 to non-flushing niacin: it is ineffective. ) Niacin should be discontinued during
women’s periods or in case of bleeding of any kind. Liver Capsules : The severely toxic and damaged liver of the cancer patient needs maximum
assistance to improve its vital functions. The therapy provides this help in the form of liver
capsules containing dried, defatted powdered liver from healthy animals. Two capsules of liver
powder are given three times a day, with carrot-only juice. According to Dr. Virginia Livingston,
the combination of dry liver powder with carrot juice produces abcissic acid,  a precursor of
Vitamin A, which is essential in attacking tumor tissue. Crude Liver Injections : An additional substance given to aid in the restoration of the liver. It normally contains a small amount of Vitamin B 12. However, since virtually all cancer patients 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 120Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www. thegersonway. comare anemic, additional Vitamin B 12 is needed to help restore the hemoglobin content of the blood,
promoting the formation and maturation of red blood cells. It works against different types of
anemia and even against degenerative changes in the spinal cord. As seen in animal experiments,
this vitamin is able to restore a wide range of tissues damaged by age, chronic illness, surgery,
degenerative diseases, or various kinds of poisoning. Intra-muscular Liver Extract (3 cc) with
added 50 mcg of B 12—a tiny amount, a 20th of one cc) is given daily for four or more months. Later the frequency is reduced to every other day, and still later—sometimes after as much as a
year—to twice a week. Pancreatin : This is an extract of various pancreatic digestive enzymes, normally needed
to digest fats, proteins and sugar. Gerson patients don’t consume those substances; however,
these enzymes are vitally important in the digestion and elimination of tumor tissue. The dosage
is 3 tablets of. 325mg each four times a day—one after each meal, plus an additional dose in
mid-afternoon. For exceptionally large tumors 2-3 tablets a day of a more concentrated 1200mg
pancreatin may be added to the patient’s medication. Some patients cannot tolerate pancreatin and
have to do without it. Dr. Gerson also omitted pancreatin for sarcoma cases. Acidol Pepsin : These tablets supply digestive stomach juices, badly needed by patients
suffering from chronic diseases, who tend to have insufficient stomach acid and digestive pepsin. As a result they have poor appetite and poor digestion. Since the Gerson treatment is based on the
patient’s optimum intake of food and juices, the stomach needs help for the intake and digestion
of food. Acidol Pepsin aids protein digestion and the absorption of iron, while helping to eliminate
gas and bloating. The dosage is six tablets a day, two to be taken before  each meal. No Acidol is
given in cases of acid reflux, stomach ulcers or other inflammatory or irritated conditions of the
stomach. Ox Bile Powder : This helps to emulsify the castor oil, which is used in the castor oil/coffee
enemas. The powder is mixed into the castor oil and stirred, before the slightly soapy coffee is
added. Flax Seed Oil : Also known as food grade linseed oil, this contains both essential fatty
acids (EFA’s): linoleic acid and linolenic acid, and is particularly rich in the Omega 3 series, as
discovered by Dr. Johanna Budwig. The therapeutic effects of flax seed oil are many:
• It attracts oxygen at the cell membrane and transports oxygen into the cell;
•  It is able to detoxify fat-soluble toxins, and helps to dissolve and remove plaque;
• It is a carrier of Vitamin A, which is important for the immune system; and
•  It removes excess cholesterol, an important function, since patients’ cholesterol levels
sometimes rise during the initial stages of the Therapy. Dose: two tablespoons daily for the first month, then one tablespoon daily for the rest of the
treatment. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the purpose of the "Triad" in pain control?,
A: The "Triad" is a combination of one aspirin, one 500 mg tablet of Vitamin C, and one 50 mg tablet of Niacin, which is used to relieve pain.
Q: What is the recommended dosage of Niacin for patients who are not suffering from non-malignant diseases?,
A: The recommended dosage of Niacin for patients with non-malignant diseases is not specified in the text, but it is mentioned that the dosage is less than the dosage for cancer patients.
Q: What is the recommended dosage of Co-Enzyme Q10?,
A: The recommended dosage of Co-Enzyme Q10 is 50mg daily for 5-7 days, then increased to 100mg, and eventually up to 500-600mg daily.
Q: What is the purpose of the Gerson Therapy for patients who have undergone chemotherapy?,
A: The Gerson Therapy is not suitable for patients who have undergone chemotherapy, as it may cause an adverse reaction to the chemotherapy drugs.
Q: What is the recommended schedule for patients who have undergone chemotherapy?,
A: The text does not provide a specific schedule for patients who have undergone chemotherapy, but it mentions that the patient should rest and not engage in any strenuous activities.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>However, if this extra effort brings
on new symptoms or excessive fatigue, outside help must be brought in. Some people, particularly
the breadwinner, are able to return at first to part-time work, later to a regular job. There is just
one important condition: the patient must never eat lunch in a restaurant. He/she needs to eat the
usual Gerson lunch at home, together with the freshly made green juice (which cannot be taken
along to work), and also have some rest plus the midday enema. The carrot/apple juices can be
taken to work in the morning, in a glass-lined thermos flask; another thermos full of juice needs
to be ready for the patient to drink during the afternoon. Then on returning home the balance of
the green juices can be taken, along with the missing enemas and followed by  rest. This arrangement only works if there is a person at home able to prepare all the Therapy 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 145Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comitems needed by the patient. The Trouble With Sunshine
Sunshine can be a source of good health; it can also be a killer. The difference lies in the degree
of exposure we choose. The human body needs Vitamin D, which helps to maintain several organ
systems and is essential for forming and maintaining healthy bones. However, very few foods are
naturally rich in Vitamin D (some commercial foods are fortified with synthetic versions of the
substance), so we need the Vitamin D, which is produced in our skin exposed to sunlight. The trouble is that the ultra-violet (UV) rays contained in sunlight can cause severe damage
to cells. This partly explains why the widespread fashion for deep tanning has been accompanied
by the doubling of skin cancer cases in the last few decades. Even those who don’t lie for hours
practically naked on a sunny beach but have an outdoor job may develop skin cancer, since 30-
50% of UV rays reach us even on a cloudy day. All this means that Gerson patients must take great care to avoid sunburn, which causes
immediate harm in the form of blisters, reddening and discomfort, but can also produce long-term
damage, with dry, wrinkled skin as its mildest, and melanoma as its worst effect. The first rule
is to keep out of sunshine between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the summer and in hot climates all the
year round. It is still possible to enjoy brightness from a shady spot, but not close to water, which
reflects back sunshine powerfully. Even at other times of day it is important to be well covered when outdoors. Light, white,
long-sleeved cotton shirts, full length pants and wide-brimmed hats or white caps with visors give
necessary protection. Healthy children need to be able to play outdoors and swim in summer, but they are even more
sensitive to sunburn than adults. Unfortunately 90% of commercial sunscreens and sunblocks
contain a chemical called Octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC), which is toxic and doubles its toxicity
when exposed to sunlight. As the skin absorbs 60% of everything applied to it, obviously such
preparations cannot be used by children. However, effective non-toxic sunscreens containing
natural ingredients, such as Green Tea, are available and can be tracked down with a little effort. Complementary Therapies
These days there is a bewildering array of complementary treatments on offer and the question
arises whether Gerson patients should use any of these. The simple answer is that anything that
promotes healing and does not clash with the requirements of the Therapy is permissible and
potentially helpful. However, there is no margin for


. Remember there are only two causes of disease, any disease. Number one
is toxicity and number two is acidosis, in the form of inflammation. These
two causes are the effects of what you eat, drink, breathe, what you put on
your skin, as well as what you think and feel. These are the ways that you
either strengthen your body or weaken it and the cells within it. TREATING DIABETES

I have always put diabetics on a raw fruit and vegetable diet. This type of diet
will clean and rebuild the pancreas and adrenal glands. Food combinations
are also vital to follow (see instructions for food combining in
Chapter 7
,
Eating for Vitality),
 as the fermentation and putrefaction of foods adversely
affect the pancreas and blood sugar levels. I also use an herbal detox program
and a pancreatic support formula with the diet (see
Chapter 8
 for herbs and
herbal formulas that provide this support). In type II diabetes, if you follow a
good detox program and use high quality herbs, you should be off insulin
within three to eight weeks. I would always advise the assistance of a qualified healthcare practitioner
who can help guide you though this detoxification process. It is vital that you
watch your blood sugar levels. They can drop very fast and you do not want
to give yourself too much insulin when your blood sugars are more
normalized. This could put you into a coma. Use common sense. Take your time and be smart in what you do. If you
are on insulin, and you’re self-regulating or checking your sugars daily, you
do not have to worry if your sugars temporarily go up. Some fruits may
temporarily raise your blood sugars. If you notice a particular fruit doing this,
just eliminate that fruit until you stabilize your sugars. Remember your goal isto clean and regenerate the pancreas and adrenal glands, not to treat diabetes. Don’t forget that complex sugars like sucrose, maltose and dextrose can
overload your system with glucose. Trying to drive this excessive glucose
into your cells with insulin is not the answer. Avoiding these complex-sugar
foods is the answer. You will also note that proteins, especially meat, will also raise your
blood sugars. Meat is not a balanced food, as it consists of mostly protein. Therefore your body will break down fat and convert this to glucose for
balance. The responding glucose will then raise your blood glucose levels. There are so many contributing factors to diabetes. Keep it simple. Eat
the food that was designed for your body—fruits, vegetables and nuts. “There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people. ” This means that
some people will not be cured because they don’t want to be. Many use their
disease for attention from family members or others. Many individuals
become lost to themselves and seek love and attention from others as a
support mechanism. Become strong in yourself; spend time alone with
yourself. Learn as much as you can about foods and their true effects upon tissue. Never fear God and nature. The devastating effects of diabetes are great, but
its cure is simple. If it takes you six months to a year to cure yourself, that’s
better than a lifetime of misery. Be free of your diseases. Get healthy. MODULE 5. 8
Weight Loss and Control: Addressing the Cause

There are many reasons why people are overweight. Obesity has become a
big problem in the world, especially in the United States. Secretary of Health
and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, quoted in the New
York Times,
January 2003, said that 50 million adults, or 25 percent of the adult
population of the U. S., are obese. If figures for obesity in children were
added this would greatly increase the numbers. In obesity one must always address the causes, not the effects. Because
the social consciousness sees fat as excessive, unhealthy, a sign of the loss of
control, or as a bad thing, we seek at all costs to rid it from our bodies. Someindividuals give up and surrender to it, hiding their angers and anxieties deep
within them. This of course can compound the problem. Let’s examine the reasons behind obesity. First and foremost we have the
endocrine glandular system. Show me obesity and I’ll show you an
underactive condition of the thyroid and adrenal glands. Hypothyroidism is
one of the most common causes of obesity. Many medical doctors use a
blood test to determine the hypo- or hyperactivity of the thyroid gland. They
generally test the TSHs, T3s and T4s in your blood to determine how your
thyroid is functioning. (See
Appendix D
 for a complete overview of blood
tests and how to interpret your own results. ) After years of observation it has
become quite evident to me that these tests are highly inaccurate. This is why
the Basal Temperature Test (see
Appendix A
) was designed. I’ve seen
thousands of cases in which a person’s T3s and T4s are normal and the
patient is sitting in front of me with cold extremities, loss of hair, fatigue,
brittle or ridged fingernails, heart problems, depression or voice weakness,
just to name a few of the classic signs of hypothyroidism. The adrenal glands are the second most common cause of obesity when
the adrenal cortex becomes hypoactive. This can affect various steroids that
deal with carbohydrate metabolism, which means that complex sugars
(starch) and even glucose can be easily converted to fat instead of properly
metabolized. Of course the master gland, the pituitary, can also be involved. The third and most popular cause of obesity is dietary habits. We are a
society that loves disaccharides. These are complex sugars, including sucrose,
dextrose, maltose and lactose. Our body can only use simple sugars: glucose;
fructose; or in infants, galactose. All complex sugar molecules must be
broken down into simple sugars before cells can use them for energy. The
excess is then converted into and stored as glycogen or as fat. The average
American diet also includes a great many saturated fats which, in an acidic
environment, saturate even further. This makes them unavailable to cells for
nutrition and energy. This also creates a glue-like condition within the blood
and vascular system. Stones, plaque formation and the sticking together of
red blood cells are side effects. Starches, such as grains, have become very popular among homo
sapiens. Unsprouted grains are very low in available nutrition, acid-forming,
fattening, hard to digest, and are a gluey starch. The reason we feed grain to
cattle and hogs is to fatten them up for market. Genetics, of course, play a large role in our body’s consciousness. Everycell in your body is a genetic cell. However, some are weaker and some are
stronger. And weak cells can lead to glandular weaknesses, which are then
passed from generation to generation. Each generation becomes weaker
unless someone begins to strengthen his or her genetically weakened cells. EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF WEIGHT GAIN

As a society we have become extremely emotional and codependent—that is,
emotionally and mentally weakened. This has a profound effect on obesity, as
we have been taught to substitute sweets or refined foods—so called “comfort
foods”—in times of emotional weakness and pain. Since we are frugivores,
sweets
fit
 our biological needs. However, these sugars should be simple
sugars, not complex sugars, which are mostly stored as fats. If you wish to change your life, spend time with yourself and get to
know who you truly are. You are Divine. God created you, so you are God’s
expression. Individuality is the name of the game in creation. Learn to enjoy
the fact that you are one of a kind. We all come into this world alone, we live
alone except for the company of those with whom we wish to spend time,
then we die alone. We are always alone within ourselves. Begin to love
yourself because
you
 are all you have, except for God. Your mind is the most powerful tool you use to create with. How you see
yourself dictates your experience. If you wish to be thin,
see yourself as thin. Most obese people do not feel thin so they have a hard time seeing
themselves as thin. By feeling thin you will begin to see yourself as thin. Changing your diet to fresh raw fruits and salads makes the body feel thin,
light, and clean. The diet recommended in this book will melt fat away and at
the same time enhance cellular function, increasing your vitality. Work on your endocrine gland system as well, especially the thyroid and
adrenal glands. Eating a raw food diet and using herbs can regenerate literally
everything. Rebuild yourself —it’s fun. Become happy with yourself and
enjoy God in every moment. Let anger, envy, jealousy or hatred go, and
bring in the love for all life, as all life is Divine. THE DANGER OF HIGH PROTEIN DIETS
 In trying to lose weight we often try high protein diets. High protein diets are
very toxic to us, especially when this protein is from animal sources. Your
body must spend a lot of time and energy to break these protein structures
down into simple amino acids before your body can use them. The body
cannot use protein structures at all. Of course the energy that is needed to do
this will cause stored fat to be broken down as the body scrambles for energy


 would ordinarily be used to masticate, digest,
assimilate and eliminate food is used to purify your body. That is what fasting is: deep internal cleansing, aphysiological rest to build Vital Force. Now, say you are a person of
60 and you have been
eating 3 meals daily, whether you were hungry or not,and you have allowed toxic acid crystals to get deposited
into the moveable joints of your body. It is going to
take time for Mother Nature and the vital power withinyour body to break down the toxic crystals that have
accumulated over the years. The Man Who Rebuilt Himself
I remember a Mr. Evans who came to me years ago. He hobbled painfully into my office. A well known doctor
in California had given him a prescription which read
“Physical therapy as prescribed.” I am also a physicaltherapist which helped in my health and healing practice. This man’s sad story is one of millions in our country. He had never been educated to know how to care forhis wonderful body, but he had been conditioned to eat
3 meals per day and eat anything that pleased him. Now,
I have told you several times in this book that “HumanFlesh is Dumb.” You can put anything in your stomach
at any hour that you wish. You can get up in the morning
and fill up on cereal, ham and eggs, fried potatoes andtoast and wash it down with
 5 cups of coffee, but you
must take the consequences of eating habits like this. You can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor,
any hospital, any drug and any exotic medical device. – Joseph Califano44Victory Won By Fasting, Diet and Exercise
First and foremost, your body has to earn its food by
the sweat of your brow. That means you only eat food
appropriate to your physical activity and climate. This
man was eating as he did when he was a young activefarm boy. Slowly his joints were becoming cemented
solid by toxins and toxic crystals that were pressing on
nerves causing him agonizing pain. He wanted an easyway out of his misery. I told him truthfully that it had
taken a long time of wrong eating and bad habits of
living to get him in this wretched condition. Now itwould take fasting, a healthy diet and ample exercises
to help relieve these pains. He was an intelligent man
and saw the truth of my simple philosophy. I started him on a
 3 day distilled water fast. Following
the fast, I had him eat only fresh fruit for breakfast and
a raw vegetable combination salad for lunch. I had himeat a grated carrot, beet, chopped cabbage salad and one
cooked vegetable for dinner. I took him off all animal
products, meat, fish, eggs, cheese and dairy products. Ieliminated all salt, sugar and refined foods. I took himoff all grains and all legumes such as beans, peas, rice
and lentils for two months. Every day I had him take a
10 minute hot bath (add 1 cup apple cider vinegar),
bringing the water up to 104 degrees, using a bath
thermometer. I gave him an exercise program of brisk
walking starting with 3 blocks the first day, and every
third day I added another block to his walking program
until he was walking  3 miles a day. Every week he took a 36 hour water fast. As the days
and weeks rolled into months, I gave him one 7 day
and one 10 day fast. In one year you would hardly have
recognized this man! His family and friends were amazedat his transformation. His joints became flexible and,
although he hadn’t been swimming for years, he joined
the
YMCA  and swam 3 days a week. He hadn’t ridden a
bicycle for years, yet he purchased one and rode for miles
at a time. He and his wife took up dancing and in a year
he was winning contests. The stiffness left him. He eventook up the piano and became a good piano player.45
Enter, or perhaps re-enter, the brave new world of wellness through
healthy lifestyle, exercise, natural r emedies, alternative therapies,
meditation and prayer with positive thinking. – Monica Skrzypczak
The body must be wisely nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We’re spiritually starved in America and not underfed, but undernourished. – Carol HornigTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. – Ben Franklin
Knowing and following th ese teachings will mean
true life and good health for you. – Proverbs 4:22Mother Nature Works Miracles Slowly,
But Surely When You Honor Her Laws
Mr. Evans is growing younger as he is growing older. His miseries are gone! He accomplished all this by himself!I only helped him to help him self! As a health teacher, I
only laid out his healthy lifestyle program of naturalliving. Today he fasts every week for
24 to 36 hours without
fail. Four times a year – winter, spring, summer and fall –he takes a
10 day complete fast. His lively steps are that of
a man 20 years of age! His movements are quick and
accurate. He didn’t do all this in a day, in a week or amonth. It took time to break down and eliminate thepoisons and toxic acid crystals that were tormenting him. What Mr. Evans did you can do too! The body is
self-repairing, self-healing and self-maintaining. All youhave to do is live by the laws of God and Mother Nature,and you will be rewarded with the joy of living. Be a faithful health captain and live The Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle! I don’t want you to have to totter alongon life-support drug cocktails and hip replacements, butchoose to LIVE with super energy and total health! Fasting is an important part of your program for
banishing toxic acid crystals from the moveable jointsof your body. You and only you know how free yourjoints are of this toxic material which causes prematureageing. Start today on your first
24 hour, distilled water
fast. You be the judge of what effects fasting will haveon the many moveable joints of your body. At this verysecond, roll your head round and round. Do you hearthat grating sound of grinding toxic acid crystals?46 •To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. •To talk health, peace and happiness to everyone you meet. •To make all your friends feel that they are special. •To look at the sunny side of everything and make
your optimism and dreams come true. •To think only of the best, work only for the best and expect
only the best for your life. •To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you
are about yours. •To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements of the bright, fresh future. •To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every
living creature you meet a smile. •To give so much time to the improvements of yourself that
you have no time to be critical of others. •To be too large for worry, too strong for fear, too noble
for anger, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. – Christian D. LarsonWITH LOVE PROMISE YOURSELFToxic Acid Crystals Make Joints Grind
The grinding sound you hear is the toxic acid crystals
that have deposited themselves on the uppermost boneof your spine – the Atlas. Your
24 hour or 7 day fast will
not eliminate all the toxic acid crystals from your Atlas,but the body purification will be started. Fast one day aweek. In one year you will have fasted
 52 days. In that
time the Vital Force of your body will have dissolved alarge amount of the acid crystals from your joints. Each time you fast you will notice more freedom in
every joint in your body.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        When food ispolluted and its entire composition altered by toxicchemicals, the body’s cells become sick, function poorlyand cannot keep adjusting to the irritating toxins forcedon them – causing illness, premature ageing and death. Man’s days shall be 120 years. –  Genesis 6:314
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U. S. President, 1801-1809Synthetic, Toxic Food Additives Can Kill. A vast amount of chemical poisons contaminate our
food. Most commercial interests are not concerned with
our health and lives. The economic bottom line is their
main concern. It’s best and safer to eat live, organicallygrown foods whenever possible. Avoid complicated,
chemicalized, preserved foods. Read the labels of all foods
you purchase. Ask questions about any special productsand foods you like – even write the company and ask
for a complete nutritional and chemical analysis. Fast faithfully
24 – 36 hours weekly to rid yourself of
toxins and help your body stay healthy and clean. When
you don’t feel up to par (colds, flus, mucus, pains, aches,
etc. ), then it’s time to take a 3, 5 or 7 day complete fast
and give your body a thorough body detox cleansing. When you fast, your Vital Force is doing the cleansing. •If you are going to keep your body clean, pure and
   healthy – you must faithfully fast regularly. •When you fast, wonderful miracles will happenin your


actions  and relations
98 THE  MARVELOUS  MOMENT
whatsoever, beginning at this instant. This, in
turn,  depends upon seeing that you have really
no choice  but to be aware -becausf. : you cannot
separate your - self from the present and you
cannot define it. You  can, indeed, refuse to admit
this, but only at the cost  of the immense and
futile effort of spcnding your  whole  life
resisting  che inevitable. Once chis is understood, it is really absurd to
say that there is a choice or an alternative between
thesc  two ways of life, between resisting the
stream in fruit - less panic, ancl having one's eyes
opened to a new  world, transformed, and ever
new with wonder. The  key is undcrstanding. To
ask how to do this, what is  the technique or
method, what are the steps and  rules, is to miss
thc point uttcrly. Mcthods are for  creating things
which do not yct exist. '\Ve are con- cerned  here
with  understanding  something  which  is
-the present  momcnt. This  is not a psychological
ar spiritual discipline for self-improvement. It is
simply  being aware of chis present experience,
and realizing  that you can neither define it nor
divide yoursclf  from  it. There  is no rule  but
"Lookl"
lt is no mere poetic sentiment to say that, with
the mind chus opened, we look into a new world,
as ncw  as on the first <lay of creation "when the
morning  stars sang together, and all the sons of
God shouted  for joy." By trying to understand
everything in terms  of mcmory, the past, and
words, we have, as it were,  had our noses  in che
guidebook  for most  of our lives,
99 THE  WJSDOM'. OF INSECURITY
and have never looked at the view. Whitehead's
criti - cism  of traditional  education  is applicable  to
our whole  way  of living:
We are loo cxclusively bookish in our scholastic rou -
line.... In thc Carden  of Eden  Adam  saw 1he animals
before he namcd lhem:  in the tradilional systcm, chil -
dren  named  lhe animals  before  they  saw  them.1
In the widest  sense  of the word,  to name  is to
in- terpret  cxperience  by the past,  LO translate  it
into  tcrms of memory,  to bind the unknown  into
the sys - tem  of thc known. Civilizcd  man  knows
of hardly  any other  way  of understanding  things. Everybody,  everything, has to have  its label,  its
number,  certifi - cate,  registration,  classification. What  is not classified  is irregular,  unpredictablc,
and dangerous. Witqout  passport,  birth
cenificate,  or membership  in sorne  nation,  onc's
existence  is not recognized. If you do not agree
with  Lhc capicalists,  they  call you a com - munist,
and vice versa. A person  who  agrees  with  neither
point of vicw  is fast becoming  unintelligible. That
thcre  is a way  of looking  at life.apart  from  all
conceptions,  beliefs,  opinions,  and theories  is the
re- motest  of ali possibilities  from  che modern
mind. If such  a point  of view  exists,  it can only
be in the vacant brain of a moron. We suffer from
che delusion  that  the entire  universe  is held  in
order  by the cate - gories  of human  thought,
feari n g that  if we do not
1A. N. Whitehead,  Science  and the Modem  World. (Cambridge,
1933) p. R19•
100  THE  MARVELOUS  MOMENT
hold  Lo thcm with  lhc utmost tenaciLy, cvcrything
will vanish  into  chaos. We musl  repeat:  memory,  lhought,  languagc,
and
logic are csscntial  lo human  lifc. They are one
half  of sanity. But a person, a socicly, which is only
half  sane is  insane. To look at  life without words
is  not  to lose the ability to form  words -lo think,
remem - ber, and plan. To be silent is not to lose
your tongue. On lhe contrary, Íl is only through
silence that one can discover somelhing new lo
talk about. One who  lalked  inccssantly,  without
stopping  LO look  and  listen,  woul<l  repcal  himsclf
ad nrmseam. Il is the same with thinking, which is really
silcnt  talking. It is not, by itself, open  LO thc
discovery of  anything new, for its only noveltics
are simply rear - rangements o( old words ami
ideas. There was a time  when language was
constantly being cnrich cd by new  words -a time
when men, like Adam, saw things bc - forc lhey
named them. Today, almost ali 11cw words  are
rearrangements of old words, for we are no longer
thinking creatively. By chis I do not mean that we
ought ali to be popping wiLh  inventions and
revolu - tionary  discoveries. This  is  the -always
rarc -powcr  o{ those who can boLh see lhe
unknown and inlerpret  it. For most o( us,  the other
half o( sanil y lies simply  in seeing and enjoying thc
unknown, jusL as we can enjoy music wiLhout
knowing eicher how it is writ - ten or how  the
body  hears  it. Certainly  the revolutionary  thinker  must  go be-
101 THE  WISOOM  OF INSECURITY
yond thought. He knows that almost all his best
ideas  come  to him when  thinking has stopped. He
may  have strugglcd and struggled to understand a
prob - lem in terms of old ways of thinking, only to
find it  impossible. But when  thought  stops  from
exhaus - tion, the mind is open to see the problem
as it is-not as it is verbalized -and at once  it is
understood. But going beyond  thought is not reserved  to
men  of genius. lt is open to ali of us in so far as "the
mys - tery of life is not a problem  to be solved,  but
a real - ity to be expcrienced." lt is given  to many
to be secrs, but to fcw to be prophets. Many can
listen to  music, but fcw can perform and composc. Bm you  cannot even listen if you can  hear only  in
terms  of the past. What should we make of one of
Mozart's  symphonies  if our cars  were  attuned  only
to the music of tom -toms? Wc might gct the
rhythms, but  aJmost nothing of the harmony and
mclody. In other  words, we should fail to discovcr
an essential elcmem  of the music. To be able  to
hcar,  much less write,  such a symphony men  had
to discover  new  noises - the vibrations of catgut,
the sound  of air  in a tube,  and che hum of a
plucked wire. They had to discover  the whole
world of tone, as something entircly dificr - ent
from  pulse. If I can only conccivc pulse,  I cannot appreciate
tone. J f I can think of painting only as a way of mak -
ing colorc<l photographs without a camera, I can
see nothing  but incptitude  in a Chinese
landscape. We
102 THE  MARVELOUS  MOMENT
learn nothing of very much importance when  it
can be explained entirely in terms of past
experience. If  it were possible to understand ali
things in terms of  what we know already, we
could convey the sense of color to a blind man
with nothing but sound, taste,  touch,  and  smell. If this is true  in the various  arts and sciences,  it
is a
thousand times more true when we come to the
un- derstanding  of life in a larger  sense  and want
to have  sorne knowledge of the ultimate Reality,
or God. lt  is surely absurd to seek God in terms
of a precon - ccived  idea of what God is. To seek
thus is only to find what


 although
the loss of taste of the overgrown  vegetables, and the diseases which have increased as human stature has increased in the last decades in
the most prosperous countries, should have warned that something was wrong. In the stampede for quantity, a basic biological principle has
been forgotten, namely, that any pl ant or animal has a specific size
and weight, written down in its gene tic constitution, the result of a
long evolution. Only within this range of size is optimal efficiency or health possible. Insufficiency or excess are bound to levy a physiological price. In the course of evolution, insufficiency has
occurred frequently enough for animals to become equipped with
guidelines of reaction, in restlessness and hunger—plants, alas, cannot move. But excess has been so rare, that neither plants nor animals have any defences against it. Fed to excess, they get bigger
and bigger, the physiological tax increasing proportionately. As the
yield and the size of plants have been artificially stimulated, so the
plant disease and the plant parasites have increased, calling for an ever increasing array of the most poisonous chemicals in an attempt to control the scourge. In animals and men, the excessive stimulation of growth has also been attended by an increasing
recourse to drugs of one kind or another. Just as over-fed rats get bigger and suffer increasingly from
heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, so do humans. Athletes appear particularly prone to certain diseases, and their life-span is less than average, not b ecause of the physical strain they
subject themselves to—the body thrives on that—but because of
their thoroughly abnormal and excessive feeding. It is undeniable that chronic malnutrition since the Dark Ages
in Europe, led to a stunting of the population. The over-fed
privileged classes were probably oversized, a factor no doubt in their often brutal domination of the masses. While it is difficult to
define the specific range of the human species—racial difference are
important—it is in all likelihood significantly less than the size attained by the so called 'best fed'  nations, which has increased for a
century as the quantity of animal foods increased in the diet. Plant breeding has been size and calorie conscious. Foods new
to the West, high in calories like the potato, and sugar, joined in the
rush for quantity, much helped by a cheapening of flour by refining,
with the result that, by the clo se of the nineteenth century, the
masses in the industrial countries not only ate to their full, but had become gluttons, overeating daily. The evil of the new abundance in calorie foods lies in the
excessive provision of calories without a sufficiency of the other
essentials, the vitamins and minerals, many of them needed for the
efficient use of the calories. So it is that foods like white flour and sugar, and indeed potato and other preponderantly starchy foods, can only be properly metabolized by tapping into the body's reserves of certain vitamins and minerals. When these reserves run
low, zeal and efficiency fall, and ultimately, disease results. With the new abundance, in a few decades, diseases which had
formerly largely attacked the privileged, became the common affliction of the masses—diseases of the blood vessels, of the heart, strokes, kidney diseases, and the increasing list of diseases
associated with over-weight. While this abundance gives to youth a
greater appearance of health in increased stature, maturity and old age are increasingly associated w ith the functional, degenerating diseases, of which cancer and heart disease now claims the largest
number of victims. But the young are also becoming affected by such disease. Although hygiene overcame premature death due to infections,
and so increased the life-span from the beginning of the nineteenth
century, the virus diseases have in creased steadily. The virus barely
deserves the designation of being alive: it is no more than a minute cluster of protein molecules, ve ry closely related to the DNA and
RNA proteins manufactured by the genes in the cells of all plants
and animals. There is increasi ng evidence that viruses can arise
within the body, owing to faulty manufacture of RNA by the genes. Once manufactured, they continue replicating their kind by forcing the genes of other cells to manufacture the mistake that brought them into being, so that viruses assume an apparent independence. The demarcation between unnatura l virus and natural gene is
becoming all the more blurred, as the protein processes of the cell are unravelled. It may well turn out that viruses are the result of faulty protein metabolism, which could mean faulty protein feeding. It is certainly striking that as the amount of high protein animal
foods has increased in the diet of the prosperous communities, so
have the virus diseases. Some cancers are now suspected of being virus induced. Although the eye is easily deceived by size, assuming that large
size is the right size, many people are now sensing the deception. This illusion is a part of the quantity bias of quantity-geared,
materialistic industrial civilizati on. Once sensitivity is restored,
there is an inherent aversion to the oversized, just as the oversized
flowers produced by horticulturists are felt by the more sensitive to be vulgar and monstrous. There is a 'feel' about the large fruits and vegetables which is wrong. Perhaps those closer to the soil have
retained something of this sensitivity, for the more canny farmers do
not use chemicals or insecticides on the crops they will consume themselves. More people are realizing that the risk of a maggot is preferable to an invisible puff of arsenic. Until the full momentum of the industrial revolution was felt in
the furthest lands, the varieties of human dietary were infinite. Some
were no doubt as deviant as the modern diet, but many others were
more humanly compatible. In many parts of the world, especially in the more congenial and benevolen t environments, human beings
abandoned the ways acquired in the Ice Ages for patterns of life closer to the human norm, in soil-respecting farming communities
and in peaceful relationship with their neighbours. This was largely
the case in India before the popul ation stampede and nutritional
failures of modern times, in the Polynesian islands, among the native tribes of South America. Possibly these more gentle and humane peoples escaped the worst onslaught of the Ice Ages; the
full anger against nature seems to be  particular to the more Northern
peoples, in Europe as in the Far East, and it is these peoples,
particularly the Europeans, who are responsible for what has become an unwhole, and a denaturing planetary civilization. It is this planetary influence wh ich is so distressing, for the few
remaining instances of a more humanizing situation are being
rapidly assaulted. Soon, there will be no evidence left of a once
happier and fairer condition. The de leterious influence of the West
on the more benign peoples of the earth, in the guise of colonialism, of warfare, of alcoholism, of comme rcial exploitation, of disease, is
well known. What is as yet not realized, is that the gluttony of the West, which may well have fed its  restlessness and anger, and so
prompted its planetary dominance, h as been largely paid for by the
misappropriation of planetary resources and the further impoverishment of the poorer peoples of the earth. 10. The Impoverishmen ts of Prosperity

The Industrial Revolution was prec eded, and has been accompanied,
by a frantic commercial adventuring, which has brought the
European with his trading practi ces all over the world. The essential
feature of European trading is the exclusive priority it places on
profits. Profitability has conditione d, and still conditions, practice,
often at the detriment of the less easily definable human values. The
introduction of rice refining in India is an example. Previously, the
removal of the husk, the sifting away of the chaff, left much of the
germ behind, the ritualized preoccupation of women, a labour of
love and gratitude. Mildew, insects and rats no doubt took a
considerable toll of the rice stores, but this was taken as one of the
inevitables of existence; the rats also had a right to live. The
European influence brought in qu ite another mentality, and a new
class of European and Indian merc hants, who set about correcting
these wastes, by proper storage follo wing the refining of the rice. In
an age when the merits of hygiene were being widely promoted,
white rice could be put over as a superior, cleaner product; with the
losses due to spoilage overcome, the refined rice could be sold more
cheaply while still leaving large profits to the merchants. There was at first much resist ance against these changes, which
the Indian felt was a dismantling of a ritualized act of immense
importance, but cheapness, and the withdrawal of whole rice by the
merchants, forced the habit upon the Indian masses, aided perhaps
by the fact that the European, because of his'mixed diet', found the fibreless white rice more congenial to his taste. But the consequences were soon calamitous. Deficiencies of the B vitamins
had been virtually unknown in India before. Now they became
rampant, affecting whole communities, resulting in an apathy which in return affected the labour ava ilable to the colonial powers. An
attempt was made, as soon as it w as realized that the essential
vitamins were contained in the e ndosperm and germ, to remedy this
state of affairs by parboiling the rice before it was refined. Thereby
some of the B vitamins penetrated the white grain. This not only added


 a healthy lifes tyle, and that you’re only as strong as your weakest link. Those were only words to me at the time, but after he found an aspect of my lif e that needed some work and I worked on it, my
health improved dramatically. That means I felt better. What greate r gift could anyone give to me. I felt more energy, and I enjoyed
living more. That’s the best gift you can get. One of the topics we covered in the consultation was Doug’s sports cam p, called Health and Fitness W eek. He thought it was
important for me to attend, and he asked me what he could do to make it possible. I  didn’t see how I could ever work it out at the
time, because I had just spent all my extra money on this consultation, a nd I had so little time. But I took a risk, because it seemed
like I needed so much to happen. I told him all the conditions it would take to make it  possible for me to come, and he helped me
work it all out. I was just amazed by the honesty, sincerity, knowledge, and de dication of this person standing right in front of me,
along with his sincere desire to help me with my personal health issu es. I attended the sports camp, and it was the best thing I could have done. It was s o helpful and beneficial that I ended up signing
up for the following year’s sports camp before I left. This was the jump-start I needed to get headed down the road to true health. If
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while only two. I normally eat my breakfast at around 10 a. m. Yesterday (Apri l 2005), I ate 12 ounces of blueberries, 8 ounces of
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seize me for a psychological evaluation and possibly put me into a mental i llness lockdown facility! In the kitchen (while peeling the
first orange for my breakfast meal), I heard the argument between my pa rents and the officers, and I shot out the back door. With
the help of my brother and my cousin, who understood that I was not mentally il l but just wanted to be healthy, I ran away to
Canada, accompanied by my brother. My brother and I made up fake names and identities, and we became known a s the “Wild Bush Boys of BC.” I was forced
into this fugitive role, having been told that if the American auth orities got their hands on me they were going to make me eat
“normal” food and force-feed me Ensure (a “liquid meal replacement” dri nk that is extremely  loaded with refined sugar and artificial
additives—designed to “ensure” proper nutrition) through a tube i f I refused to drink it! Still dealing with constipation, when I got to Canada, I went for a colonic i rrigation. After studying my eyes, the colon
hydrotherapist (who also happened to be an iridologist) told me that my bowels ha d been left with no options other than to balloon
out and form “pockets.” If she was right, then I may have to deal with thes e pockets for the rest of my life. If I had read Dr.
Graham’s book Grain Damage,  I would have known better!!! On the road, and with limited funds, I didn’t have access to all the fruit I  wanted, so I started losing even more weight. Eventually I was put into a Canadian hospital through the efforts of a v ery concerned woman who helped and befriended us. My
body had unwittingly wasted, losing mass until my weight plummeted to onl y 84 pounds. Even I was shocked! At first I was absolutely panic stricken with the thought that they  were going to make me eat cooked processed hospital food,
but to my utter relief, this hospital let my brother go to the health-food st ore daily and bring me the raw organic foods that I
requested! Having lost faith in the fruitarian diet that had failed me, and being  in such a vulnerable state, I was completely open to new
ideas. Following the advice of many raw food books, I decided to gain weight “the  healthy  way.” In addition to the green leafy
vegetables, I began eating TONS of fat. Some days I was wolfing down 6 or 7 avoca dos a day, not to mention all the nuts, seeds,
nut butters, and oil I used in my dressings. Having abandoned some of my previou s dietary dogma, I felt that I had opened a
window and had “seen the light.” I thought that I had finally found what w orked for me. Little did I know what I was getting into! Because I was already in a hospital (just as the American doctors ha d wanted), and because I thought I had nothing to lose, I
agreed to risk blowing my cover to be filmed by the Canadian media. Sure enough, this event led to my discovery, and nine months
after I ran away, my family finally found out where I was. When my parents came to visit me, I told my mother that I wasn’t a fru itarian anymore, but now I was a raw foodist. With
some prodding from my mom, I completely gave up the fruitarian ideology by adding  some cruciferous vegetables and roots (eating
roots requires the death of the plant) to my diet. With this new identity of  being a raw foodist, I tried to prove to everyone that I was
flexible in my eating habits. At this point I subscribed to the “ ism” of raw, pretty much eating anything as long as it was “raw.”
Hempseed butter … tahini … cacao … “Is it raw?” became the ultimat e question. Everything so far was in accordance with
the raw books that I was reading. However, my mother encouraged me to eat sus hi, raw eggs, and raw dairy, which were forbidden
by many raw foodists. Although I agreed in theory to eat these foods, it was more of a put-on than an ything else. There was no raw dairy to be had,
and the hospital wouldn’t allow raw eggs (or raw milk for that matter). M y mom got me some raw smoked salmon, but I gladly used
the excuse that it contained table salt as my reason not to eat it. Howev er, despite my aversion to animal foods, I did include some
fresh raw egg yolks when I got home, because some raw food authors approved of the m, and because they seemed to be less of a
taboo in my own mind. Despite gaining weight very rapidly in the Canadian hospital (in onl y a couple of months I was up to 110 lbs. and rising), and in
spite of how far I had come from being a fruitarian, those meddling Americ an doctors had me flown to America in an emergency
supersonic jet (flown in from Japan), where they unjustly locked me in a  mental institution and tried to coerce and trick me into
eating cooked hospital foods! My mom adamantly warned them what a raw food expert told her—that raw foodi st’s bodies have a tough time adjusting
cold turkey to a standard diet. Since they have less of a mucosal lining as  a barrier from allergens and toxins, they need to gradually
introduce cooked foods, starting first with lightly steamed vegetables, a nd should also avoid glutinous grains. Her words were
utter


ely blissful ener gy, an Infinite Love, would
suddenly begin to radiate from the heart toward the scene of som e calamity. Once, while driving on a highway, this exquisite ener gy began to beam out
of th e chest. As the car rounded a bend, there was an auto accident; the
wheels of the o verturned car were still spinning. The ener gy passed with
great int ensity into the occupants of the car and then stopped of its own
accord. Another time, while I w as walking on the streets of a strange city,
the ener gy started to flow down the block ahead and arrived at the scene of
an in cipient gang fight. The combatants fell back and began to laugh, and
again, the ener gy stopped. Profound changes of perception came without warning in improbable
circumstances. While dining alone at Rothmann’ s on Long Island, the
Presence sudden ly intensified until every thing and every person, which had
appeared as separate in ordi nary perception, melted into a timeless
universality and  oneness. In the motionless Silence, it became o bvious that
there ar e no “events” or “thin gs” and that nothing actually “happens,”
because past, present, and future  are merely artifacts of percepti on, as is the
illusion of a separate “I” being  subject to birth and death. As the limited,
false self dissolved into the universal Self of its true origin, there was an
inef fable sense of having return ed home to a state of absolute peace and
relief from all suf fering. It is only the illusion of individuality  that is the
origin of all suf fering. When one realizes that one is the universe, complete
and at one with All That Is, fore ver without end, then no further suf fering is
possible. Patients came from every country in the world, and some were the most
hopeless of the hopeless. Grotesque, writhing, wrapped in wet sheets for
transport from faraway hospitals they came, hoping for tre atment foradvanced psychoses and grave, incurable mental disorders. Some were
catatonic; many had been mute for years. But in each patient, beneath the
crippled appearance, there was  the shining essence of love and beauty,
perhaps so obscured to ordinary  vision that he or she had bec ome totally
unloved in this world. One day a mute catatonic was brought into the hospital in a straitjacket. She had  a severe neurological disorder and was unable to stand. Squirming
on the floor, she went into spasms, and her eyes rolled back in her head. Her
hair was  matted ; she had torn all her clothes and uttered guttural sounds. Her fam ily was fairly wealthy; a s a result, over the years she ha d been seen
by innumerable physicians and famous specialists from all over the world. Every tr eatment had been tried on her, and she had been g iven up as
hopeless by the medical profession. A short,  nonverbal question arose: What do Y ou w ant done with her,
God? The n ca me the realization that she just needed to be loved; that was
all. Her inner self shone through her eyes, and the Self connected with that
loving e ssence. In that second, she was healed by her own rec ognition of
who she really w as; what happened to her mind or body did not matter to
her any longer. This, in essence, occurred with c ountless patients. Some recove red in the
eyes of the worl d and some did not, but whether a clinical reco very ensued
did not matter any longer to the patients. Their inner agony w as over. As
they felt loved and at peace within, their pain stopped. This p henomenon
can only be ex plained by saying that the Compassion of th e Presence
recontextualized each patient’ s reality so that he or she experienced healing
on a level that transcended the world and its appearances. The inner peace
of the Self encompassed us beyond time and identity. It was clear that all pain and s uf fering arises solely from the ego, not
from God. This truth was silently communicated to the minds of the
patients. This was the mental block in another catatonic who had not spoken
in m any years. T he Self said to him through mind, Y ou’r e blaming God for
what you r ego has done to you. He jumped of f the floor and be gan to speak,
much to the shock of the nurse who witnessed the incident. The work became increasingly taxing and eventually overwhelming. Patients were backed up, waiting for beds to open, although the hospital had
built an extra ward to house them. There was an enormous frustration in
that the human suf fering could be countered in only one patient at a time. Itwas like bailing out the sea. It se emed that there must be some other way to
address the causes of the common malaise, the endless stream  of spiritual
distress and human suf fering. This led  to the study of the ph ysiological response (muscle-testing) to
various stimuli, which revealed an amazing discovery. It was the
“wormhole” bet ween two universes—the physical world and the world of
the mind and sp irit—an interface between dimensions. In a w orld full of
sleepers lost from their source, here was a tool to recover, and demonstrate
for all to see, that lost connection with the higher reality. This led to the
testing of every substance, thou ght, and concept that could be  brought to
mind. The endeavor was aided b y my students and research assistants. Then
a major discover y was made: wh ereas all subjects went weak from negative
stimuli—such a s fluorescent lights, pesticides, and artificial sw eeteners—
students of spiritual disciplines w ho had advanced their levels o f awareness
did not go weak as did ordinary  people. Something important and decisive
had shifted in their consciousness. It apparently occurred as they realized
they were not at the mercy of the world but rather af fected on ly by what
their m inds be lieved. Perhap s the very process of progr ess toward
Enlightenment could be shown to increase man’ s ability to resist the
vicissitudes of existence, including illness. The Self had t he capacity to change things in the world b y merely
envisioning them; Love change d the world each time it replaced nonlove. The enti re scheme of civilization could be profoundly altered by focusing
this pow er of love at a very specific point. Whenever this happened, history
bifurcated down new roads. It n ow appeared that these crucial insights could not only be
communicated w ith the world bu t also visibly and irrefutably de monstrated. It se emed that the great tragedy of human life had always be en that the
psyche is so easily deceived; d iscord and strife have been th e inevitable
consequence of mankind’ s inab ility to distinguish the false fro m the true. But here was an answer to  this fundamental dilemma, a way to
recontextualize the nature of consciousness itself and make explicable that
which otherwise could only be inferred. It w as time to leave life in New  Y ork, with its city apartment and home
on L ong Island, for something m ore important. It was necessary to perfect
myself as an instrument. Th is necessitated leaving that world andeverything in it, replacing it wit h a reclusive life in a small town, where the
next seven years were spent in meditation and study. Overpowering states of bliss returned unsought, and eventually, there was
the need  to learn how to be in the Divine Presence and still function in the
world. The mind had lost track o f what was happening in the world at lar ge. In order  to do research and writing, it was necessary to stop all spiritual
practice and focus on the world of form. Reading the new spaper and
watching televis ion helped to c atch up on the story of who was who, the
major events, and the nature of the current social dialogue. Exceptional sub jective experiences of truth, which are the province of the
mystic who af fects all mankind by sending forth spiritual ene r gy into the
collective consciousness, are not understandable by the majority of
mankind and are therefore of limited meaning except to other spiritual
seekers. This led to an ef fort to be ordinary, because just being  ordinary in
itself is an exp ression of Divinity; the truth of one’ s real self can be
discovered through the pathway of everyday life. T o live with care and
kindness is all that is necessary. The rest reveals itself in du e time. The
commonplace and God are not distinct. And so, after a long circular journey of the spirit, there was a return to the
most important work, which wa s to try to bring the Presence at least a little
closer to the grasp of as many fellow beings as possible. The Presence is silent and conveys a state of peace that is the space in
which and by which all is and has its existence and exper ience. It is
infinitely gentle and yet like a rock. W ith it, all fear disappears. Spiritual joy
occurs on a qui et level of inexp licable ecstasy


diet, thorough chewing method, weekly handling
days, etc. (for details, and treatment of diseases of the head). But even a stable
application of dry fasting weekly in combination with diet
can work wonders. A story about how I got rid of excess weight. At one time I had very serious problems with being overweight. I am overweight, sat on various short-term
diet, sometimes making some progress, but then again and again
gained weight. But when my weight exceeded 100 kg, I said
myself: "Enough. " I decided to approach the matter sensibly. Day by day I methodically studied
Various books on weight loss, considered the most effective
diet, consulted with nutritionists. I have gathered a huge
number of methods and materials to reduce weight. Many of them clearly
did not act - such, I immediately discarded. Constantly sought
information on the Internet. How - that reading the information about medical
fasting, got on a site about dry fasting. Called Sergei
Ivanovich, he advised me four things: a method of careful
chewing, fasting days, cleanse the liver and intestine
and lacto-vegetarian diet. I became fanatical obstinacy
implement all recommendations. Sometimes I called Sergei Ivanovich
and consulted. And finally, I went on right track
- My weight started to decline. And, remembering about my previous experience, this time
My body began to systematically get rid of excess weight is not
short term, but forever. It has been five months since the beginning of my
systematic work on weight loss, and that the scales have begun to show
not 102 kg, as before, and 80. And my body has not been exhausted
"Fast" diets that allow you to quickly lose 10 -
15 kg, but just as fast then dial the same weight. No, I
felt great, there was no hint of danger again
gain the same weight. Less than a year, and I became a completely different
man. My friends with whom I had not seen for a long time,
and who then met in the street, they did not recognize me. I ascend
on top of success. I started my new life. But this I was little. Now I knew I could weigh it
164
164as much as I need, I can lose weight almost to
each plate. My ultimate goal was a mark of 60 kilograms. Now, when I knew exactly what to do to effectively
weight loss, lose 20 more pounds proved to be much
easier than ever before. It took another four months, and I reached my
goal. Today my weight - 58 pounds, I could easily support him
and I feel wonderful. Now I live exactly the life that we dream about - life
beautiful and confident woman. Myth of the eighth. Many people believe that dry fasting can cure any
incurable diseases and even cancer, the fourth stage. Dry fasting is very effective treatment can cure a variety of
disease, especially in the initial stages. But even this method has
its indications, contraindications, and limit their opportunities. Particularly well to this method in inflammatory processes. Short dry fasting can be successfully used
not only in the treatment of colds, but also in all
when there is inflammation of any internal organ
(And outside too). Dry hunger successfully treats boils on
skin, inner ear inflammation, inflammation of the periosteum, with
injuries, bruises, fractures, concussions, suppuration, colds,
infections. Starvation can not heal broken bones, but the swelling
and inflammation of water scarcity will be held as quickly as possible. After a concussion should be mandatory preventive
dry starvation. After a concussion is a brain edema
tissue - from him and all the trouble. The quicker stops swelling,
the faster the recovery will come. Prolonged dry
Hunger is very effective in such severe diseases as
rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, arthrosis deformans
and many others. It is well absorbed ovarian cysts disappear
benign tumors. The most annoying that this method of appeal, when all
modern methods of treatment have been exhausted. During his grasp, as
drowning man a straw. The organism is fully poisoned
chemistry, hormones and radiation. All natural defenses
body completely overwhelmed and paralyzed and the sick person
sense of hopelessness is beginning to pass the maximum period of fasting
without prior purification and training of the body. That such
cases necessarily be serious complications and death
outcomes. Me in my practice had to deal with such
cases. Yes, I have been cured of cancer cases in the initial stage,
but these people took a few courses of dry fasting, left
cities to live in nature and completely change your lifestyle, here
they have good results. All other patients with an oncologist who
165
165went chemotherapy, radiation, which starve yourself
at home, could only prolong life and its quality. All
needs to be done on time. Of course, during fasting may die, but
not from starvation, but from the fact that our body is overfed to failure
scored all sorts of filth, and they begin to move. During
fasting may die terminally ill man, but he will die
not from starvation, but from his illness. Similarly, he could die
after a meal that is so hearty meal after tens of thousands die
patients with heart disease. You can die from their own
stupidity, if not to observe fasting method (a little bit, but still
is there) and, especially when exiting from fasting (if horrible). But what is here then self-starvation. Starvation - that's life. But our stupidity and limited
guaranteed to lead us to death. Myth of the ninth. Many people write that during the dry fasting should be done
enema of salt water and rinse your mouth with water, it helps
passage of dry starvation. During a total (wet), fasting the body is completely
reconstructed on endogenous food, and if it's time to start
drink juice, eat an apple, etc., then this unique mechanism
completely broken, the same thing happens with dry fasting. During dry fasting the cells of our bodies begin to
develop its own high-quality water from its own internal
reserves, and in contact with water in the mouth or intestine, these
mechanisms are broken. All of my patients who tried
rinse your mouth with water, they say that first becomes so well
but then increased dryness several times, and go through starvation
virtually impossible. As well as an enema of salt, the effect
no purification, but the thirst is provoked, and pass the full
dry limotherapy virtually impossible. That swim
and pour cold water at the end of fasting is sometimes possible. But if hunger is tolerable and evenly, then it is better not
do. Health - it is work, work - is patience, patience - this suffering,
suffering - the cleansing and purification - it's great. " DRY IN MEDICAL Starvation
VARY SM Zabol Wani Hl
Undeniable effectiveness of different types of fasting, but in this
chapter, I want to tell you about those diseases in which the most
effectively dry starvation. Disease - this is the way in which nature shows that
your body is full of toxic substances and the internal
poisons. 166
166Our ancestors hundreds of years eating the same food until
rapid technological advances of the twentieth century has not changed
content products. Organism because of some half a century to reorganize
not able to. Because he does not understand preservatives
can be stored for long products, and food additives,
that make it more tasty and sold. However, with regard to
drugs: they are the active ingredient, relieves,
about 10%, the rest - ballast substances that
not digested and not wanted by the body somewhere, right
to the intercellular substance, postponed. Whether it reacts
something to this body. Of course - diseases. Typical disease
in Europe is the flu. I too went to the side, if it became
describe in detail the multiple causes of influenza. The fact is
that nature uses heat to
burn garbage that has accumulated in the body, using special
secretions or by the formation of the Cathars. Disease called
influenza, and a predisposition to it, there are people who
eating too much and mostly food that promote
formation of toxins, such as meat. Characteristically, the so-called
good times, when the European population is well nourished,
Pandemic flu is almost stopped, and during the lean years
After the war, the disease has completely disappeared. in those years in the country,
in which hunger has reached huge proportions and it lasted a very
long raged among the weakened population, particularly in winter,
various epidemics, whereas influenza has completely disappeared. This
because people do not poison themselves with meat and too much
quantity of food, and the process of withdrawal of poisons not represent a large
problem for the organism. Despite the fact that populations of rare
exception, held foggy, rainy, windy autumn and winter
with a temperature close to zero, in unheated rooms, influenza
was not. Thus, poor nutrition is less harmful
than ample. Here's the explanation. The body is intoxicated, authorities
struggling to cope with "garbage", the immunity falls - and in the body
begin to breed germs and bacteria. Physio-Naturopath
Chuprun argues that in this case is not blatantly microorganisms
grab our body and the body itself as it "invites" them
to itself


 and my disease is fibroadenoma in left breast
and painful fibroma in right breast. 1 was diagnosed by two doctors. Studies have not made the problem solvable because I lack economic resources. I knew of the Urine-therapy but I did not try to do it because It made me sick. A doctor friend tried to get me to start the method of Urine-therapy
because of the gravity of my problem. I started a fasting but it was hopeless because of my headaches
yet God and I pushed on to the end. When finishing the fast the fibroma along with varicos viens disappeared on the
right leg. I wanted to be able to help with my testimony for others. I am not going to stop Urine-therapy ever. Thanks to Sonia I am cured. 94 TESTIMONY 79*
GASTRlC VLC£RS
Mr. Jose Luis Z. Alvarez { Mexico }
He had problems of gastric ulcers and some stomach problems. He also suffered very strong pains in the head that really have diminished. TESTIMONY 80*
ASTHMA,. K1DN£V
Boy Cristian Israel Chavez and Mrs. Ma. Guadalupe T { Mexico }
We began fasting the 2nd of April after hearing the conference that same day. Near the 25th of April, my son got a cold after taking it,
but thanks to him he now rid himself of asthma and thanks to God taking the
Urine his cure came quick during the first month. To me when sleeping I hurt my left kidney,
and the pain was so strong that I woke up in the middle of the night. Now, it no longer hurts nor is my bladder irritated like before. Thanks to that I could take my Urine as easy as my son. TESTIMONY 81 *
1NF£CT10N
Mrs. Maria Castel D. { Mexico }
I cured myself of an infection that I had in my navel and also the conduit healed
that unites the navel to the bladder. It did not close by itself but could be united
with surgery. With the Urine It sealed itself. TESTIMONY 82*
SlNVSlTlS,. lNSOMNlA,. ASTHMA
Mrs. Margarita To Zazua { Mexico }
It has been six years with these diseases. I began with problems like colds. Little by little I was becoming sick more and more with allergies~ and later itches
throughout my body. I became ill of sinusitis, insomnia, cough, but specifically
with asthma. Taking the Urine f cured all thanks to God. 95 TESTIMONY 83*
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Mrs. Ma. de J. Esparza { Mexico }
I am cured of rheumatism, the vesicle, blood pressure and other several diseases
that I had. I began with the Urine-therapy the 13th of August of last year
and to date I am very well. Thanks to God and the Urine with its great power I
have been healed as so many people who I know have been healed. TESTIMONY 84*
DlAB£T£S,. ASTlGMATlSM CHOt£ST£ROl
Susana Ramirez de N { Mexico }
I had several diseases as high triglicerides,
cholesterol, diabetes, mltopia, astigmatism, insecurity, etc. The Urine-therapy I started on the 5 h day of February of 1997 after seeing a video
of a conference in Guadalajara. Eight days after I already felt better,
very safe, very content and with a desire to work. I no longer returned to have pressure. So far I did not see without lenses
, - small letters and now J see perfectly without them. I --
" TESTIMONY 85*
ASTHMA,. COllTlS
Emma R. of Red Meza { Mexico }
I made the method of Urine-therapy for 2 months. I did three days of fasting per
week and several of my diseases like asthma, colitis left me including body pains. Now I feel far better. TESTIMONY 86*
HYP£RT£NS10N,. D1AB£T£S
Octavio S. Avila {Mexico}
For 13 days after taking my Urine, my high blood pressure and diabetes
disappeared. The Urine no longer tastes sweet. I do not feel weak nor with hunger. I am cured but I have not made the fasting, but I will. 96 /---TESTIMONY 83*
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Mrs. Ma. de J. Esparza { Mexico }
I am cured of rheumatism, the vesicle, blood pressure and other several diseases
that I had. I began with the Urine-therapy the 13th of August of last year
and to date I am very well. Thanks to God and the Urine with its great power I
have been healed as so many people who I know have been healed. TESTIMONY 84*
D1AB£T£S~ ASTlGMATlSM CHOl£ST£ROl
Susana Ramirez de N { Mexico }
I had several diseases as high triglicerides,
cholesterol, diabetes, myopia, astigmatism, insecurity, etc. The Urine-therapy I started on the 5th day of February of 1997 after seeing a video
of a conference in Guadalajara. Eight days after I already felt better,
very safe, very content and with a desire to work. I no longer returned to have pressure. So far I did not see without lenses
small letters and now J see perfectly without them. TESTIMONY 85*
ASTHMA~ COllTlS
Emma R. of Red Meza { Mexico }
I made the method of Urine-therapy for 2 months. I did three days of fasting per
week and several of my diseases like asthma, colitis left me including body pains. Now I feel far better. TESTIMONY 86*
HVP£RT£NS10N~ D1AB£T£S
Octavio S. Avila {Mexico}
For 13 days after taking my Urine, my high blood pressure and diabetes
disappeared. The Urine no longer tastes sweet. I do not feel weak nor with hunger. I am cured but I have not made the fasting, but I will. 96 TESTIMONY 87*
ASTHMA. All£RGV
Ma. of J. Jimenez { Mexico }
I was cured of asthma and allergy. I have been having taking the Urine for 9 months from two to three times per day,
and thanks to God already I am well. TESTIMONY 88*
D1AB£T£S
Sabino Hernandez {Mexico}
My disease is diabetes. I never took care of it until a day that darkened my vision
when I was driving on a highway. To be exact it was the 24th of June 1996. My eye doctor diagnosed diabetic Retinopathy in the fourth degree for which I
allowed myself an operation with laser ray. The Dr. did an operation on my retina. In the following months of my disease, by conversations with several of my
clients, I obtained information of Urine-therapy. Since they drank their own urine, they found out by means of a Q.F.B.,
and they gave testimony to have been cured by means of the Urine-therapy. From this date I am taking my own Urine. I feel very well from my diabetes and I am recovering my vision. Thanks to God and the message of faith, love and hope
that Mrs. Sonia distributes this information. TESTIMONY 89*
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Ma. of J. Gutierrez {Mexico}
It had difficulties in my fingers. I no longer could close them well and it felt as if
I touched electricity. After my fasting my fingers work better. I no longer hurt
and I can close them well. I also discovered that my menopause was better. My normal menstruation was every three months and now I can menstruate
every month. I feel very active, without laziness. My blood pressure is normal
and I am very happy, Thanks to God. TESTIMONY 90*
COVGH. N£RV£S
Maria Teresa And Santibanez {Mexico}
97 For 2 months I have been taking Urine without fasting. Two years ago I began with baldness and also had syndrome of arms and neck
for 2 to 3 years to date. Also some other problems and cough because of
smoking. Thank God that I encountered the book of Urine-therapy
TESTIMONY 91 *
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Mrs. Maria Of The B. Martinez { Mexico }
From the 11th of February 1996 I was taking Urine
because they diagnosed me with severe osteoporosis and deformative arthritis
of the fingers, shoulders and back. Two years before they were going to operate on the bones,
but a specialist doctor commented that he did not have a case to operate
because the prob1em wou1d return soon. My fingers continued becoming deformed. I began with this Urine-therapy


. Soon the honorary title of “The Ancient One” was heard no
more. ”
A knock at the door interrupted the Colonel. I opened it to
admit a couple of friends from out of town who had picked this
most inauspicious time to spend a sociable evening with me. 1 hid my disappointment and chagrin as best I could and intro-
duced them to Colonel Bradford. We all chatted together for a
while and then the Colonel said, rising:
“I am sorry that I must leave so early, but I have an appoint-
ment with an old friend who is leaving the city tonight. 1 hope
I shall see you all again shortly. ”
—6—At the door he turned to me and said, softly,
“Could you have lunch with me tomorrow. I promise, if
you can do so you shall hear all about ‘The Fountain of
Youth. ’”
We agreed as to the time and place to meet and the Colonel
departed. As I returned to the living room, one of my friends
remarked,
“That is certainly a most interesting man, but he looks
awfully young to be retired from army service. ”
“How old do you suppose he is. ” I asked. “Well, he doesn’t look forty,” answered my friend, “but from
the experiences he has had I suppose he must be that old. ”
“Yes, he’s all of that,” I said evasively, and deftly turned
the conversation into another channel. I thought it best to
arouse no wonderment regarding the Colonel until I knew what
his plans were. The next day, after having lunch together, we repaired to
the Colonel’s room in a nearby hotel, and there at last he told
me about “The Fountain of Youth. ”
“The first important thing I was taught after entering the
Lamasery,” he began, “was this. The body has seven centers,
which, in English, could be called Vortexes. These are kind of
magnetic centers. They revolve at great speed in the healthy
body, but when slowed down—well that is just another name
for old age, ill-health, and senility. There are two of these
Vortexes in the brain; one at the base of the throat; another
in the right side of the body in the region of the liver; one in
the sexual center; and one in each knee. “These spinning centers of activity extend beyond the flesh
in the healthy individual, but in the old, weak, senile person
they hardly reach the surface, except in the knees. The
quickest way to regain health, youth, and vitality is to start
these magnetic centers spinning again. There are but five
practices that will do this. Any one of them will be helpful, but
all five are required to get glowing results. These five exercises
are really not exercises at all, in the physical culture sense. The Lamas think of them as ‘Rites,’ and so instead of calling
them exercises or practices, we too, shall call them Rites. ”

  Rite No. |
There are SEVEN Psychic Vortexes in the body. Vortex is located
within the forehead; Vortex “B” is located in the posterior part of the
brain; Vortex “C" is in the region of the throat at the base of the neck;
Vortex “D" is located in the right side of the body above the waist line;
Vortex “E” is located in the reproductive anatomy, and it is directly con-
nected with Vortex “C” in the throat. Vortexes
one in either knee. These Psychic Vortexes revolve at great speed. When all are revolving
at high speed and at the same rate of speed the body is in perfect health. When one or more of them slow down, old age, loss of power, and senil- ity wet in,
   RITE NUMBER ONE
“The first Rite,” continued the Colonel, “is a simple one. It
is for the express purpose of speeding up the Vortexes. When
we were children we used it in our play. It is this: Stand erect
with arms outstretched, horizontal with the shoulders. Now
spin around until you become slightly dizzy. There is only one
caution: you must turn from left to right. In other words, if
you were to place a clock or watch on the floor face up, you
would turn in the same way the hands are moving. “At first the average adult will only be able to spin around
about a half-dozen times until he becomes dizzy enough to
want to sit or lie down. That is just what he should do, too. That’s what I did. To begin with, practice this Rite only to the
point of slight dizziness. As time passes and your Vortexes
become more rapid in movement through this and other Rites,
you will be able to practice it to a greater extent. “When I was in India it amazed me to see the Maulawiyah,
or as they are more commonly known, the Whirling Dervishes,
almost unceasingly spin around and around in a religious
frenzy. Rite Number One recalled to my attention two things
in connection with this practice. The first was that these
Whirling Dervishes always spun in one direction—from left to
right, clockwise. The second was the virility of the old men;
they were strong, hearty, and robust. Far more so than most
men of their age. “When I spoke to one of the Lamas about this he informed
me that while this whirling movement of the Dervishes did
have a very beneficial effect, yet it also had a devastating one. It seems that a long siege of whirling stimulates into great
activity Vortexes ‘A,’ ‘B,’ and ‘E. ’ These three have a stim-
ulating effect on the other two— ‘C’ and ‘D. ’ But due to
excessive leg action the Vortexes in the knees—'E’ and ‘G’—
are over-stimulated and finally so exhausted that the building
up of the Vital Forces along with this tearing down causes the
participants to experience a kind of ‘psychic jag’ which they
mistake for something spiritual, or at least religious. “However,” continued the Colonel, “we do not carry the
whirling exercise to excess. While the Whirling Dervishes may
spin around hundreds of times, we find that greater benefit is
obtained by restricting it to about a dozen or so times, enough
so that Rite Number One can stimulate all the Vortexes to
action. ”

  Rite No. 2

—10—RITE NUMBER TWO
“Like Rite Number One,” continued the Colonel, “this second
one is for further stimulating to action the Seven Vortexes. It is even simpler than the first one. In Rite Number Two one
first lies flat on his back on the floor or on the bed. If prac-
ticed on the floor one should use a rug or blanket under him,
folded several times in order that the body will not come into
contact with the cold floor. The Lamas have what might be
called in English a ‘prayer rug. ’ It is about two feet wide and
fully six feet long. It is fairly thick and is made from wool and
akind of vegetable fibre. It is solely for the purpose of insula-
tion, and so has no other value. Nevertheless, to the Lamas
everything is of a religious nature, hence their name for these
mats—‘prayer rugs. ’
“As I said, one should lie full length on his ‘prayer rug,’ or
bed. Then place the hands flat down alongside the hips. Fingers should be kept close together with the finger-tips of
each hand turned slightly toward one another. The feet are
then raised until the legs are straight up. If possible, let the
feet extend back a bit over the body, toward the head; but do
not Jet the knees bend. Then, slowly lower the feet to the floor
and for a moment allow all muscles to relax. Then perform this
Rite all over again. “One of the Lamas told me that when he first attempted to
practice this simple Rite he was so old, weak, and decrepit that
he couldn’t possibly lift up both legs. Therefore he started out
by lifting the thighs until the knees were straight up, letting
the feet hang down. Little by little, however, he was able to
straighten out his legs until at the end of three months he
could raise them straight with perfect ease. “T marveled at this particular Lama,” said the Colonel,
“when he told me this. He was then a perfect picture of health
and youth, although I knew he was many years older than I. For the sheer joy of exerting himself he used to carry a pack
of vegetables weighing fully a hundred pounds on his back,
from the garden to the Lamasery, several hundred feet above. He took his time but never stopped once on the way up, and
when he would arrive he didn’t seem to be experiencing the
slightest bit of fatigue. I marveled greatly at this, for the
first time 1 started up with him, I had to stop at least a dozen
times. Later I was able to do it easily without my cane and
with never a stop, but that is another


 ated in this
9th verse of the T ao Te Ching. The Tao has the capability to generate everything in amounts that would
stupefy an observer, yet its gentle humility seems to know when there are
enough trees, flowers, bees, hippos, and every other living thing. Excess is
eschewed by the Tao. It doesn’ t need to show off its unlimited capacity for
creating—it knows exactly when to stop. This verse invites us to be in
spiritual rapport with this characteristic of the T ao. Cramming life with possessions, pleasures, pride, and activities when
we’ve obviously  reached a point where more is less indicat es being in
harmony with ego, not the Tao! Living humility knows when to just stop,
let go, and enjoy the fruits of our labor. This verse clearly analogizes that
the pursuit of more status, more money, more power, more approval, more
stuff, is as foolish as honing a carving knife after it has reached its zenith of
sharpness. Obviously, to conti nue would just create dullness, and it is
obvious that a keen edge represents perfection. Lao-tzu advises us to be careful about amassing great wealth and storing it
away. This practice contributes to a life spent keeping our fortune safe and
insured, while at the same time always feeling the need to pursu e more. He
counsels us to be satisfied at a level that fosters living with humility. If
wealth and fame are desired, we must know when to retire from the
treadmill and be like the Tao. This is the way of heaven, as opposed to the
world that we live in, which is addicted to more. We can heighten our awareness  that advertising is primarily designed to
sell products and services by convincing us that we need something in order
to be happy. Analysts might tell us that the economy is failing if it isn’t
continuously growing, but we can realize that excessive growth, like cancer,
will ultimately destroy itself. We can witness the results of overproductionin the gridlock on most highways: It now takes longer to go from one side
of Lond on to the other than it did before the invention of the automobile! We also see this principle at work whenever we shop. I call it “choice
overload”—pain pills for backaches, menstrual cram ps, headaches, joint
pains, in the morning or at night, in a capsule or liquid or powder? And this
is true whether we’re purchasing toilet paper, orange juice, or anything else. I believe that Lao-tzu sends the following modern advice from his ancient
perspective:
Come to grips with the radical
concept of “enough is enough”! Make this comm itment even though you live in a world addicted to the
idea that one can never have enough of anything. To paraphrase Lao-tzu, do
your work and then step back. Practice humility rather than ostentation and
uncontrolled consumption. The obesity crisis in the Western world,
particularly in America, is a direct result of not understanding (and living)
the simple wisdom of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching. Eat, but stop when
you’re full—to continue stuffing food into a satiated body is to be trapped
in believ ing that more of someth ing is the cause of your happiness. And this
is true of overly filling yourself with any artifici al symbol of success. Think
instead of the infinite wisdom of the Tao, which says, “To keep on filling is
not as good as stopping.” Enough is not only enough, it is in alignment with
the perfection of the eternal T ao. Seek the joy in your activities rather
than focusing on ego’ s agenda. Ego wants you to gather more and more rewards for your actions. If
you’re in a state of loving appreciation in each of your present moments,
you’re letting go of the absurd idea that you’re here to accumulate rewards
and merit badge s for your efforts. Seek the pleasur e in what you’r e doing,
rather than in how it might ultimately benefit you. Begin to trust in that
infinite wisdom that birthed you into this material world. After all, it knew
the exact timing of your arriva l here. It didn’ t say, “If nine months  will
create such a beautiful baby, I’ll extend the gestation period to five years. Now we’ll have an even more perfect creation!” Nope, the Tao says thatnine months is perfect—that’ s what you get, and you don’t need any more
time. The next time you’re mired in a desire for more, stop and think of the Tao. This creation principle fully grasps the idea that when the work is done,
then for God’ s sake, it’s time to stop! As Lao-tzu advises, “This is the way
of heaven.” Why ever choose to be in conflict with that? Do the T ao Now
At your next meal, practice portion control by asking yourself after
several bites if you’re still famished. If not, just stop and wait. If no hunger
appears, call it complete. At this one meal, you’ll have practiced the last
sentence of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching: “Retire when the [eating] is
done; this is the way of heaven.”
OceanofPDF.com10th Verse
Carrying body and soul
and embracing the one,
can you avoid separation? Can you let your body become
as supple as a newborn child’ s? In the opening and shutting of heaven’ s gate,
can you play the feminine part? Can you love your people
and govern your domain
without self-importance? Giving birth and nourishing;
having, yet not possessing;
working, yet not taking cr edit;
leading without contr olling or dominating. One who heeds this power
brings the T ao to this very earth. This is the primal virtue. OceanofPDF.comLiving Oneness
This verse of the Tao Te Ching examines the paradoxical nature of life on
Earth. Lao-tzu encourages the attainment of comfort with the seemingly
incompatible opposites of body and soul, which form the basis of our daily
life. W e are connected to the power of the eternal Tao, while simultaneously
being in a mortal physique. As we take on this seemingly ambiguous
stance, we begin to see the world revealed as flawless. Everything that
seems to be absolute is an opportunity to recognize its paradoxical reality. This teaching takes the form of a series of questions: Can an adult body
with all of the conditions inher ent in the aging process—such as stiffness,
soreness, limitat ions caused by aching joints, and so on—be as supple as a
newborn’ s? Is it possible to be someone who works and strugg les and still
be the feminine spirit, birthing  creation? Can one succeed in these and
similar ways and still be free of feelings of self-importance? Is it possible to
stay true to the Tao without allowing ego to dominate, yet successfully
function in an ego-dominated world? This 10th verse promotes a way of living that is guided by the power of
“embracing the one” when the illusion of duality appears more powerful. Read Hafiz’ s writing on this subject thousands of years after the Tao Te
Ching was written:
Only

That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart. Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the wor d
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love. Our origin cannot be split, yet we’re in a world that all too often  seems to
reject the perfect oneness that is the Tao. We can personally live the Tao by
suspending our belief in oppos ites and reactivating our awareness of its
unity—that is, we can surrender ego and be in this world, without being of
it. This is my interpretation of Lao-tzu’ s advice from his 2,500-year -old
perspective:
Embrace oneness by seeing yourself in everyone you encounter. Rather than having judgmental thoughts about those whom you regard as
separate or different, view others as an extension of yourself. This will
diminish self-importance and unite you with what Lao-tzu calls “the primal
virtue.” Letting go of ego-dominated thoughts lets you sense the oneness
that you share with others; thus, you give yourself the opportunity to feel a
part of the all-embracing T ao. Practice inner awareness whenever you feel yourself about to criticize
anyone or any group. News reports designed to encourage your sense of
separateness or superiority in relation to others can be a perfect time to do
this: Find yourself as one of them. In situatio ns where you’re expected tohate an assumed enemy, stop yourself from these judgments and walk an
imaginary mile (or two) in their shoes. Do so with all forms of life, even the
plant world. See yourself in everyone and all creations, noting the Tao in
this simple observation: We are the world. Take pleasur e from what you possess without being attached to these
things. Let go of your identification with your stuff and with your
accomplishments. Try instead to enjoy what you do and all that flows into
your life simply for the pleasure of doing and observing the flow itself. You
literally own nothing and no one: All that is comp osed will decompose; all
that is yours will leave and beco