relationship of particulate matter is, to a
considerable degree, a function of such fields. Thus the individual
* See papers by Burr, H. S., 1916 a and h, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1930,
lQ32. Details in Appendix. t Burr, H. S., 1932. Details in Appendix. :t: Gurwich, 1926; Ingvar, 1920; Lund, 1922. 32 THE COUR S E AND THE CO MPASS
characteristics of atomic matter are a result of the interdepend
ence of fields and particles. Pattern in physics, then, is determined
by the interplay of electro-dynamic fields and the particular
matter therein contained. It is reasonable to extend this hypothesis into the realms of
biology. Potential gradients and polar differences exist in living
systems. Since this is so, then electro-dynamic fields are also
present. The following theory may then be formulated. The pattern or
organization of any biological system is establishe d by a complex
electro-dynamic �eld which is in part determined by its atomic
physio-chemical components and which in part determines the
behaviour and orientation of those components. This �eld is
electrical in the physical sense and by its properties relates the
entities of the biological system in a characteristic pattern and
is itself, in part, a result of the existence of those entities. It de
termines and is determined by the components. More than establishing pattern, it must maintain pattern in
the midst of a physio-chemical �ux. Therefore, it must regulate
and control living things. It must be the mechanism, the outcome
of whose activity is wholcncss, organization, and continuity. The electro-dyn amic field, then, is comparable to the entelechy of
Driesch, the embryonic field of Spehmann, and the biological
field of Weiss. The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life stated above was de
veloped with the collaboration of Dr. F. S. C. Northrop, of Yale,
and was first put forward in a joint paper in 1935'*
This theory yields a number of interesting implications for
embryology, only one of which can be considered here: An in
triguing problem in development of a tail is the establishment
of a longitudinal axis. This is a very real structure alignment,
although at early stages of development the cells which are re
lated to it are not specialized. For experimental rearrangment of
these cellular units does not change the axis, although they them
selves have their ultimate fate altered. Caudal cells may become
cephalic cells, right cells may become left cells with little serious
* Burr, H. S. and Northrop, F. S. c., Quart erly Review of Biology
10: 322-333, 1935. 33 THE COURSE AND THE COM PASS
interference with the processes of growth. Yet in some way, the
constituent cells of the growing system have their state deter
mined and their behaviour and orientation controlled. To Driesch we owe the brilliant observation that the fate of
any group of cells in an embryo is not only genetically condi
tioned, but is also the result of the position of that group of cells
in the biological whole. The mechanism by which position could
determine cellular potencies was explained by Driesch through
an assumption of an extra biological guiding principle, an en
telechy. It is at this point that the electro-dynamic field theory
proposed above provides a significant explanation of the well
recognized facts. In the physical world, the nature of an atom is
dependent upon the number of entities which comprise it and
the field in which they lie, the position of the electron orbits
being of fundamental importance. So, in a very much more com
plex scale in the biological system, the fate of any group of cells
is determined in part by the positions those cells occupy in the
electro-dynamic field in the embryo. It is clear, that if the above
is granted, three factors are present in the normal development of
an organism. The cells must possess a certain genetic constitu
tion, certain cellular environment, and certain positions in the
electro-dyn amic field. 4
The theoretical considera tions here presented led us to the
conclusion, reached by nearly all investigators, that pattern or
organization is a fundamental characteristic of biological systems
or of physical systems, or of the Universe. The electro-dynamic
theory provided a working hypothesis for a direct attack upon
this problem and we felt that it should be possible to determine
by objective experiment whether or not such fields exist; in other
words, that this theory could be put to experimental test. If
accepted, it could open up a wide field of study based on electro
metric methods. It could also make it possible to place the
investigation of the organization of living systems on the same
objective and physical basis as the analysis of their chemical con
stituents. 34 THE COUR S E AND THE COMPAS S
It appeared, therefore, that an hypothesis of this type was
necessary to bring biological theory into line with physical
theory. Moreover, biological considerations themselves affirmed a
similar necessity and provided sufficient data to warrant putting
to Nature, by experiment al and electric methods, the questions
which this theory raises. These questions fall naturally into three categories. In the
first of these are questions as to the presence of potential and
polar differences in living systems. In the second, are the ques
tions dealing with the measurements of electro-dynamic fields
which accompany the potential differences. In the third category
are questions concerning the interrelationship between electric
fields of the environment and the fields of the developing mech
anism. If the theory could be established, we felt it would be possible
to apply the mathematical methods developed for field physics to
biological material. This would place the study of biological
organization on a mathemat ical as well as on an experimen tal
basis. The general statement of the field theory here presented re
quired that four questions be put to Nature: The first, Are there
potential and polar differences in living systems everywhere? The second, Do these potential differences exist in an organized
fashion, or are they chaotic and indeterminate? The third, Are
the electrical measurements made in the laboratory a valid
measure of an electro-dynamic field? The fourth, If the field
exists, does it control or determine the living process or is it a
consequenc e-or a mere accompaniment -of that process? 5
We now knew what we were looking for, but before we could
set sail, we had to obtain a suitable 'compass' with which to
navigate these unknown seas. But, some thir ty-five years ago
when this adventure was projected, no suitable 'compass'
existed. Up to that time, all electrical measurements of living systems
35 THE COUR S E AND THE COMP ASS
had been made with instruments which were operated by the
electrical output of the system. Needless to say, this drained the
current from the system, which was badly disturbed by the
measuring. The brilliant exception was Lund who, in his early experi
ments used an electrometer to study living organisms. But every
one who has worked with these instruments knows that they
are difficult to set up and to keep in good operating condition
for sufficien tly-long periods to permit careful study of the living
organism. Lund made another great advance by using zinc sulphate
electrodes in tap water or cell sap to make contact with the pro
toplasm itself. This technique avoided the unpredictable and un
reliable measurements made by others with metal electrodes in
contact with the protoplasm. Such contact always gives rise to
artifidal potentials not related to the system being measured:
and the resulting measurements are unreliable. One has only to read Lund's papers to realize what an incred
ibly rigorous technique was demanded by his studies. He not
only used a Compton electrometer, which draws no current from
the system measured, but also reasonably-reversible electrodes. And many of his earlier experiments were carried out under
stable environmental conditions with controlled stimuli of the
protoplasm. It seemed desirable to find an instrument easier to
use and more reliable over long periods. At the outset, it seemed probable that if potential differences
could be measured in living systems they would be very small. An
alternative to the electrometer, therefore, had to be devised which
would draw little or no current from the system being measured. In other words, the instrument must not disturb the system. For
it seemed likely tha t the great confusion in biometric measure
ments of the past had been caused by the lack of any such instru
ment in biological laboratories. A series of rather extensive specifications was set up. First, the
device must consist of an amplifier with a very high input im
pedance so that resistance changes in the system itself would have
little effect upon the measurement. Second, the instrument, or
amplifier, must be of sufficient sensitivity to record minor
36 THE COUR S E AND THE CO MPASS
changes in the electrical voltage gradients. Third, the device
must necessarily be stable so that random fluctuations would be
reduced to a minimum. Another specification was that the amplifier and the system
being measured should not require external shielding. This meant
a high rejection-rate at the input to the amplifier. Finally, obvi


 way. And it sort of leads your investigation. Now karmically, you’re
beset by certain problems and questions in your life, so they tend to press
for expression and for awareness. The past lives that probably are of any
significance in one’ s life, most people already intuit them. They will start
out as a joke—“Oh, some lifetime, I must have so-and-so”—usually starts
out as a joke. They don’ t want anybody to think they believe in karma, so
they say, “Well, some lifetime I must have been a pickpocket.” I was a
pickpocket in France one time. Anyway. I sort of knew that all along. You’ll
find that you sort of intuit, or people will mention to you, you know,
“You’re like an old farmer, for God’ s sake, the way you walk around and
look down at the ground.” You know, you just sort of knew you’d been a
farmer a lot of lifetimes, you know what I’m sayin’. It’s like one is very close to consciousness. What’ s the value and the
significance of it? The value and significance is that it may recontextualize
your spiritual work in this lifetime in a way that is less painful, facilitate it,
and broaden one’ s understanding of the evolution of consciousness itself. It’s unlikely that you just came out of the blue, out of some kind of
nothingness and appeared on this planet, calibrating at 430. I mean, it’ s just
not a likelihood. The other interesting observation is that without some kind of
understanding of karma, there is no explanation of why it is that various
individuals already have a calibrated level of consciousness at the moment
of birth. How come this baby is born at 230, this one’ s born at 540, this
one’s born at 70? How would you explain that? A fickle God or careless
God? I don’ t know. “I just roll the dice, and some fell of f the table”? Little
kids were born with AIDS and died of starvation by age of six months. What kind of karma is that, huh? Born with a calibrated ener gy of 30, which
is not far from death. They’re born half dead into a family with no
resources, no money, no food, and all of them have AIDS, and they are
terminal cases of tuberculosis—if the AIDS doesn’ t get them, the TB will. Or the nearest warlord will slaughter them anyway. How to explain this?How can you believe in a just God who determines all events as though
He’s arbitrary, and yet have people coming into the planet on all these
various, dif ferent levels? “Karma is the explanation why children come into this world calibrating
at dif ferent levels: resist” (T rue). So, you see, you intuit the next step in
your own spiritual evolution. And you use consciousness techniques such as
kinesiology to af firm or deny them. Why? Because you begin to trust your
own spiritual inspiration. The Presence of God within you expresses itself
as spiritual inspiration, which is what leads you into spiritual pathways and
attending lectures and studying books and doing mantras, and all that. That’ s coming from a spiritual intuition... inspiration. It’ s not personal, so
you can’ t compliment yourself that you’re spiritually oriented; nor can you
attack yourself that you aren’ t.
Consciousness itself is impersonal. Everybody has it. Awareness is
impersonal—everybody has it. The presence of the Self is ubiquitous in
everybody. So it’ s not something you can rate yourself one way or the other. It’s like you hear the call, and you become responsive to it. And now you
become curious about spiritual matters. You become interested in
overcoming defects, because your polarity is such in the gravity field of the
Universe of God that you are attracted to the Light. Once one is attracted to
the Light, one is attracted to the Light by virtue of all the spiritual decisions
that have been made in the past, so that your karmic propensity now is to be
attracted in this direction. Most people who are seriously spiritually devoted accept that as normal
and think, “W ell, isn’ t everybody that way? Doesn’ t everybody want to go
to church and give up sin and become a better person and go to heaven?”
No. That is naive altogether. We see that 78 percent of the population
prefers it the other way. They will consciously choose that which leads in
the other direction. If given a choice, they will consciously choose it. That
is also partly because of what they have been up to that point. So that you
can’t really berate anybody for what they are at this point, because what
they are now is a consequence of what they have been. To many people it
would seem that the option of a dif ferent choice is not open to them. If
you’re out at sea and shipwrecked at sea, it’ s not an option to drink pure
water, because there isn’ t any. Many of the adolescents I see who come of f
the streets, a better choice is not really an option to them. It’ s not within
their conscious options. You know, when you go to make a choice, you havea certain number of options. And these kids don’ t have these three options. You either fight and kill, or you’re a coward and go down. So they’ve got
one choice. They’ve got one choice. It doesn’ t dawn on them that they
could leave their present environment. It’ s not a possibility. So it’ s almost as
though the positive options themselves are earned. The positive option is
not there unless you’ve earned the positive option, you might say. The Spiritual Heart
According to Ramana Maharshi, the seat of the heart is in the right side of
the chest. He was talking about the various levels of the aura which have
different languaging, depending on the spiritual tradition from which you
are speaking—in the Far East, or the Near East, or wherever. Anyway, he’s
apparently talking about a heart within the heart chakra as expressed in one
of the sheaths. So I’m not aware of what he meant by it, and it puzzled
many of his followers. Many people asked, and I for got what his literal
answer was. Let’ s see. We’ll ask it today. I don’ t know what the answer is
either. “What he meant was the spiritual heart: resist” (T rue). “That the
spiritual heart is positioned in a certain way within the etheric body: resist”
(True). “He’ s talking about the position of the heart chakra within the
etheric body: resist” (T rue). “And that it’ s not concordant with the physical
body: resist” (T rue). All right. So, he’ s saying it’ s not concordant
anatomically with the physical body. I only saw auras briefly in my lifetime, and it was with a lady who knew
how to see auras. I said, “I can’ t see auras.” She said, “Oh, anybody can see
auras. Here, sit down.” She told me how you see auras. She said, “Look
right over the head there and don’ t focus on the head, and you’ll see...”
And then she showed me where to look and how to look, and by God, there
was one. Well, I didn’ t know if it was just suggestion. Don’ t forget, I’m
scientifically trained, you know, and I know a lot of suggestions. So I’m
saying to myself, “W ell, this is suggestion.” So I thought, I’ll test her out. For one thing, when I saw this aura, it was gray, like this, and it was very
lopsided. It was not auras like they are in pictures—they look like halos, or
something. This person’ s sitting there, and here’ s this gray aura, and it is
way over this way, over his right ear. And I said, “Where do you see the
aura?” She said, “It’ s way over his right ear.” “Okay, I am seeing them.”
Well, your fantasy would be that everybody’ s aura looks very neat, like anartist’ s drawing right around the body, you see. The ener gy field was way
over like that. I don’ t know. I’m just speculating on what Ramana meant by
that. I don’ t think it was anything important. I for get whether he said to
meditate on it or not, but I didn’ t get that it was of any critical importance. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 9
The Experience of One’ s Own
Existence Is Subjective
How can you verify the validity of your findings, such as, I suppose, in
kinesiology or whatever, or in one’ s work? That’ s sort of the hypothetical
asking the hypothetical, so it’ s not really answerable in a radical, logical
way. But the experience of one’ s existence is purely subjective, and there is
no escape from subjectivity. So, to ask somebody for what might be
considered objective—from a certain intellectual, hypothetical viewpoint—
doesn’ t really have any reality even if it was answerable. Because


. The	witch	burnings	were	a	female	holocaust. Women	have	been
afraid
	to	show	our	fierceness—on	behalf	of	our
children,	our	planet,	or	anything	else—because	we	haven’t	wanted	to	be
labeled	“witches. ”	The	fact	that	the	consonant	has	been	changed	from	“w”	to
“b”	has	not	changed	the	emotional	reality	for	us. We	don’t	want	to	be	seen	as
“bitchy,”	“angry,”	“strident. ”	And	as	a	consequence,	we	too	often	grow	silent
about	things	that	matter	most. Pagan	women	exalted	the	divine	connection	between	an	individual	person
and	the	natural	world. Their	priestesses	ritualistically	connected	souls	to	each
other	and	to	the	world	around	them. Their	destruction	at	the	hands	of	the	early
church	was	a	tragedy	not	only	for	them,	but	also	for	the	development	of	the
Western	world. For	their	disappearance	in	many	ways	presaged	today’s
environmental	crisis,	paving	the	way	for	an	era	in	which	it	has	been	deemed
acceptable	for	humanity	to	dominate	nature. In	order	to	end	this	global	crisis,
we	must	mantle	the	thought-forms	that	produced	it. Part	of	our	atonement	for
how	we	have	desecrated	the	earth	involves	atonement	for	how	we	desecrated
a	culture	in	which	the	wisdom	of	women	was	given	its	true	due. The	fact	that	today	we	can	understand	what	happened	to	those	women	and
reclaim	their	spiritual	authority,	provides	hope	that	humanity	can
miraculously	repair	itself	before	it	is	too	late. Miracles	arise	from	conviction,	and	there’s	no	conviction	like	motherconviction. When	we	women	are	in	our	right	minds,	we	will	not
allow
	the
destruction	of	the	world. For	we	are	the	mothers	of	the	world. We	are	remembering	at	last	our	forgotten	powers,	not	only	to	physically
procreate	but	to	spiritually	regenerate. We’re	going	to	change	history;	we’re
going	to	turn	the
Titanic
	around	this	time	before	it	hits	the	iceberg;	we’re
going	to	miraculously	stop	the	insane,	suicidal	march	now	presided	over	by
the	governments	of	the	world;	and	it’s	going	to	happen
because	we	say	so. Women	must	reclaim	the	ecstatic	feminine	impulse	before	we	can	appear
again	in	the	fullness	of	our	glory. The	witches	of	yesterday	will	rest,	I	hope,
having	found	in	a	new	generation	of	women	the	pity	and	compassion	they
deserve. We	grieve	for	them	and	for	ourselves. For	every	woman	who	cannot
find	her	voice	or	attract	her	love	or	express	her	power	or	heal	our	world,	there
was	a	woman	burned	alive	for	doing	so. As	we	move	forward,	armed	with
new	understanding,	may	we	unearth	our	long-buried	passion. And	may	they,
our	dear	dishonored	sisters,	find	peace. A
S	A	LITTLE	GIRL
,	I
REMEMBER	BEING	DRAWN	TO
	girls	a	few	years	older	than	I	was. I	felt
the	same	when	I	was	30	and	40,	and	I	feel	that	way	today. I’ve	always	felt	that
those	who	walked	life’s	path	just	a	few	years	ahead	of	me	had	something
important	to	show	me. And	now	I	see	the	pattern	from	the	other	side:	I	have	younger	friends	who
feel	to	me,	and	I	think	to	them	as	well,	like	my	spiritual	younger	siblings. It’s
as	though	they’re	growing	into	their	power,	and	show	me	the	honor	of	valuing
mine. It’s	a	very	important	role	in	life,	doing	everything	we	can	to	model
impeccability	to	those	younger	than	we. It	doesn’t	mean	more	years	have
made	us	perfect. Hardly. But	it	does	mean	that	we	take	very	seriously	the
effort	to	live	as	righteously	as	we	can. Mentoring	isn’t	just	something	nice	you	do,	or	even	necessarily	a	conscious
choice. It’s	a	pattern	you	magnetize	to	yourself	as	part	of	the	natural	order. As
you	yourself	grow	more	mature,	those	behind	you	in	time—ones	who	would
be	most	served	by	your	teaching—automatically	appear	in	your	life. And	by
teaching,	I	mean	not	only	what	you	know	but	also	what	you	demonstrate. I	can’t	imagine	where	I’d	be	today	had	there	not	been	those	who	arrived	on
my	path	to	show	me	what	I	needed	to	see	at	just	the	moment	when	I	needed	to
see	it. Now	it’s	my	turn,	to	try	to	put	together	some	piece	of	life’s	puzzle	for
those	who	look	to	me	as	one	who’s	done	it	herself. How	we	behave,	how	we
do	or	do	not	seek	to	bring	harmony	to	the	world	around	us,	are	holographicteachings	we’re	beaming	to	those	around	us	all	the	time. A	younger	friend,
who	is	like	a	little	sister	to	me,	has	said	to	me	more	than	once,	“You	think	I’m
ignoring	you,	but	I	am	listening	to	every	word. ”
Sometimes	I	meet	younger	people	at	my	lectures	whose	eyes	are	aglow	at
something	I’ve	said. (Don’t	get	me	wrong;	I’ve	also	seen	those	whose	eyes
were	rolling. ) I	know	the	thrill	of	being	young	and	hearing	ideas	you	haven’t
heard	before,	seeing	someone	model	a	role	in	the	culture	that	you	feel
beckoning	to	you. I	was	there	once. And	now	I’m	here. I	meet	the	young
woman	telling	me	she	wants	to	someday	do	what	I	do;	I	smile	and	say,	“You
go,	girl. ”	I	meet	the	young	man	who	bows	respectfully	and	hands	me	a	rose;	I
receive	it	tenderly,	respecting	the	generosity	of	his	gesture. The	elders	will	be	honored	when	we	behave	more	honorably. Midlife
doesn’t	feel	right	if	we	don’t	feel	we’re	dispensing	the	best	we’ve	got	before
we	go. Or	that	at	the	very	least,	we’re	trying. Dear	God,
May	I	be	worthy
of	an	honored	role
in	the	lives	of	those
who	are	younger	than	I. Show	me	how
to	use	Your	gifts	well,
and	how	to	pass	them	on. Amen
I’
VE	HEARD	MYTHICAL	AND	NOT-SO-MYTHICAL	STORIES	OF	OLDER	WOMEN
	who	moved	into	a
convent,	as	though	their	worldly	ride	was	over	and	from	here	on	out	they
would	drop	the	veil	on	worldly	concerns. But	I’ve	come	to	think	that	the
convent	experience	is	an	inner	domain,	maybe	externalized	and	maybe	not. The	convent	that	matters	is	a	space	in	the	heart,	where	you	live	for	God—but
that	isn’t	all. You	live	for	God	not	as	an	escape	from	the	world,	but	as	an
ultimate	effort	at	right	living	in	it. From	your	family	to	your	friends	to	your
citizenship	to	everyone	and	everything	you	know,	you	want	at	last	to	play	the
game	of	life	correctly. The	only	way	to	do	that,	you	finally	understand,	is	to
see	it	for	what	it	is. And	where	it	is. Life	isn’t	out	there


 form to the emotion. The energy field of the
emotions is actually formless, but when one insists that
.it is grief, it then takes the form of grief. If somebody
holds a gun to our head, we are naturally convinced in
mind that this calls for fear; therefore, the same energy
now assumes a somewhat different form labeled "fear." It is preferable to decrease the form of the energy
field and stop labeling it anything.We don't tell people,
"You know,I'm going through grief; I'm going through
fear; I'm going through an upset. "An 'upset' is closer to
the truth. It is a general term because it is very hard to
say what the emotion is in an acute upset. Initially, one
usually experiences a sense of shock, numbness, and
disbelief that this could have happened. That is the
moment to begin this practice.A person is prepared if
they know about the technique in advance. Several years ago, I went through such an experi
ence and instantly began letting go of resisting the
experience. I constantly canceled out the thoughts. For
instance, the loss seemed like forever, a lifetime. It is
not the loss of a lifetime that is the problem, it is the HANDLING MA] 0 R CRI SES 241
energy of the emotion that comes up about that. Once
the energy of the emotion about the loss dissipates, it
becomes sort of a "So what? "The problem is the acute
catastrophic emotionality, so one just has to be with it. The technique is to allow oneself to experience it. In
fact, to get over it in a hurry, just ask for more! Say to
yourself, "~ want more of it; I want more of it." We can eventually see that this is a major opportu
nity.The cause of all pain and suffering is the accumu
lation of this compressed energy field, and life events
give us an excuse. It opens the gate so we allow our
selves to feel some ofit. For example, somebody bumps
the fender of our car.All the suppressed anger that we
have accumulated over our lifetime now has an excuse
to pop out. It gets angry over the dented fender; it gets
annoyed and goes into self-pity and blame.The events
in life are the excuses for letting go of the compressed
energy. Because it becomes unbearable, the mind fmds
a way to discharge it that is acceptable to us. A person who is familiar with this will feel the com
pressed energy and begin to release it without waiting
for the mind to create an excuse that justifies its
release.The more sophisticated mind does not need an
outside event to release its angriness. It just knows that
it is building up some suppressed angriness and sits
down and says,"I had better look at this:' It then starts
letting go of the energy of it before the mind gets
around and creates something 'out there' to relieve
itself. It is as though the events in our lives are almost
like safety or release valves, providing a way to decom
press this energy tank. The technique is one of decompression. It is look242 HEALING AND RECOVERY
ing at the energy as it is being experienced. We do not
have to handle the thoughts or the problems that the
mind creates around this particular event.When a per
son looks at any life experience, they will see that they
live within their feelings about it.The life event itself is
really a 'nothing'. In the morning, it may look cata
strophic, but by noon, it might be amusing. The event
has not changed at all. The dented fender, at the
moment it happens, may be an outrage of indignation. The minute we think about it,we start to feel guilty.We
know very well that we turned a little too sharply our
self. Maybe an hour later we are feeling sorry for the
other guy because now he has an insurance problem. We realize it really was not· his fault, and we have a
desire to make it up to him. Now we are into feeling
guilty and blaming ourself again.Then we think about
it all again, and now we go back into rage.We see what
we are living with.Are we living with a dented fender? The fact is that we never really lived with a dented
fender; we only lived our own inner experience ofthat. How we are with that is what we are experiencing. People never experience the dented fenders in life,
only their emotions about them. When we look at it from this perspective, it is not
quite as bad an overwhelm. The only thing we are ever
going to have to handle is the same energy, the subtle,
inner feelingness, and then let go of resisting it, surren
der to it, and welcome it. Saying yes to it releases its
energy. After doing this for a few minutes, or maybe
even an hour (it depends on how adept one is---'some
people get it right away and some need a little prac
tice), a person gets where it is and no longer has to HANDLIN G MAJ0 R C RISES 243
even handle or experience the emotions as such.What
was fear disappears and is not felt as fear any longer. Anger is not felt as angriness; guilt is not felt as guilti
ness per se. The emotion is felt as an overwhelming;
upcoming flow of a negative energy that is actually
generic and nameless. When we stop naming, labeling, or calling the energy
something, we no ~onger have to handle it. When we
stop putting constructions and interpretations of the
mind onto it, when we let go of wanting to make it
right or wrong or the event or ourselfwrong, when we
bypass all that, we then get the feelingness ofit and see
that we do not have to handle all that.We do not have
to handle the thought or even the emotions ofit.All we
have to do is handle the same upcoming energy. Can we do that? Yes, we can because we are doing
it all the time anyway. It is a more effective technique
than wildly racing around in our mind trying to figure
it out, or running around inside our feelings and trying
to handle the catastrophic emotions because, at the
same time, this letting go of the energy field is happen
ing anyway. It is helpful to become conscious of it, to cut
through the confusion and get right to the essential
point of what is effective. Dealing with the thoughts
and the events with all the reasoning, logic, and figur
ing it out, and dealing with all the probing into the psy
chological significances is entertaining but thoroughly
ineffective. It is a waste of time and energy and really
delays the recovery. The healing of an acute burn of the hand takes only
a matter of seconds. How long should it take the bleed244 HEALING AND RECOVERY
ing to stop ifwe have cut off a thumb? It actually takes
a matter of seconds. For example, when I unintention
ally cut my thumb off, I instantly used this technique,
and the thumb bled exactly eight drops. The instant
releasing of it, the releasing of the pain, and the letting
go of the resistance of the catastrophic overwhelm
allowed the bleeding to stop instantaneously. Those people who have tried this technique have
had the same experience on the physical level, demon
strating the truth of this. It can be done with any emo
tion. One goes into the emotion, then past the emotion,
and stops calling it anything. One gets in touch with
the generic energy of what is coming up. It seems to
come right up through the solar plexus, or it seems to
be everywhere. One goes right to where the experi
ence is being experienced. One has to use a little disci
pline with the mind and refuse to have the mind fool
oneself. The person says, "Well, I'm experiencing the
death of that person out there:' One is not experienc
ing it 'out there'; one is experiencing it 'in here'.Where
is that? It is the same place where one always experi
ences experience-within the feeling self. The only problem is one's own feelingness.The real
problem is not actually the death of someone 'out
there'.A person is up against the energy of one's own
feelingness, the overwhelm ofthe energy ofthat. Ifone
directs their attention and focuses it there with preci
sion, it aborts what could be a prolonged and very
painful experience; it is brought to an abrupt end. What happens if we keep on letting go of this
energy? What happens if we welcome it? What if we
say, "What an opportunity to decompress all this"? HANDLING MAJOR CRISES 245
What will be the experience then? It will be relatively
brief compared to what it would be with an ordinary
state ofconsciousness. Suddenly, the energy field stops. It is as though, when the pressure gauge on the com
pression chamber reaches a certain point, the overflow
stops, and then we experience a state of peace. Right
out of acute catastrophe come profound states of
peace. If someone has been through this, they under
stand what is meant here. The core ofreliefis sur


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www.thegersonway.comit found its way into almost every kind of convenience food, from soups, canned gravy, salad
dressings and frozen ready meals to potato chips, and into the meals served in the world-wide
chains of fast food restaurants. (On food labels it often hides behind the name of Hydrolyzed
Vegetable Protein). The reason for this lavish use of MSG was discovered by John Erb, a research assistant at the
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada, when he found out that laboratory mice and rats,
used for studies on obese animals, had to be injected with MSG soon after birth, to make them fat. Under natural circumstances no rodents become obese. They only do so when the injected MSG
triples the amount of insulin their pancreas produces. Once fat, they are known as “MSG-Treated
Rats.”
 Away from the research laboratory, MSG is added to human food for its addictive effect. As long ago as 1978 it was scientifically proven to be an addictive substance. Since the food
manufacturers lobby openly states that the purpose of MSG is to make people eat more, this
additive clearly plays a major role in the current obesity epidemic. That is bad enough, but
huge numbers of people suffer from the serious ide effects of MSG, which include headaches,
palpitation, vomiting, nausea, numbness, chest pain, drowsiness, facial pressure and weakness. Some of these are also referred to as Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. John Erb summed up his findings in “The Slow Poisoning of America,”  his book on the
harmful activities of the food additive industry. Although the dangers of MSG have been widely
known for decades, the FDA has set no limits on how much of it may be added to food. Transfats
Transfats: Described variously as the world’s unhealthiest food and/or as heart attack in a
box, these ubiquitous food components are produced by hydrogenating vegetable oil, so as to turn
a liquid into a solid substance. Transfats or HVOs (Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils) are known to
increase the levels of LDL or “bad cholesterol,” while reducing those of HDL, the “good” variety. They leave fatty deposits in the arteries, cause digestive disorders, and reduce the absorption rate
of essential vitamins and minerals. Transfats. are created by heating vegetable oil to a very high temperature, turning it solid,
so it can be used in margarine, pastry, pies, ice cream, confectionery and countless convenience
foods. (Uninformed shoppers often fall for advertisements, which claim that margarine, made
from sunflower oil, is healthier for the heart than, say, butter; they don’t stop to wonder just
how the golden liquid oil had become snow white and solid….) Hydrogenated fat is cheap, has
no flavor and secures any product a long shelf life, hence its popularity in the food industry. However, recently evidence has piled up to show that far from protecting the heart, Transfats
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www.thegersonway.comof cancer. A long-term study carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health on 18,555 healthy
women trying to get pregnant found that for every 2% increase in the amount of calories a woman
got from Transfats, her risk of infertility increased by 73%. The British Transfat expert Dr. Alex
Richardson commented, “Transfats shouldn’t be in our diet. They are toxic and have no known
health benefits and many known health risks.” The World Health Organization has recently urged
consumers to exclude Transfats from their food intake, and in Britain all the leading supermarket
chains have pledged to ban hydrogenated oils from their own-brand foods and drinks as fast as
possible
 The Harvard School of Public Health has estimated that at least 30,000 people and more,
probably 100,000 die every year in the US from cardiovascular disease, caused by eating HVOs
found in most convenience foods. The American nutritionist Mary Enig has stated that Transfats
disrupt the cellular function of the body, weakening its power to expel wastes and toxins. This
opens the door to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, poor immunity and obesity. The good news is, that since January 2006, under US Government regulations food
manufacturers must state the amount of Transfats contained in their products. Some of them have
already started to remove Transfats from their output. And the British Soil Association, flagship
of the organic movement in the UK, has recently declared that all additives, including Transfats,
MSG and aspartame are absolutely banned from all organic products. The only way to exclude these and countless other harmful additives from one’s diet is to
avoid all manufactured foods, and take the more labor-intensive but health-restoring path of
eating only fresh organic natural foods, and limit restaurant meals to rare occasions. But additive-filled junk food doesn’t just harm the body: it is also a powerful trigger for anti-
social behavior. Researchers both in California and in England have run experiments in prisons
housing young male criminals, giving them supplements containing vitamins, minerals and
essential fatty acids over several months, and monitoring their behavior. In both countries minor
offences dropped by 33%, and serious ones, including violence, by 37-38% 6. Take those findings
out of the prison setting and it becomes obvious that much anti-social behavior in society can be
ascribed directly to harmful toxic food additives—yet another powerful argument for avoiding
junk foods of all kinds. Fluoride
Among the factors undermining the body’s defenses this substance deserves special attention,
because while exorbitant dental health claims are made for it by commercial interests, in fact it is
a dangerous poison, an industrial waste containing small amounts of lead, mercury, beryllium and
arsenic. The official reason why the US Government promotes the compulsory addition of fluoride
to drinking water is to improve children’s dental health, which, as common sense recognizes, is
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www.thegersonway.comtoo many sweets. According to some experts, fluoride only protects the teeth of children up to
the age of 5. Since that age group makes out only a small percentage of the population, it seems
indefensible to force this highly controversial chemical onto everybody, irrespective of their age
and dental condition. Moreover, there is evidence to show that fluoridation does not lastingly improve children’s
dental health. On the other hand it causes fluorosis to one in every eight children, resulting in
mottled, discoloured teeth. In the US, according to figures released in 2003, despite fluoridation
more than half of children aged 6-8 and two-thirds of all 15-year-olds suffer from dental decay. And there is worse to come. It is claimed that the prolonged intake of fluoride can be linked to
increased risk of cancers, hip fractures, osteoporosis, kidney trouble and even birth defects. The
late Dr Dean Burk, who had worked for more than 30 years as chief chemist at the US National
Cancer Institute (NCI), declared, “Fluoride causes more human cancer deaths, and causes it
faster, than any other chemical.”  Following a 17-year study, the NCI found that as fluoridation
increased, so did oral cancer, and also osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in young men. The rate of increase in those two cancers has been established as 33-50, viz. 70%. Despite the NCI study’s conclusions, the pro-fluoride camp is doing its utmost to hide
and deny the harmful effects of the chemical. One such attempt led to an uproar among scientists
in 2006, when it transpired that Professor Chester Douglass of the Harvard Dental School had
kept secret the findings of his graduate student Elise Bassin for four years. In her 2001 thesis
Bassin discussed the association between fluoride and cancer, particularly osteosarcoma —bone
cancer—in young males. When her findings were finally published in May 2006 and the truth
came out to general consternation among researchers, Harvard exonerated Professor Douglass
from any wrongdoing and conflict of interest, although he is widely known to be a paid consultant
for the toothpaste industry, which is a major user of fluoride. Up to 500 letters of protest have been
sent to Harvard’s President Bok, among them a blistering one from Professor Samuel Epstein,
Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, demanding “a full and watertight explanation of
this extraordinary action.” At the time of writing the issue has not been resolved. This story is just one of many examples showing how assiduously vested interests fight
to protect their profitable products, even


ulsions and death. On the other hand, most fruits, vegetables
and herbs are alkaline-forming. Nature seems to favor alkaline (cationic)solutions
. If your diet consists of 80 percent raw fruits and vegetables, and
20 percent nuts, seeds and cooked vegetables, you will experience
tremendous health. If your diet consists of 100 percent raw fruits, vegetables,
nuts and seeds you will experience incredible vitality and robust health. MODULE 3.9
The Energy of Food

People today tend to focus a great deal of attention on the chemistry (or
composition) of foods, especially vitamins and minerals, while mainly
ignoring other properties, like astringent properties, antioxidants, tissue salts
and the like. Even less do we think about the energy of a food, which is a
reflection of the food’s total chemistry. Orthomolecular supplementation (vitamins and minerals) never cures. The power (or energy) of individual constituents can never match that of a
whole food complex. In nature all things work together and with clockwork
precision. When you separate the nutrition in food, and only give back
certain constituents, you miss the synergistic properties of the whole
. This
causes a loss of proper utilization. Calcium, for example, needs phosphorus,
magnesium, the flavinoid complexes, B complex, etc., to be properly utilized. If you take calcium tablets alone, you can’t get this synergistic action. If you
get calcium from nature, from raw foods, you get the whole deal—
constituents and all. We just can’t compete with nature. Separated constituents, like vitamins and minerals, can increase your
energy levels somewhat and in some cases make your symptoms disappear,
only to return when you stop using them. An example of this, again, is
calcium. Many people experience weak, brittle and/or ridged fingernails. They start taking a calcium supplement or gelatin and their nails will become
hard again. However, as soon as they stop taking the calcium, their nails
return to the weakened state. Your fingernails will give you clues about the
condition of your bones or skeletal structure. You did not fix the “cause” of
the problem, which is, in nine out of ten cases, a
calcium utilization
problem
, not a deficiency problem. Calcium is very abundant even in our
S.A.D. (Standard American Diet). However, we are destroying its utilization
potential through cooking and processing. You must fix the utilizationproblem, and the bottom line of food utilization is energy and proper
endocrine gland function. “Are the foods you are eating full of energy, or have you destroyed the
energy and nutrition in your food by cooking or altering it in some way?”
This is the number one question to ask yourself. The higher the energy a food
has, the greater healing ability it has. This is why fructose and glucose are
essential. These simple sugars are one of the most important factors in
encouraging cells to regenerate. If I am consulting with a cancer patient, do I want to take away their
energy, or give them energy? If I take more of their energy away they will
die. Chemotherapy or radiation spreads (metastasizes) cancer as it destroys
cells and weakens the body. This greatly lowers one’s energy level, making
one vulnerable to parasites and death. The brain and nervous system cells are the highest energy centers in your
body. Neurons require more energy than a typical cell. Understanding which
foods have the highest energy is vital to your regeneration. The success I
have witnessed with neurological weaknesses and injuries at our clinic is well
known. We have seen spinal cord severations, even years after the injury,
reconnect neurologically. CONSCIOUSNESS AND FOOD

Energy is another word that can be used to describe awareness or
consciousness. All life has an awareness or consciousness to it, at one level or
another. Just because you cannot talk
to plants or animals does not mean they
do not have awareness. Some individuals have developed the ability to
communicate with other forms of life. Foods also have an awareness or
consciousness to them. Each type of food has its own unique individuality
and reason for existing. God does not create something for no reason. In
healing and regeneration we find this helpful to understand. We noted that the brain and nervous centers of the body contain the
highest energetic or electrical tissues we have. We find that fruits have the
highest electrical energy of all the foods. Volt-ohm meters and
electromagnetic meters can measure this energy. My own clinical studies have
shown that fruits will regenerate brain and nerve tissue, whereas vegetables
will not. I have found that, as a rule,
fruits are brain and nerve foods
 aswell as the
cleaners of tissue. Vegetables are the builders, which are suited
for muscle and skeletal tissue. Nuts and seeds are structural foods and
are strengthening to the body as a whole
. Let’s examine the electromagnetic energy of foods to further understand
which foods are key to your regeneration and your vitality. Electromagnetic
energy is rated in units called angstroms. The higher the quantity of
angstroms a food gives off, the higher the energy of the food. When you eat
foods picked fresh from nature, and eat them without cooking or processing
them, the high electromagnetic energy of that food is transferred to your
body and its cells. This is true with chemistry as well. Chemical compounds and structures
are broken down by digestion, and the individual components or elements are
then absorbed through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. From there
they
are carried to the liver and to individual cells for energy or restructuring,
and the remaining byproducts are then excreted. There is a process called
biological transmutation, where the body transforms one energy source into
another. This process is not understood well in the health or medical fields. We are just beginning to see more of the picture from quantum physics. It is
enough to say that through chemical (oxidation), parasitic, and enzyme
action, life is constantly being transformed. According to physics, energy is
always being changed—never created or destroyed. The previous chart will
give you some idea of the electrical output of various foods. angstroms and Energy
E
NERGY OF
 H
EALTHY
 F
OODS
Fresh raw fruits
8000 to 10,000 angstroms
Vegetables (fresh, raw)
8000 to 9000 angstroms
Milk (fresh, raw) for children under two years of age only. 8500 angstroms
Vegetables (cooked)
4000 to 6500 angstroms
E
NERGY OF
 T
OXIC
 F
OODS
Milk (pasteurized)
2000 angstroms
Cheese
1800 angstroms
Refined white flour
1500 angstroms
Cooked meats
0 angstroms
B
ODY
 F
REQUENCIES
Human (average)
6500 angstroms
Cancer Patients (generally)
4875 angstroms
 The importance of the information in this previous chart will become
clear when you understand that as homosapiens we need at least 6000 to
7000 angstroms of systemic energy at all times to even begin to smile, no less
to be happy and healthy. According to Christopher Bird in his book
The
Secret Life of Plants
 (see bibliography), at approximately 4500 to 5200
angstroms, you are more susceptible to cancer or other seriously degenerative
issues. Fruits and vegetables that are frozen when fresh will resume the same
level of radiation (electromagnetic energy) when defrosted. Refrigerated
foods will slowly deteriorate. Bananas are one of the few, if only, fruits that
increase in nutrition and sugars, and consequently in electromagnetic energy,
after they have been picked unripe. One of the laws of physics in this universe is the law of balance—
homeostasis. The lower the energy of the food you eat, the lower your
systemic energy becomes. This creates hypoac-tive or underactive tissues. The more energetic the foods are that you eat, the more vibrant and
healthy you become
. As we increase the energy of the physical body, we lift
ourselves up out of despair and disease. This opens the senses to a whole new
world of understanding and health. The vitality you can achieve is
indescribable; it can only be experienced. The body is a tremendous machine; fully aware of itself, with self-healing
and cleaning mechanisms already built in. The body can get so healthy that
you don’t even realize that you are using it. No aches, no pains, no
weaknesses, only pure energy. If you wish to experience this pure energy
you must consume pure energy. It’s that simple. Have vitality, have
dynamic energy, have fun … go raw! If you’re green on the inside, you’re on the inside. — Dr. Bernard Jensen

MODULE 3.10
Whole, Living Foods
 What you eat, drink, breathe, or put on your skin becomes your food or your
poison. Our physical bodies were ideally designed to consume raw foods. Everything else, from toxic chemicals, minerals, metals, and the like, are
considered foreign pathogens that inflame, stimulate, irritate or kill cells. It’s your body and you have to use it while you stay on this planet. If
you feed and clean it correctly, it will give you great service, beyond your
wildest dreams. Destroy


ron seeds, sugar, lemon water and mangelwurzel, that were
boiled with it, without dis carding the water. And he
should make it a habit during a meal to eat first green
leafy vegetables spiced with a sauce made of barley and
good oil. After this my lord can eat whatever he wishes. And when he has finished his meal he should suck on
quinces, pears, an apple or a pomegranate with its seeds. And the vegetables which my lord takes should be, first,
beets, mountain spinach, spinach  or rape-wine, whichever
he has, mixed in good olive oil and barley sauce. But if he has to soften his stool with medication, he
should take a gram of good rhubarb and pound it, and an
ounce of the tamarind fruit, pur ified and cut as thin as
possible, and soak them overnig ht in a liter and a half of
water, boiled well and simmered. In the morning it should
be strained over three ounces of filtered syrup of roses. After he takes this he shoul d abstain from food until the
completion of six hours from the rising of the sun. FOR CONSTIPATION
If the stools have become very  hard it is best that he
should take cassia fistula. A nd here is the mode of its
preparation: oxtongue herb—f our drachmas; licorice,
cleaned and shelled, herba fontis, barberry seeds—three drachmas of each; althea seeds—five drachmas; moist
roses of seven petals, anethum—seven hearts. All should
be soaked in one and a half  liters of warm water a day
and a night, then it should be boiled and crushed and
strained over twenty drachmas  of cassia fistula, twenty
drachmas of almond oil and one ounce of sugar. He
should take it and wait until it completes its action and its
evacuation. He should then eat a boiled chicken. If it is
not the proper time for finding moist roses he should
place over it three ounces of st rained rose syrup. And I
know that one who reads this paragraph will wonder, and
say: It is not right to use barberry seeds, because they
have the character of preven ting the softening of stools
toward which you aim. One should know that barberry
seed has the property of prev enting the injury caused by
cassia fistula, of strengt hening the intestines and
preventing tenesmus. This is what the old practitioners
taught us. And the physicians also mention that oxymel of
roses causes softening. It is proper that my lord should
possess it also and should take it when it is very hot to
soften the stool. Its mode of preparation: One should take a liter of very
strong vinegar and throw into it one hundred moist rose
leaves, which have been placed in the sun for one day. Next morning one should remove the roses and place other rose leaves in the vi negar, the same number as
before. And one should not refrain from changing the
rose petals every day for fo rty days. And one should take
this vinegar and make of it a syrup, three pounds of sugar
for every three ounces of vinegar. Ibn Zuhr compounded an oxymel syrup made of
raisins and it was very good when made during the
summertime. Its mode of preparation: The dark raisins
should have their seeds remove d. In one liter of vinegar
one should throw half a pound of raisins and soak them
for two days. Afterward he should put them on the fire
and boil them twice and purify them, making oxymel
vinegar. And this compound is made with great care
because the vinegar will withhold the white superfluity
and will prevent the formation of malodorous moistures
and nothing can be equal to it or  like it. It is of a very
subtle substance and has a cooling effect on the
temperament. The oxymel is of great help in all fevers. But the vinegar hurts the liver very much, it irritates it
and shrinks it and causes its blood to become pale. THE LIVER'S ROLE IN HEALTH
Galen has already explained that the preservation of
man's health lies in the health  of the liver; it colors the blood and increases its moisture s, but it increa ses its heat,
and if it does that too much, it may burn the blood. While
vinegar weakens his strength, raisins, that are congenial
to the liver, give it fats and nourishment. When the syrup
is compounded of vinegar and raisins as the venerated
[Ibn Zuhr] did, we get the bene fit of the vinegar and we
prevent injury to the liver. We thus obtain the benefit of
the raisins and we are saved from increased heat. This
syrup is so wonderful and good that it should be prepared. Your servant has already compounded for his master
two syrups and an electuary for the occasions which he
mentioned. One of the syrups he should always take,
every time. Its function is to purify the blood, remove its
turbidity and cleanse it of the gases that come from the
black bile. It will expand the spirit and gladden it. It will
chase away evil thoughts and feelings. And this is the mode of pr eparation: One should take
rose leaves—one pound; oxtongue —half a pound;
lavender—two ounces; Sodom's apple, fumaterra seed
and citron leaves—one ounce of each. He should soak all
of these in six liters of warm water a day and a night. Then all of them should be boiled several times, crushed,
cleansed and strained through a sieve. Place them in six
liters of sorrel syrup and put over a small flame until they thicken into a syrup, perfuming it with a quarterweight of
myrrh. TO STRENGTHEN THE HEART
Your servant has not found any syrup equal to it, to
gladden and strengthen the hear t and give it power. It is
mild and neither raises nor lowers the temperature and
therefore can be taken at any time. And the amount to be
taken is from two to three ounces, in cold water in
summertime and in warm water in wintertime. But the second syrup which your servant saw fit to
compound will loosen the stool very much and will often
cause a bowel movement twice or three times, depending
upon the preparation. It strengthens the expelling force in
the stomach and in the in testines and removes the
moisture and the black and re d biles with ease, without
harming the organs of digestion. As to the amount to be
taken, that is from three to four ounces of warm water in
which anise has been boiled until it is changed in
appearance. One should not ta ke it constantly, but only
when he needs it to expel the retained superfluities. When
one has accustomed himself to taking it once a week, it
will strengthen the intestines and remove the factor that causes dryness of the stools. The stools will become soft
and return to their normalcy. Its preparation: One takes shelled polypody, pistachio,
broken and crushed—two ounces; senna Mecca and
oxtongue—one ounce of each; crushed licorice and
crushed althea—half ounce of each; moist fennel—a
handful; and moist roses—twenty flowers. He should
soak all these in four liters  of warm water a day and a
night. In the morning he shoul d boil it, crush it and strain
it over thirty drachmas of ca ssia fistula, purified and
mixed with half an ounce of almond oil, strained and put
away separately. And he shoul d take myrobalan of Kabul
in a polished form and amilegium myrobalanus emblici—
ten drachmas of each. He should macerate the myrobalan
and soak it in a liter and a half of warm water a day and a
night. And in the morning he should squeeze the
myrobalan very well and purify it and add to what he
boiled, the cassia fistula which he prepared separately. He
should mix the two fluids and throw into them four liters
of violet syrup and place over a weak flame, and he
should suspend over it a bundle of soft flaxen cloth or
spikenard and mastic— two drachmas of each—and
crushed rhubarb— three drachmas. And he should not
forget to squeeze the bundle with his hand to bring out
the powers of the ingredient s which it contains. And when the liquid assumes a syrupy thickness it should be
removed from the fire and hidden in a clay vessel lined
with lead. In time of need one should proceed as I
mentioned. DIGESTIVES, APHRODISIACS, SEDATIVES
The spice hinted by your serv ant is the great electuary
which was prepared by his servant beforehand. It helps
the triple digestion [in th e stomach, the liver and the
organs] and strengthens all th e organs in general and the
heart and brain in particular. It delays aging, liquefies the
white fluid, prevents fumes from


know the "mystery o( thc universc"  only when wc
are convinced that we know nothing about it at ali. Thc ordinary agnostic, rclativist, or rnatcrialist fails
to reach Lhis point becausc he clocs not follow his
line of thought consistcntly to its cnd -an end which
woulrl be the surprisc of his life. All too soon  he
abandons  faith,  opcnness to  rcality,  and lcts his mincl
27 TIIE  WISDOM  OF INSECURlTY
harden into doctrine. The discovery of the
mystery,  che wonder beyond all wondcrs, needs
no belief, for  we can only belicve in what wc havc
already known,  prcconccived, and imagincd. But
this is beyond any  imagination. Wc have  but to
open  the cyes of the  mind  widc  enough,  and "che
truth  will out. " II. P AI N  AND  T I M E

AT TIMES  ALMOST  ALL  OF  US  ENVY  THE  ANIMALS. They suffer and die, but thcy do not sccm to
makc  a "problem" of it. Their lives seem to have
so few  complications. They eat when they are
hungry anrl  sleep when they are tired, and
instinct rather than  anxiety seems to govern
thcir few preparations for  the future. As far as
we can judge, every animal is so busy with what
he is doing at the moment that it  ncver enters bis
hcad to ask whether life has a mean - ing or a
future. For the animal, happiness consists  in
enjoying life in the immediate prcsent -not in the
assurance that there is a wholc futurc o( joys
ahead  of him. This  is not just  becausc  thc animal  is a
rclatively
insensitive clod. Often enough bis eyesight, his
sense  of hearing and smell, are far more acute
than ours,  and one can hardly doubt that he
enjoys his food  and sleep immensely. Despite
his acute senses, he  has, however, a somewhat
insensitive brain. It is  more specialized than
ours, for which reason he is a  creature of habit;
he is unable to reason and make  abstractions,
and has extremely limited powers of  memory
and  prediction. Unquestionably the sensitive human brain
adds  immeasurably  to the richness  of life. Yet
far this
29 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
we pay dearly, because the increase in over -all
sen- silivity makes us peculiarly vulnerable. One
can be  lcss vulnerable by  becoming less
sensitive -more of  a stonc and lcss of a man -ancl
so lcss capable of en - joymcnt. Scnsitivity
rcquircs a high degree o( soft- ness and
fragility -cyeballs, eardrums,  taste  buds,  and
nerve ends culminaling in che highly dclicate
orga nism of the brain. Thcse are not only soft
and fragile, but also pcrishable. There sccms to
be no  effectivc way of decreasing thc delicacy
and pcrish - abilily of living tissuc without also
decreasing its vilality  and sensitivity. If we are to have intense pleasures, we must
also  be liable to intense pains. The pleasurc we
lovc, and  the pain we hate, but it seems
impossible to have  the former withouc the
latter. Indeed, it looks as if  lhe two must in sorne
way altcrnate, for continuous  plcasure  is a
stimulus  that 1 1 1 1 1 s t  either  pall or be in- creased. And  thc increase will  either barden  the scnsc
buds with its friction, or turn into pain. A con -
sistent diet of rich food either destroys the
appe - tite or makes  one sick. To che degree, then, that li(e is found good,
death  must be proportionately evil. The more
we are able  to. ove  another person and to enjoy
his company,  che greater must be our grie( at
his death, or in sep - aration. The further the
power of consciousness ven - tures  out into
experience,  the more  is the price  it
30 PAIN  AND  TIME
must pay for its knowledge. It is understandable
that  we should sometimes ask wbether life has
not gone  too far in this direction, whcther "the
game is worth  the candle," and whether it might
not be better to turn the course of evolution in
the only other possi - ble direction -backwards,  to
the relative  peace  of thc animal,  the vegetable,
and the mineral. Something of  this kind  is often  attempted. There
is the woman who, having suffered sorne deep
emo - tional  inju ry in love or  marriage, vows  never
to let another man play on her feclings, assuming
the role  of che hard and bicccr spinster. Almost
more com - mon is the sensitive boy who learns in
school to en - crust himself for life in the shell of
the "tough -guy"  attitude. As an adult he plays, in
self-defense, the  role of Lhe Philistine, to whom
all intellectual and  emotional culture is
womanish and "sissy. " Carried  to its final
extreme, the logical end of this type of re - action
to life is suicide. The hard -bittcn kind of per - son
is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of
himself  is already  dead. If, then, we are to be fully human and fully
alive  and aware, it seems that,ve must be
willing to suf - fer for our pleasures. vVithout such
willingness therc  can be no growth in thc
intensity of consciousness. Yet, gcneraJly
spcaking, we are not willing, and it  may be
thought strange to suppose chac we can be. For
"nat  me in us" so rcbcls  against  pain  chat  the THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
very notion of "willingness" to put up with it
be- yond a certain point may appear impossible
and meaningless. Under  these  circumstances,  lhe life thal  we
live is a contradiction an<l a confüct. Becausc
conscious - ness must involve both pleasure and
pain, to strive  far pleasure to the exclusion of
pain is, in effect, to  strive for the loss of
consciousness. Because such a  loss is in principie
the same as death, this means that  the more we
struggle far life (as pleasure), the more  we are
actually  killing  what  we lave. lndeed,  this is thc common  auitude  of man  to
so
much that he )oves. Far the greater part of
human  activity is designed to make permanent
those ex - periences and joys which are only
lavable because  they are changing. Music is  a
delight beca use of its  rhythm and flow. Yet the
moment you arrest the  flow and prolong a note
or chord beyond its time,  the rhythm is
dcstroyed. Becausc life is likewise a flowing
process, change and death are its necessary
parts. To work  for their  exclusion  is to work
against  life. However, the simple experiencing of
alternating  pain and pleasure is by no means
che heart of the  human problem. The reason
lhat we want life to mean something, thal  we
seek  God or eternal life,  is not merely thal we
are trying to gec away from an  immediate
experience  of pain. Nor is it far any such
32 PAIN  ANO  TIME
reason Lhat we assume attitucles and roles as
habits  of perpetua. self -defcnse. The real
problem does not  come from any momcntar}'
sensicivity to pain, but  from our marvelous
powers of memory and fore•  sight -in short  from
our consciousncss  of time. For the animal to be happy it is enough that
this moment be enjoyable. But man is hardly
satisfied  with this at ali. He is much more
concerned to have  enjoyable  memories  and
expectations - especially  the latler. With these
assured, he can pul  up with  an extremely
miserable present. Without this as - surance, he
can be extremely miserable in the midst  of
immediate  physical  pleasure. Here  is a person  who  knows  that  in cwo
weeks'
time


contacted us.”
“I had some issues I was handling.”
“Yes, I can imagine. And how’s your friend—that Geor gie
person?”
“He died years ago. I told you that. All my good friends
died ar ound the same time.”Belle shudder ed. “From that ghastly virus. But I always
said, if you live a degenerate—”
Lupe inter rupted. “Mr. Jonathan has many new friends
here in the building. They’r e getting together today right
across the hall.” She opened the door, rushed acr oss, and
swung open her grandpar ents’ door. The apartment was full
of every old-timer in the neighbor hood—all sitting on folding
chairs, all playing bingo. “¡Hola!”  several called out. Belle r olled her eyes. “ Those  are your friends? They’r e
ancient! And speaking Spanish! So now you hang out with
childr en and elderly illegal aliens?”
Jonathan was staring at the ﬂoor; a vein in his for ehead
had appear ed that L upe had never seen befor e.
Despite her pr otestations, Belle took a bite of the nachos
and soon had polished oﬀ half the dish, while gossiping
nonstop. “ And Sara Evans—you know she was the last one
of us besides me who wasn’t divor ced—well, as soon as her
decree went thr ough, she found out she had brain cancer! And not the curable kind either. I said—”
“I remember Sara, vaguely. She had that ter rible plastic
surgery on her ears.”
“That’s the one. Y ou should see her now—her eyelids
look melted, lik e candle wax. She had this new therapy
wher e they heat your skin and supposedly tighten it. But I
say, give me an old-fashioned face-lif t any day, rather than
these newfangled pr ocedur es. They never do what they say
they will. And the cost—”
“How’s F ather’s heart?”
Thrown oﬀ track, Belle shook her head and look ed grim. “Not good. He doesn’t eat right. He can’t contr ol his own fat
intak e. The man is eighty -ﬁve years old and completely set
in his ways, so I can’t tell him what to do. Just lik e you kids. Speaking of which, I never  hear fr om your sister. When I
think of the money we spent on her education, I ﬁnd the
ingratitude stunning. Not that I e xpect to be paid back, but Ido expect a certain level of r espect. And your education—
why, we’d be millionair es if we’d—”
“I believe my art-school tuition paid oﬀ,” Jonathan said
archly. “That’s a matter of opinion,” Belle sniﬀed. Lupe, picking up ar ound them, said, “Mr. Jonathan’s art is
very famous.”
“Well, no one I know ever hears of him anymor e.” Belle
looked at L upe suspiciously. “Are you sur e ther e isn’t
something inappr opriate going on with you two?”
“Mr. Jonathan, what does inappr opriate  mean?” L upe
asked. “In this case, it means a demented mind.”
Belle laughed. “That’s rich, coming fr om you.”
“Mother,” Jonathan inter rupted, “how long do you think
it’s been since I’ve seen you?”
Belle rubbed her temple. “ Oh, I don’t know. Many years...”
“Well, appar ently it hasn’t been long enough,” Jonathan
said. His mother star ed at him with her usual unsympathetic
eyes. “I let you come visit, against my better instincts. But I’ve
been right to avoid you. Y ou’re full of negativity, and I just
can’t aﬀor d to be ar ound your ener gy anymor e—”
“My energy? Well, I’m sor ry. I’m simply being myself.”
“I know it’s who you ar e. But who you ar e and who I am
are not compatible. So let’s leave it at that. I have to ask
you to leave.”
“Leave? Are you serious? My plane doesn’t go for hours. What am I supposed to do?”
“Yes, I’m serious. Ther e’s a mall nearby. I’m sur e you can
ﬁnd something...”
Belle opened her mouth and then shut it again. She
picked up her purse, stood, and look ed ar ound the
apartment one mor e time. “Y our father war ned me thiswasn’t a good idea. I should have listened. But I won’t tell
him how far you’ve fallen. He wouldn’t believe it.”
“Tell him whatever you wish, Mother. He’s the one I
would’ve lik ed to see. I’ll call you a cab.”
“Don’t bother.”
“Lupe, would you help my mother out?”
“I don’t need help fr om either one of you,” she said,
looking nar rowly at L upe. She walk ed out and slammed the door. “¡Hola!”  another bingo player called out as she huﬀed by. “Hola,  yourself,” she said, clomping down the stairs. “I’ve
never been so mortiﬁed in my life.”
Jonathan stood by the window until the sound of her was
gone. “Mr. Jonathan, ar e you ok ay?”
“I didn’t think it was possible that she’d be worse than I
remember ed, but she is. I was hoping I had e xaggerated her
in my mind.”
“She has her good points, I think,” L upe said weakly. “Name one.”
Lupe was silent for too long. “ Her purse was nice; also
her shoes.”
Jonathan laughed. “I think you pr obably should leave me
alone for a while.”
Lupe lef t the apartment and shut the door behind her. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 9
The ne xt day Jonathan r eturned to the apartment fr om
his monthly doctor’s visit to hear salsa music blaring fr om
the upstairs window. He climbed the stairs scowling and
then stopped on the landing. The music wasn’t coming fr om
the Saldanas’ apartment, as he’d supposed, but fr om his. The door wasn’t even closed the entir e way. He walk ed in
and hear d what sounded lik e feet scuﬄing. “Lupe! What’s going on in her e?”
The music was lower ed. “Sor ry, I didn’t think you would
be home so soon. I was using the music to help get rid of
any bad ener gies. R emember I told you what Grandpa said
—about music and love?”
“And what did your grandpa tell you about police
complaints?”
“It wasn’t that loud. How was your doctor’s
appointment?” “The same. I’m always the same.”
“No, you’r e getting better. I can feel it.”
“You don’t get better fr om what I have.”
“I don’t believe that.”
She tur ned up the music again, not as loud as befor e.
“Lupe—”
“You don’t get enough e xercise, for one thing,” she said. “Come on, let’s dance. I was just practicing. F ollow me.” She
grabbed his hand and began pulling him acr oss the r oom. “I’ll lead. Y ou be the follower.”
“Lupe, I can’t see. I can’t dance with you.”“Okay, so just hold my hand so you can feel what I’m
doing.”
“I feel what you’r e doing—you’r e driving me crazy.”
She k ept hold of Jonathan’s hand as she moved ar ound
him. “I feel lik e a maypole,” he said. “What?”
“Never mind.”
The song seemed to go on for ever, and when it ﬁnally
ended, Jonathan let go. “I’m e xhausted just being ar ound
you.”
“Ther e’s one mor e,” she said, and sur e enough, the
music changed. “ Cha-cha!”
Lupe took his hand again and began dancing str enuously
around him. Jonathan said, “ Geor gie used to love the cha-cha. He
always tried to get me to do it with him.”
“So you didn’t dance even when you could see?”
“No, it’s just not my thing. It’s so... I don’t know... public.”
“So, what’s wr ong with that?” L upe was panting now. “It’s a very good work out for your body. For your spirit, too.”
The apartment door had swung open, and L upe’s
grandmother and several neighbors wer e standing out in
the hall, watching. When the song ended, ther e was a r ound of applause
from the hallway, startling them both. Jonathan said, “I didn’t know ther e was an audience. We’ll have to char ge ne xt time.”
Lupe laughed and fanned the air with her hand. “It’s hot


 a month. This assumes, of course, that all ot her factors, including total calorie intake, remain relatively
constant during that time. The Truth Behind Detoxification
The tendency among raw fooders to attribute magical powers, such as “ cleansing” properties, to foods is nothing short of
misguided. Raw foods do not cleanse; they are simply the foods we are designed f or. Consuming them provides the body the
necessary energy to relieve itself of toxins that have been held in  suspension with water. The body does this through its normal
mechanisms—the organs of elimination and detoxification. Our liver and kidneys are always working to detoxify us. When we consume t he standard American diet, these organs work
overtime just to keep up, because we are constantly ingesting as many t oxins as we eliminate (or more). When we switch to raw
food, the liver and kidneys have a chance to catch up. They can finally make  progress in detoxifying the body, reducing its toxic
load. One pint of water weighs one pound, so weight loss can be dramatic when we ar e losing water as a result of reducing the
body’s toxic load. I have seen people lose twenty-five and even as muc h as forty pounds in the first week of switching to an all-raw
diet. Rarely does more than a pound or so of this weight loss actually represe nt a loss of fat. As a rule, rapid weight changes always
represent water weight losses or gains. Under no circumstances can anybody lose a pound of fat per day, on any diet. Programs that promise we will “lose up to 10 pounds in the first 48 hours”  are deceptive. It is possible to lose ten pounds of water
in just a few hours, but only an extremely active person could realisti cally lose much more than a pound of fat per week. Sudden Weight Loss in New Raw Fooders
Several notable experiences are quite common when people start eating  raw foods, especially when they switch to a diet that is
exclusively raw from one that was primarily cooked. The first dramatic  change that people frequently notice is a rapid and dramatic
loss of weight. This does not always happen, but it happens more often than not. U sually, people perceive this as a good thing,
because they have excess weight to lose. After they lose the initi al water weight in the first week or two on the raw diet, many
people find that they continue to lose weight, though much more slowly. It i s likely that this subsequent weight loss represents a loss
of fat. Of course, at some point, even these losses must be brought to a stop, or the  person will simply fade away. “I Thought I Had More Muscle. ”
Most folks, after a few weeks or months of raw eating, are certain that th eir diet is causing them to lose muscle. They have never
seen themselves so thin. What actually happens during weight loss i s that we lose much of the padding (fat) around our muscles and
also the fat marbled within our muscles. In addition, on a raw diet, we begin t o lose the water that we once retained to dilute toxins. This water also added to the appearance of inflated muscles. Many people mis take this excess fat and water as part of their muscle. Often, people tell me that in a week or two on a raw diet they lost all their m uscle. This is an absolute physiological
impossibility. In spite of what we have all heard, no diet of any kind resu lts in (any detectible) muscle loss—or muscle gain, for that
matter. If there were a diet that resulted in muscle gain, bodybuilders  would be found in the kitchen, instead of the gym. We lose or
gain muscle due to variations in our physical fitness programs, not thr ough dietary shifts. In spite of what we have all been told,
consuming protein (or any other nutrient) will not assist in the mus cle-building process. 70  If you believe such hype, you have been
sold a bill of goods. If they understood body composition, and were honest with themselves, the se people would more accurately say, “I thought I
had much more muscle than I actually do. Then when I lost the excess wa ter that was inflating my muscles, I was forced to accept
the reality that I am not as well muscled as I thought I was. ”

Dehydration and Body Weight
Dehydration is considered a contributor to more diseases of lifestyle tha n any other single factor except fat. When our toxin-
to-water ratio is skewed in the direction of toxins, cellular function i s compromised. This toxicity affects virtually every function in th e
body. Correcting dehydration oftentimes remedies weight-loss difficul ty, as organ function and energy levels greatly improve. The dehydration coin has two sides: is it literally a state of “not enoug h water” or is it a condition of “too much toxin”. The
correct answer is, “both. ” When a man is about to die from dehydration, the t oxins within his body have become too concentrated
for his body to cope with. The amount of toxins do not increase; they are simply l ess diluted, and therefore, more concentrated. Few people would argue that dry-cooked foods (those not steamed or boiled) are low in w ater. After all, if we put toast
through a juicer, no liquid comes out. If we put a pot of water in the oven at 400 degr ees for an hour, most if not all of the water
evaporates off. The same thing happens to the water in food when it is dry-c ooked (and to a lesser extent when wet-cooked). The
oven works just like a dehydrator. Most of us just don’t realize how critic al this issue is for our health. Four Ways We Become Dehydrated
Hydration is an important factor in all aspects of our health, and even our  weight. When using a bioimpedance scale to
measure body fat, we must consider our level of hydration to obtain accurate  readings. Both dehydration and water retention skew
our readings. Hydration also goes beyond the amount of water we consume, sinc e dehydration occurs for a variety of reasons. Increased Toxic Load
The most common way that we become dehydrated is when our toxin intake rise s relative to our intake of water. Cooking produces
many toxins that cause the body to require additional water. Among the mos t virulent of these are the acrolein produced by deep
frying and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons released during barbecu ing and other cooking methods that blacken or char our
foods. Two common products found in most households may in fact, be the most toxic substa nces popularly consumed. Plain table
salt is so toxic that even when extremely diluted, as it is in sea wat er, it is still deadly. All sailors know that if they drink seawater the y
will die of dehydration. Salt must be greatly diluted with water before th e body can tolerate it. Alcohol, the second deadly household
poison, has a similar toxicity. It acts as a diuretic and causes substan tial water loss. Few substances dehydrate and impair us as
effectively as alcohol. Low Water Intake vs. Toxic Load
The second way that we can become dehydrated is when water intake is low r elative to toxin intake. If we are to (correctly) assume
that the necessary amount of water is in our fresh plant foods before we c ook them, we can be certain that an insufficient quantity is
left after we cook them. Cooking removes water from food. This explains why a baked potato weighs so much l ess than the same potato when it was
raw. (Granted, cooking can be utilized as a method of hydrating dry foods, as is th e case when we boil rice or lentils,  but this is the
exception, not the rule. ) By driving off water, cooking effectively chan ges the water-to-toxin ratio in food to favor toxins, while also
raising the level of toxins in the food. So cooking food results in a double wham my—not only does it remove water, but a great
many toxins are created in the process, increasing our need for water. Unfortunately, it is not part of human nature to drink water; we must le arn to do so. Let me explain. In nature, at various times
throughout the day, many animals will visit the “water hole” to drink. S ome animals, especially the grazers, are notorious for drinking
huge quantities of water. The anthropoid apes, however, (biologically, huma ns are classed as anthropoid apes) are rarely observed to drink water, but they can do so if necessary. Their tongues are not design ed to lap water the way carnivores do, so they have to
suck water if they must drink. Imagine the position they would have to ass ume in order to drink: essentially, they would be blinded to
enemies as they held down their heads and shoulders while vulnerably e xposing their private parts. Drinking water is simply not necessary for the anthropoids. Except for hu mans, they do not cause their own thirst. They do not
participate in the activities, nor do they eat the foods, that result in t hirst. Remember, these animals live in the tropics, often in intense
heat, where we would expect that they would need to drink copious quantities of  water. It is certain that the anthropoids get plenty
of exercise and are quite fit; we have all seen films of them climbin g straight up and down trees and vines effortlessly. In


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doing it again. This is addiction to the thrill. The attraction of the ego is to be aggressive, and the aversion  is to be
passive. It wants to be “in” and  gossip about “others” so as not to be “left
out.” It will go along with dan ger just to be in with the group. The egowants to  be involved instead of a lone, and to be fashionable instead of drab. It wants to be a part of the “in” crowd no matter what. Attraction A version
Be “right” Be wrong
Superior Common
Speaking up Silence
Stubbornness Giving in
Famous Anonymous
And, of course, it is very necessary for the ego to be right! In fact, being
right is more important than life itself. People lay down their lives by the
tens of millions—entire generations, entire societies, entire cultures, and
entire nations— rather than admitting they were wrong. The e go is out to
kill you! “Better to be right and die than wrong and live,” it sa ys. Now we
see who the real perpetrator is. It is not “out there” but “in here.”
By being right, the ego gets t o be superior, because it drea ds being
common. If you can let go of the dread of being common, of being
overlooked, of not being special, then you let go of a lot of positionalities in
one fell swoop. If you emb race being anonymous, ordin ary, and a
“nobody,” you save yourself a lot of hassle. The exp eriencer of the ego wan ts to speak up, shout out, and be heard,
instead of being quiet. This kind of egocentrism is the decline of free
speech i n the United States, as most of the speech is nonintegr ous because
of narcissistic opinionation. If you calibrate the level of free speech as a
concept, it is aro und 340. If you calibrate it as it is practiced in the United
States right now, it is about 187. People talk about free speech as though it
were the  highest prize of civili zation, but is it really the highest prize of
civilization that any person can go on television or to bloggerville and just
rattle aw ay? Should we die for that? Being silent is anathema to the ego,
which is stubborn, opinionated, and desirous of being famous. W e have an inversion of spiritual values in our society, in which freedom
of sp eech has become worshipped as the ideal pinnacle of humankind, but
in fact it is disgu ised egotism. Why? Because it gives equal voic e to fallacy.As was previou sly pointed out, the media say “Fair and balanced,” which
means th en you need to have a member of the flat-Earth societ y come and
give the  “other side” to the statement that the earth is round. Th e absurdity
is exposed instantly if we apply  the same principle to other arenas. When it
is tim e f or brain  sur gery, does t he neurosur geon poll the people around for
their op inion? “ Y ou think I sho uld clamp the left cerebral ar tery? All in
favor?”
The dow nside of our society is that we are saying we can vote o n truth. If
this fallacy is not corrected, it will be the destruction of our civilization,
much as Socrates predicted ar ound 350 B.C. He  said if you give every
person a n equal vote to deter mine truth, the nonintegrous will destroy
society. As an example, W ikipedia calibrates at 280, a marked departure
from Encyclopædia Britannica  at 460, indicating it has a higher standard of
truth. For the historical record, we are saying here that the downside of this
civilization came about when an action was legally defined as symbolic
speech. If action is symbolic speech  in a free country, you can say anything
you want and there is no constraint at all. Anything can b e taken as
symbolic speech —public burnin g of the flag, rituals of the Ku  Klux Klan,
pedophilia. Symbolic action now is free of all restraints. There is no
answerability, no responsibility, and the result is anarchy: “I’m  entitled to
do w hat I want because it’ s symbolic free speech.” There is no point to
truth, then, because fallacy is of equal merit. How can  we have serenity with  such a prospect? W e accept that this is
the karmic potentiality of huma nkind. W e are not here to question God’ s
purpose in creating human life in this world. The dif ficulties of this world
appear to be t he consequence of all dif ferent levels of e volutionary
development being thrown together simultaneously, which results in social
turbulence. At the same time, however, the availability of such a wide
spectrum of options allows for t he greatest opportunity for growth. Instead
of resen tful, we can be grateful that this world is one of maxim um spiritual
opportunity for the evolution of consciousness. Attraction A version
Resist Accept, surrender
Defend Give inSuccess Failure
Special Common
More Less
“Owning” Stewardship
Attractive Plain
Unique Ordinary
Change world Change self
The ego’ s attraction is to defend its position rather than to give in,
because to give in is giving up being right, an d the ego equates success with
being rig ht and getting what it w ants. Whatever the ego decides it wants—
more money, more sex, more attention—that is “success” to it. It wants
more and is afraid of having less. The way out of this is to see how
wonderful it would be to have less. It is a relief to have fewer possessions
and ther efore fewer insurance payments and no alarm systems to protect
“valuables.” W e  actually never own anything; all we have is  temporary
stewardship. This also applies to the dif fere nce between infatuation (cal. 145) and
Love (cal. 500). When infatua ted, you “have” to have and possess the
person because of the intense attractiveness, specialness, and uniqueness
that you have projected onto them in the excitement of anticipated
“conquest.” Y o ur life is temp orarily disrupted by the drivenness and
cravingness, leading to sleeplessness and obsessiveness. Y ou get frantically
jealous, even homicidal, if anyo ne flirts with your desired obje ct. There is
despondency, even suicide, i f they are not interested in you. The
emotionality of infatuation releases adrenaline and sex hormones, which
reveals t hat its origin is primarily the mating instinct from animal nature. Its
franticness is a reflection of na ture’ s way of propagating the s pecies, and
very ofte n, after  a temporary ma ting, a couple parts, although some species,
such as swans, m ate for life. So ciety recognizes infatuation as a temporary
madness (“madly in love”), with its loss of reality testing. In contr ast, the consciousness level of Love is accompanied by the
release of endorphins. It is nonpossessive, endures through change and
dif ficulty, and enhances your life rather than disrupts it. Gratitude,steadfastness, up liftment, enjoym ent, well-being, mutuality, and  fulfillment
are characteristi c of bonding an d partnership in the ener gy field of Love. There is  the consensual alignme nt of Self, as the love mates share a mutual
intention of serving the relations hip rather than the wantingness or cravings
of their own personal egos. Attraction A version
W arped facts T ruth
Condemn For give
Being responsible Guilt/blame
Hold Let go
Dominate Succumb
Content Field/context
Abundance Frugality
Martyr Accept
V ictim Responsibility
Revenge For giveness
Hate Compassion
Blame Accept/for give
The ego  likes to warp facts and  it dislikes the truth, as seen ev ery night
on telev ision. The interviewer  asks a question, and the person never
answers, only sidesteps it to giv e an opinion on some alternative soapbox
subject. When we test it with consciousness calibration, we get that the
people are lying through their teeth most of the time. Condemning oth ers is much more enjoyable to the ego than for giving. The pop ulace has a dread, alm ost an emotional panic, that some guilty
person w ill “get  of f scot-free.” But this is only in the perceptual world, for
no one escapes t he karma of wh at they say or do; therefore, we can for give
and surrender them to their own karma.How can we for give blatant violations of the truth? By seeing that the
ego, una bated, i s addicted to be ing right, to  winning, and it does not have
any cho ice but to manipulate the truth. As Socrates said, each person is
choosing only what they believe to be the good in that mome nt, and the
good in that context is


 substances. Here is a description of the mechanism of
diary of the patient. "The fifth day dry hunger. There was a 5 th night. Somewhere in the 21 - 22 hours
felt the heat of the night. and though it was cool (sitting in a sweater)
stripped to his underpants, but the cooler was gone. To cool barefoot
in his underpants went to a mountain river. Outside it was warm, and near the river is fresh
and cool, but the fever increased. Stood until the feet were frozen. by the morning heat has passed, was weak, there was energy. Feelings
were excellent: comfortable heat, vigor and vitality. " However, once the recovery begins ketone bodies,
their concentration ceases to increase and, as ketone bodies
are high-energy components to them as
fuel begins the synthesis of new amino acids, which can lead
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with severe pain, and this should be ready. In the initial
phases of the SG acidotic crisis can occur at 3-5 - e day
in the future - on the third, or even a 2-days after the beginning of the SG. Than
before coming acidotic crisis, the faster it goes,
the longer it remains to update the body. For example,
if acidotic crisis comes on the 2-th day, then the regeneration
will have more time. First acidotic crisis and its importance in improving the
organism. Gradual acidification of the internal environment
to starvation leads to the exclusion of most chronic
disease, which develops and progresses in the body
rights. The most severe acidification of the organism occurs during
acidotic crisis, and therefore at this time exacerbated by chronic
disease. By the degree of deterioration can be judged as
successfully caught a famine or other disease and uprooting "
it from the body. If the aggravation is pronounced, we should expect
complete recovery. If weak, it means that hunger decides
other more important issues in the body. After some time
Repeat fasting, and then it will take for the rest of the disease. After the acidotic crisis "uprooted" from the body
disease begins before the increase is spent on disease
protective forces. Thus, E. Schenck, and X. Mayer, who conducted the research
reactions to various bacilli, indicate that the processes
self-defense and improve defenses against microbes
begin only after acidotic crisis. This
manifested in the tendency to rapid healing of wounds, raising
bactericidal action of the body, which explains the beneficial effects
starvation for many diseases. The conclusion: while the body starving man
not passed the first acidotic crisis, we can not count on
cure of chronic diseases and the sharp increase of protective
forces of the body. Third stage is called the stage of compensation or adaptation. The duration of this stage in each individual. average
it starts with 5 days of dry fasting and ends on the 8 th
day. at this stage can improve health, decrease
weakness, will disappear all the unpleasant sensations. Pass it
improvement may be wavy. Hunger completely disappears
thirst may increase. Its duration depends on the stocks
body fat. This phase ends with the second acidotic
crises, which runs from 8 th to 11 th day. since the passage of
first acidotic crisis before the second body
accumulates life force. During the acidotic crisis
some people aggravate their underlying disease, dramatically
deteriorating state of health, there is a loss of forces, all is lost
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116dream, can greatly increase the temperature. These symptoms indicate
that the hunger began to "turn out" the disease. If the first two
stages of starvation autolysis of tissues of the body was the only
power source, then during the second acidotic crisis
autolysis longer serves as a natural surgeon. Therefore, for maximum therapeutic effect it is necessary to pass this
crisis. I had a patient with a benign tumor of the uterus,
on the ninth day of the deteriorated state of health, there was a chill
and a very strong internal heat. She wanted to get out of starvation. I calmly explained to her the message is that if it is now up
end will not pass this crisis, it will not be able to fully recover. Morning symptoms she was not, was a good feeling. When I came home she did ultrasound, it showed a complete
absence of tumor. The most important thing for all kinds of fast pass second
acidotic crisis, in which there is a stronger
activation of host defenses, contributing to
cures for many incurable diseases. If you simply say to
great importance to these crises, then if the first acidotic
crisis resolves "stem disease, the second deletes the" root
disease. To understand how a starving body dissolve tumors
and pathological structures, it is necessary to understand the process of autolysis,
which, being very common in nature, nevertheless
usually ignored by physiologists. AUTOLYSIS
Autolysis word - of Greek origin and literally means
"Samoperevarivanie. Autolysis - the property of biological objects
degrade by hydrolytic own structures under
enzymes (enzymes), and phagocytes. Make it easier to understand
this mechanism, we consider it to examples that exist in nature. Vegetable kingdom is replete with examples of autolysis, but for our
objective enough to give some. All the bulbs, of which
model can serve as a regular onion, contain within itself a new
plant, surrounded by food, sufficient to survive
rest period, during which they do not take food from the soil
and air. Onions can grow into a bucket or bag, where it is stored. It produces seeds, and soon almost all the onion turns
in green shoots. Bulb itself gradually becomes softer,
and finally from her is just a shell, as the growing
plant digests escapes and uses the contents of the bulb. Just grow beets, turnips and many other roots. By
autoliticheskogo absorb the contents of root is obtained
substance for growth, and even taken out of the ground, these plants produce
stems and leaves and grow. A very interesting example of the tadpole. Before a tadpole becomes a frog, he grows four
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does not use its tail so well served in the stage
tadpole, and begins to get rid of him, but not throwing it as
usually present, and absorbing it. The tail consists of the muscles,
fat, nerves, skin, etc., and to absorb these structures, the frog
digesting them in their gastrointestinal tract as well as
other fats and tissues. with the appropriate enzyme proteins
and fats are broken down into amino acids and fatty acids. Only after
They are suitable for re-inclusion into the circulation. Only as fatty acids and amino acids, they can be re-
used to power other structures of the body frog. during the entire time digesting the young frog tail
former tadpole does not eat. In fact, it stops there, as
only her legs appear. Fasting may be necessary
for the assimilation of the tail, at least it accelerates this process, because
leads to the consumption of the tail of a frog as food, which
to nourish the vital organs of starving frog. Embryonic development of the animal in the egg requires the use of
accumulated there food. Egg, large or small, has a lively
embryo, a microscopic size, which is
the only living part of the egg. The rest of the eggs is
accumulated food material from which are born
animal builds its bodies. This food material is adapted
for consumption by young animals as well as adults. and before
than it can be used to build tissues, it must
be metabolized by that enzyme is carried out, are generated by
embryo. Starving salamander with cut tail grows
new tail. For this she uses food supplies to
obtaining the substances from which to create a new tail. These
substances must first be split (internalized, digested)
by autolysis and then used for growing a tail. Here
we observe the process in some way opposite to what we see
the frog, devouring its tail. In one case, a substance taken from the body and are used
for the construction of the tail, and in another they are taken from the tail for
to nourish the body. Any reader well aware of how to
surface of the body serves as an abscess and he pulls out
its poisonous contents. But not everyone knows that his appearance on
the skin surface is possible only because the flesh between the abscess
and the surface is digested by enzymes, ie autoliziruetsya
and removed. Absorption okolokostnoy tissue that appears
on the edges of the fracture, it becomes possible also thanks to
autoliticheskomu okolokostnoy disintegration of the tissue. Man has
through generalized reserves located in the bone marrow, liver,
blood, fatty tissue, and private reserves, which has
each cell. and those and other living creatures can be used as
reserves for their own food if you can not get products
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disease, for example) to learn. Glycogen accumulates in the liver, should be turned
into simple sugars, before it enters the bloodstream. This transformation
carried out by enzymes. I could cite many examples