 is but  your  Life  clothed  in
the more  condensed  discord  of human  feeling;  thru  which
That  Mighty  Light  and  Energy  is trying  to expand  Per-
fection.  Remember,  the  greater  density,  is caused  by the
discord  which  has  generated  in your  feelings.  Discord  is
the only  thing  which  makes  density  of form.
Once  you  free  yourselves  and  your  feeling  world,  which
is as far as your  hands  extend  around  you—sometimes
farther—from  every  discord  and  hold  your  world  Har-
monious;  you  wil1  find  the Powers  of the Presence  flowing
thru;  and  Perfection  will  reign  in your  world!  Then,  the
Limitless  Presence  and  Supply  of everything  you  need  for
your  use,  will  come  forth  with  the ease  of breathing.  It is
the Natural  Law  of your  Being!
You,  thru  discord  have  closed  the door,  by giving  power
to the  appearance  world;  which  has  not  one  ounce  of
power,  so far as you  or your  world  are concerned,  except
what  is given  it. How  do you  do it? By your  attention
upon  the appearance  of limitations,  which  feeds  your  Life
into it, to come  back  and  limit  you.  Without  your  energy  it
could  not  touch  your  world;  because  it has  to come  into
your  world  by your  Stream  of Life  and  Energy,  which  goes
out thru  the Power  of your  attention!
Beloved  Ones,  remember,  you  have  three  faculties  within
your  Being,  each  one of which  is All-powerful!  Your  Atten-
tion;  your  Visualization,  which  is your  physical  eye-sight;
and your  Power  of Qualification!  That  which  is invisible
to you,  is the thing  which  plays  the greatest  havoc  in your DISCOURSE  VIII  163
world,  and  it is your  power  of qualification;  because  every-
thing  which  comes  into  your  world,  must  come  THRU
YOU  into  your  world  of activity.  If your  feeling  is discor-
dant,  then  it will  carry  whatever  that  discord  is, into  your
world  and  produce  of its kind.
These  are things  which  mankind  has not understood  and
the people  have  gone  on, and  on and  on, feeding  discord
thru  their  feeling.  All the time  their  discord  was  being  car-
ried thru  this  Mighty  Current  of Energy  out  into  their
worlds;  producing  discord,  chaos,  limitation  and  failure.
I tell you,  Dear  Ones,  no person  on the face  of this  Earth,
who  once  becomes  aware  of the "I AM  Presence,"  which
beats  each  Heart;  who  will  give  It sincere,  earnest  atten-
tion and  call  Its Powers  into  action,  will  ever  find  himself
or herself  in need  of anything.  Individuals  will  have  Omni-
present  in their  worlds  for use,  everything  their  Hearts  de-
sire, and  there  is no exception  to It!
The feeling  world  of mankind,  must  be kept  Harmoni-
ous, so it no longer  clothes  with  discord,  this  Energy  which
flows  from  the Presence  and  goes  out into  the World.  That
Powerful  Energy  will  go out into  your  world  and  produce
Harmony  and  Perfection  everywhere.  Then,  every  one who
touches  your  world,  will  have  the use of everything  which
is required.
The human  limitation  within  mankind,  has  made  the
people  feel—because  they  have  forgotten  the "I AM  Pres-
ence"—that  all is here  within  the human  form;  and  its au-
thority  is the intellect.  The  people  have  felt it is what  the 164 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Individual  sees  out here,  from  which  they  must  gather  their
power  of achievement.  Behold  the Chart!  When  so-called
death  ensues,  observe  the form  which  was  active  a moment
before.  It no longer  has Power,  Intelligence  nor  Action!
Then,  what  happened ? Where  was  That  Energy ? Where
was That  Activity ? Where  was  That  Power,  by which  the
human  form  acted  a few  moments  before?  Within  the
Stream  of Energy  which  comes  from  the Heart  of God,
your  "I AM  Presence"!
Remember,  Dear  Hearts,  That  Stream  of Light  and  En-
ergy  is not just a Principle;  but It holds  within  It the Intel-
ligence,  the Power,  the Action  which  every  human  Being
is using  and  requires  in order  to have  action.  Then  know-
ing that,  how  can  any  human  Being  in the outer  world,
claim  Power  unto  its intellect  of itself ? It has been  the mis-
take of all mankind!  Thru  intellectual  attainment  in all
outer  activities  of Life;  law,  medicine,  music,  where  the In-
dividual  thru  practice  and  application  of the outer,  has at-
tained  a certain  degree  of mastery,  it has claimed  the Power
in those  particular  streams  of activity,  according  to their  un-
derstanding  at the time.
While  their  attention  was  on the outer  things  and  the
desire  was  acting,  It was  the Power,  Intelligence  and  Ac-
tivity  of the Presence,  which  gave  them  whatever  achieve-
ment  they  had.  When  the people  understand  this and know
everything  comes  from  the "I AM  Presence"  which  gives
them  Life;  they  will  place  the Power  where  It belongs.  They
will be enabled  to draw  This  Power  forth  in a Tremen-DISCOURSE  VIII  165
dously  Greater  Volume;  and  sweep  out of their  worlds,
every  limiting  discordant  thing,  which  ever  had been  drawn
there—even  though  the Individual  physically  were  respon-
sible  for it.
When  one understands,  how  to call on the Law  of For-
giveness,  for all mistakes  which  have  ever  been  made,  it is
One of the Greatest  Things  any Individual  can do! Then,
you prove  to the Presence  you want  to be set Right;  you are
not claiming  Powers  which  do not belong  to your  physical
body;  because  all comes  from  your  Presence!  When  you call
to your  "I AM  Presence,"  acknowledging  It as the Only
Power,  you will be able  to release  into  your  world  of activity
—from  your  Life  Stream,  This  Great  Power  and  Energy
which  is without  limit,  exactly  as We are able  to wield  It
today!
Think  of those  Precious  Children—Bob,  Rex,  Nada  and
Pearl,  whom  Beloved  Saint  Germain  brought  to Me in
India  at Chananda's  Home!  There  in the Cave  of Blazing
Light,  they  were  set Free  forever!  Today,  think  of it, Be-
loved  Ones!  Those  Children  made  that  long  journey  there
physically.  Today,  I have  come  to you.  Does  It mean  any-
thing  to you?  It might  sound  like  a childish  question;  but
I say it for a Reason,  even  to the former  students.  "Does  that
mean  anything  to you" ? Everything  in the world,  Precious
Ones!
Try to follow  Me,  just a few  moments,  in feeling  what
the Power  and Release


 miles back to the ranch without food or salt tablets.
The doctors gave me a thorough examination and
found me in perfect condition! I am ready and willing torepeat this hike across Death Valley, California for any
scientific group that wants to do research on man’s
mythical “need” for salt. (
I get organic sodium from my food. )20
Ruts long traveled can grow comfortable.Historical Proof That Salt is Not Needed
Rommel’s German-Afrikan Corps swept across the
gates of Egypt, fought and lost a hard battle at El Alamein.
Then they retreated over miles of blazing desert. Yet,
when the war was over, the English found the capturedtroops in good physical condition, even though the
German soldiers were not supplied with salt tablets. This
story – just as my own Death Valley hike, which wasalso performed in the blazing desert sun – supports the
findings of many experiments performed on humans
with a non-salt diet under hot desert conditions.
What happens, according to the scientific studies, is
that: after the first few days of becoming acclimatized,
the subjects stop losing salt through perspiration.Apparently there is a normalizing mechanism at work
that conserves the sodium in the body. The comfortable
endurance during all weather conditions of people onrigid, salt-poor diets shows that the “need” for added
salt in hot weather has been greatly exaggerated.
There is enough naturally occurring sodium in most
vegetables, celery, soy beans, seaweeds and other foodsthat have not been processed or supplemented with
common table salt. These natural foods can supply the
needed organic sodium required by the body. Proof ofthis is also found in the past histories of many races
throughout the world who have never used salt.
The Native Americans knew nothing about salt when
the first explorers landed. Columbus and all the explorers
of the American continent found wonderful physical
specimens when they arrived. Sad fact – the physicaldegeneration of people often follows the introduction
of salt, alcohol, refined, fast foods and toxic chemicals!
I have made over
13 expeditions to the far corners of
the earth and I never found the inhabitants to be salt
users. Therefore, none of them suffered from high blood
pressure. In fact, regardless of age, they generally hadblood pressures of
120 over 70, which is perfect. They
did not suffer from kidney or heart diseases, either.21
I have found that distilled water is a sovereign remedy for my
rheumatism. I attribute my almost perfect health largely to distilledwater.  – Dr. Alexander Graham Bell,  Telephone InventorIt’s magnificent to live long if one keeps healthy and youthful. – Harry FosdickHow Much Salt Can the Body Tolerate Daily?
There’s been a great deal of research on salt tolerance.
The American Heart Association recommends that
healthy adults reduce their sodium intake to no more
than 2400  milligrams per day. But the body’s actual
physiological sodium requirement is less than 500 mg
daily. Unfortunately, the average American salt addict
actually consumes daily 2 to 5  times his sodium tolerance!
This extremely high salt figure Americans eat is due
to the excessive amount of “hidden salt” in most all
commercial and “fast” foods. It’s in breads, cheese,prepared meats (ham, bacon, lunch meats, etc.), frozen
and canned veggies, soups and hundreds of staple foods.
I was born and reared in Virginia and many of my
relatives suffered from high blood pressure. They died
early of strokes and kidney diseases because they were
heavy salt, pork, ham, sausage and bacon eaters. Highconcentrations of table salt were used at every meal. By
the time these people were
30 years old, they ached all
over with what they called the “misery”. Their jointswere cemented, and they hobbled around stiffly andwith great pain! I believe that the heavy salt diet of the
average Southerner brought on this “misery”.
The most dramatic wrongful death case against salt
occurred in a Binghamton, New York hospital, where a
number of babies died when salt was inadvertently used
in their formula. An overdose of salt can kill a babyquickly! The body needs natural, organic sodium – not
table salt, an inorganic chemical. You can obtain natural
sodium which Mother Nature provides in organic formin celery, beets, carrots, potatoes, soybeans, turnips, sea
vegetation, seaweed, kelp, watercress, etc. and many
other natural, healthy foods. Remember, only organicminerals can be utilized by your body’s living cells.22Fasting De-Salts The Body Cells and Organs
I have had over 70  years experience with the science
and use of rational fasting. And I have found that in 4
days of complete fasting we can de-salt the body. Theurine will reveal the story of salt. Take a
4 day complete
distilled water fast. Nothing must pass through yourbody for
4 days, except for distilled water and ACV drink.
Drink at least 8 to 10  glasses daily to flush the salt out.
Each morning take a sample of the first urine your
body passes. Put these urine bottles (labeled) on a shelfto settle for
3 weeks, then look at them in the sunlight.
You will see concentrated salt and toxic wastes in the
bottom of the bottle. When this salt is passed from yourbody notice how freely your kidneys will function.Notice how naturally moist your mouth is and how youhave no abnormal thirst. Notice your skin and muscletone. The first thing the body throws off during a fast issalt and the side effects – bloating and edema (dropsy)that goes with salt. Lumpy, waterlogged spots vanishand you become more streamlined. There is a thinnerand more youthful look to your body. Water-bloatingvanishes and you begin to see your natural figure again!
You can hardly believe your eyes! A wonderful
transformation is taking place during your fast. Thepowerful Vital Force that would otherwise be used tohandle your food is now being used exclusively to cleanout the debris, waste, and poisons that have been lockedin the body cells and vital organs. Rejuvenation is takingplace in every one of the billions of cells of the body!After the
4 days of de-salting the body, be sure to keep
salt out of your diet. It’s a difficult thing to do sincethere’s so much “hidden salt” in so many different foods.That’s where your weekly
24 – 36 hour fast helps continue
to de-salt and detox your body to keep you healthy!
We find it difficult in our world travels, lecturing and
doing research, to avoid “hidden salt” in foods, eventhough we always do request, “No salt, please!” inrestaurants, on cruise ships, airplanes and trains.However, our weekly cleansing fast of
24 to 36 hours
keeps any inorganic salt we ate flowing out of our bodies.23We never add salt to foods in the Bragg household!
We use natural seasonings that add zest to foods: herbs,
garlic, kelp, onion, lemon and our delicious BraggOrganic Vinegar and Bragg Aminos, a tasty all purposesoy seasoning that contains 16 amino acids. With fasting,you’ll soon see how much better you feel and look! Andwhat a sweet taste you will have in your mouth. Youwill note many changes for the better when you are
faithful with your fasting program and banishing salt!
Fasting is the Great Cleanser and Purifier
People are constantly asking and writing me, “Will a
fast cure my ‘this or that’ disease?” I want it clearly anddistinctly understood that I am not recommending
fasting as a cure for any disease! I don’t believe in cures
unless Mother Nature, God and your body do it! I canonly inspire you to fast to build more Vital Force to
overcome enervation and debilitation. Then as you build
up your body’s Vital Force it can then self-cleanse andself-heal. Read our Build Powerful Nerve Force  book for
more info on importance of building your Vital Force.
Enervation Explained
We live in a chaotic world. The demands for energy
in these hectic times are enormous. We all have astandard of living to maintain and an image to createand live up to for our relatives and friends. We eachhave many responsibilities. Every waking hour requiresgreat outputs of Vital Force to earn our daily living, tosupport our family, to drive a car in traffic, to beresponsible for a job, to maintain a house, to rear ourchildren, to perform social and civic duties. Plus thereare thousands of other daily activities that call for yourVital Force to perform continually in operating your
body. You need go-power and energy!
Energy is a precious vital ingredient; it cannot be
purchased in a bottle or can. Many misguided peoplethink they can get it from drugs, alcohol, tobacco,caffeine, sugar and colas. They can’t! Energy is a reward
for living as close to Mother Nature’s Laws as possible.24
When you live as God and Mother Nature
 intended you to live, you start to rejuvenate yourself!Almost every human malady is connected, either by
highway or byway, with the stomach. – Sir Francis HeadHumans Won’t Take Blame for Miseries
It’s because of your bad habits that things start to
break down and decay in your body! Your bad habits
enervate and


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reality, my head buzzed. I got up, still extremely wobbly, and walked downthe hill to my cabin; the dizziness didn’ t fully go away for several days, and
I continued to feel disoriented. What do you make of that?”
I had been listening to Drew without comment. “Well,” I said, “if a
patient came to me with that kind of experience, I guess I’d suspend
judgment until we took a brain scan and ran a psychiatric profile.”
“Bingo—either I was dying of a brain tumor or I had suffered a psychotic
break. That’ s exactly what I told myself. I ran to the village library and
madly scanned some old medical books. The thing was, I didn’ t have
double vision or any return of severe dizziness. I didn’ t have disordered or
racing thoughts. The clinical explanations for this episode didn’ t seem to
apply. Gradually my symptoms vanished, but not without a trace.
“I was different. It was as if someone had pulled the plug and drained out
my—what? Battery fluid. I didn’ t have any charge left; no ambition,
curiosity, purpose, drive. I was pointless to myself, and my mystical
experiences had disappeared completely. If I shut my eyes to meditate, there
wasn’ t any light; I didn’ t expand outside my body or see angel s. For a few
days afterward I felt extreme anxiety, as though demons were going to get
me, but that didn’t happen either. So if it wasn’ t tumors, madness, or divine
punishment, what was it? I waited for an answer.”
“Did you get one?” I asked.
“Yes, but not the way I expect ed. The answer was a process, which I
began to call ‘ego surgery.’ That dramatic moment on the mountain was
like having my chest opened up by an invisible surgeon, and once opened I
couldn’ t close myself up again.  It hadn’ t occurred to me, in my headlong
pursuit of the never -ending high, for that’s what spiritual life had meant to
me, that spirit is carved out of the very things a person doesn’ t want to face.
Like most people, I wanted not to be sad, anxious, powerless, unlovable,
and hostile. I wanted ‘It,’ the big spiritual payof f. But what I now got was
every speck of sadness, anger, anxiety, and so on that I thought I had gone
beyond.”
“It must have been a dif ficult time,” I said.
“To put it mildly. Whoever this surgeon was, he dug deep, probing for
every hidden secret, every dark deposit of guilt and shame. There were
mornings when I felt that nothing could be worse than simply living with
myself. But I got used to what was happening, once I realized that thesurgeon was me, working on myself. At some deep level I had given myself
permission to go through the dark night of the soul.
“Ironically, I’d always thought  that getting to God meant climbing a
mountain, gettin g so close to Him that He would say, ‘Ah, you’ve made it, I
see.’ With a smile of approval He would then grab my hand and pull me
into heaven. There’ s only one problem with that scenario. What  happens to
the parts  that get left behind? I certainly didn’ t expect God to say, ‘Bring
along your shame and guilt.’ To me, being spiritual meant jettisoning the
‘bad’ me and boosting the ‘good’ me to heaven.”
“But that would  imply,” I said, “that God judges against the ‘bad’ you
and only loves the ‘good’ you. Such a God couldn’ t be a God of love. He
would be a God of ego, since that’s exactly what our egos do all the time—
judge against the bad and accept only the good.”
“Exactly,” said Drew. “I suppos e that’s why ego surgery was so difficult
to face. Once these awful things—the ghosts in the basement, I call them—
were exposed I actually had to take them back. You can’t imagine how
disgusting that seemed at first. I mean, all our dirty secrets look hideous in
our own eyes, no matter how common they might appear to others.”
“I don’t think it’s the horribleness of the unconscious that is the main
block,” I suggested. “It’s more  our fears about forgiveness. What you’re
talking about is forgiving yourself so that you can take back your dark
energies and turn them into love. What if that fails? What if you’re stuck
being as ugly, dirty, sinful, and undeserving as your worst judgments say
you are? That prospect is so terrifying that even tiny sins and blemishes get
expanded into monstrosities.”
Drew nodded and sat still for a moment. “There were times when I didn’ t
think I was going to make it. A voice inside kept crying, ‘You’re going to
die. You can’t take any more.’ But I knew I wasn’ t going to die. My
spiritual life had taught me at least that much. I went back to my old job as
a stockb roker, and so far as I knew nobody had any idea of what I was
going through.”
He noticed my amusement at the kind of job he had chosen. “You like
literature, I recall. Didn’ t Hawthorne write somewhere that a man may go
around to all the world looking like any other man while entertaining the
most extraordinary ideas in his head?”“In his journals, I think. But that could apply to psychotics as well as
visionaries,” I said.
“True, but my point is that something that appears normal can be very
wild inside. Which had not dawned on me when I was running around
trying to become a visionary. I walk down Milk Street with my briefcase,
and I ask: Is a tree a tree, a skyscraper a skyscraper? What makes these
things ‘normal’ is that they look like separate, solid objects, but they’re not.
They’re bundles  of energy carved out of the infinite energy soup of the
universe, and so are you and I. Therefore at some level you and I are not
simply connected with that tree and that skyscraper. We are that tree and
skyscraper. And that is what a mystic knows, nothing else.”
“You have closed the gap,” I said, feeling both moved and impressed.
“Something like that. Have you ever sat by a river, all alone, and tried to
feel it? Of cours e you can’t. You may say that you’re feeling the river—its
flow, its still depths, its constant change that runs unopposed from here to
there—but all you actually feel is yourself. If you can get close enough to it
(and such feelings are very tough to get close to), the sweetness of sitting by
a river actually comes from a tiny point in your heart. That point of
sweetness is perfectly still; it doesn’ t reach out for you, but it doesn’ t ever
abandon you either. What’ s in that sweet point?”
“Everything,” I said.
“Yes, everything.”
We both sat without speaking,  relishing this moment of communion.
Then Drew said, “The ego surgery ended. At a certain point the process spit
me out. I can’t say I did anything, really, but in some way I had been
through the crucible, and now, past the flames, what was I? I was real. It’s
astonishing to realize what a difference it makes to find out that you are not
false, since to the rational mind of course  I am real. It’s a given. But to
really be real, that’ s the joy. That’ s the revelation. That’ s the ecstasy.”
Impossible as it is to convey ecstasy through the poor power of words,
we can sense what it is, because all of us live from that sweet point in our
hearts. Whatever seems to be happening on the outside, every person wants
to hold on to that spot forever. It is touched in love, sometimes in sex, often
in mom ents of supreme creativity. When we succeed in getting there
permanently, the transformation goes beyond self to change the world.Ecstasy makes this world into God’ s world.
The certainty of one’s divine status is probably the most important gift
ecstasy brings, as evoked by Whitman in his poem “Song of Myself”:
I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers... and the women my sisters and lovers.
These words came from a direct, undeniable fusion of self and love. The
melting sensation that ushers in ecstasy isn’t meant to be temporary; when
you remain open to spirit you become spirit, and then universal love is your
natural state. It’s true of all lovers that at moments of intense joy some sort
of boundary melts, and the happiness of loving another perso n is exalted
beyond itself. One crosses over into a place where the traces of personality
diminish until they become so faint that the ego merges into love’ s flow like
that drop returning to the ocean.
Despite the fact that only a smal l percentage of people may have  fallen


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Contents

  Maimonides as Physician and Medical Author
  Introduction
  A Letter from Rabbi Moses ben Maimon to
           the Sultan (Al Afdal, the Son of Saladin,
           1198-1200)
 I About the Care of Health in General, Fit for
                       Every Man and Stated Briefly
 II The Care of Patients in the Absence of a
                       Physician or in the Presence of a Physician
                       Who Is Not Adequate and Not Experienced
                       in This Science
 III The Care of My Lord in Particular, According
                       to the Condition He Complains of
 IV Helpful Hints in General, and in Particular,
                       for the Healthy and for the Sick, in Every
                       Place and in Every Season
A L ETTER FROM RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON
TO THE SULTAN (AL AFDAL, THE SON OF SA-
LADIN, 1198-1200)

I, the insignificant servant,  Moses, the son of God's
servant, the Israelite from Cordova, received a command
from a messenger of the Honorable Chief, His Royal
Highness, let God increase his Excellence. He ordered his
servant to write down the regi men he should follow in the
treatment of the diseases th at befell my lord. Let God
keep illnesses far from him and may the state of health
always accompany him. The messenger who brought the
lord's command reported that my lord complains of
chronic difficult bowel moveme nts that take place only
after strenuous effort. He also reported occasional attacks
of horror, melancholy and th e fear of death. This is
accompanied by vomiting and poor digestion most of the
time. That is what he reported.
And I plan to divide this memorandum into four parts:
About the care of health in general, fit for every man
and expressed briefly; The car e of the sick in general,
when there is no physician or when the physician is not
perfect and experienced in wi sdom; The care of my lord
in particular, according to the condition he complains of; As well as sections of help ful hints in general and in
particular for the healthy and for the sick, for every place
and for every period. And le t no one criticize us for
finding in this chapter and in  the rest of our composition
statements that were already mentioned in other articles
that we have written before. Because every chapter was
written as an answer to a special inquiry and not as a
composition that aims to teach medicine to people.

And from the Lord I ask for help and integrity.

The Preservation of Youth

Essays on Health

CHAPTER  I

About the Care of Health in General
Fit for Every Man and Stated Briefly

It is our intention to relate in this chapter items that are
easy to remember. Their applica tion is of great benefit in
the care of health. They re present the consensus of the
opinions of the greatest physicians.

HIPPOCRATES : AVOID OVERSATIETY AND FATIGUE!
Among them is the dictum of Hippocrates: The
preservation of health is th e abstaining from oversatiation
and from the breakdown due to fatigue. And note that
Hippocrates implied in the care of health two rules, and
they are: to avoid oversatiety  and the fatigue that results
from injurious excessive movements and exer cise.
Satiety is the consumption of  food to the point of losing
the appetite and this involves  the filling of the stomach
and its distention. Every organ that becomes distended must expand its parts and weaken its strength, and
therefore the stomach cannot di gest that food at all. It
results in weakness, slowing up of movement and a
feeling of heaviness. This is pa rticularly true if one drinks
to excess after his meal to force digestion. For nature
demands the absorption of water in order to soften the
food and make it light for the stomach. This results in
indigestion, which may be eith er serious causing death, or
mild causing sickness. It may also cause dyspepsia and
nausea. The results are change s that depend on changes in
the types of food, temperaments  and the disposition of the
organs to develop sicknesses.

THE THREE DIGESTIONS
If the digestion of the food in the stomach is poor, its
second digestion, in the liver, is also poor and so is its
third digestion, in the organs. And this causes most of the
diseases. And Galen said as follows: Whoever wants
never to become sick, shoul d avoid poor digestion and
excessive movements after th e intake of food. And in
order to avoid this great harm, the physicians warned
against satiation and ordered that a man should cease
eating while he still has desire  for food and thus avoid the distention of the stomach and its overfilling. And all
physicians agree that to partak e a little of bad food is less
harmful than eating a lot of good and healthy food. For
when one eats bad food below the point of satiation it will
be well digested and will nouris h the organs with what is
useful in it, while the expe lling powers will increase and
will evacuate the bad surpluses,  so that no injury will be
caused by it or the injury  will be insignificant.

INDIGESTION FROM AN OVERBURDENED STOMACH
But the satiated, even th ough he partook of good bread
and good meat, cannot digest it at all. And we have
explained why. And in order to avoid satiety, the
physicians warned against eati ng several courses and that
one should be satisfied with one course per meal to avoid
excessive food and to stop th e appetite before satiety.
This will enable one to know the various digestibilities,
for every victual is digested in a special way, according to
its nature.
As to the amount of food for one who wishes to care
for his health, it is the advi ce of [your] servant to eat
when the temperature is eve n, not to expand the stomach,
not to overburden it and to enable it to produce a chyme
with ease. And as soon as it is established what amount is proper, one should select foods tuff that agrees with him,
namely, that it should not produ ce gas, or thirst, but give
him pleasure, lightness, and a tendency to soft stools.
This means good food, of which one should partake
regularly.

DIET IN WARM WEATHER
The warmer the temperatur e, the less should be the
quantity, because in summertim e the digestive processes
are too weak to benefit from natural heat. When the
temperature cools off one should increase the amount,
because in wintertime the di gestive processes are strong
enough to gather and hold th e natural heat. And when it
gets cold the openings in the flesh close and do not
prevent satiety.
[Your] servant states: If a ma n would take care of his
body as he takes care of the animal he rides on, he would
be spared many serious ailments. For you will not find a
man who would give too much hay to his animal, but he
measures it according to its capacity. However, he
himself will eat too much without measure and
consideration. Man is very attentive to his animal's
movement and fatigue in order that it should continue in a state of health and not get sic k, but he is not as attentive
to his own body.

EXERCISE FIGHTS ILLNESS
One does not consider exerci se, though it is the main
principle in keeping one's h ealth and in the repulsion of
most illnesses. And Hippocrates has already said: The
preservation of health is the avoidance of being broken
down from fatigue. And ther e is nothing like excessive
body movements and exercise. Because body movements
and exercises will ignite natural heat and superfluities
will be formed in the body, but they will be expelled
however, when the body is at rest the natural heat is
suppressed and the superfluities remain. And even when
the food is of the best qualit y and of the right proportion,
movement and exercise will destroy them. Exercise
removes the harm caused by most bad habits which most
people have. And no moveme nt is as beneficial,
according to the physicians, as body movements and
exercise. Exercise refers both to strong and weak
movements provided it is a movement that is vigorous
and affects breathing, increas ing it. Violent exercise
causes fatigue and not ever yone can stand fatigue nor
needs it. It is good for the preservation of health to shorten the exercises. It is  proper to do exercises only
when the stomach is empty and the superfluities, urine
and fecal matter are expelled. One must not exercise
when it is very cold or very hot and the best time for it is
the beginning of the day, when one awakens from his
sleep and evacuates the superfluities which we
mentioned. From the sayings of Galen about the care


 of man’s
reasoning on the subject of his discomforts, his pains, and
his sicknesses, he made the monstrous mistake that
something outside of himself —outside of his own
volition —had wished him harm. Man being a religious
animal, he early thought he had in some manner offended
one of his many deities. The history of how man evolved
the idea of disease being an entity is too long to do more
than allude to it in a book of this kind. Any of the old
mythologies may be referred to by those who are curious
enough to look the matter up. That man is still saturated
with centuries of mythological inheritance was brought out
vividly when the germ theory was introduced. It answered
the instinctive for demoniacal  possession! At last man’s search for the demon —the author of all his woes —had
been rewarded, and a satisfactory apology could be made to
his conscience for all his apparent shortcomings. However,
seventy years of vicarious atonement for man’s sins by the
demon germ are waning, and reason be praised if the
microbe is the last excuse that man can make for his sins of
omission and commission before the throne of his own
reason!

   Medical science is founded on a false premise —namely,
that disease is caused by extraneous influences, and that
drugs are something that cures or palliates discomfort. The
term “medical” means pertaining to medicine or the
practice of medicine. Anything used in a remedial way
carries the idea of curing, healing, correcting, or affo rding
relief, and this doctoring is all done without any clear
understanding of cause.

   The words “medical,” “medicine,” “disease,” and “cure”
have become concrete in our understanding, and shape our
thoughts and beliefs. And so arbitrary are these bel iefs that
new schools and cults are forced to the conventional
understanding. They may declare that an impinged nerve is
the cause of any pathology. But they do not trouble
themselves to find why one impinged nerve creates a
pathology and another does not.      The psychologist does not trouble himself to explain why
worry in one subject causes disease and in another it does
not; why hope in one subject cures and in another it does
not; why negation does not always cure; why faith does not
always cure; beggi ng the question by declaring that there
was not faith enough, etc. No fool is a bigger fool than the
fool who fools himself.

   Why should not all new schools of thought be found
harking back to their mother -thought —I say, why not? So
long as the idea th at disease is a reality, an individuality, an
entity, is firmly fixed in the mind, even those in research
work will be controlled and directed in their labors by the
conventional understanding. That is why every wonderful
discovery soon proves a mistaken b elief.

   There is no hope that medical science will ever be a
science; for the whole structure is built around the idea that
there is an object —disease —that can be cured when the
right drug —remedy, cure —is found.

   It is my intention to portray the c ommon, every -day
foibles of scientific medicine so that the people may see the
absurdities concerning disease and cure which they are and
have been hoodwinked into believing by the blare of
science. Then I shall describe the only worked -out rational explan ation of the cause of so -called diseases, hoping, by
contrasting the old and new, to start a few to thinking and
building new brain -cells, which in time may supersede the
old and conventional.

   Until Toxemia was discovered and elaborated by myself
into a medical philosophy there was no real medical
philosophy. The cause and cure of disease is and has been a
medley of guesswork and speculation which has
confounded the best and most industrious medical minds in
every generation.

   Today, as never befor e, the brightest minds in the
profession are delving into research work, endeavoring to
find the efficient cause of disease. But they are doomed to
disappointment; for they fail at their beginning. Why?
Because all the work that has ever been done in searc hing
for cause has been along the line of critical study and
examination of effects; and certainly reasoning minds
cannot believe that an effect can be its own cause. No one
believes in spontaneous generation. The remnant of this
belief was annihilated by Pasteur’s discovery of germs as
the cause of fermentation —a discovery so profound that it
created a frenzy in the medical world; and, as in every
epidemic of frenzy, mental poise was lost. The importance
of the germ as a primary or efficient cause of disea se was accepted nolens volens,  willy nilly. Everyone was swept off
his feet. As in all sudden gushes in change of belief, it was
dangerous not to agree with the mob spirit; hence opposing
or conservative voices were suppressed or ostracized.

   The germ frenzy was fierce for two or three decades; but
now it is a thing of the past and will soon be, if not now, a
dead letter.

   Cause of disease is being looked for everywhere, and no
less a personage than the late Sir James Mackenzie, in
“Reports of the S t. Andrews Institute for Clinical
Research,” Volume I, declared: “The knowledge of disease
is so incomplete that we do not yet even know what steps
should be taken to advance our knowledge.” At another
time he wrote: “Disease is made manifest to us only by  the
symptoms which it produces; the first object in the
examination of a patient is the detection of symptoms, and
therefore the symptoms of disease form one of the main
objects of our study.”

THE VALUE OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY

   Sir James, when living, wa s probably the greatest
clinician of the English -speaking world; yet he had not outlived the medical superstition that disease is a positive
entity, and that the way to find disease is to trace symptoms
to their source. But if a symptom is traced to its so urce,
what of it? A pain is traced to its source, and we find that it
comes from the head. The head does not cause the pain.
Then we find that there are symptoms of hyperemia —too
much blood in the head. The pressure from too much blood
in the head causes t he pain. Then pressure must be the
disease? No. Then too much blood is the disease —
hyperemia? Certainly; too much blood in the head was a
cause. What is it that causes congestion? We find that pain
is a symptom. Pressure causes pain; it, too, is a symptom.
Too much blood in the head causes pressure; it also is a
symptom. Pain, pressure, hyperemia are, all three,
symptoms. In time the walls of the blood -vessels weaken,
and the pressure ruptures one of the vessels. Hemorrhage
into the brain causes death from apoplexy. Is the ruptured
blood -vessel the disease? No. Is hemorrhage into the brain
the disease? No; it is a symptom. Is death from hemorrhage
the disease?

   If the hemorrhage is not severe enough to cause death,
but does produce some form of paralysis —and there can be
many kinds —is paralysis a disease? Haven’t we been
traveling along a chain of symptoms from headache to
paralysis? We have not found anything to which all these symptoms point as disease; and, according to the
requirements of Sir James Ma ckenzie, disease is made
manifest to us only by symptoms. Here we have a chain of
symptoms beginning with pain, ending in hemorrhage and
death or paralysis, without giving us any indication
whatever of cause as understood. Any other chain, namely,
stomach symptoms, ending in pyloric cancer, will not give
any more indication of disease at the various stages than the
foregoing illustration.

   The first symptom we have of any chain of symptoms is
discomfort or pain. In any stomach derangement we have
pain, more or less aggravated by food. Catarrh follows, or
more often precedes, it —or what we call inflammation or
gastritis. Gastritis continues, with a thickening of the
mucous membrane. A time comes when there is ulceration.
This will be called a disease, and  is recognized as ulcer of
the stomach; but it is only a continuation of the primary
symptom of catarrh and pain. The ulcer is removed, but the
symptom of inflammation and pain continues, and other
ulcers will follow. This state eventually merges into
induration or hardening of the pyloric orifice of the
stomach. When this develops, there is more or less
obstruction to the outlet causing occasional vomiting, and,
on thorough examination, cancer is found.
    If we analyze the symptoms from the first pain a nd
catarrh in the stomach, we shall kind the chain of
symptoms running along. The first


urine therapy. In somana Mandi (Punjab), I met him after Divali. He told me that at his instance several people had been free from their respective ailments. He also narrated his own case. He had cured but it turned into a sore. Western and indigenous medicines, even the so-called "germs-cutter" proved futile. He had to suffer from it for nine years. At last urine massage and urine intake drove away the nine-year-old complaint.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  SLEEPING PROBLEMS  Mr. D. Georgia "I am a PWA. Three months prior to starting Urine Therapy I experienced heavy night sweats, and I needed 18 hours of sleep daily! Also my skin was very dry and ashy looking. All these symptoms got resolved within 10 days of Urine Therapy. I now play one hour of basketball every day. What a difference!"  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  SORE THROAT  “Mrs. Mistri from Bombay (Karve Road), informs that she could cure her own sore throat and could get rid of tonsils of her son by the use of urine by taking it orally and by its garglings.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  SORE THROAT  172 “Shri Dinubhai Joshi (Advocate, Bombay High Court) advised his brother to take to urine therapy for curing his sore throat and tongue. In three weeks he was cured of his trouble.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  SNAKE BITE  “Ishwarbhai K. Mehta ( Gangasadan, Matave Road, Malad Bombay 64 ) had a good chance to treat a case of snake-bite. A young man of 25 had a snake-bite and was about to die. His blood-mixed urine was given to him constantly, and he was massaged with urine. His life was saved.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  SNAKE BITE  “Urine is an anti-poisonous substance and a good tonic. Snake-charmers keep a bowlful of urine handy while catching a snake, so they may be able to drink and apply it without loss of time in case of a snakebite. Jain monks say that one who drinks urine regular for six months becomes immune to snake-poison.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  SNAKE BITE  “A friend who lives in New York, told me that he was once bitten by a poisonous snake in the African bush. He knew that the bite of that snake was fatal and could kill him in a few minutes. He was so terror stricken that he could not control himself and started  urinating. In that instant he was inspired to collect the urine in his hands and drink it. A few minutes later he started to feel pain and his leg became numb. He slept a few hours, had fever for two days, but did not die and had no permanent damage to his limb.   ‘Drinking urine saved my leg and my life,’ he beamed.”  Uropathy by Martin J. Lara  SNAKE BITE, COPPERHEAD  In the thick jungle… “A snake, most probably a copperhead, pressed its teeth deep into my lower leg. Blood was streaming out - the distance to the next hospital was at least one hour. Certainly, I 173 remembered my mention on the front cover of my book and treated myself with the miracle juice [urine]. I went to the hospital and continued my treatment but had to give some of my urine to the doctor for analysis. The effect of the bite was to our surprise minimal. I left hospital without ‘modern’ treatment, on my own feet and not in a wooden box.”  Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze  SNAKE BITE, COBRAS  “Following the first All India Conference in 1993, I met a man who had been bitten twice by cobras. I am sorry I didn’t get the exact details of his treatment. How did you handle your snakebite… in detail? I kind of vaguely recall he had a local doctor inject the region of the bite along with drinking his urine and applying it topically. Urea has a mild de-naturing effect on proteins. That may be one of the mechanisms of the antidote. Our house has always a lot of brown recluse spiders. I don’t worry much about them… maybe its because I know pee.”  Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze  SPIDER BITE, FUNNEL WEB SPIDER  From B.J.K. “I would like to share from personal experience, an effective remedy for treatment of poisonous bites and stings.  Firstly about two years ago I was stung by a blue bottle jellyfish (Portuguese Man-O-War) while body surfing (unfortunately I had just relieved myself in the surf). I came straight home and rubbed some old urine into the site. (I always keep some 1-2 days old), the pain diminished to negligible in a matter of minutes, and with a second application half an hour later, the pain and the red welts caused by the sting completely disappeared.  Secondly, I was bitten on the back of my hand by a funnel web spider about a year ago: the pain was excruciating. My hand swelled up near twice the size in a matter of minutes. I went straight inside and filled a glass full of urine and drank it (fortunately, I had a full bladder) and rubbed some old urine (from same morning). The pain went instantly and I was able to work after lunch for the next four hours as a massage therapist, although the swelling remained for about 48 hours -- it didn’t move past my wrist and I had no systemic effect.”  Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze  174 SNAKE POISON  "Lord Sushrut has mentioned auto-urine as an anti-poisonous substance and a good tonic. Snake-charmers keep a bowlful of urine handy while catching a snake so that he may be able to drink and apply it without loss of time in case of a urine regularly for six months becomes immune to snake poison. The same is the opinion of may Jain monks and other sadhus."  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  SPEECH IMPEDIMENT  Juan Carlos G. Meza, Mexico. "Juan Carlos is 8 years old and suffers mental retardation. He has been taking urine for six weeks. He has improved so much in his speech. Already he can make sentences. He did not speak at all. In three years of the help from a specialized school, he began to speak, but in one month he began to make longer sentences. He is more wide-awake and mature mentally."  Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  SPLINTER  “A lady was suffering from a splinter of a wood-chip in one eye. The splinter had pierced the iris and was sticking out an inch or more. The splinter was removed she fasted for a few weeks on urine and water at the end of which time the trouble was completely cured and the patient had perfect sight.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  STAINS  “Over 50 years ago my (late) husband worked in the arrowroot industry, and later in the banana industry….all harvesting was done by hand. The sap of arrowroot blackened the hands and the men found this very difficult to remove, especially around the fingernails and any cracks in the skin. My husband was told by a work mate that urine would remove the stains - it did!”  Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze  175 STOMACH ACHE  “ShrJ Mahendrit Pal, B. Com., is a young man of 26 years, His father is a rich factory owner. He was having serious stomachache. He stayed at Gorakhpur and Bareili Nature Cure Homes for several months but had no benefit. Then I made him undergo urine treatment for two months. Besides drinking and massage, I made him undertake fasts with urine also. Now he is completely cured and is happy.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel   STOMACH ACHE  “Shri Chaturbhai Bhailalbhai lives in the village Mogari near Anand. His wife was fat and often felt pairt in her stomach. As the daughter of Shri Chaturbhai was cured of her ear-trouble with urine therapy, he adopted it for the stomach-ache of his wife also and started with rubbing urine. Within a week of rubbing, there was considerable improvement. she felt some relief and a feeling of vitality and vigour in here body. After that she also fasted on urine. With the treatment of about a month, the stomach pain disappeared and she became healthy, active and strong.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STOMACH GASES  “Whenever I had dinner, I developed gases in the stomach. I could not have sufficient sleep. When occasionally I woke up in the night I would remain awake. A few days before Diwali I began auto-urine therapy. Initially I felt revulsion. But after a week I had no inhibition. Since then my old complaint disappeared. Appetite picked up. I began having normal motions and sound sleep. Earlier I drank taking it in the blender in the morning and evening. But now without any hesitation I take it in my bare palms. I wish everyone


 was able to maintain her weight at 225 instead of 375 which was
an enormous relief to her exhausted heart.
    Another client I fasted for 90 days was a 6" 1" tall, chronic schizophrenic man who weighed in at 400 pounds. H e was so big he
could barely get through my front door, and mine was an extraordinarily wide door in what had been an upper -class mansion. This
man, now in his mid twenties, had spent his last seven years in a mental institution before his parents decided to give him one last
chance by sending to Great Oaks School. The state mental hospitals at that time provided the mentally ill with cigarettes, co ffee,
and lots of sugary treats, but none of these substances were part of my treatment program so he had a lo t of immediate withdrawal
to go through. The quickest and easiest way to get him through it was to put him on a water fast after a few days of preparat ion on
raw food.
    This was not an easily managed case! He was wildly psychotic, on heavy doses of chl oropromazine, with many bizarre
behaviors. Besides talking to himself continuously in gibberish, he collected bugs, moss, sticks, piles or dirt, and switched  to
smoking oak leaves instead of cigarettes. He was such a fire hazard that I had to move him to a  downstairs room with concrete
floor. Even in the basement he was a fire hazard with his smoking and piles of sticks and other inflammables next to his bed,  but
all of this debris was his "precious." I knew that I was in for trouble if I disturbed his prec ious, but the insects and dirt piles seemed
to be expanding exponentially.
    One day the dirt exceeded my tolerance level. To make a long story short he caught me in the act of cleaning up his precious.
Was he furious! All 350 pounds of him! (By this tim e he had lost 50 pounds.) He barreled into me, fists flying, and knocked me
into the pipes next to the furnace and seemed ready to really teach me what was what. I prefer to avoid fights, but if they a re
inevitable, I can really get into the spirit of the thing. I"d had lots of childhood practice defending myself because I was an
incurable tomboy who loved to wrestle; I could usually pin big boys who considered themselves tough. So I began using my fist s
and what little martial arts training I had to good u se. After I hurt him a bit he realized that I was not going to be easily intimidated,
and that in fact he was in danger of getting seriously damaged. So he called a truce before either of us were badly beaten up. He
had only a few bruises and welts, nothin g serious.
    After that he refrained from collecting things inside the building (he continued to collect outside). This compromise was fin e
with me, and the incident allowed me to maintain the authority I needed to bully him into co -operating with the p rogram: taking
his vitamins, and sticking to his fast until he finally reached 200 pounds. After 90 days on water he actually looked quite
handsome, he no longer smoked, he was off psychotropic medication, and his behaviors were within an acceptable range as long as
your expectations were not too high.
    He was well enough to live outside a hospital and also clear -headed enough to know that if he let too many people know how
well he really was, he might have to give up his mental disability pension and a ctually become responsible for himself. No way,
Jose! This fellow knew a good thing when he saw it. So he continued to pull bizarre stunts just often enough in front of the right
audience to keep his disability checks coming in, while managing to act sane enough to be allowed to live comfortably at home
instead of in the hospital. By keeping to my program he could stay off mind -numbing psychotropic medication if he kept up his
megavitamins and minerals. This compromise was tolerable from his point of view, because there were no side effects like he
experienced from his tranquilizers.
    It is very rare for a mentally ill person who has spent more than a few months in a mental hospital to ever usefully return t o
society because they find "mental illness" to o rewarding.

My Own 56 Day Long Fast
    Fasters go through a lot of different emotional states, these can get intense and do change quite rapidly. The physical body,  too,
will manifest transitory conditions. Some can be quite uncomfortable. But, I don"t want to leave the reader with the impression
that fasting is inevitably painful. So I will now recount my own longest fast in detail.
    When I did my own 42 day water fast followed by two weeks on carrot juice diluted 50/50 with water, which really amou nted to
56 consecutive days, my predominant sensation for the first three days was a desire to eat that was mostly a mental condition, and
a lot of rumbling and growling from my stomach. This is not real hunger, just the sounds the stomach likes to make wh en it is
shrinking. After all, this organ is accustomed to being filled at regular intervals, and then, all of a sudden, it gets nothi ng, so
naturally the stomach wants to know what is going on. Once it realizes it is on temporary vacation, the stomach wis ely decides to
reduce itself to a size suitable for a retired organ. And it shuts up. This process usually takes three to five days and for most people,
no further "hunger pangs" are felt until the fast is over.
    Real hunger comes only when the body is  actually starving. The intense discomforts many people experience upon missing a
meal are frequently interpreted as hunger but they aren"t. What is actually happening is that their highly toxic bodies are t aking the
opportunity presented by having missed a meal or two to begin to cleanse. The toxins being released and processed make assorted
unpleasant symptoms such as headaches and inability to think clearly. These symptoms can be instantly eliminated by the intak e of
a bit of food, bringing the detox to a screeching halt.
    Two weeks into the fast I experienced sharp abdominal pains that felt like I imagine appendicitis feels, which compelled me
toward the nearest toilet in a state of great urgency where I productively busied myself for about half an ho ur. As I mentioned
earlier, I was experimentally adhering to a rigid type of fast of the sort recommended by Dr. Herbert Shelton, a famous advoc ate of
the Natural Hygiene school. Shelton was such a powerful writer and personality that there still exists a Natural Hygiene Society
that keeps his books in print and maintains his library. The words "Natural Hygiene" are almost owned by the society like a
trademark and they object when anyone describes themselves as a hygienist and then advocates any practice th at Dr. Shelton did
not approve of.
    Per Dr. Shelton, I was going to fast from the time hunger left until the time it returned and I was not going to use any form  of
colon cleansing. Shelton strongly opposed bowel cleansing so I did no enemas nor coloni cs, nor herbs, nor clays, nor psyllium seed
designed to clean the bowel, etc. Obviously at day 14 the bowel said, enough is enough of this crap, and initiated a goods ho use
cleaning session. When I saw what was eliminated I was horrified to think that I ha d left that stuff in there for two weeks. I then
started to wonder if the Sheltonites were mistaken about this aspect of fasting. Nonetheless, I persevered on the same regime n
because my hunger had not returned, my tongue was still thickly coated with foul -smelling, foul -tasting mucus and I still had some
fat on my feet that had not been metabolized.
    Shelton said that cleansing is not complete until a skeletal condition is reached –that is, absolutely no fat reserves are left. Up
until that time I did n ot even know that I had fat on my feet, but much to my surprise, as the weeks went on, not only did my
breasts disappear except for a couple of land marks well -known to my babies, but my ribs and hip bones became positively
dangerous to passersby, and my s hoes would not stay on my feet. This was not all that surprising because I went from 135 pounds
down to 85 on a 5" 7" frame with substantial bone structure.
    Toward the end of the fast my eyes became brighter and clearer blue, my skin took on a good tex ture, my breath finally became
sweet, my tongue cleared up and became pink, my mind was clear, and my spiritual awareness and sensitivity was heightened. In
other words, I was no longer a walking hulk of stored -up toxemia. I also felt quite weak and had to  rest for ten minutes out every
hour in horizontal position. (I should have rested much more.) I also required very little sleep, although it felt good to ju st lie
quietly and rest, being aware of what was going on in various parts of my body.
    During the last few weeks on water I became very attentive to my right shoulder. Two separate times in the past, while flying
head first over the handlebars of my bicycle I had broken my shoulder with considerable tearing of ligaments and tendons. At night
when I  was totally still I


 us.
"A lot of times we are like the proverbial ostrich that sticks its head in the sand, and
don't want to know about it, trying to ignore it so it w ill go away. However, as God's
children, we owe it to ourselves and to God to take care of our bodies. It may cost a
little money at first, but it w ill save money in the long run actually to take time out of
your life and address the cancer issue. Do the Self-Test every 9 to 12 months so that if
you ever develop cancer you will discover it early.
"Mabel's experience with Dr. W. is really more typical than her experience with
Dr. X. Most family doctors, the ones out on the firing line, have our best interests at
heart. Generally it is not the local family doctor that gives us problems; it is the
massive, impersonal Medical Establishment."
Spleen, Pancreas and Lung Cancer Testimonial
Rachael S. ~ Norcross, GA
26-Year Victory Over Cancer of the Spleen, Pancreas and Left Lung.
Dr. Kelley spoke with Rachael in August 1998. For 26 years she has told everyone
she meets who has a health problem about the Kelley program. Rachael wants
everyone to know that it is because of Dr. Kelley that she has lived to love and enjoy
four grandchildren and has recently become great-grandma to twins. The following is
her story:
On September 28, 1971, I  was admitted to the hospital as an emergency case
suffering with acute severe abdominal pain. The next morning, I  was taken to the
operating room for an emergency exploratory with subsequent removal of an
abscessed right ovary and fallopian tube (my healthy appendix was also removed). I
was told I  had peritonitis. Several days later, after X-rays of the colon, I  was told I  had
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three tumors in the hepatic flexure of the transverse colon. The doctor said he was
"pretty sure at least one was malignant" and I  must be scheduled for colon resection
in 30 days. I  asked him what could be done if further surgery proved inadequate. He
said they would give me cobalt.
On the way home and during the next few days, I  pondered my predicament. I  was
in emotional shock and I  was weak and sick in body. Mentally, I  reviewed my
symptoms over the past months. My health had deteriorated gradually. For at least a
year, I  had been unable to sleep on my left side and more recently I  was unable to
sleep on my back. I  felt a pressure-like discomfort in the left upper quadrant and
under the left rib cage. I  also experienced shortness of breath when in these positions.
I  had "night sweats," awakening frequently at 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. drenched in
perspiration. I  had a persistent backache and low energy level. In the previous six
months I  had lost 40 pounds. I  was 45 years of age and, as a registered nurse, I  had
nursed hundreds of cancer patients in various stages of the disease. I  recalled some
painful statistics. The survival rate for metastatic cancer was less than 1%.
Later, I  learned the primary tumor was in the spleen with involvement in the
pancreas and lower left lung as well as metastasis to the colon. I  had a difficult
decision to make. I  felt my body was too weak to withstand major surgery again in
four weeks and yet my surgeon had told me I  would be "very foolish" not to consent
to further surgery. In my helplessness I  claimed God's promises in James 1:5; "If any
of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally." As is often
the case, God had already begun to answer my prayer before I  asked. Six months
prior to my hospitalization, I  had read Dr. Kelley's book One Answer To Cancer and
was so impressed I  stated to a friend, "If I  ever have cancer, I  think this is the
treatment I  would follow." Little did I  realize that within six months, I  would be faced
with that decision. My ultimate decision was to go see Dr. Kelley with the thought
that I  would postpone the surgery until I  could get my body built up on a good
nutritional program.
I  went on Dr. Kelley's program in November of 1971. My malignancy index was
700. I  sent in a urine specimen to Dr. Contreras in Mexico. The test for malignancy
was positive. I  realized my weak body was fighting three major battles — recovering
from the trauma of surgery and peritonitis, cancer, and severe emotional stress. Every
three to five weeks, I  suffered a healing crisis usually lasting about five days. During
this time I  stopped taking my enzymes. My symptoms were an ache-all-over feeling,
nausea, abdominal pain, weakness and mental depression. I  used zone therapy, hot
salt baths and hot wet baths for pain control to avoid taking pill medication. My
family provided great assistance and moral support. Friends and neighbors often
brought fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts. Some even supplied fresh non-chlorinated
water. Many prayers were uttered on my behalf.
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After three months, I  went back to Dr. Kelley. In spite of all the suffering since the
last visit, I  felt I  was making progress. The test confirmed that in fact I  had made
remarkable progress. I  decided not to have further surgery unless some emergency
situation arose such as symptoms of intestinal obstruction.
I  continued to improve. My healing crisis became further and further apart and less
severe. My checkup every three months with Dr. Kelley showed remarkable progress.
In September of 1972, my local physician checked my condition. My blood
chemistry was normal, colon X-rays were negative and physical examinations
revealed nothing abnormal.
Twenty-eight months later I  completed another series of tests; X-rays, Pap smear,
etc. All were completely negative. By this time my night sweats had disappeared and
I  could sleep comfortably in any position. I  had gained 20 pounds and my general
health and sense of well being was better than it had been in fifteen years.
I  am indebted to Dr. Kelley and his kind and wonderful staff and grateful to God
that an alternative has been provided for cancer patients who choose not to undergo
radiation, chemotherapy and surgery.
Dr. Kelley: "Rachael and her husband and I  have been friends for a long time. One
of the blessings that I've had over these years, along with some of the problems
inherent in helping to change the course of health care in our society, is the friends
and friendships that I  have been permitted to have. Rachel reminds all of those who
start on this program that they w ill have a lot of 'up' days and many, many 'down'
days. It is hard, and it's painful and it takes a lot of energy and faith to continue.
There is a lot of pain involved."
Pancreas and Liver Cancer Testimonials
W. D. K elley, D.D.S., W in fie ld, KS
42-Year (in 2004) Victory Over Pancreatic/Liver Cancer.
I  can truthfully say that I  have cured or healed myself of cancer (malignancy) and I
can cure myself again if it ever becomes necessary. Better still, I  have learned God's
Law of Health concerning malignancy (cancer) and I  w ill ever invoke this Law so that
I  am not likely to have the disease again.
In the old adage "Physician, heal thyself" two things stand out to me. One is, if a
physician can't heal himself, how can he heal others? The other involves the true
meaning of cure — cure for anything. It is so often said. "I went to Dr. Jones and he
cured me." Nothing could be further from the truth. No matter how many years a
doctor has gone to school, no matter how many college degrees he may have, a
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doctor can cure only one person — HIMSELF. It is important that a person understand
that only he can cure himself of anything!
It is the individual and his body chemistry that cure him of disease. In doing this,
he must take note that he is physical, structural, mental, and spiritual, and that each
facet plays a part in his cure. His physician or clinician can only bring to his attention
some of the basic Laws of God concerning health. Unfortunately, many clinicians are
not sufficiently aware of these Laws, even though they are honest and sincere, and try
their hardest.
Although I  am a clinician, I  have no intention of treating anyone for cancer or any
other disease. I  am even more than a clinician — I  am a teacher. My purpose in
writing this book is therefore educational: I  hope it w ill instruct you in God's Laws of
natural good health — and particularly in those concerning malignancy (cancer) so
that you can have a body free of this dreaded affliction. I  call unto Yahweh — "I am


ships that involve no choice, a relationship in which you are obliged
to be something you don’t want to be and that you resent the way
in which you are being forced to conduct yourself. This is the guts
of this erroneous zone, and it is akin to the approval-seeking dis-
cussed in Chapter III. If you want some kind of relationship, then it
is not unhealthy. But if you need it, or are forced into it, and sub-
sequently feel resentment, then you are in a self-defeating area. Thus,
it is the obligation that is the problem, rather than the relationship
itself. Obligation breeds guilt and dependency, while choice fosters
love and independence. There is no choice in a psychologically de-
pendent relationship, consequently there will always be indignation
and ill-feelings in any such alliance.
Being psychologically independent involves not needing others.
I didn’t say wanting others, I said needing. The moment you need,
you become vulnerable, a slave. If the one you need leaves, or
changes his mind, or dies, you are then forced into immobilization,
collapse, or even death. But society teaches us to be psychologically
dependent on a whole raft of folks from parents on, and you still
may be holding open your mouth waiting for the worms in many
significant relationships. As long as you feel that you have to do
anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship,
and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any
guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous
zone.
Eliminating dependency starts with your family, with the way
your parents dealt with you as a child and the way you deal with
your own children today. How many psychologically dependent
sentences do you carry in your head today? How many of them do
you force on your children?190 / Your Erroneous ZonesThe Dependency Trap in Child Rearing and the Family
Walt Disney produced a superb film some years ago entitled Bear
Country.  It traced a mother bear and her two babies through the first
few months of the cubs’ lives. Mama-bear taught the cubs how to
hunt, fish and climb trees. She taught them how to protect themselves
when they confronted danger. Then one day, Mama-bear, for her
own instinctive reasons, decided that it was time to leave. She forced
them to scamper up a tree, and without even looking back, she left.
Forever! In her own bear mind, she had completed her parental re-
sponsibilities. She didn’t try to manipulate them into visiting her on
alternate Sundays. She did not accuse them of being ungrateful, or
threaten to have a nervous breakdown if they disappointed her. She
simply let them go. Throughout the animal kingdom, parenting
means to teach the offspring the skills necessary to be independent
and then to leave. With us humans, the instinct is still the same, that
is, to be independent, but the neurotic need to own and live one’s
life through one’s children seems to take over, and the goal of raising
a child to be independent is subverted into the idea of raising a child
to hold onto him.
What do you want for your children? Would you like them to be
high in self-esteem and self-confidence, neurosis-free, fulfilled and
happy? Of course you would. But how can you help to ensure such
an outcome? Only by being that way yourself. Children learn from
the behavior of their models. If you are full of guilt and unfulfilled
in your life, but telling your children not to be, then you are selling
a tainted product. If you model low self-esteem, then you’ll teach
your children to adopt the same attitudes for themselves. Even more
significantly, if you make your children more important than your-
self, you are not helping them, you are merely teaching them to put
others ahead of themselves, and to take a back seat while remaining
unfulfilled. Such irony. You cannot hand your children self-confid-
ence;DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 191they must acquire it by seeing you living the same way yourself.
Only by treating yourself as the most important person and not al-
ways sacrificing yourself for your children will you teach them to
have their own self-confidence and belief in themselves. If you are
a sacrificer, you are modeling sacrificing behavior. And what does
sacrificing behavior mean? Putting others before yourself, not liking
yourself, seeking approval and other erroneous behavior. While
doing for others is sometimes admirable, if it is at the expense of
yourself, you are merely teaching the others the same kind of resent-
ment-breeding behavior.
From the very beginning children want to do things for them-
selves. “I can do it myself!” “Watch me, Mommy, I can do it without
any help.” “I’ll feed myself.” On and on the signals come. And while
there is a great deal of dependence in those early years, there is also
the distinctive push toward autonomy almost from the first day.
As a four-year-old, little Roxanne will always come to Mommy
and Daddy when she is hurt or in need of an emotional support of
any sort. She pours out her soul when she is eight and ten years of
age. While she wants to be thought of as a big girl (I’ll button my
own coat!”), she also wants the support of a caring parent. (“Look
Mom, I scratched my knee and it’s bleeding.”) Her self-concept is
developing through the views of her parents and other significant
people in her life. Suddenly, Roxanne is fourteen. She comes home
crying because of a fight with her boyfriend, and she runs into her
bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Mamma comes up and
asks her to talk about it in her typically caring way. But now she is
told by Roxanne in no uncertain terms, “I don’t want to talk about
it. Leave me alone.” Instead of Mamma understanding that this little
scene is evidence that she has been an effective parent, and the little
Roxanne who always told all her problems to Mommy is now
working on them herself (emotional independence), Mamma is
distressed. She is not ready to let go, to let Roxanne192 / Your Erroneous Zoneswork it out in her own independent way. She still sees Roxanne as
the same nestling that she was only a short time ago. But if Mamma
persists, and forces the issue, she will be in for a huge dose of resent-
ment from Roxanne.
The child’s desire to get out of the nest is strong, but when own-
ership and sacrifice have been the lubrication for the family machine,
the natural act of leaving turns into a crisis. Nest-leaving in a psy-
chologically sound atmosphere involves neither crisis nor turmoil;
it is the natural consequence of effective living. But when guilt and
fear of disappointment color the nest-leaving, they continue
throughout life, sometimes to the point that the marriage relationship
becomes one of parenting, rather than of two individuals sharing
on an equal footing.
What then are your goals of parenting, and of working out an ef-
fective present relationship with your own parents? Certainly the
family is an important unit in the developmental process, but it
should not be a permanent unit. It should not be a vehicle of guilt
and neurosis when its various members make moves for emotional
independence. You may have heard parents say, “I have a right to
make my child into anything I choose.” But what is the payoff for
such a domineering attitude? Hate, resentment, anger and frustrating
guilt when the child grows up. As you examine effective parent-
child relationships which have no requirements or obligations at-
tached, you’ll discover parents who treat their children as friends.
If a child spills the catsup on the table, it’s not a “Why don’t you
watch what you’re doing; you’re so clumsy” routine. Instead, you’ll
see the same kind of a response that would be given to a friend were
they to spill something. “Can I help you?” No abuse because they
are owned, but a respect for the child’s dignity. You’ll also discover
that effective parents foster independence rather than dependence,
and create no scenes about normal desires to be autonomous.DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 193Differences Between Dependent and Independent
Focused Families
In families that focus on independence, movement toward being
one’s own person is seen as normal, rather than as a challenge to
anyone’s authority. Clinging and needing are not emphasized.
Similarly, there are no demands that a child have allegiance forever,
simply because of membership in a family. The result is family
members who want to be together, rather than feel obligated to be
together. There is also a respect for privacy rather than a demand
to share everything. In families like this, the woman has a life of her
own beyond being a mother and wife. She will model effective living
for her children, rather than live her life for and through them. The
parents feel that their own happiness is paramount, because without
it there can be no family harmony. Hence the parents can go off
alone occasionally, and not feel obliged to always be there for their
children. The mother isn’t a slave, because she doesn’t want her own
children (especially the girls) to become one. And she doesn’t want
to be one herself. She doesn’t feel that she must be there all the time


 and out. Now she can walk about without any
. support. She can even work with her hands, She has continued her
practice of the invaluable remedy shivambu, i.e auto-urine therapy.
2. leg-bone Fracture : Miss Hemlata Hegishte stays in
Ahmedabad, She is 56 years old. She is well known social worker of
Guja:rat. She has so far adorned chairmanship or secretaryship of
severaLgovernment or national organisations working in the field of
women's welfare. She got her cramped legs relieved with urine
massage. She w.r:ote in reply to my request the following report of her
experiment:
-EDITOR
"On january 26, 1956 in a car accident both my leg-bones were
fractured. There was a compound fracture about an inch below the
right knee. The left also had similar but ~imple one. Both th~ legs
from thighs to soles were in plaster.
After five weeks, plaster was removed, both the legs were found
to be utterly, immobile. They could not be folded even at a slight
angle. The knees pained with the slightest attempt at movement.
238 BONE COMPlAINTS : 239
Doctors opined that the fractures being at the knees it was difficult
to get the legs moving. Left leg could as best move a little beyond
90°, and the right could be even less mobile..
Several visitors would corne to inquireafter my health and would
suggest remedies. Many we're adopted; two of which were
prominent. First, to give steambath to both the legs in the mori1ing
and in the evening. The other, suggested by a well-wishing high
official, was to have auto-urine treatment. He assured with emphasis
that with urine massage both of my legs would be fully mobile~
I, therefore, started massaging with urine (kept ~vernight) for
fifteen minutes daily in the morning; and after about is minutes 1
woufd bathe. As I was frightened with doctor's opinion I followed
the treatment with firm faith. Had any defect remained in the legs. I
would have been inv~lid to do my daily chores. But I am pleased to
report that after 21 days of urine massage the legs. could move
freely. I can sit with folded legs and my heel can touch my thighs.
Even doctors were much surprised to are my recovery. I wish others
also are benefited with my experience."
3. Fracture of Leg-bone : Shri Ravi jain is a clerk in the Punjab
National Bank, Civil Lines, Ludhiana. He is godfearing and upright
and takes keen interest in social work. I met him on 14-3-75. I was
informed of his tale of woe about a fracture in his right leg. Despite
foreboding on October 19, 1974 he travelled on a motorcycle with
his friend and at 8 P.M. met with an accident as they were knocked
down by a car that followed. The bones two inches above the ankle
were fractured and his right elbow also got injurd. He was at once
removed to Chandigarh hospital. He right leg was placed in plaster
after operation. For ten days he was in the hospital. In the same
place two elbows injury was healed with application of auto-urine
within one weak.
When after 98 days the plaster was removed there were sores on
the leg and it was swollen and immobile. At the suggestion of his
guru Shri Jagdish Mishra he started massaging the leg ·with three-240 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
month -old urine for twenty minutes daily. Within six weeks he had
75 % recovery -wounds were healed subsided, leg became flexible
and within further two weeks the leg was freely movable. It was
further cleaned and on guru's advice he began drinking urine from
february 1975. This gave his body activeness -and his movement
speed. He can move about the house with crutches.
He w'tites in his letter of 17-6-1975. "I have now stopped going
in a rickshaw to my Bank. I take a city bus to work and on return I
walk_home. My movements also are faster now and the swelling too
has considerably reduced."
When once he visited Ranian (Dist. Sirsa, Hariyana) for his
brother's wedding he found Shri Naginchandr• }ain walking on
cratches. On inquiry he found that his whole body has swollen due
to defect of the nerves. He could sit or get up with great difficulty.
Doctors had declared him as living on borrowed time. Fortunately.
he came across a Jain Monk t.-ho inspired him to adopt urine
treatment. He started massaging his whole body with his urine, and
within a few days regained the last strangth of stirring about. Once
he had even a fracture which he cured with wine packs. This
therapy alan~ could being him back from the jews of death.
CHAPTER XVII
SOME VIEWS
Experiences ~f Dr. Arjun iingh
Dr. Arjun Sin'g!z is a retired!iub-assistant surgeon of the Punjab
and resides in Ajm~ He is 83 years old. From his experience he
believes, allopathy i.s ~ suppressive method of treatment. Again
allopathic medicineli o n give ri»e to new complaints. To know his
reaction to urine therap I r:net him ()n 12-4-1975..
1. He was suffering from asthma since 1946, heart disease since
1948, eye trouble since 1955, for year!! pain in knees and shoulders SOME VIEWS : 241
and pyorrhea. Attending to all these comp.laints. with_ we~tem
mecicines he was frustrating. Homoepath Dr. M. 1<. tnadan1 adv1ced
him about urine therapy and he proposed to try it.
From 9-9-1973 he began drinking his utine twice or thrice daily
and applying twice to the eyes also. He could not massage with
urine but he· followed the dietetic restrictions. Gradually all-the
complaints were cured. Within a year and a half some of them were
completely cured. Asthma was cured ~0%. He used to have beat
attacks tWice or thrice a month. Nttw they came once in five or six
months. The white leucodermic: spot on 1he tip of his nose has
contracted to a very small size. Soles of feet do not chop of crack.
His heavi·ness has also decreased by about 12 lbs, body became
lighter and hance more active.
His grand-daughter Tandeep Kaur is of 13 years. She was a
victim of colitis in 1973. For two months she took western
medicines and injections but th~re was no relief. At last for 15-20
da}:S daily twice of thrice urine-drinking restored her to her normal
health.
Her niece Manmohan Kaur got her hand scalded with. her tea.
Applying. urine twice or thrice at night to the affected part cured it
COI\lpletely. It did not leave even a sign.
-EDITOR
2. Shri vijay Kumar Gupta's experience: Shri Vijay Kumar Gupta
(Raipura Road; Civil Lines, Ludhiana) is an elderly advocate of the
punjab High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He is ever eag~r
to help.his fellowmen. I met him on 15-3-1975 to know h1s
observations from years of urine treatment he gave to several
patients. From his narration I found that he follows Shri Raojibhlai
Mar>~ibhai Patel devotedly. He writes on 17 -5·1975 :
"From September 1945. I hav~ been taking active interest and
h?ving faith.in Nature Cure. t haw~ cured many patieRts by this
treatment. Hariyana's Chief r:lectrical Engineer, Shri H. G. Divan,
told me that Dr. Poddar of the Nature Cure Ashram, Jasidih (Bihar) 242 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
applies to those who agree the treatment of urine therapy. I broke
into laughter and said it is next to impossible to drink urine.
In 1972 vacation I went to Jasidih and stayed in the Nature Cure
Ashram for 20 days. Shri Poddar gave me a book on urine therapy,
which made me believe in its proposition. In order to dispel the
inhibition to drinking of urine. and thereby save hundreds from the
diseases, I resolved to drink urine next morning. ·With distaste and
yet prayerful devotion in a morning of the last week of August in
1972. I took my own urine for the first time. It proved natural and
very useful. I was being preyed upon by ulcer in the stomach.
Doctor stated th<,rt the cause of this was overwork and tension in the
family. But from my nat


life. When later
on they  maintain that there is nothing at all wrong,  and  the X‐ray gives
a clear proof of a healthy kidney,  one is forced to assume that the
fasting and. urine drinking has effected the cure."
To conclude this chapter  I may  append one or two suggestions  made by
my friend Mr. 0. Warnock‐Fielden  as to how urine cures, although  I may
not altogether  share his views.  He writes:
"There  may  be some healing force in the return of the unexpected
hormones  particularly  the sex hormones,  which  find their way into the
urine. There are cases known  in which  urine is taken  internally  for the
sake of these  substances  alone. There  may  also be a case  made out for
the return of the tissue substance  which  is in solution in the urine.
Organic tissue may be leeched from  the vital  organs  by means of the
poisonous  substances  lodged there  from the food and  drink taken into
the body, and also from the drugs and injections  of niedicai  science. It is
claimed  by some that these  substances  may  be returned and  used 95
 again in re‐building healthy organs. This is difficult to prove, but there
are many cases on record in which  diseased  organs  have been renewed
by means of drinking large  quantities  of urine. More  than this  it is
impossible  to say."
"The explanation  which  appeals  to me more than any other is that
cures are obtained by means of the homoeopathic  principle.  There is no
doubt that although  it is claimed that toxic matter in quantity is not
thrown out of the body in the urine (otherwise  we would not become ill
because it remains in) there must  certainly be found in all urine a
homoeopathic,  or infinitesimal  dose of the particular  toxic complex of
the individual  concerned.  That must  surely be beyond  all argument.  If
this  infinitesimal  dose is returned to the body, an antibody,  according
to homoeopathic  principles,  will be produced,  and  will therefore  tend
towards a cure  of the condition."
"In the natural  habics  of animals we observe  the fact that they
continually  lick themselves.  In this way they undoubtedly  take into their
systems homoeopathic  doses of their toxic condition.  After every meal,
even,  this  dose would tend  to correct any harm likely to occur  from
eating food which  would not agree with them, perhaps even poison
them. May  not this  habit  be Nature's immunisation  scheme par
excellence?  Medical science has formulated  a system of dangerous
inoculations  to do exactly the same thing as the dog does when it licks
itself. Nature  gives instinct to the dog for its salvation,  and  brains to
man  for his ultimate destruction  ! We may be too clever. If anyone
doubts the  animal's instinct  to drink  its own urine, let him try the
experiment  of handing a cup  to a monkey. The monkey has only one
use for it. The goat is considered  to be the most  healthy of all animals, 96
 so much so that its milk is much sought  after for T.B. cases. May  not
this  be explained  by the fact that the goat can, and  very often does,
drink  its urine straight from its body?"
"When man  first appeared  upon the earth, some provision  must  have
been made for his security against extinction.  Food, clothing, shelter
were all stored within the earth, man having only to work for them to
satisfy all his material  needs. Would the vital importance  of his freedom
from disease be neglected?  If what is stated in these pages is correct,
the means whereby health may  be attained  is always close at hand,
easy to carry  out, marvellous  in its simplicity  and  free to everyone.  The
late Dr. Chas.  H. Duncan, one of the most  enlightened  doctors of
America, states in his book Autotherapy :
“There are in the pathogenic  exudates toxic substances  to which  the
patient must  develop resistance  in order that a cure  may  be instituted.
In other words, in Autotherapy  the patient  has  the right toxic
substances  within his body, and  it remains for the physician  to find
them and determine  the proper dose and  the interval between doses
so that the local  tissues may develop  resistance  to them. “
There  is therefore,  much in some branches of medical research which
agrees with the courageous  contribution  of John Armstrong  which  is
testified to in the cases mentioned  in this book.  "

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 CHAPTER  XV.
THE COMMON  COLD

It is not extravagant  to say that the simple malady we call an ordinary
common cold has baffled the Prof ision for centuries.  A doctor  once
said to the write‐: "If there  is one thing I dislike being asked to cure, i± is
a common or garden cold in the head! "The late Dr. Haig, who first
drew attention  to uric acid, aid beater still to the folly of living on an
unbalanced  di It (though  on certain points one might differ  from  him)
told people they  should be thankful when they  contracted  a streaming
cold, as it acted as a species of house‐cleaning, and therefore  should
never be suppressed.  But unfortunately  for mankind at large, very often
the first  thing most  persons do immediately  they  "begin to feel a cold
coming on


 started to trust in the Spirit and Jesus. Sometimes  I would
go to A Course in Miracles  groups while traveling, not knowing where I
would sleep the next night, and then three different people at the group
would say, “Come and stay at my home.” So, it wouldn’ t be a question
of whether I would have a place to sleep, but about which friend I was
supposed to stay with. It was like the Holy Spirit wanted to show me
another angle, that I was going to be taken care of. I needed only to pay
attention, and He would direct the plan moment by moment. These experiences built up a lot of trust and also launched me into
seeing that I was perfectly taken care of wherever I would go. I got to
see that I didn’ t have to use my lifetime of past learning and ten years of
full-time univers ity. Instead, I had a lot to unlearn. Jesus said, “We have
some big boulders we’ve got to knock off your shoulders in order for
you to be truly helpful.” I couldn’ t continue to hold onto the arrogance of
thinking that I could direct my own way in this world and of believing
that I knew enough to navigate time and space. To let go into trust and let the Holy Spirit lead the way reverses  the
ego mentality that says that if we want to do something, we have to
come up with the means. God knows the prayer of our heart before we
even utter a word. We are invited to a place of silence deep inside the
mind, to find an experience of purpose and intention. Purpose andintention are all about an inner connection with the Holy Spirit. It is an
experience of a strength and clarity that shows the way. Trust is the willingness to dive into presence and authentically “go
for it.” You come to a state of not planning anything; you follow the
strong inner compass that is the Holy Spirit, moment by moment. You
may not know where this is leading you, but one thing is certain, it will
be miraculous! I am sure that as children, we did not express to Mum and Dad that
we didn’ t care or plan for ourselves. We did not want the consequences,
the reactions. “What are you going to do with your day?” “Noth ing!” Or
better yet, “I will see how it unfolds.” “What about your chores? ” “I will
see how they unfold.” We would think those thoughts when we were
children; we just would not say them. But now it is like a new day, a new
start, a new heart, and a happy day filled with joy. Isn’t it great? That is
our theme: God’ s will for us is perfect happiness, and we are just like
children opening up to that experience. The prayer of our heart is “Show
me, show me!” This is how we trust and learn to becom e God-
dependent. “Except ye become as little children” means that unless you
fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the
real power of your true relationship with Him. I have always loved the curiosity of children because curiosity is a
reflection of openness. If you are curious, you don’t think you already
know. That is so important; that is one of those things you cultivate, just
staying curious and open to being shown. It’s very much like when you
are on a trust-walk where they blindfold you, and you put your arms out
and trust your guide to lead you and show you. I have done a number of
those experienti al trust-walks over the years, and it is just fantastic
because you really have to let go of what you think you know with your
senses. You are blindfolded, you have your hand out, and your guide is
with you in every step. It is intuitive trust, moment by moment,  that gets
us to a place of deep peace and joy. This journey with the Holy Spirit requires trust and gentleness, and
by patting yourself on the back and being grateful for every little
willingness that you can muster, you will naturally grow in trust andopen up to miracles. When you start to live in the miracle, your concerns
and struggles disappear not to come back again.Exercise: Leap of T rust
Take some time now to look inward. Invite the Holy Spirit to join
you in preparation for this assignment. Reminding yourself of the miracles that you have
experienced and then sharing them is a very helpful way to
reinforce the truth in your mind and to build trust. Allow a time
when you were guided to take a “leap of trust” to arise  in your
mind. It could be when you felt compelled to contact someone or
had a feeling that it was time to change jobs. In your journal, write
down your responses to these questions. 1. Describe the situation when you were being called to make
a decision or take action. 2. Do you recall what you feared you could lose if you took
that leap? Describe any thoughts and feelings of hesitation. 3. What compelle d you to take that leap of faith, even though
you couldn’t be sure of the outcome? 4. What was your experience afterward? How did you and
everyone else in the situation benefit from your willingness
to trust? 5. Are there any other steps on your horizon that you are
fearing to take? Explore all your thoughts and feelings in
your journal so that they may be dispelled. In prayer and trust, know that peace and love are your
desired outcomes. Let this notion support your intention to move
forward with clarity! Prayer:  Spirit, Here I Am
A very short prayer that can open you up to trust is “Spirit, here I
am.” Say this prayer and wait quietly with an open mind. Stay
attentive and relaxed. Watch what comes. Use this prayer toconnect to the deep quiet experience of the Holy Spirit in your
mind. Your focus is finding the quiet center within where the light
in your mind can be welcomed and revealed. Let go of any sense
of a need to do something. Instead, just be and witness this
moment. When you are able to find the place of alert stillness in
your mind, notice how it feels completely natural to trust. Spirit,
here I am. When you feel ready, take your pen and journal and make
some notes of how this time of prayer has been for you. Then, if
you’re inspired to, write a poem about your current experience of
trust in the Holy Spirit or maybe a prayer springs forth from your
heart’ s desire to strengthen your level of trust. Be still and know that trust settles every problem now! Trusting What Is Given
When we practice trust, things coming our way will be seen as truly
given gifts rather than threats or problems. We all have miracles waiting
for us in the present. Miracles want to come through in a very beautiful
way, but we have to allow for them. If we freeze into “shoul d I” and
“could I,” then we are gettin g locked into the ego’s doubts and
comparisons, and we close ourselves of f from trust. There can surely be periods of disorientation. These come because
we are loosening from the ego’s hold on how we live, and its laws of
scarcity, lack, defenses, and reciprocity. You’re going to have a lot of
reactions and reflexes coming from a fear of the light. But the good news
is that from these disorientati on periods, you’re going to come out
sailing and soaring in the most glorious state of mind that you could ever
want. At first, miracles can seem a little strange because you are not used
to them. You are not used to arriving on time to a meeting that seemed
impossible to make. You are not used to the Holy Spirit arrang ing time
and space for you and life being  like a wonderful flow. The ego may try
to dismiss the miracles and push  these experiences out of aware ness, butthe more  you hang with it, the more consistent is the experience of peace
of mind and joy. I was guided from one job to another in a series. I was not guided to
just quit all jobs because I had debts, and it doesn’ t work very well to
quit all your jobs when you have debts. So, I was guided to work to pay
off my debts. I saw that the jobs were used to help me heal certain
aspects of my mind and become more dependent on the Holy Spirit. I
asked to be shown which jobs I should take. Once I was at the job, it was
just as importan t to understand what was guided, and so I would ask
Holy Spirit, “How can I be most helpful here?” It was very practical, and
this experience showed me that I just need to trust Him. I need nothing
but this trust. Because with jobs and relationships, we cannot always
judge what is most beneficial for our healing. Sometimes people who have lost their jobs say it was the best thing
that ever happened. Sometimes I have even heard people say when they
have lost their husband or wife that it was the best thing that happened in
their life. So, whenever you feel frightened about outcomes like losing a
job or certain relationship, it is a time to go within, release the fear, and
open to a deep trust that can only lead to miracles. Living a life of devotion doesn’ t mean dropping responsibilities. The practice is to trust that you