The person who is sad walks down the street and 
literally experiences their perception of sadness.When 
they open the newspaper, they see all there is to be sad 
about in the world and the sadness of man's condition. They see the trash on the street.They look at the elderly 
people and think how sad aging is.They feel sorry for 
the children and think how sad is the world they are 
going to have to grow up in.They know the pain oflife. They are holding so much pain that the pity expresses 88 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
itself now-how sad for these children. Those who are in the energy field of Fear see, 
experience, and create in their world the conditions 
of that which is fearful.They read the newspaper and 
see how fearful this world is-killings, murders, mug­
gings, war, and bombings. They walk down the street 
and see everything as frightening. They see the 
chances for accidents and how people can twist their 
ankles on the curb.They think there should be warn­
ing signs everywhere. The people who see this as a 
frightening world put double locks on everything. They double lock their car within their own double­
locked garages within their own double-locked yard 
in an area that has never had a robbery. The fear comes from within and projects a frighten­
ing appearance out to the world. If we have fear-col­
ored glasses, everything looks like fear, and ifwe search 
for God, we see afearful God.TheGodofafrightening 
world is one to fear. A person may move into a higher energy field of 
desiring this and wanting that, which occurs via social 
education. People at the bottom of the Map who are 
aligned with hopelessness, such as those in the Third 
World countries or segments of lower socioeconomic 
groups in our society, began to see what other people 
have when television became available. This created 
desire, which is felt in the emotional field as wanting 
and craving and is also expressed fully in the addic­
tions.The process occurring in consciousness is that of 
entrapment. Because someone wants or begins to 
desire something, they then experience this world as 
frustrating.The stress they experience is that ofendless 89 STRESS 
frustration. Wantingness can result in a person who is never 
satisfied, and no matter what they get, they always 
want something more. Ifthey do not experience fulfill­
ment of their wishes, this brings up more wishes and 
results in an endless desire for control.They see this as 
a very frustrating world, and as they walk down the 
street, they see all the things they want-the cars, the 
appurtenances, and the addresses. As they open the 
newspaper, they see more things they want.They want 
to change the world; they want to 'get'. This endless 
addiction to 'gettingness' creates endless stress that 
comes from within the self.The problem is the endless 
desire for something. When people, out of their frustration, move up to 
Anger, they then begin to experience an angry world. They are full of resentment and are boiling over with 
hatred, blame, and grievance. With a person like this, 
the suppressed energy of anger is now ready to spill 
forth in any event.They see the world as competitive. Because of the angry glasses this person wears, when 
they open the newspaper, their stomach turns with 
wrath, indignation, and anger over the events that are 
reported. Ifthey walk down the street, they see many things 
to be angry about-the condition of the street signs 
and the street in general, including the newspapers 
that are strewn all over. Looking at children and old 
folks makes them think about their situations and 
makes them angry. They live in a world of injustice, 
indignation, and competition. Ifthey own a used-car lot 
and someone down the street opens one, they look at 90 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
it as competition and think they are going to lose as a 
result. Because these people live in a win-lose world, 
their stomachs are always tense.They have not moved 
up to a higher level of harmony and cooperation; as a 
result, they don't realize that the more used-car lots on 
the street, the better business will be for everyone. To a person at the level of anger, the world 
becomes a threatening place. The God of that kind of 
universe would be the God of war. Out of their anger, 
these people with a chip on their shoulders become 
war-like and ready for combat. Their anger is ready to 
burst forth.The world is very stressful then because of 
the suppressed· anger. If someone were to bump their 
fender in a parking lot, up would come the anger, the 
cursing, and the threat of a lawsuit.They are preoccu­
pied with revenge and 'getting even' with enemies. Ifa person moves up to the level of Pride, there is 
more energy available, along with negative, destructive 
emotions. Although pride is often thought of as con­
structive, innately it is actually destructive because 
pride is denial. Its expression is really one of arrogance 
and contempt because the process occurring in con­
sciousness is that of inflation. Prideful people are then very polarized and defen­
sive in their positions and become like those who are 
angry.Their position is 'right', and they live in a world 
of right and wrong, of win or lose.Therefore, stress is 
always occurring within that person because they see 
all relationships, interactions, and transactions in terms 
of win-lose, which is about the importance of per­
ceived status and has to do with ownership. When 
these persons read the newspaper, they are seeing the 91 STRESS 
status of all that is involved, along with the status of 
the people being written about.They walk down the 
street and primarily see symbols of status-the labels 
on clothes and the addresses. All these things about 
life now become status, and these people become 
interested in who others are from a status viewpoint. All these are obviously vulnerable positions of the 
victim mentality, because all the positions below the 
level oftruth project the source ofhappiness as being 
outside oneself. Holding to these positions results in 
giving one's power away. Doing so says that the 
sources of meaning, happiness, and value are some­
thing outside oneself; they are somewhere 'out there'. These positions come from lack. "If it is out there, it is 
something I have to get. If it is something I have to 
get, it means I lack it, or that something could stand in 
my way of getting it." To live in that kind of world is to always live in 
danger and under threat because something outside 
of oneself can block the attainment of something or 
take it away. It is the world of victimhood because 
people have given away their power to the world.. It is often said that the sources of happiness and 
stress are 'out there', and thus the hope for releasing 
stress is by 'changing the world'. Stress does not exist 
in the world. Instead, it is an inner experience within 
consciousness itself. There really is no way one can 
basically change the world to relieve stress. What, 
then, can be done? We can begin to own the truth about it and have 
the courage to look at the facts.The minute we do this, 
we change the energy fields.As we move to Neutral,we 92 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
move into a more positive space. Now there is the will­
ingness to face, cope, and handle the situation, thereby 
bringing re-empowerment. That means reclaiming our 
power and living closer to the truth. The person who is at the level of Courage sees a 
world of challenge, growth, and opportunity. It is an 
exciting, fun world, a place wherein one is glad to be 
alive.That person opens the newspaper and sees all the 
tremendous opportunities for mankind to move into 
and solve and resolve problems. One sees all kinds of 
problem-solving techniques in their own mind that 
theywishto try.Theworldthenbecomes exciting, one 
of opportunity and growth in which one begins to ask, 
"Where can I fit in? Where can I start expressing myself 
and experiencing some of these opportunities?" The 
kind of God one experiences in this world of opportu­
nity is a God of open-mindedness. The open mind now 
begins to change that which is stressful. What is stress­
ful at the level of Pride perhaps becomes an object of 
curiosity and an opportunity for growth to the person 
at the level of Courage. Moving up to the next level called Neutral, the energy 
field calibrates at 250 and has much more power than 
the positions below, and the power is now being used 
in a constructive direction. It is as though at the lower 
levels, the antenna is first tuned to the negative; then it 
moves to neutral, and finally, to the positive. One then 
begins to experience life in a positive direction 
because one is the experiencer. The experience is not 
out there; it is within one's own consciousness. Ifa per­
son is willing to let go of a lot oftheir positionalities, they 
no longer need to be defensive, which is a result ofpride­93 STRESS 
fulness, importance, and the need to always be 'right'. The positions of the atheist, the bigot, or the zealot 
lead to conflict.These are based on the prideful belief 
that "my position is 'right'; therefore, your position is 
'wrong'." With the willingness to surrender that, the 
person becomes somewhat unattached. People begin 
to transcend their vulnerability to the world, and the 
process occurring in consciousness releases them.The 
world begins to look okay, and the God of such a world 
is now the God of freedom. How is that 'okayness' expressed? A person at this 
level, when on the way to a job interview, thinks, "If I 
get this job, it will be great, and ifI do not, that is okay, 
too, because there are other job opportunities I would 
really like to look at." As a result, that person is not stuck 
because they have not based their survival on anyone 
particular thing. As we move into Willingness, we add intention to 
the process of consciousness. It means a 'yesness', a 
joining, an alignment, and an agreement with life, and 
such a person begins to see the world as friendly. When 
these people at the level ofWillingness walk down the 
street,the God ofthat kind ofworld appears promising 
and hopeful. Now their experience of the newspaper 
is one of opening it up and seeing all the evidence of 
man's cooperation and struggle to solve his own prob­
lems. What another perceives as destruction, they see 
as merely the process, or the working out, of the bal­
ance of forces. When they walk down the street, they 
begin to see a friendlier world and now see people as 
friendly. Their perception has changed; and now 'old' 
people who no longer have to 'make it' in the world are 94 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
frequently seen as more open to friendliness. It is now 
simple to walk up to most older people and instantly 
strike up a conversation. Those at the level ofWillingness no longer look at 
others with a paranoid distrust or size up people to 
see where they stand in a prideful world.They begin 
to see strangers and older people as friendly, as well 
as the friendliness of young children, and find that it 
is easy to strike up a relationship with them. As we move up into Acceptance, we then begin to 
accept that we are the source of our own experience 
of life. The person who has reached this level of 
awareness has taken back the power over their own 
life and realizes that no matter where they are put, 
they are going to somehow make do. Ifthey were put 
on a desert island, a year later, they would have built 
a tree house and would be carving coconuts. If they were put in a jail cell, they would write a 
novel or maybe even sit cross-legged and go into 
meditation. Others often choose to become jailhouse 
lawyers and even get law degrees. The power to cre­
ate the experience oflife is within.These people have 
reclaimed their own power. Consequently, the God of 
that kind of world and universe of experience is now 
perceived as promising, hopeful, and merciful, and as 
a God no longer to be feared. These people now feel 
adequate and confident. Companies want to hire that kind of person to go 
out after the big contracts. That person is able to 
accept the ups and downs in the realities of life as 
well as their own limitations.A person dominated by 
pride is unable to accept limitation. When a company 95 STRESS 
says, "We would like you to go to Venezuela and close 
a deal," the person at the level of Acceptance feels 
adequate and confident and can say,"You know, I really 
do not do very well with that company, and I do not 
get along with that particular man. I would do much 
better in Belgium. I can sell twice as much there.Why 
don't you let Jim go down to Venezuela?" There is the willingness to accept how the world 
works and to avoid going into indignation. Even the IRS 
has its own way ofbeing in the world. One avoids 'right 
and wrong' and just accepts that is how it is in this 
world and goes along with it. (Acceptance is different 
from passivity.) The beginning of the transformation of 
consciousness is the realization that we are the source 
of our experiences, and therefore, the world begins to 
look more positive, harmonious, hopeful, and benign. Empowerment moves a person up to the next 
energy field of Love. What do we mean by love? It is 
not the sentimental emotionalism that emanates from 
attachment or what Hollywood depicts as love. That 
emotionalism coming out of a possessive ownership 
of the other person, the back-and-forth control and 
the power struggles that occur, the words of a song 
that say,"If you leave me, I will kill myself" are not the 
elements of Love. These are all the consequences of 
an attachment rather than real love. Unconditional Love is a way of being with life that 
nurtures, supports, and, of its own nature, is forgiving. It is the beginning of the revelation of some of the 
truths of life because, within the brain, there is a 
release of endorphins. (See Brain Function and 
Physiology chart in Chapter 1.) Endorphins allow a 96 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
certain inner state to occur, a way of being with one's 
self and one's body in the world. Consequently, the 
world starts to appear to be lovable. Such a person 
now walks down the street feeling somewhat mellow. They see the lovingness that really occurs underneath 
the apparent trivialities of life and holds all of 
mankind together. The person is moving into a higher 
energy field. To see life as harmonious and lOVing reduces stress, 
making this person less vulnerable because they are 
aligned with forgivingness. The intention of this field 
that one chooses is called lovingness, which is experi­
enced as being loving towards all things at all times, as 
loving mankind and being nurturing towards one's self. There is a difference in how people view them­
selves in contrast to the harshness of the perfectionist 
who is always at the level of stress with human nature. The person who is unforgiving, with a tendency to 
judge and condemn, carries self-hatred and guilt, and 
for that person to just breathe in and out causes a state 
of stress. If they get up late, they already hate them­
selves for getting up late.The stress stems from perfec­
tionism, inflexibility, and the propensity for self-con­
demnation, and it is internally generated. The open­
minded persons who start to be easier with themselves 
also start to be accepting of their own humanness. Forgiveness supports the mental attitude of the readi­
ness to allow for the humanness of others, which also 
allows for one's own humanness. With progressive inner spiritual work, one moves 
up to an even higher energy field of joyfulness, which 
approaches the beginning awareness of the reality that 97 STRESS 
one really is the experiencer, not the experience. One 
is then not at the effect of the world but instead real­
izes that one determines the way it is experienced. Out of inner serenity arises compassion for all of 
life. Awareness of its incredible beauty and perfection 
increases, along with experiencing the oneness and 
unity of it. Then the more evolved person opens the 
newspaper and sees and experiences the totality of 
man's lovingness. Despite the limitations of human­
ness, that which is making all the articles appear in the 
newspaper is the expression of the onward movement 
and evolution of man's consciousness. When an 
evolved person walks down the same street, they expe­
rience only the incredible beauty ofit, the beauty oflife 
in all its magnificent expressions. One can then see a 
rose in the middle ofits perfect unfoldingness.The less­
evolved person would look at the half-unfolded rose 
and say,"I don't want that, that's an imperfect rose. "The 
evolved person sees perfection in the evolution of life 
itself and sees that half-unfolded rose in the same way. They then simply project forward in time and see the 
unfoldingness, the incredible beauty, and its precision 
and become aware of the inner sacredness of all life. As we talk about these energy fields as levels of 
consciousness, it is obvious that they determine how 
we experience life.They determine what kind of a God 
we think exists in the universe as well as the kinds of 
emotions we express.All ofthis expression is a process 
going on within consciousness itself. It is now clear 
that there is nothing 'out there' that has the power to 
create stress, and that we ourselves are the creators of 
stress by our positionalities and attitudes. 98 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
It becomes obvious that the open-minded, easygo­
ing person does not experience severe stress when 
somebody backs into their car's fender in the parking 
lot. What happens (as you may have experienced 
yourself) depends on whether you are in a 'good 
mood'.What is stressful in one mood is not stressful 
in another. Often the person whose fender was just 
bumped is very upset.A peaceful person is concerned 
about the upset person and tells them, "You know, 
there is nothing to be upset about; it's only a fender. We both have insurance. It's no big deal. In reality; it's 
a little nuisance in that you have to take your car to 
the body shop to get it ftxed, but it's really no big 
deal." The evolved person desires to heal the upset 
that arose in the field of consciousness. It is not events that send one into self-pity or anger 
about an unjust world where people back into a fender. The wish to punch the guy in the nose arises from so 
much anger within oneself. The detached person 
would just handle the event with no particular feeling. One's concern about the feelings of others and the 
desire to support life by relieving another's anxiety and 
fear arises from what one has become. It does not exist 
in the world. The dented fender, therefore, has no 
power over one's life. There is no 'cause' of emotions 
except from within.To see this fact results in empow­
erment, autonomy, and release from the illusion of 
victimhood. Inner peace automatically arises out of our willing­
ness to give up certain positionalities, such as judging 
others and making them 'wrong'. Willingness stems 
from a forgiving, understanding position. ]udgmentalism 99 STRESS 
does not really solve anything but instead adds to the 
problem. Making others wrong results in a world of 
lose-lose. This is a world where we lose and the com­
pany loses. It is stressful by virtue of the superim­
posed context. It is stressful in the very way that it is 
set up because even ifwe win, we still go through the 
anxiety ofpossibly losing, so that even in winning, we 
do not really win. We know about people, for example, who say that 
they want to have a lot of money. What happens to 
them when they suddenly win a lot of money? Some 
interesting research has been done on people who 
have won millions of dollars in the big lotteries. In 
follow-up studies of lottery winners, it was found that 
within five years, the degree of happiness of the 
people in this group was dismal.The rates of suicide, 
divorce, sickness, and drug addiction had risen 
spectacularly among these people who ostensibly 
had gotten the very thing they had wanted. The 
reason they played the lottery was to win. In the win-lose game, to win, in itself, means to 
defeat others who lose. To defeat others brings up 
guilt.As a result, one cannot even be happy in winning 
because in a win-lose context, one wins and others are 
defeated, which results in guilt. In competition, there 
are unconscious fears, for example, fear of the oppo­
nent. There is the fear that the sudden acquisition of 
money may mean that friends will be out to get the 
money. This can result in reactions leading to a 
depressed, paranoid attitude. At the lowest level of 
consciousness, everyone loses because it is a hope­
less, dismal world. Stress automatically comes out of a 100 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
win-lose position. Positions of great success and power in the world 
automatically come to those who think in terms of 
win-win because they set up within their own minds a 
way ofbeing in the world and a way for others to be in 
their life that is mutually beneficiaLWhat kind of stress 
does the person experience who sets up everything as 
win-win? That person wins if a friend comes over to 
their house, and they win ifthe friend does not. Ifthey 
visit, what is held in mind is how much one is going to 
enjoy their friendship and presence.At the same time, 
one knows that if their friend cannot make it, that is 
okay, too.As a result, the other person wins either way, 
also. If they come over for dinner, we are delighted 
with their presence. Ifthey do not come for dinner, we 
have given them the free time to do something that we 
know will enhance their life. To hold all of our expectations in business as a win­
win situation results in success, which we experience 
as an enhancement of life.The better a company does, 
the better the employees do. The more a company 
does, the more it gives to the world. The better the 
product available to the world, the better the world 
supports the company. The more it supports the com­
pany, the more the company can support the economy. The more the employees are supported, the more they 
can support their families.The more the company sup­
ports the families, the more the families support the 
company. The way to become a success is to make our boss a 
success. Instead of going into competition with him 
(meaning someone has to lose), making our boss a STRESS 101 
success moves him up the ladder and creates space for 
us to move up as well.When coming from a competitive 
position with the intent to defeat the boss, there arises 
unconscious anxiety, distress, and the fear of retalia­
tion. The willingness to surrender the adversarial posi­
tion and become more easygoing lessens the experi­
ence of stress. The easygoing person at the level of 
Acceptance is able to accept human nature and the 
world as they are and is ready for any alternatives that 
arise. A lot ·of people go into a state of fear at the 
prospect of being visited by the IRS. They assume an 
adversarial position that brings up all kinds of stress. As stated previously, stress does not exist in the outer 
world but only in our attitude about it. One year, the 
computer selected me for an audit. "Well," I thought, 
"here's a chance to find out how well I have been 
doing." I sort of looked at the prospect happily. I 
thought, "Here's a chance to fmd out if I am doing 
things correctly, and ifnot, what I can do about it." I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the audit. I purchased fancy notebooks, inserted the specific 
pages into celluloid sheets that the accountant said 
the IRS would be interested in, and labeled every­
thing.When the agent arrived, coffee was ready, and I 
treated him like an honored guest. I escorted him into 
the library, gave him the best desk, the best coffee, 
and the best cup and saucer, not for the purpose of 
'buttering him up', but out of respect for his position 
because I could see how painful it must be to be a tax 
auditor. 102 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
My heart went out to this guy, and I really wanted 
his day to be a good day. He was actually very pleased, 
and as the day went on, I had my way of looking at 
things, and he had his way of looking at things.We had 
a friendly conversation and did a sort of swap. He had 
a great day. By making his day a great day, I also had an 
enjoyable day. He said,"You know, I really hate to leave 
at three o'clock in the afternoon, but frankly, we are all 
done. "The IRS people are really very friendly, very help­
ful, and very positive in their attitudes because that is 
how it is being held in consciousness. To become easygoing is to get out of the habit of 
seeing danger. The easygoing person who is really 
confident and adequate is able to accept the down­
side of or the possibility of the downside of human 
nature and therefore does not have to deny it. It is 
preparing for the 'what ifs' in life, creating an oppor­
tunity to handle the other side and the opportunities 
that may arise.An easy way to discover the source of 
stress is to take a book along when driving to work 
through heavy traffic. This converts the delays into a 
pleasant and welcome opportunity. There is the 
capacity within us to create an enjoyable experience 
when waiting in traffic because there is time to read, 
catch up on things, and really enjoy life. What does it mean when we go into a neighbor­
hood and see a zoning sign that says, "No children or 
pets"? It means that people who live in the neighbor­
hood have the idea that children and pets are stressful. There are other people who would consider the lack 
of children or pets to be stressful. Some people have 
the television on, the radio playing, and the lights on; STRES S 103 
there is a lot of action in their lives. To other people, 
that would be very stressful. Some people like silence 
and never turn on the television or radio because the 
constant 'noise' in the background interferes with their 
concentration. Stress can also arise from that which is unexpect­
ed.The open-minded person sees many alternatives of 
what could happen in a situation and plans in 
advance how to handle the unexpected before it 
occurs. Ifone considers the downside of a situation in 
advance, for example, "What if the contract falls 
through," or "What if the person I am to meet on the 
street corner doesn't show up," and plans an alterna­
tive action if the unexpected does occur, then stress 
is minimized or does not occur at all. The "Law of Initial Value" states that the effect one 
sees is not in the stimulus but has to do with the set-up 
of the organism, the preexisting condition. The 
response is not on just the intensity of the stimulus but 
on the position of the organism with which it is inter­
acting. For example, in pharmacology, it would be 
senseless to ask what is the effect of twenty-five mil­
ligrams of the tranquilizer Thorazene. The effect of 
twenty-five milligrams ofThorazene would depend on 
the preexisting condition of the patient. If the patient 
was somewhat dull and in Apathy, twenty-five mil­
ligrams of Thorazene would be very, very sedating. If 
the patient was in a highly agitated state, twenty-five 
milligrams of Thorazene might have no effect. If the 
person was in a state of mild anxiety, twenty-five mil­
ligrams of Thorazene might be quite effective. The 
patient's present condition, which includes the amount 104 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
of suppressed energy they are holding, their attitudes, 
and their belief systems, determines the effect of the 
same stimulus. Some people say loud music drives them crazy. In 
contrast, consider teenagers who put on earphones, 
turn the volume way up, and go into a state of delight. Is loud music stressful or not? The basic principle is 
that we experience stress when we do not want a spe­
cific stimulus or situation. Consequently, when one is 
in the mood for loud music, it is pleasant and con­
tributes to the state of joy and aliveness. In contrast, if 
one were tired or exhausted after a hard day at the 
office, the same loud music would be experienced as 
stressful. Desire determines whether or not a stimulus 
is stressful. Stress is resisting what we do not want, and not 
stressed is getting what we do want. The problem is 
within ourself.The solution is to merely shift our atti­
tude by choosing lOVingness towards life, which 
includes an energy field called humor that contains 
the capacity to laugh at ourselves and at the nature of 
life itself, and to love and laugh at the comedy of it all. That is the value of the great humorists who also tend 
to be long lived. Disturbed people are like Don Quixote-fighting 
their own projections in the world.The comedy of it 
all is the basis of humor, laughing at those qualities of 
life, holding them from a position that exposes the 
paradox, because humor is in seeing the paradox. It is 
by inner decision whether life is experienced as joy­
ful, harmonious, and easygoing, or experienced as an 
enemy. We begin to admire instead of envy people STRESS 105 
who are capable and easygoing, which means accept­
ance and being adequate. To feel adequate and solid 
results from realizing ourself as the source of how life 
is experienced. We can be the boss, and ifthe janitor does not show 
up, it does not really matter to a serious degree. The 
truth is that we are the quality which experiences 
experience. within our own consciousness. Happiness 
results from the experience of our own existence and 
enjoying our own inner aliveness. When we stop identifying with the events 'out 
there' and giving them power over our lives, then we 
experience an inner serenity as a consequence of 
having transcended the world. CHAPTER 4 
Health 
The subject of health occupies the minds of a large 
part of the population. As a physician, psychiatrist, and 
spiritual researcher, my interests have been focused on 
the area of health and self-healing. Importantly, in the 
relationship between body, mind, and spirit, it has been 
found that the body has no way of experiencing itself; 
the body is experienced in mind only. The body 
expresses that which is held in mind.The mind cannot 
experience itself, either; it has to be experienced from 
an even greater energy field, which is called conscious­
ness.A human being progresses from dense linear form 
to an ever-expanding and increasing nonlinear Jorm~ 
lessness. One ends up with the experiencing of expe­
rience itself-that field called awareness. The relationship between body, mind, and spirit is 
very important when considering the subject of 
health. Consciousness itself has to be understood 
because all experiencing is going on solely within con­
sciousness. It has been discovered that, due to the 
power of the energy fields, healing comes out of atti­
tudes and belief systems that are held in mind. Therefore, to a large degree, health is an expression of 
levels of consciousness. To make this more understandable to the logical 
mind, the integrated Map of Consciousness is based on 
the mathematical relationship between the energy 
fields that resulted from calibrating the energy fields of 
the essence of literally thousands of things, including 
attitudes, feelings, perception, and beliefs. 107 108 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
From this model, in which the relative power of 
energy fields is calibrated, it can be seen that Apathy, 
which calibrates at 40, has much less power than that 
ofFear,which calibrates at 100.Fear, on the other hand, 
has much less power than that of Courage, which cali­
brates at 200. Not only do these energy fields have different lev­
els of power relative to each other, we can also see that 
the energy fields go in a certain direction. At the level 
of Courage, the scale progresse~ upward beyond the 
energy field of 200 to those of Neutral, Willingness, 
Acceptance, and Love.These fields give energy as well 
as nurture and support life and truth, thus increasing 
aliveness. At the bottom of the Map of Consciousness 
(below 200) are the levels that do not represent truth 
in the human. Truth really begins to prevail at con­
sciousness level 200. If we start at the bottom of the chart and move 
up to the level of 600, we leave the fields of duality 
and illusion. We leave behind identification with the 
small self, or that which is called the ego, and move 
into the fields of Enlightenment. The energy fields 
of the great enlightened beings-the great spiritual 
masters and avatars-start in the 600s and continue 
up to level 1,000. Health means aliveness, which is an expression of 
an energy field. The body expresses and is subject to 
Wh~lt is held in mind, and therefore, the greater the 
amount of negativity held in mind, the greater the 
effect of the negative energy field on the body's physi­
cal health. In contrast, the greater the positive energy 
that is being held in mind, the more powerfully posi­HEALTH 109 
tive is the energy field of life.This knowledge provides 
a tool to determine whether or not something sup­
ports health and the expression of life. At the bottom of the Map are the energy fields that 
contribute to illness, and above level 200 are the ener­
gy fields that support life. Each of these fields corre­
lates with an emotion. That which is anti-life has the 
negative emotions of self-hatred, hopelessness, despair, 
regret, depression, worry, anxiety, cravingness, resent­
ment, hatred, and arrogance. These negative emotions 
accompany ill health. The process occurring in con­
sciousness can be seen arising from the emotional 
states of destruction, loss of energy and spirit, defla­
tion, entrapment, overexpansion, overinflation, and loss 
of power. Spiritually, the kind of world that a person experi­
ences from these negative mental states is one of sin 
and suffering, hopelessness, sadness, fright, frustration, 
competition, and status.They see the negative concep­
tualizations of God that come out of a lower energy 
field. God can be denied, or conversely, negatively 
depicted as the ultimate enemy of man-the God who 
is punitive and even throws man into hell forever; the 
God who ignores man through unlovingness; or the 
God who is retaliatory. These depictions emerge from 
an energy field that has a negative direction along with 
a negative emotion and a destructive process occur­
ring in consciousness. The negative views of God cor­
relate with lower levels of consciousness (below cali­
bration level 200). Health can be viewed as the expression of unop­
posed aliveness resulting from the removal of its obsta­110 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
cles, including all that is negative. Health results from 
transcending limitations and feelings of separation. Since we have the power of refusal, we can refuse 
things in our life that are negative. If our mind can become programmed in a nega­
tive direction, we can choose to program it in a posi­
tive direction as well. Health is an expression of self­
esteem. Just how does one learn to love one's real 
self? How is the body experienced, and how is one's 
relationship to that body? There is a sublime state 
called 'nonexperiencing the body'in which the body 
is barely experienced as even existing. It is something 
one catches out of the corner of the eye and not cen­
tral to experiencing at all. It means letting go of iden­
tifying oneself as physicality. At the bottom ofthe Map of Consciousness, there is 
identification of ourself as being the body, but as we 
move up higher in consciousness, this lessens and 
lessens until identification with the body is transcended, 
and we move to the realization of the Self as spirit. It is necessary to look at the relationship between 
mind and body because of its great importance in the 
field of health and something that really is not clearly 
understood. A basic principle that is demonstrated 
clinically is that we are subject only to what we hold 
in mind.This is a principle ofhealing and health, with 
two sides to the coin-one side being illness and the 
other being health.They are the opposite sides of the 
coin of the same understanding that heals and brings 
about health-that we are subject to what we hold in 
mind. A good clinical example is that of multiple person­HEALTH 111 
alities; another example is hypnosis. Under hypnosis, a 
suggestion can be given to a patient that they are aller­
gic to the roses on the desk, and that when they get up, 
they will get hives, a rash, and start sneezing. Then 
amnesia is created for the suggestion. When the person 
wakes up from the trance, all of a sudden, they start to 
wheeze, get hives, and develop a rash. The body is 
responding to what the mind believes. With hypnosis, 
the symptoms can be induced, along with most any ill­
ness, by convincing the patient that the program is 
true; and then amnesia can be created for memory of 
the programming process. This' illustrates how an ill­
ness comes out of a program or belief system, which, 
in ordinary life, is often unconscious. In the laboratory, this occurs as a psychological 
experiment. It is important to remember, however, that 
in everyday life, people have been programmed (hyp­
notized) thousands of times. This occurs when sitting 
in a trance in front ofa television. There is no conscious 
memory of the process; the program went in, and the 
person is now subject to it for the rest of their life. Because ofchildhood amnesia, many people cannot 
remember what happened to them before the age of 
five years, and some people have very little or even no 
memory of anything from their entire childhood. Even 
in people with good memories of childhood, there are 
vast areas of vacant forgottenness. In those areas are 
the many programs that are now expressing in various 
forms ofill health, such as catch phrases like "Heart dis­
ease runs in our family." "Being overweight runs in the family;'"Allergies run 
inourfamily;or"Everybody inourfamily has hayfever." 112 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
These thoughts become a program that goes into the 
mind, and we can see that it is the same as though the 
person were hypnotized. Until that program is brought 
to the conscious mind and cancelled, it remains opera­
tive within the unconscious mind (e.g., a chill or a draft 
causes colds). Another example of the power of mind over body 
is in the cases of so-called multiple personality. These 
have been gaining increasing attention within the 
field of psychiatry and are found to be far more com­
mon than was previously believed. The consciousness 
of one personality is adopted by the patient and oper­
ative within that body for varying periods of time; it 
could be minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even years. While that second personality is operative, the patient 
is subject to all the belief systems held by that person­
ality. If that personality happens to believe it has an 
ulcer, a weight problem, allergies, diverticulitis, colitis, 
back trouble-whatever it believes-while it is operative 
in the body, those physical abnormalities are actually 
brought into existence. The reverse side of this occurs when that personal­
ity leaves, which sometimes comes about through 
intoxication or shifts in emotionality or life circum­
stances, and then the other personality enters the body. Because the other personality has no such beliefs, the 
body promptly heals itself of all those illnesses. Why does the mind have such power over the 
body? We will consider the physics involved, which 
will make it easily understood. The energy of the 
physical body calibrates at about 200, as does the 
earth itself. The energy field of the mind is stronger HEALTH 113 
and often calibrates up to 499. The 400s are in the 
energy field of the intellect, reason, logic, mind, and 
what the mind believes. Therefore, ifa thought is held 
in mind that says strawberry seeds, caraway seeds, or 
any kinds of seeds give me diverticulitis, then the 
power ofthat thought coming out of the energy fields 
of perhaps 300 to 400 overpowers the body at the 
energy field of 200. The body is overpowered by the 
influence of the pattern of the belief. All thought has form, so the form in the personal or 
collective unconscious, or in the collective or social 
consciousness, is present in great detail. Ifwe buy into 
a thought or go into agreement with it, the effect is to 
bring it into our own consciousness, which then 
expresses itselfwithin the body.The body will do what 
the mind believes. The healing of the body and the 
achievement of health are accomplished not just by 
addressing the body directly, but also by addressing the 
.mind and moving into the field of consciousness. Ifthe 
body is expressing that which is held in consciousness, 
then it is necessary to look at what that is. Often we are not aware of what is being held in 
consciousness, in which case it would be called 'being 
unconscious'. There may be no recall of ever having 
had·such a thought, but the body expresses what must 
be. It is like an x-ray telling us what is being held in 
mind since it is presenting itself in the body. For exam­
ple, a person develops clinical diabetes and says, "I 
don't remember anything ever being said about that in 
my family. No one in my family has diabetes. I don't see 
where it could have arisen in my mind. "We know that 
somewhere in the collective unconscious is the belief 114 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
of diabetes and all that goes with it. Ifwe do individual 
research with the patient long enough, we will 
uncover the origin of the program, which confirms 
that the program exists. Ifthe person thinks they are 
subject to an illness, then the belief system also has to 
be healed. It is necessary to heal where the origin of 
the illness began. Health is the result of positive mental attitudes. It 
originates in the field of consciousness and reflects a 
level of consciousness that expresses itself on the 
lower physical plane. An expression of health origi­
nates from the fields above Neutral-out of 
Willingness, and out of lovingness, inner joyfulness, 
and an inner state of peace.That which is mental cal­
ibrates in the 400s, and that which is of Love is at 500 
and above. Spirit dominates at level 500 and becomes 
increasingly consciously aware that it is Spirit. Therefore, the intellect is not man's highest faculty, 
contrary to the age of reason as expressed in other 
learned works or by those intellectuals who believe 
that the intellect is man's highest attribute. The intel­
lect is only in the 400s.There is the nonlinear energy 
field called consciousness, which is beyond mind, 
logic, and reason and transcends mentalization, reveal­
ing a whole different paradigm and way of being. If we understand illness, then we will also under­
stand its reverse, which is health. In illness, there is 
always unconscious guilt (calibrates as true), a state­
ment reaffirmed by research. There are whole·systems 
of how to let go of unconscious guilt through the 
process of the willingness to forgive, to let go of criti­
cism and judgment, to let go of right and wrong as an HEALTH 115 
orientation towards life, to move towards forgiving­
ness, and through the desire to understand life out of 
compassion. This resolution of negativity requires 
recontextualization of perception as exemplified by 
the transformative effect of doing the workbook of A 
Course in Miracles. We find that illness requires several components, 
including unconscious guilt and a mental belief system. The mind has to hold a certain belief for the person to 
accept that they are subject to it. It is as though uncon­
scious guilt looks for something to justify itself. Often a 
certain illness gets notoriety on television because a 
celebrity shares their experience of it.That is followed 
by an epidemic of that illness because of suggestion. The mind buys into the program, the belief system, and 
the specificity of a particular disease. Unconscious 
guilt gives it power by expression through the auto­
nomic nervous system and the hormonal balance 
through all the stress mechanisms within the body, and 
through the acupuncture energy system. With positive attitudes, the acupuncture energy sys­
tem is balanced, and the energy flow of health and life 
moves directly down through all the energy channels, 
stimulating all the organs of the body. With a negative 
thought, the energy flow through one of the twelve 
main meridians is interrupted and, if done repeatedly, 
disease comes about in the affected organ. Negative 
emotions potentiate a disease process. Unconscious 
guilt gives it energy, and the form the illness takes is a 
consequence of mental mechanisms because the body 
expresses what is believed. We also have to look at how experience is actually 116 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
experienced. The body itself is insentient, as curious 
as that may seem. It has no capacity to experience 
itself. The next level of experience comes through 
sensations, from the senses of the body, so we do not 
experience the body; instead, we experience the sen­
sations of the body. Senses themselves have no innate 
capacity to experience themselves. They are experi­
enced in mind. The senses report what is going on 
with the body, so we are several levels removed. Mind 
itself is unable to experience its own experience. It 
has to be in a greater, larger energy field than itself, 
and in this case, it is the energy field of conscious­
ness. Because of consciousness, we are aware of what 
is going on in mind. Mind then tells us via the senses 
what is going on in the body.We can see that percep­
tion is several levels removed from the physical body. Consciousness itself requires something greater than 
itself, called awareness. Awareness allows us to know 
what is going on in consciousness and reports what is 
happening within mind. Mind in turn reports what is 
happening about the body via the senses. That which we call 'myself' is many levels removed 
from the physical body. It is necessary to understand 
that fact because we then see that the mind has power 
over the body. We can appreciate the physics of the 
energy fields of the 400s, and see that, just by their 
sheer power, they are greater than the energy of the 
physical body.The physical body (calibration leve1200) 
does what the mind tells it to do.Therefore, if the mind 
says,"I have this disease," the body complies. We can thus see the importance of not buying into 
programs, all of which are really limitations of the HEALTH 117 
truth. We can see the importance of consciously 
canceling the limiting programs and instead saying 
something that is the truth. The truth is, "I am an infi­
nite being not subject to that." So, when people hear 
something such as, "Eggs are full of cholesterol, and 
cholesterol gives you heart disease," they accept the 
thought as the truth and buy into the beliefsystem that 
the cholesterol in eggs will raise their blood choles­
terol. Their bodies simply agree and raise the blood 
cholesterol when eggs are eaten. One time I had a very high cholesterol level and 
began to cancel the belief system. I repeatedly said, "I 
am an infmite being; I am not subject to that. I am only 
subject to what I hold in mind.This does not apply to 
me, and I hereby cancel it and refuse it:' Ifthe mind can 
program you with a negative belief system, it can also 
reverse itself, can it not? Therefore, we begin telling 
ourself that the belief system has no effect on us, that 
it is only a belief system, and that we do not have to 
buy into it or go into agreement with it. When ~e go into agreement with a belief system, 
we give it the power of the collective energy of that 
belief. When we refuse it, we then release ourselves 
from the collective energy of the belief system and 
count ourselves out. One attitude is to not buy into 
agreement with negative belief systems that have to 
do with our health. This is very important when it 
comes to epidemic suggestion and hysteria. The pro­
gramming that comes in is aided and abetted by an 
emotional program. Much is still heard about AIDS, for example, which 
is accompanied by constant repetition in the media 118 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that play on fear-fear about this, anger about that, 
and, of course, the guilt about this. What better dis­
ease to bring up all of man's feelings of sinfulness and 
guilt, especially about one's sexuality, which is so 
common in all cultures, not just ours? Of course, it 
then takes on a negative energy when the coin is 
turned over and becomes the lowest.What better area 
in which to create an epidemic to ensure the belief in 
it? There is the unconscious guilt, not to mention the 
conscious guilt about one's. sexuality, the sadness 
about it, the grief over it, and the fear about the dis­
ease itself.All this contributes to setting the stage for 
a mental belief system in an energy field of the 400s. There is also the negative energy field of fear, which 
is the energy field ofthe 1OOs, plus the guilt of calibra­
tion level 30. This is the exact set-up for disease 
because the mind chooses that with which it is 
impressed and uses that as a form of expression. In the case of the cholesterol experiment, I can­
celed the thought every time it came up. After a short 
time, the cholesterol level decreased, and now I can eat 
three eggs for breakfast every morning, lots of cheese, 
even other high-eholesterol foods, yet my cholesterol is 
low and sometimes even below normal for my age. The body will do exactly what the mind believes, 
but there is a credibility problem here.The person asks, 
"How could just my beliefin that make it happen with­
in my life?" It is due to the nature of the unconscious, 
which creates the opportunity for that to occur.There 
is the person who is 'accident prone' because that 
belief has taken hold in their mind. Unconsciously, the 
person just manages to get their body in the right place HEALTH 119 
at the right time in order to get hit by the fender of a 
car, or slip down the stairs, or get hit on the head.There 
is no need to worry about it because the mind will fmd 
a way. People just slip into a sort ofhypnotic trance and 
expose themselves to the correct opportunities to . make that program manifest in their lives (e.g., extreme 
sports, climbing Mt. ,Everest, etc.). There have been many experiments with a cold 
virus, for instance, in which one hundred volunteer 
subjects were exposed to very heavy doses of a cold 
virus. Interestingly, not everyone ended up with a cold, 
just a certain percentage. In other words, ifthe power 
were in the virus itself rather than within conscious­
ness, all one hundred would have gotten a cold 
because the virus is so potent. What happens is that 
maybe only sixty-five percent will get it because one­
third of the subjects do not believe in it.There is suffi­
cient doubt within the mind, along with insufficient 
unconscious guilt. It is not acceptable to the person to 
express it in that form, so nothing is universal. The same thing can be seen with healing. Pneumonia or bird influenza does not occur in one 
hundred percent of exposed people, just in a certain 
percentage of them. Comparably, only a certain per· 
centage of people will respond to any medical treat­
ment.The difference is because those who do respond 
are not dominated by unconscious guilt. Also, a nega­
tive belief system is not operative because the particu­
lar illness does not fit any specific thought form they 
have bought into, so both sides of it-the sickness and 
the healing-are reflecting the energy that is put into 
a certain belief system. 120 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Health is the willingness to let go of buying into 
negativity. Why would a person buy into negativity in 
the first place? Why are some people so receptive to 
programming? There are people who become fearful 
every time they open a magazine that reports about a 
current illness, which relates to the amount offear and 
guilt they already carry within them. The amount of 
fear is really consequent to the amount of unconscious 
guilt. It is as though the vulnerable person is attracted 
by fear, and when they hear of an illness, they become 
mentally programmed enough to make it happen in 
their lives. Health requires the willingness to adopt mental 
attitudes that are positive and constructive and to let 
go of the negative ones. The willingness to take an 
easygoing and forgiving attitude towards life is also 
beneficial, along with the unwillingness to buy into 
negative programming. It takes the willingness to own 
thepowerofthemind.We give ourpowerawaywhen 
we go into denial and blame an illness on something 
'out there'. The energy fields below level 200 potentiate 
becoming a victim. Below 200, people have given their 
power away and placed it on something outside them­
selves.At the lower levels, people have told themselves 
unconsciously that the source of their happiness and 
survival arises from something outside themselves. When people move up into the levels of truth 
above 200, the energy fields are now positive, and we 
can see that they are re-owning their power.They now 
say, "I, and I alone, have the power to create happiness 
and opportunity in my life. It is coming from within HEALTH 121 
me." They also own that health is something which 
comes from within and no longer believe they are the 
helpless victims of disease. In reality, we are not the victims of viruses, acci­
dents,cholesterol, orimbalanced uric acidlevels.When 
we re-own our own power, we say, "It's my mind that 
has been creating that. My mind believes that eating 
liver and kidneys is going to give me a high uric acid 
level that is going to give me gout. My mind is so pow­
erful that if I believe such a thing to be true, it will 
make it happen." It takes a high level of awareness to 
accept that the mind has that much power. "Do you 
mean to tell me that if I believe that eating sugar and 
sweets is going to give me hypoglycemia, it will? "Yes, 
indeed, it will. In going back to the physics involved, it is helpful 
to remember that the body's energy field of 200 is 
weak compared to the belief systems of the 400s.The 
beliefs that sugar and sweets will cause hypoglycemia, 
diabetes, or being overweight are sufficient to bring it 
about. The explanations then given are denials of the 
truth and rationalizations to justify being a victim. When we say that it is scientifically proven, it is still just 
an explanation. The real science of it is the mechanism. The description of the mechanism of how this occurs 
on the physical plane is still only a description of the 
mechanism, not of cause. Cause is on the level of mind; effect is on the level 
of body, not the other way around. Merely reversing 
that understanding provides the whole key to health 
and healing. Health then comes out of a positive men­
tal attitude, which we have heard many times, so much 122 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
so that many people are annoyed by it because it 
implies that if they have a sickness, they do not have a 
positive mental attitude. What is meant by mental attitude and the part that 
it plays in health and freedom from sickness and suffer­
ing? Primary in the unhealthy person is unconscious 
guilt. The cure for that is the willingness to be forgiv­
ing, even to the point of taking a course in forgiveness, 
ifnecessary, such as A Course in Miracles, or participat­
ing in Twelve-Step recovery groups, which are specifi­
cally designed to enable one to train the mind to let go 
of the tendency to criticize, attack, and judge others. These are replaced by the willingness to let go of judg­
mentalism. Since the mechanism is unconscious, the 
person may not see that when the mind is being criti­
cal and judgmental of others, it is also critical and judg­
mental of one's own self. Unconscious guilt contributes to the negative energy 
that expresses itself adversely through the autonomic 
nervous system and the acupuncture energy system. However, simultaneously, there is the power of refusal, 
the power to deny the belief system.To own back one's 
power requires realizing that it is the mind itself that is 
the cause of the illness.This truth requires the willing­
ness to give up the position of victim and to re-own 
one's own power, which is necessary for health and 
contributes to overall spiritual growth and develop­
ment. The only requirements are the motivation to 
move out of the negative energy patterns and the will­
ingness to face the truth about ourselves and choose to 
move into a positive energy field. This can actually be 
done rather rapidly. HEALTH 123 
The key is the willingness to look at it and say, 
"Well, I don't really believe this, but it is said that my 
mind has the power to create an illness within my 
body, so I'm willing to look at that because I have an 
open mind." As we open our mind and are willing to 
agree, our intention aligns and we begin to move into 
accepting what we discover. We begin to find that mov­
ing into lovingness has a curative and healing effect. How is that accomplished? The willingness to forgive 
can move us into the willingness to be compassionate. Having compassion means the willingness to see the 
innocence within all things, which coincides with the 
willingness to forgive. Out of compassion and intention 
arise the power and capacity to really see into the 
hearts of others and discover the innocence of the 
child. Within each and everyone is that intrinsic inno­
cence that never dies, no matter how long we live; it is 
intrinsic to the nature of consciousness itself.The inno­
cence of the child is what bought the mistake or the 
negative program in the fIrst place. It is helpful to be 
aware that the intrinsic innocence of the child is still 
present in everyone. It is the ,innocence that watches 
televisi9n and naIvely buys into the negative program­
ming due to its lack of discernment. The innocence of 
the child has no warning within it, nothing that says, 
"This is a world that is out to program you with as 
much negativity as you are willing to buy." In fact, that 
world gets well paid to do so because advertising is 
often based on appealing to the negative energy fields. All of our fears, desires, and pridefulness are represented 
below the level of 200. It takes the willingness to be 124 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
aware that within us is our innocence, and that that 
innocence needs to be protected. When we look at 'self-care', which is the capacity 
to love one's self, we fmd it now means taking respon­
sibility to protect ourselves from the consequences of 
that innocence and the willingness to·undo mistakes 
that the mind picked up as a result.We can then han­
dle looking at ourselves and healing that which we 
find within us ifwe accept the awareness ofthe intrin­
sic innocence of our consciousness. We see that it was 
the innocence that was programmed. We then take 
responsibility for that and say, "In my innocence, I 
bought all that; I didn't know any better. I thought that 
the right thing to do was to be judgmental, to con­
demn people, and to judge them as right or wrong. Now I see that all that has made me sick, so I'm going 
to let it go. "The people who were willing to look into 
this and go through the processes already described 
had complete, full recoveries from their illnesses. The capacity to be forgiving is within us, along with 
the capacity for compassion. Out of it comes a general 
attitude about the way in which we look at ourselves. From our bigness, from our greatness, we look at our 
humanness through forgiving eyes and begin to forgive 
ourselves as well as others for all the things that were 
limitations and denials of the truth.AlI the things in the 
energy fields below 200 are denials of the truth; all 
those above 200 are the acceptance of that which is 
true and positive. Because the body reflects what the 
mind believes, and the mind reflects our spiritual posi­
tion, spirit has the greatest power of all.Therefore, our 
spiritual position literally determines whether we have HEALTH 125 
a healthy physical body or not. Once we are willing to accept the power of mind, 
we have to be attentive, persevering, and not let mind 
get away with expressing negativity. We have to stop it 
as soon as we become aware of it.We begin to develop 
an awareness of negativity and recognize it for what it 
is.We letgooffalse humility andstartquestioning such 
remarks as,"Well,youknow,I'mnotverybright,"or"My 
handwriting is poor," or "I gain weight eating the same 
amount of food that thin people eat." The minute we 
become aware of ourselves saying or thinking these 
limiting, self-defeating, self-attacking thoughts, we have 
to stop and cancel them. The handwriting is poor because there is a belief 
system that we have poor handwriting, so we then 
reverse the whole programming of the mind as far as 
cause and effect. We are returning to a principle that 
we can demonstrate through our own experience. It is physical and the expression of the mental, not 
vice-versa. We came to the conclusion that our handwriting is 
poor because the cause was in the mind, in the belief 
system. It may have been a remark picked up during 
childhood. Someone may have said, "Your handWriting 
is poor," and from that point forward, the program is 
operative. We have to look at the ingenuity of the 
unconscious mind to really see it. It would be great if 
one had some experience in watching hypnotic exper­
iments. It has been shown that if a person is told their 
legs will be itching when they awaken, and then 
induce amnesia for that suggestion, when the person 
wakes up, they are asked how they feel. Instantly the 126 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
mind will start creating the most marvelous and 
convincing argument of why the person's legs should 
itch. The person doesn't just say, "Well, my legs itch." The mind always gets creative and starts explaining, 
"Well, I have wool pants on, and you know I'm allergic 
to wool, and the heat in this room is steam heat, and 
that always creates the itching:' It is just marvelous to 
listen to the inventiveness of the mind as it begins to 
create the reasons for the symptoms, which, as stated 
above, were placed within the hypnotic subject on pur­
pose. The mind will do the same thing without formal 
hypnosis, so it is helpful to look at ourselves as though 
we have been hypnotized for half of our lives and did 
not even realize it. What is hypnosis? It is suggestibility, is it not? It 
means to be in an unguarded, suggestible, relaxed 
state, so anytime we have been in that state, we have 
picked up all the programming, and whether we 
remember it or not, it is still operative. All the times 
we were half asleep as we sat in front of the television 
set, hour after hour of programming went into the 
mind and became unconscious hypnotic programs. We can discover what we have been programmed 
with by watching to see what comes up, such as the 
idea that,"I'm no good. Oh, I'm no good, I'm no good. I never was very good at playing cards. "Ifwe have the 
belief system of not being very good at playing cards, 
that is what is going to operate in our life and also 
reinforce that belief system. The belief systems 
become self-reinforcing and self-fulftlling prophecies. A belief that is held unwittingly can manifest in our 
life, thus justifying the belief system. By looking at our HEALTH 127 
lives, we can tell what beliefs are being held. If we 
cannot recall them, then we say they are unconscious 
or have been unwittingly picked up from the collec­
tive consciousness of society. Health is the automatic expression of higher ener­
gy fields. The fields of 540 and over are the levels of 
gratitude, forgiveness, and healing.The willingness. to 
be forgiving and grateful in itself automatically begins 
the healing process. Becoming a loving being in the 
energy field of love is not sentimentality or emotion­
alism. What the world calls love is more often about 
dependency, control, sentimentalism, and emotional­
ism. It is an emotional, sentimental attachment in 
which control is going back and forth, and there is the 
satisfaction of desiringness on both sides. This is the 
Hollywood version of love. When you hear someone say, "I used to love 
George, but 1don't anymore," it means that they never 
did love George. What was really meant is that they 
had a sentimental attachment, sort of a solar-plexus 
kind of a 'hanging onto', which the person romanti­
cized and glamorized within their life, pouring a lot of 
emotional energy into it so that when that tie was 
broken, up came a lot of negative emotion. Real love is unconditional love. Unconditional love 
is a decision we make within ourselves. The process is 
one of intention and the decision to be a loving per­
son. If1 decide to love you, that is my inner decision. There is nothing the other perso~ can do about it. Therefore, one is not the victim of what goes on in the 
world because the decision to love creates a stable 
energy field of unconditionality. The other person's 128 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
behavior may not be pleasing or contribute to what is 
desired, but it does not change the lovingness.
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        The person who is sad walks down the street and 
literally experiences their perception of sadness. When 
they open the newspaper, they see all there is to be sad 
about in the world and the sadness of man's condition. They see the trash on the street. They look at the elderly 
people and think how sad aging is. They feel sorry for 
the children and think how sad is the world they are 
going to have to grow up in. They know the pain oflife. They are holding so much pain that the pity expresses 88 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
itself now-how sad for these children. Those who are in the energy field of Fear see, 
experience, and create in their world the conditions 
of that which is fearful. They read the newspaper and 
see how fearful this world is-killings, murders, mug­
gings, war, and bombings. They walk down the street 
and see everything as frightening. They see the 
chances for accidents and how people can twist their 
ankles on the curb. They think there should be warn­
ing signs everywhere. The people who see this as a 
frightening world put double locks on everything. They double lock their car within their own double­
locked garages within their own double-locked yard 
in an area that has never had a robbery. The fear comes from within and projects a frighten­
ing appearance out to the world. If we have fear-col­
ored glasses, everything looks like fear, and ifwe search 
for God, we see afearful God. TheGodofafrightening 
world is one to fear. A person may move into a higher energy field of 
desiring this and wanting that, which occurs via social 
education. People at the bottom of the Map who are 
aligned with hopelessness, such as those in the Third 
World countries or segments of lower socioeconomic 
groups in our society, began to see what other people 
have when television became available. This created 
desire, which is felt in the emotional field as wanting 
and craving and is also expressed fully in the addic­
tions. The process occurring in consciousness is that of 
entrapment. Because someone wants or begins to 
desire something, they then experience this world as 
frustrating. The stress they experience is that ofendless 89 STRESS 
frustration. Wantingness can result in a person who is never 
satisfied, and no matter what they get, they always 
want something more. Ifthey do not experience fulfill­
ment of their wishes, this brings up more wishes and 
results in an endless desire for control. They see this as 
a very frustrating world, and as they walk down the 
street, they see all the things they want-the cars, the 
appurtenances, and the addresses. As they open the 
newspaper, they see more things they want. They want 
to change the world; they want to 'get'. This endless 
addiction to 'gettingness' creates endless stress that 
comes from within the self. The problem is the endless 
desire for something. When people, out of their frustration, move up to 
Anger, they then begin to experience an angry world. They are full of resentment and are boiling over with 
hatred, blame, and grievance. With a person like this, 
the suppressed energy of anger is now ready to spill 
forth in any event. They see the world as competitive. Because of the angry glasses this person wears, when 
they open the newspaper, their stomach turns with 
wrath, indignation, and anger over the events that are 
reported. Ifthey walk down the street, they see many things 
to be angry about-the condition of the street signs 
and the street in general, including the newspapers 
that are strewn all over. Looking at children and old 
folks makes them think about their situations and 
makes them angry. They live in a world of injustice, 
indignation, and competition. Ifthey own a used-car lot 
and someone down the street opens one, they look at 90 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
it as competition and think they are going to lose as a 
result. Because these people live in a win-lose world, 
their stomachs are always tense. They have not moved 
up to a higher level of harmony and cooperation; as a 
result, they don't realize that the more used-car lots on 
the street, the better business will be for everyone. To a person at the level of anger, the world 
becomes a threatening place. The God of that kind of 
universe would be the God of war. Out of their anger, 
these people with a chip on their shoulders become 
war-like and ready for combat. Their anger is ready to 
burst forth. The world is very stressful then because of 
the suppressed· anger. If someone were to bump their 
fender in a parking lot, up would come the anger, the 
cursing, and the threat of a lawsuit. They are preoccu­
pied with revenge and 'getting even' with enemies. Ifa person moves up to the level of Pride, there is 
more energy available, along with negative, destructive 
emotions. Although pride is often thought of as con­
structive, innately it is actually destructive because 
pride is denial. Its expression is really one of arrogance 
and contempt because the process occurring in con­
sciousness is that of inflation. Prideful people are then very polarized and defen­
sive in their positions and become like those who are 
angry. Their position is 'right', and they live in a world 
of right and wrong, of win or lose. Therefore, stress is 
always occurring within that person because they see 
all relationships, interactions, and transactions in terms 
of win-lose, which is about the importance of per­
ceived status and has to do with ownership. When 
these persons read the newspaper, they are seeing the 91 STRESS 
status of all that is involved, along with the status of 
the people being written about. They walk down the 
street and primarily see symbols of status-the labels 
on clothes and the addresses. All these things about 
life now become status, and these people become 
interested in who others are from a status viewpoint. All these are obviously vulnerable positions of the 
victim mentality, because all the positions below the 
level oftruth project the source ofhappiness as being 
outside oneself. Holding to these positions results in 
giving one's power away. Doing so says that the 
sources of meaning, happiness, and value are some­
thing outside oneself; they are somewhere 'out there'. These positions come from lack. "If it is out there, it is 
something I have to get. If it is something I have to 
get, it means I lack it, or that something could stand in 
my way of getting it. " To live in that kind of world is to always live in 
danger and under threat because something outside 
of oneself can block the attainment of something or 
take it away. It is the world of victimhood because 
people have given away their power to the world. It is often said that the sources of happiness and 
stress are 'out there', and thus the hope for releasing 
stress is by 'changing the world'. Stress does not exist 
in the world. Instead, it is an inner experience within 
consciousness itself. There really is no way one can 
basically change the world to relieve stress. What, 
then, can be done. We can begin to own the truth about it and have 
the courage to look at the facts. The minute we do this, 
we change the energy fields. As we move to Neutral,we 92 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
move into a more positive space. Now there is the will­
ingness to face, cope, and handle the situation, thereby 
bringing re-empowerment. That means reclaiming our 
power and living closer to the truth. The person who is at the level of Courage sees a 
world of challenge, growth, and opportunity. It is an 
exciting, fun world, a place wherein one is glad to be 
alive. That person opens the newspaper and sees all the 
tremendous opportunities for mankind to move into 
and solve and resolve problems. One sees all kinds of 
problem-solving techniques in their own mind that 
theywishto try. Theworldthenbecomes exciting, one 
of opportunity and growth in which one begins to ask, 
"Where can I fit in. Where can I start expressing myself 
and experiencing some of these opportunities. " The 
kind of God one experiences in this world of opportu­
nity is a God of open-mindedness. The open mind now 
begins to change that which is stressful. What is stress­
ful at the level of Pride perhaps becomes an object of 
curiosity and an opportunity for growth to the person 
at the level of Courage. Moving up to the next level called Neutral, the energy 
field calibrates at 250 and has much more power than 
the positions below, and the power is now being used 
in a constructive direction. It is as though at the lower 
levels, the antenna is first tuned to the negative; then it 
moves to neutral, and finally, to the positive. One then 
begins to experience life in a positive direction 
because one is the experiencer. The experience is not 
out there; it is within one's own consciousness. Ifa per­
son is willing to let go of a lot oftheir positionalities, they 
no longer need to be defensive, which is a result ofpride­93 STRESS 
fulness, importance, and the need to always be 'right'. The positions of the atheist, the bigot, or the zealot 
lead to conflict. These are based on the prideful belief 
that "my position is 'right'; therefore, your position is 
'wrong'. " With the willingness to surrender that, the 
person becomes somewhat unattached. People begin 
to transcend their vulnerability to the world, and the 
process occurring in consciousness releases them. The 
world begins to look okay, and the God of such a world 
is now the God of freedom. How is that 'okayness' expressed. A person at this 
level, when on the way to a job interview, thinks, "If I 
get this job, it will be great, and ifI do not, that is okay, 
too, because there are other job opportunities I would 
really like to look at. " As a result, that person is not stuck 
because they have not based their survival on anyone 
particular thing. As we move into Willingness, we add intention to 
the process of consciousness. It means a 'yesness', a 
joining, an alignment, and an agreement with life, and 
such a person begins to see the world as friendly. When 
these people at the level ofWillingness walk down the 
street,the God ofthat kind ofworld appears promising 
and hopeful. Now their experience of the newspaper 
is one of opening it up and seeing all the evidence of 
man's cooperation and struggle to solve his own prob­
lems. What another perceives as destruction, they see 
as merely the process, or the working out, of the bal­
ance of forces. When they walk down the street, they 
begin to see a friendlier world and now see people as 
friendly. Their perception has changed; and now 'old' 
people who no longer have to'make it' in the world are 94 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
frequently seen as more open to friendliness. It is now 
simple to walk up to most older people and instantly 
strike up a conversation. Those at the level ofWillingness no longer look at 
others with a paranoid distrust or size up people to 
see where they stand in a prideful world. They begin 
to see strangers and older people as friendly, as well 
as the friendliness of young children, and find that it 
is easy to strike up a relationship with them. As we move up into Acceptance, we then begin to 
accept that we are the source of our own experience 
of life. The person who has reached this level of 
awareness has taken back the power over their own 
life and realizes that no matter where they are put, 
they are going to somehow make do. Ifthey were put 
on a desert island, a year later, they would have built 
a tree house and would be carving coconuts. If they were put in a jail cell, they would write a 
novel or maybe even sit cross-legged and go into 
meditation. Others often choose to become jailhouse 
lawyers and even get law degrees. The power to cre­
ate the experience oflife is within. These people have 
reclaimed their own power. Consequently, the God of 
that kind of world and universe of experience is now 
perceived as promising, hopeful, and merciful, and as 
a God no longer to be feared. These people now feel 
adequate and confident. Companies want to hire that kind of person to go 
out after the big contracts. That person is able to 
accept the ups and downs in the realities of life as 
well as their own limitations. A person dominated by 
pride is unable to accept limitation. When a company 95 STRESS 
says, "We would like you to go to Venezuela and close 
a deal," the person at the level of Acceptance feels 
adequate and confident and can say,"You know, I really 
do not do very well with that company, and I do not 
get along with that particular man. I would do much 
better in Belgium. I can sell twice as much there. Why 
don't you let Jim go down to Venezuela. " There is the willingness to accept how the world 
works and to avoid going into indignation. Even the IRS 
has its own way ofbeing in the world. One avoids 'right 
and wrong' and just accepts that is how it is in this 
world and goes along with it. (Acceptance is different 
from passivity. ) The beginning of the transformation of 
consciousness is the realization that we are the source 
of our experiences, and therefore, the world begins to 
look more positive, harmonious, hopeful, and benign. Empowerment moves a person up to the next 
energy field of Love. What do we mean by love. It is 
not the sentimental emotionalism that emanates from 
attachment or what Hollywood depicts as love. That 
emotionalism coming out of a possessive ownership 
of the other person, the back-and-forth control and 
the power struggles that occur, the words of a song 
that say,"If you leave me, I will kill myself" are not the 
elements of Love. These are all the consequences of 
an attachment rather than real love. Unconditional Love is a way of being with life that 
nurtures, supports, and, of its own nature, is forgiving. It is the beginning of the revelation of some of the 
truths of life because, within the brain, there is a 
release of endorphins. (See Brain Function and 
Physiology chart in Chapter 1. ) Endorphins allow a 96 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
certain inner state to occur, a way of being with one's 
self and one's body in the world. Consequently, the 
world starts to appear to be lovable. Such a person 
now walks down the street feeling somewhat mellow. They see the lovingness that really occurs underneath 
the apparent trivialities of life and holds all of 
mankind together. The person is moving into a higher 
energy field. To see life as harmonious and lOVing reduces stress, 
making this person less vulnerable because they are 
aligned with forgivingness. The intention of this field 
that one chooses is called lovingness, which is experi­
enced as being loving towards all things at all times, as 
loving mankind and being nurturing towards one's self. There is a difference in how people view them­
selves in contrast to the harshness of the perfectionist 
who is always at the level of stress with human nature. The person who is unforgiving, with a tendency to 
judge and condemn, carries self-hatred and guilt, and 
for that person to just breathe in and out causes a state 
of stress. If they get up late, they already hate them­
selves for getting up late. The stress stems from perfec­
tionism, inflexibility, and the propensity for self-con­
demnation, and it is internally generated. The open­
minded persons who start to be easier with themselves 
also start to be accepting of their own humanness. Forgiveness supports the mental attitude of the readi­
ness to allow for the humanness of others, which also 
allows for one's own humanness. With progressive inner spiritual work, one moves 
up to an even higher energy field of joyfulness, which 
approaches the beginning awareness of the reality that 97 STRESS 
one really is the experiencer, not the experience. One 
is then not at the effect of the world but instead real­
izes that one determines the way it is experienced. Out of inner serenity arises compassion for all of 
life. Awareness of its incredible beauty and perfection 
increases, along with experiencing the oneness and 
unity of it. Then the more evolved person opens the 
newspaper and sees and experiences the totality of 
man's lovingness. Despite the limitations of human­
ness, that which is making all the articles appear in the 
newspaper is the expression of the onward movement 
and evolution of man's consciousness. When an 
evolved person walks down the same street, they expe­
rience only the incredible beauty ofit, the beauty oflife 
in all its magnificent expressions. One can then see a 
rose in the middle ofits perfect unfoldingness. The less­
evolved person would look at the half-unfolded rose 
and say,"I don't want that, that's an imperfect rose. "The 
evolved person sees perfection in the evolution of life 
itself and sees that half-unfolded rose in the same way. They then simply project forward in time and see the 
unfoldingness, the incredible beauty, and its precision 
and become aware of the inner sacredness of all life. As we talk about these energy fields as levels of 
consciousness, it is obvious that they determine how 
we experience life. They determine what kind of a God 
we think exists in the universe as well as the kinds of 
emotions we express. All ofthis expression is a process 
going on within consciousness itself. It is now clear 
that there is nothing 'out there' that has the power to 
create stress, and that we ourselves are the creators of 
stress by our positionalities and attitudes. 98 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
It becomes obvious that the open-minded, easygo­
ing person does not experience severe stress when 
somebody backs into their car's fender in the parking 
lot. What happens (as you may have experienced 
yourself) depends on whether you are in a 'good 
mood'. What is stressful in one mood is not stressful 
in another. Often the person whose fender was just 
bumped is very upset. A peaceful person is concerned 
about the upset person and tells them, "You know, 
there is nothing to be upset about; it's only a fender. We both have insurance. It's no big deal. In reality; it's 
a little nuisance in that you have to take your car to 
the body shop to get it ftxed, but it's really no big 
deal. " The evolved person desires to heal the upset 
that arose in the field of consciousness. It is not events that send one into self-pity or anger 
about an unjust world where people back into a fender. The wish to punch the guy in the nose arises from so 
much anger within oneself. The detached person 
would just handle the event with no particular feeling. One's concern about the feelings of others and the 
desire to support life by relieving another's anxiety and 
fear arises from what one has become. It does not exist 
in the world. The dented fender, therefore, has no 
power over one's life. There is no 'cause' of emotions 
except from within. To see this fact results in empow­
erment, autonomy, and release from the illusion of 
victimhood. Inner peace automatically arises out of our willing­
ness to give up certain positionalities, such as judging 
others and making them 'wrong'. Willingness stems 
from a forgiving, understanding position. ]udgmentalism 99 STRESS 
does not really solve anything but instead adds to the 
problem. Making others wrong results in a world of 
lose-lose. This is a world where we lose and the com­
pany loses. It is stressful by virtue of the superim­
posed context. It is stressful in the very way that it is 
set up because even ifwe win, we still go through the 
anxiety ofpossibly losing, so that even in winning, we 
do not really win. We know about people, for example, who say that 
they want to have a lot of money. What happens to 
them when they suddenly win a lot of money. Some 
interesting research has been done on people who 
have won millions of dollars in the big lotteries. In 
follow-up studies of lottery winners, it was found that 
within five years, the degree of happiness of the 
people in this group was dismal. The rates of suicide, 
divorce, sickness, and drug addiction had risen 
spectacularly among these people who ostensibly 
had gotten the very thing they had wanted. The 
reason they played the lottery was to win. In the win-lose game, to win, in itself, means to 
defeat others who lose. To defeat others brings up 
guilt. As a result, one cannot even be happy in winning 
because in a win-lose context, one wins and others are 
defeated, which results in guilt. In competition, there 
are unconscious fears, for example, fear of the oppo­
nent. There is the fear that the sudden acquisition of 
money may mean that friends will be out to get the 
money. This can result in reactions leading to a 
depressed, paranoid attitude. At the lowest level of 
consciousness, everyone loses because it is a hope­
less, dismal world. Stress automatically comes out of a 100 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
win-lose position. Positions of great success and power in the world 
automatically come to those who think in terms of 
win-win because they set up within their own minds a 
way ofbeing in the world and a way for others to be in 
their life that is mutually beneficiaLWhat kind of stress 
does the person experience who sets up everything as 
win-win. That person wins if a friend comes over to 
their house, and they win ifthe friend does not. Ifthey 
visit, what is held in mind is how much one is going to 
enjoy their friendship and presence. At the same time, 
one knows that if their friend cannot make it, that is 
okay, too. As a result, the other person wins either way, 
also. If they come over for dinner, we are delighted 
with their presence. Ifthey do not come for dinner, we 
have given them the free time to do something that we 
know will enhance their life. To hold all of our expectations in business as a win­
win situation results in success, which we experience 
as an enhancement of life. The better a company does, 
the better the employees do. The more a company 
does, the more it gives to the world. The better the 
product available to the world, the better the world 
supports the company. The more it supports the com­
pany, the more the company can support the economy. The more the employees are supported, the more they 
can support their families. The more the company sup­
ports the families, the more the families support the 
company. The way to become a success is to make our boss a 
success. Instead of going into competition with him 
(meaning someone has to lose), making our boss a STRESS 101 
success moves him up the ladder and creates space for 
us to move up as well. When coming from a competitive 
position with the intent to defeat the boss, there arises 
unconscious anxiety, distress, and the fear of retalia­
tion. The willingness to surrender the adversarial posi­
tion and become more easygoing lessens the experi­
ence of stress. The easygoing person at the level of 
Acceptance is able to accept human nature and the 
world as they are and is ready for any alternatives that 
arise. A lot ·of people go into a state of fear at the 
prospect of being visited by the IRS. They assume an 
adversarial position that brings up all kinds of stress. As stated previously, stress does not exist in the outer 
world but only in our attitude about it. One year, the 
computer selected me for an audit. "Well," I thought, 
"here's a chance to find out how well I have been 
doing. " I sort of looked at the prospect happily. I 
thought, "Here's a chance to fmd out if I am doing 
things correctly, and ifnot, what I can do about it. " I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the audit. I purchased fancy notebooks, inserted the specific 
pages into celluloid sheets that the accountant said 
the IRS would be interested in, and labeled every­
thing. When the agent arrived, coffee was ready, and I 
treated him like an honored guest. I escorted him into 
the library, gave him the best desk, the best coffee, 
and the best cup and saucer, not for the purpose of 
'buttering him up', but out of respect for his position 
because I could see how painful it must be to be a tax 
auditor. 102 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
My heart went out to this guy, and I really wanted 
his day to be a good day. He was actually very pleased, 
and as the day went on, I had my way of looking at 
things, and he had his way of looking at things. We had 
a friendly conversation and did a sort of swap. He had 
a great day. By making his day a great day, I also had an 
enjoyable day. He said,"You know, I really hate to leave 
at three o'clock in the afternoon, but frankly, we are all 
done. "The IRS people are really very friendly, very help­
ful, and very positive in their attitudes because that is 
how it is being held in consciousness. To become easygoing is to get out of the habit of 
seeing danger. The easygoing person who is really 
confident and adequate is able to accept the down­
side of or the possibility of the downside of human 
nature and therefore does not have to deny it. It is 
preparing for the 'what ifs' in life, creating an oppor­
tunity to handle the other side and the opportunities 
that may arise. An easy way to discover the source of 
stress is to take a book along when driving to work 
through heavy traffic. This converts the delays into a 
pleasant and welcome opportunity. There is the 
capacity within us to create an enjoyable experience 
when waiting in traffic because there is time to read, 
catch up on things, and really enjoy life. What does it mean when we go into a neighbor­
hood and see a zoning sign that says, "No children or 
pets". It means that people who live in the neighbor­
hood have the idea that children and pets are stressful. There are other people who would consider the lack 
of children or pets to be stressful. Some people have 
the television on, the radio playing, and the lights on; STRES S 103 
there is a lot of action in their lives. To other people, 
that would be very stressful. Some people like silence 
and never turn on the television or radio because the 
constant 'noise' in the background interferes with their 
concentration. Stress can also arise from that which is unexpect­
ed. The open-minded person sees many alternatives of 
what could happen in a situation and plans in 
advance how to handle the unexpected before it 
occurs. Ifone considers the downside of a situation in 
advance, for example, "What if the contract falls 
through," or "What if the person I am to meet on the 
street corner doesn't show up," and plans an alterna­
tive action if the unexpected does occur, then stress 
is minimized or does not occur at all. The "Law of Initial Value" states that the effect one 
sees is not in the stimulus but has to do with the set-up 
of the organism, the preexisting condition. The 
response is not on just the intensity of the stimulus but 
on the position of the organism with which it is inter­
acting. For example, in pharmacology, it would be 
senseless to ask what is the effect of twenty-five mil­
ligrams of the tranquilizer Thorazene. The effect of 
twenty-five milligrams ofThorazene would depend on 
the preexisting condition of the patient. If the patient 
was somewhat dull and in Apathy, twenty-five mil­
ligrams of Thorazene would be very, very sedating. If 
the patient was in a highly agitated state, twenty-five 
milligrams of Thorazene might have no effect. If the 
person was in a state of mild anxiety, twenty-five mil­
ligrams of Thorazene might be quite effective. The 
patient's present condition, which includes the amount 104 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
of suppressed energy they are holding, their attitudes, 
and their belief systems, determines the effect of the 
same stimulus. Some people say loud music drives them crazy. In 
contrast, consider teenagers who put on earphones, 
turn the volume way up, and go into a state of delight. Is loud music stressful or not. The basic principle is 
that we experience stress when we do not want a spe­
cific stimulus or situation. Consequently, when one is 
in the mood for loud music, it is pleasant and con­
tributes to the state of joy and aliveness. In contrast, if 
one were tired or exhausted after a hard day at the 
office, the same loud music would be experienced as 
stressful. Desire determines whether or not a stimulus 
is stressful. Stress is resisting what we do not want, and not 
stressed is getting what we do want. The problem is 
within ourself. The solution is to merely shift our atti­
tude by choosing lOVingness towards life, which 
includes an energy field called humor that contains 
the capacity to laugh at ourselves and at the nature of 
life itself, and to love and laugh at the comedy of it all. That is the value of the great humorists who also tend 
to be long lived. Disturbed people are like Don Quixote-fighting 
their own projections in the world. The comedy of it 
all is the basis of humor, laughing at those qualities of 
life, holding them from a position that exposes the 
paradox, because humor is in seeing the paradox. It is 
by inner decision whether life is experienced as joy­
ful, harmonious, and easygoing, or experienced as an 
enemy. We begin to admire instead of envy people STRESS 105 
who are capable and easygoing, which means accept­
ance and being adequate. To feel adequate and solid 
results from realizing ourself as the source of how life 
is experienced. We can be the boss, and ifthe janitor does not show 
up, it does not really matter to a serious degree. The 
truth is that we are the quality which experiences 
experience. within our own consciousness. Happiness 
results from the experience of our own existence and 
enjoying our own inner aliveness. When we stop identifying with the events 'out 
there' and giving them power over our lives, then we 
experience an inner serenity as a consequence of 
having transcended the world. CHAPTER 4 
Health 
The subject of health occupies the minds of a large 
part of the population. As a physician, psychiatrist, and 
spiritual researcher, my interests have been focused on 
the area of health and self-healing. Importantly, in the 
relationship between body, mind, and spirit, it has been 
found that the body has no way of experiencing itself; 
the body is experienced in mind only. The body 
expresses that which is held in mind. The mind cannot 
experience itself, either; it has to be experienced from 
an even greater energy field, which is called conscious­
ness. A human being progresses from dense linear form 
to an ever-expanding and increasing nonlinear Jorm~ 
lessness. One ends up with the experiencing of expe­
rience itself-that field called awareness. The relationship between body, mind, and spirit is 
very important when considering the subject of 
health. Consciousness itself has to be understood 
because all experiencing is going on solely within con­
sciousness. It has been discovered that, due to the 
power of the energy fields, healing comes out of atti­
tudes and belief systems that are held in mind. Therefore, to a large degree, health is an expression of 
levels of consciousness. To make this more understandable to the logical 
mind, the integrated Map of Consciousness is based on 
the mathematical relationship between the energy 
fields that resulted from calibrating the energy fields of 
the essence of literally thousands of things, including 
attitudes, feelings, perception, and beliefs. 107 108 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
From this model, in which the relative power of 
energy fields is calibrated, it can be seen that Apathy, 
which calibrates at 40, has much less power than that 
ofFear,which calibrates at 100. Fear, on the other hand, 
has much less power than that of Courage, which cali­
brates at 200. Not only do these energy fields have different lev­
els of power relative to each other, we can also see that 
the energy fields go in a certain direction. At the level 
of Courage, the scale progresse~ upward beyond the 
energy field of 200 to those of Neutral, Willingness, 
Acceptance, and Love. These fields give energy as well 
as nurture and support life and truth, thus increasing 
aliveness. At the bottom of the Map of Consciousness 
(below 200) are the levels that do not represent truth 
in the human. Truth really begins to prevail at con­
sciousness level 200. If we start at the bottom of the chart and move 
up to the level of 600, we leave the fields of duality 
and illusion. We leave behind identification with the 
small self, or that which is called the ego, and move 
into the fields of Enlightenment. The energy fields 
of the great enlightened beings-the great spiritual 
masters and avatars-start in the 600s and continue 
up to level 1,000. Health means aliveness, which is an expression of 
an energy field. The body expresses and is subject to 
Wh~lt is held in mind, and therefore, the greater the 
amount of negativity held in mind, the greater the 
effect of the negative energy field on the body's physi­
cal health. In contrast, the greater the positive energy 
that is being held in mind, the more powerfully posi­HEALTH 109 
tive is the energy field of life. This knowledge provides 
a tool to determine whether or not something sup­
ports health and the expression of life. At the bottom of the Map are the energy fields that 
contribute to illness, and above level 200 are the ener­
gy fields that support life. Each of these fields corre­
lates with an emotion. That which is anti-life has the 
negative emotions of self-hatred, hopelessness, despair, 
regret, depression, worry, anxiety, cravingness, resent­
ment, hatred, and arrogance. These negative emotions 
accompany ill health. The process occurring in con­
sciousness can be seen arising from the emotional 
states of destruction, loss of energy and spirit, defla­
tion, entrapment, overexpansion, overinflation, and loss 
of power. Spiritually, the kind of world that a person experi­
ences from these negative mental states is one of sin 
and suffering, hopelessness, sadness, fright, frustration, 
competition, and status. They see the negative concep­
tualizations of God that come out of a lower energy 
field. God can be denied, or conversely, negatively 
depicted as the ultimate enemy of man-the God who 
is punitive and even throws man into hell forever; the 
God who ignores man through unlovingness; or the 
God who is retaliatory. These depictions emerge from 
an energy field that has a negative direction along with 
a negative emotion and a destructive process occur­
ring in consciousness. The negative views of God cor­
relate with lower levels of consciousness (below cali­
bration level 200). Health can be viewed as the expression of unop­
posed aliveness resulting from the removal of its obsta­110 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
cles, including all that is negative. Health results from 
transcending limitations and feelings of separation. Since we have the power of refusal, we can refuse 
things in our life that are negative. If our mind can become programmed in a nega­
tive direction, we can choose to program it in a posi­
tive direction as well. Health is an expression of self­
esteem. Just how does one learn to love one's real 
self. How is the body experienced, and how is one's 
relationship to that body. There is a sublime state 
called 'nonexperiencing the body'in which the body 
is barely experienced as even existing. It is something 
one catches out of the corner of the eye and not cen­
tral to experiencing at all. It means letting go of iden­
tifying oneself as physicality. At the bottom ofthe Map of Consciousness, there is 
identification of ourself as being the body, but as we 
move up higher in consciousness, this lessens and 
lessens until identification with the body is transcended, 
and we move to the realization of the Self as spirit. It is necessary to look at the relationship between 
mind and body because of its great importance in the 
field of health and something that really is not clearly 
understood. A basic principle that is demonstrated 
clinically is that we are subject only to what we hold 
in mind. This is a principle ofhealing and health, with 
two sides to the coin-one side being illness and the 
other being health. They are the opposite sides of the 
coin of the same understanding that heals and brings 
about health-that we are subject to what we hold in 
mind. A good clinical example is that of multiple person­HEALTH 111 
alities; another example is hypnosis. Under hypnosis, a 
suggestion can be given to a patient that they are aller­
gic to the roses on the desk, and that when they get up, 
they will get hives, a rash, and start sneezing. Then 
amnesia is created for the suggestion. When the person 
wakes up from the trance, all of a sudden, they start to 
wheeze, get hives, and develop a rash. The body is 
responding to what the mind believes. With hypnosis, 
the symptoms can be induced, along with most any ill­
ness, by convincing the patient that the program is 
true; and then amnesia can be created for memory of 
the programming process. This' illustrates how an ill­
ness comes out of a program or belief system, which, 
in ordinary life, is often unconscious. In the laboratory, this occurs as a psychological 
experiment. It is important to remember, however, that 
in everyday life, people have been programmed (hyp­
notized) thousands of times. This occurs when sitting 
in a trance in front ofa television. There is no conscious 
memory of the process; the program went in, and the 
person is now subject to it for the rest of their life. Because ofchildhood amnesia, many people cannot 
remember what happened to them before the age of 
five years, and some people have very little or even no 
memory of anything from their entire childhood. Even 
in people with good memories of childhood, there are 
vast areas of vacant forgottenness. In those areas are 
the many programs that are now expressing in various 
forms ofill health, such as catch phrases like "Heart dis­
ease runs in our family. " "Being overweight runs in the family;'"Allergies run 
inourfamily;or"Everybody inourfamily has hayfever. " 112 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
These thoughts become a program that goes into the 
mind, and we can see that it is the same as though the 
person were hypnotized. Until that program is brought 
to the conscious mind and cancelled, it remains opera­
tive within the unconscious mind (e. g. , a chill or a draft 
causes colds). Another example of the power of mind over body 
is in the cases of so-called multiple personality. These 
have been gaining increasing attention within the 
field of psychiatry and are found to be far more com­
mon than was previously believed. The consciousness 
of one personality is adopted by the patient and oper­
ative within that body for varying periods of time; it 
could be minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even years. While that second personality is operative, the patient 
is subject to all the belief systems held by that person­
ality. If that personality happens to believe it has an 
ulcer, a weight problem, allergies, diverticulitis, colitis, 
back trouble-whatever it believes-while it is operative 
in the body, those physical abnormalities are actually 
brought into existence. The reverse side of this occurs when that personal­
ity leaves, which sometimes comes about through 
intoxication or shifts in emotionality or life circum­
stances, and then the other personality enters the body. Because the other personality has no such beliefs, the 
body promptly heals itself of all those illnesses. Why does the mind have such power over the 
body. We will consider the physics involved, which 
will make it easily understood. The energy of the 
physical body calibrates at about 200, as does the 
earth itself. The energy field of the mind is stronger HEALTH 113 
and often calibrates up to 499. The 400s are in the 
energy field of the intellect, reason, logic, mind, and 
what the mind believes. Therefore, ifa thought is held 
in mind that says strawberry seeds, caraway seeds, or 
any kinds of seeds give me diverticulitis, then the 
power ofthat thought coming out of the energy fields 
of perhaps 300 to 400 overpowers the body at the 
energy field of 200. The body is overpowered by the 
influence of the pattern of the belief. All thought has form, so the form in the personal or 
collective unconscious, or in the collective or social 
consciousness, is present in great detail. Ifwe buy into 
a thought or go into agreement with it, the effect is to 
bring it into our own consciousness, which then 
expresses itselfwithin the body. The body will do what 
the mind believes. The healing of the body and the 
achievement of health are accomplished not just by 
addressing the body directly, but also by addressing the. mind and moving into the field of consciousness. Ifthe 
body is expressing that which is held in consciousness, 
then it is necessary to look at what that is. Often we are not aware of what is being held in 
consciousness, in which case it would be called 'being 
unconscious'. There may be no recall of ever having 
had·such a thought, but the body expresses what must 
be. It is like an x-ray telling us what is being held in 
mind since it is presenting itself in the body. For exam­
ple, a person develops clinical diabetes and says, "I 
don't remember anything ever being said about that in 
my family. No one in my family has diabetes. I don't see 
where it could have arisen in my mind. "We know that 
somewhere in the collective unconscious is the belief 114 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
of diabetes and all that goes with it. Ifwe do individual 
research with the patient long enough, we will 
uncover the origin of the program, which confirms 
that the program exists. Ifthe person thinks they are 
subject to an illness, then the belief system also has to 
be healed. It is necessary to heal where the origin of 
the illness began. Health is the result of positive mental attitudes. It 
originates in the field of consciousness and reflects a 
level of consciousness that expresses itself on the 
lower physical plane. An expression of health origi­
nates from the fields above Neutral-out of 
Willingness, and out of lovingness, inner joyfulness, 
and an inner state of peace. That which is mental cal­
ibrates in the 400s, and that which is of Love is at 500 
and above. Spirit dominates at level 500 and becomes 
increasingly consciously aware that it is Spirit. Therefore, the intellect is not man's highest faculty, 
contrary to the age of reason as expressed in other 
learned works or by those intellectuals who believe 
that the intellect is man's highest attribute. The intel­
lect is only in the 400s. There is the nonlinear energy 
field called consciousness, which is beyond mind, 
logic, and reason and transcends mentalization, reveal­
ing a whole different paradigm and way of being. If we understand illness, then we will also under­
stand its reverse, which is health. In illness, there is 
always unconscious guilt (calibrates as true), a state­
ment reaffirmed by research. There are whole·systems 
of how to let go of unconscious guilt through the 
process of the willingness to forgive, to let go of criti­
cism and judgment, to let go of right and wrong as an HEALTH 115 
orientation towards life, to move towards forgiving­
ness, and through the desire to understand life out of 
compassion. This resolution of negativity requires 
recontextualization of perception as exemplified by 
the transformative effect of doing the workbook of A 
Course in Miracles. We find that illness requires several components, 
including unconscious guilt and a mental belief system. The mind has to hold a certain belief for the person to 
accept that they are subject to it. It is as though uncon­
scious guilt looks for something to justify itself. Often a 
certain illness gets notoriety on television because a 
celebrity shares their experience of it. That is followed 
by an epidemic of that illness because of suggestion. The mind buys into the program, the belief system, and 
the specificity of a particular disease. Unconscious 
guilt gives it power by expression through the auto­
nomic nervous system and the hormonal balance 
through all the stress mechanisms within the body, and 
through the acupuncture energy system. With positive attitudes, the acupuncture energy sys­
tem is balanced, and the energy flow of health and life 
moves directly down through all the energy channels, 
stimulating all the organs of the body. With a negative 
thought, the energy flow through one of the twelve 
main meridians is interrupted and, if done repeatedly, 
disease comes about in the affected organ. Negative 
emotions potentiate a disease process. Unconscious 
guilt gives it energy, and the form the illness takes is a 
consequence of mental mechanisms because the body 
expresses what is believed. We also have to look at how experience is actually 116 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
experienced. The body itself is insentient, as curious 
as that may seem. It has no capacity to experience 
itself. The next level of experience comes through 
sensations, from the senses of the body, so we do not 
experience the body; instead, we experience the sen­
sations of the body. Senses themselves have no innate 
capacity to experience themselves. They are experi­
enced in mind. The senses report what is going on 
with the body, so we are several levels removed. Mind 
itself is unable to experience its own experience. It 
has to be in a greater, larger energy field than itself, 
and in this case, it is the energy field of conscious­
ness. Because of consciousness, we are aware of what 
is going on in mind. Mind then tells us via the senses 
what is going on in the body. We can see that percep­
tion is several levels removed from the physical body. Consciousness itself requires something greater than 
itself, called awareness. Awareness allows us to know 
what is going on in consciousness and reports what is 
happening within mind. Mind in turn reports what is 
happening about the body via the senses. That which we call'myself' is many levels removed 
from the physical body. It is necessary to understand 
that fact because we then see that the mind has power 
over the body. We can appreciate the physics of the 
energy fields of the 400s, and see that, just by their 
sheer power, they are greater than the energy of the 
physical body. The physical body (calibration leve1200) 
does what the mind tells it to do. Therefore, if the mind 
says,"I have this disease," the body complies. We can thus see the importance of not buying into 
programs, all of which are really limitations of the HEALTH 117 
truth. We can see the importance of consciously 
canceling the limiting programs and instead saying 
something that is the truth. The truth is, "I am an infi­
nite being not subject to that. " So, when people hear 
something such as, "Eggs are full of cholesterol, and 
cholesterol gives you heart disease," they accept the 
thought as the truth and buy into the beliefsystem that 
the cholesterol in eggs will raise their blood choles­
terol. Their bodies simply agree and raise the blood 
cholesterol when eggs are eaten. One time I had a very high cholesterol level and 
began to cancel the belief system. I repeatedly said, "I 
am an infmite being; I am not subject to that. I am only 
subject to what I hold in mind. This does not apply to 
me, and I hereby cancel it and refuse it:' Ifthe mind can 
program you with a negative belief system, it can also 
reverse itself, can it not. Therefore, we begin telling 
ourself that the belief system has no effect on us, that 
it is only a belief system, and that we do not have to 
buy into it or go into agreement with it. When ~e go into agreement with a belief system, 
we give it the power of the collective energy of that 
belief. When we refuse it, we then release ourselves 
from the collective energy of the belief system and 
count ourselves out. One attitude is to not buy into 
agreement with negative belief systems that have to 
do with our health. This is very important when it 
comes to epidemic suggestion and hysteria. The pro­
gramming that comes in is aided and abetted by an 
emotional program. Much is still heard about AIDS, for example, which 
is accompanied by constant repetition in the media 118 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that play on fear-fear about this, anger about that, 
and, of course, the guilt about this. What better dis­
ease to bring up all of man's feelings of sinfulness and 
guilt, especially about one's sexuality, which is so 
common in all cultures, not just ours. Of course, it 
then takes on a negative energy when the coin is 
turned over and becomes the lowest. What better area 
in which to create an epidemic to ensure the belief in 
it. There is the unconscious guilt, not to mention the 
conscious guilt about one's. sexuality, the sadness 
about it, the grief over it, and the fear about the dis­
ease itself. All this contributes to setting the stage for 
a mental belief system in an energy field of the 400s. There is also the negative energy field of fear, which 
is the energy field ofthe 1OOs, plus the guilt of calibra­
tion level 30. This is the exact set-up for disease 
because the mind chooses that with which it is 
impressed and uses that as a form of expression. In the case of the cholesterol experiment, I can­
celed the thought every time it came up. After a short 
time, the cholesterol level decreased, and now I can eat 
three eggs for breakfast every morning, lots of cheese, 
even other high-eholesterol foods, yet my cholesterol is 
low and sometimes even below normal for my age. The body will do exactly what the mind believes, 
but there is a credibility problem here. The person asks, 
"How could just my beliefin that make it happen with­
in my life. " It is due to the nature of the unconscious, 
which creates the opportunity for that to occur. There 
is the person who is 'accident prone' because that 
belief has taken hold in their mind. Unconsciously, the 
person just manages to get their body in the right place HEALTH 119 
at the right time in order to get hit by the fender of a 
car, or slip down the stairs, or get hit on the head. There 
is no need to worry about it because the mind will fmd 
a way. People just slip into a sort ofhypnotic trance and 
expose themselves to the correct opportunities to. make that program manifest in their lives (e.
The author argues that stress is not caused by external factors, but rather by our own attitudes and beliefs. They emphasize the importance of changing our consciousness and adopting a more positive and loving attitude to overcome stress.
What is the author's main argument about the nature of stress and stress management?
The author describes the process as a journey of self-awareness, where one recognizes the power of their own mind and the importance of forgiving oneself and others.
How does the author describe the process of healing and recovery?
According to the author, the key to achieving health is to take responsibility for one's own power and to reown one's own consciousness. This requires the willingness to forgive oneself and others, and to adopt a positive and loving attitude.
What is the key to achieving health and well-being, according to the author?
The author explains that the body reflects what the mind believes, and that the mind has the power to create illness or health. They emphasize the importance of taking responsibility for one's own thoughts and beliefs.
How does the author explain the relationship between the mind and body?
The author defines love as unconditional and emphasizes that it is a decision we make within ourselves. They argue that this type of love is not sentimental or emotional, but rather a conscious choice to love unconditionally.
What is the author's view on the concept of love?