 p p y.  A n d  t h e n,  a f t e r  a
l o n g,  l o n g  t i m e  y o u  w i l l  d i e. ” T h e y  w o n d e r  w h y,  i f  G o d  i s
s o  s m a r t,  H e  d o e s n ’ t  u s e  F e d  E x.B u t  I  t h i n k  w e ’ r e  t o l d  s o  l i t t l e  a b o u t  t h e  f u t u r e  b e c a u s e
t h e r e ’ s  s o  m u c h  m o r e  t o  u n d e r s t a n d  a b o u t  t h e  p r e s e n t.
G o d ’ s  g r o u n d,  a f t e r  a l l,  i s  n o w.  H e  d o e s n ’ t  s p e l l  o u t  t h e  p a t h
a h e a d ;  r a t h e r,  H e  s p e l l s  o u t  t h e  p a t h  w i t h i n.  A n d  a s  w e
f o l l o w  t h a t  p a t h,  s e e k i n g  t o  d e e p e n  i n  o u r  c o m p a s s i o n  a n d
u n d e r s t a n d i n g  a n d  c a p a c i t y  t o  e n j o y  w h a t  i s,  w e  c o - c r e a t e
w i t h  H i m  o u r  h i g h e s t  f u t u r e.

P a s t  R e g r e t s

U n t i l  y o u  r e a c h  a  c e r t a i n  a g e,  t h e  w o r d  r e g r e t  h a s  l i t t l e
m e a n i n g.  I t ’ s  o n l y  w h e n  y o u  s e e  t h a t  y o u r  m i s t a k e s  d i d
a f f e c t  t h e  r e s t  o f  y o u r  l i f e  a n d  r e a l i z e  t h a t  t h e  b a d  d e c i s i o n s
y o u  m a d e  c a n ’ t  b e  r e v e r s e d  i n  t h i s  l i f e t i m e  t h a t  y o u  f a c e  t h e
h o r r o r  o f  t r u e  r e m o r s e.  T h e r e i n  l i e s  t h e  p a r a d o x :  a s  h u m a n
b e i n g s,  w e  h a v e  s u c h  a  s h o r t  p e r i o d  o f  t i m e  h e r e  i n  w h i c h  t o
g e t  i t  r i g h t,  y e t  a s  s p i r i t s  l i v i n g  i n  e t e r n i t y,  w e  h a v e
o p p o r t u n i t i e s  u n l i m i t e d.  A s  b e i n g s  w i t h  f r e e  w i l l,  w e  a r e
a l l o w e d  t o  m a k e  o u r  o w n  c h o i c e s ;  a s  c h i l d r e n  o f  G o d,  w e
a r e  r e d e e m e d  u p o n  o u r  h u m b l e  a n d  p r a y e r f u l  r e q u e s t,
s h o u l d  t h o s e  c h o i c e s  h a v e  b e e n  w r o n g - m i n d e d.
O u r  m i s t a k e s  a r e  n o t  s i n s  G o d  w a n t s  t o  p u n i s h  b u t  r a t h e r
e r r o r s  H e  w a n t s  t o  c o r r e c t.  O n e  p r a y e r  i n  A  C o u r s e  i n
M i r a c l e s  s u g g e s t s  t h a t  w e  s i m p l y  g o  b a c k  t o  t h e  m o m e n t  o f
o u r  m i s t a k e —  r e a l i z i n g  i t  w a s  a  m o m e n t  w h e n,  b yd e f i n i t i o n,  w e  d i d n ’ t  a l l o w  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  t o  m a k e  o u r
d e c i s i o n  f o r  u s — a n d  a l l o w  H i m  t o  m a k e  i t  f o r  u s  n o w.  F o r
m i r a c l e s  w o r k  r e t r o a c t i v e l y.  T h e r e ’ s  n o  n e e d  t o  f e e l  g u i l t y
i n  s u c h  a  c a s e  b e c a u s e  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  w i l l  u n d o  a l l  t h e
c o n s e q u e n c e s  o f  o u r  w r o n g  d e c i s i o n  i f  w e  l e t  H i m. *  A s
l o n g  a s  w e  g e n u i n e l y  a t o n e  f o r  o u r  e r r o r s,  t h e  u n i v e r s e  w i l l
b e  m i r a c u l o u s l y  r e c o n f i g u r e d  o n  o u r  b e h a l f.  M i l l i o n s  o f
p e o p l e —  a l c o h o l i c s,  d r u g  a d d i c t s,  p e o p l e  w h o  c o m m i t t e d
c r i m e s,  p e o p l e  w h o  h u r t  o t h e r s — c a n  t e s t i f y  t o  t h e  p r o f o u n d
f o r g i v e n e s s  o f  G o d.  M a n y  k n o w  t h e y  w o u l d n ’ t  b e  a l i v e
t o d a y  w e r e  t h e i r  G o d  n o t  s u c h  a  m e r c i f u l  G o d.
T h a t  m e a n s  s o  m u c h  f o r  t h o s e  o f  u s  w h o  h a v e  l i v e d  a  l o t
o f  y e a r s ;  f o r  t h o s e  o f  u s  w h o  h a v e  m a d


,
from amalgamating these several
relief, joy and awe. All who have hadprovided an avenue for the exploration of
with which to comprehend it. Medicine
scientific disciplines into a methodology
such an experience feel afterwards that
the ways consciousness reveals itself in
had for gotten that it was an art and that
both elegantly simple and rewarding. W e
the universe has granted them a precious
the subtle mechanisms behind the disease
science was merely a tool of that art.
have found thereby that consciousness
gift. Facts are accumulated by ef fort, but
process.
W ithin medicine, psychiatry had always
can indeed be investigated. Although no
truth reveals itself ef fortlessly.5
Advanced computers permitting the
been held at a (29)
distance by road maps for such a study have thus far
Hopefully, through this book the reader
depiction through graphics of vast
traditionalists because in dealing with thebeen available, research into the subject
can comprehend and then prepare the
amounts of data disclosed unsuspected
immeasurables of human life it appeared
has produced its own design, and with it,
conditions fox such a personal revelation;
systems within what had been ignored by
less "scientific" from the Newtonian the context needed to comprehend
its to do so is the ultimate adventure.
Newtonian physics as indecipherable or
viewpoint. Academic psychiatry, in fact,
findings.P A R T  O N E :  T O O L S
meaningless data (chaos).5 Theoreticians
has made major scientific breakthroughs
Inasmuch as everything in the universe is
in diverse fields were suddenly able to
in psychopharmacology since tile 1950s.
connected with everything else,8 it is not
intimate coherent ways of understanding
However, it remains the most nonlinear
surprising that one of the primary (30)
1. CRITICAL ADV ANCES IN
data that had been considered incoherent,
area of medicine examining such subjects
objectives of this study, a map of the
KNOWLEDGE
or nonlinear -dif fuse or chaotic, and
as intuition, decision-making and the
ener gy fields of consciousness, would
THE EVOLUTION OF THIS WORK,
therefore inaccessible throughwhole phenomenon of life as process.
correlate with, and be corroborated by,
which began in 1965, was fostered by
conventional probabilistic logical theory
Although in the academic psychiatric
alt other avenues of investigation, uniting
developments in numerous scientific and mathematics.
literature there is little mention of such
the diversity of human experience and its
fields, of which three were of special
Analysis of this "incoherent" data
things as love, meaning, value or will, the
expressions in an all-encompassing
importance. Clinical research on the identified hidden ener gy patterns, or
psychiatric discipline at least essays a
paradigm. Such an insight can bypass the
physiology of the nervous system and the
attractors (which had been postulated by
somewhat lar ger view of man than other
artificial dichotomy between subject and
holistic functioning of the human the advanced mathematics of nonlinear
traditional medical fields.
object, transcending the limitedor ganism resulted in the development in
equations) behind apparently random
Regardless what branch of inquiry one
viewpoint that creates the illusion of
the 1970s of the new science of natural phenomena. Computer graphics
starts from-philosophy, political theory,
duality. The subjective and objective are,
13
14
goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is
kinesiology.l Meanwhile, in the
clearly demonstrated the designs of these
theology-all avenues of investigation
experienced through the senses; power
technological arena, computers were
attractor fields. The implicit potential for
eventually conver ge at a common
can be recognized only through inner
being designed that were capable of
analyzing supposedly unpredictable meeting point: the quest for an
or ganized awareness. Man is immobilized in his
millions of calculations in milliseconds,systems in such disparate areas as fluid
understanding of the nature of pure
present condition by his alignment, with
making possible the new tools of
mechanics, human biology and stellar
consciousness. But all of the major
enormously powerful attractor ener gy artificial Intelligence.2 This abrupt
access astronomy appeared to be limitless. enterprises in human
knowledge
patterns which he himself unconsciously
to formerly inconceivable masses of data
(Though as yet, except for the appearance
discussed above-even kinesiology and
sets in motion. Moment by moment he is
begot a revolutionary perspective on
in the marketplace of some intriguing
nonlinear dynamics-halted at this last
suspended at this state of evolution,
natural phenomena, chaos theory.
new computer graphics patterns great barrier to human knowledge, the
restrained by the ener gies of force, Simultaneously, in the theoretical
generated by "fractal" geometry, the investigation of the nature of
impelled by the ener gies of power.sciences, quantum mechanics led to
public has remained generally unaware of
consciousness itself. Some advanced
The individual is like a cork in the sea of
advanced theoretical physics; through
this new field of nonlinear dynamics.)
thinkers, it is true, went beyond the
consciousness he doesn't know where he
associated mathematics, there emer ged a
During the era preceding these parameters of their respective fields and
is, where he came from, or where he's
whole new study of nonlinear dynamics,
revelations, linear science had grown
began to ask questions about the
going, and he doesn't know why. Man
one of the most far -reaching
progressively divorced from concern relationship between the universe,
wanders about in his endless developments of modern science, the
with the basis of life itself-all life science, and consciousness in its
conundrums, asking the same questions
long-term impact of which has yet to be
processes are, in fact, nonlinear. This
experience as mind.7 W e will refer tocentury after century, and so he will
realized.3
isolation was also characteristic of their theories and their impact on the
continue, failing a quantum leap in (23) Kinesiology for the first time
exposed medicine, which, when presented with
advance of human understanding as we
consciousness. One mark of such a the intimate connection between
mind the amazing discoveries of kinesiology,
proceed.
sudden expansion of (23) context and
and body, revealing that the mind
merely ignored the information because it
The thesis of the present work derives
understanding is an inner experience of
"thinks" with the body itself. Thence, it
had no context, no paradigm of reality,
from amalgamating these several
relief, joy and awe. All who have had
provided an avenue for the exploration of
with which to comprehend it. Medicine
scientific disciplines into a methodology
such an experience feel afterwards that
the ways consciousness reveals itself inhad for gotten that it was an art and that
both elegantly simple and rewarding. W e
the universe has granted them a precious
the subtle mechanisms behind the disease
science was merely a tool of that art.
have found thereby that consciousness
gift. Facts are accumulated by ef fort, but
process.
W ithin medicine, psychiatry had always
can indeed be investigated. Although no
truth reveals itself ef fortlessly.5
Advanced computers permitting the
been held at a (29)
distance by road maps for such a study have thus far
Hopefully, through this book the reader
depiction through graphics of vast
traditionalists because in dealing with the
been available, research into the subject
can comprehend and then prepare the
amounts of data disclosed unsuspected
immeasurables of human life it appeared
has produced its own design, and with it,conditions fox such a personal revelation;
systems within what had been ignored by
less "scientific" from the Newtonian the context needed to comprehend
its to do so is the ultimate adventure.
Newtonian physics as indecipherable or
viewpoint. Academic psychiatry, in fact,
findings.P A R T  O N E :  T O O L S
meaningless data (chaos).5 Theoreticians
has made major scientific breakthroughs
Inasmuch as everything in the universe is
in diverse fields were suddenly able to
in psychopharmacology since tile 1950s.
connected with everything else,8 it is not
intimate coherent ways of understanding
However, it remains the most nonlinear
surprising that one of the primary (30)
1. CRITICAL ADV ANCES IN
data that had been considered incoherent,
area of medicine examining such subjects
objectives of this study, a map of the
KNOWLEDGE
or nonlinear -dif fuse or chaotic, and
as intuition, decision-making and the
ener gy fields of consciousness, would
THE EVOLUTION OF THIS WORK,
therefore inaccessible throughwhole phenomenon of life as process.
correlate with, and be corroborated by,
which began in 1965, was fostered by
conventional probabilistic logical theory
Although in the academic psychiatric
alt other avenues of investigation, uniting
developments in numerous scientific and mathematics.
literature there is little mention of such
the diversity of human experience and its
fields, of which three were of special
Analysis of this "incoherent" data
things as love, meaning, value or will, the
expressions in an all-encompassing
importance.


 of the journal were published in a period of one year and freely distributed to some
research centers and medical libraries at some universities.
We also applied to the National Library of Medicine for the journals to be indexed in the Index Medicus computer
system so that their content could be accessed by other researchers. We appealed to them to afford us an equal
opportunity to present our "paradigm shift" researched views in medicine. They got back to us and said two volumes
of a publication was n ot enough, but once another volume was put out and we were sure there was g oing to be
continuity, they wou ld consider indexing the journals.
The third volume of the journal was i n the works at this sta ge and, whe n it was published in 1991, we sent our
application and two volumes of each publication to the NLM. Journals are evaluated two to three times a year for
their possible inclusion in the Index Medicus. The committee consists o f mainly NIH scientists. W hen they met at
the end of the year and reviewed our new information in medicine, we were refused. They did not wan t to give us an
equal opportunity for our views to be heard. The NIH "thinkers" did not wish our new thoughts to enter the scientific
arena and eventually reach the public. We were deftly cen sored. This is when I decided to write the first edition of
this book and go public.
About six months after the NLM re fusal, my book was o ut and being reviewed. I now had a simple language
explanation of where mainstream medicine had gone wrong. This was the book I sent, in addition to the scientific
publications, to Drs. Healy, Groft and Jacobs at the NIH. I wanted them to know I did not need them for my v iews to
reach the public. I had realized that the NIH was self-ser vingly satisfied with the insanity of conducting and repeating
the same types of research without finding a cure for any of the degenerative diseases of the human body.
In April of 1993, there was a n International Bio-Oxid ative Medical Conference in Reston, Virginia. I was invited to
speak following the President of the Association. This is one of the conferences co nvened by the practitioners of
Alternative Medicine. I was introduced to one of the NIH Scie ntific Se cretariats, Dr. Edmund Sargent Copeland, whowas i nvited to review the conference. Afte r my ta lk on the role of histamine as the main water regulator of the body,
he very graciously discussed  how I could succeed in getting my views evaluated. I sent him most of my p ublished
materials. We met at their Westbard Avenue office. He did his best to get me invited by th e program manager of
their lectures to speak before their members. Th e invitation never came.
It is obvious m y thoughts are a threat to the continuation of some of the NIH approaches to medical research.
Naturally, m y views will not be allowed to echo within the NIH wal ls. They wan t me automaton-like to present my
findings in a way th at is acceptable to them only. That is how they have it their own way.
I have tried to give you detailed information about my e fforts to get the people who are entrusted with the
responsibility of looking after the nation's health interests to  work on your behalf. As y ou see, they chose their own
advantageous way of business as usual. It is now dear that the institutions that use your tax dollars and a major
portion of your hard-earned income do not care one iota for your health and well-being. It is now obvious that those
who purport to be solution seekers are promoters of your problem. From here on, you, the readers of the
information in this book, have to become a part of the force behind the transformation of the health care system in
America.
Obviously, funding for the evaluation of water as a natural medicine seems not to be readily available. Furthermore,
even if funds were to be made available, research of the topic seems not attractive enough to the universities and
nationally recognized research centers. An d yet, to show others, patient response to treatment with water as a
natural medicine in diseases produced by chronic dehydration is necessary. It is necessary to convince the
clinicians within the health care system to change their present approach to treatment. Students in medical schools
are not taught anything about the many roles of water in the human body.
The way I see it, we will need many "simple and direct" observations, like those whose letters are published in this
book, to report their findings before the mainstream medical practitioners would abandon their method of treatment.
Their present method is only suited to promotion of chemical products. "Double-blind randomized trials" are only
suited to the evaluation of one chemical product to another, less-known substance. This particular methodology is
not suited to the clinical evaluation of "deficiency disorders," in this case the effects o f water on the variety of
dehydration-produced diseases.
Physiological states of each individual's body determines the initial symptoms and complications of dehydration.
That is why these symptom-producing dehydration states have traditionally been labeled as many different disease
conditions. When you are into the book, you will understand what I am sayin g. You  will also read some letters
whose writers had more than one of the early signs of recently recognized water shortage in the body.
We are now at the dawn of a new era in medical scie nce. 'It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most
of the diseases of the human body." The original design of the human body is more com plete than you can Imagine.
If we have not known how to maintain it until now, it is our own fault. We have not stopped to think, if the body is
mainly water, where will it get its top-up if we don't drink water on a regular basis? We now know w hen it is calling
for its urgent intake. We need to dwell on this information. Push ing water is not a personal gimmick. There is no
hidden agenda to its promotion. If you share this information with your loved ones, you are its beneficia ries.
At present this book is the only sou rce of easy-to-read-and-understand information on chronic dehydration. You
need to read it a few times and understand the profoundness o f the indispensable role of water in the human body.
If you do this, you will become a healer too. In this book, you will also get to learn that "fluids" and "water" are not
necessar ily the same.  You will learn about the detrimental effects of diet sodas.
If you find the information in this book useful, please raise your voice and cry out against the dark and ugly side of
medicine as it is practiced at present. Docto rs are supposed to be healers. Th ey have taken an oath to serve
mankind. It is true that the "business of Am erica is business," but my business-minded colleagues have no right to
obstruct the simple message of 'you are not sick, you are thirsty,"  from reaching a wider cross-section of the public.
They have no business converting the pain and suffering of their fellow man into accumulative commercial practices
that we have noticed in the recent past.
I most humbly acknowledge that not all doctors put their own gain before the welfare of those who seek their honest
advice. You  only need to take a look at the number of doctors in the small list of reviews of the book to see this fact.
Only a very sma ll minority, unfortunately in steering positions, have shed a bad light on our sacred profession.
However, "when light comes, darkness has to go." When people begin to understand that water by itself is the best
natural medicine in many "disease" conditions of the body, the black sheep in the sacred profession of medicine will
take their business elsewhere.
Traditionally, doctors have been thinkers and philosophers. It is only recently that they have been forced to
memorize pre-digested information to get through the curriculum in teaching hospitals. In reality, books are created
to store information, and the brain is designed to "think." Once we get rid of the burden of having to remember so
much misinformation generated around the conditions that are complications of chronic dehydration, the new
doctors will once again become scho lars and thinkers. That is whe n their pronouncements will be truly respected
and worth their wei ght in gold, and no less th an surgeons' scale of fees.
In the hope of a new era of bright lights in medicine, I wish the readers of this book luck for their indispensable part
in the transformation of the present structure of medicine. Each letter that is published in the book is but a sample of
what "water as medicine" can  do in millions who present sim ilar outward manifestations of chronic dehydration. The
arrogant and the ignorant in medical practice will label these letters as "anecdotal" and brush them aside. Infinitelygreater in number, seeing eyes co nnected to thinking brains will recognize in each one of them the new truth, 'you
are not sick,  you are thirsty," that heralds an end to the prese nt medical sting against the publi c.
This book is intended to be read as a "novel" about the love relationship of water and the human body. It is not
designed to be read for "soundbites." This is t he reason why it  does not have an index.
I would like to thank my  wife Xiaopo for her loving support and help.
I would like to thank Col.


 disruptive. Your whole being is headed
in o ne direction physically, emotionally, and mentally;
and that direction has all th e momentum of your past
and all the dreams of your future. Then suddenly, there’s
a major earthquake, a terrible sickness, or a chance
encounter that totally sweep s you off your feet. If the
event is powerful enough to  change the focus of your
heart and mind, the rest of your life will change in due
course. You are literally not the same person on both
sides o f a truly life-chang ing event. Your interests
change, your goals change, in fact, the underlying
purpose of your life change s. It usually takes a very
powerful event to turn your head around so far that you
never look back.
But not always.
In the winter o f 1970, no suc h event happened to me.
What happene d was so sub tle, so faint, that it could
easily have passed by without being noticed. It was not
with a shout but with a whisp er that my life was thrown
into utter turmoil and transformation. It has been more
than forty years now since that life-changing moment,
but I remember it as if it were yesterday.I was sitting on the living room couch in my home in
Gainesville, Florida. I was twenty-two years old and
married at the time to a beautiful soul named Shelly. We
were both students at the Un iversity of Florida where I
was doi ng my graduate work in economics. I was a very
astute student, and I was being groomed by the
chairman of the economics department to become a
college professor. Shelly had a brother, Ronnie, who was
a very successful attorney in Chicago. Ronnie and I
became close friends even though we were from totally
different world s. He was a powerful, wealth-driven, big-
city at torney, and I was a ’60s-groomed, college-
intellectual hi ppie. It is worth mentioning just how
analytically oriented I was at the time. I had never even
taken a philosophy, psychology, or religion course while
in college. My electives at school were symbolic logic,
advanced calculus, and theoretical statistics. This makes
what happened to me all the more amazing.
Ronnie would come down once in a while to visit, and
we would often just hang out together. As it turns out,
Ronnie was sitting on that co uch with me on that fateful
day in 1970. I  don’t remember exactly what we were
talking about, but there had been a lull in our leisurely
conversation. I noticed I was uncomfortable with the
silence and found myself thin king of what to say next. I
had been in similar situations many times before, but
something wa s quite different about this experience.
Instead of simply being uncomfortable and trying to find
something to say, I noticed  t ha t I was uncomfortable and
trying to find s omething to say. For the first time in my
life, my mind and emotions were something I was
watching instead of being.
I know that it is difficult to put into words, but there
was a complete sense of separation between my anxious
mind, which was spewing out possible topics to talk
about, a nd me, the one who  was simply aware that my
mind was doing this. It was like I was suddenly able toremain above my mind and quietly watch the thoughts
being c reated. Believe it or n ot, that subtle shift in my
seat of awareness became a tornado that rearranged my
entire life.
For a few mom ents, I just sat there inwardly watching
myself t ry to “fix” the awkward silence. But I was not the
one trying to f ix it; I was the one quietly watching the
activity of my mind trying t o fix it. At first there were
only a few deg rees of separation between me and what I
was watching. But every second the separation seemed to
become greate r and greater. I was not doing anything to
cause this shift. I was just the re noticing that my sense of
me  no longer included the neurotic thought patterns that
were passing in front of me.
This e ntire process of “becoming aware” was
practically instantaneous. It was like when you stare at
one of those posters that has a hidden picture inside. At
first it appears to be just a cir cle with line patterns. Then,
suddenly, you see an entire 3-D image emerge from what
originally looked like chaos. Once you see it, you can’t
imagine how you hadn’t seen it before. It was right there!
Such was the s hift that happened inside of me. It was so
obvious—I wa s in there w atching my thoughts and
emotions. I had always been in there watching, but I had
been too unaware to notice. It was as though I had been
so invo lved in their details that I never saw them as just
thoughts and emotions.
Within seconds, what previously seemed like
important solu tions for how to break the uncomfortable
silence was now sounding like a neurotic voice talking
inside my head. I watched as that voice tried out things
to say:
The weather’s been awesome, hasn’t it?
Did you hear what Nixon did the other day?
Do you want to get something to eat?When I finally did open my mouth to say something,
what I said was:
“Have y ou ever noticed that there’s this voice
talking inside your head?”
Ronnie looked  at me a little w eird, and then a spark lit
in his eyes. He said, “Yes, I see what you’re talking about
—mine never shuts up!” I distinctly remember making a
joke ou t of it b y asking him what it would be like if he
heard someone else’s voice talking in there. We laughed,
and life went on.
But not my  life. My life didn’t just “go on.” In my life,
nothing would ever be the s ame again. I didn’t have to
try to maintain this awareness. It was who I was now. I
was the being who was watc hing the incessant flow of
thoughts pass through the mind. From the same seat of
awareness, I watched the  ever-shifting current of
emotions pass through the heart. When I showered, I
saw what that voice had to s ay while I was supposed to
be washing my body. If I was talking to someone, I
watched as that voice figured out what to say next—
instead of listening to what t he other person was saying.
If I went to class, I watched my mind play the game of
trying to think ahead of the professor to see if it could
figure o ut where he was going with the lecture. Needless
to say, it did n ot take long be fore this newly found voice
inside m y head really started to annoy me. It was like
sitting next to someone in a movie theater who never,
ever stops talking.
As I observed that voice, something deep inside my
being ju st wanted it to shut up. What would it be like if it
stopped? I began to long for silence inside. Within days
of that first experience, my life’s patterns began to
change. When friends came over to socialize, I no longer
enjoyed the scene. I wanted t o quiet my mind, and social
activities didn’t help. I began to excuse myself and go out
to t he woods near our hous e. I would sit down on theground amid the trees and tell that voice to shut up. Of
course, it didn’t work. Nothin g seemed to work. I found
that I could change the topic  it talked about, but I could
not get it to just stop talking for any length of time. My
yearning for inner silence bec ame a passion. I knew what
it w as li ke to watch the voice. What I didn’t know is what
it would  be like if the voice totally stopped. And what I
never co uld have imagined was the life-changing journey
on which I was about to embark.2.
G e t t i n g  t o  K n o w  M e
E ven in my yo uth, I loved t o figure out how things
worked. So it was inevitable that my analytical mind
would become fascinated by  trying to understand my
relationship to  the voice inside my head. Before I could
enjoy this intellectual fascination, however, I had to get
over the fact that the personal mind was driving me
crazy. E very tim e I saw somet hing, that voice made some
comment about it: I like it… ; I do n’t like it… ; I’m not
comfortable with this… ; This reminds me of …As I
became more and more accustomed to watching all this,
a few question s naturally arose. First, why is this voice
talking all the time? If I see something, I’m instantly
aware of seeing it. Why doe s the voice have to tell me
that I see it and how I feel about it?
Here comes Mary. I don’t feel like seeing her
today. I hope she doesn’t see me.
I know what I see and I know what I feel. After all, I’m
the one in here seeing and feeling. Why does it have to
get vocalized in my mind?


 far into a single phrase,
it might read, ‘The awareness of being is happiness’. This understanding sum -
marises the first universal truth that is the source of all the great religious,
spiritual and philosophical traditions and which, when clearly seen, brings
the search for happiness to an end.
     However, we may object on two grounds: one, that we arrived at this
understanding by making a distinction between awareness and the content
of experience, thereby maintaining an inherent dualism; and two, that this
understanding takes care of the individual but neglects society and the en -
vironment at large.
     As we have seen, most of us are so exclusively identified with our
thoughts, feelings and sensations that we have allowed ourselves to be defined
by them. Our being seems to be coloured by experience. Therefore, in order
to recognise our essential nature, it is first necessary to divest our being of
the qualities and limitations it seems to have acquired from experience.
     This involves turning within, sinking into being to the exclusion of ob -
jective experience. In this process, being is initially revealed as the neutral
ground that underlies all experience, and then this neutrality gives way to
peace and, in time, joy. As Yvan Amar, a Dutch teacher of non-duality once
said, ‘Peace is happiness at rest; happiness is peace in motion’.
     However, this is not a static process. In the words of Rumi, beautifully
rendered by Coleman Barks, the investi gation into the essential nature of
our self is to ‘Flow down and down in always widening rings of being’. *
* Jelaluddin Rumi, ‘A Community of the Spirit’, Selected Poems, translated by Coleman Barks (Penguin
Classics, 2004 ).you are the happiness you seek
     As we sink more and more deeply into being, or, stated from the per -
spective of being, as being is progressively divested of the qualities it seems
to have acquired from experience, it grows ‘wider’; it loses its limitations.
Our being is not our being. There is no ‘our’, no ‘me’ to whom being belongs.
There is just utterly intimate yet impersonal, infinite being.
     Gradually, or occasionally suddenly, the mists of belief that have shrouded
our being evaporate. Being loses its apparent limitations and is understood
to extend beyond the individual. It is shared, universal, whole.
     Being shines in each of us as the am-ness of our self and in the world
as the is-ness of all things. This utterly intimate and yet impersonal, infi -
nite being that was first recognised within us as the experience of peace
and happiness is now revealed as the being from which everyone and every -
thing derives its apparently independent existence. This is the second as -
pect of the non-dual understanding: we share our being with everyone
and everything.

losing the sense of separation

When I was seven years old, apparently I said to my mother that I thought
everything was God’s dream. I cannot help but notice that now, more than
fifty years later, I have not evolved very much, although I express myself in
rather more sophisticated terms!
     Later on, in my teenage years, I developed a great admiration for the
Romantic poets, with their reverence for the all-pervasive spirit which per -
meated the natural world and, at the same time, lay in the depths of their
own heart. In particular, I noticed how their use of words had the ability to
induce in myself the same experience from which their poetry originated.
My love of the beauty and power of language perhaps comes from this
period.
     Around that time, I also developed a love of being in nature. Walking in
the landscape, I would often notice that my mind would spontaneously
quieten and, at the same time, I would lose the sense of being enclosed within
the body. The landscape felt as intimate as my body, and my body became
as open and expansive as the landscape.
     I felt that I was melting into a presence that was familiar and yet, at the
same time, much larger than anything I knew of myself. A presence ‘whose
148the unity of being
dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air,
and the blue sky, and in the mind of man’. *
     Many years later, after meeting Francis, I was astonished to find that
this expansion of the body into the surrounding space, and the correspond -
ing permeation of the body with that space, had been formalised into a
spiritual practice in the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism several
hundred years earlier, as a means by which the feeling of separation may be
dissolved.

Suffice it to say that, formalised or not, the softening of the boundary between
our self and all objects and others is a natural and inevitable consequence of
the recognition of our true nature.
    The more deeply we investigate the nature of our essential self, the
less limitation we find. We find limited thoughts, feelings and sensations,
but that which is aware of them, and within which they arise, does not
share their limits, just as the space of a room does not share the limited
qualities of the objects that exist within it or the walls that seem to con -
tain it.
     This liberation of our self from the confines within which it is normally
contained may be experienced as a feeling of release or expansion, and may
be accompanied by a great relaxation of the tension in the body and the agi -
tation in the mind.
     The feeling of expansion and the corresponding loss of the sense of sep -
aration may take place gradually, almost imperceptibly, over a period of time.
Or it may take place suddenly and spontaneously.
     We may be walking along a street or path and suddenly the sense of being
solid, dense and located dissolves. We experience the world as a stream of
perceptions and the body as a flow of sensations appearing in the openness
of awareness. We are not a body walking through the world; the body and
the world are flowing through us.
     We continue to experience the world through the medium of the
body, but the body has lost its separating power. The universe becomes
our body.

149* William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey  (1798 ).you are the happiness you seek
a single, shared reality

Einstein once remarked, ‘Common sense is a series of prejudices that most people
acquire by the age of eighteen’. Most of us have been conditioned to trust the
evidence of common sense: a combination of perception and thought that frag -
ments the unity of being into a multiplicity and diversity of discrete objects and
selves, each with its own apparently separate and individual existence.
     However, everyone has first-hand, direct knowledge of the underlying real -
ity of the universe through the experiences of love and beauty. In the experience
of love, we recognise our shared reality with all people and animals. In the ex -
perience of beauty, we recognise our shared reality with all objects and nature.
     Imagine the space of my study, in Oxford, where I am now writing, and
compare it with the space in which you are currently sitting as you read this
book. They seem to be two separate and unique spaces, each with its own
particular size, shape, location, and so on.
     Now imagine that each of us were to remove all the objects from our
room and even to dismantle the walls within which the space seems to be
contained. What remains of the difference between our two rooms? Are they
still separate? Have they united? Were they ever really separate to begin with?
Were there really even two spaces to begin with?
     Now do the same experiment with yourself. Imagine removing from
yourself all the temporary, changing elements of your experience: thoughts,
images, memories, feelings, sensations, perceptions, activities, relationships,
and so on. What remains of yourself? Just formless, aware being.
     Now do the same experiment in your imagination with someone you love.
Remove, in your imagination, everything that is not essential to them. What
remains? Formless, aware being. Are your being and their being still separate?
Have you united? Were you ever really two separate beings to begin with?
     Your shared being has simply been revealed, now that it is no longer ob -
scured by the respective elements of your experience. That revelation of your
shared being is the experience of love.

We can do the same thought experiment with someone we dislike or resent,
either someone we know in person or someone we know of through the
media. What we dislike is some aspect of their conditioned character, not
their essential being or self.
150the unity of being
     Whether we like somebody or not is determined by the relationship
between one character and another, between one set of conditioning and
another, that is, the content of each of their thoughts, feelings, activities and
relationships. The experience of love has nothing to do with whether we
like or dislike a person’s character. It is the recognition of our shared being.
Divested of the conditioning that defines our character and dictates the way
we think, feel, act and relate, we are all the same indivisible being.
     The same is true of the vast majority of people whom we will never meet.
The contents of my room in Oxford and your room at home will never


acity	(i.e.,	money)	of	those	who	would	like	to	have	the
public	believe	that	cow’s	milk	prevents	cancer.	Lo	and	behold,	a	recent	front-
page	headline	in	our	local	newspaper,	the
Ithaca	Journal,
	stated	“Changing
Cows’	Diets	Elevates	Milk’s	Cancer-Fighting.”
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	This	article	concerned	the
studies	of	a	Cornell	professor	who	was	instrumental	in	the	development	of
bovine	growth	hormone	now	fed	to	cows.	He	showed	that	he	could	increase
CLA	in	cow’s	milk	by	feeding	the	animals	more	corn	oil.
The
Ithaca	Journal
	article,	although	only	in	a	local,	hometown	newspaper,
really	was	a	dream	come	true	for	the	sponsors	of	The	Airport	Club.	Theheadline	delivers	a	powerful	but	very	simple	message	to	the	public:	drinking
milk	reduces	cancer	risk.	I	know	that	media	people	like	punchy	statements	so,
initially,	I	suspected	that	the	reporter	had	made	claims	beyond	what	the
researchers	had	said.	But	in	the	article	the	enthusiasm	expressed	by	Professor
Bauman	for	the	implications	for	this
research	equaled	that	of	the	headline.
The	study	cited	in	this	article	only	showed	that	CLA	is	higher	in	the	milk	of
cows	fed	corn	oil.	That’s	a	long	way	from	having	any	relevance	to	human
cancer.	No	studies	had	yet	shown	that	humans	or	even	mice	drinking	cow’s
milk	had	a	lower	risk	of	cancer—of	any	kind.	Yet	Bauman,	who	is	a
technically	competent	researcher,	was	quoted	as	saying	that	these	findings
have	“good	potential	because	CLA	happens	to	be	[a]	very	potent
[anticarcinogen].”	The	journalist	went	on	to	say	“CLA	has	been	shown	to
suppress	carcinogens	and	inhibit	the	spread	of	colon,	prostate,	ovarian	and
breast	cancers	and	leukemia,”	and	concluded	that	“all	indications	are	that
CLA	is	effective	in	humans	even	in	low	concentrations.”	According	to	the
article,	Bauman	says	that	this	“research	represents	the	new	focus	on	designing
foods	to	enhance	their	nutritional	and	health	qualities.”	These	claims	could
not	be	more	dramatic,	considering	the	absence	of	the	necessary	human
research.
Bauman,	Pariza	and	their	many	other	colleagues
19
	have	vigorously
pursued	this	line	of	research	for	fifteen	years	and	have	published	a	large
number	of	research	papers.	Although	additional	beneficial	effects	of	CLA	are
said	to	exist,	the	key	research	still	has	not	been	done,	namely,	testing	whether
the	consumption	of	milk	from	cows	fed	high-corn	oil	diets	really	will	reduce
human	cancer	risk.
More	recently,	Bauman	and	his	colleagues	have	attempted	to	take	a	step
toward	finding	this	essential	connection.	They	have	shown	that	the	milk	fat	of
cows	fed	high	amounts	of	corn	oil	(i.e.,	linoleic	acid,	the	parent	of	CLA),	like
synthetic	CLA,	was	able	to	decrease	tumors	in	rats	treated	with	a
carcinogen.
20
	But	again,	they	used	the	tricky	experimental	method.	They
administered	the	milk	fat
before,
	not
after
	the	carcinogen.	Yet	their	claims
will	be	as	dramatic	as	ever,	because	this	is	the	first	time	that	CLA,	as	present
in	food	(i.e.,	the	fat),	is	shown	to	be	as	anticarcinogenic	as	the	isolated
chemical.	Translated:	eat	butter	from	cows	fed	corn	oil—it	prevents	cancer!THE	SCIENCE	OF	INDUSTRY
The	CLA	story	is	a	good	example	of	how	industry	uses	science	to	increase
demand	for	its	product	in	order	to	make	more	money.	At	the	very	least,
industry	science	often	leads	to	public	confusion	(Are	eggs	good?	Are	they
bad?),	and	at	its	worst,	industry	science	leads	unsuspecting	consumers	to
foods	that	are	actually	bad	for	them,	all	in	the	name	of	better	health.
Conflicts	of	interest	abound	in	this	science	of	industry.	The	CLA	research
was	created	with	special	interest	money	and	has	grown	and	been	sustained
with	special	interest	money.	The	National	Dairy	Council,
20–22
	Kraft	Foods,
Inc.,
20
	the	Northeast	Dairy	Foods	Research	Center,
20,	21
	the	Cattlemen’s	Beef
Board
23
	and	the	Cattlemen’s	Beef	Association
23
	are	groups	that	have
frequently	funded	these	studies.
Corporate	influence	in	the	academic	research	world	can	take	many	forms,
ranging	from	flagrant	abuses	of	personal	power	to	conflicts	of	interest,	all
hidden	from	public	view.	This	influence	does	not	need	to	be	a	crass	payoff	to
researchers	to	fabricate	data.	That	sort	of	behavior	is	rare.	The	more
significant	way	for	corporate	interests	to	influence	academic	research	is	much
more	sophisticated	and	effective.	As	illustrated	by	the	CLA	example,
scientists	investigate	a	detail	out	of	context	that	can	be	construed	as	a
favorable	message	and	industry	exploits	it	for	all	it’s	worth.	Almost	no	one
knows	where	the	CLA	hypothesis	started	and	who	originally	funded	it.
Few	people	really	question	such	research	if	it	is	published	in	the	best
journals.	Very	few	people,	especially	among	the	public,	know	which	studies
are	“benefiting”	from	direct	corporate	funding.	Very	few	people	are	able	to
sort	out	the	technical	details	and	recognize	the	missing	information	that	would
otherwise	establish	context.	Almost	everyone,	however,	understands	that
headline	in	my	local	newspaper.
I	could	play	this	game,	too.	If	I	wanted	to	hurt	the	dairy	industry	and	be	a
little	wild	in	my	interpretation	of	study	results,	I	could	produce	another
headline	to	say,	“New	birth	control	chemical	discovered	in	cow’s	milk.”
Recent	research,	for	example,	showed	that	CLA	dramatically	kills	chick
embryos.
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	Also,	CLA	increases	the	tissue	level	of	saturated	fats	that	could
(using	our	dramatic	method	of	interpretation)	exacerbate	heart	disease	risk.	Of
course,	I	have	taken	these	two	unrelated	effects	grossly	out	of	context	in	my
example.	I	don’t	really	know	whether	these	CLA	effects	actually	translate	into
less	fertility	and	more	heart	disease	for	humans,	but	if	I	were	playing	the
game	the	way	industry	enthusiasts	do,	I	wouldn’t	mind.	It	would	make	a	great
headline,	and	that	can	go	a	long	way.I	recently	met	with	one	of	the	members	of	The	Airport	Club,	a	scientist
who	has	been	involved	in	the	CLA	effort,	and	he	confessed	that	the	CLA
effect	will	never	be	anything	more	than	a	drug	effect.	However,	you	can	bet
that	what	is	known	in	private	will	not	be	told	in	public.INDUSTRY’S	LOVE	OF	TINKERING
Much	of	The	Airport	Club	and	the	CLA	story	is	a	story	about	the	“dark	side”
of	science,	which	I	detailed	in	chapter	thirteen.	But	the	CLA	story	is	also
about	the	dangers	of	reductionism,	of	taking	details	out	of	context	and	making
claims	about	diet	and	health,	which	I	discussed	in	the	previous


 the ego’ s domination.
When ac tivated, the spirit within is renewed, and apathy is replaced by
hope. T o  ‘pray ceaselessly’ may be the only option available to work
through some severe or prolonged periods of karmic debt. It is
sometimes refer red to as a ‘test of faith’, which is best trav ersed by
conviction that ‘this too shall pass’, and “They also serve who stand and
wait.”
Apathy, like any other obstacle on the evolutionary path, is resolved by
acceptance rather than denial. Spiritual apathy can be helped byreexposure to basic spiritual tr uths, such as provided by scr ipture or
spiritual literatu re. Reflection and meditation on verses, such as those in
the Ninety-first Psalm or other favorite passages, often reactivate
inspiration beca use of their innate high consciousness ca libration.
Reinspiration is also often consequent to repeating favorite prayers,
hymns, or the playing of classical music in beautiful surroundings.
Music o f high calibration presents an ener gy field directly that bypasses
the intellect and negative mentation. Music that calibrates over 500
(listed in Chapter 9 of T ruth vs. Falsehood ) has an uplifting ef fect. It can
vary all the way from the score of River dance to classi cal mus ic, the
stirring skirl of the bagpipes of the Scottish Black W atch, or even the
irresistible music of the Bee Gees.
T ransient apathy can indicate resistance to facing some inner personal
defect, which is most rapidly overcome by direct admission and
acceptance. Th is reactivates spiritual movement instead of being
stultified. Even avoidance can be countered by accepting the fa ct that it
is cu rrently operative (avoiding the denial of denial). One can c hoose to
avoid an  issue consciously inst ead of being at the ef fect of it  through
avoidance. This  alternative opens the option to just not deal with the
issue cu rrently and choose instead to take a vacation from it via what
could be  viewed as ‘therapeutic escapism’, such as going to the movies,
taking a vacation, going on short trip, etc.
Acceptance by conscious choice has a dif ferent consequence from
unconscious denial. Self-care is an integrous intention when done
consciously. It is an exercise in  developing self-love, especial ly if it is
dedicated to God. It is sometim es necessary to rest and recuperate in
order to become rejuvenated. This is one of the functions of play and
recreation that serves retrenchment rather than just self-indulgence.

The Dualities of Apathy.
As w ith other le vels, positionalities express as dualities of attraction and
aversion that have to be worked through, assisted by prayer and often the
assistance of others.CHAPTER 4.

Grief.
(Calibration Level 75).

Intr oduction.
This is the leve l of sadness, loss, and despondency. Most people have
experienced it for periods of time, but those who remain at this level live
a life of constant regret and de pression. This is the level of mourning,
bereavement, an d remorse about the past. It is also the level of habitual
losers and those chronic gamb lers who accept failure as part of their
lifestyle, often resulting in the loss of jobs, friends, family, and
opportunity, as well as money and health.
Major l osses in early life m ake one later vulnerable to passive
acceptance of grief, as though so rrow were the price of life. In Grief, one
sees sadness everywhere—the sadness of little children, of world
conditions, and even the sadness of life itself. This level colors one’ s
entire vi sion of existence. Part of the syndrome of loss is the  sense of
inability to replace what is lost or what it symbolized. There is a
generalization from the particular, so that the loss of a loved one is
equated with the loss of love itself. At this level, such emotional losses
may trigger a serious depression or even death.
Though Grief is the cemetery o f life, it still has more ener gy t o it than
does Ap athy. Thus, when traumatized apathetic patients begin to cry, we
know they are getting better, for once they start to cry, they will eat
again.

Clinical.
Grief is a universal human experience that is dif ficult to either view or
go t hrough because of its com monality and emotionality with which
people a re only  too familiar. In  minor degrees, it can be expressed as
regret, but when major, it can be incapacitating and overwhelming. The univ ersality of the experience is due to the structure and nature of
the ego, which misperceives t he source of happiness as ex ternal or
emotional and imbues it with s pecialness. In reality, the only source of
happiness is from within, and its mechanism is intrapsychic and internal.
When a desired object, situation, or relationship is obtained, the  internal
mechanism goes into operation with the satisfaction of that desire
because the object, person, or condition has been imbued with special
qualities. The value is in the eyes of the beholder or of the perceived and
is not intrinsic to the desired ob ject or person itself. Therefore, grief is
linked to desire as well as ownership.
Society collectively assumes that certain conditions, objects, or qualities
are v aluable, and this agreement af fects personal choice. The spiritually
evolved person who has few wa nts or attachments is relatively immune
to grief,  as the experience of the source of happiness origina tes from
within and is not dependent on externals. If the source of happiness is
acquired through ego mechanisms, it is based on imagery, belief systems,
and projected values rather than on Absolute Reality itself, which is
invulnerable to loss. Objects, qualities, or relationships become
overvalued by virtue of the mechanism of attachment and the ensuing
projection of value. The more sp ecialness projected onto the relationship
with the desired object or person, the greater the potential for grief and
loss. Fe ar of loss contributes to dependent attachments as well as
materiality or social attributes, such as money and fame.
Happiness is the inner psychological reward for achievement of
externalized goals as a self-reward system, and the error is to think that
the source of happiness is due to the ‘out there’ instead of originating
from within. The prototype is the set-up by the process of e volution
itself. In  that primordial, as wel l as later life, animal life forms were not
self-ener gizing but depended on  external sources of ener gy that could be
found through search and trial a nd error. Thus, the biological me chanism
was set up as need-search-trial and error -find-reward.
In h umans, the same pattern pe rsists at consciousness levels below 200
(see Brain Function chart in Chapter 9). Acquisition is basically animal-
instinct survival, which depends upon the ‘getting’ of mate, food,
territory, shelter, dominance, and control. Thus, to animal inst incts, the
source of happiness is programmed as coming from ‘out there’. It is
therefore ‘gettable’ and consequently subject to loss. W ith mating andanimal b onding, this extends to mates and group members. Gri ef can be
seen on the animal level in the reactions of wolf packs, elephant herds,
and monkey, ape, and gorilla colonies that go through the grieving
process.
The externalization of perceived sources of happiness leads to
attachments an d the emer gence of control as a major survival
mechanism, along with the desire for status and its symbols of security,
and therefore, materialism.

Spiritual Orientation.
Not uncommonl y, major loss results in turning to religion and spirituality
for h elp and answers. Emotionally, people find solace from sympathetic
support, prayer, and returning to religious practices. Loss therefore
provides an opportunity for increased intention to reevaluate spiritual
principles and put them into ac tual practice rather than just intellectual
appreciation.
A lo ss is at first an unwelcome event because it is disrup tive and
emotionally intrusive. The initial response may well be both shock and
resentment, or even disbelief. Emotional storm demands ener gy and
attention at a time when ener gy is low, resulting in anger. Processing the
crisis is helped by focusing on certain inner realities and transcending
their inherent limitations.
There are anger and resentment, as well as fear at loss of control when
loss is involuntary and unexpec ted. Disruption of life by the unexpected
also creates anxiety at the forced  readjustment, which may require major
decision making. It is well to know that spiritual research indic ates that
all s uf fering and emotional pain result from resistance. Its cu re is via
surrender and acceptance, which relieve the pain.
During the process, it will be noticed that the emotional pain of loss is
not steady or continuous but comes in waves that can be diminished by
consistent nonre sistance and surrendering continuously to Go d. While
the illusion that one is


In some cases the personal ego seems to dissolve completely as someone
dedicates his or her life to working selflessly for the greater good of the
collective without demanding personal rewards, recognition, or
aggrandizement. What a relief to be freed of the dreadful burden of
personal self. The members of the collective feel happy and fulfilled, no
matter how
hard they work, how many sacrifices they make. They appear to have
gone beyond ego. The question is: Have they truly become free, or has
the ego simply shifted from the personal to the collective?
A collective ego manifests the same characteristics as the personal ego,
such as the need for conflict and enemies, the need for more, the need to
be right against others who are wrong, and so on. Sooner or later, the
collective will come into conflict with other collectives, because it
unconsciously seeks conflict and it needs opposition to define its
boundary and thus its identity. Its members will then experience the
suf fering that inevitably comes in the wake of any ego?motivated action.
At that point, they may wake up and realize that their collective has a
strong element of insanity.
It can be painful at first to suddenly wake up and realize that the
collective you had identified with and worked for is actually insane.
Some people at that point become cynical or bitter and henceforth deny
all values, all worth. This means that they quickly adopted another belief
system when the previous one was recognized as illusory and therefore
collapsed. They didn't face the death of their ego but ran away and
reincarnated into a new one.A collective ego is usually more unconscious than the individuals that
make up that ego. For example crowds (which are temporary collective
egoic entities) are capable of committing atrocities that the individual
away from the crowd would not be. Nations not infrequently engage in
behavior that would be immediately recognizable as psychopathic in an
individual.
As the new consciousness emer ges, some people will feel called upon to
form groups that reflect the enlightened consciousness. These groups
will not be collective egos. The individuals who make up these groups
will have no need to define their identity through them. They no longer
look to any form to define who they are. Even if the members that make
up those groups are not totally free of ego yet, there will be enough
awareness in them to recognize the ego in themselves or in others as
soon as it appears. However, constant alertness is required since the ego
will try to take over and reassert itself in any way it can. Dissolving the
human ego by bringing it into the light of awareness this will be one of
the main purposes of these groups, whether they be enlightened
businesses, charitable or ganizations, schools, or
communities of people living together. Enlightened collectives will
fulfill an important function in the arising of the new consciousness. Just
as egoic collectives pull you into unconsciousness and suf fering, the
enlightened collective can be a vortex for consciousness that will
accelerate the planetary shift.A New Earth
I N C O N T R O V E R T I B L E  P R O O F  O F
I M M O R T A L I T Y
Ego comes about through a split in the human psyche in which identity
separates into two parts that we could call I and me or me and myself.
Every ego is therefore schizophrenic, to use the world in its popular
meaning of split personality. Y ou live with a mental image of yourself, a
conceptual self that you have a relationship with. Life itself becomes
conceptualized and separated from who you are when you speak of my
life. The moment you say or think my life and believe in what you are
saying (rather than it just being a linguistic convention), you have
entered the realm of delusion. If there is such a thing as my life, it
follows that I and life are two separate things, and so I can also lose my
life, my imaginary treasured possession. Death becomes a seeming
reality and a threat. W ords and concepts split life into separate segments
that have no reality in themselves. W e could even say that the notion my
life is the original delusion of separateness, the source of ego. If I and
life are two, if I am separate from life, then I am separate form all things,
all beings, all people. But how could I be separate from life? What I
could be there apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible.
So there is no such thing as my life, and I don't have a life. I am life. I
and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life?
How can I lose something that I don't have in the first place? How can I
lose something that I Am? It is impossible.C H A P T E R  F I V E  T H E  P A I N? B O D Y
The greater part of most people's thinking is involuntary, automatic, and
repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real
purpose. Strictly speaking, you don't think; Thinking happens to you.
The statement I think implies volition. It implies that you have a say in
the matter, that there is choice involved on your part. For most people,
this is not yet the case. I think is just as false a statement as I digest or I
circulate my blood. Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking
happens.
The voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at the mercy
of that voice; they are possessed by thought, by the mind. And since the
mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to reenact the past
again and again. The Eastern term for this is karma. When you are
identified with that voice, you don't know this, of course. If you knew it,
you would no longer be possessed because you are only truly possessed
when you mistake the possessing entity for who you are, that is to say,
when you become it.
For thousands of years, humanity has been increasingly mind?
possessed, failing to recognize the possessing entity as not self. Through
complete identification with the mind, a false sense of self the ego came
into existence. The density of the ego depends on the degree to which
you the consciousness are identified with your mind, with thinking.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness,
the totality of who you are.
The degree of identification with the mind dif fers from person to person.
Some people enjoy periods of freedom from it, however brief, and the
peace, joy, and aliveness they experience in those moments make life
worth living. These are also the moments when creativity, love, and
compassion arise. Others are constantly trapped in the egoic state. They
are alienated from themselves, as well as from others and the world
around them. When you look at them, you may see the tension in their
face, perhaps the furrowed brow, or the absent or staring expression in
their eyes. Most of their attention is absorbed by thinking, and so they
don't really see you, andthey are not really listening to you. They are not present in any situation,
their attention being either in the past or future which, of course, exist
only in them ind as thought forms. Or they relate to you through some
kind of role they play and so are not themselves. Most people are
alienated from who they are, and some are alienated to such a degree that
they way they behave and interact is recognized as phony by almost
everyone, except those who are equally phony, equally alienated from
who they are.
Alienation means you don't feel at ease in any situation, any place, or
with any person, not even with yourself. Y ou are always trying to get
home' but never feel at home. Some of the greatest writers of the
twentieth century, such as Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, T.S.Eliot, and
James Joyce, recognized alienation as the universal dilemma of human
existence, probably felt it deeply within themselves and so were able to
express it brilliantly in their works. They don't of fer a solution. Their
contribution is to show us a reflection of the human predicament so that
we can see it more clearly. T o see one's predicament clearly is a first step
toward going beyond it.A New Earth
T H E  B I R T H  O F  E M O T I O N
In addition to the movement of thought, although not entirely separate
from it, there is another dimension to the ego: emotion. This is not to say
that all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. The turn into ego only
when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is
to say, when they become I.
The physical or ganism, your body, has its own intelligence, as does the
or ganism of every other life?form. And that intelligence reacts to what
your mind is saying, reacts to your thoughts. So emotion is the body's
reaction to your mind. The body's intelligence is, of course, an
inseparable part of universal intelligence, one of its countless
manifestations. It gives temporary cohesion to the atoms and molecules
that make up your physical or ganism. It is the or ganizing principle
behind the workings of all


 why. If you think unkind thoughts about someone else, JAMES RAY
PHILOSOPHER, LECTURER, AUTHOR, AND
CREATOR OF PROSPERITY AND HUMAN
POTENTIAL PROGRAMS
The principle of feeling good applies to your family The Secret Made Simple 39
you will experience those unkind thoughts manifested. You cannot
harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You. If you think
thoughts of love, guess who receives the benefits—you! So if your
predominant state is love, the law of attraction or the law of love
responds with the mightiest force because you are on the highest
frequency possible. The greater the love you feel and emit, the
greater the power you are harnessing.
"The principle which gives the thought the
dynamic power to correlate with its object,
and therefore to master every adverse human
experience, is the law of attraction, which is
another name for love. This is an eternal and
fundamental principle inherent in all things, in
every system of philosophy, in every Religion
and in every Science. There is no getting away
from the law of love. It is feeling that imparts
vitality to thought. Feeling is desire and desire is
love. Thought impregnated with love becomes
invincible."
MARCI SHIMOFF
Once you begin to understand and truly master your
thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create
your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where
all your power is. 40 The Secret
Marci Shimoff shared a wonderful quote from the great Albert
Einstein: "The most important question any human being can ask
themselves is, 'Is this a friendly Universe?'"
Knowing the law of attraction, the only answer to give is, "Yes,
the Universe is friendly." Why? Because when you answer in this
way, by the law of attraction you must experience that. Albert Ein-
stein posed this powerful question because he knew The Secret.
He knew by asking the question it would force us to think and
make a choice. He gave us a great opportunity, just by posing the
question.
To take Einstein's intention even further, you can affirm and pro-
claim, "This is a magnificent Universe. The Universe is bringing all
good things to me. The Universe is conspiring for me in all things.
The Universe is supporting me in everything I do. The Universe
meets all my needs immediately." Know that this is a friendly Uni-
verse!
JACKCANFlELD
Since I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life,
my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that
everybody dreams of is one I live on a day-to-day basis. I live
in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to
die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world.
I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris.
And all of this happened, and continues to happen, because
of knowing how to apply The Secret. The Secret Made Simple 41
BOB PROCTOR
Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it
will be, when you start using The Secret.
This is your life, and it's been waiting for you to discover it! Up
until now you may have been thinking that life is hard and a strug-
gle, and so by the law of attraction you will have experienced life
as hard and a struggle. Begin right now to shout to the universe,
"Life is so easy! Life is so good! All good things come to me!"
There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting
for you to discover it, and that Truth is this: you deserve all good
things life has to offer. You know that inherently, because you feel
awful when you are experiencing the lack of good things. All
good things are your birthright! You are the creator of you, and
the law of attraction is your magnificent tool to create whatever
you want in your life. Welcome to the magic of life, and the mag-
nificence of You! The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law
of gravity.
Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it
through persistent thoughts.
To know what you're thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling.
Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are
thinking.
It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.
Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you
immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you
are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel
good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.
Secret Shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favorite
music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an in-
stant.
The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater
the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.
43 You are a creator, and there is an easy process to create using the
law of attraction. The greatest teachers and avatars have shared
the Creative Process through their wondrous work, in a myriad of
forms. Some great teachers created stories to demonstrate how the
Universe works. The wisdom contained in their stories has been
handed down through the centuries and has become legendary.
Many people living today do not realize that the essence of these
stories is the very truth of life.
JAMES RAY
If you think about Aladdin and his lamp, Aladdin picks up the
lamp, dusts it off, and out pops the Genie. The Genie always
says one thing:
"Your wish is my command!"
The story now goes that there are three wishes, hut if you
45 46 The Secret
trace the story back to its origins there's absolutely no limit
whatsoever to the wishes.
Think about that one.
Now, let's take this metaphor and apply it to your life.
Remember Aladdin is the one who always asks for what he
wants. Then you've got the Universe at large, which is the
Genie. Traditions have called it so many things—your holy
guardian angel, your higher self. We can put any label on
it, and you choose the one that works best for you, but every
tradition has told us there's something bigger than us. And
the Genie always says one thing:
"Your wish is my command!"
This wonderful story demonstrates how your whole life and ev-
erything in it has been created by You. The Genie has simply an-
swered your every command. The Genie is the law of attraction,
and it is always present and always listening to everything you
think, speak, and act. The Genie assumes that everything you
think about, you want! That everything you speak about, you
want! That everything you act upon is what you want! You are the
Master of the Universe, and the Genie is there to serve you. The
Genie never questions your commands. You think it, and the Genie
immediately begins to leverage the Universe, through people, cir-
cumstances, and events, to fulfill your wish. How to Use the Secret 47
The Creative Process used in The Secret, which was taken from the
New Testament in the Bible, is an easy guideline for you to create
what you want in three simple steps.
LISA NICHOLS
The first step is to ask. Make a command to the Universe. Let the
Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your
thoughts.
BOB PROCTOR
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a
piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. You might begin
by writing, "I am so happy and grateful now that..." And
then explain how you want your life to be, in every area.
You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about
what you want. This is your work. If you're not clear, then the law
of attraction cannot bring you what you want. You will be sending
out a mixed frequency and you can only attract mixed results. For
the first time in your life perhaps, work out what it is you really
want. Now that you know you can have, be, or do anything, and
there are no limits, what do you want? 48 The Secret
Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to
ask. If you have to make a choice and you don't know which way
to go, ask! You should never be stumped on anything in your life.
Just ask!
DR. JOE VlTALE
This is really fun. It's like having the Universe as your
catalogue. You flip through it and say, "I'd like to have this
experience and I'd like to have that product and I'd like to
have a person like that." It is You placing your order with the
Universe. It's really that easy.
You do not have to ask over and over again. Just ask once. It is
exactly like placing an order from a catalogue. You only ever order
something once. You don't place an order and then doubt the order
has been received and so place the order again, and then again, and


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Nutrition and
Physical Degeneration
A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets
and Their Effects
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WESTON A. PRICE, MS., D.D.S., F.A.G.D.
Member Research Commission, American Dental Association
Member American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Author, "Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic"
WITH 134 FIGURES
TO THAT KINDRED SOUL
My Wife
who has assisted me so greatly
on these difficult expeditions,
this book is lovingly dedicated.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
I.  Why Seek Wisdom from Primitive Races
II.  The Progressive Decline of Modern Civilization
III. Isolated and Modernized Swiss
IV. Isolated and Modernized Gaelics
V. Isolated and Modernized Eskimos
VI. Primitive and Modernized North American Indians
VII. Isolated and Modernized Melanesian s
VIII. Isolated and Modernized Polynesians
IX. Isolated and Modernized African Tribes
X. Isolated and Modernized Australian Aborigines
XI. Isolated and Modernized Torres Strait Islanders
XII. Isolated and Modernized New Zealand Maori
XIII. Ancient Civilizations of Peru
XIV.  Isolated and Modernized Peruvian Indians
XV. Characteristics of Primitive and Modernized Dietaries
XVI. Primitive Control of Dental Caries
XVII. One Origin of Physical Deformities
XVIII. Prenatal Nutritional Deformities and Disease Types
XIX. Physical, Mental and Moral Deterioration
XX. Soil Depletion and Plant and Animal Deterioration
XXI. Practical Applications of Primitive Wisdom

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY IN SWITZERLAND
2. HAND-MILL USED BY NATIVES IN LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY
3. NATIVES OF MODERN SWISS VALLEY SHOWING NORMAL DESIGN OF FACE AND
DENTAL ARCHES WHEN ADEQUATE NUTRITION IS PROVIDED
4. NATIVES OF LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY SHOWING TOOTH DECAY AND
DEFORMED DENTAL ARCHES TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
5. A TYPICAL BLACK-HOUSE" ON THE ISLE OF LEWIS. NATIVES OF THE ISLE OF
LEWIS
6. TOOTH DECAY IN NATIVE OF ISLE OF HARRIS LIVING ON MODERN FOODS AND
EXCELLENT TEETH OF NATIVES LIVING ON PRIMITIVE FOODS
7. GAELIC CHILDREN LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS. GAELIC CHILDREN LIVING ON
MODERN FOODS
8. VARIATIONS IN GROWTH OF OATS FERTILIZED WITH VARYING QUANTITIES OF
SMOKE-THATCH
9. PRIMITIVE ALASKAN ESKIMOS SHOWING EXCELLENT FACIAL AND DENTAL
ARCH FORMATION
10. PRIMITIVE ALASKAN MOTHERS
11. ALASKAN ESKIMOS SHOWING EFFECT ON TEETH OF MODERN FOODS
12. DEFECTIVE TEETH AND DENTAL ARCHES IN ESKIMO CHILDREN LIVING ON
MODERN FOODS
13. DRIED EGGS OF SALMON ARE AN IMPORTANT ITEM OF NUTRITION
14. FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH DEFORMITY IN WHITE BOY BORN IN ALASKA AND
LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
15. FAMILY OF FOREST INDIANS OF NORTHERN CANADA
16. MODERNIZED INDIAN CHILDREN WITH TUBERCULOSIS
17. INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON PRIMITIVE FOODS
18. INDIAN WOMEN TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
19. DEFORMED FACIAL FORMATION IN CHILDREN OF FIRST GENERATION AFTER
ADOPTION OF MODERN FOODS BY PARENTS
20. PRIMITIVE INDIANS OF CENTRAL CANADA: PARENTS DEVELOPED ON NATIVE
FOODS, CHILDREN ON MODERN FOODS
21. TYPICAL CRIPPLED CHILDREN FOUND AMONG INDIANS LIVING ON MODERN
FOODS
22. SKULLS OF PRIMITIVE INDIANS SHOWING SUPERB DENTAL ARCHES
23. SKULLS OF PRIMITIVE INDIANS SHOWING EXCELLENT BONE FORMATION
24. SEMINOLE INDIANS, TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS
25. DENTAL CARIES IN SEMINOLE INDIANS LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
26. SEMINOLE INDIAN CHILDREN SHOWING CHANGES IN FACIAL AND DENTAL
ARCH FORM WHICH RESULT FROM MODERN FOODS
27. SKULLS OF PRE-COLUMBIAN INDIANS OF FLORIDA
28. MELANESIANS TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING UNDER NATIVE CONDITIONS
29. FACIAL BONE FORMATION IN MELANESIANS LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS
30. FIJI COUNCIL HOUSE AND HEREDITARY FIJI MONARCH
31. TOOTH DECAY IN NATIVES OF FIJI ISLANDS LIVING ON IMPORTED FOOD
32. TOOTH DECAY AND CHANGES IN ARCH FORMATION IN FIRST GENERATION
AFTER ADOPTION OF MODERN FOODS
33. PERFECT DENTAL ARCHES OF POLYNESIANS LIVING UNDER NATIVE
CONDITIONS
34. TAHITIANS SHOWING DENTAL CARIES DUE


 organization this is exceedingly difficult, not much pro
gress has been made. In plants, which presumably are much
simpler, the problem can be attacked more readily. For this
reason, therefore, the studies of the electrical response associated
with a stimulus to the sensitive plant, Mimosa, were made.
The most striking thing about the results is the very great
similarity between the electrical response of the stimulus reaction
in Mimosa to the electrical records of propagated electrical re
sponse of the action current in vertebrate neurones. The magni
tude of the response is, of course, very much greater, and the
time scale in seconds rather than in milliseconds.
Several seconds after a stimulus, whether a burn, a cutting or
crushing, or a shock from a 90 volt B battery, a wave of increas
ing negativity appears under the hot or peripheral electrode. This
peak arises to sixty or seventy millivolts and then subsides to
the original voltage gradient and, though not always, often
crosses it. This record is very similar to that of the spike in
the neural action current. This spike lasts, however, from two to
73 THE UBIQUI TOUS FIELD
three seconds to five or six seconds. In younger, more active
plants, the duration of the spike is apparently shorter than in
the older ones. Following the spike, there is a positive after-po ten
tial followed by an upward swing of the potential difference
which establishes a new level of negativity, lasting from a few
minutes to several hours.
The whole wave form of this stimulus response is strikingly
like the wave form of a single axone response in the vertebrate
nervous system. Although the polarities differ, in all prob
ability this is caused by a difference in the geometry of the
electrode placement. Attempts were made to relate this to the
anatomy of Mimosa, as it is well known in animals that the rate
of conductivity of a nervous impulse is a function of the diameter
of the axone. In Mimosa there are continuous fluid-containing
channels which, conceivably, might be likened to a nerve process.
These channels, however, are buried heneath the surface since
they are covered by many layers of cells. The electrodes, of course,
are in contact with the surface cells, not with the conduct ing
channels. The whole system, however, is obviously conductive of
electricity and it may he that the records obtained are derived
from the longitudinal channels.
In Mimosa, the longitudinal channels vary in size, have thick
walls, and are arranged in quadrants. They arc centrally situated
and covered by many layers of cells. In the rachis, the channels
are more deeply placed peripherally and tend to scatter towards
the circumference as the stem is approached. There does not seem
to be any marked change in the size of the canals. In the stern
the number of conductive systems increases markedly with
a concom itant enlargement. Also, they lie nearer the surface and
there are fewer layers of cells covering them. The difference in
size of the channels may bear some significant relation to the
electrical records if it should appear that the conducting canals
are involved in the propagation of the stimulus.
The study here reported suggests that with Mimosa-as in the
nervous system of animals-the rate of conduction of impulse is
a function of the diameter of the channel. But this particular
aspect of the problem needs to be investigated further.
If the recorded standing -potential represents the measure of a
74 THE UBIQUITOUS FIELD
reservoir of electrical energy available for activity, then a stimu
lus such as that applied in Mimosa brings about a sudden with
drawal from that storehouse. The fact that a certain potential
gradient with the periphery positive to the central region is
necessary for the reaction, implies that unless the amount of
electrical energy stored is at a designated level, the reaction can
not go forward. If, however, the level is high enough, the
stimulus unlocks the storehouse and a wave of activity is propa
gated with a characteristic electrical correlate. It will be recalled
that these experiments with Mimosa led a distinguished East
Indian zoologist and philosopher to hold that such plants as
Mimosa and, by inference, all other plants, possess a soul, ex
emplified in particular by the reaction of the system to an ex
ternal stimulus!
The interesting thing about all these results to date makes it
dear that the electrical properties of a living system are directly
to be correlated with the genetic constitution of a living system,
on the one hand, and on the other hand are modified by changes
in the physical or chemical. The alteration, however, is not in
pattern but in the magnitude of the typical response. This does
not mean that there is a profound change in the electrical field,
but only that the electrical field can be modified by an appro
priate stimulus.
7
We had started our voyage of discovery by examining the most
complex electro-dyn amic fields-those of the human organism.
We had also found fields in simpler forms of life-animals, eggs,
seeds and plants. So it seemed desirable to extend our hunt for
fields to the simplest living organization, protoplasm.
This was important, not only to make sure that everything
that is alive possesses a field but also because protoplasm is the
basic, formative material of animal forms. Wha tever may trigger,
too, the nervous system, a basic requirement is the energy made
available by the incredibly-complex chemical flux of protoplasm.
The more, then, that we can discover about the elementary
75 THE UBIQUITOUS FIELD
properties of protoplasm, the better we will be able to under
stand how the nervous system functions.
Again, at the suggestion of Professor Sinnott, an examination
was made of the electrical properties of a very simple protoplas
mic system, that of the slime mould, Physarum polycephal um.
This is a common mould which grows readily in the lahoratory
and exhibits characteristic patterns of growth and of fruiting.
Also, its protoplasm is in constant movement, oscillating from
one end of the system to the other. This streaming of protoplasm,
of course, is well known to botanists, and offers many oppor
tunities for investigatio n. The mould is a syncytium of proto
plasm with no cell boundaries but many included nuclei. Since
the material grows readily in quite adequate quantities, it makes
an ideal elementary protoplasmic system for a further study of
the electro-m etric properties.
There were three primary objectives of this study: The first
was to determine whether or not, in the living plasmodium, in
constant movement, there exists an electrical correlate of this
movement. Secondly, after the results of the Mimosa experiment,
it was interesting to examine the possibility of an electro-m etric
response in the protoplasm to a variety of external stimuli, both
chemical and physical. Finally, a third possibility was to examine
the changes which might be found in the plasmodium when an
external field was applied to it. There is plenty of evidence in the
literature to show that changes in the electrical environment of
protoplasm do produce observable effects on the protoplasm itself.
Using silver-silver chloride electrodes, a high input impedance
amplifier and a recording galvanometer, many records were taken
of the changing potential in a strand, or vein, of the plasmodium
during the movement of the protoplasmic system itself. In the
laboratory, using moving picture records and electro-metrics, the
pulsating character of the growth of the slime mould was studied.
Under the microscope, it is simple to demonstrate that every
sixty or ninety seconds the protoplasm in the veins reverses the
direction of flow. The electrical pickup from the vein, comhined
with the moving picture, reveals that in the majority of instances
polar rev"rsal of the voltage occurs before there is a directional
change of the plasmic flow, but also there are many instances
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where the change in both phenomena seem to occur simul
taneously. This, undoubtedly, needs further study.
It is highly important, of course, to determine whether or not
the change in potential is the result of the protoplasmic flow or
the reverse of this. There is no evidence in the litera ture as to the
nature of the forces which bring about this change in proto
plasmic flow. Undoubtedly, this is involved in the growth of the
whole system and is concerned, apparently, in part, with the
search of the plasmodium for energy sources or food.
The rate at which the protoplasm moves undoubtedly is a
function, to some extent, of temperatures in the environment.
Although there are no exact records of these relationships, the
fact remains that lowering the temperature does tend to slow up
the flow of protoplasm. Certain conditions make it possible, more
over, to seek any electrical changes at times when the protoplasm
is not flowing; and there have been records made in the labora
tory which show that an electrical change in polarity in the
plasmodium vein may occur in the absence of visible prot


 to do with it. He told
me I  was in excellent health and I  got the insurance policy. It was a much larger policy
than the one I  had been refused because of the lumps in my breast.
In July after the X-rays, I  noticed the lumps in my breast again. I  had just read an article
in the paper that they were finding "hard evidence that X-rays are actually causing cancer."
On July 20, 1976, when I  discovered the lumps back again, I  immediately went back on
my original schedule and diet and within 6 months my lumps were gone again. My advice
to others would be — don't get X-rays taken. The radiation exposure is too dangerous.
After 5 years with Dr. Kelley, I  do not need tests as often as I  did. I  follow his diet list and
my own home grown foods when possible. I  continue to take all kinds of nutrition as he
recommends. I  am not as strict with my diet as I  was the first three years but when I  don't
eat right, or stop the nutrition, I  don't feel good and I  know what to do to get better again.
Dr. Kelley has answered personally all my letters to him about health problems that come
up. He takes my telephone calls when I  need to know something right away. Good health
is something you need to work at daily. Dr. Kelley's advice works. My illness has given my
husband and me a better, closer relationship than we have ever known. I  know Metabolic
Medicine works. It did for me.
Dr. Kelley: "It's hard to appreciate the sorts of obstacles patients had to overcome
to see me as a clinician. First of all, I  am not a medical doctor, I  am a dentist. Second,
my office was unbelievably unacceptable when compared to where a lot of these
people had gone — to the great clinics and hospitals of our world. They really had to
lower themselves to come into my meager surroundings. While adequately appointed
and kept immaculately clean by my receptionist, there certainly was no pretension in
any respect. On many occasions, people would drive up in their Cadillac or Rolls
Royce and drive away because they thought that they couldn't possibly find anything
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of worth in such an unpretentious office."
Stomach Cancer Testimonial
Elizabeth W ojt
Mrs. Wojt is a 47-year old woman from New Jersey alive 10 years since her diagnosis of
stomach carcinoma. Before her bout with cancer, Mrs. Wojt had a long history of general
poor health and chronic digestive problems. In 1974, she first experienced episodes of
severe abdominal pain that usually occurred between meals, and were relieved by eating.
Over the following three years, her symptoms gradually worsened, although she was not
normally evaluated until spring of 1977. At that time, a barium swallow revealed a tumor,
described in an official report as "suspicious lesion in the fundus and cardiac of the
stomach."
Mrs. Wojt was referred to a gastroenterologist, who biopsied the suspect tissue during
endoscopy (examination of the stomach with a flexible tube inserted down the esophagus).
After review, the specimen was identified as a carcinoma. She was admitted to Patterson
General Hospital on April 17, the following day, she went to surgery (for a radical subtotal
gastrectomy, which is resection of most of the stomach). The tumor had already metastasized
into the surrounding tissues and lymph nodes; the final pathology report describes:
"Adenocarcinoma of the stomach with metastases to the gastrocolic nodes and omentum."
Mrs. Wojt was told she most likely would not live a year. Nevertheless, after leaving
Patterson hospital in late April, she was referred to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York for possible experimental treatment. But Mrs. Wojt, who already knew
of Dr. Kelley's work, decided to refuse all orthodox therapy. Instead, that same month she
consulted Dr. Kelley and began the full Kelley program. Mrs. Wojt followed her nutritional
regimen for five years. At present, ten years after her diagnosis, she is in excellent health
apparently cured of her once metastatic disease. According to Mrs. Wojt, her doctors are
"dumbfounded" by her prolonged survival.
Mrs. Wojt is indeed a remarkable case. The five-year survival rate for patients with
metastatic stomach cancer is close to zero — even with aggressive therapy. Mrs. Wojt
received neither chemotherapy nor radiation after her surgery, and chose to follow only the
Kelley program.
Leukemia Testimonial
Thomas M., Alexandria, LA
5-Year Victory Over Leukemia
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At age 61, this lawyer, blessed with a lovely wife and eight children, was
diagnosed at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, as having acute myelogenous leukemia.
My friends at Ochsner Clinic opined that the condition was terminal and that I  had at
best a few months and at worst a few days to live.
Following three courses of Cytosar and Thiogunine at the Clinic (from October 7,
1977 through about mid-December 1977), I  fortunately had a remission. I  was to
continue with maintenance therapy, which the medics told me would, at best,
improve the quality of life. There was slim, if any, hope for recovery.
Dr. Kelley's book miraculously came to my wife's attention. We visited him in
Washington in December 1977. We were enthusiastic and got on the program and
experienced dramatic improvement. The idea that you treat the body, or host, and not
the symptoms was so intellectually stimulating and sensible, I  wondered why my
medical friends and my doctor son could not understand and why they discouraged
and belittled my efforts. I  very shortly resumed my practice, golf and a normal but
different lifestyle.
About midsummer of 1978, it became apparent that to continue the chemotherapy
would destroy any hope I  had of bodybuilding. These shots would nauseate and
disrupt me and would knock my blood count from near normal to complete disarray.
My mind indicated that they be discontinued, despite advice to the contrary.
I  have continued with Metabolic Medicine and on the complete lifestyle change
that holistic medicine demands for optimum health. I  have no problems with
leukemia since the initial remission was obtained.
I  know that when I  took the chemo maintenance, my body was disrupted. I  know
that when it was discontinued, I  continued to improve without the disruption of the
blood picture and the nausea.
Metabolic Medicine is so sensible, it is hard to see why anyone could dispute that
it has a place in the lives of the acutely ill. Nothing is perfect and nothing makes one
eternal, but in my case, I  am thankful for the opportunity for the benefits of this non
toxic therapy and the miracle it brought for me.
Some call my luck "spontaneous remission," maybe so, I  believe that Metabolic
Medicine makes for "spontaneous remissions" from the symptoms of terminal illness
in those whose bodies have not been abused beyond repair, whether by neglect or
over treatment.
Some call letters such as this "testimonials" instead of "case histories." For me, this
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is a very brief history of my case for whatever value and hope it may give to others.
One last observation ought to be made. Some decry holistic therapy that of
"Hucksters" and "Quacks." Most practitioners of this art (and there are many medical
men in this kind of practice) are those who have had a terminal diagnosis for
themselves or loved ones and were disenchanted by the hopelessness and horror of
traditional therapies. I  have met many of the "Greats." None that I  know drive
Mercedes automobiles. All are healers and not moneymakers. The cost of a year of
holistic medicine for me does not exceed the cost of one week of treatment in any
good conventional cancer hospital.
I  enjoy my family, my practice and my life. I  am grateful for a therapy that has, thus
for, worked for me.
Dr. Kelley: "My dear friend Tom brings up a lot of wonderful memories and he
brings to mind the subject of soft tumor. Soft tumors, it should be emphasized, are an
entirely different condition from what we normally think of as cancer. What are soft
tumors? I  classify the leukemias, lymphomas, melanomas, tumors of the immune
system, and those of the blood system as soft tumors. It's very frightening that soft
tumors are becoming so prevalent in children. Before 1979, we find that the highest
cause of death in children was traumatic accidents, such as falling out of a tree or
running in front of a car. But since 1979, we find that the leading cause of death of
children under 16 is cancer. That is sad commentary on our society. Most of these
cancer deaths are from the soft tumors.
"Tom was a patient 62 years of age. A lot of people, as they get older, as their
immune systems malfunction, as their energies wane, as they become exhausted