 seven-year -old daughter of one of the participants said, “I
look forward to waking up in the morning just so I can have my Rip’ s
Bowl.”
Let your appetite be your guide as to the size of your bowl.
¼ cup old-fashioned oats
¼ cup Grape-Nuts or Ezekiel brand equivalent
¼ cup bite-size shredded wheat
¼ cup Uncle Sam Cereal
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal
2 tablespoons raisins
½ handful of walnuts
1 banana, sliced
1 kiwi, sliced
1 grapefruit
¾ cup milk substitute of choice
Toss all ingredients except the grapefruit and milk substitute into a bowl.
After cutting the grapefruit in half, use a small, sharp knife to remove the
segments. Add the segments to the top of the bowl and squeeze in the juice.
Top the bowl with milk substitute.
Variations:
In a pinch, simply add water (the fruits blend with the water and give it a
sweet taste).
Add any fresh or frozen fruit, such as peaches, cherries, mangoes,
blueberries, or red grapes. If you want to lower your cholester ol levels even mor e, use
half a cup of oats and omit one of the quarter cups of the other
cereals.
E2 Hot Lap Bowl
When Engine 2 pulls up to a house fire, our lieutenant immediately does a
“hot lap”—a 360-degree walk around the structure to determine the scope
of the situation before deciding on a course of action.
Experiment with dif ferent ingredients to personalize your bowl and
determine the best plan of attack.
1 cup uncooked hot cereal (see E2-Approved Foods)
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal
2 tablespoons raisins or dried cranberries
1 banana, sliced
½ cup fresh or frozen fruit
½ cup soy milk
½ handful of walnuts
Cook cereal in water according to directions with flaxseed meal, raisins,
banana, and fruit. drizzle with soy milk and top with nuts.
Simple Cer eal Bowl
There’ s something really nice about a plain bowl filled with one type of
cereal, whether it’ s Grape-Nuts, oat bran flakes, or plain oats, and a little
fruit. So, bring breakfast down a notch and enjoy the simplicity.
1 cup whole grain cereal (see E2-Approved Foods)
1 banana, sliced, or any other fresh or frozen fruit
½ cup soy milk
Place the cereal in a bowl, and top with fruit and soy milk.Quick Oatmeal Bowl
A warm, healthy breakfast doesn’ t get any easier than this bowl, which I
discovered through an old Canadian triathlete friend named Dan Murray.
Dan was one of the best Olympic distance triathletes of the early 1990s; he
was the first man to run a sub-thirty-minute 10K in a triathlon. Now that’ s
quick!
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1 cup water
1 banana, sliced
1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses
Place the oatmeal, water, and banana into a lar ge bowl. Microwave on
high for 2 minutes. Top with molasses and serve.
E2 SA TURDA Y SPECIALS
One morning at the fire station, I woke up at seven and saw Derick walk
past wearing just his pants.
“Did you sleep with your pants on?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said. “I always do when I’m driving.”
“Is that so you’re a little faster to the draw?”
“No,” he said. “It’ s to remind me where I am.”
I know exactly what he’ s talking about. Sometimes you wake up and you
have no clue where you are or what’ s going on. So when that alarm goes of f
at 3 a.m., if you can look down and see that your pants are on, this might
just give you the edge you need to do your job that much more ef ficiently.
At other times, of course, just having a great breakfast is all you need to get
going.
These breakfasts are intended to serve two, but they can easily
accommodate one: Simply cut the amounts of every ingredient in half and
enjoy.
French Toast
French toast takes me back to slow Saturday mornings sitting around the
Esselstyn family table and the feel of powdered sugar on the roof of my
mouth. Serve this deliciously healthy version of French toast with pure
maple syrup and fresh fruit.Serves 2
1 banana, mashed
½ cup milk substitute of choice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cinnamon
4–6 slices whole grain bread or baguette slices
Combine the banana, milk substitute, vanilla, and cinnamon in a shallow
bowl. Dip the bread slices in the mixture and cook in a nonstick skillet on
medium heat for 2 minutes on each side, or until lightly browned.
Variations:
Serve with a light sprinkling of powdered sugar for that roof-of-the-
mouth taste, or with a side of E2-approved vegetarian breakfast sausage.
Migas Especiales
I’ve never met a Texan who doesn’ t like migas. The word is derived from
the Spanish word for crumbs, and the dish is traditionally made using eggs,
cheese, sausage, tortillas, and salsa. Part of the Tex-Mex food culture, it’ s a
dish that creates a very satisfying melody of tastes. Served with a side of
healthy refried beans, corn tortillas, salsa, and fresh fruit, with this dish
mornings just don’ t get much better.
Serves 2
1 onion, chopped
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 pound firm tofu, drained, pressed with a cloth, and mashed
1 teaspoon turmeric
7 corn tortillas, 3 cut into 1-inch squares and 4 to make little tacos (or enjoy
the way you would toast)
Salsa (see page 240)
1 can fat-free vegetarian refried beans, warmed in nonstick skillet
1 cup fresh fruitSauté the onion in a nonstick skillet on medium heat for 3 minutes or
until translucent. Add the mushrooms and tomatoes. Cook for 7 minutes or
until most of their juices have been cooked away. Add the tofu, turmeric,
and tortilla squares. Cook for a few minutes, or until the mixture is warmed
through. Place a generous spoonful of migas on a plate and top with salsa.
Serve with a side of beans, tortillas, and fresh fruit.
Breakfast Tacos
I don’ t know if it’ s just a Texas thing, but breakfast tacos are very popular
in the Lone Star State. They’re fast, easy, and really good. We warm up corn
tortillas on the gas burner, throw in the filling of the day, and top them of f
with salsa. No breakfast taco would be complete without salsa.
Serves 2
½ tube vegetarian breakfast sausage (we like Gimme Lean)
8 ounces frozen, fat-free hash brown potatoes
6 corn tortillas
Salsa (see page 240)
Sauté the sausage in a nonstick skillet on medium heat for 5 minutes
until browned and crisping. Set aside. Sauté the hash brown potatoes in a
sprayed skillet on high heat for 7–10 minutes, or until golden brown. Spoon
ingredients into warm tortillas. Top with salsa.
Variations:
Try black beans with avocados, or scrambled tofu or hash browns with
refried beans.
 Make your own r efried beans and hash br owns by mashing
and cooking extra beans and potatoes fr om dinner.
E2 Omelet
I know that many people find it hard to leave eggs behind—but each egg is
67 percent fat and has over 212 milligrams of cholesterol. This is not goodif you’re looking to lose weight and clean out your arteries. That’ s why I’ve
included this healthy and tasty recipe. Topped with salsa, it’ s a real winner.
Serves 2
Omelet Filling
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
½ onion, diced
1 red bell pepper, sliced into strips
1 cup baby spinach leaves
Omelet
12 ounces Silken Lite Firm tofu
2 tablespoons soy milk
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons Ener -G egg replacer
2 teaspoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten
¼ teaspoon onion powder
¼ teaspoon turmeric
Salsa to taste (see page 240)
Fresh fruit
For Omelet Filling:
Sauté the mushrooms and onion in a lar ge, sprayed skillet over high heat
for 5–7 minutes or until the mushroom liquid is mostly gone. Remove to a
bowl and return the skillet to the heat. Toss the bell pepper strips in the
skillet for 3 minutes until they begin to brown slightly. Remove from heat
and set aside.
For Omelet:
Blend together all ingredients until smooth. Spray a lar ge nonstick skillet
and pour half of the batter into the center, using a spoon to spread it out
thinly over the bottom of the skillet. Turn the heat to medium. Cover and
cook for 8 minutes, then place half of the cooked mushrooms, onions, bell
pepper strips, and spinach in a line down the center of the omelet. Use a
spatula to flip both sides over the veggies, cover and cook an additional 2
minutes. Remove from heat and gently shake the skillet from side to side a
couple of times to loosen the omelet. Carefully slide the omelet onto a plate.Repeat with the second half of the batter. Serve immediately with salsa and
a


 lead, cadmium  and
mercury combined, because it is completely unsuspected. Its last
major use, rat poison, was banned in the 1970s. Every
wheelchair  patient I tested was positive for thallium! One cur rent
use for thallium is in Arctic/Antarctic thermostats. When added
to mercury the mercury will stay liquid at lower tem peratures.
Are mercury suppliers then providing the dental in dustry with
tainted amalgam?
The cancer causing or carcinogenic action of metals has been
studied for a long time, although it doesn't get attention by our
regulatory agencies. A scientific book on this subject was
published in 1980.25 One table from this book is shown on page
431. We can see that chromium  and nickel  compounds are the
most carcinogenic metals. Nickel is used in gold  crowns, braces,
and children's crowns!
Note that the form of the metal is very important. For in stance
chromium  is an essential element of glucose tolerance
                                                            24 Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 7th ed. by  N.
Irving Sax and Richard J. Lewis Sr., Van NOSTRAND, Reinhold N.Y.
1989.25 The title is Carcinogenicity and Metal Ions. It is volume 10 of a
series called Metal Ions in Biological Systems, edited by Helmut Sigel.
A university chemistry library should have this book. It has a fascinat-
ing chapter on the leukemias by two scientists from the Academy of
Sciences of the USSR, E. L. Andronikashvili and L. Mosulishvili. Their
brilliant work and discussion was largely responsible for my pursuit of
the whole subject of cancer.FOUR CLEAN -UPS
419factor, but most of its other compounds are extremely toxic. In
general, xenobiotic  compounds (foreign) are
to be avoided! Metal doesn't belong in our
foods or in our bodies.
Dental Rewards
After your mouth is metal and infection-
free, notice whether your sinus  condition,
ear-ringing, enlarged neck  glands, headache,
enlarged spleen, bloated condition, knee  pain,
foot pain, hip  pain, dizziness, aching bones
and joints improve.
Keep a small notebook to write down
these improvements.  It will show you which symptoms came
originally from your teeth. Symptoms often come back! So go
back to your dentist, to search for a hidden infection under one or
more of your teeth, or where your teeth once were! That in fection
can be the cause of tinnitus, TMJ, arthritis, neck  pain, loss of
balance, and heart  attacks!
Dentures can be beautiful. Of course, plastic isn't natural, but
it is the best compromise that can be made to restore your mouth.
At least it isn't positively charged like metals; it can't set up an
electric current nor a magnetic field in your mouth, all of which
may be harmful.
Do not be swayed
by arguments that plas tic
is not as strong as metal.
You see dentures
everywhere and they
seem strong enough to
eat with. You will be
told that “noble” metals
like gold  and platinum
Fig. 62 More
dental metal.
Fig. 63 Beautiful plastic mouth.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
420and silver  are OK, that they are “inert” and do not corrode or
seep. Nothing could be more untrue. You may be keeping them
glossy by the constant polishing action of  your toothpaste. But if
you look at the underside, the view is frightful. Everything
tarnishes and everything seeps.  You wouldn't expect even a
gold or silver coin that
was dropped in a foun-
tain 50 years ago to be
intact. As metal corrodes
your body absorbs it!
In breast  cancer, es-
pecially, you find that
metals from dentalware
have dissolved and ac-
cumulated in the breast.
They will leave the
breast  if you clear them out of your mouth (and diet, body, home).
The cysts shrink and are simply gone.  No need to do surgery!
Diet Clean-up
Breakfast
Cook your cereal from scratch. Don't eat cold cereal ; it has
numerous solvents and molds. Buy hot cereals that say “no salt
added,” like cream of wheat, steel cut oats or old fashioned
oats,26 millet, corn  meal, cream of rice, or Wheatena. Cook it
                                                            26 Rolled oats have 235 mcg nickel  per serving of 4 ounces, picked
up from the rollers, according to Food Values  14th ed. by Pen nington
and Church, 1985. I have only found nickel in the "one-minute" or
"instant" variety of oats, however.
Fig. 64 Ugly metal in mouth.FOUR CLEAN -UPS
421with milk to add nutritive value. Add your own (non-aluminum )
salt and a pinch of vitamin C  before cooking. Make granola  from
a recipe (see Recipes ). Use honey, or brown sugar. Add raisins
that were soaked for 5 minutes in vitamin C water. Use whipping
cream or butter (both boiled) if you need to gain weight. Isn't this
a delicious way to start your day! Add cinna mon to flavor, or
frozen fruit and honey.
Or start your day with fried potatoes, an egg, and glass of
milk. Don't worry about cholesterol  since you will be doing liver
cleanses anyway. (We have been told that eggs carry Salmonella
bacteria. I found Salmonellas  only on the outside  shell and the
egg carton—never inside! Could the researchers have
accidentally transferred the bacteria from the shell to the inside
while they were testing?)
The milk should be 2% or more butterfat because the cal cium
in milk cannot be absorbed without at least this much fat. Eat
homemade yogurt and add honey or homemade preserves
yourself. You need 3 cups of a milk product each day. Home-
made buttermilk is fine. If you don't tolerate milk, and get diar-
rhea from it, try a milk digestant  tablet to go with it. Start with
only ¼ cup at a time. Do not choose chocolate milk. There is no
substitute for milk; calcium  tablets are not satisfactory. Vegeta-
Fig. 65 Unpolluted breakfast cereals.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
422ble matter, although high in calcium, does not give you avail able
calcium either, unless you buy a juicer and make vegetable juice
out of it. Eating fish can give you a lot of calcium, but it is in the
tiny bones hidden in the fish. Don't try to remove them. Canned
salmon  has a lot of calcium; tuna does not. On a day that you eat
fish, you would not need milk. Goat milk is proba bly better than
cows' milk, but more difficult to get used to.
Lunch
Cook your food from scratch. Don't start with cans or pack-
ages or frozen items to make some recipe. In fact, don't bother
with any fancy recipes. Just cook two or three vegetables for
lunch and eat them with butter and salt or homemade sauces.
Bread and milk rounds it out, plus fruit (not canned or frozen).
Soup is a nice change. Cook it with all the vegetables you can
find. Don't start with a can or packet or cube. Use a bit of onion
and genuine herbs to give it zest. Thyme and fenugreek, together,
make a flavorful combination you can purchase in cap sules. Just
pull apart and season.
If all this is too much work, make fresh vegetable juice  once
a week and freeze enough so that you can have a daily nutritious
meal just by pouring a glass of it, together with bread and  yogurt
or milk.
Never diet during illness
This is a rule based on common sense. A weight-loss diet
must wait at least two years.
Bake your own bread!  I found aflatoxin  in commercial
bread after just four days in my bread box, but none in home made
bread even after two weeks! Aflatoxin is a most potentFOUR CLEAN -UPS
423carcinogen  and immunosuppressant. Aflatoxin is the toxin in your
diet that keeps you from clearing propyl alcohol from your body
(see 382)! Aflatoxin is a substance made by mold; bread starts to
mold on the grocery store shelf. Don't buy plastic-wrapped
bread. Don't ever salvage moldy food, whether it is fruit, breads
or leftovers in the refrigerator. Throw them out. Buy a bread
maker. It can do everything, including baking the bread. Use
unbleached (unbrominated) flour  and add ½ tsp. vi tamin C
powder per loaf to help retard mold further (it also makes the
bread rise higher).
Supper
Cook your supper from scratch. Emphasize fish for animal
food, not beef, pork, turkey  or chicken. Don't buy bread crumbs,
use your own. Don't buy batter, make your own. Use genuine
eggs, not substitutes. Wash your hands after handling raw meat or
eggs


blocks our pleas ure also blocks love, because in sex pleasure is the doorway
to love.
Even though sex is meant to be uninhibited and free, there are always
degrees of freedom. Rarely do we believe that we deserve pleasure without
limits. How, then, can we give love without limits, or receive it?
Rather than examining the results of the sexual act, we need to consider
its begin nings. Intimacy starts not with a physical approach but with a set of
beliefs. The primary beliefs that defeat pleasure include the following:
Sex is too powerful and has to be controlled.
Sin is attached to sex, making it guilty and shameful.
Asking someone else to give you pleasure is greedy and selfish.
Surrendering to pleasure is the same as surrendering your power.What all of these beliefs have in common is that they provide a reason to
suppress desire.
When sex is deprived of its spiritual connection, some aspect of desir e is being suppr essed.
The spiritual dimension of sex is its joyfulness and ecstasy, its
communication of love between  two people. These qualities do not require
effort; they appear spontaneously when sex itself is spontaneous. However,
a great deal of spiritual teaching  has been openly antisexual. As long as the
credo “It is better to marry than to burn” was in effect, spiritua l value was
assigned not to intimacy but to chastity. When spiritual teachers held up
chastity as a virtue—as they have in every tradition East and West—the
intention was not to make pleas ure a sin but to elevate a highe r virtue that
by implication led to higher pleasure. One feels the truth in Krishnamurti’ s
words, “Trying to suppress sexual urges is a form of ugliness that in itself
cannot be chaste. Chastity of the monk with his vows is worldliness as long
as the urges are present. All walls of separateness turn life into a
battlefield.”
Chastity in the sense of purity is a spiritual good, but it should not be
mistaken for suppression of desire. When he asks why people try to repress
their desires, Krishnamurti makes the following beautiful  argument:
resisting the sexual urge has been held up as something good to do, but if
we look at it, resistance is born of fear. We are afraid of being wrong, of
stepping out of line. Society, anxious to make us conform, tells us that if we
don’t resist our sexual ur ges, we will go out of control.
Yet is this really true? If sex is natural, why does it have to be controlled?
In fact the whol e conflict over sex, the problems of neurosis and deviancy,
and sexual misbehavior, can be traced to resistance, not to sexual urges.
Resistance is always mental; it implies a judgment against what is actually
being felt. Sex becomes a problem when it gets mixed with hidden
emotions such as shame, anger, and guilt. Under those circumstances the
sexual impulse is confusing. When people ask questions like “Is it all right
to have  sex with anyone you want to?” or “Is it natural to be
monogamous?” the implication is that an outside judgment must enter into
the issue.Values are personal; each situation that has sexual energy in it involves
the whole human being. If you understand where you are in a sexual
situation—meaning that your emotions and values are in your awareness
with clarity—the sexual drive doesn’ t stand apart like a raging intruder. It is
part of you; it is acceptable and loved.
If you can walk through life without resistance, you will discover that life
in itself is chaste. It has a purity that includes both love and sex—there is no
division between them except in society’ s misguided conditioning.
This argument has a very deep spiritual basis. Most of the time our
worries over sex involve thinkin g and talking about it, yet sex isn’t a word
or a thought. It isn’ t divided in any way from the flow of life; its ur ge arises,
asks for fulfillment, and disappears without leaving traces of guilt and
shame unless we add those trace s by our beliefs. If sex gets tied down to the
mere pursuit of pleasure, it will result in pain, for pleasure cannot be kept
up forever; it will lead only to meaningless repetition and frustration, to a
compulsive craving for sensations that can only dwindle in satisfaction.
As Krishnamurti says, the mere pursuit of pleasure throws life out the
window. By “life” he means the sacred Being at the heart of existence, the
mystery that can be known only by not resisting, by being natural. The
difference between sex, love, and chastity doesn’ t exist; they are one.
In a world where  imitating other people’ s ideas and values is forced on us
in thousands of ways, sex is left as a means of escaping ourselves. It is a
form of self-for getfulness that is many people’ s only real form of
meditation. Such is the promise of intimacy that it can deliver us into a
place where experience of the spirit is genuine and undeniable.
OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Freeing Sexual Blocks
IF YOU WANT to improve your sexual experiences, the last place to start with
is pract ice in the bedroom. Sex is naturally spontaneous; it is both
expression and release, excitement and relaxation. The best sex is the most
open and unplan ned; therefore planning for the unplanned is more or less a
self-contradiction. There is no way to practice being spontaneous.
To impr ove your sexual experience, first get rid of your expectations.
Sexual energy is neutral; you can associate it with anything, positive or
negative, in your life. Whatever you expect sex to be, it will tend to
become. So-called sexual problems are actually ingrained behaviors that
block the free flow of sexual energy. In both men and women the
physiology of sex is very delicate and easily influenced by the mind. It is
your mind that judges “good” and “bad” sex; it is your mind that intervenes
to prevent orgasm or potency (leaving aside disease conditions that impose
physical limitations).
The dilemma is that coming to bed without expectations seems to be
impossible, given how the mind works. When sexual experience was new, it
contained a quality of surprise and innocence. Even if we cannot remember
our first orgasm, most of us can remember how different orgasm was from
other pleasurabl e sensations. Its newness and intensity caused  us to want
more, but as you repeat any sensation, it becomes familiar, and familiarity
leads to dullness. For many people sex becomes associated with
performance. The question “How well am I doing?” hovers over the
bedroom. For other people sex is associated with sensation. The question
“How am I feeling?” is uppermost in their minds. And for still others,
security is dominant; the quest ion “Do you really love me?”  is in their
minds while making love.As soon  as sex becomes bound  up in these secondary associations and
needs, it is no longer free. There is nothing bad about pursuin g unrelated
needs in sex. Orgasm is a psychological package, not a physical reflex. But
no matte r how well you perform  or how terrific you feel, laying orgasm into
a certain groove separates it from any spiritual significance.
Sex is mechanical when it is without spiritual meaning.
For many reason s, it is difficult  to align our sexual and spiritual natures.
The following exercise is aimed not at making sex more spiritual but at
removing the obstacles that prevent spirit from entering into it.
PART ONE
Look at the following list of statements and write “Agree” or “Disagree”
beside each. Be honest and keep in mind that having expectations isn’t
something to feel bad about—this is an exercise in self-knowledge.
1. Sex is better if it lasts a long time.
2. Orgasm should be intense.
3. It’s not sex without or gasm.
4. I’m pretty insistent on getting sex when I want it.
5. The more or gasms, the better.
6. The best sex I ever had wasn’ t with my present partner.
7. Impotence lets my partner down.
or
Not having an or gasm lets my partner down.
8. My partner isn’ t as open about new positions and techniques as I am.
9. I’ve gone along with sexual experiments I didn’ t feel comfortable with
just because my partner asked me to.
10. I aim to please. I rarely let my partner down.
11. My partner disappoints me a lot more often than he (or she) knows.
12. I wouldn’ t like anyone to think I get too carried away over sex.
13. I’m too embarrassed to discuss some of the things I’d like to do in bed.
14. We have sex more (or less) often than I’d like.
15. I miss the way our sex used to be.
16. I really don’ t think about sex that often.17. Our sex isn’ t so great, but the rest of our marriage makes up for that.
18. I have fantasies I don’ t share with my partner.
19. My mind wanders during sex.
20. I’m not such a great lover.
These very common statements indicate that everyone has less than healthy
sexual expectations at least some of the time.
If you agr eed with five statements or fewer, you are likely to be very
present with your sexuality and appreciative of sex as it


 to rise in me, a deep
sense of gratitude for all the gifts I had received in such
simple ways.
I have little to add, except for one caution: the sense of fulllment
that surfaces when the inner mirror is polished must be spontaneous
to be true. The dull mirage of the world “out there” does not change
to glory all at once; the personality is not instantly  lifted to
sainthood; the body does not lose all its imperfections. (This woman
was not miraculously healed; she continues to undergo regulartreatment for her cancer and calmly accepts whatever outcome the
future holds.)
The whole process of renewa l happens in one’s consciousness, at a
level deeper than thought. It does no good to try to be newer,
better, more insightful, and so forth. Rather, the nervous system
undertakes the metamorphosis deep inside itself, using its own
recuperative powers. As the Upanishads declare, the yogi “dies and
lives again” with each meditation, which is another way of saying
that he cleans the mirror and holds it up to reect a dierent light.
The light will surely come through, even under conditions that
seem to be overwhelmed by darkness. One of my friends is a
meditation teacher who has taught extensively in prisons, and
because he speaks uent Spanish, he has helped start meditation
programs for prisoners in Central America. On one trip he found
himself walkin g into the courtyard of an old governor’s palace from
the days of the conquistadors. A moldering ruin now, it was built
like a medieval fortress, with several thick stone walls nested inside
each other.
“The gloom and oppression  of that place were terrible, even
compared to other places like it,” he remembers. “I got inside the
third wall and then the fourth, and when the guards let me through
the last gate, do you know what I saw?
“Very high up near the roof was a single small barred window.
Sticking out of it was a man’s arm. His hand was open, and he was
reaching, as hard as he could, for the sky. The arm didn’t move the
whole time I passed through the yard. More than words ever could,
it told me the dread of being in there.”
He found horrendous conditions inside. The cells were huge open
rooms, each holding a hundred men, whose rope hammocks were
stacked in layers up to the ceiling. The cramped room set aside for
my friend’s lectures had wide cracks between the plank ooring.
When he looke d down he could see the prisoners milling in the cells
below.
“We taught large groups of these men, who seemed very eager to
learn to meditate. They had good experiences, too, because of the
huge contrast between their present condition and the quietness wewere giving them inside. I gathered together the rst thirty who had
learned and asked them to volunteer what they were getting out of
it. There was a general stir, but no one really wanted to volunteer.
Then Juan Gonzalez raised his hand, and everybody laughed
raucously.
“You see, Juan Gonzalez had the lowest status in the entire
prison. He was an old peasan t who seemed to be mentally retarded.
He shued along with his head bent down and rarely spoke. All he
did was take care of the prison chapel, a tiny, bare room with
nothing in it except a few wooden benches and a rough-hewn cross
on the wall. All the decoratio ns and altar pieces had been removed
long ago, or stolen.
“ ‘Don’t  mind them,’ I said to Juan Gonzalez. ‘Stand up and tell
me what you feel in your meditation.’ He slowly stood up and
climbed onto his chair—I will never forget it—then he spread out
his arms as wide as possible, tilted back his head, and said, ‘Mas
amor, señor, mas amor.’
“ ‘Do you know what that means?’ my friend asked me.
“ ‘I do,’ I said, seeing Juan Gonzalez in my mind’s eye and
wondering at our kinship although he was so far away.  ‘It means,
“More love, sir, more love.” ’ ”
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The True Self
When my old friend Liam woke up one morning, got out of bed,
and had a heart attack, he didn’t bother to tell me. I only found out
a week  later when another doctor casually asked, “How’s our man
Liam enjoying his bypass?”
“What?” I stammered, dumbfounded.
He stopped being so lighthearted. “You didn’t know? He was
admitted for a triple bypass last week. Don’t worry, I understand it
was a minor infarction”—meaning that only a small portion of the
heart muscle had suered permanent damage. “If you ask me, he
was lucky to nd out the way he did. He could have walked around
with three vessels blocked and dropped dead tomorrow.”
I was relieved that Liam was safe but at the same time hurt that
he had left me out. Our friendship went back more than fteen
years. We had both just immigrated to this country—he from
Ireland, I from India—burni ng to make a career for ourselves in
Boston medicine. We shared the exhausting grind young residents
are put through, seeing more of each other at the veteran’s hospital
than we saw of our families at home.
Liam was a star even back then. When the rest of us were slumped
in the residents’ lounge at four A.M., too tired to lift our fth cup of
coee, he would be retell ing the day’s clinical ndings with
undiminished enthusiasm. His brilliant mind never rested, it
seemed, and his store of medical knowledge was bottomless. All he
could think of was internal medicine, and his way with duller, lesscommitted colleagues was merciless. He had all the senior residents
cowed, and more than one department head gave him a wide berth.
The ip side of this diamondlike hardness of mind was Liam’s soft
way with patie nts. If a sleepy  intern took thirty seconds too long to
come up with a proper diagnosis, Liam would be jumping  down his
throat, but a burned-out alcoholic could ramble on for half an hour
and still hold his undivided  attention. In return for his ability to
truly listen, Liam won his patients’ adoration. One ominous detail
stands out in my recollection, however—Liam was alread y a heavy
chain-smoker, working his way from two to three packs a day.
When I started writing books, Liam had already made his way
into mainstrea m medicine, operating a ourishing oncolo gy practice
in Atlan ta. Whenever he called, he took care never to refer to my
involvement in alternative medicine. One night, however, he
announced that his four partners, all senior oncologists, had passed
around one of my books. Their reaction was violent. “They’re
outraged, Deepak,” he said. “They don’t believe in these
spontaneous cures. They think your patients will have recurrences
sooner or later, and they say that you are undermining the
legitimate practice of medicine. You’ve blown them out!”
After Liam had reported their reaction in great detail, I hung up
feeling depress ed. It wasn’t the hostile skepticism of four strangers
that upset me—I suspected that Liam was speaking his own mind
indirectly through them.
Now it was two months later, and Liam had had a premature
heart attack at the age of thirty-eight. I reached him at home. “Sorry
to be so mysterious, Deepak. It wasn’t a big deal,” Liam started o,
sounding weak  and gloomy. He was reluctant to share any details of
his attack. Yes, the infarcted area was minimal, localized to the
posterior of the left ventricle. The bypass had gone very well; he
was steadily recuperating, and there were no complications.
In the midst of this rather impersonal exchange, Liam suddenly
blurted out, “I know exactly  why this thing happened, you know.
It’s not the smoking, not really. For two years I’ve been growing
disenchanted with oncology. I don’t feel like doing my job anymore,and the prospect of seeing another cancer patient lls me with
revulsion. But what are my options? I feel trapped.”
I was caught o guard, but Liam rushed on without taking a
breath. “Cancer shakes peopl e up, Deepak. Some of my patients are
sti with fear. ‘I just don’t want chemotherapy,’ they insist. You and
I know that chemo is eectiv e a lot of the time. When it isn’t, I don’t
feel like pushing it, but if I don’t push it, of course I don’t get paid.
A docto r can’t make a living just talking to patients, not nowadays.
You have to run the procedu res that insurance companies reimburse
you for. My conscience hurts me, but I push chemo anyway.
“I mean, look, all I’m trained  to do is give chemo. If I don’t, the
patient’s relatives


 of the way so you can be number one, no desperate
struggling to get to the top of the heap. As children of God,  each of us
already is at the top of the heap. The only real top of the heap is love, and
love is what we are.
In recognizing that you’re here only to love, you realize that as long as
you do that, you’re already a success. And love doesn’ t have to be
something grand. As Mother Teresa said, “There are no great deeds; there
are just small deeds done with great love.” It might be a kinder  greeting to
the checkout person at the grocery store, or an apology to someone whose
feelings you’ve hurt, or a simp le expression of kindness, compassion, or
forgiveness.
The point isn’t just what you give when you love, but also what you open
yourself to receive. As you send love out, the universe will send love back.
It’s simply the Law of Cause and Ef fect.

WHEN WE THINK  of ourse lves as channels for the infinite creative energy of
the universe, we think higher thoughts than “How will I get a job?” We’re
lifted to a realm of consciousness where questions like “How  can I best
serve the world? ” take precedence over “What can I get out of this?” Within
that realm, we naturally do get a job, we naturally do create money, and we
naturally do produce an outer prosperity that reflects the prosperity in our
hearts. This doesn’ t mean we don’t have to do the footwork. But our feet
become guided by a wisdom we might not have even known we had.
We do this not just to make money or even to get employment; we do this
in order to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. In a very real way,
money is the least of it. We’re here to do work that exists on a higher plane
than mere money. That doesn’ t mean money isn’t to be respected, or dealt
with appropriately, responsibly, and with moderation. It is, and we will
suffer accordingly when we fail to remember that. But money itself is
neither good nor bad. It is a material thing that, like all material things, is
infused with holiness if created righteously and used for holy purposes.
The way to abundance is to surrender our abilities and talents, asking that
they be used by God to help heal the world. Too many people feel that theyhave talent but simply don’t know where to put it. We’re not raised in a
society that asks, “What are your gifts, and how can they make the world a
more beautiful place?” We’re usually asked something more like this:
“What will you do to make a living?” This knocks us out of our natural
rhythm, because  the soul simpl y doesn’ t think that way. There  is no more
natural proclivit y than to serve  love. Something very powerful happens
when we pray, “Dear God, please use me.” Making ourselves available to
the universe for its loving purposes, we are taken up on our offer
immediately.
When anything—money included—is separated from our natural
proclivities, the miraculous universe is thrown off course. As long as we
make love our bottom line, then our lives will naturally prosper. Sometimes,
what will later make us a fortun e arrives first as a creative impulse that no
one would necessar ily think profitable at the time. Do something not
because you think it might make money; do it because it makes your heart
sing. The biblic al injunction “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all
else will be added unto you” means “Embrace the realization of your
oneness with all things, and everything that could contribute to your good
will emer ge from the power of that thought.”
One day, you might find yourse lf called to a task that makes no money at
all. But if it contributes to your stature as a human being, to your character
and integrity; if it teaches you about yourself and the world; if it provides
you an opportunity to show up fully for life—then it was a prosperous
activity. Another  day, you might  find yourself in a job you don’t really love,
and yet if you’re honest with yourself you realize it’s teaching you
discipline, or humility, or responsibility—necessary lessons in order to
attract and manage money correctly.
Money comes from the universe and will arrive when it’s created, not just
by a material cause but by the energy of righteousness. Righteousness
means “right use” of the mind, and the only right use of the mind is love.
The universe knows what our needs are and is programmed to provide for
them. When you start asking, “Have I provided for love’ s needs?” more
frequently than you ask, “Has love provided for my needs?” then the
miracles that occur naturally in the presence of love will fall at your feet
and into your hands.To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind,
surrender means  giving in and receiving. Once we’re there, inside the holy
place where all is inner riches, the outer gold of worldly prospe rity appears
in a miraculous way. It comes inviting us to use our wealth responsibly and
to share it generously, as the universe so shared it with us.

Dear God,
I surr ender to Y ou who I am, what I have and what I do.
May my life and talents be used in whatever way serves Y ou best.
I surr ender to Y ou my failur es and any pain still in my heart.
I surr ender to Y ou my successes, and the hopes that they contain.
May the Light of Y our Love shine deep within my heart,
and extend thr ough me to bless the world.
Amen.
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Transcending Fear
None of this “love and it will all be okay” stuff sounds attractive, or even
sane, to the ego mind.
Yet our spiritual task in life is to overcome the ego. The ego is the mind of
fear. It is our own mental power turned against ourselves. It is the part of us
that thinks that we have to struggle to get ahead, that we must compete with
everyone else, that there is only so much success to go around.
But the ego mind is not the truth of who we are, and what it says is not
true. It is our own self-hatred masquerading as self-love. The ego purports
to help us while actually luring us into the anxious hell of confused and
confusing thoughts.
The ego consi sts of—and perpetuates—the chronic, self-destructive
patterns by which we sabotage ourselves, blow opportunities, destroy
relationships, and undermine ourselves in a myriad of ways. Yet these self-
defeating patter ns don’t announce themselves as such. The ego is very
seductive. It comes in the guise of responsible considerations, telling us
something is reasonable that only later we realize wasn’ t reasonable at all; it
just seemed, for some insane reason, like a good idea at the time.

The ego, or  fear -mind, is the false belief that we ar e
separate fr om God.

The egoic fear-based thinking of the world (which is 180 degrees away
from the thinking of God) falls like a veil in front of our eyes, obscuringwhat is real. So how do we transcend the ego and lift the veil? This veil of
illusion is automatically lifted when we remember who we are and why
we’re here. The key to power in any situation is to be clear  about two
things: Who am I, really? And why am I here? Those two questions,
answered correctly, give you the power to work miracles.
Your mind is holy, because it is a creation of God. It was created for the
purpose of extending His love into the world. Your work is geared to
success to the extent that it is dedicated to love’ s purposes. Remember this,
and your mind will be filled with an impenetrable power.
Until and unless we align oursel ves with spiritual truth, we are vulnerable
to ego thoughts. According to A Course in Miracles,  with every thought we
are either host to God or hostage to the ego.
I remember years ago telling myself I didn’ t have to worry about the devil.
I had realized that there was no evil force out there stalking the planet for
human souls, that that idea was all in my mind. But then I realized that this
is the wors t place it could possibly  be. It’s not like good news or something
that the only place darkness exists is inside your head.
The ego is a constant temptation, dwelling in all of us, to perceive without
love. It creates a limitation; then it would have us believe that the limitation
is insurm ountable. It manufactu res a problem; then it would convince us
that the problem is intractable. The fact that the ego is inside your mind in
no way means that it’s your friend. On the other hand, the fact that it’s
inside your mind means that you yourself can change it!

A MAN AT one of my lectures once told me that he’d lived a happy life as a
piano teacher, but with the recession hitting people so hard, he wasn’ t
teaching enough  students to be able to make a living. Dan said he had
prayed for a


 Add the lime juice
and soy sauce.
5. Top with spring onions and serve.
Cream Soup
(Senegalese)
A creamy Senegalese soup with a strongcurry flavour to it.
Serves 4
 2 skinless chicken breasts, chopped
(450 g)
 1 litre water
 2 tbsp olive oil-based or unsalted
butter
 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored
and chopped
 2 celery stalks, chopped
 2 carrots, chopped
 1 onion, chopped
 1 garlic clove, crushed
 3 tbsp curry powder
 50g golden raisins 1 sweet potato, diced
 110 ml coconut milk
 Salt to taste
 ½ tsp cayenne
 ½ white pepper
 Mango chutney to garnish
1. Put the chicken in a large saucepan with
1 litres of water and bring to the boil.
2. Remove the chicken when cooked and
set aside, reserving the broth.
3. In a saucepan, heat the oil-based fat or
butter over a medium heat until the
foam subsides.
4. Add the apples, celery, carrots, onion
and garlic, stirring occasionally until
they begin to soften which should take
about 10 minutes.5. Add the curry powder, chicken and
raisins, and cook for about a minute.
Add the diced sweet potato, cook and
stir for 2 minutes.
6. Stir in the chicken broth, cover and
simmer for 1 hour.
7. Stir in the coconut milk and salt to taste.
Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
8. Add the cayenne and white pepper.
9. Cool the soup. Then pour into a food
processor or blender in batches, and
blend until smooth.
10. Strain the soup into a large bowl and
chill for about 2 to 3 hours until cold.
11. Garnish with ½ teaspoon of chutney
and serve.
Sweet Pea Soup
(EastAfrican)
I’m not a fan of peas but this turned out
to be very delicious and nourishing.
Serves 4
 2 onions, chopped
 2 garlic cloves, crushed
 2½ cm ginger, peeled and grated
 1 tsp salt
 ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
 1 tbsp garam masala
 2 tomatoes, chopped
 1 sweet potato, diced
 700 ml water
 600 g green peas1. Sauté the onions and garlic in a
saucepan for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Add the ginger, salt, cayenne pepper
and garam masala and cook for a few
minutes, stirring often.
3. Mix in the tomatoes and sweet potato.
Add 400 ml water and stir. Bring to the
boil. Reduce the heat, cover and
simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Add half the peas, cover and simmer
for 10 minutes.
5. Remove from the heat and add the
remaining water.
6. Blend in batches in a blender until
smooth.
7. Return to the saucepan. Add the
remaining peas and cook on a medium
heat for 3–5 minutes.Shorba (Algerian)
Soup is typically the first course in an
Algerian meal. This soup draws its
flavours from a combination of spices,
herbs and vegetables.
Serves 4–6
 3 skinless chicken breasts, cubed
 1 onion, grated
 ½ courgette, grated
 ½ potato, grated
 ½ celery stalk, chopped
 1 carrot, chopped
 2 tsp salt
 ½ tsp black pepper ½ tsp cinnamon
 1 tbsp paprika
 2 tbsp tomato paste
 1 tbsp olive oil
 50 g dried chick peas, soaked
overnight in water and drained (or
canned and drained is fine)
 1 litre water
 110 g orzo or other soup pasta
 1 tbsp parsley, chopped
 1 tsp fresh mint, chopped
 1 lemon, sliced
1. Put the chicken, onion, courgette,
potato, celery, carrot, salt, pepper,
cinnamon, paprika, tomato paste, oil,
chick peas (if using dried) and 700 mlwater in a large pot.
2. Simmer covered over a low heat for 20
minutes.
3. Add the remaining water, bring to the
boil and simmer for 45 minutes.
4. Add the orzo and chick peas (if using
canned). Cook for 10 minutes.
5. Add the parsley and mint. Serve with
lemon slices.
Fish Soup
(Cape Verdean)
Cape Verdean food is an enticing
mixture of Creole, Portuguese and
African flavours. The islands have a
wealth of seafood, which is often cooked
straight from the sea. One of the national
favourites is a slow-boiled stew of corn,beans, vegetables and marinated tuna,
called Catchupa.
Serves 4
 3 onions, chopped
 4 spring onions, chopped
 2 tomatoes, chopped
 1 green bell pepper, chopped
 1 red bell pepper, chopped
 3 tbsp olive oil
 1 kg sea bass or cod, cut into small
pieces
 1 litre water
 6 potatoes, diced
 3 sweet potatoes, diced
 1 (30g) bunch fresh parsley, chopped1. Sauté the chopped onions, spring
onions, tomatoes and peppers in a large
saucepan with the oil.
2. Add the cut fish and 1 litre of water and
bring gently to the boil.
3. Add the potatoes and parsley. Reduce
the heat and simmer. Add more
potatoes if you want a thicker soup.
Vegetable Soup
(South
African)
Every country has its own vegetable soup
and South Africa is no exception. This
soup should keep you warm in winter.
Serves 4–6 2 onions, chopped
 1 garlic clove, crushed
 30 ml olive oil
 3 carrots, sliced
 2 turnips, sliced
 2 celery stalks, chopped
 4 courgettes, sliced
 1 small butternut squash, peeled,
deseeded and chopped
 2 medium brinjals/eggplants/
aubergines, peeled and diced
 2 tbsp fresh tarragon or thyme,
chopped
 1 litre vegetable or chicken stock
 Salt and black pepper to taste
1. Sauté the onions and garlic in oil in aheavy-based saucepan for about 5
minutes.
2. Add the carrots, turnips, celery,
courgettes, butternut squash, brinjals,
tarragon or thyme and stock. Bring to
the boil.
3. Reduce the heat, cover the saucepan
and simmer for about 25 minutes or
until the vegetables are soft.
4. Season to taste and serve.
Tomato and Carrot Soup
A nourishing soup, packed with vitamin
C, beta-carotene and lycopene.
Serves 4–6 1 tbsp olive oil
 1 onion, chopped
 2 garlic cloves, chopped
 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
 500 g tomatoes, skinned and coarsely
chopped
 1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
 1
bouquet garni
 1 bay leaf
 1 litre vegetable or chicken stock
 Salt and freshly ground black pepper to
taste
 60 ml cream to garnish (optional)
1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add
the onion and garlic and sauté for 10
minutes.2. Add the carrots and stir over a low heat
until all the oil has been absorbed.
3. Add the tomatoes, apple,
bouquet
garni
, bay leaf and stock.
4. Season with salt and black pepper, and
bring to the boil. Cover the saucepan
and simmer for 45 minutes.
5. Remove and discard the
bouquet garni
.
Pour the soup into a blender.
6. Return the soup to the saucepan, heat
through and adjust the seasoning.
7. Pour into individual bowls, garnish
with 1 tbsp of cream (optional) and
serve.
Sweet Potato Soup
(South
African)An extremely fibre-rich, spicy and
satisfying soup. Use half the chilli or
leave it out completely if you have a low
tolerance to chilli.
Serves 4
 1 tbsp olive oil
 2 onions, chopped
 1 serrano green chilli pepper or
jalapeno, sliced thinly
 1 litre vegetable or chicken stock
 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
 2½ cm ginger, grated
 1 tsp thyme
 Salt and black pepper to taste
 4 sausages, sliced thickly (optional) Juice of 1 lemon
1. Sauté the onions in the oil in a saucepan
until transparent.
2. Add the sliced pepper and stock. Bring
to the boil over a medium heat.
3. Add the sweet potatoes, ginger and
thyme. Boil then reduce the heat and
simmer for 25 minutes, stirring
occasionally.
4. When the potatoes are cooked, pour
into a food processor, solids first, and
purée. Season with salt and black
pepper to taste.
5. If you are having the soup hot and
meaty, sauté the sausage separately
until crisp. When ready to serve, stir in
the lemon juice, then pour the soup intoindividual bowls, either


 with friendsand drow n his sorrows. W ithin two years, Eamon was diagnose d with high
blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
For yea rs, Eam on had lived a comfortable life in good healt h. As a
younger man he played sports  and exercised regularly. Now he found
himself caught in a vicious circle of feeling low and despondent, unable to
focus an d unable to get his business or health back on track. Fo llowing the
untimely passing of a close friend, Eamon decided that he had enough and
said to himself, “I’ve got to change my life.” This was his wake-up call.
When Eamon contacted me to help reduce his stress levels, he was
desperate to improve his situation: “My business has me totally stressed
out, I’m not slee ping at night an d can’ t even think straight.” My main focus
was to help him get back to good  health by retraining his breathi ng. W ith an
increase in ener gy and concentration, the rest would follow.
Eamon’ s starting BOL T score was just 8 seconds, and he displayed traits
of someone dealing with stress and anxiety: taking lar ge breat hs from the
upper ch est and sighing regularl y. Eamon’ s first steps were to learn how to
breathe through his nose day and night, to take time out to  relax and
meditate, and to practice the Breathe Light to Breathe Right exercise. Stress
was the main iss ue to be resolve d, and learning how to still the mind was an
essential part of addressing his other symptoms.
For peop le with  diabetes and hi gh blood pressure, it is importa nt to go
slowly a nd gentl y when practicing reduced breathing exercises, so as not to
put a dditional pressure on the bo dy. Reducing breathing commo nly leads to
a red uction of blood sugar levels, and while this is a good thing, decreasing
levels too quickly is not. As Eamon’ s BOL T score increased, both his
diabetes and high blood pressure medications were reduced accordingly by
his doct or. If you have high blood pres sure or diabetes, it’ s important to
consult your medical profession al before embarking on a reduced breathing
program.
Eamon’ s regimen was as follows:
•   Perfo rm 10 minutes of Breathe Light to Breathe Right (pag e
74), 4 times per day, with 1 ses sion just before bed and 1 just
after waking.•   Stop a nd obse rve the breath for 1 to 2 minutes at various tim es
throughout the day to further reduce overthinking.
•   T ape the mou th closed before retiring to sleep to ensure nasal
breathing at night.
•   Pr actice the Breathing Recovery Exercise (page 91) whenev er
he felt anxious or stressed.
•  W alk with the mouth closed for 30 minutes daily.
•  Pay attention to appetite and eat only when hungry.
•   Redu ce alcoh ol consumption to no more than 2 servings of
alcohol each night for the firs t week. From week 2, reduce
drinking to every other night.
From the start, Eamon questioned whether these techniques were
actually going to work. They fle w in the face of everything he h ad been told
to date—well-meaning stress counselors had encouraged him to take deep
breaths—and reducing his brea thing seemed like the opposite of what he
needed.
During our first consultation, Eamon practiced the Breathing Recovery
Exercise of holding his breath for 5 seconds, followed by normal breathing
for 1 0 se conds. He continued this for about 5 minutes before ta king a rest.
Following the Breathing Recov ery Exercise I asked Eamon t o place his
hands on his ch est and abdomen, and to apply gentle pressure with his
hands to slow down his breathing and create a light air sh ortage. He
practiced Breat he Light to Breathe Right for 3 minutes. Despite
experiencing a mild ur ge for air, within minutes he started to feel tension
lifting fr om his head. I’m pretty  sure this was the turning point for Eamon.
Breathing light had improved h is blood flow and body oxyge nation after
just a couple o f minutes—assuring him that this was indee d the way
forward.
From th en on I saw Eamon ea ch week for a month. His BOL T score
made steady progress, and by  the fourth week it had increased to 27seconds. His sleep was far be tter, leaving him feeling more alert upon
waking, and he experienced a tremendous improvement to his well-being.
Eamon’ s high blood pressure and blood sugar levels also reduce d, while his
doctor observed his progress and altered his medication as required.
Another positive  side ef fect from the reduced breathing for Eam on was
a l essene d need for food. His ap petite was much lower than normal, and he
gave up  drinkin g completely on weekday evenings. W ith decreased stress
levels, there was far less temptation for both alcohol and food. Eamon’ s
friends a nd neig hbors have commented on how well he looks now that his
weight h as been  reduced by mo re than thirty-five pounds. I ha ve met with
him a few times since, and alth ough his BOL T score progress has slowed
slightly, he not only looks like a dif ferent person but feels  it as well.
Eamon’ s story stands out in my  mind as he achieved a lot desp ite having a
lot of distractions and dif ficulties going on. He was extremely dedicated and
followed throug h with each task he was given. It is often the case that those
who are the mos t unwell are the most determined to follow the program in
order to  get their health back. S uf fering can be a very ef fectiv e motivator,
but it’ s even better to make jus t a few small ef fective changes  before you
reach the breaking point.
My obje ctive for this chapter is  to show you the relationship between
breathing and food consumption, not to tell you what and what not to eat.
Of cour se there  are foods that are best eaten in moderation or eliminated
entirely from the diet, and these are well documented in most books on
health an d diet. A much more useful approach is to look at the reasons why
you mig ht be stuck on a permanent yo-yo diet, or continue to  struggle to
lose weight, and the answer may be closer than you think.
W e can live without food for weeks, without water for days, but without
air for just a few minutes. In terms of importance for survival, breathing is
at the top of the list, followed by water, with food in last place. Health
professionals, athletes, and nonathletes alike pay far more attention to their
food tha n their breathing, but what happens if we switch this fo cus around?
Improve your BOL T score by 10 seconds and you will find y our appetite
changing. Impro ve your BOL T score to 40 seconds and yo ur life will
change.
The loss of appe tite and resultant weight normalization from obtaining a
higher BOL T score may be d ue to a combination of seve ral factors,including one’ s blood pH shifting toward normal, the ef fects of simulated
high-altitude training, or simply an increased feeling of relaxation helping
to reduc e emoti onal eating. In this section we will examine each of these
elements to help explain why Oxygen Advantage exercises help reduce the
appetite.
Overweight individuals tend to have poor breathing habits, such as
chronic hyperventilation, frequent sighing, and breathing from the mouth
and upp er chest. Putting on a few extra pounds causes us to b reathe more
heavily, and not just during physical exercise—breathing volume is
increased during rest as well. Based on my observations, there is a clear
relationship between breathing volume and food consumption. The question
is wheth er processed and acid-forming foods lead to the development of
poor breathing habits, or migh t it be that poor breathing habits lead to
cravings for processed and acid- forming foods? In my experience there is a
feedback loop between breathing and weight gain, and this cycle must be
broken if change is to occur.
The pH scale measures acidity and alkalinity, ranging from 1 to 14. On
this scale, 1 is the most acidic, 14 the most alkaline, and 7 is neutral. As we
saw in the first chapter, carbon dioxide plays a crucial role in the regulation
of b lood pH. O ur bodies strive to maintain a state of balance known as
homeostasis, which includes normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar,
and normal blood pH within a n arrow range of 7.35 and 7.45. This balance
of chemicals is kept in check by the lungs and the kidneys. If blood pH
drops be low 7.35 it will become too acidic, causing breathing  volume to
increase as the lungs work to correct pH levels by of floading carbon dioxide
(which i s itself acidic). Over -ac idity of the blood may occur when we eat
processed and acid-forming foods, leading


raise the total amount per meal to about 50 mg.
Use a trace mineral supplement high in zinc and manganese or use separate supplements for these. With serious impairment of
kidney functions use only a low-potency multivitamin-mineral supplement and none of the others mentioned above. However, on a
diet very low in protein take supplements of essential amino acids, this is especially important for children. Test these amino acids but
also all supplements for allergy.
Suitable herbs to improve kidney functions and serve as mild diuretics to prevent water retention and oedema are buchu, corn silk,
dandelion, elder and juniper berries, peach leaves and uva ursi.
Warning: If on dialysis do not stop your normal dialysis routine when starting on this nutritional program. Instead phase it out
gradually according to the results of your urine and blood analysis tests.
URINE THERAPY
Drinking one's own urine is common  in India and was formerly also a trusted home remedy in some rural parts of Europe. Fresh urine
generally is sterile and has excellent wound-healing qualities. Some European health practitioners claim to have obtained healing
results with urine fasts, which could not be achieved with other methods of fasting or healing (see The Water of Life by J. W.
Armstrong).
Success rates approaching 100% have been claimed in the treatment of severe kidney disorders including complete kidney failure.
Reasons for this strong healing potential of urine are:
It destroys harmful intestinal bacteria and other parasites.
It heals inﬂammations because of its antiseptic qualities.
Large amounts of ﬂuid pass through the body during a urine fast and thoroughly ﬂush the kidneys and intestines without depleting the
body of water-soluble vitamins and minerals, which are simply recycled.
Harmful urine ingredients will be discarded through the bowels but may at the same time have a homoeopathic healing effect in the
form of an auto-immune therapy.
The Urine Fast
Drink all of your freshly voided urine and in addition sufﬁcient good-quality water for a total ﬂuid intake of at least 5 litres on the ﬁrst
day. If the urine is very concentrated in the beginning, it may be strongly diluted with water. However, the more concentrated the
urine, the stronger is its stimulating ef fect on bowel movements.
After several days, the urine usually becomes more or less clear and tasteless. The overall daily ﬂuid intake and output may gradually
build up to 10 litres or more. When high volumes are reached, discontinue the addition of water.
The high ﬂuid intake, together with the stimulating properties of the urine, will normally prompt frequent bowel movements, especially
in the beginning. In this way, harmful substances such as toxins and uric acid are safely removed, while the vitamins and minerals
are reabsorbed.
Urine fasts reportedly are more successful if the body is extensively rubbed with urine during this time. Only small amounts are
needed, pour a teaspoonful into the hollow of a hand and rub the skin until it is dry. The original recommendations in The Water of
Life speak of two hours of daily rubbing, especially over diseased parts and problem areas. One may also use urine compresses on
these parts. After rubbing, take a shower.
The duration of urine fasts is commonly between four and ten days. However, it varies greatly according to the nature of the disease.
With some life-threatening diseases it has been found that the body often reacted quite badly if food was given before it was properly
cleansed. As with water fasts, a return of the appetite usually indicates the completion of the cleansing process. However, prolonged
fasts, especially if in poor health, should always be under the care of an experienced practitioner.
Drinking unpleasant urine: close your nose with thumb and foreﬁnger while drinking the urine and until you have rinsed your mouth
twice with diluted fruit juice, spit out the juice. Alternatively, you may just hold your breath during this time. Normally no bad taste or
after-taste develops with this procedure. However, as the body becomes cleaner the urine loses its offensive qualities and tastes and
smells more or less like the food one has last eaten. With high volumes discard the late evening urine to reduce urinating during the
night.
Armstrong in The W ater of Life gives many case histories, here just a few details to show the scope of the therapy:
A woman in her forties with complete kidney failure: Largely because of water retention she had about doubled her normal weight and
been told by her doctors that she had two days to live. Urine very scanty, thick, looking like a mixture of blood and pus. By the fourth
day of the urine fast her urine ﬂow had increased from less than 60 ml per day to about 6 liter. On the 23rd day she tried a small
amount of carrot juice but had a strong setback. She continued the fast and broke it on the 49th day with fresh orange juice. A week
later she had complete recovered.
A male patient, also supposed to be close to death, had doubled his weight to about 190 kg. He fasted for 55 days and was
completely recovered shortly afterwa rds. Another male patient of 75 years fasted for 53 days and a boy of 11 years for 14 days. Both
recovered completely.10/30/24, 3:10 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Kidney Disease - A Holistic Therapy
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Kidney Disease/Kidney-Disease-A-Holistic-Therapy.html 4/6A young man of 19 years did not have bowel movements for one week and had not passed urine for 72 hours. Armstrong gave him
some of his own urine. Two hours later he passed a small amount of foul urine. Eight hours later he was nearly free of the
excruciating pain he had suffered for weeks. On the ﬁfth day a doctor intervened and gave him a tablespoon of ground wheat in
water. Immediately the ﬂow of urine stopped and soon the former painful condition had returned. The urine fast was restarted and
broken on the 17th day. Ten days later he was back at work.
In cases of Bright's disease when patients were not close to death fasts lasted from four to fourteen days until recovery. Armstrong
also gives the case of a man with a diseased kidney in addition to a large stone. The kidney was due to be removed. After several
short fasts on urine this kidney was declared to be healthy and without stone by the same hospital staff who before wanted to remove
it.
If you want to use a less radical method than a full urine fast, try the following: Collect your ﬁrst morning urine, dilute it to half a litre
and drink immediately. One to two hours later this will cause you to urinate a second time and again you dilute it to half a litre and
drink it. Do that a third and possibly a fourth time and then have your breakfast and your normal food and drink for the rest of the day.
If you start at 5 or 6 a.m. you may have your breakfast between 9 and 10 a.m. and have given your kidneys an excellent ﬂush in the
meantime that will quickly dissolve any stones and wash out any calciﬁcations and microbes. Repeat this as often as necessary to
heal your kidneys.
However, my favorite to re-activate kidney functions is to drink, slowly and spaced out, about 3 liters of high-quality water (no chlorine
or ﬂuoride) before breakfast. To each liter add up to a cupful of fresh urine and the content of one capsule of MegaHydrin or
Microhydrin. Instead of these you may also use alkaline water from a water ionizer. Useful alternative antioxidants are ascorbic acid
and alpha lipoic acid. Preferably start with smaller amounts and only gradually increase to 3 liters if problems arise, such as water
retention, then reduce the ﬂuid intake temporarily. If already on dialys is then use water low in minerals with these additions and
increase the volume of drinking water more slowly to match the output of urine.
Armstrong claims to have cured many thousands of patients, many of them with so-called incurable diseases and close to death.
However, he is emphatic that no medical or other drugs must be taken during urine fasts. While I suspect that most kidney patients
will prefer dialysis or kidney transplants, I offer this information for the few who are willing to try. For details and further information
see also the related articles Urea and Urine Therapy  and Urine Therapy Prevents Kidney Failure.
ADDITIONAL  THERAPY
A more conventional therapy to delay the need for dialysis is colonic irrigation (colonies) with plenty of low-mineral water. This helps
to reduce high blood levels of toxins and waste.
Epsom salts and castor oil packs over the kidneys can be of great bene ﬁt. Wet a cloth with concentrated warm Epsom salt solution
and place it over the kidneys. Keep warm for 1 - 2 hours with a hot water bottle. At other times use warm castor oil on a woollen cloth,
keep warm. Repeat these packs frequently. With inﬂammation and pain a fresh outer cabbage leaf over the kidneys may bring relief.
To use colour therapy, shine a bright orange light at close range onto the kidney area for kidney stones, but use blue light in case of
pain. Exclude daylight or other electr ic light. In case of weak kidneys violet light is best.


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substances. Phytother. Res. 1995. 9. 185-188.
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Aloe Vera Gel on tissue culture cells, oral surgery, oral medicine and oral pathology. 1969. 27. 122-
128.

Danhof I.E.; McAnalley, B.H. Stabilised Aloe Vera - effect on human skin cells Drug & Cosmetic
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Nakasugi; Tohru; Komai; Koichiro. Antimutagen of Aloe plants (Anthraquinones - Aloe Emodin) Kinki
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Sendelbach, L.E. A Review of the Toxitcity and Carcinogenicity of Anthraquinone
derivatives.Toxicology 1989. 57.227-240.

Tsuda, H.; Ito, M.; Hirono, I.; Kawai, K.; Beppu, H.; Fujita, K.; Nagao, M. Inhibitory effect of Aloe
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Tsuda, H.; Matsumoto, K.; Ibo, M.; Hiroto, I.; Kawai, K.; Beppu, H.; Fujita, K.; Nagao, M. Inhibitory
effect of Aloe arborescens. Miller var. natalensis Berger (Kidachi Aloe) on induction of preneoplastic focal lesions in the rat liver. Phytotherapy Research. 1993. 7. (No Special Issue) 543-547.

Westendorf; Marquardt; Poginsky; Dominiak; Schmidt. Genotoxicity of naturally occurring
Hydroxyanthraquinones. Evaluation of mutagenicity and cell-transforming activity. Mutat. Res.
1990 Jan. 240(1). 1-12.
Wimbus, W.D.; Benavides, R.; Clause, W.J Effects of Aloe extracts on human and tumour cells in-vitro.
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Winters, W.D.; Benavides, R.; Clouse, W.J. Effects of Aloe Extracts on Human Normal and Tumor
Cells In Vitro. Econ. Bot. 1981. 35: 89-95.

Wolfe, D.; Schmutgte, C.; Westendorf, J.; Marquardt, H. Hydroxyanthraquinones as tumour promoters:
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SECTION II - ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECT

Experimental work in this field has largely been carried about by the podiatrists (chiropodists) and one
worker stands out above all others. He is Professor R.H. Davis, Professor of Physiology at the
Pennsylvanian College of Podiatric Medicine. He has repeatedly demonstrated Aloe's anti-inflammatory
effect, both on soft tissues and in arthritis. His work, however, is limited to animal experiments but he has
not carried out any Clinical Studies on patients.
Afzal, M.; Ali, M.; Hassam, R.A.N.; Sweedan, N.; Dhami, M.S.I. Identification of some prostanoids in
Aloe Vera extracts. Planta Medica. 1991. 57(1). 38-40.

Bradshaw, T.W. Aloe Vera: its influence on the physiology of wound healing and inflammation. J.
Brit. Pod. Med. 1996. 51(2). 25-29. A7

Brasher, W.J.; Zimmermann, E.R.; Collings, C.K. The effects of Prednisolone, Indomethacin and
Aloe Vera Gel on tissue culture cells, oral surgery, oral medicine and oral pathology. 1969. 27. 122-
128.

Capasso, F; Mascolo N.; Autore, G.; Duraccio, M.R. Effect of Indomethacin on Aloin and 1,8
Dioxianthraquinone-induced Production of Prostaglandins in Rat Isolated Colon. Prostglandins. 1983. 26.
557-562.

Davis R.H.; Didonato J.J.; Hartman G.M.; Haas R.C. Anti-Inflammatory and wound healing activity of a
growth substance in Aloe Vera.J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1984 Feb. 84:.
Davis, R.H.; Agnew, PS.; Shapiro, E. Antiarthritic activity of anthraquinones found in Aloe for
podiatric medicine. J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1986. 76(2) 61-66.

Davis, R.H.; Kabbani, J.M.; Marc, N.P. Aloe Vera and inflammations. Proc. Pa. Acad. Sci. 1986. (recd. 1987) 60(1) 67-70.

Davis, R.H.; Leitner, M.E.; Russo, J.M. Topical anti-inflammatory activity of Aloe Vera as
measured by ear swelling. J. Am. Podiatric. Med. Assoc. 1987. 77(11) 610-612.
 Davis, R.H.; Leitner, M.G.; Russo, J M; Byrne, M.E. Anti inflammatory activity of Aloe Vera
against a spectrum of irritants. (Oral activity found to be dependent on presence of
Anthraquinones). J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. (US). 1989 June. 79 (6). 263-276.

Davis, R.H.; Maro, N.P. Aloe Vera and gibberellin. Anti-inflammatory activity in diabetes. J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1989 Jan. 79 (1). 2426.

Davis, R.H.; Rosenthal, K.Y.; Cesario, L.R.; Omu, G.A. Processed Aloe Vera administered
topically inhibits inflammation. J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1989. 79(8). 395-397.

Davis, R.H.; Parker, W.L.; Murdoch, D.P. Aloe Vera as a biologically active vehicle for hydrocortisone
acetate. J.Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1991. 81(1). 1-9. A3
 Davis, R.H. Influence of Aloe on inflammation and wound healing. International Congress of
Phytotherapy. 1991 Oct. Seoul, Korea. 29.

Davis, R.H.; Stewart, G.J.; Bregman, P.J. Aloe Vera and the inflamed synovial pouch model. J. Am.
Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1992 Mar. 82 (3). 140-148.
 Davis, R.H.; Didonato, J.J.; Hartman, G.M.; Haas, R.C. Antiinflammatory and wound healing
activity of a growth substance in Aloe Vera. J. Am. Podiatric. Med. Assoc. 1994 Feb. 84(2). 77-81.

Davis, R.H.; Didonato, J.J.; Johnson, R.W.; Stewart, C.B. Aloe Vera, hydrocortisone and sterol
influence on wound tensile strength and anti-inflammation. J. Am. Podiatric Med. Assoc. 1994 Dec. 84(12). 614-621.

Fujita, K.; Teradoura, R.; Nagatsu, T Bradykinase activity of Aloe extract. Biochemical
Pharmacology. 1976. 25. 205.

Fujita, K.; Ito, S.; Teradaira, R.; Beppu, H. Properties of carboxypeptidase from Aloe. Biochemical
Pharmacology. 1979. 28. 1261-1262.
Ibo, S; Teradaira, R.; Beppu, H; Obata, M.; Nagatsu, T.; Fujita, K. Properties and
pharmacological activity of carboxypeptidase in Aloe arborescens Miller var. natalensis Berger.
International Congress of Phytotherapy. 1991 Oct. Seoul, Korea.


 marriage can end with or without divorce. Clean up the
erroneous thinking and you will preserve your institution of marriage.
Perpetuate it, and marriage will eventually disappear on your planet.”
“Do you think there is any such thing as truth  here on Earth?” I wanted to
know.
“There are unlimited truths on your planet, and they are all located in
individuals. If you ask thirty people on the beach why this is a beautiful
day, or is it too hot, you will get thirty dif ferent truthful  answers. One will
feel the day is beautiful because the sun is shining and it’ s warm, another
will feel that it is a terrible day because of the same conditions. Both are
truthful answers. On Earth, truth is an inner experience, yet many attempt to
impose their truths on others without ever stopping to think about separate
truths. Each person has an opportunity to view his world as he chooses.
What is true for one is not true for another. When you allow for separatetruths, you no longer need agreements about what is true. In fact, it is only
when you attempt to or ganize a truth that it becomes a lie. V ery few of the
people on Earth whom I’ve observed are willing to accept another ’s truths
as valid when they conflict with their own, or with the accepted
‘organization’ of a truth.”
“You’ve mentioned changing our thinking as if it were something easy to
do. How does one just change one’ s thinking?” I asked.
“You simply do it. For example, if I ask you to close your eyes and think
of a brown cocker -spaniel puppy on a blue chair, you can do that. Then if I
ask you to send that thought away and replace it with the thought of a green
vase of twelve long-stemmed red roses, you could also do that. Can you tell
me how you did it? Of course no one can say how it’ s done, but you all
know how to change your thoughts. For get the how and do it. W ork at
sending away any thought that you don’ t want or that is incorrect. This is
the beauty of your reality, you can think as you choose.”
“What are your thoughts on psychiatry and psychology as they are
practiced here?” I asked.
“Most of it is practiced by people who are trapped by the same incorrect
thinking as those who seek the treatment. Most of your therapists (I thought
that word was ‘the rapist’ the first time I encountered it) seem content to
provide their clients with excuses for their own self-inflicted maladies. Y our
reality gives you a free will for a lifetime, yet you have professionals who
convince their clients and each other of various theories which place blame
on everything from the unconscious to birth order, to childhood traumas, to
parental errors, or anything else that’ s convenient. Therapy seems to be an
attempt by people to ‘purchase friendship,’ and an ef fort to gain self-
understanding by looking backward. A person who practices this incorrect
thinking of blaming others for his problems is simply transferring that
blame when he looks to a therapist for the answers. The truly skilled
therapists whom I observed provided an environment for self-discovery.
They helped individual clients assume responsibility for everything and
accept the fact that they alone were responsible for everything that
happened to them. These were rare therapists, lar gely because you must
believe this about yourself and be living this philosophy each day in order
to help others to do the same. Only a knower of self can help a seeker of
self to find self-knowledge. And psychology, like all other professions, hasfew knowers of self, since its practitioners come from the same externally
thinking population pool into which other professions dip as well.”
There was so much to ask and yet I knew that whether we spent another
day or a hundred years together, I would always feel that way. She would
answer any question, discuss any subject, and she always revealed the depth
of her reality-only thinking. I wanted to ask her how she felt about me,
though I almost trembled at the thought of hearing someone talk to me,
about me, without the ability to be even mildly dishonest. I wanted to know
what she thought of Earthly love and sex, but again I decided to wait. I tried
thinking as “correctly” as I knew how, and everything I felt for her said, “I
love her.” Yet I still doubted myself. How does one love someone who can
only say and feel what is? What about the little white lies, or the occasional
exaggeration to smooth things over?
I began to see myself in a new light. W as I afraid of her? Or was I afraid
of myself? Since meeting Eykis I’d learned much about fear. When you
elect to avoid anything because of fear, you choose to avoid life itself. Fear
is a thinking process and it is based on believing that things are fearsome.
But in reality, in Eykis’ special reality, things on Earth just are. People don’ t
possess little fear bugs as they might on Uranus. I was still afraid of being
rejected by Eykis, but I was moving toward that inner road that she had
defined earlier in the day. I wanted to take the time for myself. I knew that
she had more gifts to give. Still, I was going to ask her to share her unique
knowledge and just present her secrets of the universe, without any
interference from anyone, including myself. Then, perhaps, I’d ask how she
felt about me. If there was time.
OceanofPDF.com9
 The Secrets of the Universe
“You mentioned something about secrets in our earlier discussions, Eykis.
Do you want these secrets to remain clouded over, or are you willing to
share them here on film with us?” I asked.
“I’d be happy to share my observations with you. But first I would like to
say that the only reason I refer to what follows as ‘secrets’ is that they
appear to have eluded so many of you here on Earth. Originally I called
them secrets because I thought no one knew them. I’ve since discovered
that all these so-called secrets are available to everyone on Earth, and have
been as long as you’ve had recorded history. I will still refer to them as
secrets, however, because their actual use continues to remain obscure,” she
said.
“Fine. If you have no objections, I’m going to sit back and let you tell us,
uninterrupted, what these universal secrets are,” I replied, knowing full well
that Eykis had no objections to anything I asked, since this was my format
and she was the willing participant in this day-long encounter that was
drawing to an end.
Eykis began…
“You must first learn to cultivate your own gar den. I’ve noticed that most
of your problems, your dif ficulties, your pain, and your self-defeating
behaviors stem from ignoring this clearly necessary advice. Cultivating
your own garden means that, as individuals, you focus first on the only
thing over which you have absolute control, yourselves. Then, when you
have your own life in order, you can assist others who need and seek your
help. Y our reality prohibits you from being anyone else, yet all of you seem
to look critically into everyone else’ s gardens. Since all of you have the free
will to grow what you please, it is really senseless to be concerned about
what others grow in their gardens, unless they are interfering with someone
else’s right to self-determination. If your neighbors prefer green beans to
your squash, then so be it. If your children choose to fertilize and you optfor crop rotation, then let it alone. If your spouse wants to grow flowers and
leave the weeds where they sprout, and you prefer neat rows of alternate-
colored vegetables, then that is how you ought to arrange your separate
gardens. If you get your own garden in shape, growing what you choose, by
methods that appeal to you, you will be so busy being and living that you
won’ t have any time left over to criticize your neighbors’ gardens. Y ou will
have time to admire and accept what they have created, and to assist those
who ask your help or to help insure that no one grows crops that interfere in
any way with the right of others to tend their own gardens. Cultivating your
own garden means accepting others as perfect, not wanting to alter or edit
those you love, and putting your life ener gy into being the happiest, most
fulfilled and moral human being possible. After all, your reality prohibits
you from entering the gardens of others. So why not align your thinking to
your reality, regardless of how much you dislike how others manicure their
gardens? Liking or not liking the activities and life styles of others will only
upset you and ruin your relationships. Moreover, you must have your own
life in order before you can help others or work constructively at changing
your world for the better. If all Earth people would remember this little
secret, unhappiness in most forms would soon be eliminated.
“The kingdom of heaven is within.  This secret, which I discussed earlier,
is basic to your survival, and yet most of your people ignore it. The wording
has a religious orientation, but the concept is not limited to religion. It
applies to all human beings and their behavior. As a people, you resist
looking inward. Y ou’ve allowed yourselves


 pH. In this way,
sequences of electron-donat ing and electron-ac
cepting enzyme reacticns may produce fluctuations of
the electric potential of the degrading tissue as the
whole process drives toward equilibrium. Examples of
such sequences are known, as in the electron transfer
reactions of haemoproteins. Thus, Jordan (30) has
described a redox potential cascade for the terminal
oxidation chain of cellular respiration of the overall
reaction: coo
l
CH2+!02-+
I
HCOH
I coo-coo
l
CH2+H20
I co
I coo-
as shown in Fig. XU: 6.
Malate is not directly oxygenized in the presence of
oxygen. The oxidation to oxalacetate occurs, however,
rapidly via the intermediate steps shown in Fig.
Xll: 6. This leads to a potential difference of more
than I V, even though the potential differences for
successive steps are small. It is also known that exer
gonic reactions (with a negative standard-free-energy )
may change, e.g., the oxidation of glucose to water and
carbon dioxide {ll.G0' = -686 kcal mol-1) into an en
dergonic esterification of glucose and phosphate to
glucose G-phosphate and water, which presents a posi
tive standard-free-energy change (6.G0'=3.3 kcal
mol-1). Such reactions may be generally expressed as:
Exergonic A+B-+ C+ D+energy (Jl.G•negative)
Endergonic energy (Jl.G•positive )+E+ F-+ G+H.
How sequences of oxidizing and reducing reactions
may change the direction of electron flow, or to which
individual step or steps of a sequence should be attrib
uted such functions in necrotizing tissue, e.g., bone, is
presently not predictable. These mechanisms appear
also to depend to a large extent on the function of
adjacent normal tissue.
Polarization products will also form at the cathodic
metal surface during the calciolytic phase. This devel
opment should impair the diffusion of oxygen toward
the cathode. It should also facilitate a reversal of the
direction of electron flow.
The proposal of fluctuating and attenuating driving
forces between Tissues I and II is based partly on the
studies on injury potentials in tumours and spontane
ously degrading sterile blood (Chapter VII), and partly
on the physical fact that aU known spontaneous reac
tions proceed in a fluctuating, attenuating fashion to
ward equilibrium. It is inconceivable, moreover, to
assume that the induction of a degrading process in
vivo should proceed under the influence of a unidirec
tional gradient of potential between the injured and
surrounding normal tissue, simply because new distor
tions of the ionic compositions at the reaction sites
would then be created. Acceptance of a fluctuating
injury potential between Tissues I and II also makes it
possible to understand many biologic transformations
which otherwise are difficult to explain. The early acidic phase of Tissue I is proposed to
dissolve calcium in the bone matrix, hence this is here
called the "calciolytic phase". Local decalcifications in
bone are commonly seen radiographicaUy after bone
injury, e.g., trauma.
Direct evidence of a change of Tissue I from an
acidic, "calciolytic phase" into an alkaline "mineral
ization phase" is encountered in the development of
radiographically evident, irregular zones of calcifica
tion, appearing in previously decalcified bon<. This
mineralization may now be explained as a result of
inflow of calcium and magnesium ions as a selective
transport over the closed electric circuit under the
influence of the now cathodic reaction of the tissue.
Local phosphate ions, in the meantime, are lagging in
the process of diffusion in the degrading tissue and are
therefore available for recombination with calcium and
magnesium ions into complex calcium-magnesium
phosphate salts as apatite. The development of decalci
fied and calcified regions, which are radiographically
common in aseptic necrosis or other kinds of bone
injury, now in principle can be explained. As will also
be shown later (Chapter XVI), the same principle can
be applied experimeotaUy to produce rnicrocalcifica
tions in breast fat tissue.
How does iron now appear as a precipitation line in
the normal Tissue II? First, we may anticipate that
hydroxyl ions remain in Tissue II from the phase when
this tissue was an electron acceptor. When the polarity
changes so that Tissue I consumes electrons, Tissue II
accumulates dissolving iron ions from the adjacent
metal, which delivers electrons:
Fe_. Fe2+ +2e-.
Fe2+ ions then diffuse and migrate away from the
metal surface to a region in Tissue II where the pH is
favourable for the combination of Fe2+ with remain
ing hydroxyl ions, to form insoluble Fe(OHh (and
later, Fe203 • nHzO).
Local sites with increased x-ray attenuation in Tis
sue I are generally regarded as caused by deposition of
calcium. It should not be surprising, however, if fu
ture analyses will show that these sites also include
precipitated iron, dissolved during the acidic phase of
Tissue I.
This preliminary description of "complicated corro
sion" is simplified and incomplete in many respects. It
probably represents only one of several possible expla
nations. MetaJ implants consist of different combi na~
lions of metals, two of which are presented in Table
XII: I. Dissolving of iron in stainless steels in active
states is accompanied by similar reactions of chromi
um, nickel, molybdenum and manganese. Further
more, one may expect that in the tissue fluid various
compounds, not considered here, must also induce
reactions with the implant.
BiologicaUy closed electric circuits 119 a
NEC Fig. XII: 7. (a) Precipitation
Hline" produced adjacent to
metal in the relatively nor·
mal Tissue II during its
mineralization phase.
CLOSED CIRCUIT
ElECTRIC FIELD
FORCES (b) The necrotic Tissue I
consumes electrons deliv
ered from the metal adjacent
to Tissue II as iron there dis
solves. The Fe++ ions pro
duced, then recombine with
hydroxyl ions to form
Fe(OH),. (c) In cross sec
tion, the iron precipitate
forms an equilibrium depos
it as a ring around the metal
by the action of closed cir
cuit electric field forces and
concentration forces ( = for
mationof"A" and.. B"
zones). See also Chapter X,
Figs. I, 7.
The characteristic appearance of metallic precipita
tion as a line structure in radiographs will now be
considered.
3. The precipitation line
Dissolved metal has been chemically identified adja
cent to metal in bony tissue by Ferguson, Laing and
Hodge (16). Its constituent chemicals are most likely
Fe(0H)2 and Fe20l · nH20.
During the mineralization phase of anoxic necrosis,
the necrotic Tissue I consumes electrons from the
metal (Fig. XII: 7 a). The dissolving metal adjacent to
Tissue II donates electrons to the implant (Fig.
XII: 7 b). A cross section of the implant (Fig. XII: 7 c)
shows the precipitation of Fe(OH)2 as a ring. Its
development can most easily be explained like that of
the "A" and "B, zones of semolina grains around a
charged body (Fig. X: I a, 7 b). Closed circuit electric
field forces compete with the radial, circular and longi
tudinal vectors of concentration forces (Fig. X: 3). The
precipitate appears in cross section as a "B" zone
separated by an "A" zone from the metal.
These zones also represem two different phases in
which preferential adsorption and local concentration
take place at their interface (the small arches and
arcades previously described berween the "A" and
"B" zones around a lung tumour are also sometimes
seen radiographically as a thin adsorption line of high
er attenuation of x-rays than the surroundings ). The
120 Biologica lly closed electric circuits line of Fe(OH)2 or Fe201 · nH20 in bone adjacent to
a metal does, of course, not appear as arches but rather
as one complete arcade, which is a circular ring (pro
vided the metallic surface is circular and smooth).
Only when small edges protrude from the metal can
th.e precipitation line of the iron compounds be pre
dicted to appear in the cross section as a line of small
arehes corresponding to the edges.
Alternative explanation s


.g., biopsy needle, under stercora·
diograph ic control.
Phys. Referring to spacial distribu·
t.ion.
Anat. A minute opening or pore on a
cellular surface or between cells.
Med. 1. Lines. 2. Narrow, bandlikc
structures.- srn'attd, adj.
Anat. The supporting framework of
an organ, as opposed to its paren·
chyma. -urornal, adj.
Anac. Beneath the skin.
Anat. Tissue immediately beneath
the skin.
A nat. Groove, furrow; e.g., the cos·
tophrenk sulcus is the JtrOOve be·
tween the chest wall and insertions
of the domed diaphrarrn, posterlor·
ly defining the most inferior posi·
tions of the lungs.
Anat. Elevated; higher, upper; tO·
ward the head as opposed 10 10ward
the feet.-superi()T/y, adv.
A not. Situated or direc1ed b01h supe
riorly and la~erall y.
A nat. Situated immediately superior
to the diaphragm.
M ed. J. Pertaining to the body as a
whole. 2. Pertaining to c:irculalion
of blood from the left ventricle tO
the entire body and returning to the
right atrium, as opposed to the pul·
monary circulation of blood be·
tween the right ventricle and left
atrium. leratocartin.oma, n.
1eratoma, n.
thoracotomy, n.
thrombectomy, n.
lhrombocyre, n.
thr(}mboembolus, n.
(-i, pl.)
thrombose, v.
thr(}mbosiJ, n.
(-es, pl.)
thrombus, n.
(-i, pl.)
thymoma, n.
tomogram, n.
1omography, n.
lrabeculae, n. pl.
transmogrify, v.
tratlsthorari c, adj.
trochamn', n.
tuberculoma, n.
unilateral, adj.
vasa vawrum, n. pl.
vasculan'zed, adj.
vasoconstri ction, n.
•venocapillan·es, n.
wnule, n.
vesicle, n.
viscus, n.
(viJcera, pl.)
xe.roradiograph, n.
::tla potential, n. Mtd. A neoplasm containing both
teratOmatous and carcinomatous
components.
Med. A neoplasm containing various
different iated structures such as
bone, canilagc, skin, and brain.
Med. Surgical incision of the thoracic
cage.
Med. Surgical removal of a thrombus.
At~at. Platelet; important Cor coagu.
lation, one or many minute anuclear
bodies in blood.
Med. A blood cl01 which de1aches
from its site of formation and is car·
ried by the now of blood 10 a dis
tant site, usually obstructing Oow
through the blood \'esse I at thai site.
Med. To form a thrombus; to dot.
Med. Formation or presence of a
1hrombus.
Med. Intravascular clot of coagulated
blood which remains at the site of
formatjon.
Med. Epithelial neoplasm of the thy
mus.
Radio/. A radiogrnph of a layer of 1he
body.
Radio/. A radiographi c technique
imaging a plane oflhe body.-tomo
graphic, adj.
A nat. Beams of connective tissue. In
bone, the mineralized matrix of the
marrow.
To transform inro somerhing gro-
tesque or surprising.
Med. Through lhc chest w•JU.
Anal. Seeftmur.
Afed. A tuberculou s mass, approxi·
matcly spherical and well dcmarcat·
ed from surrounding tissue.
A nat. On one side.
At~at. The small \'tSsels which sup·
ply the walls of lasger blood vessels.
Anot. Supplied with vessels.- wucu
lari.z.ali01l, n.
A1ed. Narrowing of vessels secondary
ro contraction of muscle in their
walls.
At1a1. Distal part of the capillary
bed, which dilates when exposed to
an electr1c field. See also ar1erioca ·
pillories.
At~al. A \'cry small vein, just distal to
a capillary.
Atlat. A minute, intrdcytoplasmic,
spherical collection of Ouid.
Atrat. Any organ in the chest, abdo
men or pelvis. See also pleura.-vis·
reral, adj.
Radio/. A radiograph obtained by a
process in which x·rays affect not a
pho1ographi c film, but an alumin
ium plate coated with selenium.
Phys. Electrostatic potential corre-
sponding 10 the poten1ial drop
across the diffuse pan of the electric
double layer close to a charged in·
tcrface.
Glossary 347 SYMBOLS AND UNITS
Symbol NoN Sl...mr Symbol NOIM SI·IDUJ
A Ananrom I0-10m H •., heat of vaporiza-2.490 Jka-1at O"C
"C degree Celsius 273.15 K Lion of water 2.469 Jka-1at IO'C
c coulomb IC=!As 2.348 Jka-1 at 20"C
callM:rmcl(hc:m thermochemical 4.184) 2.435 Jkg-1 at 25'C
calorie 2.427 Jka-1 at 30'C
D~, diffusion ooeffi- O.l6x Io-• m1s-1 2.402 Jka-1 at 40'C
dent of C02 2.377 Jka-1 at SO'C
D., diffusion ooeffi- 0.20x 10-• m•s-1 2.1SS Jka-1 at IOO"C
cient of Oz Hz hertz!Hz a I cycle s-1
D. diffusion ooeffi- 0.2Sx Io-• m•s-1 J joule IJ=!Nm
c:ient of water K kelvin OK• -273.1S'C
vapor 11M micron Io-•m
dyn dyne 10-'N N newton IN•lkg m,-r
dyn·cm dyne><ttntimetre: 10_, J N,. Avogadro constant 6.0222x!o-um-1
~v electron voh 1.602x Io-19 1 Pa pascal 1~•1Nm '"'1•
ug erg to-' J 0.102 mmH,O
F farad IF= ICV-1 R gas consr.ant 8.3143 jm-1K-1
F Faraday 9.6487x 10' Cmol-1 "· partial molal of 18.048x 10'm1mot-• at 2<rC
G Gibbs' free energy,.,;oater
6G Gibbs' free energy w Witt IW•!Js-1
change Q., density of water 0.9999x 10-1 kgm-•at O'C
6G' Gibbs' standard free 1.0000x 10-1 kgm-• at 4'C
energy change 0.9997x lo-• kam-• at IO'C
L\Go• Maximal Gibbs' 0.9982x 10-• kgm-• at 20"C
st.andard free 0.99S7x 10-• kam-• at 30'C
energy change 0.9923x 10-• kam-• at 40'C
H~., heat of sublima· 2.845 Jkg-1at -IO"C 0 Stefan-Boltzmann s.6696x lo-• vm-1K-•
tion of wattr 2.833 Jkg-1 at -s·c constant
2.824 Jkg-1 at O"C e. ion
,t-. ergon
348 Symbols and unit ABBREVIATIONS
A adenine Hb02 oxyhaemoglobin
ACP acyl carrier protein His histidine
ACTH adrenocorticotrop ic hormone lie isoleucine
ADP adenosine diphosphate i.m. intramuscu lar
Ala alanine j subscript for species j
AMP adenosine monophosp hate Leu leucine
cAMP cyclic AMP adenosine 3', 5' -cyclic Lys lysine
monophosphate