 in
the physical,  any  more  than  We  would  intrude  into  your
physical  home  without  your  invitation;  or your  friends  in
the physical  world  would. Oh,  now  and  then  one  would,
but most  of them  would  not intrude,  without  your  invita-
tion. If you  do not want  something  undesirable  in your  home,
do not invite  it! There  are many  ways  of invitation. You 332 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
can by the feeling,  invite  a thing! You  can by the intellect,
invite  a thing;  and  you  can by taking  your  physical  body
into an environment  of the thing,  invite  it. You  know  the
old statement—"Certain  of mankind  rush  in where  angels
fear to tread." That  is constantly  going  on among  mankind. Would  you,  if you  saw  a building  in your  city  where
every  immoral  or destructive  force  and  action  was  going
on, deliberately  walk  into  it? Not  if you  were  wise. I say
this to you,  as students,  knowing  the Power  and  Protection
of your  Presence. It is just  the same  as you,  in your  calling  forth  the Pres-
ence  and  issuing  your  Mighty  Decrees. If you  do not bal-
ance  that  by Self-control  in your  feeling  world;  you  are not
going  to get the results  you  desire. Just  because  you  issue
your  Decrees  and  call  the Powers  of the Presence  forth,  it
does  not mean,  you  will  have  Perfection. You  must  make
some  effort  at Self-control,  in order  to balance  the condition
of the Powers  which  you  are calling  forth;  because  they
grow  greater  and  the energy  grows  more  powerful. Won't
you see that ? One thing,  I want  to say so very  much,  tonight,  to the
young  people  here  and  to the young  people  everywhere:
"When  you  come  to know  your  Great  Presence  of Life;
and you  begin  to feel  Its Great  Power  surging  forth  in Its
expression  of Divine  Love  do not interpret  it as falling  in
Love. If you  have  felt or experienced  inharmony  in your
home  or your  associates;  then  you  find  some  person  with
whom  you  feel  very  harmonious  always  be careful  and  do DISCOURSE  XXII  333
not interpret  it, as humanly  falling  in Love. That  is perhaps
the greatest  danger  among  the  students  today. We  have
seen  a number  succumb  to it. Stand  guard,  Beloved  Ones! You can  love  just  as greatly  without  caressing  each  other,
as you  can  by holding  each  other  in your  arms. That  is
where  mankind's  danger  is today. The outer  world  has taught  Individuals,  the very  things
which  release  the pent  up feeling  of all mankind. It rushes
forth  and  is uncontrollable;  but when  you  understand  how
to govern  and  guard  the feeling  of kindliness  and  harmony
which  goes  forth,  you  make  it a blessing  to others. Then  you
will never  fall a prey  to the sinister  force,  by the Out-pour-
ing of your  Divine  Love  to another. Remember! This  is
very  vital! We want  to forestall  all of these  things. Remember! The  need  has been  so great  for the Protection
of America;  and  all so urgent,  the Messengers  have  not had
time  to take  up these  many  things,  except  occasionally. So
when  We call  it to your  attention,  just  make  a note  of it if
necessary;  so you keep  yourselves  reminded  of this  particu-
lar activity. It means  everything  to you! IF IN YOUR  ENDEAVOR  TO  POUR  FORTH  DI-
VINE  LOVE,  IT BECOMES  QUALIFIED  AS HUMAN
DESIRE,  THEN  YOU  HAVE  WASTED  YOUR  TIME
AND  ENERGY  AND  MUST  START  ALL  OVER
AGAIN. Use  this  for an illustration,  if you  like. I am
flashing  These  Words  to the Messenger. My  Out-pouring
of Divine  Love  to you,  so far transcends  anything  you  are
yet aware  of, there  is no comparison;  but  could  any  one 334 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
qualify  My Love  in any  way  with  the human ? This  is the
way mankind  should  feel  to each  other. I SAY  TO YOU,  GENTLEMEN,  IF THERE  BE ANY
ONE  OF  YOU,  WHO  CANNOT  LOOK  UPON
WOMEN  WITH  A CLEAN  AND  PURE  DESIRE,
THEN  YOU  HAVE  MISSED  THE  GREATEST
BLESSING  LIFE  HOLDS  FOR  YOU. LADIES,  IF
YOU  CANNOT  DO  THE  SAME  THING—IF  YOU
CANNOT  LOOK  UPON  MEN  WITHOUT  THE
HUMAN  DESIRE,  THEN  YOU  TOO  HAVE  MISSED
THE  GREATEST  JOY  AND  BLESSING  OF  LIFE. WHEN  YOU  COME  TOWARD  THE  GOAL  OF  AT-
TAINMENT,  ALL  HUMAN  DESIRE  DOES  CEASE
TO BE. Replacing  it comes  the Greatest  Power  of Divine
Order,  producing  Divine  Happiness,  producing  Perfect  Ac-
tion and  Direction  of the  Forces  of Life  and  Love  thru
your  Being. That  is why  Self-control  in all things,  is neces-
sary! THERE  IS LOVE,  WISDOM  AND  POWER  IN THE
TRIANGLE  OF  LIFE. IF YOU  TRY  TO  USE  ONE
POINT  OF  THE  TRIANGLE  OF  LIFE  WITHOUT
BALANCING  WITH  THE  OTHER  TWO,  YOU  ARE
GOING  TO  HAVE  DISTRESS,  FOR  LIFE  IS BAL-
ANCE! LIFE  OUT  OF  BALANCE  MEANS  SUFFER-
ING! IF YOU  USE  POWER  WITHOUT  WISDOM
TO GOVERN  IT  AND  LOVE  TO  TEMPER  IT,
EVERYONE  WILL  FEAR  YOU  AND  SOON  YOU
WOULD  NOT  HAVE  A FRIEND! IF YOU  USE  THE DISCOURSE  XXII  335
POWER  OF  LOVE  POURING  FORTH  WITHOUT
WISDOM  TO  GOVERN  IT,  THEN  IT BECOMES
HUMAN;  OR  BECOMES  HUMANLY  QUALIFIED
AND  THEREFORE  MISUNDERSTOOD. Do you  not see how  in the lack  of Understanding  of all
Life means,  you  have  constantly  been  misusing  that  which
would  otherwise  produce  Perfection ? You  have  done  this,
by your  lack  of Understanding  and  wrong  qualification  of
the one  Mighty  Energy  of Life! Suppose,  one of you  poured  forth  a great  Power  of Divine
Love  and  Blessing  to another;  and  the one receiving,  would
interpret  It in human  qualities,  you  would  have  lost  the
Blessing  completely. Do you  not see that ? See how  man-
kind  in the great  energy  which  would  so bless  Individuals,
in their  mistaken  qualification  of it have  been  producing
the opposite  effect  of what  they  intended—if  not at first,  it
grew  into  that. In This  Explanation,  I am charging  into  your  feeling
world,  the  Comprehension  of it—the  anchoring  of My
Power  to hold  this  sustained  for you,  if you  care  to accept
it. I would  not  intrude,  I assure  you,  if you  do not  care
to do this! It is here  ready  to serve  you,  but I would  like  so
much  to set you  Free. If you  care  to accept


 pilots falling asleep while flying. In 2013, the
British Airline Pilots’ Associat ion reported that more than half of pilots
have fallen aslee p when in charge of a plane, with 29% reporting that they
had woken up to find their copilot asleep as well.44
Other risk factor s are associated with OSA, not least being the danger of
sudden death. A 2015 study found that patients with OSA are more likely to
die during the night than people without the disorder. Scientists observed
112 adults over a period of 16 years. Sudden cardiac death (SCD), a
condition in which the patient suffers a fatal loss of heart function, was
recorded in 46% of OSA patien ts, compared with 21% of people without
OSA.45 OSA more than doubled the risk of SCD. The severity of sleepapnea was found  to relate directl y to the relative likelihood of SCD between
midnight and 6 a.m. When the results were evaluated in terms of sleep-
wake cycles, researchers found that 54% of OSA patients died while asleep,
compared with only 24% of non-OSA sufferers.45 In this study, the severity
and duration of apneas was linked with an increased incidence of high
blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms45. While the factors leading to
increased risk of sudden cardiac death in sleep apnea are unclear, the
scientists concluded that,
apnea, hypoxemia, and hypercapnia act syner gistically to elicit
sympathetic activation, which is thought to be a major mechanism
underlying elevated risk of adverse cardiovascular consequences
and mortality. Vagal response s to apnea are also critical in triggering cardiac
arrhythmias.45
In a 2019 study  published in the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine,  researc hers discovered an inverse relationship
between the duration of apneic events and overall risk of mortality in sleep
apnea.46 That study indicated that the people who are most at risk are not
those with severe sleep apnea or those who stop breathing for a minute or
more. Instead, they are the light sleepers who awake easily by slight
abnormalities in their breathing,  when CO2 levels rise or negative pressure
in the airways increases.46 The constant interruptions to sleep are quite
literally killing those people. That paper shows the importance of good
quality deep sleep with few if any awakenings. In the case of prolonged apneas, research from 2007 demonstrates that
the increased levels of CO2 may actually contribute to improved oxygen
uptake and delivery through mechanisms including vasodilation, actually
protecting the brain against injur y caused by lack of oxygen (hypoxia). This
paper concludes that the hypercapnia (high blood CO2), which occurs
during apneas, might be the body’ s way of adapting to severe, chronic,
intermittent sleep hypoxia.47
During snoring and sleep apnea, the sleeper may not even be conscious
of the noise created by their breathing. It is usually their sleep ing partnerwho lies awake,  sometimes too fearful or exasperated to sleep. After some
time, and often with a little persistence from their partner, the suf ferer might
attend a sleep clinic. Here, the doctor or nurse will normally begin the
consultation by requesting the completion of a questionnaire  called the
Epworth Sleepiness Scale. If the scale is positive, a referra l for a sleep study
is likely. While the Epworth Sleepiness Scale  is a validated questionnaire used by
many sleep centers, I have observed that it does not capture everyone
presenting with OSA. The probl em with a questionnaire such as this is that
some people are unaware of just how exhausted they are. Not everyone who
suffers from a sleep disorder experiences or recognizes symptoms of
tiredness—25% of patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnea have
neither subjective nor objective sleepiness.39 Also, up to 50% of people
with OSA are not obese. These people are falling between the cracks of
sleep medicine. The test for OSA is overnight polysomnography in a sleep center. Polysomnography involves monitoring both sleep and respiration, with the
primary measur e being the number of apneas and hypopneas per hour of
sleep. An apnea is categorized  as a total collapse of the upper airway,
during which the patient completely ceases to breathe for 10 seconds or
more. A hypopn ea is a partial collapse of the upper airway that causes a
reduction in the amount of air taken into the lungs lasting for 10 seconds,
with a correspo nding decrease in blood oxygen of 3% or more, or EEG
arousal. The number of apneas and hypopneas during the sleep test are
added up and divided by the number of hours spent sleeping. The severity
of sleep apnea in adults is then defined by the following scale:
• Mild sleep apnea: 5 to 15 respiratory events per hour
• Moderate sleep apnea: 15 to 30 respiratory events per hour
• Severe sleep apnea: more than 30 respiratory events per hour
While the apnea hypopnea index  (AHI) is the measurement of choice
for most sleep clinics, it is not without its limitations and should, at best, be
considered a crude and imprecise measure of OSA.48 Apneas and
hypopneas have  fundamentally different effects on the individual, but the
index does not differentiate between the two. It could be argued that anapnea, which involves comple te collapse of the upper airway, is more
severe in its physiological impact than a hypopnea, which involves only
partial collapse.48 Furthermore, a hypopnea with a 4% drop in blood
oxygen saturatio n is less severe than one that causes an 8% to 10% drop,
but the index does not take this into account either. Apneas and hypopneas
can occur evenly throughout the night or cluster during one period of sleep. If the sufferer experiences several events in a short period of time, it might
still be possible to also manage 4 or 5 hours of decent quality sleep. This is
a very different experience than that of the individual who experiences
symptoms throughout the night, resulting in few, if any, hours of quality
sleep. Finally, the AHI correlates poorly with the key causes and
consequences of the disease.49,50
Traditional treatment of OSA normally focuses on the use of a CPAP
machine (continuous positive airway pressure)—a device that splints the
airway open at night. Newer procedures involve widening the airways,
either with the use of oral appliances or by bringing the lower jaw forward
with surgery—a procedure calle d mandibular advancement. More recently,
hypoglossal nerve stimulation has been introduced as a furth er surgical
option since the approval of the Inspire® hypoglossal nerve stimulator
implant by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).51 The implant,
which triggers the tongue to contract, stopping it from falling back into the
airway, has been found to be effective in reducing the symptoms of sleep
apnea.52 A study of 27 participants found that preoperative AHI fell from
an average of 46 down to 4.6 after sur gery.53
While these interventions are relatively successful, it is still important to
address the breathing patterns that underlie the condition. Over the years, I
have seen many  individuals reduce their AHI to near normal levels simply
by applying the breathing exerc ises in this book, practicing nasal breathing
day and night, maintaining a correct resting tongue position, and addressing
their inef fective breathing habits. Research from 2006 demonstrated that mouth breathing is a strong
determinant of OSA in people with no nasal obstruction.54 People with
sleep apnea spend more time breathing orally and oronasally than people
who snore. A strong relationship exists between the AHI (which indicates
the severity of sleep apnea) and time spent breathing fully or partiallythrough an open mouth. This was confirmed in a 2020 paper published in
Laryngoscope  in which worse OSA and greater oxygen desaturation was
associated with mouth breathing than with nasal or oronasal breathing.55
SECRETS OF A HEAL THY AIR WAY
The habit of breathing continuously and solely through the nose during
sleep comes with many positive consequences. These include maintaining a
moist upper airway, harnessing  nasal nitric oxide, creating more stable
breathing pattern s (see “Phenotypes of Sleep Apnea” in bonus Chapter 18
online at www.HumanixBooks.com/ The Breathing Cure), using the
diaphragm, and helping keep the tongue out of the throat. All of these
benefits have the added effect of improving and preventing the symptoms
of sleep  apnea. Conversely, mouth breathing can be a trigger and
perpetuating factor in OSA as it increases negative suction pressure and
dries out the nose, mouth, and throat. The loss of moisture inherent in
mouth breathing causes inflamm ation in the airways, which, in turn, causes
nasal obstruction, encouraging mouth breathing, and so the cycle continues. The gas nitric oxide (NO) is produced in significant quantities in the
nose and in the paranasal sinuses.56 (The importance of this was discussed
in detail in


 just couldn’ t give. He clung on to money
and possessions. At the age of twenty-two, after a lifetime of putting up
with his bullying, his daughter cut him out of her life. At this point Alan’ s
sciatica flared up. He had suf fered from a bad back for years but this time it
was so bad that he became confined to bed. Alan’ s Healing
It was an enlightened doctor who suggested that Alan’ s sciatica might have
a deeper cause. He suggested counselling. Out of desperation and as it was
free (Alan would never have spent money on such stuf f!) Alan accepted the
six sessions of fered. Through counselling he came to the realisation that his father had been a
control freak too. Alan’ s childhood home had been run like clockwork and
the arrival of a new baby (Alan) had been a very dif ficult adjustment for his
father to make. Despite his wife’ s protests, his father had insisted that Alan
needed to fit in with his parent’ s routine. Alan had been fed according to the
clock on the wall and not when he was hungry. He was put to bed at 6.30pm
each evening and left to cry himself to sleep. If he woke in the night he was
again left to cry. His unanswered cries had imbalanced Alan’ s base chakra. Alan is incorporating activities from the list below (How Can I Balance My
First Chakra?) into his everyday life. He plays the solfeggio frequency
every single day and slowly his world is changing. He has started to get rid
of some of his possessions and he has written to his daughter asking for
forgiveness. Is My First Chakra Out of Balance?Your first chakra is either going to be under functioning or over functioning. Read the following statements. Scor e 1 if you agr ee slightly. Scor e 2 if you agr ee. Scor e 3 if you agr ee str ongly. I struggle to make ends meet. I’m always feeling tired. I moved house more than three times before the age of seven. I was disconnected from a parent (through death, adoption or absence)
before the age of seven. I hardly ever spend time in nature. I hate the colour red and never wear red. I have injured the base of my spine within the last year. I feel as if I do not
belong to this world. I am (or recently was) homeless. People call me a control freak. I am prone to angry outbursts. I do not feel safe in my neighbourhood. I do not trust people. I am insecure within myself. I have a very strong sex drive. My work is definitely the most important thing in my life. I have a lot of
possessions but I need them all. I have lost my sense of smell. I struggle to cope with my life.I have one or more of the physical problems linked with this chakra, listed
at the beginning of this chapter (a point for each one). Add up your  scor e.
Under  5 points: It is in balance. 5–15 points: It’ s slightly out of balance. 15–20 points: You definitely need to r ebalance this chakra. Mor e than
20 points: Make it a priority to r ebalance this chakra. How Can I Balance My First Chakra? 1 Walk barefoot on the earth or paddle in the sea. 2 Plant and grow your own vegetables or create a beautiful flower garden. Any gardening activities are helpful. 3 Take up a competitive, high ener gy sport such as rugby or sprinting. 4 Dance outside in bare feet. 5 Bring the colour red into your life. 6 Go into the forest and smell the trees and the plants. Pick up the earth in
your hands and smell it. Really connect with the earth through the sense of
smell. 7 Spend half an hour a day just concentrating on your sense of smell,
wherever you happen to be. You can do this wherever you are. 8 Take up pottery. 9 Hug a tree and really feel its strength and stability. Close your eyes and
imagine that you are part of the tree and you have roots that go deep into
the earth. Lean against it and absorb some of that deep connection to earth.10 Practise standing on one leg until you can stay in balance without
wobbling. 11 Fill a bowl with warm water and add one or two of the recommended
essential oils (see above) and sit with your feet in the water. 12 Learn root lock (mula bandha) from a yoga teacher. 13 Put a handful of salt in your bath. 14 Spend one day consciously accepting every event that occurs to you. Experience how that feels. 15 Treat yourself to a mud wrap spa treatment. 16 Have a reflexology treatment or foot massage. 17 If your house is a mess try to bring a sense of order rather than chaos
into your home by clearing up one room at a time. Get rid of excess
belongings and buy a filing system to put your paperwork in order. 18 Bring flexibility to your body through yoga, dancing, Pilates, swimming,
gymnastics or stretching exercises. 19 Take whatever steps are necessary to make sure you have enough money
to live on and a place to live, even if that entails making massive changes in
your life. 20 Carry or wear one of the crystals listed at the beginning of this chapter. 21 Bring the colour of this chakra into your life. 22 Chant the mantra for this chakra out loud. 23 Listen to the solfeggio frequency for this chakra. 24 Use the recommended oils for balancing this chakra.Affirmations
I am supported by the Universe. I love my body. I welcome abundance. All my needs are met. All is well in my world and I am safe. Healing Guided Meditation for First Chakra
Stand in bare feet with your feet hip width apart. Your feet are parallel, not
turning in nor turning out. Put your hands on your hips. Close your eyes. Bring your awareness to the
breath as it enters and leaves your body. As you exhale make sure that you
exhale completely. Allow the in breath to take care of itself. Keep the face
soft and relaxed as you breathe. Now I would like you to imagine that there is a red cord that is attached to
the base of your spine. It is bright red, the colour of a ripe tomato, and it’ s
about the thickness of your little finger. This cord goes down through the ground below you. It goes deeply into the
ground. Breathe in normally and as you breathe out imagine that this red cord is
going deeper and deeper into the earth. With each out breath it goes even
deeper. Eventually it goes so deep that it reaches the centre of the planet. Feel that solid connection to the centre of the earth. Feel that you are rooted
to the very core of this planet. Feel that you are drawing ener gy from this powerful source. Now imagine
that there is a soft breeze blowing and your body sways gently in the wind. You yield to the wind yet you feel secure in your connection to the earth.Stand in this place of rootedness for as long as you wish. When you feel
ready, take a deep breath in and blow the breath out forcefully through your
mouth, through pursed lips. Drop your chin to the chest and open your eyes. Slowly raise your head and
bring your feet together. Smile! You are here on earth in a physical body. OceanofPDF.comChapter 3
The Second Chakra
Location: Low down in the abdomen, just above the top of the pubic bone,
not far above the base chakra
The Sanskrit name: SV ADISTHANA  (pronounced svad-is-tarn- uh)
Also known as: Sacral chakra, sexual chakra The colour related to this
chakra: Orange Number of lotus petals: 6
Mantra: Vam (rhymes with calm) Yantra: Six lotus petals (see cover) Gland:
Lymph and gonads Element: Water
Body: Etheric
Note: D (also C#)
Solfeggio Frequency: 417 Hz
Sense: Taste
Yoga Posture: Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose) Essential Oils:
Orange, tangerine, rosemary, juniper
Crystals: Carnelian, Coral, Citrine, Orange Calcite and Amber
Rules: Sexual or gans, lower vertebrae, pelvis, the kidneys and bladder,
appendix, bladder, hip area, the lymphatic system, all the body fluids
Physical problems related to an imbalance in this chakra include: Problems
with the reproductive or gans and cervix, infertility, weak bladder or
kidneys, ovarian cysts, period problems, prostrate problems, aller gies,
appendicitis, sexual dysfunction, low back pain (lumbar), sciatica, hip
problems, urine infections, loss of appetite for food and/or sex.Key Words: Sexuality and pleasure, finances, flow, emotions, creativity,
change and movement, addiction
What Are Its Functions? The first chakra has connected you to the earth. It is through the second
chakra that you meet the world and the people who live in it. This chakra is
about seeking pleasure and enjoying the sensation of being alive in the
physical body with its senses, sexuality, feelings and emotions. What makes
you happy and brings you joy? How do you connect and relate to other
people? If this chakra is


 I’m feminine. The masculine is active, the feminine passive; the masculine is
dynamic, the feminine magnetic. The masculine does while the
feminine is. Part of our Amazon neuro sis is the way we have all
learned to play the man: to go to him before he comes to us, to call
rst, to make the rst move. Only now do we realize what a mistake
that is, and we’re having to tie our hands behind our backs, bite our
tongues, sit on our credit cards. Most of us want a masculine man, but there’s no way to have one
unless we become feminine  women. At rst, we’re outraged to
realize this because we thought we were being such good girls by
developing our masculine side to begin with. That’s  what we
thought real worth, real power was. We came to see women—
usually beginning with Mommy—as weak and ineective, so we
wanted to grow up and be just like Daddy. And God help us, we did. During the sixties, male and female development was changing as
our parents took what they thought was a more liberated approach
to raisin g their sons and daughters. Daddy slapped his little girl on
the back when she achieved something in the world, telling her how
proud he was— and meaning  it. He didn’t know what to do with the
girl stu anyw ay, since the feelings it brought up inside him were so
threatening. We were movin g into a new, modern era. The sexes
would be equal. Girls were liberated—to be just like boys. When I was growing up, my father was a well-known immigration
lawyer and my mother a housewife. My father was given constant
kudos for his admirable contributions to the lives of poor and
struggling immigrants. My mother, as far as I was concerned, didnot participate meaningfully in the world at all. At the time, I could
not see that driving kids to ballet class, scheduling Girl Scout
meetings, or sewing doll clothes was important work. Today, I see
things very dierently. I see I was one of thousands of young girls
who unconsciously decided that our mothers’ lives were
meaningless, while our fathers’ lives were glamorous and important. The way to succeed, it seemed to us, was to grow up and be just like
Daddy. So, I created a career for myself not unlike my father’s. When I
started lecturing on A Course in Miracles  in the early eighties, I
found myself surrounded by people burdened with serious problems. I met many people with HIV-positive infections and other life-
challenging illnesses. I was thrown into a world in which other
people were hurting more than I was, and the moral as well as
professional imperative was that I be the strong one and hold other
people up. Unconsciously, I had created a career just like Daddy’s. I
had become what in Jungian terms is called a father’s daughter. I learned early on to apply discipline to my professional
endeavors. Week after week, month after month, and year after
year, I showed up at prayer groups, lectures, support groups,
hospital rooms, marriages, funerals. I founded organizations, had a
child, and wrote a book. I knew I had to be strong, and I thought
strength didn’t cry. I had seen my father’s lack of emotion as
strength and my mother’s show of emotion as weakness. I wanted to
be strong like my father. I couldn’t break down at the funeral if I
was the one conducting the service. If a mother was grieving for her
son, I couldn’t cave in. I wanted to be a shoulder for her to lean on. I didn’t want to do anything that would threaten my ability to be
strong in my role of mother hen. What I didn’t understand was that I
had become not a mother hen but a father hen. Although I was driven by tender emotions, I thought that
expressing them fully might limit my power. I built a wall that
would hold my emotions at bay, thinking I needed to do that in
order to best serve others. It took a lot of willpower to build that
wall, but I can see now that it did not take strength. The denial ofemotion through suppression or withdrawal is a weak move, not a
courageous one. So this is the Amazon neuro sis: the woman who achieves at the
expense of her tender places. From the time she was a little girl, she
was slowly but surely led to believe that her emotions  were less
important than her achievements, perhaps even antithetical to them. And the love she received in response to her achievements, if it was
love at all, is not the love that warms the night. A woman who cannot honor  her own feelings will not nd them
honored by anyone else. Other people will nd her hard to
penetrate. I have experienced this in diverse and painful ways. When I began  to recognize what a high personal price I paid for
dissociating myself from my own feelings, I did what I had to do to
let them up and out. Lots of therapy, lots of work, lots of pain. And
then, sure enough, just as I had feared, I began to lose my grip. I
conducted a funeral service for someone I had hardly known, and I
couldn’t stop crying as I gave my talk. But this was just a temporary
phase. I moved on through the weepy period and came out at the
other end stronger and more tender, less guarded and more
available. Usually when we think of power, we think of external power, and
we think of powerful peopl e as those who have made  it in the
world. A powerful woman isn’t necessarily someone who has
money, but we think of her as someone with a boldness or a spark
that makes her manifest in a dramatic way. When we think of a
powerful man, we think of his ability to manifest abundance—
usually money—in the world. Most people say that a powerful woman does best with a powerful
man, that she needs someon e who understands the bigness of her
situation, a man who can meet her on the same or a greater level of
power in the world. This is true if power is dened as material
abundance. A woman often faces cultural prejudice when she makes
more money than a man, as does he. A woman who denes power
by worldly standards can rarely feel totally relaxed in the arms of a
man who doesn’t have it. If power is seen as an internal matter, then the situation  changes
drastically. Internal power has less to do with money and worldly
position and more to do with emotional expansiveness, spirituality,
and conscious living. As we begin to recognize that internal strength
is all that really matters, we come to see that we have often avoided
men who were not powerful in the world not because they were not
powerful enough, but because inwardly they were too powerful,
reminding us of the work we still had to do on ourselves. I used to think that I needed a “powerful man,” someo ne who
could protect me from the harshness and evils of the world. What I
have come to realize is that the evils of the world that confront me
are a reection  of my own internal state, and no one can protect me
from my own mind. The powerful man I was looking for would be,
foremost, someone who supported me in keeping on track spiritually
and in so maintaining clarity within myself that life would pose
fewer problems. When it did get rough, he would help me forgive. I no longer want someone who would say to me, “Don’t worry,
honey. If they’re mean to you, I’ll beat them up or buy them out. ”
Instead, I want someone who prays and meditates with me regularly
so that fewer monsters from the outer world disturb me, and who,
when they do, helps me look within my own consciousness for
answers instead of looking to false power to combat false power. There’s a big dierence between a weak man and a gentle man. Weak men make us nervous. Gentle men make us calm. Many of us have desired, or do desire, marriage. How much of our
desire is natural, and how much of it is cultural. What is natural is
our desire for the beloved. What is cultural is our tendency to forget
that a piece of paper cannot tie hearts together. The issue is not
whether we marry, but whether we allow any choice of life-style to
impinge on our ability to y. What is important, if we do choose to marry, is that we not give
up our wilder spirits. I once heard someone say that married women
can’t write. I don’t think this is true, but I understand what it means. Marriage is not a mere convention but it is often lived as one and, as
such, will sink instead of uplift a woman’s spirit. The creative spiritthrives on freedom and daring. Many of history’s most creative
women have not been married. As for the priestesses of olden times,
don’t even think about it. Priestesses were spiritual merm aids, and a
lot of men were drowning. Patriarchal culture senses danger in the unmarried woman. If a
man is unmarr ied, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried,
she is called a spinster or


 we were directing it, when in point of fact we actually are
playing the part best suited for us in that moving stream. The sixth sense
brings to us impressions and convictions that are impossible to attribute to
memory or experience. W e are moved to conviction from out of the
inexhaustible resource of universal mind, and we eventually become as
positive in the reception of this feeling as we do to our senses of sight or
touch or hearing. The Irish poet Geor ge Russell reports:

Once in an idle interval in my work I sat with my face pressed in my hands,
and in that dimness pictures began flickering in my brain. I saw a little dark
shop, the counter before me, and behind it an old man fumbling with some
papers, a man so old that his motions had lost swiftness and precision. Deeper in the store was a girl, red-haired, with gray watchful eyes fixed on
the old man. I saw that to enter the shop one must take two steps downward
from the cobbled pavement without. I questioned a young man, my of fice
companion, who was then writing a letter, and I found that what I had seenwas his father ’s shop. All my imaginations were not imaginations of mine
in any true sense, for while I was in a vacant mood my companion had been
thinking of his home, and his brain was populous with quickened memories,
and they invaded my own mind, and when I made question I found their
origin. But how many thousand times are we invaded by such images and
there is no speculation over them. The frontiers of mind and thought have barely been penetrated. A waiting
the human search for knowledge lies the most exciting, unexplored area of
all — human consciousness, mind, being, mentality. Our lives grow into
images of those things which our minds are preoccupied with, and if we are
concerned with bolts and nuts, we achieve a bolts-and-nuts mentality, and
our very absorption by this infinitesimal slice of existence bars us from
perception of the tremendous possibilities in other spiritual and mental
realms. If we instead take up our tasks as we might approach an altar, we
transform our work, no matter how menial, into a sacrament. When we put
intuition to work for us and closet ourselves with our consciousness in a
searching ef fort to develop our sixth sense, we are bound not only to grow
in effectiveness and power but also as questing human souls in search of the
uttermost. Nothing in life is resolved simply by facts. Facts shriek at us because they
appeal to our conscious minds, but facts that human knowledge has
uncovered up to now are but the tiniest representation of the total sum of
knowledge in universal mind. Rational, logical people who pride
themselves upon acting only on known facts are not nearly so rational as
they would have themselves believe. In point of actual fact they are more
often led to erroneous conclusions than true ones, not because they do not
apply their reason and their logic and their knowledge, but because those
are insuf ficient and deal only with a portion of existence, not its entirety. You Shall Know the Hidden Purpose
Each of us has a job, each has a “row to hoe,” and within our circumscribed
tasks problems constantly arise which we are called upon to solve, upon the
solution of which our lives often depend. T o apply the use of the sixth sense
to the solution of these problems is possible for all of us, regardless of how
obsessed we are with the material world. Even if we will not strive for
spiritual enlightenment, will not turn over our life to the Divine for
guidance, will not subordinate the ego by sacrifice, will not find within
ourselves a longing for unity with the Secret Self, we still are not beyond
the salvation of fered by intuition. When our time of conscious striving with
a problem is over, when we have considered all elements, pitted them
against each other, weighed them, counted them, tabulated them, we then
may visualize within our own mind a secret computing machine into which
we can feed all elements of the problem and which will deliver us a true and
accurate answer. Each of us, no matter how spiritually enlightened, can
profit by this visualization. When your problem is upon you and you know
as much about it as you ever possibly can, for get it completely. Envisage
your secret computing machine, feed all elements of the problem into it. See them go in one by one until finally the whole problem is out of your
hands. Know in your own heart that the problem will be solved, that you
need do no more about it than act upon the solution when it is presented. Have no fear; the solution will come. It may be the following morning,
perhaps the next afternoon, it may be a whole week, but it will illuminate
your consciousness and you will know with the utmost certainty that the
true answer has arrived. Once this highly significant experience has come to
you, reason and logic and knowledge will have been dethroned as the
principal activators of thought and action in your life, and enshrined in their
stead will be that faculty of intuition that transcends and transfigures all
situations and circumstances because it is infinite and eternal and speaks to
us from out of our sixth sense. OceanofPDF. com
12

The Mental Attitude That Never Fails

Over most people hangs the sword of Damocles. They have fallen into
the psychological trap of cr eating their pr oblems by trying to solve
them, worrying because they worry, being afraid of fear. Ther e is a
capricious quality in our psyche that denies us each object we try to
grasp. Our wr ong thinking, wr ong acting, egoistic natur e leads us to
pursue things thr ough vain desir e. Acting and thinking in the small
part of our natur e, it is inevitable that we be frustrated in our
purposes. Ensuring Success

The mental attitude that ensures success is one in which we turn our work
and the results of our work over to the Divine without attachment or desire. This psychological absolution from the aims of partial seeing allows us to
follow the behest of a master will with perfect equanimity. We will not be
dismayed by circuitous routes, we will not be bitter about apparent defeats,
we will not rail against obstacles, because we know that the ends of our
actions are in the hands of an omnipotent being which ensures our absolute
development and complete success eventually. An enlightened person sees
that the purposes of the Secret Self are the only true purposes. They adopt
these as their own, don the mantle of the Divine as their true, inmost being. All their actions take on long-range significance. They understand that thereis a secret purpose in the smallest task and that the eventual result of this
purpose lies beyond the perception of the conscious mind. W ithin them
develops a towering trust, a positive certainty as to eventual victory that
makes them irresistible and impregnable in the midst of all action. They
cannot be defeated, for defeat is possible only to a being bounded by space
and time, and they have taken up residence in a self that is eternal and
infinite. They see that all things are brought to them for their own inner
perfection, that victory and defeat are merely opposite ends of a scale of
sensitivity by which their aspiring soul gradually is able to abdicate from
masquerading as a separate, isolated ego and to recognize its absolute unity
with the Divine. To be undiscouraged and undismayed by whatever turn of fortune is
encountered is always a mark of maturity and enlightenment. Such fortitude
is possible only to someone who has forsworn desires to be better, to get
more, to have power, or any other of the egoistic shortcomings that mark
the individual at war with their fellows. The vital and animalistic nature
hungers always for the fruits of its labor, and when these are denied, it
becomes disconsolate, loses faith, may even give up altogether. Whoever is
bound to their animalistic nature is bound also to constant hungering for the
fruits of their labor, and in consequence take up their tasks under a delusion
that blinds them to the possibilities for success. Selfish striving for gain
defeats enterprise at the outset because it is based upon the false belief that
one manifestation of the Divine is innately better than another and therefore
more deserving of reward. Such psychological misapprehension is based on
partiality and sees a world of multitudinous and separate things to be
conquered and achieved dominion over. The separate surface self never
achieves dominion over anything, even over its own nature. It did not
spring itself into being, it cannot stay itself from eventual oblivion, its
growth and development are entirely reactionary, and all things lie outside
the scope of its ef fectuality. Effective Guide to Living
 In almost everyone, however, the surface self achieves the illusion that it is
able ef fectively to influence life. In consequence, through the years that
their physical body flourishes, people are mentally and spiritually bound to
a delusion about who they are and where they came from and what their
relationship to the world is. Their lack of ef fectiveness in life, their failure
to grow mentally and spiritually, their gradual dissolution into cynicism,
into disenchantment with the material world, they seldom attribute to a
psychologically wrong viewpoint but generally feel they haven


 For it to work in our own lives we have to imitate the cause, not the
effect. Having bananas is the consequence, the result. It’s the “out there” of
success, which merely knows what’ s “in here.”
Once we have the secret of success, which is an “aha” expe rience of
finding the open  door, we can amuse ourselves with either mani festing it or
not in the world as it pleases us. Once we’ve achieved inner mastery, we
don’t have to prove it anymore. A real karate expert doesn’ t go out into the
street looking for fights. On the contrary, if a tough guy approac hes him, he
kids him out of it. He uses a dozen ways to avoid an encounter  because he
has absolute certainty and inner knowingness of his capacity. His assailant
doesn’ t know it, but he could break his neck in one single blow. Like the martial arts, success is effortless. It is grace. It is ease. It is poise. It is precision. It is focus. It is putting one’s finger on the exact center and
essence. It is not confusing cause and effect... that’s the difference. Onesecret of knowin g whether we’ve achieved this or not is the presence of joy. If we’re  tired and burned out at the end of the day, then it’s from the
monkey business of trying to grab the bananas. When we invent a better
product, the world beats a path to our door. There’ s no need to knock our
brains out. How long does it take to succeed? It takes exactly one split second. Although it may take time, for instance, to read these words, the actual
“getting it” takes only a split second. At some as-yet-unknown  instant, the
door opens and the person has the inner experience of having always
known. Once the man I mentioned earlier in the book started to dance, he
discovered that he already knew how. Psychologically, neurologically,
anatomically, what happened? Was it that his left brain connected with his
right brain? The door opened between them? The right brain, which is like
an analo g computer and connected with knowing everythin g, was not
connected with the left brain, which is like a digital computer—limited, but
capable of linear data processin g. Left-brain dancing is a pain in the neck,
awkward, dull, exhausting, and joyless. The left brain exhausts itself,  and will exhaust us, striving for the
bananas. It gets just enough of a grip on the bananas to keep struggling. In a
way it’s unfortunate if the monkey reaches one banana out of the bunch,
because now he’s a real goner. Having once had that experience, he’s going
to be certain that the way he gets the bananas is by straining  against the
bars. He’ s going to be run by that program the rest of his days. Now we understand the state of world and why it is the way it is. It
would be a very lucky monkey indeed if he struggles and falls down
exhausted, and in his exhausted state he looks out the door and a light goes
on for him. Most of the world  has gotten just enough of the bananas to
permanently trap themselves right where they are. Therefore, in the world
of real success, there is no competition. I want to pound that idea home: In the world of real success, there is no
competition. When we hit the top of anything, there is no competition there. There are very few at the top of the pyramid. For those at the top, the world
is their oyster. What’ s the problem? If someone has the best restaurant in
town, they don’t have to struggle for success. It’s automatic. People are
lined up outside the door.If someone is the best mechanic in town, are they going to have trouble
finding jobs? No. Every garage in town is going to offer them the
opportunity to work for them because they, by this time, have developed a
following of customers. There was a mechanic in the small town where I
lived who could get a job at practically any garage in town. He had a huge
following. Wherever he went, the customers went. He was the best, and
everyone knew it. People use any excuse to avoid facing the basic issues involved here. They’ll ask, “How can I be a success in the world when I don’t have any
education? I’m only a waiter.” Okay, let’s look at waiters. I knew some
back east who were headwaiters in some of the country’ s most famous
clubs. I rememb er standing outside talking to one of them one night at two
in the morning when a big stretch limo pulled up to the curb. I thought it
must be the owner’s. Much to my surprise, the headwaiter got in and rode
off in it. It was his limo! The owner had gone home hours earlier. That headwaiter made $100,000 a year. So, if you’re going to be a waiter,
then be the best waiter the world has ever seen. Treat all of the customers as
though they are royalty, and your success is guaranteed. We can see the
headwaiter ’s success is coming out of “the way he is with peopl e.” Sure, he
has to know the mechanics of his job; that’s a given. The difference here is
totally one of attitude. It’s one of energy, of motive; it’s one of coming from
power. The poor waiter comes from greed—he’ s always stretching for the
bananas. A real headwaiter doesn’t have to worry about money  at all, does
he? He gives. He manifests excellence. If we manifest excellence in the
world, we don’t have to worry about money at all. The world will seek us
out. We won’ t have to look for jobs. Other companies will constantly be
calling us and pestering us because we’ve got what they want; we’ve got
know-how. Once we know how to be truly successful in any single area of
life, we can become as successf ul in any other area of life if we so choose
and if it so pleases us. The technique is exactly the same. Edith Piaf was one of the great est entertainers the world has ever seen. She was the only performer I ever saw who brought a tough  New York
nightclub audience to its knees. When she sang, there wasn’ t a dry eye in
the room. She had the whole audience in the palm of her hand. She had the
power—the power to turn us on, thrill us, captivate us, and reawaken ourinner emotional experiences long forgotten. Nobody even understood her
words; she sang in French. The secret of all successful people is that they have “it.” The purpose of
this book is to discover what that “it” is. Some people have “it,” but they
don’t know they have “it.” They ’re unconscious and unaware. We all know
people who have great gifts in some area. If we ask them how they do it,
they’ll tell us they don’t know how they do it; they just do it. As far as
they’re concerned, there isn’t any other way to be. It’s simply the way they
are. The reason the how-to books fail to achieve their goals is becau se they’re
trying to describe left-brain style. They include the mechanics of moving
from cause and ef fect, but they still haven’ t put their finger on cause. I once did a booking for an organization, and their represent ative was
worried that we weren’ t going to sell all the seats in the theater. If it wasn’ t
going to be 100 percent succe ssful, I wouldn’ t have done it in the first
place. I told the person to relax, although I knew that he couldn’ t. Sure
enough, the theater was standin g room only and a smashing success. Why
not? Whatever we do from the space of inner knowing is certain before it even
happens. When  we’re on the right track, we have that absolute inner
certainty of knowing, and the outcome is already obvious to us. The Empire
State Building already existed from the moment there was agreement about
uniting behind the concept of erecting the tallest building in the world (at
that time). That concept, that agreement, that idea, that visio n, and that
excitement had within it the power to mobilize thousands of workers and
millions of dollars, and to becom e world famous and one of New York’s top
attractions. The assembling of all the monies from the bank, the workers,
the engineers, the architects, and the building materials was only the effect
within the world, which was mobilized, organized, and concretized by the
power behind it. One thing we notice about the laws of physics and the laws of the
universe is that force always creates counterforce. Right there  we’ve got
why we get exhausted. If we look at it, we can see that no force is possiblewithout a counterfor ce. Nothing can press against something unless there is
something to resist it. If there is no resistance, there is no pressure. Movement results in the delicate balance between these two forces. The
propulsion power of the jet engine comes


0.09
Smallpox
0.37
0.30
Other	causes
7.79
6.31
Respiratory	diseases	(T.B.) 0.85
1.43
All	causes
33.62
26.00

Edward	Jenner	had	promised	that	vaccination	would	wipe	out	instead,	all	other

diseases,	even	the	most	persistent	and	deadly	more	rapidly	without	any	serums

than	did	smallpox	with	its	repeated	vaccinations. Around	1900,	after	the	improvements	in	health	due	to	sanitation	and	nutrition

had	had	time	to	be	weighed	against	that	of	vaccination,	most	of	the	people	of

England	began	to	refuse	vaccination,	which	resulted	in	a	greater	decline	in

smallpox,	but	in	certain	cities	of	India	the	British	government	was	still	able	to

keep	up	rigid	enforcement. The	following	chart	shows	the	high	smallpox	death

rate	in	three	of	these	Indian	cities	as	compared	to	the	decreased	death	rate	in

London	after	the	clean	up	(health)	campaign. AVERAGE	ANNUAL	SMALLPOX	DEATH	RATE	PER	MILLION	PEOPLE

Period
Bombay
Calcutta
Madras
London
1888-1897
424
600
100
10.0
1898-1907
1000
1000
307
35.0
1908-1917
600
900
300
0.3
1918-1927
524
1242
663
0.8
1928-1933
866
1201
521
1.23

WORLD’S	WORST	RECORD	IN	MEXICO
Although	India	was	reported	by	the	League	of	Nations	as	the	greatest	center	of

smallpox	in	the	world	in	1929	it	has	improved	since	gaining	its	freedom	from

Britain	and	relaxing	its	vaccination	enforcement	program. This	leaves	the	over

vaccinated	country	of	Mexico	holding	the	dubious	honor	as	the	world’s	worst

smallpox	center. The	following	chart	shows	the	comparison	between	Mexico	with	its	sparse

population	of	16,500,000	(aprox. 1930	figures)	and	British	India	with	its	dense,

congested	population	(approx. 300,000,000)	In	spite	of	the	disease	breeding

conditions	of	India’s	cities	with	inadequate	sanitation,	nutrition	and	housing

facilities	and	the	polluted	water,	lack	of	sewers,	extreme	heat,	etc.,	the	smallpox

death	rate	is	far	lower	than	that	of	completely	vaccinated	Mexico. SMALLPOX	DEATHS	AND	Death	RateS	PER	POPULATION
This	black	record	could	exist	only	in	a	country	where	vaccination	laws	are

rigidly	enforced. The	Mexican	law	prescribes:

1)	Children	must	be	vaccinated	within	four	months	of	birth. 2)	One	compulsory	vaccination	and	one	compulsory	revaccination	for	all

inhabitants,	within	the	time	limits	and	in	the	manner	and	under	the	conditions

specified	by	the	Public	Health	Council. 3)	All	persons	are	obliged	to	have	themselves	revaccinated	at	least	once	every

five	years,	and	may	be	required	to	do	so	more	frequently	whenever	the	health

authorities	so	determine. 4)	The	Army	Medical	Service	vaccinates	all	soldiers. Employees	in	commercial,

industrial,	etc.,	establishments	must	have	all	persons	in	their	employ	vaccinated

within	the	time	limits	laid	down. In	spite	of	the	constant	recurrence	of	smallpox	epidemics	cultivated	by

vaccination,	this	medical	dictatorship	continues	to	rule	with	an	iron	hand. If	the

Mexicans	were	not	a	hardy	people	by	nature	they	would	have	been	destroyed	by

this	time	reduced	to	imbecility,	by	this	continuous	blood	poisoning	practice. In	Jenner’s	day,	smallpox	was	practically	unknown	in	Mexico	for	which	he

promptly	claimed	the	credit. In	1811	Jenner	wrote	to	Dr.	Lettson	as	follows:

For	the	great	and	grand	effects	of	vaccination	the	eye	must	quit	this	little	spot

(England)	and	survey	it	among	other	European	countries	and	still	more

particularly	among	the	vast	empires	of	Asia	and	America. In	Mexico	and	Peru

the	disease	is	nearly	extinct. Jenner	didn’t	wait	around	to	see	the	results	of	his	terrible	invention. Even	he

admits	that	smallpox	was	almost	unknown	when	he	started	his	work	of

destruction. Today,	vaccination	has	so	intensified	the	development	of	smallpox

that	all	vaccinated	Mexicans	have	either	had	it	or	are	in	danger	of	getting	it. Mexico	has	had	the	good	sense	to	abolish	the	barbarous	practice	of	capital

punishment	and	the	cruel	and	useless	practice	of	vivisection	which	puts	that

country	a	step	ahead	of	United	States	in	that	respect. It	is	to	be	hoped	that	those

people	who	fought	so	hard	for	freedom	and	democracy	will	also	be	able	to	throw

off	the	heavy	yoke	of	medical	oppression. EVIDENCE	FROM	ITALY
Dr.	Charles	Ruta,	professor	of	Materia	Medica	at	Parugia	University,	Italy,

presents	some	interesting	figures	comparing	the	smallpox	deaths	of	the

vaccinated	soldiers	with	the	women	and	boys	outside	the	armed	services. Vaccination	is	stressed	in	that	country	(which	accounts	for	the	high	smallpox	rate

among	all	ages)	but	more	thoroughly	enforced	in	the	Army. The	boys	are

inducted	at	the	age	of	20	years. The	figures	show	the	death	rate	from	smallpox	is

about	twice	as	high	among	men	over	20	(soldiers)	as	among	women	of	the	same

age. SMALLPOX	Death	Rate	OF	THOROUGHLY	VACCINATED	ITALIAN

SOLDIERS	COMPARED	WITH	THE	LESS	VACCINATED	WOMEN	AND

BOYS

Dr.	Ruta	traced	the	records	for	many	years	following	this	published	record	and

the	results	continued	with	the	same	high	death	rate	among	the	completely

vaccinated	soldiers	and	with	the	lower	death	rate	among	the	rest	of	the

population. Although	England	was	the	first	country	to	adopt	compulsory	vaccination	laws

her	people	soon	found	it	was	a	disastrous	practice	and	fought	to	have	the	law

abolished. About	the	time	of	the	First	World	War	the	English	people	had

succeeded	enough	in	resisting	the	law	to	notice	a	considerable	decrease	in

smallpox,	aided	of	course	by	the	sanitation	program. Germany	and	Italy	were

still	trying	to	enforce	vaccination	on	the	entire	population. The	following	chart

shows	a	comparison	of	the	smallpox	deaths	of	the	three	countries. CHART	SHOWING	INCREASE	OF	SMALLPOX

UNDER	COMPULSORY	VACCINATION

HIGH	SMALLPOX	RATE	IN	VACCINATED	EGYPT
The	League	of	Nations’	Monthly	Health	report	for	October	15,	1929,	gives	a

report	on	Egypt	with	an	effort	toward	justifying	the	reoccurring	smallpox

epidemics	in	spite	of	the	compulsory	vaccination	laws. However,	the
	"whitewash"	doesn’t	cover	the	inefficacy	of	this	useless	practice. The	report

states:

"In	Egypt,	vaccination	is	compulsory	under	the	Decree	of	1890...Penalties	are

provided	for	infringements...It	has	not	been	found	possible	as	yet	to	enforce


‘professional	fee	getter’	although	it	still	curtails	the	infant

population. "Altogether	,	the	situation	seems	to	be	getting	worse—not	better. And	the	Salk

vaccine—for	all	its	blatant	propaganda,	for	all	its	high	endorsement	by	the

Public	Health	Department	of	our	kindly	government—is	failing	dismally	just	as

Duon	H. Miller,	of	Coral	Gables,	Florida,	predicted	it	would	fail. "Let	us	look	again	at	this	rotten	laboratory	concoction—this	Salk	vaccine	made

from	the	diseased	kidney	of	a	tortured	monkey. If	you	will	recall,	the	proponents

of	this	polio	medicine	never	CLAIMED	that	it	would	PREVENT	POLIO. Those

gentlemen	of	the	dollar	sign	merely	said	that	it	would	PROBABLY	prevent	the

paralysis	which	followed	or	accompanied	the	usual	polio. They	KNEW	that

nothing	that	could	be	‘shot’	into	the	clean	bloodstreams	of	the	youngsters	would

lower	the	sugar	content. And	manifestly	it	was	the	excessive	sugar—taken	into

the	infant’s	body	in	the	summertime	in	the	shape	of	ice	cream,	cola	and	other

soft	drinks,	candy	and	like	sweets—that	BROUGHT	ON	POLIO. No	question	about	that. All	medical	books	show	that	polio	does	not	exist	in

those	countries	where	the	consumption	of	sugar—refined	sugar—is	less	than	90

pounds	per	person. "Well,	anyway,	the	American	people	were	sold	a	‘bill	of	goods’	by	those	stuff-
shirted	individuals	back	of	this	Salk	concoction. And	it	was	the	sainted	‘March

of	Dimes’	parasites	who	did	that	‘selling’. No	question	about	it—the	‘March	of

Dimes’	had	to	come	up	with	some	new	‘gadget’	to	keep	the	dimes	rolling	in	so

that	the	motley	array	of	individuals	on	that	expanded	payroll	might	still	receive
	their	lush	salaries	And	the	gist	of	the	whole	‘selling	campaign’	was	not	that	the

Salk	vaccine	would	CURE	POLIO	or	would	even	PREVENT	POLIO. But	it	was

emphasized	that	this	Salk	monkey	juice	WOULD	PREVENT	THE	PARALYSIS

WHICH	FOLLOWED	POLIO. "That	PREVENTION	OF	PARALYSIS	was	what	actually	‘sold’	the	American

people	on	this	Salk	concoction. Polio,	without	paralysis,	was	not	feared. The

reason	millions	of	parents	were	willing	to	‘take	a	chance’	with	their	children	and

toss	them	onto	the	table	of	‘medical	experimentation’—the	reason	they	were

willing	to	have	their	offspring’s	bloodstream	contaminated	by	this	Salk	filth—
was	in	the	hope	it	MIGHT	PREVENT	POLIO	PARALYSIS. "As	Al	Smith	would	have	said	‘Let	us	look	at	the	record. ’	Most	of	you	know	that

during	1955,	millions	upon	millions	of	little	American	children	had	their

bloodstreams	filled	with	this	Salk	vaccine. Some	got	one—some	got	two	and

some	even	get	three	‘shots’. So,	in	this	year	of	1956—if	this	monkey	juice	was

any	good	at	all—the	number	of	cases	of	polio	should	have	been	almost	wiped

out	and	PARALYSIS,	FOLLOWING	the	few	cases	of	polio	which	did	SLIP

THROUGH,	should	be	practically	nil. "Right	in	line	with	the	above	is	a	report,	issued	in	Washington,	D. C. on	May	11,

1956,	as	appeared	in	the	New	York	Times. ‘Through	1956	through	last	Saturday,	May	4th	(four	months	of	1956)	there	had

been	1,463	polio	cases,	broken	down	into	803	paralytic,	399	non-paralytic	and

261	UNSPECIFIED. In	1955—same	period	(four	months)	there	was	1,599

cases,	437	nonparalytic	and	459	unspecified. PARALYTIC	CASES	numbered

703. ’

"There	you	have	in	black	and	white	the	DEFINITE	RESULTS	of	this	Salk

preventative	paralysis	vaccine. Although	tens	of	thousands	of	children	received

the	Salk	trash	in	1955	which	should	have	PROTECTED	THEM	FROM

PARALYSIS—there	were	over	12%	MORE	PARALYSIS	CASES	in	1956	than

in	1955. Just	how	gullible	do	the	medical	authorities	believe	the	American

people	are. The	medical	men	should	know	that	the	average	layman	can	read

figures	and	make	comparisons. So	let	us	not	permit	these	medical	double	talkers

to	blind	us	further. What	is	the	good	of	CUTTING	DOWN	THE	POLIO	CASES

IF	MORE	OF	THOSE	WHO	ARE	STRICKEN	BECOME	PARALYZED. And

what	is	EVEN	MORE	dreadful	to	contemplate	is	the	thought	of	what	may	be	the
	aftermath	of	this	placing	in	a	child’s	bloodstream	of	this	rotten,	filthy	juice	from

the	diseased	kidney	of	a	dead	monkey. Vaccination	for	smallpox	spread	syphilis

throughout	the	world. And	we,	Naturopaths,	are	now	wondering—what	will	this

Salk	filth	conjure	up. " HEALTH	RESEARCH,	MOKELUMNE	HILL,	CALIFORNIA. Dear	Sirs:

May	I	congratulate	you	on	your	splendid	work. There	are	probably	many	moments	of	discouragement	when	you	ask	yourself,

"Is	it	worth	it	all. " It	is. It	is	only	through	public	enlightenment	that	an	end	can

be	made	to	the	abuses	of	the	drug	trust	and	the	medical-bund. Organizations	such	as	yours	are	capable	of	slowing	down	the	drug	and	vaccine

steamroller. If	you	were	not	hurting	them	or	if	they	did	not	fear	you,	they	would

not	attempt	to	persecute	you. My	personal	knowledge	of	the	medical	bund	is	of	an	intimate	nature. I	hold	the

B. Sc.,	M. A.,	and	Ph. D. degrees	from	New	York	University. I	did	graduate	work

on	a	grant	from	the	medical-bund	controlled	National	Foundation	for	Infantile

Paralysis. I	am	a	graduate	of	an	A. M.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's stance on the Salk vaccine?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the Salk vaccine, citing its ineffectiveness and potential harm to children.
Q: What is the author's profession?,
A: The author is a doctor with a B.Sc., M.A., and Ph.D. degree from New York University and has experience in the medical field.
Q: What is the purpose of the appendix?,
A: The appendix helps to keep putrefactive bacteria at a safe level by holding them in a safe place.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of the government in medicine?,
A: The author believes that the government should not be involved in medicine and that people should have the right to make their own decisions about their health.
Q: What is the author's view on the relationship between the government and the medical profession?,
A: The author believes that the government is controlled by powerful interests and that the medical profession is more concerned with protecting their interests than with the well-being of the public.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Los	Angeles	65,	Calif.
Dec.	31,	1956

Governor	Goodwin	J.	Knight
State	Capitol
Sacramento,	Calif.

Dear	Governor	Knight:
According	to	reports	in	the	papers	you	are	asking	for	$3,000,000	of	public	funds

to	furnish	Salk	vaccine	to	California	adults	under	40	years	of	age	as	well	as	to

the	children. As


 rebounding affects our cells
and health: "...the membranes around the cells strengthen as th ey demand more protein. These thicker membranes
are better able to fight off foreign invaders like  germs, toxins, poisons and other pollutants more
effectively. Here everything improves: the blood, the brain, the lungs, the muscles, all the internal
organs...and even more." Dr. James White at the University of California San Di ego says that rebounding exercise is, "...the closest
thing to the Fountain of Youth that science has di scovered," and that rebounding "is effective in
improving the symptoms of over 80% of the patien ts reporting to our rehabilitation lab." Ruthmary
McDowell, a 94 year-old woman from Seattle, experienced such an improvement. She said, "After being
very ill, I could not seem to get better. It was most discouraging. I really think it [rebounding] has saved
my life." Is rebounding right for you? It is right if you find ex ercise boring and want an exercise that is fun,
convenient, and just plain easy to do. It is right if you are pressed for time, like I am. You will appreciate
that it takes only 15 to 30 minutes per day and that ev en 5 minutes a day is beneficial. I now do two 15-
minute sessions, one in the morning and another in th e evening. Rebounding is the one exercise that will
give you fabulous all-around results, even improvin g your mental well being, with the least amount of
hassle, expense, or risk. In fact, exercising on a qua lity rebounder is the safest and most risk free of any
exercise I can think of. Regardless of age or physic al condition, almost anyone can devise a beneficial
rebounding program. Even professi onal athletes measurably improve their performance by rebounding. Many exercises are uncomfortable, cost too much, or take too much time. People tend to give up and do
nothing. Rebounding is the answer to all these prob lems. You don't need special clothing or lots of
equipment, and you can do it while speaking on the phone, watching TV, or dancing to music. So how do you go about buying a rebounder? One thin g you do not want to do is purchase a cheap $50
mini-trampoline at your local sporting goods store. Th is type of rebounder can actually do you more harm
than good. Inexpensive rebounders tend to have ba d springs; the cheap tube springs found on most
rebounders do not absorb and cushion your weight pr operly-causing a bounce that is abrupt and jarring. People have actually suffered permanent nerve dama ge from using such units. What you want is a
rebounder with fat, barrel spring that allows for sm ooth deceleration, bringing you to a gentle stop. Another problem with cheap rebounders is poor-qualit y matting material. Cheap mats stretch too much,
do not support your feet properly, and potentially plac e undue stress on your ankles, knees, and back. By
contrast, good rebounders have high  quality mats that hold their sh ape and do not overstretch. Other
considerations for a rebounder include the strength of the frame, the height and number of legs, the
quality of the sewing that attaches the webbing to the mat, and the ease with which the unit can be folded out of the way or made portable. With these considerations in mind, I have selected a rebounder that meets my specifications. It is 40
inches in diameter, 10 inches high and weighs 25 pounds. It uses special fat-barrel springs, and both
the frame and legs are made of heavy-grade steel. The mat is made of an industrial fabric which is specifically engineered for rebounders and trampolines. It is flexible, but does not stretch; it provides
a firm and stable surface, yet is supple enough to cushion joints. It does not crease or fold and always
returns to its original flat condition. It is of the highest quality and should provide a lifetime of good use. Best of all, it really works! All of the other exercise machines I ever purchased have ended up as
high-priced clothes hangers. My rebounder actually gets used. I noticed good results in my own well
being after just a couple of weeks. My body love s it and I very much look forward to my daily
workout. I cannot recommend rebounding highly enough as both a fun and effective form of exercise. Rebounders are available at Beyond Health. Call 1-800-250-3063, or go to
www.beyondhealth.com. An
optional handlebar is also available. Do your body a favor and start rebounding now! Raymond Francis is an M.I.T.-trained scientist,  a registered nutrition consultant, author of  Never Be Sick
Again  and Never Be Fat Again, host of the Beyond Health Show, Chairman of the The Project to End
Disease and an internationally recognized leader  in the field of optimal health maintenance. Reprinted with permission from:
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Bouncing Magic

by Raymond Francis
Our health is determined by many factors, includin g diet, toxins, genes, stre ss, thoughts and emotions,
and the amount of physical activity we get. Research has proven that the benefits of exercise are
cumulative and that physical activity is absolutely es sential for health. Unfortunately, we have become a
nation of couch potatoes. Even our children are sedentary—physical play has been replaced with
television and video games. In fact, 60 percent of our adult population is sedentary, both professionally
and recreationally, and about 25 percent of Americans engage in absolutely no exercise whatsoever. Did
you know that this level of inactivity virtually guaran tees disease. We are not getting enough physical
activity to stay healthy, and it is having a profoundly negative effect on the health and productivity of our
nation. Traditionally, getting enough exercise was not a proble m. Our ancestors either farmed or gathered their
food, getting plenty of exercise through their daily activities. Today, things are different; we must choose
to do regular physical activity, or it simply won't happen. However, given the time, effort, and money that
exercising can require, it can be difficult to find a workable solution. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there
were a way to get the activity we need in just a fe w easy minutes a day, in the comfort our own homes,
and with a minimum of effort and expense. Sound too good to be true. Rebounding to the rescue. What is rebounding. It is a unique form of exercise that involves bouncing up
and down on a mini-trampoline, and its effects are almo st magical. It is simple, surprisingly easy to do, a
lot of fun, safe, and it can be done by almost anyone regardless of his or her age or physical condition. I
know it sounds like a panacea, and that is exactly what it is. Rebounding tones, conditions, strengthens
and heals the entire body in as little as 15 minutes per day. Why is rebounding so good for you. Because it is good for your cells. Rebounding is a concentrated form
of exercise that exercises every cell in your entire body. Remember, if your cells are healthy, you cannot
be sick. Only when a large number of cells malfunction can you become diseased. We have always
known that exercise is good for health and the reas ons why are becoming clearer all the time: Research
presented two years ago at the annual meeting of th e American Thoracic Society found that physically
stretching cells has a profound impact on their bioc hemistry and behavior. Moving and stretching a cell,
as rebounding does, helps to supply essential nutrients  and to eliminate toxic waste products. When you
bounce on a rebounder, your entire body (internal organs, bones, connective tissue, and skin) becomes
stronger, more flexible, and healthier. Both blood ci rculation and lymphatic drainage are vastly improved. Visualize for a moment a balloon filled with water. Ho ld the balloon by its stem and observe how gravity
pulls on the water, slightly stretching the balloon. Now move your hand rapidly up and down and observe
how the extra gravitational force ca uses the balloon to significantly st retch and distort. When you bounce
up and down on a rebounder, this is what happens to every cell in your body. Rebounding alternately
puts pressure on and takes pressure off of bo dy cells, like squeezing a sponge. This moving and
stretching of the cells facilitates nutrient delivery and toxin removal, which is exactly what you need to be
healthy. When normal cell chemistry is enhanced, a ll sorts of wonderful things happen to your cells,
tissues, and systems. These include improving brain func tion, muscle building, fat burning, tissue healing,
blood pressure regulation, appetite regulation, bala nce and coordination, elimination of fatigue, and
countless other physiological enhancements. All of this without having to take the time to go to the gym,
work up a sweat, or end up with sore muscles and possible injuries. Especially when compared to conventional exercises such as push-ups and weight


 Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frpeople with a family history of the disease. Soviet
scientists claimed that the main causes of the on-
set and development of hypertension include
nervous system problems, biochemical meta-
bolic processes, predisposing factors (hereditary
and age -related), atherosclerosis, and preceding
kidney diseases.
I’ve already described my understanding of the
developme nt of hypertension and atherosclero-
sis mechanisms. It should be noted that high
blood pressure is caused by excessive weight.
Scientists have found that about 2 km of capil-
laries are required to supply blood to 500g of fat
cells. Therefore, if a person gai ns 1 kg, their vas-
culature increases by 4 km. As a result of the
overall increase in the vasculature length, which
is about 100,000 km in adults, the load on the
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and more frequent contractions to push the
blood through all bodily organs and tissues un-
der high pressure.
Combined fasting is perfect for obese patients.
Many researchers state that this method leads to
an earlier acidotic crisis and a greater reduction
in the body fat mass. Patients with arterial hy-
pertension attain a faster improvement of their
condition, thus the term of the fast and the
length of their inpatient treatment are reduced.
This method is the technique of choice if the un-
derlying disease is accompanied by obesity and
edema syndrome.
Moreover, the combination of dry and water
fasting is well tolerated by patients, has a healing
effect, while reducing the total treatment length,
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of the acidotic crisis.
Atherosclerosis  is the main cause of impaired
blood supply to tissues and organs. Atheroscle-
rosis (and the diseases it causes) is a top killer!
There’s a misconception that atherosclerosis is
the result of aging. Sometimes it’s associated
with absent -mindedness or forgetfulness. Both
statemen ts are wrong.
First of all, atherosclerosis can affect young
people, while old patients may not have this con-
dition. Second, its symptoms are more diverse
because it can affect the whole body from head
to toe. Sclerosis literally means "induration". It
can develop in lung tissues (pneumosclerosis),
heart muscles (cardiosclerosis), kidneys (neph-
rosclerosis), and even bones (osteosclerosis).
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frAtherosclerosis, in fact, is a special form that
affects large arteries.
Atherosclerosis is a metabolic disorder in
which cholesterol (a fat -like substance) levels in-
crease in the blood. Besides, lipoprotein (fat +
protein) formation is increased. It penetrates the
artery walls. At the same time, they accumulate
cholesterol, followed by either plaque calcifica-
tion or ulceration. The risk of atherosclerosis in-
creases with aging.
Fasting has a huge impact on blood circulation.
With an empty stomach and intestines, there are
no obstacles to blood circulation in the abdo-
men, and its composition is improved. Conges-
tion in the abdomen and the liver are eliminated.
Fasting contributes to the restoration of the ca-
pillary circulation function in patients with
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elastic during fasting. Blood cholesterol levels
decrease, thus eliminating the risk of new ather-
osclerotic plaques. The subsequent strict dairy
and plant -based diet with salt restriction helps
retain the results obtained during therapeutic
fasting treatment.
In patients with hypertension, fasting immedi-
ately affects its main symptom, namely, blood
pressure. It is lowered starting with the very first
days of fasting. Even in patients with persistent
and long -term diseases, it’s normalized after 5 -7
days of dry fasting. In most cases, blood pressure
drops below the normal level by the en d of the
fast. It increases and reaches the norm during
the recovery period. To maintain a positive ther-
apeutic effect, regular short -term dry fasting
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a month, 7 days a year.
19.2.13. Neurological diseases: de generative
disc disease, protrusions, disk herniation, mi-
graine.
According to a famous quote, " three doctors
have four opinions." When it comes to vertebral
degenerative disc disease, there are many opin-
ions. When a patient asks about the cause of de-
genera tive disc disease, a doctor can easily name
a dozen causes. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find a
clear and specific reason why the above -men-
tioned disease affected you and a particular ver-
tebral area. There is even an opinion that degen-
erative disc disease  is a "polyetiological and
monopathogenetic" disease. It’s a beautiful term
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by different factors".
It should be noted that degenerative disc dis-
ease affects only Homo sapiens among the ani-
mal species on our plan et. In literature, there’s
also a statement that saber -toothed tigers were
affected by it. I don’t know, I haven’t had the
chance to check this fact, but the spread of de-
generative disc disease  in humans is truly global.
It affects 99,(9)% of people. Degen erative disc
disease  is the most common disease of the mus-
culoskeletal system that affects people of all ages.
The term osteochondrosis, as degenerative disc
disease is called in Russian,  is formed from two
Greek words meaning "bone" and "cartilage". It’s
a disease of the cartilage covering bones in the
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cord, hip and knee joints.
Intoxication and immobility are the main
causes of degenerative disc disease. These factors
alter the intervertebral disc structure. Due to the
uneven vertical axial load, the ligaments of the
vertebrae (especially in the lumbar spine) stretch
as much as possible on one side or the other be-
cause a standing person constantly “changes
legs”. As a result, there is a dislocation of the ver-
tebrae called spondylolisthesis. Besides, inter-
vertebral discs gradually degenerate and the nu-
cleus pulposus elasticity is lost. The disc loses its
ability to act as a hydraulic shock absorber, and
the axial load is transferred by it in the direction
of the acting force. After a while, the outer layer
of the disk cracks, and hernial bulges are formed.
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edema and impaired blood circulation in the
spine), spinal nerve roots, or, in rare cases, the
spinal cord. In addition, there are degenerative
changes in the cartilage covering the discs ac-
companied by the formation of a disk hernia in
the vertebrae.
The main treatment for this pathology defi-
nitely consists of eliminating the edema, cleans-
ing the muscles, ligaments, and joints from salt
deposits, improving disk nutrition. I’ve been al-
ways amazed at how spine mobility and flexibil-
ity improve during fast ing. Migraine (translated
from French, migraine is the pain in one half of
the head) is a recurrent paroxysmal headache,
usually unilateral, caused by periodic narrowing
and expansion of arteries in the brain. Women
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men, due to frequent migraine attacks during
premenstrual syndrome. Men usually have
longer lasting and more intense attacks. The
causes of


 has dwindled dramatically. These days when I eat at h ome, I eat about 2 avocados a week and virtually
no nuts or seeds, except some ground flax on my salads. I am just not attracte d to heavy foods anymore. My salad dressing is often
a Mexican salsa, or sometimes just fresh-squeezed orange juice or ble nded fruit. About once a month I blend fruit and nuts for
dressing (six strawberries, one orange, and eight mac nuts, for example, or 2 oranges and 2 tablespoons of tahini). Rarely, I still
have a salad with ½ tablespoon of olive oil, but a small bottle of oil thes e days would last me years.
Here is a list of what I actually ate one day in July of 2004:

 9 bananas (900 grams/32 ounces)
 1 apple (200 grams/7 ounces)
 4 khadrawy dates
 2 navel oranges (200 grams/7 ounces)
 16 strawberries (250 grams/9 ounces)
 1 nectarine (120 grams/4.2 ounces)
 3 figs (100 grams/3.5 ounces)
 10 cherries (60 grams/2 ounces)
 3 small tomatoes (250 grams, 8.5 ounces)
 ½ large head of lettuce (225 grams/9 ounces)
 a little cabbage (100 grams/3.5 ounces)
 a few sugar snap peas (25 grams/1 ounce)
 ½ ear of white corn (35 grams/1.25 ounces)  lemon juice
 ½ tablespoon olive oil

The verdict? 1,740 calories, 87% carbs, 6% protein, 7% fat. Not bad!
At potlucks and other events (maybe six times per year), I still usuall y eat at least a small portion of those gut-bomb
combinations I used to consume daily. I still enjoy the taste of the high -fat dishes, but they’re almost always far too heavy and salty
for me anymore—which is no small statement, as salt for me has been  a lifetime addiction!
Life is getting better and better. Slowly but surely I am learning to m ove this body. For decades, I used to think to myself with
resignation that I would never feel good enough to exercise in this lif etime. I do have a lifetime of adrenal exhaustion to undo … so
it’s not happening as quickly as I’d like. But the fact that I get motiva ted to move at all is an unforeseen miracle.
I get lots and lots of sunshine. My skin never used to tan, but now it’s br own all summer long. I know that the sun is nature’s
disinfectant and that the sun nourishes me. The toxins that cause s kin cancer live inside of acidic bodies filled with fat, and the sun
merely draws the poisons to the surface, like a poultice … but resea rch shows that the sun does not cause cancer in people who eat
a low-fat diet. Don’t let anyone tell you that it does.
My colds are coming far less often now. In fact, the last one was two years  ago. This may not sound like a big thing, but for
me it’s a miracle—and a direct result of my low-fat diet. Naturally, I always thought of myself as “perfectly healthy, except for thes e
colds.” But the truth is, I spent a great deal of my life in misery, and I m issed out on lots of life.
One more thing: since I’ve been raw, I keep nothing medicinal or sup plemental in my house, period. Except for a couple of
daily vitamins I took as a kid, a bottle or two of Shaklee vitamins in my twenti es, and the enzyme tablets I bought in my first year of
eating raw foods, I pretty much haven’t touched herbs, algaes, miner als, powdered greens, or other such refined, dehydrated,
encapsulated nonfood items of any kind. Thankfully, that’s one part of the  high-fat raw regimen I managed to steer clear of!
If I hadn’t learned about the low-fat (raw) vegan diet, I’m sure that  my forties would have been a downward spiral of
evermore frequent, ever-worsening chronic illness. Instead, I have  a new life to look forward to. For me, whole-food 80/10/10  is
the way to eat as Nature intended … it’s far easier, lighter, and heal thier than all those fatty, salty, dehydrated, taste bud-pleasing
“transitional” foods I began this journey with.
I am deeply grateful to Doug (and Rozi Gruben and Tim Trader) for helping me  learn how to eat high-fruit raw! Finally, after
a lifetime of increasingly debilitating chest colds that lasted a m inimum of three weeks at a time and came three to six times a year, I
am feeling better all the time…and even exercising! Yes!!  All is, most certainly, well!

Lisa Oborne, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
As a child, I spent numerous days in the hospital and often missed school due t o asthma and allergies, among other maladies.
In an average year, I would miss 70 days of school. At age 12, a severe asthma a ttack put me in the hospital for more than a week,
where I had to be in an oxygen tent. Even so, I turned blue many times.
After leaving the hospital, I instinctively began changing my ea ting habits and I became a vegetarian. In my childhood years,
cheese, eggs, and fish were the only “meats” I ate. This change in die t helped, and my health began to improve. I believed I was
doing the best I could for my health.
At age 24, I was in a major car accident. With no feeling in my body from the ne ck down, I was told by my doctor that I
would be in a wheelchair, probably for the rest of my life. After he left th e room, something amazing happened: an electrical current
came from within, starting in my head and working its way down to my toes. I i mmediately sat up and walked out of the hospital.
This was the turning point in my life. I knew that my body was capable of ama zing things, although I did not know how or why. With
new respect, I began to listen to my body’s messages.
W anting to learn more about my body’s functions, and sensing that I ne eded to trust more fully in its capabilities, I began
reading widely in the area of natural health. My curiosity only grew  the more I learned. I have since taken many classes/courses in
Natural Hygiene, including those offered by Dr. Doug Graham and Dr. Robert  Sniadach.
More than four years ago, after attempting to resolve some of my lingeri ng health problems, I went to a naturopath, who
informed me that I had very weak kidneys and was a Type 2 diabetic. I could not unde rstand. I had changed my diet, I had been
vegan for over 12 years at this time, and tried to live a simple life … what  more could I do? I did notice that I did not have a lot of
energy, and although I slept nine to ten hours a night, I still woke up tire d. I decided I needed to take action.
On December 1, 2000, I began a 30-day juice diet. It was not nearly as difficult as  I thought it would be. Upon completion of
the 30 days, my kidneys had rebuilt themselves and the signs of diabetes wer e gone, as well as 30 pounds. That was an added
bonus. Then I was faced with the question of what to do next. During my studie s, I had read a lot of books by Dr. Shelton, and I
asked myself if the raw diet was for me. The response was a resounding “Y ES!”
I tried the raw diet, beginning very simply. Not yet understanding the v ariety of ways that people eat raw, I ate a very low-fruit
diet for more than 12 months, with a lot of greens and nuts & seeds. After about  six months, the initial energy I received from this
new diet started to dwindle, and I was feeling very weak. I promised myself I  would do this for 12 months, so I continued, and
unfortunately, my health did not improve at all. Everyone I saw asked me wh at was wrong with me. I looked very thin and my skin tone was grey. I had become a skinny fat person. I had dropped down to 116 lbs., but what I did not  know was that my body fat
was over 35%. My muscle tone was terrible, and I did not have the energy to exe rcise. My asthma was getting worse, so even if I
wanted to exercise I could not.
One day, my husband was searching the Internet and discovered Dr. Doug Graham’s website. I signed up to attend Hea lthful
Living  International’s first symposium in 2002. I tried to do Dr. D.’s diet based on wh at was on the W eb, immediately increasing my
fruit consumption and dropping the quantity of nuts and seeds in my diet. Alt hough my energy started


 Donald Walsch 1920Bringers of the Light
Some of you may have already done this –  or may
have started  with a statement of Beingness. If you
have, go right to Step 3.
For those of you who have not made this transla-
tion, or don’t even know what is being talked about
here, read on.
To be a Bringer of the Light  one must understand
the difference between “doing,” and “being,” and
between “doingness” and “beingness.”
Bringers Step 2
T ranslate your purpose
from Doingness
to Beingness.Neale Donald Walsch 21
Right Livelihood is seldom attained through a
doingness decision... although it may involve  a
doingness function  somewhere along the way.
Right Livelihood is easily attained through a
beingness decision... which leads to a doingness
function somewhere along the way.
To move into Right Livelihood, one must decide
what one wishes to BE, not what one wishes to DO.
Doingness must spring from Beingness, not the otherway around.
To understand the difference between these two
life experiences, explore Principle #2.
“Doingness”
is a function of the body,
“Beingness”
is a function of the soul.22Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 23
Principle  #2
You are a
Human Being
not a
Human Doing.24Bringers of the Light
It is true that every minute of your life your body
is doing something. Yet it is doing something
for a reason. Everything you have willfully causedyour body to do, you have caused it to do because
there is some state of being you wish to achieve...
and you know no other way to achieve it.
Think about this a minute.
Your body goes through the motions of eating –
you cause it to eat; you make it “do” that – becauseyou want it to be nourished. You are seeking to be
the thing called healthy.
You sleep because you are trying to be the thing
called rested –  which you know leads to the same
thing as above... namely, healthy.
You sit because you are trying to be the thing called
comfortable.  You stand because you are trying to more
of the thing called mobile.  You talk because you are try-
ing to be the thing called understood.  You listen because
you are trying to be the thing called understanding.
The list goes on and on, but it never changes. Al-
ways it points through the thing called Doing, to aNeale Donald Walsch 25
thing called Being.
Everything you willfully cause your body to do, it
does in order to assist you in achieving a state of Be-
ing.
Do the following exercise. In the chart, make a
list of things your body has done recently, then indi-
cate the Beingness  you were seeking to achieve.
We’ve started the list for you, to give you an ex-
ample of how to complete the entries.
This is an excellent exercise to help you define
and clarify the motives behind all of your actions.
Doingness                Beingness I wish to achieve
Reading this Book Wisdom, clarity, understanding
Writing the author Sharing, connecting, expressing
Cleaning the dishesFill this in yourself26Bringers of the Light
Now it is true that there are some things your
body does which you do not willfully cause
it to do.  When your body does one of these things,it is doing it automatically, not willfully.  The body’s
automatic responses are reflections or announce-
ments of a State of Beingness which has already beenattained, rather than attempts to attain one.
Did you follow that?  Are you clear about this?
Let’s look at some examples.
When you laugh, that is an automatic  response to
a State of Beingness which has already been attained,
called happy, joyful — or, in some cases, nervous.
When you cry, that is an automatic response to a
State of Beingness which has already been attained,
called sad, sorrowful —  or, in some cases, happy.
When your heart rate increases wildly, that is an
automatic response to a State of Beingness which
has already been attained, called excited — or, in some
cases, scared.
When your heart rate decreases, producing a  slow
and steady pulse, that is an automatic response to aNeale Donald Walsch 27
In both cases it is the mind which is causing the
body, signaling the body, to “do” what it is “doing”
— and it is the mind which thinks that “doingness”
is the only way to achieve “beingness.”
If you are still unclear about the automatic  vs. will-
ful paradigm, talk to any actor about it.
For an actor, being told to “laugh out loud,” or to
“begin to cry on that line,” can be a nightmare...un-
less the actor has learned to be the thing that creates
the automatic response  the director requires.
Yes, there are so-called “technical” actors who can
produce the bodily action on command... but in
more recent years it has been the “method” actors —actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, MerylState of Beingness which has already been attained,
called peaceful, serene.
So we see that  Automatic Doingness Functions of the
body are used by the mind to reflect  a Beingness State,
while Willful Doingness Functions are used by the mind
to achieve  a Beingness State.28Bringers of the Light
Streep — who have gained the widest respect.  Many
say their acting seems somehow more “real.”  That is
because they are not “acting like.”  They are being.
In “method acting” the actor thinks of a thing, or
remembers a time, which produced the same emotional
response in the past as the one now called for by the
script.  By this device the actor’s mind tricks the body,causing it to cry, or to smile, or even to break into
gales of laughter.  When the mind sends the body a
signal, the body doesn’t know whether what the mindis experiencing is “real,” or only a memory.  To the
body, it is all the same.
That is why the body’s heart rate will increase, and
the body itself may even break out in a cold sweat, at
the memory of a beautiful woman, or a wonderful
man, and a passionately romantic time.  Nothing ishappening in the present moment, but the body
doesn’t know that.   It receives precisely the same sig-
nals from the brain as it did when the adventure wasfirst experienced.
Fear can likewise be recreated with a memory,Neale Donald Walsch 29
which in turn produces bodily responses exactly as
if the experience was occurring all over again.
To repeat, then:  the mind can “tell” the body to
“do” things for two different reasons.  It can tell the
body to “do” something in order to achieve a State of
Being (this is called a Willful Action), or it can tell
the body to “do” something in order to demonstrate
the State of Being it has already achieved (this is called
an Automatic Response).
In any event, you are always being something. And
your body is always demonstrating what you are be-ing.  Sometimes the demonstration is very subtle,
and sometimes it is not, but the demonstration never
ends.
Your body is a living
demonstration of the
state of beingness
in which your soul resides.30Bringers of the Light
Returning now to Step 2, what you are asked to
do is take a look at the declaration you came up with
in Step 1  when asked to declare your Life Purpose.
Is the declaration a statement of   “beingness” or a
statement of “doingness”?
If it is a statement of “doingness,” Step 2 now
asks you to translate that into a Statement of Beingness.
Use the chart on page 22 as a guide.
The reason you are asked to do this is that only
when your Doing flows out of your place of Being, an-
nouncing it rather than seeking to create it, can you ever
be centered enough to become a Bringer of the Light.
Most of the world has this “being/doing” para-
digm backwards.  People are running around every-
where doing, doing, doing, and hoping by this de-vice to one day achieve a state of beingness (“happy,”
“peaceful,” “abundant,” “enlightened”...whatever)
that will make it all worthwhile.
The sad thing about all this is that for most people,
it doesn’t work out that way.  They spend their whole
life doing this and doing that, doing this and doingNeale Donald Walsch 31
that, and all they wind up with is a great big pile of
“do-do.”
So complete Step 2  now, if you haven’t already
done so.  Take any doingness statement which mayhave found itself into your declaration of Life Pur-
pose and translate it into a beingness description.
Then...move on.32Bringers of the Light
Bringers Step 3
Adopt right now
the state of being
you have described,
no matter what you are doing
Okay, you’ve moved through the first two steps
toward Right Livelihood and toward becom-
ing a Bringer of the Light.
A person in “right livelihood,” by the