 the worthwhile things in life are those things
that have helped others. The greatest accomplishments
for ages have been achieved by those who placed
accomplishment before idle pleasure! You will never find
gluttons among those great minds who eat a healthy,vital, live food diet to maintain brain power.
Healthy eating should be a required science and of
importance to everyone. Eating is such a fundamentalthing. We depend on food for efficiency, health,
happiness and longevity. Good nutrition should be a
basic rule of every person’s early training... to eat for health!
It’s never too late to start eating healthy foods and
living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. The minute you begina natural diet, your body, mind and spirit will start toimprove! In
11 short months you can build a whole, new,
wonderful, youthful feeling body by fasting to clean outthe half-dead cells and using healthy foods to build new,
healthy cells. This is the great health secret of life.
You will become the Master Builder of a brand new
body, free from miseries! You will develop a sharp and
alert brain. Your spirit – your soul, will soar to greater
heights! There is no greater treasure than living on thehighest planes of the physical, mental and the spiritual
existence. Doctor Healthy Natural Food will be your guide
to achieve the Higher Life. Trust in Him, for He wantsyou to have a perfect healthy life while you’re on earth.176
• CEREALS: Buckwheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Wheat
• MILK: Butter, Cheese, Cottage Cheese, Ice Cream, Milk, etc.
• EGGS: Cakes, Custards, Dressings, Mayonnaise, Noodles
• FISH: Shellfish, Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp, Shadroe
• MEATS: Bacon, Chicken, Pork, Sausage, Veal
• FRUITS: Citrus Fruits, Melons, Strawberries
• VEGETABLES: Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, Celery, Eggplant,
Legumes, Onions, Potatoes, Spinach, Tomatoes
• NUTS: Peanuts, Pecans, Walnuts
• MISCELLANEOUS: Chocolate, China Tea, Cocoa, Coffee,
Palm and Cottonseed Oils, MSG, Salt, SpicesHealthy Fiber for Super Health
Most Common Food Allergies
Make sure to get your daily dose of these naturally occurring, cancer fighting
biological substances, abundant in apples, tomatoes, citrus fruits, onions, garlic,beans, legumes, soybeans, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc. The winners, applesand tomatoes, which contain 10,000 different phytochemicals (page
 235)!•EAT BERRIES, surprisingly good sources of fiber.
•KEEP BEANS HANDY, pr obably the best fiber sources. Cook dried
beans and freeze in portions. Use canned beans for faster meals.
•INSTEAD OF ICEBERG LETTUCE, choose deep green lettuces
(romaine, bib, butter, etc.), spinach or cabbage for variety salads.
•LOOK FOR “100% WHOLE WHEAT” or whole grain breads. A dark
color isn’t proof; check labels, compare fibers, grains, etc.
•WHOLE GRAIN CEREALS. Hot, also cold granolas with sliced fruit.
•GO FOR BROWN RICE. It’s better for you and so delicious.
•EAT THE SKINS of potatoes and other fruits and vegetables.
•LOOK FOR CRACKERS with at least 2 grams of fiber per ounce.
•SERVE HUMUS, made from chickpeas, instead of sour-cream dips.
•USE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR for baking breads, muffins, pastries,
pancakes, waffles and for variety try other whole grain flours.
•DON’T UNDERESTIMATE CORN, including popcorn, corn tortillas.
•ADD OAT BRAN, WHEAT BRAN AND WHEATGERM to baked
goods, cookies, etc.; whole grain cereals, casseroles, loafs, etc.
•SNACK ON SUN-DRIED FRUIT, such as apricots, dates, prunes,
raisins, etc., which are concentrated sources of nutrients and fiber.
•INSTEAD OF DRINKING JUICE, eat the fruit: orange, grapefruit, etc.;
and vegetables: tomato, carrot, etc. – www.berkeleywellness.com
Nature’s Wonder Working Phytochemicals Help Prevent Cancer177Doctor  Fasting
On a fast day... you shall read the words of the Lord. – Jeremiah 36:6Chapter 23
Fasting is accepted and recognized as being the oldest
form of therapy. It is mentioned  74 times in the Bible. It
is the universal therapy even used by sick animals in
the wilds the world over. As we study the ancient healersof the world, we find that fasting heads the list forhelping Mother Nature heal the sick and the wounded.
There is a misconception about fasting that must be
clarified. It must be definitely and positively stated thatfasting is not a cure for any disease or ailment. Thepurpose of a fast is to allow the body’s Vital Force fullrange and scope to fulfill its own self-healing, self-repairing and self-rejuvenating functions to the bestadvantage. Healing is an internal biological function.Fasting gives the body a physiological rest and permitsthe body to become
 100% efficient in healing itself.
Fasting under proper care or with workable knowledgeis probably the fastest way and the safest means ofregaining health ever conceived by the human mind!
Even if I have to repeat myself, I want to make it
clear and positive that fasting does not cure anything.Fasting puts the body in a condition where all the VitalForce of the body is used to flush out the causes of bodymiseries. Fasting helps the body help itself. We who havemade a life study of the Science of Fasting and conductedand supervised thousands of fasts know the miraclesthat the body itself can perform during the period ofcomplete abstinence from food. It gives the overworkedand overburdened internal organs ample rest and timefor rehabilitation. It enhances the internal power andvitality of the body to flush out toxic poisons and wastesthat have been stored in the body for years. It raises the178
Actress Cloris Leachman is an ardent health follower who sparkles with
health. She hates smoking, coffee, alcohol, sugar and meat. One of hersolutions to health problems is to fast. “Fasting is simply wonderful. It canpractically cure anything. It is a miracle; it cured my years of asthma.”
I humbled my soul with fasting. – Psalm 69:10Vital Force to its highest point of efficiency. Thus, it
promotes the elimination of inorganic chemical
accumulations, toxins and other pollutions that cannotbe flushed from the body by any other means.
The prophets of old fasted for spiritual enlightenment
and a closer contact with the Godhead (Divine Force).We know that fasting sharpens and hones the mental
faculties to a keen edge. Fasting improves the organs of
mastication, digestion, assimilation and elimination of
food. The mighty liver – which is known as the chemical
laboratory of the human body and is typically the most
abused organ – at last has a chance during the fast torehabilitate and gain more Vital Force. Thus, after a fast,
the liver functions more efficiently. In particular, all the
sensory powers possessed by human beings areexhilarated and raised to a much higher efficiency level
than normal during and after a fast.
No process or health therapy ever fulfilled so many
indications for restoration of vigorous health as doesfasting. It’s Mother Nature and God’s very own prime
process and their first requirement in nearly all cases.After a fast the circulation is better, food can be assimilatedbetter, and endurance, stamina and strength are increased.
After a fast the mind becomes more alert and receptive to
logic and living a sensible, natural healthy lifestyle.
After the fast the mind becomes so powerful that it
can take full control of the body. It becomes the completemaster and, if a person does not go back to his old habits,he can maintain this mastery of the body for the rest of
his life. Fasting instills personal confidence. Fasting gives
a person a positive mental attitude. Fasting promotestranquility of mind and a glow of well-being that no
other therapy can offer. Fasting renovates, revives and
purifies every one of the millions of cells that make upthe  body. Fasting is the Royal Road to Internal Purity!179Doctor  Exercise
As I stride along on my daily 2 to 4 mile brisk walk with hand weights that
help keep my bones strong, I say to myself, often out loud, Health, S trength,
Youth, Vitality, Joy, Peace and Salvation for Eternity!    – Patricia BraggChapter 24
Doctor Exercise makes this statement, “To rest is to
rust!” And rust means decay and destruction. In other
words, the good doctor tells us that activity is life andstagnation is death. The good doctor further informs usthat if we do not use our muscles, we lose them! In orderto keep muscles firm, strong, vigorous and youthful, theymust be continually used. Activity is the law of life!Action is the law of well-being. Every vital organ of thebody has its specialized work, and its


ros strengthens the curiosity to know the other being.
As long as there is somethin g new to nd in the other soul and as
long as you reveal yourself, eros will live. The moment you believe
you have found all there is to nd, and have revealed all there is to
reveal, eros will leave. It is as simple as that with eros. But where
your great error comes in is that you believe there is a limit to the
revealing of any soul, yours or another’s. When  a certain point of
usually quite supercial revelation is reached, you are under the
impression that this is all there is, and you settle down to a placid
life without further searching.
Eros has carrie d you this far with its strong impact. But after this
point, your will to further search the unlimited depths of the other
person and voluntarily reveal and share your own inward search
determines whether you have used eros as a bridge  to love. This, in
turn, is always  determined by your will to learn how to love. Only
in this way will you maintain  the spark of eros in your love. Only in
this way will you continue to nd the other and let yourself be
found. There is no limit, for the soul is endless and eterna l: A whole
lifetime would  not suce to know it. There can never be a point
when you know the other soul entirely, nor when you are known
entirely. The soul is alive, and nothing that is alive remains static. It
has the capacity to reveal even deeper layers that already exist. The
soul is also in constant change and movement as anything spiritual
is by its very nature. Spirit means life and life means change. Since
soul is spirit, the soul can never be known utterly. If people had thewisdom, they would realize that and make of marriage the
marvelous journey of adven ture it is supposed to be, instead of
simply being carried as far as you are taken by the rst momentum
of eros. You should use this potent momentum of eros as the initial
thrust it is, and then nd through it the urge to go on further under
your own steam. Then you will have brought eros into true love in
marriage.
The Pitfalls of Marriage
Marriage is intended by God for human beings, and its divine
purpose is not merely procreation. That is only one aspect. The
spiritual idea of marriage is to enable the soul to reveal itself and to
be constantly on the search for the other to discover forever new
vistas of the other being. The more this happens, the happier the
marriage will be, the more rmly and safely it will be rooted, and
the less it will be in danger of an unhappy ending. Then it will fulll
its spiritual purpose.
In practice, however, marria ge hardly ever works that way. You
reach a certain state of familiarity and habit and you think you
know the other. It does not even occur to you that the other does
not know you by any means. He or she may know certain facets of
your being, but that is all. This search for the other being, as well as
for self-revelation, requires inner activity and alertness. But since
people are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer activity
may be all the stronger as an overcompensation, they are being
lured to sink into a state of restfulness, cherishing the delusion of
already knowing each other fully. This is the pitfall. It is the
beginning of the end at worst, or at best a compromise leaving you
with a gnawing, unfullled longing. At this point the relationship
turns static. It is no longer alive even though it may have some very
pleasant featu res. Habit is a great temptress, pulling one toward
sluggishness and inertia, so that one does not have to try and work
or be alert any more.Two people may arrange an apparently satisfactory relationship,
and as the years go by they face two possibilities. The rst is that
either one or both partners become openly and consciously
dissatised. For the soul needs to surge ahead, to nd and to be
found, so as to dissolve separateness, regardless of how much the
other side of the personality fears union and is tempted by inertia.
This dissatisfac tion is either conscious—although in most instances
the real reason for it is ignored—or it is unconscious. In either case,
the dissatisfact ion is stronger than the temptation of the comfort of
inertia and sluggishness. Then the marriage will be disrupted and
one or both partners will delude themselves into thinking that with
a new partner it will be dierent, particularly after eros has perhaps
struck again. As long as this principle is not understood, a person
may go from one partnership to another, sustaining feelin gs only as
long as eros is at work.
The second possibility is that the temptation of a semb lance of
peace is stronger. Then the partners may remain togethe r and may
certainly fulll something together, but a great unfullled  need will
always lurk in their souls. Since men by nature embody more of the
active and adventurous principle, they tend to be polygamous and
are therefore more tempted by indelity than women. Thus you can
also understand what the underlying motive for men’s inclination to
be unfaithful is. Women tend much more to be passive because they
carry more of the receptive principle and are therefore better
prepared to compromise. This is why they tend to be monogamous.
Of course, there are except ions, in both sexes. Such indelity is
often as puzzli ng to the active partner as to the “victim.” They do
not understand themselves. The unfaithful one may suer just as
much as the one whose trust has been betrayed.
In the situation where compromise  is chosen, both people stagnate,
at least in one very import ant aspect of their soul development.
They nd refuge in the steady comfort of their relationship. They
may even believe that they are happy in it, and this may be true to
some degree. The advantage s of friendship, companionsh ip, mutual
respect, and a pleasant life together with a well-established routine
outweigh the unrest of the soul, and the partners may have enoughdiscipline to remain faithfu l to one another. Yet an important
element of their relationship is missing: the revealing of soul to soul
as much as possible.
True Marriage
Only when two people do this can they be puried together  and
thus help each other. Two developed souls can fulll one another by
revealing them selves, by searching the depths of each other’s soul.
Thus what is in each soul will emerge into their consci ous minds,
and puricatio n will take place. Then the life-spark is maintained so
that the relationship can never stagnate and degenerate into a dead
end. For you who are on this path and follow the vario us steps of
these teachings, it will be easier to overcome the pitfalls and
dangers of the marital relati onship and to repair damage that has
occurred unwittingly.
In this way, my dear friends, you not only maintain eros, that
vibrating life-force, but you also transform it into true love. Only in
a true partnership of love and eros can you discover in your partner
new levels of being you have not heretofore perceived. And you
yourself will be puried also by putting away your pride and
revealing yourself as you really are. Your relationship will always be
new, regardles s of how well you think you know each other already.
All masks must fall, not only those on the surface, but even those
deeper down that you may not even have been aware of. Then your
love will rema in alive. It will never be static; it will never stagnate.
You will never  have to search elsewhere. There is so much to see
and discover in this land of the other soul you have chosen, whom
you continue to respect, but in whom you seem to miss the life-
spark that once brought you together. You will never have to be
afraid of losing the love of your beloved; this fear will be justied
only if you refrain from risking the journey of self-revelation
together. This, my friends, is marri age in its true sense, and this is the
only way it can be the glory it is supposed to be.Separateness
Each of you should think deeply about whether you are afraid to
leave the four walls of your own separateness. Some of my friends
are unaware that to stay separate is almost a conscious wish. With
many of you it is this way: You desire marriage because one part of
you yearns for it—and also because you do not want to be alone.
Quite superci al and vain reasons may be added to explai n the deep
yearning within your soul. But aside from this yearning and aside
from the supercial and selsh motives of your unfullled desire for
partnership, there must also be an unwillingness to risk the journey
and adventure  of revealing yourself. An integral part of life remains
to be fullled by you—if


 and protecting it. I don’t use any kind of defense mechanisms.
When you refuse to stuff it down and let it fully come up, it comes, and
you go back to the light in the present now.
This is importan t in any situat ion where you want to know your
heart’ s calling and your way back to peace. You need to be very honest
with yourself and look at what you’re afraid to lose. When what you are
afraid of is seen, you will be in a space to tell the Holy Spirit, “Just show
me if it is Your will.” Your mind is now open to all possibilities and all
options. Then, from a place of feeling the joy and the peace, you caneasily access deeper inspiration. And you will be able to see a lot of
signs and symbols because the Holy Spirit doesn’ t just provide guidance;
He always provides the means to achieve it too!
I join you in accepting the next steps in this journey. I encourage
you to follow your heart in the face of any fears that you may
experience. Our journey together is one of inspiration—of opening to all
that is possible with the Holy Spirit.Chapter 4
Guilt
There will be times when you feel resistance to the Holy Spirit, when the
ego says, “Stop! No! Stay away from my life.” Or it will say, “I will give
you some parts of my life, but I’m going to keep some to myself.” As we
listen to and follow the Holy Spirit, we become more and more willing
to give over all of our pictures, the whole film, to Him.
Let’s zoom in on one of fear’s major derivatives: guilt. We all know
how it feels to have feelings of guilt and shame. Most of the time, we
associate feeling s of guilt and shame with something in form, something
we think we have done wrong, or something that we didn’ t do that was
expected of us, and we feel like we came up short. This shows us that
guilt always seems to be related  to behavior, whether it’s our behavior or
somebody else’ s behavior.
By refusing to face the guilt of separation, we project this guilt,
which I call “ontological” guilt, onto many different things. We can feel
guilty about food. W e can feel guilty about sexuality, body image, or past
memories of behaviors. I have met people who have been in prison for
what the world would judge very shameful crimes. I have met people
who would look me in the eye and feel me out: “Can I expose a secret to
you? And will you still love me afterward?” Once they know that yes, I
will, then they tell me that they have killed somebody. Or they reveal
their deepest darkest secret, their hidden secret of what they find most
shameful, what they believe makes them a sinner, makes them unloving,
unlovable, and so forth. When someone exposes their guilt this way, I
stay with the presence of love and don’t judge whatever they did. And in
their exposing it, it is automatica lly handed over to the Holy Spirit. Their
first step of unveiling the ontological guilt has been taken.
The ego wields guilt. That is why you reinforce a feeling of guilt
anytime you use the body or the world for the ego’s purposes. The ego’spurpose could be possessiveness or “getting.” It can be to defen d, attack,
compete, or use the body for pride or pleasure. The guilt is not inherent
in anything. It’s only the purpose we give to things that determines
whether we feel guilt or peace. The purpose we give to anything can
either reinforce  the separation or it can be used for healing and
forgiveness. Let’s take the example of food. Food is generall y a huge
target for the projection of a lot of guilt. The truth is that deep-down,
people don’t feel guilty around  fatty or sugary foods, even though the
nutritionists tell us not to eat these foods. Even brands play on our guilt
by marketing products as “guilty pleasures,” “guiltily delicious,” and
“sinfully delicious.” But there aren’ t good foods and bad foods. There
isn’t anything wrong with ice creams or cookies, sweets or meats. We
should not feel guilty about eating certain foods. The belief in guilt is in
the mind. There  is no guilt in the foods, nor can eating them cause any
guilt at all, although it sometimes seems to get projected that way. Like
with anything else, we can open  up to Spirit’ s guidance around  what to
eat.
It is the Holy Spirit’s task to purify the mind. You need to let Him
reinterpret every thing that the ego made, including the body. This is not
something that you can try to skip over; there is going to be a lot of guilt
that will come up as you relate in this world. Along the spiritual journey,
the ego defense mechanisms attempt to minimize fear and guilt without
actually letting them go. Instead, the ego minimizes the fear and guilt to
the point of being tolerable—so that you will keep them! The ego-
thought system does not want to get rid of them, so it acts ingeniously:
minimize the intensity to keep you trapped. It is as if you were forced to
agree to drink a cup of lethal poison but were granted one wish of
deciding how you would drink it. Your wish was to mix the poison with
the ocean first, let it blend in, and then you fill your cup. That is what the
ego is doing; it lets you dilute the poison before you drink it. It dilutes
the guilt so it gets unrecognizable and acceptable to the sleeping mind.
But diluted poison is still poison, although it’ s harder to recognize.
The Origin of GuiltGuilt is the feeling that something has gone wrong. The mind gets
fixated on it, gripping something that is not loving, but how do you
become aware of and release this feeling of wrongness?
Guilt is also associated with linear time. Projection and guilt are the
“making” of time, for without those, there is only timeless eternity,
where all is one. Because the ego invented linear time, it tells you that
you were guilty in the past, that there has been much wrongdoing in the
past, and that the present moment is nothing or insignificant. It rolls over
or skips  the present moment where the answer of peace is and moves
into the future, making us believe that the future will be the same as the
past. This guilt comes from way down inside. It originates in believing
that we are separate from God. The ego-thought system uses linear time
to keep the mind trapped in guilt, and then it maintains the guilt by the
repetition of this same mistake of separation, over and over again. But it
is all a big trick to keep you feeling you have done something wrong.
In this way, guilt has nothing to do with behaviors. Guilt gets
generated from the core split in the mind (see the levels of mind
discussion in chapter 2), not from things in the world, although it is
immediately projected out as the world of form. This means that the
experience of guilt is solely a result of the purpose the ego gives to
things. Most people are not consciously aware of this, so no matter how
much we try to change behavior, guilt is still there. The belief in hell, the
devil, or some dark force separates the mind from the experience of
being one with God. Metaphysi cally, it is our own guilt that projects the
whole idea of an external dark force or hell. Since the ego believes in
opposites and is scared of God and love, it makes up ideas such as hell,
the devil, and sin. It is as if the ego is using what should be the most
sacred to scare the mind with opposite ideas. For example, Christianity
in its core is pure. It is supposed to lead people into God. Jesus’ s pure
teachings—present in mystical Christianity, Gnosticism, and The
Urantia Book IV—are all about that. And the ego seems to take what is
the purest and make it dark to scare people. This separation guilt is all
unconscious. Most people don’t come home from an emotionally bad
day and tell their partner, “Dammit, it’s that belief I’ve separa ted from
God; I’ve been acting it out all day.” We don’t get into traffic and say:
“That guy tried to cut me off! Ah…separation from God again!” Andthen we don’t eat lunch and say, “Oh, I overate; I feel bloated…ahhh…
separation from God.” This separation from God arises, and we feel so
guilty. But we don’t go throug h the day consciously thinking that we
have separated from God. We are not aware that this separation is our
only problem, nor are we askin g ourselves why we keep playing this
game. We are not aware that it’s ontological guilt that’s causing all the
specific problems.
In attem pting to fix our life or to heal, we mistakenly focus very
strongly on specifics. The mind gets tangled and complicated; that’s why
we can work with a psychotherapist for years and make very little
headway—because we focus on the wrong thing. It is like rearranging
the deck chairs on the Titanic  while the ship is going down. As long as


, steamed broccoli, and a bowl of
whole grain rice. I have not had any desire to eat meat, nor have I had a desire for
alcohol, tea, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, white bread, salt, white sugar and its products, processed and denatured foods, or anything else that breeds ill health. These things
have, fortunately, been eliminated from my li fe, just as have all the drugs that were
poisoning my system for so long.
   Saturday, November 7, 1964 --23rd eating day: Weight 134-3/4; a gain of 1/2 pound
from yesterday and a total gain of 26-3/4 pounds after 22 days of eating. Blood
pressure 110/70. Breakfast: three oranges and four ounces ground, raw peanuts.
Lunch: a quarter of a watermelon, grapes, apple, and strawberries. Supper: large raw
vegetable salad, steamed peas, and two bake d potatoes. During the past week or so,
Dr. Gross has been taking me along for the ride on some of his daily errands. I've
enjoyed getting out and seeing the beautiful countryside with the Hudson River ever
in the distance. I look forward to these outings. We visited various historic places, but
today was special. We visited the Roosevelt estate about nine miles toward the southern end of Hyde Park. I was even so bold as to pick a small bag of apples from
the orchard.
   Sunday, November 8, 1964 --24th eating day: Weight 135 pounds; a gain of 1/4
pound from yesterday and a total gain of 27 pounds after 23 days of eating. Breakfast:
two grapefruits, three oranges, and four ounces of ground almonds (still quite a volume of food, but it soon begins to taper off). Lunch: grapes, two apples, one
banana, and one avocado. Supper: large raw vegetable salad, steamed celery and peas,
and one acorn squash. (I know the subject of B.M.s has been brought up throughout
the book and it is hardly an exciting topic, but it is important since it bears a
relationship to the return of normal function and healing of the large intestine, which
medical opinion said could not regenerate. So  periodically, if you will, I'll give you
progress reports on this part of my life.) Bowel activity varies at this point from one or two to six or eight per 24 hour day and ranges from some looseness to semi-formed
and formed. Another interesting occurrence is the fact that celery, corn, etc., does not
show up in the stools as undigested. When I had the active ulcerative colitis, many
pieces of roughage foods would appear. This also occurs in so-called healthy
individuals I've questioned. This only proves that not only has healing taken place, but
function and strength in the intestinal tract has developed through the body's own
ability.
   Monday, November 9, 1964 --25th eating day: Weight 135-1/4 pounds; a gain of 1/4
pound from yesterday and a total gain of 27-1/2 pounds after 24 days of eating. Dr.
Gross informed me this morning that I can plan on going home in a few days. I waste
no time in making a decision to leave on Friday the 13th, just four days from today. I
know the days will not pass fast enough now. Breakfast: one grapefruit, two oranges, and four ounces ground, raw cashews. Lunch: a chunk of watermelon, slice of
cantaloupe, two apples, four peaches, and se veral dates. Supper: large raw vegetable
salad, steamed zucchini squash, and two steamed potatoes. I notice the stools are not
as foul as they were when I was so ill a nd when I ate meat. In fact, foul stools are
characteristic of meat eaters because of the meat's putrefaction in the intestinal tract;
while in vegetarians--particularly those who eat a predominantly raw diet--the stools
are virtually odorless for the most part, indicating no toxic elements in the colon. (I beg your indulgence for this additional bit on bowels.)
   Tuesday, November 10, 1964 --26th eating day: Weight 136-1/4 pounds; a gain of 1
pound from yesterday and a total gain of 28-1/4 pounds after 25 days of eating. Worked out a bit more vigorously in the gym this morning, followed by 30 minutes of
cross-country jogging. (I was a cross-country runner in college and it was an
exhilarating sensation to be able to get back  in the groove.) Breakfast: three oranges
and four ounces of ground cashews. Lunch: half a cantaloupe, one plum, blueberries,
and dates. Supper: large raw vegetable sa lad, vegetable stew, and a bowl of whole
grain rice. I thought of the many friends I had made in the two and one-half months
I've been here and of some of the dramatic  recoveries I witnessed. I am awed by the
inherent and miraculous ability of the body to heal itself when it is left alone.
   Wednesday, November 11, 1964 --27th eating day: Weight 136-1/2 pounds; a gain of
1/2 pound from yesterday and a total gain of 28-1/2 pounds after 26 days of eating.
Blood pressure 110/74. Woke up at 6:00 a.m. full of energy. It's still a novelty to me
to be able to wake up in the morning and actually look forward to each day and to life rather than to dread each day, to suffer physically, mentally, and emotionally and to
wish for death Took a light two-mile cross-country jog this morning. Breakfast: one
grapefruit, two oranges and three to four oun ces of whole peanuts. (From here on, the
nuts and sunflower seeds, etc., are no longer ground. The teeth will do the work. The
building up to these whole foods has been very gradual, but it was necessary to accustom the rejuvenated intestinal tract to the foods it was meant to handle. There are times when at home we make our own peanut butter because my boys love it and
it's so superior to the store-bought, roaste d-out, and adulterated mess. Once you eat
homemade raw peanut butter, you just can't go back to the commercial stuff.) Lunch:
large raw vegetable salad, steamed yellow summer squash, and two steamed potatoes.
Supper: vegetable soup, large raw vegetable salad, steamed green beans, and a bowl
of whole grain rice. Slept much better.
   Thursday, November 12, 1964 --28th eating day: Weight 137 pounds; a gain of 1/2
pound from yesterday and a total gain of 29 pounds after 27 days of eating. Blood
pressure 112/74. Breakfast: two whole grap efruit and about four ounces of filbert
nuts. Lunch: strawberries, grapes, apple,  and a whole avocado. Supper: large raw
vegetable salad, bowl of steamed peas, asparagus, green beans, and a buckwheat
groats (kasha) casserole. I get a little ner vous when I think of leaving tomorrow. I've
been here two and one-half months now and it's  as if I've always lived here. (Over the
ensuing years, Pawling Manor does become a home away from home.) I spent part of the day thinking back, all the way back, to the year 1958 when I first became ill. I
relived that six-year nightmare under medical care, the transition period when Natural
Hygiene was presented to me, and then the entire magnificent experience here--the
six-week fast, the careful and methodical breaking of the fast, with the eventual
attainment of the goal to be able to eat a basically raw vegetarian diet after the body had healed itself--something my doctors sa id was impossible. It's so difficult to
believe what I've been through and that this  first phase of my rebirth (?) has passed.
(One thing I've learned over these past 12 years is that whether it is good, bad or
indifferent, "everything comes to pass.") Not much sleep. Too many thoughts of
home, my wife, children, my practice, and a myriad of other important and even
nonsensical items.
   Friday, November 13, 1964 --29th eating day: Weight 137-1/2 pounds a gain of 1/2
pound from yesterday and a total gain of 29-1/2 pounds after four weeks of eating.
Blood pressure 112/74. Breakfast: two oranges and about four ounces of whole
almonds. Lunch: romaine lettuce and celery, one pear, one apple, a dish of dates, and figs. Supper: large raw vegetable salad, st eamed butternut squash, and a special treat
since I would be leaving this evening; Mrs. Gross (Joy) made what was to be one of
my favorite fancy vegetarian dishes in  the future--eggplant parmigiana (broiled
eggplant, mushrooms, onions, green pepper, tomatoes, etc., topped with mozzarella cheese).
   This was a very emotional day for me. This was


who came to us for Galls tones may be caused by the drinking
of water saturated with inorganicsome health and diet minerals and the deadly toxic cr ystals
advise. He looked formed by an unbalanced, unnatural
diet. Also, hardened, saturated fats and physically fit, but we hydrogenated foods and their oilscould tell from the can cause gallbladder problems.
color of his skin and his eyes that he was suffering with
silent gallstones. W e pleaded with him to change his
unhealthy habits and follow Mother Natur e’s way, but
sadly we could not get him to change! He died way too
young! If he had let us put him on a program of liver
and gallbladder detoxification – and given up his
unbalanced diet, alcohol, salt and or dinar y drinking
water – that talented, handsome man might still be alive!
We have had many people under o ur nutritional
supervision who had gallston es. The follow ing is an
excerpt from the Bragg book, Apple Cider V inegar – Miracle
Health System. See back pages for booklist.
Apple Cider V inegar Combats Gallstones
Before starting the 2 day gallbladder flush, prepare
for 1 week by drinking slowly – upon arising, at mid-
morning, mid-afternoon and after dinner – 1 tsp. Bragg
Vinegar in 6 ounce glass of organic apple juice; or if
diabetic or hypoglycemic dilute with half distilled water.
Apple juice is rich in malic acid, potassium, pectins and
enzymes that act as solvents to soften and help remove
debris (small stones, etc.) and cleanse the body.  Doctors
have new non-surgical methods for removing the
difficult, larger stones using sound waves. But it’ s best
to purge the small and medium-sized ones about once
or twice a year.  These could develop into big pr oblems!
No food is eaten (only liquids) during the following
2 day gallbladder flush. Fill 8 ounce glass with one part
Bragg Organic V irgin Olive Oil (no substitutes) and two
parts organic apple juice (organic is best) and add 1 tsp.
ACV.  Take this mixture 3 times the first day.  At night,
sleep on the right side when on flush, pulling right knee towar d
chest to open pathway. On the second day, take the
mixture twice. On both days you may drink all the apple
juice you desire, but no other liquid, not even water.
This treatment is not recommended for diabetics
unless super vised by a health professional.
Living under the conditions of modern life, it is important to bear in mind
that the preparation and refinement of food products either entirely
eliminates or in part destroys the vital elements in the original material.
 – U.S. Department of Agriculture
53 54
About midmorning on the thir d day, eat a raw variety
salad (nature’ s broom) of cabbage, car rots, celer y, beets,
tomatoes, sprouts and lettuce, with generous amounts
of ACV and olive oil. If desired, have a bowl of lightly
steamed greens, such as kale, collards, chard or other
leafy greens. Add ACV and olive oil and a spray of Bragg
Liquid Aminos – it gives a delicious flavor to all greens.
We take this miracle cleanser flush at least once a
year.  Check your bowel movements for tiny, greenish-
brown stones. It’ s amazing what your gallbladder,
stomach and the colon
will flush out!
Kidney Stones
The major cause of
most kidney stones is
hard, chemicalized
water that’ s saturated
heavily with calcium
carbonate and other
inorganic minerals.
Read page 82.
Beneath our home
in the California
desert, there is a hot
subterranean river. THE URINARY SYSTEM:
The Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder.
The adrenal glands are shown on top of the
When wells are sunk kidneys. It is in the urinary system that
into this river several inorganic minerals and toxic acid crystals
hundred feet below may cause kidney and bladder stones. The
urinary system must be kept free of thesethe e arth’s surface, deposits to remain in the healthy elastic
the water comes out condition characteristic of youthfulness.
at 180°. It’s heavily saturated with calcium carbonate
and related  minerals, such as m agnesium  carbonate.
This water is not channelled through cast iron or steel
pipes because the costly en crustatio ns of these in organic
minerals will soon block the water flow. Copper pipes
are the best for hot m ineral springs plum bing.
People come from all over the world to bathe in the
mineral waters at this spa town. The hot water does have
a wonderful curative value. It brings relief to those
suffering from arthritis and rheumatism. Most of the hot water pools are kept at a temperature of 104 to 108
degrees. Our body heat is 98.6 degrees. When you
submerge your body in water hotter than body
temperature, you start an artificial fever and many toxic
poisons are eliminated through the 96 million pores of
the skin. W e all know that a good sweat is refreshing to
the body. We always feel lighter after a healthy sweat!
The sad part about coming to the hot water resort,
however, is that people are also advised to drink this
water that’ s heavily saturated by inorganic mineral water.
And the high concentrations of these inorganic minerals
are extremely dangerous! If you put 5 gallons of this
mineral water in a pan and let it evaporate, a slab of
inorganic minerals will be left.
Don’t Drink Inorganic Mineralized W ater
Several years ago, a gentleman fr om New Y ork came
to this hot water resort to take the baths. The uninformed
owners of the spa told this man to also drink the mineral
water, as it would be good for him. W e advised him
strongly to bathe only – not to drink the water. But he
did not heed our advice. During the 6 months he took
the baths, he also drank this water that caused his
demise! One night the people in the hotel heard him
scream out in agonized pain. When they reached him,
he was dead. The autopsy showed that he was killed by
a large kidney stone which had punctured a major arter y.
Thousands upon thousands of people all over the
world have kidney stones of various shapes and sizes.
Sometimes these stones get so troublesome that one
kidney must be removed by surger y.
We have visited hot and cold water spas all over the
world. The operators of these spas tell people that by
drinking and bathing in these waters, various diseases
will be cured. W e don’ t believe this! Relief of pain and
detoxification of body wastes from bathing in mineral
water – yes! But drinking this heavy inorganic mineral
water? No! It only causes serious health problems.
Our sincere and honest advice to you is:
Don’ t Drink Mineralized W ater!
55 56 You must always keep in mind that  your body cannot
assimilate inorganic minerals. Y ou can only assimilate
organic minerals which come from a living sour ce
(veggies, fruits, grains, etc.).
Dolomite T ablets – Inorganic  & Unhealthy
Dolomite tablets are currently sold as a magnesium
supplement. These tablets are made from an inorganic
limestone sour ce. They contain the same for mula that
was in the feed pur chased many, many years ago for
cattle at the Bragg family far m in V irginia.  The cattle
absolutely refused to eat it! It was finally taken off the
market. Similarly, these dolomite tablets cannot be used
by humans. Only organic minerals can be used by
the body! Beware of any pill that is extracted from
something advertisers describe as, “The mineral-rich
earth!” T o use such tablets is not only a waste of money,
but also poses a risk to your precious health!
What is Gout?
People are sometimes disturbed when a doctor makes
a diagnosis of gout to explain an aching joint, especially
in their big toes. Perhaps they remember the old pictures
of the British Lord with one leg wrapped up and propped
on a chair in front of him, his face bearing an expression
of great pain. They may also remember that he arrived
at this unhappy state by living high on the hog – gorging
himself on a hearty diet of animal flesh, eggs, milk and
cheeses, rich sauces and gravies made from meat... all
washed down with alcohol and chemicalized and
inorganically mineralized water.
For over 85 years, various versions of the high protein
diet come and go. The pur veyors of these diets rationalize
that because our bodies contain a great deal of protein,
we must daily eat large amounts of protein to build
strong bodies ( millions of vegetarians worldwide ar e healthy! ).
Meat protein is heavily saturated with a powerful
toxic material called uric acid. Gout occurs as a result


    On a water fast the body is much more sensitive to any substance introduced, so as a general rule it  is not a good idea to take
more than one half your regular dose of food supplements. Most fasters do fine without any supplements. Many people get an
upset stomach from supplements on an empty stomach, and these people should not take any during a water f ast unless they
develop symptoms of mineral deficiencies (usually a pre -existing condition) such as leg cramps and tremors, these symptoms
necessitate powdered or well -chewed -up mineral supplement. Minerals don't taste too bad to chew, just chalky.
    The same suggestions regarding dosage of supplements for a water fast are also true for a juice fast or vegetable broth fast. O n a
raw food cleansing diet the full dose of supplements should be taken with meals.
    There exists an enormous body of data abou t vitamins; books and magazine articles are always touting some new product or
explaining the uses of an old one. If you want to know more about using ordinary vitamins you'll find leads in the bibliograp hy to
guide your reading. However, there is one "old " vitamin and a few newer and relatively unknown life extending substances that are
so useful and important to handling illness that I would like to tell you more about them.
    Vitamin C is not a newly discovered vitamin, but was one of the first ever id entified. If you are one of those people that just hate
taking vitamins, and you were for some reason willing to take only one, vitamin C would be your best choice. Vitamin C would be
the clear winner because it helps enormously with any infection and in i nvaluable in tissue healing and rebuilding collagen. If I
was going on a long trip and didn't want to pack a lot of weight, my first choice would be to insure three to six grams of vi tamin C
for daily use when I was healthy (I'd take the optimum dose –ten g rams a day –if weight were no limitation). I'd also carry enough
extra C to really beef up my intake when dealing with an unexpected acute illness or accident.
    When traveling to far away places, exposed to a whole new batch of organisms, frequently hav ing difficulty finding healthy
foods, going through time zones, losing nights of sleep, it is easy to become enervated enough to catch a local cold or flu. If I have
brought lots of extra vitamin C with me I know that my immune system will be able to conqu er just about anything –as long as I
also stop eating and can take an enema. I also like to have vitamin C as a part of my first aid kit because if I experience a
laceration, a sprain, broken bone, or a burn, I can increase my internal intake as well as app ly it liberally directly on the damaged
skin surface. Vitamin C can be put directly in the eye in a dilute solution with distilled water for infections and injuries,  in the ear
for ear infections, and in the nose for sinus infections. If you are using the acid form of C (ascorbic acid) and it smarts too much,
make a more dilute solution, or switch to the alkaline form of C (calcium ascorbate) which can be used as a much more
concentrated solution without a stinging sensation. Applied directly on the skin C in solution makes a very effective substitute for
sun screen. It doesn't filter out ultraviolet, it beefs up the skin to better deal with the insult.
    I believe vitamin C can deal with a raging infection such as pneumonia as well or better than antibiot ics. But to do that, C is
going to have to be administered at the maximum dose the body can process. This is easily discoverable by a 'bowel tolerance test'
which basically means you keep taking two or three grams of C each hour, (preferably in the powdere d, most rapidly assimilable
form) until you get a runny stool (the trots). The loose stool happens when there is so much C entering the small intestine t hat it is
not all absorbed, but is instead, passed through to the large intestine. At that point cut ba ck just enough that the stool is only a little
loose, not runny. At this dose, your blood stream will be as saturated by vitamin C as you can achieve by oral ingestion.
    It can make an important difference which type of vitamin C is taken because many people are unable to tolerate the acid form
of C beyond 8 or 10 grams a day, but they can achieve a therapeutic dose without discomfort with the alkaline (buffered) vita min
C products such as calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, or magnesium -potassium asco rbates.
    Vitamin C also speeds up the healing of internal tissues and damaged connective tissue. Damaged internal tissues might includ e
stomach ulcers (use the alkaline form of vitamin C only), bladder and kidney infections (acid form usually best), ar thritic disorders
with damage to joints and connective tissue (alkaline form usually best). Sports injuries heal up a lot faster with a therape utic dose
of vitamin C. As medicine, vitamin C should be taken at the rate of one or two grams every two hours (d epending on the severity
of the condition), spaced out to avoid unnecessary losses in the urine which happens if it were taken ten grams at a time. If  you
regularly use the acid form of vitamin C powder, which is the cheapest, be sure to use a straw and di ssolve it in water or juice so
that the acid does not dissolve the enamel on your teeth over time.
    And this is as good a point as any to mention that just like broccoli is not broccoli, a vitamin is not necessarily a vitamin.
Vitamins are made by chemi cal and pharmaceutical companies. To make this confusion even more interesting, the business names
that appear on vitamin bottles are not the real manufacturers. Bronson's Pharmaceuticals is a distributor and marketer, not a
manufacturer. The same is true of every vitamin company I know of. These companies buy bulk product by the barrel or sack; then
encapsulate, blend and roll pills, bottle and label, advertise and make profit. The point of all this is that some actual vit amin
manufacturers produce very hi gh quality products and others shortcut. Vitamin distributors must make ethical (or unethical)
choices about their suppliers.
    It is beyond the scope of this book to be a manual for going into the vitamin business. However, there are big differences in  how
effective vitamins with the same chemical name are and the differences hinge on who actually brewed them up.
    For example, there are at least two quality levels of vitamin C on the market right now. The pharmaceutical grade is made by
Roche or BAS F. Another form, it could be called "the bargain barrel brew," is made in China. Top quality vitamin C is quite a bit
more costly; as I write this, the price differential is about 40 percent between the cheap stuff and the best. This can make a big
differe nce in bottle price and profit. Most of the discount retail vitamin companies use the Chinese product.
    There's more than a price difference. The vitamin C from China contains measurable levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, iron and
other toxic metals. Th e FDA allows this slightly contaminated product to be sold in the US because the Recommended Daily
Allowance for vitamin C is a mere 60 milligrams per day. Taken at that level, the toxic metals would, as the FDA sees it, do no
harm. However, many users of vitamin C take 100 -200 times the RDA. The cheap form of C would expose them to potentially
toxic levels of heavy metal poisons. The highly refined top -quality product removes impurities to a virtually undetectable level.
    I buy my C from Bronson who e thically gives me the quality stuff. I know for a fact that the vitamin C sold by Prolongevity is
also top quality. I've had clients who bought cheaper C than Bronson's and discovered it was not quite like Bronson's in appe arance
or taste. More importantly, it did not seem to have the same therapeutic effect.
    The distributors I've mentioned so far, Bronson, NOW, Cooper, Prolongevity and Vitamin Research Products are all
knowledgeable about differences between actual manufacturers and are ethical, buyin g and reselling only high quality products.
Other distributors I believe to be reputable include Twin Labs, Schiff and Plus. I know there are many other distributors wit h high
ethic levels but I can not evaluate all their product lines. And as I've mention ed earlier, businesses come and go rather quickly, but
I hope my book will be read for decades. I do know that I would be very reluctant to buy my vitamins at a discount department
store or supermarket; when experimenting with new suppliers I have at times  been severely disappointed.
    Co-enzyme Q -10. This substance is normally manufactured in the human body and is also found in minuscule amounts in
almost every cell on Earth. For that reason it is also called "ubiquinone." But this vitamin has been only recently discovered, so as
I write this book Co -enzyme Q -10 is not widely known.
    Q-10 is essential to the functioning of the mitochondria, that part of the cell that produces energy. With less Q -10 in heart cells,
for example, the heart has less energ y and pumps less. The same is true of the immune


 everything, you will most likely
find that the universe begins to cooperate with you rather than seeming to
frustrate you.
     You will find yourself leading a creative, productive life, without feeling
that you did anything particular to bring it about. In fact, you didn’t! You
simply ceased separating yourself from the rest of the universe and thus
allowed the universe to fulfil its purpose though you.
124chapter sixteen
Take Refuge in the Now
The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.
lao tzu

the addiction to thinking

Resistance to our current experience varies in degree from a mild sense of
boredom, expectation or lack, which barely registers on the scale of suffering,
to intense aversion. In most cases, our suffering takes place on a scale between
these two possibilities.
     However, irrespective of the intensity of our suffering, we are in almost
all cases motivated to avoid it through the acquisition of objects, substances,
activities, circumstances or relationships. Our avoidance, in turn, varies in
intensity from addiction to substances and activities at one end of the spec -
trum to the comparatively benign activity of compulsive thinking at the
other. In each case, the purpose of the activity is solely to distract us from
the discomfort of our current experience.
     Drugs, tobacco, alcohol, excessive eating and over-working are some
of the most common means that suffice for this purpose. Even spiritual
practice can be appropriated by the separate self or ego to perpetuate the
activity of seeking and resisting which characterise its illusory identity.
However, by far the most ubiquitous means of avoidance is compulsive
thinking.
     Many of the more obvious and extreme means by which we avoid the
discomfort of our current experience are bad for our health and, in some
cases, illegal. However, excessive thinking is neither bad for our health,
at least not overtly so, nor illegal, and is thus the default avenue of escape
for most people.  you are the happiness you seek
     Indeed, thinking seems so innocuous that most people are not even aware
that it is one of the main ways we avoid the sense of lack. For this reason,
it has escaped diagnosis as one of the most successful ways we subtly per -
petuate it. However, when we are determined to find the real cause of our
suffering, we become increasingly sensitive to the more or less subtle means
by which we escape it.
     There are, of course, many legitimate reasons for thinking – a response
to the current situation, planning for the future, evaluating the past, scientific
endeavour, investigative or celebratory purposes, and creativity are amongst
them – but most thinking serves none of these. Its purpose is simply to take
us away from the discomfort of our current experience.
     If we take any train of thought and ask of it, ‘Where are you going and
why?’ the response will often be, ‘I am venturing into the past or future in
order to avoid having to face the discomfort of my present circumstance’.
     In this way, most people believe that in order to find the peace and happi -
ness for which they long they must reject their current experience, which is
deemed insufficient, and venture into the past or future, which seem to hold
the promise of fulfilment. Ironically, our suffering begins  the moment we escape
from our current experience into an imagined future or a remembered past.

In fact, if we want relief from our suffering, all that is required is to return
from our happiness-seeking adventure in the past and future and come back
to our current experience. We must return to the now. Where previously we
sought to escape from our present suffering into a future which we believed
held the promise of happiness, instead we take refuge in the now, the only
place suffering cannot stand. In this way we find, at the very heart of our
experience, the happiness we previously sought by avoiding it.
     Many of our thoughts arise for the purpose of controlling the events of
our life so that they will produce exactly the conditions that we believe are
required for us to experience lasting peace and joy.
     However, our current circumstances are the growing edge of millions of
years of evolution. For instance, the behaviour of a friend, partner or colleague
is the product of centuries of conditioning. What are the chances that these cir -
cumstances are going to coincide with our personal expectations and demands?
     The only reason we are not at peace and filled with joy now is that cir -
cumstances do not conform to our idea of how they should be. One who
126take refuge in the now
understands this aligns what they want with what they have, rather than try -
ing to conform what they have to what they want.
     Suffering is never imposed on us; it is our own activity of seeking and
resisting. Happiness can never be acquired by us; it is our own nature.

there are no problems

Circumstances never announce themselves as problematic. They simply
present themselves. From the perspective of awareness, there are situations;
for the ego, there are problems. It is our resistance that turns a situation into
a problem, that turns our innate peace into suffering. And it is the withdra -
wal of this resistance that reveals the underlying peace. For the ego there is
suffering; for awareness there is peace.
     Awareness does not negotiate experience. Its nature is simply to welcome
whatever arises, allow whatever exists and let go of whatever vanishes.
     And just as space is never harmed or destroyed by anything that takes
place within it, so we, awareness, are never hurt or overwhelmed by any -
thing that takes place in experience. We, awareness, are open to all experi -
ence, allowing all experience without resistance, defenceless and yet
indestructible.
     This openness without resistance to all experience is not something we,
as a person, need practise, because it is our nature, just as the empty space
of a room does not need to practise allowing whatever appears within it.
Openness without resistance is what we are, not what we do.
     Resistance to what is appears in the form of a single thought: ‘I don’t want
what is present; I want what is not present’. All suffering is caused by that
thought alone. As soon as that thought rises up in between our self and our
experience of the world, our innate happiness is veiled and suffering ensues.
     In the absence of any resistance to experience, the peace and happiness
that is our very nature simply shines by itself. This openness without resis -
tance to all experience is not a state of the mind. It is the natural condition
of the mind in the absence of seeking and resisting. Happiness is the nature
of the mind; suffering is a state of the mind.
     It is only the extent to which we open ourself unreservedly and uncon -
ditionally to any experience that governs our happiness. Our true nature of
peace and joy is always present within our own being; it is our own being.
127you are the happiness you seek
It is our own resistance to experience, in the form of thinking and feeling,
that closes us off from the ever-present background of our innate joy, just as
clouds obscure the blue sky.

What is it that causes this opening of the cloud cover? What is it that gives
us access to this ever-present background of happiness? Simply our openness
without resistance to the current situation.
     Every moment of happiness is a window in our experience onto the ever-
present background of our essential being, whose nature is happiness itself.
     The only reason it is not fully felt by everyone all the time is the single
thought that dictates that circumstances should be other than they are right
now, that they should conform to our preconceived idea of them.
     We have allowed a single thought to steal our happiness. It is that thought
alone that stands between each of us and the innate peace and joy that lives
in our hearts, or rather that is the very heart of us. We are free at every mo -
ment to choose happiness in spite of circumstances, not because of them.
     The nature of our being is peace and joy itself. All that is necessary in
order to access our self and, as a result, its innate peace and joy, is to come
back to our own being again and again, and to stand as that in the face of all
experience.
     When we become accustomed to knowing and feeling ourself as the pres -
ence of awareness, problems cease. Or rather, our resistance  to problems ceases
and, as a result, the so-called problem itself is no longer experienced as such.
It is experienced as simply a situation to be faced with openness and equa -
nimity, thereby giving it the best possible chance of a harmonious resolution
for all parties involved.
     Situations that were once met with resistance or emotional reactivity are
now welcomed as an opportunity to understand the extent to which we have
invested our happiness in objective experience. Instead of frustrating our
search for happiness in the world, such situations cooperate with the revel -
ation of the peace and happiness that is the very nature of our being.

*     *     *

There are some situations that I find so hurtful that I cannot stay open to them
or to the person involved. Should I just accept such situations?
128take refuge in the now
It is important to recognise whether our response to such a situation arises
on behalf of truth


itamins
B, C, D, E, G, and K. It helps to promote the appetite and is an aid to
digestion.
It is a valuable aid in the improvement and maintenance of the
bone structure of the teeth.
26 Nursing mothers should drink plenty of raw carrot juice, properly
prepared, to enhance the quality of their milk, as a breast milk diet
may under certain circumstances, not provide sufficient vital foods.
During the last months of pregnancy, raw carrot juice, taken in
sufficient quantities, tends to reduce the possibilities of puerperal
sepsis at childbirth. One pint of carrot juice, daily, has more
constructive body value than 25 pounds of calcium tablets.
Raw carrot juice is a natural solvent for ulcerous and cancerous
conditions. It is a resistant to infections, doing most efficient work in
conjunction with the adrenal glands. It helps prevent infections of
the eyes and throat as well as the tonsils and sinuses and the respiratory
organs generally. It also protects the nervous system and is unequalled
for increasing vigor and vitality.
Intestinal and liver diseases are sometimes due to a lack of certain
of the elements contained in properly prepared raw carrot juice. When
this is the case, then a noticeable cleaning up of the liver may take
place, and the material which was clogging it may be found to dissolve.
Frequently this is released so abundantly that the intestinal and urinary
channels are inadequate to care for this overflow, and in a perfectly
natural manner it is passed into the lymph for elimination from the
body by means of the pores of the skin. This material has a distinctly
orange or yellow pigment and while it is being so eliminated from the
body will sometimes discolor the skin. Whenever such a discoloration
takes place after drinking carrot or other juices, it is an indication
that the liver is getting a well-needed cleansing.
It is NOT the carrot juice itself nor the carotene that comes through
the skin, as this discoloration will take place even if the juice is filtered
to the point of clearing it of all color pigment. It is just as practical an
impossibility for the carrot pigment itself to come through the skin as
it would be for the red pigment of the beet to turn the body red or the
chlorophyll of the green vegetables to paint the skin green from within.
In any case, is it not better to have a healthy satin-like skin, even
though it may be slightly on the carrot shade, than to have the pasty
complexion which, together with its pimples and other blemishes,
publicizes the unhealthy condition of the body?
Instead of becoming distressed over the appearance of skin
discoloration, which will in any case eventually disappear, we should
be gratified that the disintegration of the liver has been stopped or
prevented by the use of these juices.
27 This discoloration, however, can be somewhat retarded by slowing
up the process of cleansing by changing or adding other juices to the
particular one that causes such a rapid cleansing activity.
The lack of sufficient rest, sleep and overwork may also result in
a certain amount of skin discoloration.
The endocrine glands, especially the adrenals and the gonads,
require food elements found in raw carrot juice. Sterility is sometimes
overcome by its use. The cause of sterility has been traced to the
continuous use of foods in which atoms and enzymes were destroyed
by cooking or pasteurizing.
Dry skin, dermatitis, and other skin blemishes are due to a
deficiency in the body of some of these food elements contained in
carrot juice. This is also a factor in eye trouble, as in ophthalmia,
conjunctivitis, etc.
If properly extracted from fresh, clean, good quality raw carrots,
carrot juice is very rich in the vital organic alkaline elements sodium
and potassium. It also contains a good supply of calcium, magnesium,
and iron while the vital organic elements phosphorus, sulphur, silicon,
and chlorine balance perfectly with the former in their action and
reaction on the human system.
As an aid to dissolve ulcers and cancer, raw carrot juice has proved
itself the miracle of the age. It was found essential, however, that it be
properly prepared and every vestige of concentrated sugar, starch and
flour of every kind be completely eliminated from the diet.
One of the most insidious causes of ulcers and cancer has been
discovered in the victims nursing resentments for a long time, all too
often ever since childhood. Unless resentments are completely
dissolved, they can frustrate otherwise most effective attempts to help
the patient.
It sometimes happens after drinking large quantities of carrot juice
that a reaction is experienced or perhaps some distress. This is a
perfectly natural sequence as it is an indication that Nature has started
house cleaning in the body and that this juice is the most needed
implement for this purpose.
To jump to the conclusion that the juice does not agree with one
shows lack of understanding, as carrot juice is nothing more nor less
than the very finest quality of organic water and the kind of
nourishment that the body needs. If the juice is fresh and has been
properly made there is nothing whatever, even by the wildest stretch
of the imagination, that can do other than furnish the enzymes, vital
2K atoms, and the vital organic water which the starved body cells and
tissues crave and call for.
The addition of some raw goat's milk or a little pure raw cream to
the carrot juice gives it a somewhat exotic flavor and often serves to
relieve the monotony when a reaction or distress may have a tendency
to turn us against the plain juice.
It is pertinent to remark that cream is a fat, pure and simple, while
milk is definitely a concentrated protein food. Cream goes through
an entirely different digestive process in our system than does milk;
and while it is of course mucus-forming to some degree, it is not in
the same class of pernicious foods as milk.
One very good thing to remember when we are overtaken by
fatigue, distress, or reaction in our body is the fact that our colon is
perhaps responsible for more trouble and mischief within our anatomy
than all other causes and conditions put together. In our experience,
we have found that it is utterly impossible for a colon to develop
normally and to function successfully when one lives mostly or entirely
on cooked and processed foods. It is safe to assume therefore, that it
would be almost impossible to find many colons which are perfect.
This being the case, our very first step, if we are suffering from
distress or reaction, would be to take a series of colonic irrigations, if
possible, or at least, a number of enemas until the cause of the trouble
has come under control. The fresh-raw vegetable juices would then
have better opportunity to carry on their end of the regeneration
processes. The best food for the colon is the combination of carrot
and spinach juice, the formula is given on a later page in this book.
Many people do not have the vaguest idea of what the Colon is,
what it looks like or where it is located in the body. I have reproduced
a picture of it because I consider it of such great importance. This
picture of the COLON THERAPY CHART which I drew up, and
which measures about 17"x 22" and is intended to be framed and
hung on the wall of the office or home. (At the end of this book you
will find details about it).
Bear in mind that the quantity of juices needed by the body is
predicated on their quality. Usually it will take a greater amount of
juices which have been extracted by centrifugal action to get the results
obtained by juices made with a Triturator (Pulverizer) and Hydraulic
Press.
At all times bear this fact distinctly in mind that juices are the
very finest nourishment we can get, and if we continue to take them
29 COLON THERAPY CHART
as long as we live the chances are that we will live a healthier life
much longer than we would without them.
Carrot juice is composed of a combination of elements which
nourish the entire system, helping to normalize its weight as well as
its chemical balance.
It nourishes the optic system particularly, as evidenced by the
many young men who applied for admission as pilots to the schools
of the army and navy but were rejected at their first physical
examination because of defective eyesight. A few weeks later, after
drinking an abundance of fresh raw carrot juice daily, they were
examined again. They were accepted with the requisite of perfection
of eyesight.
If this were to happen just once, it would no doubt be considered
a phenomenon. If it were to happen only twice, it would go down into
the annals of healing history as a coincidence. When it happens
repeatedly, however, there is certainly sufficient reason to place doubt
in the background and realize that there are more things in heaven
and earth than even the most educated mind can conceive.
No less effective is the fresh raw juice of the lowly carrot in helping
the treatment of ulcers and cancers. Tissues emaciated by those
insidious ravages of cell starvation classified as ulcers and cancers,
have been nourished back to a healthier condition by the abundant
30 use of carrot juice as the principle item of nour


 many other antibiotics.
But 1 sti111ost weight and the diarrhea was persistent.
Then the new testing for AIDS came out, and I tested positive.
I had constant problems with thrush. I also suffered from Kaposi's sarcoma
intermittently over portions of my body. My energy level was very low.
To make long story short, I started Urine Therapy. The first treatment with urine
was on my skin. The second day I noticed that the KS lesions were starting to
fade. Then I stared to drink my own urine.
I took about one ounce a day in the beginning.
My thrush went away. Every time when I apply urine to any aberration or sore on
my skin, it all but disappears.
The KS leision I was talking about is not even one-fourth the original size.
112 Also, my energy level is much higher. I had colitis. I no longer have an inflamed
colon. I am steady as a clock and do not suffer anymore from chronic diarrhea.
So evidently this is working for me.
TESTIMONY 128*
AlDS
Mr. M. {New York, USA}
I am a PWA.
My major problem was parasites. My stool sample contained pus,
large amounts of yeast and several parasites.
My last test came back totally clear. No more pus and no more parasites!
TESTIMONY 129*
AlDS
Mr. A. { Georgia, USA }
I am a PWA and have been doing Urine Therapy for two-and-one-half months.
My Lymphadenopathy was gone within 48 hours after starting the urine.
I had a severe acne problem on my back. After five weeks the skin is clear.
My energy levels increased enormously within a few days of drinking my urine.
TESTIMONY 130*
GONORRH£A
Mr. S. {New York, USA}
One and one-half months ago I was diagnosed with
gonorrhea, anal sores and herpes.
I took medication and the condition improved but two weeks later the herpes
came back even worse. So I started Urine-Therapy.
Within two or three days, everything cleared up totally.
What was even more amazing to me is the parasite problem 1 suffered for quite
some time got resolved inadvertently with Urine Therapy
while treating my herpes.
TESTIMONY 131*
£CZ£MA" AM0£0B1C DVS£NTARV
Dr. G.K. Thakkar { Mumbai I Bombay, India}
The last 40 years I have suffered from eczema,
and the last 20 years from amoeobic dysentery.
----- -----113 I got rid of both diseases by this wonderful remedy, Urine-Therapy.
Y"Ou will be further surprised to know that there were some side effects too;
but not of the usual nature, which you suffer in allopathic treatments.
t also suffered from falling hair and dandruff. I always used to have cracks in my
f.e et and even on my lips during aU the seasons.
Once every few months I also suffered form stomatitis.
I got rid l'lf all the above complaints and ailments unknowingly,
as side effects of this therapy.
My wife was a rE: gular patient for more than 20 years and was suffering from
numerous diseas 1e like ear trouble, vertigo, constipation, pain in the joints and
many more. She trt·1ed the best available treatments in allopathy, homeopathy and
, 11yurvedic medicine but without any results.
At last she tried Urine-Therapy and got rid of all her ailments miraculously.
And if :.his is not enough, my younger son, 17 years old,
suffered fro '1'1 hematuria (blood in the urine) for more than a year.
The doctors thoug :'1t that something was seriousJy wrong with his kidneys and
recommended an int1ravenous polygraph. I persuaded my son to start drinking his
urine ·~or 30 days and then to take another urine test.
After that period of tme, the report of the urine test came back absolutely normal!
TESTIMONY 132*
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Mrs. B. { New York, USA }
One day I wanted to make sure my iron was turned off before I left the house.
So I checked the iror~ surface with the palm of my hand, expecting it to be cold.
To my surprise, the' c·n was very hot. Unfortunately, the damage was already
done. 1 burred my hand with at least second degree burns.
twas very painful, to say the least.
Then I remembered tha·,orne weeks earlier I had stored away a bottle containing
urine. I got that ol:f urine from the bottle and covered my burns with it.
The pains soon left. A 1 :~w hours later, My hand looked and felt as if nothing had
happen!!d to it. No blisters, no scars, no redness.
The effectivem::ss of this simple but powerful liquid is amazing.
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Most of the problems began to clear up within a few days.
However, my reatal bleeding from colitis and internal hemorrhoids continued.
In the meantime a friend told me tha~ in the Tennessee Hills, where he was raised,
urine enemas *'' used for similar problems.
On July 31,1988,1 began using urine for daily enemas.
By the end of the following week, the bleeding had stopped completely,
and as of this date {September25, 1988),
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We are seeing unprecedented levels of disease and obesity rates in  this country,
with modern -day illnesses like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes making
Americans sick er than ever. A big
part of the puzzle is today’s
standard diet, which  makes
processed foods the primary form
of nutrition.
These processed foods are dead,
devoid of any real and natural
nutrition, and are the end product
of the highly pro fitable “ science ”
of artificial flavors, additives, and
preservatives.
At any rate, 90 percent of foods
Americans purchase every year is still processed, including fast food and junk
food. Food and beverage manufacturers spend staggering amounts of doll ars to
market them to everyone, with children bearing the biggest brunt.
Are you aware of the dear price you could pay for following this deadly diet  for
the sake of taste or convenience?
Whether you are eating this way for the taste or for the sake of conv enience,
know that you are inflicting a great deal of stress on your body.  With its health -
destroying components, processed foods, among which i ncludes  high -fructose
corn syrup, are the single greatest source of calories in the American diet.
Processed food consumption triggers a vicious cycle of addiction. These foods –
typically chock -full of sugar, corn syrup, salt, and MSG – are usually chemically
altered to increase their appeal to your taste  buds, overriding your body’s signals
that would tell you i t’s time to stop eating.
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The avalanche of negative effects of a processed food diet on your body includes
elevated insulin levels and, ultimately, insulin resistance – the hallmark of
metabolic syndrome and nearly every chronic disease known to humans.
If you want to avoid the consequences of a “convenient” diet and truly optimize
your health, then it’s imperative for you to give up processed foods entirely and
commit to the war against the toxic, the synthetic, and the overcooked and
overprocessed.
Brace yourself for an exciting journey into discovering tasty, nourishing food in its
unprocessed state – the world of raw, organic, biodynamic foods grown locally
and sustainably, and with a high regard for how nature designed


 And welcoming says, “Y es, you are welcome here.”
A wareness is always welcomin g of everything. No negative f eeling, no matter
how strong, can stand up against the welcoming of A waren ess. In fact, no
negativity whatsoever can stand up against the welcoming of A wareness.
It s eems counterintuitive to w elcome something you don’ t want, but it’ s
resistance that holds what you don’ t want to you, and welcoming stops you from
resisting! It can be challenging n ot to resist or tense up against a  negative feeling,
but when you open your atten tion and welcome the feeling, miraculously the
resistance ceases, and the negative feeling—which is just ener gy—dissolves. The
situation that you were resisting will then be able to change.
Remember, opening your attention is like zooming out with a camera lens so
you’re n ot focused on any detail  with your mind. Make sure that you don’ t focus
into the feeling. That will make it stronger, because the mind incr eases  anything
we focus on. Notice the feeling, but don’ t focus into it. Keep your attention wide.
T eacher Hale Dwoskin suggests that, in the beginning, it can b e helpful to open
your arms out to  the side of your body when you open your atte ntion. Open your
arms as though you are welcoming somebody you love whom you’re about to
embrace. This helps you open your heart (we have a tendency to keep the heart
area of our body per manently contracted, without realizing we’re doing it). I
consciously open my heart when I welcome anything in life that I do not want.
My teacher says that when we’re welcoming, we are bein g our true self,
A wareness, beca use welcoming is our very nature. In fact, the In finite A wareness
that you  are is so welcoming that negative feelings can’ t possi bly remain in its
presence. Quite simply, when you welcome anything negative, you allow it to
dissolve back into its source— Y ou, A wareness! And so when you welcome a
negative feeling you are tapping into your infinite power to dissolve it.T eacher Francis  Lucille says tha t as we become more establish ed in welcoming,
we realize that w elcoming is not really an activity of its own; r ather, welcoming
stops the  activity  of resistance. I nitially we think that welcoming is something we
do, and as we practice it more, we realize that it’ s actually stopping  us from
doing something many of us do automatically—resisting.
“The fee ling eva porates because  it’ s only ener gy, so when a fee ling arises, notice
it is only ener gy and welcome it. It has arisen because you’re ready to be free of
it.”
My teacher
What Hurts Y ou, Blesses Y ou
Some ye ars ago, I found myself in a state of depression. At that time I didn’ t
know most of the things that I’m sharing in this book, but fo rtunately, I knew
how I had brought about depression. My daughter was very  sick at the time and I
feared for her l ife, and I had one terrifying thought after another. Because I
believed those fearful thoughts, in a few months they sent me sp iraling down into
depression.
“Feelings like anger or sadness exist only to alert you to the  fact that you’re
believing your own stories.”
Byr on Katie, fr om  A Mind at Home with Itself
T o lift myself ou t of the depress ion I tried to think positive thoughts and thoughts
of gratit ude, but  what I discovered is that our thoughts have ve ry little power in
the depths of depression. It’ s a safety mechanism that protects us from our
thoughts manife sting when we’re down really low in despair or depression. So,
with the failure of my usual way to turn things around, I had to find another way.
I de cided that i f I couldn’ t ov erride the depression with positive thoughts, I
would ju st stop  resisting the de pression, because I knew that “what you resist
persists.” So I c losed my eyes and focused inside my body where the depression
seemed to dwell. I opened myself up to that black cloud of depression as if I were
stretching my arms out to welcome it, and as if I were embracing it by putting my
arms aro und it, just as you would greet someone you love dearly and haven’ t
seen in a long time. I opened up my heart and loved the depression as best I
could and pulled it in close toward me. For a few seconds it worsened, and then
all o f a sudden i t became lighter and lighter, and then completely dissolved. In a
matter of seconds it had gone—just like that. The relief was exquisite.
A fe w hours later the feeling of depression came back, but it was much less
intense than before. I followed  the same process, and I con tinued to do it
whenever the depression reappeared. Each time I did the practice, the depression
got weaker and weaker, and in just a few days it had totally gone.
“The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.”
Rumi
I kn ow without any doubt that I will never suf fer from depression again. It has
left my body permanently.If I can do this with depression, you can do it with any negative feeling. When
you do it yourself, you will understand the process much better. Dissolving a
negative emotion when it’ s in full flight is the best feeling in the world. Instead
of resisting the feeling of depres sion, which only made it worse and held it to me,
I did  the  opposit e. In my own way, even though I didn’ t know it at the time, I had
intuitively welcomed the negative feeling of depression.
Since th at time, I have used the same practice for any negative f eelings that have
arisen, f or negative thoughts, and I have also used it for any painful sensations in
the b ody, like a cramp in the foot or a headache. I’ve found that bodily sensations
can dissolve as quickly as negative feelings when they’re not resisted.
Use the welcoming process for anything that makes you feel bad, any negative
thoughts or stories, negative feelings, painful sensations or  memories, and
limiting beliefs. W elcoming free s you from emotional bondage and allows your
life to change for the better in every possible way.
“When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. T o love hatred
means to  welcom e it. It doesn’ t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but
we shouldn’ t suppress it either. When we love hatred, we put ourselves out of the
process of hatred, and love begins.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
Negative feeling s like fear can be immensely uncomfortable, or even terrifying,
which is  why many of us have developed the habit of automatically suppressing
them ra ther than facing them. But they have fooled us. When we allow any
negative feeling to be present, welcoming it without trying to  push it away, it
may feel overwhelming for a couple of seconds as it intensifies, but then it
completely disappears.
When y ou have allowed a bad feeling to be present and you haven’ t suppressed
it, that feeling will never be as strong in you again. Y ou have weakened it, and it
is now on its way out. A few more times of allowing the feeling to be present and
it w ill be release d from your bo dy. W atch then how much happiness floods into
your body, and how much good ness floods into your life from just one negative
feeling being released.
“Sometimes we surrender a feeling and we notice that it returns or continues.
This is because there is more o f it yet to be surrendered. W e have stuf fed these
feelings all of our lives and there can be a lot of ener gy pushed down that needs
to come up and be acknowledged. When surrender occurs, there is an immediate
lighter, happier feeling, almost like a ‘high.’”
Dr. David R. Hawkins, fr om  Letting Go
The relief that you will feel from releasing negative feelings from the body is
exquisite. And with every released negative feeling your body will become
lighter, your life more ef fortless, and you will find your happiness expanding.
Y ou also gain m omentum the more you do it, and it becomes ea sier and easier to
release negative feelings. Y ou’ll reach a point where most negative feelings
dissolve instantly, because they  are automatically released the moment you’re
aware of them. This is the infinite power of A wareness.
“Releasing is like breathing—it’ s natural. Inhale and exhale.”
My teacher“That’ s what every uncomforta ble feeling is for—that’ s what pain is for, what
money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.”
Byr on Katie, fr om  Loving What Is
Every negative feeling is there to direct you back home to who you are. They
alert you to the fact that you’re believing stories that are not true, so you can
welcome those feelings and live  your life as the


ume. Mill V alley, CA:
Foundation for Inner Peace, 2007. 12 In no situation that arises do you r ealize the outcome that would make you happy. ACIM,
W-pI.24.1:1. 12 Everything is for your own best inter ests. ACIM, W-pI.25.1:5. 12 All things work together for good with no exceptions except in the ego’ s judgment. ACIM,
T-4.V.1:1–2. 13 Into eternity, wher e all is one, ther e crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God
remember ed not to laugh. In his for getting did the thought become a serious idea, and
possible of both accomplishment and r eal effects. T ogether, we can laugh them both
away, and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that
time can come to cir cumvent eternity, which means ther e is no time. ACIM, T-27.VIII.6. 13 It is r easonable to ask how the mind could ever have made the ego. In fact, it is the best
question you could ask. Ther e is, however, no point in giving an answer in terms of the
past because the past does not matter, and history would not exist if the same err ors wer e
not being r epeated in the pr esent. ACIM,  T-4.II.1:1–3. 15 W e can’ t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. This
popular saying has been widely attributed to Einstein, but its exact origin is unknown. 17 Exercise: Moving from Opinions to Prayer. Prayer  simply means intention or desire. Here
it refers to the desire for truth, Spirit. 18 It states that if you find resistance strong and dedication weak, you should not fight
yourself. ACIM, T-30.I.1:6–7. 22 Lesson 2 of A Course in Miracles  teaches that  you have given everything you see all the
meaning that it has for you. ACIM, W-pI.2. 23 My thoughts ar e images that I have made. ACIM, W-pI.15. 24 A Course in Miracles  teaches us that without attack thoughts in our mind, we cannot see a
world of attack. ACIM,  W-pI.55.3. (23):3.26 W ith the help of the miracle, the mind is turned right side up, away from its former upside-
down way of being, experiencing, and operating. The Levels of Mind Diagram,
Foundation for the A wakening Mind,
https://livingmiraclescenter.org/doc/levelsofmind.pdf. 28 That’ s not the r eason why. The pr oblem’ s not out ther e; you have to look inside. Resta
Burnham. 2000–2002. “That’ s Not the Reason Why.” Music of Christ. Cincinnati, OH:
Foundation for the A wakening Mind. http://livingmiracles.or g/thats-not-the-reason-why. 30 W atch the Disney movie, The Kid. Jon T urteltaub, director. 2000. The Kid, Walt Disney
Pictures. 32 It is fr om your peace of mind that a peaceful per ception of the world arises. ACIM,  W-
pI.34.1:4. 32 The miracle is a lesson in total per ception. ACIM,  T-7.IX.7:4. 41 This means that the experience of guilt is solely a result of the purpose the ego gives to
things. The ego’ s purpose for the body is pride, pleasure, and attack. ACIM, T-6.V.A.5. 46 For you must learn that guilt is always totally insane, and has no r eason. ACIM, T-
13.X.6:3. 46 All anger is nothing mor e than an attempt to make someone feel guilty. ACIM, T-
15.VII.10:3. 46 A Course in Miracles states that guilt feelings are just a sign that we don’ t know that God
Himself orders our thoughts and also that we believe we can think apart from Him. ACIM, T-5.V.7:1–6. 48 Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son, where the one son left after asking for his
inheritance. The Holy Bible, New King James V ersion. 1979. Luke 15:1 1–32. Nashville,
TN: Thomas Nelson Publishing. 49 Whenever the pain of guilt or the desire to be right arises, remember that if you yield to it,
you are deciding against your happiness, and you will not learn how to be happy. ACIM,
T-14.III.3. 51 I am the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a
man must think of himself in his heart because this is what he is. ACIM, T-1.III.2:3. 54 But the need to be defensive can only come when we have identified with an illusion of
our self. ACIM, T-22.V.6:1. 55 When the Self is realized and there is an experience of pure oneness, there are no longer
any experiences of private thoughts, yet the condition of being in this world is to believe
in those thoughts. In fact, they are believed to be the only reality. ACIM, W-
pI52.5(10):2–3. 56 If we had to give a definition of God’ s will for us, it would be perfect happiness. ACIM,
W-pI.101. 57 And yet it is only the hidden that can terrify, not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. ACIM, T-14.VI.1:4.61 Every thought you keep hidden shuts communication of f. ACIM, T-15.IV.7–8. 62 This holy instant, this moment, is the recognition that all minds are in communication. ACIM, T-15.IV.6. 67 This is because thoughts and images of forms are one and the same. ACIM, W-pI.15. 68 You will let Spirit decide for you. ACIM, T-5.VII.6:1 1. 69 Today I will make no decisions by myself. ACIM, T-30.I.2:2. 74 The question becomes, Can I shift my perception and come to the trust that leads to an
experience of literally being sustained by the love of God? ACIM, W-pI.50. 79 There came a point when Jesus said to me, “Okay, that’ s the last job you will have working
for a paycheck and reciprocity.” “Reciprocity” is the practice of exchanging things with
others for mutual benefit. It occurs when the contribution of each party meets the
expectation of the other party. It stems from an idea of lack; that there is only so much
money, time and other means to go around. A belief in risking loss is behind reciprocity. But God’ s unlimited love is free and is what truly sustains us. 80 the son of man has no place to lay his head. The Holy Bible, NKJV, Luke 9:58. 81 “Except ye become as little childr en…” ACIM, T-1.V.3:4. 88 The practice is to come back to the mind, to come to a deeper point of not knowing how or
what to judge, to the place inside where we actually don’ t know what is good or bad. See
the “Moving from Opinions to Prayer”  exercise in chapter 1. 88 …In no situation that arises do you r ealize the outcome that would make you happy. ACIM, W-pI.24:1. 89 I do not per ceive my own best inter ests. In no situation that arises do you r ealize the
outcome that would make you happy. Ther efore, you have no guide to appr opriate
action, and no way of judging the r esult. What you do is determined by your per ception
of the situation, and that per ception is wr ong. ACIM, W-pI.24.1:1–3. 90 You will also r ecognize that many of your goals ar e contradictory, that you have no unified
outcome in mind, and that you must experience disappointment in connection with some
of your goals however the situation turns out. ACIM, W-pI.24.6:2. 91 What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past,
present and to come, ar e gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. But
your defenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you ever took. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life. ACIM, W-pI.135.18. 91 It’ s like the movie August Rush, which is a beautiful example of how everything is
orchestrated perfectly even when things don’ t look good. August stays committed to his
calling and inner certainty. David Hof fmeister. 2017. Movie W atcher


, 215–216
Bruises. See
 Musculoskeletal injuries, DMSO and. Buc, Nancy L., 231, 239, 240
Bunions. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. Burdach, Rodolfo, M.D., 215
Burns, DMSO and, 57–58, 66, 127
Bursitis, DMSO and, 2, 3, 17, 26, 44, 50
calcified, 91–92
Bush, George, 249
Calluses. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. Camp, Dr. Perry E., 51–52
Cancer, DMSO and, 46, 60–63
anti-cancer solution, 200, 205, 206–207
chemotherapy and DMSO, 148
DMSO-cancer connection, 177–207
DMSO-hematoxylon solution, 185, 192–199, 206–207
DMSO-hematoxylon studies, 179–183, 184–185, 202, 205
orthomolecular therapy, 62
See also
 individual cancers. Capdeville, Lucila, M.D., 168
Carrizo, A., M.D., 181
Cataracts. See
 Eye problems, DMSO and. Cervical cancer, 53, 54, 198–199, 215. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Cervical os, stenosis of the, 1–2Chacon, Ernesto, M.D., 71
Chicago Tribune
, 19
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
, 60
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
, 63
Clubnails. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. Colon cancer, 177. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Commercial Laboratories of Florida, 45
Consumer Reports
, 75
Coping With Cancer
, 207
Corneal swelling. See
 Eye problems, DMSO and. Corns. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. CREST syndrome. See
 Scleroderma, DMSO and. Crichtlow, Dr. James, 20
Crout, Richard J., M.D., 7, 8, 9, 10, 27, 73, 74, 75, 90, 247
Crown Zellerbach Paper Company, 15, 33, 73
Cystic mastitis, DMSO and, 72
Daily News
, New York, 52
Dancer’s foot. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. Davidson, Ben, 99
Davis, Orville J., M.D., 215
De Coriat, Lydia F., M.D., 164
De la Torre, Jack C., M.D., 54–55, 81, 82, 127, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153,
154, 157, 242–243
DeLuca, Michael A., M.D., 90
Denehy, Bill, 93–95
Dermatologische Monatsschrift
, 243
Diabetes, DMSO and, 63–64
diabetic ulcers, 67–68
juvenile diabetes, 64, 205
Dimethyl Sulfoxide Technical Bulletin
, 33
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)
antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral properties of, 58–59
brand name preparations of Dekaris, 220
Dimexid, 220, 244 87–2, 224
Ipran, 218, 219Plus-Par, 216, 218, 219
Rimso-50, 45, 242
Satori, 230
drug transport properties of, 38–39
FDA and, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16–18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 39, 42,
52, 72, 73, 75, 78–80, 88, 89–90, 109, 128, 129, 147, 163, 174, 179, 205,
228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 247, 248–249
healing power of, 35–37
infectious diseases and, 209–221. See also
 AIDS; Leprosy; Orchitis;
Osteomyelitis; Parasitic worms; Respiratory infections. media exposure for, 26–30. See also
 60 Minutes. medical uses for, general, 50–72. See also
 individual illness or injury. molecular structure of, 32–35
nontechnical summary, 37–38
origin of, 4, 14–16
pharmacological actions of, 39–42
protection against radiation, freezing, and thawing, 53–54
side effects of, 83–90
suppliers of, 45–46
therapeutic principle of, 31–46
topical administration of, 43–44
DMSO Society of Florida, Inc., 110, 147
Douglass, Dr. William Campbell, 48, 58, 62, 210, 211
Douglass Center for Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, 31, 47, 48
Down’s syndrome, 26, 146, 159–166, 173. See also
 Mental disabilities, DMSO
and. Drachman, Daniel B., M.D., 155
Dry socket, DMSO and, 72
Duncan, Congressman Robert, 88
Dunne, Richard E. III, 242
Ear infections, DMSO and, 59
Edwards, Charles C., M.D. 18
Engel, Marvin F., M.D., 227–228
E.R. Squibb and Sons, 80, 128, 180
Eye problems, DMSO and, 68–69
cataracts, 26, 68–69corneal swelling, 68
glaucoma, 68–69
lens changes from DMSO, 78–83, 228–237
macular degeneration, 68, 69
macular edema, 68
retinitis pigmentosa, 69
traumatic uveitis, 68
Facial cancer, 194. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Fallen arches. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and. Federal Register
, 17
Fibrosarcoma, 180, 182, 184. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Fil’iula, Dr., 57
Florida legislature and DMSO, 22–23, 24
Florida Medical Association and DMSO, 23–25, 111
Foot and leg problems, DMSO and, 125–142
ankle sprains, 141–142
arthritis of the feet, 131–132
athlete’s foot, 137–138
big toe bunions, 129–130
calluses, 133–134
clubnails, 135–136
corns, 133
dancer’s foot, 139
fallen arches, 140
foot odor, 138
fungus toenails, 136–137
hammertoes, 130–131
heel spurs, 128, 140–141
ingrown toenails, 134–135
metatarsalgia, 139–140
plantar warts, 134
Fractures. See
 Musculoskeletal injuries, DMSO and. Franklin, Murray, M.D., 3, 4
Friend, Charlotte, M.D., 61
Garrido, Jorge Cornejo, 61Gastrointestinal cancer, 193. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Geigy, 128
Geller, Jay, 13
Gibb Pharmaceutical Company, 16, 17
Gibson, Merle L., M.D., 230
Giller, Ana, M.D., 169
Glaucoma. See
 Eye problems, DMSO and. Glozman, Dr. V.N., 221
Good Morning America
, 73, 75, 78, 90
Gout, DMSO and, 44, 122
Granulomatosis, 180. See also
 Cancer, DMSO and. Goyan, Jere, PhD, 18, 228, 230, 233, 248
Greccos, George, M.D., 143, 145
Grismali, Jorge, M.D., 174, 175
Growth, Morgan, 125, 126
Gum disease. See
 Periodontal disease, DMSO and. Hallamendaris, Val, 101, 102
Hammertoes. See
 Foot and leg problems, DMSO and.