The mind is the useful springboard which 
learns by inquiry that there is a way out of addiction 
and its accompanying hopelessness and despair. The acceptance that we are the source of happi­
ness then makes this seem like a harmonious world. As we move upward into the energy field of Love, 
the vision of God that comes out of this promising, 
hopeful view is the beginning of the comprehension 
of the God of mercy and forgiveness. Out of accept­
ance and owning the power of what we are, and by 
moving more towards the truth, there arises the will­
ingness to become truly loving. This takes us to the 
powerful energy field of 500, the field of Love itself. 408 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
The level ofLove is where true happiness prevails. We can see why more and more gettingness-getting 
money, sex, power, positions, and all the rest-does 
not bring happiness. It brings pleasure and only 
momentary fulftllment. We can see why that if fIfty 
million dollars will not make us happy, then seventy­
fIve million dollars will not either because more mil­
lions of dollars are still below level 200; true happi­
ness is associated with the higher level of 500, which 
is the beginning of the fIeld of Love that leads to 
Unconditional Love at level 540. Love is a stable energy fIeld that nurtures and.suP­
ports life, and out of which come forgiveness and the 
beginning of revelations into the truth of life. Within 
the brain at an energy fIeld of 500, and especially at 
540, there is the release of endorphins, which is the 
correlation of love on the physical level within the 
brain chemistry itself.The view of the world coming 
out of this lovingness is a loving one, and God is one 
of unconditional love and forgiveness. This is a very 
important level for recovery from the addictions as 
demonstrated by its being the energy field of 
Alcoholics Anonymous. The twelve-step groups, which are based on spiri­
tual principles, calibrate at an energy fIeld of 540, a 
critical level because it is the energy fIeld of healing 
and unconditional loving. It represents commitment 
and alignment. Forgivingness becomes automatic 
because outofrevelation, this kindofworldis shown, 
and out of that understanding arises compassion. The 
capacity and desire to understand become foremost, 
and what is revealed is what becomes important. Ifa 409 ALCOHOLISM 
person has a fractured arm, it is not important 
whether they were right or wrong. It is just important 
to fix it. Lovingness then becomes a healingness out 
ofits intention to understand. It heals out ofits power 
of compassion. This is a different energy field from the one usually 
called 'love' by the world, which is often attachment 
and emotionalized sentimentality. When we hear 
someone say,"Well, I used to love Joey, but I don't love 
him anymore," what they really mean is that they 
never really lovedJoey.They had a sentimental attach­
ment, a dependency, a back-and-forth control, a lustful 
attachment, and an ownership in an emotionality. That 
which is truly loving is a decision, an inner intention, 
and a commitment that create a stable, unchanging 
energy field. We see this in the nonjudgmentalism of 
the twelve-step groups.When a member tells about an 
unfortunate event, the group is nonjudgmental and 
supportive. That unconditional love arises because 
the group is relating to the person's beingness. There 
is the love of the true self of who that person really 
is.Thus, there is the moving from the small self up to 
the large Self.The sustaining, nurturing, healing energy 
field of the twelve-step groups prevails, regardless of 
the personalities.AA has a saying:"Just bring the body, 
and you will get it by osmosis." It places principles 
above personalities and means that it is the uncondi­
tional love of the healing field itself that nurtures, 
supports,and brings about the miracle of recovery. The importance of alignment with that energy 
field is because the feeling of gratitude, which is at 
about 540, is characteristic ofAA.At this level are the 410 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
values oflaughter, humor, and the capacity for a differ­
ent way of holding experiences. Instead of self-pity, 
fear, or anger and its expression as resentment, there 
is now humor about the experience, which at the 
time was perhaps tragic. Because of this willingness 
to be forgiving and understanding, out of the healing 
nature of this energy field arise the joyful states char­
acterized by compassion and the desire to heal 
through understanding. This transition marks the 
beginning of transfiguration in one's consciousness, 
the beginning of seeing the perfection of the world 
and experiencing the oneness of all things and all life. At the consciousness levels of the high 500s, there 
emerges an energy field called Ecstasy. It is not the 
'jumping up and down' kind of emotionalism but an 
inner experience of extreme joy that eventually 
evolves into states generically called Bliss. These 
blissful states express as feelings of expansive well­
being, of being at one with everything, of generous 
lovingness and forgiveness, and of extreme inner 
pleasure. This blissful state is important in the under­
standing of the addictions because the inner experi­
ence is the most impressive of all human experi­
ences. It represents the experience of what is possible 
within one's Self. The experience can also come out of meditation. A person who practices a meditative technique may 
suddenly go into an expansive state of Infinite 
Oneness and bliss, also called samadhi, and become 
aware of what is possible.The knowingness of what is 
possible creates the desire to return to that state. '(he 
person's life usually changes to a considerable degree 411 ALCOHOLISM 
as a result of the experience. Many people leave their 
current lifestyle and shift to a totally different one 
that is directed towards spiritual purification and the 
removal of whatever blocks the experiencing of the 
state. This is also characteristic of people who have 
near-death experiences, even when they are declared 
dead in the operating room. The movie Revelation is 
about such a person and is clinically very accurate in 
presenting the experiencing of that infinite state of 
blissfulness. Subsequently, there is a dramatic change 
in the person's lifestyle that arises from a different 
knowingness, orientation, and context. The classic movie Lost Horizon depicts the same 
thing· extremely well (Ronald Coleman was in the 
original version). You may remember that when he 
falls into Shangri-La (a state of unconditional loving­
ness that calibrates at about 600), he experiences that 
state of consciousness. When he tries to return to the 
ordinary world, which calibrates around 200, he sees 
a world of successful doingness and gettingness. He 
cannot find any satisfaction in this world any longer 
compared to what he experienced in Shangri-La. This 
created the desire to return to that state of inner 
consciousness at any cost (which the movie depicted 
as a place, but which we know is actually experienced 
within consciousness). He risks his life in the 
Himalayas because of the drivenness to return to the 
state of Shangri-La. We have to look at where all human experience 
occurs. As we said, the body is unable to experience 
itself and is experienced only in mind. It is the mind 
that experiences the body. Mind itself is experienced 412 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
by consciousness; otherwise, it would not be aware . of what is going on within mind. The experience is 
taking place within an energy field of consciousness, 
and it is this inner experience within consciousness 
of a blissful state that captures people who have 
never taken drugs. Now we can understand what happens in the 
drug or alcohol experience. This powerfully attrac­
tive, joyful energy field,the energy field of life itself, is 
like the sun that is always shining. The lower energy 
fields are like the clouds that blank out the experi­
ence of that which is ever shining. A drug or alcohol 
blocks off the experience of the lower energy fields 
and allows the experience of a higher energy field. If. .we could block off all the energy fields below level 
560, we would experience what is left, which is the 
energy field of Ecstasy. There is even a designer drug 
called Ecstasy created specifically to block off the 
experience of the energy fields below 560. With the 
drug experience, pharmacologically something has 
blocked off the lower energy fields and allowed the 
unobstructed experience of a higher one. Thus, at the 
end of the day, the person who is full of fear, grief, 
regret, and anxiety stops in for two martinis, and sud­
denly temporarily jumps over the lower energy fields 
and moves up to the energy level of about 500, which 
can be called 'mellow' . Mellow is that field where we sort of love every­
body and are willing to forgive them. We are gener­
ous, easygoing, and all the kids love us when we are
 
in that state; we take toys home for the children and
 
flowers for our spouse. This energy state is sought in
 413 ALCOHOLISM 
the drug experience because it blocks off the lower 
energy levels.As said before, these are addicting expe­
riences because the mind, once having experienced 
the state, wants to return to it. When we ask the person who has had an alcohol 
or addictive problem to look at what they are seek­
ing, to look at the experience that has become habit­
ual and to which they return over and over again no 
matter what the price is, we find that they are seeking 
an inner state of consciousness. In reality, they do not 
even care about the drug itself. The drug is only the 
mechanics, the only way they know for accessing that 
state at the time. It is a certain way of experiencing 
their being, their existence, and it is a pleasurable, 
highly energized state.This is what they seek, and ifa 
drug does not block off the lower energy fields, there­
by preventing them from experiencing that inner 
state of blissfulness, then the drug is no longer used 
or valued. We can see that the addiction is not to 
drugs or 'alcohol per se but to the 'high' state of 
consciousness itself. Many of the psychological explanations of addic­
tion try to present it as though the person is running 
away from the lower experience of fear or depres­
sion.There are some excellent drugs that will handle 
that; for example, Thorazene eliminates anxiety but 
does not result in addiction as there is no 'high'.The 
same is true with antidepressants. An antidepressant 
will move one out of the depression, but does not 
result in a 'high'.Therefore, the alleviation of depres­
sion, anxiety, fear, or anger, is well handled pharmaco­
logically by traditional medical drugs that are not con­414 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
sidered to be addictive substances because they do 
not block off the energy fields at a sufficient level to 
allow people to experience the higher state. We can see that the person is addicted to the 
energy field within, to that state of consciousness, 
which creates the desire to return'to it.They are will~ 
ing to pay the price because the mind begins to 
demand a return to that experience, no matter what 
the cost.The willingness to pay increases with time so 
that finally, in the end, it will ask for the body itself. It 
will say, "If you keep on drinking like that, you are 
going to be dead within weeks or months. "You know 
what the person does about that-they go across the 
street to the bartender, their old pal Joe, order a mar­
tini and say,"Guess what the doctor told me today? "At 
that point, the bartender orders him a drink for the 
good old times, and they kiss the body goodbye. The 
willingness to let all of it go is absent, and we see the 
price that people are willing to pay for the so-called 
addiction to this state of consciousness. It mystifies 
people who have not accessed that level of con­
sciousness in their drug experience. These people are 
willing to sacrifice all of it in order to return to this 
energy field that we call Bliss-the inner Shangri-La. We see the same thing going on with people who 
have never taken a drug. By virtue of their destiny or 
previous spiritual work, they have risen into the 
energy fields ofthese higher experiences, and they do 
the same thing. They have the willingness to give up 
power, money, position, and titles in the world, and 
they devote all their time and energy to returning to 
this state of consciousness. The movie, Lost Horizon, 415 ALCOHOLISM 
really tells us the story of the motive of addiction by 
showing the willingness to sacrifice all of life for a 
certain state of consciousness. There is an innate inner awareness of what is 
really true, and addiction is a false start to experienc­
ing the truth because it does not work.Thus, the rea­
son for giving up the addiction, alcohol, or drugs is 
not because it is wrong but because it does not work 
anymore. It does not work because through drugs and 
alcohol comes the progressive loss of inner self­
respect, along with the adversities and negativities of 
these energy fields. It is the beginning of experienc­
ing very negative events in one's life.There can be the 
beginning of the loss of relationships, credit'cards, 
status, physical health, and functioning of body 
organs, which signifies the downhill course brought 
about by the denial of the truth. The denial of the 
truth from level 200 on down is due to putting the 
power outside oneself. In addiction, the person has 
given away the source of their happiness and mean­
ing in life by projecting it onto the outer world and 
giving that power to the drug or alcohol, to some sub­
stance outside themselves. The drug in and of itself has no power at all to 
create the higher experiences. We tested and 
researched this for many years with literally hundreds 
ofpeople clinically and in the classes we gave for peo­
ple who were fighting or right in the middle of han­
dling their addictive problem. Using the diagnostic 
method of discerning truth from falsehood, we tested 
the proposition that "The drug has the power to 
create this higher experience," and universally, one 416 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
hundred percent of the people went weak with that 
statement, proving that it is a lie. The drug has no 
power whatsoever. Then we presented them with an 
opposite concept and had everybody in the class hold 
in mind the thought that "The drug blocks off the 
energy fields that are coming from the ego self and 
allows me to experience the joyfulness of that which 
is my real Self." Instantly, everybody in the class went 
strong, indicating that the statement is true. The truth is that the drug has no power whatso­
ever to create these experiences, but it does have the 
pharmacological capacity to block off the negative 
energy fields, allowing a person to at least get into 
the ballpark. Of course, it is not the real state of Bliss 
that is experienced by the person who has earned it 
through their own progressive spiritual work, but at 
least it is similar to that experience. Feeling the energy 
that is closer to the truth of one's own being allows 
us to utilize this knowledge now in understanding 
recovery from addictions. When a person seeks treatment for an addiction, 
they are usually at the bottom of the Map of 
Consciousness and filled with self-hatred, hopeless­
ness, despair, regret, and despondency. The energy 
field of apathy, hopelessness, and despair is one in 
which the person cannot help themselves. Hopeless 
means just that. For example, the president of a county 
bar association literally died of starvation while living 
alone in a rooming house. He was addicted to a com­
bination of Valium and alcohol. He never picked up 
the phone to call anybody for help. A person of that 
caliber has many friends, all of whom would have 417 ALCOHOLISM 
dropped everything to help him, but he·felt there was 
no point in making the phone call because there was 
no hope. That hopelessness of one's condition often 
expresses itself as "My case is different; my case is dif­
ferent," meaning "You may well recover from this, but 
my case is hopeless." Out of this apathy and hopelessness in which God 
is dead for the person,all we can do is pour energy into 
them.The process going on in consciousness is that of 
the loss of energy.The person is de-energized, as was 
the woman who was rocking back and forth in her 
rocking chair, staring blankly out the window. Reason 
has no effect. We saw that when the telegram arrived 
from the Department of Defense saying the death of 
her son was a mistake. Her energy field did not change. She kept right on rocking back and forth, staring out 
the window. The answer is to pour energy into that 
person through our concern, lovingness, physical pres­
ence, nutrition, and every possible way in order to 
move them up to the next energy field of Grief. Grief has to do with the past, and when the person 
comes out of a blank, shock-like state, they begin to 
cry and regret the loss that all the addiction has 
cost them. There is regret, along with a feeling of 
self-pity and sorrow for the fact that they are in a 
rehabilitation facility or in the space they are in life. They are sad about life and their addiction and feel 
completely neglected by God. At this level there is regret about the past, so we 
move the person's energy field up to the next level, 
which is one of Fear.At this point, the person begins 
to fear the addiction, aided by worry and anxiety. 418 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Fear has to do with the future. The person is no 
longer in an inflated state of denial; on the contrary, 
they are deflated. The world looks frightening, and 
they may feel that God is punishing them for their 
past sins. They misinterpret the addiction as a pun­
ishment and fear more punishment and further loss 
in the future. But the energy of each thing can move 
one up to the energy of the next. The person moves 
out of fear of the addiction into the desire for some­
thing better than being a victim or wanting and 
craving.This moves them up to Anger. Anger has a lot of useful energy in it, not the 
form of anger itself but the energy of anger in which 
the person becomes angry over their predicament in 
life and being the victim.This anger can be used in a 
constructive way as a turning point away from 
defeatism. Better than hopelessness is the pride in 
doing something about it by taking action and begin­
ning to move up into caring for oneself and one's 
position, and then moving up to the next.energy 
field of Courage. The courage to tell the truth is crucial in the 
addictions. We see the powerful effect of the first of 
the twelve steps in AA-the admission that one is 
powerless over alcohol or drugs-which now allows 
for the capacity to face, cope, handle, and be appro­
priate. It represents re-empowerment; The world is 
then seen as an opportunity, and for the first time, 
there is the benefit of an open mind, and the truth 
now has a way to enter the mind. Pride can be utilized 
to move the person up into Courage and to look at 
the facts. Doing so provides encouragement to move 419 ALCOHOLISM 
up to the next position, that of letting go of resisting 
the facts and being released from that resistance in 
order to begin to view the world as an okay place. This allows one to utilize and experience inner free­
dom to explore, expand, and then move up to the 
willingness to say yes, join in the exploration, and 
agree to align with it. The person thus develops the 
capacity to see the whole rehabilitative process in a 
world that is friendly. Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery pro­
grams are then viewed as promising and hopeful, 
and the person feels that perhaps they will recover. Acceptance is a very powerful energy field where 
one realizes the power to make these decisions. Confidence, a feeling of adequacy, and transforma­
tion occur through experiencing that the world is 
harmonious. On the one hand, it has presented the 
person with a problem, but on the other hand, it has 
also provided the answer. That which is a merciful 
God proVides the solutions, so although one may 
have an addiction,there are hundreds of thousands 
of people around who have found the answers and 
are only too willing to be helpful. With surrender, the world begins to look friendly, 
harmonious, merciful, helpful, and hopeful, and it 
offers acceptance. With the letting go of the resist­
ance and denial, an energy field of lovingness 
emerges. The person then commits to an energy field 
that is healing by joining one of the twelve-step 
groups whose energy is innately healing. (AA cali­
brates at 540.) The person's willingness to align with 
it and accept the healing is essential. Through that 420 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
willingness then comes acceptance. The truth about 
this is accepting the necessity to be in an energy field 
that is nurturing, supportive, understanding, and 
unconditionally loving. In that field, people know 
they are in a safe space. To remain aligned with that 
ensures their survival. With that experience come the 
joyfulness and the beginning of experiencing an 
inner serenity and seeing the perfection and oneness 
of the energy field of which one is now an integral 
part. It is the willingness to tell the truth that moves 
one up through this very critical level. The ftrst step of the twelve-step program is the 
willingness to admit the truth that one is powerless 
over alcohol or drugs and that alcohol or drugs are 
making one's life unmanageable. The second step 
then becomes very signillcant in that the 'restoring us 
to sanity' is by a power greater than oneself. Thereby 
does the ego surrender to God (as the self surrenders 
to the power of the Self). We look at joy and bliss and see that the energy 
field starts at about 500 and runs all the way up to 
600. That fteld is like a powerful electromagnet 
pulling one back into wanting to re-experience that 
experience in consciousness. Therefore, to handle it, 
something with equal power will be needed to 
replace it. The second step is really the intuitive 
knowing that something greater than the ego or the 
limited small self is going to be needed to handle the 
attraction of such a powerful energy fteld. The third step is the decision that comes out of 
that, which is the surrendering and willingness to 
turn one's life over to God, as one understands Him. 421 ALCOHOLISM 
Out of willingness itself, the God of one's own under­
standing is already a friend-a promising, merciful, 
and responsive God. The willingness to be trusting 
sources the element offaith, so the third step of deep 
surrender really moves one into alignment with the 
energy field of 540 and above.The rest of the twelve 
steps now makes sense from the viewpoint of the 
levels of consciousness as we have looked at them. The fourth step says to honestly look within one­
self to discover any defects of character and to take a 
fearless moral inventory, which entails the willingness 
to look at and own all that was negative in one's life. Then follows the fifth step, a very healing step by 
which to· admit to oneself, to God, and to another 
human being the exact nature of one's wrongs. That 
step changes the energy field and removes the nega­
tive charge from it. Taking off the negativity has not 
changed the history, but the way it is held has 
changed, making inoperative that which previously 
had the capacity to corrode and destroy. Bill Wilson, 
the founder ofAA, used to say that the correct attitude 
about the past is a decent regret, which is quite differ­
ent from self-hatred, shame, or wallowing in guilt. Instead, one then comes from the heart. Bill used to 
say that AA is the language of the heart and from the 
heart, which heals with its humor, acceptance, light­
ness, and willingness to heal the past. The healing then proceeds out of step five and is 
expressed in restitution in steps six through nine, 
which are really the reparative steps. In those steps, 
the person takes responsibility to actually do some­
thing in the world to repair any damage that is 422 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
repairable and to mend whatever fences can be 
mended so it is not just a mental intellectual exercise. It becomes real and relieves the guilt about what one 
has done in the past. To the best of one's ability, one 
goes back into the world and tries to repair the dam­
ages that have been done to the degree that they are 
repairable. Step ten then says that taking responsibility for . the content of one's own consciousness and having 
the willingness to clean it up then becomes a way of 
life on a daily basis.The daily inventory makes note of 
what was lacking in· integrity, where one could have 
done better, and where one could have been more 
loving. Step ten is owning responsibility for the 
process of spiritual progress and committing to it as a 
way of life. Step eleven is interesting because it says if one has 
thoroughly done steps one through ten, one will 
reconnect with something that was sought in the first 
place through drugs and alcohol. It says that prayer 
and meditation will increase consciousness contact 
with God as He is understood, asking only for knowl­
edge of His will and the power to carry it out. Step eleven does not say, "We begin"; it says that 
conscious contact has already happened. It occurs 
through internal surrender and honest commitment 
to lovingness and Self as a lifestyle. One connects 
with God through the heart because that which is 
Divine, that which is God, and that which is love are 
all the same thing. By commitment to lovingness as a 
lifestyle, as a way of being in the world to the best of 
our ability, we reconnect with some rock-like, joyful 423 ALCOHOLISM 
inner experience that was similar to what we sought 
through alcohol and drugs in the first place. Step twelve reveals what the whole addictive 
process is about and what its nature is in the field of 
consciousness. Step twelve says that having had a 
spiritual awakening as a result of the steps and 
becoming conscious is a result of the entire addictive 
experience. One now has the capacity to carry this 
message to others and express it in one's entire life. The twelfth step tells us that the whole purpose of 
the addictive process was to. awaken us and move us 
up from one level of consciousness to another; to go 
from being asleep and unaware to being awake, con­
scious, aware, and responsible; to move from being 
unconscious, irresponsible, and the helpless victim to 
owning ourselves as being spiritually responsible for 
the happiness within our life. This precludes putting the source of happiness 
outside of oneself. Instead, one realizes that the 
source of happiness is the same as the source of life 
and comes from responsibly owning oneself as a spir­
itually aware person. There is now a different context within which to 
hold the whole addictive process of movement, of 
increasing consciousness and awareness, so that 
alcoholism and drugs then require a person to 
become more awake in order to survive. These dis­
eases are progressively fatal, and the only way to 
recover from them is to become progressively spiritu­
ally aware and more conscious. Life itself depends on 
becoming conscious via major self-confrontation with 
something that the higher Self has picked that will 424 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
force one to grow because there is no turning back. The only options are to surrender one's will to God or 
go insane and die. There is no reprogramming of the 
brain cells once they are programmed. There is not 
enough room on the tightrope to turn around and 
change one'.s mind. Once one is into the addictive 
alcoholic process, there is no turning back. There is 
only confrontation with owning the truth about one's 
self. Recovery depends on accepting that process, 
moving joyfully into it, and being grateful. Now it is understandable why speakers at AA 
meetings say they are grateful that they are alco­
holics.To the newcomer, this indeed sounds like mad­
ness. Grateful? How could one be grateful that one 
has become addicted or an alcoholic? Because that 
forced one to grow and become conscious. It forced 
one to become aware and therefore grateful for the 
process. At first one resents and resists it, but then 
one actually accepts and agrees with it. One begins 
to love and experience joy and finally achieves that 
state called serenity. There is an inner knowingness that this was one's 
destiny-the way of doing it, and the way that was 
chosen-which results in the awareness that one 
never could have reached this great understanding by 
any other way. Some people just have to experience it 
this way.The ego has to hit bottom in order surrender 
and find God. For those who do, great gratitude comes 
about, along with a greater understanding of the 
nature of consciousness itself. Those who surrender 
to God receive the gifts of God. CHAPTER 14 
Cancer 
Thus far, we have been talking about the utilization of 
basic laws of mind and consciousness when 
approaching illnesses such as heart disease, depres­
sion, alcoholism, and drug addiction. All of these are 
serious confrontations that require us to change our 
view of reality and what it really is. This information 
is addressed especially to patients with cancer, fami­
lies of people with cancer, people who fear they 
might have cancer, and people who are in treatment 
with cancer. We will present a holistic approach to healing and 
again will be talking about body, mind, and spirit.We 
are not saying that the treatment has to be a traditional 
one or an alternate one, but we are saying that it 
should include both because true healing requires the 
larger dimension, which includes physical, mental, 
and spiritual aspects, with due regard for inherent 
human limitation. All the patients or people I have known who have 
recovered from these chronic, very serious diseases 
(many of whom were given up as hopeless by their 
physicians and the medical community) have done so 
by exploring the greater defmition of the truth of 
reality of that which they are, and by exploring that 
realm of human knowledge called 'spiritual'. What is that relationship between body, mind, and 
spirit? It is not just a catch phrase but something real 
we can work with in everyday life and see actual 
results. Those friends walking around who have 
recovered from all these fatal illnesses are living evi­
425 426 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
dence that we can recover from just about any dis­
ease known to mankind. As shared in earlier chapters, I have had a number 
of chronic, intractable illnesses. Although they were 
treatable (some of the symptoms were handled), the 
diseases did not improve. In fact, they got progressively 
worse. Despite traditional medical treatment, I was 
merely holding the line on a few and losing it on several 
others. It was through exploring the greater dimension 
and the field called consciousness and how they related 
to self-healing that recovery from all these illnesses 
occurred. Once time I had gout and a high uric acid level. After I learned that the body only does what is held in 
mind and began to change what I was holding in 
mind, then the body's chemistry literally began to 
change. I learned that all the atoms, cells, elements, 
electrons, and all ofwhich the body is made are influ­
enced by consciousness. This understanding is very 
important in the approaches we use in the treatment 
of cancer. The relationship between body, mind, and spirit is 
that the body reflects what is held in mind, which in 
turn reflects one's spiritual position. It is necessary to 
know where all human experience takes place 
because if we address that level, we will be address­
ing the most powerful level. Ifthe physical is the con­
sequence of the mental, and the mental is the conse­
quence of the spiritual, then we need to address it in 
the area called consciousness. Clinically, this is true. People who address the level of consciousness itself 
may even witness transformation in their bodies with­CANCER 427 
out even having to address the body directly with any 
medical approach .. 
We need to know where experience is experi­
enced and let go of some of the common illusions 
that people hold in mind because they just have not 
looked into the matter. We will repeat the basic 
process: The body itself is incapable of experiencing 
itself. For example, our hands cannot experience 
themselves, their existence, their position in space, or 
even sensations. They have no capacity to do so. This 
is because of something greater than the physical 
body, which we call mind.All the physical things that 
go on with the body, including sensations, are experi­
enced in the greater dimension called mind. It is in 
mind that the experience of the body takes place. Curiously enough, however, the mind itself has 
no capacity to experience itself. A thought is just an 
energy form and has no capacity to experience its 
own thoughtness.A feeling has no capacity to experi­
ence its own feelingness, and an emotion cannot be 
experienced other than via mind itself. In turn, it is 
held within an energy field that is greater than mind, 
that of consciousness itself, which has no dimension, 
limitation, or form. Because of consciousness, we are aware of what 
goes on in mind. Even consciousness itself is not suf­
ficient. Within the energy field of consciousness is a 
very high frequency of vibration, analogous to light 
itself, called awareness. Out of awareness arises a 
knowingness of what is going on within conscious­
ness, which reports what is going on within mind, and 
it, in turn, reports what is going on with the physical 428 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
body. We can see that the physical body itself is sev­
erallevels removed from that which is the most real 
and therefore the most powerful. We find that the 
energy of thought is far more powerful than the 
energy levels of the physical body. In previous chapters, we have described a number 
of techniques that can bring about self-healing. In 
discussing the nature of consciousness itself, we will 
create a context for ourselves so that the self-healing 
modalities to be described later will begin to make 
sense. First, we need to learn how to hold and think of 
the experience of having a life-threatening illness 
such as cancer.There are two ways to go about it.We 
can go up or we can go down.Any kind of confronta­
tion, such as a death in the family, any kind of serious 
illness, or a setback in a person's life presents a 
choice. We can go down into feeling sorry for our­
selves as a victim. We can go down into self-pity, 
depression, and despair, or we can see it as a chal­
lenge and an opportunity. These confrontations come up repeatedly in our 
lives until we seize the opportunity and realize they 
are a springboard to greater awareness.Why is this so? It is because the ordinary events in life do not have 
the power or the energy. It takes maximum duress for 
people to stop in their tracks and begin to question 
the realities of all the things they have believed up to 
this point.The mind ordinarily will not undertake the 
expenditure of energy to reorient itself to get a new, 
different point of view about life and what it yields 
unless it has to.As a result, this necessary growth will CANCER 429 
usually only happen when we are up against a major 
confrontation. The first thing to understand about cancer or 
other serious illness is that the purpose of this major 
confrontation is for us to grow and grow rapidly as 
fast as we can because we have a certain time limit 
with terminal illnesses. Things that the mind says are 
fatal or terminal become fatal and terminal because of 
the power of the mind. Ifthe mind thinks an illness is 
fatal and terminal, it will be so, subject, however, to 
karmic destiny.This illustrates the power of belief sys­
tems. The most important message is that no one needs 
to succumb to or be the victim of any illness. I count 
among my friends many people who have conquered 
nearly every illness known to mankind thus far. The 
only reason I can write of these things today is 
because I myself did exactly the same thing in my per­
sonallife. If I had not, I would have hemorrhaged to 
death from a variety of illnesses, all of which went 
into remission. The perfection that is held in mind then reflects 
itself in the progressive perfection of the body and its 
letting go of disease. We have to understand that the 
body itself expresses what is held in consciousness. It 
is merely an expression of the mind and a reflector of 
what we hold consciously or unconsciously. A person 
may look back in his mind and say, "Well, I don't 
remember thinking about such a thing." If one does 
not remember thinking about something, all one has 
to do is look to see if it is in one's life. It may have 
originated from the collective consciousness of 430 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
mankind or may have been silently programmed by 
even a television advertisement. To help create a different context and way of look­
ing at life and experience, we will again refer to the 
Map of Consciousness from which we can under­
stand all the principles of self-healing. At tWs point, 
we may realize that we are not the same person we 
were when we saw the Map for the first time. Every 
time we go over it, it is sort of like 'freight-train learn­
ing'. We learn it through familiarity. The left brain is 
linear and logical and learns things sequentially in a 
piecemeal fashion.The right brain circles over a situa­
tion, and by shear repetitious exposure and familiarity 
basically understands the whole thing. We are going to be discussing phenomena that are 
in the subconscious, somewhere in the periphery of 
the mind, phenomena that we actually already know 
about. We are going to pull them together and syn­
chronize them in a useful way. Referring to the Map of Consciousness, it repre­
sents the human ego, the self with a small's' that peo­
ple refer towhen theysay,"I,""me,"or"myself. "The self 
is that collection of concepts, impressions, opinions, 
feelings (conscious and unconscious), the totality of 
what makes up what a person sees when they say,"I," 
"me," or "myself." Shown on the Map are various levels of energy, or 
consciousness, starting at the very lowest and going 
up to the very highest.They have all been calibrated 
through the research we have done.We first found the 
direction of the energy field. The fields from Courage 
and below go downward, indicating that they are CANCER 431 
destructive and do not support life. The levels from Courage on up show that the 
energy goes upward. Love is near the top of the scale 
and, in contrast, Guilt and self-hatred are at the bot­
tom. Understanding the energy fields, their relative 
powers, and whether they are constructive or 
destructive, is very helpful. For example, in medical 
treatment, we hold the medication in our hand and 
have someone test our muscle strength to see if the 
medication is good for us or not. If the medication is 
not beneficial, our arm will go weak; if it is good for 
us, our arm will go strong.This is a way to find out if 
a recommended treatment will be helpful. It is necessary to learn about the energy fields 
because they are infmitely related to cancer and cancer 
research. All are extremely important because the 
body, mind, and spirit are all actually expressions of 
consciousness. Therefore, if it is a negative energy 
field, it is destructive to all aspects of oneself, right 
down to the biochemical level. All we have to do is 
look at the Map to see what emotion is involved in 
order to know what our energy field is. In looking at 
self-pity, for example, we can see that we are now in 
a negative energy field that calibrates at 50, which is 
very weak compared to Love at 500. We can see that it is very important to let goof 
negative energy and negative thoughts. The negative 
energy of the feeling or thought transmits itself to the 
body's acupuncture energy system through the 
twelve meridians and translates itself directly into the 
body's organs and cells. If we hate someone, the cells 
of the body get the energy of hate. Anger has the 432 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
capacity to change the energy field within the body 
itself as well as the power to actually change the phys­
iological programming within the body. The mind has enormous power over every aspect 
of the body's functions, right down to the smallest 
molecule and atom. It has been discovered that every 
atom and every molecule within the body is influ­
enced by consciousness levels and beliefs. Every 
physiological and chemical transaction that goes on 
in the body is the result of a blueprint of it within 
consciousness. All of them can be changed by chang­
ing consciousness. The placebo response is illustrative of the power 
of mind over body. Research over the decades has 
demonstrated that approximately one-third of 
patients will improve or recover when they believe 
that a particular pill is curative.That is why many really 
inert nostrums (questionable remedies) continue to 
be sold to the public because at least approximately 
thirty-three percent of the people will give testimony 
to experiential benefit. Also easily observed is the 
'nocebo' effect whereby a negative belief system can 
result in ill effects. That is the mechanism whereby 
about one-third of patients may report side effects 
from the same medication from which the positive 
responders report good effects. Plain sugar pills will 
result in many claims that they resulted in headache, 
nausea, indigestion, dizziness, insomnia, somnolence, 
and more.Then there is the one-third of patients who 
are refractory and report neither benefits nor side 
effects. Thus arises the old adage in clinical practice 
that one third gets well, one-third gets worse, and one­CANCER 433 
third stays the same no matter what the doctor does. As mentioned elsewhere, the power of belief is most 
dramatically demonstrated with hypnosis by which 
illnesses or symptoms can easily be brought about 
merely by suggestion. The information presented is shared not only from 
clinical experience but also from the experience of 
friends and associates, as well as personal experience 
with my own physical health. I watched my body 
chemistry literally change as I began to change what 
I was holding about it within my mind and conscious­
ness.The basic principle essential to healing from all 
illnesses, no matter what they are, is that we are pri­
marily only subject to what we hold in mind. It is the mind's belief systems that give power to 
that which subsequently manife~ts in the physical 
world.The physical body is an expression ofwhat we 
have inherited plus what we ha~e been holding in 
mind, either consciously or unconsciously. People will 
often say they do not remember holding such a 
thought; however, there is what Dr. Carl Jung called 
the 'collective consciousness' that holds the thought 
form. Unconsciously we buy into it and give energy to 
a negative belief system without ever remembering it 
or being consciously aware of it (e.g., via the media). With cancer, much emotional energy has been 
given to it by the popular mind-all the fear associated 
with it, all the negative connotations, and all the 
thought forms.Therefore, we hold fear itself, which is 
a negative energy field. If we are holding a lot of 
unconscious fear, it now opens the door to bring into 
our mind unconsciously those things that are fearful, 434 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
including cancer. Without ever having believed that 
we are susceptible to cancer, we may discover, as it is 
occurring within the body, that we have unWittingly 
bought into this collective belief system in terms of 
thought forms. In looking further at these energy fields, we can 
see that the energy field called Guilt is at the bottom 
ofthe Map and calibrates at 30.The emotion that goes 
with Guilt is that of self-hatred. A great deal of 
research into the psychological and psychosomatic 
importance of cancer has revealed that there is often 
a good deal of unconscious self-hatred, self-condem­
nation, and lack of acceptance of one's humanness at 
a deep level. There is a difference between treating, curing, and 
healing. It is possible to treat an illness and its symp­
toms in order to bring about an amelioration, or the 
capacity to live with the illness. As mentioned previ­
ously, for many years I had migraine headaches, duo­
denal ulcers, gout, hypoglycemia, circulatory prob­
lems, Raynaud's disease, Grave's disease, diverticulitis, 
and more, as described elsewhere. All these illnesses 
came about as the result of belief§ystems and were 
also accompanied to some degree by unconscious 
guilt.We have found that unconscious guilt accompa­
nies all illnesses, no matter what they may be. If we have a physical illness, we can just presume 
correctly that there is unconscious guilt. Without the 
unconscious guilt, the disease cannot actually be pres­
ent because that which is destructive and accompa­
nied by self-hatred can operate only in a negative 
energy field. That is the secret of healing. CANCER 435 
An analogy is that certain bacteria will only grow 
in a culture medium under certain conditions, such as 
a specific temperature, a certain amount of light, and 
ambient conditions. If the conditions are changed, 
then the bacteria cannot live in the petri dish any 
longer and will disappear. Therefore, that which is 
destructive and which the unconscious needs for its 
process of destruction can continue only in a nega­
tive energy field that allows the negative energy of 
destruction to take place.That is a clue to healing. In nature, the rotation of an energy field is decisive. For example, with a drug, the chemical effect of a 
molecule is dependent on whether it spins to the right 
or to the left.We will use dextroamphetamine sulfate as 
an example, 'dextro', meaning 'to the right'.This drug is 
so-called 'speed', with the effect of weight loss, the feel­
ing of high excitability, grinding one's teeth, and finally, 
manic attacks. Levoamphetamine ('levo', meaning 'to 
the left') sulfate has no such effect whatsoever. It is the 
same molecule, but the rotation is in the opposite 
direction. Obviously, all we need to do to heal ourselves is to 
move from the negative energy field into a positive 
one. Self-healing is really so simple. It amounts to 
changing the predominant energy field within our 
consciousness from negative to positive.The question 
then arises, how do we do that? Now that we are aware of the physics, science, 
metaphysics, and emotional truth of it, along with the 
medical, psychiatric, and holistic viewpoints, we can 
understand why we should let go of these emotions. It is not for the purpose of becoming a 'goody goody' 436 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
person, but because hanging on to them is potentially 
destructive or even lethal. We have previously mentioned the muscle­
strength testing method. With this process, we can 
test somebody's strength, which shows that when 
they hold negative thoughts in mind, they go weak. When they go weak, it means there is an impairment 
of the acupuncture system, which is connected to the 
various body organs. There are also changes in the 
chemical and reproductive patterns of the cells. The only opportunity to heal anything is to move 
out of the negative energy field into a positive one. The power of the healing increases with a higher, 
more positive energy.That is why holistic approaches 
have worked where medical science has not been 
able to effect a cure. Without having the benefit of 
this knowledge, I would have died many years ago of 
a fatal digestive disease that reversed itself right at the 
point ofdeath. It is essential to understand that letting 
go of guilt is crucial to the recovery from any serious 
disease, especially cancer, where guilt, lack of self­
esteem, and the presence of self~hatred and fear have 
such an overriding influence. The next energy field above this (which is accom­
panied by hopelessness and despair) is calledApathy, 
in the energy field of 50. One has a hopeless view of 
the world at this level and allows oneself to be over­
taken by self-pity and hopelessness. One becomes a 
victim of the energy field that favors a progression of 
the cancer. The field above that is Grief.When people fIrst get 
a diagnosis, especially ifthey are younger people, they CANCER 437 
will naturally ask, "Why me? "They go into regret and 
a feeling of loss and despondency. The world and life 
now begin to look sad, and they become the victim of 
this energy field. 'Energy field' is repeated because it 
is important to see one's own innocence in this matter. It is because of this innocence that we allow our­
selves to be run by this energy field. The stage above Grief is Fear, which is also very 
prevalent in patients who develop cancer. Fear, with a 
very negative energy, has more power now in an 
energy field of 100.The world and life look frighten­
ing from this field, and God begins to look punitive. What kind of God would give us cancer?The process 
of life itself begins to feel deflated. A person is 
tempted to become dispirited, de-energized, to give 
in to the destructiveness, and unconsciously allow 
the disease to progress. We have a choice to desire something better for 
ourselves than being victims. All the people I know 
who recovered from serious illnesses did not settle 
for being victims.They all began to desire something 
better for themselves. They thought there must be a 
better way, so they began to research and look outside 
the traditional medical model. They began to say, 
"Well, Doctor, is that all you have to offer? It is going 
to take more than that to heal it." Out of their desire and anger, they began to ask,"Is 
there something else that can heal me?" This shows 
that the energy fields of these emotions can be used 
in a constructive way.The answer to their question is, 
of course, "Yes." They begin to take pride and now 
move up to a very decisive point called Courage, 438 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
which is in the energy field of 200 and has many 
times more energy than Fear. More importantly, the 
direction of the energy field has changed from nega­
tive to neutral. The energy field that surrounds the human body 
is like an antenna, and when it is tuned to the nega­
tive, it draws to itself that which is destructive. The 
body, being right in the way of that destructive energy 
field, gets hit by it. Because of the negativity and 
destruction hitting the body and expressing itself 
through the body, in this case as cancer, we become 
aware of the fact that some error is involved. It occurs 
to us to start looking to see where it is. Perhaps the 
error is in the way we have been holding life and our 
belief systems, and in the way we think about ourself. At the level of Courage, we begin to have an open 
mind. Our view of the world begins to change, and we 
move up to a world of opportunity where the doors 
start to open. Before this, the mind is closed. It thinks 
it knows the answer, but once we have the courage, 
the mind begins to open and say, 'TIl bet there are 
answers I don't even know about. In fact, I don't even 
know the right questions to ask." The minute we 
begin to open ourselves up, we become empowered 
and have the courage to have an open mind. At level 
200, we have the capacity to face the truth and begin 
to take responsibility for it. Victims do not take responsibility and instead say, 
"Well,you know, the reason I got this is because ofthe 
bacteria," or,"The reason Igotthis isthevirus;'or,"The 
reason I have this is because of the cancer cells." It is 
always something outside themselves and their con­CANCER 439 
sciousnesses that they become the victims of it.When 
we open our minds, we can get to own that we may 
have had something to do with it, and that what is 
happening in our life is related to something we have 
been holding in mind, often unconsciously. The energy field right above Courage is called 
Neutral.At this level, the arrow goes upward, and the 
energy field has jumped up to 250. The emotional 
state is called detached, or nonattached. One experi­
ences the okayness of life and a new and greater free­
dom, even with serious situations because all events 
call for the same need to confront the truth within 
oneself and ascertain what one's position is about 
that, including fatalism. Fatalism is an idea we had in the military service 
during World War II about the bullet-if it was meant 
for us, it had our name on it, so there was no point in 
being afraid of bullets because if it didn't have our 
name on it, it was not going to hit us anyway.That can 
be expressed as 'karma'. Whatever is going to be is 
destiny. Karma is the way it is supposed to be, so the 
fatalistic position gives us a certain peace of mind; we 
are detached. When the person with cancer reaches 
that point, they say, "Well, look. If I survive, I survive, 
and if I don't, I don't. You know what I mean. I'm 
doing the best I can. IfI make it, I make it. If I don't, I 
don't, and I'm prepared to go either way" (Le., resig­
nation to God's Will-from dust we arise and then 
return).We accept the fact that protoplasm is intrinsi­
cally temporary. That is certainly a far more comfortable position 
than to be in Grief about it, or have self-pity, anger, 440 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
resentment, arrogance, or denial. People may also 
deny that they have the cancer. They will come up 
with a thought that it has been cured without having 
done the work necessary to bring it about as a reality 
in their life. It is sort of magical thinking. When we move above that to a willingness and a 
friendly view of the world where we see life as chal­
lenging and hopeful, we discover, "Yes, there are 
answers. Yes, there are lots of people walking around 
who have had terminal, even fatal (hopeless) diseases 
of all kinds, including cancer." In this situation, we have introduced the intention 
to create our power, to prove our power, including 
accepting the fact that yes, we can let go of this ill­
ness, and yes, there are healing modalities. This is a 
harmonious world in which there are lots of people 
who have recovered from this illness and are very 
happy to share with us the truth that they have recov­
ered. This is because they have experienced God as 
being merciful. The people in the energy fields at the bottom of 
the Map of Consciousness frequently conceive of God 
as punitive, or they do not believe in God. They 
believe in self-pUnishment in one form or another, or 
in pain and suffering. Feeling adequate and confidant that yes, there is 
an answer begins the transformation in conscious­
ness. It moves us up to the willingness to become the 
energy field called Love.This is a crucial level because 
the energy field of Love is the one that heals, as exem­
plified by all those organizations that are famous for 
their capacity to heal, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, CANCER 441 
A Course in Miracles, faith-based recovery groups, and 
others. There are also spontaneous remissions and recov­
eries from almost every hopeless, progressive, chronic, 
intractable disease for which there is no scientific 
cure, and for which medicine has admitted there is no 
cure.We know that there are millions of people walk­
ing around who have totally recovered from just the 
illness of alcoholism alone. In fact, their lives were 
transformed because the affliction was used as a 
springboard to a greater consciousness, a greater 
awareness, and as a way to move into a commitment 
to that which is loving because the nature of it is 
unconditional love. It is not the conditional love of"I 
will love you if you will do this or do that. "To move 
into unconditional love begins a process called reve­
lation, which starts the release of certain chemicals 
called endorphins within the mind and the brain. All these energy. fields have within the mind and 
the brain concomitant changes in the enzymes. There 
are neurotransmitter changes, a release and opening 
of whole banks of neurons. Therefore, the person is 
moved into the healing energy field of lovingness and 
has at their fingertips the utilization of millions and 
millions of neurons that people in a negative emotional 
state do not have at their disposal. (See the Brain 
Function and Physiology Chart, Chapter 3.) These are 
assets.To move into the energy field of Unconditional 
Love then starts the healing process. We found that 
healing occurs at an energy field that calibrates at 
about 540, which is the energy field of the heart. How do we bring about the self-healing? We have 442 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
to let go of a number of things, the first being uncon­
scious guilt.We have to discover how to unearth what 
we feel guilty about, so we begin a self-questioning 
process. A person is fearful when they do this. They 
say, "Well, if I start opening Pandora's Box, I'm going 
to be swamped by all the negativity and guilt that I 
have depressed, repressed, and pushed out of aware­
ness all my life." It is obvious that we need some kind of tool, some 
kind of practical way to process these things as they 
come up.To begin with, we need a context, a way in 
which to hold all that comes up in this self-investiga­
tive process that is the realization of what has been 
the basis of all our behavior for all our life.Within the 
appropriate context for holding the realizations as 
they come up, the guilt is automatically wiped out by 
a higher understanding that results in forgiveness for 
ourself and others 
We need to realize that we have committed exactly 
one 'sin' throughout our lives, and it is the same 'sin' 
over and over again. The 'sin' is that everything we 
have ever done (our intentions and purposes) was 
consequent to the naive and basically innocent 
thought that it would bring about happiness. It is very . important to know this and to realize that what we 
did at the time was because we thought it was neces­
sary for our survival, and that our survival was neces­
sary for our happiness. Wanting happiness is the basis for all human emo­
tions, is it not? In fact, the basic premise, the basic and 
most primitive illusion of all, is that the body is the 
source of our happiness. Therefore, the fear of death CANCER 443 
is really, "If I lose the body, I will lose the source of 
happiness. I will lose consciousness itself." People who are spiritually aware no longer identify 
their reality as the physical body. Ifwe are awareness, 
or consciousness itself (out of which comes the 
knowingness of what is happening with mind and 
body), then the bQdy is the bottom rung on the ladder. We need to let go of the negative emotions and to 
stop suppressing and repressing them. The tool for 
doing that is to let go of resisting them as they come 
up to our awareness. It is important to keep our eye on the fact that 
consciousness within itself is basically innocent. The 
nature of'Consciousness is the innocence of the child. How did we begin to believe the things we did as we 
grew older? We look at the child and see how inno­
cent and trusting it is; it is completely lacking in guile. We know its motivations are pure, at least in our 
understanding of purity. This primary innocence becomes the conscious­
ness of the adult because the programs that the child 
buys into are actually programmable due to the very 
nature of innocence itself. Because the child is inno­
cent and trusting, it begins to buy and believe every­
thing it hears, including all the thoughts that later 
express themselves as cancer-all the thoughts hav­
ing to do with self-condemnation and fear, and all the 
thoughts of rejecting oneself for the various expres­
sions of the limitations of humanness. To heal cancer, we need a willingness to heal our­
selves by means of compassion, which comes from 
our greater, higher Self. There is the understanding 444 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that, out of innocence, all these weaknesses came out 
of the belief system that expressed itself in daily life 
as the thought that ifwe do this or we have that, then 
we will be happy. Grief or loss affects us because we 
thought that something was going to be a source of 
happiness, and we are regretting what we see as that 
source. We get angry because some obstacle stands 
between us and our intentions, what we want, and 
what we consider to be the source of our happiness. The anger then results in further guilt. Referring again to the Map of Consciousness, we 
can ask, "What is the illusion held in consciousness 
that is now expressing itself in the form of cancer?" All these levels from Courage on down bring about 
the negative energy field in which the cancer can 
grow.The illusion is that we all thought the source of 
happiness is something outside ourselves, that some­
thing outside ourselves has the power to make us 
happy. However, the minute we give away our power 
and project it outside ourselves, we are in a negative 
energy field and set ourselves up as victims. An unconscious purpose of the ego is to prove 
that we are a victim, and the test of cancer is whether 
or not we will continue to go along with this and buy 
into it as do many people in the world.The ego would 
rather be right, even ifit costs us our life, than to give 
up the position that it is the innocent victim and the 
perpetrator is something outside itself. (This is the 
core paradigm of victimology.) Once we see and own our true innocence, we 
don't need the pseudoinnocence of victimhood 
because there isno Victim.There was onlya beliefsys­CANCER 445 
tern in the first place that we picked up out of our 
innocence. The thought, for instance, that success brings us 
happiness is probably the most notorious belief sys­
tem. As many middle-aged businessmen who have 
become successful know, what they get out of their 
success is a daily headache and exhaustion, a number 
of lawsuits, and some greed and envy from their col­
leagues.They say to themselves, "Where is all the hap­
piness that success was supposed to bring me? Yes, it 
has brought me some pleasures, such as a nice car, 
nice clothes, a nice address, and a nice home." But 
those things are not happiness. Worldly success does not bring about happiness. Disillusionment and the feeling of guilt come about as 
a result of feeling that we have suddenly sold our­
selves out, and that we have sold out the truth about 
ourselves. To recover from cancer or any other illness, we 
have to reconnect with our own intrinsic innocence 
and reaffirm the truth of that which we are within 
ourselves, which has been totally unaffected by all of 
life's events. We have to re-own that level of aware­
ness of self that is beyond all worldly events. Something within us remains the same, no matter 
what is going on in our life experience. Something 
has remained unchanged. It is the something that 
wakes us up the first thing in the morning-before 
we realize where we are, or what day it is, or before 
we realize what we are supposed to do today. When we wake up into that state of awareness, we 
are much closer to the truth of our own higher self. 446 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
We realize that it is totally unaffected and beyond all 
life's events. Itis only when our consciousness comes 
down into the world of concrete thought that we say, 
"Oh, yes, it's Monday." And, "Oh, yes, I have to gO. "We 
are really leaving being close to the truth of that 
which we truly are, which is beyond all that.We re-own 
the capacity to decide what our position will be 
about life's events and all those things that bring 
about extreme duress. We can become victims of 
them, or we can see them as a springboard to tran­
scendence. The first thing to let go of is unconscious guilt. A 
Course in Miracles is a teaching of love, forgiveness, 
and the letting go of fear. Many people I know who 
have recovered from cancer, multiple sclerosis, and 
other debilitating illnesses have done so as a result of 
this particular course or others that are similar. All of 
them are designed to show us how to change our 
point of view,how to let go of condemnation of self 
and others, how to let go of guilt and fear, and how to 
move ourselves into the willingness to be loving, for­
giving, and compassionate. Out of that comes the desire to understand, so in 
self-healing, we need to almost take ourselves in our 
own arms and become compassionate and healing 
because all of us have the healer within us. We begin 
now to heal our humanness. How do we get rid of the 
ego? It is not done by making it an enemy, by trying 
to attack it, or by getting into an adversarial position 
with it but instead by loving it out of existence. We 
literally dissolve the ego through compassion, love, 
and understanding.
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        The mind is the useful springboard which 
learns by inquiry that there is a way out of addiction 
and its accompanying hopelessness and despair. The acceptance that we are the source of happi­
ness then makes this seem like a harmonious world. As we move upward into the energy field of Love, 
the vision of God that comes out of this promising, 
hopeful view is the beginning of the comprehension 
of the God of mercy and forgiveness. Out of accept­
ance and owning the power of what we are, and by 
moving more towards the truth, there arises the will­
ingness to become truly loving. This takes us to the 
powerful energy field of 500, the field of Love itself. 408 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
The level ofLove is where true happiness prevails. We can see why more and more gettingness-getting 
money, sex, power, positions, and all the rest-does 
not bring happiness. It brings pleasure and only 
momentary fulftllment. We can see why that if fIfty 
million dollars will not make us happy, then seventy­
fIve million dollars will not either because more mil­
lions of dollars are still below level 200; true happi­
ness is associated with the higher level of 500, which 
is the beginning of the fIeld of Love that leads to 
Unconditional Love at level 540. Love is a stable energy fIeld that nurtures and. suP­
ports life, and out of which come forgiveness and the 
beginning of revelations into the truth of life. Within 
the brain at an energy fIeld of 500, and especially at 
540, there is the release of endorphins, which is the 
correlation of love on the physical level within the 
brain chemistry itself. The view of the world coming 
out of this lovingness is a loving one, and God is one 
of unconditional love and forgiveness. This is a very 
important level for recovery from the addictions as 
demonstrated by its being the energy field of 
Alcoholics Anonymous. The twelve-step groups, which are based on spiri­
tual principles, calibrate at an energy fIeld of 540, a 
critical level because it is the energy fIeld of healing 
and unconditional loving. It represents commitment 
and alignment. Forgivingness becomes automatic 
because outofrevelation, this kindofworldis shown, 
and out of that understanding arises compassion. The 
capacity and desire to understand become foremost, 
and what is revealed is what becomes important. Ifa 409 ALCOHOLISM 
person has a fractured arm, it is not important 
whether they were right or wrong. It is just important 
to fix it. Lovingness then becomes a healingness out 
ofits intention to understand. It heals out ofits power 
of compassion. This is a different energy field from the one usually 
called 'love' by the world, which is often attachment 
and emotionalized sentimentality. When we hear 
someone say,"Well, I used to love Joey, but I don't love 
him anymore," what they really mean is that they 
never really lovedJoey. They had a sentimental attach­
ment, a dependency, a back-and-forth control, a lustful 
attachment, and an ownership in an emotionality. That 
which is truly loving is a decision, an inner intention, 
and a commitment that create a stable, unchanging 
energy field. We see this in the nonjudgmentalism of 
the twelve-step groups. When a member tells about an 
unfortunate event, the group is nonjudgmental and 
supportive. That unconditional love arises because 
the group is relating to the person's beingness. There 
is the love of the true self of who that person really 
is. Thus, there is the moving from the small self up to 
the large Self. The sustaining, nurturing, healing energy 
field of the twelve-step groups prevails, regardless of 
the personalities. AA has a saying:"Just bring the body, 
and you will get it by osmosis. " It places principles 
above personalities and means that it is the uncondi­
tional love of the healing field itself that nurtures, 
supports,and brings about the miracle of recovery. The importance of alignment with that energy 
field is because the feeling of gratitude, which is at 
about 540, is characteristic ofAA. At this level are the 410 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
values oflaughter, humor, and the capacity for a differ­
ent way of holding experiences. Instead of self-pity, 
fear, or anger and its expression as resentment, there 
is now humor about the experience, which at the 
time was perhaps tragic. Because of this willingness 
to be forgiving and understanding, out of the healing 
nature of this energy field arise the joyful states char­
acterized by compassion and the desire to heal 
through understanding. This transition marks the 
beginning of transfiguration in one's consciousness, 
the beginning of seeing the perfection of the world 
and experiencing the oneness of all things and all life. At the consciousness levels of the high 500s, there 
emerges an energy field called Ecstasy. It is not the 
'jumping up and down' kind of emotionalism but an 
inner experience of extreme joy that eventually 
evolves into states generically called Bliss. These 
blissful states express as feelings of expansive well­
being, of being at one with everything, of generous 
lovingness and forgiveness, and of extreme inner 
pleasure. This blissful state is important in the under­
standing of the addictions because the inner experi­
ence is the most impressive of all human experi­
ences. It represents the experience of what is possible 
within one's Self. The experience can also come out of meditation. A person who practices a meditative technique may 
suddenly go into an expansive state of Infinite 
Oneness and bliss, also called samadhi, and become 
aware of what is possible. The knowingness of what is 
possible creates the desire to return to that state. '(he 
person's life usually changes to a considerable degree 411 ALCOHOLISM 
as a result of the experience. Many people leave their 
current lifestyle and shift to a totally different one 
that is directed towards spiritual purification and the 
removal of whatever blocks the experiencing of the 
state. This is also characteristic of people who have 
near-death experiences, even when they are declared 
dead in the operating room. The movie Revelation is 
about such a person and is clinically very accurate in 
presenting the experiencing of that infinite state of 
blissfulness. Subsequently, there is a dramatic change 
in the person's lifestyle that arises from a different 
knowingness, orientation, and context. The classic movie Lost Horizon depicts the same 
thing· extremely well (Ronald Coleman was in the 
original version). You may remember that when he 
falls into Shangri-La (a state of unconditional loving­
ness that calibrates at about 600), he experiences that 
state of consciousness. When he tries to return to the 
ordinary world, which calibrates around 200, he sees 
a world of successful doingness and gettingness. He 
cannot find any satisfaction in this world any longer 
compared to what he experienced in Shangri-La. This 
created the desire to return to that state of inner 
consciousness at any cost (which the movie depicted 
as a place, but which we know is actually experienced 
within consciousness). He risks his life in the 
Himalayas because of the drivenness to return to the 
state of Shangri-La. We have to look at where all human experience 
occurs. As we said, the body is unable to experience 
itself and is experienced only in mind. It is the mind 
that experiences the body. Mind itself is experienced 412 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
by consciousness; otherwise, it would not be aware. of what is going on within mind. The experience is 
taking place within an energy field of consciousness, 
and it is this inner experience within consciousness 
of a blissful state that captures people who have 
never taken drugs. Now we can understand what happens in the 
drug or alcohol experience. This powerfully attrac­
tive, joyful energy field,the energy field of life itself, is 
like the sun that is always shining. The lower energy 
fields are like the clouds that blank out the experi­
ence of that which is ever shining. A drug or alcohol 
blocks off the experience of the lower energy fields 
and allows the experience of a higher energy field. If. we could block off all the energy fields below level 
560, we would experience what is left, which is the 
energy field of Ecstasy. There is even a designer drug 
called Ecstasy created specifically to block off the 
experience of the energy fields below 560. With the 
drug experience, pharmacologically something has 
blocked off the lower energy fields and allowed the 
unobstructed experience of a higher one. Thus, at the 
end of the day, the person who is full of fear, grief, 
regret, and anxiety stops in for two martinis, and sud­
denly temporarily jumps over the lower energy fields 
and moves up to the energy level of about 500, which 
can be called'mellow'. Mellow is that field where we sort of love every­
body and are willing to forgive them. We are gener­
ous, easygoing, and all the kids love us when we are
 
in that state; we take toys home for the children and
 
flowers for our spouse. This energy state is sought in
 413 ALCOHOLISM 
the drug experience because it blocks off the lower 
energy levels. As said before, these are addicting expe­
riences because the mind, once having experienced 
the state, wants to return to it. When we ask the person who has had an alcohol 
or addictive problem to look at what they are seek­
ing, to look at the experience that has become habit­
ual and to which they return over and over again no 
matter what the price is, we find that they are seeking 
an inner state of consciousness. In reality, they do not 
even care about the drug itself. The drug is only the 
mechanics, the only way they know for accessing that 
state at the time. It is a certain way of experiencing 
their being, their existence, and it is a pleasurable, 
highly energized state. This is what they seek, and ifa 
drug does not block off the lower energy fields, there­
by preventing them from experiencing that inner 
state of blissfulness, then the drug is no longer used 
or valued. We can see that the addiction is not to 
drugs or 'alcohol per se but to the 'high' state of 
consciousness itself. Many of the psychological explanations of addic­
tion try to present it as though the person is running 
away from the lower experience of fear or depres­
sion. There are some excellent drugs that will handle 
that; for example, Thorazene eliminates anxiety but 
does not result in addiction as there is no 'high'. The 
same is true with antidepressants. An antidepressant 
will move one out of the depression, but does not 
result in a 'high'. Therefore, the alleviation of depres­
sion, anxiety, fear, or anger, is well handled pharmaco­
logically by traditional medical drugs that are not con­414 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
sidered to be addictive substances because they do 
not block off the energy fields at a sufficient level to 
allow people to experience the higher state. We can see that the person is addicted to the 
energy field within, to that state of consciousness, 
which creates the desire to return'to it. They are will~ 
ing to pay the price because the mind begins to 
demand a return to that experience, no matter what 
the cost. The willingness to pay increases with time so 
that finally, in the end, it will ask for the body itself. It 
will say, "If you keep on drinking like that, you are 
going to be dead within weeks or months. "You know 
what the person does about that-they go across the 
street to the bartender, their old pal Joe, order a mar­
tini and say,"Guess what the doctor told me today. "At 
that point, the bartender orders him a drink for the 
good old times, and they kiss the body goodbye. The 
willingness to let all of it go is absent, and we see the 
price that people are willing to pay for the so-called 
addiction to this state of consciousness. It mystifies 
people who have not accessed that level of con­
sciousness in their drug experience. These people are 
willing to sacrifice all of it in order to return to this 
energy field that we call Bliss-the inner Shangri-La. We see the same thing going on with people who 
have never taken a drug. By virtue of their destiny or 
previous spiritual work, they have risen into the 
energy fields ofthese higher experiences, and they do 
the same thing. They have the willingness to give up 
power, money, position, and titles in the world, and 
they devote all their time and energy to returning to 
this state of consciousness. The movie, Lost Horizon, 415 ALCOHOLISM 
really tells us the story of the motive of addiction by 
showing the willingness to sacrifice all of life for a 
certain state of consciousness. There is an innate inner awareness of what is 
really true, and addiction is a false start to experienc­
ing the truth because it does not work. Thus, the rea­
son for giving up the addiction, alcohol, or drugs is 
not because it is wrong but because it does not work 
anymore. It does not work because through drugs and 
alcohol comes the progressive loss of inner self­
respect, along with the adversities and negativities of 
these energy fields. It is the beginning of experienc­
ing very negative events in one's life. There can be the 
beginning of the loss of relationships, credit'cards, 
status, physical health, and functioning of body 
organs, which signifies the downhill course brought 
about by the denial of the truth. The denial of the 
truth from level 200 on down is due to putting the 
power outside oneself. In addiction, the person has 
given away the source of their happiness and mean­
ing in life by projecting it onto the outer world and 
giving that power to the drug or alcohol, to some sub­
stance outside themselves. The drug in and of itself has no power at all to 
create the higher experiences. We tested and 
researched this for many years with literally hundreds 
ofpeople clinically and in the classes we gave for peo­
ple who were fighting or right in the middle of han­
dling their addictive problem. Using the diagnostic 
method of discerning truth from falsehood, we tested 
the proposition that "The drug has the power to 
create this higher experience," and universally, one 416 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
hundred percent of the people went weak with that 
statement, proving that it is a lie. The drug has no 
power whatsoever. Then we presented them with an 
opposite concept and had everybody in the class hold 
in mind the thought that "The drug blocks off the 
energy fields that are coming from the ego self and 
allows me to experience the joyfulness of that which 
is my real Self. " Instantly, everybody in the class went 
strong, indicating that the statement is true. The truth is that the drug has no power whatso­
ever to create these experiences, but it does have the 
pharmacological capacity to block off the negative 
energy fields, allowing a person to at least get into 
the ballpark. Of course, it is not the real state of Bliss 
that is experienced by the person who has earned it 
through their own progressive spiritual work, but at 
least it is similar to that experience. Feeling the energy 
that is closer to the truth of one's own being allows 
us to utilize this knowledge now in understanding 
recovery from addictions. When a person seeks treatment for an addiction, 
they are usually at the bottom of the Map of 
Consciousness and filled with self-hatred, hopeless­
ness, despair, regret, and despondency. The energy 
field of apathy, hopelessness, and despair is one in 
which the person cannot help themselves. Hopeless 
means just that. For example, the president of a county 
bar association literally died of starvation while living 
alone in a rooming house. He was addicted to a com­
bination of Valium and alcohol. He never picked up 
the phone to call anybody for help. A person of that 
caliber has many friends, all of whom would have 417 ALCOHOLISM 
dropped everything to help him, but he·felt there was 
no point in making the phone call because there was 
no hope. That hopelessness of one's condition often 
expresses itself as "My case is different; my case is dif­
ferent," meaning "You may well recover from this, but 
my case is hopeless. " Out of this apathy and hopelessness in which God 
is dead for the person,all we can do is pour energy into 
them. The process going on in consciousness is that of 
the loss of energy. The person is de-energized, as was 
the woman who was rocking back and forth in her 
rocking chair, staring blankly out the window. Reason 
has no effect. We saw that when the telegram arrived 
from the Department of Defense saying the death of 
her son was a mistake. Her energy field did not change. She kept right on rocking back and forth, staring out 
the window. The answer is to pour energy into that 
person through our concern, lovingness, physical pres­
ence, nutrition, and every possible way in order to 
move them up to the next energy field of Grief. Grief has to do with the past, and when the person 
comes out of a blank, shock-like state, they begin to 
cry and regret the loss that all the addiction has 
cost them. There is regret, along with a feeling of 
self-pity and sorrow for the fact that they are in a 
rehabilitation facility or in the space they are in life. They are sad about life and their addiction and feel 
completely neglected by God. At this level there is regret about the past, so we 
move the person's energy field up to the next level, 
which is one of Fear. At this point, the person begins 
to fear the addiction, aided by worry and anxiety. 418 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Fear has to do with the future. The person is no 
longer in an inflated state of denial; on the contrary, 
they are deflated. The world looks frightening, and 
they may feel that God is punishing them for their 
past sins. They misinterpret the addiction as a pun­
ishment and fear more punishment and further loss 
in the future. But the energy of each thing can move 
one up to the energy of the next. The person moves 
out of fear of the addiction into the desire for some­
thing better than being a victim or wanting and 
craving. This moves them up to Anger. Anger has a lot of useful energy in it, not the 
form of anger itself but the energy of anger in which 
the person becomes angry over their predicament in 
life and being the victim. This anger can be used in a 
constructive way as a turning point away from 
defeatism. Better than hopelessness is the pride in 
doing something about it by taking action and begin­
ning to move up into caring for oneself and one's 
position, and then moving up to the next. energy 
field of Courage. The courage to tell the truth is crucial in the 
addictions. We see the powerful effect of the first of 
the twelve steps in AA-the admission that one is 
powerless over alcohol or drugs-which now allows 
for the capacity to face, cope, handle, and be appro­
priate. It represents re-empowerment; The world is 
then seen as an opportunity, and for the first time, 
there is the benefit of an open mind, and the truth 
now has a way to enter the mind. Pride can be utilized 
to move the person up into Courage and to look at 
the facts. Doing so provides encouragement to move 419 ALCOHOLISM 
up to the next position, that of letting go of resisting 
the facts and being released from that resistance in 
order to begin to view the world as an okay place. This allows one to utilize and experience inner free­
dom to explore, expand, and then move up to the 
willingness to say yes, join in the exploration, and 
agree to align with it. The person thus develops the 
capacity to see the whole rehabilitative process in a 
world that is friendly. Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery pro­
grams are then viewed as promising and hopeful, 
and the person feels that perhaps they will recover. Acceptance is a very powerful energy field where 
one realizes the power to make these decisions. Confidence, a feeling of adequacy, and transforma­
tion occur through experiencing that the world is 
harmonious. On the one hand, it has presented the 
person with a problem, but on the other hand, it has 
also provided the answer. That which is a merciful 
God proVides the solutions, so although one may 
have an addiction,there are hundreds of thousands 
of people around who have found the answers and 
are only too willing to be helpful. With surrender, the world begins to look friendly, 
harmonious, merciful, helpful, and hopeful, and it 
offers acceptance. With the letting go of the resist­
ance and denial, an energy field of lovingness 
emerges. The person then commits to an energy field 
that is healing by joining one of the twelve-step 
groups whose energy is innately healing. (AA cali­
brates at 540. ) The person's willingness to align with 
it and accept the healing is essential. Through that 420 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
willingness then comes acceptance. The truth about 
this is accepting the necessity to be in an energy field 
that is nurturing, supportive, understanding, and 
unconditionally loving. In that field, people know 
they are in a safe space. To remain aligned with that 
ensures their survival. With that experience come the 
joyfulness and the beginning of experiencing an 
inner serenity and seeing the perfection and oneness 
of the energy field of which one is now an integral 
part. It is the willingness to tell the truth that moves 
one up through this very critical level. The ftrst step of the twelve-step program is the 
willingness to admit the truth that one is powerless 
over alcohol or drugs and that alcohol or drugs are 
making one's life unmanageable. The second step 
then becomes very signillcant in that the'restoring us 
to sanity' is by a power greater than oneself. Thereby 
does the ego surrender to God (as the self surrenders 
to the power of the Self). We look at joy and bliss and see that the energy 
field starts at about 500 and runs all the way up to 
600. That fteld is like a powerful electromagnet 
pulling one back into wanting to re-experience that 
experience in consciousness. Therefore, to handle it, 
something with equal power will be needed to 
replace it. The second step is really the intuitive 
knowing that something greater than the ego or the 
limited small self is going to be needed to handle the 
attraction of such a powerful energy fteld. The third step is the decision that comes out of 
that, which is the surrendering and willingness to 
turn one's life over to God, as one understands Him. 421 ALCOHOLISM 
Out of willingness itself, the God of one's own under­
standing is already a friend-a promising, merciful, 
and responsive God. The willingness to be trusting 
sources the element offaith, so the third step of deep 
surrender really moves one into alignment with the 
energy field of 540 and above. The rest of the twelve 
steps now makes sense from the viewpoint of the 
levels of consciousness as we have looked at them. The fourth step says to honestly look within one­
self to discover any defects of character and to take a 
fearless moral inventory, which entails the willingness 
to look at and own all that was negative in one's life. Then follows the fifth step, a very healing step by 
which to· admit to oneself, to God, and to another 
human being the exact nature of one's wrongs. That 
step changes the energy field and removes the nega­
tive charge from it. Taking off the negativity has not 
changed the history, but the way it is held has 
changed, making inoperative that which previously 
had the capacity to corrode and destroy. Bill Wilson, 
the founder ofAA, used to say that the correct attitude 
about the past is a decent regret, which is quite differ­
ent from self-hatred, shame, or wallowing in guilt. Instead, one then comes from the heart. Bill used to 
say that AA is the language of the heart and from the 
heart, which heals with its humor, acceptance, light­
ness, and willingness to heal the past. The healing then proceeds out of step five and is 
expressed in restitution in steps six through nine, 
which are really the reparative steps. In those steps, 
the person takes responsibility to actually do some­
thing in the world to repair any damage that is 422 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
repairable and to mend whatever fences can be 
mended so it is not just a mental intellectual exercise. It becomes real and relieves the guilt about what one 
has done in the past. To the best of one's ability, one 
goes back into the world and tries to repair the dam­
ages that have been done to the degree that they are 
repairable. Step ten then says that taking responsibility for. the content of one's own consciousness and having 
the willingness to clean it up then becomes a way of 
life on a daily basis. The daily inventory makes note of 
what was lacking in· integrity, where one could have 
done better, and where one could have been more 
loving. Step ten is owning responsibility for the 
process of spiritual progress and committing to it as a 
way of life. Step eleven is interesting because it says if one has 
thoroughly done steps one through ten, one will 
reconnect with something that was sought in the first 
place through drugs and alcohol. It says that prayer 
and meditation will increase consciousness contact 
with God as He is understood, asking only for knowl­
edge of His will and the power to carry it out. Step eleven does not say, "We begin"; it says that 
conscious contact has already happened. It occurs 
through internal surrender and honest commitment 
to lovingness and Self as a lifestyle. One connects 
with God through the heart because that which is 
Divine, that which is God, and that which is love are 
all the same thing. By commitment to lovingness as a 
lifestyle, as a way of being in the world to the best of 
our ability, we reconnect with some rock-like, joyful 423 ALCOHOLISM 
inner experience that was similar to what we sought 
through alcohol and drugs in the first place. Step twelve reveals what the whole addictive 
process is about and what its nature is in the field of 
consciousness. Step twelve says that having had a 
spiritual awakening as a result of the steps and 
becoming conscious is a result of the entire addictive 
experience. One now has the capacity to carry this 
message to others and express it in one's entire life. The twelfth step tells us that the whole purpose of 
the addictive process was to. awaken us and move us 
up from one level of consciousness to another; to go 
from being asleep and unaware to being awake, con­
scious, aware, and responsible; to move from being 
unconscious, irresponsible, and the helpless victim to 
owning ourselves as being spiritually responsible for 
the happiness within our life. This precludes putting the source of happiness 
outside of oneself. Instead, one realizes that the 
source of happiness is the same as the source of life 
and comes from responsibly owning oneself as a spir­
itually aware person. There is now a different context within which to 
hold the whole addictive process of movement, of 
increasing consciousness and awareness, so that 
alcoholism and drugs then require a person to 
become more awake in order to survive. These dis­
eases are progressively fatal, and the only way to 
recover from them is to become progressively spiritu­
ally aware and more conscious. Life itself depends on 
becoming conscious via major self-confrontation with 
something that the higher Self has picked that will 424 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
force one to grow because there is no turning back. The only options are to surrender one's will to God or 
go insane and die. There is no reprogramming of the 
brain cells once they are programmed. There is not 
enough room on the tightrope to turn around and 
change one'. s mind. Once one is into the addictive 
alcoholic process, there is no turning back. There is 
only confrontation with owning the truth about one's 
self. Recovery depends on accepting that process, 
moving joyfully into it, and being grateful. Now it is understandable why speakers at AA 
meetings say they are grateful that they are alco­
holics. To the newcomer, this indeed sounds like mad­
ness. Grateful. How could one be grateful that one 
has become addicted or an alcoholic. Because that 
forced one to grow and become conscious. It forced 
one to become aware and therefore grateful for the 
process. At first one resents and resists it, but then 
one actually accepts and agrees with it. One begins 
to love and experience joy and finally achieves that 
state called serenity. There is an inner knowingness that this was one's 
destiny-the way of doing it, and the way that was 
chosen-which results in the awareness that one 
never could have reached this great understanding by 
any other way. Some people just have to experience it 
this way. The ego has to hit bottom in order surrender 
and find God. For those who do, great gratitude comes 
about, along with a greater understanding of the 
nature of consciousness itself. Those who surrender 
to God receive the gifts of God. CHAPTER 14 
Cancer 
Thus far, we have been talking about the utilization of 
basic laws of mind and consciousness when 
approaching illnesses such as heart disease, depres­
sion, alcoholism, and drug addiction. All of these are 
serious confrontations that require us to change our 
view of reality and what it really is. This information 
is addressed especially to patients with cancer, fami­
lies of people with cancer, people who fear they 
might have cancer, and people who are in treatment 
with cancer. We will present a holistic approach to healing and 
again will be talking about body, mind, and spirit. We 
are not saying that the treatment has to be a traditional 
one or an alternate one, but we are saying that it 
should include both because true healing requires the 
larger dimension, which includes physical, mental, 
and spiritual aspects, with due regard for inherent 
human limitation. All the patients or people I have known who have 
recovered from these chronic, very serious diseases 
(many of whom were given up as hopeless by their 
physicians and the medical community) have done so 
by exploring the greater defmition of the truth of 
reality of that which they are, and by exploring that 
realm of human knowledge called'spiritual'. What is that relationship between body, mind, and 
spirit. It is not just a catch phrase but something real 
we can work with in everyday life and see actual 
results. Those friends walking around who have 
recovered from all these fatal illnesses are living evi­
425 426 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
dence that we can recover from just about any dis­
ease known to mankind. As shared in earlier chapters, I have had a number 
of chronic, intractable illnesses. Although they were 
treatable (some of the symptoms were handled), the 
diseases did not improve. In fact, they got progressively 
worse. Despite traditional medical treatment, I was 
merely holding the line on a few and losing it on several 
others. It was through exploring the greater dimension 
and the field called consciousness and how they related 
to self-healing that recovery from all these illnesses 
occurred. Once time I had gout and a high uric acid level. After I learned that the body only does what is held in 
mind and began to change what I was holding in 
mind, then the body's chemistry literally began to 
change. I learned that all the atoms, cells, elements, 
electrons, and all ofwhich the body is made are influ­
enced by consciousness. This understanding is very 
important in the approaches we use in the treatment 
of cancer. The relationship between body, mind, and spirit is 
that the body reflects what is held in mind, which in 
turn reflects one's spiritual position. It is necessary to 
know where all human experience takes place 
because if we address that level, we will be address­
ing the most powerful level. Ifthe physical is the con­
sequence of the mental, and the mental is the conse­
quence of the spiritual, then we need to address it in 
the area called consciousness. Clinically, this is true. People who address the level of consciousness itself 
may even witness transformation in their bodies with­CANCER 427 
out even having to address the body directly with any 
medical approach. We need to know where experience is experi­
enced and let go of some of the common illusions 
that people hold in mind because they just have not 
looked into the matter. We will repeat the basic 
process: The body itself is incapable of experiencing 
itself. For example, our hands cannot experience 
themselves, their existence, their position in space, or 
even sensations. They have no capacity to do so. This 
is because of something greater than the physical 
body, which we call mind. All the physical things that 
go on with the body, including sensations, are experi­
enced in the greater dimension called mind. It is in 
mind that the experience of the body takes place. Curiously enough, however, the mind itself has 
no capacity to experience itself. A thought is just an 
energy form and has no capacity to experience its 
own thoughtness. A feeling has no capacity to experi­
ence its own feelingness, and an emotion cannot be 
experienced other than via mind itself. In turn, it is 
held within an energy field that is greater than mind, 
that of consciousness itself, which has no dimension, 
limitation, or form. Because of consciousness, we are aware of what 
goes on in mind. Even consciousness itself is not suf­
ficient. Within the energy field of consciousness is a 
very high frequency of vibration, analogous to light 
itself, called awareness. Out of awareness arises a 
knowingness of what is going on within conscious­
ness, which reports what is going on within mind, and 
it, in turn, reports what is going on with the physical 428 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
body. We can see that the physical body itself is sev­
erallevels removed from that which is the most real 
and therefore the most powerful. We find that the 
energy of thought is far more powerful than the 
energy levels of the physical body. In previous chapters, we have described a number 
of techniques that can bring about self-healing. In 
discussing the nature of consciousness itself, we will 
create a context for ourselves so that the self-healing 
modalities to be described later will begin to make 
sense. First, we need to learn how to hold and think of 
the experience of having a life-threatening illness 
such as cancer. There are two ways to go about it. We 
can go up or we can go down. Any kind of confronta­
tion, such as a death in the family, any kind of serious 
illness, or a setback in a person's life presents a 
choice. We can go down into feeling sorry for our­
selves as a victim. We can go down into self-pity, 
depression, and despair, or we can see it as a chal­
lenge and an opportunity. These confrontations come up repeatedly in our 
lives until we seize the opportunity and realize they 
are a springboard to greater awareness. Why is this so. It is because the ordinary events in life do not have 
the power or the energy. It takes maximum duress for 
people to stop in their tracks and begin to question 
the realities of all the things they have believed up to 
this point. The mind ordinarily will not undertake the 
expenditure of energy to reorient itself to get a new, 
different point of view about life and what it yields 
unless it has to. As a result, this necessary growth will CANCER 429 
usually only happen when we are up against a major 
confrontation. The first thing to understand about cancer or 
other serious illness is that the purpose of this major 
confrontation is for us to grow and grow rapidly as 
fast as we can because we have a certain time limit 
with terminal illnesses. Things that the mind says are 
fatal or terminal become fatal and terminal because of 
the power of the mind. Ifthe mind thinks an illness is 
fatal and terminal, it will be so, subject, however, to 
karmic destiny. This illustrates the power of belief sys­
tems. The most important message is that no one needs 
to succumb to or be the victim of any illness. I count 
among my friends many people who have conquered 
nearly every illness known to mankind thus far. The 
only reason I can write of these things today is 
because I myself did exactly the same thing in my per­
sonallife. If I had not, I would have hemorrhaged to 
death from a variety of illnesses, all of which went 
into remission. The perfection that is held in mind then reflects 
itself in the progressive perfection of the body and its 
letting go of disease. We have to understand that the 
body itself expresses what is held in consciousness. It 
is merely an expression of the mind and a reflector of 
what we hold consciously or unconsciously. A person 
may look back in his mind and say, "Well, I don't 
remember thinking about such a thing. " If one does 
not remember thinking about something, all one has 
to do is look to see if it is in one's life. It may have 
originated from the collective consciousness of 430 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
mankind or may have been silently programmed by 
even a television advertisement. To help create a different context and way of look­
ing at life and experience, we will again refer to the 
Map of Consciousness from which we can under­
stand all the principles of self-healing. At tWs point, 
we may realize that we are not the same person we 
were when we saw the Map for the first time. Every 
time we go over it, it is sort of like 'freight-train learn­
ing'. We learn it through familiarity. The left brain is 
linear and logical and learns things sequentially in a 
piecemeal fashion. The right brain circles over a situa­
tion, and by shear repetitious exposure and familiarity 
basically understands the whole thing. We are going to be discussing phenomena that are 
in the subconscious, somewhere in the periphery of 
the mind, phenomena that we actually already know 
about. We are going to pull them together and syn­
chronize them in a useful way. Referring to the Map of Consciousness, it repre­
sents the human ego, the self with a small's' that peo­
ple refer towhen theysay,"I,""me,"or"myself. "The self 
is that collection of concepts, impressions, opinions, 
feelings (conscious and unconscious), the totality of 
what makes up what a person sees when they say,"I," 
"me," or "myself. " Shown on the Map are various levels of energy, or 
consciousness, starting at the very lowest and going 
up to the very highest. They have all been calibrated 
through the research we have done. We first found the 
direction of the energy field. The fields from Courage 
and below go downward, indicating that they are CANCER 431 
destructive and do not support life. The levels from Courage on up show that the 
energy goes upward. Love is near the top of the scale 
and, in contrast, Guilt and self-hatred are at the bot­
tom. Understanding the energy fields, their relative 
powers, and whether they are constructive or 
destructive, is very helpful. For example, in medical 
treatment, we hold the medication in our hand and 
have someone test our muscle strength to see if the 
medication is good for us or not. If the medication is 
not beneficial, our arm will go weak; if it is good for 
us, our arm will go strong. This is a way to find out if 
a recommended treatment will be helpful. It is necessary to learn about the energy fields 
because they are infmitely related to cancer and cancer 
research. All are extremely important because the 
body, mind, and spirit are all actually expressions of 
consciousness. Therefore, if it is a negative energy 
field, it is destructive to all aspects of oneself, right 
down to the biochemical level. All we have to do is 
look at the Map to see what emotion is involved in 
order to know what our energy field is. In looking at 
self-pity, for example, we can see that we are now in 
a negative energy field that calibrates at 50, which is 
very weak compared to Love at 500. We can see that it is very important to let goof 
negative energy and negative thoughts. The negative 
energy of the feeling or thought transmits itself to the 
body's acupuncture energy system through the 
twelve meridians and translates itself directly into the 
body's organs and cells. If we hate someone, the cells 
of the body get the energy of hate. Anger has the 432 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
capacity to change the energy field within the body 
itself as well as the power to actually change the phys­
iological programming within the body. The mind has enormous power over every aspect 
of the body's functions, right down to the smallest 
molecule and atom. It has been discovered that every 
atom and every molecule within the body is influ­
enced by consciousness levels and beliefs. Every 
physiological and chemical transaction that goes on 
in the body is the result of a blueprint of it within 
consciousness. All of them can be changed by chang­
ing consciousness. The placebo response is illustrative of the power 
of mind over body. Research over the decades has 
demonstrated that approximately one-third of 
patients will improve or recover when they believe 
that a particular pill is curative. That is why many really 
inert nostrums (questionable remedies) continue to 
be sold to the public because at least approximately 
thirty-three percent of the people will give testimony 
to experiential benefit. Also easily observed is the 
'nocebo' effect whereby a negative belief system can 
result in ill effects. That is the mechanism whereby 
about one-third of patients may report side effects 
from the same medication from which the positive 
responders report good effects. Plain sugar pills will 
result in many claims that they resulted in headache, 
nausea, indigestion, dizziness, insomnia, somnolence, 
and more. Then there is the one-third of patients who 
are refractory and report neither benefits nor side 
effects. Thus arises the old adage in clinical practice 
that one third gets well, one-third gets worse, and one­CANCER 433 
third stays the same no matter what the doctor does. As mentioned elsewhere, the power of belief is most 
dramatically demonstrated with hypnosis by which 
illnesses or symptoms can easily be brought about 
merely by suggestion. The information presented is shared not only from 
clinical experience but also from the experience of 
friends and associates, as well as personal experience 
with my own physical health. I watched my body 
chemistry literally change as I began to change what 
I was holding about it within my mind and conscious­
ness. The basic principle essential to healing from all 
illnesses, no matter what they are, is that we are pri­
marily only subject to what we hold in mind. It is the mind's belief systems that give power to 
that which subsequently manife~ts in the physical 
world. The physical body is an expression ofwhat we 
have inherited plus what we ha~e been holding in 
mind, either consciously or unconsciously. People will 
often say they do not remember holding such a 
thought; however, there is what Dr. Carl Jung called 
the 'collective consciousness' that holds the thought 
form. Unconsciously we buy into it and give energy to 
a negative belief system without ever remembering it 
or being consciously aware of it (e. g. , via the media). With cancer, much emotional energy has been 
given to it by the popular mind-all the fear associated 
with it, all the negative connotations, and all the 
thought forms. Therefore, we hold fear itself, which is 
a negative energy field. If we are holding a lot of 
unconscious fear, it now opens the door to bring into 
our mind unconsciously those things that are fearful, 434 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
including cancer. Without ever having believed that 
we are susceptible to cancer, we may discover, as it is 
occurring within the body, that we have unWittingly 
bought into this collective belief system in terms of 
thought forms. In looking further at these energy fields, we can 
see that the energy field called Guilt is at the bottom 
ofthe Map and calibrates at 30. The emotion that goes 
with Guilt is that of self-hatred. A great deal of 
research into the psychological and psychosomatic 
importance of cancer has revealed that there is often 
a good deal of unconscious self-hatred, self-condem­
nation, and lack of acceptance of one's humanness at 
a deep level. There is a difference between treating, curing, and 
healing. It is possible to treat an illness and its symp­
toms in order to bring about an amelioration, or the 
capacity to live with the illness. As mentioned previ­
ously, for many years I had migraine headaches, duo­
denal ulcers, gout, hypoglycemia, circulatory prob­
lems, Raynaud's disease, Grave's disease, diverticulitis, 
and more, as described elsewhere. All these illnesses 
came about as the result of belief§ystems and were 
also accompanied to some degree by unconscious 
guilt. We have found that unconscious guilt accompa­
nies all illnesses, no matter what they may be. If we have a physical illness, we can just presume 
correctly that there is unconscious guilt. Without the 
unconscious guilt, the disease cannot actually be pres­
ent because that which is destructive and accompa­
nied by self-hatred can operate only in a negative 
energy field. That is the secret of healing. CANCER 435 
An analogy is that certain bacteria will only grow 
in a culture medium under certain conditions, such as 
a specific temperature, a certain amount of light, and 
ambient conditions. If the conditions are changed, 
then the bacteria cannot live in the petri dish any 
longer and will disappear. Therefore, that which is 
destructive and which the unconscious needs for its 
process of destruction can continue only in a nega­
tive energy field that allows the negative energy of 
destruction to take place. That is a clue to healing. In nature, the rotation of an energy field is decisive. For example, with a drug, the chemical effect of a 
molecule is dependent on whether it spins to the right 
or to the left. We will use dextroamphetamine sulfate as 
an example, 'dextro', meaning 'to the right'. This drug is 
so-called'speed', with the effect of weight loss, the feel­
ing of high excitability, grinding one's teeth, and finally, 
manic attacks. Levoamphetamine ('levo', meaning 'to 
the left') sulfate has no such effect whatsoever. It is the 
same molecule, but the rotation is in the opposite 
direction. Obviously, all we need to do to heal ourselves is to 
move from the negative energy field into a positive 
one. Self-healing is really so simple. It amounts to 
changing the predominant energy field within our 
consciousness from negative to positive. The question 
then arises, how do we do that. Now that we are aware of the physics, science, 
metaphysics, and emotional truth of it, along with the 
medical, psychiatric, and holistic viewpoints, we can 
understand why we should let go of these emotions. It is not for the purpose of becoming a 'goody goody' 436 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
person, but because hanging on to them is potentially 
destructive or even lethal. We have previously mentioned the muscle­
strength testing method. With this process, we can 
test somebody's strength, which shows that when 
they hold negative thoughts in mind, they go weak. When they go weak, it means there is an impairment 
of the acupuncture system, which is connected to the 
various body organs. There are also changes in the 
chemical and reproductive patterns of the cells. The only opportunity to heal anything is to move 
out of the negative energy field into a positive one. The power of the healing increases with a higher, 
more positive energy. That is why holistic approaches 
have worked where medical science has not been 
able to effect a cure. Without having the benefit of 
this knowledge, I would have died many years ago of 
a fatal digestive disease that reversed itself right at the 
point ofdeath. It is essential to understand that letting 
go of guilt is crucial to the recovery from any serious 
disease, especially cancer, where guilt, lack of self­
esteem, and the presence of self~hatred and fear have 
such an overriding influence. The next energy field above this (which is accom­
panied by hopelessness and despair) is calledApathy, 
in the energy field of 50. One has a hopeless view of 
the world at this level and allows oneself to be over­
taken by self-pity and hopelessness. One becomes a 
victim of the energy field that favors a progression of 
the cancer. The field above that is Grief. When people fIrst get 
a diagnosis, especially ifthey are younger people, they CANCER 437 
will naturally ask, "Why me. "They go into regret and 
a feeling of loss and despondency. The world and life 
now begin to look sad, and they become the victim of 
this energy field. 'Energy field' is repeated because it 
is important to see one's own innocence in this matter. It is because of this innocence that we allow our­
selves to be run by this energy field. The stage above Grief is Fear, which is also very 
prevalent in patients who develop cancer. Fear, with a 
very negative energy, has more power now in an 
energy field of 100. The world and life look frighten­
ing from this field, and God begins to look punitive. What kind of God would give us cancer. The process 
of life itself begins to feel deflated. A person is 
tempted to become dispirited, de-energized, to give 
in to the destructiveness, and unconsciously allow 
the disease to progress. We have a choice to desire something better for 
ourselves than being victims. All the people I know 
who recovered from serious illnesses did not settle 
for being victims. They all began to desire something 
better for themselves. They thought there must be a 
better way, so they began to research and look outside 
the traditional medical model. They began to say, 
"Well, Doctor, is that all you have to offer. It is going 
to take more than that to heal it. " Out of their desire and anger, they began to ask,"Is 
there something else that can heal me. " This shows 
that the energy fields of these emotions can be used 
in a constructive way. The answer to their question is, 
of course, "Yes. " They begin to take pride and now 
move up to a very decisive point called Courage, 438 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
which is in the energy field of 200 and has many 
times more energy than Fear. More importantly, the 
direction of the energy field has changed from nega­
tive to neutral. The energy field that surrounds the human body 
is like an antenna, and when it is tuned to the nega­
tive, it draws to itself that which is destructive. The 
body, being right in the way of that destructive energy 
field, gets hit by it. Because of the negativity and 
destruction hitting the body and expressing itself 
through the body, in this case as cancer, we become 
aware of the fact that some error is involved. It occurs 
to us to start looking to see where it is. Perhaps the 
error is in the way we have been holding life and our 
belief systems, and in the way we think about ourself. At the level of Courage, we begin to have an open 
mind. Our view of the world begins to change, and we 
move up to a world of opportunity where the doors 
start to open. Before this, the mind is closed. It thinks 
it knows the answer, but once we have the courage, 
the mind begins to open and say, 'TIl bet there are 
answers I don't even know about. In fact, I don't even 
know the right questions to ask. " The minute we 
begin to open ourselves up, we become empowered 
and have the courage to have an open mind. At level 
200, we have the capacity to face the truth and begin 
to take responsibility for it. Victims do not take responsibility and instead say, 
"Well,you know, the reason I got this is because ofthe 
bacteria," or,"The reason Igotthis isthevirus;'or,"The 
reason I have this is because of the cancer cells. " It is 
always something outside themselves and their con­CANCER 439 
sciousnesses that they become the victims of it. When 
we open our minds, we can get to own that we may 
have had something to do with it, and that what is 
happening in our life is related to something we have 
been holding in mind, often unconsciously. The energy field right above Courage is called 
Neutral. At this level, the arrow goes upward, and the 
energy field has jumped up to 250. The emotional 
state is called detached, or nonattached. One experi­
ences the okayness of life and a new and greater free­
dom, even with serious situations because all events 
call for the same need to confront the truth within 
oneself and ascertain what one's position is about 
that, including fatalism. Fatalism is an idea we had in the military service 
during World War II about the bullet-if it was meant 
for us, it had our name on it, so there was no point in 
being afraid of bullets because if it didn't have our 
name on it, it was not going to hit us anyway. That can 
be expressed as 'karma'. Whatever is going to be is 
destiny. Karma is the way it is supposed to be, so the 
fatalistic position gives us a certain peace of mind; we 
are detached. When the person with cancer reaches 
that point, they say, "Well, look. If I survive, I survive, 
and if I don't, I don't. You know what I mean. I'm 
doing the best I can. IfI make it, I make it. If I don't, I 
don't, and I'm prepared to go either way" (Le. , resig­
nation to God's Will-from dust we arise and then 
return). We accept the fact that protoplasm is intrinsi­
cally temporary. That is certainly a far more comfortable position 
than to be in Grief about it, or have self-pity, anger, 440 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
resentment, arrogance, or denial. People may also 
deny that they have the cancer. They will come up 
with a thought that it has been cured without having 
done the work necessary to bring it about as a reality 
in their life. It is sort of magical thinking. When we move above that to a willingness and a 
friendly view of the world where we see life as chal­
lenging and hopeful, we discover, "Yes, there are 
answers. Yes, there are lots of people walking around 
who have had terminal, even fatal (hopeless) diseases 
of all kinds, including cancer. " In this situation, we have introduced the intention 
to create our power, to prove our power, including 
accepting the fact that yes, we can let go of this ill­
ness, and yes, there are healing modalities. This is a 
harmonious world in which there are lots of people 
who have recovered from this illness and are very 
happy to share with us the truth that they have recov­
ered. This is because they have experienced God as 
being merciful. The people in the energy fields at the bottom of 
the Map of Consciousness frequently conceive of God 
as punitive, or they do not believe in God. They 
believe in self-pUnishment in one form or another, or 
in pain and suffering. Feeling adequate and confidant that yes, there is 
an answer begins the transformation in conscious­
ness. It moves us up to the willingness to become the 
energy field called Love. This is a crucial level because 
the energy field of Love is the one that heals, as exem­
plified by all those organizations that are famous for 
their capacity to heal, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, CANCER 441 
A Course in Miracles, faith-based recovery groups, and 
others. There are also spontaneous remissions and recov­
eries from almost every hopeless, progressive, chronic, 
intractable disease for which there is no scientific 
cure, and for which medicine has admitted there is no 
cure. We know that there are millions of people walk­
ing around who have totally recovered from just the 
illness of alcoholism alone. In fact, their lives were 
transformed because the affliction was used as a 
springboard to a greater consciousness, a greater 
awareness, and as a way to move into a commitment 
to that which is loving because the nature of it is 
unconditional love. It is not the conditional love of"I 
will love you if you will do this or do that. "To move 
into unconditional love begins a process called reve­
lation, which starts the release of certain chemicals 
called endorphins within the mind and the brain. All these energy. fields have within the mind and 
the brain concomitant changes in the enzymes. There 
are neurotransmitter changes, a release and opening 
of whole banks of neurons. Therefore, the person is 
moved into the healing energy field of lovingness and 
has at their fingertips the utilization of millions and 
millions of neurons that people in a negative emotional 
state do not have at their disposal. (See the Brain 
Function and Physiology Chart, Chapter 3. ) These are 
assets. To move into the energy field of Unconditional 
Love then starts the healing process. We found that 
healing occurs at an energy field that calibrates at 
about 540, which is the energy field of the heart. How do we bring about the self-healing. We have 442 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
to let go of a number of things, the first being uncon­
scious guilt. We have to discover how to unearth what 
we feel guilty about, so we begin a self-questioning 
process. A person is fearful when they do this. They 
say, "Well, if I start opening Pandora's Box, I'm going 
to be swamped by all the negativity and guilt that I 
have depressed, repressed, and pushed out of aware­
ness all my life. " It is obvious that we need some kind of tool, some 
kind of practical way to process these things as they 
come up. To begin with, we need a context, a way in 
which to hold all that comes up in this self-investiga­
tive process that is the realization of what has been 
the basis of all our behavior for all our life. Within the 
appropriate context for holding the realizations as 
they come up, the guilt is automatically wiped out by 
a higher understanding that results in forgiveness for 
ourself and others 
We need to realize that we have committed exactly 
one'sin' throughout our lives, and it is the same'sin' 
over and over again. The'sin' is that everything we 
have ever done (our intentions and purposes) was 
consequent to the naive and basically innocent 
thought that it would bring about happiness. It is very. important to know this and to realize that what we 
did at the time was because we thought it was neces­
sary for our survival, and that our survival was neces­
sary for our happiness. Wanting happiness is the basis for all human emo­
tions, is it not. In fact, the basic premise, the basic and 
most primitive illusion of all, is that the body is the 
source of our happiness. Therefore, the fear of death CANCER 443 
is really, "If I lose the body, I will lose the source of 
happiness. I will lose consciousness itself. " People who are spiritually aware no longer identify 
their reality as the physical body. Ifwe are awareness, 
or consciousness itself (out of which comes the 
knowingness of what is happening with mind and 
body), then the bQdy is the bottom rung on the ladder. We need to let go of the negative emotions and to 
stop suppressing and repressing them. The tool for 
doing that is to let go of resisting them as they come 
up to our awareness. It is important to keep our eye on the fact that 
consciousness within itself is basically innocent. The 
nature of'Consciousness is the innocence of the child. How did we begin to believe the things we did as we 
grew older. We look at the child and see how inno­
cent and trusting it is; it is completely lacking in guile. We know its motivations are pure, at least in our 
understanding of purity. This primary innocence becomes the conscious­
ness of the adult because the programs that the child 
buys into are actually programmable due to the very 
nature of innocence itself. Because the child is inno­
cent and trusting, it begins to buy and believe every­
thing it hears, including all the thoughts that later 
express themselves as cancer-all the thoughts hav­
ing to do with self-condemnation and fear, and all the 
thoughts of rejecting oneself for the various expres­
sions of the limitations of humanness. To heal cancer, we need a willingness to heal our­
selves by means of compassion, which comes from 
our greater, higher Self. There is the understanding 444 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that, out of innocence, all these weaknesses came out 
of the belief system that expressed itself in daily life 
as the thought that ifwe do this or we have that, then 
we will be happy. Grief or loss affects us because we 
thought that something was going to be a source of 
happiness, and we are regretting what we see as that 
source. We get angry because some obstacle stands 
between us and our intentions, what we want, and 
what we consider to be the source of our happiness. The anger then results in further guilt. Referring again to the Map of Consciousness, we 
can ask, "What is the illusion held in consciousness 
that is now expressing itself in the form of cancer. " All these levels from Courage on down bring about 
the negative energy field in which the cancer can 
grow. The illusion is that we all thought the source of 
happiness is something outside ourselves, that some­
thing outside ourselves has the power to make us 
happy. However, the minute we give away our power 
and project it outside ourselves, we are in a negative 
energy field and set ourselves up as victims. An unconscious purpose of the ego is to prove 
that we are a victim, and the test of cancer is whether 
or not we will continue to go along with this and buy 
into it as do many people in the world. The ego would 
rather be right, even ifit costs us our life, than to give 
up the position that it is the innocent victim and the 
perpetrator is something outside itself. (This is the 
core paradigm of victimology. ) Once we see and own our true innocence, we 
don't need the pseudoinnocence of victimhood 
because there isno Victim. There was onlya beliefsys­CANCER 445 
tern in the first place that we picked up out of our 
innocence. The thought, for instance, that success brings us 
happiness is probably the most notorious belief sys­
tem. As many middle-aged businessmen who have 
become successful know, what they get out of their 
success is a daily headache and exhaustion, a number 
of lawsuits, and some greed and envy from their col­
leagues. They say to themselves, "Where is all the hap­
piness that success was supposed to bring me. Yes, it 
has brought me some pleasures, such as a nice car, 
nice clothes, a nice address, and a nice home. " But 
those things are not happiness. Worldly success does not bring about happiness. Disillusionment and the feeling of guilt come about as 
a result of feeling that we have suddenly sold our­
selves out, and that we have sold out the truth about 
ourselves. To recover from cancer or any other illness, we 
have to reconnect with our own intrinsic innocence 
and reaffirm the truth of that which we are within 
ourselves, which has been totally unaffected by all of 
life's events. We have to re-own that level of aware­
ness of self that is beyond all worldly events. Something within us remains the same, no matter 
what is going on in our life experience. Something 
has remained unchanged. It is the something that 
wakes us up the first thing in the morning-before 
we realize where we are, or what day it is, or before 
we realize what we are supposed to do today. When we wake up into that state of awareness, we 
are much closer to the truth of our own higher self. 446 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
We realize that it is totally unaffected and beyond all 
life's events. Itis only when our consciousness comes 
down into the world of concrete thought that we say, 
"Oh, yes, it's Monday. " And, "Oh, yes, I have to gO. "We 
are really leaving being close to the truth of that 
which we truly are, which is beyond all that. We re-own 
the capacity to decide what our position will be 
about life's events and all those things that bring 
about extreme duress. We can become victims of 
them, or we can see them as a springboard to tran­
scendence. The first thing to let go of is unconscious guilt. A 
Course in Miracles is a teaching of love, forgiveness, 
and the letting go of fear. Many people I know who 
have recovered from cancer, multiple sclerosis, and 
other debilitating illnesses have done so as a result of 
this particular course or others that are similar. All of 
them are designed to show us how to change our 
point of view,how to let go of condemnation of self 
and others, how to let go of guilt and fear, and how to 
move ourselves into the willingness to be loving, for­
giving, and compassionate. Out of that comes the desire to understand, so in 
self-healing, we need to almost take ourselves in our 
own arms and become compassionate and healing 
because all of us have the healer within us. We begin 
now to heal our humanness. How do we get rid of the 
ego. It is not done by making it an enemy, by trying 
to attack it, or by getting into an adversarial position 
with it but instead by loving it out of existence. We 
literally dissolve the ego through compassion, love, 
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•     Happiness originates internally,
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The acceptance that we are the source of happiness.
What is the primary source of happiness, according to the text?
The energy field of 540, which is crucial for recovery from addictions.
What is the energy field associated with the twelve-step groups of AA, and what is its significance?
To let go of resisting the truth and begin to view the world as an opportunity, rather than a threat.
What is the purpose of the third step in the twelve-step program?
It is a powerful energy field that nurtures and supports life, and is the beginning of the field of Unconditional Love.
What is the significance of the energy field of 500 and above in the healing process?
Letting go of negative emotions and beliefs, and reconnecting with our own innocence and higher self.
What is the key to self-healing, according to the text?