 high -power
automobiles and flying -machines.
   Without nerve -energy the functions of the body cannot be
carried on properly. The present -day strenuousness causes
enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained
toxins bring o n Toxemia.

   Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold
and heat require the expenditure of nerve -energy to adjust
the body to the changes.

   After middle life, those who would keep well and live to
be old must have a care concerning keepi ng warm and
avoiding chilling of the body. They must let up on table
pleasures and practice self -restraint in all ways. Allowing
the feet to be cold for any length of time allowing the body
to chill when a top -coat would prevent —is using up nerve -
energy ve ry fast.
   Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy —
enervation.

   As no provision is made for the demand of an extra
supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very
necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and
build more.

     CONSERVATION OF ENERGY THE GREATEST
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE

   Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the
cause of the only disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is
heir, it is easy to see that the so -called science of medicine,
as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of
curing or ameliorating man’s sufferings. Every so -called
cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs
used to relieve pain end in making a gr eater pain, and
sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia
sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall -
bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form.

   Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put
nature in lin e for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind
are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy. Few
people in active life rest enough.

WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT
THE DISEASE

   Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is
not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue -waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged
with toxin, and this we call Toxemia —poison in the blood.
This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the
toleration -point, a cri sis takes place; which means that the
poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is
not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases
are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious
elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane.

   When the elimination takes place through the mucous
membrane of the nose, it is called a cold —catarrh of the
nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the
mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones
enlarge, closing the passage, e tc. At this stage hay -fever or
hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any
of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of
Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis,
bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is i n a name? All
are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at
the different points named, and are essentially of the same
character and evolving from the one cause namely,
Toxemia —crises of Toxemia.

   This description can be extended to every organ of the
body; for any organ that is enervated below the average
standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of
crises of Toxemia. The symptoms presented differ with
each organ affecte d; and that gives color to the belief that
every symptom -complex is a separate and distinct disease.
But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature
(naming disease) by the Philosophy of Toxemia, every
symptom -complex goes back to the one and only caus e of
all so -called diseases —namely, Toxemia.

   The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the
stomach) are very unlike the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh
of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused by crises of
Toxemia —both become the locations for the vicarious
elimination of toxin from the blood.

   It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily
illogical it is to treat catarrh of the nose as a local disease;
or, when crises are repeated until ulceration takes place,
and the mucou s membrane becomes so sensitive that dust
and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes —
symptoms called hay -fever—to treat these symptoms as a
distinct disease caused by pollen. Rest and total abstinence
from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all enervating
habits, will restore nerve -energy; the elimination of toxin
through the natural channels will take place, and full health
will return. This state will remain permanently if the erstwhile victim of hay -fever, or any other so -called
disease, will “stay put.”

   The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a
cold. When this elimination is continuous, with
exacerbation —toxin crises (fresh colds) —occasionally,
ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay -fever
develops. These are al l symptoms of toxin elimination. The
cause is the same from the first cold to hay -fever. The
catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims
of fresh colds (crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named
such in medical nomenclatures, and treated locally as
though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the
truth is that the victim of so -called chronic catarrh keeps his
system enervated by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of
all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive eating of butter and bread,
too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all foods, excess
of sensual pleasures, etc. ( See chapter on “Causes of
Enervation.”)

   Keeping the system enervated prevents the
reestablishment in full of elimination through the normal
excretory organs. The org anism, as time runs on, becomes
more tolerant of toxin, and the “catching -cold habit” shows
fewer (colds) crises of Toxemia. A greater number of the
mucous membranes are requisitioned to carry out vicarious elimination. The whole organism begins to show
deterioration. The so - called chronic diseases begin to
manifest. In catarrh of the stomach the mucous membrane
takes on thickening, hardening, ulceration, and cancer —all
described in the nomenclature of medical science as so
many distinctive diseases. But t hey are no more distinctive
than President Washington was distinct from the boy
George who cut down his father’s cherry tree. Cancer was
once the symptom -complex of a so -called cold; but,
according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, it is the end of
many crises  of Toxemia. As the crises continued,
symptoms changed, in accordance with the organic
degeneration caused by the crises of Toxemia.

   Every so -called disease has the same inception, evolution,
and maturity, differing only as the organic structure
involved differs.
   Treating the various symptom -complexes as distinct
entities is fully as scientific as salving the end of a dog’s
tail for its sore ear.

   All diseases are the same fundamentally.

   The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervat ion,
which checked elimination; and enervating habits of body  and mind are the primary causes of lost resistance
enervation.

   Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic
crisis. The crises are repeated until organic changes take
place. The  chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to
Bright’s disease, tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, ataxia, and
other so -called diseases; all, from beginning to end,
symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia.

 Enervation Is General

   EVERYBODY was surprised at the large percentage of
our young manhood plucked by the medical examining
boards during the World War. To that surprise, add the one
which the Philosophy of Toxemia adds, and thinking
people should he appalled.

   The exami ning boards passed all young men who did not
show a developed pathology; which meant all who did not
show some change of organ or tissue —structural change.

   When it is known that functional derangements precede
structural changes by months and even yea rs, it should be
quite obvious that there were more young men passed by
the boards who were


vent any ejaculation; the pressure can be applied while the jade
stalk is still inserted or after it is withdrawn. Only a virtuoso in
orgasmic brinkmanship can dispense with such measures as press
ing the hui-yin acupoint or the Tantric-inspired squeezing of the
frenulum or base of the stalk (recommended by Masters and
Johnson).
When you first begin to practice your self-control during in
tercourse, inform your partner. Otherwise, your huffing and
puffing and other intense efforts n1ight be n1istakcn as signs of
apoplexy or heart attack. Your partner n1ay bccon1e frantic or apo
plectic herself; she n1ay try to help with 1nouth-to-n1outh resusci
tation, which is delightful, or she 1nay call for help, which could
be embarrassing. I)uring the early stages of brinkn1anship, sym
pathetic cooperation fron1 your partner is helpful to you both. O�'!tHmi c Hrinkr nmrsl ril' mrd Multi plt' o:�
Son1c advice tor won1cn is in order here. Your partner's per
tornlancc during the initial stages of hrinknunship tnay he frus
trating; patienn.· is your hl'St n·action. If you arc Sl'Xually gn·edy,
unsytnpathctic, or contl'tnptuous toward your partner's fum
bling. you nuy shatter his self-control. That will k·ad to prenu
turc t:jaculation or, \Vorse, tl'tnporary in1potence. Keep in n1ind
that once he has practiced sutliciently, your partner will have tu
tored his autonotnic nervous systen1 to withstand n1uch of your
passionate writhings and wrigglings. Soon he will be bringing
you to new orgastnic heights.
As ml·ntioncd earlier, even though for n1ost n1cn they take
place sinntltancously. n1ale orgasn1 and ejaculation arc not the
same. The ancient technique of orgastnic brinktnanship enables a
n1an to separate his orgasn1 fron1 his ejaculation. He can keep
himself so ncar the brink that he experiences a series of smaller,
diffuse orgasms-quite similar to those women have-without
t:iaculation. And multiple orgasms without emission n1ean that
he can have sex much more often than if he ejaculated every time,
and that in a single session he can prolong pleasure, in himself and
his partner, until either or both reach an explosive orgasm.
More ambitious couples who have discovered what a magic
wand the nonemitting phallus is can practice advanced lovemak
ing. Sophisticated lovemaking depends partly on the choice of
positions, and even more so on the coital dynamics.
CoiTAL Posi TIONS
The earliest known systematically listed configurations for sexual
intercourse-the Arcane Maid's Nine Positions and the Mystic
Master of the Grotto's Thirty-subsequently made their way
from China to India and Japan in the East, and then to the West.
Today one can count more than a hundred positions, a tally star
tling to tnost Westerners. These positions range from the mun
dane to the exotic, from the sensible to the ridiculous, and they
often have been overemphasized. Many "exotic" positions arc
merely variations of basic ones, with slight changes in the place
ment of lin1bs or in the slope of bodies. Quite a few positions are
more interesting in concept than in sensation. Others arc exclu
sively for acrobats and contortion ists. Because they arc titillating
.219 and lend themselves to graphic description, sexual positions are a
rich source for artists and writers in sexology, pornography, and
erotica. Unsophisticated lovers consider attention to coital posi
tion the pinnacle of sexual sophistication. In reality, love-play and
coital dynamics are far more significant.
Yet finding the right position is important, especially in cases
of difference in size or in other circumstances of possible incom
patibility. Some positions affect considerably the depth and angle
of penetration, ease of movement. and thus the resulting sensa
tions. Most positions may be grouped into the following catego
ries: face to face, side by side, riding, sitting, rear entry, standing,
and whimsical. (See chapter 8 for the positions suggested by the
Arcane Maid and the Mystic Master; some are referred to below
for com paris on.)
Face to Face
In the basic face-to-face position, the so-called missionary posi
tion, the woman lies on her back with her legs slightly parted, and
the man lies on top of her, supporting himself partly with his
hands. (The same position is used for the Arcane Maid's Somer
saulting Dragons and the Mystic Master's Swifts Sharing a Heart.)
The advantages here are that the man and woman can kiss and em
brace, converse and make eye contact, and watch one another's ex
pressions. The disadvantages are that penetration is shallow, and
genital pressure and stin1ulation only moderate.
Things can be made n1ore interesting, however, if the won1an's
pelvic angle and the placcrnent of her legs arc tnodified. A sntall
cushion or pillow under her lumbar region changes the angle of
her n1oon grotto passage, and thereby pennits easier and slightly
deeper penetration. Sirnilar results obtain if she reclines with her
sacrurn on thl' edge o f the bed, her thighs spread, and her legs
sloping down to the floor. If her partner leans forward between
her thighs, his jade stalk can indirl'Ctly stirnulate her clitoris. At
this angle his glans touches thl · back wall of thl· grotto, which is
not rich in nerVl'S. This position docs not pennit very deep pcn
l'tration. Thl· ancil·nt Chinese used it often on wedding nights, as
i� rninirnized the pain of virgin brides.
Deeper penl'tration and greater stirnulation result if the woman
lil·s on her back, spreads her thighs wide and bends her knees, as 0�\!t�.ouic Brirr kma mlrip and Attu ltiple o:�
she would for a gynecolo gical examination (compare Kingfishers
Uniting). A different sensation is achieved if she raises her bent
knees to touch her bosom (as in Wrestling Apes or Mounting Tor
toises), or touches one knee to her bosom while extending one leg
(as in Dragons Twisting).
The woman's wrapping her legs around her partner's waist or
hips (compare Silkworms Entangling) permits deeper penetra
tion but limits movement. In this position, novel stimulation can
be created if either or both partners contract their pubococcygeus
muscles.
The woman can vary her position further: she can raise her
legs vertically into the air, hold her feet with her hands, or rest
them on her partner's arms (as in Roc Soaring over Dark Sea), or
place one leg on his shoulder and stick the other leg high into the
air (as in Horse Shaking Its Hoof). The Mystic Master's Wild
Horses Leaping, in which the woman puts her feet on the man's
shoulders, is an extremely popular variant in China. The position
tightens even a roomy grotto. When penetration is shallow and if
the angle is right, the sensitive grotto front wall, where the G spot J-.(·t't-orl-.s ll(llll d crs
'.,.
-
221 is situated, can be stimulated effectively. When penetration is at
its deepest, the glans of the jade stalk can stimulate the flower
heart and give extraordinary pleasure to the woman. This posi
tion is good for couples aiming at conception. The man must ex
ercise care not to injure his partner in the heat of passion. A man
with a long organ should not try it.
Side by Side
The lateral positions are for languid or lazy couples. In one ver
sion, the woman lies half on her side and half on her back, and
draws up the leg on whic h she lies; the man faces her (compar e
Fish Eye-to-Eye). Penetration is shallow, and movement and sen
sations are limited. In another version, the man faces the woman's
back while she bends her legs a little and sticks out her buttocks
(as in Mandarin Ducks Joining). This is doing it in the "spoon"
fashion, or as the French say, a Ia paresseuse, the lazy way. Again,
penetration is not deep, unless the man has a long stalk. This posi
tion is good if the woman is pregnant, or if the couple has chil
dren sleeping in the same room,


define the separate self or ego. In fact, the ego is not an entity  that seeks and
resists; it is the very activity  of seeking and resisting. Seeking and resisting are
not what the separate self does; they are what the separate self is. They are the
activity that inevitably attends the belief that we are a temporary, finite self.

T o better understand this, consider the analogy of a rubber ball. In its natural
condition, a rubber ball is in a state of equilibrium. If the ball is compressed,
its natural state of equilibrium is disturbed and a tension is set up within it.
92who is it that suffers?
We could say that the ‘memory’ of the ball’s natural state exerts a force on the
compressed ball, whose purpose is to restore its original condition.
     Likewise, being an apparent contraction of inherently peaceful and un -
conditionally fulfilled awareness, the separate self or ego is always in a state
of tension. This state of tension is, by definition, always seeking to return to
its natural condition of equanimity, openness and fulfilment.
     Whether it does so by seeking objects, substances, activities, circumstances
and relationships, or whether it is engaged in the same search via religious
or spiritual means, it is, without knowing it, responding to the gravitational
pull of happiness within its own being.
     Little do we realise that it is not our self who is seeking happiness; it is
happiness that is seeking our self. As Daniel Ladinsky interprets the Sufi poet
Hafez, ‘Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through
the streets trying to find you’. * After all, the separate self is an illusion, and
an illusion cannot do anything, let alone seek happiness.
     What is considered from the illusory perspective of a separate self to be
its search for happiness in the future is, in fact, the gravitational pull that
awareness exerts on its own contracted form in an attempt to restore its natu -
ral, ever-present state of equilibrium, that is, its innate peace and happiness.
We are the happiness we seek.
     In the religious traditions, the gravitational pull that our own being exerts
on its own apparently contracted, limited form is referred to as grace.
As such, grace is not a special moment that is conferred upon us by some
external deity. It is the continuous attraction of our deepest self, inviting us
to return home to the peace of our being.

All psychological suffering is an extension of the two primary activities of seek -
ing and resistance, which are, in turn, the outcome of the belief in being a
temporary, finite, separate self. Suffering is, as such, the inevitable consequence
of the overlooking or forgetting of our true nature, whose nature is happiness.
     Happiness is the nature of awareness; suffering is the activity of the ego.
     Seeking and resisting are the defining characteristics of the separate self
or ego, and therefore the ego is always trying to escape from its current
93* Daniel Ladinsky, ‘Several Times in the Last Week’, I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz
(Penguin Books, 2006 ). you are the happiness you seek
experience into the past or future. Thus, the ego considers the now to be the
cause of its suffering. Therefore, it is always trying to avoid it.
     The ego is at war with the now. It is always seeking to replace or resist it.
Seeking propels the ego into the future; resistance drags it into the past.
It is for this reason that those in whom the activity of ego is very strong tend
to live either in the future, in anxiety, restlessness or worry, or in the past,
in regret, disappointment, resentment and nostalgia.
     Of course, the ego (if we may continue to refer to it as an entity) does
not realise that the peace and happiness for which it longs is its very nature
and can only be found in the now, in the depths of itself. Ironically, it per -
petually escapes from the now, the only place where peace and happiness can
be found, into the past or future, the only place where suffering dwells.
     In fact, the vast majority of our thoughts about the past and future arise
solely to accommodate the separate self and its inherent rejection of the now.
Meanwhile, the ego remains unaware that its search for peace and happiness
is, in fact, inspired by the intuition of its own unlimited and ever-present
nature.

the vanishing of the illusion

I understand that the sense of separation is an illusion. However, it is such a strong
feeling, and it seems almost impossible to get rid of it.

Any attempt to get rid of the separate self is predicated on the belief that it
exists as such to begin with. Therefore, in the ultimate analysis, such efforts
substantiate  its apparent existence. The separate self perpetuates itself by try -
ing to get rid of itself.
     T rying to get rid of the separate self or ego is like trying to get rid of the
snake that we believe is coiled up in the corner of the garage. Nothing we
do to the apparent snake will get rid of it, because it is not there to begin
with. The snake is simply a mistaken perception of the rope that can only
persist as long as the rope is not clearly seen. The ego is like the snake; it is
a mistaken perception of our true self, the unlimited presence of awareness.
     Just as the snake is an illusion whose seeming existence disappears as soon
as we see its reality, the rope, so the separate self or ego is an illusion which
vanishes as soon as we see its reality, unlimited awareness.
94who is it that suffers?
     Just as the aware space of the room is the same space as the aware space
of the universe, just as the self of King Lear is the same self as the self of John
Smith, so the ‘I’ of the ego is the same ‘I’ as the infinite ‘I’ of awareness, the
only ‘I’ there is.
     All our thoughts, feelings, activities and relationships are pervaded by the
sense of ‘being myself’ or the sense of ‘I’. In other words, each of us bears
the memory of our true nature within us all the time. It shines in us as ‘I’.
     All that is necessary is to discern that ‘I’ clearly. That is, all that is necess -
ary is for our self to know  itself  clearly, before it is coloured, qualified or
limited by any experience.
     This is what Ramana Maharshi meant when he said, ‘When the “I” is di -
vested of the “I”, only “I” remains’. That is, when the ‘I’ of the apparent ego
is divested of all the beliefs and feelings with which it has clothed itself, the
true and only ‘I’ of inherently peaceful and unconditionally fulfilled aware -
ness shines by itself.
     So it is not necessary to have any agenda with the content of experience,
and even less with the apparent ego itself. It is only necessary to discern the
‘I’ that shines brightly in the midst of all experience, and our innate happi -
ness will be restored.

*     *     *

You mentioned once that we don’t really age, but I certainly feel that I am getting
older every day.

Ageing is a concept, never an experience.

It’s a powerful concept!

No concept is powerful. Concepts are neutral; beliefs are powerful.

I don’t just believe I’m ageing; I feel it.

What exactly do you feel is ageing?

My body!
95you are the happiness you seek
All we experience of the body is a flow of sensations and perceptions appear -
ing in awareness. Even to say we experience a flow of sensations and percep -
tions is a concession to the mind. At any moment, there is just the current
sensation and perception.
     How old is the current sensation or perception? T wenty-seven, fifty-two,
sixty-eight years old? No! The current sensation and perception are just ap -
pearing brand new, fresh, now – not now, a moment in time, but now, the
ever-present, bright, luminous, pristine awareness in which all experience
arises and out of which all experience is made.
     Even to refer to sensations and perceptions appearing in awareness is
a concession. We do not experience sensations and perceptions appearing
in awareness. There is just awareness and its own activity: awareness modu -
lating itself in the forms of sensing and perceiving but never ceasing to be
itself, nor becoming or knowing anything other than itself. As such, sensa -
tions and perceptions are not like fish appearing in the ocean; they are like
waves and currents, movements of the water within itself.
     Awareness knows nothing of time or ageing. The ideal of eternal youth has
been downgraded by our culture to imply a body that looks perpetually young.
T o be eternally youthful means to know and feel oneself as ageless awareness.

But I experience time.

Awareness only knows now; the mind imagines time.
     Experience conforms to our understanding of ourself. If we believe and
feel that we are essentially a body, then we will believe that we are ageing
and we will experience the body in a way that is consistent with that belief.
     If we understand and feel ourself to be


	report.
As	I	began	to	work	with	the	AICR,	two	challenges	simultaneously	arose.
First,	the	AICR	needed	to	get	established	as	a	credible	organization	to
promote	the	message	and	to	support	research.	Second,	the	NAS
recommendations	needed	to	be	publicized.	Therefore,	I	thought	it	made	sense
for	the	AICR	to	help	publicize	the	NAS	recommendations.	Dr.	Sushma
Palmer,	executive	director	of	the	NAS	project,
4
	and	Harvard	professor	Mark
Hegsted,	who	was	the	key	advisor	to	the	McGovern	Committee,	agreed	to
join	me	in	endorsing	this	AICR	project.	Simultaneously,	the	AICR	president,
Marilyn	Gentry,	suggested	that	the	AICR	could	publish	the	NAS	report	and
send	free	copies	to	50,000	physicians	in	the	U.S.	These	projects,	which
seemed	to	me	to	be	logical,	useful	and	socially	responsible,	were	also	highly
successful.	The	associations	we	were	making	and	the	exposure	we	were
generating	were	aimed	at	increasing	the	public’s	health.	As	I	was	quick	to
find	out,	however,	creating	an	organization	focused	on	diet	as	a	central	link	in
cancer	causation	was	seen	as	a	threat	to	a	great	many	people.	It	was	clear	that
the	AICR’s	projects	were	beginning	to	hit	the	mark	because	of	the	hostile
feedback	coming	from	the	food,	medical	and	drug	industries.	It	seemed	that
every	effort	was	being	made	to	discredit	them.
I	was	surprised	that	government	interference	was	particularly	harsh.National	and	state	attorney	general	offices	questioned	the	AICR’s	status	and
its	fund-raising	procedures.	The	U.S.	Post	Office	joined	in	the	fray,
questioning	whether	the	AICR	could	use	the	mail	to	spread	“junk”
information.	We	all	had	our	suspicions	as	to	who	were	encouraging	these
government	offices	to	quash	the	dissemination	of	this	diet	and	cancer
information.	Collectively,	these	public	agencies	were	making	life	very
difficult.	Why	were	they	attacking	a	nonprofit	organization	promoting
cancer
research?	It	all	came	down	to	the	fact	that	the	AICR,	like	the	NAS,	was
pushing	an	agenda	that	connected	diet	and	cancer.
The	American	Cancer	Society	became	an	especially	vigorous	detractor.	In
its	eyes,	the	AICR	had	two	strikes	against	it:	it	might	compete	for	the	same
funding	donors,	and	it	was	trying	to	shift	the	cancer	discussion	toward	diet.
The	American	Cancer	Society	had	not	yet	acknowledged	that	diet	and
nutrition	were	connected	to	cancer.	(It	wasn’t	until	many	years	later	in	the
early	1990s	that	it	developed	dietary	recommendations	to	control	cancer	when
the	idea	was	receiving	considerable	currency	with	the	public.)	It	was	very
much	a	medically-based	organization	invested	in	the	conventional	use	of
drugs,	radiation	and	surgery.	A	short	while	before,	the	American	Cancer
Society	had	contacted	our	NAS	committee	about	the	possibility	of	our	joining
them	to	produce	dietary	recommendations	to	prevent	cancer.	As	a	committee,
we	declined,	although	a	couple	of	the	people	on	our	committee	did	offer	their
individual	services.	The	American	Cancer	Society	seemed	to	sense	a	big	story
on	the	horizon	and	didn’t	like	the	idea	that	another	organization,	the	AICR,
might	get	the	credit.MISINFORMATION
It	may	seem	that	I	am	coming	down	a	tad	harshly	on	an	organization	that
most	people	regard	as	purely	benevolent,	but	the	American	Cancer	Society
acted	differently	behind	the	scenes	than	it	did	in	public.
On	one	occasion,	I	traveled	to	an	upstate	New	York	town	where	I	had	been
invited	to	give	a	lecture	to	the	local	chapter	of	the	American	Cancer	Society,
as	I	had	done	elsewhere.	During	my	lecture,	I	showed	a	slide	that	made
reference	to	the	new	AICR	organization.	I	did	not	mention	my	personal
association,	so	the	audience	was	not	aware	that	I	was	their	senior	science
advisor.
After	the	lecture,	I	took	questions	and	my	host	asked	me,	“Do	you	know
that	AICR	is	an	organization	of	quacks?”
“No,”	I	said,	“I	don’t.”	I’m	afraid	I	didn’t	do	such	a	good	job	of	hiding	my
skepticism	of	her	comment,	because	she	felt	obliged	to	explain,	“That
organization	is	being	run	by	a	group	of	quacks	and	discredited	doctors.	Some
of	them	have	even	served	time	in	prison.”
Prison	time?	This	was	news	to	me!
Again,	without	revealing	my	association	with	the	AICR,	I	asked,	“How	do
you	know	that?”	She	said	she	saw	a	memo	that	had	been	circulated	to	local
American	Cancer	Society	offices	around	the	country.
Before	leaving,	I
arranged	for	her	to	send	me	a	copy	of	the	memo	she	was	referring	to,	and,	in	a
day	or	so,	she	did.
The	memo	had	been	sent	from	the	office	of	the	national	president	of	the
American	Cancer	Society,	who	also	was	a	senior	executive	of	the	prestigious
Roswell	Park	Memorial	Institute	for	Cancer	Research	in	Buffalo.	This	memo
alleged	that	the	scientific	“chair”	of	the	organization,	without	naming	me,	was
heading	up	a	group	of	“eight	or	nine”	discredited	physicians,	several	of	whom
had	spent	time	in	prison.	It	was	total	fabrication.	I	didn’t	even	recognize	the
names	of	these	discredited	physicians	and	had	no	idea	how	something	so
vicious	could	have	gotten	started.
After	snooping	around	a	little	more,	I	discovered	the	person	in	the
American	Cancer	Society	office	in	Buffalo	who	was	responsible	for	the
memo.	I	phoned	him.	Not	surprisingly,	he	was	evasive	and	only	said	that	he
had	gotten	this	information	from	an	unnamed	reporter.	It	was	impossible	to
trace	the	original	source.	The	one	thing	I	do	know	for	sure	was	that	this	memo
was	distributed	by	the	office	of	the	American	Cancer	Society’s	president.
I	also	learned	that	the	National	Dairy	Council,	a	powerful	industry
lobbying	group,	had	obtained	a	copy	of	the	same	memo	and	proceeded	to
distribute	a	notice	of	its	own	to	its	local	offices	around	the	country.	The	smearcampaign	against	the	AICR	was	widespread.	The	food,	pharmaceutical	and
medical	industries	through	and/or	parallel	to	the	American	Cancer	Society
and	the	National	Dairy	Council	were	showing	their	true	colors.	Prevention	of
cancer	with	low-cost,	low-profit	plant	foods	was	not	welcomed	by	the	food
and	pharmaco-medical	industries.	With	support	from	a	trusting	media,	their
combined	power	to	influence	the	public	was	overwhelming.PERSONAL	CONSEQUENCES
The	ending	of	this	story,	however,	is	a	happy	one.	Although	the	AICR’s	first
couple	of	years	were	turbulent	and	difficult	for	me	both	personally	and
professionally,	the	smear	campaigns	finally	started	to	wane.	No	longer
considered	“on	the	fringe,”	the	AICR	has	now	expanded	to	England	(the
World	Cancer	Research	Fund,	WCRF


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abilities experience suf fering when those attributes begin to fade and
disappear, as of course they will. Their very identity that was based on
them is then threatened with collapse. In either case, ugly or beautiful,
people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or
positive, from their body. T o be more precise, they derive their identity
from the I?thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or
concept of their body, which after all is no more than a physical form
that shares the destiny of all forms? impermanence and ultimately decay.
Equating the physical sense?perceived body that is destined to grow old,
wither, and die with I always leads to suf fering sooner or later. T o refrain
from identifying with the body doesn't mean that you neglect, despise, or
no longer care for it. If it is strong, beautiful, or vigorous, you can enjoy
and appreciate those attributes while they last. Y ou can also improve the
body's condition through right nutrition and exercise. If you don't' equate
the body with who you are, when beauty fades, vigor diminishes, or the
body becomes incapacitated, this will not af fect your sense of worth or
identity in any way. In fact, as the body begins to weaken, the formless
dimension, the light of consciousness, can shine more easily through the
fading form.
It is not just people with good or near?perfect bodies who are likely to
equate it with who they are. Y ou can just as easily identify with a
problematic body and make the body's imperfection, illness, or disability
in to your identity. Y ou may then think and speak of yourself as a
suf ferer of this or that chronic illness or disability. Y ou receive a great
deal of attention from doctors and others who constantly confirm to you
your conceptual identity as a suf ferer or a patient. Y ou then
unconsciously cling to the illness because it has become the most
important part of who you perceive yourself to be. It has become another
thought form with which the ego can identify. Once the ego has found an
identity, it does not want to let go. Amazingly but not infrequently, the
ego in search of a stronger identity and can and does create illnesses in
order to strengthen itself through them.A New Earth
F E E L I N G  T H E  I N N E R  B O D Y
Although body?identification is one of the most basic forms of ego, the
good news is that it is also the one that you can most easily go beyond.
This is done not by trying to convince yourself that you are not your
body,
but by shifting your attention from the external form of your body and
from thoughts about your body beautiful, ugly, strong, weak, too fat, too
thin to the feeling of aliveness inside it. No matter what your body's
appearance is on the outer level, beyond the outer form it is an intensely
alive ener gy field.
If you are not familiar with inner body awareness, close your eyes for a
moment and find out if there is life inside your hands. Don't ask your
mind. It will say, I can't feel anything. Probably it will also say, Give me
something more interesting to think about. So instead of asking your
mind, go to the hands directly. By this I mean become aware of the
subtle feeling of aliveness inside them. It is there. Y ou just have to go
there with your attention to notice it. you may get a slight tingling
sensation at first, then a feeling of ener gy or aliveness. If you hold your
attention in your hands for a while, the sense of aliveness will intensify.
Some people won't even have to close their eyes. They will be able to
feel their inner hands at the same times as they read this. Then go to your
feet, keep your attention there for a minute or so, and begin to feel your
hands and feet at the same time. Then incorporate other parts of the body
legs, arms, abdomen, chest, and so on into that feeling until you are
aware of the inner body as a global sense of aliveness.
What I call the inner body isn't really the body anymore but life ener gy,
the bridge between form and formlessness. Make it a habit to feel the
inner body as often as you can. After a while, you won't need to close
your eyes anymore to feel it. For example, see if you can feel the inner
body whenever you listen to someone. It almost seems like a paradox:
When you are in touch with the inner body, you are not identified withyour body anymore, nor are you identified with your mind. This is to say,
you are no longer identified with form but moving away from form?
identification toward formlessness, which we may also call Being. It is
your essence identity. Body awareness not only anchors you in the
present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also
strengthens the immune system and the body's ability to heal itself.A New Earth
F O R G E T F U L N E S S  O F  B E I N G
Ego is always identification with form, seeking yourself and thereby
losing yourself in some form. Forms are not just material objects and
physical bodies. More fundamental than the external forms things and
bodies are the thought forms that continuously arise in the field of
consciousness. They are ener gy formations, finer and less dense than
physical matter, but they are forms nonetheless. What you may be aware
of as a voice in your head the at never stops speaking is the stream of
incessant and compulsive thinking. When every thought absorbs your
attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your
head and the motions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every
thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and
therefore in the grip of ego.. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring
thought forms and conditioned mental?emotional patterns that are
invested with a sense of I, a sense of self. Ego arises when your sense of
Beingness, of I Am, which is formless consciousness, gets mixed up with
form. This is the meaning of identification. This is for getfulness of
Being, the primary error, the illusion of absolute separateness that turns
reality into a nightmare.A New Earth
F R O M  D E S C A R T E S'S  E R R O R  T O
S A R T R E'S  I N S I G H T
The seventeenth?century philosopher Descartes, regarded as the founder
of modern philosophy, gave expression to this primary error with his
famous dictum (which he saw as primary truth): I think, therefore I am.
This was the answer he found to the question Is there anything I can
know with absolute certainty? He realized that the fact that he was
always thinking was beyond doubt, and so he equated thinking with
Being, that is to say, identity I am with thinking. Instead of the ultimate
truth, he had found the root of the ego, but he didn't know that.
It took almost three hundred years before another famous philosopher
saw something in that statement that Descartes, as well as everybody
else, had overlooked. His name was Jean?Paul Sartre. He looked at
Descartes's statement I think, therefore I am very deeply and suddenly
realized, in his own words, The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the
consciousness that thinks. What did he mean by that? When you are
aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a
dif ferent dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says I
am. If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know
you are thinking. Y ou would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is
dreaming. Y ou would be as
identified with every thought as the dreamer is with every image in the
dream. Many people still live like that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old
dysfunctional mind?sets that continuously re?create the same
nightmarish reality. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake
within the dream. Another dimension of consciousness has come in.
The implication of Sartre's insight is profound, but he himself was still
too identified with thinking to realize the full significance of what he had
discovered: an emer ging new dimension of consciousness.A New Earth
T H E  P E A C E  T H A T  P A S S E S  A L L
U N D E R S T A N D I N G
There are many accounts of people who experienced that emer ging new
dimension of consciousness as a result of tragic loss at some point in
their lives. Some lost all of their possessions, others their children or
spouse, their social position, reputation, or physical abilities. In some
cases, through disaster or war, they lost all of these simultaneously and
found themselves with nothing. W e may call this a limit?situation.
Whatever they had identified with, whatever gave them their sense of
self, had been taken away. Then suddenly and inexplicably, the anguish
or intense fear they initially felt gave way to a scared sense of Presence,
a deep peace and serenity and complete freedom from fear. This
phenomenon


 placed
human teeth in the cola solution. Within three hours, measure-
able quantities of calcium had been dissolved from the teeth, and
within two weeks, the teeth were practically decalcified. Later
experiments conducted at the laboratory of Consumer's Reports,
confirmed the acidity of soft drinks, particularly those of the cola
variety. More recently Carey D. Miller tested the many carbo-
nated and non-carbonated synthetic beverages upon the teeth of
129 rats. The results again showed that dental erosion followed
ingestion of the beverages; indeed, even the non-carbonated
drinks of relatively low acid content produced some destruction
of tooth enamel. 4
We need not speak of substitutes for soft drinks, for it is the
soft drinks which are substitutes for real foods. And they are a
very poor substitute indeed. Not only are the real foods incom-
parably more nutritious than soft drinks; they are more flavorful
as well. Who would not select fresh strawberry juice before arti-
ficial strawberry beverage, or genuine cherry juice before artificial
cherry beverage, or any one of dozens of other freshly-extracted
fruit juices before inferior imitations? If we were obtaining spe-
cial flavors in soft drinks that we could not possibly duplicate or
improve in natural beverages, we might have some excuse for
their use. But we are gaining nothing and losing everything in
our selection of soft drinks. And on the other hand, we have
everything to gain and nothing to lose by our selection of natural
beverages. XIV Drinking Water
E VEN SO COMMON A DRINK AS O'RDINARY
water often undergoes so much treatment with chemicals that it
can have toxic effects. Due to the unnecessary and careless dis-
posal of industrial and sewage waste products into rivers, the
danger of polluted drinking water is believed to necessitate the
use of caustic chemicals to destroy such micro-organisms as may
be present. Nearly all city water is chemicalized water. It may
provide a limited degree of bacteriological purity, but is com-
pletely lacking in chemical purity. As an example of the chemi-
cals which go into the water supply of the average city, the
following figures cover the addition of chemicals to the drinking
water of Columbus, Ohio each year: 8,000 tons of lime, 3,000
tons of soda ash, 1,200 tons of sulphuric acid, 500 tons of alumi-
num ore, 500 tons of coke, and 8 tons of liquid chlorine. Iodine
has also been added to the drinking water of cities. The addition
of sodium fluoride to water is a more recent practice, and by the
end of 1957, more than 15,000 communities with a total popu-
lation exceeding 32,000,000 had already accepted fluoridation.
It has long been known that many of the chemicals added to
water have toxic effects when used in adequate amounts. Some
are fatal poisons when used in their pure, undiluted state. When
used in great dilution, as in drinking water, there are no severe
reactions of immediate poisoning, though there may be cumula-
tive effects of poisoning over a period of time. Medical journals
record many cases of allergies, asthma, hives, and other adverse
reactions which were traced to the use of chlorinated water. DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS DRINKING WATER
Fluoridation is the most dangerous of all methods of treating
water. Sodium fluoride is one of the most poisonous of all chemi-
cal compounds. It is widely employed as the active ingredient in
commercial rat poisons and moth control preparations. When
given in small traces to rats and mice, it slows the animals7 mental
reactions to a considerable degree. When cattle are exposed to
fluoride fumes from industrial plants they suffer from fluorisis, or
fluoride poisoning. The bones of the cattle become enlarged and
more fragile, and the normal bone tissue is replaced by softer
material.
With humans, a mild form of fluorisis occurs in those locali-
ties where the drinking water contains more than two parts per
million of fluorine. The teeth of the people who drink this water
become stained and mottled, the color ranging from a light yel-
low to a dark brown. In addition, they occasionally become trans-
lucent and, in some cases, pitted. Some of the teeth age more
rapidly than normal, as is indicated by the narrowing of root
canals and enlargement of the roots. 1n severe cases of fluorine
poisoning, the entire body may be affected, with retarded ossifi-
cation and the transparency and softening of certain bones, de-
pressed appetite, diuresis, anorexia, estrual disturbances, and loss
of weight.
Sodium fluoride is added to the water supply of cities in
amounts of one part per million. This trace amount is sufficient
to cause a limited reduction in dental decay, and the ill-effects
are so mild as to be scarcely noticed during the first years of
fluoridation. But this does not mean that no damage occurs on
a long-range basis. Slight mottling of the teeth, together with
increases in some diseases, have already been reported in a number
of cases. It has also been noted that, whereas fluoridation increases
resistance to dental decay, the teeth are lost more rapidly than
normal. Gingivitis appears to become more pronounced. In
short, the fluoridation of water may do considerable harm in
exchange for very slight benefit.
If additional fluorine is needed, this is best obtained from
natural foods. The toxic tolerance point of fluorine in food is many times as high - possibly hundreds of times as high - as
that of the pure sodium fluoride added to drinking water. Wheat
has been examined which contained 400 parts per million of
I fluorine. Buckwheat grown on treated soils in Arizona contained
I as much as 9,900 parts per million of fluorine. And such foods
have been satisfactorily used in animal and human nutrition. It
is thus obvious that fluorine is best secured from natural food
sources; attempting to obtain this chemical from our water
supply is both relatively ineffective and dangerous.
The best water for human consumption is tested well water
and spring water. This may be substituted for highly chemical-
ized water. Bottled spring water is readily available in some com-
munities at moderate cost, and it is a safe and sensible solution
to the water problem in large urban centers. Distilled water may
also be used, but it is less palatable than spring water and can-
not be given first preference. With pure spring water, you will
find advantages in flavor as well as health.
I CONFECTIONS
some three billion pounds of candy.-Basic ingredients in the
candy included over a billion pounds of refined sugar, over seven
hundred million pounds of refined corn syrup and corn starch,
and over four hundred million pounds of chocolate. Additional
ingredients included chemical preservatives, anti-oxidants, stabi-
lizers, thickeners, buffers, acids, and synthetic coloring and flavor-
ing extracts. Wholesome ingredients, such as fruits, nuts, and
dairy products, were used in very small amounts. All ingredients
were thoroughly heat-processed during manufacture of the candy.
Glucose is a common form of refined sugar found in candy.
It possesses little sweetness and is used chiefly as a "filler" to
increase the weight and body of the candy. Glucose is absorbed
more rapidly by the blood than any other form of sugar; four
ounces of glucose, for instance, will be found in the blood within
fifteen minutes after it is consumed. This rapid absorption is
actually a serious disadvantage, for it overworks the pancreas,
which must rapidly secrete large quantities of insulin to handle
the "shock" dosage of sugar. In experimental animals, glucose
tends to cause diabetes and it may do likewise in man. The
presence of this sugar in candy renders the food much less suitable
for human use.
The Food'and Drug Administration has no standards for candy
ingredients, and the individual manufacturers are free to treat,
their products with chemical additives as they see fit. Titanium
dioxide is put into some candy to give it a white pigment. This
chemical is also used to make artificial leather, linoleum, lacquer,
rubber plastics, shoe cream, and the white pigment in paint.
Acetaldehyde, a flammable liquid known to be irritating to mu- cous membranes and to cause death in large doses, is used to
flavor some candies. Esters, used industrially to make paints and
varnishes, are additional flavoring agents. Ethers, normally used
in making matches, dyes, and photographic films, are also used
to flavor candy. They are believed to be a cause of some respira-
tory ailments and are considered harmful to the kidneys. To keep
candy from getting brittle, manufacturers use a group of chemi-
cals known as humecants. These include mannitol, otherwise
used in the manufacture of dry electrolytic condensers; propylene
glycol, otherwise used as a disinfectant, and sorbitol, otherwise
used in anti-freeze mixtures. Candy may be preserved with either
of two well known poisons, sodium benzoate or sulphur dioxide.
Sodium benzoate is used in


en arians become centenarians? Why are they so
lucky? Is it because they have low cholesterol, exercise a lot, live a healthy, clean life?

Well the longest recorded known person who has ever lived, Jean Calumet of France who died last year at 122 years, smoked
all of her life and drank.

What they are finding on these major centenarian studies is that there is hardly anything in common among them. They have
high cholesterol and low cholesterol, some exercise and some don't, some smoke, some don't. Some ar e nasty as can be and
some nice and calm and nice. Some are ornery, but they all low sugar, relatively for their age. They all have low triglycerid es for
their age.

And they all have relatively low insulin. Insulin is the common denominator in everything I've just talked about. They way to treat
cardiovascular disease and the way I treated my stepfather, the way I treated the high risk cancer patient, and osteoporosis,
high blood pressure, the way to treat virtually all the so -called chronic diseases of ag ing is to treat insulin itself.
"Life span is strictly a variable depending on the environment.... We know now that the variability in life
span is regulated by insulin."

The other major avenue of research in aging has to do with genetic studies of so-called lower organisms. We know the
genetics involved. We've got the entire genes mapped out of several species now, of yeast and worms. We think of life span as
being fixed, sort of.

Humans kind of have an average life span of seventy -six, and the max imum life -span was this French lady at one -hundred and
twenty -two. In humans we feel it is relatively fixed, but in lower forms of life it is very plastic. Life span is strictly a variabl e
depending on the environment. They can live two weeks, two years, o r sometimes twenty years depending on what they want
themselves to do, which depends very much on the environment.

If there is a lot of food around they are going to reproduce quickly and die quickly, if not they will just bide their time u ntil
conditions  are better. We know now that the variability in life span is regulated by insulin.

..... If there is a single marker for lifespan, as they are finding in the centenarian studies, it is insulin, specifically, insulin
sensitivity.

How sensitive are your c ells to insulin. When they are not sensitive, the insulin levels go up. Who has heard of the term insulin
resistance?
"We know now that aging is a disease..... all the so -called chronic diseases of aging are symptoms."

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.
We know now that aging is a disease. The other case studies that I mentioned, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity,
diabetes, cancer, all the so -called chronic dis eases of aging, auto -immune diseases, those are symptoms.

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...... Now, the medical profession is continuously segregating more and more symptoms into diseases, they call the symptoms
diseases..... It is the same thing with cholesterol.
If you have high cholesterol it is called hypercholesterolemia. Hypercholesterolemia has become the code for the disease when
it is only the symptom. So they treat that symptom and what are they doing to the heart? Messing it up.
"... the problem is that medicine really isn't a science, it is a business"

So what you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is you need to get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulli ng a
dandelion out by it's leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we don't know what the root is, or w e
haven't.

They know what it is in many other areas of science, but the problem is that medicine really isn't a science, it is a b usiness, but I
don't want to get in to that, we can talk hours on that. But if you really look at the root of what is causing it, we can use  that cold
as a further example.
"The patient might see someone else more knowledgeable who will say no, you caught a virus, don't do
anything, go home and sleep, let your body heal itself. That's better."

Why does that person have a cold? If he saw the doctor, the doctor might tell him to take an antibiotic along with the
decongestant. You see this all the time becaus e the doctor wants to get rid of the patient. Well we all know that in almost all
cases of an upper respiratory infection it is a virus, and the antibiotic is going to do worse than nothing because it is goi ng to kill
the bacterial flora in the gut and imp air the immune system, making the immune system worse.

The patient might see someone else more knowledgeable who will say no, you caught a virus, don't do anything, go home and
sleep, let your body heal itself. That's better. You might see someone else wh o would ask why you caught a virus without being
out there trying to hunt for viruses with a net.
We are breathing viruses every day; right now we are breathing viruses, cold viruses, rhinoviruses.
"We've known for many years that sugar depresses the immun e system.... It doesn't matter what disease
you are talking about - insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not totally controlling it. "

..... We've known for many years that sugar depresses the immune system. We have known that for decades..... A blood sugar
value of 120 reduces the phagocytic index seventy -five percent.

Here we are getting a little bit further down into the roots of disease. It doesn't matter what disease you are talking about,
whether you are talking about a common cold or about  cardiovascular disease, or osteoporosis or cancer, the root is always
going to be at the molecular and cellular level, and I will tell you that insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not tot ally controlling
it.

...... What is the purpose of insulin in humans? If you ask your doctor, they will say that it's to lower blood sugar and I will tell
you right now, that is a trivial side effect. Insulin's evolutionary purpose, among others at least known right now, we are l ooking
at others, is to store exces s nutrients.
".... those high complex carbohydrate diets are nothing but a high sugar diet, and your body is just going
to store it as saturated fat."

We come from a time of feast and famine and if we couldn't store the excess energy during times of feast ing, we would all not
be here, because we all have had ancestors that encountered famine. So we are only here because our ancestors were able to
store nutrients, and they were able to store nutrients because they were able to elevate their insulin in respo nse to any elevation
in energy that the organism encountered.

When your body notices that the sugar is elevated, it is a sign that you've got more than you need right now, you are not
burning it so it is accumulating in your blood. So insulin will be rele ased to take that sugar and store it. How does it store it?....
Saturated fat, ninety -eight percent of which is palmitic acid.

So the idea of the medical profession to go on a high complex carbohydrate, low saturated -fat diet is an absolute oxymoron,
because those high complex carbohydrate diets are nothing but a high glucose diet, or a high sugar diet, and your body is jus t
going to store it as saturated fat. The body makes it into saturated fat quite readily.
".... heart attacks are two to three time s more likely to happen after a high carbohydrate meal."

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..... Insulin also causes the retention of sodium, which causes  the retention of fluid, which causes high blood pressure and fluid
retention: congestive heart failure.

..... What does all of this do to the heart? Not very good things. There was a study done a couple of years ago, a good, down  to
earth nicely conducte d study that showed that heart attacks are two to three times more likely to happen after a high
carbohydrate meal. They said specifically NOT after a high fat meal.

Why is that? Because the immediate effects of raising your blood sugar from a high carboh ydrate meal is to raise insulin and
that immediately triggers the sympathetic nervous system which will cause arterial spasm, constriction of the arteries. If yo u
take anybody prone to a heart attack and that is when they are going to get it.
"So the way we age is that we turn rancid and we caramelize. It's very true."

You can slow the rate of aging. Not just even the rate of disease, but the actual rate of aging itself can be modulated by in sulin.
.... there is some pretty good evidence that even in huma ns we still retain the capacity to control lifespan at least partially.


 her secrets. Those, therefore, who expect instant answers
from Nature are likely to be disappointed.
Nature, too, does not effect instant improvemen ts; she may
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take an aeon to evolve something better. And as we are all a part
of Nature and subject to her laws, those who expect an immedi
ate improvem ent of human nature or an instant answer to some
human problem are likely to suffer from acute frustration.
However impatient for results they may be, scientists realize
that they cannot impose their will or their desires on Nature;
they must follow her methods and meet her conditions. This may
explain why, in this age, science is usually more successful in
solving its problems than politics.
Perhaps, then, a description of this particular adventure in
science may serve a dual purpose: while it will give the evidence
that man is linked to the Universe and subject to its laws it will
also illustrate the scientific method by which the laws and secrets
of Nature may be discovered.
This has more than an academic interest at the present time
when respect for man-made laws is decreasing and many feel
that laws are made to be disobeyed. Natural laws, however, can
not be disobeyed; we cannot flout, for example, the law of
gravity. So the more we can find out about Nature's laws-and
also about how science discovers them-the easier it will be for us
to accept the need for laws and to realize that man-made laws
reflect-however imperfectly-the essential principles of a Uni
verse of law and order.
Unfortuna tely, there is much confusion about the meaning of
the word'science'. The dictionary defines it as 'organized know
ledge'. But, beginning probably with Galileo, the experimental
method-with its enormous development since that time-has
revealed that it is not enough to describe and classify the Universe
in general and the earth in particular. It is also necessary to
attempt to find the meaning of all the facts that have been
accumulated.
This involves trying to understand the relation between the
component parts of the Universe-an understanding that must
always be developing and changing as the experimental method
uncovers more facts. All that can be done is to interpret the facts
as best we can, always bearing in mind that our knowledge is still
tragically incomplete.
Science, therefore, means not only the collection of facts and
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the classification and description of the physical component s of
the Universe but also a considera tion of the laws or forces which
govern the relation between these components.
This, of course, requires a primitive assumption : that the
Universe is a place of law and order which-it is to be hoped
can be understood by the mind of man.
There are many who maintain that the Universe is chaos,
that the only law and order in it are those which are imposed by
the mind of man-a far more primitive assumption. For, however
great our respect for the powers of the human mind, it is diffi
cult to see how man can impose the arrangements and move
ments of the stars in their courses or, as far as we on this earth are
concerned, the nature of the forces which define a living system.
It should be reasonably clear to any thinking person that noth
ing in the Universe could exist for a fraction of a millisecond if
there were not forces, laws and organization which determine the
relationship between the component parts of the Universe, all of
which-from a galaxy to the particles of an atom-are in con
stant motion. No living organism could exist if the process of
living were not regulated by meticulous and powerful forces,
about which it is obviously desirable to find out as much as we
can.
Our primitive assumption, then, that the Universe is a place
of law and order is justified by both observation and common
sense. The many successes of the experimental method also justify
the hope that we can learn more and more about the laws of the
Universe.
This has enormous implications for man because it follows that
man is not only in the Universe but also of the Universe, subject
to laws in the living world similar to those which can be
recognized and understood in the material Universe.
At once we are faced with a curious anomaly. Many people
object to the idea of law and order in the Universe on the ground
that it is authoritarian and impinges on man's free will to de
vel'1p his own ways of doing things on his own responsibility. Yet
these same people would not dream of defying the law of gravity,
which, so far as we know, is a universal property of the Universe,
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and, in fact, are fully prepared to adjust to it-especially when
walking on an icy sidewalk.
Not only do we have to pay attention to the law of gravity but
also to learn as much about it as possible so that it can be put to
the service of man, whether in emptying a bathtub or for getting
astronauts safely back from space. This is true not only of the
law of gravity but also of all other natural laws that can be
discovered.
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All this raises an important problem. Though many concede
that the Universe may be dominated by physical laws, they
maintain that man is not a part of this physical Universe but is a
separate, spiritual being, subject to spiritual law. This at once
denies the unity of the Universe, for it means that there are two
sets of laws, the laws of the material Universe and the laws of the
spiritual component of the Universe.
Physical laws, determined by experiment, can be validated and
can be found to be true not only in New York but also in Tim
buktu. Spiritual laws, on the other hand, which are inventions of
the mind of man, have one set of meanings in the Western hemi
sphere and a quite different one in the East.
This concept of two kinds of law make any generally-accepted
understanding of the nature of man and his part in the Universe
well-nigh impossible.
Spiritual laws, to be sure, are believed to have been validated
in the experience of man and, within certain limits, this is
probably true. But laws which have different meanings in differ
ent parts of the world-and, sometimes, different meanings to
different people in the same part of the world-are not com
patible with physical laws which are universally verifiable and
accepted.
This is the cause of the conflict between science and religion.
It is the basic argument of religion that the intuitive, creative
imagination of man can set up laws which transcend physical
law and which describe aspects of nature which, otherwise, can-
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not be validated. It is the argument -or, perhaps, the hope-of
science that all aspects of Nature arc open to examination by the
experimental method. It is true that, for centuries, this method
has been limited to certain aspects of Nature. But it has been so
successful that science sees no reason why, eventually, it should
not be extended to all aspects.
Curiously enough, the scientific method is not confined to
science but is something by which most of us live all the time.
First of all we find out all we can about a problem as a basis for
its solution; and, in the process somewhere along the line, we
see some unsuspected relationships between the facts we have un
covered. Then we have a hunch, a guess, a dream or, to use a
technical term, a hypothesis, though nobody knows how these
crea tive ideas arise.
This hunch or hypothesis suggests some logical deductions,
which we can check in various ways to see if they offer a solu
tion to our problem.
In a physics laboratory it is not too hard to check a hypothesis
by rigidly controlled experiments and, if these support it, it is
generally assumed that it is correct. But when it comes to human
problems or the problems of other living organisms it is usually
much more difficult to check an hypothesis.
In any event we should not make the mistake of assuming that
because experiments support the hypothesis the latter is the
only one those experiments could support. This makes it difficult
to achieve any final, conclusive answer, which is probably just
as well because if it were easy to get unequivocal, demonstrated
answers to everything we would lose a lot of the fun of living.
This process-fa ct-finding, hypothesis, deduction and experi
ment-is one in which most of us engage all the time. For ex
ample, on the basis of our knowledge of the performance of the
horses running at Louisville, we make the logical deduction that
Northern Dancer will win the stakes and place our bet that this
will happen. If the horse wins we assume that our guess, hunch
or hypothesis was valid. If he loses, we have to accept that it was
not.
This is true not only of horse-races and ball-games but also of
almost every other aspect of the activity of the mind of man. An
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artist sees in the beauty of the world around him something
which he thinks is important and at once begins to depict it. An
author has an idea which he expresses in writing. The musician
conceives a piece of music and composes it


ucus-coated
intestines might find mucus coming out with their stool, convoluted like the
intestines. Dr. Kelley has had people who have been taking the capsules call him to
say that they think they have just passed their intestines and what should they do? (He
assures them it wasn't their intestines; it was ropes — or tubes — of mucus!)
One 37-year-old patient called Dr. Kelley to report that the Okra-Pepsin-E3
capsules worked a miracle by relieving reoccurring pain that she had suffered with for
years. (The pain would come and go apparently without cause and felt like bricks
were pressing against her internal organs and lower back and at the same time her
right side and leg would feel numb.) On the morning of the eighth day, after taking
one Okra-Pepsin-E3 capsule with each meal for a week, she spent 45 minutes
sweating, straining and pushing to have a bowel movement, and when it finally came
out she could hardly believe what she saw — long, intertwined black ropes (or
collapsed tubes) of mucus filled the toilet! She feels lighter now and hasn't had the
pain since that day. (After this bowel movement and the disappearance of her pain
she realized that there must have been a connection to eating a large meal and the
pain — food passing through the intestine would push the mucus-coated intestine
onto nerves, which caused the pain and numbness.)
The Okra-Pepsin-E3 is indicated for both underweight and overweight people. In
both cases nutrients are not being absorbed. Even if they are taking enzymes to digest
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the food they eat, they absorb only the smaller carbohydrate molecules while the
larger protein molecules are blocked. In underweight people the carbohydrates are
used efficiently (burned for energy, not turned into fat), but the person becomes thin
as they lose muscle mass from lack of protein absorption. In overweight people the
carbohydrates are not used efficiently (they are turned into fat), and this causes the
person to become overweight as they also lose muscle mass.
Metamucil™ (Psyllium husks), one or two tablespoons daily, mixed with water or
juice, may be taken to sweep the mucus out of the colon once it is broken down by
the pepsin in the Comfort capsules.
Cleansing The Colon
The Coffee Enema
A high, retention enema, using coffee, should be taken to aid in the elimination of
toxic waste material from the body. The coffee enema should be taken daily for as
long as one is on Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program. After 42 years, Dr.
Kelley still takes his daily enema.
The coffee enema is very stimulating to the liver and is the greatest aid in elimination
of the liver's toxic wastes.
The coffee enema, besides stimulating liver detoxification, also has beneficial
effects in cleaning the colon. Coffee is an excellent solvent for encrusted waste
accumulated along the walls of the colon. The caffeine also directly stimulates the
peristaltic muscle to contract more powerfully and loosen such deposits, which are
occasionally visible as hard, black material and "ropes" of mucus. Gradually, as the
protein metabolism of the body improves, the muscle tone of the bowel becomes
normal and thorough evacuation is possible without the aid of the enema.
Essentially, the coffee enemas help the liver perform a task for which it was not
designed — that of elimination in 1  or 2 years the accumulated wastes from many
years of living in ignorance of the laws of nature.
At first, most people dislike enemas and have psychological barriers against them.
Ignorance of the purpose and function of the enema, as well as misunderstanding of
the proper procedure for taking it bring about this aversion. I  have observed,
however, that the persons most opposed to enemas soon reverse their prejudices and
become the most avid supporters of them! In many cases, the enema relieves distress
and gives a sense of well being and cleanliness never before experienced. The proper
removal of toxins and debris from the colon is absolutely essential in all conditions of
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disease and ill health.
It is most desirable to take the coffee enema early in the morning and it may be
repeated again in early afternoon and/or evening, depending upon the toxic condition
of the body. Enemas using coffee in the afternoon or evening may interfere with
sound sleep. If enemas are needed at these times, many patients prefer to use only
warm pure water omitting the coffee. But it is better to take coffee at these times also,
and a weaker solution to permit sleep would be better than not using coffee at all.
Organic Coffee For The Coffee Enema
Many people prefer to use organic coffee for their enemas. One researcher in
Canada has produced and developed a special, effective blend of organic coffee
beans from different parts of the world that produce a very effective coffee enema.
How To Make A Coffee Enema
1. Just before bedtime each day, make a pot of coffee (1  quart). Unplug coffeepot
and allow to cool to room temperature.
2. It is best to arise early enough each morning to allow time to take the enema in
a relaxed, unhurried state.
3. The coffee must be regular, non-instant, non-decaffeinated coffee. It must be
prepared in enamelware, Corning Ware™, glass or stainless steel, or by the
tricolator filter method. Aluminum or Teflon should not be used at any time! We
have found the coffee that is unbilled or prepared via the "drip method" is
preferable. Use 3 to 4 tablespoons of ground coffee to 1  quart of warm filtered,
distilled, reverse osmosis water should be used.
4. Avoidance of city water supplies (always chlorinated, which has been strongly
linked to hardening of the arteries, and often fluoridated, which has been
strongly linked to cancer and thyroid disease) is most essential to removing
stress from the kidneys. Any water that enters the body should be from filtered,
distilled, reverse osmosis should be used. one of these sources.
This water should be used for cooking and drinking, and even for preparing enemas,
since a significant portion of the enema water may be absorbed and filtered through
the kidneys. Even if one has a well, it should not be assumed safe. Often toxic
amounts of copper, cadmium, and lead are picked up from the plumbing even if the
well is pure. It is best to purchase the Alkalizer™ water instrument. Remember, if one
distills water from a city supply, one must remember that certain hydrocarbon
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contaminants have a lower boiling point than that of water. The distiller should have
a valve to permit their escape as they gasify. If not, they w ill concentrate in the
distilled water and will need to be removed by filtering through activated charcoal.
5. If a coffee enema makes a person jittery, shaky, nervous, nauseated, or light
headed, the coffee solution is too strong. The amount of coffee can be adjusted
from 1  teaspoon to 4 tablespoons per quart of water as tolerance level permits.
6. The high, retention coffee enema should consist of 1  quart of coffee, held for 15
minutes. Some people, children especially, can take and retain only a pint (2
cups) of enema solution at a time. If this is the case, one must take 2 enemas
each time, one right after the other, and hold each for 15 minutes as directed.
7. Upon rising each morning plug in the coffeepot for a few seconds to bring
coffee to body temperature; unplug and take the morning coffee enema.
How To Take A Coffee Enema
A. Before the enema do some form of mild exercise if possible, such as walking
briskly. If one is extremely debilitated and weak, this step w ill of course need to
be omitted until strength returns.
B. Attempt a normal bowel movement. The enema is much more effective if the
colon has been evacuated. One should not become disturbed, however, if there
are no regular bowel movements, or very few, during Metabolic Medicine's
Cancer Cure Program. In many cases, not enough bulk collects to instigate a
normal bowel movement. When no normal bowel movements are forthcoming,
the enema cleans the colon adequately.
C. Bulk formers such as Metamucil™ (or other brands of Psyllium Husks obtainable
at drug or health food stores) taken as directed, or 2 tablespoons of miller's bran
with each meal (obtainable at the health food store) are quite helpful in forming
stools and thereby creating more normal bowel movements for those who take
daily enemas.
D. After the normal bowel movement, if one is forthcoming, or before taking the
coffee retention enema, most people find that taking an enema with 1  quart of
warm distilled or filtered water is very helpful (do not retain this enema). This
procedure begins the cleansing of the colon, removing large particles of residue
and most of the gas. When it is completed, the coffee retention enema may be
taken. The warm water enema is optional and does not need to be taken if the
coffee enema can


 20,30, or 40.At that level is hatred, the
killing of others, and suicide.There is a God of death 153 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID
rather than of life. Self-hatred and an inner feeling of
being destroyed come from this teaching. If one wish
es to follow such a pathway, at least one is going in
with their eyes open (e.g., terrorism).
There are the teachings of existentialism that
focus on man's hopelessness. They are based upon
worshipping the past in which there is a great deal of
grief and self-pity toward what has befallen this group
of people. There are teachings and teachers who
express and exploit the energy field called Fear, in
which case the person experiences a fear of God as a
punitive God.The energy field is in a negative direc
tion and continues to engender fear.
All these negative fields have proponents who
sound convincing. They are like politicians in the reli
gious or spiritual world and very adept at their con
vincingness. Yet, when we check their energy and
direction, we fmd that their teaching of fear is nega
tive and destructive. When seeing them on television,
we can turn off the sound and look at their faces and
fist-shaking gestures to see what they reveal when dis
connected from the words.When tested, these people
make us go weak, indicating that what is being taught
is not Truth. Research shows that God is not at the
bottom of the scale; all the teachings of hate and fear
that come from the bottom of the scale indicate the
reverse.
As we move up into Anger, we see those positions
that promote anger, conflict, hatred, and religious
wars because they are competitive and usually cham
pion a·politicized god of retaliation. Because it is a
polarized position, it is always viewed that God will 154 HEALING AND RECOVERY
punish the nonbelievers, which is usually one of the
traditional teachings. It is important to know where
this calibrates on the scale so we can see how it cor
relates with those things that are truthful.
The purpose of all this is to create a safe context,
a safe orientation, and a safe space in which to do our
spiritual work because in spiritual work, we commit
ourselves to certain goals and purposes as a result of
our intention, and certain things will come up dur
ing that process. Frequently, one cause of spiritual
crises is that the person forgets they initiated a
process through their own intention, and their experi
ence is a result ofhaving asked the question, made the
commitment, and aligned themselves with a search for
the truth.
DefIning oneself in a certain way has great power.
When we look at the power of the mind, we can see
how crucial its beliefs are. It has the ability to bring up
within one's life the very thing one has asked for.
Frequently in the middle of a crisis, the person has
forgotten they really asked to bring up that which
needs to be healed. Therefore, what is occurring in
their life is not a mistake or an error. It is exactly what
needs to be brought up, looked at, understood, surren
dered, recontextualized, healed, and forgiven. As a
result, one needs to maintain a compassionate view.
How can we heal what comes up in our lives
unless we hold a healing position? It is obvious how
critically important it is to know the energy field of a
given teaching. (See Chapters 16 and 17 in Truth ver
sus Falsehood. Ifit requires forgiveness, the teaching
of the Christ is based on forgiveness. It if requires 155 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID
compassion and understanding, then the teaching
will have to be at calibration level 500 and over
because healing begins at 540.That which the world
calls sin is obviously something that requires healing,
does it not? Then a healing that is at least at the level
of 540 is needed.
To ask people to bring up something from within
into a negative energy field is to bring about upset;
therefore it is unsafe to go into any spiritual teaching
whatsoever that suggests introspection, soul search
ing, and purification unless the energy field of that
teaching or pathway is positive and at 540 or higher. It
is evident how dangerous a lower-level teaching could
be-it would be like putting oneself on the operating
table and letting one's abdomen be opened up by a
surgeon who does not have the skill to handle what he
is going to discover when he does so.We don't allow
a second-year medical student to open abdomens on
the operating table. Instead, it is done by someone
who has the power.These energy fields have power. It
requires a great deal of power and knowledge to open
up someone's insides and investigate them.
We don't advise introspection in the beginning of
the inner process of purification until it is determined
that the teacher, teaching, and those around a person
are in the energy field of at least 540, a field that is nur
turing, supportive, and forgiving and has the purpose
of healing through understanding and true compas
sion.The God of that kind of energy field would there
fore be a God who loves us because healing only
occurs through loving, and His love would be uncon
ditional. 156 HEALING AND RECOVERY
It we understand the nature of God at all, we real
ize that that which is godly is unconditional. That
which is conditional and therefore limited by defmi
tion could not be called godly. That which is God is
beyond all condition and is infinite, so the love is infI
nite lovingness and therefore infmitely capable ofheal
ing.To create a safe context and space for ourselves, it
is necessary to know that we are in a safe space, that
the teacher and the teaching are positive in direction,
that the energy field is at least 540, and that it holds
compassion and forgiveness in a very high place with
in the teaching; otherwise, it will be unable to heal that
which is brought forth.
In calibrating literally thousands of factors in vari
ous teachings and pathways, it consistently appeared
that those who calibrated the highest and in a posi
tive direction were characterized by the absence of
teachings of hatred or condemnation in any way. It
was found that great compassion and a calibration
over 600 characterized the great teachers and teach
ings. They spoke from an infinite, compassionate
forgiveness towards one's humanness and viewed it
as something that needed to be healed. In the higher
teachings, there is a lack of concern with a person's
money or status, and there is no desire to control a
person's personal life. There is no'make wrong' or
invalidation of life in any of its aspects. How is this so?
For example, it is not money itself but the way it is
held in mind. It is not the events of life but one's posi
tion about them.
The great teachings, which are in a positive direc
tion, present basic principles through which one can SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 157
experience the truth of oneself through one's inner
spiritual work. The creation of a safe space then
requires teachers who have no desire to exploit or
invalidate anyone and are therefore examples of their
own principles. They are devoid of exploitation of fol
lowers for 'the sake of the movement' or 'the cause'.
There is avoidance of that common polarization of'us'
versus 'them'.There is a necessity to remain clear about
the difference between the logical phenomenal world
and that which is spiritual. There is no preoccupation
with form in the spiritual world but instead with non
linear basic principles that then express through all the
levels of reality.
The creation of a safe place characterizes teachers
who have no wish to exploit or invalidate, so the great
teachers have no interest in influencing one's money,
life decisions, or personal life. Many of them actually
refuse to answer questions on that level. Instead, they
exemplify and speak of the teaching of a principle. It is
then left up to the student or the follower to discern
how to apply that principle in a given situation. As a
result, there are no'make wrongs'; there is only the
teaching of a greater context from which to hold that
life experience.
Referring to the Map of Consciousness, we can see
how various things can be held. We can single out a
world event that, in itself, is of no particular signifi
cance. It is how we hold it, the meaning. we project
onto it, and the significance we give it that makes the
difference. In and of itself, it really has no meaning; the
meaning depends on our own level of consciousness,
or the level of consciousness of the teaching. We will 158 HEALING AND RECOVERY
use money as an example because it is often a source
of conflict among spiritual seekers, at least in the
beginning.
How would one look at money? It would depend
on the energy field of the teaching or the teacher. It


 loss of memory, children have
learning difficulties. Heart, lung and kidney damage have been reported, together with a much
higher incidence of infections.
 Chemotherapy drugs are subject to constant innovations, often motivated by financial
considerations. One of the latest drugs, Gemzar, that had originally been accepted for the
treatment of lung and breast cancer, has now also been cleared for use in advanced ovarian
cancer. There is no evidence to show that this drug extends life; on the other hand it worsens the
side effects of previously used chemotherapy drugs; however, it is very expensive. Recent reports
state that one course of Gemzar treatment, consisting of six doses given over six months, costs
about US$12,600.
 Chemotherapy can claim a few triumphs, achieving true cures. But these are limited to rare
and special cancers, such as for instance women’s cancer of pregnancy, called choriocarcinoma. A
type of lymphatic cancer known as Burkitt’s lymphoma, found mostly in certain areas of Africa,
has also been cured in some 50% of cases. An additional area of success has been the control of
many acute childhood leukemias, where some 50% of child patients survived over five years.
Testicular cancer is also claimed to be curable, and indeed a good number of recoveries are on
record.  Unfortunately these successes only refer to rare kinds of malignancy. The most common
types, such as breast, prostate, lung cancer, and more recently colon cancer, have not shown a
good response, even though chemotherapy is almost always administered in such cases.
 A telling and alarming summary of the use of chemotherapy in late cases was given as long
ago as 1972 by Dr. Victor Richards in his book, Cancer—the Wayward Cell: Its Origins, Nature,
and Treatment (Berkeley,University of California Press, 1972). In his book Richards states that
while even palliation  (pain relief and mild tumor shrinkage) occurs only “for brief duration in
about 5 to 10% of the cases, chemotherapy serves an extremely valuable role in keeping patients
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www.thegersonway.comphysician. These potentially useful drugs may also prevent the spread of cancer quackery...”
Deploring the use of chemotherapy, Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., writes in his book, The Cancer
Industry: Unravelling the Politics,  Paragon House, New York, 1989: “In Richards’ view it is
worthwhile to risk putting patients through possible nausea, vomiting, dizziness, hair loss, mouth
sores, and even premature death simply in order to keep them ‘oriented toward proper medical
therapy’ and away from ‘cancer quackery.’” In other words stopping them from looking for help
other than what is provided by orthodox medicine. In most chemotherapy drug packages the
warning states that this very drug is known to cause cancer.
The seriousness of chemotherapy’s toxic effects may be best seen in an oncology nurses’
manual. It warns nurses who only prepare the drugs for administration that they may experience
“significant risk” of damage to the skin, reproductive abnormalities, hematologic (blood system)
problems, and liver and chromosomal lesions. Nurses are also instructed “to never eat, drink,
smoke, or apply cosmetics in the drug-preparation area.” (From Questioning Chemotherapy, by
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., Equinox Press, 2000.)
Breast Implants
These are the choice of some breast cancer patients, mainly for cosmetic reasons, but they
can have serious health consequences. Of course it is understandable that post-mastectomy
patients wish to make up for the loss of one or both breasts. However, there are risks in the
procedure, depending on what materials are used for it. The worst choice is a silicone-filled pad,
which has been known to burst and release the silicone into the surrounding tissues. In one case
we have seen this caused serious toxicity in the entire chest area, as well as migraine headaches
and extreme weakness, to the point where the patient became bedfast. The Gerson treatment
cleared most of the trouble: the patient got rid of the migraines, regained her energy and was able
to function normally.
If other fillers are used, bursting is less of a problem, except that the implant is still a foreign
material, which the body attempts to reject. It cannot do so, since the implant remains firmly in
place; this in turn causes constant irritation, which is particularly dangerous for patients who had
mastectomies for breast cancer. Weighing up the pros and cons of implants, it stands to reason that
cosmetic considerations are less important than the avoidance of a recurrence.
Household Help
The only serious drawback of the Gerson treatment is that it is highly work-intensive, almost
the equivalent of a full time job. Much time, energy and sustained effort is needed to produce
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www.thegersonway.comthree daily meals and coffee concentrate for enemas, plus securing the constant supply of large
amounts of organic produce needed for the smooth running of the program. The produce needs
to be washed and prepared for juicing and cooking, salads and vegetables have to be made ready
as near mealtimes as possible in order to safeguard their freshness—and of course all this is
accompanied by the constant washing of dishes. Moreover, this daily routine, taking up nearly
eight hours, must continue non-stop seven days a week.
 Obviously seriously ill patients, or even less ill ones, cannot cope with such a demanding
schedule. Irrespective of their condition, patients must rest if they are to heal.  This cannot be
repeated too often, for many people, especially members of the patient’s family are not clear
about this. Healing, the body’s heroic effort to defeat disease requires energy; a sick person’s
already diminished energy must be reserved for that.
In other words, a whole person is needed to fulfill the Therapy’s requirements. In many cases
a spouse or some other family member is willing and able to do the work, but the intensity of the
non-stop tasks will soon exhaust a single person. In this case a kitchen helper has to be hired and
trained. In fact it is best to have two helpers, each one working several days a week.
Choosing the right helper is important. It is unwise to engage a nurse trained in allopathic
medicine, since she might not approve of the nutritional regime and could try to add items of
her choice. Likewise, a ‘gourmet cook’ would probably find the Gerson way of food preparation
difficult to handle. The ideal choice would be a kind and open-minded person, willing to be
trained in the exact requirements of the job. Some patients have found it helpful to approach
their Church to provide volunteers. The best way is to arrange for several volunteers to schedule
continuous assistance, so that they take turns if one or the other is unable to attend.
 Since the hourly preparation of juices with all the other tasks keeps the helper busy, a cleaner
may also be needed once or twice a week. As pointed out earlier (see Chapter 9, The Gerson
Household, pg. 95 ) no toxic cleaning materials are to be used in the patient’s home.
 After 8-12 months on the Therapy the patient is usually in a much better condition and can
take on a number of food preparation tasks, including juicing. However, if this extra effort brings
on new symptoms or excessive fatigue, outside help must be brought in. Some people, particularly
the breadwinner, are able to return at first to part-time work, later to a regular job. There is just
one important condition: the patient must never eat lunch in a restaurant. He/she needs to eat the
usual Gerson lunch at home, together with the freshly made green juice (which cannot be taken
along to work), and also have some rest plus the midday enema. The carrot/apple juices can be
taken to work in the morning, in a glass-lined thermos flask; another thermos full of juice needs
to be ready for the patient to drink during the afternoon. Then on returning home the balance of
the green juices can be taken, along with the missing enemas and followed by  rest.
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www.thegersonway.comitems needed by the patient.
The Trouble With Sunshine
Sunshine can be a source of good health; it can also be a killer. The difference lies in the degree
of exposure we choose. The human body needs Vitamin D, which helps to maintain several organ
systems and is essential for forming and maintaining healthy bones. However, very few foods are
naturally rich in Vitamin D (some commercial foods