 build up slowly, butincrease your activity level as much as you can every day. Exercise is
essential to becoming healthy.
HABIT #4

DEEP BREATHING

The air we breathe is the life force for our physical body. Without it we
would die. God created a natural cycle whereby we breathe in oxygen,
carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen from plants, and we exhale carbon dioxide,
which is the essential breath or physical life force for plant life. Oxygen, of
course, is vital to your life. It is a great energizer, alkalizer and oxidizer. The
air we breathe (which is created by plants and trees) is alkaline, while the
carbon dioxide by-products we exhale are acidic. Being a predominately
alkaline species, it is vital that we learn to breathe properly and spend some
time deep breathing. This charges the system with negative ions creating a
cationic condition in the body, whereas shallow breathing creates over-acidity
and an anionic situation in the body. Oxygen and simple sugars are the main
fuels for our cells, as carbon dioxide is one of the main fuels for plants.
Most humans were never taught to breathe properly, so we have become
what are called “shallow breathers.” If our breath becomes shallow, so does
our life. Human beings and nature are not separate, but work together as one.
It is when the human’s ego separates him or her from nature that disease sets
in.
Deep breathing energizes the system, increasing circulation and lymph
flow. Deep breathing also clears the mind and settles the emotions, allowing
us to feel more at peace with ourselves and with nature.
The breath, in spiritual traditions, has been called the
prana, chi, ki,
 life
force, spirit,
mana,
 the
ECK,
 and many other names. There are a few
individuals who consume mainly air as their food. I read about a Catholic nun
who supposedly lived only on snow, high in the Himalayan mountains. I was
personally moving in the direction of trying to live solely on air back in the
early seventies. I lived as a hermit in the national forests and state parks
around Florida. I lived on oranges only, for six months, hoping to eventually
eliminate those. However, my energy was so high that I kept having out-of-body experiences and I became unbalanced with respect to this world. It was
hard for me to communicate with others. (Human awareness, on earth and in
this physical realm, is very low when it comes to understanding true reality
and the ability to interact with all life.) Eventually, I balanced out my eating
habits with raw fruits and vegetables.
Try the following deep-breathing exercise to increase the oxygen content
within your body. The more you work with it the more you will develop a
better breathing pattern. Lie on your back on a couch, floor or bed. RELAX,
RELAX, and RELAX! Place your right hand on your abdomen just above
your navel. Breathe in through your nose without moving your shoulders.
Watch as your hand moves up and down
with your breathing. This requires
breathing into the lower lobes of your lungs. Each time you breathe in, make
your abdomen expand, or move up (raising your hand with it), then exhale
from your mouth. Your abdomen will naturally contract as the air is released.
Your hand will move as your abdomen lowers.
After you have done this for several breaths, try increasing your intake of
oxygen by breathing first from the abdomen—that means, as if filling the
abdomen. It expands. Then fill the top lobes of your lungs by inhaling more
air in the upper thoracic cavities. This will raise your shoulders. Then, exhale
gently.
Now let’s look at this again. First fill the lower lobes of your lungs by
breathing to expand your abdomen. Keep inhaling and fill your upper lobes,
elevating your chest and shoulder areas to allow for complete filling. Once
full, exhale gently.
You can practice deep breathing in any position. Work with this until it
becomes second nature to take deeper and more filling breaths. Deep
breathing will help alkalize and increase cellular respiration as well as increase
elimination of acid gases. This is a great exercise to do before you meditate or
just as a calming technique. Open yourself to nature in every way and vitality,
youthfulness, and a sense of connection will be yours.
HABIT #5

DRY SKIN BRUSHING
In previous chapters we covered the skin and its disorders (for example, see
Chapter 5
,
Module 5.9
). Remember that you eliminate up to two pounds of
metabolic wastes and toxins per day through your skin. It is your largest
eliminating organ. When the layers of your skin become full of acids and
toxins you develop rashes, pimples, boils, and other conditions. Skin care
should be one of your top priorities. It is important to clean the skin every
day with a bath or preferably a shower. It would be valuable to put a water
softener or reverse osmosis (R/O) system in your house, as inorganic
minerals clog and block the pores of the skin. You will notice the difference
in your skin and the softness of your hair when using pure, soft water over
hard, mineralized water.
Another great way to enhance skin health is through dry skin brushing.
This removes old and dead skin cells and promotes circulation and lymph
flow, allowing the skin to “breathe” much better. All you need is a long-
handled vegetable-fiber brush, which is generally available at your local
health food store. Do not use a nylon-bristle brush for the skin. Brush your
feet, legs and hands first. It does not matter which direction you brush in,
however brushing toward the center of your body is beneficial. Since there
are nerve endings in your hands and feet, you will experience a tingling
sensation as you stimulate your nervous system. Cleaning the skin in this
manner is of great benefit to gain vibrant, healthy skin. Over the years,
people who attended Dr. Jensen’s seminars learned what healthy skin should
look like. Even up to his death at ninety-three, Dr. Jensen’s skin was always
as soft and healthy as a baby’s.
Try to spend some time in the fresh air with as few clothes on as
possible. Let your skin breathe.
HABIT #6

SAUNAS AND STEAM BATHS

Sweating plays an essential role in daily detoxification. The skin, called the
third kidney, eliminates as much waste (by-products and toxins) as your
lungs, kidneys and bowels. The skin is your largest eliminative organ. Whenthyroid function is low, or when one leads a sedentary life, the body does not
sweat well. The subcutaneous layers of the skin become clogged or stagnant
with toxicity. This causes dry skin, rashes, pimples, rosacea, dandruff,
dermatitis and the
like. Sweating is an essential mechanism for getting
healthy.
Saunas and steam baths are extremely beneficial, especially when using
various essential oils. Public facilities may be less desirable, so know the
owners and their awareness about cleanliness (the environment should be as
sterile as possible) both physically and psychically. If saunas are not available
in your area, they can be built or purchased. You can create a steam bath in
your own bathtub. Use mustard, cayenne pepper or other herbs added to the
water for additional cleansing effects. (Also see instructions for cold sheet
treatments in
Module 9.2
.)
HABIT #7

SLANT BOARDING

A slant board is simply a board or table that is fixed at a 45° angle. By lying
down with your head lower than your feet you can improve cerebral
circulation and increase lymphatic flow in the lower extremities. After years
of living upright, gravity can take its toll on your body. We develop poor
cerebral circulation and edema in our legs and feet. Our skin and organs
begin to sag and prolapse, restricting proper functions. The slant board is a
great way to return good blood flow to the brain. This can also help our
internal organs, relieving some of the pressure that gravity puts on them.
HABIT #8

COLOR THERAPY (SUNLIGHT)

All life in one way or another looks to the sun for its energy and healing.Sunlight offers us full-spectrum color healing, and each individual ray of
color presents a unique energy for healing the body. Each color has its own
special effect upon tissue. Added together, all these individual color rays
provide a powerful healing energy that flows through all the cells of the
body, uplifting, healing and giving succor to each cell.
Remember to maintain balance in using the sun, however. The sun is
acidic in nature, and too much is just as bad as not enough. Most people are
far too acidic as it is. This is why many do not like the sun, or burn too easily.
The more alkaline you become, the more you will enjoy the sun and its
healing power. Enjoy God and nature; bathe in its energies; they’re all around
and flowing through us.
There are many great books on color healing (see the Bibliography for a
few suggestions), and we will deal with more about this subject later in this
chapter where you will learn about the different colors and their


  family  or anyone
else!  Leave  all Free  to come  to This  Understanding  and
into It, whenever  they  are ready.  If you  pull  them  in by urg-
ing, they  are very  apt to begin  to try to pick  flaws.  If peo-
ple come  in of their  own  volition,  they  come  because  the DISCOURSE  XVIII  233
Light  within  them  has  drawn  them;  and  it will  be the
rarest  thing  for them  to ever  turn  aside  for any  length  of
time.
As the Messengers  have  told  you,  This  Light,  This  Un-
derstanding  which  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has brought  to
you,  is clear!  It is All-powerful!  It is Mighty  to set mankind
Free;  and  I say to you  as One  of Authority:  you  will  not
have  any  Knowledge,  any  Application,  any  Information,
any Instruction  come  forth,  which  will  even  touch  It, in
the next  two  or three  hundred  years.  You  will  remember,
when  This  Understanding  was  to come  forth,  even  before
the Messengers  knew  It, We  decided  with  Those  from
Venus  in the  Royal  Teton;  This  "I AM"  Activity  must
come  forth  in simple  language  which  the layman  and  the
child  could  understand.  All technical  terminology,  all for-
eign  expression  must  be left out;  because  America  was  the
"Cup  of Light"  of the future;  and  the only  spot  on the face
of This  Earth,  where  there  was  a possibility  of bringing
about  the Right  Condition  for the Incoming  Golden  Age.
Would  you  like  Me  to tell you  in figures,  how  many
more  will  join  you  in the next  six months ? I do not mean
just here,  but  all over  the United  States  and  in different
parts  of the World—and  I mean  by that  those  who  will
come  into  the Application  of the Work ? You  have  a little
more  than  three  hundred  seventy-four  thousand  members
I believe  now.  I have  not checked  it up Myself,  but Beloved
Saint  Germain  has the record,  and  when  the Messengers  re-
turn  to the Shrine  Class  in July,  there  will  be more  than  two 234 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
hundred  thousand  added  to that  number.  I shall  not  say
how  many  more.  This  should  be of sufficient  encourage-
ment  for you  all to know,  unless  this  were  the  Eternal
Truth  of Life,  It could  not expand  and  draw  to Itself  Its
own.
You have  seen  all of the various  angles  of Truth  already.
Those  who  have  been  drawn  to this  "I AM"  Activity  far
exceed  anything  else.  This  has  brought  True  Understand-
ing! In This  Ascended  Master  Understanding,  you  have
the culmination  of all. There  is not one  thing  left  unsaid,
or unexplained  by which  you  may  gain  your  Victory.
Therefore,  those  who  will  stand  by and  apply  It, will  have
their  Eternal  Freedom.
I say to you,  as One  who  has Authority  to set aside  time
and space:  to dissolve  and  consume  the human  accumula-
tion,  the creation  of Individuals;  and  to remove  the dis-
carnates  from  the Earth;  there  is not one  of you,  who  can-
not have  your  Freedom  in every  way  quickly,  by two  simple
things.
Since  you  have  come  to know  the  "Beloved  Mighty  I
AM Presence,"  take  a firm  unyielding  stand  to hold  Har-
mony  in your  feeling  and  make  your  Earnest  Application.
There  is not  one  of you,  who  could  not  be Free  in six
months.  I trust  those,  for whom  their  own  human  creations
have  been  dissolved  and  consumed,  will  feel  and  take  ad-
vantage  of the  Opportunity  with  greater  power  in their
Application;  greater  intensify,  greater  earnestness  and
greater  Determination.  Beloved  Ones,  when  you  have  lived DISCOURSE  XVIII  235
for centuries  in human  creations  and  accumulation  which
has been  gathered  up to this  time—you  of course  do not
realize  it; but  the feeling,  the power  and  the energy  re-
leased  thru  discord,  has  made  this  condition  of today.  In
order  to reverse,  dissolve  and  consume  it, you  must  know
you are undoing  in a few weeks  or a few  months,  what  you
have  been  centuries,  hundreds  of centuries  accumulating!
If you  really  understand  and  know  your  Privilege  today,  is
the Greatest  Privilege  of all your  pilgrimages  upon  Earth;
you will  realize  the Great  Mercy  of the Great  Law  of Life,
which  provided  a Means  of doing  it.
You will  remember  the  Great  Astrea,  Myself,  Beloved
Saint  Germain,  Jesus  and  Various  Ones  who  are Certain
Authority  for Certain  Activities.  Do you  suppose  We  just
of Our  Own  Desire  became  This ? Oh No!  The  Great  Law
of Life,  which  is governed  by Those  Great  Beings  whom
Beloved  Saint  Germain  has presented  to you,  as the Central
Focus  of Power  for This  System  of Worlds,  made  Us the
Authority  for These  Special  Activities.  Then  you  know  that
We act wholly  thru  the Authority  of Life.
Your  Higher  Mental  Body  knows  your  Requirement,
why  you  are  in this  particular  embodiment;  and  what
brought  you  here.  We may  not interfere  with  that,  unless
We receive  the Call  from  your  "I AM  Presence,"  thru  your
Higher  Mental  Body.  Do not  come  back  and  say  to the
Messengers:  "There  is a contradiction."  Beloved  Ones,
there  could  not  be a contradiction  in the Law  of Life!  It
is the Individual's  lack  of Understanding,  which  some  peo-236 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
pie seize  upon  and  by which  they  try to find  discrepancies.
This  Law  of Life  is Unerring!  It makes  no mistakes!  We
live in accord  with  It and  are  obeying  It! When  your
Higher  Mental  Body  calls  to Us, for the Assistance  which
must  be rendered,  not a thing  in all human  creation  could
prevent  It!
Let us clear  this.  You  might  say:  "Why  does  the Higher
Mental  Body,  whose  Focus  of Life  is All-wise  and  All-
powerful,  call on Us" ? The  Messengers  have  explained,  but
I want  you  to have  it definitely  clear  this  time!  When  you
have  accumulated  about  you,  all the discord  which  is your
creation  of the past;  you  do not always  obey  the Direction
from  your  Higher  Mental  Body.  We,  as Ascended  Beings
having  gone  thru  all this  process;  having  attained  Our  As-
cension  thru  Self-Conscious  Effort,  thru  This  Identical  Ap-
plication—NOW  THE  CONSCIOUSNESS  WHICH
WE ARE,  KNOWS  EVERY  REQUIREMENT.  You
will pardon  Me,  if I use this  expression—but  the stubborn
human  Being,  who  will  not  yield  and  respond  to the im-
pulse  from


house.
Speaking of the slaughterhouse, what kind of
chemical reaction do you suppose would occur in your
body if somebody put a choke chain around your neck
to keep you in line, shoved you onto a conveyor belt,and made you watch in horror as all of those in line infront of you were beheaded one by one? Well, your body
would be pumped so full of adrenaline from all that fear
you wouldn’t know what hit you! Unused adrenaline isextremely toxic. If you think for a minute that most of
the meat that you consume is not packed with this toxic
substance, you’re sadly mistaken!
Also, consider the fact that cattle, sheep, chickens,
etc., are all vegetarians. When you eat them, you are
just eating polluted vegetables. Why not skip all thewaste and toxins and just eat healthy, organic vegetables?
And what about that myth that you have to eat  meat
to get your protein? If that were so true, where do yousuppose farm animals, especially horses, get all their
protein? They are vegetarians! They get their protein
from the grains and grasses that they eat. You are nodifferent. You can get the proteins you need from the
large variety of whole grains, tofu, raw nuts, seeds, beans,
fruits and vegetables that God put on this planet for
your health. See Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233.95Meat Has Toxic Uric Acid and Cholesterol
Meat is the major source of toxic uric acid and
cholesterol, both harmful to your health.  If you insiston eating meat, it should be an organically fed sourceand not eaten more than 2 to 3 times weekly. Fresh fishcan be the least toxic of the flesh proteins, but bewareof fish from polluted waters. They can be loaded withmercury, lead, cadmium,
DDT  and other toxic
substances. If you are unsure of the waters the fish comefrom, don’t risk eating it. Avoid shellfish – shrimp, lobsterand crayfish. They are garbage-eating bottom-feeders(the rats and flies of the water world). They eat decayingscum and refuse off the bottoms of the oceans, lakesand rivers. Chickens and turkeys are a sick bunch andcommercially mass fed and heavily drugged withantibiotics and hormones. Be selective and cautious inyour eating; seek only the healthiest food choices.
It’s best people should not eat pork or pork products.
The pig is the only animal besides man that developsarteriosclerosis. This animal is so loaded with cholesterolthat in cold weather, unprotected pigs will become stiff,as though frozen solid. Pigs are often infected with adangerous parasite which causes the disease trichinosis.
Patricia and I enjoy being healthy vegetarians and
not polluting our bodies with unhealthy meat, fowl andfish proteins. It’s safer and healthier getting our proteinsfrom organic vegetables, beans, legumes, nuts, etc. Please
refer often to the Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233.
My Beloved Health Teachers and Mentors
One of the greatest teachers and physicians in the
science of body purification and nutrition was Dr. JohnTilden,
M.D.,  of Denver. This great scientist will surely
go down in history as one of the finest physicians. Hisprogram included fasting and an abundance of freshfruits and vegetables. He lived into his
90s and was active
to the end of his life keeping his patients healthy.
Another of the finest doctors who specialized in
nutrition was the famed Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,  M.D.
He was the director for 60 years of the famous Battle
Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.96Dedicated Great Health Healers
Dr. Kellogg’s Sanitarium specialized in a vegetarian
diet and people from around the world were restored to
radiant health by following his health program. I hadthe privilege of studying under Dr. Kellogg and it was
one of the outstanding experiences of my early career.
In my early career, I was associated with Bernarr
Macfadden, Father and Founder of the Physical Culture
Movement
(pg 145). Macfadden tried vegetarianism for
a time, but gradually went back to a mixed diet whichincluded meat and fish. He lived healthy and active to
nearly
 88 years of age and he believed in mixing proteins.
Over my many years in the health field, I have met
many famous men and women who restored thousands
of people to health through natural methods. In the
1920s I worked with Dr. St. Louis Estes, D.D.S., who was
a pioneer and strict believer in the raw food diet. I saw
many broken, weak, sick people restored to health by
changing to his raw food diet. (I feel it’s best to have ahealthy balance of
60% to 70% raw foods. – P.B.)
Dr. Benedict Lust, M.D., N.D.,  was Father and Founder
of Naturopathy in America. He established in New York a
great school of Naturopathy which educated and
graduated thousands of Natur opathic Doctors who have
used and spread his health teachings around the world.
Dr. Henry Lindlahr, M.D., was a famous drugless
physician who lobbied for the return to natural methods
in the modern treatment and prevention of disease.
Professor Arnold Ehret was one of the world’s greatest
food scientists. He was the discoverer and creator of “The
Mucusless Diet Healing System,” which is a strictly vegetarian
regime. I knew many of Professor Ehret’s students who,in their
80s and 90s, were still enjoying vigorous, robust
health by following his vegetarian health program.
Fasting Credo of the famous Buchinger Clinics in Germany and Spain:
     We must restore fasting to the place it occupied in an ancient hierarchy of
values “above medicine”. We must rediscover it and restore it to honor becauseit is a necessity. A beneficial fast of several weeks, as practised in the earliest daysof the Church, was to give strength, life and health to the body and soul of allChristians who had the faith, dedication and courage to practice fasting.9797Your Tongue Never Lies –
It’s Your Inside Magic Mirror
Your tongue – your inside magic mirror – reveals how
much toxic material is stored in the cells and vital organsof your body. The tongue ( a spongy organ ) is mirror of
the stomach and the entire mucos membrane system.
In your body there is a hose-like tube that averages
30 feet long, extending from the mouth to the anus. It
has the body heat of 98.6 °, plus body moisture. Through
this tube passes all the food you eat. Now, different foodstake different times to pass through the tube. Sad facts –
most people eat an unhealthy, refined, concentrated,
acid-forming diet. They eat large amounts of refinedwhite flour, white sugar, salt and saturated fats. Most ofthese commercial foods lack sufficient bulk, moisture
and lubrication to pass quickly through the
30 foot tube.
I believe that there is a common factor that precedes
or is coexistent with most body ills that afflict us. This
common denominator is constipation. Definitions may
differ but it is logical that if outgo does not equal intake– either in terms of quantity or in frequency – then
constipation will occur and it can be the beginning
of more serious physical problems.
Most people are brainwashed to believe there is no
harm in eating almost anything, as often as they desire
it. We are told to eat big breakfasts to furnish plenty ofenergy to last all morning. Soon after breakfast  they
consume more food, donuts, etc. at mid-morning coffee
breaks. Then comes lunch, then a mid-afternoon coffeebreak followed by the usual heavy evening meal, later
TV snacks and a bedtime snack before retiring. On top
of all this food, many people will gorge on snacks ofcandy, salted nuts, cakes, pies, cookies and ice cream,
etc. This means that food is ingested six or more times a
day, literally stuffing and overworking your stomach!Chapter 1 198The Body Can Take a Lot of Abuse!
The average person believes that if they have one
good bowel movement a day, usually in the morning,that they are free of constipation. Not so – one full
bowel movement is not sufficient to remove all foodmaterial the average person stuffs into his intestinal
tract. As a consequence this rotten, putrefying, morbidwaste lies in the intestine, where it undergoesenzymatic and bacteriological changes that can cause
severe health pr oblems and maybe even colon cancer.
The human body is basically strong and can take a
lot of abuse from over-stuffing, plus eating unhealthymeals. It is most difficult to tell these people who eatincorrectly and have only one bowel movement a daythat they are constipated and thus are inviting serioustroubles later. But there is one warning signal – anunhealthy tongue – that can tell these people that theyare carrying a nasty cesspool within their bodies.
If these people fasted for
2 or 3 days on distilled water,
their “Magic Mirror” tongue would tell them plainly that
they are carrying a horrible mass of fermenting poison insideof their intestines. A few days of fasting will coat the tonguewith a thick, white, toxic material that has a strong odor.This whitish coating can be scraped off and examined. In
fact, you can spoon-scrape and brush the tongue clean but,in a few hours


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Introduction
1 What Is the Path?
•  Longing for a Larger and More Fullling State of Consciousness
•  The False Desire
•  The Realistic Longing
•  Learning to Endure the State of Bliss
•  The Pathwork and Psychotherapy
•  The Pathwork and Spiritual Practice
•  How to Find Your Real Self
•  Positivity and Negativity Are One Energy Current
•  “Images,” or Wrong Conclusions
•  Progress on the Path
•  Freeing Your Spiritual Self
•  Giving Up Illusions
•  Being Lived Through by the Spirit
2 The Idealized Self-Image
•  The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask
•  Fear of Pain and Punishment
•  The Moral Mask of the Idealized Self
•  Self-Acceptance
•  The Inner Tyrant
•  Estrangement from the Real Self
•  Giving Up the Idealized Self
•  Coming Home
3 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts•  The Lack of Mature Love
•  Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood
•  The Fallacy of this Strategy
•  Reexperiencing the Childhood Hurt
•  How to Stop Recreating?
4 The Real God and the God-Image
•  The False Concept of God
•  Dissolving the God-Image
•  God Is Not Unjust
•  The True Concept of God
•  The Eternal, Divine Laws
•  God Is in You and Creates Through You
5 Unity and Duality
•  Understanding Is the Way to the Unied Plane
•  Obstructions to Finding the Real Self
•  Your Ego Versus Your Divine Center
•  The Transition from Dualistic Error to Unied Truth
6 The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex
•  The Spiritual Meaning of the Erotic Force
•  The Dierence Between Eros and Love
•  The Fear of Eros and the Fear of Love
•  The Sex Force
•  The Ideal Partnership of Love
•  The Search for the Other Soul
•  The Pitfalls of Marriage
•  True Marriage
•  Separateness
•  Choice of Partner
•  Eros as a Bridge
7 The Spiritual Signicance of Relationship
•  Unequal Development of Parts of Consciousness
•  Elements of Dissension and Unication
•  Fulllment as a Yardstick for Personal Development
•  Who Is Responsible for the Relationship?
•  Destructive Interactions
•  How to Reach for Fulllment and Pleasure
8 Emotional Growth and Its Function•  Numbing of Feelings to Avoid Unhappiness
•  Isolation
•  The Need to Exercise the Emotions
•  Allowing Immature Feelings to Surface
•  How to Activate the Growth Process
•  What Is True Security?
•  If the Feelings Are Stunted, Love Cannot Grow
9 Real and False Needs
•  Awakening the Dormant Spiritual Potentials
•  The Unfulllment of the Child’s Legitimate Needs
•  How to Dissolve the Pain of the Unfullled Legitimate Needs
•  Overcoming the Resistance to Exposing False Needs
•  Present Suering Is the Result of Pursuing False Needs
•  Letting Go of the Demand for Fulllment of Unreal Needs
10 Innite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency
•  Everything in the World Exists in a State of Potentiality
•  Avoidance Motivation Closes Out New Vistas
•  A Cluster of Popular Misconceptions
•  Devices to Hide Weakness and Dependency on Others
•  The Child Within You Still Wants Validation from Others
•  Vicious Circle and Forcing-Current
•  Let Go—Let Out
•  Take O the Leash Around Your Neck
11 The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis
•  The Self-Perpetuating Force of Negative Emotions
•  Crisis Can Put an End to Negative Self-Perpetuation
•  Growth Is Possible Without “Dark Nights”
•  Outer Crisis and Inner Crisis
•  Leaving Crises Behind
•  The Message of Crises
12 The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence
•  Does Evil Exist?
•  Right Acceptance of Evil
•  Evil as Distorted Creative Power
•  Liberating the Inner Beauty
•  Transformation
13 Self-Esteem•  The Inner Conict Between Self-Indulgence and Self-Rejection
•  What Brings Self-Respect?
•  Using the Power of the Conscious Mind
•  Reconnection with the Instinctual Life
•  Unifying Love and Pleasure
14 Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self, Higher Self
•  The Ego as Mediator
•  The Meditative Attitude
•  The Changes Eected by the Pathwork Meditation
•  The Reeducation of the Destructive Self
•  A Way to Begin Meditation
•  Reconciliation of the Paradoxes of Your Life
15 Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power
•  The Universal Life Principle and the “Forgetful” Ego
•  The Conict Between Yearning For and Fearing the Real Self
•  Misinterpretations of the Universal Life Principle in Religion
•  How to Let Go of the Ego
•  Analogy with the Law of Gravity
•  The Human Reaction to the Real Self—Shame and Falsication
•  The Biblical Symbolism of Nakedness
16 Consciousness: Fascination with Creation
•  Knowing, Feeling, and Willing as Tools of Creative Consciousness
•  Three Conditions of Experiencing Yourself as the Universal Spirit
•  Self-Observation and Purication on Three Levels
•  The Origin of “Sin” or Evil
•  The Way Out of Negative Creation
17 Creative Emptiness
•  How to Open Up to the New Consciousness
•  The Way Leads Through Seeming Contradictions
•  A New Fullness Begins to Manifest
•  Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind
•  Making Your Mind an Instrument of Unication
•  Going Into the Emptiness
•  The Actual Experience
•  The New Person As the Receptacle of the Universal Intelligence
•  The Function of the Intellect in the New Person
•  Entering the New, Greater LifeThe Voice Within: A Meditation from the Guide
Background: The Guide, Eva, and the Pathwork Foundation
List of Pathwork Lectures
Acknowledgment
About the Author
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No matter where you are in life, what your profession is, what
your problems are, whether  you are young or old, this book will
help you see yourself and life in a new light. This new light
combines reaso n with love and illuminates a path-way leading into
your innermost self.
This book is channeled material. Its true author is a discarnate
being who did not give himself a name, but who came to be known
as the Guide. He delivered, through Eva Pierrakos, 258 lectures on
the nature of psychological and spiritual reality and on the process
of personal spiritual development. This process came to be known as
the Pathwork and the transmissions were called the Pathwork
Lectures or the Guide Lectures.
There are many volumes of channeled material in print


 om time to time or drink a beer or have a glass of wine
with supper.

Compared to all their friends, they're almost freak s. The contrast between their diet and most of thei r friend's
diets is so great that it makes them feel like they  are the health nuts (their friends tell them so).

Yet they've been diagnosed with cancer, heart disea se, arthritis, diabetes; they're tired frequently o r even all
the time. They have sinus and skin problems, gas an d bad breath, head and stomach aches, sleep poorly and
many times wake up with the equivalent of a hangove r. Their hair is grey or falling out, the men have
prostate issues, the women have yeast infections or  other female health issues.

Sound like anyone you know?

But here's the problem. (You may not like this.)

Compared to the diets of almost everyone they know,  they eat well and healthy. Compared to our ancesto r's
diets, they are barely getting any nutrition. Just enough to stay alive, and far, far less than what i s required to
actually be healthy and immune to cancer, diabetes,  arthritis and heart disease. Frequently I am faced  with
the option of telling them, "Pretty much everything  you eat is wrong." (I never do it. That's how you lose
clients.)

What's so bad about their diet?

The one outstanding dynamic found in every one of t he genuinely effective anti-cancer (or anti-poor he alth)
diets is that convenience is not a factor (and actu ally, neither is flavor, until you've reprogrammed your tongue). Every meal takes time, thought, planning, attention and preparation, because of the effort to  cram as
much nutrition into that meal as possible.

Every meal is purposely, deliberately designed to o ptimize nutrition. One health guru described his mo rning
smoothy. He said, "I take over 100 pills per day. I t's impossible to drink enough liquid to wash down 100
pills, so I just put them all into a blender and gr ind them up and drink them. It's the worst tasting thing I love
to drink!" This particular man (Jack Lalanne, who l ived to the age of 96), at age 70, swam across the Long
Beach Harbor (3 miles) towing 70 boats carrying 70 people, with his hands and feet shackled together.

My point is that as Dr. Reams once said, "It's not what you eat, it's what you don't eat." He was refe rring to
not getting enough nutrition, which cannot be provi ded by regular foods found in a grocery store.

In my article, "Basic principles of health and nutr ition", I discuss the importance of sprouted and fe rmented
foods. If they are available and affordable, you ca n buy lots of sprouted and fermented foods to eat w ith each
meal, but really, it's best to sprout/ferment them yourself.

What a bother!

On the other hand, what a bother lousy health is, o r dying of cancer or heart failure or a stroke.

Many times (actually, most of the time) folks want to know what supplements will make their health iss ues
go away. But the supplements are supposed to help t he food heal you, not take the place of the food.

Too often, folks will want colloidal silver or iodi ne or Vit E or whatever to heal them without the ra dical diet
change that is actually the foundation upon which g ood health is built.

Sometimes that works, but sometimes it just post-po nes the sickness until a later date.

Giving your body what it needs means both food AND supplements.
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DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR RESEARCH
Directorate A
Division Industry, Research and Energy
STOA
Scientific and Technological Options Assessment

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF NON-
IONISING ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION

Final Study

Working document for the STOA Panel

Luxembourg, March 2001     PE 297.574/Fin.St.

Directorate General for Research
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   Cataloguing data :
   Title:
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF
NON-IONISING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

Workplan Ref.:  EP/IV/A/STOA/2000/07/03

Publisher:   European Parliament
Directorate General for Research Directorate A The STOA Programme

Author:   Dr. Gerard Hyland

University of Warwick - U.K.
    International Institute of Biophysics, Germany

Editor:    Mr Graham CHAMBERS
STOA Unit
  Date:    March 2001   PE number:
PE  297.574/Fin.St.
                This document is a working Document for the 'STOA Panel'.  It is not an official publication of STOA. This document does not necessarily represent the views of the European Parliament

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Contents

Part A  OPTIONS

  1. Policy options for the European Parliament
  2. Policy options for the European Commission
  3. Technological options at the operational level

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Part B  ARGUMENTS and EVIDENCE

1.  Introduction: Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electromagnetic Bio-
incompatibility

2.  Why GSM  Signals are Bio-active

3.  Indications of Non-thermal influences of Microwave Radiation, including GSM

3.1 In vitro  and in vivo  evidence
3.2 Difficulties in replication
3.3 Relevance of experiments to conditions realised in actual mobile phone usage

4. Indications of Non-thermal Adverse Health Impacts of Exposure to GSM and similar
microwave radiation

5.  From Non-thermal Effects to Adverse Health Effects

6. The Increased Vulnerability of Pre-adolescent Children

7.  But Not Everyone is Adversely Affected

8.  The Inadequacy of Existing Safety Guidelines

9.  Some recommendations to enhance electromagnetic biocompatibility

9.1 Policy options for the European Parliament
 9.2 Policy options for the European Commission
9.3 Technological options at the operational level

10.  Conclusions

References

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Abstract

This Study focuses upon an aspect of how living organisms and humans in particular can be adversely affected by highly coherent electromagnetic fields of technological origin, in a way that is not entertained or addressed by existing Safety Guidelines – namely, through the possibility of non-thermal, frequency-specific influences of an informational nature.  Supporting evidence is presented, and attention drawn to a disturbing consistency between some of these influences and the nature of certain adverse health effects found amongst some exposed people.  On the basis of a detailed analysis of the present situation, a number of recommendations are made to promote a higher degree of electromagnetic biocompatibility between these fields and the living human organism than currently obtains.

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  EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Directorate General for Research-Directorate A
STOA  - Scientific and Technological Options Assessment
Options Brief and Executive Summary
PE nr. 297.574              March 2001

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFECTS OF NON-IONISING ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION

OPTIONS BRIEF
1. Policy options for the European Parliament
• the non-emergency prolonged use of mobile
phones by children – and particularly pre-adolescents – be strongly discouraged, on account of their increased vulnerability to any potential adverse health effects.

• the mobile phone industry refrain from
promoting prolonged use of mobile phones by children by the use of advertising tactics exploiting peer pressure and other strategies to which the young are susceptible, such as the (now discontinued) use of DISNEY character fascias on the phones.

• the mobile phone industry make it clear to the
consumer that the specific absorption rate (SAR) - which in some countries is shortly to
be declared on the handset - refers only to the
degree to which the microwave emissions
from the antenna can heat biological tissue, and is in no way  relevant to non-thermal
effects that the emissions from a mobile
phone may have on the user.

• The efficacy of devices such as shields and
ear-pieces be indicated on the basis of biological tests, and not solely on the reduction
in SAR value (as determined by the use of a
‘phantom’ head) that their use might achieve.
b) It be made clear to the consumer that such
devices afford no protection against the low
frequency pulsed magnetic field from the battery of the phone.
 • concerning personal protection devices
claiming to  boost the immunity of the user against any adverse impacts of exposure (including those from the battery magnetic field): a) The efficacy of such devices be established
by biological testing.
b) Such devices not be rejected (as has
occurred in certain consumer surveys that
have been published) solely on the grounds that their use does not reduce SAR, as
measured using a ‘phantom’ head; for this is
not what they are designed to do.   Accordingly, the SAR is here a fundamentally
inappropriate  measure against which to
assess their efficacy
.

2. Policy options for the European Commission
• Future EU-sponsored research should
incorporate the following recommendations: a) living systems under


ography

       Dr. Jack Goldstein was born in 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, and now
resides in Oak Park, Michigan. He attended Wayne State University in Detroit, and received his D.P M. (Doctor of Podiatric Medicine)
degree, with honors, in 1952 from the Illinois College of Podiatric
Medicine in Chicago. After serving with the army in Korea during the
Korean War, 1953-1954, he began private practice of podiatry and foot
surgery in 1954, and is currently practicing in Livonia, Michigan. He is a member of the Michigan State P odiatry Association, the American
Podiatry Association, and the American Association of Hospital
Podiatrists. He is also a member of the National Health Federation,
Consumers For Pure Food, and is on the board of directors of
Americans United To Combat Fluoridation. He is a member of the American Natural Hygiene Society and has served on its board of
directors and is currently president of the Society. He has lectured
throughout the United States and Canada and has appeared on many
local and national radio and television programs.
      Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious,
always severe. She is always right and the errors are always those of
man. She despises the man incapable of appreciating her, and only to the apt, the pure and the true does she reveal her secrets.
        GOETHE
  Dedication:
   How does one thank those who are res ponsible for his returning to the human race
and to life? It cannot be expressed with words, but my deepest gratitude and thanks
are given to:
   My dear friend, Carol Leib, who introduced me to the right path; My dear friends,
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gross, both of whom guided me along that path, picked me up
when I was down, helped me when I needed it and showed such an understanding and
compassion toward me that there was no other way but to recover; and my dear wife and soulmate, Corinne, whose encouragement, optimism, persistence, nagging (Thank God!), devotion and understanding enabled me to take the path. She gave me the
strength to go on.
   My book is a result of the efforts of these people. It is an experience in living--an
enlightenment.
   It does not have an ending, because it is a beginning!
    The story you are about to read may seem unreal, exaggerated, and even
unbelievable. But whether you like it or not and whether you believe it or not, this is the way it happened. It is truth--every word of it!
   Truth is, in fact, stranger than fiction!

Introduction
   It seems the basic tools of the medical profession are the needle, the knife, and the
prescription pad. Treatment appears to be, for the most part, symptomatic: injecting of
drugs (to do what?), cutting out of parts (end results of disease processes), and the
dispensing and prescribing of drugs (almost a ll drugs are poisons). None of these tools
supply the requisites of life. Symptoms are masked; problems are palliated. The
patient receives no knowledge or understanding of how to achieve vital health and maintain it. Causes are not removed; and as long as causes remain, then disease, suffering, and agonizing death will continue. The fact that modern medicine has become very effective in the treatment of specific symptoms does not mean that it has
become more beneficial for the health of the patient.
   Certainly there is a need for qualified  surgeons, emergency care physicians, etc.
There are times when surgery is necessary as well as the use of life-saving techniques
and drugs. There is also, because of removal or non-functioning of the thyroid, pancreas, or various other glands, the necess ity for the substitution of these secretions,
the lack of which would result in death.
   A doctor is also a teacher; yet how many patients, all of whom have the God-given
right to knowledge about their bodies, are ever taught by their doctors the function of
their bodies. It seems that the function of one's body is kept secret--a mystery. Why?
So many people have told me they've gone to their doctor only to come away with such instructions as, "Get this prescription  filled and take the medicine as directed."
   People are not taught basic prevention of disease (which, as far as I'm concerned, is
the raison d'etre  of the medical profession), but are taught to expect disease as they
get older and to "learn to live with it." But good health is normal and there should be
no compromise.
   Many of the health problems of today are the result of apathy, lack of interest, lack
of knowledge, and a disrespect and misunderstanding of the marvelous innate and built-in wisdom and needs of the human body.
   Most people today want instant cure. They don't care how or why they became sick.
They just go to their doctor and say, "Doctor, I'm sick. Cure me!" It just cannot work. The body must of necessity eventually break down when it is neverendingly poisoned
with drugs. When the doctor tries to improve upon nature, it's the patient who takes the risk.
   It is indeed a strange "science" which teaches us that substances (drugs), which
make us, sick when we are well should be taken when we are sick to make us well.
   Nature is slow. It takes years to cultivate ill health because the body can take much
abuse, but it also may take years to undo all the damage heaped upon the body by
"normal" living. Nature is slow, but nature is sure. One must have patience, knowledge, and understanding.    People have a right to know that there is another approach to health; and this is the
purpose of my book. The story can apply to anyone, and anyon e can identify and
relate to the story. My particular disease is not important; rather it could be almost any
other disease, afflicting anyone.
   My story depicts the gradual downfall, deterioration, and hopelessness of a person
under medical care, with reasons why it happened, and the dramatic recovery when a
plan of living was followed (after abandoning the medical gamut) which is in
harmony with natural physiologic laws as applied to the human being.
   You will learn what is good for your body and what is bad for your body. You will
learn a way of living that will enable you and your children to enjoy life--a life of simplicity, free of complication, a life abounding in physical and mental well-being, a
life filled with something most people do not seem to enjoy--HEALTH.
   Therefore, this book is dedicated to the untold thousands of people who have
suffered, are suffering, and may suffer in th e future, regardless whether it is ulcerative
colitis or another disease, in the hope I can share an experience that could end their suffering, prevent future suffering, and let th em enjoy their birthright--vibrant health.
   It is my fervent desire that, after y ou have read this book, those of you who have
health will understand how to maintain it; those of you have lost health will
understand how to regain it; and those of you who have never had health will have learned how to experience it.
   After all, what good is life without health?

Chapter 1 -- Beginning of the End
   "I'm dying!"
   I was gripped with a sickening fear as I suddenly realized I was dying. What does
one do when the doctor pronounces the sentence? What does one say? How does one
react?
   It was early in 1964. I was 34 years old. I had a lovely wife, two fine children, a
good practice as a podiatrist and foot surgeon and was a member of recognized state and national accredited groups of my profession; but I was a damned sick man!
   I had run the medical gamut of treatment and by all medical standards there wasn't
much hope. I had reached my physiologic limitation as a result of ulcerative colitis, a
severe and debilitating disease of the colon or large intestine, marked by severe
diarrhea, intestinal spasm, bleeding, dehydration, weakness, weight loss, and a host of other symptoms. It is one of the chronic digestive diseases, which, according to the
National Center for Health Statistics, are the number one cause of hospitalization and
rank second as the cause of disability due to illness. The cost of these ailments is
estimated at $10 billion annually, making them the leading cause of economic loss from chronic human illness. About 100,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
Ulcerative colitis is a pre-cancerous state, and it was at this point the doctor granted
me two choices--namely, that if nothing was done I would die, or a drastic operation
could be tried, a total colectomy (complete removal of the five or six feet of large
intestine and rectum), with a bag being attached to the abdomen for the collection and
elimination of waste matter (ileostomy), which would have made me a permanent
physiologic cripple, and of course could not guarantee my survival. So how does one react when there isn't much hope? I reacted with a calmness, with a feeling bordering
on apathy. I almost didn't care. I thought


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, Clark's diet contains too many hard-to-digest soy
products and makes poor food combinations from the point of digestive capacity.
    Then there are the raw fooders. Most of them are raw, Organic fooders who go so far as to eat only unfired, unground cereals
that have been soaked in war m water (at less than 115 degrees or you'll kill the enzymes) for many hours to soften the seeds up and
start them sprouting. This diet works and really helps a lot of people. Raw organic foodism is especially good for "holy joes," a
sort of better -than-everyone -else person who enjoys great self -righteousness by owning this system. But raw fooding does not help
all people nor solve all diseases because raw food irritates the digestive tracts of some people and in northern climates it is hard to
maintain bod y heat on this diet because it is difficult to consume enough concentrated vegetable food in a raw state. And some raw
fooders eat far too much fruit. I've seen them lose their teeth because of fruit's low mineral content, high sugar level and constant
fruit acids in their mouths.
    Then there are vegetarians of various varieties including vegans (vegetarians that will not eat dairy products and eggs), and  then,
there are their exact opposites, Atkins dieters focusing on protein and eating lots of meat. T here's the Adelle Davis school, people
eating whole grains, handfuls of vitamins, lots of dairy and brewers yeast and wheat germ, and even raw liver. Then there's t he
Organic school. These folks will eat anything in any combination, just so long as it is o rganically produced, including organically
raised beef, chicken, lamb, eggs, rabbit, wild meats, milk and diary products, natural sea salt in large quantities and of co urse,
organically grown fruits, vegetables grains and nuts. And what is "Organic?" The w ord means food raised in compliance with a set
of rules contrived by a certification bureaucracy. When carefully analyzed, the somewhat illogical rules are not all that dif ferent in
spirit than the rules of kashsruth or kosher. And the Organic certificatio n bureaucrats aren't all that different than the rabbis who
certify food as being kosher, either.
    There are now millions of frightened Americans who, following the advice of mainstream Authority, have eliminated red meat
from their diets and greatly re duced what they (mistakenly) understand as high -cholesterol foods.
    All these diets work too –or some –and all demonstrate some of the truth. The only area concerning health that contains more
confusion and contradictory data than diet is vitamins. What a rats nest that is!

The Fundamental Principle
    If you are a true believer in any of the above food religions, I expect that you will find my views unsettling. But what I co nsider
"good diet" results from my clinical work with thousands of cases. It is  what has worked with those cases. My eclectic views
incorporate bits and pieces of all the above. In my own case, I started out by following the Organic school, and I was once a  raw
food vegetarian who ate nothing but raw food for six years. I also ate Ma crobiotic for about one year until I became violently
allergic to rice.
    I have arrived at a point where I understand that each person's biochemistry is unique and each must work out their own diet to
suit their life goals, life style, genetic predispo sition and current state of health. There is no single, one, all -encompassing, correct
diet. But, there is a single, basic, underlying Principle of Nutrition that is universally true. In its most simplified form,  the basic
equation of human health goes: He alth = Nutrition / Calories. The equation falls far short of explaining the origin of each
individuals diseases or how to cure diseases but Health = Nutrition / Calories does show the general path toward healthful ea ting
and proper medicine.
    All animal s have the exact same dietary problem: finding enough nutrition to build and maintain their bodies within the limits of
their digestive capacity. Rarely in nature (except for predatory carnivores) is there any significant restriction on the numb er of
calor ies or serious limitation of the amount of low -nutrition foods available to eat. There's rarely any shortage of natural junk food
on Earth. Except for domesticated house pets, animals are sensible enough to prefer the most nutritional fare available and t end to
shun empty calories unless they are starving.
    But humans are perverse, not sensible. Deciding on the basis of artificially -created flavors, preferring incipid textures, we seem
to prefer junk food and become slaves to our food addictions. For ex ample, in tropical countries there is a widely grown root crop,
called in various places: tapioca, tavioca, manioc, or yuca. This interesting plant produces the greatest tonnage of edible,
digestible, pleasant -tasting calories per acre compared to any othe r food crop I know. Manioc might seem the answer to human
starvation because it will grow abundantly on tropical soils so infertile and/or so droughty that no other food crop will suc ceed
there. Manioc will do this because it needs virtually nothing from t he soil to construct itself with. And consequently, manioc puts
next to nothing nourishing into its edible parts. The bland -tasting root is virtually pure starch, a simple carbohydrate not much
different than pure corn starch. Plants construct starches fro m carbon dioxide gas obtained from the air and hydrogen obtained
from water. There is no shortage ever of carbon from CO2 in the air and rarely a shortage of hydrogen from water. When the
highly digestible starch in manioc is chewed, digestive enzymes read ily convert it into sugar. Nutritionally there is virtually no
difference between eating manioc and eating white sugar. Both are entirely empty calories.
    If you made a scale from ideal to worst regarding the ratio of nutrition to calories, white sugar,  manioc and most fats are at the
extreme undesirable end. Frankly I don't know which single food might lie at the extreme positive end of the scale. Close to perfect
might be certain leafy green vegetables that can be eaten raw. When they are grown on extr emely fertile soil, some greens develop
20 or more percent completely digestible balanced protein with ideal ratios of all the essential amino acids, lots of vitamin s, tons of
minerals, all sorts of enzymes and other nutritional elements –and very few calor ies. You could continually fill your stomach to
bursting with raw leafy greens and still have a hard time sustaining your body weight if that was all you ate. Maybe Popeye t he
Sailorman was right about eating spinach.
    For the moment, let’s ignore indiv idual genetic inabilities to digest specific foods and also ignore the effects stress and
enervation can have on our ability to extract nutrition out of the food we are eating. Without those factors to consider, it is correct
to say that, to the extent one's diet contains the maximum potential amount of nutrition relative to the number of calories you are
eating, to that extent a person will be healthy. To the extent the diet is degraded from that ideal, to that extent, disease will develop.
Think about it!

Lessons From Nutritional Anthropology
    The next logical pair of questions are: How healthy could good nutrition make people be, and, How much deviation from ideal
nutrition could we allow ourselves before serious disease appears? Luckily, earlier in t his century we could observe living answers
to those questions (before the evidence disappeared). The answers are: We could be amazingly healthy, and, if we wish to enjo y
excellent health we can afford to cut ourselves surprisingly little slack.
    Prior  to the Second World War there were several dozen sizable groups of extraordinarily healthy humans remaining on Earth.
Today, their descendants are still in the same remote places, are speaking the same languages and possess more or less the sa me
cultures.  Only today they're watching satellite TV. wearing jeans, drinking colas –and their superior health has evaporated.
    During the early part of this century, at the same era vitamins and other basic aspects of nutrition were being discovered, a  few
farsig hted medical explorers sought out these hard -to-reach places with their legendarily healthy peoples to see what caused the
legendary well -being they'd heard of. Enough evidence was collected and analyzed to derive some very valid principles.
    First lets  dismiss some apparently logical but incorrect explanations for the unusually good health of these isolated peoples. It
wasn't racial, genetic superiority. There were extraordinarily healthy blacks, browns, Orientals, Amerinds, Caucasians. It wa sn't
living  at high altitude; some lived at sea level. It wasn't temperate climates, some lived in the tropics, some in the tropics at se a
level, a type of location generally thought to be quite unhealthful. It wasn't a small collection of genetically superior ind ividuals,
because when these peoples left their isolated locale and moved to the city, they rapidly began to lose their health. And it wasn't
genetics because when a young couple from the isolated healthy village moved to town, their children born in town wer e as
unhealthy as all the other kids.
    And what do I mean by genuinely healthy? Well, imagine a remote village or a mountain valley or a far island settlement very


 us to look around the room in which we
are currently sitting and describe what we are experiencing, most of us would
refer to chairs, books, papers, photographs, paintings, a table, and so on.
     Very few would mention the space of the room. Why not? We overlook
the space because it has no objective features that can be seen, heard, tasted,
touched or smelt. At the same time, we cannot say that we are not experi -
encing it.
     Likewise, if someone were to ask us to describe our current experience
in general, almost all of us would list our thoughts, images, memories, feel -
ings, sensations of the body, perceptions of the world, activities, relationships,
and so on. Very few of us would mention the presence of awareness. Why
not?
     The fact of being aware is the most obvious, intimate and familiar element
of experience, and yet it has no objective features. Like space, it cannot be
seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelt. It is, so to speak, transparent; it is silent
and empty. And yet without it there can be no experience.

the overlooking of our true nature

It is inconceivable that a landscape painter would spend her life painting in
nature, noticing the trees, fields, animals, flowers and clouds, without ever  you are the happiness you seek
noticing sunlight. The light cannot be seen directly, and yet it is that which
renders the world visible. Indeed, it is all she truly sees!
     Likewise, awareness renders all experience knowable. It is for this reason
that awareness is said to be luminous. It is the illuminating or knowing factor
in all experience. It is, as such, the primary and most important element
of experience, and yet it is almost always overlooked or ignored in favour of
the objective content of experience.
     Consider the amount of knowledge and experience that each of us ac -
quired during our education. Did any of our parents or teachers ever ask us
what it is that knows or is aware of that knowledge and experience? I have
yet to meet anyone who answers ‘yes’ to that question.
     Is it not extraordinary that, as a culture, we have almost universally
overlooked the primary and most important element of experience? And
could there be anything more interesting than to know the nature of that
through which everything else is known? Indeed, would it be possible to
know what anything truly is without first knowing the nature of that with
which it is known?

The fact of knowing, being aware or awareness itself is closer to us than our
breathing, our innermost thoughts or our most cherished feelings. In fact,
it is not close to us; it is what we essentially are. It is overlooked precisely
because it is so intimate and familiar, not because it is remote, unknown or
inaccessible.
     It is sometimes said that awareness transcends experience, implying that
it lies beyond  experience and is, as such, out of reach, unknowable and mys -
terious. Nothing could be further from the truth. Awareness lies behind  the
layer of thinking, feeling and sensing with which we normally identify ourself
and is prior to it, just as a screen could be said to lie behind and be prior to
the movie that appears on it.
     Awareness is not overlooked because it is unknown but because it is so
well known. Familiarity, in this case, may not breed contempt, but it certainly
accounts for neglect. We tend to overlook the space of a room or the light in
a landscape because our attention is exclusively focused on objects. However,
as soon as our attention relaxes, we become aware of the space or the light.
     Similarly, we overlook the presence of awareness due to the exclusive focus
of our attention on the content of experience, that is, our thoughts, feelings,
22are you my self?
sensations, perceptions, activities and relationships. However, awareness
is like the space or the light: as soon as our attention relaxes, we become
aware of it.
     It is for this reason that in the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism
it is said that awareness is ‘the greatest secret, more hidden than the most
concealed and yet more evident than the most evident of things’. *

When I suggest that we overlook the presence of awareness in the same way
that we overlook the space in a room or sunlight in the landscape, I imply
that we are one thing and awareness another. This is not intended. We are
awareness!
     It is we, awareness, who, directing the light of our attention towards the
objective content of experience, overlook our self, the subject of experience.
When the focus of our attention softens and we become aware that we are
aware, it is we, awareness, who relax our attention from its objective content
and, as a result, become aware of our self.
     We come back to our self; we remember our self. However, this is not
a remembrance of something that was once known and subsequently for -
gotten. It is the recognition of what we always and already are but usually
overlook or ignore.
     We might call this overlooking or forgetting of the presence of awareness
the original ADD – Awareness Deficit Disorder – from which the vast ma -
jority of humans suffer unknowingly. It is the cause of all psychological suf -
fering of the individual, and the conflicts between individuals, communities
and nations.
     In the Vedantic tradition it is referred to as ignorance, in the sense of
ignoring our true nature, and in Christianity as Original Sin, that is, the
initial error from which all subsequent errors are compounded.
     The fact of knowing, being aware or awareness itself is not something
that some people have in greater measure than others, nor is it more readily
accessible to some people than to others. None has privileged access to it.
It is available to all people, at all times and under all circumstances, simply
by virtue of the fact that everybody is aware, irrespective of what they may
be aware of in any moment of experience.
23* Thanks to Mark S. G. Dyczkowski for this quotation.you are the happiness you seek
     It can be easily recognised as soon as we soften the focus of our attention
from its objective content and come back to our self. It is the silent presence
behind and within all experience.

returning to the presence of awareness

After the experience at the concert in London, I noticed often over the next
few weeks that there were gaps in the flow of experience during which my
attention would be gently drawn back to the fact of being aware. It was as
though attention were a two-way street that could be travelled in one direc -
tion, towards the content of experience, and in the opposite direction,
towards myself, the presence of awareness.
     I also noticed that the intermediary layer of thoughts and feelings was
frequently provoked in response to my experience of the world. If I liked
whatever I was experiencing, I would seek to hold on to it; if I disliked it,
I would attempt to get rid of it.
     In other words, I noticed that experience was often accompanied by
a sense of dissatisfaction. Sometimes this dissatisfaction was barely discern -
ible, such as a feeling of boredom or a sense of lack that was not intense
enough to command my attention but kept me, without my realising it,
in a more or less continuous state of seeking and resisting.
     On other occasions the dissatisfaction was fully felt in the form of suffer -
ing. Whenever I noticed this, I would make a conscious effort to return to
the presence of awareness in the background of experience, for I had already
noticed that, being devoid of all objective qualities, it was the place of peace
or refuge in myself.
     Sometimes this was easy and required almost no effort, and at other times
there was some reluctance. It was in response to this reluctance that I began
to develop a regular habit or practice of returning my attention to its source
in the presence of awareness.
     This new habit was very simple. As a child I was brought up with P. D.
Eastman’s book Are You My Mother?, in which a recently hatched baby bird
is separated from its mother and sets off in search of her. After some time,
the bird encounters a kitten and asks it, ‘Are you my mother?’ ‘No’, replies
the kitten. Next it comes across a hen. ‘Are you my mother?’ it asks. ‘No’,
replies the hen.
24are you my self?
     The baby bird continues on its journey asking everything that it encounters
– a dog, a cow, a car, a boat and an aeroplane – the same question. Finally,
the bird is returned to its nest and reunited with its mother.
     The practice of stepping back from the content of experience and resting
in and as the presence of awareness proceeds in a similar way. We simply ask
every experience that we encounter, ‘Are you myself?’
     When we see a mountain, a building, a person or a movie, we do not
mistake it for ourself. They are what we know  or experience, not what we are.
     Likewise, when we encounter a thought, image, feeling or sensation, we
simply enquire, ‘Are you what I essentially am?’ These are objects of experi -
ence that are known, witnessed or experienced by us, that is, by awareness.
We are no more our thoughts


’
s healthy!

 CHAPTER 6
:
Drinking Water and Cancer

Recently, prior to starting a 40 day fast on distilled water, I
made an
appointment with my doctor at the VA Medical Center in
La Jolla
, California.
At first the doctor was very much opposed to
a 40
-day fast, especially
since I purposed to eat no food at all,
and drink
 nothing but distilled water.
But after explaining that I have been fasting this way every
year for
 over
40 years, she seemed to be a little more receptive.  Especially after
viewing the lab results of my blood cells
, cholesterol
 levels and blood
pressure. She was amazed
to discover
 that at age 65, I seemed to have
the
“
heart of a 25-year- old
”
 – and the results of my blood test were
“
excellent.
”

My doctor asked me why I was drinking distilled water as
opposed
to
 any
other kind, which prompted me to ask her what type
of water
 she drank. I
was shocked to hear that she and her
family drink
 San Diego
’
s water from
the tap. My next question to
her was
, “Do you have any idea how many
pollutants are present
in San
 Diego
’
s municipal drinking water?” The
doctor
immediately retorted
,
“
If it wasn
’
t safe to drink, I
’
m sure they would
let
us know
.
”
 By the time I finished sharing with her what I knew
about the
chemicals and carcinogens (all at “safe levels,” according
to the
 EPA), as
well as water and its relationship to health, she
was ready
 to purchase a
reverse osmosis filter.

This is a small example of the serious problem we have
with regard
 to the
ignorance of Americans in trusting our
government with
 our health.
Regardless of where you live, if you were to
call up
 your local water utility
and ask them if there are
any dangerous
 chemicals or carcinogens in the
municipal
drinking water
, they would say yes, several, but they are all at
safe levels.  When I drink water, I would like to think that it is H
2
O
plus
nothing
: pure, clean and healthy. I do not want to be
concerned with
 many
dangerous, cancer-causing substances at “safe” levels.

Fortunately, many communities across the U.S. are voicing concerns
about the potential and known links between the chemicals found in
municipal water and cancer. Even though water utility companies are
required by law to follow specific guidelines with regard to the levels of
cancer-causing chemicals, there is much debate on what exactly are
“
safe levels.
”

As a result of much public concern, new laws have been enacted requiring
water utilities to publish the results of their water testing every year for
public review. Therein lies the problem: virtually no one reads these
reports or, for that matter, even know they exist, let alone have knowledge
of the situation. Consequently, the general public continues to drink water
that is by no means healthy or safe.

A glass of city water is not going to kill you or give you cancer any more
than one cigarette will give you cancer; it is that cigarette after cigarette
after cigarette.
O
r glass after glass after glass of tap
water. One
 of the
most serious cancer-causing chemicals found in our tap water was put
there by the water utility company,
“
for our safety and health.
”
 Chlorine is
widely known to cause cancer in humans, yet it is the safest chemical
available to control water-borne diseases. Not only is chlorine a
carcinogen, but when it comes into contact with humic acid (decayed plant
and animal matter), it creates Trihalomethanes.

 Some
THMs
 are:

Chlorodibromomethane
Chloroform
Bromoform
Lodoform
Dichlorobromomethane
Fluoroform
Chlorodifluoromethane

Now, as a result of adding one cancer-causing substance, chlorine, we
have eight carcinogens which are linked to rectal, bladder and pancreatic
cancers. Yet another chemical added to our water for our health and well-
being, fluoride, has also been determined to cause cancer. The national
toxicology program study found that fluoride is linked to cancers affecting
the pharynx, mouth and rectum. Another study published in the Journal of
Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology found fluoride directly
linked to a rare bone disease, osteosarcoma.

Most people are aware that there are hundreds of chemicals being
released into the environment every year; yet none of these is being
tested to determine whether or not they cause cancer in humans, or at
what specific level they are deemed to be safe.

With thousands of chemicals found in our nation
’
s water and food supplies,
imagine what astronomical combination of compound chemicals could be
created exponentially. If the result of combining chlorine with humic acid
can create eight carcinogens, then what can the result be of mixing
hundreds of unknown chemicals on the environment or our bodies?

No water utility has the ability or technology to remove this
soup
of
potentially hazardous chemicals from our water supplies.
Keep in
 mind that
this is true with most bottled water companies,
the majority
 of which obtain
the water they bottle from the
same source
 as the water utility.

Many experts believe that the majority of disease in the
world today
 comes
from our unhealthy drinking water in
combination with
 dehydration (not
drinking enough water). So if you want
to live
 healthier and longer, drink
plenty of pure, clean,
healthy distilled
 or purified water and eat plenty of
fresh fruits
and vegetables
.

CHAPTER 7
Does Bottled Water
Provide Health Benefits?

What’s In Your Bottled Water – Besides Water?

Twenty-nine brands have ignored California’s new disclosure law. More
than a quarter of the water bottles purchased in California did not list
certain consumer information on the label or failed to provide a water
quality report when contacted by EWG, as is required under state law.
These brands include Fiji Natural Artesian Water and Green Planet Pure
Handcrafted Water.”
NRDC
 is the nation
’
s most effective environmental action group, combining
the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the
courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and
other professionals.

The New York Times
 calls NRDC
“
One of the nation
’
s most powerful
environmental groups.
”
 The National Journal says they
’
re
“
A credible and
forceful advocate for stringent environmental protection.
”

Bottled Water

1.

Isn
’
t bottled water safer than tap water?
2.

Can bottled water actually be unsafe?
3.

Could the plastic in water bottles pose a health risk?
4.

How can I find out where my bottled water comes from?
5.

How can I determine if bottled water is really just tap water?
6.

What action can I take to improve bottled water safety?
7.

How does drinking bottled water affect the environment?
8.

If I drink tap water, should I use a filter and what types of filters
are most effective?
9.

How can I obtain test results on my tap water?

Isn
’
t bottled water safer than tap water?

No, not necessarily. NRDC conducted a four-year review of the bottled
water industry and the safety standards that govern it, including acomparison of national bottled water rules with national tap water rules,
and independent testing of over 1,000 bottles of water. Their conclusion is
that there is no assurance that just because water comes out of a bottle it
is any cleaner or safer than water from the tap.
In
 fact, an estimated 25
percent or more of bottled water is really just tap water in a bottle –
sometimes further treated, sometimes not.

2. Can bottled water actually be unsafe?

Most bottled water appears to be safe. Of all the bottles
we tested
, the
majority proved to be high quality and relatively
free of
 contaminants. The
quality of some brands was spotty
, however
, and such products may
pose a health risk – primarily
for people
 with weakened immune systems
(such as the frail, elderly
, some
 infants, transplant and cancer patients, or
people
with HIV
/AIDS). About 22 percent of the brands we tested
contained
, in
 at least one sample, chemical contaminants at levels
above
strict
 state health limits. If consumed over a long period of time
, some
 of
these contaminants could cause cancer or other
health problems
.

3. Could
 the plastic in water bottles pose a health risk?

Recent research suggests that there could be cause for concern
, and
 that
the issue should be studied closely. Studies have
shown that chemicals
called phthalates,
 which are known to
disrupt testosterone
 and other
hormones, can leach into bottled
water over
 time. One study found that
water that had been stored
for


, we
possibly re-use and re-absorb a number of vitamins, amino acids, salts,
hormones, etc. as nutrients. Though, this can be especially important
during illness, when diseased body tissue enters the blood and must
therefore be excreted. The filtering process in the kidneys should break
down this tissue to its original materials, after which it can be re-used by
the body to build up new tissue.
2. Re-absorption of hormones.
The basis for this hypothesis is that we can re-introduce these
into the body by drinking or massaging with urine.
Certain hormones have a very specific effect during a healing process.
For example, corticosteroids secreted by the adrenal cortex inhibit
infections and have a positive effect in the treatment of allergies such as
asthma and hay fever, skin disorders such as eczema and psoriasis,
and inflammatory illnesses such as rheumatism.
35 Re-absorption can be a means for the body to generally conserve energy:
re-ingestion of hormones gives the body the chance to re-use
at least a number of these, so that it is not necessary to expend energy
on manufacturing new hormones.
Since proteins are harmed by the acids, pepsins and enzymes in the
digestive tract, the hormones re-absorbed into the body if one drinks urine
will mainly be the small ones which are not proteins (protein-complexes).
The sex hormones, adrenal gland hormones and thyroid hormones will
almost certainly be re-absorbed, the effects of which need to be more
closely researched. The external application of urine to the skin allows
hormones to be re-absorbed by the body without being destroyed.
Massaging with urine is therefore an important complementary component
of urine therapy, as urine is directly absorbed into the tissue.
Enemas are also a good way to prevent destruction of certain hormones by
gastric juices, which is why this method often helps cure allergic disorders
better than when urine is orally ingested.
The same applies for urine injections.
3. Re-absorption of enzymes.
Urine contains many enzymes, which might explain why urine therapy is
effective against arteriosclerosis, heart attack, pulmonary embolism, etc.
Based on research conducted on the enzyme Urokinase, positive results
can be expected from the effects of enzymes in urine as a 'total entity'.
Urokinase causes vasodilation and resembles nitroglycerine in its ability to
strengthen the bloodstream from the coronary artery to the cardiac muscle.
Urokinase is extracted from urine and brought on the market as medicine
on a large scale. Other enzymes are probably active in urine,
but more specific information is not yet available.
. 4. Re-absorption of urea.
Scientists estimate that 25% of the urea in an adult finds its way into the
intestines, where it is decomposed into ammonia by intestinal bacteria.
Some of this ammonia ends up in the liver, where part of it is converted
into urea, and another part is converted into glutamine, an extremely useful
amino acid. According with a report presented by John Wynhausen at the
First All India Conference on Urine Therapy, it is quite possible that urea is
indeed converted into glutamine by ammonia.
Research demonstrates the vital importance of glutamine in the
maintenance and construction of specialised tissue, such as in the brain,
the small intestine and in the growth and activity of the mucous membrane
of the intestinal canal.
Glutamine has a healing effect on ulcers and wounds in the intestinal
canal. The most important function of glutamine, however,
is its ability to strengthen the immune system,
36 and could be an important key in explaining why urine therapy
is such a successful method of treatment.
Another noteworthy application of urea can be found
in the treatment of cancer by Professor Dr. Danopoulos.
He experimented with injecting urea mixed with a saline solution in and
around skin cancer and as a treatment for breast cancer. He also
conducted research on drinking urea dissolved in water in order to fight
liver cancer, and reported positive results.
Danopoulos then began combining urea with creatine hydrate,
another component of urine, and in this way successfully treated
other kinds of cancer.
5. Immunological effect.
Clearly urine is not toxic, although some toxic substances might be
present in urine in small amounts, especially if one is ill.
This small amount of toxic substances possibly contributes to the
effectiveness of urine therapy.
If toxic substances enter the body,
the body's defence mechanisms are called into action.
A similar process takes place when a person is vaccinated.
This stimulates the immune system to manufacture antibodies
(and thus defend the body),
and could be called a homoeopathic or isopathic effect.
Doctor Abele suggests that the presence of antigens and antibodies
in urine strengthens the immune system when urine is re-introduced
into the body. The re-introduction of small amounts of bacteria or parasites
found in urine may stimulate the production of lgE. lgA
(a virus inhibiting substance that prevents micro-organisms
from becoming embedded in the mucous) also plays a role here.
lgA is found in mucous and in excretion products, and therefore also in
urine. Urine therapy increases the production of lgA, which possibly
explains why this therapy has a positive effect on infections of the urinary
passages and the kidneys while other treatments offer little relief.
6. Bactericidal and virucidal.
Although it is not yet entirely clear why urine has a germicidal and
antiseptic effect, it is known that urea plays an important role here.
Ammonia and salt also have a similar purifying effect. Besides killing
bacteria, urine also inhibits or destroys various viruses and fungi.
Scientific research has demonstrated that both urea and ammonia have a
powerful anti-viral effect. Applying urine to a fresh cut or scrape prevents
infection and keeps flies away (important in countries with a warm climate).
Urine compresses from fresh or old urine help to combat infections and
often cause them to disappear. Although urine does not entirely prevent
37 the growth of bacteria in the urethra (infections often arise), it clearly has a
powerful antiseptic effect when externally applied.
Herz also successfully treated infections of the urinary passages with urine
therapy. The positive results can be traced back to the stimulating effect of
the re-ingested urine on the immune system.
As discussed above, in such a case, lgA is produced in greater quantities.
7. Salt therapy.
Drinking salt water serves as an important therapeutic remedy
during certain (fasting) cures.
Salt water is also frequently applied in yoga to clean the body thoroughly
from within and it relieves such illnesses as asthma,
stomach ulcer, indigestion and constipation.
Drinking urine, which is also a salt substance, has the same effect.
This could be an important reason for its success as a therapeutic remedy.
Salt solutions remove old mucous embedded in the mucous membranes.
If one drinks a salt liquid, part of the salt goes into the body, where it
dissolves the surplus of mucous in the lungs and in other organs.
According to this theory, drinking urine,
like drinking salt water,accelerates the metabolism.
It removes a surplus of sugar from the blood and draws out toxic
substancesfrom cells.
In this way, urine therapy is a good cleansing technique.
According to urine therapists, urine has an extra advantage above salt
water because urine contains a small amount of natural cortisone.
This brings us back to the possible hormonal effects of urine.
Using urine instead of salt is also more effective because urea and
ammonia are organic solvents: they dissolve fats and other natural bodily
secretions. These substances probably ensure that the mucous
membranes and body cells are powerfully affected.
Dabbing with salt water usually helps clean wounds;
urine has the same effect. Urine is more effective than salt water because it
contains healing substances such as allantoin.
8. Diuretic effect.
According to this theory, urine therapy ensures that the kidneys work more
quickly and that the body is stimulated to produce more urine.
Metabolic products composed of proteins such as urea, nitrogen and
ammonia are excreted out of the body via the urine as soon as there is a
surplus in the body. Drinking urine causes more of these substances to
enter the body than normal. The body reacts to this by washing them away
with water and other substances. By ingesting urine, one stimulates the
38 body not only to excrete part of these metabolic products at an accelerated
rate,but also to convert another part into useful substances.
A previously mentioned example of this is urea,
which is converted through ammonia into glutamine.
Another consequence might be that substances
which should normally leave the body with the urine,
but have got stuck somewhere, now do so due to the accelerated flow.
For example, in the case of gout, the body disposes of urinary acid
embedded in the joints. The effects of flowing and cleansing are
particularly noticeable while one is fasting.
The first time one urinates while fasting, the urine is often thick and tastes
strong, especially if one has a fever or is otherwise sick.
However, after drinking this initial amount, the second flow of urine is
thinner,