 like, are all side effects of a congested lymph
system. A parasite formula is also advisable in the beginning of your
detoxification. Detoxification is an art and science, but easy to learn. Always consult an
experienced detoxification specialist and herbalist for guidance. Once again,
consult the Resource Guide,
Appendix C
, at the back of this book for
recommendations of herbal companies that supply high-quality formulas. ADRENAL GLANDS

An ideal herbal tincture for aid in the regeneration of the adrenal glands
would contain all or most of the following herbs:
Astragalus Root
(Astragalus membranaceus)
Licorice Root
(Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Parsley Root
(Petroselinum crispum)Bayberry Root Bark
(Myrica cerifera)
Jamaican Sarsaparilla Root
(Smilax ornata)
Juniper Berries
(Juniperus communis)
Kelp Fronds
(Nereocystis leutkeana)
Alfalfa Leaf
(Medicago sativa)
Prickly Ash Bark
(Zanthoxylum clava-Herculis)
Parsley Leaf
(Petroselinum crispum)
Siberian Ginseng Root
(Eleutherococcus senticosus)
INDICATIONS
Adrenal insufficiency, arthritis, fatigue and chronic fatigue (not from Epstein-
Barr virus), a specific for low blood pressure, high blood pressure
(occasionally), weak pulse, systemic inflammation, female reproductive
problems—especially estrogen dominance (ovarian cysts, sore breasts, uterine
fibroids, etc), prostatitis, exhaustion, low endurance, neurotransmitting issues
—e.g., multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, palsys, tremors, Lou Gehrig’s, etc. Post strokes, spinal cord injuries, all types of cancers, HIV (AIDS), skin
conditions, heart arrhythmias, anxiety disorders. SUGGESTED USAGE
Add to a little water or juice. General: 1 full dropper 3 to 6 times a day. Acute: 1 full dropper every 4 hours. CAUTIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS
May elevate the blood pressure temporarily, please monitor in high blood
pressure cases. NOTES
1
. The medulla of the adrenal glands produces neurotransmitters
(epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine hydrochloride). These
regulate the action of the heart and nerve response. Low blood pressure
is always a sign of adrenal insufficiency. 2
. The cortex of the adrenal glands produces the cortical steroids that act inthe body as anti-inflammatory compounds. Adrenal weaknesses, in most
cases, affect the production of these lipid (cholesterol) type steroids
causing inflammation to go unchecked. A diet of mainly acid foods (a
typical diet) causes inflammation within the tissues of the body. Long-
term inflammation deteriorates tissue, eventually leading to ulceration,
leading to deterioration or cancer. BLOOD

An ideal herbal formula for the blood would cleanse impurities, alkalize the
blood and tissues, and reduce vascular inflammation. Such a formula would
help remove mineral deposits, lipid deposits, and metals as it strengthened the
blood system overall. It would contain:
Red Clover Herb and Flowers (Frifolium pratense)
Yellow Dock Root (Rumex spp.) Burdock Root (Arctium lappa)
Plantain Herb (Plantago lanceolata)
White Oak Bark (Quercus alba)
Prickly Ash Bark (Zanthoxylum clava-Herculis)
INDICATIONS
Detoxification, toxic blood conditions, septicemia, leukocytosis, all cancers
(especially leukemia), AIDS, anemia, syphilis, leprosy, elevated cholesterol,
fatigue, low iron levels, gangrene, exhaustion, parasitic invasion of weakened
blood cells, blood disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome (except when caused
from thyroid and adrenal weaknesses), toxic liver and spleen conditions. Low
iron levels, low O
2
 saturation, malabsorption. SUGGESTED USAGE
Add to a little water or juice. General: 1 full dropper 3 to 6 times a day. Acute: 1 full dropper every 2 to 4 hours. CAUTIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONSNone known. NOTE
In cancer cases, use with a parasite formula for microorganisms and a
lymphatic formula. BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM

And ideal herbal formula to strengthen and rebuild the brain and nerve tissues
of the body would contain all or most of the following:
Gotu Kola Herb (Centella asiatica)
Siberian Ginseng Root (Eleutheroccocus sent.) Ginkgo Leaf (Ginkgo biloba)
Schizandra Berries (Schisandra chinensis)
Skullcap Herb (Scutellaria lateriflora)
Prickly Ash Bark (Zanthoxylum clava-Herculis)
Calamus Root (Acorus calamus)
INDICATIONS
Weakened nervous system, marked by nerve rings in the iris (autonomic,
sympathetic and parasympathetic), poor memory (short and long term),
Alzheimer’s (or Mad Cow Disease, as several doctors have reported), senile
dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Bell’s palsy, post strokes,
headaches, migraines, spinal cord injuries, depression, jittery nerves, pituitary
and pineal gland weakness, shingles (also use a general parasite formula and
a parasite formula for microorganisms), spasms, epilepsy, twitching, electrical
weaknesses of the heart (arrhythmias, depolarization and repolarization
issues, etc. ), dizziness, equilibrium issues and mental disorders. SUGGESTED USAGE
Add to a little water or juice. General: 1 full dropper 3 to 6 times a day. Acute: 1 full dropper every 2 to 4 hours.CAUTIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS
None known. NOTES
1
. I have seen tremendous nerve regeneration in quadriplegics and
paraplegics with this type of formula, and a 100 percent raw food diet. 2
. Deeper results can be attained using this type of formula together with a
circulation (upper) formula plus a lymphatic system formula. 3
. Alkalization of the body is essential for brain and nerve regeneration. Acidity causes inflammation, which leads to tissue weakness and
deterioration. CIRCULATION AND BLOOD PRESSURE

A cayenne/garlic combo would be an ideal herbal formula to lower blood
pressure and increase circulation throughout the body. It would also
strengthen the heart and vascular system. Such a cayenne/garlic formula in
capsule form would consist of all or most of the following:
Cayenne Pepper Fruit
(Capsicum annum)
 (40,000 HU maximum)
Garlic Bulb
(Allium sativum)
Alfalfa Leaf
(Medicago sativa)
Butcher’s Broom Root
(Iuscus aculeatus)
Licorice Root
(Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Hawthorn Berries
(Crataegus spp.) Aloe (100:1)
INDICATIONS
High blood pressure, poor circulation, general body weaknesses, especially in
the heart and vascular system. Nervous tension, headaches, internal bleeding,
depression, sinus congestion, fatigue, poor memory, cold conditions of the
body, especially hypo-activity of tissues. SUGGESTED USAGEGeneral: 2 capsules, 3 times a day. Acute: 2 to 3 capsules, every 2 to 4 hours. CAUTIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS
Caution with low blood pressure. Low blood pressure is adrenal and/or
pituitary weakness. In high blood pressure cases you should use an adrenal
formula (without Licorice), especially if the iris shows adrenal weakness. However, monitor your own or your patient’s blood pressure. FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

An ideal herbal tincture to help clean, strengthen, and regenerate the female
reproductive system would consist of all or most of the following:
Chaste Tree Berries
(Vitex agnus-castus)
Alteris Root
(True Unicorn Root)
False Unicorn Root
(Chamaelirium luteum) (Aletris farinosa)
Saw Palmetto Berries
(Serenoa repens)
Wild Yam Root
(Dioscorea spp.) Red Raspberry Leaf
(Rubus idaeus)
Black Haw Bark
(Viburnum prunijolium)
Prickly Ash Bark
(Zanthoxylum clava-Herculis)
INDICATIONS
All female reproductive issues including dys-menorrhea (painful
menstruation), amenorrhea (lack of proper menstruation), PMS, and
ovulation disorders. Discharges (use a lymphatic formula, a general parasite
formula and a parasite formula for microorganisms), endometriosis, ovarian
cysts and uterine fibroids (adrenal weakness), prolapsed uterus, menorrhagia
(excessive bleeding, which is estrogen dominance), hot flashes and cramping
(low thyroid function), edema, under-developed or sagging breasts, dry
vaginal walls (low estrogen levels), premature births (estrogen dominance),
lack of tone in the female body, cancers of the female reproductive organs
(see notes), low sex drive (also underactive thyroid). SUGGESTED USAGEAdd to a little water or juice. General:


been ripened by the sun’s rays. When we eat fresh fruitsand vegetables we absorb the blood of the plant – therich, nourishing chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the solar
energy that the plant has absorbed from the sun, the richest
and most nourishing food you can put into your body.“Chlorophyll is liquid sunshine.” Green plants alone possess
the secret of how to capture this powerful solar energy
and pass it on to man and every other living creature. When you put sunshine on the outside of your body
and
 60% to 70% raw fruits and vegetables in your daily
diet, you are going to glow with radiant health! But theseare powerful and must be taken in small doses at the start,
because your sun-starved body has to slowly get used to
these cleansing, solar-powered foods.143
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. We are all
sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bloodand bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features,any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. – Henry David ThoreauGentle Sun Rays are Soothing and Best
When you take your first sunbath, start with short
time periods until you can condition your body to longer
exposure. The best time for a beginner to start taking
gentle sunbaths is in the early morning sunshine. Oryou may sunbathe in the late afternoon gentle sunshine. Five to ten minutes on the nude body is sufficient at
first. Avoid the burning rays between
 11 am and  3 pm. The best cool rays of the sun are in the early morning. The same caution should be taken in eating sun
ripened foods – the raw fruits and vegetables. Theaverage person who has been eating mainly cooked
foods will find that if great amounts of raw juicy fruit
and vegetables are suddenly put into the body they cancause a reaction. It’s wiser to add more sun-grown foods
to the diet gradually. Overdoses of solar energy, both
on the outside and inside of the body, go slowly.Regarding exposure to the sun, it’s quite necessary to
use good judgment and always proceed with caution! At this point I must add a personal touch. At
16
years of age I had been sentenced to death with deadly
tuberculosis. The greatest doctors in the United States
declared me “Hopeless! Incurable!” By the Grace of God
I was led to Dr. August Rollier of Leysen, Switzerland,the greatest living authority on Heliotherapy (Sun Cure). High in the Alps, Dr. Rollier exposed my sick, wasted
body to the healing rays of the sun and fed me ahealthy abundance of sun-grown foods. Presto
 – a miracle
happened! In 2 short years I was transformed from a
bed-ridden invalid to a strong, healthy, young man. I have enjoyed a wonderful long life and I am still a
powerful, healthy man. Through these long years I havekept the glorious light of the sun’s gentle rays on mybody. I regained my health through the gentle healing
of “Doctor Healing Sunshine”. He helped save my life
and that is why I love God’s own precious sunshine.144
The choice of which road to take is up to the individual. He alone
can decide whether he wants to reach a dead end or live a healthylifestyle for a long, healthy, happy, active life. – Paul C. Bragg
Deprivation of food at first brings a sensation of hunger, occasionally
some nervous stimulation – but it also determines certain hidden miracle
phenomena which are more important. The sugar of the liver and the fatof the sub-cutaneous deposits are mobilized, and used in order to
maintain the blood, heart and brain in a normal condition. Fasting
purifies our entire body and profoundly cleanses and modifies our tissues. – Dr. Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize winner, author of Man, the UnknownThe secret of longevity is eating and living intelligently. – Gayelord Hauser
Always do what is right – despite any public opinions.NEGATIVE POSITIVE
Eliminate the negative, latch onto the affirmative and accent the positive! The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. – George ElliotI Love Being With Doctor Sunshine
Patricia and I love the great sunshine state and have a home
in the Santa Monica mountains so we can enjoy the mountain
sunshine. We have a modest home in the California Desert,
where the sun shines 354 days a year,  and a cottage and our
organic veggie garden and flowers in Santa Barbara near ouroffice, and 2 places in Hawaii – Maui and Diamond Head near
Free Bragg Exercise Class (page iii). We don’t use toxic chemical
sunscreens. We make safer green tea and spray on skin when inmid-day sun, plus we wear straw hats. We love beach walking
and spend time in winter and summer, on the sun drenched
beaches of Hawaii, Florida, France, Australia and New Zealandwhile on our Health Crusades. Seek gentler sunshine (before
11 am & after 3 pm) and health follows by leaps and bounds.145Doctor  Fresh Air
Breathing deeply, fully and completely energizes the body, it calms the
nerves, fills you with peace and helps keep you youthful. –  Paul C. BraggMacfadden  &  BraggChapter 20
Doctor Fresh Air is a health specialist, and his greatest
prescription for you is to “Breathe Deeply of God’s Pure
Fresh Air.” The first thing we do when we are born istake a long, deep breath and the last thing we do is takea last gasp before we stop breathing. Between birth anddeath, life is completely maintained by breathing. Doctor Fresh Air wants you to have a long active life
and he feels, as a specialist, that you will if you followhis simple instructions and breathe deeply. You mustalways be conscious that, with every breath you take,you are bringing into your body the Breath of God...which is life-giving oxygen.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        A pure, clean, wholesome body and strong mind
will always reject poisons. Fasting is the greatest methodto purify the body and to keep it healthy and strong. 112Excerpt from Bragg Super Power Breathing. Be a Crusader and share with smokers. SMOKERS PLEASE QUIT. In just 12 hours of not smoking, the
blood levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide fall; heart and lungsbegin healing. Smokers must stop this vicious and deadly de stroyer
of life, health, energy and beauty. Let’s ban smoking  worldwide. ✞Tobacco use and secondhand smoke will eventually
kill just over  5 of all people now living in the developed
world – over 250 million ( also marijuana smoke is deadly ). ✞Of the  50 million smoking Americans,  3 to 2 will die
from smoke-related disease, and reduce their life
expectancy by  an average of  9 years. ✞Cancers, as well as cataracts, are linked to smoking. ✞Children and teenagers make up  90% of new smokers
in the U. S. – and teenage smoking is on the rise. ✞Smoking acts as both a stimulant and a depressant -
depending upon the smoker’s emotional state. ✞The average pack-a-day smoker takes about  70,000
poisonous hits  of nicotine each year. ✞“Secondhand smoke” can kill nonsmokers: it speeds
up heart rate, raises blood pressure and doubles the
carbon monoxide in their blood. ✞Secondary smoke contains more nicotine, tar andcadmium (leading to hypertension, bronchitis and
emphysema) than mainstream smoke. ✞The children of smokers tend to have lower bodyweight, smaller lungs and more health problems. ✞Lung illnesses such as asthma are tw ice as common in
the children of sm okers. Shame on their parents. ✞The death rate from breast cancer ranges from  25% to
75% higher for women who smoke. ✞Female smokers may face a higher risk of lung cancer  –
as much as twice the risk of male smokers, according
to a study done by Dr. Harvey Risch at Yale University. ✞Your body contains almost  100,000  miles of blood
vessels. Smoking constricts those vessels, depriving
your body of fresh, rich oxygen it needs for life. DEADLY SMOKING FACTS. 113Fasting Melts Away Pounds. It’s estimated that  75% of men, women and children
in America are overweight. These overweight people arein serious physical health trouble according to medicalauthorities and insurance companies. Excess weightpresents great hazards to health and long life. These sameauthorities tell us that the overweight person is moresusceptible to chronic and even fatal diseases than anormal weight person. An overweight person can’t beginto know the thrill of wellness. First, they are constantlytired because they are carrying far too many pounds. Let’s say a person is
 25 pounds overweight. Now, let a
normal weight person carry a  25 pound suitcase around
all day. In a short time every move would become painfuland fatiguing. You can plainly see millions of overweightpeople are grossly overburdening their bodies and lives.


ing, “Operator, opera tor!”, wanting to know why I couldn’t get
a trans-continental call across the country in the blink of an eye. So I came back from Central West Africa with an acute
awareness of all that I had been taking for granted—not just thetelephone service. And that was a great deal. Not a little bit, but a
great deal. I recall going to the home of a family living on the outsk irts of
Ouagadougou—way outside of town. I traveled there by taxi when I
was invited as their guest. They wanted me to visit their home. And it
was considered to be a really modern home, because in this home
there was electricity. The source: One bare bulb hanging on a cord
from the ceiling in the main room of the house. They would take out the bulb during the day and put in an
electrical adap ter so you could plug an iron, or some other kind of
appliance, into it. And in the evening you didn’t use appliances,
because a bulb was put in there. That was their source of light in this
small adobe kind of home, in which lived probably twelve  or thirteen
people. It was a four-room dwelling. There was, of course, no indoor plumbing, no showe r, no
washer-and-dryer, none of those things. I’ve been to 26 nations around the world and I can tell you that
it’s astonishing how many people live without what you and I
consider stand ard, ordinary, every-day conditions that turn out to be
quite luxurious to somebody in Ouagadougou. I would think that the average person, upon seeing that, would
then create a context within which they would begin to examine their
own life—and life in general. More broadly, life in general. What’ s going on around the Earth? Why is it this way? What is
really happening here? How is it possible for all of us to say we want the same thing,
and we’re supposed to be an evolving species... how can seven
billion member s of an evolving species be unable to produce theoutcomes we say we want, except for the tiniest percent age of us? Not that the outcomes are, necessarily, washer-and-drye r... but
surely, just a source of pure drinking water... What is the missing data? What is it we don’t understand? And that’s what led me to clarity about the final Four
Fundamental Questions of Life. DR. COOPER:  And what shocks me even more is that, even among
the 5 percent of people who hold or control 95 percent of the world’ s
wealth, there is an underlying yet highly prevalent level of discontent
and dissatisfaction. Even those who appear to “have it good” are not
guaranteed to have an under lying level of happiness, in the way we
might expect. I recall you saying in your book God’ s Message To The World:
You’ve Got Me All Wrong that when even the “best of f” members of a
species are unhappy, it’s a sure sign that something is amiss. It’s a
sure sign that there is missing data  of some sort. That we are lacking
clarity on why we are here, what we are “up to,” and what we are
trying to achieve—both individually and collectively—suc h that the
joy and happiness that is the birthright of every human being almost
becomes elusive, seemingly impossible to achieve, and always just
out of reach. Further to that, I have noticed  working in the medical profession
that the rates of mental health  crises have skyrocketed over the past
several years, in a way that cannot be explained by biology and
medicine alone. This further raises my suspicion that there issomething we may not fully understand about life and about
ourselves, the understanding of which would change everything. NEALE: You’re right—when even the best off of us are lacking in
happiness and fulfillment, that’ s a sure sign that something is amiss. DR. COOPER: It is! And those “luxuries” you mention us taking for granted are
more often than not viewed as hassles in the modern-day world. It’s
a “hassle” to make a long-d istance phone call, a “hassle” to drive
through traffic, and a “hassle”  to get groceries and cook meals, when
others would be indescribab ly grateful just to get the leftovers we
throw in the garbage. Clearly, there is something that does not add up in this picture. And clearly, the conditions around us do merit further investigation. NEALE: And the conditions  around us have nothing to do with
whether we’re happy or not happy. We just think that they do. But it
turns out it’ s not about the car in the driveway, or the house. You know, I sometimes wince when I hear myself and my
contemporaries talk about the things that we find intolerable, like
driving through traffic. Some people find it intolerable—can you
imagine this, an intolerable condition —that they have to drag the
vacuum cleane r from the first floor to the second floor to clean the
carpets once a week. So people now have to have a vacuum cleaner on every floor of
the house. One for the first floor and one for the second floor—and if
you live in a tri-level, one for the third floor—so that you don’t have todrag the vacuum cleaner up and down the stairs. God forbid you
would have to do that. So we have homes in North America and
elsewhere in Europe (and in other places in the western world) where
in fact, just to make a point of it, there are two, and sometimes three,
vacuum cleaners in one house. I call that the V acuum-Cleaner Syndrome. DR. COOPER: Good diagnosis there. And yes, I agree with you. It’s
not the external circumstances of our lives that determine our
happiness. But I think it is our mistaken assumption that these
circumstances define Who We Are. In this regard, we have forgotten
Who W e Really Are. So this takes us to the first of the Four Fundamental Ques tions
of Life, Who am I? I think the vast majority of the world, including myself before I
met you, would be tempted to define themselves by listing things,
such as their education, their career, their families, their friends, their
hobbies, their possessions, and their accomplishments. In this, we
mistake “who we are” with the “story of our lives”— and the two are
not the same. The “story of our lives” tells people what we have done and the
road we have travelled, but it says nothing about the fundamental
essence of Who We Are. It fails to address the spiritual component,
which I have come to understand is the most important aspect of all. In my observation, the happiness that comes from connecting
with the spiritual piece in ourselves far exceeds anything  that could
be achieved in the physical realm alone. In other words, the “story of
your life,” no matter how “good” it gets—even if you’re among the 5percent of the richest people  in the world—never can and never will
measure up to the truth of Who Y ou Really Are. So I would venture to say that a true willingness to answe r the
question Who am I?, without relying on your “story” for the answer, is
the first step toward true fulfillment in any circumstance. NEALE: Not only to answer the question Who am I?, but to create the
answer. I wanted to double back just a second here to talk about this
business of happiness without three vacuum cleaners in the house,
and what I didn’t say a moment ago about the people of
Ouagadougou is that they were the happiest people I’d ever met in
my life. The evening that I spent in their home—that adobe, or
hardened mud brick building,  with no windows and one hanging cord
for their source of electricity, in which ten or twelve people lived, as I
recall—was a revelation. These were the happiest people I’d ever
encountered. They sang and they danced, and they hugged and kissed each
other, they enjoyed eating meals together, and the laughter that filled
that dwelling was heard all over the place. And I though t, Oh, my
goodness, my heavens, what is it that these people know that I, with
my two vacuum cleaners, have only begun to touch? What is it that I
don’t understand, that they clearly understand? And, of course, they clearly understood that their personal
happiness had nothing to do with their possessions, or virtually
anything material in their lives. It had to do with immaterial things. Things that were not necessarily physical, but the non-physicalaspects of their life, which I would characterize, among other things,
as simp le love. They just loved each other enormously, and they
realized that they were all part of the same unit, the same tribe, and
the same experience. So yes, when we have a willingness to ask that first question,
Who Am I?, and then to create the answer, it is immensely powerful
to not simply respond to the question intellectually, as an intellectual
excursion, but to create a response that makes sense to our soul. A
response that announces Who We Choose To Be, as opposed to
who we


 Intestinal length: Our intestinal tracts measure roughly 12 times the length of our tor sos (about 30 feet). This allows for the
slow absorption of sugars and other water-borne nutrients from fruit. In c ontrast, the digestive tract of a carnivore is only 3
times the length of its torso. This is necessary to avoid rotting or decompos ition of flesh inside the animal. The carnivore
depends upon highly acidic secretions to facilitate rapid digestion and abs orption in its very short tube. Still, the putrefaction of
proteins and the rancidity of fats is evident in their feces. Mammary glands: The multiple teats on the abdomens of carnivores do not coincide with the pai r of mammary glands on
the chest of humans. Sleep: Humans spend roughly two thirds of every 24-hour cycle actively awake. Ca rnivores typically sleep and rest from 18
to 20 hours per day and sometimes more. Microbial tolerance: Most carnivores can digest microbes that would be deadly for humans, such a s those that cause
botulism. Perspiration:  Humans sweat from pores on their entire body. Carnivores sweat from the t ongues only. Vision: Our sense of vision responds to the full spectrum of color, making it possible t o distinguish ripe from unripe fruit at a
distance. Meat eaters do not typically see in full color. Meal size: Fruit is in scale to our food requirements. It fits our hands. A few pieces  of fruit is enough to make a meal, leaving
no waste. Carnivores typically eat the entire animal when they kil l it. Drinking: Should we need to drink water, we can suck it with our lips, but we cannot la p it up. Carnivores’ tongues
protrude outward so they can lap water when they need to drink. Placenta: We have a discoid-style placenta, whereas the carnivores have zonar y placentas. Vitamin C: Carnivores manufacture their own vitamin C. For us, vitamin C is an  essential nutrient that we must get from our
food. Jaw movement: Our ability to grind our food is unique to plant eaters. Meat eaters have no l ateral movement in their jaws. Dental formula: Mammalogists use a system called the “dental formula” to describe t he arrangement of teeth in each
quadrant of the jaws of an animal’s mouth. This refers to the number of  incisors, canines, and molars in each of the four
quadrants. Starting from the center and moving outward, our formula, and th at of most anthropoids, is 2/1/5. The dental
formula for carnivores is 3/1/5-to-8. Teeth: The molars of a carnivore are pointed and sharp. Ours are primarily  flat, for mashing food. Our “canine” teeth bear
no resemblance to true fangs. Nor do we have a mouth full of them, as a true c arnivore does. I am reminded of one of
Abraham Lincoln’s favorite retorts: “If you counted a sheep’s tail  as a leg, how many legs would it have?” Invariably, people
would answer, “five.” To which Lincoln would respond: “Only four. Counting  the tail as a leg doesn’t make it one.”
Tolerance for fat: We do not handle more than small quantities of fat well. Meat eaters thr ive on a high-fat diet. Saliva and urine pH: All of the plant-eating creatures (including healthy humans) m aintain alkaline saliva and urine most of
the time. The saliva and urine of the meat eating animals, however, i s acidic. Diet pH: Carnivores thrive on a diet of acid-forming foods, whereas such a diet is de adly to humans, setting the stage for a
wide variety of disease states. Our preferred foods are all alkaline-for ming. Stomach acid pH: The pH level of the hydrochloric acid that humans produce in their stomac hs generally ranges about 3 to
4 or higher but can go as low as 2.0. (0 = most acidic, 7 = neutral, 14 = most alkaline). Th e stomach acid of cats and other
meat eaters can be in the 1 + range and usually runs in the 2s. Because the pH scale is logarithmi c, this means the stomach acid
of a carnivore is at least 10 times stronger than that of a human and can  be 100 or even 1,000 times stronger. Uricase: True carnivores secrete an enzyme called uricase to metabolize th e uric acid in flesh. We secrete none and so must
neutralize this strong acid with our alkaline minerals, primarily  calcium. The resulting calcium urate crystals are one of the man y
pathogens of meat eating, in this case giving rise to or contributing t o gout, arthritis, rheumatism, and bursitis. Digestive enzymes: Our digestive enzymes are geared to make for easy fruit digestion. W e produce ptyalin—also known
as salivary amylase—to initiate the digestion of fruit. Meat-eat ing animals do not produce any ptyalin and have completely different digestive enzyme ratios. Sugar metabolism: The glucose and fructose in fruits fuel our cells without strainin g our pancreas (unless we eat a high-fat
diet). Meat eaters do not handle sugars well. They are prone to diabetes if t hey eat a diet that is predominated by fruit. Intestinal flora: Humans have different bacterial colonies (flora) living in their  intestines than those found in carnivorous
animals. The ones that are similar, such as lactobacillus and e. col i are found in different ratios in the plant eaters’ intestines a s
compared to those of the carnivores. Liver size: Carnivores have proportionately larger livers in comparison to their body  size than humans. Cleanliness: We are the most particular of all creatures about the cleanliness of  our food. Carnivores are the least picky,
and will eat dirt, bugs, organic debris, and other items along with their food. Natural appetite: Our mouths water at the sights and smells of the produce market. These a re living foods, the source of
our sustenance. But the smell of animals usually puts us off. Meat  eaters’ mouths water at the sight of prey, and they react to
the smell of animals as though they sense food. So … What Kind of “V ores” Are We? Despite the gross perversion of our instincts, they are still alive a nd well in most people and would reassert themselves should
we be relegated back to nature. Therefore, this quest is to ascertain wha t we would eat in nature. Our instinctive foods, the foods that helped to develop us to our magnificence, contain all that we need to thrive o. In this
section, we inquire about the various types of foods we humans presently ea t. We will evaluate whether each type is an appropriate
food for us based on how that food occurs in nature without benefit of cooking equipme nt, tools, and containers. Remember, your
instincts will reject or embrace each food on its merits—that is, it s appeals to your senses and palate—the only criteria that guided
our food selection in ages past. Our premise is that Nature served us correctly to start with. We rec ognize that we thrived and attained our high station, and
that what was right for us then is still right for us now, as we are st ructurally and physiologically the same as we were during most of
our sojourn as humans in nature. It is logical that, within our modern con text, we can supply ourselves with natural foods. Are We Herbivores? Herbivores, or vegetarians, are natural consumers of greenery such  as grass, weeds, leaves, stalks, and stems. A broader definition
of “vegetarian” includes anyone who eats only plant-derived foods. Typ ical vegetarian foods may include a preponderance of fruits
and greens but, in practice the designation vegetarian means that on e eats anything and everything besides animal flesh. Does foraging in nature for grass, weeds, and leaves appeal to you? Do these  items attract your eye, tantalize your sense of
smell, and excite your palate? Of course not, for the simple reason that t hey cannot satisfy your needs. You do not secrete cellulase
or other enzymes that break down these plants as herbivores do. There fore you cannot derive your foremost need from them—
namely, simple sugars—which are your body’s primary fuel. Rath er, the processing and problems caused by their ingestion occas ion
a net loss of energy. Humans do consume green leafy plants such as lettuce, celery, spinac h and the like, as well as the tougher cruciferous
vegetables (beets, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, collards, kale, and others). Eaten plain, as they occur in nature, these tough
vegetables are high in insoluble fiber and therefore difficult for us  to digest. Although we can cultivate a taste for them, they really
hold only a moderate appeal to us. All vegetables yield (to the extent digested) proteins, some essentia l fatty acids, mineral matter, vitamins, and some simple
sugars. But if we get enough of these nutrients from our natural foods, t hen these are not needed from plants that we do not eat raw
with keen rel


 the time (cal. 175)—which was one of inflation, self-interest, and exploitation—was, we
find, be low the  critical level o f 200 on the Map of Consciousness. The
motivation of Mahatma Gandhi (cal. 760) was near the top o f the Map. Gandhi was victorious in this struggle because his position was one of far
greater p ower. H e was aligned w ith the universal principle of T r uth: that all
people are created equal by  God with the inherent right to self-
determination. The British Empire represented force, and whenever force
meets power, force is eventually defeated. Throughout history, all the world’ s great religions and spiritual
disciplines have been concerned with techniques to ascend through these
levels of consciousness. Most h ave also implied, or specifically stated, that
to move up thi s ladder is an arduous task and that success depends on
having a teacher (or at least teachings) to give specific inst ruction and
inspiration to the aspirant, who might otherwise despair over this inability
to achieve the goal unaided. Hopefully, the Map will help to facilitate this
ultimate human endeavor. Q&A
Q: What determines one’ s level of consciousness? A:  An individual’ s level of consciousness is determined by the principles
they’re c ommitted to. T o maintain progress in consciousness, there can be
no wavering about principle, or the individual will fall back to a lower
level. E xpediency of “the end justifies the means” is never an adequate
justification. If it is wrong to k ill another human being, that p rinciple can
allow no exceptions, regardless  of how emotionally appealing a construct
used to justify the exception may be. Gandhi did not waver from his
principles; for him, peaceful nonviolence was both the means a nd the end,
and he held to the principle of nonviolence in “thought, speech, and action”
(Gandhi’ s phrase). Q: At what age can a person be calibrated?A:  A ccord ing to our research, ev ery single entity—at the moment of
conception (the spirit enters the body at the third month of gestation)—
already has a calibratable level of consciousness. Q: Doesn’t the calibrated Map of Consciousness imply value judgment
or merit? Thus, isn’t the level of Love (500) better than the level of
Reason (400)? A:  The Map does not denote “bet ter than,” which is a projection  of the
ego. Th e Map merely denotes position or location that, in turn, denotes
associated chara cteristics. A lar ge tree is not “better than” a sm all tree. A
brick at the bottom of the wall is not “better than” a brick at the top; they
are both equally necessary to hold the wall in place. Thus, the
consciousness level denotes a locus on a learning curve and a stage of the
evolution of consciousness. Th e joy of life comes from fulfilling one’ s
potentiality at any given level. Each level has its rewards, and t hey actually
feel the same to each person. A life dedicated to God or a higher purpose is
endlessly self-fulfilling—whereas, in contrast, a life devoted to personal
gain is full of pitfalls and suf fering. Each level is sui table for that wh ich it is. Somebody at 700 is not suitable
as a carpenter, is not suitable to run a church, and is not su itable as a
president. Most sages at 700 can not function like that at all. They just sit in
their ash ram, and people come to say hello as they smile happ ily back at
them. The 200s and the 300s—the builders of the world, the c onstruction
workers, the steelworkers, the p eople who go to work every day—are the
backbone of our society. T he 400s is the world of the intellect, with its logic
and reas oning, t hat dominates America. The realm of Love, at 500, is rare,
with Unconditional Love, at 540, being extremely rare, and upw ards of 540
there’ s practical ly nobody. It isn’ t that 500 is better than 200. It’ s just that
you’re i n a dif ferent space, like  being at a dif ferent place on a  map. Y our
problem to get f rom here to ther e is dif ferent if you start of f in Albuquerque
or if you start of f in Denver. Y ou’re at a dif ferent place, an d therefore
you’re looking at dif ferent terrain with dif ferent lessons. Everything is complete just as  it is. There’ s no deficiency anywhere. When you understand the uni verse, you see everything is going from
“complete” to “complete.” Everything is complete and perfect right now. Everybody is just completely the perfect manifestation of their total karmicevolution up to this point in time. Everyone serves the whole no matter their
condition or level. Q: What is consciousness calibration? A:  The  Ma p of Consciousness allo ws us a way of discerning essence as
opposed to perception. For exa mple, let’ s say someone tells y ou, “I come
here out  of friendship.” If you calibrate him at 190, it’ s a good idea to
search him! He says one thing a nd may look benign, but in truth, he’ s up to
something else. His intention is  not in your best interest. “W olf in sheep’ s
clothing” is how we might describe such a person. When we calibrate something according to the Map of Consciousness,
we are discerning the level o f truth, love, integrity, and b enignity in
something or someone. W e’re interested to know the truth and the essence
of th e en er gy field, which is about motive and intention. W e ge t a positive
answer if the question has a reality. Consciousness calibration depends on
the question and the answer having an equivalent reality. That which is false
has no reality w ithin the infinite field of consciousness. Consciousness can
only reg ister wh at exists as true. Therefore, if we ask about something that
isn’ t true, it has no reality, so the arm goes weak. If we test a true statement,
the a rm stays st rong. The personal opinion or perception of the testers are
irrelevant. When we utilize the living science of muscle-testing to calibrate
the truth  of something within the infinite field of consciousness, we are
using the mechanism of quantu m mechanics to collapse the wa ve function
from potential to actual. When the question matches reality, we get a strong
response. The challenge is to be comple tely detached from the outcome. Most
people have an unconscious attachment to a certain answer, so their testing
is not accurate. When I test som ething, I don’ t care what the answer is. I
only want to know the truth. Q: Can I calibrate myself? A:  I  advise  people not to calibrate their own consciousness, becau se they
can’ t be  detache d and objective. Y ou’d have to be beyond sainthood to not
have a vested interest in knowing your own level of consciousness, so youwon’ t be  able to get an accurate result. If you study the Map, you’ll see the
prevailing emot ion and the way you view God and so forth, and this will
tell you about where you are. If you hate everyone and you’re paranoid,
you’re probably  not too much into the heart yet! Y ou can also tell where
you are by how  people respond to you. If people hate you, you’ve got a
problem! Q: Does one have to believe in God in order to do consciousness
calibration or benefit fr om the Map of Consciousness? A:  Bel ieving in God is not a requirement. As we know from the daily
news, so -called believers do all sorts of horrible things in the n ame of God
and calibrate quite low on the Map, due to their intention arising from
hatred, g uilt, fear, righteousness, and pride. The Buddha himself avoided
reference to God because of all the baggage associated with it. He spoke
instead of Buddha-nature, which we might also refer to as T ruth. Is one
devoted to T ruth or not? That is what matters in the e volution of
consciousness. I s pent many yea rs as a devout atheist, so I have sympathy for th e atheist. As an atheist, I was dedicated to getting to the core of the T ruth of
existence. Thus, I have sympathy for genuine doubt because of its
intellectual honesty. If I honestly cannot say that I am able to confirm the
believability of a Divinity, then at least I’m being honest, and b eing honest
is the first requirement of integrity on the Map of Consciousness. Then I
moved f rom atheist to agnostic, where one can’ t say yes or  no; we might
say this is mo re sophisticated and humble than atheism, because it
acknowledges the limitations of the intellect and its inability to transcend
linear causality as an explanation for phenomena. Quantum mecha nics is the way out from the restrictive linear domain of
the Newton


 and listening to their body's needs.
Q: What did the author use to help with parasite cleansing?,
A: The author used humaworm capsules, probiotics, and a raw food diet with ingredients like garlic, ginger, and onion.
Q: How much weight did the author lose during the 40-day fast?,
A: The author did not mention the exact amount of weight loss, but mentioned that they lost a significant amount, stating they were "too thin" at the end of the fast and were happy to gain 5 kg back.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Dry medical Fasting - Myths and Reality
Sergei Ivanovich Filonov
1UDC 615 89 (82)
BBK. 51.20 (2ROC)
C 914
Sergei Ivanovich Filonov
With 914 Dry limotherapy - Myths and Reality
SI Filonov - Barnaul:
Univ Ltd. "Five Plus", 2008, - 336. ISBN 978-5-9900731-7-3
2A doctor by profession Sergei Filonov in the popular and
accessible form tells of medical starvation, which
engaged in more than 17 years. Hundreds of people marched through starvation to
recovery thanks to recommendations, assistance, surveillance
Dr. Filonov. The book is intended for people willing to
in detail and fully acquainted with the method of fasting,
developed as a result of years of practice and effectiveness
which is confirmed by reviews of patients. UDC 615 89 (82) Dry limotherapy - Myths and Reality
BBK. 51.20 (2ROC)
ISBN 978-5-9900731-7-3
© SI Filonov, 2008
© Publishing House Ltd. "Five Plus", 2008
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3FROM THE AUTHOR
I was born in the Altai family physicians. My mom and sister
- Children's doctors. Therefore, in my childhood I was constantly confronted
to talk about medicine. It would seem that with such a "history" to me
direct route into medicine. Subsequently, it just happened. But...
All my conscious childhood and adolescence I just raved far
not medicine. I wanted to be, probably, as all of our boys
yard pilot. One day my father and I went skiing. After the walk we went to friends for tea, and there first
time in my life I saw a man, a cancer patient. He was very
thin and suffered severely from pain. To me it made a very strong
impression. When we arrived home, I asked my mother, really
can not cure this disease? She said: "Unfortunately,
son, in this stage of our medicine yet powerless. " In eighth grade I accidentally fell into the hands of the book, even now
I do not remember what the name. It describes how talented
healer cure cancer in one man Herbs
and hunger. Hence, the body has reserves and forces capable of
treat such a serious and insidious disease like cancer, I thought. For every poison in nature must necessarily be an antidote. On
each disease in the body should be strength, healing her. After
Animals in nature do not have hospitals, clinics and doctors. They
guided by their natural natural instincts. They know better than any herbalists, some grass at the moment
they need, or just beginning to starve. since then I have
more interested in natural ways of healing. I became
read books about fasting, hypnosis, herbs, acupuncture. I'm
more began to understand: a man - a natural pharmacy, it has
All for the treatment of any disease, it is only necessary to their work, patience,
will open and force those natural medicines in
the benefit of the organism. My decision to enroll in medical school was aware, but I
knew that I would be interested to sit in the clinic and to appoint
tablets. I have to find a specialty and to obtain such knowledge,
by which my future patients would be able to use
its huge hidden opportunities to treat diseases. On
fourth year, I got on supervision of patients with bronchial
asthma. When I went to her house, I saw a blooming woman
with a pink blush on the face and sparkling eyes. On asthma
it is quite a hike. I've wanted to apologize and say,
that mixed ward, but then again asked her name,
name. It turned out - that's exactly it. "You do not be surprised -
she said - that I do not like people with asthma, because I was
twenty-day course of fasting, and now I'm at the exit
from starvation. After the tenth day of fasting I have absolutely
seizures stopped and I stopped using an inhaler. " Her
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4view, her breath very impressed me. It's one thing to read books
of starvation, and another thing - to see in practice the results of famine. After that, I definitely decided that necessarily know all about this
wonderful technique and be sure to get to specialize in it. Best of all, at the time of limotherapy wrote Professor
YS Nikolaev. His book is written with such enthusiasm and faith
in this natural natural method, that after reading it so
and want to starve. Me starve the entire group. We started
fasting on juices, then tried on the water. Of course, then
Most of my group is all abandoned. I liked it
starve before exams - after fasting head becomes
light, clear, memory is very much improved, and most importantly - by
exams went without any disturbances. After graduating from medical institute I have distributed to the resort
"Goryachinsk", which was located in the Republic of Buryatia on the shore
sacred Lake Baikal. Nature and beauty of these places have bewitched
me, especially energy and severity of Lake Baikal. While working at the resort,
I was fortunate to meet a very interesting person
- Verbulem Vladimir Romanovich. He was a hard
bronchial asthma, it is the first in Buryatia in the home
conditions of hungry twenty-four days. His staff at work
were amazed at the result of fasting, which they
saw. Together, they decided to invite a professor of Buryatia
YS Nikolaev. When the professor came to the republic, they brought
it to us at the resort Goryachinsk. Here and there was my meeting with this
amazing man. Yuri Sergeyevich liked our
resort and nature. He said: "You have the perfect place on Lake Baikal
and conditions for fasting. " He invited
me to come to Moscow to study at an office of RDT (fasting-
dietary therapy). After studying in Moscow, we have opened branch
RTD is hosting at the resort. Of course, it was hard for me to start - our
the staff was skeptical about the starvation and me even for the eyes
called the "hungry doctor." I remember when my first patient
came into the dining room on their way out of starvation, the nutritionist brought
cold salted millet porridge and said "on, eat", he certainly
remember all my advice and waited for me. And if he ate this
cereal? But then, our team, seeing the good results of medical
starvation, was an entirely different attitude to this method, and
Some even took a course of starvation. After two years alone, I was lucky to go yet
time to specialize in RTD in St. Petersburg to Professor
Coconut Alexey. There I first learned about the absolute
(Dry), fasting and its application in the treatment of diseases. I
were patients undergoing wet starvation, and during
of starvation all the symptoms disappeared, but the output
from starvation of the symptoms returned. For me it was
unpleasant moments. I really thought long, how to strengthen
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5effectiveness of starvation, while, of course, aware that the
longer period of starvation, the better the result, but, unfortunately,
a time when our treatment has been paid, and not every
could afford to take a serious course of fasting. How could strengthen
effect of starvation in the spa environment? Output I
prompted by my dog?? (more detail in Chapter SLG in nature). After
order as it knocked down a motorcycle, she refused, not only from food but also on
water. Seven days later she was lying in a dark shed, and only the eighth
Day began to drink and then eat. I thought - this injury is likely to
edema, she instinctively felt that way, and therefore refused to water
it and saved it. Here, unfortunately, after the fishing I fell through the ice
and had to go on a motorcycle and twenty kilometers. Accordingly,
all was frozen to the bone. All right, but then I got
Acute sinusitis (inflammation of the frontal sinus). The pain was hell when
tilted head down, even tears flowed from the pain. My reasoning - such
pain due primarily to edema, no water - no swelling. Of course,
in such a situation, I think no one would have the appetite. Decided -
'll starve without water until the pain will not pass. Only by the fifth day
I went through all the symptoms of the disease, and to date it
I no longer worried. This was my first dry starvation -
Of course, on Lake Baikal to me it was easy to pass it, the more experience
wet hunger I had. But most of all I was struck by treatment
effect obtained in such a short period of time. I have starved patients
and sinusitis, and front


 of their relatives,
reside or are close to me and to us all,
the same as I do, people with MS.
My uninterrupted service (April 2005) is
more than 42 years, I started work 16 years and continues to this day. and now, since December 1996, after the dismissal of
redundancies and assigning VTEK me 1-gr. Disability I
as much as their physical capabilities and continue to provide
service to his institution, which my colleagues and I helped
become one of the head of defense research institutions
industry. I also continue to share their
everyday experience in dealing with our sores through the media (means
media) on the pages of information released
newsletters of our society, of which I am from days of his
grounds and registration in 1995, and to communicate with the funds of
and abroad of Russia on the computer e-
mail. It's all a brief background of me, and now we go
to describe my experience of survival in the diagnosis of diffuse
sclerosis. (All on the following tips, tricks, techniques, etc. etc. are only my personal, subjective and are not
for you, dear readers, the official medical,
legally justified postulates, the recommendations! All this
(The written) is represented only from my personal experience). 1. First, you need to install an accurate diagnosis by
consulting physician and / or permanently installed
your panel of doctors, specialists in writing, certified
round seal hospital, hospital, counseling center. 2. Second, all patients diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis
or disseminated encephalomyelitis) must be known and understood:
modern domestic and foreign medicine popularly
stated in the media in 2000: "Multiple sclerosis is incurable!". 223
223Official Russian "zurabovskaya" Medicine is
time can only provide people with MS medication
drugs, and rehabilitation and recovery procedures
and reducing annual relapse rates of exacerbation percolation
disease and / or removal of pain syndromes in cases of aggravation! 3. Third, do not contact you at his untested
in the treatment of MS physicians doctor and traditional healers, no matter how famous
and famous, ostepenennymi and certified diplomas
Russia as they are and do not use it EVER! Here you
examples from my misguided practice: in the late 80's, early 90's
years I have tried to recover with the help of psychic sessions
B. Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, good I was able to go out with them
on the personal touch. as a result got only energy
psychic cleansing with temporary relief, but
and the subsequent course of the disease! In the early 90's in Moscow City Clinical Hospital? 88, I, like many
disabilities in Moscow and Moscow region, people with MS, believed
in official reports in the media and took part in the
specially selected group in the paid Half course
"Guaranteed", as reported in the official press,
full (!) treatment of multiple sclerosis using acupuncture
(Acupuncture), a physician-acupuncturist from the Chechen Mozdok Zosya
AA ultimately on this one-dvuhkursovogo (10
daily sessions) of treatment no positive effect
Neither I nor my sogruppniki not have spent more money on
payment held AA Zosya sessions with us. Three more negative examples from my practice. in October 1986
I read in the press about the folk healer, NP Gutchik reached
with his wife to the village of Nova Oberezha in Beltsevskom region of Moldova,
where lived and tselitelstvovala Nadezhda Pavlovna Gutchik, achieved
three sessions and the reception she received as a result of a short-term
weakening of cervical osteochondrosis and disorders of pelvic
bodies, but no improvement in their underlying disease. Throughout 1987, after a personal consultation with VI Dikul
I was at his most intense recreational
method sessions on a home wall simulator "Health"
bought for his daily exercise, and
as a result got inguinal hernia! There is a huge difference
in the use of physical exercises for the disabled
spinalnikov the effects of spinal injuries and for patients
diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. in July 1988 on its own
the car I got from Moscow to the city of Poltava region Kobelyaki
in Ukraine, where practiced, in his Manual Therapy Center
known and publicized in the media doctor-chiropractor AA
Kasian, was his diagnosis and manual massage sessions
spine and legs, and the result - zero (as he told me after
of these sessions, paid me well: the positive
224
224results have not been, because I have not a physical injury
backbone, as a purely neurological (neyroinfektsionnoe
disease). Well, unless he could not tell me this before, immediately
after diagnosis, without spending any of their healing, or my
tangible (money) money! 4. Well, now some of my personal tips and tricks
all patients with MS, how to extend to you my seemingly stable (at
moment) the physical condition without the help of official
Medicine, tested for this, my more than 22 years of experience,
proved to my colleagues on the disease and the diagnosis of MS: "When
occurrence of acute illness (I have these periods were at the beginning
spring and late autumn every year) spend (at least (!) week (seven day) strike with the reception in those periods only
up to 1.5 liters of structured water (this is usually filtered
tap water, frozen in the freezer refrigerator
and then thawed) in every day of hunger strike. As a rule,
in the first three days of MS patients appear (each in its own way):
headaches, bad breath, loss of coordination
motion, etc. But in subsequent days you will feel the rush
forces and the cleansing of the body (preferably in those days to refuse
severe physical and mental work, taking any medications
and patients suffering from constipation, you need to put on a daily basis
bedtime cleansing enemas with tincture of senna, or celandine
chamomile). Terms of hunger determines his every man, as written
physician in resuscitation Oleg Zemsky, in his article "Dry Cascade
starvation in the latest issue of site publishers Herald HLS. " Upon its completion in the hunger strike for three to four days to take
"Chancroid-prakshalanu": daily on an empty stomach to drink five to
ten 200-gram cups of salt with warm tap water
(Better to use sea salt) to conduct yoga Assa-
exercises to rid the stomach and intestines (such exercises
painted in any yogic literature), followed by
emptying of the bladder and intestines. Also recommend
Urine-kerosene-therapy: acceptance of their morning urine (the average jet
from 50 to 100 ml. ), and / or reception of purified, distillirirovannogo
kerosene (10-30 mL), washed down by a strong cup of sweetened
tea. These are my tips are recommended only to advanced and morally
ill prepared! I very much helped by recurrent
exacerbation of the disease receiving daily home Zalmanov
(Turpentine "white") bath for 10-30 minutes: in lukewarm water
from 36 to 40 degrees with a stir in her 25-150 ml of the suspension,
prepared from 0.5 liters of pure turpentine, three grams of aspirin, 20
ml of alcohol camphor, 30 g planed on a grater baby soaps and 30
Mr. aluminum-or zhelisto-potassium alum, as well as radikulitnyh
pain in the lumbar spine, rubbing of this place
bedtime bischofite or Finalgon and imposing on all night
on the waist belt of the dog (I'm his wife knitted from yarn down-
225
225Fur our home a poodle). It is advisable for people with MS
(Regardless of the dates and times of illness) annually or biennially
year to take courses of plasmapheresis (gomosorbtsii) - purification
circulatory and vascular systems. It is necessary to carry out
in inpatient facilities. Quite a recommendation to the Orthodox baptismal, walking
MS patients at least once a quarter, dropping in at a nearby temple
church for Holy Communion (this is necessary and desirable
in the days of your birthday, the day before your date of birth and preferably
in place of your birth or baptism). I am personally very helpful
ride in his car in August 1989 with my personal
home psychic in Pereslavl-Zaleski with Communion
in a country ancient temple-monastery, overnight in tents
y Pleshcheeva lake near the monastery and the holding of early morning (on
recommendations father, the abbot of the monastery, I was participle)
ESP, meditation, purification treatment on the Blue
stone. So called, a huge holy boulder-stone, at the very
edge of the lake (about the history of this ancient holy stone, who helped
more than one generation of Orthodox Christians in treating their
disease has repeatedly been written and reported in the media in 70-80
respectively). You, readers, can not believe me, but here are


Most of us live in an artificial and unnatural environment that makes it
impossible to remain healthy by simply continuing in the commonly
accepted way. Instead, we must become aware of the multitude of
negative influences created by modern technology and  try to minimize
their harmful effects on us. This includes housing, clothing, workplace,
the water we drink and the air we breathe, and even our teeth. POLLUTION CONTROL
Clothes  are our'second skin' and their material and colour have a direct
influence on our emotions and well -being. This applies especially  to
garments that are worn directly on the skin. Except for occasional short -
term use, avoid underwear, including pa ntyhose and stockings, made of
nylon or other synthetic material. Nylon seems to be worse than
polyester. An acceptable man -made fibre may be rayon as it is based on cellulose. Minimize wearing a bra, synthetic clothing and heavily chemicalised wool
or co tton material (e.g. permanent –press). Select colours that balance
your emotions: wear bright colours when you are low in energy and blue
when you are nervous or irritable. Avoid murky and dull grey colours and
be careful with black. Best are shoes made o f natural materials and with leather sole. Rubber
and synthetic soles prevent the discharge of static electricity and the
absorption of beneficial energy from the earth. Walking barefoot for
several minutes on moist grass or wet sand helps to overcome this
problem and recharge our energies. Preferably walk as much as possible
barefoot on natural ground. 91
 A large study (Singer and Grismaijer: Dressed to Kill. Avery Press) found
that women who wear a tight bra all the time had a 125 times higher
rate of breast cancer than women not using a bra. Women who never
wear a bra have the same low breast cancer risk as men. A tight bra
blocks the lymph circulation in the breasts. Therefore, if you do wear a
bra, use a loose -fitting one without under  wires and minimize using it at
home. Also stimulate the lymph flow in the breast area by circling your
arms, or massage around the breast, best while doing inversion
exercises. Housing
Preferable are building materials that do not block the natural electric,
magnetic and life -force fields of the Earth. Basically,  this excludes sheet
metals and steel or wire -mesh concrete reinforcements that form a cage -
like structure. This leaves stone, brick, wood, straw, clay and fibrocement
as bioenergy -friendly building materials. Chemically treated wood is
problematic as well, some chemicals are worse than others. Most modern houses have aluminium coated insulation inside the walls
and under the roo f which blocks most of the natural energy flow. This
may be a reason why it is more difficult to recover from a serious disease
inside a house. Most of us live in less-than-ideal  houses, and we cannot
change that, but we can try to have frequent outdoors a ctivity to make up
for it. Dowsers assert that sleeping over earth radiation from underground
streams and fault lines contributes to cancer. If in poor health, have your
bed checked by someone who is able to perceive earth radiation. Be careful with tint ed glass for large windows as this may result in the
wrong kind of colour therapy. New copper, lead and plastic pipes may
leach undesirable heavy metals into the water. Maximize natural fibres
for your interior decorations and minimize synthetic carpets, c urtains,
covers, and so on. They emit pollutants and  accumulate static electricity. Synthetic materials, fluorescent lighting and TV sets lower beneficial
negative air ions. Open windows minimize this harmful effect. If cooking 92
 and heating with gas or ker osene ensure that combustion gases are
removed. Many people are allergic to these. Preferably use mattresses with natural fibres such as kapok, wool,
horsehair or cotton; latex or natural rubber may be best. A cheap
alternative is straw or hay from a pesticide -free source. Innerspring
mattress may direct confused magnetic fields into the body, depending on
how the spirals have been tempered. When moving a compass across the
surface of the mattress the needle should not be deflected from its north -
point ing position. Foam rubber mattresses may emit toxic gases that are a factor in cot
death. Wrap them in clear polythene with only a small opening at the
bottom. Use natural blankets and sheets on top of the mattress. Even
sheepskin is chemically treated and  can cause problems. Frequently
expose pillows and featherbeds to the sun to kill moulds and dust -mites. This can greatly reduce asthma problems. Alternatively, use an airtight
pillowcase. Preferably do not use steel -framed beds or steel -spring frames that  deflect
the compass needle, move the bed if there are metal beams or live wires
in the wall behind the bed. Featherbeds may contribute to arthritis due to
static electricity between the feathers. Try to sleep with the head in a
northerly direction or othe rwise between north and east. Our brain waves
are slowest when the head points towards magnetic north. Cover your
head during cold nights to minimize heat loss. Sleep in total darkness or cover your eyes during sleep, as production of
beneficial melatonin is interrupted by exposure to electric light, although
moonlight and red light are harmless. Try to avoid even short exposure to
electric light in the first part of the night. If you live in a modern house try to sanitize it by minimizing the use of
synth etic items that release chemicals, as for instance formaldehyde from
glued material such as many carpets, chipboard or plywood. Avoid
solvents and smelling household cleaners and disinfectants, tobacco
smoke, mothballs and insect sprays. If the outside air  is reasonably clean, 93
 good ventilation helps to minimize such problem. Minimize Electromagnetic -Pollution
Strong electromagnetic fields (EMF’s) of about 50 to 60 cycles per
second (hertz, or Hz), and the related electromagnetic radiation (EMR)
are harmful. Long -term exposure can aggravate any existing health
problem, especially lack of energy or fatigue, irritability, aggression,
hyperactivity, sleep disorders, nightmares and emotional instability. Increasing numbers of individuals are becoming hypersensit ive to EMR. Chronic exposure to high levels of EMR, especially while asleep, is a
constant drain on our vitality. It creates chronic stress, which interferes
with the regeneration and healing that normally takes place during a good
night’s sleep. EMR exists around power lines, power tools, electric stoves, heaters,
boilers, freezers and television sets when in use, extending up to several
meters around the appliance. Keep your distance if possible. Using an
electric iron or an electric keyboard or work ing with handheld power tools
can quickly drain our energies. When working with electric equipment we
can reduce harmful effects by holding our hands under running water
from time to time, in addition to having a shower in the evening or walking
barefoot o n grass. Try to minimize electromagnetic pollution, especially
while sleeping when the pineal gland is most susceptible. Preferably switch off all power points in the bedroom and unplug all
electric leads with 2 -prong plugs before going to sleep but defini tely any
power points or leads close to the bed. This applies also to waterbeds,
which need to be switched off or unplugged overnight. Three -prong plugs
may remain connected to power points because this allows stray
electricity to flow off through the eart h connection. If the head faces a wall with power points or other electric wiring inside
the wall close to the bed, then move the bed towards the middle of the
room so that you can walk around the bed. When using an electric
blanket, warm the bed beforeha nd and disconnect the power before you
go to bed or better still, connect the blanket to a good earth. Do not 94
 habitually remain near a working electric appliance, and minimize
fluorescent lighting, watching television, using video games, computers
and even  electric typewriters and hand -held electric tools. The main problem with compact fluorescent bulbs is the unnatural
frequency distribution of the light. This can be corrected with more
expensive full -spectrum lights,  but these are cool blue and more pleasa nt
if combined with a warmer light. To increase melatonin production for
improved sleep, use only a warm light in the evening and avoid the blue
spectrum several hours before bedtime. Stray currents and radiating fields can still be emitted from electric wires
even if appliances are switched off. AC electric fields do not disappear
when an appliance is switched off, only AC magnetic fields disappear. Keep live wires away from your body. Preferably do not live near high -
voltage lines, microwave towers or el ectric -train tracks. Alternatively take
extra precautions to shield your home. An increasing hazard is microwave radiation from ovens, mobile (cell)
phones, cordless phones, keyboards and other equipment. Most
dangerous are long -reaching microwave stations, Wi-Fi, Cel -Fi routers
inside the house for phones and computers, or equipment such as a
mouse or keyboard that are not connected by wires, but USB modems
for wireless broadband are harmless. If you need to use such devices
place the sender as far away as  possible from bedrooms and where you
spend most of your time or  switch off when not needed. Also,  flat or


 battery. Some couples achieve this
temporarily by taking seperate vacations or sleeping in separate
beds, or they find other ways to naturally keep the balance of
energy through outside friendships and activities. With polarity
restored the current of life flows between the lovers ever more
swiftly and powerfully. Dual cultivation allows a couple to remain
together and keep this polarity of their relationship fully charged. Dual cultivation is designed to promote the happiness of cou-
ples, to teach the partners to discover inexhaustable pleasures in
each other. There is no inherent reason for love to grow old. The
practice of conserving and exchanging sexual energy without loss
of the seed will help remove a major cause of promiscuity: in-
complete satisfaction with one's lover. It can also alleviate a common problem in marriage: not
enough energy to work things out. With the stress of both parents
working and modern fathers trying to share in the child-raising
tasks, many couples simply burn out. They never have enough
time to make love; if one is aroused the other is exhausted or
asleep. Using the Taoist Secrets of Love, both husband and wife
will find sex rejuvenating and an endlessly fascinating journey into
the subtle realms of chi exchange. They can return to the routine of
daily drudgery with renewed vigor and light heart; when your chi isThe Sexual Economy 45
full and running in all your meridians, the most ordinary things
become interesting again. Your chi is the glue between your body,
mind, and spirit; until it is completely integrated you will feel in-
complete. The Tao teaches there is infinite pleasure and limitless poten-
tial within every human being. The addiction to sex as emotional
food can gradually be changed from within the male body through
chi cultivation. One grows to appreciate this fact with the retention
of the seminal fluid and its transformation into the higher center of
the heart. One experiences the fullness of life long after the love-
making has ceased, and a delicacy that more easily moves beyond
temporary sensory stimulation, to a continuous connection of feel-
ings with the lover. The man who diligently studies the Tao learns that the source
of all emotions as well as the source of a woman's allure is also
within himself. However, when difficulties arise, the first question
to arise is always, "What does my commitment to her mean?" This
self-questioning can raise its head at any stage of spiritual accom-
plishment or emotional maturity in your marriage. The highest commitment a Taoist can make is to the marriage
of yin and yang in the universe. In fact yin and yang are always
married, as they are just two poles of the same subtle energy field. Thus, the real commitment a Taoist makes is to consciously real-
ize their union in his life and thus empower himself (single cultiva-
tion) and his lover (dual cultivation) with his awareness. When the
level of chi and ching chi cultivation reaches a very high level and
is integrated with shien, or spirit, the awareness extends to an even
wider field and might be likened to the Christian universal love or
Buddhist sense of compassion for all sentient beings. The difference is that a Taoist cultivates this universal sense
within his body, so it remains as a tangible experience of his subtle
chi energy field. This insures it does not become a conceptual or
theological idea of love into which a man is trying to fit his be-
havior. This is an impossibility, as no whole human being with an
integrated body, mind, and spirit can fit into the shoes of an ab-
stract idea, even a noble one like love. The Taoists in China traditionally cultivated themselves in
pairs or small groups, whether it be two friends, a master and
student, a man and woman, or a small community of adepts. There
were many different approaches used by these different groups;46 Taoist Secrets Of Love
some were strictly celibate, others quite openly favored dual
cultivation between man and woman. Because of the strong em-
phasis on sexuality in America, and the freedom from social re-
straints, I'm certain that the method of dual cultivation will become
a major path for growth among couples. Americans are raised with
the idea that they can do anything they want to do, and don't like
being told by priests or gurus that their love of sex is dirty, sinful,
or blocking their path to enlightenment. So, let them enjoy sex and
take the best from it. It's all part of the Tao, and their marriages
will be all the better for it as long as the sexual energy is properly
used. Some men and women will choose to love outside of mar-
riage, and if they cultivate a harmonious balance of yin and yang
their union is as holy as one with an official state seal stamped on
it. A word about the virtue of a lengthy committment. It normally
takes decades to fully cultivate one's chi energy to the highest level
of shien. It will likely take years to appreciate the subtle energies
your woman is capable of creating and making available for your
own cultivation. It is said it takes seven years to know the rhythms
of a woman's body, seven years to learn her mind, and seven years
to understand her spirit. Don't be a promiscuous fool who is never
patient enough to learn the true depth of the Tao. THE MORAL EFFECT OF SEMEN LOSS
There is a distinct tendency for strengths and weaknesses to propa-
gate themselves. The weak grow weaker, the strong strive to in-
crease in strength still more. Taoist Cultivation helps curb self-
destructive tendencies which are worsened by weakness itself. The
Taoist treasures the energy stored in his vital fluid. The vital power
within him slowly begins to resist abuse of any sort to both his
body and character. The loss caused by ejaculation is not limited to the physical
sphere. Mental and emotional functions are profoundly influenced. Hormonal fitness directly effects personality and capacity for cre-
ative thought. The mind suffers from the loss of testosterone, the
hormone secreted in the testes and spent in ejaculation. Chinese medicine long ago observed that vicious crimes are
often committed soon after seminal loss. Courage is usually at low
ebb after ejaculation. One scares easily and reacts violently. This isThe Sexual Economy 47
one reason murder and mutilation often follow rape. Thus there is what may properly be called a moral effect of
cultivating one's sexual essence or ching chi. The yang fire within
the seed burns up internal poisons at the same time it generates an
essential life-supporting substance. One who retains his seed in-
creasingly respects every form of life. Everyone has experienced discomfort when watching some-
one abuse their child in public, or felt the stare of a starving bum. The anger or despair of others actually spills over to us and influ-
ences us whether we like it or not. In like manner, each of our
thoughts and acts beams to the far reaches of creation. The man who cultivates his subtle energy eventually experi-
ences in his body the fact that all living beings are part of one life. He and his lover flow into each other. He knows that across the
web of consciousness one living thing constantly nourishes an-
other. In becoming highly aware of the interconnection between all
creatures, he strengthens his tendency to be unselfish. He may
suddenly find himself asking: why pour negative thoughts into the
single stream from which we all must drink? In this sense all loving
energy is cosmic, or divine energy. When two people love each
other consciously their energies are intentionally consecrated to
the good of humanity. This kind of love offering develops a special
egolessness in the lovers and will inspire others whom they meet. While this approach to loving is not limited to the esoteric
Taoist cultivation, the use of its methods of transforming sex en-
ergy vastly increases the amplitude of loving power which is ema-
nated. In the Taoist view, man cannot direct the heavens, but if he
behaves in harmony with the laws of heaven and earth he can guide
the larger course of events by becoming harmonious within him-
self. Thus, Taoist philosophy does not preach any specific moral
guidelines. It simply posits that morality is innate within man; if he
cultivates his subtle energy and experiences his true self, he will
act in a moral fashion among men. THE CONTROVERSY:
IS SEX GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH? Man appears to be the only higher creature naturally endowed with
the power and inclination to perform sexually regardless of the
possibilities of spreading his own kind. There is no falling off of48 Taoist Secrets Of Love
sexual appetite in the pregnant female or her mate. The human
begins sexual activity soon after reaching puberty. Most people
spend a lifetime performing and dreaming of sexual intercourse for
the sake of pleasure and emotional fulfillment. It seems clear that
sexuality serves a higher function in humans, but doctors, scien-
tists, psychologists, priests and artists cannot even begin to agree
on what this higher function is and how or if it should be regulated
to improve human well-being. Western scientific texts are curiously contradictory about the
healthfulness of sexual intercourse. Many sex manuals today
praise the restorative qualities of extensive sexual activity. Others,
equally authoritative and based on psychiatric studies, caution
against sexual overindulgence. Which school of thought is correct? When does too much sex become unhealthy? To complicate matters still more, there are similar inconsis-
tencies among Oriental sages. One renowned Indian holy man
counsels the male to see every


 your contentment. OceanofPDF.comLiving Peacefully
If you’re presently evaluating your level of achievement based on how
much you’ve accumulated, prepare to sense a major shift in your state of
personal satisfaction and conten tment. Verse 46 of the Tao Te Ching invites
you to discover a more peaceful and self-satisfying way of knowing success
—and as your determination to acquire more begins to weaken, your new
views will change the world you’ve known. You’ll find that the experience
of inner peace becomes your true gauge of accomplishment. This 46th verse begins with a look at what happens when a planet loses its
connection to the W ay. Countries begin needing to conqu er more territory... and in their quest for more land, power, and control over other s, they must
constantly prepare for war. Lao-tzu speaks symbolically of horses here:
When connected to the Tao, the animals fertilize the fields; when
disconnected from it, the beautiful creatures are bred for war. In a modern translation of the Tao Te Ching, my friend Stephen Mitchell
interprets this message in present-day terms:
When a country is in harmony with the T ao,
the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the T ao,
warheads ar e stockpiled outside the cities. It’s painfully obvious that our world has largely lost contact with the Way
as descr ibed by Lao-tzu. These days so much of our energy is placed on
breeding warhorses at the expense of using our resources to fertilize our
fields so that we can live in peace. The United States is chock-full of
weapons of mass destruction, and we continually legislate more funding to
make our weapons so menacing that they’re capable of rendering our entire
planet uninhabitable. The “disease of more” has created an environment
that personifies Lao-tzu’ s observ ation that there is “no greater tragedy than
discontentment.” But even if so many of our Divine selves seem to be
engulfed by the flames of unease, you can begin the process of putting Lao-
tzu’s advice to work.When you truly understand what it means to live peacefully, satisfaction
will begin to replace your desire for more. Your world will begin to become
tranquil as you change your own life and then touch the lives of your
immediate family, your neighbors, your coworkers, and ultimately your
nation and the entire planet. Begin by simply thinking of the opening line of
the famous Prayer of Saint Francis when you notice that you’re demanding
more of anything. Silently say, Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; wher e there is
hatred, let me sow love. As that instrument of peace, you’ll radiate
tranquility to those in your immediate surroundings, and you’ll feel the
flicker of a new and different success in contentment, perhaps for the first
time in your life. By refusing to lose the Tao, regardless of how lost others
are and what our world’ s governments elect to do, you’re living
harmoniously. Your connection to the Tao will make a difference, gradually
inching Earth away from the precipice of discontentment that Lao-tzu
called “no greater tragedy.”
The sublime Hafiz beautifully sums up the kind of success I’m referring
to in his poem “W ould Y ou Think it Odd?”:
Would you think it odd if Hafiz said,
“I am in love with every chur ch
And mosque
And temple
And any kind of shrine
Because I know it is ther e
That people say the differ ent names
Of the One God.”
Getting back to Lao-tzu, here are his messages from the powerful 46th
verse that are applicable today in your personal life:
Practice gratitude and contentment every day. When your feet hit the floor every single morning, without exception, say,
“Thank You for an opportunity to live in a state of contentment.”  Invite themagical energy of the Tao to freely flow through you and inform your
responses throug hout the day. You’re in harmony with your Source when
you’re soliciting gratitude and gratification in these ways. Be one with your natur e.
In a world that seems to produce more and more violence, become a
person who chooses to be an instrument of peace. Let your nature be the
“horses” that are bred to till the fields, feed the hungry, and offer comfort to
the lame or less fortunate. Live as if you and the Tao are one, which of
course you are when you’re in your natural state. When enough of us are able to do this, we’ll reach a critical mass, and
eventually the Great Way will surpass the demands of the ego. I truly
believe, to use a baseball analogy, that nature always “bats last.”
Do the T ao Now
Set aside time to make a conscious effort to send peaceful energy to
someone or some group whom you think of as the enemy. Include a
competitor; an alienated family  member; a person of a different religious
persuasion; or those you oppose in a government, political party, or
disagreement. Then literally send something to them if that feels okay to
you, such as a flower, a book, or a letter. Begin your conscious  effort today,
right now, to surrender to the Tao and know authentic success, which has no
separation. OceanofPDF.com47th Verse
Without going out the door,
know the world. Without looking out the window,
you may see the ways of heaven. The farther one goes, the less one knows. Therefore the sage does not ventur e forth and yet knows, does not look and
yet names, does not strive and yet attains completion. OceanofPDF.comLiving by Being
I encourage you to change your belief that effort and striving are
necessary tools for success. In verse 47, Lao-tzu suggests that these are
ways of being that keep you from experiencing the harmony and attaining
the completion that’s offered by the Tao. Living by being instead of trying
is a different viewpoint; as Lao-tzu states, you can see and accom plish more
by not looking out the window. How is this possible? Let’s look at an example to clarify this conundrum. I’d like you to place all of your attention on one of God’s greatest creations. I’m referring to your heart, that always-beating, mysteriou s chunk of
arteries, vessels, muscle, and blood that you carry with you wherever you
go. It continuall y maintains its thump, thump, thump without your trying to
make it beat, even while you sleep. You don’t make it thump away—even
without your conscious attention, it works as perfectly as the ocean does. Its
continuous beat is even reminiscent of waves on the sea’ s surface. Your heart is indeed a thing of wonder as it delivers life itself; it is
essentially you. That organ in your chest is a model for understanding and
applying the lesson of living by being. Your heart attains completion (your
life) by not venturing forth, looking beyond its chest cavity, or striving. As
you sit here reading these word s right now, it’s keeping you alive just by
being, and you don’ t even feel it. I’d like you to think of your entire self as a heart that already knows
exactly what to do by virtue of its very nature. That is, you don’t have to go
anywhere to know the world because you already are the world. The
moment you attempt to control the beating of your own heart, you realize
the futility of such an effort. No amount of trying or striving will make any
difference, for your heart operates by its natural connection to the Tao,
which does nothing but leaves nothing undone. Michael LaTorra points this out in his commentary on this verse in A
Warrior Blends with Life:
As the wisest of sages have always realized, the root of essentia l
being is in the heart, especially in the heart-beat mechanism. Fromhere, the radiance of essential being spirals upward to illuminate
the head. This mechanism lies beyond any technology. You already
inhabit it.... And through deep feelings (rather than superfic ial
emotions) you can connect with it immediately.... The ultimate
act that enlightens involves no action at all. So now you know that the paradoxical state Lao-tzu describ es in this
verse is not only possible, but it’s actually taking place everywhere right
now, in billions of human heart s. The further reality is that this is true for
the hearts of all creatures, as well as the life system of every tree, flower,
bush, and even mineral on Earth. And this is only one planet in a universe
that contains so many heavenly bodies that counting them is so far beyond
our ability that we can’ t even devise calculators to undertake such a task. The 21st century is often called “the information age”: We live in a time
when there’ s more data available on tiny computer chips than ever before in
human history. We can also easily see that our efforts do indeed bring us
more facts and the like. In fact, you may be one of the computer wizards
whose greater efforts have made  all of this possible. What’ s at issue here is
the relationship of information to knowledge and wisdom. Let’s take apart the very name of this era—information—to explain what


	said. “Then	I’ll	sink	it	in	the	deepest	ocean,”	said	God. “Human	beings	will	figure	out	how	to	dive	into	the	deepest	ocean,”	the	angels
said. The	discussion	raged	about	where	the	truth	could	be	hidden	from	such	clever
creatures. In	the	clouds? On	the	moon? Among	the	distant	galaxies? Then
God	had	a	brilliant	idea. “I	know,”	he	said. “Ill	put	the	truth	in	the	human
heart. That’s	the	last	place	they	will	ever	look.”	The	angels	applauded,	and
that’s	exactly	what	he	did. The	story	is	funny	and	sad	at	the	same	time. As	long	as	people	keep	wearing
disguises,	the	truth	will	remain	well	hidden	in	their	hearts. In	a	way	Baba’s
lesson	was	strange,	because	if	you	think	about	it,	the	creator	of	the	universe
couldn’t	really	want	anything. God	is	already	everywhere. He’s	not	an	old
man	sitting	on	a	throne	in	the	sky. God	isn’t	even	a	he	or	a	she. God	is	spirit
itself. But	if	you	imagine	him	as	a	human	being,	God	would	want	us	to
appreciate	one	truly	amazing	fact:	Our	essence	and	his	are	exactly	the	same. Spirit	is	spirit,	whether	you	find	it	in	a	human	being	or	in	the	creator. Go
ahead,	take	a	closer	look—the	resemblance	is	unmistakable.The	Sweet	Life
I
	must	have	dozed	off	beside	the	stream,	because	the	next	thing	I	could	feel
was	warm	grass	under	my	cheek. I	sat	up,	rubbing	my	eyes. “Are	we	ready	to
go?”	I	mumbled. “We	don’t	have	to,”	said	Baba. “I	found	what	I	was	looking	for.”	It	took	a
second	for	me	to	realize	that	he	was	staring	at	the	sky,	and	when	I	looked	up,
it	was	there. A	rainbow. “But	that’s	impossible,”	I	exclaimed. The	sky	was	as	clear	as	before,	but	there
was	no	denying	that	a	perfect	arc	of	a	rainbow	was	hanging	over	us. I	felt	the
grass	all	around	me. “The	ground’s	dry. What’s	happening?”
“I	can	give	you	two	explanations,”	Baba	said	quickly. He	wanted	to	head	off
any	idea	that	he	had	performed	some	kind	of	magic	trick. “Sometimes
rainbows	can	appear	in	a	clear	blue	sky	because	moisture	is	trapped	in	the	air. The	moisture	forms	tiny	droplets	that	bend	the	light	just	right. It’s	rare,	but	it
happens.”
“What’s	the	second	explanation?”	I	asked,	thinking	that	the	first	was	good
enough. “A	rainbow	appeared	because	we	were	looking	for	one.”
I	said,	“That	explanation	is	a	lot	harder	to	believe.”
Baba	shrugged. “Then	why	not	pick	both?”
“Because	only	one	can	be	right,”	I	said. “If	you	learn	to	see	beyond	the	surface,	both	can	be	right. Moisture	had	to
form	that	rainbow. But	my	soul	also	knew	that	I	was	looking	for	one.”	Baba
sounded	too	certain	for	me	to	argue	with,	and	I	was	beginning	to	believe	him,
as	I	did	on	so	many	occasions	when	he	said	something	impossible. He	went	on. “I	told	you	that	God	doesn’t	seem	to	be	around,	but	he	is	doing
what	we	want	anyway. Spirit’s	assignment	is	to	turn	our	thoughts	into	reality
And	God	never	leaves	anyone	out. Looking	at	a	rainbow,	some	will	see	waterdroplets	bending	light,	others	will	see	a	moment	of	delight	provided	by
spirit.”
We	lay	back	now	and	watched	the	rainbow,	which	was	getting	brighter	by	the
moment. Somehow	seeing	it	without	clouds	was	eerie	but	just	as	glorious. “Why	does	a	rainbow	make	me	feel	so	good?”	I	asked. “Because	life	is	meant	to	be	sweet,	and	when	you	see	something	as	sweet	as	a
rainbow,	it	makes	you	remember	that.”	Baba	said	nothing	more	as	the
rainbow	faded,	leaving	behind	no	trace	that	it	had	ever	existed. W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
That	rainbow	has	followed	me	a	long	time. When	I	grew	up	I	got	almost	all
my	college	training	in	science,	so	my	mind
	learned	the	kinds	of	explanations
that	leave	out	the	soul. But	Baba	taught	me	that	moments	of	delight,	the	times
when	life	is	truly	sweet,	come	from	spirit. I	had	to	teach	myself	to	look	under
the	surface	and	find	the	hidden	taste	of	sweetness. If	a	rainbow	can	be	hiding
in	a	clear	blue	sky,	then	who	knows	what	else	is	hiding	inside	an	ordinary
day? People	ask,	“How	do	you	define	God?”	Baba	had	the	simplest	answer	I’ve
ever	heard:	He’s	the	surprise	you	never	expected. He’s	the	rainbow	in	a	clear
blue	sky. That’s	a	colorful	way	of	saying	that	God	is	the	spirit	that	amazes	us
in	ordinary	things. God	is	not	as	distant	as	people	seem	to	think. To	find	him,
you	only	have	to	get	closer	a	day	at	a	time. Going	about	your	old	routine
won’t	do	it,	though. You	must	step	out	of	the	ordinary. Otherwise,	where’s	the
surprise? Better	than	any	rainbow	is	to	surprise	yourself. Beneath	the	surface	every	day
presents	at	least	one	chance	for	a	spiritual	surprise. You	are	very	different
beneath	the	surface	than	anyone	ever	thought. I	came	up	with	an	A-to-Z	list	to
create	moments	of	“Aha!”	every	day. Pick	any	letter	at	random,	and	under
that	letter	will	be	a	simple	way	to	see	yourself	as	you	never	have	before—as
someone	who	has	the	same	power	and	vision	as	your	soul.A	Soul	Alphabet
A
PPRECIATION
Today,	decide	to	appreciate	somebody. Appreciation	shouldn’t	be	silent. It’s
the	best	way	to	show	that	you	don’t	take	anyone	for	granted. I	can	remember
words	people	told	me	years	and	years	ago	that	changed	how	I	saw	myself. “You	are	a	good	person”	is	an	incredibly	powerful	statement	from	the	right
person,	someone	you	really	respect. “You’re	so	thoughtful”	or	“I	like	the	way
you	say	things”	or	“I’m	glad	I	can	count	on	you”	are	all	words	of	appreciation
that	someone	you	know	wants	to	hear. When	people	sell	a	house	and	get	more
than	they	expected	for	it,	they	say	it	appreciated	in	value. The	same	is	true	for
human	beings. If	you	appreciate	them,	they	will	increase	in	value	before	your
very	eyes.B
EYOND
Today,	decide	that	you	will	look	beyond	your	own	point	of	view. Say	to
someone,	“Tell	me	more	about	how	you	see	things.”	It’s	easy	to	find	a	time	to
do	that—just	wait	until	you	think	you	have	the	most	important	thing	to	say,
then	stop	and	let	someone	else	speak	instead. The	soul	takes	in	all	points	of
view,	and	the	more	you	imitate	that	habit,	the	more	spiritual	your	life	will
bec