vein	or	chest	artery	is
cut	out	and	sewn	over	a	diseased	part	of	the	heart,	thereby	allowing	blood	to
bypass	the	most	clogged	arteries. The	costs	are	enormous. More	than	one	of	every	fifty	elective	patients	will
die	because	of	complications
31
	during	the	$46,000	procedure. 32
	Other	side
effects	include	heart	attack,	respiratory	complications,	bleeding
complications,	infection,	high	blood	pressure	and	stroke. When	the	vessels
around	the	heart	are	clamped	shut	during	the	operation,	plaque	breaks	off	of
the	inner	walls. Blood	then	carries	this	debris	to	the	brain,	where	it	causes
numerous	“mini”	strokes. Researchers	have	compared	the	intellectual
capabilities	of	patients	before	and	after	the	operation,	and	found	that	a
stunning	79%	of	patients	“showed	impairment	in	some	aspect	of	cognitive
function”	seven	days	after	the	operation. 33
Why	do	we	put	ourselves	through	this? The	most	pronounced	benefit	of
this	procedure	is	relief	of	angina,	or	chest	pain. About	70-80%	of	patients
who	undergo	bypass	surgery	remain	free	of	this	crippling	chest	pain	for	one
year. 34

But	this	benefit	doesn’t	last. Within	three	years	of	the	operation,	up	to
one-third	of	patients	will	suffer	from	chest	pain	again. 33
	Within	ten	years	half
of	the	bypass	patients	will	have	died,	had	a	heart	attack	or	had	their	chest	pain
return. 36
	Long-term	studies	indicate	that	only	certain	subsets	of	heart	disease
patients	live	longer	because	of	their	bypass	operation. 12
	Furthermore,	these
studies	demonstrate	that
those
patients	who	undergo	bypass	operation	do	not
have	fewer	heart	attacks	than	those	who	do	not	have	surgery. 12
Remember	which	plaque	buildups	cause	heart	attacks? The	deadly
buildups	are	the	smaller,	less	stable	plaques	that	tend	to	rupture. The	bypass
operation,	however,	is	targeted	to	the	largest,	most	visible	plaques,	which	may
be	responsible	for	chest	pain,	but	not	for	heart	attacks. Angioplasty	is	a	similar	story. The	procedure	is	expensive	and	carries
significant	risks. After	identifying	blockages	in	a	coronary	artery,	a	balloon	is
inserted	into	the	artery	and	inflated. It	pushes	the	plaque	back	against	the
vessel,	thereby	allowing	more	blood	to	flow. Roughly	one	out	of	sixteen
patients	will	experience	an	“abrupt	vessel	closure”	during	the	procedure,which	can	lead	to	death,	heart	attack	or	an	emergency	bypass	operation. 37
Assuming	that	doesn’t	happen,	there	is	still	a	good	chance	that	the	procedure
will	fail. Within	four	months	after	the	procedure,	40%	of	the	arteries	that	were
“squished”	open	will	close	up	again,	effectively	nullifying	the	procedure. 38
Nonetheless,	barring	these	unfavorable	outcomes,	angioplasty	does	a	good	job
of	providing	temporary	relief	of	chest	pain. Of	course,	angioplasty	does	little
to	treat	the	small	blockages	that	are	most	likely	to	lead	to	heart	attacks. So,	upon	closer	examination,	our	seemingly	beneficent	mechanical
advances	in	the	held	of	heart	disease	are	severely	disappointing. Bypass
surgery	and	angioplasty	do	not	address	the	cause	of	heart	disease,	prevent
heart	attacks	or	extend	the	lives	of	any	but	the	sickest	heart	disease	patients. What’s	going	on	here? Despite	the	positive	public	relations	surrounding
the	past	fifty	years	of	heart	disease	research,	we	must	ask	ourselves:	are	we
winning	this	war? Maybe	we	should	ask	ourselves	what	we	might	do
differently. For	example,	whatever	happened	to	the	dietary	lessons	learned
fifty	years	ago? Whatever	happened	to	the	dietary	treatments	discovered	by
Dr.	Lester	Morrison,	as	discussed	earlier? Those	discoveries	largely	faded	away. I	only	learned	about	this	1940s	and
1950s	research	in	recent	years. I	am	bewildered	because	the	professionals	I
heard	during	my	graduate	student	days	in	the	late	1950s	and	early	1960s
vigorously	denied	that	any	such	work	was	being	done	or	even	being
contemplated. In	the	meanwhile,	America’s	eating	habits	have	only	gotten
worse. According	to	the	U.S.	Department	of	Agriculture,	we	consume
significantly	more	meat	and	added	fat	than	we	did	thirty	years	ago. 39
	Clearly
we	are	not	moving	in	the	right	direction. As	this	information	has	resurfaced	in	the	past	two	decades,	the	fight
against	the	status	quo	has	been	heating	up	again. A	few	rare	doctors	are
proving	that	there	is	a	better	way	to	defeat	heart	disease. They	are
demonstrating	revolutionary	success,	using	the	most	simple	of	all	treatments:
food.DR. CALDWELL	B.	ESSELSTYN,	JR. If	you	were	to	guess	the	location	of	the	best	cardiac	care	center	in	the	country,
maybe	the	world,	what	city	would	you	name? New	York? Los	Angeles? Chicago? A	city	in	Florida,	perhaps,	near	elderly	people? As	it	turns	out,	the
best	medical	center	for	cardiac	care	is	located	in	Cleveland,	Ohio,	according
to
US	News	and	World	Report. Patients	fly	in	to	the	Cleveland	Clinic	from	all
over	the	world	for	the	most	advanced	heart	treatment	available,	administered
by	prestigious	doctors. One	of	the	doctors	at	the	Clinic,	Dr.	Caldwell	B.	Esselstyn,	Jr.	has	quite	a
resume. As	a	student	at	Yale	University,	Dr.	Esselstyn	rowed	in	the	1956
Olympics,	winning	a	gold	medal. After	being	trained	at	the	Cleveland	Clinic,
he	went	on	to	earn	the	Bronze	Star	as	an	army	surgeon	in	the	Vietnam	War. He	then	became	a	highly	successful	doctor	at	one	of	the	top	medical
institutions	in	the	world,	the	Cleveland	Clinic,	where	he	was	president	of	the
staff,	member	of	the	Board	of	Governors,	chairman	of	the	Breast	Cancer	Task
Force	and	head	of	the	Section	of	Thyroid	and	Parathyroid	Surgery. Having
published	over	100	scientific	papers,	Dr.	Esselstyn	was	named	one	of	the	best
doctors	in	America	in	1994-1995. 40
	From	knowing	this	man	personally,	I	get
the	feeling	that	he	has	excelled	at	virtually	everything	he	has	done	in	his	life. He	reached	the	pinnacle	of	success	in	his	professional	and	personal	life,	and
did	it	with	grace	and	humility. The	quality	I	find	most	appealing	about	Dr.	Esselstyn,	however,	is	not	his
resume	or	awards;	it	is	his	principled	search	for	the	truth. Dr.	Esselstyn	has
had	the	courage	to	take	on	the	establishment. For	the	Second	National
Conference	on	Lipids	in	the	Elimination	and	Prevention	of	Coronary	Artery
Disease	(which	he	organized	and	in	which	he	kindly	asked	me	to	participate)
Dr.	Esselstyn	w


	to	make	a	big	pool	of
blood	for	each	village	for	each	sex. This	strategy	gave	more	than	1,200–1,300
times	more	blood	when	compared	with	the	finger	prick	method. Making	big	pools	of	blood	had	enormous	implications	and	made	possible
the	China	Study,	as	it	later	became	known. It	allowed	analyses	of	far	more
indicators	of	diet	and	health. This	allowed	us	to	consider	relationships	in	a	far
more	comprehensive	manner	than	would	have	otherwise	been	possible. For
more	detail	on	the	theoretical	and	practical	basis	for	collecting	and	analyzing
blood	in	this	way	the	reader	is	referred	to	the	original	monograph	of	the
study. 1
After	collecting	the	blood,	we	then	had	to	decide	who	would	do	the	many
analyses	that	were	possible. We	wanted	nothing	but	the	best. While	some
analyses	were	conducted	at	our	Cornell	lab	and	at	Dr. Chen’s	Beijing	lab,	the
rest	of	the	analyses,	especially	the	more	specialized	types,	were	done	in	about
two	dozen	laboratories	located	in	six	countries	and	in	four	continents. Laboratories	were	selected	because	of	their	demonstrated	expertise	and
interest. The	laboratory	participants	are	listed	in	the	original	monograph. 1HOW	GOOD	IS	THIS	STUDY. Because	this	survey	was	a	one-of-a-kind	opportunity,	we	intended	that	it	be
the	best	of	its	kind	ever	undertaken. It	was	comprehensive;	it	was	high
quality;	and	its	uniqueness	allowed	new	opportunities	to	investigate	diet	and
disease	that	were	never	before	possible. These	features
of	comprehensiveness,
quality	and	uniqueness	greatly	improved	the	credibility	and	reliability	of	the
findings—by	far. Indeed,	the
New	York	Times
,	in	a	lead	story	in	its	Science
Section,	called	the	study	“The	Grand	Prix”	of	epidemiological	studies. COMPREHENSIVENESS	OF	DATA
This	survey	was,	and	still	is,	the	most	comprehensive	of	its	kind	ever
undertaken. After	all	the	blood,	urine	and	food	samples	were	collected,	stored
and	analyzed,	and	after	the	final	results	were	tabulated	and	evaluated	for
quality	(a	few	suspect	results	were	not	included	in	the	final	publication),	we
were	able	to	study	367	variables. These	represented	a	wide	variety	of	dietary,
lifestyle	and	disease	characteristics,	now	included	in	a	dense	896-page
monograph. 1
	There	were:
disease	mortality	rates	on	more	than	forty-eight	different	kinds	of
disease
2
;
109	nutritional,	viral,	hormonal	and	other	indicators	in	blood;
over	twenty-four	urinary	factors;
almost	thirty-six	food	constituents	(nutrients,	pesticides,	heavy	metals);
more	than	thirty-six	specific	nutrient	and	food	intakes	measured	in	the
household	survey;
sixty	diet	and	lifestyle	factors	obtained	from	questionnaires;
and	seventeen	geographic	and	climatic	factors. The	study	was	comprehensive,	not	only	because	of	the	sheer	number	of
variables,	but	also	because	most	of	these	variables	varied	over	broad	ranges,
as	with	the	cancer	mortality	rates. Broad	ranges	strengthened	our	ability	to
detect	important	previously	undiscovered	associations	of	variables. QUALITY	OF	DATA
A	number	of	features	added	quality	to	this	study. The	adults	chosen	for	this	survey	were	limited	to	those	who	were	thirty-
five	to	sixty-four	years	of	age. This	is	the	age	range	in	which	the	diseases
being	investigated	are	more	common. Information	on	death	certificates
of	people	older	than	sixty-four	years	was	not	included	in	the	survey
because	this	information	was	considered	less	reliable. In	each	of	the	sixty-five	counties	in	the	study	two	villages	were	selected
for	the	collection	of	the	information. Having	two	villages	in	each	county
rather	than	one	gives	a	more	reliable	county	average. When	the	values	of
two	villages	are	more	similar	to	each	other	than	to	all	the	other	counties,
then	this	means	higher-quality	data. 3
When	possible,	variables	were	measured	by	more	than	one	kind	of
method. For	example,	iron	status	was	measured	in	six	different	ways,
riboflavin	(vitamin	B
2
)	in	three	ways,	and	so	forth. Also,	in	many	cases,
we	could	assess	the	quality	and	reliability	of	data	by	comparing	variables
known	to	have	plausible	biological	relationships. The	populations	under	study	proved	to	be	very	stable. An	average	of	93–
94%	of	the	men	in	the	survey	were	born	in	the	county	where	they	lived
at	the	time	of	the	survey;	for	women	it	was	89%. Also,	according	to	data
published	by	the	World	Bank,
4
	the	diets	at	the	time	of	our	survey	were
very	similar	to	those	consumed	in	earlier	years. This	was	ideal	because
those	earlier	years	represented	the	time	when	the	diseases	were	initially
forming. UNIQUENESS	OF	DATA
One	idea	that	makes	our	study	unique	is	our	use	of	the	ecologic	study	design. Critics	of	the	ecologic	study	design	correctly	assume	that	it	is	a	weak	design
for	determining	cause-and-effect	associations	when	one	is	interested	in	the
effects	of	single	causes	acting	on	single	outcomes. But	this	is	not	the	way	that
nutrition	works. Rather,	nutrition	causes	or	prevents	disease	by	multiple
nutrients	and	other	chemicals	acting	together,	as	in	foods. An	ecologic	study
is	almost	ideal	if	we	wish	to	learn	how	an	array	of	dietary	factors	act	together
to	cause	disease. It	is	the	comprehensive	effects	of	nutrients	and	other	factors
on	disease	occurrence	where	the	most	important	lessons	are	to	be	learned. To
investigate	these	comprehensive	causes	of	disease,	it	was	therefore	necessary
to	record	as	many	dietary	and	other	lifestyle	factors	as	possible,	then
formulate	hypotheses	and	interpret	data	that	represent	comprehensiveness. Perhaps	the	most	unique	characteristic	that	set	this	study	apart	concerned
the	nutritional	characteristics	of	the	diets	consumed	in	rural	China. Virtually
every	other	human	study	on	diet	and	health,	of	whatever	design,	has	involved
subjects	who	were	consuming	a	rich	Western
diet. This	is	true	even	when
vegetarians	are	included	in	the	study	because	90%	of	vegetarians	still
consume	rather	large	amounts	of	milk,	cheese	and	eggs,	while	a	significant
number	still	consume	some	fish	and	poultry. As	is	shown	in	the
accompanying	chart	(
Chart	B. 1
),
5
	there	is	only	a	small	difference	in	the
nutritional	properties	of	non-vegetarian	and	vegetarian	diets	as	consumed	in
Western	countries. CHART	B. 1:	VEGETARIAN	AND	NON-VEGETARIAN	DIET
COMPARISONS	AMONG	WESTERNERS
Nutrient
Vegetarian
Non	-	vegetarian
Fat	(%	of	calories)
30–36
34–38
Cholesterol	(g/day)
150–300
300–500
Carbohydrates	(%	of	calories)
50–55
<50
Total	protein	(%	of	calories)
12–14
14–18
Animal	protein	(%	of	total	protein)
40–60
60–70
A	strikingly	different	dietary	situation	existed	in	China. In


 formidable. The ego’ s position
propagates itself  because its secretly sought pay-of f is the emoti on itself. This self-propagating mechanism is further strengthened by clinging to
the past  to justify and nurture grudges and vitiate the guilt th at wouldotherwise result  from self-honesty about one’ s true motives. Th e fallacy
of milking the p ast is indicated by its low calibration level, which is due
to th e fa ct that in actuality, the past no longer exists. One can actually
only ‘know’ the present, and at best, that is only a fleeting perception
because truth is a consequence of not only linear content but also of
context. Clinical Expr essions. Chronic anger often results in d estructive social consequences, such as
marital discord or divorce. Outbursts that occur in the workplace result in
a spotty employment record, and counseling is frequently advised. Therapy is often court ordered as a requirement of probation for
infractions of the law, especially in the expression of anger as
criminality. Research shows tha t the pattern is usually evident in early
childhood and leads to problem s with siblings and classmates. Chronic
belligerence leads to social rejection that increases chronic resentments
and anger and justifies what may even erupt as homicide. A v ariety of th e lifestyle is seen in the clinical expression as the
‘explosive pers onality disorder ’, as well as ‘borderline pe rsonality
disorder ’, where  rages can be triggered by seeming trivialities. Another
expression of clinical anger is se en in the ‘passive aggressive pe rsonality
disorder ’ in which passivity is a disguised form of aggression as
resistance, with periodic eruption into overt anger. Aggressive resistance
derives from the childhood age  of two where it emer ges as th e classic
two-year -old’ s “No.” Overt hostile aggression is a characteristic of
psychopathic personalities in wh ich the absence of conscience allows for
overt ac ting out of primitive aggression and results in a low cap acity for
self-control and  intolerance of delay. There is also the inca pacity to
assess conseque nces for one’ s own actions or to take responsi bility for
them. Severe character disorders often become worse when expectations or
demands are not fulfilled quickly. Paradoxically, fulfillment of
expectations ten ds to inflate the ego so that the angry, impatient person
and the psychopathic personalit y do not suf fer from low self-esteem, as
commonly believed but, on the contrary, have inflated egos. The
progressive ful fillment of this inner grandiosity has dra matically
disastrous consequences to society, of which the narcissistic messianictyrant is the most glaring exam ple. Satisfaction of narcissistic, egoistic
expectations doe s not satisfy or quell the demands but only escalates the
aggression. Thus, placations do not stop aggression but instead feed into
it. The greed of the ego is insat iable, and its frustration can result in the
merciless, arbitrary death of literally millions of ordinary, innocent
citizens as well as whole armies and entire populations. Beneath the hostile, angry, ragin g ego is the blood-lust of the m erciless
‘berserker ’ of ancient times, as well as the savage ‘militant’ of the
current decade. The deep roots of this anger/hatred bloodlust are atavistic
(Freud’ s ‘Id’ and instinct of Thanatos ).The inflated ego is devoid of
reality testing as well as amelioration by reason, logic, or rationality. The charismatic  messianic leader is adept at feeding the blood lust with
propaganda. The psychological explanation for the release is the sanction
of au thority or s ociety in which Freud’ s classic superego (conscience) is
drowned by crowd agreement. This is historically demonstrated in the
Roman arena; via the guillotine; during the massacre of civilians in
Manchuria; in the bullring; or in  the massive malevolence demonstrated
by Pol Pot, Cha irman Mao, Adolf Hitler, and others. The position of
being a dictato r pulls up the nascent megalomania of the primitive,
unconscious aspects of the ego from the unconscious. The co re of the
ego is its delu sional belief that it is God (Nero, Caesar, t he Great
Leader). The paradox is that whereas the reality of Divinity is infinitely
merciful, its fraudulent usurpation results in massive cruelty, d eath, and
the o pposite of m ercy. Chronic anger requires justification, and  thus, the
common expres sion of the angry personality is seen in th e classic
injustice collector who nurses grievances and, by paranoid extension,
collects grievances to justify hostility. It is notable that  in faith-based recovery groups, such as the tw elve-step
programs, a basic dictum is that there is no such thing as a ‘justified
resentment’. The ego also likes to cite spurious misinterpretations of
history to justify its extremism
It is a ba sic dict um that perception finds what it seeks (e.g., the  Internet
search engines). Thus, the deliberate promulgation and propagation of
historical justification continues on self-servingly over the centuries at
the cost of the lives and freedoms of the populace. This is characteristic
of religious hatreds that go on for millennia. As noted by MahatmaGandhi, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Thus, the
political power of extremist leaders is based on the continuation and
propagation of hatred, anger, resentment, and injustice collecting. T o
such politicized movements, peace obviously would be the greatest
threat p ossible (witness the career of Y asser Arafat who started out
calibrating at 440 and ended up calibrating at 65). The d eliberate
propagation of dissent and ha tred is the downside exploitation and
subversion of the liberty of free speech (e.g., play the card of race, sex,
class, age, etc.). T ranscending Anger. T o the normal person, anger is seen as a detriment. It is a transitory
annoyance and viewed as disruptive. The obvious antidotes are those of
compassion, acceptance, love, and the willingness to for give. T ranscendence requires the willingness to surrender primary
positionalities:

1. Harboring chronic resentments and milking ‘injustices’. 2. Unrealistic expectations of the world and relationships, includ ing
expectations of convenience, agreement, approval, compliance, and
others. 3. Surrendering se lf-centeredness as a lifestyle and focusing on
changing oneself instead of the world. 4. W illingness to surrender the residual infantile expectations (of age
two) of self, others, and the perceived imperfect world, e.g. “God
grant me the ser enity to accept the things I cannot change; cou rage
to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the dif ference” (as
per the 12 step program). 5. T aking responsibility for bringing inner infantile attitudes to the
surface and subordinating them to mature and essentially more
gratifying processes, such as reason, balance, and concern for
others. 6. Realize that resentment or ange r is not about what others ‘are’, but
about w hat they ‘are not’ (i.e.,  ‘not’ generous, rather than stingy;
‘not’ unselfish, but selfish; ‘not’ careful, but thoughtless, etc.) 7. Accepting huma n fallibility and limitation that, in a portion of  the
population, is due to an inborn incapacity to be self-honest. The proc essing out of anger requires inner honesty and the willingness to
surrender what is not integrous a nd essentially unworkable and replace it
with self-confidence. Another process is to utilize the “And then what?”
process where one surrenders the seemingly impossible scenarios to
God. Compensatory attitudes that are far more powerful than anger are
dedication, reason, humility, gratitude, perseverance, and tolerance. It is
also helpful to see that the inner ego has become addicted to the  artificial
‘high’ of anger, with its puf f ed-up animal characteristics. I t is also
educational to select a success ful role model and pattern o neself in
accord with those traits, such a s determination, commitment, skill, and
integrity. One does not become a success by envying and vilifying it but
by imitating it. Thus, the angry person has to go back and make up for
what was missing in their own education and development. Blockages. As with  other levels, positionalities result in conflicting dualities that
require the surrender of the tr ansitory pleasure of indulgenc e of the
attractions and the resistance to the aversions. W illingness enables the
surrender of short-term self-indulgence for long-term spiritual growth.CHAPTER 8. Pride. (Calibration Level 175). Intr oduction. People feel more positive as they reach this level, and the rise in self-
esteem is a ba lm to all the pain experienced at lower levels of
consciousness. P ride is far enough removed from Shame, Gu


 of this book came from a Bible prophecy
that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New T estament and speaks of the
collapse of the existing world order and the arising of a new heaven and
a new earth. W e need to understand here that heaven is not a location but
refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning
of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth,
on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a
reflection of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our
planet are intrinsically connected. A new heaven is the emer gence of a
transformed state of human consciousness, and a new earth is its
reflection in the physical realm. Since human life and human
consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old
consciousness dissolves, there are bound to be synchronistic geographic
and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet, some of
which we are already witnessing now.C H A P T E R  T W O  E G O :  T H E  C U R R E N T
S T A T E  O F  H U M A N I T Y
W ords, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or
remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon
you. Y ou easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly
believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know
what it is. The fact is: Y ou dont know what it is. Y ou have only covered
up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple
stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is
because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience,
think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceber g.
Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected
with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it
came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you
the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or
hold it and let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a
sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently
communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you. This is what great artists sense and succeed in conveying in their art. V an
Gogh didnt say: Thats just an old chair. He looked, and looked, and
looked. He sensed the Beingness of the chair. Then he sat in front of the
canvas and took up the brush. The chair itself would have sold for the
equivalent of a few dollars. The painting of that same chair today would
fetch in excess of $25 million. When you dont cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the
miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when
humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A
depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as
prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels, and images. For this to
happen, you need to disentangle your sense of I, of Beingness, from all
the things it has become mixed up with, that is to say, identified with. That disentanglement is what this book is about.The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things,
people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes,
and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that
continuously unfolds within and around you. In this way, cleverness may
be gained, but wisdom is lost, and so are joy, love, creativity, and
aliveness. They are concealed in the still gap between the perception and
the interpretation. Of course we have to use words and thoughts. They
have their own beauty but do we need to become imprisoned in them? W ords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnt
very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the
vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are
consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe
some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are,
or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in
its depth?A New Earth
T H E  I L L U S O R Y  S E L F
The word I embodies the greatest error and the deepest truth, depending
on how it is used. In conventional usage, it is not only one of the most
frequently used words in the language (together with the related words:
me, my, mine, and myself) but also one of the most misleading. In
normal everyday usage, I embodies the primordial error, a misperception
of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. This
illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not
only in to the reality of space and time but also into human nature,
referred to as an optical illusion of consciousness. That illusory self then
becomes the basis for all further interpretations, or rather
misinterpretations of reality, all thought processes, interactions, and
relationships. Y our reality becomes a reflection of the original illusion. The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on
your mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality
of who you are emer ges by itself. This is what happens as you slowly
and carefully read this and the next chapter, which are about the
mechanics of the false self we call the ego. So what is the nature of this
illusory self? What you usually refer to when you say I is not who you are. By a
monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is
confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of I in
your mind and whatever the I has identified with. So what do the usual I
and the related me, my, or mine refer to? When a young child learns that a sequence o sounds produced by the
parents vocal cords is his or her name, the child begins to equate a word,
which in the mind becomes a thought, with who he or she is. At that
stage, some children refer to themselves in the third person. Johnny is
hungry. Soon after, they learn the magic word I and equate it with their
name, which they have already equated with who they are. Then otherthoughts come and mer ge with the original I?thought. The next step are
thoughts of me and mine to designate things that are somehow part of I. This is identification with objects, which means investing things, but
ultimately thoughts that represent things, with a sense of self, thereby
deriving an identity from them. When my toy breaks or is taken away,
intense suf fering arises. Not because of any intrinsic value that the toy
has the child will soon lose interest in it, and it will be replaced by other
toys, other objects but because of the thought of mine. The toy became
part of the childs developing sense of self, of I. And so as the child grows up, the original I?thought attracts other
thoughts to itself: It becomes identified with a gender, possessions, the
sense?perceived body, a nationality, race, religion, profession. Other
things the I identifies with are roles mother, father, husband, wife, and so
on accumulated knowledge or opinions, likes and dislikes, and also
things that happened to me in the past, the memory of which are thoughts
that further define my sense of self as me and my story. These are only
some of the things people derive their sense of identity form. They are
ultimately no more than thoughts held together precariously by the fact
that they are all invested with a sense of self. This mental construct is
what you normally refer to when you say I. T o be more precise: Most of
the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think I but some
aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you
still use the word I, but it will come from a much deeper place within
yourself. Most people are still completely identified with the incessant stream of
mind, of compulsive thinking, most of it repetitive and pointless. There
is no I apart from their thought processes and the emotions that go with
them. This is the meaning of being spiritually unconscious. When told
that there is a voice in their head that never stops speaking, they say,
What voice? or angrily deny it, which of course is the voice, is the
thinker, is the unobserved mind. It could almost be looked upon as an
entity that has taken possession of them. Some people never for get the first tie they disidentified from their
thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the
content of their mind to


 come again, some say Elias, others say
Jeremiah, and still others a prophet of old come again. ”
It is very flattering to be told that you are, or that you resemble, the
great men of the past, but enlightened reason is not enslaved by public
opinion. It is only concerned with the truth so it asks itself another ques -
tion, “But whom say ye that I am. ” In other words, “Who am I. ”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenIf I am bold enough to assume that I am Christ Jesus, the answer will
come back, “Thou are Christ Jesus. ”
When I can assume it and feel it and boldly live it, I will say to myself,
“Flesh and blood could not have told me this. But my Father which is in
Heaven revealed it unto me. ” Then I make this concept of self the rock on
which I establish my church, my world. “If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins. ” (John 8:24). Because consciousness is the only reality I must assume that I am al -
ready that which I desire to be. If I do not believe that I am already what
I want to be, then I remain as I am and die in this limitation. Man is always looking for some prop on which to lean. He is always look -
ing for some excuse to justify his failure. This revelation gives man no ex -
cuse for failure. His concept of himself is the cause of all the circum -
stances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if
he does not change on the outside it is because he has not changed with -
in. But man does not like to feel that he is solely responsible for the con -
ditions of his life. “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more
with him. ”
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away. ”
“Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go. ” Thou has
the words of eternal life. ” (John 6:66-68). I may not like what I have just heard, that I must turn to my own con -
sciousness as to the only reality, the only foundation on which all phe -
nomena can be explained. It was easier living when I could blame anoth -
er. It was much easier living when I could blame society for my ills, or
point a finger across the sea, and blame another nation. It was easier liv -
ing when I could blame the weather for the way I feel. But to tell me that
I am the cause of all that happens to me that I am forever molding my
world in harmony with my inner nature, that is more than man is willing
to accept. If this is true, to whom would I go. If these are the words of
eternal life, I must return to them, even though they seem so difficult to
digest. When man fully understands this, he knows that public opinion does not
matter, for men only tell him who he is. The behavior of men constantly
tell me who I have conceived myself to be. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenIf I accept this challenge and begin to live by it, I finally reach the point
that is called the great prayer of the Bible. It is related in the 17th chapter
of the Gospel of St John. “I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do. (John 17:4). “And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was. ” (John 17:5). “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that
thou gavest me I have kept, and one of them is lost, but the son of perdi -
tion. ” (John 17:12). It is impossible for anything to be lost. In this divine economy nothing can
be lost, it cannot even pass away. The little flower which has bloomed
once, blooms forever. It is invisible to you here with your limited focus,
but blooms forever in the larger dimension of your being, and tomorrow
you will encounter it. All that thou gavest me I have kept in thy name, and none have I lost
save the son of perdition. The son of perdition means simply the belief in
loss. Son is a concept, an idea. Perdido is loss. I have only truly lost the
concept of loss, for nothing can be lost. I can descend from the sphere where the thing itself now lives, and as I
descend in consciousness to a lower level within myself it passes from my
world. I say, “I have lost my health. I have lost my wealth. I have lost my
standing in the community. I have lost faith. I have lost a thousand
things. ” But the things in themselves, having once been real in my world,
can never cease to be. They never become unreal with the passage of
time. I, by my descent in consciousness to a lower level, cause these things to
disappear from my sight and I say, “They have gone; they are finished as
far as my world goes. ” All I need do is to ascend to the level where they
are eternal, and they once more objectify themselves and appear as reali -
ties within my world. The crux of the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel of St John is found in the
19th verse. “And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. ”
Heretofore I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I
cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another
within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it
best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that
made me see others as I did. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHad I a noble, dignified concept of myself, I never could have seen the
unlovely in others. Instead of trying to change others through argument and force, let me
but ascend in consciousness to a higher level and I will automatically
change others by changing myself. “There is no one to change but self;
that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness and the world in
which it lives is determined by the concept you hold of self. It is to con -
sciousness that we must turn as to the only reality. For there is no clear
conception of the origin of phenomena except that consciousness is all
and all is consciousness. You need no helper to bring you what you seek. Do not for one second
believe that I am advocating escape from reality when I ask you to simply
assume you are now the man or the lady that you want to be. If you and I could feel what it would be like were we now that which we
want to be, and live in this mental atmosphere as though it were real,
then, in a way we do not know, our assumption would harden into fact. This is all we need do in order to ascend to the level where our assump -
tion is already an objective, concrete reality. I need change no man, I sanctify myself and in so doing I sanctify others. To the pure all things are pure. “There is nothing unclean of itself: but to
him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ” (Rom
14:14). There is nothing in itself unclean, but you, by your concept of self,
see things either clean or unclean. “I and my Father are one. ” (John 10:30). “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ”
“But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may
know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. ” (John 10:37,
38). He made himself one with God and thought it not strange or robbery to
do the works of God. You always bear fruit in harmony with what you are. It is the most natural thing in the world for a pear tree to bear pears, an
apple tree to bear apples, and for man to mold the circumstances of his
life in harmony with his inner nature. “I am the vine, ye are the branches. ” (John 15:5). A branch has no life
save it be rooted in the vine. All I need do to change the fruit is to change
the vine. You have no life in my world save that I am conscious of you. You are
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenrooted in me and, like fruit, you bear witness of the vine that I am. There
is no reality in the world other than your consciousness. Although you
may now seem to be what you do not want to be, all you need do to
change it, and to prove the change by circumstances in your world, is to
quietly assume that you are that which you now want to be, and in a way
you do not know you will become it. There is no other way to change this world. “I am the way. ” My I Amness,
my consciousness is the way by which I change my world. As I change my
concept of self, I change my world. When men and women help or hinder
us, they only play the part that we, by our


1. Rinse the lentils under cold water and set aside. 2. In a lar ge pot, heat a little water or vegetable broth over medium heat. 3. Add the chopped onion, carrots, celery, and garlic. Sauté until vegetables
are tender. 4. Add the lentils, vegetable broth, dried thyme, bay leaf, salt, and pepper. 5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about 30-40 minutes, or
until the lentils are cooked and tender. 6. Remove the bay leaf before serving. 7. Ladle the soup into bowls and serve hot. 5. Baked Sweet Potatoes with Steamed Greens:
Ingredients:
- 4 medium-sized sweet potatoes
- 4 cups mixed greens (kale, Swiss chard, spinach, etc. ) - 2 tablespoons extra-vir gin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).2. Wash the sweet potatoes and prick them with a fork. 3. Place the sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and bake for about 45-60
minutes, or until tender. 4. In
the meantime, wash and chop the mixed greens. 5. Heat the olive oil in a lar ge skillet over medium heat. 6. Add the minced garlic and sauté for 1-2 minutes until fragrant. 7. Add the mixed greens to the skillet and sauté until wilted. 8. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 9. Once the sweet potatoes are done, remove them from the oven and let
them cool slightly. 10. Slice open each sweet potato and fill with the sautéed greens. 11. Serve warm. 6. Quinoa and Vegetable Stir -Fry:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup quinoa
- 2 cups water or vegetable broth
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups mixed vegetables (bell peppers, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, etc.) - 2 tablespoons low-sodium tamari sauce or soy sauce
- Salt and pepper to tastePreparation:
1. Rinse the quinoa thoroughly under cold water and drain. 2. In a medium saucepan, bring the water or vegetable broth to a boil. 3. Add the quinoa, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 15-20
minutes, or until all the liquid is absorbed and the quinoa is tender. 4. While the quinoa is cooking, heat the olive oil in a lar ge skillet or wok
over medium-high heat. 5. Add the chopped onion and minced garlic. Sauté until the onion is
translucent and fragrant. 6. Add the mixed vegetables to the skillet and stir -fry until they are cooked
but still slightly crisp. 7. Stir in the cooked quinoa and tamari sauce. 8. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 9. Cook for another 2-3 minutes, stirring continuously to combine the
flavors. 10. Remove from heat and serve hot. 7. Baked Lemon Herb Salmon:
Ingredients:
- 4 salmon fillets
- Juice of 1 lemo n
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped herbs (such as dill, parsley, or basil)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).2. Place the salmon fillets on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 3. Squeeze the lemon juice over the salmon. 4. Sprinkle the fresh herbs evenly over the salmon fillets. 5. Season with salt and pepper. 6. Bake in the preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes, or until the salmon
is cooked through and flakes easily with a fork. 7. Serve hot with steamed vegetables or a side salad. 8. Vegetable Curry with Brown Rice:
Ingredients:
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, mince d
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 can (14 oz) coconut milk
- 2 cups mixed vegetables (cauliflower, bell peppers, carrots, peas, etc.) - Salt and pepper to taste
- Cooked brown rice for serving
Preparation:
1. Heat a little water or vegetable broth in a lar ge skillet or pot over medium
heat. 2. Add the chopped onion and minced garlic. Sauté until the onion is soft
and translucent.3. Add the curry powder, turmeric powder, and cumin powder. Stir well to
coat the onion and garlic with the spices. 4. Pour in the coconut milk and stir to combine. 5. Add the mixed vegetables to the skillet and stir to coat them with the
curry sauce. 6. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 15-20 minutes, o r
until the vegetables are tender. 7. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 8. Serve the vegetable curry over cooked brown rice. 9. Lentil and Vegetable Stir -Fry:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup dried green or brown lentils
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation :
1. Rinse the lentils under cold water and set aside.2. In a lar ge pot, heat a little water or vegetable broth over medium heat. 3. Add the chopped onion, carrots, celery, and garlic. Sauté until vegetables
are tender. 4. Add the lentils, vegetable broth, dried thyme, bay leaf, salt, and pepper. 5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about 30-40 minutes, or
until the lentils are cooked and tender. 6. Remove the bay leaf before serving. 7. Ladle the soup into bowls and serve hot. 10. Mixed Berry Smoothie:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup mixed berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
- 1 ripe banana
- 1 cup almond milk (or any non-dairy milk)
- 1 tablespoon flaxseeds (ground or whole)
- 1 tablespoon almond butte r
- Optional: 1 teaspoon honey or maple syrup for sweetness
Preparation:
1. Place all the ingredients in a blender. 2. Blend on high speed until smooth and creamy. 3. Taste and add honey or maple syrup if desired for extra sweetness. 4. Pour into a glass and serve immediately.Certainly! Here are 20 recipes and their preparation methods for a cancer
diet:
1. Quinoa Salad:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 1 cup mixed vegetables (cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, etc.) - 1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs (parsley, basil, mint)
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons extra-vir gin olive oi l
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1. In a bowl, combine the cooked quinoa, mixed vegetables, and chopped
herbs. 2. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, salt,
and pepper. 3. Pour the dressing over the quinoa mixture and toss to combine. 4. Serve chilled. 2. Ginger -Garlic Salmon:
Ingredients:
- 4 salmon fillets
- 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon olive oi l
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). 2. In a small bowl, combine the grated ginger, minced garlic, soy sauce,
honey, and olive oil. 3. Place the salmon fillets on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 4. Brush the ginger -garlic mixture over the salmon fillets. 5. Bake for about 12-15 minutes or until the salmon is cooked through. 6. Serve hot with steamed vegetables or brown rice. 3. Lentil Vegetable Soup:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup dried lentils (green or brown)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, diced
- 2 celery stalks, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon dried thym e
- 1 bay leaf
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:1. Rinse the lentils under cold water and set aside. 2. In a lar ge pot, sauté the chopped onion, carrots, celery, and garlic until
tender. 3. Add the lentils, vegetable broth, dried thyme, bay leaf, salt, and pepper to
the pot. 4. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about 30-40 minutes, or
until the lentils are tender. 5. Remove the bay leaf before serving. 6. Ladle the soup into bowls and serve hot. 4. Grilled Chicken Breast with Roasted Vegetables:
Ingredients:
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried herbs (such as thyme,


bers that the
Peruvian Government has placed a ban on this enterprise though for a period it was allowed on7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 136/250condition that a stated percentage was given to the Government. One of the principal characteristics of the Chimu culture of the coastal area of northern Peru is
shown in the type of pottery they produced. All articles were realistic in design. The pots show
hunting scenes, fishing and domestic scenes, as illustrated above. They were very skillful in
reproducing features in nearly natural size. Many thousands of these portrait jars have been taken
from the mounds of this district. The local museum in the vicinity of Chan Chan, under the skillful
direction of Mr. Larco Herrera at Chiclyan was reported to contain over twenty thousand jars and
specimens taken from the mounds. To the south of the domain of the Chimu culture, a very strong culture was built up with very
different characteristics known as the Naska. While many of their habits of life, including their
methods of providing food, were similar to those of the Chimu culture, they were unique in the
designs of their pottery, which were characterized by being allegorical. They used elaborate color
designs and fantastic patterns. Very little is known as yet of the meaning of much that they have
left. While sundials of ancient design and build have been found in many parts of Peru, it is not
known to what extent they developed a knowledge of astronomy. The pilot of the plane that flew
us from Lima to Arequipa took us over some very strange architectural designs of geometrical
patterns which he had discovered and which he suggested had not been reported upon nor
interpreted. I photographed some of these from the air. The straight lines constituting the sides of
some of the geometric figures are over a thousand feet long and reveal a precision of the angles
and a straightness of the ground structures which indicate the use of competent engineering
equipment and a high knowledge of surveying. One of the principal purposes of my trip to Peru was to study the effect of the Humboldt
Current, with its supply of human food, on the ancient cultures which were buried along the coast. In other parts of the world, where Nature had provided the sea with an abundance of sea life
which was being utilized by native races, I found quite routinely excellent physical development
with typical broad, well-developed facial forms and dental arches with normal contours. In each of
these groups, the people have reproduced quite closely the racial type in practically all members of
the group. I have emphasized with illustrations this fact in connection with the Melanesians and
Polynesians on eight archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean, the Malay races on the islands north of
Australia, the Aborigines of Australia along the east coast; also the Gaelics in the Outer Hebrides,
and the Eskimos of Alaska. The activity of grave robbers in the ancient burial mounds has left skeletons strewn helter skelter
where many of them have been weathering, probably for years. While many of these had
apparently been deliberately smashed, large numbers were intact, and in a good state of
preservation. Some of the ancient cemeteries apparently extended over areas covering a square
mile; and as far as the eye could see the white bleaching bones, particularly the skulls, dotted the
landscape. Since there were several distinct cultures, I endeavored to make a cross section study
of a number of these burial grounds in order that a fair average of specimens might be obtained. The skulls were handled by me, personally, and large numbers of them were photographed. As I
have mentioned, it was the ancient custom when making the burials to inter objects that were of
special interest to the individuals, including the implements with which he had worked. Fishermen's
skulls are shown in Fig. 78 with their nets. It will be noted that all these arches are broad and wide,
that the third molars are well formed and almost always well developed, and in good masticating
position. Notwithstanding the long period of interment the fabrics buried with these people were
often in a remarkably good state of preservation. Even the hair was well preserved. A
characteristic of the method of preparation for burial involved placing over the teeth a preparation
that was held in position by a strip of cloth which cemented the teeth quite firmly to this strip with
the result that when the mummy cases were torn open the removal of this bandage removed the
straight rooted teeth, and therefore large numbers of the skulls that were bleaching on the sandy
wastes were without the straight rooted teeth. Of course, these would readily tumble out at the
slightest jar, after the mummified tissues had decomposed from exposure. The teeth lost in this way
would include practically all of the upper and lower incisors, some of the bicuspids and third7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 137/250molars. FIG. 78. The two skulls in the upper photograph apparently
belonged to fishermen of the Chimu culture as evidenced by
the flattened back of the head. Note the splendidly formed
dental arches. In an examination of one thousand two
hundred and seventy-six skulls in succession I did not find
one with the typical deformities of our moderns. Since our study was primarily concerned with the shape of the dental arches and facial form,
these characteristics could be studied and recorded with the straight rooted teeth removed. Fortunately, there are some excellent collections of skulls in museums in Peru, with the skulls in
position where they can be readily studied for the shape of the dental arches. When we have in
mind that from 25 to 75 per cent of individuals in various communities in the United States have a
distinct irregularity in the development of the dental arches and facial form, the cause and
significance of which constitutes one of the important problems of this study, the striking contrast
found in these Peruvian skulls will be seen to constitute a challenge for our modern civilizations. In
a study of 1,276 skulls of these ancient Peruvians, I did not find a single skull with significant
deformity of the dental arches. Since these investigations have apparently established the fact that this problem is related
directly to nutrition, and chiefly to nutrition in the formative period, and, as we shall see, to a very
early part of the formative period, we have here evidence of a system of living that is very closely
in accord with Nature's fundamental laws of reproduction. Several studies have been made dealing
with the incidence of dental caries or tooth decay among these ancient cultures. The author of
"Bird Islands of Peru" (1)  states that in his examination of fifty mummies in succession he found only
four with a tooth with dental caries. This again is in striking contrast to our modernized
communities in which from 95 to 100 per cent of all the members of a community group suffer
from dental caries. I have shown in connection with the Indians of the western coast of Canada7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 138/250that in six highly modernized communities where the Indians were using white man's foods, 40 per
cent of all the teeth had been attacked by dental caries. A similar high percentage was found in the
Indians now living in Florida. The ancient burials in southern Florida revealed apparent, complete
immunity. These were pre-Columbian burials. The skill of the primitive cultures of Peru in engineering as evidenced by the irrigation systems
has always been a subject of amazement to modern engineers. I visited in a valley fifteen miles
from the Santa River an ancient aqueduct which was said to be a hundred miles long. Our guide
informed me that he had walked in it for thirty-five miles. With its even grades, overflows and
auxiliary channels for distribution, its adaptation to the area to be watered, and the skill with which
it was cut through rock shoulders and its retaining walls built, it constitutes a monument to
engineering ability. Modern engineers have estimated that this aqueduct could deliver sixty million
cubic feet of water a day. In Fig. 79 will be seen a section where it has been carried through a
rock cutting and beyond will be seen a retaining wall used to carry the flume along the sheer face
of a rock. The modern inhabitants of this community have carried away this retaining wall for use in
the foundations of their huts. Below, in Fig. 79, will be seen a district of many hundreds of acres,
possibly a thousand, where the fields are laid out just as they were left hundreds of years ago when
the primitive people were driven from this habitat. All this valley needs is water. 7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 139/250FIG. 79. The ancient civilizations of Peru had skilled
engineers. In the upper view is seen one of the ancient
aqueducts still intact for thirty-five miles which modern
scientists estimate was capable of delivering sixty million
cubic feet of water per day. They had no hardened tools or
blasting powder, yet they cut this channel through boulders
and rocks. Below is seen a valley covering thousands of
acres once made fertile by irrigation but now an arid desert. In order to reach the burial places it was necessary to drive many hundreds of


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The evolution of consciousness and the importance of level 200
The limitations of the Newtonian paradigm and the description of
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The illusion of causality: the great block to spiritual advancement
Transcending the ego through understanding and recontextualizing it
How one can move up the levels of Consciousness through spiritual
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Radical subjectivity, the essence of experiencing the Presence of God
as “I”
How the spiritual realm is based on context and is a dif ferent paradigm
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Existence vs. nonexistence: the great conundrum that Dr. Hawkins
faced
The Power of Divinity: there is only one variable
How one surrenders the ego to God: through Radical Honesty
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The Calibrations: An Introduction
I am very pleased to share with you the first in a series of 12 lectures. Over
the last 20 years, the [consciousness] research has advanced considerably. My book Power vs. For ce was preceded by a good 10 years of research, and
to make sure that it met the scientific criteria of today’ s world, I went to the
bother of getting a Ph.D. so as to give it greater academic credence. The purpose of Power vs. For ce was to go from the familiar linear world
and provide a context in which you could move into the less familiar and
nonlinear with some degree of comfort that you’re not moving into the
purely mystical, imaginary realms. So, I was presenting it from the
viewpoint of whom I considered the average intelligent reader who is also
interested in spirituality and who is focused on the parameter, the leading
edge, of advanced theoretical physics—which is stuck right now because it
can’t get beyond this block between the linear and nonlinear domains. It’ s
gone about as far as it can go in the linear domain. I was hoping to enlar ge the paradigm of the reality of science so that the
intelligent reader could comprehend the work and say, “There must be
something in the nonlinear domain that we should be looking at.” So, that
was that purpose. The purpose of Power vs. For ce was to take us from the
familiar, the Newtonian paradigm of reality, and prepare us that there is
evidence; evidence of the reality of the nonlinear, because that’ s the great
learning block. The intellectuals at the time constantly used the term evidence based. Anything having to do with the nature of man was no longer relevant, and
we could only talk about white mice, levers, and doses of meds and
neurotransmitters. No mention of anything human was allowed, because
everything had to be “evidence based.”
Well, the purpose of Power vs. For ce was to provide evidence-based
data. It introduced the Map of Consciousness®, which has become
relatively well-known and has been reprinted in many, many other booksand cited in many references. What I tried to do was present evidence-based
documentation of the reality of the nonlinear domain and provide some kind
of signposts so that the unfamiliar could be approached without undue
anxiety. People who think the only world is the intellectual world of logic
or the material world are rather frightened of anything that goes beyond
their paradigm. It has to do with paradigm anxiety. That there’ s anything
real that is beyond science’ s capacity to measure is rather scary to many
people, and they vociferously get on television. You see them at night,
trying to prove that near -death experiences are all due to brain physiology,
and God is probably just a nucleus in the hypothalamus somewhere—trying
to keep reality confined to this box of the logical and comfortable. And
there are some people whose lives are devoted to knocking anything beyond
the ordinary paradigm. So, Power vs. For ce was, then, the introduction to the material, and the
thing that was interesting about it is that we learned that you can’ t use
ordinary mechanical instruments when you’re dealing with the nonlinear. The nonlinear has to do with life itself. Consequently, it would seem
obvious that the measuring instrument of that domain would be a living
thing; in this case, a human being—and the response of that human being to
the field of consciousness. Once in a while, I get a letter from a reader that says, “Can’ t you
somehow do this electronically?” That’ s missing the point altogether. No,
you cannot do that electronically; nor would I have any interest in doing it,
because that is a dif ferent world. The electronically recordable world is the
Newtonian paradigm of reality, which, according to our calibrated levels of
consciousness, stops at 499. We can follow the greatest scientific minds in history—Newton and
Freud and Einstein—and we push the limits of the scientific, logical mind. And on our scale of consciousness, with which most people are familiar,
499 is pretty much the edge of the Newtonian paradigm. You’ll find a lot of
very advanced theoretical scientific theses, et cetera, and doctrines and
bodies of knowledge stop at 499. It’ s amazing how over the centuries, so
many—Sir Francis Bacon—so many of them stop at 499. At first, I thought
I was making a mistake here. How can they all be 499? There were some I
could not believe were 499, like Einstein. I said, “No, he’ s got to be more
than 499.” But no, it was 499. So, that’ s pretty much the level at which we
begin to emer ge into a dif ferent paradigm of reality.Power vs. For ce took us, then, from the Newtonian into the nonlinear—
from the linear domain to the nonlinear. You see, if we use language that is
not religiously, historically loaded, you get a wider audience. If you
mention it in spiritual or religious terms, dealing in Sanskrit terms, a
number of people will stop reading, for one reason or another. So, I have
tried to stick with primarily common wording, and so the world of
familiarity. America calibrates right now at 421. That’ s the intellect. The
400s are the intellect. So, anybody who is reasonably intellectually curious
would find the work interesting, and it would lead them to the door of a
new discovery. Right in the beginning, I want to correct sort of a misconception that may
have arisen, and it also has to do with the advancement of my own
consciousness and understanding. We developed a calibrated Map of
Consciousness®, at which 200 was a critical level. We found that
everything above 200—everything that’ s true, everything that’ s valid,
everything that’ s pro-life, everything that’ s spiritually whole—goes from
200 up and makes you go strong. Everything below 200 makes you go
weak. And it goes all the way down to the bottom. So, the very top of the
scale of consciousness is 1,000—Jesus Christ, Krishna, Buddha—the Great
Avatars that have set the paradigm of spiritual reality for thousands of
years, calibrated at 1,000. And at that time, we discovered by asking that the
human nervous system cannot tolerate spiritual ener gy beyond 1,000. And
those of you who have gone into very advanced states of consciousness will
remember that up to 600 is


 Dr. Kelley's was being
carried out in such a tiny place miles and miles from anywhere. Dr. Kelley himself was quite different from the doctors in Frankfurt who had made
me feel I  was being a nuisance every time I  asked a question about my condition and
treatment. This attitude I  had found frustrating, as it was my life in their hands and I
considered I  had a right to know exactly what they were doing with it. The other
patients didn't seem to mind being treated like children who should keep quiet and
do as they were told. At least, I  never heard any ask questions about the treatment they were receiving or
drugs they were being given. When I  suggested to a fellow patient receiving
chemotherapy and in constant pain that she eat something healthier than Frankfurter
sausages and ice cream, she said the doctors knew best and they would surely not
give her food that was not good for her. At last I  was speaking with a doctor who treated me like an intelligent human being
and was quite willing to discuss all the details of my illness. Dr. Kelley explained
everything very clearly, admitted I  was in a bad state but said he saw no reason why I
shouldn't come through if I  followed the treatment. It was largely up to me. I  felt
tremendous relief and hope. It was like the chance to live had been taken away and
was now being given back to me. I  now had a chance and it was all I  asked for. If my
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recovery depended largely on my own efforts, I  felt confident I  would succeed, as I
was ready to do anything to get well. Returning home, I  stopped off at Frankfurt where I  had a mid-December
appointment for more chemotherapy. I  hated the idea of having more drugs pumped
into me but relatives and friends at Frankfurt, nervous at the thought of my dropping
the orthodox treatment, advised me to keep the appointment, and Dr. Kelley did not
seem opposed to the idea of my having one more session. I  went to the hospital but
the moment they started giving me the injections I  felt I  had made a terrible mistake
and that all the drugs were going to do was poison my body and weaken it even
more. I  felt terrible afterwards. I  was in bed for several days with pains, nausea and
exhaustion, and I  felt very depressed. I  felt so weak I  couldn't face the journey home
to spend Christmas with my husband and my children. I  spent all Christmas day
vowing I  would take no more drugs. All I  wanted now was to go home and start Dr.
Kelley's program. I  began the nutritional program on January 3, 1977. Swallowing all the
supplements and taking the morning enema was a bit of an effort at first but after a
few days I  got used to this and it became routine. I  suffered none of the reactions Dr.
Kelley warned me about. In fact, I  began to feel better almost immediately. The pains
went and, except for an ache in the shoulder during a bout of flu last winter, I  have
had none since I  started the program. I  followed Dr. Kelley's advice and became selfish for a few months, concentrating
all my thought and efforts on my own health and helping my body to become strong
again. I  continued my daily yoga exercises. I  started a vegetable garden so we could
have fresh vegetables. I  began to make my own bread, made from whole-grain flour
we bought from an old mill in an inland Pueblo. I  felt now I  was doing something
positive and, after months of pain and depression, was now on the road to recovery. After eight months, I  was re-tested and Dr. Kelley wrote me to tell me I  was making
very good progress. This was tremendously encouraging but I  already knew in myself
that I  was getting stronger with each week that passed. Around this time, I  went to see
the surgeon in Malaga who had examined me the previous year. He examined me
and was amazed that he could no longer feel the growth on the liver. He said he
thought it had gone. I  wondered whether he was trying to cheer me up but we later
learned through a mutual doctor friend that he discussed my case during a medical
reunion in Malaga and said I  was taking some weird treatment in America and,
whatever it was, it seemed to be working. We have several doctor friends here in Spain who are familiar with my case. 148
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Whenever I  see them, they seem very pleased to see how well I  am looking but show
no curiosity nor do they express the slightest interest in the treatment I  am on. This
puzzles me as I  should have thought a doctor, more than any other person, would
want to know how I  am recovering from an illness they regard as incurable and
which, according to them, should have killed me more than a year before. After a year of staying most of the time at home and concentrating quietly on the
business of getting well and following my nutritional program to the letter, I  began,
little by little, to go out and become more active. I  consider I  am now leading a
normal life. I  run a home, am involved in the PTA at my children's Spanish school,
and help my husband in the office three times a week. I  might still have some cancer in my body but this does not worry me. I  am
convinced it is only a matter of months before I  am completely cured. Dr. Kelley told
me that my illness could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. I  could not believe this
at the time but now I  am sure he was right. I  feel I  am starting a new life. My family is
now eating a healthier diet. And I  feel my illness has brought my husband and myself
closer together. I  also have the added satisfaction of being able to help other people. Quite a number have heard about my recovery and have come to me for information
and advice. Some people I  have spoken to have been impressed by the nutritional program but
have been unable to believe that the doctors who have put them on chemotherapy
could be wrong. Most of them have since died and this saddens me because I  feel
their deaths were unnecessary. I  only wish I  had heard about Dr. Kelley earlier and
had not submitted myself to surgery and chemotherapy. But this, perhaps, is negative
thinking. I  feel very grateful that I  have been given the chance to get well. I  feel lucky
to be alive. Dr. Kelley: "Rosswitha brought to my attention one of the things I  just take for
granted and should be a characteristic of all doctors — people who are really doctors. She said, 'At last I  was speaking with a doctor who treated me like an intelligent
human being and was quite willing to discuss all the details of my illness.' That seems
to me to be the way it should be, but I  have to confess at this point that I  am the one
who benefits — a thousand times more than the patient does. Every single patient I
have had the privilege of working with and talking to taught me more than I  could
ever teach them. Patients have given to me more than I  could ever give to them. The
lessons that I've learned working with each one of them have been such a beautiful
experience that I  just can't go on and leave it unmentioned here. "I find it really sad if the clinician can't learn from each patient. I  can't comprehend
the clinician having this phenomenal educational institution right in front of him and
not learning a great deal. Not only did I  learn a lot, but the people paid me to learn
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and I  always felt a little guilty about that. I  learned so much that it looked to me that I
ought to be paying them. But I  wouldn't have been able to function if they hadn't
been paying me to be learning to do a better job each day. I  certainly appreciated it
and I  hope it has been a feeling of mutual gain on both of our parts. "Rosswitha brings to mind a comparison of cancer with diabetes. Before Dr.
Banting and Best discovered insulin in 1918 in Canada, a person would have
diabetes and would ask the doctor if it could be anything he was eating, and should
he change his diet in any way? And the doctor would say, 'Oh no, it doesn't make
any difference — eat anything you want, you aren't going to live much longer
anyhow, so just live it up and eat whatever you want.' Doctors couldn't connect the
diet and diabetes. Even lay people in those days figured out that if you ate a lot of
leafy green vegetables and reduced the amount of sugar that you took in, you
survived better and did well — better than the person who didn't watch his diet. "And so it was that after the development of insulin, doctors figured out that there
is a factor in diet. In the early 1920s there weren't very good analytical facilities
available. But the doctors empirically found that the people who ate green leafy
vegetables, and a few other foods, survived diabetes much better and the sugar count
in their urine was


 is something
one catches out of the corner of the eye and not cen
tral to experiencing at all. It means letting go of iden
tifying oneself as physicality. At the bottom ofthe Map of Consciousness, there is
identification of ourself as being the body, but as we
move up higher in consciousness, this lessens and
lessens until identification with the body is transcended,
and we move to the realization of the Self as spirit. It is necessary to look at the relationship between
mind and body because of its great importance in the
field of health and something that really is not clearly
understood. A basic principle that is demonstrated
clinically is that we are subject only to what we hold
in mind.This is a principle ofhealing and health, with
two sides to the coin-one side being illness and the
other being health.They are the opposite sides of the
coin of the same understanding that heals and brings
about health-that we are subject to what we hold in
mind. A good clinical example is that of multiple personHEALTH 111
alities; another example is hypnosis. Under hypnosis, a
suggestion can be given to a patient that they are aller
gic to the roses on the desk, and that when they get up,
they will get hives, a rash, and start sneezing. Then
amnesia is created for the suggestion. When the person
wakes up from the trance, all of a sudden, they start to
wheeze, get hives, and develop a rash. The body is
responding to what the mind believes. With hypnosis,
the symptoms can be induced, along with most any ill
ness, by convincing the patient that the program is
true; and then amnesia can be created for memory of
the programming process. This' illustrates how an ill
ness comes out of a program or belief system, which,
in ordinary life, is often unconscious. In the laboratory, this occurs as a psychological
experiment. It is important to remember, however, that
in everyday life, people have been programmed (hyp
notized) thousands of times. This occurs when sitting
in a trance in front ofa television. There is no conscious
memory of the process; the program went in, and the
person is now subject to it for the rest of their life. Because ofchildhood amnesia, many people cannot
remember what happened to them before the age of
five years, and some people have very little or even no
memory of anything from their entire childhood. Even
in people with good memories of childhood, there are
vast areas of vacant forgottenness. In those areas are
the many programs that are now expressing in various
forms ofill health, such as catch phrases like "Heart dis
ease runs in our family." "Being overweight runs in the family;'"Allergies run
inourfamily;or"Everybody inourfamily has hayfever." 112 HEALING AND RECOVERY
These thoughts become a program that goes into the
mind, and we can see that it is the same as though the
person were hypnotized. Until that program is brought
to the conscious mind and cancelled, it remains opera
tive within the unconscious mind (e.g., a chill or a draft
causes colds). Another example of the power of mind over body
is in the cases of so-called multiple personality. These
have been gaining increasing attention within the
field of psychiatry and are found to be far more com
mon than was previously believed. The consciousness
of one personality is adopted by the patient and oper
ative within that body for varying periods of time; it
could be minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even years. While that second personality is operative, the patient
is subject to all the belief systems held by that person
ality. If that personality happens to believe it has an
ulcer, a weight problem, allergies, diverticulitis, colitis,
back trouble-whatever it believes-while it is operative
in the body, those physical abnormalities are actually
brought into existence. The reverse side of this occurs when that personal
ity leaves, which sometimes comes about through
intoxication or shifts in emotionality or life circum
stances, and then the other personality enters the body. Because the other personality has no such beliefs, the
body promptly heals itself of all those illnesses. Why does the mind have such power over the
body? We will consider the physics involved, which
will make it easily understood. The energy of the
physical body calibrates at about 200, as does the
earth itself. The energy field of the mind is stronger HEALTH 113
and often calibrates up to 499. The 400s are in the
energy field of the intellect, reason, logic, mind, and
what the mind believes. Therefore, ifa thought is held
in mind that says strawberry seeds, caraway seeds, or
any kinds of seeds give me diverticulitis, then the
power ofthat thought coming out of the energy fields
of perhaps 300 to 400 overpowers the body at the
energy field of 200. The body is overpowered by the
influence of the pattern of the belief. All thought has form, so the form in the personal or
collective unconscious, or in the collective or social
consciousness, is present in great detail. Ifwe buy into
a thought or go into agreement with it, the effect is to
bring it into our own consciousness, which then
expresses itselfwithin the body.The body will do what
the mind believes. The healing of the body and the
achievement of health are accomplished not just by
addressing the body directly, but also by addressing the
.mind and moving into the field of consciousness. Ifthe
body is expressing that which is held in consciousness,
then it is necessary to look at what that is. Often we are not aware of what is being held in
consciousness, in which case it would be called 'being
unconscious'. There may be no recall of ever having
had·such a thought, but the body expresses what must
be. It is like an x-ray telling us what is being held in
mind since it is presenting itself in the body. For exam
ple, a person develops clinical diabetes and says, "I
don't remember anything ever being said about that in
my family. No one in my family has diabetes. I don't see
where it could have arisen in my mind. "We know that
somewhere in the collective unconscious is the belief 114 HEALING AND RECOVERY
of diabetes and all that goes with it. Ifwe do individual
research with the patient long enough, we will
uncover the origin of the program, which confirms
that the program exists. Ifthe person thinks they are
subject to an illness, then the belief system also has to
be healed. It is necessary to heal where the origin of
the illness began. Health is the result of positive mental attitudes. It
originates in the field of consciousness and reflects a
level of consciousness that expresses itself on the
lower physical plane. An expression of health origi
nates from the fields above Neutral-out of
Willingness, and out of lovingness, inner joyfulness,
and an inner state of peace.That which is mental cal
ibrates in the 400s, and that which is of Love is at 500
and above. Spirit dominates at level 500 and becomes
increasingly consciously aware that it is Spirit. Therefore, the intellect is not man's highest faculty,
contrary to the age of reason as expressed in other
learned works or by those intellectuals who believe
that the intellect is man's highest attribute. The intel
lect is only in the 400s.There is the nonlinear energy
field called consciousness, which is beyond mind,
logic, and reason and transcends mentalization, reveal
ing a whole different paradigm and way of being. If we understand illness, then we will also under
stand its reverse, which is health. In illness, there is
always unconscious guilt (calibrates as true), a state
ment reaffirmed by research. There are whole·systems
of how to let go of unconscious guilt through the
process of the willingness to forgive, to let go of criti
cism and judgment, to let go of right and wrong as an HEALTH 115
orientation towards life, to move towards forgiving
ness, and through the desire to understand life out of
compassion. This resolution of negativity requires
recontextualization of perception as exemplified by
the transformative effect of doing the workbook of A
Course in Miracles. We find that illness requires several components,
including unconscious guilt and a mental belief system. The mind has to hold a certain belief for the person to
accept that they are subject to it. It is as though uncon
scious guilt looks for something to justify itself. Often a
certain illness gets notoriety on television because a
celebrity shares their experience of it.That is followed
by an epidemic of that illness because of suggestion. The mind buys into the program, the belief system, and
the specificity of a particular disease. Unconscious
guilt gives it power by expression through the auto
nomic nervous system and the hormonal balance
through all the stress mechanisms within the body, and
through the acupuncture energy system. With positive attitudes, the acupuncture energy sys
tem is balanced, and the energy flow of health and life
moves directly


,"I'm sensing a tingling in my legs. " Then I ask,"Can you handle a tingling in your legs. You have handled headaches, major surgery, and deaths
in the family. I'm certain you can handle the tingling in
your legs. "The person will say they can handle that. Next I say, "Let go of resisting the tingling in the
legs. Now, how about the cramps in the abdomen. Could you let go of resisting that. Could you stop call373 DEPRESSION
ing them 'cramps'. Could you just experience what
you are experiencing and let go of resisting that. Right. Let's go up higher. What about the flip-flops in the
stomach. Can you handle that. " "Yes, I can handle that:'
"Could you just handle the experience and stop
calling it flip-flops in your stomach. How about the
beating in your pulse. Could you let go in your mind of
resisting that. Just let your pulse beat away if it wants
to. How about the dry mouth. " We get the person to realize,"Yes, I can handle that. I can handle the experience of that, but I cannot han
dle the fearful thoughts. " And we agree that nobodycan
handle fearful thoughts. There is no such thing as 'haVing' fearful thoughts. Fearful thoughts create themselves by the thousands,
and as we handle one bank offearful thoughts, a whole
new bank arises. "I'll be late for the plane. I won't get
on the plane. I'm afraid of the plane. Something is
going to happen to the plane. I might go to the bath
room. " The mind will just create an endless series of
fears. What it can handle is the dry mouth and the tin
gling in the legs, and then the willingness to face the
underlying fear. The ftrst thing that benefits the person is relief
from depression. They say,"Oh,I see I'm not depressed. I see that I was terrified of the future and that I will
never find happiness without what I wished for, longed
for, and desired. I was convinced that I had to have that
in order to survive and be happy:'
People who have been convinced of that and were
on sizable doses of alcohol or drugs have been as close 374 HEALING AND RECOVERY
to actually needing something to survive as anybody on
the planet could be. Yet, after they gave that up and
faced the fear of it all, they found that life was joyful,
complete, full, and enjoyable for the first time in their
lives. We know that fear is based on an illusion; there
fore, we have the courage to take the patient with us to
look at the fear, just like we take the child by the hand
to lead them. When I was a child, somebody on the block told me
about bogeymen. My mother had ridiculed bogeymen,
ghosts, and similar things but somehow, because of that
older kid's convincingness (and he acted like he knew
what he was talking about), I became afraid of bogey
men. My mother took me by the hand and led me
down into the dark basement with flashlights and
looked all overfor bogeymen. None were found there,
or in the closets, or behind the curtains, or anywhere
else in the house or attic. It is helpful to have someone with us when looking
at the fear because it is our unconscious child that is
frightened. Our inner child does not understand the
nature of real life in this world, so it comes up and says,
"Gee, without that, I won't be able to survive. " As we said before, depression is often aligned with
anger turned within. What about that anger. What is
the basis of the anger. We will use the example of
somebody who bases survival on something outside
himself, such as an addict. When we threaten to take
away his bottle or supply or flush his drugs down the
toilet, he goes into a rage. Now it is very clear to us
what the source of the anger is, is it not. The source of
the anger is exactly the same fantasy as the source of 375 DEPRESSION
happiness being something outside of him and which
has been placed on some external object-a person,
place, or thing. To place the source of our happiness on
something outside ourself creates a negative energy
field because it is basically a lie. The source of happi
ness is not something that is outside ourself at all. Only when we own that we are the source of our
happiness does the energy field go in a positive direc
tion. We can move a person out of depression and
despondency, get them to face the fear, get them to
desire something better for themselves, and turn their
anger into anger at being the victim instead of being at
the loss of an object. There are usually endless rationalizations and expla
nations to try to make their anger sound justified. "They
promised me this. They signed a contract. They sent me
a check that wasn't any good. " The source of that is
always outside of oneself, and the explanation, details,
and events are only justifications for the anger. We can use this anger by turning it into anger at the
vulnerability. One can say,"Now it is time to be angry at
the real cause, which is that I was brought up in a
world that taught me to think this way. I was taught
that this is the right way to think. "That is what we need
to be angry about-that we were taught how to think
in a way that set us up as potential victims-to think
that something or someone outside ourself is the
source of happiness. The usual projected fantasy is that
'success'is the source of happiness, is it not. Will suc
cess bring us happiness. I used to live on the East Coast near a community
of millionaires, and despite their affluence, occasionally 376 HEALING AND RECOVERY
someone committed suicide or took a drug overdose. They were not at all immune to the human vulnerabil
ities. Therefore, worldly success (e. g., celebrity status)
does not bring immunity. What we need to be angry at
is what caused us to sell ourselves out and then learn
how we do it. Then we can take pride in the fact that
we are willing to look at this now and move up to the
level of Courage to tell the truth about it. The truth is
that something within our consciousness set us up to
be vulnerable. Ifwe start to take responsibility and say,"The way I
was looking at this set me up for this depression, frus
tration, and anger. It set me up for the letdown and this
disappointment. " The courage to look at that and be
willing to tell the truth about it now changes the way
we feel about the whole subject. We can now move up
to a situation where we can say to ourselves, "Well, it's
okay. It's okay if that is how people are taught in this
world, and I grew up in this world. I guess I learned the
same as everybody else, but I'm willing to look at it in
a different way now. "We then move up to a willingness
to look at it and say, "Yes, I agree to look at this. My
intention is up, and I at least see the subject as promis
ing and hopeful. The God of a friendly world is promis
ing and hopeful. In other words, there is going to be a
benefit to me, not only in this particular situation, but
there is also going to be a benefit to me as a human
being that will last my lifetime, because if I solve this
one, I have solved it for all time within myself. " The willingness to look at that and accept what is
discovered results in a certain confidence that there is
a process going on within, and that this depression has 377 DEPRESSION
arisen to bring something to one's attention. It is as
though it is saying, "Something is out; something is
wrong within my mind, within my consciousness, and
within my spiritual position," because that is what
pain means. Pain means,"Please look at me; something
is out. " We can treat depression pharmacologically and get
the person out of it temporarily, but if the person has
not changed in their way of being in the world, in the
way they are holding who they are and how they relate
to the world and the universe, or in their expectations,
their vulnerability remains the same. We know that
many people who are treated with just antidepressants
will recover from the current episode. We also know
that some people are prone to relapses due to geneti
cally determined faulty brain chemistry, and others
have additional episodes unless their whole context
has changed. Without an understanding of the nature
of consciousness itself, the vulnerability remains, and
the person who has depressions of psychological ori
gin is subject to repeated bouts of depression within
their lifetime. In looking at this in a holistic way, from the view
point of body, mind, and spirit, we want to address the
basic understanding to bring about an immunity froin
further episodes of this debilitating experience of
depression


2 oz. dried figs, presoaked
2 oz. dried apricots, presoaked
1/2 white cabbage, finely shredded
2 carrots, coarsely grated
2 red eating apples, coarsely grated
8 tbsp. yogurt
1 lemon
parsley, chopped
Soak the raisins, figs and apricots overnight in cold water, or pour boiling water over them and
leave for a couple of hours until plump. Finely shred the cabbage. Coarsely grate the carrots and
apples. (Sprinkle the apples with lemon juice to stop them from turning brown.) Put the above
ingredients into a bowl. Combine the yogurt, lemon juice and chopped parsl ey in a jug  and
spoon over the salad. Toss together until well mixed.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 225Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comGerson® Coleslaw
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
onion, sliced or chopped
white cabbage, grated or sliced
carrot, grated
Dressing:
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. water
sugar (optional)
yogurt
cottage cheese (nonfat, unsalted)
Slice or chop the onion. Grate or slice the white cabbage. Grate the carrot. Mix all together. For
the dressing, mix lemon juice with water (and sugar, if used). Mix yogurt with cottage cheese
and beat well to get rid of any lumps. Then add the lemon juice and water mixture. Mix well
and pour over salad. Grated Lime Zucchini Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 lb. zucchini, finely grated
juice of 1 lime (or lemon)
1 red bell pepper, grated
1 clove garlic, crushed
lettuce
Grate the zucchini  finely. M ix with the lime (or le mon) juice and grated pepper. Add crushed
garlic. Allow the flavors to blend a little before serving on a bed of lettuce.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 226Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comHungarian Tomato Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
whole tomatoes, skinned
lettuce
chopped chives
Dressing:
yogurt
lemon juice
flaxseed oil
grated horseradish
Skin the tomatoes by dipping them in boiling water for a minute. Make the dressing. Place
the whole, skinned tomatoes on the lettuce leaves and cover with the dressing. Garnish with
chopped chives. Jumbo Salad
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Serves 4-6
variety of shredded lettuce leaves and salad greens, bite-sized and shredded
Any, or all, of the following:
tomato, chopped
green (or red) bell pepper, chopped
green onions, finely sliced
carrot, finely grated
beet, finely grated
radish, finely sliced
fennel, finely sliced
grape halves
lemon juice
flaxseed oil
dried dill  weed
raisins, plumped
Gradually build up the salad, beginning with the bite-sized shredded lettuce leaves and salad
greens. Add any, or all, of the ingredients listed above. Pour boiling water over the raisins
and leave for a few minutes to become plump and juicy. Sprinkle on top of the salad. Grate
the carrot and/or beet and place to one side of the salad. (If you put it all on top, it tends to
“smother” the salad.) Pour on the lemon juice and flaxseed  oil. Sprinkle with dill. Serve with
rice, oven-cooked and sliced potatoes or boiled small new potatoes.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 227Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comMinted Apple and Celery Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes (does not include soaking)
Serves 2
1 red eating apple, cut, cored and chopped
apple cider vinegar
1 stalk of celery, chopped
raisins, presoaked
mint leaves
lettuce
Cut and core the apple and chop into bite-sized chunks. Mix with a little apple cider vinegar
(diluted with water, if desired). Chop the celery and add, with the presoaked raisins, to the apple
and apple cider vinegar. Take the mint leaves and tear into small pieces. Add to the dish and
serve on a bed of lettuce. (Leave for a little while before serving  so the flavors have time to mix. ) Variation: Yogurt  can be mixed with the apple cider vinegar  for the dressing. Orange, Chicory and Watercress Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 orange, peeled and segmented
2 heads of chicory
1 bunch of watercress
Dressing:
1 tbsp. flaxseed  oil
1/2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar  (or lemon juice)
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 green  onion
parsley
chives
dill
fennel
mint
Peel the orange and split into segments. Separate the chicory leaves and arrange like the spokes
of a wheel  around a large dish. Put the watercress and orange in the middle. Combine all the
dressing ingredients in a jug and stir vigorously. (If you have no fresh herbs, use a generous
pinch of dried herbs.) Pour over the salad and serve immediately.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 228Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comRadish, Apple and Celery Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes (does not include soaking)
Serves 2
radishes, chopped
green apples, chopped
celery, chopped
raisins (presoaked)
lettuce
Dressing :
1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp. water
1 tsp. sugar (or honey)
1 or 2 cloves garlic, crushed
dill, chopped
yogurt
Chop the radishes, green apples and celery into small chunks. Add the raisins. For the dressing,
mix together the apple cider vinegar, water, sugar (or honey), garlic and dill. Add enough yogurt
to make a creamy dressing. Pour over the salad and serve on a bed of lettuce (include radicchio
or red leaf, if available). Variations: Use other herbs instead of dill, omit the yogurt or add some flaxseed oil. Raw Turnip, Watercress and Orange Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
1 turnip, peeled and cut
1 orange, segmented
watercress
Dressing:
orange juice
flaxseed oil
Peel and cut the turnip into matchstick -size pieces. Segment the orange and add to the turnip
pieces. Add the watercress and toss in the dressing. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 229Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comRice Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
green  bell pepper, chopped
red bell pepper, chopped
tomato, chopped
1 cup cooked brown rice
Dressing:
1 tbsp. flaxseed  oil
1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1 clove garlic
sugar
Chop the peppers and tomato. Prepare the dressing, mixing well, and add the chopped peppers
and tomato. Spoon onto the rice. Serve with a mixed green salad. Romaine Lettuce with Yogurt Dressing
Romaine lettuce
chives, chopped
Dressing:
yogurt
sugar
lemon juice
crushed garlic
Coarsely shred the lettuce. Pour on the dressing and sprinkle with chopped chives.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 230Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comSalad Kebabs
Preparation time: 15 minutes
tomatoes, thinly sliced
zucchini s, thinly sliced
whole radishes, thinly sliced
lettuce hearts, thinly sliced
carrots, thinly sliced
Dressing:
lemon juice
yogurt
flaxseed oil
herbs (mint, dill or parsley)
Thread on wooden skewers thinly sliced pieces of tomato, zucchini, whole radishes,  lettuce
hearts and raw carrot. Dip into the salad dressing before serving. Salad Lorette
cooked beets, thinly sliced
celery stalks, thinly sliced
lettuce
Dressing:
flax