Love sees, nurtures and supports all of life and honors its 
sacredness, andofitselfcreatesahealingenergyfield that 
calibrates at 540. How do we become the kind of person in whom 
healing begins to occur automatically because of the 
level and general nature of our consciousness? At 
the same time, how do we facilitate the healing of a 
specific illness? 50=-- -=.H::...:E=-:..:Ac. :: L:...::I-=.N.:-G=-----.:A::..::...:...N:....:D=---R::..::...=E--=C:....:O=---V--=E:....:R::..::... :...Y _ 
In viewing the specifics of an illness, we will talk 
about certain mechanics of consciousness and how to 
use some of the techniques presented here and in later 
chapters.We have to begin by letting go of resisting the 
sensations that we are experiencing and stop labeling 
them. For example, we cannot experience a 'duodenal 
ulcer' or 'asthma'. They are labels, mental constructs, 
elaborate programs, and belief systems. We cannot 
experience 'asthma', but what do we experience? This 
is where the technique of radical truth comes up. We go into the inner experience of the exact sensa­
tions and let go of resisting them. In effect, we will 
eventually disappear them through aligning with them 
by welcoming the inner experiences of the sensations. At the same time, within mind we cancel any labels.We 
stop calling it an 'ulcer' and instead go into the inner 
sensation of it. The inner sensation may be a pressure 
or a burning. Even the words 'burning' and 'pressure' 
are labels and names.We cancel those and again go into 
the core, the absolute essential, of what we are physi­
cally experiencing, and then let go of resisting that 
experience. The actual healing ofthe physicality ofthe illness is 
letting go of resisting the inner physical experience of 
it without any mentallabe1.At the same time, in fact, we 
begin to cancel the mental label and replace it with the 
truth. We cancel by afftrming, "I no longer believe in 
that. I am an inftnite being, and I am not subject to that. I am only subject to what I hold in mind." What does it mean to be "an inftnite being and not 
subject to that"? It means we are only limited by our 
belief systems, and ifwe let them go, what takes their 51 ASSISTING HEALING 
place? Ifform is removed from consciousness, what is 
left? The formless is left, and the inner experience of it 
is infInite, without boundaries, without beginning or 
end. The formless is the essential nature of conscious­
ness itself and is unlimited. Ifwe place a limitation or 
introject form, then we subject ourself to what we are 
holding in mind.To replace it,we consciously cancel it 
by saying, "I cancel any belief in duodenal ulcers," or 
asthma, or whatever the illness might be.We then say, 
"I'm subject only to that which 1 hold in mind. 1 am an 
infinite being, andin truth,1amnot subjectto that.And 
that is a fact." When we muscle test that statement, we ftnd it to 
be true. Ifwe test a person and they say, "Cancel. 1 am 
not subject to that. 1 am an infInite being and subject 
only to what 1 hold in mind," we will see that they 
instantly go strong, indicating that this is a statement of 
the truth. Consequently, when we replace that which is 
false with that which is true, healing occurs. What is the ~ffect on our energy field in conscious­
ness? Falsity by its nature puts us below the level of 
200 and throws us into a negative energy field, Which, 
in and of itself, brings about illness.The minute we tell 
the truth, the energy field at the level of Courage 
(meaning to tell the truth that we are an 'infmite being 
and subject only to what is held in mind') instantly 
puts us above the line at level 200). The willingness to accept this truth lifts us up to a 
position to choose appreciation of the body instead of 
the 'make wrong' of the body; the lovingness ofour life 
instead of the 'make wrong' of our life; the lovingness 
of the being that we are instead of the criticism of it. 52 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
We fmd that we have to let go of criticism, 'attack' 
thoughts, critical thoughts, and judgmental thoughts. We have to let go of putting ourselves in the position 
of being right and making other people wrong because 
the level of 'right and wrong' is at the energy level of 
about 180, which is that of negative thought forms. In 
other words, it has a deleterious effect on our health 
and life energy. Ifwe are willing to let go of our illness, 
then we have to be willing to let go of the attitude that 
brought about the illness because disease is an expression 
of one's attitude and habitual way of looking at things. The specifics of healing a particular illness consist 
of (1) letting go of resisting the sensory experience of 
it, (2) no longer putting names or labels on it, and (3) 
using no words at all.Welcome experiencing what you 
are experiencing in a very radical way and at the same 
time (4) cancel the thought form and beliefsystem, and 
(5) choose the energy field of Love, which heals. If we look at the basic physics of the energies 
involved, we can see why fear at calibration level 100 
is overpowered by Love at 500 because these are expo­
nential powers.Therefore, the power of Love is repre­
sented by 500 x 10, whereas Fear is only 100 x 10, a 
very big difference. To put oneself in an energy field of 540 is to auto­
matically heal oneself.A loving thought then heals, and 
a negative thought creates illness. Choosing to become 
a loving person results in the release of endorphins by 
the brain, which has a profound effect on the body's 
health and happiness (see Brain Physiology Chart, pg. 42). Happiness arises from the willingness to let go of 
that which is negative and to allow love to replace it in 53 ASSISTING HEALING 
consciousness because the essential nature of con­
sciousness, unless it has been impaired, is lovingness. We see this in the young child who is only innocence, 
and lovingness is the expression of the essence of 
human nature. It is as ifthe child has not yet been pro­
grammed to go into fear, doubt, or limitation. It is essential to capture that essential expression of 
lovingness in order to help any illness within us, as well 
as to let go of the negativity of the belief system. How 
do we pick up the negative belief systems? We pick 
them up through television and well-intentioned peo­
ple.Their intention is to prevent these illnesses in us by 
educating us about them. Instead, we fmd that the 
mind is now programmed to accept a specific belief 
system. Unconscious guilt then comes up and utilizes 
that belief system, which causes an impairment of 
energy flowing through the energy fields that run 
down through the twelve meridians of the acupunc­
ture energy system. For example, every time someone -goes below level 
200 (Courage), we find upon testing them that their 
energy system is imbalanced. Characteristically, most 
people will 'blowout' one particular acupuncture 
meridian rather than another. For example, every time 
they have negative thoughts or feelings consequent to 
a negative belief system, they may impair the heart 
meridian. As the years go by, every time they have a 
resentment, go into self-pity, or criticize someone else, 
it disrupts the energy and flows down the heart merid­
ian.This depletes the ·life energy of the heart, and the 
continual repetition begins to alter its physiology in 
very delicate ways. It begins to express itself through ----54 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
irregularities in the autonomic nervous system, which 
operates in the functioning of the body organs. As a result, there begins an impairment of the phys­
iology of the heart itself, including the lining of the 
arteries. As the years go by, the. habiral disruption of 
the heart meridian brings impairme~~ on the physical 
level, which is an expression of what has been held in 
mind. That is the basic premise-the body expresses 
what is held in mind, not vice versa.The body expresses 
a person's habitual way of thinking. The mechanics of negativity short-circuit the 
acupuncture system and the autonomic nervous sys­
tem.This in turn alters and impairs the sensitive electri­
cal and chemical processes that are going on in the 
cells, resulting in pathological changes within the 
anatomy and dysfunction that results in a coronary 
attack, heart disease, or heart failure. The heart failure 
comes about partly as a result ofyears of negative men­
tal attitudes.The mind would like to blame it on choles­
terol, stress, one's lifestyle, genetics, what goes on in the 
family, an.d so on. These are all merely explanations, 
excuses, and rationalizations to try to make intelligible 
that which is not clearly defmed. When looking at the exact mechanics, we see that 
what we hold in mind begins to manifest on the physical 
plane because it is the mind that has the power. Even a 
relatively neutral thought can have major consequences. For example, one has the thought, "I think 1 will go to 
Hawaii:'That one thought now energizes one's finances 
and determines what one is going to do over the next six 
months to get ready for the trip. The thought held in 
mind now determines what one does with their money, 55 ASSISTING HEALING 
their entire behavior, the packing,and moving their body 
thousands of miles through the air. That one thought 
influences the next six months of one's life. We can see how powerful the mind is, and one of 
the difficulties to overcome in self-healing is the will­
ingness to accept the greatpowerofthe mind.We can­
not let a negative thought go unchallenged. One can­
not say, "I have diabetes" and let that go unchallenged. That is a beliefsystem so powerful that just believing "I 
have diabetes" is sufficient to potentiate the disease. Instead, one has to cancel it and say,"I am a person who 
once thought that, but I am only subject to what I hold 
in mind. I am an infinite being, and I am not subject to 
that." One releases any symptoms and cancels them. One replaces them with the truth, and in doing that, 
one moves above the line in the specifics of a given 
illness. Later, when I give an account of how I used this 
system to get rid of many illnesses within myself, per­
haps these principles will become more apparent. Because I had such a list of illnesses, I had to write 
them all down in order to remember them because half 
of them have been forgotten even though all of them 
lasted for many, many years. For example, I had a duo­
denal ulcer that was intractable. I was o'n all the tradi­
tional medicinal treatments and had psychoanalysis 
and a whole variety of things that began in medical 
school.Twenty years later, I still had the ulcer, and not 
only that, it was a different kind of ulcer that was mak­
ing holes in other parts of my duodenum. It was threat­
ening to perforate and hemorrhage, and it was creating 
recurrent attacks of pancreatitis. I also had colitis along 
with hemorrhage diverticulitis. In fact, the diverticulitis 56 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
was so bad that I landedin the hospital several times 
and had to have transfusions. I almost hemorrhaged to 
death with it. In addition, I had migraine headaches that were 
intractable. Psychoanalysis had helped to some degree, 
and I had seen neurologists and famous world experts, 
but there was really no help for the migraines, which 
were ostensibly associated with many allergies. I was 
also sensitive to inhalants in the atmosphere. I could 
not walk into a place that had been exterminated with­
in the previous couple ofweeks because I could detect 
one part in one million in the spray and would react 
with a migraine headache. In addition, I also had Raynaud's disease, which was 
impairing the blood flow to my extremities, and I had 
threatening insipient gangrene of the fingertips, circu­
latory impairment of the hands and feet, and was cold 
all the time. On top of all that, I had gout and a high 
uric acid level. Of course, I was on a diet for that. I had 
gouty arthritis and carried a cane and medication in 
the back of my car. Can you imagine carrying a cane in 
the back of your car because when gout comes on", it 
happens very suddenly with pain that is very paralyz­
ing? That cane was in my car for many years. At the same time, I had severe hypoglycemia. I 
could not eat sugar, sweets, or starches. So, in addition 
to all the allergies, the ulcer, diverticulitis, other gas­
trointestinal problems, pancreatitis, and occasional gall­
bladder attacks, there were actually very few things I 
could eat.When I occasionally went to a restaurant, the 
only thing I could safely eat was lettuce in a salad. I 
could not eat the tomatoes because the seeds might 57 ASSISTING HEALING 
aggravate the diverticulitis, which had required hospi­
talization and blood transfusions in the past. I was also 
fIfty pounds overweight. (I will later describe how I. 
handled that problem.) From one end to the other, things were wrong with 
the gastrointestinal tract; the circulatory system; the 
digestive system; the hormonal balance; the blood 
chemistries, including elevated blood cholesterol and 
uric acid levels; and migraine headaches. All these 
things indicated stress and pressure within the central 
nervous system and impairment of the autonomic 
nervous system. Additionally, I had a pilonidal cystic 
tumor, which normally would require surgery, but it 
slowly disappeared spontaneously. Later, I went into severe heart failure from undiag­
nosed Grave's disease (hyperthyroidism) for which sur­
gery or radiation was prescribed, but I refused. Chest x­
rays revealed a tumor in the apex of the right lung.The 
lung was biopsied, resulting in its collapse and pneu­
mothorax (the collection of air or gas in the space sur­
rounding the lungs). The biopsy revealed that the 
lesion was a form of aviary (bird) tuberculosis (non­
communicable to humans). I refused to take the recom­
mended $10,OOo-per-month's worth of five antibiotics, 
which had a low cure rate anyway. The lung lesion 
slowly disappeared with no physical treatment. The 
heart failure cleared up, as did the pneumothorax. The 
thyroid function eventually returned to normal with­
out surgery or radiation. In addition to the above, the 
left thumb was amputated while I was doing carpentry 
work and was repaired in surgery without anesthesia, 
as was a recurrent right inguinal hernia, also without 58 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
anesthesia. The chronic recurrent, intractable duodenal 
ulcers disappeared after three acupuncture treatments. All the above illnesses and surgeries were 
processed and handled as described by letting go of 
resisting in every instant, canceling the belief systems, 
and totally surrendering to Divine Will. All healing was 
accomplished without narcotics or anesthesia. The 
whole series of illnesses was consequent to karmic 
proclivities that were surfaced by intense inner spiritual 
work, which speeded up their emergence initially but 
later facilitated their seemingly miraculous healing and 
disappearance. Mental systems had to be questioned to fmd out 
what was going on because it was obvious that a per­
son with so many illnesses could hardly be said to be 
free of conflict. I began to study my perfectionism and 
see how this tendency, which allowed me to forgive 
others but did not allow me to forgive myself, was cre­
ating an intolerance ofmy own humanness.As you can 
see, to be intolerant and condemn and attack all these 
things within oneself produces unconscious guilt 
about one's own human limitations. The origin of this mental proclivity began in child­
hood in the form of moral scrupulosity and fear of sin. I had to move to a willingness to accept, love, and for­
give my own humanness, acknowledge that it was only 
human to have imperfect feelings, and to let go of 
attacking myself for being human. Therefore, I had to 
look into the essence of seeing what is the inner core 
and essence of one's humanness. This took me to the 
awareness of the intrinsic innocence within conscious­
ness itself. I then had to look at the nature of conscious­59 ASSISTING HEALING 
ness. How does the child, in its innocence and lack of 
negativity, end up with so many programs within the 
mind to create all these illnesses? We can find the answer when we look at the nature 
of innocence and track what happens to it in the child. The child's innocence might also be compared to the 
hardware of a computer. The hardware is innocent, and 
it is the software that goes through the hardware, cre­
ating the output. However, the hardware is not affected 
by the software itself.We look at the child and see the 
innocence of its consciousness. How does all the nega­
tive programming come in to the innocent child? It 
comes in because of innocence; the child believes any­
thing it is told. It is out of its lovingness and trust of its parents, its 
teachers, and the world of television, commercials, and 
society that the child becomes programmed. The inno­
cence ofthe child becomes progressively less apparent 
because it is now displaying all the programs it has 
picked up out of that primary innocence. It starts to 
believe the prejudices of its parents and playmates, 
such as little sly remarks like, "We don't play with cer­
tain kinds ofpeople. "What buys that negative program? It is the innocence of the child, which remains within 
our consciousness throughout our life. It is always 
going on. It is out of that innocence that we buy into 
error, but the inner innocence itself is unsullied. We 
have to go back into the recognition of that inner inno­
cence in order to forgive ourselves as well as others. That inner innocence allows us to learn anything 
new:The innocence ofthe child never changes; in fact, it 
is the innocence of the child within you that is reading 60 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
these words this very second. It never changes; it is that 
same trusting, believing, and 'hoping to hear the truth 
and be open to it' innocence that continues. Even ifyou 
do not believe what you are reading now, it is because 
some opposite program within your mind says, "Don't 
trust. "And it was your innocence that bought the pro­
gram of"Don't trust anybody:' 
Even the mistrusting person is doing so out oftrust. They are trusting the truth of that statement. Maybe 
one day their father said, "Don't trust anybody out 
there," and it was their innocence that bought the dis­
trust. Yet the innocence itself is unsullied and 
untouched because it never changes. It is the inherent 
nature of consciousness itself. It is the hardware of the 
computer, and no matter how many negative thoughts 
were heard, the programs that are played through the 
mind do not affect the hardware, leaving it untouched, 
unsullied, pristine, and pure.That inner pristine purity 
is still within all of us. That bring us to compassion because we now see 
how we picked up programs as we grew up in youth 
or adolescence. For example, we do not want to admit 
that we have negative thoughts, feelings, or even fear, 
or that we have desire or feelings of loss, regret, or 
hopelessness. These are not acceptable.The self-hatred 
and guilt then accumulate from the constant rejection 
. ofour own humanness. As a result,we have to move to a 
better, healing way of being with ourself. It is easy to do 
by merely choosing to be compassionate and forgiving. The decision came to me to be that way about 
myself, the same as I was about others, because ifI am 
that way about myself, then automatically I am that way 61 ASSISTING HEALING 
about others.That which I forgive in others I automat­
ically forgive in myself because all I am seeing out 
there is myself projected into the world. With the undoing of all this negativity and the 
replacement of the low negative energies by a positive 
energy, we begin to experience the world, ourselves, 
and our relationship to life in a different way.We begin 
to experience an inner joyfulness as a result ofour will­
ingness to let go of condemning ourself and others. This then becomes a habit and the way we are in the 
world. Intention to be a source of healing to ourself 
and others sets up a context. What does context mean? Intention sets up con­
text. Our intention to be this kind of person then sets 
up the whole energy of our consciousness and aligns it 
so that we begin to see things that way. In other words, 
there is an actual alteration of perception. We literally 
begin to see the world through forgiving, healing, and 
compassionate eyes. We are not talking about sympa­
thy, which is in the lower energy fields; we are talking 
about a lovingness as an inner decision to be that kind 
of human being towards ourself and others. There is 
the willingness to let go of being critical, along with 
our moraliZing 'right and wrong' attitude that occurs 
when we polarize ourselves with others by saying,"My 
position is right and your position is wrong." Because the body expresses what the mind 
believes, this decision then begins to affect the body. We can track down the mechanics of that with muscle 
testing.When we hold a loving thought in mind or pic­
ture somebody in a loving way, our arm is strong when 
someone tests its resistance. When we hold an unloving 62 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
thought in mind, the arm will instantly go weak 
because the body is immediately reflecting what the 
mind believes. As we move into the decision to be forgiving and 
compassionate, to be that which supports and nurtures 
life instead ofcondemning it or moralistically putting it 
down and getting into a 'make wrong' scenario, and as 
we become willing to let go of the 'make wrong', we 
let go of attacking ourself for being ill. Some people 
who are involved in spiritual work or metaphysical 
studies will compound the problem by making them­
selves wrong because they have a physical illness. It is 
helpful to have the willingness to accept whatever is 
being expressed on the physical level, to look within 
our own consciousness to see what is being brought to 
our attention, and to see that whatever is occurring in 
our life is happening in order to come up to be healed. Instead of being ashamed that we are a spiritual 
seeker with a physical illness, we instead become 
thankful and say, "Aha! Something is coming up to be 
healed. "We want that capacity to bring up the various 
things to be healed; thus, it is a sign of progress, not of 
falling back.We can be happy that we have a chance to 
heal these things that, paradoxically, are actually 
brought up by major or rapid spiritual progress (Le., 
karma). Most of the great mystics of history had 
records of many physical illnesses (e.g., see"Mystics" in 
Encyclopaedia Britannica). An illness is merely our consciousness calling atten­
tion to something that needs to be looked at.There is 
something about which we are feeling guilty, fearful, or 
other negative emotion. There is a belief system we are 63 ASSISTING HEALING 
holding that has to be let go of and cancelled. There is 
something that has to be forgiven, and something with­
in us that has to be loved, so we thank: whatever it is for 
bringing it to our awareness. We say,"Thank: you, ulcer. I see.You forced me to look at the way in which I was 
condemning myself and not loving myself.Thank: you, 
hypoglycemia, for showing me how much I have been 
living in fear." We thank: all· our illnesses because they 
have brought us to that willingness and acceptance to 
move into the field of lovingness and the joy of realiz­
ing now, out of compassion, that this is how the body 
brings about self-healing. The pain serves a purpose, and we now hold it in a 
different way. We are going to make lemonade out of 
lemons. Instead of going into self-pity or resentment 
about an illness, instead of'poor me' or being a victim, 
we say, "What is that trying to tell me? What is it that 
I'm supposed to learn?" We get interested in learning 
about the nature of consciousness and finding out 
what is underlying the illness so we can heal it through 
a greater understanding. The first tools we need are willingness and an open 
mind-the willingness to say that the mind is looking 
at something which it is being asked to view so it can 
be healed. The healing of the body comes about with 
the healing of the mind. All the physical illnesses, 
which I eventually let go of, fmally healed of their own 
nature as a result ofhealing the thought forms in mind. All the healings resulted from the willingness to let go 
of the condemnation of self and others, to let go of crit­
icalness, self-pity, resentment, and all the negative ener­
gies at the levels below 200, including regret, worry, 64 HEALING AND RECOVERY =---- -----'=-=--=~=__=__=__'__=__=c.::..c....:=___=_=_=__=__=____=_=..::.... ::._ _ 
anxiety, grievances, self-contempt, and self hatred. It 
was the letting go of those things that shifted the ener­
gy field to one that brought about the healing. I kept 
working with it, canceling the belief systems of hypo­
glycemia and gout. As each belief system would come 
up, I would cancel it and say, "I no longer believe in 
that. I am no longer subject to that. It is the result of a 
belief system, and I have the power to cancel it. "Thus, 
we begin to own that we have the power to refuse, 
reject,anddeny. "I have the powerto refuse that.I don't 
have to buy into that." Because these beliefsystems are so prevalent in our 
culture, we naively think that they must have a certain 
reality or else everybody would not believe them. The 
only reality they have is on the level of a thought form. The fact that there is agreement about a certain 
thought form does not give it a reality. It only means 
that there is an agreement about it. Therefore, I can 
refuse to buy into the collective belief systems about 
all these various diseases, and I watch as those pro­
grams come in. I refuse to believe in all the well-inten­
tioned educational programs about all these diseases­
hypoglycemia, gout, heart disease, cholesterol, etc. As 
each illness is devised, we become subject to it.We are 
subject to what we believe in mind. Ifwe think eating eggs is going to raise our choles­
terol, and we think raising our cholesterol is going to 
give us heart trouble, then eating eggs does raise our 
cholesterol, and the cholesterol does give us heart trou­
ble because of the power of the mind. Mind is so pow­
erful that it creates the thought form which manifests 
on the physical plane, thus becoming a physical reality. 65 ASSISTING HEALING 
We can see that self-healing then really depends on the 
reversal of the usual belief systems of causality. What 
we hold in mind manifests on the physical level; it is 
not the other way around. Eating the cholesterol did 
not give us the heart problem; it was the belief that eat­
ing a lot of cholesterol gives us heart trouble.That is a 
very critical point to grasp.The beliefsystem elucidates 
the entire disease picture. If we don't believe it, the illnesses disappear from 
the body. At the same time, we are letting go of the 
sources of unconscious guilt and stopping the rein­
forcement ofthe illnesses that comes from labeling and 
propagating them, thereby bringing about a fulftllment 
of our own self-prophecies and watchfulness. We cannot allow the mind to come up with a belief 
system without challenging it. Ifthe mind unconsciously 
has been working against us, and we have been unaware 
of how much power it has, we can turn it around and 
use that power on our own behalf.The same power that 
undid us can now work for us when we consciously uti­
lize the power of mind. Now, when the thought comes 
up, "I have hypoglycemia;' I stop it, I cancel it, and I say 
the truth: "I am no longer subject to that. I am an inno­
cent being. I am no longer subject to that." Hypoglycemia is a good example because it took 
me a considerable amount of time to undo that one. After all, I had given lectures about it for many years. It 
was operative clinically within me as an actual physical 
reality. I did a lot of work on nutrition, especially on its 
relationship to addiction, and to alcoholism in particu­
lar. It was a very important issue. I was a ftrm believer 
in it when I came to the understanding and realization 66 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that my ftrm belief in it was then operating within my 
body, which was expressing my mind's belief in hypo­
glycemia. Therefore, I had to keep. canceling it repeat­
edly and stating the truth about it. Eventually, the con­
dition of severe hypoglycemia disappeared, and the 
abnormal blood sugars corrected themselves. After 
many years with this disease, I ftnally let go ofthe belief 
system of hypoglycemia and recovered from it. It took 
about two years of using the technique. The various illnesses disappeared within differing 
periods of time. Some of them disappeared within a 
matter of days; some even disappeared within an hour. Others took months, and the hypoglycemia took the 
longest, other than a blocked Eustachian tube that took 
two years. (I forgot to include that on my list of illness­
es.) I never gained weight and no longer had any hypo­
glycemic symptoms; it just no longer existed in my life. There is the principle of watchfulness. Because the 
mind is so powerful, we cannot let it get away with a 
negative belief system even once. Every time the 
thought, "I'm allergic" comes up, it has to be instantly 
challenged and cancelled. One powerful thought, as 
you can see, is sufftcient to create it on the physical 
plane, so we cannot be sloppy about this work. We 
have to watch it carefully within ourself. There is really no order of difftculty in the healing 
of these various illnesses. This means that what the 
world considers to be a severe disease is just as easy to 
let go of as a minor illness. Among friends, co-workers, acquaintances, patients, 
and other people I have worked with, there is a group 
of people who have recovered from many serious 67 ASSISTING HEALING 
illnesses totally and completely. They were given up as 
hopeless, as almost dead, and yet those people who 
have become my friends are extremely alive and well, 
with no traces of their illnesses at all. It does not make 
any difference because the truth is the truth, and that 
which is false is false. It does not depend on the form 
offalsehood; all that is false is false, just as all that is true 
is true. Ifyour mind can create it, then your mind can 
cancel it. We thereby begin to use the power of the 
mind on our own behalf. The process of self-healing is handled on the level 
of the specific by letting go of our resistance to experi­
encing it and then canceling the thought forms. The 
healing is going on in general, more powerful ways due 
to our willingness to let go of all criticism and attack, 
along with beginning to love the humanness in ourself 
and others, and the reawakening of our awareness of 
its innocence. What about the third level, that of traditional med­
ical treatment? What part does it play in this kind of 
self-healing? Traditional medical treatments now sur­
prisingly become very effective. As we let go of our 
guiltiness, which came about through our lack of com­
passion for our own humanness, medical measures that 
were once fruitless now begin to be effective. In other 
words, during all the illnesses I had, such as migraine 
headaches, ulcers, and diverticulitis, I received tradi­
tional medical treatment for twenty years or more. I 
was on the diets, medications, antispasmodics, and . antacids, and I did all the traditional medical things, but 
they were not working; however, they perhaps kept 
things from getting worse. After all, I did not have my 68 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
stomach or colon removed, so the treatments were 
working, but they were working against all the nega­
tive programming going on within the mind. When we start to let go of all the negative pro­
grams, all the previously relatively ineffective medical 
treatments now become effective. In my case, the anti­
spasmodic that once barely kept the symptoms under 
control then totally relieved the symptoms. A healing 
came about. The antispasmodic, the antacids, and the 
diet that was considered necessary (in addition to 
acupuncture treatments) then brought about a healing 
of the ulcer; the medications were very powerfully 
effective. The medications for relieving the allergies 
then worked wondrously well.We found that the need 
for the medication dwindled off.The need for all these 
ameliorative measures finally disappeared, and I 
resumed eating a normal diet. You might imagine the 
kind of diet I had had to live on, with an elevated cho­
lesterol level, hypoglycemia, diverticulitis, an active 
ulcer, migraine, and most of all, the allergies. I remember walking into a restaurant and looking 
at .the menu. The only thing I could eat was the salad 
and the spinach because the seeds in the other foods 
would aggravate the diverticulitis, and the acids would 
aggravate the ulcer. I could not eat tomatoes or any­
thing of that nature, and of course, nothing containing 
sugar. I could not eat pasta, any ofthe bakery offerings, 
the desserts, or the meats; I had to avoid them because 
of the elevated uric acid levels of gout. Frankly, there 
were very few things left on this planet for me to eat. As those things relieved themselves, however, I 
then found that diet was also a belief system.That is the 69 ASSISTING HEALING 
downside of holistic health-the belief system that all 
these things are injurious to us.They are injurious to us 
because we are holding in mind that they are. No such 
thing exists in the world of the 'real'.As a result, I am 
not on a low-sugar, low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. My 
cholesterol and blood sugar are normal. I am on a reg­
ular diet and never get a gout attack. All those things 
turned out to be corollary to the belief systems. Ifwe have a belief system about gout, then we will 
have all that goes with it, including the beliefs about the 
various meats that supposedly bring it on, such as pick­
led herring, which I love (and now eat almost daily). I 
used to have gout so severely that if I ate just a small 
amount of liver pate on a cracker, it would bring on a 
gout attack. I always tell the story of how one day I cooked a 
, frying pan full of liver and kidneys for my kitty, think­
ing she would love them. Instead she stuck her nose up 
and would not eat them.There was a big pan of them, 
and they smelled delicious as they were cooking with 
onions and a little bit of bacon. I even put a little catnip 
in some of it, but Kitty just was not interested. All of a 
sudden, I saw that my whole dietary limitation was just 
a crazy belief system that I was holding in mind, and I 
said, "I am an infInite being. I am not subject to this. I 
mean this is absurd." So I sat down and ate almost the 
whole pan of kidney and liver, and needless to say, I did 
not have a gout attack nor have I ever had one since. I 
just canceled it as a belief system. It was a joke-a sad 
joke, but still a joke. We are subject only to what we 
hold in mind-consciously or unconsciously. When we re-own the source of our power and stop 70 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
giving it away to the world, we fmd that the cause of 
gout is not in kidneys and liver; it is not in stress; it is 
not in uric acid levels or purine metabolism. It has to 
do with what we hold in mind. When we re-own and 
stop denying the power of our own mind, we begin to 
realize that we are the source ofeither health or illness. What do I mean when I say, "I am the source?" I mean 
my consciousness, my infmite being. Let us now consider the energy fields that explain 
how this works. What are the intrinsic physics, the 
energy fields, and the levels? Instead of owning our­
selves at a level below the level ofTruth at 200 and put­
ting power that is a lie out into the world, we begin to 
re-own the truth about ourselves. Our willingness to 
look into this brings about the experience and realiza­
tion of the truth of it.That is the experiential purity of 
what we are discussing. We, ourselves, can reduplicate 
the truth of this through our own experimentation. We 
are our own individual self. As we re-own ourselves as the source and move up 
in the levels of consciousness, we begin to realize that 
we are subject to anything that we hold in mind, and 
that the belief systems and thought forms we bought 
into have been the source or 'cause' of what we have 
been experiencing. The world has no power to create 
any such thing. Does a piece of kidney have power in 
it? Of course not. Do our minds have the power to cre­
ate illnesses? Yes, indeed. Now we will begin to undo the syndrome of the 
'bubble' person. What happens to the bubble person? Its innocent, childlike mind enthusiastically buys the 
whole idea of holistic health and nutrition, for example. 71 ASSISTING HEALING 
It begins to read all the literature. Well, let me tell you 
that ifwe continue to read that literature long enough, 
we will fmd that everything in our world, everything in 
our experience, everything in our environment, and 
everything in this universe will kill us.That is the mes­
sage we will get. Magnesium will kill us; calcium will 
kill us. The energy given off by rugs, paint, and every­
thing in the air will kill us. If we walk by somebody 
who is smoking a cigarette-"Aha! I'm going to get 
lung cancer. "We unWittingly buy into all these power­
fully negative thought systems. However, we can begin 
to cancel them, one by one. I did it. I had a friend who said eggs would kill me. Goodbye, 
eggs. Cholesterol will kill me. Good-bye, cholesterol. Water will kill me; dairy products will kill me; meat will 
kill me.Well, eatfruit. Okay.And fruit is full ofpesticides. Holy smokes! I was into fruit. Fruit did not last long at all 
because the minute I got the pesticide story, goodbye, 
fruit. Then I went to vegetables. Oh, oh! Vegetables are 
full of it, too.They spray all those fields in California, and 
fish contains mercury. What is left to eat? We become increasingly paranoid. We do not 
become increasingly healthy; we become increasingly 
paranoid, and all my 'brown-bag' friends are dead! Brown-bag friends-those are people who used to 
belong to one of the medical societies that really got 
going on this. A brown-bag person is one who has 
bought into so much of this in the world that now they 
can eat only one or two kinds of natural organic rice or 
grams. There are only a few things left on the planet 
that they can safely eat, and they carry them around in 
a brown bag. 72 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
A bubble person goes to a banquet event where 
everybody is eating food full of what he considers to 
be nothing but poison. They are "killing themselves 
with the steak and the pesticides on the peas, fruit, and 
lettuce." While, in his view, they are killing themselves, 
he eats out ofhis brown bag. He sits in the back corner 
at a table filled with brown-bag people. (This was an 
actual scene at a big banquet.) He fasts a lot, does a lot 
ofrunning and other 'healthy' things, and, of course, he 
is dead now. Why is he dead, this man who ran every 
day and lived this health? He died because he became 
a bubble person with the paranoid view of the world 
that began to close in on him. He could not breathe the 
air with trust. He could not even enjoy the carpets 
because they were 'probably giving off something to 
which he was allergic, such as fiber particles that 
caused him to choke. Other things, such as the fumes 
emanating from the paints or insulation, or smoke par­
ticles from a cigarette that were going to give him can­
cer, caused his life to become smaller and smaller. What happens in this type of situation is the pro­
gressive denial of the truth about ourselves, along with 
progressively giving away the power of our being to 
the power of causality in the world, which is actually 
powerless. This is the reversal of truth. By progressive­
ly reversing the truth, we become increasingly vu1.nera­
ble and a victim.We end up with the total paranoia of 
the bubble person with 'environmental allergies' who 
can live only within a protective bubble of purified air. All this is going on in consciousness, in mind. It is 
not going on anywhere in reality. It is by buying back 
the truth ofthe power ofour own decision that we can 73 ASSISTING HEALING 
cancel the whole syndrome. We are not subject to 
'that'. We are infinite beings who are subject only to 
whatwe hold in mind.We have the powerofcanceling 
the belief systems.We have the power to refuse to buy 
into the negativity of the collective belief systems and 
to say 'no' to them. We also have the power to say'no' to belief systems 
that come from our family. Really major allergies ran in 
my family. My grandmother was allergic, as were my 
mother and sister. Everybody had hay fever and sensi­
tivity to ragweed, dust, hay, and horses. As a conse­
quence, I had all of those allergies also, with swollen, 
itchy eyes, and all the rest of the symptoms.We all lived 
on antihistamines. In addition, I was severely allergic to 
poison ivy and ended up in the hospital with general­
ized severe poison ivy dermatitis. It did not respond to 
any treatment except for a brown salve obtained from 
a Native American medicine. woman from the 
Wisconsin Dells tribe. Years later, I participated in A Course in Miracles 
and was surprised to discover I no longer got migraine 
headaches from pesticides. I walked right into a house 
that had just been sprayed, and all of a sudden, I 'knew' 
I was no longer subject to belief systems. After this amazing discovery, I awoke one day to the 
realization that I was no longer subject to poison ivy, 
either, so I went outside, picked some, planted some in 
a pottery jar, and played with it. It was miraculous! I 
carried it around to show family and friends. They 
thought I had gone 'over the edge', so to speak, but 
after that, my life changed and the negative belief sys­
tems fell away, one after the other. I subsequently also 74 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
let go of the excess weight (fIfty pounds) and felt a 
greater safety overall about physical life.To realize that 
we have power over our own lives brings a reduction 
in overall anxiety and a renewed sense of well-being 
and aliveness. All illness is physical, mental, and spiritual, and 
therefore it is best to utilize all modalities to assist 
recovery. There are also unknown factors that influ­
ence recovery, such as karmic proclivities. Thus, some 
illnesses may persist, awaiting further inner discovery 
or the evolution of one's personal level of conscious­
ness whereby the source of the illness is revealed. Therefore, spiritual work should proceed for its own 
sake and recovery surrendered to God. Successful treat­
ment is one thing; healing is of a different dimension 
because the vast sources have been discovered and 
brought to light. How can one know if humility and surrender are 
complete? They are complete when one is indifferent 
to whether a healing occurs or not.That is the result of 
surrender to God at great depth and relinquishment of 
the desire to control or change the way things are. Practicality: Caveat 
It is always adVisable to have medical diagnoses 
conftrmed by a second opinion. Major errors are not 
uncommon, and I myself had several major misdiagnoses 
that were potentially fatal if not detected. The cause of 
severe heart failure as being due to Graves disease 
(hyperthyroidism) was totally misdiagnosed earlier. Prostatic obstruction did not require surgery but instead 
merely cessation of the use of nasal decongestants. CHAPTER 3 
Stress 
Having been a physician and psychiatrist for over fifty 
years, I have worked in the fields of psychoanalysis, 
psychotherapy, group therapy; and the psychodynamics 
of the various schools. In addition, there were years of 
research in the field of nutrition and its relationship to 
brain chemistry, mental illness, and emotions, which 
resulted in the textbook, Orthomolecular Psychiatry 
(co-authored by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling). I 
have also extensively researched and used alternative 
healing modalities that were found to be beneficial. For the last thirty-five years, I have been doing 
research into the nature ofconsciousness itself and the 
application of that knowledge to an understanding of 
spirituality. Inherent in this is the relationship between 
body, mind, and spirit and what that really means. Is 
that something scientific that we can clinically verify, 
or is that some kind of fantasy? There is a lot of emphasis today on the subject of 
stress and its prevention, along with its implications for 
physical, emotional, and psychological health and how 
it impacts industry and the business world. There is a 
greater awareness ofstress in our culture and what this 
disQrder implies. We are going to look closely at the 
relationships between the body and its response to 
stress, and the mind and how it relates to spirit. Stress results from a pOint of view-from what we 
hold in mind-and from our attitudes and beliefs. Emotional stress originates primarily from within our­
selves and not just from the world. There is no such 
75 76 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
thing as escaping stress because its source is within us 
and not located within the world as commonly 
believed. Thus, we will be reversing the way the mind 
usually looks at cause and effect. By observation, one 
can see that 'cause' is not in the world nor is 'effect' in 
the mind,butvice versa.The levelofpower,the levelof 
'cause', is held in mind, bringing about one's experi­
ence of what happens in the world. Our folklore intu­
itively knows this because it says, "One man's meat is 
another man's poison." That quotation contains the 
secret of what we are talking about.The power is not 
in the event or in something 'out there'.The power of 
creating our experience of all events in life lies within 
each of us.Thus, it is by re-owning our power that we 
can learn how to prevent stress. There are methods of precluding stress instead of 
treating its aftermath. The so-called stress-reduction 
programs that are commonly available in our society 
today are really methods of handling the effects of 
stress once it has already occurred, such as in relaxation 
programs designed to relieve the tension within the 
body. One might say that the horse is already out ofthe 
bam.There are ways to offset this so that the tension 
never arises in the body and thus precludes the neces­
Sity of the various ways of handling stress based on the 
medical model. Some time ago, I received a brochure entitled 
"Stress and Heart Disease," which presented an entire 
belief program. The article promoted the idea that 
stress is something 'out there', that it is really some­
thing that is inherent in life, and that the result of stress 
is going to affect the heart, with all its symbolic mean­77 STRESS 
ing to us. The various articles in the pamphlet dealt 
with heart disease and the consequences of stress com­
ing about through our physiology and manifesting 
within the body. Because all things are experienced 
within consciousness, it is essential to look again at the . relationship between body, mind, and spirit. We are going to discuss things that we can verify 
through our own experience, along with verifiable 
clinical experience derived from the viewpoint of the 
clinical scientist who believes only what can be clini­
cally repeated and verified through inner experience. A characteristic of the body is that it is insentient, 
that is, the body has no capacity to experience itself. This means that the arm, in and of itself, cannot experi­
ence its own existence or 'armness'. It cannot even 
experience that it 'is', much less where it is, how big it 
is, or what it is doing. How do we know what is going 
on with the body?We know solely because ofthe senses. We do not experience the body itself, but instead, the 
senses'report of the body.We also note that the senses 
themselves have no capacity to experience them­
selves. For instance, in the ear, the vibrations going 
through the auditory nerve and stimulating the tym­
panic membrane have no way to experience them­
selves as sound. Where does the experience of the body take place? It registers in the brain, but then awareness occurs in 
something greater than the brain itself, in what we call 
'mind'.Itis because ofthe energyfield ofthe mind that 
we experience the brain and the body, Mind itself, very 
curiously, also lacks the capacity to experience itself. This is an amazing thought until we look into it.We see 78 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that a thought, of and by itself, has no capacity to expe­
rience its own 'thoughtness' .A memory has no capacity 
in and of itself to experience its own 'memoryness'. Similarly, a fantasy about the future has no such capac­
ity either. The imagination, the emotions-all that goes 
on in mind-are only experienced because of that 
greater and larger energy field than mind called con­
sciousness. It is an energy field that is more diffuse, 
formless, and capable of experiencing change as well 
as any phenomena. It is only because of consciousness 
itself that we are aware of what is going on in mind, 
and it is because of mind that we are aware of what is 
going on with sensations. Because of sensations, we are 
aware of what is going on with the physical body. Curiously, however, even consciousness itself can­
not report what is going on within itself except for a 
greater field that is infmite and without dimension 
called the experiential knowingness of subjective 
awareness. Because of that quality of awareness that 
accompanies existence and beingness, we are capa­
ble of awareness. Out of awareness comes the know­
ingness of what goes on within consciousness. Consciousness reports what is going on within mind, 
and mind reports what goes on with sensations about 
the body. Thus, we can see that what we are, in its 
highest and greatest sense, refers to the capacity for 
subjective awareness. It is solely within consciousness itself that all expe­
rience is being experienced. Therefore, to directly 
address the source and place of experiencing will lead 
to the capabilities of precluding the sources of stress. As described in Chapter 1, the Map of 79 STRESS 
Consciousness is a numerical model based on energy 
fields and levels of consciousness. The energy fields are 
calibrated as to their relative power, labeled according 
to common human experience, and thereby readily 
and easily understood. At the very bottom of the chart, 
for example, is 'Guilt', which, in its form of self-hatred, 
is a destructive, negative emotion. From the position of 
Guilt, the world is seen as a place of suffering. Guiltiness has an energy field of 30. The lower states 
are close to Death, which calibrates at zero.With Death 
at zero, achieving a consciousness high enough to 
become enlightened calibrates at 600 and over. Guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and pride are 
all negative energy fields that have adverse or destruc­
tive effects and therefore have a low calibration num­
ber. For instance, Apathy at 50 has much less energy 
than Fear, which calibrates at 100. Fear at 100 has much 
less energy than that of Courage, which calibrates at 
200. Desire at 125 has less energy than the state called 
Neutral (at 250), or being detached. Calibration ofthe energy fields can be replicated by 
using very common techniques, such as simple muscle 
testing, that verify the relative energies and directions 
of the fields. These fields calibrate lower when one 
holds in mind a thought that is angry, a thought about 
something one regrets or is sad about, or a thought 
about something one fears. When the arm of the per­
son having such a thought is tested, it will instantly 
become weak. The cerebral hemispheres become 
desynchronized, the acupuncture energy system goes 
out of alignment, and the person instantly loses power 
and energy. 80 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
At the level of Courage, where truth is told, the 
energy field moves upwards to that which is positive 
and supports and reinforces life. It is the energy of 
aliveness and is aligned with integrity and honesty. When we calibrate the great teachers of wisdom 
who have walked this earth, we find that they are at 
the level of 600 and above.The great avatars, the great 
saviors of mankind, and the great mystics and saints 
are in the energy fields of the 700s on up to 1,000. It 
could be said that truth begins at energy field 200 and 
expands upward into an ever-increasing lovingness 
and alignment withTruth. Interestingly, health follows 
the same pattern. The farther up we go in our energy fields, the 
healthier our bodies automatically become until, final­
ly, there is joy in the aliveness and exquisite pleasure 
of the body. At level 540, the energy field of 
Unconditional Love and healing, the body begins to 
heal its own diseases, depending on inherent propen­
sities as well as limitations (e.g., karma, both individ­
ual and human). In relation to stress, it is essential to look at the pre­
existing conditions within a person's consciousness 
that set them up to experience life in a stressful way. It 
is obvious that a person who has identified with the 
attitudes of a lower energy field experiences a world 
that is perceived as negative. A person who identifies 
with the lower energy field of hopelessness and 
despair is going to experience the world as hopeless, 
and all of life's experiences are going to be colored by 
that expectation. At the level of Grief, people are full of regret, con­81 STRESS 
cerned with loss in the past, and see this as a sad world. If there were a God, he would be a God who doesn't 
love us, doesn't care for us, and ignores us. In the energy field of Fear, there is the appearance 
of a suppressed energy that has been held throughout 
life as fearfulness. There is preoccupation with anxi­
ety and constant worry about the future. The world 
looks like a frightening place, and a person at that 
level experiences everything in the form of fright.The 
God of such a world would be considered to be fear­
some (punitive). The person who is always desirous and wanting 
experiences this as a frustrating world. The angry 
person is prone to conflict and war. The prideful 
person is vulnerable to perceived challenges and there­
fore assumes a defensive posture. We will discuss the 
Map of Consciousness in greater detail to learn how 
we are automatically set up for stress. One begins to suspect from the statement "One 
man's meat is another man's poison" that the set-up 
for stress comes from one's own inner values, belief 
systems, and positions about life.These stem from the 
programs that are being held operative within one's 
consciousness. One starts to look for the source of 
stress not in the world, but in what is being held in con­
sciousness that assigns stress to the experience of a 
given event. Following are some examples, available to 
all of us, that show how some attitudes and ways of 
being with life set us up for the experience of stress. There was an elderly lady, for instance, who used to 
visit her married daughter who lived in the middle of 
one hundred acres of woods out in the country, thirty 82 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
miles from New York City. There was only stillness; in 
fact, the only sounds that one could hear were the 
rustling of the leaves and the songs of the birds. The older woman had lived all of her life in New 
York City, on the lower East Side. She hated to make the 
visit to the country, and when she did, stayed as briefly 
as possible. Two or three days were all that she could 
stand. The peace and silence would drive her 'crazy', 
and she could not wait to return to the city where she 
would sigh with relief. Her apartment faced the street, 
and from her open window, she could talk to anybody, 
hear the hustle and bustle ofthe city, and feel secure­
all in the midst of the lower East side (her 'mother­
land'), despite all the noise and muggings. She was in a 
situation that another person might consider stressful. A lot ofpeople might consider that part ofthe city 
scary indeed. What she experienced as security­
being there in the throngs of people, with the sounds 
of garbage cans and garbage trucks making a racket at 
5 AM, was reassuring to her. In contrast, peace and 
silence in the middle of one hundred acres of woods 
were stressful. We can look at a comparable example of Devil's 
Island, the French penal colony. The French govern­
ment, out of social protest, closed much of the prison 
and allowed the prisoners to run loose on the island. They released them from the animal and torture cages 
and allowed them the freedom ofthe island and to walk 
around at will.What did the prisoners do? Much to the 
surprise of the authorities, they went back to their 
cages to sleep at night.They felt frightened, lonely, and 
insecure even though, for the fIrst time in all the years, 83 STRESS 
they had the freedom they so vociferously had demanded 
and died for during that time. The sense of security 
came from the feeling of being back in the cages. To most people, a jail cell would be the maximum 
threat. No greater horror could be imagined. Yet, what 
have other people done in a prison cell? They have 
written prize-winning novels and staggering pieces of 
literature. Things written in jail cells and prisons have 
changed the course of the history of mankind, for bet­
ter or worse.Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampfwhile in 
prison. Another interesting example, in contrast to Devil's 
Island, is exemplified by the famous movie, Lost 
Horizon. If you remember, in that movie Ronald 
Coleman and the other passengers of a plane made an 
emergency landing in the Himalayas. They went 
through a pass and came upon Shangri-La, which rep­
resents an almost heavenly condition. Its energy field 
(540-600) is very high and is a place of unconditional 
love and unending peace. Although the character 
played by Coleman was ready for the experience, 
benefiting greatly and expanding his own conscious­
ness, the other passengers reacted to it differently. It 
was interesting to watch six different people with six 
different reactions. A couple of them were not quite 
ready for the experience and reacted to it as a stress 
due to its newness and strangeness. Others felt stress 
for a while but then adjusted to it and accepted the 
sort of heavenly condition in their lives. In contrast, 
others were acutely disturbed by it. The person playing Ronald Coleman's brother in 
the movie became agitated and almost paranoid. He 84 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
demanded to return to the 'real world'. All these 
people exhibited a reaction not to where they were 
but to their individual positions. Their experiencing 
was not about the environment but about their own 
levels of consciousness. One time I was leaving Ecuador and at the time, 
there were only two planes a week that flew out of 
Quito. I arrived for the Thursday flight, having made 
reservations many months in advance, but when I 
checked in, the ftrst thing I was told was that my name 
was not on the list.Then I was told that the plane was 
not leaving onThursday of that week; it was leaving on 
Saturday. For some reason, it just seemed to be humor­
ous and even hilarious. Somehow, being in the culture 
of Ecuador at an altitude of 10,000 feet and above, the 
fact that the plane was going to leave three days late 
was viewed as not really important. Nobody got upset 
about it, and interestingly, the clock in the airport that 
hung from the middle of the ceiling had stopped work­
ing many years previously, and nobody had bothered to 
ftx it. There was no frustration in coming from the atti­
tude of acceptance, so there was no stress. There was 
an easygoing social attitude in which precision in the 
material world was not considered to be important. Human values were ofgreater importance. In this case, 
because of human value, even the convenience of the 
crew was more important than the departure day, and 
nobody seemed to mind.The setting, the expectation, 
and the cultural attitude in Quito were not even expe­
rienced as stressful. Ifthat had happened in a different 
social setting, such as LaGuardia Airport, for example, STRESS ·85 
and the Thursday flight was not leaving until Saturday, 
it would have been experienced as stressful. As a matter of fact, when I arrived for the Saturday 
departure scheduled at 11:45AM, there was some kind 
of delay. It was the only plane on the runway and the 
plane just sat there. Suddenly it was noon, the time 
when everything shuts down for a siesta, so not only 
did the Thursday plane not leave until Saturday, it 
didn't leave at 11 :45 AM; instead, it left at 3 PM. The 
plane just sat on the runway while everybody took a 
siesta. When it was over, everyone gathered their 
belongings, got on the plane, and away we went. No 
one was upset; everyone was totally relaxed and at 
ease. So it really is possible to be at peace with a three­
day delay in aflight schedule. Within these experiences is the key to the under­
standing of stress, because when we talk about stress, 
we are really talking about the experience of what is 
stressful within our own consciousness. To consider 
the body as part of a stress response means that the 
body is only responding to what is held in mind. By 
altering what we hold in mind-our expectations, our 
way of being with life-we can preclude the develop­
ment of stress. We did not have to go to a relaxation 
program to handle the stress of the plane's being three 
days late.We did not have to go to some kind of coro­
nary exercise· program to protect our hearts from 
stress-there wasn't any stress. Consequently, the real 
approach to stress is to prevent it in the first place-to 
preclude it by understanding how and where it arises. Our ftrst understanding is that the source of what 
we experience as stress is within ourselves; it does not 86 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
exist 'out there' in the world. It does not exist in plane 
schedules or prison cells; it exists only within our own 
consciousness. As we examine the Map of the fields of conscious­
ness more closely, our awareness of this subject will 
advance rather rapidly because it is easy to understand. It is something we already know; it is just necessary to 
bring it into our awareness. The energy fields at the bottom of the Map are 
adverse or destructive to life and can be called stress 
because of their intrinsic nature, which indicates a 
stressful direction.When we move to Neutral, we go in 
a positive direction to that which is not stressful. At 
consciousness level 540, all things are experienced in 
their beauty and perfection, in the oneness of life, and 
in unconditional love and lovingness. On the Map, to the right of these energy fields that 
are calibrated as to their relative power, we see the 
emotions that arise from those positions or ways of 
being with life. For example, we can see that people 
who are at the level of Guilt experience the emotions 
of blame and self-hatred. They experience life as 
destructive and see a world of suffering. The person 
who holds the position of Apathy about life experi­
ences the emotion of hopelessness. They see life and 
their world as hopeless. They are in despair, and there 
is a loss of energy.The God of such a world is dead. If enough energy is poured into a person in the 
state of apathy, they can move up to Grief, a stage in 
which they can express emotion. It has a certain bio­
logical purpose, and the expression ofgrief, such as the 
crying of a child, brings up the emotion. Those who are 87 STRESS 
in that energy field are looking to the past and see their 
lives filled with regret and 10ss.They become dispirited 
and experience this as a sad world, feeling that the God 
of this world is ignoring them. In contrast, the person 
who is in the suppressed energy field of Fear looks at 
life with intense worry and anxiety and experiences 
life as frightening. Regret stems from clinging to the 
past, and fear results from living in the future. What is life? It includes a view of the world and a 
view of ourself and others, as well as expectations of 
Divinity.What is life, in and of itself? Is it arising out of 
the event? We then see that these fields of energy are 
really portholes. They are ways in which we see the 
world. It is the color of the glasses we put on. Ifwe put 
on gray glasses coming from Grief, then everything 
looks sad. A person walking down the street who is 
dOminated by this energy field sees everything on the 
street as hopeless. He looks at man and man's condi­
tion or opens the newspaper, and he sees hopeless­
ness; man's condition is hopeless. As he walks down 
the street, he looks at the elderly people or the chil­
dren and sees how hopeless their condition is; they are 
going to have to grow up in a world of hopelessness.
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Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Love sees, nurtures and supports all of life and honors its 
sacredness, andofitselfcreatesahealingenergyfield that 
calibrates at 540. How do we become the kind of person in whom 
healing begins to occur automatically because of the 
level and general nature of our consciousness. At 
the same time, how do we facilitate the healing of a 
specific illness. 50=-- -=. H::. :E=-:. :Ac. :: L:. ::I-=. N. :-G=-----. :A::. ::. :. N:. :D=---R::.
The energy field at 540 is a healing energy field that honors the sacredness of life and is not stressful. It is essential to move into this energy field to experience life in its beauty and perfection.
What is the energy field that calibrates at 540 and how does it affect our energy?
The first step in healing an illness is to let go of resisting the sensory experience of the illness and stop labeling it. We must cancel any labels and align with the inner sensation.
What is the first step in healing an illness, according to the text?
The key to self-healing is to let go of all negative thought forms, critical thoughts, and judgmental thoughts. We must also cancel any negative beliefs and replace them with the truth, and then choose the energy field of Love.
What is the key to self-healing, according to the author?
The text states that the body is not the source of stress, but rather our own consciousness and the negative thought forms we hold in mind. We must understand that we are the source of our own stress and take responsibility for our own healing.
According to the text, what is the relationship between the body and stress?
The author had a negative experience with traditional medical treatment, but instead, he used alternative methods and self-healing techniques, canceling negative beliefs and replacing them with the truth, and eventually healed his illnesses.
What is the author's experience with traditional medical treatment, and what did he do instead?