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When we look within, we can really see that any­
thing we have ever done in our lifetime was done out 
of innocence, and when our main intention is to 
understand that, it becomes healed out of compas­
sion.When we do this with other people and let go of 
the desire to be judgmental towards ourselves and 
others, then our own energy field begins to move in a 
positive direction.The cancer cannot grow in a positive 
energy field, only in a negative one. In looking at the Map of Consciousness, we can 
see that Love at level 500 is available to all ofus.There 
is a commitment to unconditional love. What is that 
kind of love? We are not talking about Hollywood­
style emotionalism, sentimentality, attachment, 
dependence, and mutual control back and forth. Instead, we are talking about an intention, best 
described as lovingness, to commit ourselves to nur­
ture and support all life, no matter what its expression. Life flows equally into the saint and the criminal 
alike. Life, truth, and that which is the God within 
make no judgment. Life flows equally into all. As it 
says in the scriptures, the rain falls equally on all. Moving out of judgmentalism is the lesson in that 
example. Life flows equally into all so we allow our 
unconditional love to support the truth of everyone, 
including ourselves. Our own capacity for self-healing 
depends on accepting that "With God's help, I have 
the power to make the decision to go through the 
necessary inner work to bring about a healing of this 
illness." That is the difference between treating, cur­
ing, and healing. Treating is relieving a symptom, cur­
ing is overcoming the disease, but healing includes 448 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
the whole person. We set our intention on accomplishing peace of 
mind because that is the end result of healing. The 
end result is an inner tranquility, not an indifference 
to what happens to the body, but a transcendence of 
the body. No longer do we identify as that physicality. It belongs to us and is part of us, but it is within us 
because we realize that we are more than the physi­
cal body. The healing of cancer depends on realizing that 
we are the one who decides that we are greater than 
the physical body, and that it is within the power of 
consciousness to call forth the healer within and 
begin to utilize some of the consciousness techniques 
that have been presented. We can ask ourselves, "Can I allow myself to be 
healed? Is this healable? What within me needs to be 
healed?" It still does not tell us literally in our own 
particular case what needs to be healed. When I had severe diverticulitis that recurred for 
many years, I ended up in the hospital and had to 
have emergency blood transfusions. The last time I 
was there, I almost expired. I followed these general 
principles and it got better. It did not return for some 
years, but suddenly, something happened in my life 
and I had a recurrence. It was the worst attack of 
diverticulitis I had ever had.The pain was overwhelm­
ing; the cramping, bleeding, and all the other symp­
toms started all over again, this time with greater 
severity, and I asked, "What is the meaning of this? Why?" I began to question within, and as I did so, a 
technique came to me of going way, way back to dis­CANCER 
cover the exact, precise meaning that lay within this 
particular illness (suppressing negative feelings out of 
guilt about having them in one's 'gut'). For most of us, following the general laws of heal­
ing is sufficient to bring about recovery from an ill­
ness. For some of us, there is a very particular lesson 
or message that a given illness offers·.The illness will 
get better, but then something will linger on, or it may 
recur.The purpose ofthat is to bring about the aware­
ness that there is a specific hidden message that was 
missed, and there is more to learn, which is often the 
consequence of a karmic pattern. The message for all of us is that these major con­
frontations of life are something that can lead to 
major transformation and unseen spiritual benefit. .The physical body is temporary, whereas the spirit is 
not subject to time. The acceptance of that reality 
then leads to further awareness, which is to transcend 
the concept of recovery as a gain.This initially seems 
paradoxical because the hope for recovery is often 
the initiator of the process of spiritual growth. When illness is the motivator for spiritual growth, 
it often starts out from the level of fear and includes 
anger and guilty regret. With surrender and accept­
ance, these begin to diminish, and spiritual growth is 
valued for its own sake. Eventually, with very deep 
surrender, there even comes a time when resisting the 
illness is also surrendered and recovery is up to God. This step may also bring to awareness the concepts 
and understanding of the nature of karma, which 
itself is a subtle study. What does the term 'karma' 
mean from a practical viewpoint? Is it just a theory, or 450 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
is it a verifiable reality? In its broadest generic sense, karma denotes one's 
total inheritance-physical, mental, and. spiritual. It 
signifies the contextual significance of inherited 
humanness itself, with its overall implications and 
genetic propensities. With consciousness research, it 
can be affirmed that life itself cannot be extinguished 
but only made to change from physical expressions to 
purely energy forms. (This statement calibrates at 
1,000.) Thus, human life can be understood to be a 
valuable opportun~ty for transcending limitations via 
the classic undoing of negative karma and the advan­
tages ofacquiring positive karma.These are expressed 
as proclivities in that there is freedom of choice.With 
deep surrender of the personal will, there is eventually 
loss of the fear of physical death itself. If we give the cancer within us our blessing and 
say, "Thank you because you are giving me the power 
to transform my consciousness and expand my aware­
ness," then we will be very thankful in the end. Many 
people who have recovered from these illnesses look 
back and say, "How grateful I am for that illness arising 
in my life, for it was the springboard to spiritual awak­
ening." A benefit of a life-threatening illness is that it 
breaks down the denial ofmortality that is necessary to 
initiate serious spiritual work in most people who are 
otherwise too busy with the affairs of daily life to 
embark upon an inner quest. CHAPTER 15 
Death and Dying 
Death and dying might be called saying farewell to the 
body. Hopefully, by the end of this chapter, it will be 
possible to view the process in a more lighthearted 
way than usual. I am going to share what I have learned 
from my clinical experience and research, along with 
personal experiences, in a way that has not really been 
shared previously with people. I am just going to share 
what I have experienced about death and dying and 
what has come to my own awareness. Lecture audiences have said it is not possible to do 
it that way because others are not that sophisticated 
and are not going to understand it. On the contrary, I 
have found that people who are involved in spiritual 
work understand it right away and do not have the 
slightest problem. In the process, we will refer to the Map of 
Consciousness because, in discussing death and dying, 
we will talk about consciousness and the two things 
that people really fear. One is the physical experience 
itself, and the other is what they fantasize to be a loss 
of awareness, consciousness, and the awareness ofexis­
tence. We will refer again to the levels of consciousness 
that are shown on the Map. The scale represents the 
human ego, or the self with a small's', which we com:­
monly refer to as 'me' or 'myself'. In the middle of the 
scale is the level called Courage. Below Courage, the 
arrows of all the feeling states are in a negative direc­
tion, which are calibrated as to their relative energy 
and power. For example,Apathy has much less energy 
451 452 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
than Fear, which is calibrated at 100. Guilt is at level 30; 
Apathy, or hopelessness, is at 50; Grief and regret are at 
75; Fear, in its forms of worry and anxiety, is at 100. Desire, with cravingness and wantingness, is at 125. Anger goes up to 150, and Pride goes up to 175. By virtue of telling the truth) in this case that life 
comes only from life (which is a very important state­
ment), we reach level 200, which discerns truth from 
falsehood. Most of the fears of death are the result of 
the failure to understand and know that life comes 
from life and is indestructible. Like matter or energy, it 
can only change the form of expression (calibrates as 
true). When we tell the truth, we see that the negative 
energy field begins to go upward in a positive direc­
tion. As we move towards the conscious awareness of 
the Source of life itself, we move into higher states of 
Love and Joy.Then we come up to a level at 600 where 
there is a transition into a different paradigm and the 
experience of existence in which one no longer iden­
tifies with a separate, individual, physical body. We 
begin to realize the truth ofwho we are.The expansion 
of consciousness goes beyond the individual small self. To the right of these levels of consciousness on the 
Map are the emotions that correspond with each level. At the bottom of the scale, shame and self-hatred 
accompany Guilt. The process going on in conscious­
ness is in a destructive direction. Apathy is associated 
with hopelessness and despair, and the process is the 
loss of energy. Grief is associated with regret, loss, and 
despondence. The process is one of becoming dispirit­
ed. Fear is associated with worry and anxiety and has 
to do with the future, which leads to the process of 453 DEATH AND DYING 
deflation. Generally, when people think of death, they 
think of grief and fear. They may even move to a high­
er state calledAnger because they are angry and resent­
ful about the whole experience and then include griev­
ances about it. As we move upwards, we come to the level called 
Pride, which calibrates at 175. Pride feels a lot better 
than the lower states, but unfortunately, denial accom­
panies pride.We have to learn how to overcome some 
of this denial. It arises out of fear, and once fear is 
understood, denial drops away and one can then move 
up to the level of Courage, which has a lot more power 
at 200. The energy field of Courage represents the emo­
tional capacity to face, cope, and handle life's events, 
because telling the truth about a thing empowers a 
person. A continuing positive attitude can then move 
us up to the state ofWillingness at 310, where we say, 
"I want to know the truth about the matter for its own 
sake. "The energy field then becomes powerful because 
now intention is put into it to know more about a goal 
and the capacity to accept the prevailing conditions 
around it. Below consciousness level 200, power is given 
away, resulting in doubt and lack of confidence. The 
willingness to look into a matter then results in an 
open mind that moves us up to level 350, called 
Acceptance, which is an important capacity for han­
dling the prospect of mortality. At this level we re-own 
our power and begin to feel adequate and confident. It 
is the beginning of transformation in consciousness. There is the awareness that "I, myself, am the source of 454 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
my own happiness, and I have the capacity to find out 
the truth for myself:' Eventually, we can move up to the 
energy field ofLove at 500, where there is the capacity 
for and dedication to nurturing and supporting life, and 
the willingness to be forgiving. With that comes a reve­
lation about an energy field called JoY that calibrates at 
540 and is associated with healing and gratitude. Joy 
brings an inner serenity and is characterized by com­
passion, which is the ability to see into the hearts of 
others. There is also the willingness to be lOVing and 
nonjudgmental of life in allits expressions. Transformation is then quiet, and we move up to 
the state called Peace at 600, or the peace of God.The 
feeling associated with that is eventually bliss and then 
progressive states of illumination. We may feel as 
though we are encompassed within a light. As we go 
into an ineffable state, it is so exquisite that it is difficult 
to describe. The importance of the body disappears, 
and it becomes irrelevant. It is forgotten because the 
body is associated with identification with a personal, 
separate, limited self. At the more enlightened states, 
there is an exquisite expansion of consciousness and a 
loss of identification with the body and the personal 
self. At the energy fields above the 600s are the states 
of feeling completeness, wholeness, and oneness with 
all of life, and a oneness with God. Humility results in an open mind. An open mind 
says for the fITst time, "What is truth? Please, Lord, let 
me open my mind to know within my own conscious­
ness what is the truth for my own self:' 
Our expectations of death reflect conceptions 
about the nature of Divinity.Thus, a person at the level 455 DEATH AND DYING 
of Neutral at 250 would see the world as okay. They 
would see all experience, including even death, as 
okay, and therefore see God as freedom. Lower levels 
lead to the fear of God, guilt, and expecting God to be 
the great avenger because ofthe prevalence ofjealousy 
and hate.The God of hatred is near the bottom of the 
chart and pictured as an entity that hates man and 
man's humanness, all of which is a paradox inasmuch 
as God created us. When we move up to the levels of truth, we expe­
rience life, the world, and all the experiences in the 
world, including death, and expect them to be positive 
ones. God now becomes promising and hopeful. We 
can then look forward to death as some kind of great 
release into a much larger expansion in consciousness 
and awareness called Heaven. (The actual reality 
revealed by consciousness research is that there .are 
.multiple regions of Heaven.) As we move beyond the level of acceptance, 
which we do by owning back our own power to 
know, we move into a loving state that is forgiving 
and understanding, with the beginning of revelations 
and the experience of all life as loving. We begin to 
see that love is present everywhere. Therefore, we 
move on up to a God who is merciful and represents 
unconditional love.The realization that lovingness is 
a basic reality leads to an inner state of joy. Out ofthat 
comes compassion, the transfiguration of conscious­
ness that reveals the perfection of all creation. There 
is the realization of the oneness of all life that results 
in the state of bliss.There are also states of enlight­
enment and illumination in which one becomes 456 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
conscious and aware of unity and oneness. At level 600, we move out of the energy fields of 
ordinary consciousness and into those that are called 
nonlinear. In the mid-600s are the more advanced 
states of awareness and consciousness called 'enlight­
ened' and 'illumined'. As the foregoing may sound philosophical or the­
oretical, I am going to share things I have learned clin­
ically through many years of experience plus_events 
that I have personally experienced.As a result, we will 
have a more practical field of reference about what 
the death experience really entails. I will be going 
back to childhood experiences to relate some things 
that happened to me and how they correlated with 
other things that happened later. When I was about twelve years old, I was a paper­
boy in northern Wisconsin. One night, it was below 
zero, and I felt like I was practically freeZing to death. I 
dug a hole in the side ofa huge snow bank and crawled 
inside the cubbyhole that I had made. The snow was 
piled about twenty feet high on the side of the high­
way, and I crawled into this refuge and curled up in 
order to just get out of the fierce and relentless wind. Within a few seconds, I began to experience a state of 
relaxation, and a state of profound warmth began to 
come over the body. It was a state ofexquisite pleasure, 
and I began to forget about the body.The body just did 
not seem to exist anymore, and instead, an incredible, 
blissful state of peace overcame me. I was surrounded 
by light, but the light had the quality of touching me 
and being with me as an infinitely loving consciousness 
that was enveloping and dissolving. I just dissolved and 457 DEATH AND DYING 
became at one with this infmite field because it had no 
beginning and no end; it had no dimensions and was 
outside of time. The state of the true Self experientially lasted for 
eons of timelessness. The experience was total, and at 
every instant, it was all encompassing, timeless, 
serene, and complete. There was nothing missing, 
nothing lacking, and nothing further to be accom­
plished. It was a state of profound Love, Peace, and 
completeness that is beyond description. At flfst, there was an inner feeling of relief, followed 
by a quiet joy and ecstasy, and then it went beyond 
ecstasy. It went beyond bliss and became an eternal, 
infinite state, far beyond ordinary consciousness. Curiously, the Self is more truly personal than the ego 
self. Sometime later, my father discovered where I was 
and shook me. He had a very upset, anxious look on his 
face and said, "Don't ever do that again! Don't you 
know you could freeze to death?" I had no context within which to hold this expe­
rience or even know what to call it. It was a very 
profound experience, and 'in the mind of adoles­
cence, there was really nothing that could be said 
about it. I could not mention anything about it to my 
father because he would not have had any way in 
which to hold it.Additionally, hewas frightened atthe 
time, so neither of us knew what the experience 
meant or signified. No books on the 'near-death experience' were gen­
erally available at the time. The movie Resurrection 
only came out in the last decade. (By the way, that 
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that kind of experience verify the truth of what the 
woman in the movie experienced. She was killed in an 
automobile accident. It is the true story of a person 
who was declared dead on the operating table. She left 
the body and experienced that same incredible, infmite 
state as I have just described it. My father and I had no context within which to 
hold this experience or to understand it, and although 
I mentioned it briefly to him, he did not know what to 
make of it either. Besides, he was too frightened at the 
time so the experience was never mentioned again. I 
did not understand it until I was much older. Later, when I was in my thirties, I was dying of a 
very serious and progressive ailment.As I lay in bed in 
a very moribund condition and grave state, suddenly, 
much to my surprise, 'I' was about ten feet over the 
physical body.There I was, in space, in a perfect body 
that was transparent and ethereal. It was weightless, 
yet I had all my faculties. I could think, reason, see, and 
hear. I looked down at the physical body that was 
lying in the bed about eight to ten feet below me, and 
it looked like it was.about to expire.There I was, out­
side the physical body, looking down at it, aware that 
that which I really am is something other than the 
physical body. (At that time, I had never heard of an 
out-of-body experience.) During this very critical illness, I found myself totally 
out of the body, but it was not time for me to leave, so 
at a later point, I had to go back into the body. I recov­
ered from that particular episode ofthe illness and con­
tinued to live, but later I relapsed, and the illness got 
worse again. This time, it was grave indeed, and I was 459 DEATH AND DYING 
really right at the very door of death itself. I was in a 
state of deep despair, a state of hell, a state of absolute 
and total helplessness and hopelessness, and only a 
couple of seconds a'Yay from leaving the body again. At the time, I had been an agnostic for twenty 
years. Despite havirlg had these incredible experi­
ences of being something other than th~ body, I still 
did not have a context within which to hold it. I was 
still an agnostic, and I was dying. Suddenly I said, "If 
there is a God, I ask him to help me," and then I went 
into oblivion. When I regained awareness, there had been a 
major, total transformation. There was no longer any 
identification with a personal physical body. It walked 
around and did all the things it was supposed to, but 
I stood in an energy field that was infinite.The power 
and dimension of the field were beyond description. It held me in absolute safety; I was like a rock. At the 
same time, it was exqUisitely soft and gentle. Its exqui­
site gentleness and softness held me in its inImite, lov­
ing embrace. The body moved spontaneously as there 
was no personal will, mind, or entity such as a person­
al self. I walked around in that state for some months 
and still did not really have a context within which to 
hold it. It was not mentioned to anyone as there was 
nothing I could say about it. It was like going from an 
absolute blackness, feeling totally cut off from God, 
into a state in which what had stood between me and 
God had been removed, and I was now standing in 
that Infinite Presence. It is only in recent decades that near-death experi­
ences have become more commonly known. Classic 460 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
stories written in Victorian times were known only by 
a very limited number of people, but now there are 
many books about the subject. Surveys have shown 
that approximately sixty-five percent of the population 
has memory of near-death or out-of-body experiences. Later on, I found out this was a technique that we 
could learn to do at will. I learned that there are all 
kinds of people who leave the body spontaneously or 
at will. Some people are born with this gift while others 
can sit down to meditate and immediately have this 
experience. As a clinician and scientist, I became interested in 
this phenomenon and discovered a scientifically 
oriented organization where this was being studied. I 
readJourneys out ofthe Body by Robert Monroe and 
then visited the Monroe Institute where I participated 
in a ten-day training. They have audio tapes with a 
frequency that entrains the brain to reach a certain 
altered state of consciousness in which one can leave 
the body at will. I also learned that people who were 
not born with the capacity to reach this state or who 
do not develop it spontaneously could learn to do it. The purpose of that was to learn that we are some­
thing other than the body, that we are greater than the 
physical body, and that the physical body belongs to us 
but we are not limited to it. The best-known writings on the subject of death 
and dying are those of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (On 
Death and Dying), which really opened up the subject 
for the first time for discussion and familiarity with 
what had previously been a taboo subject. The stages 
she outlined are now relatively well known. 461 DEATH AND DYING 
There is, of course, a prevalence of denial as an ini­
tial way of handling the shock, and physical death is a 
primary biological fear common to sentient beings in 
general who, over the millennia, have devised innumer­
able ways to avoid death and stay alive as an individual. Survival techniques evolved as a function of biolog­
ical intelligence expressed as learning and memory. While lesser forms of life are subject to biological pro­
toplasmic death, only humankind can consciously 
anticipate it with foreknowledge. Denial is one of the 
basic mechanisms of the ego to protect itself from fear. With surrender of denial, the fear arises of ceasing to 
exist for the ego lacks spiritual awareness due to its 
identification with the body. The stage of'bargaining' is then an attempt by the 
ego/mind to seek to delay the inevitable, and God is 
then recognized and entreated to intervene on the 
ego's behalf. Anger also erupts at the loss of control 
and the confrontation to the ego's narcissistic core 
that its infantile will is up against an insurmountable 
obstacle and cannot have its own way. It does not 
seem fair that its wishes are being frustrated and 
denied.This brings up grief and mourning over loss of 
the previously anticipated future of endless ongoing 
individual existence. The basis of all the foregoing reactions is the 
identification of self and its existence with the 
physical body as the source of eXistence. Thus, it is 
the meaning of the body that brings up the resist­
ance to the prospect of its demise. The prospect of 
physical death brings up the fear of oblivion, cessa­
tion of consciousness and awareness, and its singular 462 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
characteristic of experiencing. The processing of the physical stages is greatly 
facilitated by spiritual alignment and awareness, 
which progressively becomes the focus of attention, 
along with one's relationship with God. Hope and faith 
plus surrender facilitate the strong emergence of pro­
gressive reliance on spiritual teachings and allow for a 
transformation of consciousness to the higher levels, 
which brings peace. Acceptance is facilitated by the 
realization that the death process is universal and 
applies to all liVing beings now and for aU past time. Thus, there is the relief of sharing the common experi­
ence of all who are still alive or who have ever lived. This facilitates a certain trust in the process itself by 
virtue of its universality. Processing the pain of loss reqUires relinqUish­
ment of the many attachments that the ego has found 
dUring a lifetime, especially to loved ones.This is facil­
itated by the realization that in time, they, too, will 
face the death process and thus share the same des­
tiny. Love then becomes the means to transcend the 
ego's limited view of reality and identification with 
the ever-evolving Reality ofDivinity as Love itself. The 
more we love others, the less the feeling of loss, for 
love is realized to be the sole value of others.The self 
separates, whereas the Self unites'. Thus death is a 
fulcrum to illumination. The greater the amount of spiritual work one has 
done during their lifetime, the less there is left to do at 
the prospect of death. A very evolved person is com­
fortable with the prospect of leaving the body at any­
time. One way to accelerate spiritual progress is to 463 DEATH AND DYING 
entertain the prospect of one's eventual death and 
process all the attachments and illusions that come up 
about that eventuality. Paradoxically, the exercise greatly 
reduces one's fears of life. At one time in my life, I was studying alternate 
methods of consciousness-research techniques, includ­
ing a breathing method. In this experience, gently and 
softly, there was spontaneously the same experience of 
suddenly leaVing the body and no longer experiencing 
it. Repeatedly I would go back into the experience I 
had in the snow bank when I was twelve years old.The 
re-experiencing, the forgetting about the body-as one 
leaves it, one forgets everything that went on with it 
within a couple of seconds, so there is no memory of 
what happened in that lifetime or even of one's name. All of that becomes irrelevant and has no bearing, sig­
nificance, or reality. Instead, one begins to experience 
that which one really is, along with that same experi­
ence of incredible peace and lovingness outside of 
time and space. There is just pure awareness. One is 
exquisitely aware of the existence of existence as an 
infmite being. Returning to the Map of Consciousness, at the bot­
tom of the scale there is great concern with having­
ness, and status is based on what we own.As we move 
up into the more powerful levels of courage, capacity, 
and capability, there is great concern with what we do. As we move toward the top of the scale, there is only 
the awareness and value of that which we have 
become and are. Nobody cares any longer about what 
we have or do. I discovered that when we leave the 
body, we take with us what we are. What we experi­464 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
ence is that which we have been willing to know and 
own about ourself.The truth about ourself, that which 
we are, is what we experience, and all that we had is 
forgotten. There is no memory of money, possessions, 
or power; all that we did is forgotten. In this state, if a 
person were asked what they did when they thought 
they were a body and moved around in the world, 
there would be no recall as to what that was, but that 
which they are is overwhelming. Another interesting personal experience occurred 
later in life. My mother and I were not very close 
because she lived in Florida, and I lived in New York 
and was not able to visit her very often. One day while 
out in the woods in NewYork, suddenly I had an intu­
itive knowing that I should go down to Florida. 'Out of 
theblue',so to speak,Isuddenly knewthatmymother 
was dying. It was like a call to "come down here like 
right away." I went back to the house and made a plane 
reservation on the flfst flight I could get for the next 
morning. After making the reservation, I called her 
house and was told that she was in the hospital. I knew 
she was dying. When I got to the hospital, I had a tremendous feel­
ing of relief for my mother. I suddenly felt a great 
release of tension.When I walked into her room, it was 
crowded with hospital personnel. I was a 'big-name. specialist' from New York, and this little hospital was 
going to make sure that nothing went wrong, that 
everything was covered, so practically the whole staff 
was there.And there was my mother, with her oxygen 
tank and all kinds of tubes sticking in her all over, along 
with all kinds of meters and electronic things to make 465 DEATH AND DYING 
her heart go.All of a sudden, just as I entered the room, 
at that moment I knew she had just left the body, and I 
experienced her absolute ecstasy as she left. She was 
so glad to get out. It was like an infmite state of joy and 
ecstasy, and I was psychically at one with her in the 
experience- I felt exactly what she was feeling. She 
had waited to leave the body until I got there, and both 
of our wills joined to know the experience. She had 
wanted me to experience the experience with her, and 
so I experienced that ever-expanding, infmite, absolute 
state of ecstasy as she went into that state. Nobody was 
ever happier to get out of that body than my mother. For years she had been hoping to get out, and when 
she did, she was very, very happy. Ofcourse, the hospital personnel did not know she 
had died yet, so sort oftelepathically, I sent the thought 
to the cardiologist that "She's dead; you can tum the 
machine off." He suddenly got the idea and said, "Thrn 
off the machine." The machine that was creating the 
heartbeat was turned offand the doctor put the stetho­
scope to her chest and said,"She's dead. Oh. "Then the 
hospital staff looked at me as though they expected me 
to go into a state of unhappiness or something, and I 
did not. I was in a state of ecstasy, in the same state my 
mother was; I was with her. What was there to grieve 
about? My mother was never happier in her life.There 
was, however, a nurses' assistant, an LPN, who also 'got 
it'. She looked at me, broke into a big grin, and said, 
"Boy, was she ever happy," and I said, "You got it! She 
sure was! "The two of us grinned at each other, know­
ing exactly what was going on, but nobody else really 
understood. They probably thought I did not love my 466 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
mother and was glad to see her go, or I was going to 
inherit a lot of money or something. Only God knows 
what their minds thought about it, but the LPN and I 
knew what was happening, which took us into the 
state of joy. My own experiences, memories, and recalls of leav­
ing the body behind were of two different kinds-the 
one of infinite lovingness that I had experienced many 
times, and then those experiences of going out of the 
body and experiencing nothing. Either way, we do not 
experience our physical death, but in the 'nothing' 
experience, the recall would be back in another body. In this lifetime, at age three, out of oblivion, I was 
suddenly aware of the body. I can look back at early 
childhood and remember that moment where there 
was the realization that "I am. I exist." Earlier we said that what we hold in mind deter­
mines what we experience in the world, and that is 
what our experience of God is. Many people hold in 
mind the idea that after death, we go out of the body 
into oblivion, but I had the experience of the Inftnite 
Presence-an infinite, almost angelic experience. As I 
was looking at that one day, there came the return of 
memories of being 'on the other side' with those who 
were dying. It came back flrst as an experience on a 
battlefleld, and I remembered being with dying people, 
looking at their agony, fear, and physical pain. Suddenly, 
there was this infinite lovingness and infinite state of 
being with the person who waS dying. Before my very 
eyes, they would become transformed. They would 
leave the physical body behind, and all the wounds 
would heal. Itwas my love united with the love ofGod, 467 DEATH AND DYING 
as though I turned the heart over to God, and now the 
energy field of angelic beings who are absolute love 
poured through, but my consciousness was there with 
this dying person. The exquisite love of that energy 
would then heal all the wounds and the fear. I would 
see the fear, and the person's eyes would open again. They would look at me, and I could see they were just 
melting with the experience. All the terror, fear, guilt, 
and feeling of being separated dissolved, and they 
would look at me with recognition. Then I saw that 
they would see that which was significant or divine to 
them, and that I, myself, was formless. The same experi­
ence has also happened in this lifetime. When we go into higher states of consciousness 
where we are no longer the physical body, we see that 
people see what they are projecting there. The dying 
person would open their eyes and see us as that which 
would be most significant to them, as we are without 
any form. Sometimes we are seen as the mother, lover, 
or a crowd of people with whom the person was dearly 
in love. Sometimes they would see a divine figure, but 
this was happening within the phenomenon of mind 
itself; it was all the phenomenon of mind. The person 
was experiencing what was most healing to them. We have come upon a way of overcoming the fear 
of death. It is the willingness to be that to ourself and 
to others who are dying.The way to overcome our own 
fear of death is to picture ourself as being on the other 
side, like a first-aid receiving station. We open our 
hearts and ask to be connected with the angelic forces 
and to become one with them. Now we picture our­
selves going to those who are dying. We do it now 468 HEALING AND RECOVERY --------'--------=--~'-------
while we are still in our own physical body, and we 
send forth that energy of compassion. Consciousness itselfis not limited by bodies. Bodies 
have to do with the ego and its limited viewpoint. We 
send forth the energy field of compassion and picture 
ourselves in our imagination. We can begin it now in 
our imagination with any person because, in the world 
at any hour, there are over six billion people on the 
planet. Thousands and thousands of them are dying 
every hour.We select somebody that we feel we could 
be most loving toward-a child in a crib, a teenager 
just hit by a car, somebody on a battlefield who is rid­
dled with bullets, a mother in childbirth, or a person 
committing suicide. Then we picture the person for 
whom we have the most compassion, send ourself 
forth in our imagination to that person, and see ourself 
as infinitely loving. In a way, we are now more alone 
and yet more not alone than ever before because we 
can fully express all the tenderness and love that we 
have suppressed dUring our whole lifetime. Now is our 
chance to send it forth and be with that person. We think of the agony and fear of so many people. Then we go to them and begin to heal them by pic­
turing ourself holding them in our arms, pouring 
forth the love through our heart. It really comes from 
a high being and radiates out though the heart, suffus­
ing that person with it, and then we begin to see their 
fear melt away. As many people die, whatever their 
apprehension was before, we will notice that they go 
into profound states of serenity as though that com­
passion coming from the great beings of the world 
reaches forth to them at their moment of greatest 469 DEATH AND DYING 
need. When the person says, "0 God, help me," 
because this is a universe of free will, they then open 
the door to this compassion that is being radiated 
forth by others and now by us. We are now by their 
side, and in every way possible, we nurture and heal 
them.We reach out to them and then lift them out of 
their body. They are safe; they are home; they are 
cared for; they are greatly loved by God.They begin to 
get the inner experience of the truth.We put our per­
sonal self aside because it is not needed here.There is 
no need for the personality, with its likes and dislikes, 
its aversions and attractions. Just be that energy that 
flows through the heart. Through our willingness, that healing energy flows 
through us and into the being of the other person, and 
we see the transformation before our very eyes; we lit­
erally see it. We see the fear leave their eyes and the 
painful tension leave their body. We begin to experi­
ence that the pain is leaving their body, and they go 
into that same state of infInite peace, surrounded by 
the energy of life and love.They are feeling complete, 
total, and healed. There is no more fear, separation, 
guilt,or anxiety.The two ofus are lifted right out ofthe 
body together. I myself had a similar experience sometime back 
when I inadvertently sawed off my thumb with a circu­
lar saw.At flfst there was shock, but then in that shock, 
there was suddenly a sound like a chorus in my mind. It was as though I was surrounded by angelic forces 
that kept chanting to me as though I had forgotten it, 
"You are not a body; you are totally free.You are not a 
body; you are totally free. "This chant continued all the HEALING AND RECOVERY 470 
way to the hospital. At the hospital, I had to have an amputation opera­
tion. I cannot take any kind of anesthetic or analgesic, 
so the surgery had to be performed without either of 
them. The surgeon was a little apprehensive about it, 
but I told him,"Well, I know a way of handling this.You 
just go right ahead." So I laid back and began to pro­
foundly surrender and did not resist the pain or label it. The surrender was of the personal will. As I surren­
dered, I had that same profound experience-it was as 
though I was picked up by angelic forces and lifted out 
of the body so gently and softly that feathers would 
seem rough by comparison. Although the body was 
there, I no longer experienced it. Instead, I went into a 
state ofinftnite and profound peace beyond all descrip­
. tion; it was an inftnite inner joy and happiness that can­
not be described. I remember that, in my mind, I was 
looking at the thumb or representation of it on a differ­
ent plane and felt happy at its being removed because 
it symbolized something I wished to be rid of. What 
could have been an excruciatingly painful experience 
was instead ecstatic, and there was an exquisite know­
ingness· that was surrounded by inftnite peace. I was 
infinitely protected by the love ofthe universe, by God, 
and by the radiance of Divinity. When we look at the dying experience, we see that 
it is a surrendering and letting go. It is a willingness to 
open our heart to be love to others. Ifwe are contem­
plating dying, and if we are doing the things I have 
talked about, in the morning when we get up, we say 
to God, "To those who are dying, I send my conscious­
ness, I send my love and my willingness to be one with 471 DEATH AND DYING 
them." It is like the forces of the universe then use the 
power of our consciousness and literally carries it to 
the person.At ftrst it will seem like our imagination. It 
will seem like something that we are doing, but after 
we do this a few times, we will suddenly realize that we 
are not doing this any more, and that instead, we are 
sayipg yes to its being done through us. Because it is 
being done through us, we go into a state of high joy 
and ecstasy. The fact that our physical body is leaving is no 
longer important. I have been in those states where I 
literally felt the Divine energy coming through me, 
flowing from the heart area, and going to people who 
were in an automobile accident. I felt this profound 
energy go through me and out through the heart.This 
profound sense of loving power bypassed the person­
al self and went down the highway about a mile or so. As I drove around the bend in the highway, I wondered 
where this energy was going, and I saw a car upside 
down. It had just crashed and its wheels were still spin­
ning. People inside the car were severely injured, and I 
heard them crying out to God. It was as though I were 
a traveling antenna and God used me as an antenna 
tower to radiate this energy. Curiously, that same day, about five miles farther 
down the highway, it began again; the same powerful 
energy flowed out through me. The energy sponta­
neously radiated down the road ahead, and when I 
drove around the bend, there was a second accident; 
another car had just turned over.This time a squad car 
was there, and as I went past, this energy kept flowing 
backwards to the accident site and continued doing so 472 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
for several miles. Then it slowly came to a stop as 
though the person had connected with a more infmite 
energy field.This has happened over and over again in 
different locations and circumstances. During those experiences, I forgot I had a body; 
whether ~t was living or dying was so irrelevant 
because the joy of the experience was overwhelming. There is a willingness to be a servant of God, to forget 
about the personal self, and instead to allow one's 
consciousness and energy to be used by angelic 
forces. Our Infinite Self is everything. It is connected 
with the angelic realms. When we own that angelic 
condition within us, and own that we individually 
have the capacity to join it by our willingness to say 
yes, to allow ourselves to surrender to that energy, to 
go to the dead and the dying, we now see that there is 
no such thing as actual death or dying. That is why we talked about letting go of the body 
and saying farewell to it because life goes to life; life 
never stops. If it leaves our body, we barely notice it 
because we are so busy being with others that we 
scarcely notice that the physical body does not even 
exist anylonger.Beyondthe experience ofthe physical 
body are experiences that are difficult to describe, so 
we prepare ourselves for an experience of exquisite 
beauty and peace. Appendices 
A: Map of the Scale of Consciousness 475
 
B: How to Calibrate the Levels of Consciousness 477
 
C: References 489
 
D: About the Author 493
 
473 475 APPENDICES 
APPENDIX A 
MAP OF THE SCALE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 
God-view Self-view Level Log Emotion Process 
Self Is Enlightenment 700-1,000 Ineffable Pure 
Consciousness 
All-being Perfect Peace 600 Bliss illumination 
One Complete Joy 540 Serenity Transfiguration 
Loving Benign Love 500 Reverence Revelation 
Wise Meaningful Reason 400 Understanding Abstraction 
Merciful Harmonious Acceptance 350 Forgiveness Transcendence 
Inspiring . Hopeful Willingness 310 Optimism Intention 
Enabling Satisfactory Neutrality 250 Trust Release 
Permitting Feasible Courage 200 Affirmation Empowerment 
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LEVELS OF TRUTH
 
LEVELS OF FALSEHOOD
 
T 
Indifferent Demanding Pride 175 Scorn Inflation 
Vengeful Antagonistic Anger 150 Hate Aggression 
Denying Disappointing Desire 125 Craving Enslavement 
Punitive Frightening Fear 100 Anxiety Withdrawal 
Uncaring Tragic Grief 75 Regret Despondency 
Condemning Hopeless Apathy, hatred 50 Despair Abdication 
Vindictive Evil Guilt 30 Blame Destruction 
Despising Hateful Shame 20 Humiliation Elimination -------477 APPENDICES 
APPENDIX B
 
HOW TO CALIBRATE
 
THE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
General Information 
The energy field of consciousness is infmite in 
dimension. Specific levels correlate with human con­
sciousness and have been calibrated from' l' to '1,000'. (See Appendix A: Map of the Scale of Consciousness.) These energy fields reflect and dominate human con­
sciousness. Everything in the universe radiates a specific fre­
quency or minute energy field that remains ill the field 
of consciousness permanently. Thus, every person or 
being that ever lived and anything about them, includ­
ing any event, thought, deed, feeling, or attitude, is 
recorded forever and can be retrieved at any time in 
the present or the future. Technique 
The muscle-testing response is a simple "yes" or 
"not yes" (no) response to a specific stimulus. It is usu­
ally done by the subject holding out an extended arm 
and the tester pressing down on the wrist of the 
extended arm, using two fingers and light pressure. Usually the subject holds a substance to be tested 
over their solar plexus with the other hand. The 
tester says to the test subject, "Resist," and if the sub­
stance being tested is beneficial to the subject, the 
arm will be strong. If it is not beneficial or it has an 
adverse effect, the arm will go weak. The response is 
very quick and brief. 478 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
It is important to note that the intention, as 
well as both the tester and the one being tested, 
must calibrate over 200 in order to obtain accu­
rate responses. Experience from online discussion groups has 
shown that many students obtain inaccurate results. Further research shows that at calibration 200, there is 
still a thirty-percent chance of error. Additionally, less 
than twelve percent of the students have consistent 
accuracy, mainly due to unconsciously held positional­
ities Oeffery and Colyer, 2007).The higher the levels of 
consciousness of the test team, the more accurate are 
the results. The best attitude is one of clinical detach­
ment, posing a statement with the preftx statement, "In 
the name ofthe highest good, __ calibrates as true. Over 100. Over 200;' etc.The contextualization "in the 
highest good" increases accuracy because it transcends 
self-serving personal interest and motives. For many years, the test was thought to be a local 
response of the body's acupuncture or immune sys­
tem. Later research, however, has revealed that the 
response is not a local response to the body at all, but 
instead is a general response of consciousness itself to 
the energy of a substance or a statement. That which is 
true, beneftcial, or pro-life gives a positive response 
that stems from the impersonal fteld of consciousness, 
which is present in everyone liVing. This positive 
response is indicated by the body's musculature going 
strong. There is also an associated pupillary response 
(the eyes dilate with falsity and constrict to truth) as 
well as alterations in brain function as revealed by mag­
netic imaging. (For convenience, the deltoid muscle is 479 HOW TO CALIBRATE 
usually the one best used as an indicator muscle; how­
ever, any of the muscles of the body can be used.) Before a question (in the form of a statement) 
is presented, it is necessary to qualifY 'permis­
sion'; that is, state, "I have permission to ask about 
what I am holding in mind:' (YeslNo) Or,"This calibra­
tion serves the highest good:' 
Ifa statement is false or a substance is injurious, the 
muscles go weak: quickly in response to the command, 
"Resist. "This indicates the stimulus is negative, untrue, 
anti-life, or the answer is "no:'The response is fast and 
brief in duration. The body will then rapidly recover 
and return to normal muscle tension. There are three ways of doing the testing. The one 
that is used in research and also most generally used 
requires two people: the tester and the test subject. A 
quiet setting is preferred, with no background music. The test subject closes their eyes. The tester must 
phrase the 'question' to be asked in the form of a 
statement. The statement can then be answered as 
"yes" or "no" by the muscle response. For instance, the 
incorrect form would be to ask, "Is this a healthy 
horse?" The correct form is to make the statement, 
"This horse is healthy;' or its corollary, "This horse is 
sick." After making the statement, the tester says "Resist" 
to the test subject who is holding the extended arm 
parallel to the ground.The tester presses down sharply 
with two fingers on the wrist ofthe extended arm with 
mild force. The test subject's arm will either stay 
strong, indicating a "yes;' or go weak, indicating a "not 
yes" (no).The response is short and immediate. 480 HEALING AND RECOVERY -----~ 
A second method is the 'a-ring' method, which can 
be done alone. The thumb and middle finger of the 
same hand are held tightly in an '0' conftguration, and 
the hooked forefinger of the opposite hand is used to 
try to pull them apart.There is a noticeable difference 
in the strength between a "yes" and a "no" response 
(Rose,2001). The third method is the simplest, yet, like the oth­
ers, requires some practice. Simply lift a heavy object, 
such as a large dictionary or merely a couple of 
bricks, from a table about waist high. Hold in mind an 
image or true statement to be calibrated and then lift. Then, for contrast, hold in mind that which is known 
to be false. Note the ease of lifting when truth is held 
in mind and the greater effort necessary to lift the 
load when the issue is false (not true).The results can 
be verified using the other two methods. Calibration of Specific Levels 
The critical point between positive and negative, 
between true and false, or between that which is con­
structive or destructive, is at the calibrated level of 200 
(see Map in Appendix A).Anything above 200, or true, 
makes the subject go strong; anything below 200, or 
false, allows the arm to go weak. Anything past or present, including images or state­
ments, historical events, or personages, can be tested. They need not be verbalized. Numerical Calibration 
Example: "Ramana Maharshi teachings calibrate 
over 700." (YIN). Or, "Hitler calibrated over 200." (YIN) 481 , 
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! HOW TO CALIBR,ATE 
"When he was in his 20s." (YIN) "His 30s." (YIN) "His 
40s:' (YIN) "At the time of his death." (YIN) 
Applications 
The muscle test cannot be used to foretell the future; 
otherwise, there are no limits as to what can be asked. Consciousness has no limits in time or space; however, 
permission may be denied. All current or historical 
events are available for questioning. The answers are 
impersonal and do not depend on the belief systems of 
either the tester or the test subject. For example, proto­
plasm recoils from noxious stimuli and flesh bleeds. Those are the qualities of these test materials and are 
impersonal. Consciousness actually knows only truth 
because only truth has actual existence. It does not 
respond to falsehood because falsehood does not have 
existence in Reality. It will also not respond accurately to 
nonintegrous or egoistical questions. Accurately speaking, the test response is either an 
'on'response or merely a 'not on' response. Like the 
electrical switch, we say the electricity is "on;' and 
when we use the term "off;' we just mean that it is not 
there. In reality, there is no such thing as 'off-ness'. This 
is a subtle statement but crucial to the understanding 
of the nature of.consciousness. Consciousness is capa­
ble ofrecognizing onlyTruth. It merely fails to respond 
to falsehood. Similarly, a mirror reflects an image only if 
there is an object to reflect. If no object is present to 
the mirror, there is no reflected image. To Calibrate A Level 
Calibrated levels are relative to a specific reference 482 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
scale. To arrive at the same figures as in the chart in 
Appendix A, reference must be made to that table or by 
a statement such as, "On a scale of human conscious­
ness from 1 to 1,000, where 600 indicates 
Enlightenment, this __ calibrates over __ (a 
number)." Or, "On a scale of consciousness where 200 
is the level ofTruth and 500 is the level of Love, this 
statement calibrates over__." (State a specific num­
ber.) General Information 
People generally want to determine truth from 
falsehood. Therefore, the statement has to be made 
very specifically. Avoid using general terms such as a 
'good' job to apply for. 'Good' in what way? Pay scale? Working conditions? Promotional opportunities? Fairness of the boss? Expertise 
Familiarity with the test brings progressive exper­
tise. The 'right' questions to ask begin to spring forth 
and can become almost uncannily accurate.Ifthe same 
tester and test subject work together for a period of 
time, one or both of them will develop what can 
become an amazing accuracy and capability of pin­
pointing just what specific questions to ask, even 
though the subject is totally unknown by either one. For instance, the tester has lost an object and begins by 
saying, "{ left it in my office." (Answer: No.) "{ left it in 
the car." (Answer: No.) All of a sudden, the test subject 
almost 'sees' the object and says, "Ask, 'On the back of 
the bathroom door. '''The test subject says, "The object 483 HOW TO CALIBRATE 
is hanging on the back of the bathroom door." (Answer: 
Yes.) In this actual case, the test subject did not even 
know that the tester had stopped for gas and left a 
jacket in the restroom of a gasoline station. Any information can be obtained about anything 
anywhere in current or past time or space, depending 
on receiving prior permission. (Sometimes one gets a 
"no," perhaps for karmic or other unknown reasons.) By cross-ehecking, accuracy can be easily confirmed. For anyone who learns the technique, more informa­
tion is available instantaneously than can be held in all 
the computers and libraries of the world. The possibil­
ities are therefore obviously unlimited, and the 
prospects breathtaking. Limitations 
The test is accurate only if the test subjects them­
selves calibrate over 200 and the intention for the use 
ofthe testis integrous and also calibrates over 200.The 
requirement is one of detached objectivity and align­
ment with truth rather than subjective opinion. Thus, 
to try to 'prove a point' negates accuracy. Sometimes 
married couples, for reasons as yet undiscovered, are 
unable to use each other as test subjects and may have 
to find a third person to be a test partner. A suitable test subject is a person whose arm goes 
strong when a love object or person is held in mind, 
and it goes weak if that which is negative (fear, hate, 
guilt, etc.) is held in mind (e.g., Winston Churchill 
makes one go strong, and bin Laden makes one go 
weak). Occasionally, a suitable test subject gives paradoxical 484 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
responses. This can usually be cleared by doing the 
'thymic thump'. (With a closed fist, thump three times 
over the upper breastbone,· smile, and say "ha-ha-ha" 
with each thump and mentally picture someone or 
something that is loved.) The temporary imbalance will 
then clear up. The imbalance may be the result of recently having 
been with negative people, listening to heavy-metal 
rock music, watching violent television programs, play­
ing violent video games, etc. Negative music energy has 
a deleterious effect on the energy system of the body 
for up to one-half hour after it is turned off.Television 
commercials or background are also a common source 
of negative energy. As previously noted, this method of discerning 
truth from falsehood and the calibrated levels of truth 
has strict requirements. Because of the limitations, cali­
brated levels are supplied for ready reference in prior 
books, and extensively in Truth vs. Falsehood. Explanation 
The muscle-strength test is independent of personal 
opinion or beliefs and is an impersonal response ofthe
 
. field of consciousness, just as protoplasm is impersonal
 
in its responses.This can be demonstrated by the obser­
vation that the test responses are the same whether
 
verbalized or held silently in mind. Thus, the test sub­
ject is not influenced by the question as they do not
 
even know what it is. To demonstrate this, do the fol­
lowing exercise: 
The tester holds in mind an image unknown to the 
test subject and states, "The image I am holding in mind ________ H_OW TO CA =-L.=..I-=--B-=--R:-Ae-T_E _ 485 
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is positive" (or "true," or "calibrates over 200;' etc.). Upon direction, the test subject then resists the down­
ward pressure on the wrist. If the tester holds a posi­
tive image in mind (e.g., Abraham lincoln, Jesus, 
MotherTeresa, etc. ), the test subject's arm muscle will 
go strong. Ifthe tester holds a false statement or nega­
tive image in mind (e.g., bin Laden, Hitler, etc. ), the arm 
will go weak. Inasmuch as the test subject does not 
know what the tester has in mind, the results are not 
influenced by personal beliefs. Disqualification 
Both skepticism (cal. 160) and cynicism, as well as 
atheism, calibrate below 200 because they reflect neg­
ative prejudgment. In contrast, true inquiry requires an 
open mind and honesty devoid of intellectual vanity. Negative studies of the testing methodology all cali­
brate below 200 (usually at 160), as do the investigators 
themselves. That even famous professors can and do calibrate 
below 200 may seem surprising to the average person. Thus, negative studies are a consequence of negative 
bias.As an example, Francis Crick's research design that 
led to the discovery ofthe double helix pattern ofDNA 
calibrated at 440. His last research design, which was 
intended to prove that consciousness was just a prod­
uct ofneuronal activity, calibrated at only 135. (He was 
an atheist.) The failure of investigators who themselves, or by 
faulty research design,calibrate below 200 (all calibrate 
at approximately 160), confirms the truth of the very 
methodology they claim to disprove. They 'should' get 486 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
negative results, and so they do, which paradoxically 
proves the accuracy of the test to detect the difference 
between unbiased integrity and nonintegrity. Any new discovery may upset the apple cart and be 
viewed as a threat to the status quo of prevailing belief 
systems.That consciousness research validates spiritual 
Reality is, of course, going to precipitate resistance, as 
it is actually a direct confrontation to the dominion of 
the narcissistic core of the ego itself, which is innately 
presumptuous and opinionated. Below consciousness level 200, comprehension is 
limited by the dominance of Lower Mind, which is 
capable of recognizing facts but not yet able to grasp 
what is meant by the term 'truth' (it confuses res interna 
with res externa) , and that truth has physiological 
accompaniments that are different from falsehood. Additionally, truth is intuited as evidenced by the use of 
voice analysis, the study of body language, pupillary 
response, EEG changes in the brain, fluctuations in 
breathing and blood pressure, galvanic skin response, 
dowsing, and even the Huna technique of measuring 
the distance that the aura radiates from the body. Some 
people have a very simple technique that utilizes the 
standing body like a pendulum (fall forward with truth 
and backward with falsehood). From a more advanced contextualization, the prin­
ciples that prevail are that Truth cannot be disproved 
by falsehood any more than light can be disproved by 
darkness. The nonlinear is not subject to the limita­
tions of the linear. Truth is a paradigm different from 
logic and thus is not 'provable', as that which is prov­
able calibrates only in the 400s. Consciousness research 487 HOW TO CALIBRATE 
methodology operates at It';vel 600, which is at the 
interface of the linear and the nonlinear dimensions. Discrepancies 
Differing calibrations may be obtained over time or 
by different investigators for a variety of reasons: 
1. Situations, people, politics, policies, and attitudes 
change over time. 2. People tend to use different sensory modalities 
when they hold something in mind, i.e., visual, sen­
sory, auditory, or feeling. 'Your mother' could there­
fore be how she looked, felt, sounded, etc., or Henry 
Ford could be calibrated as a father, as an industrial­
ist, for his impact onAmerica, his anti-Semitism, etc. 3. Accuracy increases with the level ofconsciousness. (The 400s and above are the most accurate.) One can specify context and stick to a prevailing 
modality. The same team using the same technique 
will get results that are internally consistent. Expertise develops with practice. There are some 
people, however, who are incapable of a scientific, 
detached attitude and are unable to be objective, 
and for whom the testing method will therefore not 
be accurate. Dedication and intention to the truth 
has to be given priority over personal opinions and 
trying to prove them as being "right." Note 
While it was discovered that the technique does 
not work for people who calibrate at less than level 
200, only quite recently was it further discovered that 
the technique does not work if the persons doing the 488 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
testing are atheists. This may be simply the conse­
quence ofthe fact that atheism calibrates below level 
200, and that negation of the truth or Divinity (omni­
science) karmically disqualifies the negator just as hate 
negates love. Also recently discovered was that the capacity for 
accuracy of consciousness calibration testing increases 
the higher the level of consciousness of the testers. People in the range of the high 400s and above get the 
most reliably accurate test results Oeffrey and Colyer, 
2007). 489 REFEREN_C_E_S __ 
APPENDIX C 
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        CANCER 447 
When we look within, we can really see that any­
thing we have ever done in our lifetime was done out 
of innocence, and when our main intention is to 
understand that, it becomes healed out of compas­
sion. When we do this with other people and let go of 
the desire to be judgmental towards ourselves and 
others, then our own energy field begins to move in a 
positive direction. The cancer cannot grow in a positive 
energy field, only in a negative one. In looking at the Map of Consciousness, we can 
see that Love at level 500 is available to all ofus. There 
is a commitment to unconditional love. What is that 
kind of love. We are not talking about Hollywood­
style emotionalism, sentimentality, attachment, 
dependence, and mutual control back and forth. Instead, we are talking about an intention, best 
described as lovingness, to commit ourselves to nur­
ture and support all life, no matter what its expression. Life flows equally into the saint and the criminal 
alike. Life, truth, and that which is the God within 
make no judgment. Life flows equally into all. As it 
says in the scriptures, the rain falls equally on all. Moving out of judgmentalism is the lesson in that 
example. Life flows equally into all so we allow our 
unconditional love to support the truth of everyone, 
including ourselves. Our own capacity for self-healing 
depends on accepting that "With God's help, I have 
the power to make the decision to go through the 
necessary inner work to bring about a healing of this 
illness. " That is the difference between treating, cur­
ing, and healing. Treating is relieving a symptom, cur­
ing is overcoming the disease, but healing includes 448 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
the whole person. We set our intention on accomplishing peace of 
mind because that is the end result of healing. The 
end result is an inner tranquility, not an indifference 
to what happens to the body, but a transcendence of 
the body. No longer do we identify as that physicality. It belongs to us and is part of us, but it is within us 
because we realize that we are more than the physi­
cal body. The healing of cancer depends on realizing that 
we are the one who decides that we are greater than 
the physical body, and that it is within the power of 
consciousness to call forth the healer within and 
begin to utilize some of the consciousness techniques 
that have been presented. We can ask ourselves, "Can I allow myself to be 
healed. Is this healable. What within me needs to be 
healed. " It still does not tell us literally in our own 
particular case what needs to be healed. When I had severe diverticulitis that recurred for 
many years, I ended up in the hospital and had to 
have emergency blood transfusions. The last time I 
was there, I almost expired. I followed these general 
principles and it got better. It did not return for some 
years, but suddenly, something happened in my life 
and I had a recurrence. It was the worst attack of 
diverticulitis I had ever had. The pain was overwhelm­
ing; the cramping, bleeding, and all the other symp­
toms started all over again, this time with greater 
severity, and I asked, "What is the meaning of this. Why. " I began to question within, and as I did so, a 
technique came to me of going way, way back to dis­CANCER 
cover the exact, precise meaning that lay within this 
particular illness (suppressing negative feelings out of 
guilt about having them in one's 'gut'). For most of us, following the general laws of heal­
ing is sufficient to bring about recovery from an ill­
ness. For some of us, there is a very particular lesson 
or message that a given illness offers·. The illness will 
get better, but then something will linger on, or it may 
recur. The purpose ofthat is to bring about the aware­
ness that there is a specific hidden message that was 
missed, and there is more to learn, which is often the 
consequence of a karmic pattern. The message for all of us is that these major con­
frontations of life are something that can lead to 
major transformation and unseen spiritual benefit. The physical body is temporary, whereas the spirit is 
not subject to time. The acceptance of that reality 
then leads to further awareness, which is to transcend 
the concept of recovery as a gain. This initially seems 
paradoxical because the hope for recovery is often 
the initiator of the process of spiritual growth. When illness is the motivator for spiritual growth, 
it often starts out from the level of fear and includes 
anger and guilty regret. With surrender and accept­
ance, these begin to diminish, and spiritual growth is 
valued for its own sake. Eventually, with very deep 
surrender, there even comes a time when resisting the 
illness is also surrendered and recovery is up to God. This step may also bring to awareness the concepts 
and understanding of the nature of karma, which 
itself is a subtle study. What does the term 'karma' 
mean from a practical viewpoint. Is it just a theory, or 450 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
is it a verifiable reality. In its broadest generic sense, karma denotes one's 
total inheritance-physical, mental, and. spiritual. It 
signifies the contextual significance of inherited 
humanness itself, with its overall implications and 
genetic propensities. With consciousness research, it 
can be affirmed that life itself cannot be extinguished 
but only made to change from physical expressions to 
purely energy forms. (This statement calibrates at 
1,000. ) Thus, human life can be understood to be a 
valuable opportun~ty for transcending limitations via 
the classic undoing of negative karma and the advan­
tages ofacquiring positive karma. These are expressed 
as proclivities in that there is freedom of choice. With 
deep surrender of the personal will, there is eventually 
loss of the fear of physical death itself. If we give the cancer within us our blessing and 
say, "Thank you because you are giving me the power 
to transform my consciousness and expand my aware­
ness," then we will be very thankful in the end. Many 
people who have recovered from these illnesses look 
back and say, "How grateful I am for that illness arising 
in my life, for it was the springboard to spiritual awak­
ening. " A benefit of a life-threatening illness is that it 
breaks down the denial ofmortality that is necessary to 
initiate serious spiritual work in most people who are 
otherwise too busy with the affairs of daily life to 
embark upon an inner quest. CHAPTER 15 
Death and Dying 
Death and dying might be called saying farewell to the 
body. Hopefully, by the end of this chapter, it will be 
possible to view the process in a more lighthearted 
way than usual. I am going to share what I have learned 
from my clinical experience and research, along with 
personal experiences, in a way that has not really been 
shared previously with people. I am just going to share 
what I have experienced about death and dying and 
what has come to my own awareness. Lecture audiences have said it is not possible to do 
it that way because others are not that sophisticated 
and are not going to understand it. On the contrary, I 
have found that people who are involved in spiritual 
work understand it right away and do not have the 
slightest problem. In the process, we will refer to the Map of 
Consciousness because, in discussing death and dying, 
we will talk about consciousness and the two things 
that people really fear. One is the physical experience 
itself, and the other is what they fantasize to be a loss 
of awareness, consciousness, and the awareness ofexis­
tence. We will refer again to the levels of consciousness 
that are shown on the Map. The scale represents the 
human ego, or the self with a small's', which we com:­
monly refer to as'me' or'myself'. In the middle of the 
scale is the level called Courage. Below Courage, the 
arrows of all the feeling states are in a negative direc­
tion, which are calibrated as to their relative energy 
and power. For example,Apathy has much less energy 
451 452 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
than Fear, which is calibrated at 100. Guilt is at level 30; 
Apathy, or hopelessness, is at 50; Grief and regret are at 
75; Fear, in its forms of worry and anxiety, is at 100. Desire, with cravingness and wantingness, is at 125. Anger goes up to 150, and Pride goes up to 175. By virtue of telling the truth) in this case that life 
comes only from life (which is a very important state­
ment), we reach level 200, which discerns truth from 
falsehood. Most of the fears of death are the result of 
the failure to understand and know that life comes 
from life and is indestructible. Like matter or energy, it 
can only change the form of expression (calibrates as 
true). When we tell the truth, we see that the negative 
energy field begins to go upward in a positive direc­
tion. As we move towards the conscious awareness of 
the Source of life itself, we move into higher states of 
Love and Joy. Then we come up to a level at 600 where 
there is a transition into a different paradigm and the 
experience of existence in which one no longer iden­
tifies with a separate, individual, physical body. We 
begin to realize the truth ofwho we are. The expansion 
of consciousness goes beyond the individual small self. To the right of these levels of consciousness on the 
Map are the emotions that correspond with each level. At the bottom of the scale, shame and self-hatred 
accompany Guilt. The process going on in conscious­
ness is in a destructive direction. Apathy is associated 
with hopelessness and despair, and the process is the 
loss of energy. Grief is associated with regret, loss, and 
despondence. The process is one of becoming dispirit­
ed. Fear is associated with worry and anxiety and has 
to do with the future, which leads to the process of 453 DEATH AND DYING 
deflation. Generally, when people think of death, they 
think of grief and fear. They may even move to a high­
er state calledAnger because they are angry and resent­
ful about the whole experience and then include griev­
ances about it. As we move upwards, we come to the level called 
Pride, which calibrates at 175. Pride feels a lot better 
than the lower states, but unfortunately, denial accom­
panies pride. We have to learn how to overcome some 
of this denial. It arises out of fear, and once fear is 
understood, denial drops away and one can then move 
up to the level of Courage, which has a lot more power 
at 200. The energy field of Courage represents the emo­
tional capacity to face, cope, and handle life's events, 
because telling the truth about a thing empowers a 
person. A continuing positive attitude can then move 
us up to the state ofWillingness at 310, where we say, 
"I want to know the truth about the matter for its own 
sake. "The energy field then becomes powerful because 
now intention is put into it to know more about a goal 
and the capacity to accept the prevailing conditions 
around it. Below consciousness level 200, power is given 
away, resulting in doubt and lack of confidence. The 
willingness to look into a matter then results in an 
open mind that moves us up to level 350, called 
Acceptance, which is an important capacity for han­
dling the prospect of mortality. At this level we re-own 
our power and begin to feel adequate and confident. It 
is the beginning of transformation in consciousness. There is the awareness that "I, myself, am the source of 454 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
my own happiness, and I have the capacity to find out 
the truth for myself:' Eventually, we can move up to the 
energy field ofLove at 500, where there is the capacity 
for and dedication to nurturing and supporting life, and 
the willingness to be forgiving. With that comes a reve­
lation about an energy field called JoY that calibrates at 
540 and is associated with healing and gratitude. Joy 
brings an inner serenity and is characterized by com­
passion, which is the ability to see into the hearts of 
others. There is also the willingness to be lOVing and 
nonjudgmental of life in allits expressions. Transformation is then quiet, and we move up to 
the state called Peace at 600, or the peace of God. The 
feeling associated with that is eventually bliss and then 
progressive states of illumination. We may feel as 
though we are encompassed within a light. As we go 
into an ineffable state, it is so exquisite that it is difficult 
to describe. The importance of the body disappears, 
and it becomes irrelevant. It is forgotten because the 
body is associated with identification with a personal, 
separate, limited self. At the more enlightened states, 
there is an exquisite expansion of consciousness and a 
loss of identification with the body and the personal 
self. At the energy fields above the 600s are the states 
of feeling completeness, wholeness, and oneness with 
all of life, and a oneness with God. Humility results in an open mind. An open mind 
says for the fITst time, "What is truth. Please, Lord, let 
me open my mind to know within my own conscious­
ness what is the truth for my own self:' 
Our expectations of death reflect conceptions 
about the nature of Divinity. Thus, a person at the level 455 DEATH AND DYING 
of Neutral at 250 would see the world as okay. They 
would see all experience, including even death, as 
okay, and therefore see God as freedom. Lower levels 
lead to the fear of God, guilt, and expecting God to be 
the great avenger because ofthe prevalence ofjealousy 
and hate. The God of hatred is near the bottom of the 
chart and pictured as an entity that hates man and 
man's humanness, all of which is a paradox inasmuch 
as God created us. When we move up to the levels of truth, we expe­
rience life, the world, and all the experiences in the 
world, including death, and expect them to be positive 
ones. God now becomes promising and hopeful. We 
can then look forward to death as some kind of great 
release into a much larger expansion in consciousness 
and awareness called Heaven. (The actual reality 
revealed by consciousness research is that there. are. multiple regions of Heaven. ) As we move beyond the level of acceptance, 
which we do by owning back our own power to 
know, we move into a loving state that is forgiving 
and understanding, with the beginning of revelations 
and the experience of all life as loving. We begin to 
see that love is present everywhere. Therefore, we 
move on up to a God who is merciful and represents 
unconditional love. The realization that lovingness is 
a basic reality leads to an inner state of joy. Out ofthat 
comes compassion, the transfiguration of conscious­
ness that reveals the perfection of all creation. There 
is the realization of the oneness of all life that results 
in the state of bliss. There are also states of enlight­
enment and illumination in which one becomes 456 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
conscious and aware of unity and oneness. At level 600, we move out of the energy fields of 
ordinary consciousness and into those that are called 
nonlinear. In the mid-600s are the more advanced 
states of awareness and consciousness called 'enlight­
ened' and 'illumined'. As the foregoing may sound philosophical or the­
oretical, I am going to share things I have learned clin­
ically through many years of experience plus_events 
that I have personally experienced. As a result, we will 
have a more practical field of reference about what 
the death experience really entails. I will be going 
back to childhood experiences to relate some things 
that happened to me and how they correlated with 
other things that happened later. When I was about twelve years old, I was a paper­
boy in northern Wisconsin. One night, it was below 
zero, and I felt like I was practically freeZing to death. I 
dug a hole in the side ofa huge snow bank and crawled 
inside the cubbyhole that I had made. The snow was 
piled about twenty feet high on the side of the high­
way, and I crawled into this refuge and curled up in 
order to just get out of the fierce and relentless wind. Within a few seconds, I began to experience a state of 
relaxation, and a state of profound warmth began to 
come over the body. It was a state ofexquisite pleasure, 
and I began to forget about the body. The body just did 
not seem to exist anymore, and instead, an incredible, 
blissful state of peace overcame me. I was surrounded 
by light, but the light had the quality of touching me 
and being with me as an infinitely loving consciousness 
that was enveloping and dissolving. I just dissolved and 457 DEATH AND DYING 
became at one with this infmite field because it had no 
beginning and no end; it had no dimensions and was 
outside of time. The state of the true Self experientially lasted for 
eons of timelessness. The experience was total, and at 
every instant, it was all encompassing, timeless, 
serene, and complete. There was nothing missing, 
nothing lacking, and nothing further to be accom­
plished. It was a state of profound Love, Peace, and 
completeness that is beyond description. At flfst, there was an inner feeling of relief, followed 
by a quiet joy and ecstasy, and then it went beyond 
ecstasy. It went beyond bliss and became an eternal, 
infinite state, far beyond ordinary consciousness. Curiously, the Self is more truly personal than the ego 
self. Sometime later, my father discovered where I was 
and shook me. He had a very upset, anxious look on his 
face and said, "Don't ever do that again. Don't you 
know you could freeze to death. " I had no context within which to hold this expe­
rience or even know what to call it. It was a very 
profound experience, and 'in the mind of adoles­
cence, there was really nothing that could be said 
about it. I could not mention anything about it to my 
father because he would not have had any way in 
which to hold it. Additionally, hewas frightened atthe 
time, so neither of us knew what the experience 
meant or signified. No books on the 'near-death experience' were gen­
erally available at the time. The movie Resurrection 
only came out in the last decade. (By the way, that 
movie was clinically accurate. ) All those who have had __ 458__ ~_--=H~E. :. :A--=L:. ::I--=N,-G:;:. ::Ac. ::.
Our main intention is to understand that anything we have ever done in our lifetime was done out of innocence, and when we do this, it becomes healed out of compassion.
What is the main intention to heal cancer?
Treating is relieving a symptom, curing is overcoming the disease, but healing includes the whole person.
What is the difference between treating, curing, and healing?
The purpose is to bring about a major transformation and unseen spiritual benefit.
What is the purpose of a life-threatening illness?
Karma denotes one's total inheritance-physical, mental, and spiritual. It signifies the contextual significance of inherited humanness itself, with its overall implications and genetic propensities.
What is the meaning of karma?
Acceptance is facilitated by the realization that the death process is universal and applies to all living beings.
What is the importance of accepting death?