincerely wish him well, and I know he is divinely guided in al l his
ways.”
 170  He repeated this prayer out loud slowly, quietly, and feel-ingly,
knowing that his mind is like a garden, and that whatever he plants  in
the garden will come forth like seeds after their kind. I also taught him to practice mental imagery prior to sle ep in this
way: He imagined that his sales manager was congratulat-ing  him on
his fine work, on his zeal and enthusiasm, and on his wonderful
response from customers. He felt the reality of all this, felt his
handshake, heard the tone of his voice, and saw him smile. He made a
real mental movie, dramatizing it to the best of his ability. Night after night he conducted this mental movie, knowing that hi s
subconscious mind was the receptive plate on which his consci ous
imagery would be impressed


 doses of vitamin
B
2 complex, the disease being only partially improved in the beginning of the treatment,
the patient going on to death because of starvation for other vitamins and minerals. On page 101 the statement appears that vitamin C is important in maintaining the
integrity of immunity to certain infections. the same error exists here. While it is quite
evident that vitamin C does do much to keep up the integrity of specific immunities and
general immunities to infection, only one part of the optimum immunity is achieved by the use of vitamin C alone. The statement that vitamin C exists in high concentration in the pituitary gland, in the adrenal, in the corpus luteum and other parts which have
much to do with keeping the flame of life burning at its optimum is true only if the
vitamin C here mentioned is supported by the other vitamins and by proper mineral
balance. Another reference to vitamin C is its connection with some anemias that do not
respond to treatment with iron. In this the author is agreeing in a small way with our
previously expressed principle that iron in these cases does not give the best results
unless other minerals and all the vitamins which have been removed by food processing
are put back into the food intake. On page 111 the author mentions the vitamin C intake in connection with stomach
ulcer. There is no question but that vitamin C is indicated in stomach ulcer, but all other
vitamins and minerals are also indicated. The relief afforded by vitamin C is only a
partial and temporary relief. Stomach or duodina l ulcer is as surely a dietary deficiency
disease as is scurvy or pellagra. On page 112 vitamin C is discussed in relation to its building up immunity against all
chronic infectious conditions, and the benefit it may confer on patient suffering with
toxic conditions of the thyroid gland. There is no question but that both of these points are well taken. The toxic diseases of the thyroid are undoubtedly the result of old,
chronic, long-continued, low-grade infecti ons. The fact that the principal material
(iodine), required in fighting such infections, is present in insufficient quantity
contributes to the compensatory overgrowth of the gland and the manufacturing of a toxic secretion (toxic adenoma). Since basal metabolism is very much increased in toxic conditions of the thyroid, and
since the increased metabolism burns up vitamin B
1 in a very decided manner, the most
urgent need in all cases of exophthalmic goiter is for thiamin. The need for thiamin is
even greater than the need for iodine. Of course other elements are also necessary. Operating on such patients or destroying a part of the gland by radiation reduces the rate
at which thiamin is destroyed, and while on ordinary diets, no new thiamin is furnished,
it allows the organism to get along better with what little iodine and thiamin there is in the food. There is relatively more thiamin in the blood because with lower basal
metabolism there is less destroyed. By this process the relative amount of vitamin B
present in the blood is increased, so the patient feels better. The patient of course is not
cured until he is provided with sufficient amounts of iodine and other minerals and
vitamin B and other vitamins to make up for his past deficiencies and to provide the maintenance for daily bodily needs. Certain thyroid patients become "iodine fast"
during treatment with iodine. This means that progress toward recovery has stopped
with treatment by iodine alone. If these patients are given large doses of vitamins and
minerals along with the iodine they will continue to improve. In the Journal  of the American Medical Association of May 3, 1941, Dr. Clarence A. Mills, Professor of Experimental Medicine in the University of Cincinnati, College of
Medicine, calls attention to the danger of prescribing of single vitamins, since such
prescribing may be the means of upsetting the vitamin balance in the body and inducing
other forms of disease. He called attention to  the fact that Wilder  produced artificially
deficiency symptoms in adults kept on a thiamin intake of 0.15 milligrams daily. It is usually considered that one to three milligrams daily is the optimum for the normal
adult. He cites the case of a woman aged 47 who had been taking large doses of thiamin for two and one-half weeks. The symptoms resembled those of over-dosage with
thyroid extract--headache, increased irritability, insomnia, rapid pulse, weakness and
trembling. This cleared up two days after the treatment was discontinued. After one week's rest, the patient returned to the use of thiamin, taking one-half the former dose,
and the same toxic symptoms returned. She obtained relief only by discontinuing the use of the thiamin. He states that on a recent visit to the tropics he encountered many cases where large
doses of vitamin B
1 taken alone caused similar symptoms, accompanied by tremors of
the hands and nervous irritability. In all these cases a reduction of the dose or giving up the vitamin altogether resulted in relief from the distressing symptoms. Dr. Mills also calls attention to the work of Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan of the University
of California reported in "Science," March 14, 1941, "The Effect of Imbalance in the
Filtrate Factor of the Vitamin B Complex in Dogs," that shows that unfavorable results
may attend the administration of any single one where many elements are lacking. He
states that studies on rats in his own laboratory show the same effect. He brings out the very interesting observation which at the present time is of very great interest, that the
addition of thiamin to bread and other commonly used foods without control over the
intake level carries a potentiality for harm. He states that this is particularly true in the middle temperate regions where metabolic disturbances are already prone to occur. The medical profession should recognize the need for greater conservatism in the use of this
vitamin, and its distribution through nonmedical and medical channels should be placed
on a more scientific and controlled basis. In the above mentioned article Dr. Morgan warns that there is possibility of danger in
the food program planned to improve national health by adding one or two vitamins to
staple foods when these foods are deficient in many other vitamins. She states that
health may become worse instead of better because of the vitamin balance being upset. Whole-wheat bread contains iron, all the va rious components of the vitamin B complex,
vitamin E and trace minerals. To attempt to compensate for all of these valuable
elements by putting thiamin, niacin, and a small amount of iron in the bread is utterly
ridiculous. It is harmful from another standpoint, and this is the fact that the average
person reads in newspapers that the government has taken note of the inadequacies of
white bread and has now decided to do something to correct the existing deficiencies. A person who has been getting along well on whole-wheat bread is now induced to eat so-
called enriched white bread, believing that it is not only as good, but better, is badly
deceived. The enrichment provides only a sm all fraction of the elements which have
been removed in milling. By promoting a condition of unbalance it may encourage
another form of disease. Dr. Morgan's work with dogs was with several different vitamins. All dogs that
received no niacin and no pantothenic acid survived; grew moderately well; but the hair
turned gray and they were sedate and elderly in behavior. Giving either niacin or
pantothenic acid to these dogs, while deficient in other vitamins, resulted in a gradual
loss of neuro-muscular control and sometim es sudden death. She thinks that giving
large amounts of any one vitamin, particularly niacin, which is frequently done in
pellagra, to persons subsisting on diets having multiple deficiencies is exceedingly dangerous. If any food is so bad that it needs to be "enriched" or "fortified" with synthetic
vitamins it is so bad it should be rejected as the artificial enrichment corrects only a part of the evil. Dr. Morgan states that fortification of foods with thiamin or niacin may precipitate
conditions worse than the subacute deficiency state produces; that the usual ordinary diet, while inadequate, is more nearly properly balanced. If we are to have improvement
in these deficiencies, general improvement is essential. The steps that must be taken to
correct the bad health conditions due to diet deficiencies at the present time are mainly
steps in the education, first, of the medical profession; and second, of the laity. That the doctors suffer equally with the lay public in deficiency diseases is quite
evident. Mortality records show that doctors die from heart and blood vessel diseases in
as great numbers as does the general population. The average doctor has as much
pyorrhea and tooth decay as the average layman. The average doctor is as often crippled
by neuritis and arthritis and has as much appendicitis, gall bladder disease, stomach
ulcer and cancer as the layman. The need for educating doctors is very great. The
reception of new ideas such as these is slow in the medical profession. It must be remembered that an appeal to a lay organization such as the Rotary Club, a
church group, a chamber of commerce as to a professional group such as the Bar
Association, or the county medical society for improvement along dietary lines is an
appeal to a diseased group. Following a l ecture by the author in a Midwest town, a
cartoon appeared in the newspaper of a fat, misshapen woman talking in her kitchen to
another fat, missh


 attack. However, every cell in the body has
a wide  latitude for action—it is a conscious being who
understands the world around it. The side eﬀects in my
desk reference are just the ones that have been observed
so far. I recently read a story of an internist who was baﬄed
when one of his patien ts, a man in his late seventies,
suddenly began to act paranoid. The man was obsessed by
the idea that robbers were going to break into his house,
and he bought a gun to keep under his pillow. One night he
terriﬁed his wife by leaping out of bed at three in the
morning, running downst airs with his pistol, and searching
wildly for the intruders he thought were behind every chair. Knowing that he was hallucinating dangerously, the wife
rushed him to the internist. The patient had no prior
history of mental illness and was on no medicatio ns other
than digitalis, which he took to stabilize his heart rhythm. Considering the patient’s age, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
disease seemed imminent. However, the internist consulted a neurologist to read the
patient’s CAT scan. Nothing abnormal appeared on it, but
the neurologist said, “I bet this man is hallucinating from
the digitalis. ” In thirty years of practice, the internist, who
is also a professor of medicine in New York City, had never
seen this side eﬀect, altho ugh he had heard of it, barely. He
reduced the digitalis, and within ten days the patient
returned to normal. It seems quite freakish that a highly
speciﬁc heart medication should lead to insanity. If thispatient had hallucinated a few decades ago, when the desk
reference did not list such a bizarre side eﬀect, no doctor
would have believed it; today, the internist believed it only
after an extensive battery of tests ruled out everything else. What this case teaches is that you can never tell what the
body is thinking, or where. It is entirely  possible that the
man’s heart went insane, in the sense that it toppled the
ﬁrst domino and triggere d the onset of his paranoia. The
brain and the heart share  many of the same recep tor sites;
more important, they share the same DNA, which implies
that a heart cell can beha ve like a brain cell, a liver cell, or
any other kind of cell. After open-heart surgery, patients
sometimes have psychoti c breaks and begin hallucinating. Flat on their backs, groggy from deprivation of oxygen to
the brain, and locked into the blank sterility of an intensive
care unit, they suddenly  think that little green men are
marching up and down the sheets—such is the accepted
explanation for their episodes. Could it be that in fact it is
the heart that is hallucinating here. Simply the trauma of
the surgery could make the heart think that reality has run
wild, and that is what it tells the brain. —
The discove ry of neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and
messenger molecules of all kinds has vastly extended our
concept of intelligence. But if every cell has an endless
number of messages it can send and receive, it is also clear
that only a small fraction are activated at one time. Who or
what controls the messages. That turns out to be an
explosive question. In a chemistry lab, reactions will run
automatically as soon as the experiment starts; it is just a
matter of mixing one chemical with another. Yet, someone
has to take the chemicals oﬀ the shelf to begin with. Medicine has traditionally preferred to ignore this fact as
it applies to the human body. Now we see that withthousands of chemicals on its shelf, a cell has not only to
choose some, mix them together, and analyze the results. It
has to make the chemicals in the ﬁrst place, ﬁnding
thousands of ways to create new molecules out of basically
a handful of elements— carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and
nitrogen. To do that requires a mind. So, by follow ing the
story of neuropeptides, we have ultimately arrived at a
dramatic shift in worldview. For the ﬁrst time in the history
of science, mind has a visible scaﬀold to stand upon. Before
this, science declared that we are physical machines that
have somehow learned to think. Now it dawns that we are
thoughts that have learned to create a physical machine. EXPANDING THE TOPIC
Placing mind before brain, the main point of this chapter,
remains very hard for some people, in particular the
researchers who devote their entire careers to exploring
the brain. By developin g ever more sophisticated brain
scans, such as fMRI, which can look at brain activity
“lighting up” in real time, neuroscience has entered a kind
of golden age. New ﬁndings emerge literally by the month,
and in some circles it is conﬁdently promised that very
soon the mystery of the mind will be completely solved. This is a promise that will never be kept if science
proceeds by assuming that brain = mind. Think about
music. A piano sonata is written by Mozart, using a
completely mental process. He writes the notes down on
paper, and the sonata can be performed on the piano. Now
imagine that a scientist comes along and says, “I’ve been
examining how pianos work. I’ve looked at the keys and
strings down  to the mole cular level. I can tell you how the
piano’s mech anism registers the ﬁnest nuances of Mozart’ssonata. Very soon we will know exactly how he composed
everything he ever wrote. ”
The claim is nonsense, because dissecting a piano tells
you nothing  about how music is composed. Likewise,
examining the human brain down to the subtlest chemical
reactions inside neurons and across the synaptic gaps that
separate them says nothing about where thoug hts come
from. This is the simplest refutation of materialism one can
oﬀer, and yet it has profound consequences. Let’s ask the most basic question. How does the brain
produce the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of
the three-dimensional world. In other words, when you see
a red apple, where does its redness come from. Your brain
is completely dark inside;  there is no light anywhere in any
part of the visual corte x, much less the color red. This
mystery doesn’t bothe r most scientists, even brain
scientists. They would simply respond that apples are red,
and how the brain registers this fact comes down to
chemical reactions in the visual cortex. But the notio n that
the color red exists “out there” in Nature is simply wrong. Light is transmitted by photons, which are colorless; in
fact, they are invisible. There is no brightness “out there”
as photons sweep from the stars and certainly no
brightness inside the brain’s total darkness. So if light’s
brightness is neither “in here” nor “out there,” why is the
sun so bright that you can’t look at it with the naked eye for
more than a few seconds. Light’s brightness and color, along with everythi ng else
we perceive, come from “conscious agents,” a term coined
by the farseeing cognitiv e scientist Donald D. Hoﬀman of
the Universi ty of California, Irvine. He proposes  that the
only reality we can know is the reality created by
consciousness. If there is anything that is real but beyond
the human mind, then it won’t be accessible. A conscious
agent doesn ’t have to be human. Every animal speciesexperiences a reality that conforms to its nervous system,
so that a dog’s image of sound reaches much higher than
the human ear can perceive, while the hearing of a
humpback whale reaches much lower (whales can hear one
another’s songs for hund reds of miles underwate r). Some
snakes, inclu ding pytho ns and rattlesnakes, can detect
infrared light through specialized “pit organs” located in
their jaws, and so they “see” into a dimension entirely
closed oﬀ to human perception. Conscious agents fascin ated me because the ancient
Vedic rishis were in complete agreement with the notion
that consciousness is the source of reality. They didn’t push
the everyday world of the ﬁve senses completely out of the
picture. Instead they gave it a lower status known as Maya,
a Sans krit word usually translated as “illusion”—it comes
up later in this book. Maya is the apparent reality “out
there” that all of us naïvely accept at face value, but which
turns out to be no more real than the movie projected on
the screen in a cinema. Consciousness serves as the
projector whose light casts these images while itself
remaining pure light, with no images at all. Let me go into this subject a little more philosop hically
than I did in the original Quantum Healing. The ancient
sages of India, and all philosophers since then, explored the
mind by going inward. But in a scientiﬁc age, we have to
ask: How can thinking about the mind be better than