 tremor is rhythmic and regular and persists during sleep as well as during waking
hours. Beginning mildly, paralysis agitans progresses gradually with tremor and weakness beginning in
an extremity, usually one hand and arm. In the beginning the tremor can be controlled by the will,
but the disease gradually extends until an entire side is affected and it becomes no longer possible
to control the tremor. In advanced stages, there is often dullness of the mind, drooling, a tendency to go forward (the
so-called propulsion walk), and restlessness of the fingers, which appear to be continually going
through the motions of crumbling bread. There is a progressive loss of power in the affected
muscles, moderate rigidity, alternations in the gait, and, at times, mental impairment. In advanced
states, the tongue and chin may become tremulous. Rarely is speech lost. Some of the patients
become very much worse under excitement and so great is the tremor that they literally jump up
and down. Often the tremor is of minor importance in the estimation of the patient. He visits a physician for
hypertension, digestive troubles, arthritis or other affection. I have seen one or two cases of
arthritis, with rigidity of the limbs, in which the tremor showed up only after the arthritic condition
cleared. The arthritis seems to have masked the paralysis agitans. Wilson’s disease so greatly resembles Parkinson’s disease that it is difficult to distinguish them. In Wilson’s disease there is also enlargement and sclerosis of the liver. In general, Wilson’s
disease would seem to be less favorable than paralysis agitans. It appears to be much rarer. The single case of a woman I have seen personally did make considerable improvement during
a period of three months under my care. She had been unable to write for seven years, so great was
the tremor of her hands and arms. After two weeks of fasting she was able to write letters and was able to hold her hands as
steadily as the most normal individual. There was a recurrence of tremor after the fast was broken,
but it was not great enough to prevent her from writing letters. No second fast was undertaken and
the patient passed from under my care. Paralysis agitans is defined as a “nervous disease of unknown origin.” Its cause is said to be
“entirely unknown.” Studies of changes in the brain and nerves all follow the death of the patient,
hence the findings represent end-points rather than the condition of these structures at the first
appearance of symptoms. Patients often live for as many as twenty or more years after symptoms first develop, so slowly
does the disease progress. Certainly the changes in the brain and nerve tissue at the end of a twenty
year period of development tell us nothing of the condition of these tissues twenty years earlier. It is not enough to say that sometimes the nervous system wears out prematurely; it is essential
that we trace the cause of the premature wearing out of the brain and nerves. What is the cause of
the premature wearing of these vitally essential tissues? In later life paralysis agitans is supposed
to occur as a result of hardening of the arteries which supply the nerve cells at the base of the brain
and which have an important office in controlling the muscles of voluntary motion. Or it may develop rather early in life as a result of degeneration of the brain cells themselves. In
a few instances it has followed a head injury. 130Often tremor is seen in men of great enervation, especially in men past sixty, in whom hardening
of the arteries is already well advanced. Tremors often put in their first appearance after some
exhausting experience that leaves the individual profoundly enervated. It would seem that the causes of great enervation and of tissue hardening are the most likely
reasons for paralysis agitans. Among these sexual excesses are probably of great importance. Enervation is brought on by overindulgence in the pleasures of work and play—over-enjoyment
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        It is characterized
by difficult breathing (dyspnea) blueness of the lips and fingers (cyanosis) rapid, but feeble heart
actions, venous engorgement, a decreased urinary output, with, in severe cases, an accumulation of
fluid in the tissues—edema, dropsy, anasarca. Although already greatly weakened, the increased work of the heart occasioned by the
accumulating fluid, adds to its difficulties. The heavier burden on the heart becomes intolerable
and it slowly weakens under the load. As the heart weakens the dropsy increases and as this
increases, the work of the heart is increased. A vicious cycle is established from which it is
difficult to escape. Another source of edema is the taking of common table salt (sodium chloride). This salt is non-
usable and poisonous. It is excreted with difficulty, hence it tends to accumulate in the body of the
salt-eater. It is stored in the surface tissues just under the skin and in cavities, along with water that
is needed to dilute it, thus forming brine. This salt-occasioned edema, often sufficiently marked in
supposedly healthy individuals to be easily
 detected (in others existing as a hidden edema) places
an added burden upon the heart and kidneys. The body of the fasting patient is able to bring the salt and water back into the circulation, from
where it is excreted. There is commonly an enormous urinary excretion of sodium chloride, in such
cases, up to 78 grams of salt a day having been observed to be excreted during a fast. It has been
shown by careful biochemical observations that fasting results in an absolute increase in the
amount of sodium chloride excreted, even in cases in which the total urinary output is small. As the sodium chloride content of the blood remains normal during the fast, the indication is that
the salt excreted is from the edema and effusion flud accumulation. The first step in the excretion of the salt-water accumulation is the return of the water and salt to
the blood stream. Fasting favors the absorption of the fluid from the tissues and its subsequent
excretion. When the fast is instituted and all intake of salt is entirely discontinued, the body is
enabled to rapidly withdraw the water and sodium chloride from the edematous tissues. The
hidden edema and dropsy disappear at a rapid rate. The principle of lightening the work of the circulatory system and particularly that of the heart
by decreasing the food intake and by eliminating salt from the diet is carried to its ultimate stage
when the heart patient fasts. Often it is even found necessary to reduce greatly the amount of water
taken. Especially in cases of marked edema (dropsy) is it important to reduce the water intake in
order to facilitate the excretion of the fluid from the tissues. In decompensation of the heart, there is commonly renal (kidney) stasis—stoppage of the blood
flow—which impairs the function of the kidneys. The fast seems to result in an instantaneous
improvement in the function of the kidneys, so that there is an immediate increase of elimination. There are different views about water intake in this condition, some fasting advocates favoring
taking water freely, on the theory that the kidneys can function better if plenty of water is taken;
others holding that the intake of liberal quantities of water slows down the excretion of the
111edematous accumulation. I favor limiting water intake. With the increased excretion, through the kidneys, of water and sodium chloride, so that the
edema is reduced or obliterated, the heart is greatly relieved. It has also been suggested that fasting
may favorably affect certain vaso-motor centers, (the nerve centers that control circulation), thus
causing improvement in the condition of the heart and arteries. Certainly it would be folly to say that the excretion of water and sodium chloride in dropsical
conditions is alone responsible for the wide relief of symptoms that occur. The concomitant
general improvement of the heart and circulatory condition must be taken into full consideration,
but there is reason to think that the increased urinary outpout and the absorption of
 water and salt
from the tissues is due, in great measure, to the improvement of the general circulatory action, the
improvement tending to persist after eating is resumed. An Italian physician, Giorgio Dagnini, M. D., studied the results of fasting in sixteen cases of
cardiac decompensation and presented a detailed account of his observations in the
Institute of
General Medicine and Therapeutics
 of the University of Modena, Italy. I am indebted to an
American physician, who is interested in fasting, for an English translation of the account. Dagnini says of these sixteen cases, many of whom had previously proved “refractory of therapy
with cardiac drugs,” that all of them suffered with severe cardiac decompensation. In addition to
the fast, the patients were all given bed rest and all the water desired but no drugs. Twelve of
these patients suffered with edema of the serous cavities; four had no edema. Of the twelve edematous patients the clinical diagnoses were myocardial sclerosis (hardening
of the heart muscle) in six cases; mitral stenosis (narrowing or stricture of the mitral valve of the
heart) in two cases; mitral and aortic stenosis (stenosis of both the mitral and aortic valves)


 go  wherever he liked. D looked so much like me, that a great many townspeople who
saw him trudging along took him for me, and thought I had relapsed
back into my old invalidism. Whenever he would come in from his walk, D would protest to
my wife: "Mattie, I'm hungry." Whereupon Mattie would fix him a
bowl of turnip greens, dandelions or mustard greens, that was mostly
pot liquor and would crumble a little corn bread in the liquor. Naturally in his mind's thoughts—"not that stuff," D said, "I want
some meat and bread, a man's ration." Mattie would over rule him. So he would consume the greens,
pot liquor and sometimes a salad of lettuce leaves, raw cabbage and
carrots. All the time D thought he was starving but his pulse was good
and when he would weigh, the scales showed that he had not lost a
pound. As he gained strength, he would take on a little more exercise
every day. He was naturally active and used to hard labor. So we had
to caution him almost daily not to overdo the thing. One day he came
home and announced proudly that, for the first time since he was a
boy he had chinned himself. After he had been with us for seven weeks and we were on the
point of putting him on a normal diet, he suddenly informed us that he was catching the next train for Alabama. On his way home, he stopped by the Birmingham hospital to pay
his bill. "Let us check you over to see how you are doing by this
time," the doctors suggested. The diagnosticians who two months before had told my brother
that he was suffering from an incurable heart condition now could find
nothing wrong with him. "What did your brother do to you when you were in Texas?" asked the doctor. "Wa-al," answered D, "he didn't do nothing, except put me on a
diet." "Well, then, what did he give you to eat." "Let's see, now: for breakfast, a raw fruit salad and a glass of
sweet milk; for dinner, some dande lion greens and all the pot liquor I
could hold; for supper, some turnip greens again all the pot liquor I
could drink. "Was that all?" "Wa-al on some days I would eat a little cabbage, green beans,
cauliflower, sweetcorn, a boiled onion,  a fresh ripe tomato or whatever
Mattie—that's my brother's wife—could  find at the vegetable market." "Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Hear d, that during that entire seven
weeks, you had no meat, bread, potatoes, rice or other solid food?". "Wa-al, once in a while Mattie would give me a little corn bread
to crumble into my pot liquor..." "But you cannot live on that kind of stuff." "You have just finished examining me, doctor. I'm alive ain't I?" Thereupon D walked out of the hospital and he has not been back
since except for prostate treatment. That was 10 years ago. The last
time I heard from D he was in good  health and doing his farm chores
without missing a day. CHAPTER 25. ON CREATING AND PRESERVING MAN
 Everything in this world of ours, everything in the Universe is
governed by Law. Whether it concerns the guiding of an airplane, the
building of a highway, the motions of earth and moon, or keeping the
stars in their courses, it is Law that does it. That identical principal governs the functioning of the human body. The longer I live the more I am pe rsuaded that the master key to
health is the food we eat. It stands to reason that we cannot maintain
our bodies in health until we ke ep our bodies supplied with the
materials of which they are made. When a man's food is normal, his
body will be found normal also. When his thinking is normal, the
chances are that his body is functioning normally. Most ailments which afflict mankind today, including those
which are called incurable, I do believe, result from food which has
grown on poor soil, or which otherwise lacks certain elements which
are essential to keeping the bodily machine in repair and running
smoothly. A principal reason why the general run of foodstuff you find in
the grocery store is deficient in mi nerals and vitamins which the body
needs is because that food in its natural state is too easily spoiled. Your food processor refines the stuff so that it will keep until it
reaches the consumer. That is good business; but, I say, it is not good
dietetics. When the miller takes out those elements in wheat which
would spoil, he has robbed the grai n of life sustaining vitamins. There is the secret of white flour' s keeping qualities. But that fact
also accounts for the vitamin deficiencies and other forms of slow
starvation—which sooner or later,  will afflict the person who eats
white bread exclusively. Tests at various experiment stati ons have shown that cows fed on
whole wheat will thrive; but cows from the same herd, equally healthy
when the tests begin, when fed for some time on white flour
exclusively, would die of heart failure. Other experimenters, like Dr.
C. A. Pierle at Canyon, Texas, a nd Dr. Francis Pottenger in California,
have tried white rats on an exclusive white flour diet, with identical
results: The rats starved to death, with full stomachs. What is bad for cattle or rodents, I submit, is bad for children and
grownups, too. During my early dental practice in Alabama, my heart
would bleed for children only 2 years old brought to me with half their
teeth decayed. As I was to learn years later, those children, fed upon
whole raw milk, whole wheat cereal and other vitamin—and mineral-
rich foods would have had mouthfuls of sound teeth. For proof, I can point to my own three grandchildren—Martha,
13; George, 10 and Jane, 5 years old, who live on the George G.
Heard dairy farm not far from Hereford. None of those children have a
single decayed tooth. If all three should live a 100 years and keep on
eating the same kind of food they have lived on up to now, they still
will have perfect teeth—and, I dare prophesy, sound bodies otherwise. All three children are heavy milk drinkers; but take their milk
raw, not pasteurized. Practically all the food which those children
consume is produced on Deaf Smith County's mineralized soil. The
bread they eat is made from home grown wheat, which has been
freshly ground in a special mill and the whole grain has gone into the
loaf—bran, shorts and all. The children's meat diet consists  mostly of beef and chicken
these cattle and fowls raised on th e place, grazed on native grass and
lush green wheat, with a supplement of home grown alfalfa and grain
sorghum. After they had been fattened, the steers and chickens were
slaughtered and put into deep freeze. Most of the garden vegetables that will grow anywhere in the
country flourish on the Deaf Smith County irrigated farms. The Heard children like them all and take a portion of their vegetables raw—
celery, lettuce, asparagus, cabbage slaw, tomatoes, carrots or a dozen
kinds chopped up together in a salad. For much of the year, those
vegetables come fresh out of the garden; but deep freeze keeps the
stuff "garden fresh" the rest of the time. For sweetening, the youngsters consume honey. By way of
exception, the Heard children get most  of their fruit from other parts:
apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, figs, peaches and plums. For some years I supplied butter picked up from Deaf Smith
County farms to a Mr. J. H. Fuerhrer, who lives at Coopersburg, Pa. He fed that butter to his children and also gave them whole wheat cereal, freshly ground from his own mill. He saw to it that the children ate raw vegetables, fresh fruit and nuts, to make up a balanced ration
of protein, starches, sugar, vitamins and minerals. His neighbors thought Mr. Fuehrer a crank—just a bit off. But
when his daughter, Helen, became of  school age, he had his payoff. When the time came to put the first-year pupils through their health
tests, the school dentist examined 62 little mouths, all very much
alike. This 6 year old was the only  one free of cavities. Each child had
some decayed teeth. When he came to look into the mouth of Pupil 63, Helen Fuehrer,
6 years old, that dentist was astonished. The child had a mouthful of perfect teeth. The dentist had many questions to ask the little girl and her mother—curious to know how she had lived six years without
getting even one small blemish on her teeth. He did not know what
magic that butter from Deaf Smith County, Texas, had worked in the
child's mouth—and being told, would not believe it. It was the food that little Helen had put into her mouth that had
built her sound teeth and, at the same time, as the school physicians
later found, had built her a sound body generally. The right foods, properly balanced, not too much and not too


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 what stuff in my mind and my body was reallymine and what was another’s. I needed to apply certain mental techniques of self-protection known to and practiced by many healers. I knew beyond doubt that Ihad developed sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena hadhappened to me before. Once, when I had previously been working on a personwith very severe back pain with hands-on techniques, I suddenly had the pain,and the client was totally free of it. So I protected myself when working with sickpeople. I would wash my hands and arms thoroughly with cold water, or withwater and vinegar after contact. I would shake off their “energy,” have a coldshower, walk bare foot on the grass, and visualize myself well with intactboundaries. These prophylaxes had been working for me, but I was particularlyvulnerable to people with breast cancer. I also began detoxification dieting, took more supplements, and used
acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack. My healing diet consistedof raw food exclusively. I allowed myself fruits (not sweet fruits) and vegetables(including a lot of raw cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family such ascauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cancer), rawalmonds, raw apricot kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drankdiluted carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink made up of wheat grass and barley
green and aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I
worked all the acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system,including the thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also worked the meridians,and reflex points for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along thenatural lines of lymphatic drainage from the area. Last, and of great importance, I KNEW that the treatment would work, and
that the tumor would quickly disappear. It did vanish totally in three months. Itwould have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable to do thisbecause I needed physical strength to care for my resident patients and family. Eighteen years have passed since that episode, and I have had no further
reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all my body parts, and havehad no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles andathletic performance, would say my health is exceptional but I know my ownfrailties and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the same organdeficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on mylifestyle. If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, all I would have to do
would be to abandon my diet, stop taking supplements, eat red meat and icecream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have had manyresidential clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on theirsymptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle. I’ve helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment
began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly’s case was not the easiest of thisgroup, nor the hardest. Sometimes there was lymphatic involvement that themedical doctors had not yet treated in any way. All but one of my early-onsetbreast cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achievedby AMA treatment. Before I crow too much, let me stress that every one of these women was a
good candidate for recovery—under 40 years old, ambulatory and did not feel
very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other
debilitating medical treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lumpectomy. None of these women had old tumors (known about for more than six months)and none of the tumors were enormous (nothing larger than a walnut). Clearly, this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case. Hygienic therapy for cancer is a radical idea these days and tends to attractyounger people, or older, desperate people who have already been through theworks. In every one of my simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the bodyduring the thirty days of water fasting and the client left happy. Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case, this “dirty case,”
so my readers get a more balanced idea of how fearsome cancer really isn’t if thesick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem about achievingwellness. Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an
upper-middle class dysfunctional family. She was in her late twenties. She hadbeen sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had neverbeen able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover(honestly., maybe, about some things). Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically diagnosed as
having breast cancer and had been advised to have immediate surgery. Sheignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family andtried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life. On her own she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite of this diet, the
tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years the tumor was discovered byher lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments, forced Marie toseek treatment. Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medicalroute, she ended up on my doorstep as a compromise. By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of
the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard. Biokinesiology showed the usual
deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typical of cancer. Marie
began fasting on water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counselingand supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked much healthier, withclear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor had onlyreceded enough for the skin to close over it; it was still large, and very hard. Tofully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal lengthinterspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personaltoughness to confront another fast in the near future. Nor was she emotionally upto what she regarded as the deprivation of a long-term raw foods healing diet. So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling to accept standard
medical management of her case, Marie chose to go to the Philippines to have“psychic surgery. ” She was excited and optimistic about this; I was interestedmyself because I was dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie went Iwould have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very familiarwith. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, againstMarie’s directly-stated wishes, called her parents and informed them of what washappening. The parents had known nothing of Marie’s cancer and were shocked, upset,
outraged. They had not known Marie was a lesbian, much less that their daughterwas flirting with (from their view) obvious quackery. Their daughter neededimmediate saving and her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flewto Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of violent rage. Theythreatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to have their daughtercivilly committed as unable to take care of herself. They thought everything Mariehad done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jail. Ofcourse, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place; she hadwanted to avoid this kind of a scene. Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of
her immediate family. They put her in a hospital, where Marie had a radical
mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that they had done everything
that should have been done, the self-righteous parents went back home. Marienever recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospitalsurrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever-so-sympathetic turnsmaintaining an emotional round-the-clock vigil. Marie’s death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I
did not yet understand the total effect of lack of ethics and irresponsibility onillness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have soughttreatment three years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded thisquestion and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with my knee on herchest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody andwas never fully honest in any of her relationships, including with me. I think sheonly came to Great Oaks at her lover’s insistence and to the day she died wastrying to pretend that nothing was wrong. All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving
attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene gave her that, which is probablywhy she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it. The name for this game is “secondary gain. ” A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire; they get love, attention, revenge,sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick peoplereceive too much secondary gain they never get well. One of the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever-
enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes aperson want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really


aboring the sorry state of affairs in
the world, and your resistance becomes even more convincingly
entrenched. You’ve aligned yourself with the proponents of disallowing. What you need to do is look at this belief system and all of the factors
that continue to support it and say, It’s too big of a job to change the entire
thing. Instead, I’m going to start changing the thoughts that activate
disallowing right here, right now. It doesn’t matter what you thought before,
or for how long, or how many pressures you’re under to maintain your
resistance. Instead, stop activating disallowing thoughts today, one thought
at a time. You can do so by stating, I feel successful, I intend to feel the
abundance that is here, now. Repeat these words, or create your
arrangement of words, which continually inundate your thoughts during
your waking hours, with a new belief of being successful and abundant. When you’ve activated these thoughts enough times, they’ll become your
habitual way of thinking, and you will have taken the steps to eliminating
your resistance to allowing. Those thoughts will then become what you say in silent, prayer-like
messages to yourself: I am success; I am abundance. When you’re success
itself, when you’re abundance itself, you’re in harmony with the all-creating
Source, and it will do the only thing it knows how to do. It will be endlessly
giving and forthcoming with that which has no resistance to it—namely,
you. You’re no longer vibrating to scarcity; your every individual
vibrational utterance is in concert with what you summon from your
Source. You and your Source are one in your thoughts. You’ve chosen to
identify thoughts of resistance and have simultaneously decided to stay out
of your own way. As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success
is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance
no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond
your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You
must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life. Abundance, Detachment, and Your Feelings
While it’s crucial for you to have a firm vibrational match-up with the all-
creating abundance of intention, it’s just as crucial for you to know that you
can’t hang on to and own any of the abundance that will be coming your
way. This is because the you that would like to hang on to and become
attached to your success and your wealth is not really you, it’s that
troublesome ego of yours. You’re not what you have and what you do;
you’re an infinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has
accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. This is why you
must avoid being attached to it in any way. Detachment comes from knowing that your true essence is a piece of the
infinitely divine field of intention. It’s then that you become aware of the
importance of your feelings. Feeling good becomes much more valuable
then polishing your jewelry. Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your
bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely
feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from
the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important,
through you. Anything that inhibits the flow of energy stops the creating
process of intention right where the obstacle is erected. Attachment is one such roadblock. When you hang on to that which
arrives, rather than allowing it to move through you, you stop the flow. You
hoard it or decide to own it, and the flow is disrupted. You must keep it
circulating, always knowing that nothing can stop it from coming into your
life except any resistance you place in its way. Your feelings and emotions
are sensational barometers for detecting resistance and evaluating your
ability to experience success and abundance. Paying attention to your feelings. Your emotions are the inner
experiences that tell you how much of the divine energy you’re summoning
for the manifestation of your desires. Feelings can be measuring tools that
gauge how you’re doing in the manifestation process. An exceptionally
positive emotional response indicates that you’re summoning the divine
energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in a nonresistantmanner. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, unmitigated optimism,
unquestioned trust, and even illumination indicate that your desire to
manifest success and abundance, for example, have an extremely strong
pulling power from the universal Source to you. You must learn to pay
close attention to the presence of these feelings. These emotions aren’t just
facets of your life that are empty of energy—they’re agents that are in
charge of how you clean and purify the connecting link to intention. These
emotions tell you precisely how much of the life force you’re summoning,
and how much pulling power you have going for you at that moment. Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for
abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your
individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of
summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s
impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or
perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your
feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the
fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate,
fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success
and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative
feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of
the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you
desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is
weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting
to and accessing the power of intention. Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that
pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and
place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and
high energy. It’s here that you’ll begin to feel those higher emotions, which
let you know that you’re back in the match game with the all-creating
Source. As you focus on having abundant happiness, health, security, and
friendships, the means for acquiring all of this will be flowing toward you. Money is only one of those means, and the faster your vibrational energy
around abundance radiates, the more money will show up in significant
amounts. These positive feelings as indicators of your pulling power forsuccess and abundance will put you into an active mode for co-creating
your intentions. I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m
suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract
prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you
desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of
intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting
to be provided with what’s missing. At this point in my life, I refuse to participate in any desire unless I have
total, nonresistant knowing that it can and will manifest into my life from
the all-creating Source of intention. My desires for personal indicators of
abundance have all manifested by practicing what I write here, and in the
ten-step program that follows. I’ve been able to allow by removing
resistance and connecting to my originating, all-creating Source. I trust in it
completely. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I’ve desired something
seemingly impossible, I felt poorly as a result. I then figured that I should
desire less, but all that did was make me even further removed from the
unlimited power of intention. I was still in vibratory disharmony with the
abundance of the universe. I began to understand that my being in harmony with abundance didn’t
cause others to be poor or hungry. On the contrary, the abundance I created
gave me the chance to help eradicate poverty and hunger. But the
significant awareness was realizing that I had less of a chance to help others
when I was in the lower frequencies. I learned that I had to get myself into
vibratory harmony with my Source. One of my reasons for writing this
chapter in this fashion is to convince you that you don’t have to ask for less,
or feel guilty about wanting abundance—it’s there for you and everyone in
an unlimited supply. I live and breathe what I’m writing here about success and abundance. I
know beyond any doubt (resistance) that you can attract abundance and feel
successful by absorbing the messages of this chapter, which, like theabundance you seek, have flowed from that universal Source through me
and onto these pages. There’s no discrepancy between my desire to write it
all out here and my willingness to allow it to flow unimpeded to you. How
do I know this. My emotion in this moment is ineffable bliss, serenity, and
reverence. I trust this emotional state, which indicates to me that I’ve been
utilizing a very strong pulling power to create these messages from the all-
creating Spirit of intention. I’m


utilized by doctors for youngins’ with warts, as they are still highly impressionable. If it is explained that the chalk
will make the wart go away, there is no question in the child’s mind that you speak anything but the facts, and
voilà la! No more wart. Assuming your child isn’t allergic to chalk, why not try it?Use Chalk for Kids
-A piece of white chalk
-A bandage1. Explain that the chalk will make the wart go away (which isn’t untrue…it
very well could help) and try to fully explain why you are using the color
of chalk that you are (e.g. white chalk makes it go away faster because it
dries it out really well, or something along those lines.) Sometimes those
little details can make all the difference in an imaginative young mind. Put a smudge of chalk over the wart morning and night and cover with a
bandage. See what happens. 217Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com WartsY ou will need… DirectionsBeauty (recipes)
218Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com
Bath fizzies, commonly known as bath bombs, are one of my greatest weaknesses. When I was quite a bit
younger I can clearly remember looking at them longingly on the shelf in all their candy-colored glittery
goodness, only to have my parents tug me away at the ridiculous price tag attached. But oh how I wanted
them! Imagine my joy then, years later, when I learned I could make my own. Oh happy day! When you first start
making these there are a few ups and downs and they do take some patience to get just right, like any other
project you may take on, but you will be successful. So with mostly patience, and a few special ingredients, you
can make these at home for a fraction of the price you would pay in stores.Bath Fizzies
-These are the same thing as “bath bombs” or “bath snowballs.” I just prefer to call them fizzies. -Y ou can use any number of shapes for your molds. I use clear snap together Christmas ornaments (the kind you can fill
yourself) or smaller circular molds made specifically for bath bombs. -Some people use food coloring to color their fizzie, but I would rather not risk my tub getting stained. I use powder
soap pigment. -Don’t panic when you use it if some bubbles form that look yellow or oily-that’s just because there is all those good oils
in the fizzie! -Start by making smaller fizzies, and work your way up to larger ones, as the larger ones are harder to get to stay
together. Y ou can see in the pictures that some of mine are a little crumbly looking-this is because I was using a
particularly large mold. Sometimes with the large ones I end up with “half fizzies” because the two halves wouldn’t stick
together-they may not be perfectly circular, but then you get two instead of one! -Make sure you pack the mix into your molds firmly. When you remove it from the mold, make sure you lift the halves of
the mold apart, don’t twist. If you are having a hard time getting your fizzy to slide out, gently tap the bottom of the mold. I will typically lift one half gently off, place my palm over the top of the fizzie, and then tip it upside down so I am left
cupping it when the other side of the mold slips off. -Experiment with how long you leave them in their molds. Bath fizzies are finicky and behave differently in different
environments. Some people recommend packing them into the molds and then removing them right away to dry, while
others leave them to dry in the molds overnight. In my experience, leaving them in for a little bit, but not too long, is
better. I usually pack my molds and let them sit for 30-40 minutes before taking them out and gently setting them out to
harden completely. For your first time I suggest making several individual fizzies and removing one shortly after packing,
one after letting it sit for a while, and another after sitting overnight, just to get a feel for how it all works. -The mix should not fizz when you are adding liquid. I find the best way to avoid this is to add no more than ¼-1/2
teaspoon at a time, and to rapidly stir it in the second it hits the powder. -Sometimes you will have one crumble and fall apart for no good reason. It happens. Carry on. -Little “warts” on your fizzie after it dries are caused by too much moisture in the environment. Cracking can be caused
by too much moisture in the mix, especially if the mixture was fizzing when you were adding liquid. -The texture of the proper mix is akin to damp, not wet, sand. -To keep any solid matter from clogging the drain, use a drain cover, or place the fizzie in a tied off square of
cheesecloth when you use it. -If you live in a very humid environment, add 1/3 cup of Epsom or Dead Sea salt to the mix to help keep the moisture
balanced. -Store these in a cool, dark, place, wrapped in cellophane. 219Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingThis basic fizzie is a good place to start practicing, and incorporates the basic ingredients of citric acid,
cornstarch, and baking soda. Once you have this down, the variations are endless. These ingredients are all
that you need to make a successful bath fizzie. Citric acid reacts with the alkaline baking soda to create that
wonderful fizz that makes these so iconic. This reaction is what happens when vinegar (an acid) and baking
soda react to create a massive fizzy explosion.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        It is possible for you to get psychologically addicted to it, and that
does happen, but as far as all of that stuff that says you can get
physically dependent, it has no real basis. Those claims are probably
founded on the fact that some forms of lip balm contain ingredients
that ultimately dry your lips out so you buy or use more. Those main
culprits are menthol, camphor and phenol, which feel cooling at first,
but do not do anything to truly soothe lips. There is also OL, which is
basically alcohol, and salicylic acid, which can help dead skin flake off
(but really just makes lips peel more. ) If you make your own lip balm,
you will find yourself applying it much less often as it actually sinks in
and moisturizes, rather than simply forming a barrier that doesn’t let
moisture in, and dries off quickly. Chapped Lips
-If you don’t have lip balm tins or
tubes, repurpose another kind of
tin (mint tins work great. ) -Always read ingredient labels
first if you are buying lip balm, and
check for the menthol, phenol,
camphor, OL, and/or salicylic acid. -Put sunscreen on your lips, or use
SPF lip balm if you plan on going
out in the sun a lot. Y our lips have
no pigment, and are susceptible
to drying out. -Do use lip balm in moderation,
there is always too much of a
good thing. -Apply your lip balm before bed. If
you sleep with your mouth open
you will dry out your lips. It also
gives it a chance to sink in without
you licking it off, chewing on your
lip, or reapplying compulsively. Almond Oil & Shea Butter
-Feel free to add ¼ teaspoon of
beeswax to firm this up if you
prefer a more solid balm. Basic Lip Balm
-Do not roll up the lip balm until it
has cooled completely. -Make sure you fill your tubes or
tins on a baking sheet covered in
aluminum foil. It’s easy to drip or
spill. 168Copyright 2014 everydayroots. comTips & TroubleshootingThis is a basic lip balm recipe that contains beeswax, jojoba oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and peppermint
essential oil. Shea butter and jojoba oil are wonderful healing, protecting, and deeply nourishing ingredients. Coconut oil is the star moisturizer. It does not smother and suffocate skin; rather it sinks in, its fatty acids holding
onto moisture and making your lips soft and smooth. It will also reinforce the skin’s lipid (fat) layer and promote
hydration. The beeswax can act as an emollient (moisturizer) and protect your lips from the elements, but mostly
it is what gives your balm its body and holds everything together. The peppermint essential oil is just your
classic lip balm smell and taste. Y es, peppermint contains menthol, but it is NOT the same as the concentrated
or high amounts of menthol found in many brands of lip balm. This may feel more “slick” than some store bought
balm at first but that goes away quickly as it sinks in and moisturizes. Basic Lip Balm
-1 tablespoon of grated
beeswax or beeswax pastilles
-1 tablespoon of coconut oil
-1 tablespoon of jojoba oil
-1 tablespoon of shea butter
-5 drops of pepp


rctrodes. After I V and 0. 9 coulomb, strips of wet
Utmus paper were placed on the tissue beside the electrodes,
showing a pH of about 12 around t.be cathode and about I
around the anode. place between the blue and red areas. The change of
the yellow colour of the litmus paper of pH 7 into
white indicates that other mechanisms are also in·
volved. Thus, bleaching of the litmus might very well
depend on local accumulation of chlorine, which is
also liberal~ at the anode (20). For the distribution of material in an electric field
the ionic mobility u, (cm2 v-•s-1) is of fundamental
imponancc. Ionic mobility for simple ions at strong
dilution and 2s•c (12) is shown in Table XIV: I.
Migrating and diffusing ions produced at the elec·
trodc surfaces tend to recombine when they meet. For
the most rapid ions, t.bc hydroxyl ions and the pro
tons, such recombination s should take place according
to their respective mobilities, about V1 of the distance
from the cathode ro the anode. In rhe same way other
recombinations can be expected to rake place at differ·
ent distances between the eJectrodes, depending on the
relative speeds of transport of the reactants. The diffusion and migration of protons and by·
droxyl ions produc~ at t.bc electrode-tissue interfaces
is always greater than the diffusion of produe~ oxy·
gen, chlorine and hydrogen gas, as shown in Chapter
Table XIV: I. tonk mobiliriu (•,)for l<l"IM simple io"', tX·
prow 1n rm' v-',-• ZS'C
w u· Na' K-em a NO,
II, • J(t' 36.2 4.0 ).2 7.6 20.7 7.9 7.~
I 78 Activation of VICC XIII. This fact means that a primary destructive effect
on tissue around the electrodes is produced by cathod
ic alkaJinity and anodic acidity. The chlorine gas,
which diffuses rclatively slowly, will secondarily
bleach some of the already acidic, devitaliz~
tissue around the anode. These effects are most easily
demon strat~ when the electrodes are positioned at
large distances from each other. For example, when
the anode is placed in the lung parenchyma and the
cathode only a few em distant in the pulmonary artery
of a dog (see Figs. XJV: 20, 21), a recombination zone
of protons and hydroxyl ions is not established because
of tissue circulation, convection and buffering by tis
sue fluids. Consequently, central bleaching of tissue is
produced by chlorine diffusing slowly in the dark
tissue already destroy~ by acidity. At a shon electrode distance, the propagation of
protons and hydroxyl ions may stop at the creation of a
recombination zone. In a tissue matrix, local accumu
lations of acidic and basic material can also be seen
against the recombination zone (Fig. XIV: 6). The
rapidly diffusing and migrating protons and hydroxyl
ions prevent eac.h ot.her from funher movement be
cause they recombine as water. In this case the slowly
diffusing chlorine gets its chance to reach the recom
bination zone and bleach the material in this region. It
is important to realize that the diffusion and migration
of protons around the anode produce the devitalization
of tissue both at "long" and "short" distances between
the electrodes. These distinctions about elect.rochemi·
cal destruction of tissue around the anode warrant
emphasis because some incorrect interpretations have
appear~ in recent literature (37), claiming that chlo
rine produced around the anode causes the primary
destruction o( tissue. The ionization and transpon of material after appJi. cation of an external source of energy means that
energy is transfer~ to the tissue and tissue entropy is
decrea~. Such changes can be observ~ directly in
several ways. The possibility of discharging the tissue
as ment ioncd in Section B is one, some mechanical
effects are oth.er eJWDples. F. Transport and mechanical
effects
Particle size and structural properties of the tissue
matrix are imponant mechanical factors in tissue elec·
tropboresis. As always, temperature, pressure-volume
and gravity factors will also influence the combined
effects of electric field forces and chemical forces. The exchange of fluid in tissue by.-Jcctroosmosis,
osmosis, convection and circulation of blood and lymph is also of fundamental importance for ionic
transportS, possible recombinations of ions and distri
bution of movable dielectric material in the tissue. The
existence of narrow spaces lined with faxed charges is,
for example, a prerequisite for the development of
"true" (anomalous ) electroosmosis (see Chapter IX). An electrophoretic transport of water by recombina
tion of protons and hydroxyl ions will also need a
"capillary" matrix to counteract hydrostatic recircula
tion. Mesenteric water transport can easily be seen as
accumulation of water around the cathode and a dehy
d1'11tion of the tissue around the anode. In Fig. XIV: 7
a dry zone in the mesentery shows a white spot at the
former site of the anodic electrode. Such electroosmo
tic dehydration gives an uneven distribution of water,
seen as local oedema around the electronegative elec
trode. ln the case of a distant cathode, a hydropic 1.one
is also seen peripheral to the anodic hydropenic zone,
due to the outflow of water from the anode. Accumu
lation of water around both the dry anodic zone and
the cathode produces mechartical effects by local in
creases in turgor pressure. Similar uneven distribut.ion of material in the elec
tric field is caused by ionic dissociation, but takes
place also as a transport of dielectrics. By dipole induc
tion, such particles will move to the anode as well as to
the cathode, wheneve r they are located close to the
electrodes and where the electric field gradient is
steep. The gradual disappearance of brown mat<rial
from intravascular blood cells and from diapedetic
interstitial blood also appears to be an e.xpression of
electrOphoret.ic transportS -
Gas, produced locally at the electrodes, increases
pressure in the tissues. At the surface of the anode, 02
and Cl2 are produced, while H2 is produced at the
surface of the cathode. Around the cathode, the vol-
Fig. XIV: 1. A wrute, dry site of destroyed tissue and blood. Oxygen and chlorine gas d<n<>tes the fonner site of a mesen
rericanodc. Fig. XIV: B. Streams of gas arising from the surface of plati
num electrodes in human blood (direct microscopy). (a) Oxygen and chlorine at the anode after 0.138 coulomb,
6 V. (b) Hydrogen at the cathode after 0.142 coulomb, 6 V.
The oxygen--chlorine gas sho~"S thinner ''dendrites'' than the
hydrogen gas. ume of H2 is twice as great as the volume of Oz
around the anode (20). Chlorine gas adds its volu.me to
the volume of oxygen around the anode. Living tissue,
however, resorbs gas. An equilibriu m will therefore
become created around the electrodes between the
111tes of production and elimination of gas. When a 10
V potential is applied to electrodes implanted in ''ivo
in various tissues, e.g., liver, lung or fat, the gas
produces within about an bour a r.~diographically ''isi
ble cavity in the tissue around each electrode. The
cavity around the cathode is always larger than that
around the anode. The relative differences of gas pro
duction arc in themselves a result of a complex series
of events. Variations in anodic current density, e.g.,
by physical factors such as dehydration and electrode
depositions, will to some extent lead to changes in the
relative content of hydrogen, chlorine and oxygen in
the tissue. A direct microscopic study of the gas produced at
the electrodes is shown in Fig. XJV: 8. Two platinum
strings each 0.2 mm thick were fixed on a glass slide. The space between the electrodes was filled with some
drops of human blood. A 6 volt direct current poten-
Activation of VICC 179 tiaJ was applied between the electrodes. Dendritic
bubbles of gas arise from the anode (oxygen<hlori ne,
Fig. XIV: Sa) after 0.138 coulombs and from the cath
ode (hydrogen, Fig. XIV: 8 b)


 Great  Freedom  and  Con-
fidence  which  is coming  into  action  within  you;  and  the
many  things  so many  of you  are doing,  which  give  you
Great  Happiness  in the Acknowledgment  of your  Presence. The blessed  young  people. Oh,  what  worlds  of Happiness
and Blessing  they  can have. Do not  forget  your  Chart,  Dear  Hearts,  for one  single
day. I plead  with  you,  don't  sleep  at night,  until  you  have
given  a few  moments  Acknowledgment  of your  Chart. Speak  to It and  the "I AM  Presence"  above  you. Don't  be
afraid  of getting  too familiar  with  your  Presence;  and  don't
feel you  have  to bow  and  scrape  before  It. Just  with  the Ful-
ness of Joy,  acknowledge  and  say:  "Beloved  'Mighty  I AM
Presence'  here  'I AM'—a  Projection  of Thyself. Glorify
Thyself  in me,  in the Projection  of Thy  Wondrous  Perfec-
tion and  Mighty  Directing  Intelligence. Cause  this  body  to
glow  with  Thy  Perfect  Health  and  Strength. " Please  FEEL
THIS,  as I am describing  it. "Cause  this  mind  and  body  to
glow  with  the Fulness  of Thy  Health  and  Energy;  with
Thy Light  Substance  called  forth  from  the  Love  Star,
which  cannot  be requalified  by human  feeling. Charge  me,
my mind,  body  and  world,  with  the Fulness  of Thy  Light
Substance;  and  cause  the Intelligence  which  Thou  art, Oh
'Mighty  I AM  Presence,'  to sweep  into  action  in my world;
and produce  Thy  Perfection  and  hold  Thy  Dominion
there. " 8 THE  "7 AM"  DISCOURSES
It is so wonderful,  Precious  Ones  of the Light,  to know
you have  contacted  and  become  aware  of that  Great  Infinite
Intelligence,  which  can  and  does  release  into  your  world,
everything  you  require;  for the Glory,  the Freedom  and  the
Perfection  which  It wishes  to express  thru  you;  and  with
which  It can  only  fill your  world,  by expressing  thru  you. After  all the centuries  you  have  waited  and  It has waited,  to
have  an opportunity  to give  you  This  Assistance,  which  It
could  not  do without  your  attention  given  to It—it  is so
wonderful. You are moving  in a Vast  Sea of Light  Substance  in the
Acknowledgment  of your  Presence. Were  you  to see the
Atmosphere  of the room,  as it is charged  tonight,  then  you
would  know  how  Great  is your  Privilege;  to move  within
This  Light  Substance,  which  is drawn  here  for your  Bless-
ing and  the Eternal  Expansion  of your  Light. Believe  Me  when  I say,  you  have  entered  into  a Very
Powerful  Divine  Activity;  but Precious  Ones,  never  allow
your  human  self  to cause  you  to feel  faint. In the Presence
of This  Light  Substance  such  a thing  is incredible,  impos-
sible. Don't  let your  human  self  qualify  anything  in your
Groups  with  any  feeling  but the Strength,  the Power  and
Joy of the "I AM  Presence. " In your  Heart  is your  Perfec-
tion. All these  things  which  occur  in mankind  are but the
Individual's  own  human  qualification  and  it is nonsense. You cannot  faint  unless  you  want  to. All these  things  are
human  qualifications,  which  you  can  set aside  in the Ac-
knowledgment  of your  Presence. Be strong,  be firm  and DISCOURSE  III  9
practical  in the Application  of these  Great  Laws,  that  is
what  you  should  be. Precious  Ones,  take  your  determined  stand,  to call  your
"Mighty  I AM  Presence"  into  action. Go  forth,  in the
Glory  of Its Mighty  Radiance  and  Directing  Intelligence;
and you  can be sure  that  We will  give  you  every  Assistance
possible,  to your  quick  and  Eternal  Freedom. If you  mean
business  as We do, then  your  Freedom  will  come  quickly. I tell you  in This  Group  and  This  Marvelous  Activity,  you
do mean  business. Go on, and  on, and  on, until  there  is
not a vestige  of the human  left. I rejoice  with  you  exceedingly,  Oh Precious  Ones,  in the
Glory  and  the  Victory  which  you  are winning. Eternal
is My Love,  enfolding  you  unto  your  Freedom  and  Ascen-
sion. Remember  We  are One  Great  Family. We  are just
your  Elder  Brothers  and  Sisters,  who  have  attained  just  a
little  ahead  of you;  and  We,  with  so Great  a Love,  are mak-
ing Every  Effort  the  Great  Cosmic  Law  permits,  to give
you Every  Assistance  possible. We  plead  with  you  month,
after  month,  after  month;  to just harmonize  yourselves  and
hold  That  Harmony,  until  We can help  you  win  your  Vic-
tory. In behalf  of the Great  Host  of Ascended  Masters,  We
call the  Great  Light  Substance  forth  tonight;  to enfold
each  one  of you,  as your  individual  requirements  may  in-
dicate;  to hold  that  Light  Substance  active  about  you;
supplying  the Courage,  the Happiness,  the Strength;  and
releasing  the Supply  of all required  for your  Happiness  and 10 THE  "7 AM"  DISCOURSES
Comfort;  all that  is necessary  for your  Service  to the Light. I say again  to you,  Precious  Ones,  I thank  you  for making
the call and  giving  the Decrees. Please  continue  it, and  you
can and  SHALL  have  your  own  Home  of Light  in which
you may  meet. The  Light  Substance  knows  no limit. The
supply  of money  provided  for mankind,  is really  not lim-
ited,  for the great  Presence  gives  all. As you  issue  your  De-
crees  for your  Auditorium,  for your  own  building  in which
to serve  the Light,  then  the Light  will  turn  and  serve  you
and supply  it. There  is naught  you  cannot  have  for the
Service  of the Light,  whether  it be a home,  an automobile,
organs,  or airplanes;  but  don't  be impatient,  I plead  with
you. Go on making  your  Decrees. Do not limit  them  and  you
will be surprised  what  one  year  will  supply  to you;  but
when  you  say Those  Decrees,  don't  let your  human  have
anything  to say afterward. Make  it be silent  concerning
your  Decree,  and  your  Decree  will  go on and  be fulfilled. Remember,  when  you  issue  a Decree,  the Power  of the Uni-
verse  goes  into  action  to perform  that  Service;  and  unless
you become  inharmonious  and  allow  your  human  feeling
to affect  It, your  Decree  will  go on and  act until  the achieve-
ment  is accomplished. It is a Law  of the Universe,  no one's
opinion. Therefore,  if you  do these  things  the results  will
be the Fulfillment  of your  Heart's  Desire. I say to you  tonight,  if you  will  stand  with  Us, We  will
stand  with  you. That


 because  some  quality  is still acting  in your  feel-
ing world,  of which  you  are unaware;  or you  are continu-
ing to accept  the appearance. Let Me make  just one illustration  and  that  is concerning
money  supply. I have  watched  among  the students,  a few
Individuals  who  make  the Call  dynamically  and  earnestly,
and ten minutes  after,  will  begin  to accept  in their  feeling
world  as true,  the appearance  of their  financial  limitation. You cannot  have  Results  and do that,  not in the Quick  Full
Manner  you would  like  to have. Of course,  as you continue
to call,  it will  beat  down  human  feeling. Stand  guard  over
your  feeling,  when  you have  made  your  Dynamic  Applica-
tion for your  money  supply;  and  the moment  any  slightest
feeling  of doubt  or discord  starts,  stop  it and say: "Stop! Not
one thing  is going  to generate  here,  to interfere  with  This
Call! My Presence  is the Authority  and Power  in my world! Don't  you attempt  to interfere"! Then,  you will  govern  the
feeling  within  yourself,  as sure  as "I AM"  telling  you,  and
you must  do it! Then,  after  awhile,  when  you  make  your
Application  human  feeling  will  not be there  to act! DISCOURSE  XXII  297
Take  the Messenger  for illustration. Blessed  People,  you
will never  know,  what  He went  thru  in those  earlier  years. Even  when  Beloved  Saint  Germain  sent  them  forth  to give
out This  Work,  still  some  doubts  and  fears  were  in Him. When  He understood  how  to silence  that  feeling  with  an
iron grip,  and  make  it be still;  in a short  time,  it was  no
longer  there  to act. Today,  when  He issues  a Decree,  He
knows  there  is no opposition,  and  of course  the answer  is
there! The  answer  is within  the Call! We saw  him  reading  a letter  last night,  or this morning
about  2:00  o'clock,  and  a blessed  one had made  the Call  for
help. The  letter  stated:  "You  did not answer  my letter,  and
yet the Healing  was  Complete." Beloved  Ones,  if you were
to understand  and  realize  the thousands  of answers,  In-
stantaneous  Healings  of conditions  and  bodies;  and  all the
limitations  of mankind—which  are released  at His  Call,
you would  know,  that  you too, can do the same  thing. Only
He has gained  the Full  Confidence  in His Call  to the Pres-
ence,  which  no longer  allows  requalification  to act upon  the
energy  as He calls  It forth. You  can do the same  and  you
must  do it; because  you must  make  your  own  Application. You are the one in your  world  who  must  take  the initia-
tive. Then,  whatever  assistance  can  be given  is well  and
good;  but REMEMBER,  NO  ONE  CAN  TAKE  YOUR
PLACE  IN YOUR  WORLD. You  must  be firm,  deter-
mined  and  dynamic  in YOUR  APPLICATION—espe-
cially  at first;  until  you  break  down  the human  creations,
which  have  pressed  upon  you  and  limited  you,  as you  un-298 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
derstand  it, thru  this  embodiment. Remember,  there  can-
not be any  effect  in your  world,  without  a cause  for it! EVERY  CAUSE  IS FIRST  IN THE  FEELING  WORLD,
BEFORE  IT CAN  OUT-PICTURE  IN THE  PHYSICAL
BODY  OR IN YOUR  WORLD  OF ACTION. Therefore,
if the cause  of limitations  and  discord  is removed,  then
there  is nothing  left to interrupt  This  Great  Pure  Mighty
Energy  of the Presence  as It flows  forth! Beloved  Ones,  is there  any  one  of you  who  doubts  the
Reality  of the Eye  Picture,  which  the Chart  represents  to
you;  that  your  Presence  is really  there  above  you—the  Pres-
ence  of ALL  Life ? Let Us show  you the proof,  Dear  Hearts! Take  a human  form  which  an hour  ago  was  so happy,
energetic,  filled  with  Light,  Buoyancy  and  Power. When
Life has withdrawn,  the body  lies there  helpless. All the
organs,  all the faculties  which  were  acting  are there  still,
but the body  is helpless! Then  where  was  that  Intelligence,
power,  substance,  energy,  and  activity,  which  was  acting
thru that  body ? Right  there  in the Stream  of Life  and  En-
ergy from  the Presence  of ALL  Life. When  It withdrew,
the body  was  helpless. Then  everything  which  ever  acted
thru that  form,  all the Power,  Intelligence  or whatever  it
might  have  been,  was  the Power  and  the qualities,  which
came  thru  the Stream  of Life  beating  each  human  Heart. You cannot  deny  that! There  is not a human  Being  on
the face  of This  Earth  who  can deny  it. There  was  a Pres-
ence  of Life  which  was  in that  form  which  is no longer  ac-
tive. The  Presence  of Life  was  carrying  each  quality  thru DISCOURSE  XXII  299
the human  form  and out into  the Individual's  world. Then,
you know  you  have  found  the Source  of Intelligence,  of
Power,  of Life,  of Action,  of All Supply  there  is in the
World. Let us no longer  be limited  in the feeling  world,  by the
idea and  feeling  that  supply  depends  upon  human  Beings
in your  midst! As long  as you continue  to accept  it, you will
find yourself  limited. Cut it off and turn  to your  Presence—
the Treasure-House  of the  Universe—and  your  world. Then,  remember  THIS,  Beloved  Ones,  Oh please  HOLD
THIS  firmly  before  yourself  forever! When  you  call to your  Presence  for your  money  supply
or any  supply  you  require  for use,  Your  Presence,  is your
Treasure-House  actually,  practically  and  literally! It prob-
ably would  not release  coined  money  in your  hands  just
yet; but It is the Power  of Intelligence  at your  Call,  which
sets Its Energy  into  action  in your  body. All persons,  places
and conditions,  required  to bring  financial  money  supply
into your  hands—by  the Wisdom,  Power  and  Love  of the
Presence,  will  be set into  action  to bring  it to you. You  will
be caused  to harmonize  yourself  and  do whatever  you  are
required  to do, to co-operate  with  the Activity  of Life  which
produces  that  result  for you. Oh Dear  Hearts,  once  you would  only  understand  it, you
could  not be deprived  of anything  you  need  for your  use. It would  be impossible! There  is not one human  Being  on
This  Earth,  who  owns  anything. Oh,  if mankind  would
only understand  that! You  don't  even  own  your  bodies! If 300 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
you did,  you  would  keep  them! Now  notice  how  practical
all this is! If you owned  those  bodies,  you would  keep  them,
wouldn't  you? At least  as long  as you  wanted  to. Then,
somewhere  something  is missing! Life is always  Omnipresent  and  acting! It is your  Limit-
less Supply  of all you require  for


.9A 2016 study explored the assessment and treatment of breathing
pattern disorders in three patients whose musculoskeletal pain complaints
were related to trigger points, motor control adaptations, and muscle
imbalances.10 The participants were treated using breathing exercises and
manual trigger point therapy. Breathing reeducation focused on a physical
exercise called the “clamshell exercise,” which is designed to alter intra-
abdominal pressure and prompt the patient’ s breathing reflex. Pain
decreased in all three participants, although it was unknown whether this
was due to impr ovement in diaphragm function and core stability, lessening
of tender trigger points, or the restoration of functional movement.10
According to researchers, breathing therapy is not typically considered to be
as effective as physical therapy in the treatment of pain conditions, yet there
is clear evidence that it is possib le to achieve similar improvements in pain,
function, and physical and emotional factors with both techniques.11
While we have so far focused on the diaphragm, both in terms of its
importance for functional breathing and its role in spinal stabil ity, it’s also
helpful to acknowledge other respiratory muscles. The diaphragm is
responsible for around 70% to 80% of the work of respiration under quiet
breathing conditions. The other  30% is performed by the scalene, external
intercostals, sternocleidomastoids, and parasternal intercostal muscles.12
The scalene muscles are a group of three pairs of muscles in the sides of
the neck. They are called secon dary breathing muscles but are considered
by some  scientists to be primar y to respiration as they lift and expand the
rib cage during inhalation and are active at a low level even during light
breathing.13 It’s easier to see these muscles at work during exercise, when
ventilatory demand is high.13 Trigger point pain in the scalene muscles is
often associated with pain radiating to the arm, which is commonly
misdiagnosed as disc herniatio n or prolapse, neck pain, or carpal tunnel
syndrome. This type of misdiagnosis leads to mismanagement of the
condition which can perpetuate the existing problem.14
BREA THING AND THE PERCEPTION OF P AIN
How we breathe directly affects how badly something hurts. Beyond factors
such as postural control and muscle tension, breathing pattern disorders canplay a role in the amplification of pain.15 For instance, respiratory alkalosis
caused by overbreathing can induce muscle spasm and heighten the body’ s
response to stress hormones including adrenaline. These factors  combine to
create inadequa te blood flow and poor oxygenation of the tissues and
organs. One 2006 study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to
explore the way that hyperv entilation influences pain mechanisms.16
Researchers found that low blood CO2 may affect the processing of motor
tasks and pain input. They discovered changes in the relative levels of
oxygenated and deoxygenated  blood, which they believed indicated
widespread constriction of blood vessels in the gray matter of the brain. This was thought to represent an acute reaction to reduced blood CO 2. Constriction of the blood vesse ls due to overbreathing stops the blood
from flowing freely to the brain and limits oxygenation of the tissues.17
This has implications for the excitability of nerve cells in the brain and can
potentially impact both motor control and pain perception. Respiratory
alkalosis, caused by low levels of blood CO 2, increas es the sensitivity of the
peripheral nerves. The periphera l nerves send messages from the brain and
spinal cord to the rest of the body, allowing us, for examp le, to sense
whether our feet are cold and to move our muscles to walk.18 This increased
sensitivity is what causes the muscular tension, spinal reflexes, muscle
spasm, and a much greater perception of pain, light, and sound, which are
all typical of alkalosis. Alkalosis can also cause mood swings, panic
attacks, anxiety, and phobic behavior,19 all of which can result in a negative
feedback loop of poor breathing and deepening psychological distress. The impact of hyperventilation  on the excitability of the neurons was
explored in a 1991 paper in Brain. Resear chers looked at the effects of low
blood CO2 on two condi tions that impact movement, paresthesia  and
tetany.20 Paresthesia is an abnormal tingling or prickly sensation, like pins
and needles, which is caused by pressure on or damage to peripheral nerves. Tetany is a condition characteriz ed by spasms of the hands, feet, and voice
box; cramps; and overactive neurological reflexes. Tetany, which is
generally caused  by very low blood calcium levels, can also be the result of
severe alkalosis.Scientists monitored the excit ability of nerve fibers in six healthy
subjects. Partic ipants were asked to hyperventilate until paresthesia
occurred in the hands, face, and trunk. This occurred when the pressure of
alveolar CO2 had decreased by, on average, 20 mmHg. Spontaneous EMG
activity—muscle activity in response to stimulation by the nerves—
developed when CO2 had dropped by a further 4 mmHg. Neuronal
excitability increased progress ively in all participants as CO2 levels
dropped, producing a “statistica lly significant inverse correlat ion.” When
neurons or nerve cells are “excitable,” it means they are generating
electrical impulses that transmit information throughout the nervous system. The changes in the neurons happened before any sensation of paresthesia or
tetany developed. Two of the subjects also perceived spontaneous bursts of
neuronal activit y to be pins and needles. The study concluded that the
physical symptoms of paresthesia and tetany induced by hyperventilation
were entirely the result of changes in neuronal excitability.20 This is best
described as hyperventilation causing an imbalance in the electrical
equilibrium of the brain due to constriction of blood vessels in the brain,
and this causes the physical symptoms. BACK P AIN
When researchers looked for links between health, pain histories, and faulty
breathing, they found a much higher prevalence of dysfunctional breathing
than expected. Their 2003 paper published in the Journal of Bodywork and
Movement Therapies  examined 111 patients attending a clinic for
chiropractic pain. To their surprise, more than half of the study participants
demonstrated faulty breathing on relaxed inhalation, and three-quarters
breathed in a dysfunctional way when taking a deep breath. Nearly 90% of
the subjects had experienced some kind of musculoskeletal pain in the head,
neck, back, buttocks, leg, or arm. Based on their findings, the report’ s
authors commen t that clinicians can expect three in every four new patients
to have faulty breathing patterns.19
As we already know, in a healthy body, the diaphragm dyna mically
stabilizes the lumbar spine, lowering on inhalation. Together with the
expansion of the lower ribs, this creates sufficient intra-abdominal pressurefor postural stability. In people with chronic lumbar problems, the
diaphragm remains higher and flatter, moving less. During inhalation, the
ribs do not move, and the diaphr agm does not lower to its usual fixed point. Consequently, the body becomes less able to regulate IAP, and the lumbar
and sacroiliac regions become unstable. According to a 2016 study from  the Osteopathic Centre for Research
and Studies in Ancona, Italy, people who suffer from pain in their lower
back and sacroiliac joint often have early fatigue of the diaphragm,
otherwise descri bed as poor diaphragmatic endurance, which can be caused
by overe xertion of the respiratory muscles.21 Breathi ng too hard, a feature
of chronic, effortful, inefficient overbreathing, can exhaust the breathing
muscles. A 2004 research paper by Dr. Leon Chaitow, a well-regarded osteopath
and naturopath, explains that the core stability of the diaphragm and abs can
be compromised  if both poor breathing and a “load challenge” to the lower
back are present.3 A load challeng e is anything that adds a “load” or weight
to the task at hand, which, in this case, is movement. Chaito w uses the
example of shoveling snow, but digging the garden, pushing a pram, using a
vacuum cleaner, and many other day-to-day tasks have the same effect. Results showed that, after only 60 seconds with elevated blood CO 2, muscle
function was reduced or lackin g in postural muscles and in the muscles
used for movement. This underlines the extent to which chronic
dysfunctional breathing can interfere with the body’ s ability to move freely. Although more research is need ed, Chaitow’ s results were clear: increased
respiratory demand compromises postural control so that the likelihood of
spinal injury is significantly higher. This is especially true during strenuous
exercise when the load on the spine is greater. In 2018, scientists at South Korea’s Konyang University carrie d out a
study to monitor the effectiven


 the effect of 15 minutes of moderate
exercise against  3 minutes of hyperventilation in 43 young patients with
epilepsy. 39 Results were measured in terms of EEG dischar ges—
abnormalities in EEG readings consisting of repetitive sharp waves or
spikes. The epileptic subjects were compared to a control group of 20
young people who had either no organic brain injury or in whom brain
injury had not caused epilepsy. Researchers found that the number of EEG
dischar ges decreased in nearly all participants during exercise but increased
during hyperventilation. The paper concluded that modera te exercise
inhibits seizure activity, while hyperventilation exacerbates it. 39
A 1984 study found that the concentration of blood CO2 had a direct
impact on the duration of seizures. 40 The researchers induced hypocapnia
by hyperventilation to the point where concentration of CO2 in the alveoli
was only 2%. The duration of seizures increased significantl y compared
with the normal CO2 level of 5%, even though oxygen concentration
remained consta nt at 92%. Whil e different levels of oxygen did not produce
any notable changes to seizure duration, seizures became progressively
longer as the amount of CO2 in the alveoli decreased. This finding was
confirmed in a 2008 paper, which reported that moderate hype rventilation
caused a significant increase in EEG seizure duration compared to normalventilation. 41 In 1993, scientists examined 19 patients with complex-partial
seizures, reporting that hyperventilation triggered a “marked activation” of
the epileptic focus—the area of the brain from which the seizure
originates. 42
There have been attempts to determine whether the degree of
hypocapnia correlates with an increased frequency of petit mal or absence
seizures and if there is a critical concentration of CO2 at which these
seizures are reliably induced. 43 In a 1996 study, scientists monitored 12
children who had newly diagnosed absence epilepsy. EEG readings and
percentage of CO 2 in expir ed air were recorded during quiet respiration and
hyperventilation. These readings were taken while the children breathed
four dif ferent gas mixtures:
1. Room air
2. 100% oxygen
3. Room air with 4% CO 2
4. A gas containing 4% CO 2 and 96% oxygen
When the children were breathing quietly, a reduction in EEG spikes
was seen when the breathing gas contained extra CO2 (3 and 4), but a
higher concentration of oxyge n in inspired air (2) caused no changes. Seizures were triggered in eight of the children with each trial of
hyperventilation, but the level of CO2 that induced seizures was found to
differ among the children. The study concluded that it would be helpful to
discover whethe r sensitivity to blood CO2 could help predict the likely
response to antiepileptic drugs, and that more research was needed into the
possible use of CO 2 for the remission of seizures. A study from 2001 examined patients who suffered nonepileptic
seizures, 41% having coexistin g epilepsy and found the most frequent
features of nonepileptic seizures included fear, anxiety, and
hyperventilation. 44 Another paper found that typical absence (brief,
generalized) seizures are “easily precipitated by hyperventilation” in
approximately 90% of untreated  patients. Similarly, a study of children who
had epilepsy with myoclonic absences concluded that the seizures were
easily provoked by hyperventilation. 45 This finding was repeated in a 2009
study, which observed myoclonic absence seizures in three patients whichwere triggered by hyperventilation. 45 Researchers concluded that
“hyperventilation is most effective in activation of generalized absence
seizures during routine EEG studies. ”46 Researc h from 2011 repeated the
finding that hyperventilation is an effective way to activate epileptic
seizures in patients with epilepsy. 47 In a study of children aged between 3
and 11 years, hyperventilation induced seizures in all patients. 48 It’s worth
noting that around 10% of seizures in children with epilepsy are absence
seizures, otherwise called petit mal seizures. 49 These seizures have a
significant impact on quality of life. 50
CO2 has long been recognized for its anticonvulsant properties. 51 In
2007, the science news website Science 2. 0  reported research that presented
CO2 as a “new—and completely free—way to prevent fever -related
epileptic seizures” in small children. 52 Scientists believed that CO2-
enriched air could be used to stop seizures. The research showed that fever -
related seizures, which are common in children under the age of five, could
be safely suppressed within 20 seconds simply by adding 5% CO2 to
inhaled air. Experimental research indicates that these childhood seizures
may increase the risk of epilepsy developing later in life. The study suggested that CO2 therapy could also be effective in
stopping other types of epileptic seizure. 52 This theory was tested in 2011
research when scientists set out to discover whether inhaling 5% CO2
would stop seizures in epilepsy patients. 53 A pilot study of seven people
demonstrated a “rapid termination of electrographic seizures” even though
the 5% CO2 was applied after the seizure had begun. The researchers
concluded that inhaled CO2 could be used for acute treatment of epileptic
seizures. 53
A follow -on review of this study stated that the research demonstrated
the “feasibility”  of hypercapnia as a clinical treatment. 51 While more work
is needed to ensure safety and efficacy—for instance, it is important that
hypercapnia does not progress to acidosis during a prolonged seizure—the
review suggests  that this is a worthwhile avenue, concluding, “Carbon
dioxide inhalation could prove to be an easy and inexpensive intervention
for acute seizures in the hospital, and possibly in the home as well. ”A further study from 2014 soug ht to discover whether inhaling 5% CO2
could suppress hyperventilatio n-induced absence seizures and irregular
electrical discha rges in the brain known as “spike and wave dischar ges. ”54
Researchers concluded that treatment with CO2 may help treat these
seizures. A 2019 clinical review reiterated earlier findings, stating that the
“spike and wave” neuronal dischar ge typical of absence seizures is
triggered by voluntary hyperven tilation in more than 90% of patients with
absence epilepsy. The paper describes the use of hyperventilation to quickly
diagnose patien ts with absence epilepsy as “commonplace. ” While
scientists are still unclear whether a single mechanism exists to prompt
absence seizure s, the review suggests that the changes in blood pH
(alkalosis) brought on by hyperventilation may contribute. 55
In the 2014 study, 12 participants who had hyperventilation-induced
absence seizures  were examined while breathing either room air, 5% CO2,
or 100%  oxygen. Compared to hyperventilation in normal room air, the 5%
CO2 decreased the frequency and duration of seizures after hyperven tilation
and reduced the number of “spike and wave” dischar ges. This pilot study
added yet more clear evidence that hypercapnia could provide a way to treat
hyperventilation-related seizures. 54
COMORBID HEAL TH PROBLEMS IN EPILEPSY
The Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine  published a paper in
2015 that suggested that epilepsy encompasses more than spontaneous
recurrent seizures and should be classified as a “spectrum disorder. ”7 For
many epileptics and their families, what causes the greatest impact are the
many conditions that exist alongside the primary symptoms. Comorbid
conditions can include psychiatric and behavioral disorders like anxiety,
depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ), learning
disabilities, intellectual disability, and autism. Traditionally these comorbidities were thought to be secondary to
uncontrolled seizures and adverse reactions to medication. However, they
are now acknowledged as integral to epilepsy. In some cases, the comorbid
conditions predate the seizures and can be attributed to an underlying
disorder of neuronal networks. 56 A 2007 study states that even a singleseizure can cause modifications to receptor expression and distribution,
altering neurodevelopment—the  growth of neurological pathways in the
brain that influence things like intellectual functioning, reading ability,
memory, focus, and social skills—leading to cognitive and behavioral
changes. 57
The most common psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy is depression. This is interesting because depression is linked with dysfunction in the
hippocampus and limbic structures of the brain, areas of the brain that are
both frequently involved in epileptic circuits. The connection between
depression and epilepsy is bidirectional. People with epilepsy are more
likely to develop depression, and those epileptics with depression more
commonly suffer refractory seizures, seizures that are uncontrolled or
difficult to treat. 58
It can be difficult to achieve a clinical diagnosis of anxiety in patients
with epilepsy, but the unpredictable nature of the disease and the fear of
seizures


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what it isn’t than by what it is. For some women, this is not a
problem. They have risen above the complexities of society’s
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drooped, and they try no longer. Womanhood is a mass pain of unspoken depth; and when we try
to speak it, we’re liable to be told, “There you go—co mplaining
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away, a place so deep inside us that we have barely glimpsed its
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wait, we must not go unconscious. We must think and grow. Rejoice
and dream, kneel and pray. There is holiness in the air today;
modern prieste sses are appearing all over. They are who we are, forthey are us: friends, therapists, artists, businesswomen, teachers,
healers, mothers. Start laughing, girls. We have a new calling. You can tell who we are: We use whatever our busines s is as a
front for talking about things  that really matter. We’re only stuck in
this work, you see, because our real work was taken away from us
several thousand years ago. We looked on the map, but our town
was gone. We looked through the catalog but couldn’t nd the
course we wanted. It’s as if someone removed our chair but couldn’t
take away our longing to sit. Together we embark on a quest for our own enchantmen t. It will
take us to a place where what is feminine is sacred, as are a lot of
other things as well. There we can become who we are meant to be
and live the life we are meant to live. But we need to see the lay of
the land, and we need to see clearly the way back home. “What?” you say. “Me, enchanted?” Yes, I say, and don’t act so
surprised. You knew when you were little that you were born for
something special and no matter what happened to you, that
couldn’t be erased. The magic could not be drained from your heart
any more than Lady Macbeth could wash the guilt from her hands. Sorry to tell you, but you had it right years ago, and then you
forgot. You were born with a mystical purpose. In reading this now,
you might remember what it is. There are women who are enchanted, living here now as there
have always been and always will be. They are bearers of the
Goddess’s torch, however dim its light may shine. On the inner
planes, they are priestesses and queens. They are absolutely
powerful; they have made it past the gates. I have known a few, and
I have heard of others. And I will tell you all I know, of who they
are and how they do it. At every moment, a woman makes a choice: between the state of the
queen and the state of the slavegirl. In our natural state, we are
glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned,
slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. Our jailer is athree-headed monster: one head our past, one our insec urity, and
one our popular culture. Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze,
understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. Our insecurity is inevitable in the absence of personal meaning. Without a sense of connection to deeper, more noble ideas, we are
doomed to a desperate struggle for things that ll us up: the job, the
relationship, the looks, the body. We are tyrannized by a belief that
we are inadequate. No nazi with machine gun could be a more
tormenting presence. The monster’s third head is the pop culture we collectively spend
billions of dollars supporting  each year. It does not support us in
return. Most movies do not love us, most advertising does not love
us, most of the fashion industry does not love us, and most rock and
roll does not love us (very sad that one—it used to). Like many
battered wives, we look endlessly for love in places with no capacity
to love us back. We must consciously choose to do this no longer. Until we do, the monster will keep us locked up in his dungeon. Deep inside us, however, is an inborn escape hatch. It’s a love that
doesn’t end or waver or make money o us or play games with us or
stomp on our hearts. It’s our spiritual core. Within it, we exist as
cosmic royals: mothers, sisters, daughters of the sun and moon and
stars. Within this realm, we nd God, the Goddess, and our own
sweet selves. Laugh at all of this at your emotional peril. The outside world contains many vicious dreams, and those
dreams have a hold on us. I know, I know. But I have heard some
spiritual secret s, and so have you if your ears have been open. There
are ways to transcend, ways to go forward. We can leave the
monster behind. We can nd deliverance for our hearts and come
home to scented roses. There is a door, a true one, a passage of emotional opportunity,
and we are perfectly capable of sailing through it. Angels are
holding it open for all of us. But you must be bold. Sissie s can’t see
angels, so sissies can’t nd the door.Most women I know are priestesses and healers, although many
don’t yet know it, and some never will. We are all of us sisters of a
mysterious order. Several years ago, I found myself waking up at four-fteen each
morning, my eyes popping open as if on cue. Later, I learned that in
days of old four-fteen was considered the witching hour. How
perfect, that seemed to me. We would all awaken at the same time
and join with one another, and worship, and know. We still know things. As best we can, we continue to commune. “Is the baby asleep?” “Did you get the job?” “Did he come home?”
“Does your pain feel better?” “Have you heard the news?”  We begin
as friends and then develop a shared realization, conscious or
unconscious, that we are bearers of magic and that our circles of
support are circles of mystical power. It’s a woman’s prerogative to
know of magic, and to practi ce magic, and to use her knowledge to
help the world. We are used to thinking of Friday the thirteenth as bad luck. In
fact, Friday the thirteenth was the day the witches gathered. When
the patriarchal system, headed by the early church, began to
squelch the power of women, witches were deemed evil, and many
great women were deemed witches. Their meeting time, then, was
seen as bad luck rather than as what it truly was: a time for women
to gather and share energy and pray together and heal. Our mystical power should not be relegated to the distant past. It
still exists. I want mine now, and so does every woman I know. Our
power is not evil but good. We must reclaim our goodness as well as
our power. Today, the reason we haven’t found our grail,  the key to
who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false
power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the rst place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this
world can take us home. Only the radar in