	overlooking	a	valley
even	more	green	and	lush. That	part	you	already	know. Every	day	I	saw	this
beautiful	view,	except	when	the	valley	filled	with	billowing	mist. On	those
mornings	I	walked	to	school	with	wisps	of	white	curling	around	me,	like
walking	through	clouds. It	was	on	just	such	a	day,	as	I	was	making	my	way
down	the	road,	that	a	stranger’s	voice	called	out. “Come,”	it	said. “I’ve	been	waiting.”
The	voice	seemed	to	come	from	another	world. I	imagine	you’ve	walked
through	fog	and	know	how	it	creates	a	hush	all	around	you,	like	a	cocoon. Then	my	eye	caught	something. An	old	man	was	sitting	under	the	biggest,
most	twisted	tree	by	the	side	of	the	road. “Baba,	I’m	on	my	way	to	school,”	I	said. “You	must	be	waiting	for	someone
else.”	I	grew	up	in	India,	and
baba
	is	a	term	of	respect	that	is	given	to
someone	who	is	considered	a	wise	or	holy	man. “We	need	to	talk,”	he	said	in
a	most	definite	voice. I	drew	closer. Baba	was	sitting	on	the	ground	with	his
legs	crossed. His	beard	was	almost	as	white	as	the	immaculate	cotton	pants
and	shirt	that	he	wore. “You’re	old	enough	to	know	things	now,”	he	said,	not	waiting	for	me	to	reply. “And	who	else	is	going	to	tell	you?”
I	felt	a	shiver	run	down	my	spine. “What	kind	of	things?”	I	asked. “Invisible	things. Secret	things.”	Suddenly	Baba	laughed. “How	mysterious
do	I	have	to	sound	for	you	to	listen?”
I	started	to	forget	about	school. All	kinds	of	images	were	filling	my	mind. Sitting	there	in	that	cross-legged	position,	the	old	man	looked	like	Buddha,
who	became	enlightened	sitting	under	a	tree. His	long	white	beard	made	Baba
look	wizardly,	like	Merlin,	and	the	gleam	in	his	eye	told	me	unmistakably	that
he	must	be	wise,	like	Socrates. “I’m	not	asking	much. Just	give	me	one	day,”	Baba	coaxed.Hesitantly	I	sat	down	beside	him	under	the	gnarled,	twisted	tree. The	sun	was
burning	the	mist	off	now	Between	billows	of	fog	we	could	glimpse	the	green
tea	plantations	that	filled	the	valley	and	surrounding	hills. “This	won’t	be	like	school,”	Baba	said. “I’m	going	to	teach	you	a	new	way	to
see	and	a	new	way	to	be.”
He	pointed	at	the	scenery	“What	do	you	see? I	mean	right	now,	at	this	very
moment?”
“I	see	you	and	this	tree,	and	I	see	the	fog	lifting	from	the	valley,”	I	said. Baba	leaned	closer. “Want	to	know	what	I	see? I	see	your	soul.”	He	was
catching	my	attention	more	and	more. “I	see	a	world	for	you	to	possess. I	see
eternity”	Baba	stopped,	and	I	felt	another	shiver. “Do	you	believe	me?”	he
asked. “I	want	to	believe	you,	but	I	can’t	see	any	of	those	things,”	I	said. “Of	course	not. It	takes	a	new	way	of	seeing,	which	is	why	I	had	to	find	you,”
he	said. “A	few	more	years	and	you	might	be	lost. The	old	ways	are	hard	to
break.”
I	was	at	that	age	when	a	dreamy	inclination	comes	easily	In	fact,	the	reason	I
hadn’t	noticed	Baba	was	that	I	had	been	dreaming	my	way	to	school. Now	it
seemed	as	if	I	had	conjured	up	a	vision	out	of	the	mist. The	old	man’s	eyes	sharpened. “I’m	not	talking	about	fantasies	and	pink
clouds,”	he	said. “You	need	to	know	how	reality	works. Only	what’s	real	has
power,	even	when	it	looks	like	magic.”
“Okay”	I	said. I	had	the	uncomfortable	feeling	that	he	had	read	my	mind
when	I	wondered	if	he	was	imaginary. “In	reality	there
is
	eternity	everywhere,”	said	Baba. “In	reality	your	soul	is
here	for	you	to	experience	it. I’ll	show	you	what	I	mean.”
He	reached	down	and	took	up	a	handful	of	sand	from	the	side	of	the	road. “Feel	it,”	he	said. “What’s	it	like?”
He	dropped	some	of	the	sand	into	my	hands. “It’s	rough	and	sharp	and
grainy,”	I	said. “And	it’s	warm	from	the	sun.”“Would	it	surprise	you	if	I	told	you	that	none	of	that	is	real?”	he	asked. I	felt	confused. “Of	course	it’s	real.”
“But	sand	is	made	of	molecules,”	said	Baba. “And	molecules	aren’t	sharp	or
rough	or	grainy. I	could	take	the	molecules	in	sand	and	turn	them	into	glass,
which	is	completely	smooth. Of	course,	molecules	aren’t	real	either.”
“Why	not?”
“Because	they	are	made	of	atoms,	and	atoms	are	just	blurry	clouds	of	energy
You	can’t	see	or	touch	one,	and	isn’t	that	how	you	measure	real	things,	by
seeing	and	touching	them? Come	to	think	of	it,	energy	isn’t	real	either.”
By	now	I	didn’t	feel	like	arguing;	this	was	a	completely	new	way	of	seeing
things,	just	as	he	had	promised. “Energy	vibrates	everywhere	in	the	universe,”	Baba	said. “But	it	springs	from
the	void,	which	is	empty	and	still. You	won’t	know	what’s	real	until	we	go
there. Shall	we?”
He	let	the	sand	sift	through	his	fingers,	and	for	a	moment	it	was	like	watching
someone	letting	the	whole	world	sift	through	his	fingers,	the	world	I	thought	I
lived	in. “This	is	very	strange,”	I	murmured. “Ah,	so	the	old	ways	are	not	looking	quite	so	certain,”
	he	said,	sounding
pleased. “What	will	be	left	when	everything	solid	vanishes	before	your	eyes?”
“Nothing,”	I	said. “Nothing!”	he	repeated. “That’s	exactly	right. But	when	we’re	through,
nothing	will	turn	into	everything—your	soul,	God,	an	infinite	world	for	you
to	possess. Shall	we?”	he	asked	again. “Absolutely,”	I	said. W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
Spirituality	is	about	a	new	way	of	seeing	and	a	new	way	of	being. When	Babatold	me	that	one	thing,	he	told	me	all	I	had	to	know. It	wasn’t	even	necessary
to	use	the	word
spirituality
. Words	are	never	as	important	as	reality	itself,	and
what’s	real	is	that	you	and	I	are	like	walking	clouds	at	the	atomic	level. Atoms	are	a	lot	more	empty	than	they	are	solid,	which	means	that
we
	are	a	lot
more	empty	than	we	are	solid	(every	person	is	more	than	99.999999	percent
empty	space;	the	space	between	the	earth	and	the	sun	is	much	smaller	by
comparison). Just	beneath	the	surface,	where	things	look	reassuring	and	solid,	we	all	should
fly	apart	and	float	away	into	a	fog,	but	we


 body. The second way bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics is by the transfer of immunity from a resistant bacterium to its progeny, thus ensuring the survival of subsequent generations of microbes. In some countries, including the United States, patients expect and demand anti -
biotics from doctors, even in situations where they are inappropriate or ineffective. Because microbes are always mutating, some random mutation eventually will
 protect against the drug. As people enjoy the benefits of antibiotics, their misuse
promotes antibiotic resistance in many lethal bacteria. Resensitizing resistant bacteria to antibiotics so that they can be killed is the
objective of searching for antimicrobial adjuvants that can be used to boost otherwise ineffective antibiotics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus  (MRSA),
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas, Clostridium difficile, and other super -
bugs that can cause lethal infectious outbreaks in hospitals and institutions. The emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant M. tuber -
culosis  throughout the developing world is very disturbing in the present scenario
of tuberculosis (TB) management. TB has always been a global problem and tends to increase in prevalence mainly in the developing countries of the world, 116 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
many of the affected living in poverty, but is also problematic in industrialized
nations, including the United States.1
M. tuberculosis  usually attacks the lungs, but these pathogens can invade any part
of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. There are 10 drugs currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for treating TB. Before the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, potent drugs such as rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide were effective as first-line anti-TB agents in the treatment of latent or active TB. Most patients with active TB can be treated initially with isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and eth-ambutol for 8 weeks, and this regimen can be followed by 18 weeks of treatment with isoniazid and rifampicin if needed. 2
Multidrug-resistant TB is defined by resistance to the two most effective first-line
drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin.3 When bacteria are resistant to second-line antibi -
otics, they are called extremely resistant. Recently, strains of M. tuberculosis  have
been identified that are resistant to all available antibiotics. This is representative of the major problems of antibiotic resistance and the cause of considerable concern if these strains begin to quickly spread worldwide. Approximately 3.3% of new multidrug-resistant TB cases are resistant to both
isoniazid and rifampicin, so other drug combinations must be tried. However, most of these drug combinations fail to fully treat TB, and consequently, there is a fun -
damental need to explore alternative anti-TB agents that can kill strains resistant to currently available drugs and for new drugs that are better tolerated and will shorten treatment regimens. 4
DMSO IN MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
Researchers working in the field of microbiological pharmacotherapeutics are looking to find ways to make first-line antibiotic therapies effective against drug-resistant strains of bacteria. Part of this research is to search for adjunct therapy that can help current antibiotics function more effectively, even in multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria. Many of the early studies examining the role of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in
multidrug-resistant TB were done by Russian and Polish scientists in the mid-1970s. A summary of these studies details some of the properties observed when DMSO was used as an adjuvant to antibiotics against M. tuberculosis –resistant bacteria or by itself. In one study, isoniazid-resistant TB bacteria were inoculated into guinea pigs that
were divided into two groups: the first group underwent isoniazid treatment and the second group was treated with a single oral dose of DMSO and isoniazid 2 weeks after inoculation with tubercle bacilli. 5 When control animals died from the bacterial
inoculation after 80 days, samples were taken from liver, lymph nodes, and spleens and cultured and examined microscopically. 5 All guinea pigs treated with DMSO–
isoniazid survived beyond 1 year. Animals not treated with DMSO yielded tubercle bacilli in the collected organs and appeared entirely resistant to isoniazid treatment. 5
These findings indicated that reversion to isoniazid sensitivity by DMSO permitted a cure of the experimental animals infected with an isoniazid-resistant strain of tuber -
cle bacilli, suggesting that this drug combination may be clinically useful in human
 antibiotic-resistant TB.117 DMSO in Clinical Microbiology
A subsequent study by the same investigators replicated the guinea pig experiments
in vitro  by isolating isoniazid- and rifampicin-resistant tubercle bacilli from patients
with pulmonary TB.6 This study consisted of cultures containing 61 strains of tubercle
bacilli resistant to isoniazid and 19 strains resistant to rifampicin. DMSO 5% exposure
to the cultures resulted in 19/61 strains resistant to isoniazid reverted to sensitivity and all 19 rifampicin-resistant strains also reverted to sensitivity after DMSO exposure. 6
The data showed that complete reversion of rifampicin sensitivity was obtained with DMSO and also reversion of some isoniazid-resistant tubercle bacilli strains indicated support for a clinical study of these antibiotics combined with DMSO. DMSO has also been reported to stabilize rifampicin for periods of up to 8 months
without any loss of potency by this antibiotic. 7
Aside from its preservation of shelf life for many drugs, a common use for DMSO
is its ability to act as a safe and versatile solvent for many antibiotics, including those used for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. 8 There are no data relating to DMSO acting
or synergistically potentiating antibiotic activity when it is used as a solvent. These findings created much interest among investigators interested in antibiotic-
resistant therapy, and reports soon appeared in an attempt to further examine the ability of DMSO to restore sensitivity to chemotherapeutic compounds used to treat various resistant bacterial strains. M. tuberculosis  strains, resistant to rifampicin, isoniazid, streptomycin,
paraminosalicylic acid, thioacetozone, ethambutol, and prothionamide, were grown in cultures containing these drugs together with either DMSO at 1% concentration or water. 9 Susceptibility tests were applied, and resensibilization
to ethambutol, streptomycin, and thioacetozone was observed only in DMSO-treated cultures. 9 Moreover, many M. tuberculosis  strains resistant to isoniazid
and all strains resistant to rifampicin became sensitive to these drugs when com -
bined with DMSO.9
The ribosomal subunit 30S is considered a site of action of streptomycin and also
a site of resistance for certain strains of Escherichia coli  and other bacteria. These
mutant germs show an impermeability to streptomycin that confers resistance to the drug’s action. 10 The use of DMSO to overcome E. coli  resistance to streptomycin in
cultures showed that these pathogens decreased their permeability and increased their uptake of streptomycin, thus allowing a killing effect by the antiobiotic. 11 The
effect by DMSO on E. coli  cell membrane with respect to enhanced streptomycin
uptake can only be surmised. Drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium avium–Mycobacterium intracellulare
were isolated and cultured in vitro  in the presence of single drugs alone and in com -
bination with 2.5% DMSO.12 Bacterial isolates were exposed to first-line antibiotics
used for the treatment of TB, including rifampicin, streptomycin, ethambutol, and isoniazid, and all showed a degree of killing power that varied depending on the bac-terial strain, but with the addition of DMSO to each antibiotic, a 26%–30% increase in inhibitory bacterial growth was observed. 12
Thirty-two patients with destructive pulmonary TB were treated with strep -
tomycin and penicillin in 10% and 25% solutions of DMSO through inhala -
tion. Fourteen of the patients showed absence of M. tuberculosis excretion. Most patients showed improvement, including a decrease in manifestations of 118 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
nonspecific endobronchitis, a decrease in the perifocal infiltration, and a decrease
in the dimensions of destruction of lung tissue.12a
These early studies showing the ability of DMSO to enhance antibiotic sensitivity
to drug-resistant pathogens partly introduced the concept of the adjuvant, defined as a compound that could increase the killing power of antibiotics and antimicrobial agents that by themselves failed to inhibit bacterial growth in vitro  or in vivo. No longer would magic bullets like penicillin create their magic on a growing list
of superbugs; now, it was necessary to find adjuvants that could help fight germs and postpone the day when first-line antibiotics would no longer work. The superbugs have devised ingenious ways to evolve in order to elude and weaken
antib


 this measure can you determine whether they
are words to heed or words to ignore. You said that when I always choose the
action that love sponsors, then I will
experience the  full glory of who I am and
who I can be. Will you expand on this
please? There is only one purpose for all of life, and
that is for you and all that lives to
experience fullest glory. Everything else you say, think, or do is
attendant to that function. There is nothing
else for your soul to do, and nothing else
your soul wants to do. The won der of this
purpose is that it is never -ending. An
ending is a limitation, and God’s purpose is
without such a boundary. Should there
come a moment in which you experience  yourself in your fullest glory, you will in that
instant imagine an ever-greater  glory to
fulfill. The more you are, the more you can
become, and the more you can become,
the more you can yet be. The deepest secret is that life is not a
process of discovery, but a process of
creation. You are not discovering yourself but
creating yourself  anew. Seek, therefore,
not to  find out Who You Are, seek to
determine Who You Want to Be. There are those who say that life is a
school, that we are here to learn specific
lessons, that  once we “graduate” we can go
on to larger pursuits, no longer shackled by
the body. Is this  correct? It is another part of your mythology, based
on human experience. Life is not a school? No. We are not here to learn lessons? No. Then why are we here? To remember, and recreate, Who You Are. I have told you, over and over again. You
do not believe Me. Yet that is well as it
should be. For truly, if you do not create
yourself as Who You Are, that you cannot
be. Okay, You’ve lost me. Let’s go back to this
school bit. I’ve heard teacher after teacher
tell us  that life  is a school. I’m frankly
shocked to hear You deny that. School is a place you go if there is
something you do not know that you want
to know. It is not a place you go if you
already know a thing and simply want to
experience your knowingness. Life (as you  call it) is an opportunity for you
to know experientially what you already
know conceptually. You need learn nothing
to do this. You need merely remember  what
you already know, and act on it. I’m not sure I understand. Let’s start here. The soul —your soul —
knows all there is to know all the time. There’s nothing hidden to it, nothing
unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The
soul seeks to experience. You can know yourself to be generous, but
unless you do something which displays  generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can know yourself to be kind, but
unless you do someone a kindness, you
have nothing but an idea about yourself. It is your soul’s only desire to turn its
grandest concept about itself into its
greatest  experience. Until concept
becomes experience, all there is, is
speculation. I have  been speculating about
Myself for a long time. Longer than you and
I could  collectively remember. Longer than
the age of this universe times the age of the
universe. You see, then, how young is —
how new is —My experience of Myself! You’ve lost me again. Your experience of
Yourself? Yes. Let me explain it to you this way:  In the beginning, that which Is, is all there
was, and there was nothing else. Yet All
That Is could not know itself —because All
That Is is al l there was, and there was
nothing else. And so, All That Is...was not. For in the absence of something else,  All
That Is, is not. This is the great Is/Not Is to which mystics
have referred from the beginning of time. Now All That Is knew it was all there was—
but this was not enough, for it could only
know its utter magnificence conceptually,
not experientially. Yet the experience of
itself is that for which it longed, for it wanted
to know what it felt like to be so
magnificent. Still, this was impossible,
because the very term “magnificent” is a
relative term. All That Is could not know
what it felt like to be magnificent unless that  which is not showed up. In the absence of
that which is not, that which IS, is not. Do you understand this? I think so. Keep going. Alright The one thing that All That Is knew
is that there was nothing else. And so It
could, and would, never know Itself from a
reference point outside of Itself. Such a
point did not exist. Only one reference point
existed, and that was the s ingle place
within. The “Is -Not Is.” The Am -Not Am. Still, the All of Everything chose to know
Itself experientially. This energy —this pure, unseen, unheard,
unobserved, and therefore unknown -by-
anyone -else energy —chose to experience
Itself as the utter ma gnificence It was. In  order to do this, It realized It would have to
use a reference point within. It reasoned, quite correctly, that any portion
of Itself would necessarily have to be  less
than the whole, and that if It thus simply
divided Itself into por tions, each  portion,
being less than the whole, could look back
on the rest of Itself and see  magnificence. And so All That Is divided Itself —becoming,
in one glorious moment, that which is  this,
and that which is that. For the first time, this
and that ex isted, quite apart from  each
other. And still, both existed
simultaneously. As did all that was neither. Thus, three elements suddenly existed:
that which is here. That which is there. And
that which is neither here nor there —but
which must exist for here and there to exist. It is the nothing which holds the everything. It is the non -space which holds the  space. It is the all which holds the parts. Can you understand this? Are you following this? I think I am, actually. Believe it or not, you
have used such  a clear illustration that I
think I’m  actually understanding this. I’m going to go further. Now this nothing
which holds the everything is what some
people call God. Yet that is not accurate,
either, for it suggests that there is
something God is not —name ly, everything
that is not “nothing.” But I am All Things —
seen and unseen —so this description of
Me as the Great Unseen —the No -Thing,  or
the Space Between, an essentially Eastern
mystical definition of God, is no more  accurate than the essentially Western
practical description of God as all that is
seen. Those who believe that God is All
That Is and All That Is Not, are those whose
understanding is correct. Now in creating that which is “here” and
that which is “there,” God made it possible
for God to know Itself. In the moment of this
great explosion from within, God  created
relativity —the greatest gift God ever gave
to Itself. Thus, relationship is the  greatest
gift God ever gave to you, a point to be
discussed in detail later. From the No -Thing thus spran g the
Everything —a spiritual event entirely
consistent,  incidentally, with what your
scientists call The Big Bang theory. As the
elements of  all raced forth, time was
created, for a thing was first here, then it was there —and the period it took to get
from here to there was measurable. Just as the parts of Itself which are seen
began to define themselves, “relative” to
each other, so, too, did the parts which are
unseen. God knew that for love to exist —
and to know itself as pure love —its exact
opposite had to exist as well. So God
voluntarily created the great polarity —the
absolute opposite of love —everything that
love is not —what is now called fear. In the
moment fear existed, love could exist as  a
thing that could be experienced. It is this creation of duality between love
and its opposite which humans refer to in
their various mythologies as the birth of
evil, the fall of Adam, the rebellion of Satan,
and so forth. Just as you have chosen to personify pure
love as the character you call  God, so  have
you chosen to personify abject fear as the
character you call the devil. Some on Earth have established rather
elaborate mythologies around this event,
complete with scenarios of battles and war,
angelic soldiers and devilish warriors,  the
forces of good and evil, of light and dark. This mythology has been mankind’s early
attempt to understand, and tell others in a
way they could understand, a cosmic
occurrence of which the human soul is
deep


 600 cases of multiple sclerosis
with diets containing no refined foods, and consisting chiefly of raw fruits, raw nuts, raw vegetable roots, raw honey, raw
grain sprouts, uncooked coarse rolled oats, wholemeal  bread, raw ham, raw bacon, and raw chopped beef. Dr. Ever’s
dietary treatment was set up under the controls of recognized scientists and tested in different universities, clinics,
hospitals, and sanatoriums. Results were surprisingly good, and 42 per cent of all patients showed improvement or
complete recovery. This percentage might appear to be low, but for multiple sclerosis, which consistently fails to yield to
orthodox medical treatment, a single recovery is worthy of mention. In the city of Munich, the German physicians, Friedrich and Peters, employed a raw diet consisting chiefly of fruits and
vegetables, and small amounts of meat. Many very severe cases of liver cirrhosis, with ascites were treated. Results,
surprisingly, were quite successful, and a number of most striking cases have been cited by the physicians to show the
value of raw foods in the treatment of this disease. Other physicians and scientists who have studied the raw diet in relation to therapeutic uses are D. C. Hare, J. F
Kinderheilk, W Heupe, I. Kanai, and M. Kuratsune. Dr. Hare, of the Royal Free Hospital in England, placed arthritic patients
on an exclusive raw diet for two weeks followed by a predominantly raw diet for several weeks. Most of the patients began
to feel better within one to four weeks, with marked improvement continuing thereafter. Kinderheilk found the raw diet to be
of value in avitaminosis, nephritis, diabetes, and chronic constipation. In cases of cardiac disease he noted that it promoted
the excretion of superfluous water and was thus helpful to the patients. Dr. Heupe, working at the University Medical
Polyclinic in Frankfurt, reported the diet to aid in the treatment of diarrhea of children, in heart and kidney diseases, and in
obesity and diabetes. Kanai of the University of Berlin, studied the effect of raw and cooked vegetarian diets on the
oxidation of the body. He noted that oxidation was impaired by cooked vegetarian foods. On the raw diet the urinary output
of nitrogen was greater, indicating better absorption, and the weight increase was better. Dr.Kuratsune, of Kyushu
University, Japan, also tested raw and vegetarian diets, and reported results were decidedly better on the raw regime. Heated vegetables tended to produce anemia, which was cured when raw vegetables were eaten. Other diseases, which
had failed to yield to conventional medical care, responded favorably to the raw diet. The sum total of all human experience with raw foods has thus been remarkably successful. As in the case with animals,
the efficiency of physiological function within the body, as well as the proportion of both infectious and degenerative
diseases, appears to correspond to a large degree with the relative quantity of raw and cooked foods in the diet. In the case
of raw and heated milk the evidence is especially conclusive, particularly with reference to the growth and bone and dental
development of children. In the clinics and sanitariums of the world, where a raw food diet has been employed, evidence of
the value of all types of raw foods has been obtained, and the raw diet is found to be of definite therapeutic value in the
treatment of many common diseases. Its value in this capacity is most pronounced, as it is associated with no adverse side-
effects, which so frequently follow the use of conventional medical treatments. THE POTTENGER EXPERIMENTS
Perhaps the most important of all the animal experiments with raw and cooked foods are those of Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr.,
one of the world’s great physicians and food scientists. These were conducted at the long established Pottenger Sanitarium
in Monrovia, California, and covered a ten-year period. Both white rats and cats were employed. Rats given heated milk
suffered from many kinds of deterioration, and the change in trabeculation of the bones was particularly noticeable. With the
cats the experiments were reported in great detail and covered a large number of animals. A total of 900 cats were studied,
and complete records were kept of nearly 600 of them. Through generation after generation the animals were studied, and
Dr. Pottenger has issued the detailed results of the experiments as they apply to growth, reproduction, and all phases of the
animals’ health. In these tests the animals were fed upon meat-scraps (including the muscle, bone, and viscera), milk, and cod liver oil. The
animals were divided into various groups, depending upon the condition, whether heated or unheated, in which their foods
were given. Some of the cats were fed entirely upon raw meat and raw milk; others were given two-thirds cooked meat and
one-third raw milk. In some cases raw meat and pasteurized milk were used. A number of cats were also fed sweetened
condensed milk, evaporated milk, or raw metabolized vitamin D milk with raw meat. Cod liver oil was used by all animal
groups. The cats fed entirely upon raw meat and raw milk remained in excellent health in all cases. Physical development was
virtually perfect and the cats reproduced in homogeneity from one generation to the next, maintaining large skulls an
thoraxes, broad faces with prominent malar and orbital arches, broad and well-formed dental arches, adequate nasal
cavities, and large and long bodies. The cats were quite free from vermin, infections, and parasites. The membranes were
firm and of good pink color. All evidence of degeneration was absent. Abortion occurred very seldom; the size of the
average litter was five, and all of the mother cats nursed their young in a normal manner. The cats possessed excellent
copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648-1500    www.drbass.com 8equilibrium. Organic development was complete and normal physical and mental function was the general rule. Death
resulted only from old age or injuries sustained in fighting. None of the cats died from disease. Cats which were fed the cooked-meat scraps were defective in many respects. They were smaller in build and the bones
were smaller in diameter. In some cases the bones would grow out of proportion, with the hind legs being much longer than
the forelegs. The animals did not reproduce in homogeneity, each kitten being of a different skeletal pattern. There were
variations of facial structure similar to those of human beings. Configuration of the skulls was different in each individual cat. Often there would be marked failure in the development of the upper lip and in some cases a mandibular protrusion. Dental conditions would usually remain fairly good in the first generation, though gingivitis occasionally developed. Second
generation animals usually had much smaller primary teeth than normal and there was irregular spacing of teeth. Bleeding
of gums would increase considerably. Some teeth would be lost. In the third generation loss of most of the teeth through
decalcification and pyorrhea would be common. Dental development was generally so irregular that the development of the
whole face was interfered with. There was severe impairment of bone composition in all cases. The calcium content would fall from the normal 12 to 18 per
cent of bone weight in healthy animals to 8 to 12 per cent in the first generation, 3 1/2 to 7 per cent in the second
generation, and finally 1 1/2 to 3 per cent in the third generation. The phosphorus content also became progressively less,
and the third generation the bones would be very porous and similar to rubber. This resulted in bowlegs, distorted spines,
and other deformities. Reproductive efficiency was greatly lowered. Abortion ran from 25 per cent in the first generation to as high as 70 per cent
in the second generation. Deliveries were very difficult and many cats died in labor. Often the mother was unable to lactate. The mortality rate of the kittens was very high, many of them being even too frail to nurse. In a number of cases the mother
would steadily decline in health following birth of the kittens and die about three months later. Others had increasing
difficulty with subsequent pregnancies and some failed to become pregnant. In the males there was disturbance of genital
development and descent of the testes. Sterility was so common that raw-food males had to be used for all breeding
purposes. Development of the secondary sexual characteristics was incomplete. The degree of masculinity and femininity was
lessened and cats of both sexes tended to become more neutral in appearance. For instance, X-ray pictures showed that
skulls of third generation cooked-fed animals had neutral profiles for both sexes, as contrasted to the difference in raw-fed
animals. At the same time sex interest was very slack; in many cases it was perverted, with some cats developing into true
homosexuals. Most of the cats fed cooked meat were very irritable and would occasionally viciously bite the keeper. Intestinal parasites
and vermin were very common. Skin lesions and allergies became worse from one generation to the next. Pneumonia and
empyema were the most common causes of death in the adult stock; a great number died from diarrhea followed by
pneumonia. No cats survived the sixth month of life in the third generation. Among the diseased conditions that were found
upon autopsy were: osteomyelitis, cardiac lesions, hyperopia, thyroid disease, hepatitis, nephritis, paralysis, meningitis,
cystitis, arthritis, rickets, enlarged colon, bronchitis, fatty infiltration of the muscles, rachitic rosary of the ribs,


, it is entirely
painless. Q:  Beet is generally considered a very healthy vegetable. Why is it not used in the juices? A:  Beet IS a healthy vegetable and it is all right to use it as such. Dr. Gerson avoided it for
juicing, probably because it is very sweet (beets are used in sugar production). Also, it is a
powerful cleanser, and patients already undergoing systematic detoxification should not be
given any extra cleansing substance. However, small amounts used occasionally as vegetable
will not do any harm. Q: Since these days even organic produce is lower in nutrients than it used to be, shouldn’ t
patients be given extra vitamins and minerals? A: It’s true that organic produce is not as rich as it used to be. However, synthetic vitamins and
minerals, which the pharmaceutical industry uses in its supplements, are almost always poorly
absorbed. Moreover, some are outright damaging (see Appendix II in “A Cancer Therapy ”),
such as Vitamins A and E and several of the B vitamins. A & E are found in fish oils and soy
oil. These have to be avoided, since the fatty substances stimulate tumor growth. The only B
vitamins that are important to use are B3 (niacin) and B12. The others disturb the metabolism; Dr.
Gerson found that they cause damage to the patient. Even if organic foods are lower in nutrients, with 13 glasses of freshly made juice a day
the patient’s body is thoroughly flooded with vitamins and minerals in their living, active form,
that even the sick body is able to assimilate—and they are being  given in truly huge amounts,
to replenish the sick, damaged organs. Pharmaceutical vitamins and minerals, even so-called
‘organic’ ones from plant sources, are usually not, or only poorly absorbed, so that some go into
the system and others do not. This causes new imbalances. Q: Why can’t a cured patient after a year or two start eating a normal diet? A: In theory a ‘cured’ patient could start to eat a ‘normal’ diet. But what is normal? Canned,
tinned, preserved with chemicals, artificially flavored and colored, frozen food? Most patients
no longer want to eat this type of stuff and know that it is not healthy or indeed ‘normal.’ Not
only that, they are unwilling to return to the very foods that caused their disease in the fi rst
place! The next question is: what exactly is a cured patient? How do we know if the organs are fully
restored, and whether the immune system can function despite the input of toxic artificial food? Will the defenses be lost or weakened again? How soon? Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 160Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comThere is more and more information showing that meat and all animal products (cheese and
all dairy produce, fish, poultry and eggs), are heat damaged, making proteins largely damaging
to the human body rather than providing it with healthy nutrition. (see T. Colin Campbell’s book,
“The China Study”). Q: What lifestyle changes should a recovered patient introduce? A: The patient must bear in mind that household chemicals (cleansers, bleaches, solvents,
polishes and paints) are toxic and must be avoided. Also, many—in fact most—cosmetics
applied to the skin enter the blood stream and are toxic and should be excluded. Especially
harmful are underarm gels, creams or sticks to block perspiration. Healthy perspiration is
odorless. The body attempt to detoxify through perspiration; blocking it forces the toxins back
into the lymphatic system. (see Chapter 5, pg. 41 )
Q: How long will I have to do the therapy? How long until the tumor is gone? How long until
the pain is gone? How long until I can exercise? How long until I can eat (whatever)? A: Questions beginning with “How long …?” cannot be answered with any certainty. It all
depends on the questioner’s individual circumstances and condition. How large is the tumor,
how far has it spread? How old is the patient, and how much damage has he/she suf fered from
drugs or surgery, or inflicted on him/herself with junk food, smoking and other self-destructive
habits? How faithfully will the patient and family follow the therapy, day in day out for
whatever time is necessary? Hence no precise answer in terms of weeks or months is possible. But there is an overall answer that my son Howard learned in the US Navy. When faced with
the possibility of hanging on to the bridge of a submarine that temporarily submer ged due to a
high swell, he asked: “ How long  will I have to hold my breath?” The incredulous senior officer,
after pausing for a few seconds to assess this neophyte, simply said, “As long as it takes!” Can’ t
improve on that. Q: Carrot juice is high in sugars. From several sources we hear that carrot juice feeds
tumors. Is that true? A: All fruit and many vegetables contain complex carbohydrates, which are not actual sugars,
but form the basis of human nutrition. Contrary to the false claims of some practitioners, carrot
juice does NOT feed tumors. If it did, the Gerson Therapy would kill every cancer patient! The
truth is that carrot juice plays a very important part in healing. Rather than harming patients,
it supplies them with plenty of beta carotene, which is converted in the body to Vitamin. A,
and with many other vitamins. Moreover, as one of the most complete sources of minerals, it
contains most of the essential ones in an easily absorbed form. Carrot juice is even high in plant
proteins and as a result represents an excellent provider of total nutrition and healing. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 161Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
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Q: With all the enemas being used in the course of the two years on the therapy, will I
become dependent on enemas forever? A: Certainly not! Please bear in mind that the purpose of the enemas is not to clear stools from
the intestines; indeed, they only reach part of the colon and don’ t interfere with evacuation. This explains why some Gerson patients are able to pass normal stools between enemas. If
constipation was a problem before embarking on the therapy, once the liver and the intestines
are fully restored, the patient develops “regular” bowel movements. The enema routine need
not threaten the recovered “regularity,” and in most cases, when the therapy has come to an end,
normal evacuation takes over without a hitch. In exceptional cases, when this does not happen,
at worst the patient will have to take a half-strength enema daily as a morning routine. To quote
Dr. Gerson’s emphatic rule,
“Never let the sun set on a day when you haven’t moved your bowel!”
Q: Since this therapy bans animal products, where do I get my protein? A: It is a mistake to believe that all protein is of animal origin. On the contrary. Most vegetables
contain very adequate amounts of protein that is easily absorbed, well digested and assimilated. Thanks to these qualities it produces healing, rather than feeding tumor tissue, bringing on
arthritic conditions, damaging kidneys, and giving rise to other health problems caused by the
heavy consumption of animal protein. Carrot juice, a mainstay of the Gerson program, is high in
protein; so are potatoes, oatmeal, and most vegetables. It is no accident that the strongest and largest land animals, i.e., elephants, bulls, orangutans,
bison and others are vegetarians and obtain their protein from grasses, plants, leaves, and fruit. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 162Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 23
Life After Gerson
By now it should be clear that recovering from a life-threatening disease on the Gerson Therapy
is a difficult journey: a long and hard process, demanding courage, patience and perseverance—
and certainly worth every ounce of effort. Besides defeating the potential killer, this way of
healing is also a great investment in a long and healthy future. We have many recovered patients
on record who enjoy excellent health and vitality well past the age that is generally assumed to
bring on all manner of illnesses and all-round physical and mental decline. Not many therapies
can claim to be lifesavers and powerful rejuvenators as well! Coming off the therapy at the right time has to be handled with care. Just when is the right
time is a tricky question. To stop too soon, before all the essential organs are restored is a great
mistake, likely to lead to a recurrence. In Dr.Gerson’s time rebuilding the body’s defenses after
cancer took some 18 months. Today that is no longer enough. The world is infinitely more toxic
and people are more seriously damaged than they were half a century ago; as a result, cancer
patients need two full years


 le, this becomes a habit, and you don’ t even
see the negative because you don’ t have that in you. On freeways, you wave
to people and thank them for letting you in. Y ou expect that somebody will
let y ou in, but even if they do n’ t, you don’ t internalize that action. Y oudon’ t rant, “These people, who  do they think they are. ” Y ou let it all go. Y ou let them go right by, and you look to the next person. Before long,
someone will put their hand ou t and let you in. Y ou smile an d say thank
you, and  you get what you want for yourself without having to be attached
or hang on to all the negativity that most people see. Y ou are living in the
light. Swami M ukundananda had a wonderful line. He said, “Enlightenment is
your ego ’ s great est disappointm ent. ” This is certainly the truth, as it is the
language of the higher self, all the way. It is a sign that you  are totally
awake and aware, in touch with the Divine nature of who you really are. Y ou no longer need to try; you are. Y ou have arrived. CHAPTER 12
ENJOY HEA VEN ON EARTH
As we finish this book’ s journey, let’ s return to the course we charted at
the begi nning. If  you were able to suspend your disbelief and keep an open
mind, you may feel a kind of e xpansiveness as you pushed past the limits
you prev iously felt comfortable  with. Things that were once unavailable to
you, bas ed on the consciousness  you had when you first started reading this
book, pr obably feel within your grasp now. As we wrap things up now, I’d
like to illuminate some of the benefits you can expect once you are in tune
with the higher part of yourself, telling the ego to take a back seat. BLESSINGS OF THE HIGHER SELF
When you are t otally awake, aware, and enlightened, you receive some
of th e m ost pow erful blessings of the universe. These come via your higher
self, which is the Divine speaking through you. — Y ou exp erience a drastic r eduction in the amount of str ess you
have. Thi s is one of th e most important things that happen. Y ou realize that
being strongly self-centered is actually what brings on stress. The more
stress you have, the more the ego is controlling you. When you’re not
insisting on having what you want, in this particular way, in th is particular
timeline—all the while ur ging others to jump through hoops in order for
you to have it—you are much more peaceful. Anyone with stress is subject to rigid likes and dislikes. Such strict
adherence mean s an absence of freedom for you, which can in tu rn manifest
as countless stress-related illnesses. Why should any part of your life be atthe mercy of the ego. It’ s like turning control over to something outside of
yourself, and of course the moment you do that you’re no longer free. If you don’ t hav e the inflexible need to have things go the way you want
them to—if you’re able to go within and allow the peace ful, loving,
centered part of yourself to take over—you find that those strong likes and
dislikes turn into mild preferences. After a while they aren’ t even
preferences any more, because you’re not attached to how things turn out. Not being attached to the outcome is really your higher self at work. When yo u are calm, patient, and compassionate, you respond to life with
that very calmness, patience, an d compassion. This gives you a n enormous
benefit, such as reducing the physiological reactions that come from being
an angry, irritated, easily annoy ed individual. Y ou find yourself less at the
mercy of the eg o, which really likes to keep you out of balance and of f
center. It wants to keep you in a state of conflict because whe n you have
dif ficulty and struggle, then yo u won’ t turn to your higher self, which is
what the ego always fears the most. Of c ourse life has its storms, but you are able to keep calm rig ht in the
middle of any turbulence. This isn’ t even something you have to do
deliberately: As you become more serene and reliant on your higher self,
you’ll naturally find yourself less and less irritated. Y our blood pressure
won’ t be af fected by an insult, your heart isn’ t going to have to  race when
you’re contradi cted, and all th e vital parts of your body are going to
function optimally. What a powerful idea that is for you—every single
aspect of your whole body wo rking not because you are healthier, but
because you’re no longer at the  mercy of all of these external stimuli that
are controlling you. Y ou have achieved authentic fr eedom. — Y ou have an ab sence of r esentment. Y ou realize that the ego tries
mightily to keep you focused on yourself and all the things that are
seemingly very important to yo u. When you let go of that an d allow the
Divine within you to rule, when you embrace higher awareness, what
happens is that resentment seems to go out the window. A re sentful person is someone w ho finds occasions for of fense a lmost all
the time, tending to see it jus t about everywhere they go. In this way,
driving o n the freeway can be an  occasion for resentment. Family members
not doin g things how they should is another occasion for resentment. The
cat scrat ching on the furniture in stead of on the post, or the refr igerator nothaving any beer in it at the moment, can be occasions for resentment. Reading the news and finding out that one political party said this, and
another one said that—there’ s another occasion for resentment. On and on it
goes, until pretty soon they become someone who’ s looking for resentment
in v irtually everything they see, which just means that the control of their
life isn’ t theirs. Authentic freedom comes when  you can go through your days and see
such thin gs not as occasions for  resentment, but as the way they are. As for
those thi ngs that you’d like to see changed, you can work at changing them
without being self-absorbed. Th e more you meditate, the more peaceful you
get, and the more you get to kno w the God force that is within all of us. Y ou
discover that the universe is on purpose, and all the things that are
happening are part of God’ s plan, even though you don’ t understand them. I
think one of the greatest insights  you can have is that the Divine plan works
and yours doesn’ t. If it did, you wouldn’ t be having any of the se kinds of
resentments or be so self-absorbed. — Y ou bec ome mo r e pr oductive and have mor e energy. The less you
are attac hed to outcome and self-absorption, the more ener gy y ou have left
over for  what you’re here for in  the first place. The ego says, “Y ou must be
concerned with everything. ” Th e higher self says, “If you surrender, serve,
go w ith the flow, have an overri ding spiritual objective, and know that you
are here for a purpose, there will not be time for what of fends you. ”
As y ou go throu gh the process of moving from your ego to the higher
part of yourself, you open up an  ener getic gateway. Y ou can then try a very
powerful thing called “recapitulation,” which is a whole process  that I truly
believe i n. I’ve read some work s by people who have done it, a nd they said
that every experience you’ve ever had in your life is there. The process
helps you remove the negative e ner gy from your life, and when you do, you
open up a space for new, positive ener gy. It’ s as if removing something
from this place inside of you opens up an opportunity for God to come in. I did  this recapi tulation process myself through meditation. I went back
to my fourth-grade class and saw Fred there next to me. In front of Fred
was Jani ce, and then there was Earlene, and then Mrs. Engel w as sitting at
the head of the class. I said, “My G od, I was able to get the entire fourth-
grade class. They are all there. ”This was the year my mother had taken my brothers and me o ut of the
orphanage. I found that I could move the ener gy of that time—all this stuf f
that I had stored, the anguish I w as feeling, the anticipation that things were
going to get better but then they didn’ t. My mother remarried somebody
who wa s just like my father—she hadn’ t learned her lessons yet, so she
went through another cycle wit h another abusive, alcoholic man until she
got it. Through recapitulation, I was able to let all that ener gy go. Y ou can  go back and send out o f your own


 in taming and training other animalsand in perfecting plant life to prodigiousproportions. He is even " gifted " to the extent of
overcoming, harnessing, and using at will the" forces of Nature," and dispelling the mysteries. He can only do this, however, by co-operatingwith Nature in the most intelligent and faithfulmanner. To ascertain Nature's requirements of
preferences it is necessary to begin with thefirst essentials of care, the nutrition of the bodyand the management of the mind. These basicessentials are the first concern of Fletcherismand really the crux of the ScientificManagement of the Highest Efficiency. One of the most important discoveries in the
development of Fletcherism is the fact that
MUSCLES  HAVE  MEMORIES. The usefulness of this discovery rests in the
knowledge that it is possible to make themuscles connected with nutrition commit tomemory the sequences of procedure in theprocesses of nutrition which accomplish themost profitable results, and then pass on toother details of responsibility care-free andthought-free, fully confident that everythingwill go on as Nature would have it go. Without beginning this discipline of the
muscular equipment at the right point and inthe right manner, no solid structure ofEfficiency-Building can be secured. Any amountof indigestion, or unnecessary strain put uponmetabolism, interferes with the smooth workingof the organism in the same way that aninfinitesimal weight put at the tip end of thelong arm of a lever multiplies the burden ofresistance at the short end many, many fold. Therefore, the Crux of Fletcherism is found
in first training the muscular and mentalapparatus to proceed with thorough deliberationrelative to every thing taken into the body, forfrom this intake, and especially from themanner of the handling of this material alongthe line of the alimentary canal, come efficiencyor inefficiency. It is first necessary to know what you want
the muscles to habituate themselves to doing inconnection with nutrition. They must learn toknow what constitutes a true appetite, incontradistinction to indefiniteness of want ordesire. The muscles will soon learn to know thatreal hunger (body need) is not expressed by anyuncomfortable feelings below the guillotine line. Only in the head, where the senses are allbunched together for the most importantteamwork, is honest hunger sensed. We mayrightly add to the list of the senses, Appetite,and trust it with confidence to tell us what thebody can use to advantage of the foods availableat the time. That the foods are appetizing is theonly recommendation necessary to a set ofmuscles trained to treat them as Naturerequires when they enter the laboratory of themouth. Connected with the training of the, mouth-
muscle outfit, there is the one standing order. Challenge everything applying for entrance,whether by special invitation or in the way ofsurprise, by testing it for taste-acceptability atthe tip of the tongue. Then keep on tasting andtesting, with reverential appreciation of thegustatory delight there is in it, in the fullknowledge that both digestion and assimilation,which are the prime necessities of nutrition, arehealthfully stimulated by accentuatedenjoyment. It is not necessary to dwell intensively on
sensual enjoyment of the material beingautomatically handled by the methodicalmuscles. The pleasant sense sensationssurrounding taste may serve as anaccompaniment to agreeable conversation, tothe delight of beauty in any form, to flowers, tomusic, to graceful and vivacious femininity, orto any sort of charm, with added strength givento the effect on wholesome nutrition. So much for the usefulness of the mouth-
muscles, including that most wonderful ofmuscles, the tongue, in assisting in thehealthful stimulation of nutrition. Their mostimportant office is to stand guard against thecontingencies that are liable to happen whichare prejudicial to digestion. If there is worry inthe atmosphere : " Don't let anything into themouth on pain of court-martial and suffering. "Those are the " orders of the day " for thesentinel muscles of the mouth, serving at theouter entrance of the alimentary canal. In the category of  " worry " are included
anger, argument, blues, or any other of thedepressant passions, and no food or drink, otherthan water, should be admitted to the canal
while any form of depressants are beingsuffered. We must agree in the first place that itcan do no harm to wait for a clearance of themental atmosphere. Real hunger is not apainful craving for something or anything, butis a most accommodating waiter for finalcollection of all the taste dividends there aredue in a big lump sum to compensate for notgetting them by instalments. Consequently, ifthe mental atmospheric conditions are notfavourable to the best nutrition, the best way toclear them is to wait. Nothing is so forceful inmaking one modify or forget passing clouds ofpain or disappointment as growing healthyHunger. The mouth-muscles soon learn to know this
beautiful provision of Mother Nature, wherebydeferred collections by appetite are paid withcompound interest sometimes sure, if by thewaiting process the mental atmosphere iscleared of the elements of digestive lightningand thunder. How delightful it is to be assured that the
best way to secure the best nutrition is theeasiest way and that it can be quickly installed
as a habit, so that attention to the mechanics ofthe care is not necessary, leaving the wholebattery of appreciation to employ itself with thegustatory festival. CHAPTER XV
FLETCHERISM AND VEGETARIANISM
MEAT ERS AND MEAL ERS
The Danger of Excess of Protein—The Use of Meat—Meat and Uric
Acid—To Sum Up—Profitable Economy. IN the warfare against the " Demons of
Dietetic Disturbances " most of the volunteerrecruits go into the camp of the Meal ers, that is
they become vegetarians, quasi- vegeiarians,  or
partial vegetarians, and array themselvesagainst human carnivorous habits andpractices. They are comparatively few innumbers, but make up in enthusiasm what theylack in numerical strength. Some of them basetheir objection to meat-eating on physiologicalgrounds, others on sentimental susceptibility,and yet others are influenced by reasons ofeconomy. With world-wide and centuries-old evidence
before me in forming an opinion, I say withouthesitation that the weight of argument is infavour of a meatless diet most, if not all, of thetime, and that all who subsist on the first-handfruits of the soil and do not resort to
cannibalism, except in cases of emergency, areon the safer side. THE DANGER  OF EXCESS  PROTEIN. To mention the greatest danger from using
meat for nutrition first, we find it almostimpossible to eat most meats without takinginto the organism more protein (nitrogen) thanis required for repair of the broken-downtissues; and we now know that any excess ofprotein or nitrogen imposed upon the body isnot good for it. Large excess is positively deadlyin its final effects, and many, if not all of the so-called uric-acid troubles or diseases are tracedto such abuse. Not only are the kidneys worn out long before
their time, but high blood-pressure is one of thebaleful results that lead to untimely demise. Tobe sure, persons are reported to have lived tonear or quite an hundred years of age ashabitual meat ers, but their occupations or
activities have been favourable to burning upthe dregs of metabolism, and the belief isreasonable that if they had not been thus self-abusing during the first century of their life
they might have gone quite a piece into thesecond century with their matured experience,example, and wisdom, serving the world to goodadvantage. THE USE OF MEAT. That meat is an emergency expedient in the
natural nutrition of man is pretty certain. Strictly speaking, we are all of us subsisting onmeat all of the time, but it is only one degree
removed from the vegetable kingdom, when we
ingest only the first fruits of the soil, asvegetarians do, and make meat of it within us. The vegetable nutriment is transformed intoour own flesh and blood in the form of fatchiefly, and then is used to furnish whateverheat and repair material we happen to need. When second-hand, already dead anddecomposing meat is eaten and thus used forlife-giving purposes, it is really not only second-hand supply but third-hand material. Forinstance, we may subsist exclusively onvegetable or farinaceous material and get ourrepair or fuel supply from such sources only. The result is, in part, the forming of the walls of
our own stomach. These walls are meat. Shouldwe turn into cannibals, devouring each other asthe Pacific (. ) Islanders used to treatmissionaries and enemies, the stomach wallsbecome tripe and are easily digestible. Whilethey were live walls, holding in place glandssecreting powerful gastric juice, they resistedthe digestive aggression of their own juice, butthe moment they were separated from their ownliving combination, quite similar gastric juicedigested them as quickly as it does the whitemeat of a pet chicken. It is physiologicallypossible to cut out a part or the whole of ourown stomach, and then devour and digest it astripe in the small intestines. Hence it is that we are all meat ers, perforce,
but not all of us are third-degree-removedcannibals. What we call " pure vegetarians " areonly second-hand meat ers. I am indebted to the distinguished champion
ten


of
science
for
his
dissertation
on
psoriasis. He
simply
made
me
a
cripple
and
I
think
that
such
use
of
hormonal
preparations
was
unnecessary. Please
advice,
you
are
my
last
hope. I
am
32
years
old
and
disabled.' Comment
and
recommendation:
Reading
such
a
letter
makes
one
want
to
cry. How
easy
it
was
to
get
rid
of
the
problem
and
what
it
came
to. What
to
do? Above
all,
rid
the
body
of
all
waste
and
poisons,
cleanse
the
intestines
with
enemas,
the
liver
and
other
organs
with
cleansing
peels
with
a
minimal
intake
of
hormones. Exclude
food
that
pollutes
the
body
with
harmful
substances,
especially
artificial,
refined
products. Switch
to
a
separate
diet,
eat
only
twice
a
day,
without
snacks
and
feeding
in
front
of
the
TV. After
a
month
or
two
of
such
preparation,
try
fasting,
at
least
weekly. Go
regularly
to
the
steam
room
or
to
the
sauna,
drink
melted
water
and
cook
from
it. Example:
“I
suffered
from
skin
tuberculosis
(lupus)
for
a
long
time
and
I
just
want
to
tell
you
how
I
cured
it. I
have
cleansed
my
liver
twice. I
have
under gone
a
course
of
therapeutic
sweating
and
continue
with
warm
baths
with
fir
oil. I
cleaned
my
intestines
twice
with
an
enema
with
the
addition
of
swallowtail
juice
(each
time
after
25
days). I
drink
urine
and
smear
it
on
myself
in
monthly
cycles. In
between,
I
drink
herbal
decoctions
from
the
swallow. I
feel
much
better,
I
am
in
a
good
mood
and
sometimes
it
seems
to
me
that
I
am
completely
healthy. But
suddenly
my
joints
start
to
swell
and
I'm
in
pain,
although
not
as
much
as
before. I
even
exercise,
which
I
couldn't
even
think
about
before. I
just
revived,
I
switched
to
a
separate
diet,
my
intestines
work
like
clockwork,
I
lost
14
kg. What
should
I
do
next?' Comment
and
recommendation:
It
is
necessary
to
clean
the
liver
and
large
intestine
several
more
times
with
quarter
urine. Swallowtail
is
not
suitable
for
this
cleansing
-
it
dries
the
intestinal
mucosa
and
is
only
suitable
for
obese
people. The
diet
should
be
enriched
with
sprouted
wheat
and
bread
made
from
it. Continue
therapeutic
sweating. Weight
loss
is
explained
by
the
breakdown
and
elimination
of
pathologically
altered
tissue. Once
it
all
comes
out,
you'll
start
gaining
weight
again. Example:
“I
read
about
an
Indian
man
who
suffered
from
vitiligo
(leucoderma),
which
is
white
spots
all
over
his
body,
for
15
years. By
drinking
urine
and
rubbing
his
skin,
he
not
only
reduced
the
size
of
the
spots,
but
gradually
removed
them. The
skin
regained
its
natural
color
and
the
hair
darkened
again. Moreover,
by
rinsing
the
nose
with
urine,
the
Indian
improved
his
eyesight.' Comment:
Here
it
is
possible
to
cite
the
words
of
the
famous
Russian
healer
Panfelia
Engalichev
from
the
old
days:
"Obsolete
sores
and
ulcers
are
healed
by
compresses
from
urine." It
also
treats
various
lichen,
scaly,
and
psoriatic
spots
with
itching,
and
painlessly
expels
and
burns
away
all
impurities,
firming
the
skin
at
the
same
time." Already
in
Yemen,
I
received
a
nice
letter
from
Mrs.
Marie
from
Olomouc,
where
she
writes
that
the
chapter
on
urine
therapy
in
my
book
"Doctor
Myself"
literally
shocked
her
in
the
pleasant
sense
of
the
word. A
year
ago,
a
colleague
at
work
told
her
under
the
guise
of
secrecy
that
it
is
good
to
paint
minor
skin
blemishes
with
morning
urine. She
took
it
with
a
grain
of
salt
then. Now
he
trusts
me
completely. Such
a
letter
and
trust
are
truly
pleasing. Urinotherapy
and
salt
deposition,
polyarthritis
Urine
perfectly
cleanses
the
body
of
salts,
restores
lost
mobility. The
method
of
treatment
is
simple:
we
apply
compresses
to
the
affected
area
alternately
with
very
old
(aged)
urine
and
evaporated
quarter
urine. At
the
same
time,
we
act
on
the
deposit
of
salt
deposition
with
an
acidic
and
alkaline
environment. You
also
need
to
drink
urine
several
times
a
day
and
cleanseyour
colon
and
liver. It
is
the
malfunction
of
the
exchange
of
mineral
substances
in
the
liver
that
leads
to
the
deposition
of
salts. Hot
baths,
steam,
sauna
are
essential,
after
which
we
apply
oil,
preferably
olive,
or
melted
butter
to
the
affected
areas. And
now
some
practical
examples:
Example:
"I
got
sick
with
polyarthritis
at
the
age
of
28. I
was
pregnant
at
the
time. For
several
years,
I
tried
to
ward
off
the
disease
with
compresses,
but
my
joints
gradually
swelled
and
I
could
not
even
put
on
boots
in
the
winter
because
of
the
pain. My
fingers
also
became
inflamed
and
swollen. My
liver
was
angry. I
started
fasting
one
day
a
week
and
cleansed
my
intestines,
liver,
kidneys,
joints
and
blood
vessels. After
the
liver
cleanse,
the
swelling
on
the
hands
disappeared,
but
the
joints
continued
to
hurt. I
lost
10
kg. I
felt
better,
but
my
liver
often
hurt
after
a
hearty
meal
(I
had
a
terrible
appetite)
and
the
arthritis
did
not
stop. In
addition,
my
menstrual
cycle
was
interrupted. Today
I
know
that
starving
for
two
weeks
was
too
much
stress
for
the
body. Two
years
ago
I
also
experienced
ovarian
inflammation. I
tried
to
heal
with
a
good
mind,
but
to
no
avail. Two
months
ago,
under
the
influence
of


 u t  o f  o u r  c o n t r o l :  Dozens of studies are accessible through the United States National Library of
Medicine at the National Institutes of Health website PubMed. Here’ s a few that were helpful
to me: Andrzej Ostrowski et al., “The Role of T raining in the Development of Adaptive
Mechanisms in Freedivers,” Journal of Human Kinetics 32, no. 1 (May 2012): 197–210; Apar
A vinash Saoji et al., “Additional Practice of Y oga Breathing W ith Intermittent Breath Holding
Enhances Psychological Functions in Y oga Practitioners: A Randomized Controlled T rial,”
Explor e: The Journal of Science and Healing  14, no. 5 (Sept. 2018): 379–84; Saoji et al.,
“Immediate Ef fects of Y oga Breathing with Intermittent Breath Holding on Response
Inhibition among Healthy V olunteers,” International Journal of Y oga 11, no. 2 (May–Aug. 2018): 99–104. t o  w a r  w o u n d s :  Serena Gianfaldoni et al., “History of the Baths and Thermal Medicine,” Macedonian
Journal of Medical Sciences 5, no. 4 (July 2017): 566–68. “ c u r e d  a l m o s t  w i t h  c e r t a i n t y ” :  Geor ge Henry Brandt, Royat (les Bains) in Auver gne, Its Mineral W aters
and Climate (London: H. K. Lewis, 1880), 12, 18; Peter M. Prender gast and Melvin A.
Shif fman, eds., Aesthetic Medicine: Art and T echniques  (Berlin and Heidelber g: Springer,
2011); W illiam and Robert Chambers, Chambers’ s Edinbur gh Journal, n.s. 1, no. 46 (Nov. 16,
1844): 316; Isaac Burney Y eo, The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and Climates  (London:
Cassell, 1904), 760. “ T h e  s t u d y ”  ... a  B r i t i s h  d o c t o r :  After Brandt returned to Britain and raved about Royat, another doctor
and fellow at the Royal College of Sur geons left to visit Royat to confirm Brandt’ s findings,
and reported them “quite in accordance with my own experience and observations.” Geor ge
Henry Brandt, Royat (les Bains) in Auver gne: Its Mineral W aters and Climate  (London: H. K.
Lewis, 1880), 12, 18.
s c i e n t i f i c  r e s e a r c h  d i s a p p e a r e d :  According to Dr. Lewis S. Coleman, a California anesthesiologist and
medical researcher, the backlash against carbon dioxide probably had less to do with the facts
and more to do with private interests. Carbon dioxide was an inexpensive by-product of oil
processing, whereas other clinical treatments were expensive and required real expertise toadminister. Lewis S. Coleman, “Four For gotten Giants of Anesthesia History,” Journal of
Anesthesia and Sur gery  3, no. 1 (2016): 68–84. s k i n  d i s o r d e r s :  See dozens of studies on the benefits of carbon dioxide bathing at
mrjamesnestor.com/breath. J o s e p h  W o l p e  ... D o n a l d  K l e i n :  In the late 1950s, W olpe was looking for alternative treatments for free-
floating anxiety, a form of stress for which there is no specific cause, which today af fects about
10 million Americans. He was floored by how quickly and ef fectively carbon dioxide worked. Between two and five inhalations of a 50/50 mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen, W olpe
found, was enough to lower the baseline level of anxiety in his patients from 60 (debilitating)
to zero. No other treatment came close. “It will be hoped that the recently awakened interest in
carbon dioxide will lead to active research,” wrote W olpe in 1987. But the same year W olpe
published his carbon dioxide call to arms, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first
SSRI drug, fluoxetine, which would become better known by its trade names Prozac, Sarafem,
and Adofen. A decade after W olpe’ s study was published, Donald F. Klein, a Columbia
University psychiatrist, found what he thought was the mechanism that triggered panic,
anxiety, and related disorders. It was a “physiologic misinterpretation by a suf focation monitor
[that] misfires an evolved suf focation alarm system,” wrote Klein in his paper “False
Suf focation Alarms, Spontaneous Panics, and Related Conditions.” And that false suf focation
was coming from chemoreceptors that had grown to become too sensitive to fluctuations in
carbon dioxide. Fear, at its core, could be as much a physical problem as a mental one. Joseph
W olpe, “Carbon Dioxide Inhalation T reatments of Neurotic Anxiety: An Overview,” Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease 175, no. 3 (Mar. 1987): 129–33; Donald F. Klein, “False
Suf focation Alarms, Spontaneous Panics, and Related Conditions,” Ar chives of General
Psychiatry  50, no. 4 (Apr. 1993): 206–17. h a l f  o f  u s  w i l l  s u f f e r :  This is Feinstein’ s estimate. Hard numbers are dif ficult to pin down because so
many people with anxiety disorders suf fer from depression, and vice versa. For instance, an
estimated 18 percent of the population suf fers from anxiety disorders; some 8 percent suf fer
from major depressive disorder, and millions more with milder systems; one quarter suf fer
from a diagnosable mental disorder; and one half of all Americans are expected to suf fer from
some mental illness throughout their lives. “Half of US Adults Due for Mental Illness, Study
Says,” Live Science, Sept. 1, 2011, https://www.livescience.com/15876-mental-illness-strikes-
adults.html ; “Facts & Statistics,” Anxiety and Depression Association of America,
https://adaa.or g/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics
1 3  p e r c e n t :  Further, depression, anxiety, and panic are all closely related, each rooted in the same
misinterpretation of fear. A third of patients currently on SSRIs suf fer from other forms of
anxiety and many will be treated with dif ferent drugs for those conditions. Laura A. Pratt et al.,
“Antidepressant Use Among Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2011–2014,” NCHS
Data Brief no. 283 (Aug. 2017): 1–8. d e s c r i b e d  a s  “ w e a k ” :  These findings, as you might imagine, were controversial. Y ou can read more
about the ongoing debate of this study in Fredrik Hieronymus et al., “Influence of Baseline
Severity on the Ef fects of SSRIs in Depression: An Item-Based, Patient-Level Post-Hoc
Analysis,” The Lancet,  July 11, 2019,
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30383-9/fulltext ; Fredrik
Hieronymus, “How Do W e Determine Whether Antidepressants Are Useful or Not? Authors’
Reply,” The Lancet, Nov. 2019, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-
0366(19)30383-9/fulltext ; Henry Bodkin, “Most Common Antidepressant Barely Helps
Improve Depressive Symptoms, ‘Shocking’ T rial Finds,” The T elegraph  (UK), Sept. 19, 2019,
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/09/19/common-antidepressant-barely-helps-
improve-depression-symptoms.e x p o s u r e  t h e r a p y :  An overview of treatments and ef ficacy is available here: Johanna S. Kaplan and
David F. T olin, “Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders,” Psychiatric T imes, Sept. 6, 2011,
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/anxiety/exposure-therapy-anxiety-disorders. a n o r e x i a  o r  p a n i c :  Some 40 percent of panic disorder patients suf fer from depression, and 70 percent
have some other mental health condition. All of these conditions, Feinstein says, are rooted in
fear. Paul M


 inside of the jar to allow air to escape. W ipe
sealing edge of jars with a clean, damp, lint-free cloth. Position flat lids
over the tops of jars and hand-tighten screw bands. OR
Make a  Raw Pack:  Fill jars with ha lved or chopped husk tomatoes. Cover
with hot  water or broth, leaving a 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. Run a thin
non-metallic ute nsil around the inside of the jar to allow air to escape. Add
hot l iquid, if nec essary, to leave a 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. W ipe sealing
edge of jars with a clean, damp, lint-free cloth. Position flat li ds over the
tops of jars and hand-tighten screw bands. 4. P lace jars in a pr essur e canner:  Use a P ressure Canner accordin g to the
chart below for Dial-Gauge or follow manufacturere’ s instructions.5. Cool, Label and Stor e:  T urn of f heat; let pressure return to zero
naturally. Once gauge shows 0 pressure, wait 2 minutes then open the vent. Unlock and remove canner lid. W ait 10 minutes then lift jars from canner
and place on a clean towel or ra ck. Do not re-tighten screw ba nds. Let the
jars cool  to room temperature. T his may take from 12 to 24 hours. Remove
and store screw bands. Check lid seals ( Pressure Canner Method ). W ipe and
label sealed jars. Store in a cool, dark place. g r o u n d  c h e r r y  j a m
W ith so many wonderful pr eserve options available to me, I found it difficult
to decide what t o do with the 2-quart (8 L) basket of gr ound c herries that
happened my way one beautiful early September day. A classic gr ound
cherry jam would have to be the r ecipe for this book, but y ou can try
combining them  with their cous in, the tomatillo, or make a pie filling with
lots of tapioca to  soak up their juices and per haps some crabapples, or even
a sw eet r elish w ith mangoes or papaya. Remember, tomatoes  and sweet
husk tomatoes ar e berries, and like all berries, they ar e full of seeds. Y ou
can strain them out, but I leave them in. MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
10 cups (2.5 L) gr ound cherries
1/4 cup (50 mL) fr eshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 can (6 oz/175 g) fr ozen orange juice concentrate, thawed5 cups (1.25 L) granulated sugar
1 pkg (1–3/4 oz/49 to 52 g) fruit pectin crystals

1. Heat four 1-p int (2-cup/500 mL) jars in boiling water, and scald the lids,
lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 2. In  a Maslin p an or canning k ettle, combine ground cherries, lemon juice
and oran ge juice. Bring to a full rolling boil over medium-high heat, stirring
constantly Using a potato masher, crush the berries. Add sugar, 1 cup (250
mL) at a time, stirring to dissolve after each addition. Bring back to a full
rolling boil and boil for 4 minutes. 3. S prinkle pectin over berries and boil, stirring constantly fo r 1 minute. Remove from heat; skim of f and discard any foam. Let stand for 10
minutes, without stirring. 4. F ill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. Run a thin non-
metallic utensil around the insid e of the jar to allow air to escape. Add more
hot jam, if neces sary to leave a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe rims, top
with flat lids an d screw on met al rings. Return jars to the hot water bath,
topping up with hot water if n ecessary Bring to a full rolling boil and
process jars for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 5. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool completely Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up to
1 year. Use: W i th its vanilla overtones and light tropical fruit notes, this jam is a
perfect m atch for homemade vanilla ice cream. Use it as a s auce for all
kinds of desserts and with na tural yogurt. It tops waf fles, crêpes and
pancakes beautifully.t o m a t i l l o  s a l s a  v e r d e
The gr ee n tomatillos give this ho t sauce its light gr een colour. I may as well
confess: I don’ t much car e for cilantr o. Actually, I can’ t sta nd cilantr o.
Can’ t touch it, can’ t have it touch any food that I have in the gr ocery cart or,
heaven f orbid, h ave it on my plate. Thai food and guacamole ar e culinary
nightmar es for me. When I was hosting our Herb W alk pr ograms fr om our
cir ca 18 60s log cabin on the Saugeen River, I would ask the pa rticipants if
they liked cilantr o. Not that I am obsessed—I just wanted to know if I was
alone in a world of cilantr o lovers. Over the six years, I figur e I had a pr etty
good cr oss-section of r esponden ts. T urns out that I’m not the o nly cilantr o
hater. M y non-scientific study r evealed that r oughly one-thir d of all thepeople I surveyed have a very violent aversion to cilantr o. After that, I dug
deeper. The  W all Street Journal published an article early in 2009 on
cilantr o hating as a modern phe nomenon. The article cited several websites
and blogs, including http://www.ihatecilantr o.blogspot.com/. The
inter esting thing is that cilantr o lovers simply cannot compr ehend the
terrible taste we “haters” expe rience when exposed to this contr oversial
herb. I once gr ew a lo nely cilantr o plant in the herb gar den. It was just beyond
my nose, so for most of the season, I har dly knew it was th er e. T o my
surprise, when it had bolted and  gone to seed, I discover ed that I loved the
seeds (coriander ). Wher e I got the nerve to try them, I’m not sur e, but the
seeds have none of the offending essential oils of the leaves. In r ecipes like
this, I simply use flat-leaf parsley in place of my one gr een nemesis. MAKES 4 CUPS (1 L)
3 lb (1.5 kg) tomatillos
3 jalapeño peppers, chopped
3 serrano chiles, chopped
1 gr een bell pepper, chopped
1 cup (250 mL) chopped r ed onion
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped gr een onion
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped fr esh cilantr o or
flat-leaf parsley 2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eshly squeezed lime juice sea salt and
fr eshly gr ound pepper

1. Clean  and husk tomatillos. Place in a lar ge saucepan and cover with
water. B ring to a boil over high heat. Cover and reduce heat and  simmer for
5 minute s. Rem ove with a slotted spoon and immerse in cold water for 5
minutes. Drain and pat dry Ch op by hand or using the pulse button of a
food processor. 2. M eanwhile in a bowl, combin e jalapeño and serrano chile pep pers, green
pepper, red and green onions, c ilantro and lime juice. Add tom atillos andseason to taste with salt and pepper. Fr eezing T omat illo Salsa V erde:  Me asure salsa i n 1- or 2-cup (250 or 500
mL) amounts and fill freezer containers to within 1 inch (2.5 cm) of the top. Remove air, seal, label and freeze. Canning T omatillo Salsa V erde
4 cups (1 L) T omatillo Salsa V erde
1/4 cup (50 mL) bottled lemon juice

1. Heat four 1-cup (250 mL) jar s in boiling water, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 2. In  a saucepan, bring the Salsa V erde to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for  1 minute


 you to maneuver others. By
telling someone this is the way it should be done, you can make him
do it the way you want it to be done. • It is easier to haul out a should when you lack confidence in
yourself. As your self-image wanes, the should becomes your bul-
wark. • You can remain self-righteous about your behavior and retain
your hostility when others don’t fit into the shoulds that you have
for yourself and the rest of the world. Hence, you build yourself up
in your mind at the expense of others who don’t obey the rule-pat-
terns. • You can win approval by conforming. You feel good by fitting-
in, which is what you were told all along that you should  be doing. That old approval-seeking need creeps in here as well. • As long as you focus on others, and live through their successes
and failures, you don’t have to work on yourself. Having heroes can
reinforce your own low opinion of yourself and allow you to escape
from having to work on yourself. As long as the heroes can be the
cause of your good feelings, or responsible for your bad feelings,
there is no reason for you to take on that responsibility. Your self-
worth in this case is really other-worth and thus fleeting and trans-
itory. It depends upon all of those great people, and how they come
through for you.158 / Your Erroneous ZonesSome Strategies for Removing Some of Your Shoulds
Basically your chore in scrubbing up this zone involves risk-taking. Doing! Resolving to be different than the way you’ve been taught
is proper when that way doesn’t work for you. Here are some tactics
that will be helpful in getting out of your musterbatory habits. • Begin with insight into your own behavior. Study the neurotic
dividends spelled out above. Then ask yourself why are you burden-
ing yourself with so many shoulds. Ask yourself if you really believe
in them, or if you’ve just become accustomed to behaving that way. • List all of the rules you abide by, which just don’t seem to apply. Those stupid conventional behaviors that you complain about, but
can’t seem to shed. Then, make your own “Rules of Conduct” that
make the greatest amount of sense to you. Write them down, even
if you don’t believe at this time that you are capable of living them
out. • Start your own traditions. For example, if you’ve always decor-
ated your Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve, and you’d rather do it
three days before, begin a new Christmas tradition—one that makes
sense to you. • Have a consultation with your relatives and friends about the
many rules of conduct you all follow which you find distasteful. Perhaps you’ll be able to bring about some new rules which appear
to be more reasonable to everyone. You’ll discover that the old rules
are still in effect only because no one ever seriously thought to
challenge them in the past. • Keep an internal/external journal. Write down your “external”
references in which you assign responsibility to others for how you
are feeling. See if you can shift yourself to the “internal” side with
some new acts of courage. Keep track of your success in moving
over to the internal side. • See how many rules you impose on others. Ask them ifBREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 159they really need those directives, or if they would behave in the
identical fashion without them. Perhaps you’ll even learn that they
could come up with more effective and flexible guidelines. • Take a risk on challenging a rule or policy that you’d like to
eliminate. But be prepared to deal without hostility with the con-
sequences of your behavior. For example if you’ve always believed
that a woman shouldn’t ask a man for a date and you find yourself
without a date on a weekend, call up a man and see what happens. Or, take back a defective garment even if the rule is no refunds, and
effectively challenge the policy, vowing to go to the top if necessary. Don’t be guided by the policies of others which have you being a
victim as the final result. • Think of decisions as having different consequences, rather than
as being right or wrong. In making decisions, eliminate the notion
of right and wrong and say either one is okay, and each will bring
about different consequences. Trust yourself to make the decision
rather than relying on some external kind of guarantee. Please
yourself instead of meeting an outside standard. • Try to live in your present moments and make your rules and
shoulds apply only for that time. Rather than assuming them to be
universals, recognize them as applicable only at this moment. • Refuse to share your rule-breaking behavior with anyone. It is
only for you, and you don’t want to get into an approval-seeking
posture, in which the reason for resisting enculturation is to win at-
tention and therefore adulation. • Get rid of the roles that you (and others) are assuming in your
life. Be whatever you want to be, rather than what you think you
are supposed to be because you are a man, woman, middle-aged,
or whatever. • Refuse for a given segment of a conversation to focus on others. Practice in ever-increasing time periods not projecting blame, or
talking about another person, event, or idea in a complaining or
fault-finding manner. • Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others160 / Your Erroneous Zonesshould be different simply because you would like it better if they
were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they
choose, even if you irritate yourself about it. • Come up with a blame list, wherein you detail everything about
yourself that you dislike. It can look something like this:
Who, What Is To Blame What I Dislike About Me and My Life
Sara Lee, metabolism, mother,
McDonalds, heredityI’m too fat……..
Parents, grandparents, God, ge-
netics, homework, Con-EdI have poor eyesight…….. Elementary teachers, sister, defi-
cient math genes, motherI’m lousy in mathematics…. Luck, all creeps at my school,
parents, I can’t wear makeupI have no boy/girl friends…. Genetics, God, mother I’m too tall…….. The economy, Dow-Jones, di-
vorce, my children hate me, ill-
nessI’m unhappy…….. Mother, genetics, luck, no early
nourishment, God, SatanMy breasts are too small……
Helena Rubenstein, heredity, girl
friend, the sunMy hair is the wrong color…. Presidents Ford, Nixon, Johnson,
etc., the Communists, humanityThe state of the world bugs me
The neighborhood, “Those kinds
of people,” zoning regulationsMy neighbors are bitchy……
The wind, the sun, the net is too
high/low, the distractions, my
cramps, my sore arm, leg, etc.My tennis outcome……..
My metabolism, my period, my
doctor, the food, the heat, the
cold, the wind, the rain, the pol-
len, You Name It.I don’t feel well……..BREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 161Now add up your total blame score and see if you are any different
now that you have fault and blame appropriately doled out to all
of the precise people and things that are responsible for your feelings. Isn’t that something? You are exactly the same. Whether you blame
or don’t, you stay as you are unless you do something constructive
to correct your dislikes. You can use this as an exercise in seeing the
futility of blaming. • Announce out loud that you just blamed and that you are
working on eliminating this behavior. By stating it as a goal, you’ll
be mindful of your proclivities in this direction. • Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never
be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of
you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any
externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since
it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they
have control over you. • When someone is blaming, politely ask them, “Would you like
to know if I want to hear what you are telling me right now?” That
is, teach others not to use you as a blame receptacle and begin to
label other people’s blaming and fault-finding so that you get in
touch with recognizing it in yourself. You can label it with a nonof-
fensive treatment such as, “You just made George responsible for
how you feel. Do you really think it’s that way? Or, “You keep saying
that if only the market would go up, you’d be happier. You really
give it a lot of control over your life.” Your recognition of others’
blames and shoulds will help you to eliminate such behavior in
yourself. • Refer back to the lists of shoulds discussed earlier in this chapter. Try to substitute some new and different behavior for these old
habits—perhaps a late night dinner, or changing your sexual posi-
tion, or wearing what you like. Begin to trust yourself and give less
credence to those external musts. • Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers
you, it’s your reaction to it. Instead of saying “They162 / Your Erroneous Zonesshouldn’t do that,”


 today. This process may not be the easiest
path, but it is definitely possible. Knowledge can also be used to combat fear. The fear says, “One day my child will have atoothache.” But knowledge tells you that today your child is happy and has no toothache. Knowledge
and awareness are a part of how I help dissolve the fear. I know that I am giving my child the best
foods possible. Her decayed teeth continually remind me of the delicate balance of the foods that are
required to keep her healthy. I remind myself that when I give her these special foods, her body builds defenses against pain,
infection, and decay. If I experience fear, when in the real world there is nothing to fear, then I have to
challenge and examine that fear. If it arises when my daughter is not experiencing pain or discomfort,
I choose to seek out its origins within me. Where did it come from? How do I justify it? What am I
afraid of, and how can I hold a compassionate and aware presence in the face of this fear? Knowledge is also obtained by examining your child’s tooth decay and closely monitoring it. Most
people are better off monitoring tooth decay with a dentist, but I understand the difficulty this poses in
some cases and people have had problems finding supportive dentists that are open to the “watch and
wait” approach. “Watch and wait” used to be the way children’s cavities were treated. If the tooth got
infected, the tooth was simply pulled out, and although that is not a pleasant procedure, it is short and
quick. There was no drama about general anesthesia surgery, no metals placed in the child’s mouth,
and plenty of patience in monitoring a little decay in a baby tooth. Children's Tooth Decay is Not an Easy Road for Most
For many parents, including myself, dealing with children's tooth decay is not an easy thing. It can
challenge you at the deepest level. Today, I still find myself occasionally overly concerned about my
daughter’s teeth. I still feel that twinge of fear within me that says, “Her teeth are not sound enough as
they are.” One day my daughter complained of a minor toothache. Because I was carefully monitoring
her diet, I knew the cause and I knew how to stop it. She had been eating too much raw honey. The
honey had caused her blood sugar to be elevated for too long, and thus her blood levels of calcium
and phosphorus became imbalanced, resulting in decay. We began to be more careful and restrictive
about the honey and other sweets in her diet. That was over a year ago and she has not had a
toothache since. Removing the honey caused her blood chemistry to remain balanced, and thus her
tooth remineralized and the pain stopped. Several years ago, my daughter apparently had a tooth infection and was restless for several nights. One day she woke up with a slightly swollen face. I thought to myself, “This is not good.” In the midst
of my nervousness and discomfort at the sight of my daughter's partially swollen face, Michelle added
her words of wisdom and said, “Don't worry about it.” I exclaimed, “What do you mean ‘Don't
worry’?!” I expressed my fear that this was the worst thing that we had come up against. Upon review
of the past several days, we together saw that our hurried ways, our laziness, and our hunger had
resulted in improper food preparation. This chain of events leading up to the infection was clearly the
cause. We had allowed our daughter to eat too many grain products of mediocre quality. The day we
saw the infection we immediately put her on a food protocol similar to the best protocol which I
describe in this book. The diet included fish (cooked and raw), oysters, eggs, some bacon,
vegetables, vegetable juice, cod liver oil and butter oil. We greatly limited sweet foods, were careful
about grain products, and we made sure to establish boundaries so that she had balanced meals. Gradually over a few days, the swelling disappeared and the abscess healed. Not all parents need towork this hard to prevent their child’s tooth decay. It really depends on how fragile their child’s body
and system are. I continue to learn lessons from these experiences. I am learning that we need to be vigilant
concerning our family’s diet. I continue to challenge myself to feel the fear, to experience that “what
if” scenario that my mind always worries about. Then I also begin to experience periods of feeling
great happiness and satisfaction. There are times when I can move beyond the emotional fear and see
my daughter's tooth decay in an honest and mature way. I trust and understand this part of life because
I have faced it emotionally, through feeling my feelings, mentally, through knowledge and research;
and I have faced it with my will, through taking positive steps to treat her condition. That is how I
have found safety and peace in the face of illness. The result is a happy and carefree child, free from
tooth pain.Treating Children's Tooth Decay Naturally
We have successfully treated severe early childhood tooth decay for five years now, without fluoride,
dentists, or dental surgery. I estimate we have achieved about a 90-98% reduction in the rate of tooth
decay. Many parents have achieved 100% or more reduction in tooth decay, by which I mean the
complete cessation of cavities, and even occasionally the disappearance of previously visible tooth
decay. How successful you will be is a factor of how committed you are to health, the quality of
foods that are available, your ability to maintain a healthy diet for your child, and how severely
deficient your child was when you begin the program of improvement. One of my daughter's baby teeth is black and worn to the gum line. Even with this, her gums are
healthy, with no sign of infection, or pain. Her adult teeth do not have any cavities.Surgery on Children for Tooth Decay? In the U.S., 27.9% of all children ages 2-5 have had some tooth decay, with a total average of about 5
out of every 100 teeth in young children exhibiting signs of some tooth decay. 1
 Young children cannot
sit still in order to undergo normal dental procedures. Until the child is somewhere around the age of
6-8 years, the child is not really capable of understanding what a dental procedure is. A mother's lap can be appropriate for certain dental treatments which are done quickly, but not for
substantial dental treatments. Many mothers will find that their toddler will protest sitting in a dental
chair. Some may not even open their mouths. Young children are fearful of the dentist putting his
hands or cold, hard metal instruments into their mouths. Young children do not have the cognitive
ability to fully comprehend what is happening. Their interpretation of the experience is that some
strange person is shining bright lights at them and forcing them to do things which are uncomfortable
and invasive. This makes it challenging to treat young children's teeth without violating their will and
without causing them pain or fear. Forcing the child to go through dental procedures before he is
ready may cause emotional trauma. Local anesthesia may not work on young children. It may or may not be effective in preventing pain
and it is difficult to tell if a young child's tooth is numbed properly prior to dental surgery. This is
because it is almost impossible to get reliable feedback from a child if they are under stress,
especially if they are younger than six. Treating children as if they are mini adults is a backwards way to go about dentistry, but this is the
common pediatric dentistry model. This means that dentists will use crowns, root canals, and fillings
in a vain attempt to try to remove the infestation of bacteria on a child’s teeth. If the child’s cavities
are extensive, dentists recommend significant surgery for decayed baby teeth. The two common
methods of pediatric dentistry for children with significant tooth decay are barbaric. One is to heavily
sedate the child with an oral sedative. The child is still awake, just immobile and groggy. It is
common for many dental offices then to strap the drugged child to the dental chair in order to restrain
the child during treatment, including drilling. The other method is administration of full general
anesthesia, in which the child is separated from the parents, put to sleep while teeth are extracted and
typically metal is placed into the child’s mouth. Some children may be able to cope with these
harrowing experiences, but for many others they may cause indelible emotional scars. I told a friend from another country that this is how they treat children with several tooth cavities in
dental offices in the U.S. She thought I was joking at first because she could not believe parents
would submit their children to such a procedure, nor that dentists would even offer it. I understand
surgery with general anesthesia if a child has a life-threatening medical condition, but for tooth
decay? No way. Since young children's bodies are immature and delicate, the administration of general anesthesia
comes with the risk of death. This risk of death seems to be quite low for young children although it
does happen. I could not find a reliable and conclusive statistic on what the percentage is. With adults
the risk of death during dental surgery using anesthetics is extremely small. 2
 There is an approximate
35% risk of an adverse event (other than death) from general anesthesia on young children, which isabout twice the risk for adults. 3
 Furthermore, recent experiments on lab rats have shown that
anesthesia, when used while the brain is developing, causes neurodegeneration