 water is pure, clean H
2
O and
has a
 pH of 7
(neutral on the pH scale of 1 to 14 with “1” being
acid and
 “14” alkaline), it
is used in science and medical
laboratories and
 research facilities
including biology and chemistry
lab
s due
 to
its pure neutral qualities.

Unlike with RO and distillation, filtration and the ionizers do not remove the
hardness or inorgan
ic minerals from the water.

                                                                According to Dr. Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic and the American
Medical Association, Harvard Medical School, along with many doctors
and  nutritional experts, have determine
d that very few of the minerals
found
 in water are
organic
,
 nor are they chelated
or
able  to be absorbed
easily
by our cells and tissues. Consequently,
 they contribute to many
ailments and
diseases related
 to the intestinal tract. They also contribute to
kidney stones
, gall stones, hardening of the arteries and plaque buildup
in
the
 colon. Dr. Charles M
ayo, Founder of the Mayo Clinic, said,
“
water
hardness
”
 is the underlying cause of many, if not all, of
the diseases
resulting from poisons in the intestinal tract.

These (hard minerals) pass from the intestinal walls and get into the
lymphatic system, which delivers all of its products to the blood which, in
turn, distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of much human
disease. Since the ionizers and filters do not remove the minerals from the
water (including chemicals and other toxins), advocates, manufacturers
and sales associates malign the use of reverse osmosis and the distillation
process.

They claim that the minerals in water are good for you and that these two
processes remove the
“
valuable
”
 minerals. They also go so far as to say
that because reverse osmosis and distilled water is so pure, they will leach
good minerals from your body, depleting the supply. Promoters of alkaline
water even say that distilled water is an acidic which causes it to dissolve
even more minerals.
Distilled has a pH of 7 (neutral).

The alkaline water industry is now extremely profitable and has become so
by making false medical claims that
this
water can cure a myriad of
diseases and prevent many others. In order to support their claim that
alkaline water is superior to any other purified water, they must find fault
with the two purest and healthiest water purification processes available.
The main reason for the popularity of the alkaline water machine is
because of the exorbitant profits and the fact that it is sold through multi-
level marketing (MLM). Each machine retails at between $2,000 and
$5,000.Can clean water and dirty water both flow from the same spring?

There are medical doctors such as Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Zoltan
Rona who also promote an MLM water filter for the whole house, shower
or sink, prompting both of them to claim that,
“
drinking pure, clean, healthy
distilled water
 will result in early death.
”
 This is not only a false claim, it
would cause anyone with common sense to question the scientific
knowledge and medical judgment and reliability of these doctors or any
other
“
nutritional
experts.

“The
 next time you hear anyone claim that:



The minerals found in water are totally beneficial to our body
’
s
health;


Distilled water is acidic;


Distilled water will leach valuable minerals and nutrients from
your body; or


“
Early death will come from drinking distilled water
,
”
Ask them, i
f these claims were true, why would the government allow tens
of thousands of naval sailors to continuously drink distilled water found on
all Navy ship
s for well of over five decades?

Also ask, “Why would the Mayo Clinic and many other hospitals, medical
centers and clinics recommend distilled water to their patients
?
”

 Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., nominated as one of Newsweek
’
s
“
top 100 most
influential people in the world,
”
 states that,
“
the minerals that the body
needs come from our food, not from our water, and the pH of foods or
water does not have an effect on the body
’
s pH.”

Dr. Andrew Weil also
states
 that
,
“
the minerals
that the

body needs come
from our
 food, not from
our water
, and the pH
of foods
 or water does not
have an
 effect on the body
’
s pH.” Alkaline water machines
and their
product, alkaline water,
are “
bogus.
”

Dr. Weil continues,
 “
Don
’
t buy a machine or the
alkaline water
; save your
money.  Whether you
’
re drinking distilled
water with
 a pH of 7 or
orange
juice
 with a pH of 5.5 or alkaline
water with
 a pH of 8.0, when
these reach
the stomach, their pH
is changed
 immediately to the pH
the body
requires.”

If we were to
 drink something extremely acidic,
the duodenum
 wouldneutralize the
 acid. And if it is extremely alkaline
, the
 stomach will
produce
additional
 acid to neutralize it.”

The distillation process involves turning
water into steam,
leaving behind
 all of the pollutants, then capturing the
steam, cooling it
, converting
 it back to a liquid free of pollutants. This is
how
mother nature
 has been purifying water since this planet was created.The Hydrological Cycle

The hydrological
 cycle is the process of water being heated by the sun
,
evaporating
 and collecting in the atmosphere in
 the form of clouds
; cooling
,
condensing, and falling back to earth as
pure (
distilled) water free of
pollutants which were left on the
earth
’
s surface
.

Drinking Unpolluted WaterThe Hunza people living in the Himalayan
Mountains
are
 known
to
live for
well over 100 years.
They experience
 few diseases and little
or no
sickness,
are extremely
 health
y, vibrant and strong. It has b
een
determined that, in addition to eating homegrown  fruits and  vegetabl
es
and hormone-free meat, their source  of  drinking water is melted glacier
ice
 (distilled water).
These glaciers were formed thousands of years ago (before the
atmosphere was polluted) as
a result
 of pure rain and
snow (
distilled
water). This
author
has been drinking one to one-and-a-half gallons of
distill
ed
water daily
 for
over 40 years
, in ad
dition to fasting (
not eating any
food)
for a minimum

of 21
 days per year.  As a result, I am in perfect
health
and free

of sickness
 and disease.  So for those of you who have a
desire
to argue, feel
 free. But,

“
a man with an experience is not at the mercy
of a

man [
or doctor
] with
 an argument.”

CHAPTER 2
Distilled Water –
Simple Yet Misunderstood

 O
ne of the very first signs of dehydration is fatigue and lack of energy…
80% of all Americans are dehydrated to some degree.
Our body
’
s cry for more water is usually mistaken for a hunger for food;
so we end up at the refrigerator instead of the water tap. This
 results in a
two-fold problem:
becoming overweight and being dehydrated – thus the
cycle continues
.

Water is t
he Key
to
 Excellent HealthMost people do not drink
enough water to satisfy their body
’
s
needs. When their body is screaming
for water to aid in critical body functions, they mistake this craving for
hunger, even if they ate a couple of hours earlier. Consequently, most
Americans are dehydrated and when the body gets dehydrated it goes into
survival mode and start storing water. The problem with that is
, fat
 cells
are used to store the water. So instead of having enough water to
metabolize fat, the body stores the fat to store up the water for possibly
worse conditions to come.

The body is not getting the proper amount of water it needs for all
the
organs to function properly; so the body takes the supply of water from
less important organs to allow enough water for the major ones such as
the heart, lungs and kidneys.

To compound the problem, instead of drinking good, clean, healthy
distilled
water which the body craves, they drink Sport drinks, soft drinks,Starbucks, malts, shakes etc.  Just as bad, if not worse, is tap water
which contains chlorine, hydrocarbons, fluorocarbons

and dozens of other
carcinogenic
chemicals and compounds – all at safe levels according to
the EPA. Yeah, right, I


omach  and Spleen  causes Nutritive Qi to be utilized immediately
without the appropriate diversion of some of this into stored
reserves. The Liver should be able to store resources in the form of
Blood, but when it becomes hyperactive it drains its own resevoir
and the Kidney ’s as well. Since Water  nurtures Wood, this is a case
of the rebellious child (Liver) making inordinate demand s upon its
mother (Kidney ). That’s why impotence and premature ejaculation
have become a problem.
The words quick  and short-lived  characterize a lot of Dan’s history.
He has pursued many life-styles and careers without sustaining any
vocation long enough to build a secure base that would provide
continuity and foundation. Dan has become unbounded and
ungrounded by his insatiable appetite for change and challenge.
It is important to gain Dan’s trust and cooperation so that he can
direct some of his drive into reorganizing his existence, throwing
himself into the project of healing himself with the enthusiasm he
has for starting a new business. The Wood  type recoils at the
prospect of following orders or adopting someone else’s agenda. Dan
needs to know that he is in charge and that there are choices. He
doesn’t want to be pushed.
He’d like to rely on the acupuncture to do his work for him, but as
he begins to feel better, he is willing to be more aware of the
consequences of his own behavior. He then has the choice to use
himself diere ntly. Dan must come to this realization through his
own experience rather than on the faith of another’s authority.
Acupuncture softens Dan’s temperament so that he can experience a
more serene self.
The dynamic between Earth  and Wood, Spleen  and Liver, organizes
the production and distribution of Nutritive Qi and Blood, the
buildup and breakdown of energy and tissue. Dispersing the
stagnant Qi and Heat from the Liver while dispersing the stagnant
Moisture  and Qi from the Spleen  will improve the interactionbetween the Liver and Spleen. Treatments lessen Dan’s excessive
hunger, steady his erratic energy and moods, and begin to generate
a surplu s of Qi, which will strengthen the Kidney  and restore his
agging reserves.
The dynamic between Metal  and Wood, Lung and Liver, organizes
rhythm and ow. Dispersing the stagnant Qi (phlegm) of the Lung
while moistur izing the Lung and Liver will restore their proper
relationship. Treatment relieves Dan’s symptoms of dicult
breathing and mucus congestion and helps him to become
comfortable with limits by stabilizing his energy so that he is less
anxious about having too much or too little. He can be full of energy
without being  full of tensio n or agitation. The main dierences
between the Liver-Spleen  and Liver-Lung patterns are the
predominance of digestive disturbance in the former and
dysfunctional elimination or discharge in the latter. In either,
exaggerated Liver Qi interferes with the smooth functioning of
peristalsis and respiration, both of which depend on the harmonious
interaction of contraction (Metal ) and expansion (Wood ). Dan’s case
typies a primary Wood-Earth  conict and a secondary Wood-Metal
conict.
Resolving the conicts between Liver-Spleen  and Liver-Lung  helps
Dan with his problems. Within four months of his rst visit, Dan has
regained contr ol of his eatin g problem—he has three regular meals
a day and sleeps through the night. Although he needs a snack if he
has been working hard, he no longer has the same desperation
about it. Some congestion persists, but without the former anxiety
about or diculty in breathi ng. Because he feels more in control of
his life, he is more patient, less nervous, and more optim istic. With
more consistent energy throughout the day and the return of his
sexual stamina, Dan feels that treatment is working for him.(see larger image)(see larger image)(see larger image)
SO, YOU THINK YOU’RE A WOOD TYPE
KEYS TO  UNDERSTANDING  WOOD
• seeks challenge and pushes to the limit• enjoys and does well under pressure
• admires speed, novelty, and skill
• loves action, movement, and adventure
• likes to be rst, best, and only
TYPICAL  PROBLEMS
• intolerance and impatience
• volatile emotions
• extremism: impulsive or overdisciplined self-indulgen t or self-
punishing
• vascular headaches, muscle spasms, high blood pressure, nerve
inammations, migratory pain
• abuse of stimulants and sedatives
CRITICAL  TIMES
• exaggerated Wood—Liver  congestion: spring and late summer, 11
P.M.–3 A.M. and 7 A.M.–11 A.M.
• collapsed Wood—Liver  depletion: summer and fall, 11 A.M.–3 P.M.
and 3 A.M.–7 A.M.
A FRIENDLY  REMINDER
The power of Wood  comes from the capacity to rapidly expand and
build up pressu re. Wood  types need to modulate their intensity and
stay exible, to be able to retreat and yield as well as surge forward
and be undaunted.
OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER NINE
FIRE
Do you not see That you and I
Are as the branches of one tree?
With your rejoicing
Comes my laughter;
With your sadness
Start my tears
Love,
Could life be otherwise With you and me?
Tsu Yeh
Tsin dynasty, A.D. 265–316

FIRE IS DAZZLING, EVANESCENT, TREM BLING, EXCITING, AND ALL-embracing
embracing. Summer, the time when plants and creatures develop to
their fullest potential, marks  the ascendance of the power of Fire.
Summer conju res up a sense of splendor and fulllment as we
stretch to the limits of our capacity. A brilliant sun climbs to its
zenith over full-bloom magnolias amidst the hum of bees buzzing. Insummer, Yang is dominant—light, warmth, activity, and interaction
are at a peak. Fire, like summer, is expansive, radiant, outgoing, and
warm. As the sun accelerates  the life streams of the earth, the Heart
squeezes the living juices of the blood through the vessels, imbuing
the body with mindfulness.
The Heart  and Kidney  are like two ends of a rainbow, distinct and
unfathomable, drawing between them the multicolored luminous
ribbon of our being, a dimension bounded on one end by Water  and
on the other by Fire. Fire represents the universal and enveloping
space into which we grow and expand. As Water  determines our
longevity, Fire determines our breadth and scope. Water  is seed and
root, Fire is ower and fruit. Like Dionysus, Water  is associated with
the subconscious, primal forces of nature, whereas like Apollo,
Greek god of the sun, Fire symbolizes wakefulness and the
development of wisdom and compassion. This relationship between
Water  and Fire is expressed by Jill Purce in The Mystic Spiral :
Situated between the poles, on our journey through the
spherical vorte x, we see at either end our source and goal. We
are pulled in both directions, since the longing for the
womb  … has its counterpart in the passionate longing of the
mystic for union with God.
THE ARCHETYPE FOR  FIRE: THE WIZARD
Fusion is the organizing principle for the Wizard, who seeks to
imbue the mundane with the extraordinary, mergin g human
aspirations with divine purpose. Just as the Fire of love unites male
and female to form new life, so the Wizard  wields a miraculous
power to overcome separation by welding divergent elements into
one. His excitement and enthusiasm generate the heat required for
the reaction of fusion to occur. With this tremendous catalytic
energy, he brings the transforming power of light, love, and
awareness into the world.Enchanting and persuasive, the Wizard  is a natural salesman,
selling not so much the product itself as the experience of possessing
an instrument of magic, a veritable talisman, that endows us with
the power to transcend our ordinary existence. The magic, however,
is in the Wizard, not in the merchandise. So when this awesome
barker of dreams vanishes, and the remarkable can opener that
would open up a whole new world becomes merely a practical
device, we are not dissatised or disappointed: the very experience
of astonishment and joy that the Wizard  inspires makes us glad.
Using persona l magnetism and the gift of expression, he can
assemble a group of individu als into one body. Whether as a team,
chorus, classroom, audience, congregation, or political party, the
Wizard  gathers us up into a shared expanse of vision and feeling.
Through this marriage with the hearts and minds of others, we
realize a virtue of our humanness.
HECTOR:  EXEMPLAR OF  FIRE
Aectionate and expressive, Hector possesses a lively sense of
humor, a jovial, optimistic attitude, and a generosity of spirit


arithmic	jump,	however,	it	can	bring	about	much	greater	happiness	and
accord.	As	one	progresses,	confidence	replaces	fear,	emotional	comfort
replaces	distress,	and	the	ease	and	quality	of	life	improves.The	Desire	for	Enlightenment
Unless	one	has	fallen	unbidden	and	without	previous	effort	into	an
enlightened	state	of	consciousness,	as	happened	to	such	saints	as	Ramana
Maharshi	during	adolescence,	the	more	common	route	is	to	begin	to	desire	to
reach	an	enlightened	state.	The	Buddha	said	that	those	who	hear	and	learn	of
enlightenment	will	never	be	satisfied	with	anything	else	and,	therefore,	the
end	is	certain.
Sometimes	the	seeker	puts	forth	great	effort	and	patience,	and
discouragement	follows.	At	this	stage,	the	ego	assumes	there	is	an	‘I’	that	is
seeking	an	‘it’	(the	state	of	enlightenment),	and	it	therefore	seeks	to	redouble
its	efforts.
Traditionally,	the	pathways	to	God	have	been	through	the	heart	(love,
devotion,	selfless	service,	surrender,	worship,	and	adoration)	or	through	the
mind	(advaita,	or	the	pathway	of	nonduality).	Each	way	may	seem	more
comfortable	at	one	stage	or	another,	or	they	may	alternate	in	emphasis.	Either
way,	it	is	a	hindrance	to	consider	that	there	is	a	personal	self,	or	an	‘I’,	or	an
ego	that	is	doing	the	striving	or	seeking	or	that	will	become	enlightened.	It	is
much	easier	to	realize	there	is	no	such	thing	as	the	ego	or	an	‘I’	identity	that	is
doing	any	seeking,	but	instead,	it	is	an	impersonal	aspect	of	consciousness
that	is	doing	the	exploring	and	seeking.
A	useful	approach	is	to	let	the	love	for	God	replace	the	willfulness	that	is
driving	the	seeking.	One	can	release	all	desire	to	seek	and	realize	that	the
thought	that	there	is	anything	else	but	God	is	a	baseless	vanity.	This	is	the
same	vanity	that	claims	authorship	for	one’s	experiences,	thoughts,	and
actions.	With	reflection,	it	can	be	seen	that	both	the	body	and	the	mind	are	the
result	of	the	innumerable	conditions	of	the	universe,	and	that	one	is	at	best	the
witness	of	this	concordance.	Out	of	an	unrestricted	love	for	God	arises	the
willingness	to	surrender	all	motives	except	to	serve	God	completely.	To	be	the
servant	of	God	becomes	one’s	goal	rather	than	enlightenment.	To	be	a	perfect
channel	for	God’s	love	is	to	surrender	completely	and	to	eliminate	the	goal
seeking	of	the	spiritual	ego.	Joy	itself	becomes	the	initiator	of	further	spiritual
work.
From	joy	and	humility,	the	rest	of	the	process	is	certain.	One	becomes
aware	that	the	whole	spiritual-seeking	process	is	being	activated	by	the
attraction	of	the	ultimate	destiny	to	realize	the	Self	rather	than	being	propelled
by	the	limited	ego.	It	could	be	said	in	ordinary	language	that	one	is	being
pulled	along	by	the	future	rather	than	being	propelled	by	the	past.	It	is
obvious	that	unless	one	was	destined	for	enlightenment,	one	would	not	even
be	interested	in	the	subject.	To	even	aspire	to	such	a	state	is	actually	quite
rare.	In	an	entire	lifetime,	the	average	person	does	not	meet	even	one	otherperson	who	is	primarily	interested	in	reaching	enlightenment.	The	path	can	be
arduous	and	demanding.
In	the	Western	world,	there	is	really	no	accepted	or	traditional	role	for	the
spiritual	seeker.	It	is	not	expected	that	one	will	finish	up	one’s	worldly
business	and	then,	at	retirement,	spend	the	rest	of	life	spiritually	seeking	the
truth	to	the	exclusion	of	all	else.	In	some	countries	such	as	India,	there	is	such
a	cultural	path	traditionally	accepted	as	a	normal	development.	In	the	West,	a
serious	spiritual	student	most	often	joins	dedicated,	like-minded	persons	who
are	often	viewed	somewhat	suspiciously	as	dropouts	from	society	unless	they
enter	a	monastery	or	theological	seminary.
The	Teacher
Spiritual	groups	are	often	organizations	with	their	own	agendas.	Here
again	is	a	pitfall	for	the	unwary,	for	the	spiritual	world,	as	well	as	the	ordinary
world,	contains	charlatans	whose	purpose	is	to	capture	the	naïve	initiate	for
purposes	of	control,	domination,	power,	money,	or	prestige,	such	as	having
‘lots	of	followers’.
The	true	teachers	can	be	seen	to	have	no	interest	in	fame	or	in	having
followers,	prestige,	or	trappings.	If	we	calibrate	them,	they	usually	calibrate
from	the	high	500s	on	up	or,	more	rarely,	to	the	700s.	The	teachings	and	not
the	teacher	are	what	are	important.	Inasmuch	as	the	teachings	do	not	come
from	the	personage	of	the	teacher	at	all,	it	does	not	make	sense	to	idolize	or
worship	that	personage.	The	information	is	transmitted	as	a	gift	because	it
was	received	as	such.	There	is,	therefore,	nothing	to	sell,	to	enforce,	to
control,	or	to	charge	for	inasmuch	as	the	information	was	free	and	a	gift	from
God.	A	valid	spiritual	organization	may	make	nominal	charges	to	cover
ordinary	expenses	in	that	everyone	contributes	for	the	common	good.
The	spiritual	teacher	transmits	a	benefit	due	not	just	to	the	words
themselves	but	to	the	high	energy	of	consciousness	that	accompanies	the
words.	The	teacher’s	level	of	consciousness	creates	what	might	be	likened	to
a	carrier	wave	that	accompanies	and	empowers	the	words.
As	was	cited	in	the	research	done	in
Power	versus	Force
,	one	single
avatar	at	a	consciousness	level	of	1,000	totally	counterbalances	the	collective
negativity	of	all	mankind.	An	individual	at	level	700	counterbalances	the
negativity	of	70	million	individuals	below	the	level	of	200.	One	individual	at
600	counterbalances	ten	million	people	below	200;	one	at	500
counterbalances	750,000	below	200.	One	individual	at	consciousness	level
300	counterbalances	the	negativity	of	90,000	individuals	below	200.
There	are	currently	approximately	twenty-two	sages	on	the	planet	who
calibrate	at	700	or	above.	Of	these,	there	are	twenty	at	800	or	more,	of	whomthere	are	ten	at	or	over	900,	and	one	sage	is	over	990.	These	figures	have
changed	since	1995	when
Power	versus	Force
	was	published.	(Only	ten	were
over	700.)	The	negativity	of	the	entire	human	population	would	self-destruct
were	it	not	for	the	counteracting	effect	of	these	higher	energy	fields.
It	would	seem	then	that	there	is	some	truth	to	the	saying	that	the	infinite
power	of	God	transmits	itself	down	to	beings	on	earth	as	though	through	a
series	of	step-down	transformers.	Although	the	actual	number	of	persons	on
the	planet	who	calibrate	negatively	far	exceeds	those	who	calibrate	positively,
their	actual	individual	power	is	very	small	by	comparison	so	that	at	the
present	time,	the	calibrated	energy	of	mankind	as	a	whole	since	the	1980s	is
on	the	positive	side.	As	previously	mentioned,	for	many	centuries	prior	to
1986,


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Illuminating the Hidden P ower of Y our T rue Self
Deepak Chopra
Debbie F ord
Marianne Williamson
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Introduction

Part I
The Shadow
Deepak Chopra

Part II
Making P eace with Ourselves, Others, and the W orld
Debbie F ord

Part III
Only Light Can Cast Out Darkness
Marianne W illiamson

The Shadow Eﬀect T est

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OceanofPDF.comIntroduction
The conﬂict between who we ar e and who we want to be is
at the cor e of the human struggle. Duality, in fact, lies at the
very center of the human e xperience. Life and death, good
and evil, hope and r esignation coe xist in every person and
exert their for ce in every facet of our lives. If we know
courage, it is because we have also e xperienced fear; if we
can r ecognize honesty, it is because we have encounter ed
deceit. And yet most of us deny or ignor e our dualistic
natur e.
If we ar e living under the assumption that we ar e only one
way or another, inside a limited spectrum of human
qualities, then we would have to question why mor e of us
aren’t wholly satisﬁed with our lives right now. Why do we
have access to so much wisdom yet fail to have the str ength
and courage to act upon our good intentions by making
powerful choices? And most important, why do we continue
to act out in ways that go against our value system and all
that we stand for? W e will assert that it is because of our
unexamined life, our dark er self, our shadow self wher e our
unclaimed power lies hidden. It is her e, in this least lik ely
place, that we will ﬁnd the k ey to unlock our str ength, our
happiness, and our ability to live out our dr eams.
We have been conditioned to fear the shadow side of life
and the shadow side of ourselves. When we catch ourselves
thinking a dark thought or acting out in a behavior that we
feel is unacceptable, we run, just lik e a gr oundhog, back into
our hole and hide, hoping, praying, it will disappear befor e
we ventur e out again. Why do we do this? Because we ar e
afraid that no matter how har d we try, we will never be ableto escape fr om this part of ourselves. And although ignoring
or repressing our dark side is the nor m, the sobering truth is
that running fr om the shadow only intensiﬁes its power.
Denying it only leads to mor e pain, suﬀering, r egret, and
resignation. If we fail to tak e responsibility and e xtract the
wisdom that has been hidden beneath the surface of our
conscious minds, the shadow will tak e char ge, and instead
of us being able to have contr ol over it, the shadow winds
up having contr ol over us, triggering the shadow eﬀect. Our
dark side then starts making our decisions for us, stripping
us of our right to mak e conscious choices whether it’s what
food we will eat, how much money we will spend, or what
addiction we will succumb to. Our shadow incites us to act
out in ways we never imagined we could and to waste our
vital ener gy on bad habits and r epetitive behaviors. Our
shadow k eeps us fr om full self -expression, fr om speaking
our truth, and fr om living an authentic life. It is only by
embracing our duality that we fr ee ourselves of the
behaviors that can potentially bring us down. If we don’t
acknowledge all of who we ar e, we ar e guaranteed to be
blindsided by the shadow eﬀect.
The shadow eﬀect is everywher e. Evidence of its
pervasiveness can be seen in every aspect of our lives. W e
read about it online. W e watch it on the nightly news, and
we can see it in our friends, our family, and strangers on the
street. And per haps most signiﬁcant, we can r ecognize it in
our thoughts, see it in our behaviors, and feel it in our
interactions with others. W e wor ry that shining a light on
this darkness will cause us to feel gr eat shame or, even
worse, to act out our worst nightmar e. We become scar ed of
what we will ﬁnd if we look inside ourselves, so instead we
bury our heads and r efuse to face our shadow sides.
But this book r eveals a new truth—shar ed from thr ee life-
changing perspectives—that the opposite of what we fear
we will e xperience is what actually occurs. Instead of
shame, we feel compassion. Instead


 can use this time in one of two ways. Let me explain them both to
you, and then you can decide which one you choose to adopt for yourself,
keeping in mind that what you impress upon your subconscio us mind is
what the universal one subcons cious mind will offer you in your waking
hours. Your subconscious mind is indifferent to what you want or what is
best for you. It cannot make a distinction between what you are feeling as a
result of all that happens to you throughout your waking hours, or what you
feel as a result of what you are imagining for yourself as having already
transpired while you are in bed preparing to doze of f to sleep.1. Choosing to Review the Day’ s Frustrations and Disappointments
As you lie in bed, you can use this time prior to entering your
subconscious mind to review everything that transpired throughout the day
that caused you to feel unhappy, dejected, frustrated, angry, and so on. You
can think sad thoughts about all of the people who disappointed you, and
review in your imagination (via inner dialogue with yourself) how unhappy
all of that made you. You can spend these critical moments worrying about
all of the things that didn’ t work out the way you wanted them to, and
projecting onto your subconscio us mind evidence for things continuing to
transpire in the same way that they always have. You can go over the
arguments you had with others, and conclude that those peop le really do
make you unhappy. You can use your mind to relive how fearful you are
that things are not going to improve. You can even predict that a great
calamity is about to befall you and your family, and there is nothing to be
done to stave it of f.
You can picture in your mind the worst possible outcome concerning your
own health or the health of a loved one. You can imagine yourse lf filing for
bankruptcy, or not getting the job you desire, or a natural disaster striking
you, or you feeling even sicker when you awaken. The potential disasters
that you can entertain with your thoughts as you prepare to go to sleep
could fill the next 100 pages.
Whatever you opt for—such as these examples of thoughts that make you
feel bad—is a choice  to send those messages to your subconscious just as
you are about to go to sleep. In ef fect, you are imprinting your subconscious
with I am unhappy, frustrated, pessimistic, afraid.  Your subconscious mind,
unable to distinguish between what you are telling it through your presleep
conditioning ritual and what is actually happening in your everyday world,
says to you, “Okay, I’ve got it.”
Your thoughts are on what you do not want and what you despise, and
your feelings in your body bring you worry, fear, anxiety, hate, sadness, and
the like. Your subconscious mind responds with no desire to change your
conscious waking state, because it only reacts to what you place there. So it
will proceed to offer you experiences from the universal one subconscious
mind that aligns  with what you’ve programmed it to do. You placed your
thoughts in your subconscious, when it would most likely have at least eighthours of sleep to work on them! The subconscious can’t be faulted for
assuming that you must want them very, very much.
Alas, you awaken befuddled by all of the things you don’t want that keep
showing up in your life, not understanding that by assuming the feeling of
what you don’t wish for and then going to sleep with those thoughts in your
mind, you are programming your subconscious mind to take over, just as it
did when you were first learnin g to drive. The difference is that then you
were creating what you desired, and now you are using the same  strategy to
attract what you do not desir e. And this is why you so often fail to attract
the ideal in your life.
Neville puts it this way:
Whatever you have in consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of your expression
in the waking two-thirds of your life on earth. Nothing stops you from realizing your
objective, save your failure to feel that you are already that which you wish to be, or that you
are already in posses sion of the thing sought. Your subconscious gives form to your desires
only when you feel your wish fulfilled.40
You can train yourself to do this in the precious five minu tes before
slumber overtakes you.
If you decide you do not want to go to sleep with this first choice in your
consciousness, you can develop a new habit for your habitual mind to latch
onto. You do have an alternative—those last five minutes of the day are
your five minutes and yours alone. Consider the second option  using your
last waking moments before sleep, programming your subconscious mind
in a new way.
2. Choosing to Assume the Feeling of the W ish Fulfilled
As you lie in bed, feeling drowsy and knowing that you are about to go to
sleep—where your subconscious mind is most at home—use  these final
preslumber moments to align with your Source of being and become a
wishes fulfilled spiritual being. In these presleep moment s, you can
program your subconscious mind to automatically present you with fulfilled
wishes.
You wouldn’ t train your subco nscious mind to repeatedly slam on the
brakes or to make a turn into a driveway without safely slowing  down. You
also don’t want to train your subconscious mind to focus on and attract thekinds of things that make you unhappy or create unnecessary pain. These
last five minutes  awake, then, are your final pep talk to your subconscious
mind. You want to focus on assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled that
you’ve placed into your imagination.
Here’ s what Neville offers on this topic—it may be the most valuable
information you’ve ever received:
The feeling which comes in response to the question “How would I feel were my wish
realized?” is the feelin g which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax
into sleep. You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or
to have before you drop of f to sleep.41
So this is what you must ask yourself as you get closer and closer to
dropping off into the unconsciou sness of sleep— If my wishes were realized,
how would it feel right here right now in my body?  Stay with that thought
until you begin to feel your body shift into what that feels like.
This is not an empty exercise—it is a programming tool for reteaching
your subconscious mind to act on what you intend to manifest, rather than
on what you are worried, angry, or fearful about. In this semi-somnolent
state, go to the I am that you are now putting into your imagination. For
example, if you are worried about your health—whether because of a
common cold, a pulled muscle, or a fearful diagnosis of a potentially life-
threatening sickness—declare, “I am God in action.” Or you could
contemplate my favorite quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM”
Discourses:
I want so much to have you feel that you are the Only Authority in this world or any other,
so far as your world is concerned. Do not ever fear that the perfecting of your world is going
to disfigure anyone else’s world, so long as your intent is not to harm anyone. It does not
matter what the world about you says, or how much they try to intrude upon you their doubts,
fears and limitations. You are the Supreme  Authority in your world and all you have to do is
to say, when you are beset by those conditions, “‘I AM’ the Mighty, Magic Circle of
Protection about me that is Invincible and repels from me every discordant thought and
element which seeks to find entrance or intrude itself. ‘I AM’ the Perfection of my world and
it is Self-sustained.”42
This is very powerful advice. When he says it does not matter what the
world about you says, he is also talking about all of those self-limiting
thoughts that you yourself have proclaimed regarding your ability to be
healed.As you lie in bed, affirm: I am perfect health, or use the words of Saint
Germain above about being mighty and the perfection of your world—then
notice how that feels in your body. At first you will be calling upon your
ego, which believes that it is separate from God or the universa l Source of
all, and an inner voice will say, This is silly, I am sick, I am sore, I am
dying, and I am only fooling myself.  So simply dismiss these mind viruses
and cond itioned memes, since you are free to use these five minutes in any
way that you choose.
Repeat a new I am that shifts you to the state of the realized wish.
Repeatedly tell yourself that I am God in action, and immediately check in
with your body to feel the shift from fear and anxiety to peace, love, and
contentment. After a little practice, you will find that repeating I am in your
mind begins to impact how you are feeling. Sensations of worry and pain
slowly dissolve as you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and it is at
this point that you allow yourself to drop of f to sleep.
Use these precious presleep moments to assume the feeling in your body
of whate ver wishes you


 let go of any fearful ones. This is
the meaning of for giveness. F orgiveness is a majorcornerstone of A Course in Miracles  philosophy. Like many of
the traditional ter ms used in the Course, it is used in a very
nontraditional way.
Traditionally, we think of for giveness as something we
are to do when we see guilt in someone. In the Course,
however, we’r e taught that it’s our function to r emember
that ther e is no guilt in anyone, because only love is r eal. It
is our function to see thr ough the illusion of guilt, to the
innocence that lies beyond. “T o forgive is mer ely to
remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past,
and those that wer e given you. All the r est must be
forgotten.” W e are ask ed to e xtend our per ception beyond
the er rors that our physical per ceptions r eveal to us—what
someone did, what someone said—to the holiness within
them that only our heart r eveals. A ctually, then, ther e is
nothing to for give. The traditional notion of for giveness—
what The Song of P rayer  calls “ forgiveness-to -destr oy”—is
then an act of judgment. It is the ar rogance of someone who
sees themselves as better than someone else, or per haps
equally as sinful, which is still a misper ception and the
arrogance of the ego.
Since all minds ar e connected, then the cor rection of
anyone’s per ception is on some level a healing of the entir e
racial mind. The practice of for giveness is our most
important contribution to the healing of the world. Angry
people cannot cr eate a peaceful planet. It amuses me to
think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my
peace petitions.
Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very
diﬃcult. F ew of us always succeed, yet making the eﬀort is
our most noble calling. It is the world’s only r eal chance to
begin again. A radical for giveness is a complete letting go ofthe past, in any personal r elationship, as well as in any
collective drama.
2. LIVING IN THE PRESENT
“All your past e xcept its beauty is gone, and
nothing is lef t but a blessing.”
God e xists in eter nity. The only point wher e eter nity meets
time is in the pr esent. “The pr esent is the only time ther e
is.” A miracle is a shif t in thinking fr om what we might have
done in the past or should be doing in the futur e, to what we
feel fr ee to do right her e, right now. A miracle is a r elease
from inter nal bondage. Our capacity for brilliance is equal to
our capacity to for get the past and for get the futur e. That’s
why little childr en ar e brilliant. They don’t r emember the
past, and they don’t r elate to the futur e. Be us as little
childr en, that the world might ﬁnally gr ow up.
One of the e xercises in the Course W orkbook r eads, “The
past is over. It can touch me not.” F orgiving the past is an
important step in allowing ourselves the e xperience of
miracles. The only meaning of anything in our past is that it
got us her e, and should be honor ed as such. All that is r eal
in our past is the love we gave and the love we r eceived.
Everything else is an illusion. The past is mer ely a thought
we have. It is literally all in our minds. The Course teaches,
“Give the past to Him Who can change your mind about it
for you.” T o sur render the past to the Holy Spirit is to ask
that only loving, helpful thoughts about it r emain in our
minds, and all the r est be let go.
What we ar e left with then is the pr esent, the only time
wher e miracles happen. ‘W e place the past and the futur e
as well into the hands of God.’ The biblical statement that“time shall be no mor e” means that we will one day live
fully in the pr esent, without obsessing about past or futur e.
The universe pr ovides us with a clean slate in every
moment; God’s cr eation holds nothing against us. Our
problem is that we don’t believe this. L et us ask for giveness,
not of ‘God who has never condemned us,’ but of ourselves,
for all we think we did and did not do. Let us give ourselves
permission to begin again.
We all encounter situations in our lives wher e we wish we
hadn’t done something we did, or wish we had done
something we didn’t. They’r e those moments in our lives, be
they yester day or several years ago, that mak e us cringe to
think about. One of the most fr eeing techniques pr ovided us
in A Course in Miracles  is a prayer on of the T ext, in which
we instruct the universe to undo our er rors:
“…the ﬁrst step in the undoing is to r ecognize
that you actively decided wr ongly, but can as
actively decide otherwise. Be very ﬁr m with
yourself in this, and k eep yourself fully awar e
that the undoing pr ocess, which does not come
from you, is nevertheless within you because
God placed it ther e. Your part is mer ely to r eturn
your thinking to the point at which the er ror was
made, and give it over to the A tonement in
peace. Say this to yourself as sincer ely as you
can, r emembering that the Holy Spirit will
respond fully to your slightest invitation :

I must have decided wr ongly, because I am not at
peace.I made the decision myself, but I can also decide
otherwise.
I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at
peace.
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will
undo all consequences of my wr ong decision if I will
let Him.
I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for
God for me.

And that’s it! It’s a course in miracles, not a course in
moving the fur niture. ‘Miracles r everse physical laws. T ime
and space ar e under His command.’
As for the futur e, the Course points out that ther e is no
way for us to know what’s going to happen tomor row, or the
next day, or ﬁve years fr om now. Only the ego speculates
about tomor row. In Heaven, ‘we place our futur e in the
hands of God.’ The Holy Spirit r eturns our minds to total
faith and trust, that should we live with fully open hearts
today, tomor row will tak e car e of itself. As Jesus said in the
Sermon on the Mount, “ Be ye not anxious for tomor row, for
tomor row shall be anxious for itself.”
‘The ego bases its per ception of r eality on what has
happened in the past, car ries those per ceptions into the
present and thus cr eates a futur e like the past.’ If we felt
that we wer e lacking in our past, our thoughts about the
futur e are based on those per ceptions. W e then enter the
present in an eﬀort to compensate for the past. Since that
perception is our cor e belief, we r ecreate its conditions in
the futur e. “Past, pr esent and futur e are not continuous,
unless you for ce continuity upon them.” In the pr esent, wehave the opportunity to br eak the continuity of the past and
futur e by asking the Holy Spirit to intervene. This is the
miracle. W e want a new life, a new beginning. W e desir e a
life untainted by any darkness of the past, and being
‘entitled to miracles,’ we ar e entitled to that full r elease.
This is what it means to say that Jesus washes us clean of
our sins. He completely r emoves all loveless thoughts. W e
relinquish any thoughts of judgment, of anyone or anything,
that hold us to the past. W e relinquish any thoughts of
attachment that k eep us grasping at the futur e.
The world of the ego is a world of constant changes, ups
and downs, darkness and light. Heaven is a r ealm of
constant peace because it is an awar eness of a r eality that
lies beyond change. “ And Heaven will not change, for birth
into the holy pr esent is salvation fr om change.”
The world that the Holy Spirit r eveals to us is a world that
lies beyond this world, a world r evealed to us thr ough a
diﬀer ent per ception. W e die to one world in or der to be bor n
into another. “To be


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gifts — space to write and space to be. Th ank you to Adrienne Bradley
in V ancouver, to Mar garet Mil ler in London and Angie Fran cesco in
Glastonbury, En gland, Richard in Menlo Park and Rennie Fru mkin in
Sausalito, California.
I am  also thankful to Shirley Spaxman and Howard Kellough for their
early review of the manuscript and helpful feedback, as well as to those
individuals who were kind enough to review the manuscript at a later
stage and provide additional in put. Thank you to Rose Dende wich for
word-processing the manuscript in her unique cheerful and professional
manner.
Finally, I would like to express my love and gratitude to my mother and
father, without whom this book  would not have come into existence, to
my spiritual teachers, and to the greatest guru of all: life.A B O U T  T H E  A U T H O R

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W ebsite: www.newworldlibrary.com<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>THE GERSON THERAPY
The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer
and Other Illnesses
CHARLOTTE GERSON AND MORTON WALKER, D.P.M.
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procedures were developed and put into practice from findings he
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Inasmuch as Dr. Gerson’ s 1958  publication had focused on the reversal
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roosters had finished crowing. By that time, the sun would be high in the
sky, and Grandpa hard at work in the fields.
It is about Grandpa that I want to tell you.
My grandfather never popped a pill. At the ripe young age of eighty-
seven, he rose daily under a still-inky sky. Be it January or July, he bathed
under a gushing tap of ice-cold water in the verandah, wearing only a
muslin loincloth. He chewed on a twig from a neem tree to clean his teeth
and strengthen his gums. After his ablutions, he would do yoga exercises.
Village folk looked up to him — quite literally, for he was tall and strong,
with a booming voice.
Grandma compl emented her husband’ s energy perfectly. By the time he
was ready for breakfast, at abou t 7:00 A.M., she would be bathed and ready,
too — with a hearty meal of fresh griddle bread and hot vegetable curry,
laden with dollops of homemade ghee.
No one was surprised when, one night, Grandpa and Grandma fought
off and captured three robbers  who broke into their farmhou se. Vaidyas
would give the credit to my grandparents’ dincharya  (din: “day,” charya:
“to follow”), or daily routine, which moved in perfect rhythm with nature’ s
own clock.
nature’ s unseen clock
How punctually the sun tiptoes up, then shines boldly overhead, and finally
climbs down the sky. How unfailingly the birds twitter out of their nests,
gather food all day, and slip back home as dusk falls. Of course these
eternal rhythms are wondrous in themselves, but they can take on new
meaning if you stop to think about them in the context of your own life.
Think about it. Given a choic e, your body would follow a similar
rhythm. Your lungs would love to fill up with the fresh morni ng air. Yourstomach would welcome a complete meal at noon, when both appetite and
digestive power are at their peak. After an early dinner, your mind and body
would like to settle down for the night.
But, alas, we don’t often allow ourselves such luxuries. When  the sun
sets, we surround ourselves with bright indoor lights. When the mind asks
to rest, we force  it to watch a late-night film. Lunch is often a cold, hurried
affair — grabbed between meetings.
I happen ed to point this out to a friend who had been “grabbing ” lunch
for five years. She saw red. “Tell me something,” she deman ded, “what
does Ayurveda expect you to do? Not attend meetings, not earn a living?
This is not France, where everything shuts down at lunchtime!”  I refrained
from pointing out to her that their leisurely lunch could be a major reason
why the French  suffer fewer heart attacks — even though they eat four
times more butter — than Americans do.
But then I do understand what she means. Right now, when life is a
daily struggle to take in a full breath — let alone a fresh meal — it does
seem a little unreasonable to work at changing a whole lifestyle. But then
that is why I admire Ayurveda so much; it never asks you to wipe your slate
clean and begin afresh. Being the user-friendly system of healing that it is,
Ayurveda asks you to introduce change slowly and comfortably until your
healthy new habits weave themselves into your daily routine.
There are two good reasons why the vaidya does not want you to rush
into lifestyle changes. First, forced change is like a crash diet or a sudden
storm; it won’ t last. Second, compelling yourself to adjust to a new routine,
even if it’ s beneficial to you, is in itself a source of stress to the mind — and
stress of any kind is against A yurvedic principles.
Therefore, Ayurveda invites you to discover your healthier self, step by
baby step.
the rechar ging routine
Delicious! That’ s the word I would use to describe the ideal Ayurvedic
routine, which is built not to suit other people — clients, boss, friends,spouse, child — but to please the one person who matters most in your life:
YOU. This, to me, is its unique selling point.
Going back to Grandfather ’s daily routine, let us admit that he was able
to follow it because he lived so close to nature. Had he been a big-city
executive, his appointment book might have looked something like this:
9:00   Board meeting
11:00 Briefing/teleconference
1:00   Luncheon meeting
2:00   Discussions with delegates
5:00   Addressing press conference
7:00   Rotary Club speech
An admirer of success is sure to see in this diary an enviable lifestyle. A
vaidya would see in it an arduous one, guaranteed to produce tons of
disorder -causing ama. Everything in this person’ s day obviously revolves
around other people, and that is not just because he or she is such a busy
executive. Whatever your profession or situation, your lifestyle  is probably
not tailor -made for you.
When I was a television journalist in India, for instance, I did not even
have a fixed schedule. I would have given anything to have one! News of a
raging fire or a sudden politica l crisis meant that I went without a bath,
breakfast, lunch — sometimes dinner, too.
Even today, when I have a more relaxed job, my weekends are seldom
my own. They start with making breakfast for the family and end with
making lunch for Monday. In between, I clean the bathrooms, make beds,
and shop for groceries. Any time that I want purely for myself, I have to
steal. I am sure I am echoing a story everyone has heard.
The question I am asking here is, What space or time do you and I keep
in our day for an appointment with ourselves? As far as Ayurveda is
concerned, this is a question of supreme importance, and the answer should
ideally be: All day! This is, of course, not to say that we should shrink into
ourselves and forget about everyone and everything else. The logic of the
vaidya is: only when you are centered in yourself can you establish a truly
meaningful relationship with the world.Think about it, and the meaning of this plain statement will shine clearly
before you. When you wake up groggy and rush out of the house without
breakfast, you cannot expect to give your best to the meeting in progress.
With your nerves stretched like ropes inside your head, you cannot hope to
spread cheer among friends and family.
The solution, as I said, is delicious.
reinvent your day
How about acting as your own personal secretary and rescheduling your
appointment book not by your wrist-watch but by nature’ s clock?
That is, what if your daily planner looked like this?
Arise with the Sun
The light-and-swift vata dosha dominates the early morning hours,
making it an ideal time for you to start your day. Arise early, ideally by 6:00
or befor e the sun rises. At this glorious hour, all of nature is waking up —
the sun, the birds, the flowers. The air is fresh and calm. Your body and
mind are rested and ready for renewal. Your organs of elimination are ready
to shed yesterda y’s waste. There is in this hour a purity, a godliness in
nature that your spirit will love.
Before you leave your bed, take a few moments to think sunny thoughts
about the day that stretches ahead. I am reminded here of the words of
English writer Monica Baldwin: “The moment when you first wake up in
the morning, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before
you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always
doesn’ t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.”
If you have a baby who keeps you awake through the night, or young
kids who deman d all of your attention in the morning, you could try to get
your kids in bed early. That way, you might soon develop a rhythm of
waking up half an hour before they do. It will give you peace and quiet for
thirty minutes, as well as a head start on your day.If you work night shifts, however, you might want to sleep through the
morning — and that would be perfectly justified. Also, vaidyas recommend
drinking plenty of water if you have been working in the late-night pitta
hours; this keeps digestion smooth.
Whatever you do, don’t push yourself into an early-rising routine; that
will only be an additional strain, and the point of Ayurveda is not to strain
you in any way.
Freshen Up
Pay attention to those small ablutions; they are big on health benefits.
Wash your face.  Clean your eyes, nose, and mouth. Stick out your tongue
and look at it in the mirror. Is it coated with white? That’ s a visible sign of
ama, or undigested toxic matter. If it stays there, your breath will feel stale
and your taste buds will be unable to do their job. Scrape your tongue with
a specially designed silver or stainless steel scraper, called a tongue cleaner
or tongue


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metaphysical, mystical and religious life is made
abundantly clear in the writings of leading alchemists of
both East and West who state categorically: ‘Our gold is
not of this world.’ All the exhortations to right conduct,
purity and religious observances show that the Work was,
for the true alchemist, a spiritual matter.
Writing on yoga and alchemy and discussing the legends
and references in Tantris m, Eliade says: ‘We have here no
pre-chemistry, no science in embryo, but a spiritual
technique, which, while operating on “matter,” sought ﬁrst
of all to “perfect the spirit,” to bring about deliverance and
autonomy... gold is the one perfect solar metal and
hence its symbolism meets the symbolism of Spirit, of
spiritual freedom.’ This is conﬁrmed by John Blofeld who,
travelling in pre-Commu nist China and visiting Buddhist
and Taoist monasteries, received from a Taoist abbot the
statement:
Ours is not a religion but a way to the Way... our
yogas and meditation begin with the generating of
tranquillity, that in the stillness of our hearts we may
apprehend the Tao within, around, above and below
us. We seek to nourish our vitality and prolong our
lives in order to gain more time for the reﬁnement of
spirit needed for attaini ng the higher goals. Then
comes the compounding of the Golden Pill which
some misguided persons have sought to produce by
alchemical processes, whereas in truth it can becompounded only within the body and is theref ore
known esoter ically as the immortal foetus. We Taoists
are generally  agreed that its creation is the means to
immortality, but at this point paths diverge, some
seek aeon-long immortality, the attainment of a god-
like state, as an end in itself; others strive to Return
to the Source, an apotheosis identical with the
attainment of Nirvana, though conceptions of the
inconceivable naturally diﬀer.
In the spiritual alchemy even the pursuit of longevity
had its origins in the idea that the longer the physical life,
the longer the time for attaining spiritual transformation
into the True Man and becoming one with the Tao; to this
end the alchemist had to transmute the base metal of the
physical desires into the pure gold of the spiritual. From
the Shen Hsien Chuan  comes the instruction: ‘If you are
bent on attaining immortality, begin by getting rid of the
body-spirits. As soon as they are gone you will gain ﬁxity
of will-power and freedom from passion and desire.’
Waley, in his ‘Notes on Chinese Alchemy’ dismisses the
theory that alchemy was a pre-chemistry and pithily
expresses it as: ‘Alchemy, on the rare occasions when it
has been made the subject of reasonable enquiry, has
usually been  studied as part of what one may call the pre-
history of science. But if, to use a favourite phrase, we are
to see in alchemy merely  “the cradle of chemistry,” are we
not likely, whatever its initial charm, to lose patience with
an infancy protracted through some ﬁfteen centur ies?’ The
true alchemy was, in fact, an applied science  or art
(spoken of as either by its adherents) in the control of the
elements aﬀecting life and Nature and humanity in a
spiritual development; it was called, as Taylor puts it, ‘a
chemistry of the spirit.’ ‘Let alchemy be called a
“chemistry of the spirit” and it will be possible to
understand its many aspects and the conﬂicting views ofthose who have not grasped its essential featur es.’ If it
were only gold-or-pill making and early science, it is
remarkable that as Professor Sivin points out, ‘there were
many treatises which give no directions for making
anything,’ and if it were merely the search for gold, why
the universal reference to ‘our gold’ as being something
distinct from the common gold?
The search for gold was the search for wisdom, for the
knowledge of the necessary transformat ion of
unregenerate humanity into the Sage or integrate d being,
expressed as ‘the opaque becomes luminous.’ Roger Bacon
said that ‘Nature has always had for an end and tries
incessantly to reach perfection, that is gold.’ In Vedic
tradition ‘gold is immortality;’ that is, the incorruptible
spirit, the illuminated being. The colouring, or tincture,
represents the colouring  of the unregenerate or base
nature with the divine. In Europe Fludd said: ‘Be ye
transmuted from mortal to living philosophers' stones...
Indeed, every pious and righteous man is a spiritual
alchemist... who... understands not only how to
distinguish but with the ﬁre of the divine Spirit to separate
the false from the true... for only this way is unclean lead
turned to gold.’ The medieval ‘Rosarium’ says: ‘Our gold is
not the common gold’ and ‘the philosopher is not the
master of the stone but rather its minister.’ Then yet
again, ‘Our gold is not in any way the gold of the
multitude, but is the living gold... it is wisdom.’
The real alchemy was the search for wisdom; its work
was esoteric and on the individual, not in the laboratory, or
rather the body is the laboratory in which the knowledge
of the Self is gained. That the quest was spiritual, not
material, is attested by alchemy's religious aﬀiliations, to
Taoism, in particular, in the East; there are also constant
references to it in Hinduism and Buddhism and strong
associations in the Babylonian and Chaldean civilizations,the Egyptian-Greek hermeticism and, later, in Christianity
and Islam. Alchemy is also essentially mystical since its
aim is union, the end of duality and absorption in the
Absolute. Alchemical terms are used throughout for
spiritual processes; the conjunctio  is the same as the
mystic's union with the One, the loss of individual identity
with the limitations of the ego dissolved in the perfect
whole, and again the base metal, transmuted by
puriﬁcation and reﬁning, becomes the gold of perfection,
of wisdom. The alchemist Ali-pili wrote:
The highest wisdom consists in this, for man to know
himself... therefore let the high enquirers and
searchers into the deep mysteries of nature ﬁrst
learn to know  what they have in themselves, and by
the divine power within them let them ﬁrst heal
themselves and transmute their souls... if that
which thou seekest thou ﬁndest not within thee thou
will never ﬁnd it without thee... He who desires the
primacy among students of nature will nowhere ﬁnd
a greater or better ﬁeld of study than himself.
Therefore will I from  certain true experie nce
proclaim: ‘Oh man, know thyself, in thee is hid the
treasure of treasures.’
The study of man and Nature cannot be separated. As
the alchemis t worked on Nature so he could not avoid
working on himself. As Hopkins says: ‘To Aristotle organic
nature was like man. But to the alchemist all nature was
like man; the spiritual overshadowing the material, and
reproduction, the greatest of all mysteries, was possible
only when the body of the metal was endowed with excess
of the spiritual.’ Sendivogius uses the symbolism of the
mirror: ‘The Sage sees Heaven reﬂected in Nature as in a
mirror; and he pursues this Art not for the sake of gold or
silver, but for the love of knowledge which it reveals.’ Themicrocosm and macrocosm reﬂect each other but are one,
there is no diﬀerence between humanity and the cosmos.
‘The natural world is only an image and material copy of a
heavenly and spiritual pattern; that is, the very existence
of this world is based upon the reality of its celestial
archetype.’ Again, this is the hermetic ‘As above, so below,’
or, ‘In truth, certainly and without doubt, whatever is
below is like that which is above, and whatever is above is
like that which is below.’ This enunciates the law of
correspondences: that all creation is, in fact, a reﬂection;
the phenomenal reﬂects the spiritual. The hermetic
tradition also says that ‘The work... is to be found within
you and is enduring: you will always have it present,
wherever you are, on land or on sea.’
Meditation was an important factor in Chinese alchemy
in developing the ‘inner elixir,’ and the sealed vase was the
isolated mountain retreat, hermitage, or meditatio n room,
where knowledge of the inner self was attained, where
transformation took place and from which the new man
was born; hence the constant reference to the foetus or
the seed


abby bloated fatness which people find repulsive and go on
starvation diets to avoid. This "stale food" type of fatness is hard to reduce, because
the fat is a semi-dead material which the body cannot utilize in the normal way even though almost starved. On the other hand, fat from fresh food is a "living" material,
and can be rapidly utilized and removed when the food intake is reduced.
   It has been demonstrated that the fresh food diet is an effective reducing diet, yet
maintains ample food intake to prevent hunger and permit full activity. The fat leaves first under the throat and in the abdomen, and within a few months lumpy dead fat is
removed throughout and a more attractive posture and figure obtained.

10. SEX AND STALE FOOD
   In experimental work it sometimes happens that unsought but useful results are
stumbled upon by good fortune. This occurred in my arteriosclerosis work and an
important relationship between stale food and sex was found.
   The accompanying picture shows the results of feeding pasteurized homogenized
milk to roosters, which caused severe stunting of the male sex glands or testicles. The
small deformed and diseased glands on the left came from roosters fed the store milk, whereas the large powerful gland on the right came from a rooster fed new raw milk.
These results were typical of fifteen  roosters in each group, fed for a period of one
year starting with baby chicks. The store milk roosters did not develop big combs and
plumes, and some could hardly be distinguished from hens. They could not breed, and
were dejected spiritless birds. On the other hand, the male chicks receiving new raw milk grew rapidly into huge splendid roosters, fierce, powerful, and ready to fight or
breed on a second's notice.

   A few of the sex-inhibited roosters were  taken out of the experiment and given no
more milk. They recovered and became sexua lly active, but never reached the great
size and strength of the raw milk roosters.
   Similar testing was done with female ch ickens, and no sexual disturbances occurred.
The only outward difference was that the raw milk hens were a little larger and better
looking.
   All chickens male and female which were fed store milk had greatly enlarged livers
of a light yellow color and fatty texture, whereas the raw milk chickens had normal
wine-red livers. No noticeable arteriosclerosis occurred on either milk.    Other testing in later years revealed that male goats and rabbits also became
sexually deteriorated when fed mostly on stale food of any kind, not necessarily milk. Some of these male animals fed in confinement on commercial rabbit pellets or hay
and grain had infant sized sex glands even though full grown.
   Aside from actual deterioration of the sex glands, feeding of stale food was found to
depress sexual activity among even the normal goats of both sexes. Confined goats
fed hay and grain were dejected spiritless animals and very little breeding occurred.
But within a few weeks after feeding fresh vegetation daily, these unhappy animals would cheer up and Cupid's arrows begin to fly.
   These findings are really not surprising, for Nature has evidently set controls upon
sex to discourage pregnancy during periods of poor food supply. An animal, or human, becoming pregnant when food was very scarce or poor would probably lose
her baby, and might well lose her life too.
   These results correspond very well to conditions among modern people. The young
women nowadays seem much the same as always, but many boys do not reach the age
of puberty until nearly twenty, and a large number remain sexually undeveloped or
perverted. Many doctors and marriage counselors have published articles telling of the
great numbers of wives who are finding their husbands inadequate. Our young men are adopting feminine hair styles and clothes, lacking pride of manhood. Female sex
is flaunted on every side, and skirts are going higher and higher, in an attempt to
awaken failing male interest. Any such display in earlier times when men were normal would have caused a stampede. The birth rate in the western industrialized
nations is dropping, but is holding up or rising in more primitive lands where people
eat fresher food. Sex among modern people is becoming more and more a neurotic
frustrated fixation, rather than the wholesome and dynamic physical relationship
designed by Nature. Large numbers of modern youths are unhappy and neurotic, protesting against a civilization with which they are somehow dissatisfied. They are constantly seeking something, but are not sure what it is. What they really lack is the fresh food to complete the structure of their physical bodies, so they can attain the
powers which are their natural birthright. If these unhappy youngsters could receive
high quality fresh food for a year or so, most of them would turn out to be as normal
as could be desired.

11. MICROBES AND MAN
   As Dr. René Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute has so well put it, all around us is
the "Unseen World" of microbes, or germs if you will, the tiny microscopic forms of
life which swarm in uncountable billions in the soil, water, air, or vegetation and in
the bodies of men and animals. The bacteria, viruses, protozoa, algae, fungi, plankton, and so on exist in many thousands of different kinds throughout the world, and in both
gross weight and number of individuals far exceed all other forms of life. Humiliating
as it may be, we must face the fact that th e principal inhabitants of the earth and sea
are not men, not plants or animals, or fish but microbes.
   After such geniuses as Leeuwenhoek, Pasteur, Koch and others revealed microbes
to the world and demonstrated that they play a part in causing certain deadly diseases,
there was a wave of horror throughout the world, and we have been taught to have an unreasoning fear of all so-called "germs." But the work of many later scientists has
gradually shown that the picture is not all black, that the world of microbes has its
own checks and balances, that all forms of life have natural defenses against them,
and that many kinds of microbes are so beneficial that we could hardly live without them.
   For the general public, it is mainly necessary to know that the human body contains
clever systems designed by Nature to fight off microbes, and it is only due to these defensive powers which we all have that we are not invaded and killed by microbic
growth. Every breath of air, every mouthful  of food or drink contains microbic life;
our skin, body cavities, and intestinal contents swarm with them. Everyone from the baby in its crib to the king in his castle is fighting their own private battle against the
microbes which are constantly entering the body. Every second of our lives our
defenses are constantly checking and killing the microbes trying to use our bodies as a
free lunch counter and hotel. And likewise all the plants and animals are constantly under microbic attack.
   But the clever defense systems which Nature has given us cannot effectively operate
unless we give them the proper ammunition by eating good fresh food. History has shown and feeding experiments have confirmed that poorly nourished people and
animals eating stale or inadequate food fall easy prey to microbic infections of many
kinds. Famines are followed by epidemics, sailors and explorers eating stale food
sicken and die, and so on. My caged animals fed stale food suffered skin diseases, lost
their hair and teeth, had sore eyes, runny noses, respiratory infections, etc., and often
died. On the other hand, wild animals and primitive people living in rich areas and
eating fresh food have marvelous physiques and seldom suffer from microbic disease.
Likewise, my animals when fed fresh food stayed in beautiful condition and hardly
ever had infections, even when cut by accident or surgery.
   People eating good fresh food seldom suffer from common microbic infections such
as sore throat, infected tonsils, boils, colds, influenza, pneumonia, etc.
  12. TEETH AND STALE FOOD
   Dr. Weston Price found throughout the world that most people who were living on
primitive foods obtained by hunting, fishing, food gathering, and subsistence farming had fine straight teeth, large well develope d faces, all four wisdom teeth and little or
no tooth decay. On the other hand he found members of the same races living a little
nearer civilization so that they were eating store food usually had miserable teeth,
with narrow undersized jaws, crowded and crooked teeth, severe tooth decay, and
missing teeth. His studies included Eskimo s, New Zealanders and Australians both
white and black, Africans, Peruvian indians and whites, Canadian indians, Polynesians, Fijians, Swiss, Gaelic, and so on. In these various groups the native
foods ran the gamut from caribou meat to insects, fish, and seaweed. Somehow it
seems that Dr. Price did not quite perceive that it was simply the freshness  of the
native foods that made the difference, but his findings are none the less valid and significant.
   My experimental goats fed stale food frequently developed loose abscessed teeth
and lost some of them. The few young goats born during stale feeding of the mothers frequently had underdeveloped short lower jaws, looking like the chinless comic strip
character Andy Gump, as well as being weak and sickly.
   In tooth decay the teeth are attacked by microbes secreting a corrosive fluid which
eats away the


,” I said, “but that disorder occurs in winter.”
Her face started to fall, and I quickly added, “You’ve put
your ﬁnger on something  important, though. Now we have
a deﬁciency we can treat.”
“What’s that?” she asked.
“Picnic deﬁciency,” I said. For the ﬁrst time since  I’d
known her, she ﬂashed me a genuine smile.
Her self-trea tment continues to work. She regularly
escapes the gray conﬁnes of her oﬀice building to sit in the
sun at lunch, talk to friends, and listen to lots of Mozart.
This may not sound like advanced medicine, and in a sense
it isn’t, but the reason it works is that we need Nature to
free up our nature. We are surrounded by the best of all
healing inﬂue nces—fresh air, sunlight, and beauty. In India,
the Hippocrates of Ayurveda, a great physician and sage
named Charaka, prescribed some sunlight for all diseases,
along with a walk in the early morning, and his advice will
never grow stale.
If I ﬁnd a green meadow  splashed with daisies and sit
down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine.
It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother’s lap
in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the
green meadow is her lap. You and I are strangers, but the
internal rhythm of our bodies listens to the same ocean
tides that cradled us in a time beyond memory.
Nature is man’s healer, because Nature is man. When
Ayurveda says that the sun is our right eye and the moon
our left eye, we mustn’t sneer. By bathing us in the moon,
the sun, and the sea, Nature fashioned the bodies we
inhabit. These were the ingredients that provided us eachwith our piece of Natur e—a shelter, life-support system,
intimate companion, and home for seven decades or more.
The discovery of the quantum realm opened a way to
follow the inﬂuence of the sun, moon, and sea down deeper
into ourselves. I am taking you there only in the hope that
there is even more healing to be found there. We already
know that a human fetus develops by remembering and
imitating the shapes of ﬁsh, amphibians, and early
mammals. Quantum discoveries enable us to go into our
very atoms and remember the early universe itself. Aeons
ago, light and heat came into being in the univers e, to last
for 20 billion years; yet, every human being strikes the
spark again, lighting the ﬁre that kindles life. In Vedic
India, the same sacred ﬁre that was in the hearth shared
the name Agni with the digestive ﬁre in the belly and the
solar ﬁre in the sky.
Sir Arthur Eddington once aﬀirmed that there were two
realities that had to be known on their own term s, one of
which was trivial, the other all-important. The trivial one
was the mechanistic reality investigated by science; the all-
important one was the human reality of ordinary
experience. In the scienti ﬁc reality, Eddington said, Earth is
a speck of matter whirling around a mediocre star, both of
them cast adrift among billions of more important stellar
objects. But in the human reality, Earth remains the center
of the universe, because  the life it harbors is the only
important thing that exists, at least for us.
The most poignant expression of this idea came to me
from a patient who had many health problems, including
cancer. To regain her perspective, she wrote down certain
important experiences from her past. One of these
occurred when she was a girl of 16; she entitled it, “But
How Can I Be the Moon?—Age 16:”Lying alone in the pasture, dark except for the
magnetic full moon. There is an overwhelming
sense of quietness. My being is part of the earth
and part of the pure white light of the moon at the
same time. Nothing else is signiﬁcant. For a
second I wonder, “Am I dead?” It isn’t important—
I am spendin g an hour in God’s hands, and it will
become part of me.
A surprising number of people have had such
experiences, which Eddington called “the mystic contact
with the earth.” My patient later slipped away from her
experience, gradually becoming used to the grind of work
and family worries that disconnects all of us from Nature;
in her case, the accumulated stress led to frequent
sickness. (She wryly titled her later life, “Going Against
Nature—This Is Adulthood?”)
What is so unusual is that when she stopped going
against Nature, the old feeling of contact came back with
undiminished freshness. In her late twenties she visited the
Paciﬁc shore and wrote this:
For about two hours on the beach alone, I was
with God again. I was the surf, its sound and
strength. I was the sand, warm, vibrating, alive. I
was the breeze, soft and free. I was the sky,
endless and pure…I felt only great love. I was
more than my body and knew it. This moment was
absolutely cleansing and beautiful.
What she expresses I also believe as a doctor. The healing
mechanism inside us perfectly matches the one outside.
The human body does not look like the green meadow, but
its breezes, its laughing water, sunlight, and earth were
merely transformed into us, not forgotten. (There is goodreason for all the ancie nt medicines to say that man is
made of earth, air, ﬁre, and water.) Because the body is
intelligent, it knows this fact, and when it returns home to
Nature, it feels free. With overﬂo wing joy it knows its
mother. That feeling of freedom and joy is vital—it allows
inner and outer nature to blend. The same is true of the
quantum mechanical body; it is just a doorway back to
Nature. One does not even need to explain it, except for the
sad fact that the intellect, going against Nature, has done
such a good job of blocking the door.
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There is a lot more to say about the quantum mechanical
body. I can think of nothing we need to know more about.
Today, medic ine wants to make the leap beyond its present
dilemmas, but the wanting has turned into waiting. A fellow
student from my medical-school days in New Delhi has
risen meteorically as a research physician in the United
States, becoming a professor at Harvard Medical School
before he turned 45. Recently we sat after dinner in a
Boston restaurant and he predicted the future. “All the top
researchers met quietly in Washington,” he said glumly,
“and we agreed that by the year 2010, no major cancer
would be cured, and there would be no breakthrough in
understanding AIDS.”
This gloomy prognostication must be avoided at all costs.
It may be impeccable science, but it makes no sense from
the quantum perspective. We are all expert navigators in
the realm of? zone, where science gropes with one small
light. Doesn’t this suggest a solution? The mysterious
breakdowns of the body’s intelligence that occur in cancer
and AIDS may all be traceable to a single distortion—a
wrong detour into the hidden regions of DNA’s intelligence.
To see how the mind-body problem can be solved, we needto look more closely at these detours and their invisible
origin.
EXPANDING THE TOPIC
Reading this chapter almost three decades after I wrote it,
two impressions strike me, one theoretical, the other
medical. The theoretical part refers to a knowledge
explosion in all the sciences. The medical part has to do
with applying this new knowledge to healing diseases and
moving human evolution forward. There is a huge
mismatch between the two.
By 2003, the Human Genome Project, considered the
greatest scientiﬁc triumph at the end of the twentieth
century, had mapped the three billion base pairs that
constitute human DNA. Yet the promise of quick major
advances in genetic medical treatments never materialized.
Except for treating a handful of quite speciﬁc cancers (for
example, those where a single genetic mutation can be
targeted using a speciali zed “designer drug”), the general
medical applications have been nil. The vast majority of
designer drugs are also exorbitantly expensive.
In physics, the rise of superstring theory from its roots in
the 1980s has been the main “advance” in understanding
the quantum domain since Quantum Healing  appeared. The
quotation marks refer to the fact that not a single
experiment has validated string theory, a purely
mathematical construct that so far doesn’t have practical
applications except to employ more physicists to invent
new variations on the theory.
A third mismatch, which is in neuroscience, revolves
around the baﬄing dilemma known as the “hard problem,”
a term coined by the Australian philosopher David
Chalmers and which quickly took hold. The hard problem ishow to explain the mind as it relates to the brain. Despite a


 opportunities present
themselves alon g the way, then  have the flexible inner attitude  to go with
the flow. This process can be s ummed up in one statement, “T ake it as it
comes.” The process becomes the goal.
Whenever you find yourself grasping or recoiling, anticipating or
resisting, shift your attention to your witnessing self. In this simple process
of coming back to the self, you return to the present moment. The present
moment is the doorway to the field of infinite possibilities. The presentmoment is characterized by infinite flexibility. Living in present-moment
awareness reverses the aging process.
When you evoke fear you set into motion the physiology
of str ess that accelerates biological aging. Y ou must
let go of this fear in or der to r everse aging.

FORGIVENESS
The grea t V edic scholar Eknath Easwawan tells a poignant story. At the end
of a lifet ime, a person’ s soul goes to a plane of existence where each life is
reviewed. The soul enters a the ater in which a movie of the r ecent life is
playing. The soul begins watch ing the movie but often has to turn away
because of terribly uncomforta ble scenes. Sins of omission and sins of
commission cramp the heart, and the scene becomes too painf ul to watch.
As a result of n ot being able to watch the complete movie, im portant life
lessons are missed, and the soul must reincarnate to learn them in the next
lifetime.
According to this story, the primary cause for not being able to watch the
painful scenes of life is a lack of for giveness—for others and for oneself.
For giveness is the essence of let ting go. It means relinquishing attachments
to t he past and  clearing encumbrances that constrict the heart. These
constrictions are  the source of inertia, entropy, and aging. Release them to
grow younger. T ry this simple exercise:
Close your eyes, bring your atte ntion into your heart and ask if you are
holding on to any grievances, hostilities, resentments, or regrets. If any
come to mind, ask what occurred that led to the blockage in your heart.
Then, ask what needs to occur now in order to release these t oxins. Look
for t he g ift that every life experience of fers, even painful ones, and express
your gratitude for the experience.Remember this beautiful expres sion from A Course in Miracles and refer
to it often: “Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a
miracle.”
W e encourage you to choose a miracle. When things do not go  the way
you think they s hould, you could indulge in self-pity. Y ou cou ld complain
and gripe that life isn’ t fair. Y ou could lament about what y ou are not
getting and make yourself and everyone around you miserable. Or you
could se e the situation as anothe r opportunity for surrender, flexibility, and
expansion. Grievances, hostilities, resentments, and regrets become
festering emotional wounds that accelerate aging. For give and for get and
you will reverse the aging process.
BREAKING HABITUAL P A TTERNS
It’ s easy  to become trapped in habitual patterns that do not ser ve you well
and promote inflexibility. Therefore it is very helpful to consciously
cultivate flexibility by relinquis hing things in your life and creating new
patterns of thinking and behaving. Practicing flexibility creates flexibility in
your nervous system by challenging your brain cells to make new
associations. The neurons in your nervous system and the cho ices in your
life are engaged  in a continuou s feedback loop. In your willin gness to try
new things, your neural networks become more flexible and o pen to new
perceptions, interpretations, and choices, which in turn support new
interneuronal connections.
Here are a few suggestions of things you can do to break ou t of your
habitual behavioral patterns. T ry them for a week and observe what happens
to your body and mind.
Change your diet
Change your exercise programChange your route to work
Change your bedtime
Meditate longer
Buy dif ferent clothing
W ear new colors
Listen to dif ferent kinds of music
Stop wearing a watch
W ear your watch on the other wrist
Go out to lunch with someone new
T ry a new restaurant
Change your opinion about something or someone
Call a friend you haven’ t spoken to in years
Answer the phone dif ferently
Change your voice mail message
Read a book that you usually wouldn’ t consider
W atch a dif ferent television show
Listen to a dif ferent radio station
T ake a new class
Let go of old ways and you w ill feel renewed. Learning to be flexible
means le arning t o access the mo st flexible domain of your being — the field
of t imeless awareness underly ing your mind and body. Th is realm offlexibility is the basis of growing younger. Immerse yourself in this field of
infinite flexibilit y on a daily basis through meditation. Have th e conscious
intention to think and act flexibly. Practice letting go whenever holding on
is no longer serving you.
Cr eativity
Once you have cultivated flexib ility you are ready for creativ ity. W ithout
flexibility there can be no creativity. According to Amit Goswami, author of
Quantum Cr eativity, creativity is a discontinuous, nonalgorithmic quantum
jump from one pattern of thinking into a completely new o ne. It is a
quantum leap— a paradigm shift— from one pattern to anot her without
progressing through incremental steps in between. All the great creative
advances in the worlds of art, music, architecture, or science represent new
leaps of imagina tion that could not have been predicted on the basis of the
prevailing patterns. Once the creative leap is made, be it Einstein’ s theory
of re lativity, Picasso’ s cubism, o r music by the Beatles, the world is forever
changed.
Y ou are by nature a creative being, although you may no longer think of
yourself this way. As a child you had a rich imagination, w hich is the
source of all creativity. Y our youthful flexibility and present-moment
awareness allowed for new perceptions and interpretations on an ongoing
basis. Y ou were capable of cre ating entire worlds with your i magination,
whether it was building sand castles at the beach or playing with your
make-believe fa mily of dolls. T oday, the very fact that you are alive is
evidence of your creativity, for you are co-creating your reality every
moment. Y ou are creating a new body/mind with every impulse of
experience and every breath you take. Learn to reawaken your creative
response and you will recapture the ener gy and enthusiasm of youth. In
addition to helping you grow younger, the creative process can be applied to
healing, relationships, the arts, and business.T AKING A CREA TIVE LEAP
Creativity is the process of takin g the raw ener gy, information, a nd material
of th e universe and transforming it into something that has never been
created before. Whether you are creating an original work of art, a new
piece of music, a unique software program, or a healing response to an
illness, creativity requires a leap in awareness. If you are improving on
something that already exists, that is innovation. Creativity brings
something into existence that has never been here before.
There are nine b asic steps to the creative response. Become con scious of
these steps and use the creative response whenever you are facing an issue
or ch allenge in y our life. Y ou h ave unlimited creative potential  that can be
used to solve any problem you are facing.
Intended Outcome
The first step of the creative response is to have a clear intended
outcome. Y ou must have a clear vision of  what it is that you want to have
unfold. If you are not certain about what you want, you are  unlikely to
fulfill yo ur needs. State your in tended outcome in clear positive language:
“I h ave a health y body with abundant ener gy.” “My intimate r elationships
are l oving and nurturing.” A void defining your intentions in ter ms of what
you don’ t want. Rather than saying “I want to leave this dreadful job,” state
your int ention as “I have a position that enables me to express my full
potential.”
W rite down your intentions and review them regularly to be certain that
they ref lect your current desires. Although living in a state of flexibility
implies not being attached to a particular outcome, it is still e ssential that
you have unambiguous intentions. Formulate a clear intention and be
detached from the outcome.Information Gathering
The second step is information gathering. In this stage, learn everything
that is available about the issue you are facing. Become an expert on the
challenge that confronts you, recognizing that your particular variation is
unique. Read books, do research, use the Internet, explore spiritual
literature, go to lectures, participate in workshops, speak with friends and
family. G ather i nformation from  every possible source without judging or
filtering. Pay attention to the sensations in your body as you learn what
others have to