  that  chapter,  will  you  be kind
enough  to feel  yourself  in the place  of this  Good  Brother,
during  His  Experience. It was  Real,  I assure  you. Then,
allow  Me to do that  which  I wish  to do for you. Oh,  Pre-
cious  Ones,  please  understand,  We  do not care  about  the
puny  human  mistakes,  which  human  beings  have  made. All We want  is their  earnestness  in their  attention  to their
"Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  which  will  enable  Us to do for
them  what  they  cannot  do themselves;  and  which  We can-
not do for them  unless,  they  will  give  their  Earnest  Atten-
tion to the Presence. Do you  not see,  how  thru  the centuries,  We  were  lim-
ited;  because  human  Beings  did not know  their  Presence. Without  their  attention  to the Presence,  We  were  not per-48 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
mitted—because  the Law  would  not permit  Us—to  release
This  Help. Now  the  Great  Cosmic  Light  does. Oh,  the
Glory  for mankind. There  was  no Release  of the Light  into
the Earth,  except  at long  intervals. I mean  there  were  no
Great  Cosmic  Impulses  of That  Light  to help  mankind. Now  since  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has brought  This  Activ-
ity forth,  It comes  with  Dynamic  Power  twice  a year. This
time,  on the 7th of April,  there  was  a Sufficient  Activity
of the Cosmic  Law  for the Light  to release;  because  of the
need  and  Blessing  of mankind  today. This  will  come  again
in July. On the seventh  of July  there  will  come  a still Might-
ier Flow  and  Impulse  of That  Great  Cosmic  Light  into  the
Earth. I think  most  of you  have  read  Washington's  Vision,  if
not, you  will  perhaps  in the near  future. I say to you,  the
last episode  in His  Vision  which  was  a Mighty  Reality,  is
what  We  are trying  to prevent  acting  in America  today. Only  by enough  Calls  from  the sincere  students  of the "I
AM"  in America,  can it be prevented. When  Beloved  Saint
Germain  was  talking  last Sunday  morning  at this  Precious
One's  Group,  We allowed  this  Good  Brother  to see the Ac-
tivity  of the Cosmic  Light  which  took  place. In the third
episode  of Washington's  Vision,  you  will  notice  the Great
Being  states,  as the expression  was  used  by the narrator:
"that  a dark  angel  in the center  of the Atlantic,"  was  the
one who  seemed  to be the instigator  of that  activity,  which
took  place  in what  followed. IN THE  PLACE  OR  PO-
SITION  OF  THAT  BEING,  A PILLAR  OF  LIGHT DISCOURSE  VIII  49
WAS  PLACED  LAST  SUNDAY  MORNING  IN THE
CENTER  OF  THE  ATLANTIC,  WHICH  WILL
REMAIN  AND  DO  ITS  PERFECT  WORK. We mention  fragments  of These  Great  Activities  for your
Encouragement,  Strength  and  Blessing. If enough  of the
"I AM"  Students—I  do not necessarily  mean  in numbers—
but if enough  Earnestness  is released  by These  Mighty  De-
crees  from  mankind,  then  a great  part  of this  destructive
activity,  which  would  otherwise  take  place  and  sweep  over
America,  may  be forestalled. Is there  any  one  of the Blessed  Ones  in America  or the
World  today,  who  does  not want  to see that  done. Then,
do you  not understand,  Dear  Hearts,  what  a tragedy  it is,
when  Individuals  are so unfortunate  as to be vicious  enough,
to try and  oppose  these  Beloved  Messengers;  in the Free-
dom  and  Protection  which  they  alone  have  been  responsible
for bringing  into  America;  to prevent  such  frightful  de-
struction  taking  place  in America. That  frightful  destruc-
tion is not only  thru  the cataclysmic  activity;  but  it is the
destructive  thing  which  has been  generated  in Europe  for
centuries,  which  would  one  day  try to sweep  the Earth. These  are Mighty  Truths,  Dear  Hearts. They  are not to
try and  frighten  any  one;  but  mankind  needs  to know
that in the Call  to the "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  is the only
Power  which  can  release  enough  energy,  to bring  about
Protection  and  allow  the Great  Law  of your  Life  to act;
to prevent  these  things  which  otherwise  must  be the ex-
perience  of mankind. 50 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
Mankind  has  gone  thru  thousands  of embodiments  in
the experience  Life;  and  the people  have  not  gained  any
Freedom  thru  it. Now  today,  when  the Light  of the World
stands  before  you,  in the Understanding  of your  "Mighty
I AM  Presence,"  and  the calling  of Its Power  into  action;
then  think  what  It means  to you  in These  Wonderful
Groups,  who  are issuing  These  Mighty  Decrees  with  dy-
namic  energy;  to go forth  in the mental  and  feeling  world
of mankind. The  Mighty  Majestic  Far-reaching  Activity
of Those  Decrees,  is beyond  the fondest  hopes  of any  hu-
man  intellect. Tonight,  We bring  to your  attention  from  the Great  Cos-
mic Light,  These  Mighty  Truths. If you  can  accept  This
Truth  and  feel  Its Reality,  then  much  can  be done  during
This  Class. We  brought  the Messengers  here  at this  time,
to save  your  New  York. One  day,  not so far hence,  you  will
know  the Truth  of My Words,  which  I have  spoken  to you
tonight. Will  not  all of you  take  your  stand  for the Pro-
tection  and  Blessing  of this  Coming  Class,  so the Greatest
Possible  Good  may  come  to New  York  out  of it, and  the
Greatest  Harmony  possible. It is you,  Precious  Ones,  here
who  need  it, not the Messengers;  but  their  Love  has been
great  enough  to face  the frightful  destructive  feeling,  sent
out from  these  vicious  ones  in the world  who  are acting
here. The  Messengers'  Love  has been  great  enough  to give
the Assistance. Beloved  Ones,  you  are Fortunate. Most  Fortunate. and
one day,  you  will  every  one  of you  tell Me so and  repeat DISCOURSE  VIII  51
back  to Me Those  Words. Will  you  think  for just  one  mo-
ment  what  It means  to have  become  a Part  of Myself. Now
remember,  It is not this  physical  form  here  I am speaking
of, It is My Own  Blazing  Form  of Light  of which  "I AM"
speaking;  and  My  Own  Infinite  Intelligence,  by which
"I AM"  flashing  These  Words  to this Good  Brother,  which
he repeats  to you. You  have  become  a Part  of That  Self—
Myself. Do you  think  you  would  ever  get away  from  Me. Think  of it. You  cannot  escape  now. Some  who  think  they
might,  will  find  that  is a mistake. So Dear  Ones,  in the Glory  of your  privilege,  go forth
in


 great  numbers  of students  have  seen  it take
place. Do not let any  one  be foolish  enough  in thought  to
refute  This  Statement;  because  it is True. Whatever  the
Messengers  have  done,  every  one of you  can do. Their  Hap-
piness  and  Freedom  is complete. Therefore,  when  they  call
for something,  it immediately  appears. 328 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
When  you  understand  you  are the  Authority  in your
world,  and  as long  as you  hold  your  Life  Stream  free  from
feeding  into  limiting  appearances,  places  or conditions—
you will  have  the Full  Glory  of Life. It will  pour  like  a
Great  River  into  your  activity,  to spread  Its Great—Its
Mighty  Blessing  to you. TRY  TO  FEEL  WITH  ME  NOW  IN YOUR  AT-
TENTION  TO YOUR  GREAT  PRESENCE,  this  Mighty
Stream  of Light  and  Energy  which  is beating  your  Heart,
animating  your  body. That  is the Power  of the Universe! IT WOULD  ASSERT  ITS  FULL  POWER,  IF YOU
DID  NOT  INTERFERE  WITH  IT BY  DISCORD  IN
YOUR  FEELING. Life  would  take  charge  quickly  and
naturally! You  would  not have  to urge  It! Since  you  have
created  about  yourself,  these  limitations  of discord  and  all
in your  feeling  world;  the discord  must  be cleared  away. It must  in order  to allow  Life  once  again  to take  Its natural
flow;  and  hold  Its dominion  thru  your  bodies  to produce
Perfection. IN  YOUR  WORLD  OF  ACTION,  LIFE
WILL  DO  IT! LIFE  NEVER  CRITICIZES  NOR  CONDEMNS
YOU  FOR  YOUR  MISTAKES! IT  JUST  WAITS! WE CALL  YOUR  ATTENTION  TO  CERTAIN
THINGS;  BUT  WE  NEVER  CRITICIZE  OR  CON-
DEMN  ANY  ONE. THERE  IS NO  ONE  IN  THE
UNIVERSE  TO  JUDGE  YOU,  BUT  WHOM? YOUR
HIGHER  MENTAL  BODY. IT KNOWS  THE  PER-
FECTION  OF  THE  PRESENCE  AND  YOUR  IM-DISCOURSE  XXII  329
PERFECTION. THEREFORE,  IT  IS THE  JUDGE
OF YOU  AND  YOUR  LIFE! YET,  IT NEVER  DOES
FOR  A SINGLE  INSTANT,  CRITICIZE  OR  CON-
DEMN  YOU. This  is why,  Beloved  Ones,  in all the Activity  of Life  in
Its Perfection,  there  is not  one  destructive  thing. Then,
what  has produced  destruction  in your  world ? Mankind's
qualification  of the Wondrous  Energy  of Life. Energy  flows
constantly! Do you  have  to call for action  of energy  in the
use of Life  ordinarily  speaking ? You  do not consider  it, do
you? You  go to sleep  at night. If you  are feeling  comfort-
able,  you  do not question  whether  you  are going  to wake
up in the morning  or not,  do you ? Now  suppose  you  get
scared  on going  to sleep,  that  you  would  not wake  up. If
you were  scared  enough,  you  probably  would  not wake  up. You do not  feel  afraid  to go to sleep! You  trust  Life  in
some  ways  magnificently,  don't  you;  but  in other  ways,
you don't  trust  It at all. Notice! Is it not strange  how  Individuals  are constantly
in conflict  with  themselves? They  trust  Life  so magnifi-
cently  to take  care  of the body,  until  they  have  done  some-
thing  which  produces  inharmony  there. Then  they  say:
"What  in the world  is the matter  here" ? Not  stopping  for
one moment  to see, they  were  the only  cause  for it. It could
not be in their  worlds  and  could  not act in the body  nor in
their  worlds,  unless  they  were  its creator. Is it not  very  wonderful,  Beloved  Ones? Thank  you,
tonight,  for your  comprehension. Thank  you. Oh,  be clear 3o4  THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
and definite  in your  comprehension  of these  Simple  Great
Majestic  Laws. I am preparing  you  tonight,  for the Great
Blessings  which  shall  be yours,  and  I want  you  to feel
Them. I want  you  to see, how  you  alone  are responsible  in
your  world. When  you  see this,  then  I can help  you,  as you
could  not even  imagine;  to clear  your  world  of all limiting
discordant  conditions;  so, when  you  call  Life  into  action,
you will  have  Instantaneous  Mighty  Results. That  is what
every  one should  have. There  is not one  of you  who  should
not be able  to make  the Call  now  and  inside  of three  hours
have  the answer. Many  of you are coming  to this point  now. Until  it arrives,  be firm  and  determined  in your  applica-
tion;  for that  is the way  you  dissolve,  consume  and  break
down  all of these  conditions,  which  have  disturbed  and
limited  you. You  cannot  do it without  your  application. Don't  think  for one  moment,  Life  is going  to do these
things  for you,  without  your  application! THE  GREAT-
EST  NEED  IN THE  WORLD  TODAY,  IS THE  AP-
PLICATION  OF  LIFE. Individuals  have  had  it before  them  in every  conceivable
activity,  in the  attempt  to explain  Life! Think  of it, in
the old methods,  everything  was  made  so mysterious! More
and more  subtle  and  cunning  has  become  the remainder
of human  destructive  creation,  which  We  call  the sinister
force! Orders  are  being  established—several  of them  in
America  and  the world,  where  they  say to you,  when  you
enter  the doors:  "You  must  take  an oath  never  to mention
one thing  which  goes  on in here." When  somebody  says DISCOURSE  XXII  331
that,  you  had  better  turn  and  go the other  direction. They
are concentrating  on America  just  now. Remember! be-
cause  you will  be approached. Many  of the "I AM"  Students
have  already  been. A thing  which  asks  this  of you  is no
good! Don't  believe  it for a second. I am prompting  you,  because  I see it. Some  of the students
who  took  that  oath  and  attended  once,  not a thing  in the
world  could  ever  get them  to return  to another  meeting. Dear  Ones,  if you  care  to follow  Us, We will  from  time  to
time,  prompt  you  to keep  yourselves  Free  from  the clutches
of such  things. We have  urged  the people  to keep  away  from  all things
psychic,  spiritualistic,  astrology,  numerology  and  all those
things  which  breed  and  breathe  limitations  into  your
world! If you  do not care  to listen  to Us and  then  you  ex-
perience  unhappiness,  remember  We tried  to help  you! We
don't  say what  you  shall  do! If you  insist  on going  on with
the things  which  limit  and  distress  you,  well  Who  are We
to say you  should  not! You  are Beings  of Free  Will. We
want  to help  you,  but We cannot  do it, if you  do not want
Us to. We certainly  would  not intrude  into  your  world


 as they jump across a fence in your mind’ s eye. There is
an early reference to this technique in the context of an anxiou s landowner
in an 1832 book Illustrations of Political Economy  by Harriet Martineau.32
The idea of counting sheep may be somewhat of an old wives’ tale, but
interestingly, scientists have demonstrated that it works. A team at Oxford
University explored the use of an imagery task in reducin g presleepcognitive activity and found that “imagery distraction” took up sufficient
brain power to prevent unwanted thoughts and worries. Researchers
examined 41 people with insomnia who were given either an imagery
distraction task, a general distraction task, or no instruction. The imagery
group were told to imagine a situation they found interesting, engaging,
pleasant, and relaxing.33 They were asked to spend two minutes picturing
this scene in as much detail as possible. It was found that this task helped
people fall asleep more quickly. If counting sheep works for you, great, but if you struggle with visual
imagery, cognitive tasks such as complex mental arithmetic problems also
improve sleep latency by preventing the brain from engaging with negative,
unwelcome thoughts.34 If neither of these methods work, it is also helpful to
bring your atten tion away from your mind and into your body. Unless the
mind is calm, sleep will continue to elude you. Try bringing your attention
to a small part of your body, such as your hand or foot, and hold your
attention there. If you find that easy, practice expanding your focus to
include a larger area of the body, say, perhaps, your feet and legs. Some
people find a body scan meditation helpful. When you bring your attention
into your body, it helps to bring space between your thoughts, quiet the
monkey mind, and allow you to fall asleep. Another way to calm the mind  is to focus on and gently slow your
breathing. It is normal for the mind to wander. When it does, quietly bring
your attention to your breath. This becomes easier with practice. As you go
about your day, make it a habit to bring attention to your breathi ng for short
periods. It is more important to do this regularly throughout the day, than it
is to be able to sustain the attention for a long time. SNORING AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
Snoring occurs when a large volume of air passes through a narrow space,
causing turbulence in the nose, mouth, or back of the throat. There are two
reasons this might happen: either the snorer is breathing too hard during
sleep, or the upper airway—the nose, mouth, and throat—is too narrow. Traditional snoring treatments, such as nasal dilators or surgical
procedures, are generally desig ned to increase space in the upper airway.These focus solely on the airway, ignoring the role of breathing. It is
common for children and adults  with asthma, anxiety, and faster breathing
habits to snore. Fast, hard breathing during the day translates into fast, hard
breathing during sleep. This is what creates the turbulence. To get clear about the link betw een breathing and snoring, it is helpful
to deliberately make the sound of a snore through your mouth. Open your
mouth, tighten your throat, and draw air fast into your mouth. You will feel
the turbulence at the back of your mouth where it meets your throat. Now,
close your mouth. Try to snore  through your mouth when your mouth is
closed. It might sound obviou s, but this will prove to you that mouth
snoring stops completely when you breathe only through your nose. Next, make the sound of a snore through your nose. Nose snoring is also
created by fast breathing throug h a narrow space. At this point, it is worth
slowing down the speed of your breathing. Take a soft breath in through
your nose and allow a slow, relaxed breath out. As you continue to breathe
slowly through your nose, try to make the sound of a snore. You will find
that when you breathe slowly through your nose, you are much less likely
to snore. Snorin g is not solely due to narrow or collapsed airways. Fast,
hard breathing also contributes. To reduce nasal snoring, breathe only through your nose during  the day,
and practice Breathe Light  to improve your BOL T score to at least 20
seconds. For many people, this is enough to stop nasal snoring. If you have
a compromised nasal airway or small nose, your snoring may continue at a
lower intensity. If you wake up with a dry mouth in the morning, indicating that you
have been breathing through an open mouth, a support such as MyoT ape
can be very ef fective for maintaining lip closure during sleep. Snoring can also lead to sleep apnea, a more severe symptom of SBD,
where the sleeper involuntarily stops breathing during sleep. Obstructive
sleep apnea  (OSA) is becoming increasingl y widespread. Statistics suggest
that the conditio n affects up to 9% of women and 26% of men between 30
and 49 years old, and up to 27% of women and 43% of men aged between
50 and 7035. OSA is charac terized by breathing that stops during sleep. People with OSA tend to snore very loudly, and they experience frequent
episodes of shallow breathing (hypopnea ) and pauses in breathing (apnea )lasting 10 seconds or more.36 Aside from the apneas themselves, symptoms
that indicate OSA may include:
• Daytime tiredness
• Limited ability to concentrate
• Sudden awakening, sometimes with a racing heart or feeling of breathlessness
• Dry mouth on waking
• Night sweats and a frequent need to urinate
• Waking with a headache
• Impotence and erectile dysfunction in men36,37
When we inhale, air is drawn into the lungs, producing negative  suction
pressure in the upper airways. During the day, our upper airways are held
open by various dilator muscles, but when we sleep those muscles become
“lazy” and the airway is more vulnerable to collapse.38 Collapse occurs
when negative suction pressure exceeds the ability of the upper airway
dilator muscles to maintain an open airway. There are four possible places
where the airway may collapse during sleep:
• The soft palate can fall against the back of the throat
• The tongue can fall back into the airway
• The walls of the throat can collapse
• The epiglottis may close the airway39
To really visualize how breathin g stops during sleep, I find it helpful to
use the analogy of a paper straw. If you place one end of a straw into your
mouth and suck air forcefully  through it, the walls of the straw will
collapse. If you then continue trying to inhale through the straw once it has
collapsed, it will be impossible to do so. However, when you suck air into
the straw  more gently, the straw will maintain its shape and air will pass
through it. As soon as you increase the speed of airflow, the straw becomes
unable to withstand the increase in negative suction pressure. In essence, that is what happens during OSA. As the inhalation begins,
the nega tive suction pressure created by the effort to pull air into the lungs
causes the walls  of the upper airways to collapse. As the interruption in
breathing continues, the body no longer gets enough oxygen.36 The
respiratory center in the brain sends increasingly urgent messages to the
diaphragm, prom pting it to resume breathing. As the diaphragm contracts todraw air into the lungs, this further increase in negative pressure reinforces
the inability to breathe. Event ually, the oxygen saturation of the blood
becomes low enough to partially wake the brain, and the sleeper starts
breathing again with a loud gasp, followed by a series of heavy and intense
breaths. This can trigger another collapse of the airways, and so the cycle is
repeated throughout the night, often preventing the sufferer  from ever
entering deep sleep.36
Most people with OSA go undia gnosed and untreated.40–42 This may be
partly due to a lack of confidence in existing treatment options, but, in some
cases, patients avoid diagnos is out of concern for their lifestyle or
livelihood. I recently took a ride with a cab driver in California. During our
conversation, he told me that he suffers from OSA. He had visited the
hospital to under go a sleep study, but, when he arrived, it was made clear to
him that the licensing authoritie s would be notified if he tested positive. He
was essentially told that a diagnosis necessary for his overall well-being
might lose him his driver ’s license and therefore his job. Upon hearing this,
he naturally turned around and walked straight back out the door. Bearing in mind the percentage of road traffic accidents that are related
to driver  fatigue, sleep studies should not be a deterrent to drivers getting
help. The results of a 2020 study suggested that more than a quarter of
drivers hospitalized after motor vehicle crashes were at high risk for OSA.43
Researchers concluded that diagnosed or undiagnosed OSA is an
established hazard for drivers and represents a significant public health
concern. This is relevant to other professions too. There have, for example,
been numerous accounts of


see cover)
Gland: Adrenal
Element: Earth
Body: The physical body
Note: C
Solfeggio Frequency: 396 Hz
Sense: Smell
Yoga Posture: Mountain posture
Essential Oils: Patchouli, cypress, myrrh, vetiver
Crystals: Garnet, Obsidian, Ruby, Red Jasper, Haematite, Smoky Quartz
Rules: Bowels, anus, legs and feet, coccyx, lower back, perineum, colon,
urethra tubes and bladder, the hips, the male sex or gansPhysical Problems related to this chakra include: Infections of the urinary
system, poor teeth and/or bones, stif f or painful lower back, sciatica, hip
issues, problems in the lower digestive tract, piles and inflammatory bowel
disease, skin problems, lack of ener gy. Key Words: Survival, stability, acceptance, self-preservation, being
grounded, fear and safety
What Are Its Functions? First and foremost this chakra is about survival. This ur ge to survive here on
planet earth is primal and instinctual. If you fail to survive you die, so the
raw drive of this chakra is extremely powerful. This chakra is linked to the
adrenal glands and the fight or flight instinct. It is also about your connection to the earth. If your base chakra is
functioning well then you are fully in the physical body and other people
describe you as being well grounded. You feel safe, stable and secure within
yourself and you are able to manifest and create things in the world. Your
life is meaningful and brings you inner contentment and you feel safe and
comfortable in your home and neighbourhood. You respect the needs of your physical body so you don’ t live on junk food. You exercise and stretch your body without becoming a fitness fanatic. Your
home has a sense of or ganisation rather than disor ganisation and you
normally manage to keep on top of your paperwork. You manage money
well so you won’ t be in debt. You have a good level of ener gy and you are
able to cope with the challenges of life. When this chakra is well balanced you feel strong and stable but not rigid. You will be flexible enough to respond to change. Because of your innate
trust that the universe will provide for your needs, you are not a worrier. You are quietly confident that whatever happens, everything always turns
out okay in the end. An Imbalanced First ChakraImbalance in this chakra is often found in the person who was not cared for
in a consistent manner during their early life. You may have been passed
from one carer to another, never being able to bond fully with any of them. Your parents may have handled you with anger and carelessness. During the
very early years of life we are very dependent on our carers and our ability
to commu- nicate our needs and get them met. So, if your cries were not
answered, you were not cuddled and shown af fectionate touch, and your
basic needs were not met then it is quite likely that your first chakra will be
out of balance. Imbalance can happen later in life too. A bad fall that injures the lower part
of the spine (in particular damage to the coccyx), a dif ficult labour
(particularly if the perineum is cut or torn during childbirth) or a serious
disruption to our established way of life are examples of ways in which this
chakra can be imbal- anced. Some people think that the lower chakras are less important than the upper
chakras but this is not so. What use is a tree if it has no roots? It would soon
blow down in the wind. In the same way, if you do not have a strong,
balanced base chakra then you cannot function well in the physical world. If your base is out of balance you are either going to be too grounded
(stuck!) or not fully in the physical body therefore not experiencing life
fully. If your chakra is mildly imbalanced and you have too little emphasis on this
chakra (i.e. your roots are flimsy), you have trouble dealing with the
necessities of everyday life such as getting your tax return in on time or
keeping on top of the housework and gardening. You will be prone to
financial dif fi- culties too. You may sometimes have the feeling that you are
not in your body, almost as if you are an observer of your own life. You feel
out of control and find life a struggle because you lack stability and
discipline. You feel insecure, anxious and fearful and find it dif ficult to cope
with the normal demands of everyday life. There will be a sense of chaos
and disor ganisation rather than order in your life. Your health can suf fer due
to a poor diet and you are likely to overeat, resulting in sluggishness,
obesity and fatigue. Your standards of personal hygiene may be low and
there will be a lack of physical flexibility in the body.On the other hand, if you have too much emphasis on this chakra you can
turn into the classic workaholic, putting too much focus on the practical,
money-orientated side of life. Others will find you self-centred, controlling
and domineering. Sex for you will be about personal gratification rather
than it being an exchange of ener gies involving feelings of love. If this
chakra is too strong you will be like the tree that cannot bend in the wind:
you become rigid, stuck, immovable and stubborn and have a marked
tendency to snap/lose it under stress. An addiction to security and a fear of
change will prevent your life from flowing. You are likely to be a hoarder
and will have dif ficulty in giving to others and sharing. The lack of giving
comes from a deep-rooted belief that there is not enough in the world to go
around. Holding on to possessions and people comes from an inner sense of
insecurity. Major  Imbalance
A more seriously imbalanced first chakra produces the bully who rides
roughshod over people to the extent of actually physically abusing them. Extreme cases manifest as sexual sadism. A major imbalance can also show itself as a serious eating disorder such as
anorexia nervosa or obesity. Eating is linked to the survival instinct. When
we eat too much we trying to ground ourselves. When we eat too little we
are avoiding being grounded. I would suggest that if you have a major imbalance you start your healing
journey by seeking counselling or therapy. Emma’ s Story
Emma had been in a relationship for a year when she decided to move in
with her partner. They found a lovely flat to rent and began to create a
home. They bought new furniture and were looking forward to the future
when they hoped to be able to buy their own place and start a family. A few
months later her boyfriend suddenly and unexpectedly told Emma that the
relationship was over and he walked out.Emma was devastated. What’ s more, she could not af ford all the bills on her
own. After a few weeks she fell into arrears with the rent and was
eventually evicted by the landlord. She had to arrange for all her belongings
to be put into storage and she ended up sleeping on a friend’ s sofa, living
out a suitcase. Not long afterwards she began to suf fer from back pain. She had never
suffered from back pain before. She collapsed in the supermarket and was
taken to hospital where she was diagnosed with a serious urine infection
that had spread to her kidneys. Emma’ s Healing
In Emma’ s case her first chakra had been put out of balance by the sudden
actions of her boyfriend. Losing her home left her feeling rootless and
ungrounded. She had literally been uprooted. The first part of Emma’ s healing involved finding a place to live. She
needed a base to ground her. She couldn’ t afford her own place so she had
to rent a room in a shared house. This meant she could take her stuf f out of
storage, sell what she no longer needed and put her remaining belongings in
her room. From this base she now had an address which meant she could
apply for jobs. One of her flatmates had a dog so Emma made a point of
walking him in the park, getting in touch with nature by doing so. In the meantime, she made time each day to incorporate other suggested
activities under the How Can I Balance My First Chakra? list into her
everyday life. She also began to see a counsellor to work through some
childhood issues. She learned that she had attracted a boyfriend who
rejected her as this is how her father had behaved towards her. Now Emma has a new well-paid job that she loves and she is saving up to
put a deposit on her own place. She holds no resentment to her former
partner as she accepts that although she was angry with him for walking out
on her, by doing so he had actually triggered her healing journey. Alan’ s StoryAlan was a successful sculptor. He had a healthy bank balance and several
valuable properties. However, he was not a popular man. He had been
married three times and all his wives left him stating the same thing: that he
was mean and he was a control freak. His home was a mess. It was crammed with possessions as he never got rid
of anything. He had two children but despite his wealth he hardly ever
helped them out financially. He


 are used to. But it’s going on everywhere. It’s the
real liberation, and there aren’t a lot of excuses in today’s world for
not joining in the work that will ultimately free us all. There’s not much mystery here. Sickness is not that interesting. When you were a little girl, Daddy told you in various ways that you
weren’t really all that great, so that any man who gives you the
same message years later feels to you like the one you belong with. He’s familiar in that he’s remote and slightly disapproving. And the
more we look,  the more we realize that it wasn’t just Daddy who
went weird on us around the time we reached puberty. The whole
world did. Our burgeoning sexuality didn’t just freak out Daddy,
who was attracted and repelled at the same time. It freaked out
Mommy too, who was jealous, and our teachers, who had similar
projections. It freaked out the entire society in which we grew up,
because sex is still thought of as evil here. As we grew more and
more into our womanhood, we were perceived as being  more and
more dangerous. None of this was conscious on anyone’s part. Very
little is conscious in this society or anywhere. The whole human
race is still basically in a fog, but that’s why we’re here, and it’sdenitely why we’re looking into this painful stu that’s been ruling
us subconsciously for ages. Women are very confused about power, and actually, so are men. Feminine powe r isn’t something we go out and acquire; it’s already
within us. It’s something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have. Until we do, our positive power lies unexpressed. It’s there, but
it’s not working. We’re wired  for something we don’t know how to
access. Having  been taught that the power of strong women is in
various ways suspect, many of us nd it hard to fully embrace our
power. We’re afraid. But the Goddess is ready to correct our
thinking. Her key, the access  point, the miracle, is love. We are here
only to love, and love casts out fear. When we understand that love
is the reason for our power— that it is our power—we lose our fear
of owning its strength. We become willing to experience the power
within us, that it might be used as a channel through which love is
expressed to all humankind. And so, powerful women fall prey to the East Coast lady-killer not
because he’s consciously seeking to murder the Queen but because
they are. Not having embraced her themselves, they nd no one else
to embrace her either. They are stuck in princess mode, crying and
tearing their hair out, shoutin g “You can’t treat me this way” when,
quite obviously, he sure can. Until we own our own power, we will
constantly seek it in others, particularly in men, and power sought
that way never saves us; it destroys us. Many women complain that they keep attracting the “wrong
relationship. ” What they mean by that, of course, is that they are
attracted to the wrong relationship. They are stuck in a place that is
dangerous but seductive. They want desperately to get out of the
pattern but often not quite desperately enough. They lack the self-
esteem to save their own lives. We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way
we still want to keep. There are payos for holding on to small,
weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don’t have to
take responsibility for the world when we’re spending all our timein emot ional pain. We’re too busy. The truth that sets us free is an
embrace of the divine within  us. It means remembering we are the
daughters of God, and daughters of God don’t brake for jerks. When a woman falls in love with the magnicent possibilities
within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold
less and less sway over her. A relationship that keeps us tied to the
push and pull of co-dependent neuroses is a block to our shining. When we are very clear that we want to shine—and  if we want to
know the Goddess, we want to shine—then we attract into our lives
the kinds of relationships that help us do that. Until a woman has
given herself permission to be fabulous, she will not nd herself
with partners who promote her ability to be so. As long as she tears
herself down, she will attract others who tear her down; she will
nd people who agree that she is undeserving and lacking as long as
that is how she thinks of herself. So we’re left with a commitment to being a certain kind of woman
before worrying about nding a certain kind of man. Once we make
such a commit ment, good guys will appear. Until we do, let’s just
say they’re waiting in the lobby. Embrace the Goddess and her divine perception of you. Ask her to
reveal to you the you she has in mind. Ask her to send you the
relationships and circumstances that will foster that strength within
you, that the world might be blessed by the presence of a woman in
all her glory. Ask and you’ll receive. Don’t ask, and you’ll continue
to receive the relationships that destroy you. Until we embrace the
light, we remain vulnerable to darkness. The choice is easy once we
see it for what it is. In relationships, as in everything else, we ask for
heaven, or we ask for hell. Several years ago, my boyfr iend left me for a bimbo. Actually, he
didn’t leave me, and according to quite a few people she’s not a
bimbo. But my emotional experience, as arrogant and unenlightened
as it was, was that I had been rejected for someone half my size. It’s not uncommon for an intelligent man to gravitate toward a
woman who can’t quite put a sentence together. But why does it
happen. I wanted to nd out because the pain I felt was searing. Iknew in my heart that I had blown something big-ti me, and I
wanted to correct myself. I would have done anything and gone
anywhere to learn what I needed to before I went out again. Some
of the cleares t thinking we do about relationships occurs while
we’re not in one. We’re humbler, more in touch with our pain, more
teachable. Our intelligence is always sharper when informed by our
own feelings. At another point in my life, I lived a scene like the one at the end
of the movie Gone With the Wind, where Scarlett asks Rhett what’s to
become of her if he leaves her. In my case, the man did give a
damn, but he still had to leave. I then had to prove to myself, and to
whomever else I thought might care, that I could make it without
him. Imagine another scene, the one in which Scarlett says, “I will
never go hungry again. ” My pledge, uttered with the same strength
and anguish, was “I will never need a man again. ”
That was a awed decision. I couldn’t have him, so I became him. I wanted him within me so
badly I invoked his energy from within myself. I conquered outer
worlds, just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power,
just as he had. But it didn’t bring me closer to him or to others like
him because I had become one of the guys, and that’s not what most
men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy. I don’t know when my mourning set in, but I know it climaxed
when I lost out to the woman I thought was a bimbo. What I
realized was that she was in some ways the old me—not the me I
wanted to become but the me I had been and then left behind. She
wasn’t stupid; I just wanted to think she was. And that’s why I had
to hate her. I couldn’t bear to take on all the hatred I felt toward
myself for becoming so masculine and tough. I started to understand what had gone wrong, includ ing the
realization that I was far from alone in my predicament. And it
wasn’t enough just to understand. I had to retrain myself,  which I’m
still doing. I don’t want to lose the masculine power I’ve developed,
the worldly eectiveness, the power to act on things I care about. It’s part of me and an important aspect of who we all are. It wascertainly a necessary social development for women to actualize
their masculine power in the world. But I needed to put things in their proper perspective. In intimate
relationships with men, I want to major in feminine and minor in
masculine. At a lecture podiu m, I’m the masculine, active energy to
the audience’s feminine receptiveness. After work, if I’m with a man
I am close to, I want to experience myself as a woman. And I no
longer kid myself that it would work for him, or for me, to play it
any dierently. That doesn’t mean we don’t trade roles at times. It
means the dominant groove is that he’s masculine and


 this mind is infinite and eternal and is the sustaining source of each of
us, is in its truest essence all of each of us, just as each of us in truest
essence is all of it. Now if each of us exists in a sea of consciousness, and
the consciousness in us is in everything else and in all other people, it then
becomes possible to understand what we are dealing with when we deal
with extrasensory perception. It has been stated that human intelligence is like an iceber g, one-third of it
appearing upon the surface, two-thirds existing below, but parapsychology
reveals the relationship between conscious and subconscious intelligence to
be one part to a million. Moreover, universal subconscious mind exhibits no
necessity for being educated during the lifetime of the individual. It
provides eternal and infinite guidance because it has existed since the
beginning of time; all knowledge is contained within it, and that very small
“taught” intelligence acquired by conscious mind is the tiniest light
compared to the illumination known when the individual life has been
turned over to the guidance of the Secret Self. A thousand times more
awareness is obtainable by the person through enlightened use of universal
mind than through ef forts in the world of material things. Once the Secret
Self has been fully exposed to humankind, education, which today takes
sixteen years of a person’ s life, will be accomplished in weeks, even days. When the powerful and penetrating aspects of universal mind become
common enough knowledge to be taught at our schools, such buildings and
bridges as now are constructed in six months will rise overnight. There is no such thing as a particle of matter that is not possessed of
conscious intelligence, however low, however restricted by the form in
which it finds itself. All things exist by grace of the Secret Self, which is
innate in each, has become each as part of an overall plan. And the ur ge to
self-knowledge that exists within the heart of each creature is that impulsion
to find in partiality that same sense of self-awareness and expressive joy
that it knew in its complete and whole state. T o develop the use of the sixthsense is to learn to use universal mind, to cease living in the separate
egoistic nature, and to turn over the whole life to a wider and more
encompassing awareness than is possible to the surface self. Steps to Spiritual A wakening

The consistent use of the sixth sense depends upon spiritual awakening,
depends upon our recognizing the spiritual bond that unites us with all
others, with all things. Dethroning the ego, removing the focus of our
consciousness from the surface self, we thereby attain to a state of widened
awareness that emanates directly from our identification with the one mind
and one life that is the true inhabitant in all bodies. When we reach this
state of illumination, a new world opens up for our exploration. Physical
effects take on secondary significance. W e see that things originate on an
invisible plane, that all causes are mental and proceed out of ideas, out of
visualizations. W e begin to see that material things are not really solid facts
at all, but only partially revealed manifestations of conceptions held in
mind. Now we are able to perceive the secret of acting mentally, of altering
things by altering the idea that exists within them. W e begin to see that this
altering is possible through complete identification of ourselves with the
thing, that once this widened consciousness is achieved, we can change the
thing merely by changing our idea of it, because the same mind is in us as is
in the thing. Nothing is impossible to those of us whose consciousness
breaks out of the bonds of the ego. Once we shake of f surface self, there is
revealed to us a world that is bounded only by eternity and infinity. We can
become anything we desire, can accomplish anything we wish, for in a very
real sense all events and things have their existence in us. T o achieve this
state of spiritual awakening is the goal; to arrive at this state of joy and bliss
and complete ef fectuality is beyond doubt the most worthwhile and
rewarding culmination of life. Steps by which spiritual enlightenment is achieved are the steps by which
the sixth sense is brought under dominion, and they are four. These stepsinfallibly produce spiritual enlightenment, and to those who put them into
practice are brought not only the sixth sense but an expanded consciousness
that allows them to live their lives joyfully and ef fectively. The four steps
are: (1) consecration, (2) surrender, (3) sacrifice, (4) love. Consecration
means the focusing of the total mental and spiritual ef forts of the individual
on discovery of the Secret Self. Surrender means a wholehearted giving
over of all action and goals to the Divine. Sacrifice means continual and
deliberate subjugation of ego to the will and purposes of the Secret Self. Love means yearning for unity, longing to return to a state of wholeness and
oneness. These four sacramental steps, if performed unceasingly, are bound
to develop that wider consciousness in which the sixth sense becomes an
integral part of the life. The first step taken, all others will follow. With the
mind and being dedicated to a search for wider consciousness, the life
inevitably will be transformed, a sense of intimacy will come into the
consciousness, and the person will find resource by which they are able to
give over their goals and aspirations to the Divine. We Are Made of Magic

Once this psychological divestment of the ego has taken place, illumination
is near. Now it becomes second nature to practice the sacrifice by which the
ego is kept in subjugation. Little egoistic desires are daily given up in favor
of that one encompassing search for unity that is now the total consecration
of the individual. The ego does not cease to exist, far from it; in some areas
it appears as vigorous as before, but now it recognizes that it is only a tool,
not originator, not captain or master; and it performs its tasks, goes about its
work under the impulsion of and following the guidance of a will and a
power totally beyond and inexpressibly more powerful than itself. There
comes to us an experience of the unity from which we have sprung, an
experiential return to a source of absolute bliss and joy and power. We enter
the Secret Self; the Secret Self enters us. This mutual penetration, this
merging, is the union known as love, and when this takes place in our
consciousness, our emer gence as an enlightened and ef fective personbegins. Now we realize that we are not merely bone and blood and flesh or
even brain but are constructed of invisible essences that can only be called
magic. The philosopher and linguist Jean Gebser wrote:

Telepathy, trance, precognition, telekinesis, levitations, dual personality,
and many other paranormal phenomena are rooted in the magic structure of
man. So-called paranormal phenomena are not at all paranormal but
fundamentally natural. W ithout certain telepathic powers, without traces of
the magic structure, without a minimum of inner prevision (or the power of
precognition), without sleep and light “intuitioning,” not one of us could
live another day. And all of these powers arise in the main from the magic
structure of our consciousness. The ef fective use of the sixth sense is attained by those who come to the
realization of the essential magic of human consciousness. They do not give
their allegiance to the world of material things, but to a world of ideas and
concepts and thoughts, which, they perceive, preexists and preordains the
material world. Perceptions of the sixth sense are never as concrete as those of the five
physical senses. The reason for this is obvious. Our physical senses are used
through all our waking hours; our sixth sense seldom, if at all. The sixth
sense works in us as feeling, not feeling sustained by emotion, but inner
certainty as to a course of action, as to the development of coming events. Reason is not renounced altogether, nor logic, nor knowledge, but all these
are subordinated to intuition, and they are used only to bring into
consciousness all aspects of a problem that needs to be solved. Intuition
develops the solution, which emer ges in the consciousness of the individual
as a deep certainty that may have either visual or auditory manifestations,
perhaps both. Someone might list all elements of a problem confronting
them. They might wrestle with the problem in terms of reason and logic, but
they will draw no conclusion immediately. They will turn over the problemto their subconscious for a period of resolution, confident that the correct
solution will be delivered to them. Frontiers of the Mind

When enlightened, we do not shut out one part of our nature in order to use
another but use all we are all the time in all places in each thing we do. Reason and logic and intuition become a unified tool for our coping with
life; the sixth sense mer ges with the five material senses so as to convey to
our consciousness a constant impression of both the inner world and the
outer. Because we exist on all possible levels of consciousness, we are able
to perceive things and events in their true nature and thereby to guide our
own actions accordingly. We do not oppose events because we see their
inevitable direction, and we take up our tasks within the moving stream of
history as if


merely the consequences of what has already happened. Success is what
happens “out there” as a consequence of what already has happened “in
here.” We already have one of the greatest secrets: The source of fame and
success is “in her e” and not “out ther e!”
We see why all the futile scram bling after success is guaranteed to fail. Such individuals are searching in the wrong place. They’re looking “out
there” when it’s not “out there” in the first place. When they look around
they see the symbols of success that others have out there— the stretchlimos, the fancy addresses, the extravagant clothes, the right clubs—and
conclude that those are the things to strive for. Yet the inner secret of
success is delight. We start the snowball rolling, and then we sit back and
watch it increase in size as it gains its own momentum. At this point I want everyone to stop trying to become a succes s. I want
you to throw away all the “how to become a success” books. I want you to
become a friendly person. It’s outrageous that we can make more money in
this world by just being friendly than we can ever make striving for success. That’ s the only thing I’m asking from you at this point: Be friendly and
have an open mind. Having an open mind is part of being friendly, isn’t it? Part of being friendly is giving the other person a chance to be heard. If
you’re willing to do that, you don’ t have a problem. When I was a kid I would go to camp every year, and every year I would
be a pollywog. I was scared to swim; I didn’ t know how. Despite all of the
swimming lesso ns, I stayed a pollywog. One day I was visiting some
friends at the lake in Wisconsin,  and we were out on their little sailboat. We
started some horseplay, as kids do, and the next thing I knew, the three of
them picked me up and threw me overboard. For a few seconds I flailed
around frantically, and then the magic moment arrived. All of a sudden, I
lay on my back, kicked my feet, and started doing the reverse breaststroke. My God, there was nothing to it! All I had to do was float and paddle along
easily. It was effortless. It was joyous. I went from pollywog to dolphin. I
could do every swimming stroke: I found myself automatically doing the
breaststroke, then I went into the Australian crawl, and then I went into the
back crawl. After that I becam e an expert swimmer. Real success is like
being a cork in the water, which rises of its own buoyancy and not by
frantic ef fort. The purpose of this book is for you to “get” the inner convi ction and
certainty that you can make money and become successful and famous if
you wish. Fame and fortune, once we have the formula, are just a matter of
getting around to it, and that’s the way it’s going to be for you. All of the
expensive weekend business conferences and consciousness trips and how-
to conve ntions that you’ve attended have contributed to your knowledge.Having facts and know-how, however, does not guarantee success. There
are other factors involved. It is these other secret factors that we are going to explore in this book. OceanofPDF.comGETTING THE BANANAS
In a well-known  experiment, a monkey was put in a cage and bananas
were placed outside the cage on the opposite side from the door, just
beyond his reach. Once the monkey spotted the bananas, the door was
opened. What happened was that the monkey stretched his arm between the
bars. He struggled and practical ly dislocated his shoulder, frantically trying
to grasp  that which was just beyond his reach. He could struggle there for
hours, weeks, or months, and it was always going to be just beyond his
reach. To get the bananas, he had to turn his back on them and walk through
the open door. We know that the minute he got that “aha” and saw the open door,
success was automatic. It’s only the manifestation of what had already
happened. The minute the monkey saw the open door, in effect he already
had the bananas. He could have and eat as many bananas as he could hold. Fame and success are exactly like that—they happen the instant we see
something. Success is the automatic expression of what has already
happened. Wha t the world considers fame and success are merely the
symbols and the outer representations of what has already “happened.”
The difficulty is that the world  confuses “out there” with “in here.” It
thinks the money, the success,  the stretch limos, and all that goes with
success are the causes instead of the effects. So people, like monkeys, strive
to reach  the bananas. If we look around us, we’ll see million s struggling
year in and year out to reach the bananas, and we have an inkling as to why. Fame and success, like happin ess, cannot be sought directly. Happiness
cannot be achiev ed by struggle; it is the automatic consequence  of an innersense of delight, joy, and satisfa ction. Happiness automatically comes from
being a certain kind of a person  and being a certain way in the world and
about life. A truly happy person  is happy no matter what. I’ve been happy
rich, and I’ve been happy poor. I’ve been happy single, and I’ve been happy
married. I’ve been happy as a student, and I’ve been happy as a teacher. The source of joy is in every moment; it is totally independen t of “out
there.” Fame and success are exactly like that. They cannot help but
happen. Once we start a snowb all rolling, it automatically goes downhill. We don’t have to do another thing about it. The precision and the balance
are effortless. Power is effortless; it is grace, poise, ease, confidence,
certainty. What the world relies on mistakenly is force. The greatest baseball hitters of all time were not known for having huge
muscles. In fact, there are millions of men with bigger biceps and shoulders
than the star players of all time. If force could do it, everyone would be
successful. If we look around the marketplace, we’ll see that everyone is
forcing themselves to the max. Power is something else. The momentum of
the bat hits the momentum of the ball with such precision that it is the
impact  that propels the winning ball. Let’s look at one of the great principles with which we are going  to work:
the differ ence between for ce and power. To know the dif ference is crucial. In World War II, the Germans assembled the greatest military force of its
time. Adolf Hitler, who relied on force, ended up insane, suicidal, disgraced,
dead, anathema to the human race, and brought defeat to the whole country. Force may create the illusion of success for a period of time—but, as in the
case of every celebrity who kills themselves, apparently the symbols of
success are not what success really is. What is the source of power? Power is something that we own within
ourselves. When  Winston Churchill catalyzed the will of the British people,
he mani fested power. Conseque ntly, Hitler ’s forces ran into power; when
force meets power, it always loses. Let’s take another example where the principle is even more clearly
delineated. That was in the meeting of the power of Mahatma Gandhi
against the force of the Britis h Empire. At the time of impact in thisencounter, the British Empire was the greatest force the world had seen. It
ruled two-thirds of the earth, yet was brought to its knees by a 90-pound
“shrimp” who was disparaged by their system as “colored.” If we
understood the difference between force and power, we could have
predicted the fall of the British Empire just from that understanding. Mahatma Gand hi was coming from a principle of universa l truth—the
equality of all men by virtue of the quality of their creation. These are the
same principles that empower the Constitution of the United States. A
universal principle is unlimited power. The British Empire was motivated by self-interest, which was limited. It
was not concern ed with the good of all mankind, or serving life, or any
other universal principle of great power. Instead it only cared about serving
its own interest s. When self-limited force, as impressive as it was in the
British Empire, met the unlimited power of the will of Mahatma Gandhi—
which solidified, unified, and catalyzed the will of the Indian people—the
defeat of the British Empire was inevitable. The political events and all that
is listed in the history books are merely the consequences; they are not the
cause. Our first really major secret is to reverse the world’ s understanding of
cause and effect. Cause, which is power, is “in here.” What we see “out
there” is merely  the consequence. It is automatic. It can’t help but happen
because of the universal laws of life. The world envies the wrong thing
when it envies the consequence. It tries to imitate, but doesn’ t know what  to
imitate.


accinated. CHART	SHOWING	DECREASE	IN	SMALLPOX

DEATHS	AFTER	DECLINE	OF	VACCINATION

Period
Percentage	of	Births

Vaccinated
Smallpox	Deaths
1872-1881
96.5
3,708.3
1882-1891
82.1
933.0
1892-1901
67.9
436.5
1902-1911
67.6
395.3
1912-1921
42.3
12.2
1922-1931
43.1
25.0
1932-1941
39.9
1.4

Here	we	see	that	at	the	time	when	nearly	all	(96.5%)	of	the	babies	were

vaccinated,	smallpox	caused	almost	4,000	deaths	in	that	10	year	period;	but,

when	the	vaccinations	were	resisted	until	only	39%	would	submit	to	it,	the	death

rate	dropped	down	to	only	1.4	cases. Before	the	passage	of	England’s	compulsory	vaccination	law	in	1853,	the

highest	authentic	smallpox	death	rate	was	only	2,000	for	any	two	year	period,

even	during	their	most	serious	smallpox	epidemics;	whereas,	after	almost	20

years	of	compulsory	vaccination	there	occurred	the	most	devastating	scourge	of
	smallpox	in	1870	to	1871	that	the	world	has	ever	known. It	took	23,062	lives	in

England	and	Wales	and	spread	over	Europe	in	all	the	countries	where

vaccination	and	inoculation	had	been	practiced	on	a	large	scale. After	that	the

vaccination	laws	were	enforced	even	more	rigidly	until	the	people	began	to

notice	that	smallpox	was	not	decreasing	by	this	practice	but	continued	to	ravage

the	homes	of	the	vaccinated. During	the	same	epidemic	in	Germany	124,948

people	died	of	smallpox. All	had	been	vaccinated	(according	to	their	carefully

kept	records.) "In	Berlin	alone	no	less	that	17,038	persons	had	smallpox	after

vaccination,	and	2,884	of	them	died." In	Sheffield,	England	where	97%	of	her	200,000	inhabitants	had	been

thoroughly	and	frequently	vaccinated	for	many	years	a	smallpox	epidemic	swept

the	city	in	1887	that	caused	7,101	cases	and	648	deaths. Preceding	this,	the	large	manufacturing	town	of	Leicester,	(England)	which	had

been	even	more	thoroughly	vaccinated	up	to	the	time	of	the	1870	epidemic	was

the	hardest	hit	of	all	the	communities	with	over	3,500	deaths	per	million	in	the

first	year	of	the	epidemic. This	completely	destroyed	their	faith	in	vaccination

and	the	rich	and	poor	alike	rejected	it	and	adopted	sanitation	with	the	result	that

smallpox	epidemics	were	soon	eliminated	from	that	city. STATEMENTS	OF	HEALTH	OFFICIALS

REGARDING	VACCINATED	SMALLPOX
Sir	Thomas	Chambers,	Q.C.M.P.,	recorder	of	the	city	of	London	said:

"I	find	that	of	the	155	persons	admitted	to	the	Smallpox	Hospital	in	the	Parish	of

St.	James,	Piccadilly,	145	had	been	vaccinated." In	Marylevore	Hospital	92%	of	the	smallpox	cases	had	been	vaccinated. Marson’s	report	of	Highgate	Hospital	for	1871	states	that,	"of	the	950	cases	of

smallpox,	870	(90%)	of	the	whole	number	of	patients	had	been	vaccinated." At	Hempstead	Hospital,	up	to	May	13,	1884,	out	of	2,965	admissions	for

smallpox,	2,347	had	been	vaccinated. After	these	vaccination	epidemics,	more	and	more	people	refused	to	comply
	with	the	unjust	vaccination	laws	and	as	a	result	of	this	and	the	improvements	in

sanitation	and	nutrition,	smallpox	took	a	drop	and	continued	to	decline	until	it	is

rarely	seen	at	the	present	time. "In	1942	one	case	of	smallpox	at	Seindon	(Britain)	resulted	in	the	vaccination	of

a	large	number	of	people. Only	three	cases	of	smallpox	occurred	and	these	all

recovered,	but	12	vaccinated	individuals	died	from	inflammation	of	the	brain. (This	is	a	common	after	effect	of	vaccination.) In	the	same	year	near	Edinburg,

Scotland,	eight	people	died	of	smallpox	(six	of	which	had	been	vaccinated)

while	ten	died	from	the	effects	of	the	vaccination. "I	would	not	go	so	far	as	to	say	that	vaccination	has	never	saved	a	person	from

smallpox. It	is	a	matter	of	record	that	thousands	of	the	victims	of	this

superstitious	rite	have	been	saved	from	smallpox	by	the	immunizing	potency	of

death. But	it	is	a	fact	that	the	official	statistics	of	England	and	Wales	show

unmistakably	that,	while	vaccination	has	killed	ten	times	more	people	than

smallpox,	there	has	been	a	decrease	in	smallpox	concomitant	with	the	decrease

in	vaccination...It	might	be	appropriately	asked,	in	the	words	of	the	Vaccination

Inquirer	(London,	Feb.	1947)	‘How	could	an	operation	that	was	declining	be

responsible	for	the	extermination	of	smallpox?" —Dr. Herbert	M.	Shelton,

“Vaccine	and	Serum	Evils”,	p.23

UNVACCINATED	DISEASES	DECLINED	FASTER

THAN	VACCINATED	SMALLPOX
Records	in	all	countries	show	that	the	so-called	contagious	diseases	declined

quite	rapidly	with	the	introduction	of	sanitation	and	nutrition	reforms,	with	the

exception	of	smallpox	and	diphtheria	which	were	kept	active	by	vaccination	in	a

large	number	of	authenticated	cases. The	following	condensed	records	from

various	countries	give	a	cross	section	of	the	available	evidence	that	bears	out	this

point. REPORT	FROM	BRITISH	INDIA
In	1929	while	India	was	still	under	British	rule	with	its	compulsory	vaccination

laws,	the	League	of	Nations’	Health	League	referred	to	India	as,	"the	greatest

center	of	smallpox	in	the	world	today." The	records	show	that	in	the	large	cities

where	vaccination	enforcement	was	most	rigid	"the	smallpox	death	rate	has	been
	generally	far	greater	than	for	the	country	as	a	whole"	where	complete

enforcement	is	not	possible. The	report	of	the	League	of	Nations’	Health	Division	for	Oct.	1953	reluctantly

admits	vaccination	is	not	all	it	ought	to	be	when	it	says	in	part:

"In	spite	of	the	great	efforts	made	by	the	health	authorities	in	promoting

vaccination,	smallpox	is	not	on	the	point	of	extinction." After	the	limited	health	improvement	programs	we	find	that	the	plagues	and

scourges,	all	declined	noticeably	except	smallpox	and	respiratory	diseases

(tuberculosis)	which	is	a	common	after	effect	of	vaccination. AVERAGE	Death	Rate	FROM	FEVERS	AND	OTHER	CAUSES

(per	1,000	of	the	population)

Diseases	(India)
10	years	(1898-1907)
16	years	(1921-1930)
Fevers	(malaria,	etc.) 19.44
15.51
Plague
2.23
0.53
Cholera
1.66
1.02
Dysentery,	diarrhea
1.28


,	as

we	call	them,	but	we	have	support	in	the	higher	ranks	of	society. The	duchess	of

Hamilton’s	seven	children	are	all	exempted	and	two	of	them	have	King	George

and	Queen	Mary	as	sponsors. Lady	Maud	Warrender,	who	also	moves	in	royal

circles,	paid	a	fine	sooner	than	have	her	son	vaccinated. Lady	Isabel	Margesson,

sister	of	the	Earl	of	Buckinghamshire,	is	a	member	of	the	league. Among	scientists	our	most	notable	supporters	were	Alfred	Russel	Wallace	and

Herbert	Spencer. We	have	fifteen	or	sixteen	registered	medical	men	as	vice	presidents	of	our

league	and	there	are	some	thirty	others	who	more	or	less	sympathize	with	our

work. That	the	number	is	not	more	is	easily	understood. Medical	students	in

England	do	not	study	the	vaccination	question. It	is	taken	for	granted	at	all	the

medical	schools	and	no	student	dare	question	what	he	is	taught. He	has	to	cram	a

vast	amount	of	book	knowledge	into	his	brain	and	he	has	neither	the	time	nor	the

inclination	to	study	any	subject	not	needed	for	his	examinations. When	he

qualifies	he	goes	into	general	practice	or	becomes	a	specialist,	but	as	the

majority	of	the	vaccinations	in	England	are	done	by	the	4,000	public	vaccinators,
	most	of	the	doctors	see	very	little	of	the	operation. They	do	not	realize	the	harm

done	by	it	and	their	minds	have	been	closed	up	when	they	were	students. Of	literary	men,	George	Bernard	Shaw	is	our	most	noted	supporter. Important	developments	are	in	sight	in	England. Early	this	year	the	government

appointed	a	committee	of	inquiry	into	vaccine	lymph. It	is	certain	that	the

present	glycerinated	calf	lymph	has	caused	deaths	from	"sleepy	sickness"	in

England,	two	London	professors	having	brought	to	the	notice	of	the	government

seven	of	such	cases	at	the	end	of	the	year	1922. At	the	Paris	Academy	of

Medicine	in	July,	1925,	doctors	discussed	deaths	from	this	disease	which	had

occurred	shortly	after	vaccination	in	Holland	and	other	European	countries. At

the	beginning	of	this	year	there	was	a	conference	at	The	Hague	under	the

auspices	of	the	health	committee	of	the	League	of	Nations,	which	discussed

many	matters	in	connection	with	smallpox,	vaccine	lymph,	etc.,	and	finally

decided	to	ask	each	country	represented	there	to	appoint	a	committee	to

investigate	these	matters. Smallpox	in	England	has	declined	almost	to	the	vanishing	point	and	the

recognized	dangers	of	vaccination	will	probably	induce	the	government	to	drop

compulsory	infant	vaccination	altogether	and	substitute	for	it	the	compulsory

vaccination	of	all	persons	who	have	been	in	contact	with	smallpox. This,	of

course,	we	shall	resist	with	all	our	might	so	far	as	our	friends	will	allow. In	answer	to	an	article	headed	"Vaccination	Wins	Again"	in	the	Detroit	Saturday

Night	Press,	Miss	Loat	asks:

1)	That	the	disease	which	is	being	diagnosed	as	smallpox	in	unvaccinated

persons	in	England	is	hardly	distinguishable	from	chickenpox,	the	absence	or

presence	of	vaccination	marks	being	the	fact	that	definitely	decides	the

diagnosis. This	has	been	admitted	by	English	medical	officers	of	health	and	the	Ministry	of

Health	has	twice	stated	in	answer	to	questions	in	Parliament	that	vaccination	is

one	factor	in	the	diagnosis	of	these	cases. 2)	That	as	in	those	districts	where	this	very	mild	disease	is	running	the	vast

majority	of	the	children	are	unvaccinated,	it	would	be	difficult	for	the	disease	to

find	a	child	who	had	been	vaccinated	in	infancy	to	attack. 3)	That	those	cases	which,	though	vaccinated	immediately	after	being	in	contact

with	this	alleged	smallpox,	subsequently	contract	it,	are	all	classified	as

unvaccinated. 4)	That	in	spite	of	these	official	attempts	to	make	out	a	case	for	vaccination,	the

fatality	rate	of	the	unvaccinated	cases	in	England	is	less	than	half	of	the

vaccinated	cases. 5)	That	the	English	Ministry	of	Health	omits	to	state	that	in	1872,	when	85%	of

the	infants	born	were	vaccinated,	there	were	19,000	deaths	from	smallpox	in

England	and	Wales. While	in	1925,	when	less	than	half	the	children	born	were

vaccinated,	there	were	only	6	deaths	from	that	disease. The	history	of	vaccination	and	smallpox	in	England	can	be	summed	up	in	these

words,	the	truth	of	which	is	apparent	to	any	unbiased	student	of	our	national

statistics:

"Much	vaccination,	little	sanitation,	much	smallpox;	little	vaccination,	improved

sanitation,	little	smallpox." The	children	of	England,	five	million	of	whom	are	unvaccinated,	were	never

healthier	than	they	are	today. The	people	have	shown	their	detestation	of

vaccination	and	neither	persuasion	nor	force	will	induce	them	to	submit	to	what

the	famous	Dr.	Charles	Creighton	called	"a	grotesque	superstition." OPEN	LETTER	TO	GOVERNOR	KNIGHT

447	Crane	Blvd.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Not	many	years	ago	the	‘big

bugs’	in	the	medico-scientific	field	had	the	effrontery	to	calmly	state,	in	their

public	meetings,	that	the	‘appendix’	served	no	useful	purpose	in	the	body	and	the

tonsils	were	the	remains	of	our	‘gills’—left	over	in	our	bodies	when	man

emerged	from	the	sea	as	a	land	animal. Now,	students	realize	that	the	appendix

helps	to	keep	the	cecum	on	the	safe	side	by	holding	the	putrefactive	bacteria,	in

that	blind	sewer,	at	a	safe	level	and	that	the	tonsils	play	important	parts	in	killing

disease	organisms	that	would	otherwise	get	into	the	lymphatic	circulatory

system. "Yet	in	many	quarters	the	yanking	out	of	tonsils	for	a	fee	and	the	chopping	out	of

the	appendix	for	the	doctor’s	wife’s	fur	coat	continue	unabated. Gall	bladder

operations	are	still	sending	unfortunates	to	the	insane	asylums	as	of	yore	and	the

so-called	‘fixing’	of	stomach	and	intestinal	ulcers	by	‘removing	a	section	of	the

anatomy’	with	a	knife,	is	still	considered	good	‘practice’. Yet	even	the	most

obstinate	medical	physician	and	surgeon	KNOWS	that	ulcers	are	caused	by	too

strong	stomach	chemicals,	digesting	the	mucous	membrane,	and	that	the	proper

treatment	is	merely	to	reduce	the	strength	of	such	digestive	chemicals. Smallpox

vaccine—which	has	spread	syphilis	throughout	the	civilized	world	is	still

‘obligatory’	in	many	parts	of	the	universe	and	the	Schick	vaccine—that	arch

killer	of	Japanese	babies	in	the	hands	of	our	army	‘brass	hat	doctors’—is	still

being	used	as	a


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supplements, 99-101, 104, 105
"Vitamins of the B Complex," 78
Wacrland, Arc, 21
Walker, Dr. Alan, 49, 53. 83
Walker, Dr. Norman W., 34. 81, 85n., 103n., 119
Walking, 89, 90
Wall Street fournal, 41
Water
distilled, 36
drinking, 30, 35-36
foods with a high content of, 28-36
Watercress, 130
Watermelon for Breakfast Fruit Platter, 220-21
Wax beans, 130
Weekly World News, 34-35
Weight loss, 5-6, 7, 66, 111, 112, 113u
dairy product consumption and. 84
diets, see Diets
elimination cycle's importance to, see
Elimination cycle
food combining and. see Combining foods,
principle of propcrlv
fruit consumption and, 50
permanent, 4, 5-6, 7, 8, 9, 14
Wcllncss-oriented phvsician, xii
Westbrae Natural Foods, Inc., 129, 131, 132, 133,
135. 136. 137
Whipping cream, 134
Williams-Sonoma. 135
Wine. 99
Winick. Dr. Myron. 99. 105
Wont of the Digestive Glands, The (Pavlov), 37
World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, 73
Yale Universitv, 50
Yam Stew, 211-12
Yogurt, 84-85, 134
Cucumber Raita, 184
Yunqing, Wu, 35
Zucchini
with Basil Vinaigrette, 199
Harvest Soup, 165
Marinated Pasta Salad, 192-93
Mediterranean Rice Salad, 156-57
Steamed Vegetables in Lemon Butter Sauce,
206-207
Stir-Fried Black Mushrooms with, and Chinese
Greens, 214-16
Yam Stew. 211-12
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cumulative and that physical activity is absolutely es sential for health. Unfortunately, we have become a
nation of couch potatoes. Even our children are sedentary—physical play has been replaced with
television and video games. In fact, 60 percent of our adult population is sedentary, both professionally
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you know that this level of inactivity virtually guaran tees disease? We are not getting enough physical
activity to stay healthy, and it is having a profoundly negative effect on the health and productivity of our
nation. Traditionally, getting enough exercise was not a proble m. Our ancestors either farmed or gathered their
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to do regular physical activity, or it simply won't happen. However, given the time, effort, and money that
exercising can require, it can be difficult to find a workable solution. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there
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know it sounds like a panacea, and that is exactly what it is! Rebounding tones, conditions, strengthens
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of exercise that exercises every cell in your entire body. Remember, if your cells are healthy, you cannot
be sick. Only when a large number of cells malfunction can you become diseased. We have always
known that exercise is good for health and the reas ons why are becoming clearer all the time: Research
presented two years ago at the annual meeting of th e American Thoracic Society found that physically
stretching cells has a profound impact on their bioc hemistry and behavior. Moving and stretching a cell,
as rebounding does, helps to supply essential nutrients  and to eliminate toxic waste products. When you
bounce on a rebounder, your entire body (internal organs, bones, connective tissue, and skin) becomes
stronger, more flexible, and healthier. Both blood ci rculation and lymphatic drainage are vastly improved. Visualize for a moment a balloon filled with water. Ho ld the balloon by its stem and observe how gravity
pulls on the water, slightly stretching the balloon. Now move your hand rapidly up and down and observe
how the extra gravitational force ca uses the balloon to significantly st retch and distort. When you bounce
up and down on a rebounder, this is what happens to every cell in your body. Rebounding alternately
puts pressure on and takes pressure off of bo dy cells, like squeezing a sponge. This moving and
stretching of the cells facilitates nutrient delivery and toxin removal, which is exactly what you need to be
healthy. When normal cell chemistry is enhanced, a ll sorts of wonderful things happen to your cells,
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work up a sweat, or end up with sore muscles and possible injuries. Especially when compared to conventional exercises such as push-ups and weight lifting, which apply
weight and movement only to specific muscles or mu scle groups, rebounding is a more efficient way to
exercise your body because it applies weight and movement to every cell. The extra force of gravity
caused by the bouncing movement strengthens bones an d joints, yet it does so without the jarring and
potential damage of most impact activities. Here are just some of the benefits that can be achieved by rebounding:
• Efficient weight loss
• Getting rid of toxins
• Stronger bones and joints
• Improved immunity
• Faster healing
• Improving sagging skin
• Strengthening muscles
• Resolving back problems
• Lowering blood pressure
• Improving vision
• Improving hearing
• Decreasing appetite
• Improving digestion
• Enhancing brain function
• Eliminating tiredness
Here is what Dr. Gus Prosch of Biomed Health Ser vices had to say about how


 agents in the
body. The action of free forms of glucocorticoids
is another powerful therapeutic effect of fasting
on infl ammatory diseases.
At the same time, endocrine glands hypertro-
phy slightly during fasting. The parathyroid
gland responsible for the immune system (thy-
mus) experiences the greatest increase in size
during dosed fasting. The remaining viral and
microbial in flammation sites are destroyed dur-
ing dry fasting. These factors achieve an inte-
grated therapeutic effect in patients with bron-
chial asthma. What is the negative effect of
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frinhalers? Why is it so hard to help patients with
asthma who have undergone hormonal  therapy
for over 5 years? Allergic inflammation in the
bronchopulmonary apparatus causes a complex
of pathological reactions, which always delay ex-
halation. That’s why respiratory acidosis devel-
ops in the blood. It restores and then enhances
the process o f CO2 absorption by cells. This
means that defense mechanisms are active even
if a brief asthma attack occurs. Bronchospasm
neutralizes the mediators of allergic inflamma-
tion. None of them are present in the blood dur-
ing attacks. At the same time, asthma attacks ac-
tivate the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland,
which eventually improve the effect of neutraliz-
ing allergies through their channels as well.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frFirst, this complex effect restores the patency of
the tracheobronchial tree and then relieves
asthma attacks without external assistance. Sec-
ond, bronchospasms largely restore general bod-
ily adaptation reactions and neutralize allergic
inflammation. Thus, the effect of protection
against allergic inflammation is preserved for a
long time after the attack.
That’s why attacks are rare (1 -2 times a year) at
the onset of bronchial asthma, even if allergens
are in regular contact with the body. Patients can
have asthma attacks but live long if they don’t
take modern medications. It used to be the same
for asthma  patients before the war because pa-
tients barely ever died from this disease and lived
to a ripe old age.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frTwo drugs were released in the USA, England,
and then Russia in the post -war years. It’s hor-
monal glucocorticoid therapy, where the inhal-
ers impact nerve endings (adrenergic receptors
of efferent cells). As a result, there were many se-
riously ill patients who encountered the threat of
lethal outcomes, and then there were deaths.
Nowadays, it’s a common occurrence. It turned
out that the direct -acting sympathomimetics
quickly activate cAMP nucleotides through
nerve endings (cell membranes), stopping the
bron chospasm immediately. However, these
chemical compounds in the membranes bind
with an enzyme (chemoreceptor) to form a pro-
tein that is undesirable (nonstandard) for the
body. From this moment on, it’s gradually de-
stroyed by the immune system. Thus, the
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by the disease is further aggravated by modern
drugs, and then stops entirely.
Besides, the opposite effect is often present in
cases when this chemoreceptor isn’t activated
but blocked by the intermediate chemi cal com-
pound degradation products. Receptors fail
quickly – within 2 -3 years or even faster. At the
early stages of asthma, patients are forced to
breathe in these or similar medications in in-
creasing quantities and take substances harmful
to nerve endings. They become dependent on
these drugs. Finally, medications start acting
paradoxically, and begin to cause bron-
chospasms. A life -threatening asthmatic condi-
tion develops, and it can lead to death if the glu-
cocorticoid hormones (adrenal hormones) that
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used by patients. At the same time, the hor-
mones injected into the body ultimately destroy
the immunogenetic system mechanism, thus
creating a greater vicious circle and leading to
the atrophy of the hormonal system.
At the onset of bronchial asthma, the disease
can be stopped by different yoga techniques, ac-
upuncture, segmental massage, cave therapy, or
conventional cold water treatment. However,
when patients become dependent on direct -act-
ing sympathomimetics (inh alers) and hor-
mones, only dosed fasting can help them break
this vicious circle if they’ve taken hormones for
less than five years.

Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.fr19.2.12. Cardiovascular Diseases: Hyper-
tension and Atherosclerosis
After 5 -7 days of fasting, electrocardiogram re-
sults improve. They indicate an improvement in
coronary circulation, while angina attacks stop
completely. Blood pressure usually improves af-
ter 7 -10 days of fasting (after an acidotic crisis)
and remains healthy during the entire period of
fasting.
This is not su rprising. Our heart is under tre-
mendous pressure throughout our lifetime in
addition to different stress factors, physical exer-
tion, and fatigue. We often don’t realize that
food burdens the heart even more than difficult
exercises. It’s not a coincidence that many heart
attacks and myocardial infarctions happen after
a hearty meal. Fasting gives the heart the rest it
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frdeserves. It no longer needs to pump a huge
amount of blood to support digestion, and heart
muscles launch self -healing processes.
After all, the heart practically doesn’t lose any
of its weight during fasting. Blood circulation in
the heart muscle improves, and its glycogen re-
serves increase. During fasting, there are practi-
cally no heart attacks, necrosis, or heart muscle
inflammation. Heart beat is restored and the
heart rate decreases.
After fasting, the effect lasts for quite a long
time, especially if the patients stick to a healthy
diet. Fasting relieves heart overload and pro-
vides it with the opportunity to rest. With a heart
rate of 80  beats per minute, the heart makes
115,200 beats in 24 hours. Shortly after the pa-
tients start fasting, their heart rate decreases, and
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frmay be as low under 60 beats per minute for a
period of time. Ultimately, their heart rate be-
comes 60 beats per minute throughout the entire
fasting period, thus resulting in 86,400 beats in
24 hours (28,800 beats less than the result before
fasting). It will reduce the burden on the heart by
up to 25%. Positive effects on heart activity are
apparent not only in the decreasing heart rate
but also in a healthy pulse. All of the above al-
lows the heart to rest, repair its damaged struc-
tures, and restore tissues.
Fasting provides the heart with the needed
chance to get rid of accumulated toxins. When
toxemia is eliminated, cardiac tissues heal faster
and better. Toxins stop irritating the heart, and
it makes a striking comeback. All the above -
stated facts apply to most heart diseases.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frHowever, there are some exceptions. Some-
times, we observe rare cases during fasting when
heart activity is suppressed, and this condition
requires ending the fast, because continuing it
can be very dangerous.
All cases when heart diseases are treated by
fasting must be carried out under the direct and
personal supervision of a physician with experi-
ence in fasting. Unnecessary risks aren’t allowed
in patients with such conditions.
Hypertension is one of the most common dis-
eases that affect the cardiovascular system. It’s
accompanied by a temporary or persistent blood
pressure rise. The disease involve s arteriole at-
tenuation caused by the increased tonic function
of smooth muscles in arterial walls and cardiac
output changes. Hypertension often affects
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 for breakfast. These probably
averaged 250 fat calories. Lunch was usually a salad with one avocado (and t hat addictive lemon/oil/Bragg/garlic dressing).
Between my lunch and dinner salads, I would down ¼ cup of flax oil each and eve ry day … that’s 480 calories of pure fat right
there! I often ate a second avocado at dinner, the two of them probably totaling  about 450 fat calories. The nut/seed concoctions I
made for dinner (mock tuna, salmon nori, etc.), contributed another 400 calories  of fat. That’s 1,580 calories of overt fat in my day.
My total calories probably ran about 2,000 per day—which meant that I  was eating about 79% fat! WOW!!
My “healthy” eating was somewhat legendary within my own little  world. Goodness! The salads I would concoct in the
lunchroom at my Silicon V alley offices … It was the company joke. On the  way out to local restaurants for lunch each day, the
analysts I worked with would take a field trip past the lunchroom to see w hat “shrubbery” Laurie was eating today! They called my
salad bowl “the trough.” At 88 pounds and five feet tall (I’ve been t hat size since I was 14; it has nothing to do with raw food), I
could pound down a lot of salad. Or at least it looked that way to mainstream eater s.
I spent an ungodly amount of time in the kitchen each day, even buying a se cond food processor, blender, and juicer to keep
in my office so that I could now also whip up mock tuna and other such concocti ons for lunch if I wanted … which did nothing for
my caloronutrient ratio, let me tell you!
I enjoyed my food (who wouldn’t, with all that fat and salt), and I enjoyed the a ttention I received (“Where is a tiny person
like you putting all that FOOD!?”). But I had one problem: my longs tanding fatigue and lifelong recurring bronchial infections we re
NOT getting any better than they were when I ate cooked food. It was maddeni ng!
As a child, I recall having a cold at least once every two months. Without  fail, I’d get swollen glands a day or two before the
full-on bronchial affront would begin. Next, I’d get a croupy cough, a  sore throat, and sometimes earaches. I’d always hope that the
cold would stay in my head this time, but darned if it didn’t “go down to my lung s” every single time. These “colds” never lasted less
than 8 or 10 days.
I lived on antibiotics. Mom would have us stop them early when our sympt oms went away, so we could “save” some
antibiotics. That way, we would have some on hand and wouldn’t have to wait f or a doctor’s appointment the next time. At the
slightest indication of swollen glands, I’d pop the pills … “to nip it  in the bud,” you know? W e were smart consumers!
It’s a wonder I got through school at all. I was often absent a full week of s chool in a month. I’d do my schoolwork from
home, my bedroom desk stocked with antibiotics, throat lozenges, vitamin C, and ex pectorant cough syrup. I spent a good portion
of each winter “under the vaporizer,” as we called it. The bedroom wall s and windows would be wet with condensation from the
mentholated vaporizer steam mom used to try to keep me breathing.
Somehow, though, I managed never to manifest a diagnosable disease … main ly just those incessant chest colds. They
continued unabated through my young adult life. Chronically underslept  and overstressed, I worked ridiculously long hours at my
college studies and at my jobs, living on adrenaline and working right  through my ongoing illnesses. I’d come to work with no voice.
I’d take work home and work from bed. I’m quite sure I exhausted my body to a devas tating degree.
By 1990, newly married and still working crazy hours as operations manager a t a small electronics company, I was diagnosed
with Epstein-Barre virus. Regularly sick, and dragging myself to wor k each day, I continued the downward spiral of ignoring my
body and pushing through the colds, flus, episodes of strep throat and bronchitis, a nd occasional cases of pneumonia. I remember nearly falling asleep on the road driving home from work just about eve ry day that summer. Sometimes I’d pull over and nap for
awhile, but mostly I’d talk or sing or scream out loud, slap my own face, and blast the music while I drove, trying to push my
exhausted body another 20 minutes until I could get home.
In the eighties I worked for a wealthy stockbroker who took us on incentive bonus  trips to places like New Orleans, where
we would eat at five-star restaurants night after night. I learn ed to love rich, gourmet foods and ate more than my share of prime rib
and creamy risotto. After nine years of working for this broker and her hus band, I could no longer afford my own taste in food.
Always interested in what I believed to be health and nutrition, howeve r, I tended more toward grilled vegetables and fish,
rarely if ever eating fast food. I pored over magazines for “healthy”  recipes. At home I would broil oil-coated vegetables and pour
them over corkscrew pasta topped with pine nuts and herbs, sure that I was ea ting a supremely healthful meal.
Then at age 34 (1997), I learned about raw foods from Pam Masters, a light-fille d soul who taught hundreds of people in the
San Francisco Bay Area to eat raw food and heal their bodies as she had done h erself. Pam shared with us dozens of hand-written
recipes that she had learned to make at Hippocrates Health Institut e years before. W ow! This rich, salty, fatty “health food” was
right up my alley! I loved  what I was learning, and my taste buds loved it even more.
Yet it never added up: I ate all this healthy food but still had endless sev ere head colds. Instead of getting better, it seemed as
if my colds were coming more frequently and were increasingly more vi rulent. They never lasted less than three weeks, usually
dragging on a month or more at a time. I would lose my voice completely, every t ime. I would cough violently. I would still work
right through it all. In the late 1990s, it seemed I spent more of the year wi th a cold than I spent feeling good.
Finally one day in total desperation, I phoned Doug Graham in Florida. I still  have the audiotape of that phone conversation.
W e were friends by then, so he knew of my history of chest colds … but I had n ever asked him for help, so he hadn’t laid it on the
line to me. Now I was asking, and I was in tears. First, he asked me to list for h im what I ate on an average day. He listened
patiently, then he told me what he tells nearly every raw fooders who c onsults with him: “Laurie, you’re eating way too much fat and
not nearly  enough fruit.”
Never having had a weight problem, I had no concept of how many calorie s or how much fat was in the foods I ate. I didn’t
believe that my diet could be as full of fat as he claimed, but I started inv estigating. Over the past half-dozen years, I have delved
deeply into caloronutrient calculations, verifying for myself the t remendous amounts of fat that raw fooders are eating. I learned that
nuts and seeds average about 75% fat. (Who was the rocket scientist who told u s these were protein  foods?) This kind of
information gave me motivation to make some serious changes!
Now, I have learned to eat pretty darned close to an 80/10/10  diet (cooked and raw, not the rave version). A lot of people
fall over when they hear the quantity of fruit I eat each day. Togethe r with my partner, Tim Trader, I buy bananas by the case—we
go through about 250 a week. W e frequent farmer’s markets, and our kitchen coun ter is a beautiful cornucopia of dozens and
dozens of colorful fresh fruits at all times. I start every day with a 12- banana smoothie to which I add about a pound of one or two
other types of fruit: pears, strawberries, mangos, stone fruits … wh atever catches my eye. (Y es, all that plus a couple cups of
distilled water does  fit into one Vita-Mix container; it makes nearly three quarts.) Or I ’ll eat a banana/celery smoothie, sometimes
adding parsley or kale or cilantro or other greens to it. Most days I continue e ating fruit in the afternoon (grapes, mangos,
watermelon, nectarines, etc.) and then eat a salad for dinner, usually  with cooked vegetables as well. I am working on incorporating
more whole foods and fewer smoothies … but for now this is what works for me.
My fat consumption