 Jansen, from Crown Publishing, for all the
hard work and great suggestions he contributed. As
would be expected, life prov ided the absolutely perfect
editor to assist me in giving this testimony to her
greatness. This bo ok had many early readers, all of whom deserve
thanks. I would like to single out James O’Dea, Ursula
Harlos, and Stephanie Davis, who contributed detailed
suggestions on  draft after dra ft during the early stages of
writing. I n ow get to a cknowledge yo u, the reader, for having
the interest and taking the time to read about this
phenomenal experiment. May we all learn to appreciate
our live s in this amazing universe—a little bit more each
day. S e c t i o n  I
Waking UpT h e  P r e m i s e
Sitting alone in a six-seater private jet at forty
thousand feet is a very peaceful place. I fell into
meditation and my mind became very still. When I opened my eyes, I absorbed the
tremendous difference in my environment
from w hen I had first moved out to the woods
to b e al one and  meditate. Though I still lived in
those s ame woods, my place of solitude had
grown into a t hriving yoga community, and I
had bec ome CEO of the publi c corporation that
life had somehow magically manifested
around me. It was now perfectly clear to me
that all of these life experiences, including
running a business at this level, were doing as
much to free me spiritually as my years of
solitary medit ation. Just as Hercules used the
flow of rivers to clean out the Augean stables,
so the powerful flow of life was cleaning out
whatever was  left of me. I j ust kept letting go
and practicing  nonresistance, whether I liked
what was happening or not. It was in this
frame o f mind that I was flying off to Texas to
discuss the billion-dollar merger offer for my
company from a powerful CEO whom I had
never even met. My Reflections, May 1999
L ife rarely unfolds exactly as we want it to. And if we
stop an d think  about it, tha t makes perfect sense. The
scope of life is universal, and the fact that we are not
actually in control of life’s events should be self-evident. The uni verse h as been around for 13. 8 bil lion yea rs, and
the processes that determine the flow of life around usdid not begin w hen we were born, nor will they end when
we die. What manifests in front of us at any given
moment is actually something truly extraordinary—it is
the end result of all the force s that have been interacting
together for billions of years. We are not responsible for
even the tiniest fraction of what is manifesting around
us. Nonetheles s, we walk a round constantly trying to
control and determine what will happen in our lives. No
wonder there’s so much tension, anxiety, and fear. Each
of u s actually b elieves that things should be the way we
want them, instead of being the natural result of all the
forces of creation. Every day, we give precedence to our mind’s thoughts
over the reality unfolding before us. We regularly say
things l ike, “It  better not ra in today because I’m going
camping” or “I better get that raise because I really need
the money. ” Notice that these bold claims about what
should and shouldn’t be happening are not based on
scientific evid ence; they’re based solely on personal
preferences made up in our minds. Without realizing it,
we do this with  everything in our lives—it’s as though we
actually believe  that the world around us is supposed to
manifest in accordance to our  own likes and dislikes. If it
doesn’t, surely something is very wrong. This is an
extremely diffi cult way to live, and it is the reason we feel
that we are always struggling with life. Nonetheless, it  is also true that we are not powerless in
the face  of the events unfoldin g around us. We have been
gifted with the power of will. From deep inside, we can
determine how we want something to be and apply the
power of our minds, hearts, and bodies in an attempt to
make th e outside world conform. But this puts us in a
constant battle of our way versus the way it would be
without our intervention. This battle between individual
will and  the reality of life unfolding around us ends up
consuming ou r lives. When we win the battle, we are
happy a nd relaxed; when we don’t, we are disturbed andstressed. Since  most of us only feel good when things are
going our way, we are constantly attempting to control
everything in our lives. The que stion is, does it have to be this way. There is so
much evidence that life does quite well on its own. The
planets stay in orbit, tiny se eds grow into giant trees,
weather patterns have kept forests across the globe
watered for millions of years, and a single fertilized cell
grows into a b eautiful baby. We are not doing any of
these th ings as conscious acts of will; they are all being
done by the incomprehensible perfection of life itself. All
these a mazing events, and countless more, are being
carried out by forces of life that have been around for
billions of years—the very same forces of life that we are
consciously pit ting our will against on a daily basis. If the
natural unfolding of the process of life can create and
take care of the  entire universe, is it really reasonable for
us t o assume that nothing g ood will happen unless we
force it  to. It is to the exp loration of this intriguing
question that this book is devoted. How can there possibly be a more important question. If li fe can manifest the DNA molecule on its own, not to
mention create  the human brain, how is it that we feel
that we have t o control everything on our own. There
must b e another, more sane way to approach life. For
example, what would happen  if we respected the flow of
life and  used  our free wil l to participate in what’s
unfolding, instead of fighting it. What would be the
quality of the life that unfolds. Would it just be random
events with no order or meaning, or would the same
perfection of order and meaning that manifests in the
rest of the universe manifest in the everyday life around
us. What we have here is the  basis for an amazing
experiment. At  the heart of the experiment is a simple
question: Am I better off making up an alternate reality
in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it bemy way, or am  I better off letting go of what I want and
serving the same forces of reality that managed to create
the entire perfection of the universe around me. This
experiment would not be about dropping out of life; it
would b e about leaping into life to live in a place where
we are no longer controlled  by our personal fears and
desires. For lack of a better n ame, I have called this “the
surrender expe riment,” and to the best of my ability, I
have devoted the last forty years of my life to seeing
where the flow of life’s event s would naturally take me. What happene d over the course of these four decades is
nothing short of phenomenal. Not only did things not fall
apart, quite the opposite happened. As one thing
naturally followed the other, the flow of life’s events led
me on a journey that wou ld have been beyond my
comprehension. This book shares that journey with you
so that you can experience what happened when
someone dared to let go and trust the flow of life. Let it be clear right from the  start, however, that this
type of surren der does not mean living life without the
assertion of will. My story of  these forty years is simply
the stor y of what happened when the assertion of will
was guided by what life wa s doing instead of what I
wanted it to be doing. My personal experience is that
aligning one’s will with the natural forces unfolding
around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results. The onl y effective way to shar e the results of this great
experiment is to allow you to see how I got pulled into
living this way and then al low you to experience the
journey as I did. In what follows, you are about to
encounter a set of life experi ences that are bound to be
very different from your own. I share these with you only
because as human beings w e have the extraordinary
ability to learn from one another’s experiences. You don’t
have to live a s I did in order to be affected by what
happened to me. The unexpected events that unfolded
before me not only changed my life, they changed myentire view of life and left me with a sense of deep inner
peace. Hopefully, sharing my surrender experiment with
you will encourage you to find a more peaceful and
harmonious wa y to live your life and to better appreciate
the amazing perfection that unfolds around us. 1. N o t


ouch.”	He	reduced	his	life	to	a	story. Now,	circumstances	have	changed	and	he	can	no	longer	live	the	story	that	he
built	up	over	the	years. His	lifestyle	no	longer	coincides	with	his	story. This	is
a	rude	awakening	but	it	is	not	his	life. The	story	is	nothing	more	than	a
figment	of	his	imagination. Of	course,	build	up	your	business,	make	money,	have	a	nice	lifestyle. But
don’t	get	lost	in	it. Don’t	lose	sight	of	the	real	you. Things	come. Things	go. Everything	in	life	is	a	series	of	cycles. Life	is	not	about	more	money,	more	cars,	more	houses	and	more	business. This	is	the	human	mind	and	not	the	real	you. The	human	mind,	especially	the
mind	of	the	Western	male,	always	wants	more. More,	more,	more. Western
society	is	not	intelligent. It	is	stupid	and	reflects	the	collective	mind	of	an
idiot. What	is	your	story? O
ur	story	is	a	fairytale	of	how	we	perceive	ourselves. We	think	about	our
positive	qualities	and	we	think	about	our	negative	qualities. If	thoughts	about
our	positive	qualities	outweigh	thoughts	about	our	negative	qualities,	we	are
confident	about	ourselves. If	thoughts	about	our	negative	qualities	outweigh	our	positive	qualities,	we
lack	confidence. A	negative	story	can	be	made	up	of	constant	thoughts	about	being	fat	or	ugly
or	stupid,	or	not	attractive	to	the	opposite	sex. Someone	with	an	inferiority
complex	might	have	been	told	at	one	point	how	useless	he	is. He	continues	to
run	this	thought	over	and	over	through	his	head. After	a	certain	time,	he	acts
according	to	this	belief	system	that	has	been	established. Over	time,	these
thoughts	become	fixed	and	form	his	personality. A	positive	story	might	be	made	up	of	how	educated	I	am,	how	smart	I	am,
how	attractive	I	am,	how	large	my	muscles	are,	what	a	well	paid	person	I	am,
how	intelligent	I	am. Both	are	stories	and	both	are	thoughts	and	figments	of	your	mind. These
stories	are	created	through	the	repetition	and	reinforcement	of	thousands	of
the	same	thoughts. Your	story	is	not	real. Do	you	think	it	is	the	truth? What
happens	when	your	story	changes? What	happens	when	the	attractive	person	gets	old	and	wrinkled? What
happens	when	the	wealthy	person	goes	bankrupt? Why	waste	so	much	energy
creating	a	story	that	is	nothing	more	than	a	figment	of	the	imagination? When	you	create	a	story,	you	tend	to	act	from	that	story	instead	of	acting	from
free	will. Therefore,	your	story	restricts	your	freedom	to	act	spontaneously.Animals	and	nature	do	not	create	stories	about	themselves. A	dog	with	three
legs	gets	on	with	life. A	fat	horse	is	not	too	bothered	either. An	ugly	crow	has
no	problem	waking	up	on	a	Monday	morning. They	live	according	to	their
true	nature,	which	is	absent	of	thought. Living	your	life	according	to	the	story	that	you	have	created	about	yourself	is
not	living. Most	people	do	this	and	effectively	die	at	18	years	of	age	even
though	they	are	buried	at	age	80.Stop	complaining
W
atch	how	often	you	are	unhappy	with	what	is	going	on	in	your	life. Become	aware	of	how	little	things	upset	you. The	more	thoughts	that	you
have	running	through	your	head,	the	more	you	get	upset	and	frustrated	by
little	things. In	every	situation,	you	can	always	find	something	that	is	not	how	it	should	be. Children	might	be	running	around	while	you	eat	at	a	local	café. Your	partner
might	snore	at	night. The	toilet	seat	might	have	been	left	up	every	time	you
use	the	bathroom. The	coffee	pot	might	be	left	on	the	counter	every	morning
and	might	have	left	a	stain. The	weather	is	bad. The	economy	is	in	recession. You	are	stuck	in	traffic. Finances	might	be	a	little	low. The	shower	leaks. The
neighbor	is	an	ass. Are	you	constantly	complaining	about	one	thing	or	another? Complaining
keeps	you	in	a	constant	state	of	turmoil,	as	you	don’t	want	to	accept	the
reality	of	this	moment. You	wish	it	to	be	different. Complaining	is	when	you
are	not	prepared	to	accept	the	current	situation	and	you	want	something	else. You	are	rejecting	what	is. You	have	four	options. 1
. Accept	the	situation. 2
. Remove	yourself	from	the	situation. 3
. Change	the	situation. 4
. If	the	time	is	not	right	to	change	the	situation,	drop	the	story	and	wait	for
the	time	to	be	right. Everything	changes	and	this	will	change	too. It	is	as
it	is.Chapter	9
	Society	madnessProzac	me
A
	patient	visits	his	doctor. He	is	complaining	of	constant	noise	in	his	head. He	feels	very	down	in	the	dumps,	frequently	cries	and	has	constant	chatter
going	on	in	his	mind. He	thinks	that	he	is	going	mad. His	constant	thought
and	mind	activity	is	making	him	crazy. The	doctor	listens	for	ten	to	fifteen
minutes. Towards	the	end	of	the	consultation,	he	takes	out	his	prescription
pad	and	writes	a	prescription	for	Prozac	or	some	other	legal	drug	to	numb	the
person’s	mind. The	reality	is	that	doctors	don’t	know	what	causes	depression. The	medical
model	identifies	depression	as	caused	by	a	biochemical	brain	imbalance	from
a	genetic	defect. This	is	debateable. In	the	words	of	Dr	Terry	Lynch	in	his	superb	book	Beyond	Prozac	“Is	the
brain	chemical	imbalance	the	cause	of	the	depression	or	the	suicide,	or	is	the
imbalance	produced	by	the	long-standing	emotional	and	psychological
distress	that	person	has	endured	often	for	many	years?”

The	amount	of	prescribed	medication	for	depression,	stress	and	anxiety	has
now	reached	epidemic	proportions. Medication	has	one	purpose	and	that	is
only	to	treat	symptoms. Medication	has	a	purpose	only	if	the	person	is	in
danger	of	harming	himself. In	simple	terms,	the	mind	is	depressed	with	thought. Therefore,	instead	of
numbing	the	mind	with	toxic	medications,	should	we	not	attempt	to	give	this
person	control	over	his	thought	processes? Allow	the	person	to	develop
stillness	of	the	mind. Stillness	of	the	mind	is	achieved	by	watching	and
reducing	the	breath,	feeling	the	inner	body	and	keeping	the	attention	in	the
present	moment. If	drugs	are	not	an	option	and	stillness	of	the	mind	is	taught	in	every	school,
we	would	have	far	less	of	a	problem	with	mental	health. Millions	of	children	and	adults	would	be	spared	from	suffering	and	would
then	be	allowed	to	lead	normal	lives	without	been	numbed	by	powerful
medications	that	are	very	difficult	to	come	off	the	longer	one	takes	them. The
Western	health	model	is	to	create	consumers. Profit,	not	health,	is	the	first
priority	of	drug	companies. Watching	the	body	and	mind	is	a	challenge. Doing	this	takes	time	but	gets	to
the	root	of


wenty	pounds. In	addition,	average	blood	cholesterol	levels
decreased	slightly,
47
	which	was	perhaps	even	more	important. Because	of
these	two	results,	this	study	was	presented	in	the	media	as	real,	scientific
proof	that	the	Atkins	diet	works	and	is	safe. Unfortunately,	the	media	didn’t
go	much	deeper	than	that. The	first	sign	that	all	is	not	rosy	is	that	these	obese	subjects	were	severelyrestricting	their	calorie	intake	during	the	study. The	average	American
consumes	about	2,250	calories	per	day. 49
	When	the	study	participants	were	on
the	diet,	they	consumed	an	average	of	1,450	calories	per	day. That’s	35%
fewer	calories! I	don’t	care	if	you	eat	worms	and	cardboard;	if	you	eat	35%
fewer	calories,	you	will	lose	weight	and	your	cholesterol	levels	will
improve
50
	in	the	short	run,	but	that	is	not	to	say	that	worms	and	cardboard
form	a	healthy	diet. One	may	argue	that	those	1,450	calories	are	so	satisfying
that	people	feel	full	on	this	diet,	but	if	you	compare	calorie	input	and	calorie
expenditure,	it’s	a	matter	of	simple	math	that	a	person	cannot	sustain	this
amount	of	calorie	restriction	over	a	period	of	years	or	decades	without	either
becoming	an	invalid	or	melting	away	into	nothing. People	are	notoriously
unsuccessful	at	significantly	restricting	their	energy	intake	over	any	long
period	of	time,	and	that	is	why	there	has	yet	to	be	a	long-term	study	that
shows	success	with	the	“low-carb”	diets. This,	however,	is	only	the	beginning
of	the	problems. In	this	same	study,	funded	by	the	Atkins	group,	researchers	report,	“At
some	point	during	the	twenty-four	weeks,	twenty-eight	subjects	(68%)
reported	constipation,	twenty-six	(63%)	reported	bad	breath,	twenty-one
(51%)	reported	headache,	four	(10%)	noted	hair	loss,	and	one	woman	(1%)
reported	increased	menstrual	bleeding.”
47
	They	also	refer	to	other	research,
saying,	“Adverse	effects	of	this	diet	in	children	have	included	calcium	oxalate
and	urate	kidney	stones	…	vomiting,	amenorrhea	[when	a	girl	misses	her
period],	hypercholesterolemia	[high	cholesterol]	and	…	vitamin	deficiencies
(ref. cited).”
47
	Additionally,	they	found	that	the	dieters	had	a	stunning	53%
increase	in	the	amount	of	calcium	they	excreted	in	their	urine,
47
	which	may
spell	disaster	for	their	bone	health. The	weight	loss,	some	of	which	is	simply
initial	fluid	loss,
51
	may	come	with	a	very	high	price. A	different	review	of	low-carbohydrate	diets	published	by
researchers	in
Australia	concludes,	“Complications	such	as	heart	arrhythmias,	cardiac
contractile	function	impairment,	sudden	death,	osteoporosis,	kidney	damage,
increased	cancer	risk,	impairment	of	physical	activity	and	lipid	abnormalities
can	all	be	linked	to	long-term	restriction	of	carbohydrates	in	the	diet.”
51
	One
teenage	girl	recently	died	suddenly	after	being	on	a	high-protein	diet. 52,	53
	In
short,	most	people	will	be	unable	to	maintain	this	diet	for	the	rest	of	their
lives,	and	even	if	anybody	manages	to	do	so,	they	may	be	asking	for	serious
health	problems	down	the	road. I	have	heard	one	doctor	call	high-protein,
high-fat,	low-carbohydrate	diets	“make-yourself-sick”	diets,	and	I	think	that’s
an	appropriate	moniker. You	can	also	lose	weight	by	undergoing
chemotherapy	or	starting	a	heroin	addiction,	but	I	wouldn’t	recommend	those,either. One	final	thought:	the	diet	is	not	all	that	Atkins	recommends. Indeed,	most
diet	books	are	merely	one	part	of	huge	food	and	health	empires. In	the	case	of
the	Atkins	diet,	Dr.	Atkins	states	that	many	of	his	patients	require	nutrient
supplements,	some	of	which	are	used	to	combat	“common	dieters’
problems.”
54
	In	one	passage,	after	making	unsubstantiated	claims	about	the
efficacy	of	antioxidant	supplements	that	contradict	recent	studies,
55
	he	writes,
“Add	to	the	[antioxidants]	the	vita-nutrients	known	to	be	useful	for	each	of
the	myriad	medical	problems	my	patients	face,	and	you’ll	see	why	many	of
them	take	over	thirty	vitamin	pills	a	day.”
56

Thirty	pills	a	day? There	are	snake	oil	salesmen,	who	have	no	professional	research,
professional	training	or	professional	publications	in	the	held	of	nutrition,	and
there	are	scientists,	who	have	formal	training,	have	conducted	research	and
have	reported	on	their	findings	in	professional	forums. Perhaps	it	is	a
testament	to	the	power	of	modern	marketing	savvy	that	an	obese	man	with
heart	disease	and	high	blood	pressure
57
	became	one	of	the	richest	snake	oil
salesmen	ever	to	live,	selling	a	diet	that	promises	to	help	you	lose	weight,	to
keep	your	heart	healthy	and	to	normalize	your	blood	pressure.THE	TRUTH	ABOUT	CARBOHYDRATES
An	unfortunate	outcome	of	the	recent	popularity	of	diet	books	is	that	people
are	more	confused	than	ever	about	the	health	value	of	carbohydrates. As	you
will	see	in	this	book,	there	is	a	mountain	of	scientific	evidence	to	show	that
the	healthiest	diet	you	can	possibly	consume	is	a
high-carbohydrate
	diet. It
has	been	shown	to	reverse	heart	disease,	reverse	diabetes,	prevent	a	plethora
of	chronic	diseases,	and	yes,	it	has
been	shown	many	times	to	cause
significant	weight	loss. But	it’s	not	quite	as	simple	as	that. At	least	99%	of	the	carbohydrates	that	we	consume	are	derived	from
fruits,	vegetables	and	grains. When	these	foods	are	consumed	in	the
unprocessed,	unrefined	and	natural	state,	a	large	proportion	of	the
carbohydrates	are	in	the	so-called	“complex”	form. This	means	that	they	are
broken	down	in	a	controlled,	regulated	manner	during	digestion. This
category	of	carbohydrates	includes	the	many	forms	of	dietary	fiber,	almost	all
of	which	remain	undigested—but	still	provide	substantial	health	benefits. In
addition,	these	complex	carbohydrates	from	whole	foods	are	packaged	with
generous	amounts	of	vitamins,	minerals	and	accessible	energy. Fruits,
vegetables	and	whole	grains	are	the	healthiest	foods	you	can	consume,	and
they	are	primarily	made	of	carbohydrates. On	the	opposite	side	of	the	spectrum,	there	are	highly	processed,	highly
refined	carbohydrates	that	have	been	stripped	of	their	fiber,	vitamins	and
minerals. Typical	simple	carbohydrates	are	found	in	foods	like	white	bread,
processed	snack	items	including	crackers	and	chips	made	with	white	flour,
sweets	including	pastries	and	candy	bars	and	sugar-laden	soft	drinks. These
highly	refined	carbohydrates	originate


ack	of	credible	nutrition
education	in	medical	school;	it	may	be	the	influence	of	the	drug	industry. Whatever	it	is,	it	has	become	clear	that	the	medical	industry	in	this	country	is
not	protecting	our	health	as	it	should. As	McDougall	reaches	his	arms	out,
palms	up,	and	scrunches	his	shoulders	up,	he	simply	says,	“It’s	beyond
comprehension.”18
Repeating	Histories
I
N
	1985,	when	I	was	on	sabbatical	in	Oxford,	England,	I	had	the	opportunity
to	study	the	history	of	diet	and	disease	at	some	of	the	great	medical	history
libraries	in	the	Western	world. I	made	use	of	the	famous	Bodlean	Library	in
Oxford	and	the	London	libraries	of	the	Royal	College	of	Surgeons	and	the
Imperial	Cancer	Research	Fund. In	the	quiet	recesses	of	these	marble-lined
sanctuaries,	I	was	thrilled	to	find	authors	who	wrote	eloquently	on	the	topic	of
diet	and	cancer,	among	other	diseases,	over	150	years	ago. One	such	author	was	George	Macilwain,	who	wrote	fourteen	books	on
medicine	and	health. Macilwain	was	born	and	raised	in	Northern	Ireland. He
later	moved	to	London	where	he	became	a	prominent	surgeon	in	the	early
1800s. He	was	to	become	a	member,	and	later,	an	honorary	fellow,	of	the
Royal	College	of	Surgeons. He	became	vegetarian	at	the	age	of	forty,	after
identifying	“grease,	fat	and	alcohol”	as	being	the	chief	causes	of	cancer. 1
Macilwain	also	popularized	the	theory	of	the	“constitutional	nature	of
disease,”	mostly	in	reference	to	the	origins	and	treatment	of	cancer. The	constitutional	nature	of	disease	concept	meant	that	disease	is	not	the
result	of	one	organ,	one	cell	or	one	reaction	gone	awry	or	the	result	of	one
external	cause	acting	independently. It	is	the	result	of
multiple	systems
throughout	the	body	breaking	down
. Opposing	this	view	was	the	local	theory
of	disease,	which	said	that	disease	is	caused	by	a	single	external	agent	acting
at	a	specific	site	in	the	body. At	that	time,	a	fierce	fight	was	under	way
between	those	who	believed	in	diet	and	those	who
supported	surgery	and	the
emerging	use	of	drugs. The	“local	disease”	proponents	argued	that	disease
was	locally	caused	and	could	be	cut	out	or	locally	treated	with	isolated
chemicals. In	contrast,	those	who	favored	diet	and	lifestyle	believed	thatdisease	was	a	symptom	resulting	from	the	“constitutional”	characteristics	of
the	whole	body. I	was	impressed	that	these	old	books	contained	the	same	ideas	about	diet
and	disease	that	had	resurfaced	in	the	health	battles	of	the	1980s. As	I	learned
more	about	Macilwain,	I	came	to	realize	that	he	was	a	relative	of	mine. My
paternal	grandmother’s	maiden	name	was	Macilwain,	and	that	“branch”	of	the
family	had	lived	in	the	same	part	of	Northern	Ireland	that	George	Macilwain
had	come	from. Furthermore,	there	were	family	stories	about	a	famous
Macilwain	who	had	left	the	family	farm	in	Ireland	to	become	a	very	well-
known	doctor	in	London	in	the	early	1800s. My	father,	who	had	emigrated
from	Northern	Ireland,	had	referred	to	an	Uncle	George	when	I	was	young,
but	I	never	was	aware	of	who	this	man	was. Through	further	genealogical
research,	I	have	come	to	the	near	certain	conclusion	that	George	Macilwain
was	my	great-great	uncle. This	discovery	has	been	one	of	the	more	remarkable	stories	of	my	life. My
wife	Karen	says,	“If	there’s	such	a	thing	as	reincarnation.…”	I	agree:	if	I	ever
lived	a	past	life,	it	was	as	George	Macilwain. He	and	I	had	similar	careers;
both	of	us	became	acutely	aware	of	the	importance	of	diet	in	disease,	and	both
of	us	became	vegetarian. Some	of	his	ideas,	written	over	150	years	ago,	were
so	close	to	what	I	believed	that	I	felt	they	could	have	come	from	my	own
mouth. I	discovered	more	than	my	family	history	while	reading	in	these	august,
history-laden	libraries. I	found	out	that	scholars	have	been	arguing	over	the
nature	of	health	for	centuries,	even	millennia. Almost	2,500	years	ago,	Plato
wrote	a	dialogue	between	two	characters,	Socrates	and	Glaucon,	in	which
they	discuss	the	future	of	their	cities. Socrates	says	the	cities	should	be
simple,	and	the	citizens	should	subsist	on	barley	and	wheat,	with	“relishes”	of
salt,	olives,	cheese	and	“country	fare	of	boiled	onions	and	cabbage,”	with
desserts	of	“figs,	pease,	beans,”	roasted	myrtle-berries	and	beechnuts,	and
wine	in	moderation. 2
	Socrates	says,	“And	thus,	passing	their	days	in
tranquility	and	sound	health,	they	will,	in	all	probability,	live	to	an	advanced
age.…”
But	Glaucon	replies	that	such	a	diet	would	only	be	appropriate	for	“a
community	of	swine,”	and	that	the	citizens	should	live	“in	a	civilized
manner.”	He	continues,	“They	ought	to	recline	on	couches…	and	have	the
usual	dishes	and	dessert	of	a	modern	dinner.”	In	other	words,	the
citizens
should	have	the	“luxury”	of	eating	meat. Socrates	replies,	“if	you	wish	us	also
to	contemplate	a	city	that	is	suffering	from	inflammation
We	shall	also	need
great	quantities	of	all	kinds	of	cattle	for	those	who	may	wish	to	eat	them,	shall
we	not?”Glaucon	says,	“Of	course	we	shall.”	Socrates	then	says,	“Then	shall	we
not	experience	the	need	of	medical	men	also	to	a	much	greater	extent	under
this	than	under	the	former	regime?”	Glaucon	can’t	deny	it. “Yes,	indeed,”	he
says. Socrates	goes	on	to	say	that	this	luxurious	city	will	be	short	of	land
because	of	the	extra	acreage	required	to	raise	animals	for	food. This	shortage
will	lead	the	citizens	to	take	land	from	others,	which	could	precipitate
violence	and	war,	thus	a	need	for	justice. Furthermore,	Socrates	writes,	“when
dissoluteness	and	diseases	abound	in	a	city,	are	not	law	courts	and	surgeries
opened	in	abundance,	and	do	not	Law	and	Physic	begin	to	hold	their	heads
high,	when	numbers	even	of	well-born	persons	devote	themselves	with
eagerness	to	these	professions?”	In	other	words,	in	this	luxurious	city	of
sickness	and	disease,	lawyers	and	doctors	will	become	the	norm. 2
Plato,	in	this	passage,	made	it	perfectly	clear:	we	shall	eat	animals	only	at
our	own	peril. Though	it	is	indeed	remarkable	that	one	of	the	greatest
intellectuals	in	the	history	of	the	Western	world	condemned	meat	eating
almost	2,500	years	ago,	I	find	it	even	m


 and place, by
which the linear content is replaced with the nonlinear (context). The
primary underpi nning of the persistence of negativity is the ego ’ s secret
pay-of f from negativity (‘juice’ ). This secret pay-of f is the ego’ s only
source of ener gy, so it sees for giveness, as well as compassion, as the
‘enemy’. (In totalitarian armed forces, no expressions of benevolence,
sympathy, or compassion are allowed as they are considered signs of
weakness and are strictly prohibited.) In the spiritual world, the basic dictum is, “There are no justified
resentments.” This statement is abhorred by the ego. “Oh yeah, ” it says,
“but wh at about so-and-so?” It then goes through its laundry list and
litany of horrors, violations of ‘rights’, injustices, presumptive ar guments
of ‘e thics’, ‘morality’, etc. Every counselor, sponsor, or professional is
familiar with such recitations. T o recover, the question one has to face is
whether one wishes to cling to it (and thereby get the ‘juice’) or give it
up. This is the point of decision, without which healing cannot occur. The decision made at this turning point has actual consequenc es in the
brain’ s p hysiology and its capacity to even comprehend the wisdom of
choosing for giveness instead of hate. (See Brain Physiology diagram,
Chapter 9.) T o help with acceptance of this necessary step, a strong example can be
useful and supportive. Probably the lar gest and most striking example isthat of the vetera ns of W orld W a r II in which the experience of groups as
well as individu al combatants was horrific to the maximal degree. After
the end of the war, the majority of former enemy combata nts very
quickly for gave each other, even formally saluting each other, and
celebrated the end of the conflict. They shook hands in renewed mutual
respect. There were the kamik aze pilots who had strafed on e’ s ship,
killed one’ s comrades, and left many wounded and crippled casualties. On the other side, Americans were the ones who dropped the atomic
bombs t hat killed thousands of civilians. Subsequent to the cessation of
hostilities, there was a strange, a lmost blanket-like acceptance that it was
all over and that it had all ‘just been about war ’. Former combatants even
became close personal friends and periodically visited each other ’ s
families. T o this day, the survivors still commemorate great battles
together. Reluctance to for give is a consequence not only of unwillingness to let
go of the ego ju ice of perceived injustice but also the illusion th at others
do not ‘deserve’  it. In reality, it is the for giver and not the for g iven who
benefits the most. The purpose  of the example is to demonstrate that
even the most severe conditions can be transcended, but only by an act of
the will and the willingness t o surrender the nursing of ha tred and
revenge. One might ask h ow could such a  saintly transformation even be possible,
given the horrific circumstances on both sides, including imprisonment
in POW  camps, starvation, personal torture, gross cruelty, and carnage. In actuality, and psychologically, it really could not be done by the
ego/mind at all because it lacks the necessary power when it is c aught up
in the ener gy field of hate, which calibrates at only 30. Therefore, the
transformative source of power  cannot originate from the mind or the
personality calle d the personal ‘I’. The necessary power resides in the
nonlinear quality of consciousness termed the ‘W ill’, which alone can
open the gates to the power necessary to dissolve the ego’ s positionality. By invit ation, the Holy Spirit tra nsforms comprehension by virtue of the
presence of the healing power o f Grace. What the ego cannot lift with all
its m ight is like  a feather to the Grace of God. As a consequence of the
process of transformation, not o nly are the views of others transformed
from hateful to benign, but the view of self is also transformed.Guilt-ridden cul tures commonly have a negative view of God as being
judgmental, vindictive, angry, and punitive via natural disasters, which
are c ontextualized as punishme nts for wickedness that stem from God. Personal judgment is based on p erception that is reinforced by b elief and
prior pro gramming, all of which are held in place by the pay-of f of the
negative ener gies of the ego. T he ego just ‘loves’ suf fering a ‘wrong’,
being the martyr, being misund erstood, and being the endless victim of
life’ s vic issitudes. It thereby gets an enormous pay-of f, not only from the
positionality its elf but also f rom sympathy, self-pity, entitlements,
importance, or being ‘center stage’ in which the self is the hero or
heroine of the melodrama. The ego hoards ‘slights’ and injuries, nurses
‘hurt feelings’, and stockpiles grievances in this inner melod rama of
injustice collecti ng. T o this end, the collective ego milks ‘right s’, which
can be summoned up and ration alized for any positionality or extremist
viewpoint. The battle over ‘rights’ is the mainstream of the media and
contentious soci al strife termed ‘politics’, for which truth is willingly
sacrificed for gain and for which millions die. Inner examinatio n and self-honesty reveal the secret delights the ego gets
from the nurturance of these ju stifications and protestations. The ego’ s
illusion is that th is process is se lf-nurturing, whereas, in actuality, it has
exactly the opposite ef fect. In re leasing this vicious cycle, it is well to view the totality of human
suf fering and recontextualize the events from the level of com passion. As the Buddha p ointed out, being mortal automatically entails s uf fering,
which is why he taught to seek Enlightenment in order to preclude that
karmically determined recurrence. When one willingly lets a hated
perpetrator ‘of f the hook’ by for giveness, it is not that person who is
taken of f the hook but oneself. As the Buddha also said, there is no
necessity to punish or get even with others because they will bring
themselves down by their own hand. The public often expresses concern that the guilty might go unpunished. Anyone familia r with the reali ty of consciousness and spiritual truth
realizes that no such thing is possible. Everyone is accountab le to the
universe and is subject to Divine Justice by the very dynamics of the
universe itself. Like a cork in the sea, each soul floats to the level of its
own buoyancy, which is not due to some arbitrary act by the sea. There is
no hand on the tiller but one’ s own, which is the total freedom accordedto life by God. No man falls but by his own hand. Even the supposed
‘accidental’ occurrence is merel y a perception. There are no accidents in
the universe, nor are they even a  possibility. What it really mea ns is that
they are unpredictable or inco mprehensible to the linear ego and its
limitation to the Newtonian paradigm of cause and ef fect (cal. level 450). In th e he adlines twenty years ago was the example of an airpla ne flying
at a high altitud e when part of the fuselage flew of f and just on e person
out of the hund reds of passengers on board was sucked ou t. People
congregate in groups because t hey are aligned with the same  attractor
field. When fish at the bottom of the sea swoop about in schools or birds
fly in flocks, each one is where they are, not as a result of their alignment
with the others but because they are all attuned to exactly the same
attractor field. Each one, individually, is following a powerful m agnetic-
like field that in turn is subject to the next higher attractor fiel d, and so
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 Bowel Management and The Doctor -Patient
Handbook, and was doing a lot of reading on self -healing. During the January 13 trauma, the only thing I could think to use was
the lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water cleanse which I did for one week while I was scurrying around getting a
colema board and making numerous phone calls to find out where to get the supplements for the cleanse. I had no one to advise me
on anything as no one in my home area knew anything about it. Needless to say, I learned the hard way. That 7 -day fast was
followed by a 7 -day intensive cleanse, than the usual maintenance program advised by Dr. Jensen. I couldn’t remember feeling so
terrific for a long time. My energy was great, the color came back to my skin and my eyes started to turn blue again. Rest is
advised during the cleanse but as I was self employed, I found those weeks t o be the busiest weeks of my entire career. I had so
much energy I just did not want to rest. I do Latin -American and ballroom dancing and on those three Saturday evenings during
the cleanse, I danced from 8 pm to 1 am non -stop. After the first week, I was  asked if I had been to Florida as people said I looked
so rested and had such good color. When I told my friends what I was doing, most panicked and were full of good advice as to
what I should or should not do. They said it wasn’t good for me to go witho ut food; I would get too weak; I would get too thin;
and I was even told I would die. They had to admit that I looked terrific, but still the pressure came forward. I had to be r eally
strong and know that I was doing the right thing. I have done six intens e cleanses (Jensen’s method) since January 1982. When I
start to feel lethargic and ache all over, I know I have another build up of toxins. I get bored of doing the cleanse (taking  the
supplements mostly) after the 6th day and want to stop, but when I see  what I am expelling, I am motivated to continue. If I can
get rid of lumps on my breasts, restore the color of my eyes to blue, have great skin color and tone, abundant energy and gen erally
feel great, anyone can. Patient M.T., Male, Degenerative Bowel Condition
I began the tissue cleansing treatments on September 8, 1982, and have continued with one colema every day since that time. I
have had a degenerative bowel condition for some time, and the most spectacular result of the tissue cleansing has been the
unbelievable material I have passed from my bowel. Patient R.D., Male, Psoriasis
Since 1971, I had has psoriasis of the head area. On the fourth day of my tissue cleansing program, about 80% of the scales c ame
off. This has never happened to me before. I was happy to have a small healing crisis during the 7 -day tissue cleansing program at
Dr. Jensen’s Ranch. When the fever, headache and eye aches began, I took a colema and passed much mucus and rubbery material. I felt much better, but later it returne d. Another colema was taken, and this time about one or two quarts of rubbery fecal material
passed out, leaving me free of symptoms. That night I passed mucus from my eyes, with a slight eye ache, but no fever or
headache. Patient A.M.B., Female, Rheumat oid Arthritis
When I began the tissue cleansing program, I could hardly use my hands. My left knee was so swollen I couldn’t move it. Durin g
the program, my hands became more flexible, and the swelling and soreness in the palm of my right hand improved. Th e swelling
in my knee decreased until I could walk without pain. My back is not aching all the time now and seems stronger. My feet aren ’t
so tender on the bottoms. Patient V.P., Male, Heart Condition
Before I took the tissue cleansing program, I had had a stroke, and my left arm was paralyzed. I arrived at the Ranch in a car
driven by my wife. I was sitting in a reclining position from which I couldn’t get up without severe stomach pain, and my fac e was
pulling on one side as if stretching my mouth up. On ly a few days before, I would wake up in the morning upset because life just
didn’t seem worth facing. In four days I was able to climb into the shower by myself, put myself on the colema board and get off
unassisted. I was able to get around without my ca ne. I began to wake up happy in the mornings, able to get up from a reclining
position without pain. My legs seemed smaller, not as much swelling. It was hard for me to believe the stuff that was coming out
of me during the colema. Toward the end of the pr ogram, I seemed to develop a little feeling in my paralyzed left arm. At the
hospitals and nursing home, I never felt better, but during the tissue cleansing program at the Ranch, I continued to improve
steadily. Patient M.S., Female, Degenerative Lymph C ondition
Three years ago I was told that I had a dangerous lymph condition which was treated and went into remission. I was very thank ful
but disappointed from the fact that although the condition had gone into remission, the cause was never explained, nor  was it
treated, but merely the symptoms. A short while after this I happened to hear about Dr. Jensen’s tissue cleansing program. I read
his book on the subject and, in my opinion, everything made sense. I went on the program in December 1982. The elimina tion was
unbelievable during my first 7 -day cleanse. I have since been on two more 7 -day cleanses using the maintenance program in
between each. The results were amazing! I no longer felt lumps under my arms or in my groin. My breathing was clearer. I felt  as
if my whole body was becoming unclogged. My eyes became brighter and my skin softer and smoother. The veins in my legs are
disappearing. I very rarely have depression as before. My hair and nails are in the best condition ever. I know I will never get any
degenerative disease again as long as I eat the proper foods and keep my colon clean! Patient H.E., Female, Scleroderma
I was diagnosed as having scleroderma in 1972 by a doctor who surgically removed a large calcified lump near my elbow. Scleroderma is a progressive skin disease often involving the internal organs such as heart and kidneys. I had a thickening of the
skin and underlying tissue, great sensitivity to cold, a raw throat, dryness of lips and mouth, shortness of breath, fatique and vague
joint and muscle aches. In 1974, a doctor prescribed Potaba capsules, and this, in conjunction with biweekly chiropractic
treatments, was effective in softening the skin and reducing muscle spasms. On April 17, 1982, I started Dr. Jensen’s 7 -day
cleansing pr ogram. By the end of the week, I noticed my skin was softer, the swelling had reduced in my hands and fingers and the
red areas on my legs had faded. On the follow -up maintenance program, I found my mental outlook improved and I had increased
tolerance to cold weather. Patient S.D., Female, Anemia
When I started the tissue cleansing program, my lab blood test showed a red blood cell count of 3.84 (normal is 4.8) and a
hemoglobin of 10.7 (normal is 14.0). I had been tired much of the time for the past sever al months and had lower back and neck
pains. Chiropractic treatments didn’t help. At the end of the 7 -day program, my back felt much better, and I began taking
supplements recommended by Dr. Jensen. A month after my first blood test, a second blood test sh owed my red blood count was
up to 4.47 and my hemaglobin was 12.8. My energy is much better, and the fatigue is gradually leaving. Patient E.P., 70 -year-old Female, Arthritis
The doctor who treated me said that drugs would bring the only relief for the terrible pains in my neck. So I took Percodan and
Bulazolidin for pain; Phenylbutazone, a steroid, once a week and Ascriptin daily. I was told to eat anything I wanted, that c offee
and diet had nothing to do with arthritis. I took these prescriptions for o ne year and still was not getting much relief. Then I
changed direction. I started a nutritional program, an elimination program and natural food supplements. I was asked to drop all
drugs, much to my reluctance. I started trembling, and withdrawal symptom s developed. Nevertheless, I went right into the
program outlined by Dr. Jensen. Within a week, I found myself free of pain and feeling very well without drugs. One -and-a-half
months later, feeling exceptionally good, I suddenly developed a fever of 105 de grees, swollen face and eye, with a headache such
as I had never experienced before. I thought my


 to feel thankful. If I want something, ei -
ther for myself or another, I immobilize the  physical body, then I produce
the state akin to sleep  and in that state I  just feel happy, feel thankful. Thankfulness implies realization of what I want. I assume  the feeling  of
the wish fulfilled  and with my mind  dominated  by this single sensation I
go to sleep. I need  do nothing  to make it so, because  it is so. My feeling
of the  wish fulfilled  implies it is done. All these  techniques you  can use  and change  them to fit your tempera -
ment. But I must emphasize the  necessity of inducing  the drowsy state
where  you can become  attentive without effort. A single  sensation dominates the  mind, if you  pray successfully. What would  I feel like,  now, were  I what I want to be? When I know  what
the feeling  would  be like I then close  my eyes and  lose myself in that sin -
gle sensation and  my dimensionally greater  Self then builds a  bridge  of
incident to lead  me from this present moment to the  fulfillment of my
mood. That is all you  need do. But people  have a habit of slighting  the im-
portance of simple  things. We are creatures of habit and  we are slowly learning  to relinquish our
previous concepts, but the  things we formerly lived  by still in some  way
influence our behavior Here  is a  story from the  Bible that illustrates my
point. It is recorded  that Jesus told  his disciples to go to the  crossroads and
there  they would  find a colt, a  young  colt not yet ridden by a  man. To
bring the colt to him and  if any man  ask, "Why do you  take this colt?" say,
"The Lord has need  of it." They went to the  crossroads and  found  the colt and  did exactly as they
were told. They   brought the  unbridled  ass to Jesus and  He rode it tri-
umphantly into Jerusalem. The story has nothing  to do with a  man riding  on a little colt. You  are Je-
sus of the  story. The  colt is the  mood  you are going  to assume. That is
the living  animal not yet ridden by  you. What would  the feeling be like
were you to realize your desire? A new  feeling, like  a young  Colt, is a  very
difficult thing  to ride  unless you  ride him with a  disciplined  mind. If I do
not remain faithful to the  mood  the young  colt throws me  off. Every time
you become  conscious that you  are not faithful to this mood, you have
been thrown from the  colt. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenDiscipline  your mind  that you  may remain faithful to a  high mood and
ride it triumphantly  into Jerusalem, which is fulfillment, or the  city of
peace. This story precedes the  feast of the  Passover. If we  would  pass from our
present state  into that of our ideal, we must assume  that we  are already
that which we  desire  to be and remain faithful to our assumption, for we
must keep  a high mood  if we would  walk with the  highest. A fixed  attitude  of mind, a  feeling  that it is done  will make it so. If I walk
as though it  were, but every once in a  while I look  to see if it really is,
then I fall off my mood  or colt. If I would  suspend  judgment like  Peter I could  walk on the  water. Peter
starts walking  on the water, and  then he  begins to look  unto his own un -
derstanding  and he begins to go  down. The  voice said, "Look  up, Peter." Peter looks up  and he rises again and  continues walking  on the  water. Instead  of looking  down to see if this thing  is really going  to harden into
fact, you  simply  know  that it is already so, sustain that mood  and you will
ride the unbridled  colt into the city of Jerusalem. All of us must learn to
ride the animal straight into Jerusalem unassisted by a  man. You  do not
need another  to help  you. The strange  thing is that as we  keep the high mood  and do not fall, oth -
ers cushion the  blows. They spread  the palm leaves before  me to cushion
my journey. I do not have  to be concerned. The  shocks will be  softened  as
I move  into the  fulfillment of my desire. My  high mood  awakens in others
the ideas and  actions which tend  towards the  embodiment of my mood. If
you walk faithful to a  high mood  there  will be  no opposition and  no com -
petition. The test of a  teacher, or a  teaching, is to be  found  in the  faithfulness of
the taught. I am  leaving  here on Sunday night. Do remain faithful to this
instruction. If you  look for causes outside  the consciousness of man, then
I have  not convinced  you of the  reality of consciousness. If you  look for excuses for failure  you will always find  them, for you find
what you  seek. If you  seek an excuse  for failure,  you will find  it in the
stars,  in the  numbers,  in the  tea cup, or most any place. The excuse  will
not be  there  but you  will find  it to justify your failure. Successful business and  professional men and  women know  that this law
works. You  will not find  it in gossip  groups, but you  will find  it in coura -
geous hearts. Man's eternal journey is for one  purpose:  to reveal the  Father. He  comes
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havento make visible  his Father. And  his Father  is made visible  in all the  lovely
things of this world. All the things that are  lovely, that are  of good  report,
ride these  things, and  have no time  for the  unlovely in this world, regard -
less of what it is. Remain faithful to the  knowledge of your consciousness, your I AMness,
your awareness of being  aware  of the  only reality. It is the  rock on which
all phenomena  can be   explained. There  is no explanation outside  of that. I know  of no clear conception of the  origin of phenomena  save that con -
sciousness is all and  all is consciousness. That which you  seek is already housed  within you. Were  it not now  within
you eternity  could  not evolve  it. No time  stretch would  be long enough to
evolve  what is not  potentially involved  in you. You simply let it into being  by assuming  that it is already visible  in your
world, and   remaining  faithful to your assumption, it will harden into fact. Your Father  has unnumbered  ways of revealing  your assumption. Fix this
in your mind  and always remember, "An assumption, though false,  if sus -
tained  will harden into fact." You and your Father  are one and your Father  is everything  that was, is
and will be. Therefore  that which you  seek you already are, it can nev -
er be so far  off as even to be   near, for nearness implies separation. The great Pascal said, "You  never  would  have sought me  had you not al -
ready found  me. "What you  now desire  you already have  and you seek it
only because  you have already  found  it. You  found  it in the  form of de -
sire. It is just as real in the  form of desire  as it is going  to be to your bod -
ily organs. You are already that which you  seek and you have no one  to change  but
Self in order  to express it. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenLesson V: Remain Faithful to Your Idea
Tonight we have  the fifth and  last lesson in this course. First I shall give
you a sort of summary of what has gone  before. Then, since so many of
you have asked  me to elaborate  further  on Lesson 3, I shall give you a
few more  ideas on thinking  fourth dimensionally. I know  that when a  man sees a  thing clearly he  can tell it, he  can explain
it. This past winter  in Barbados a  fisherman, whose  vocabulary would  not
encompass a  thousand  words, told  me more in five  minutes about the be -
havior of the  dolphin than Shakespeare with his vast vocabulary could
have told me, if he did not know  the habits of the  dolphin. This fisherman told  me how the dolphin loves to play on a  piece of drift -
wood, and  in order  to catch him, you  throw  the wood  out and  bait him as
you


 aware. "The real secret of power is consciousness of
power. " As you become aware of the power of The Secret, and begin to use
it, all of your questions will be answered. As you begin to have
a deeper understanding of the law of attraction you can start to
make asking questions a habit and as you do, you will receive the
answer to each one. You can begin by using this book for that very 172 The Secret
purpose. If you are seeking an answer or guidance on something
in your life, ask the question, believe you will receive, and then
open this book randomly. At the exact place where the pages fall
open will be the guidance and answer you are seeking. The truth is that the Universe has been answering you all of your
life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are aware. Be
aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the
answers to your questions in every moment of the day. The chan-
nels those answers can come through are unlimited. They could
be delivered in the form of a newspaper headline that attracts
your attention, or overhearing someone speaking, or a song on
the radio, or signage on a truck passing by, or receiving a sudden
inspiration. Remember to remember, and become aware. I have found in my own life and in others' lives that we do not
think well of ourselves or love ourselves completely. To not love
ourselves can keep what we want from us. When we don't love
ourselves, we are literally pushing things away from us. Everything we want, whatever it may be, is motivated by love. It
is to experience the feelings of love in having those things—youth,
money, the perfect person, job, body, or health. To attract the things
we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear im
mediately. The catch is, to transmit the highest frequency of love, you must
love yourself, and that can be difficult for many. If you focus on the
outside and what you see now, you may trip yourself up, because The Secret to You 173
what you see and feel about you now is the result of what you used
to think. If you don't love you, the person you see now is likely to
be full of faults that you have found in yourself. To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and
sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus
on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a
feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is
the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on
that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will
love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life. Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus
immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal
itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested
in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the
light of this presence. Whether you want to regain perfect eyesight,
dissolve disease and restore well-being, turn poverty into abun-
dance, reverse aging and degeneration, or eradicate any negativ-
ity, focus on and love the presence within you and perfection will
manifest. "The absolute truth is that the'I'is perfect
and complete; the real'I'is spiritual and can
therefore never be less than perfect; it can never
have any lack, limitation, or disease. " • Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically
energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to eve-
rything you want. • You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be cre-
ated or destroyed—it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence
of you has always been and always will be. • The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of
our own destiny but also of the Universe. • An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge,
discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibili-
ties, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold eve-
rything in your consciousness. • We are all connected, and toe are all One. • Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social be-
liefs.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: According to the authors, what is the ultimate source of power and potential?,
A: The Supreme Mind or the One Consciousness.
Q: What is the key to manifesting one's desires, according to the authors?,
A: Focusing on the present moment and radiating joy, love, and enthusiasm.
Q: According to the authors, can one's negative thoughts and emotions harm others?,
A: No, according to the authors, one's negative thoughts and emotions can only harm oneself.
Q: What is the main theme of the book "The Secret"?,
A: The power of the human mind and the law of attraction, and how to use it to manifest one's desires.
Q: What is the author's advice on how to overcome negative emotions and thoughts?,
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Introduction
Background and History of Gerson Therapy:
How Gerson Therapy Works
The Gerson Therapy involves a low-sodium or saltless diet to support the
body's natural healing processes. Here are some tips and preparation methods for a saltless diet as part of
the Gerson Therapy:
Nutrition plays a crucial role in healing and maintaining good health. Here are some ways in which nutrition can support the healing process:Following the Gerson Therapy on your Own
Why Are People Interested in Gerson Therapy for Cancer? Tips for achieving a healthy diet that help reduce cancer risk
Meal Planning And Preparation
Weekly Meal Planning
Juicing Recipes For Gerson Diet
Here are recipes and their preparation methods for the Gerson Therapy diet :
Introduction
The Gerson Therapy diet is an alternative cancer treatment developed by
Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920s. It involves a specific dietary regimen along
with other complementary therapies such as cof fee enemas and
supplements. It is important to note that the Gerson Therapy diet is not
scientifically proven or widely accepted as an ef fective treatment for cancer
by the medical community. The Gerson Therapy diet primarily focuses on consuming or ganic fruits and
vegetables, particularly raw juices. The diet emphasizes the consumption of
fresh, or ganic fruits and vegetables to provide high amounts of vitamins,
minerals, and enzymes. It typically involves drinking around 13 glasses of
fresh juices per day, including carrot, apple, and green leafy vegetable
juices. In addition to the juice, the Gerson Therapy diet also includes a low-sodium
vegetarian diet, which includes plant-based foods such as cooked
vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. It restricts the intake of salt, fats,
and oils. Cof fee enemas are also a key part of the therapy and are believed
to aid in detoxification.The proponents of Gerson Therapy claim that this regimen helps to boost
the body's natural healing ability, detoxify the body, and strengthen the
immune system to fight against cancer. However, it's important to note that
there is a lack of scientific evidence supporting the ef fectiveness of Gerson
Therapy in treating cancer, and it should not be used as a substitute for
conventional medical treatments. Cancer patients should always consult
with their healthcare providers and rely on evidence-based treatments. Background and History of Gerson Therapy:
Gerson Therapy was developed by Dr. Max Gerson, a German-born
physician, in the early 20th century. Dr. Gerson began his medical career
specializing in internal medicine and eventually focused on developing a
holistic approach to treating chronic diseases, particularly cancer. The foundation of Gerson Therapy was established in the 1920s when Dr. Gerson started experimenting with dietary interventions to address various
health conditions. He believed that toxins in the body played a significant
role in the development and progression of diseases, including cancer. Based on this premise, he developed a dietary protocol aimed at detoxifying
the body and supporting natural healing. Dr. Gerson's work gained attention in the 1940s when he began treating
cancer patients with his dietary approach. He reported positive outcomes
and attracted both praise and controversy within the medical community. His treatment approach involved a combination of or ganic plant-based
foods, raw juices, cof fee enemas, and specific supplements to support the
body's healing processes. In the following years, Dr. Gerson and his daughter, Charlotte Gerson,
continued to refine and promote Gerson Therapy. They established the
Gerson Institute in the United States, which became a center for research,
education, and the dissemination of information about the therapy. TheGerson Institute continues to operate today, providing information, support,
and training for individuals interested


 people are exceedingly limited in variety and quantity, due to the
absence of rains, and unfertility of the soil. For plant foods they used roots, stems, leaves, berries
and seeds of grasses and a native pea eaten with tissues of large and small animals. The large
animals available are the kangaroo and wallaby. Among the small animals they have a variety of
rodents, insects, beetles and grubs, and wherever available various forms of animal life from the
rivers and oceans. Birds and birds' eggs are used where available. They are able to balance their
rations to provide the requisites for splendid body building and body repair. In several parts of
Australia, which originally supported a large population of the primitives, none are left except a few
score in reservations. These also are rapidly disappearing. Their fertility has been so greatly
reduced that the death rate far exceeds the birth rate. This group provides evidence of exceptional efficiency in obeying the laws of Nature through
thousands of years, even in a parched land that is exceedingly inhospitable because of the scant
plant foods for either men or animals. While the Aborigines are credited with being the oldest race
on the face of the earth today, they are dying out with great rapidity wherever they have changed
their native nutrition to that of the modern white civilization. For them this is not a matter of choice,
but rather of necessity, since in a large part of Australia the few that are left are crowded into
reservations where they have little or no access to native foods and are compelled to live on the
foods provided for them by our white civilization. They demonstrate in a tragic way the inadequacy
of the white man's dietary programs. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 11
ISOLATED AND MODERNIZED TORRES
STRAIT ISLANDERS
IN STUDYING the relationship between nutrition and physical characteristics, it is important to
make observations at the point of contact with civilization where as few factors as possible in the
environment have been modified by that contact. My previous studies have shown that wherever
groups of people were utilizing sea foods abundantly in connection with land plants including roots,
greens and fruits, they enjoyed fine physical development with uniform reproduction of the racial
pattern and a very high immunity to dental caries. For this particular study we wished to select a
racial group living on islands in tropical or subtropical climate, whose ancestral stocks differed
from those previously observed, and which was located at points of contact with modern
civilization. A high level of excellence might be expected among the groups who were in process of
being modernized but were still utilizing the native foods. For this study the inhabitants of islands north of Australia were chosen in order to record the7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 115/250effect on the Asiatic and Malay stocks at the points of contact of the north with the south and of
the east with the west. In the Torres Strait there are a number of fertile islands supporting
populations of from several hundred to a few thousand individuals each. These groups are in an
area of the sea that is well stocked with sea animal life, and during the past they have been
sufficiently isolated to provide protection. The racial stocks have retained their identities and
include Papuans, New Guineans, Mobuiags, Arakuns, Kendals and Yonkas. The splendid dental
arches of these groups will be seen in the various illustrations. Many of the girls are quite
prepossessing, as may be seen in Fig. 61. FIG. 61. The inhabitants of the islands north of Australia
have splendidly built bodies with fine facial and dental arch
form. With the valuable assistance of the officials of the Australian Government we were able to make
investigations on several islands in the Torres Strait. The local administrator provided us with a
government boat and personal introductions to the local chief and local representatives of the
government. We were accompanied by the administrator and by the general manager of the
government stores. These stores have been located on the various islands, and the profit derived
from them is used for administrative expenses of the government. They provide modern clothing in
addition to foods, chiefly white flour, polished rice, canned goods, and sugar. Studies were made
on the various islands in the order in which the stores had been installed on them. It is important to
have in mind the nature of these islands. Some are of volcanic origin and have rugged interiors with
deep bays; others are of coral origin. All are in a zone that is abundantly supplied with sea animal
life, this being the scene of the richest pearl fishing industry in the world.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 116/250    Badu Island had had the store for the longest period, namely twenty-three years. Of the 586
teeth of twenty individuals examined, 20.6 per cent had been attacked by tooth decay. Of the
individuals examined 95 per cent had dental caries. Unfortunately, our stay at this island was
accompanied by a torrential downpour which made it very difficult for us to carry forward our
investigations. Had we been able to examine the mothers the figures doubtless would have been
much higher. The children were examined at the school and showed 18.8 per cent of the teeth to
have been attacked by tooth decay. The men examined showed 21.9 per cent. Figures given me
by Dr. Gibson, who had been taken by the government to the island to make extractions, showed
that he found as high as 60 per cent of the teeth had been attacked by tooth decay. For the
children of this group, 33.3 per cent had abnormal dental arches, whereas only 9.1 per cent of the
adults' arches were abnormally formed. On York Island, 1,876 teeth of sixty-five individuals showed that 12.7 per cent had been
attacked by tooth decay. For the women, this was 20.2 per cent; for the men, 12.1 per cent; and
for the children, 7 per cent. For the children, 47.1 per cent had abnormal dental arches; for the
adults, 27 per cent were affected. The individuals on this island had been in contact with the pearl
fisheries industry for several years. Several of the men had been working on the fishing boat. Of
the sixtyfive individuals examined, 67.6 per cent had dental caries. On Darnley Island, thirty-three individuals showed that of their 900 teeth 5.7 per cent had been
attacked by tooth decay. The store had been established on this island recently. For the women,
16.6 per cent of the teeth had been attacked; for the men, 6.3 per cent; and for the children, 4.1
per cent. On this island, 29.6 per cent of the children showed abnormal dental arches, and 14.3
per cent of the adults. Of the whole group, 46.1 per cent had been attacked by dental caries. On Murray Island where a store had recently been established, of the 1,074 teeth examined for
39 individuals, only 0.7 per cent of the teeth had been attacked by tooth decay. For the women,
this amounted to 2 per cent; for the men, 1.7 per cent; and for the children, 0.26 per cent. Only
12.8 per cent of the group had dental caries. It is significant that the natives were conscious of a
danger from the presence on the island of a store providing imported foods. This had been so
serious a problem that there was a question whether it would be safe for us to land, since on the
last visit of the government officials, blood was almost shed because of the opposition of the
natives to the government s program. The result of our examination indicates that dental caries on
these islands shows an incidence which has an apparent direct relationship to the length of time
government stores have been established there. The immunity to dental caries on this island is
nearly 100 per cent. Of the adults, 14.3 per cent had abnormal dental arches, and of the children,
34.4 per cent. Thursday Island is the location of the administrative center for the group. Although it is the best
sheltered harbor and affords protection for small boats in the Torres Strait, it was not originally
inhabited by the natives. They considered it unfit for habitation because the soil was so poor that it
could not provide the proper plant foods to be eaten with the sea foods which are abundant about
all of the islands. Nearly all of the whites inhabiting the islands of this district live on this island. They are the families of the administrative officers and of merchants who are engaged in the pearl
industry. Owing to the infertility of the soil, practically all of the food has to be shipped in except
the little that the whites obtain from the sea. On the island there were many native families, with
children attending the native school, while their fathers worked in the pearling fleets. Thirty
individuals in three fleets were examined, and of their 960 teeth only thirty-five had been attacked
by dental caries, or 3.6 per cent. Of these thirty individuals, five, or 16.3 per cent had abnormal
dental arches. The men who had teeth attacked by dental caries informed me that this had
h


 The value 318'5, however, could occur by
chance less than once in a million trials, whence it is argued that
potential polarity and morphology of tissues are correlated. The importance of these results lies in their use as a screening
test. It is admittedly a time consuming and expensive task to
make clinical examinations which include microscopic examina
tion of biopsy material. The electro-metric test can be recorded
routinely by quali�ed. technicians, at the rate of �ve per hour per
instrument. Large scale testing can be planned at a low unit cost. The present results strongly indicate that the presence of neo
plastic tissue can be discovered in a large proportion of patients. Many of the negative potentials recorded will not mean malig
nancy, but 95% of the malignancies should be uncovered as the
result of finding negative potentials. Hence we have this situation, which we can conclude from the
results: in testing the general female population, most cases of
malignancy of the generative tract will be discovered, while a
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methodology but in the present case the correlation is so marked
that simple statistical tests can be applied to indicate the degree of
correlation quite accurately. In the present study, * unless we are the victims of a rare event,
in nine out of ten cases of malignancy, negative potential has
been recorded. This is not the place to go deeply into the consideration of
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chi-square values calculated therefrom which show conclusively
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INCLU DING HYPNO TIC STAT ES·
Leonard J. Ravitz, M.S., M.D., F.R.S.H. t
1
The abysmal lack of growth, particularly in the United States,
of true scientific breakthroughs in the social sciences may perhaps
be related to a neglected historic fact: no basic scientific ad
vances have stemmed from any pragmatic emphasis either on
directly sensed natural history data or on directly sensed opera
tional procedures. Yet if one is to gain any glimmer of under
standing of man, it would seem proper first to ask fundamental
questions of Old Mother Nature. Contrary to basic assumptions
implicit in most of the currently fashionable approaches, man
is part and parcel of nature, a meticulously designed product
exhibiting the same inorganic constituents found in nature. The
glob of protoplasm that develops into the optic nerve, for
instance, seldom loses its way to end up at the big toe. To
* Condensed from a paper presented at Vth International Congress
for Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg
University, D6soo Mainz/ Germany, May 22, 1970. Published in
Journal of Amer ican Society of Psychosomatic Dentis try and
Medici ne, Vol. 17, NO.4, 1970.
t Diplom ate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
Special Medical Consul tant, Frederick Military Academy; Con
sultant, Virginia Department of Health; Fellow, New York
Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Psychiatric Association;
Charter Fellow, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, President,
Virginia Section; Fellow, American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. Fellow, Royal Society of Health. Graduate of
Western Reserve, Wayne, and Yale Universities; formerly on
faculties of Yale, Duke, and University of Pennsylvania Schools of
Medicine. Member, Sigma Xi; President' s Commit tee for Handi
capped. SE LEC TED PAPERS
be sure we have facile explanations in terms of conventional
mechanic al and chemical tropisms. And did not Bergson and
Driesch coin Clans vitals and entelechies- supernatural agents
defying scientific analyses which could sit on top of cells and tell
them what to do? Cells belonging to special creations, in this
universe but not of it, obeying their own special man·made laws,
expanded by Freud into complex pluralistic interactions of
mystical mental parts and mental forces. Yet true knowledge of any subject matter cannot progress
either by shifting terminology or creating supernatural factors
whose very existence is guaranteed only by sheer acts of faith. As Dr. Burr has described in the preceding pages, instruments
have found what he and Dr. Northrop postulated over thirty
years ago. Countless experiments have demonstrated that the
electric fields they discovered serve basic functions, controlling
growth and morphogenesis, maintenance and repair of living
things. Naturally, these differ from the alternating-current elec
tric output of the brain and heart, as well as from the epiphenom
enal skin-resis tance, serving rather as an electronic matrix to keep
the corporal form in shape. Obviously such studies throw a wet blanket on scientific dogma
currently in vogue. which still asserts that the special human
body is principally a chemical product deriving from mystical
activities of the DNA molecule. However disquieting, chemistry
represents a scalar property-the downhill flow of energy-re
quiring some vector force to give it direction. According to Dr.
Henry Margenau, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and
Natural Philosophy at Yale University. of all the known forces
it is only electro-magnetic, or electro-dynamic, fields which can
act as signposts to direct such continuous chemical, metabolic, or
molecular transformations in the system-fields which. in fact,
appear to underwrite the development of structure even prior
to any known chemical reactions. That such field measurements
can be related to energy seems obvious, natural energy which
directs and/or misdirects the behaviour of living systems in a
continuous stream of flux and reflux. * * * SEL ECTED PAPERS
As an objective, reproducible, quantifiable, measurable clue to
basic biologic processes seemed to be at hand, operating independ
ently of current flow or resistance changes, it was logical to
extend such experiments to longitudinal studies of human sub
jects in health and disease, experiments which through use of
this new amplifier could also possibly shed light on the heretofore
inexplicable phenomena of 'hypnosis'. Despite the profound
physiologic changes in the system that can obtain from hypnotic
states, hypnosis had continued to elude any objective, quanti
fiable, reproducible measure, even with the EEG and with
secondary skin-resistance changes, notorious for their general
ir


 realistic time
frame. One of the many reasons cancer is such an effective killer is its ability to destroy
completely the individual's w ill to live. The patient suffers overwhelming pain, and
his prognosis is rarely very optimistic. Any strength he might possess to combat the
disease is soon exhausted, and death ceases to be viewed as something to be
avoided. In death, the pain will be gone. The patient w ill no longer be forced to face
the people he loves and the sorrow his suffering has brought them. Death becomes a
friend, not an adversary. My mother and grandmother Kelley have told me stories of
how terrible a thing it was to watch. Unfortunately (or very fortunately), my mother had some more unpleasant news for
him. Mom has always had a real talent with a credit card. Due to the fact that we
were living heavily in debt, she had quietly allowed Dad's life insurance to lapse. His
death would leave his wife and three young daughters destitute. I  imagine Dad was very angry. He had come to terms with dying, but this news
surely obliterated any peace of mind he might have attained. At some point, he made
the decision to do whatever he could to live. I  don't know from what source he found
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the strength to attempt the impossible. Maybe his anger provided the motivation. (After all, if he died, he wouldn't be able to kill my mom!) Instead of tinkering with Twinkles, Dad now began tinkering with himself. The
doctors had offered him no hope and no help; his only option was to take his case
into his own hands. He wasn't overly armed for the fight; one of his degrees is in
biochemistry, and he knew of several people conducting innovative research in
natural healing. His illness was so severe that, by trial and error, he was able to
determine quickly what substances (food, vitamins, and/or minerals) swung the
pendulum of his well being in what direction. Virtually everything the rest of the
family ate would make him wretchedly ill. I  remember sitting down to fried chicken
with mashed potatoes and gravy while dad dined on vile-smelling liver. My sisters
and I  didn't understand why he was eating this way; no one told us he was dying. Anyway, Dad must have done something right. Two months came and went, and
the next four followed suit. During this time (and for sometime after, to be sure), Dad
was critically ill; and for the purposes of this paper and its space limitation, I  have
greatly simplified the things he did to get well. But the bottom line is still the same; he
didn't die. Word got around — boy did it get around! The parents of Dad's orthodontic
patients started asking him for advice about their ills and those of their loved ones. And Dad naively dispensed it. I  don't believe it ever occurred to him to do otherwise. Many of those asking his advice were friends or, at least, people he knew. He simply
told them what he had done to help himself. He had "been there" and knew first
hand the agony a cancer patient experiences. Here were people in desperate need of
help. If he knew something that might ease their pain at all, he felt it was his moral
duty to tell them. And many of those who did what he said got well. People came to see Dr. Kelley in increasing numbers, and they weren't looking to
have braces put on their kids' teeth. Since he had to earn a living for his family but
still felt a moral obligation to help anyone he could, he wrote a slim booklet in 1969
entitled One Answer To Cancer. In it was the story of his personal encounter with
malignancy and the theoretical explanation of the procedures he used in getting well. After the publication of One Answer To Cancer,  things really started to happen. As
you might imagine, the American Medical Association, the State Board of Dental
Examiners, and a host of other health-oriented organizations began to get hostile. He
endured a great deal of persecution during this time, and found himself in quite a
dilemma. On one hand, the number of individuals seeking his help was ever
increasing; on the other, charges of "practicing medicine without a license" were
being leveled at him. Eventually, he began seeing cancer patients for a living and
started charging for his services. However, he saw only those people whose doctors
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had referred their patients to him. He consulted with the individual as well as the
physician involved, always working well within the law. At the last count with which
I  am familiar, he has worked with over 33,000 patients in this way. Dr. Kelley's case load has always been predictably lopsided; until recently, the
only patients who came to him did so after being advised that there was nothing left
to do but buy their burial plots and make out their wills. They had tried everything
else before coming to see him. It is really amazing that he was able to save any of
them at all. A great many of those early patients are alive and well today, singing his
praises to anyone who w ill listen. In the cases of those who he was not able to save,
their quality of life was still drastically improved. Many who succumbed to their
illnesses did so without the reality-distorting drugs they once took for pain relief. Noting this, many of their relatives became vocal supporters of my father's work as
well. Dad has helped blaze a trail; he has been a genuine pioneer in his field. I  think the
phrase "health food nut" must have been coined specifically to describe him. It is
difficult now to remember how "far out" his concepts were considered in 1969. Just
as women today take for granted the rights their forerunners worked so hard to win, it
is easy to forget that Dad preached health foods and ecology long before it became
"chic" to do so. When I  was growing up, many of my friends asked me why I  never
had acne at all; I  was too embarrassed to tell them. I  must admit I  am shocked to see
things I  was forced to consume and used to hide frantically (such as granola or carrot
juice) not only socially acceptable but become socially desirable! When friends came over to play with my sisters and me, there were no snacks we
felt comfortable offering them. There was food in the house, to be sure, but nothing
they might recognize. The milk in the refrigerator was raw goat's milk (we had a goat
in the backyard — that by itself caused a great deal of comment). My mother milled
wheat to make her own flour to bake her own bread. Instead of sugar, the sweetener
our family used was blackstrap molasses. Carob brownies are terrific, but if I  offered
them, I  would have to explain that chocolate was not allowed in our house. People
thought my parents were crazy, and I  didn't really disagree. Moreover, it wasn't just that we ate differently, Dad used the members of our
family as guinea pigs to check out every new theory he came across in his research. For instance, he had all the silver fillings taken out of my mouth and replaced with
gold. There had been quite a bit of silver in there, so the procedure took a long time
and was very expensive. I  didn't understand why he wanted to do this, nor did I
bother to ask for an explanation. Nothing Dad did at this time made sense to my
sisters or me; we just rolled our eyes and did as we were told. Just within the last
year, however, I  have heard the news that the composition of silver fillings changes
over time, sometimes producing the same symptoms as does mercury poisoning. This
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is just one example out of hundreds. I  am still discovering on a daily basis just how
much ahead of his time my father has been, and now I  can appreciate the courage it
must have taken to adhere to the truths he found. Dr. Kelley has never refused any patient. His philosophy is: "Where there's life,
there's hope." When actor Steve McQueen came to him for help, he did not turn him
away although he knew that accepting the man as a patient was actually very
dangerous. McQueen had a rare form of cancer, mesothelioma, which, to date, is
always fatal. Again, he had been told to "get his affairs in order" by every physician
he had seen; they offered him no hope. All the medical community could offer Mr.
McQueen was a short delay of the inevitable by using surgery and chemotherapy. Steve McQueen was not unlike the rebel and the fighter he portrayed on-screen. Rejecting the concept of lying in a hospital bed, passively awaiting death, he
preferred to fight to live, even in the face of odds no one could deny. Too, he had
seen his friends (specifically, John Wayne) undergo the procedures the doctors
recommended. He wanted no part of the slow, painful mutilation that held no hope
of survival. The last thing anyone involved wanted was that the story of McQueen's illness and
subsequent treatment be leaked to the press. McQueen himself did not want the
public to know he was ill; the people surrounding him did not want the star to be


 coloring everything else. It is as if
we put on colored glasses and then experience every
thing as being colored by this energy field. People dominated by fear perceive this as a world
of danger, a threatening, frightening world that is in
constant jeopardy. When walking down the street in
that energy field, they see danger all around them.They
see threats and muggers everywhere; they think there
is a rapist under the bed; and when they open the
newspaper, they see the frightening conditions of life 34 HEALING AND RECOVERY
with its jeopardy and danger. They live inside their
house, lock their car in their own garage, and then lock
the garage that is attached to the house, which is
locked and inside a fence, which is also locked. (Fear
can be transformed into a more positive expression as
caution.) Having more police really does not help because
where will the police be when one's house is robbed? Of course, they are going to be at the other end of
town, so that does not help.Trying to change the world
does not assuage the fear energy because it is really
coming from within one's own energy field. The field above Fear is that of Desiringness (cal. 125), which represents a frustrating world of endless
wantingness. The people dominated by this field are
said to have a'solar plexus' fixation, so they walk down
the street seeing all the things they want.They see the
car they want; the beauty they want; the status, posi
tions, and buildings they want. They are frustrated
because their endless desires and cravings and more
and more millions of dollars do not bring happiness. The fact of having fifty million dollars does not help
because the desiring and wanting for more power are
insatiable. The person in these energy fields cannot be satis
fied and becomes frustrated and angry. The angry per
son then sees a competitive world, a world of conflict
and war, of'me against you'. This person looks out in
the woods and thinks the tall trees are competing with
the small trees for sunlight. This is the matrix of the
political/social view of cultural perpetrator/victim. This
concept is projected onto a field where no such thing A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 35
as competition is even happening. This person lives
in a world of endless possibility of war and conflict and
sees everything as competition, not as cooperation. People who are ftxated at the level of Pride would
see this as a world of social ranking, so when walking
down the street, they would notice the Gucci shoes,
name tags, clothing labels, status, the kind of car they
would want, or the house they would like to live in. Everything is classified in terms of status, and they are
preoccupied with a social-image positionality. When one reaches the level ofTruth and Courage
(cal. 200), the world now appears to be a place of
opportunity. It is an exciting, challenging place with
opportunities for growth and expansion. That person
opens the newspaper and sees the endless opportuni
ties for man to grow, to meet those challenges and even
go beyond them, and to learn in the process.That per
son is excited about life. At the level of Neutral (cal. 250), life and the world
is 'okay' due to one's being nonattached. Everything
just becomes okay. One moves into an easygoing view
of the world and begins to say, "Well, that's human
nature.That's the way it is. It's serving some kind ofulti
mate purpose." The people who move on up to the level of
Willingness (cal. 310) experience the world as friendly. They walk down the street, see endless friendliness,
and think the universe is friendly no matter what they
have.The world is harmonious, benign, and supportive. The persons who have moved on up to the level of
Acceptance (cal. 350) really begin to experience the
harmony of life and discover synchronicity and how 36 HEALING AND RECOVERY
everything just sort offlows together. They experience
a world of cooperation because they are holding coop
eration as their own energy field. This helps them to
move up to Enthusiasm (cal. 390), and into Lovingness
(cal. 500) and the experience ofendless loving support
and the endless presence of that lOVing energy in the
universe. The states of illumination (cal. 600 and up) reveal
the incredible beauty and perfection of life, the
absolute perfection of Creation, the actual experience
of the Divine essence and nature of all life, and the
incredible beauty of all its expressions. It is not just aes
thetic beauty, which is pleasing to the senses, but the
intrinsic beauty of Creation. When one walks down an
alley, which, to the eye of the unenlightened would
look ugly, one experiences the incredible perfection
and beauty of the aliveness of life and begins to see all
life as unfolding. One does not see imperfection but
process. That person sees the entire universe as the
unfoldment of that perfection. Correlated with each of these various energy fields
are the concordant view and depictions ofDivinity. For
example, the person in apathy and hopelessnessexpe
riences God as uncaring or nonexiStent. The person
who is in this energy field sometimes says,"I believe in. God, but 1 feel he wouldn't have anything to do with
me because 1 am just a worm and worthless. 1 am so
worthless that God just ignores me:'
The person who lives in fear projects a punitive,
frightening, terrifying image of God. The person who
lives in frustration feels separated from God.That is the
God who constantly withholds from them that which A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 37
would allow them to be happy; therefore, God is non
supportive. The person in anger expects a retaliatory,
punishing God, and because these things go together,
this is the God who is really demonic, the God who
really hates us and threatens to throw us into hell. He
is the ultimate destroyer, the punisher, the God who is
revengeful and jealous.It is an anthropomorphic depic
tion of a God who is fitfully jealous,'hates sinners', and
is given to emotional extremes of destructiveness. When we get up to the level ofPride, there are two
directions to take because of the arrogance of the
inflated ego.The atheist is on one side and the zealot,
bigot, and unbalanced extremist is on the other. As we move up to Courage, which is the level of
Truth, God can primarily be a question mark. For the
first time, because we are now approaching the level of
Truth, we can then have an open mind and say,
"Actually, I really don't know about God. It's only
hearsay that comes from all I've read and heard, and all
that religion teaches. It is really other people's experi
ences in other times and places. On the witness stand,
frankly, I would have to say I don't know anything
about God," so there is the question mark.The spiritual
seeker really begins at this level.The person says,"I, of
my own self, would like to know what is the truth of
this." The person is then free to move into the God of
one's own inner experience and understanding. At the level of Neutral, one begins to experience a
world of okayness and God as freedom. One begins to
discover that there is no punitive, hateful, negative
God at all because one has moved out of those ener
gy fields. Instead, there is a God of absolute, infInite 38 HEALING AND RECOVERY
freedom allowing one to expand, explore, become, and
fulfill one's potential. At the friendly level of Willingness, one begins to
experience God as something that is perhaps helpful,
promising, hopeful, and now positive. Down at the
bottom of the Map, it was negative, but at this level, it
opens to candidness and freedom and now begins to
look optimistic. The person on this level experiences
life as harmonious and realizes that God is all merciful. The person in lOVingness then begins to experience
the God of unconditional love and the ever presence
of the love of God as the source of one's happiness
and life. As we move into joy and the awareness of beauty
and perfection as the divine essence of all things with
in the oneness and unity of God, we move up to the
top of the Map, with God as Beingness, Isness, Reality,
Truth, and the Eternal Source of Existence. There is now a context that will give a background
and a way to see one's spiritual work and progress
from a different perspective.We can see healing from a
different viewpoint and also how to approach that
great enigma called the ego.The energy fields of com
passion are at 540 and up; the people here are forgiv
ing and benign. Students of spiritual work are often those who are
perfecting the levels of the 400s, where they have
acquired a dedicated learningness and knowledge
about spiritual matters. They then