us, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue, and depression.
Excitotoxins are used heavily in both sweet and salty snack foods, and no law s restrict the use of these substances. Fast-food
chains hire food chemists to load our pizzas, tacos, fried chicken, bento boxes, an d the like with as much of these deadly additives
as possible, which keep us feeling “high” and coming back for more. A ll of the salty soy products, as well, (whether or not they
purport to contain MSG) are laden with highly excitotoxic free glutam ates. This is of special concern for the raw food community,
which tends to consume a tremendous amount of soy sauce, shoyu, liquid aminos, miso, and tamari.
In his personal film documentary, “Supersize Me,”  Morgan Spurlock created a vivid description of his experience living
exclusively on McDonalds’ food for 30 consecutive days. Although he did not sp ecifically use the term “excitotoxins,” he clearly
described the symptoms of addiction and withdrawal he experienced during th at month. News of the widespread use of excitotoxic
additives in junk foods is getting enough press that people are com ing to perceive a whole new level of reality in the 1960s Lay’s
potato chip jingle “nobody can eat just one.” Can you forget the tast e of Planter’s dry-roasted peanuts? (“Monosodium glutamate”
sits unabashedly on the label). Other junk foods, like Frito Lay’s “pla yfully mischievous” Cheetos snacks, boast multiple sources of
excitotoxic free glutamate. (Flamin’ Hot Cheese Flavored snacks, for  example, list monosodium glutamate, autolyzed yeast extract,
hydrolyzed soy protein, and sodium caseinate on the ingredient label.)

Fiber
Our commonly consumed cooked foods—meats and refined grain products—are ex tremely low in fiber. In fact, animal foods
contain no fiber.
Many health-minded people, thinking they are doing their bodies a favor, ende avor to eat whole-grain complex carbohydrates
to get fiber in their diets. They are on the right track, as fiber is wh at we remove from whole grains in order to make refined grains—
and dietary fiber is absolutely essential for digestive and overall he alth.
Unfortunately, these health seekers have been misled to believe tha t the fiber in grains is good for us. This is not true. There
are two broad categories of fiber, referred to as soluble and insoluble. Soluble f iber is an essential nutrient (one we cannot make
within our bodies and must therefore eat), found primarily in fruits and t o some degree in vegetables. It absorbs water and helps to
keep the stool bulky and soft. It functions as a sticky gel-like absorptive medi um to keep all substances moving through the intestines. Insoluble fiber is found primarily in grains.
Pectin and guar are the two most common soluble fibers. They are used in re cipes as thickeners because of their ability to hold
water. They also slow sugar absorption from the intestines, functionin g as built-in protection that prevent the sugars in fruits from
being absorbed into the bloodstream too rapidly. Ironically, in their isolated for m, pectin and guar are being used by the medical
establishment in the treatment of diabetics, while doctors insist th at diabetics should not consume fruit.
Before doctors truly understood the function of fiber, it used to be describ ed as a “scrub brush” for the intestines. The
insoluble fibers in grains (raw, sprouted, or cooked), however, are harsh on our de licate digestive tracts. Since they do not absorb
water, their edges and points remain sharp. These fibers literally sc rape at the delicate walls of our intestines, irritating them and
causing a thickening of the intestinal wall. This makes the fiber  less irritating but also reduces the body’s ability to absorb nut rients.
This irritation of the intestines and colon is what gives bran its re putation for encouraging bowel function. The body senses an
irritant and attempts to expel it as rapidly as possible, along with whate ver else is in the colon at the time. Anyone who uses bran
fiber for this purpose has noticed that after a short time they must inc rease the quantity of bran that they use in order to get the same
effect. The more the body increases the thickness of its mucous membran e to protect itself from irritation, the more bran must be
ingested. It is an endless cycle, similar to that of all substance abus e.
Reduced absorption, impeded assimilation, adhesion development, scar-tissue  formation, leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel
syndrome, spastic colon, colon blockages, diverticulitis, ulcerative c olitis, Crohn’s disease, and other digestive maladies are often the
outcome of consuming insufficient fiber or fiber that is too harsh. The s oft, soluble fibers found in fruits and vegetables are necessary
for optimum digestive and colon function.

Refined Simple Carbohydrates: Junk Food
The second category of carbohydrates is the refined simple carbohydrates  found in cookies, cakes, candies, and other
confections. Refined sugars are also added to drinks, cereals, complex carbohy drate foods of all types, and anywhere else that you
see the word “sweetener” or “sweetened.” If the ingredient list inc ludes corn syrup, fructose, galactose, sucrose, dextrose,
maltodextrin, dextrin, maltose, levulose, lactose, or almost any word ending  in “ose,” refined sugars have been added.
If people don’t eat lots of fruit, they typically eat something swe et at almost every meal anyway. Orange juice, sweetened
cereals, jellies, jams, sweet rolls, and sugar in coffee ensure that  the day starts off with sweets. Lunches and dinners usually are not
complete unless some type of sweet dessert follows. Be it coffee and cake, mi lk and cookies, or any of dozens of other typical
combinations, we have found a way to replace the healthy “sweet and j uicy” provided by fruit with unhealthy, refined sweet and
(well … wet, or at least gooey) choices.
Refined simple sugars, a category that includes table sugar, are t he classic all-time-best examples of “empty calories,” that is,
calories without their full complement of original nutrients inta ct. In all forms of refined foods, some part or parts of the original
nutrient package have been removed. Regardless of method, the refining of  a food reduces its nutritional value and creates nutrient
imbalances. In my opinion, refined foods have no place in the diet of anyone wis hing to improve their nutrition or any aspect of their
health.
Foods can contain partially empty or completely empty calories, depending upon  the amount of refinement the food has
undergone. When people add such empty calories to other ingredients t o create a dish, I refer to the finished product as “junk
food.”
Consumers have come to mentally lump all sugars—in fact all carb ohydrates—into one group, to which they attribute mostly
negative connotations. Along with complex carbohydrates, refined sw eets and fruits are commonly considered nothing but “another
source of sugar.”
The meat and dairy industries like to point fingers at sugars, declarin g them synonymous with empty calories. They have done
such a good job of marketing that to this day most people do not understand the differ ences between refined simple sugars (empty-
calorie junk foods) and the simple sugars in fruit (health food), thinki ng that “sugar is sugar.”
The empty calories in refined simple carbohydrates are so devoid of food value  as to bankrupt you nutritionally while they also
function as stimulants. Both the stimulation and the nutritional de ficit accelerate aging.

Fruits: Whole-Food Simple Carbohydrates
Whole, fresh fruit is the third and most overlooked source of carbohydrates. Fr uit comes in an intricate, highly nutritious
package that matches our nutritional needs better than any other cat egory of food. I recommend that virtually our entire
carbohydrate intake—80% of calories or more—come from the simple sugars  in whole, fresh fruit. These sugars are the optimal fuel
source for humans. The soft, water-soluble fiber in whole fruits allows  their sugars to absorb slowly and gradually, so high blood
sugar is not an issue (as long as your diet is low in fat … see Chapter 2.)
Fruits are the obvious choice for obtaining our carbohydrates, as they provi de the only substantial and healthful whole-food
source of simple sugar. Many classically trained nutritionists, an d most doctors, still erroneously refer to fruits as complex
carbohydrates, because some of their fiber (such as the skins, pith, etc.) i s composed of complex carbohydrates. Though these indigestible fibers are complex carbohydrate in nature, virtually al l of the carbohydrate calories in ripe fruit are simple mono- and
disaccharides. This misunderstanding has long been pointed out by sports phy siologists, who rely on the fact that the sugars in fruit
are simple in design and hence work extremely well before, during, and aft er all physical exertions.
Fruits never require cooking in order to be delicious and nutritious, and our bodi es digest them quickly and easily. (Some
vegetables with


 us to a topic I call healthfood junkfood. Many people improve their
diet, eliminating meat and chemicalized food in favor of whole grains andorganically grown foods, but they then proceed to make these otherwise goodfoods into virtual junkfood by preparing them incorrectly. In my travels, I’venoticed this same thing happens everywhere on Earth. What should be health-producing dietaries are ruined by frying, salting and sugaring.
Healthfood junkfoods include organically grown potato chips deep fried in
cold pressed organic unsaturated canola oil (made rancid by frying) sprinkled withnatural sea salt; organically grown oat and nut granola roasted with cold-pressedunsaturated oil (made rancid by roasting) hideously sweetened with honey; carrotcake made with rancid whole wheat flour, cold pressed unsaturated oil (maderancid by baking), honey, and cream cheese (salted); whole wheat cookies (stale,rancid flour) sweetened with honey, made with vegetable oil baked at high heat(rancid); whole wheat pizza vegetarian style with lots of soy cheese; whole wheatpizza vegan style with lots of real raw milk cheese; organically grown corn chipsdeep fried in cold pressed vegetable oil with or without natural sea salt, yogurtsmade from powdered milk without an active culture of beneficial bacteria andcovered with highly sugared fruits, etc. These foods may well represent animprovement over the average American diet, but they still are not healthy foods,and should never be used in a diet for a sick person. Nor are they worthy of aperson attempting to maximize health.
The problem with healthfood junkfoods is not their major ingredients, but how
they were combined and processed and adulterated. Remember, fats, animal orvegetable, subjected to high heat become indigestible and toxic and makeanything they’re cooked with indigestible; salt is a toxic drug; cheese, hard enoughto digest as it is, when raised to high temperatures as it is when making pizza,becomes virtually indigestible and cheese inevitably contains a lot of butterfatwhich, though saturated animal fat, when raised to high temperatures, stillbecomes slightly rancid. And all these foods represent indigestible combinations.
My clients almost never believe me when I first explain the idea of food
combining. They think if it goes in one end, comes out the other, and they don’tfeel any unpleasant symptoms in between, then it was digested. But bad foodcombinations have a cumulative degenerative effect over a long period of time.When the symptoms arrive the victim never associates the food combination withthe symptom because it seems to them that they’ve always been eating the food.
Mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we
should have a representative serving from each of the “four basic food groups” ateach and every meal, plus a beverage and a desert. Or, as my husband Steve isfond of quipping, a “balanced meal” has four colors on every plate: somethingred, something green, something white and something yellow. But the balancedmeal is a gastronomic catastrophe that can only be processed by the very youngwith high digestive vitality, the exceptionally vital of any age, people with cast ironstomachs which usually refers to their good heredity, and those who are veryphysically active.
Few seem to realize that each type of food requires specific and different
digestive enzymes in the mouth, stomach, and intestine. Carbohydrates, fats,proteins—each requires differing acid or alkaline environments in order to bedigested. Proteins require an acid environment. Starch digestion requires analkaline environment. When foods in complex combinations are presented to thestomach all together, like a meal with meat, potatoes, gravy, vegetables, bread,butter, a glass of milk, plus a starchy sweet desert, followed by coffee or tea, thestomach, pancreas, liver and small intestine are overwhelmed, resulting in thefermentation of the sugars and starches, and the putrefaction of the proteins, andpoor digestion of the whole. It is little wonder that most people feel so tired aftera large meal and need several cups of strong coffee to be able to even get upfrom the table. They have just presented their digestive tract with an immenselydifficult and for some an impossible task.
For the most efficient digestion, the body should be presented with one simple
food at a time, the one bowl concept, easily achieved by adherence to the oldsaying, “one food at a meal is the ideal.” An example of this approach would beeating fruits for breakfast, a plain cereal grain for lunch, and vegetables for supper.If you can’t eat quite that simply, then proper food combining rules should befollowed to minimize digestive difficulty, maximize the adsorption of nutrients fromyour food, and reduce or eliminate the formation of toxemia, and of course foulgas.
In general, fruit should be eaten alone unless you happen to be hypoglycemic
or diabetic in which case fruit should be eaten with small quantities of a vegetableprotein such as nuts, or yogurt and/or cheese if able to digest dairy. Starchesshould be eaten with vegetables, which means that a well combined meal wouldinclude a grain such as rice, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, corn, wheat,rye, oats, spelt, potatoes, or starchy winter squash combined with raw or cookedvegetables. Protein foods such as meat, eggs, beans, lentils, tofu, split peas,should be combined with vegetables, raw or cooked. But protein should never becombined with starches. The most popular North American snacks and mealsalways have a starch/protein combination, for example: meat and potatoes,hamburger in a bun, hot dog with bun, burrito with meat or cheese, meatsandwiches, etc. It is little wonder that intestinal gas is accepted as normal, andthat over time these hard to digest combinations eventually cause health problemsthat demand attention.
Another sure fire way to ruin any food, including the very best available is to
eat in the presence of negative emotions generated by yourself or others.Negative emotions include fear, anger, frustration, envy, resentment, etc. Thedigestive tract is immediately responsive to stress and or negative thoughts. Itbecomes paralyzed in negative emotional states; any foods eaten are poorlydigested, causing toxemia.
It is natural for a person who has lost a loved one or suffered a great loss of
any kind to lose their appetite for a period of time. This reaction is pro-survival,because while grieving, the body is griped by powerful negative emotions. Thereare people who, under stress or when experiencing a loss, eat ravenously in anattempt to comfort themselves. If this goes on for long the person can expect tocreate a serious illness of some kind.
Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and
personality and who is generating the negative emotions. Self generated negativeemotions are very difficult to avoid. If you are unable to change your ownemotional tone or that of others around you, then it is important to eat very lightly,eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, raw juices,steamed vegetables, and small servings of whole grains, nuts and seeds.
Diets To Heal The Critically Ill
A critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment; therapeutic
interventions are racing against death. Can the body repair itself enough beforesome essential function ceases altogether? If there already exists too muchdamage to vital organs the person will die. If there remains sufficient organfunction to support life, enough vital force to power those functions, and a will tolive, the body may heal itself if helped by the correct therapeutic approach. Butthe therapy does not do the healing; the body does that by itself—if it can. Thisreality is also true of allopathic medicine.
I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person
their very best chance of recovery. If a patient dies while fasting they almostcertainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will bemore comfortable, with less pain, and with more mental clarity.
Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the following
diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart failure, very high bloodpressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema,
Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into
account in this list:
Hard To Digest: Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all legumes
including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split peas, lentils,chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seedsand their butters.
Intermediate: all grains--quinoa, amaranth, millet, spelt, rye, wheat,
oats, barley.
Fairly Easy:  Brussels sprouts, green beans, green peas, broccoli,
cauliflower, raw cultured milk products, asparagus, cabbage, sproutsespecially bean sprouts, kale, other leafy greens.
Very Easy:  fruits, vegetable juices, fruit juices, broth (clear).
No Effort:  herb tea, water.
pneumonia or other catastrophic infections, especially those that seem
unresponsive to antibiotics, strokes, emboli, sclerotic vessels as found inarteriosclerosis, severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission tovital organs.
Treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing, ideological
choice between holistic medicine and AMA style medicine. It is important for thecritically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatmentsuch as drugs or surgery, these measures can and should be combined withnatural


 daily on the persons. I discovered that the hydrogen cyanide in colloidal form, which is not poisonous, made vitamin C available in a very high amount, and the patients both got well. One was a cancer patient and the other a muscular dystrophy patient.
Many doctors are so afraid of the drug establishment until they are
not at liberty to advise patients, or people who are ill, for fear of hav-ing their license removed. The license of the medical doctor is illegal, 64 it is unconstitutional. Licensing a person does not make him any
smarter or give him any added ingenuity whatsoever.
Any profession that needs law to keep it in existence is opening
the door for that organization to be corrupted. This is true of any pro-fession that is licensed because if the profession was operating 100 percent legitimate it would not need  law to protect it. If it were good
the people would flock to their door, and if it were bad, the practition-er, either legal or medical, or any other profession that was kept in ex-istence by law, would starve to death.
Once any profession becomes legalized then it means that it has to
have law enforcement agencies and these agencies become dictators of the establishment, which has made many of our courts the courts of injustice. Many of our hospitals are now the shortest route to the cem-etery.
When a doctor says that a disease is incurable, he means that he
knows of no drug that will cure that disease. He doesn't mean that God
can't do it. So what we are teaching in our RBTI seminars is God's way of getting people well. In II Chronicles 16: 12-13 we read: "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great." This was probably diabetes. The verse following this says: "Yet in his disease he sought not the Lord, but the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign." God would heal many if we would just obey His rules, instead of depending on drugs.
In the Book of Revelation we are given some very prophetic
words: "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" (9 :21). In the Book of Revelation the word sorceries means drugs, drug salesmen, or drug
purchaser, or drug user. It is the only place in the entire Bible that it means drugs. It comes from the Greek word pharmakeia, meaning
drugs.
In Revelation 18:23 we read: "And the light of a candle shall shine
no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the
great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived." 65 For by their "drugs" all nations were deceived. Also, in Revelation 21:
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers,
and whoremongers, and SORCERERS, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake wh ich burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death." Here we are told what is going to happen to people who use or sell drugs. In Revelation 22: 15 it says: "For without are dogs, and SORCERERS and whoremongers, and murder-ers, and idolaters, and whosoever l oveth and maketh a lie." John, who
was on the Isle of Patmos prophesied about the deceiver of the world by drugs. We are now living in the midst of this generation of drugs and drug abusers. There are even stores that are called "drug" stores.
I'm not speaking against the very fine Christian physicians. They are wonderful men of God, but many are so coerced and le-
galized until they cannot do what they know to be best. This is the ad-vice I give to my readers: Any doctor who cannot give you an im-provement in three days-then it is time to get a new doctor.
Any doctor that claims that cobalt, chemotherapy, or radiation
heals is a deceiver. Please get away from him as fast as you can. None
of these things have ever healed anyone.
Don't keep going to a doctor and get worse and worse because you
can do that at home for nothing.
On January 23, 1977, I was poisoned with laudanum. I was in the
hospital three days and nights and did not know at that time the doc-tors had tested me with practically every instrument they had in the hospital. I was going all hours of the night for tests. I went in on Sun-day afternoon at 5 o'clock and on Wednesday morning two doctors came in and said: "We can't find anything wrong with you."
"I'm dying and I know it," I said. I was waving in and out of con-
sciousness, rather rapidly. When I did come back my mind was as clear as a bell. I found out later that they had run $4,434 worth of tests and couldn't find anything wrong with me. I then said, "I don't need you any longer, if you can't find anything wrong with me when I know I am dying." 66 My former pastor brought in a Korean doctor. I gave him a rather
hard time in and out of consciousness. He said, "Give me 24 hours to
find out what is wrong with you."
The other two doctors refused to let my daughter come in and run
a RBTI test. But Dr.-, to satisfy me, permitted my daughter to come in and run the test. She was working and couldn't come in until seven o'clock that night. She ran the test.
The next morning when the new doctor came in he said, "I can't
find anything wrong with you."
"Doctor," I said, "I have found something wrong," and told him
where it was. He looked there and found it. In two hours I was on the operating table. They took over a pint and a half of pus out of two blisters over the colon. My white blood count (WBC) had risen from 7,400 on Sunday to 19,000 on Thursday morning, indicating that I was in serious shape. I got better then.
This new doctor wanted to take the RBTI seminars. lt was availa-
ble in California. "If you go to California, can I go with you?" he asked.
So we went to California by plane on a Sunday for I was still very,
very weak. On Friday morning I had another bad withdrawal from the laudanum and had to go into the hospital in California for 12 days. Then I went back to Orlando, where I had to go through more surgery in order to correct the damage that was done to this point. It burned so seriously, and yet laudanum is pure opium and alcohol. The mistake made in poisoning me was that they mixed it with wood alcohol. My body rejected the wood alcohol, and I vomited up most of it. Which was such a rare thing for me.
I did exactly what I am recommending you readers to do. If a doctor can't show you any improvement in three days, get an-
other doctor. Let surgery be the last resort.
I do not believe in vaccinating children at all. Give them the prop-
er amount of water to drink (divide their weight by two and call it ounces, and that is how much water a child should have to drink each day, and it should be distilled water), and there will be less illness. If everything else fails use vaccinations as a last resort. If you are in 67 doubt about what I am saying, there is a book in print, The Poisoned
Needle, read it.
I never permitted my children to be vaccinated. When it came time
for them to go to school I was told that they had to be vaccinated. I told the principal, "My child will not be vaccinated, because it is your job to educate and not to medicate. It is a federal law that my child must go to school. And unless that child goes to school I will enter suit against you and the school board for practicing medicine without a license."
"I will call you about it," he replied. In two days he called and said, "S end your children on to school,
you'll never have any problem with us about vaccination."
Today America boasts on having the finest hospitals and the finest
doctors in the world and yet we are 37th in the list of nations having poor health. What a shame to crow about our excellent hospitals, our fine doctors and having the nation 37
th in the list of poor health. It is
like a fellow in his late teens I knew that was a moron. He was having trouble finding a girlfriend. One day he found one and had his first love affair and contacted gonorrhea. He went out boasting to the fel-lows, "I got it, I got it." He had the proof of it-he thought he was sup-posed to have it. Now for us to boast of our hospitals and fine doctors is boasting of our illness. Shame on America.
My goal is to make America the healthiest nation on earth, and for
this reason I am falsely persecuted for telling the truth.
Evidently the truth is not allowed in our courts any more. We are paying


 experience if all we are to do is stay away
from it as much as we can? What gives?
For that matter, why are all fun things either
“immoral, illegal, or fattening”?
I’ve answered the end of this question too,
with what I’ve just said. All fun thing s are
not immoral, illegal, or fattening. Your life is,
however, an interesting exercise in  defining
what fun is.
To some, “fun” means sensations of the
body. To others, “fun” may be something
entirely different. It all depends on who you
think you are, an d what you are doing  here.
There is much more to be said about sex
than is being said here —but nothing more
essential than this: sex is joy, and many of
you have made sex everything else but.  Sex is sacred, too —yes. But joy and
sacredness do mix (they are,  in fact, the
same  thing), and many of you think they do
not.
Your attitudes about sex form a microcosm
of your attitudes about life. Life should  be a
joy, a celebration, and it has become an
experience of fear, anxiety, “not  enough -
ness,” envy, rage, and tragedy. The same
can be said about sex.
You have repressed sex, even as you have
repressed life, rather than fully Self -
expressing, with abandon and joy.
You have shamed sex, even as you have
shamed life, calling it evil and wicked,
rather than the highes t gift and the greatest
pleasure. Before you protest that you  have
not shamed life, look at your collective attitudes about it. Four -fifths of the  world’s
people consider life a trial, a tribulation, a
time of testing, a karmic debt that  must be
paid, a sc hool with harsh lessons that must
be learned, and, in general, an  experience
to be endured while awaiting the real joy,
which is after death.
It is a shame that so many of you think this
way. Small wonder you have applied
shame to the very act which create s life.
The energy which underscores sex is the
energy which underscores life; which is  life!
The feeling of attraction and the intense
and often urgent desire to move toward
each other, to become one, is the essential
dynamic of all that lives. I have bui lt it into
everything. It is inbred, inherent, inside All
That Is.  The moral codes, religious constrictions,
social taboos, and emotional conventions
you have placed around sex (and, by the
way, around love —and all of life) have
made it virtually impossibl e for you to
celebrate your being.
From the beginning of time all man has
ever wanted is to love and be loved. And
from the beginning of time man has done
everything in his power to make it
impossible to do that. Sex is an
extraordinary expression of love —love of
another,  love of Self, love of life. You ought
to therefore love it! (And you do —you just
can’t  tell anyone you do; you don’t dare
show how much you love it, or you’ll be
called a  pervert. Yet this is the idea that is
perverted). In our next book, we shall look at sex much
more closely; explore its dynamics in
greater detail, for this is an experience and
an issue of sweeping implications on a
global scale.
For now —and for you, personally —simply
know this: I have given you nothing
shameful, le ast of all your very body, and
its functions. There is no need to hide your
body or its functions —nor your love of
them, and of each other.
Your television programs think nothing of
showing naked violence but  shrink from
showing naked love. Your whole soci ety
reflects that priority.
12. Is there life on other planets? Have we
been visited by it? Are we being observed
now? Will we see evidence —irrevocable and indisputable —of extraterrestrial life in
our lifetime? Does each form of life have its
own God? Are You the God of it all?
Yes to the first part. Yes to the second. Yes
to the third. I cannot answer the fourth  part,
since that would require Me to predict the
future —something I am not going to  do.
We will, however, talk a great deal more
about this thing called the future in Book
Two—and we’ll talk about extra -terrestrial
life and the nature(s) of God in Book  Three.
Ohmigosh. There’s going to be a Book
Three?
Let me outline the plan here.
Book One is to contain basic truths, primary
understandings, and add ress essential
personal matters and issues.  Book Two is to contain more far -reaching
truths, grander understandings, and
address global matters and issues.
Book Three is to contain the largest truths
you are now capable of understanding,  and
address universal matters and issues —
matters being dealt with by all the  beings of
the universe.
I see. This is an order?
No. If you can ask that question, you have
understood nothing in this book.
You have chosen to do this work —and you
have been chosen. The circ le is complete.
Do you understand?
Yes.
13. Will Utopia ever come to the planet
Earth? Will God ever show Himself to Earth’s people, as promised? Is there such
a thing as the Second Coming? Will there
ever be an end of the world —or an
apocalypse, as prophe sied in the Bible? Is
there a one true religion? If so, which one?
That’s a book in itself and will comprise
much of Volume Three. I’ve kept this
opening volume limited to more personal
matters, more practical issues. I’ll move to
larger questions and matt ers of global and
universal implication in succeeding
installments.
Is that it? Is that all for now? Are we to
speak no more here?
You miss me already?
I do! This has been fun! Are we quitting
now?  You need a little rest. And your readers
need a rest, too.  There’s a lot here to
absorb. A lot to wrestle with. A lot to ponder.
Take some time off. Reflect on this.  Ponder
it.
Do not feel abandoned. I am always with
you. If you have questions —day-to-day
questions —as I know you do even now,
and will continue to —know that you can  call
on Me to answer them. You do not need the
form of this book.
This is not the only way I speak to you.
Listen to Me in the truth of your soul. Listen
to Me in the feelings of your heart. Listen to
Me in the quiet of your m ind.
Hear Me, everywhere. Whenever you have
a question, simply know that I have
answered it already. Then open your eyes to your world. My response could be in an
article already published. In the sermon
already written and about to be delivered.
In the mo vie now being made. In the song
just yesterday composed. In the words
about to be said by a loved one. In the heart
of a new friend about to be made.
My Truth is in the whisper of the wind, the
babble of the brook, the crack of the
thunder, the tap of the rain.
It is the feel of the earth, the fragrance of
the lily, the warmth of the sun, the pull of
the moon.
My Truth —and your surest help in time of
need —is as awesome as the night sky,  and
as simply, incontrovertibly, trustful as a
baby’s gurgle. It is as loud as a  pounding heartbeat —and as quiet as a breath taken
in unity with Me.
I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for
you are My creation and My product, My
daughter and My son, My purpose and
My...Self.
Call on Me, therefore, wherever and
whenever y ou are separate from the peace
that I am.
I will be there.
With Truth.
And Light
And Love.
  In Closing
Since receiving the information contained
in this book, and quietly spreading the word
about it, I have answered many inquiries,
both about how it was received and about
the dialogue itself. I honor every inquiry,
and the sincerity with which it is made.
People simply want to know more about
this, and that is understandable.
While I wish I could take every phone call
and personally respond to every l etter, it is
just not possible to do that. Among other
things, I would be spending a great deal of
time answering essentially the same
questions over and over again. So I’ve
thought about how I could interact with you
more efficiently, and still honor each
inquiry.  What I’ve decided is to write a monthly
letter to those with questions or comments
reg


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Microbiology
HOW BACTERIA ACHIEVE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
Antibiotic resistance by bacteria refers to the ability of microorganisms to withstand
the killing effects of one or more antibiotics. Bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics are considered multidrug resistant and are referred more colloquially to as superbugs.
Drug-resistant bacteria pose one of the most serious and growing threats to
health and survival and continue to be a global concern to contemporary medicine. Antibiotic-resistant infections complicate treatment and increase morbidity and mortality.
These infections are difficult to treat with first-line antibiotics and often result in
second-line treatments that promote longer-lasting illnesses, more doctor visits or extended hospital stays, and the need for more expensive and less safe medications. Some resistant infections can cause death.
The first step in the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms is a genetic
change in a bacterium. There are two ways that can happen. The first way is by spon -
taneous mutation of the bacterium’s DNA. Many antibiotics kill bacteria by inacti -
vating an essential bacterial protein, but either the microbe can develop a mutation that either prevents binding of the antibiotic to the protein or can increase the pro -
duction of that protein. Last, the bacterium can shed the targeted protein from its cell body. The second way bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics is by the transfer of immunity from a resistant bacterium to its progeny, thus ensuring the survival of subsequent generations of microbes.
In some countries, including the United States, patients expect and demand anti -
biotics from doctors, even in situations where they are inappropriate or ineffective. Because microbes are always mutating, some random mutation eventually will
 protect against the drug. As people enjoy the benefits of antibiotics, their misuse
promotes antibiotic resistance in many lethal bacteria.
Resensitizing resistant bacteria to antibiotics so that they can be killed is the
objective of searching for antimicrobial adjuvants that can be used to boost otherwise ineffective antibiotics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus  (MRSA),
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas, Clostridium difficile, and other super -
bugs that can cause lethal infectious outbreaks in hospitals and institutions.
The emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant M. tuber -
culosis  throughout the developing world is very disturbing in the present scenario
of tuberculosis (TB) management. TB has always been a global problem and tends to increase in prevalence mainly in the developing countries of the world, 116 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
many of the affected living in poverty, but is also problematic in industrialized
nations, including the United States.1
M. tuberculosis  usually attacks the lungs, but these pathogens can invade any part
of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain.
There are 10 drugs currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for treating TB. Before the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, potent drugs such as rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide were effective as first-line anti-TB agents in the treatment of latent or active TB. Most patients with active TB can be treated initially with isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and eth-ambutol for 8 weeks, and this regimen can be followed by 18 weeks of treatment with isoniazid and rifampicin if needed.


AndoverStevens B. Acker, M.D.
(DIPL)
Suite D
310 West Central
PO Box 483
Andover, KS 67002
(316) 733-4494
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Hays
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Hays, KS 67601
(913) 628-8341
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Kansas City
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Berea
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Louisville
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(DIPL)
9105 U.S. Highway 42
Louisville, KY 40059
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(P)
6801 Danville Road
Nicholasville, KY 40356
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(P)
1301 Pumphouse Road
Somerset, KY 42501
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Minneapolis
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Suite


.
There is a sacredness to everything you perceive wh en you are present. The more
you live in the Now, the more you sense the simple yet profound joy of Being and
the sacredness of all life.

***

Most people confuse the Now with what happens in th e Now, but that’s not what it
is. The Now is deeper than what happens in it. It i s the space in which it happens.

So do not confuse the content of this moment with t he Now. The Now is deeper
than any content that arises in it.

***

When you step into the Now, you step out of the con tent of your mind. The
incessant stream of thinking slows down. Thoughts d on’t absorb all your attention
anymore, don’t draw you in totally. Gaps arise in b etween thoughts–spaciousness,
stillness. You begin to realize how much vaster and  deeper you are than your
thoughts.

***

Thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and whatever  you experience make up the content of your life. “My life” is what you derive your sense of self from, and “my
life” is content, or so you believe.

You continuously overlook the most obvious fact: yo ur innermost sense of I Am
has nothing to do with what happens in your life, n othing to do with content. That
sense of I Am is one with the Now. It always remain s the same. In childhood and
old age, in health or sickness, in success or failu re, the I Am–the space of Now–
remains unchanged at its deepest level. It usually gets confused with content, and
so you experience I Am or the Now only faintly and indirectly, through the content
of your life. In other words: your sense of Being b ecomes obscured by
circumstances, your stream of thinking, and the man y things of this world. The
Now becomes obscured by time.

And so you forget your rootedness in Being, your di vine reality, and lose yourself
in the world. Confusion, anger, depression, violenc e, and conflict arise when
humans forget who they are.

Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus r eturn home:

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the
content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in wh ich all things happen. I am
consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Chapter 5
Who You Truly Are

The now is inseparable from who you are at the deep est level.

***

Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely.

It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether
you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are edu cated or not educated. It matters
whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life.

Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of th ose things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived  entity, that short-lived
personalized sense of self.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances  of your life but by realizing
who you are at the deepest level.

***

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next inca rnation you still don't know who
you are.

***

All the misery on the planet arises due to a person alized sense of me or us. That
covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence,
in the end, you always create misery. It's as simpl e as that. When you don't know
who you are, you create a mind-made self as a subst itute for your beautiful, divine
being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Pro tecting and enhancing that false
sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

***

Many expressions that are in common usage and somet imes the structure of
language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say, “He
lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were somet hing that you can possess or lose.

The truth is you don't have a life, you are life, t he one life, the one conscious that
pervades the entire universe and takes temporary fo rm to experience itself as a
stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense
deep within that you already know that. Can you sen se that you already are that?

***

For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become
an expert, make a cup of tea.

Time is useless, however, for the most essential th ing in life, the one thing that
really matters, self-realization–which means knowin g who you are beyond the
surface self, beyond your name, your physical form,  your history, your story.

You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The  only place where you can find yourself in the Now. Spiritual seekers look for sel f realization or enlightenment in
the future. To be a seeker implies that you need th e future. If this is what you
believe, it becomes true for you. You will need tim e until you realize that you don't
need time to be who you are.

***

When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree.  When you have a thought or
feeling, you are aware of that thought or feeling. When you have a pleasurable or
painful experience, you are aware of that experienc e. These seem to be true and
obvious statements. Yet if you look at them very cl osely, you will find that in a
subtle way their very structure contains a fundamen tal illusion, an illusion which is
unavoidable when you use language. Thought and lang uage create an apparent
duality and a separate person where there is none.

The truth is you are not somebody who is aware of t he tree, the thought, feeling or
experience. You are the awareness or consciousness in and by which those things
appear. As you go about your life, can you be aware  of yourself as the awareness in
which the entire content of your life unfolds?

***

You say, “I want to know myself.” You are the I. Yo u are the knowing. You are the
consciousness through which everything is known and  that cannot know itself. It is
itself. There is nothing to know beyond that. And y et all knowing arises out of it.
The “I” cannot make itself into an object of knowle dge, of consciousness.

So you cannot become an object to yourself. That is  the very reason the illusion of
egoic identity arose because mentally you made your self into an object. “That's
me,” you say, and then you begin to have a relation ship with yourself and tell
others and yourself your story.

***

By knowing yourself as the awareness in which pheno menal existence happens,
you become free of dependency on phenomena and free  of self seeking in
situations, places, and conditions. In other words,  what happens or doesn't happen
is not that important anymore. Things lose their he aviness, their seriousness. A
playfulness comes into your life. You recognize thi s world as a cosmic dance, the
dance of form. No more and no less.
 ***

When you know who you truly are, there is an abidin g alive sense of peace.  You
could call it joy because that's what joy is, vibra ntly alive peace. It is the joy of
knowing yourself as the very life essence before li fe takes on form. That is the joy
of being, of being who you truly are.

***

Just as water can be solid, liquid, or gaseous, con sciousness can be seen to be
frozen as physical matter, liquid as mind and thoug ht, or formless as pure
consciousness. Pure consciousness is life before it  comes into manifestation and
that life looks at the world of form through your e yes because consciousness is who
you are. When you know yourself as that, then you r ecognize yourself in
everything. It is a state of complete clarity of pe rception. You are no longer an
entity with a heavy past that becomes a screen of c oncepts through which every
experience is interpreted. When you perceive withou t interpretation, you can then
sense what it is that is perceiving. The most we ca n say in language is that there is a
field of alert stillness in which the perception ha ppens. Through you, formless
consciousness has become aware of itself.

***

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Des ire is the need to add something
to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All  fear is the fear of losing
something, and thereby become diminished and be les s. These two movements
obscure the fact that being cannot be given or take n away. Being in its fullness is
already within you, now.

Chapter 6
Acceptance and Surrender

Whenever you are able, have a “look” inside yoursel f to see whether you are
unconsciously creating conflict between the inner


ine, theophylline, and up to 16% tannins. The high tannin content means that maté should not be consumed with meals, as tannins impair the absorption of nutrients.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Maté is a
Maté makes a pleasant-tasting tea that has a stimulant,
mildly analgesic, and diuretic effect.It prefers sunny, dry sites and is a common garden
herb. The flowering tops are harvested when  the plant is in flower in summer.
Parts Used Flowering tops, essential oil.
Constituents Contains terpenes (including
marubiin, a diterpene), a volatile oil (consisting mainly of camphor, pinocamphone, and beta-pinene), flavonoids, tannins, and resin. Marubiin is a strong expectorant. Pinocamphone is toxic, and the volatile oil can cause epileptic seizures.
History & Folklore In the past, hyssop
was so highly esteemed it was regarded as a  virtual cure-all. An old saying went, “Whoever rivals hyssop’s virtues, knows too much.” In the  1st century ce, Dioscorides recommended  a recipe containing a mixture of hyssop, figs  (Ficus carica, p. 211), rue (Ruta graveolens,  p. 265), honey, and water for treating a
number of conditions, including pleurisy,
asthma, tight-chestedness, respiratory congestion,  and chronic coughs.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Currently
an undervalued medicinal herb, hyssop is potentially useful as it is both calming and tonic.  It has a positive effect when used to treat bronchitis and respiratory infections, especially where there is excessive mucus production. Hyssop appears to encourage the production  of a more liquid mucus, and at the same time gently stimulates expectoration. This combined action clears thick and congested phlegm. Hyssop can irritate the mucous membranes, so it is best given after an infection has peaked, when the herb’s tonic action encourages a general recovery. As a sedative, hyssop is a useful remedy against asthma in both children and adults, especially where the condition is exacerbated by mucus congestion. Like many herbs with a strong
volatile oil, it soothes the digestive tract and can  be an effective remedy against indigestion, gas, bloating, and colic.
Cautions Hyssop essential oil can induce
epileptic seizures. It should only be used under professional supervision. Hyssop essential oil is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.
Hyssop has a positive effect on respiratory infections.traditional South American tea that increases short-term physical and mental energy levels. It
is taken as a fortifying beverage in much the same way as tea (Camellia sinensis, p. 181) is consumed throughout Asia and Europe. Maté has properties similar to those of tea and coffee (Coffea arabica,  p. 192). It stimulates the nervous system and is mildly analgesic and diuretic. As a medicinal herb, maté is used to treat headaches, migraine, neuralgic and rheumatic pain, fatigue, and mild depression. It has also been used in the treatment of diabetes.
Related Species I. guayusa, from Ecuador, is
used in much the same way as maté but is also employed medicinally to treat malaria, liver pain, and syphilis. It is thought to aid digestion and cleanse the digestive tract.
illicium verum (Schisandaceae)
Star Anise,
Ba Jiao Hui Xian (Chinese)
Description Evergreen tree growing to 59 ft
(18 m). Has tapering leaves, pale greenish-yellow flowers and star-shaped segmented fruit (seed pods).
Habitat & Cultivation Native to China, India
and Vietnam, star anise grows in tropical regions across the world. The fruit is harvested when ripe.
Parts Used Fruit and seeds.ilex paraguariensis
syn. i. paraguensis (Aquifoliaceae)
Maté
Description Evergreen shrub or small tree
growing to 20 ft (6 m). Has large leaves, white
flowers, and small reddish fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Maté grows wild
in northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, and is widely cultivated in Argentina, Spain, and Portugal. The leaves are picked when the berries are ripe, heated over a
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Constituents Star anise contains a volatile
oil (mostly anethole), sesquiterpenoids, and
flavonoids, including quercetin. Anethole calms
the digestive system and relieves gas. The
sesquiterpenoids have analgesic activity. Shikimic
acid, found in the seed pods, was until recently
used as the main source for the production of
T amiflu, a prescribed anti-viral medicine.
History & Folklore Due to its high anethole
content, star anise has a similar taste to anise
(Pipinella anisum, p. 248), and both are used
principally as spices. The herb’s Chinese name,
ba jiao hui xian, means “8-horned fennel.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Used in
Chinese herbal medicine as a remedy for
rheumaism, back pain, and hernias, star anise
has stimulant, diuretic, and digestive properties.
It makes an effective remedy for gas and
indigestion—especially colic—and can safely
be given to children. To treat hernias of the
intestine or bladder, star anise is often mixed
with fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare, p. 212). Both
herbs help to relax the organ’s muscles and
relieve spasm. Star anise is also used for toothache.
Caution Japanese star anise ( Illicium anisatum ),
which is very similar to star anise, contains a toxic
compound and can cause serious side effects.
Imperatoria ostruthium, syn.
Peucedanum ostruthium
Masterwort
Description Perennial growing to 2 ft (60 cm)
with green leaves divided into 3 leaflets with 3 lobes,
white flowers on large umbels, and winged seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to central and
southern Europe and Asia, most often found in the
wild. The root is unearthed in autumn or spring.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Masterwort contains a
camphoraceous volatile oil (including limonene,
phellandrene, alpha-pinene, and a sesquiterpene),
peucadanin, oxipeucadanin, and ostrutol.
History & Folklore From the late Middle
Ages onward, masterwort was held in high regard by herbalists. Pierandrea Matteoli’s Materia
Medica  of 1548 explains: “Masterwort powerfully
resolves all flatulence in the body, stimulates
urine and menstruation, is an admirable remedy
for paralysis and cold conditions of the brain, and
helps against pestilence and the bites of rabid
dogs.” A century later, Nicholas Culpeper was
no less fulsome in recommending masterwort
for rheumatic conditions, shortness of breath,
kidney and bladder stones, water retention,
“falling sickness,” and wounds.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Masterwort
is little used today, but it may well be an herb that
bears further investigation. The root is aromatic,
warms central areas of the body, and is a bitter
tonic. It has a strong action within the stomach
and gut, settling indigestion and relieving gas
and cramping. Masterwort is also beneficial for
chest conditions, and is used for colds, asthma,
and bronchitis. It can also be helpful for
menstrual problems.
Caution If applied to the skin, masterwort
may cause an allergic reaction to sunlight.Dried star anise fruit is
a digestive, stimulant,
and diuretic remedy.
Blue flag was very widely used by Native Americans
to treat wounds and sores.Iris versicolor (Iridaceae)
Blue Flag,
Wild Iris
Description Perennial growing to about 3 ft
(1 m). Has erect stems and long sword-shaped
leaves. Each stem bears 3–5 resplendent blue
to violet flowers with white-veined areas on
the petals.
Habitat & Cultivation Blue flag is native to
North America. Preferring damp and marshy areas
in the wild, it is also widely cultivated as a garden
plant. The rhizome is unearthed in autumn.
Part Used Rhizome.
Constituents Blue flag contains triterpenoids,
salicylic, and isophthalic acids, a very small amount
of volatile oil, starch, resin, an oleoresin, and tannins.
History & Folklore Blue flag was one of the
medicinal plants most frequently used by Native
Americans. Different tribes made use of it variously
as an emetic, cathartic, and diuretic, to treat wounds,
and for colds, earache,


 a serious and crippling operation frequently
performed where ulcer and thickening of the pylorus are suspected. It should be gratifying to know
that it is not a necessary operation—that the thickened pylorus, like a thickened nasal membrane,
can be thinned by the fast.
Fear and anxiety, coupled with the insistence of the surgeon that an operation is urgently needed,
cause many patients to permit themselves to be rushed into an operation. The surgeon often paints
vivid and frightening pictures of the dangers of delay. The equally startling post-operative picture
is painted by one who has had the operation.
There is the operation, perhaps the subsequent operation for the relief of adhesions, the not
infrequent gall bladder drainage or removal, a second or even a third operation on the stomach for
recurrent ulcer, and the disillusionment that accompanies the return of symptoms. The
disappointment and bitterness often shatter the patient’s faith in medicine, but, alas! It comes too
late.
The constitutional condition behind and preceding the incidence of peptic ulcer is by far the
most vital factor involved in its evolution. The anemia frequently seen in ulcer patients is probably
less due to the slight loss of blood through the ulcer than to the failure of blood making consequent
upon the general nutritional impairment of the patient.
As the nutritive impairment precedes the formation of the ulcer often by several years producing
in many instances the so-called “ulcer race” the original impairment is not to be blamed upon the
100ulcer. Everything in the condition of the patient, both those pathologies that precede the ulcer and
those that are concomitant with it or successive to it, point to an existing constitutional impairment
which forms the basis of the ulceration. This is one reason that purely local treatment of ulcers is
so uniformly unsatisfactory.
Any sore (whether on the exterior of the body or on the inside skin—the membrane lining the
digestive tract) will heal more rapidly and readily if unhampered. It must not continaully be
irritated by handling, rubbing, wrinkling, contracting and expanding.
The irritation resulting from these mechanical activities, breaks down the healing tissues and
causes bleeding. The sore will heal better if given rest. For this reason, the first step necessary to
insure healing of a peptic ulcer is to ensure complete rest for the ulcerated organ. Nothing provides
this local rest of the digestive organs more completely than the fast.
Irritation of the raw surface of the ulcer resulting from the gastric acidity will also prevent
healing of the peptic ulcer. New tissue cannot form in the presence of such irritations. Since fasting
causes a cessation of a secretion of gastric juice, which otherwise bathes the ulcerated surface,
this source
of irritation is removed by the fast. In most cases only about three days of fasting are
required to suspend the secretion of gastric juice. The small amount of juice secreted thereafter
will be very weakly acid.
Thus the fast speedily removes three sources of local irritation—the mechanical irritation
brought on by particles of food in contact with the raw surface, mechanical irritation resulting from
contraction and expansion of the walls of the stomach and wrinkling of its surfaces in receiving
and handling foods, and chemical irritation caused by the acid gastric juice. With the removal of
these sources of irritation, healing can proceed at a satisfactory rate.
But fasting has another and more profound effect in the restoration of health to the ulcer patient.
“Since it is easy to demonstrate,” wrote George Weger, M.D., “that the quckest way to overcome
constitutional acidity and restore normal alkalinity is by an absolute fast while resting in bed, one
can readily see that a complete fast serves not alone a dual purpose, but every purpose.” He
cautions against breaking the fast too soon, saying that this is a frequent cause of failure. “
The fast
must be continued until all reactions indicate that systemic renovation has been completed.”
It is also important to know that the fast results in the thickened lining of the pylorus becoming
thinned so that this passage again becomes normal, providing, of course, that this is done before
scar tissue has formed. Fasting will not result in a removal of scar tissue. As there are stages of
pathological evolution that cannot be remedied, it is the part of wisdom to remove all causes of
disease and restore the tissues to a normal state before such irreversible stages are reached.
Pyloric inflammation will quickly improve and the patient will recover health if the habits of the
patient, especially his eating habits, are corrected. While I have especially emphasized the
necessity of correcting the habits of eating, it should be understood that all enervating habits should
be discontinued.
Recovery from an ulcer involves far more than mere temporary healing of the ulcerated surface.
Ulcers do heal and then recur, often doing so several times in the life of an ulcer patient. Ulcers
are frequently surgically removed, only to recur. The fact that there have been numerous instances
of recurrence after four and five operations for gastric ulcer is sure evidence that the operation
does not restore health. It fails to remove cause and until this is done there can be no genuine
recovery.
Restoration of good health can take place at every stage of the pathological evolution which I
have pictured, from the irritation of the first cold to ulceration, inclusive, but when cachexia (the
101defining symptom of cancer) has evolved, the condition is irreversible.
10224
Migraine
“I know that my headaches are due to constipation,” a sufferer with migrane told me one day. “I’m
certain that if I could get rid of constipation, I would not suffer with headaches.” She had suffered
for years and had been the rounds of the disease-treaters. She had had about all the forms of
treatment the various schools of healing could offer, but she had never received more than brief
periods of evanescent relief.
I told her that she had the true picture reversed. If she would get rid of her headaches, she would
be free of constipation. To this statement she replied: “You are crazy.” I replied: “I know it, and
so are you.” She asked: “What do you mean?” Then I explained to her that headache is a symptom
and constipation is a symptom and that symptoms do not cause each other, but that if she would get
rid of the common cause of both symptoms, she would be free of both of them at the same time.
She accepted this as a logical approach to her troubles. No one else had ever suggested to her
that it would be essential to remove the cause of her suffering in order to end the suffering. They
had all depended on treatments to do what only removal of cause can do.
She had a relatively short fast to enable her encumbered body to unload its accumulated toxin
and this was followed by a better way of living. She had no more headaches and her constipation
ended at the same time.
Commonly referred to as “sick headache,” and “bilious headache” migraine is defined as
“periodic cephalalgia, (pain in the head), characterized by the absence of any local lesions which
might cause headaches, and peculiar as regards the visual and oculoplegic symptoms and psychic
symptoms which may accompany it.” Standard medical works state that there is evidence to sustain
the view that migraine is allergic in nature and I have even read the positive statement that it “can
be shown to be hereditary in every instance.”
Also called
megrim
 and
hemicrania
, this
syndrome
 is characterized by periodic headaches,
often one-sided, and accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and various disturbances of the senses,
particularly disturbances of the eyes and ears. There is also likely to be intolerance to light
and
noise, great prostration and an incapacity for mental concentration.
Few if any other so-called functional diseases are accompanied by so much suffering. Indeed, it
is not an uncommon thing for these patients to become drug addicts in their search for relief from
their symptoms.
Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., says that it is usual to put such patients in a hospital and give them
every test known to science and that as always in cases of migraine, nothing is “found that could
cause the migraine.” This is in line with the usual statement in standard works that no cause for the
disease is known.
Dr. Weger, on the other hand, makes a very profound observation in relation to the disease:
“The toxemia theory can be more effectively demonstrated in its application to migraine than in
diseases of less regular periodicity. Due to frequent recurrence and consequent opportunity for
observation, every disease building factor can be checked and demonstrated in any given case so
that the whole complex can be laid bare and uncovered to the understanding.”
Women who have migraine (the disease is rare among men) are enervated and toxemic. They
suffer with poor digestion, often with menstrual troubles, and congestion of the pelvis. It is not
103difficult to determine the relation of migraine to the menstrual function, pelvic congestion and other
abnormal states of the reproductive organs. Poisoning coming from the digestive tract, added to the
prior enervation and toxemia, quickly builds migraine in those who are predisposed to its
evolution.
I recall a typical instance in which I told a woman with migraine that she could be made well—
not
cured
—in a period of from four to six weeks. “I don't believe you,” she stated. “Why should
fasting help when nothing else has?”
I have heard similar statements many times in these cases. When she was relieved of the


 great preceptor,Dr. Hindhede, the ideally honest scientist anddoctor, ventures to prescribe only the plainest offoods that are delicious to a true, keen appetite,and cost the least through being in season and
so common and easy to grow as to be cheapest.
This good and superlatively honest doctor
does not Proscribe anything that Nature
permits as food and he does not even Proscribe
the transportation of grapes from Madeira tothe North Cape of Norway for the enjoyment ofthose who can afford to pay for them.
Would the Proscribers of flesh food have
denied Amundsen and his companions the fleshof their faithful dogs as a last resort in securingnourishment for the completion of their journeyto the South Pole? It was their truly last resortin gaining the victory over the Ice God ; andwould to God that brave Captain Scott and hisband of faithful ones had had such a last butsaving resort to help them accomplish theeleven miles between them and rescue! Butthen, the world would have missed a model ofaltruism that is worth a million lives, and one ofwhich million everybody would like to be, iftheir lives are worth the living.
THE PROTEIN  ENTHUSIAST.
While writing this chapter I have beenforwarded material for indignation and a text
for condemnation in the form of a book so full offood prescription that it is positively poisonous,as read with the intelligence of my own andcurrent knowledge of the subject, that it oughtto be pilloried as a " Horrible Example" ofpresumptuous prescription and proscription. Itis an advertisement pure and simple, but soprejudicial to the natural facts in the case thatit again raises the question of the advisability ofa Supreme Court of the Physiology of Nutrition,to try such nutrition perverters for high treasonto Mother Nature.
I will not name the book or the author, to
further the advertisement. I once stopped acontroversy with the doctor-father of the authorby offering to wager him one hundred poundsthat I could beat him out on a ten mile go-as-you-please tramp, which he had mentioned asone of his stunts to prove his contentions. Ourages were nearly equal, and the difference oftraining consisted of his prescribing for himselfover 100 grams of proteid daily (less by 20 percent. than the vicious Voit* or Koenig
Standards, and less by 30 per cent. than theStandard that killed poor Professor Atwater),while I had subsisted for years on less than halfhis prescription. He warned me that I wascourting death, but that he was providing forhimself longevity by the mile. He got mad withme, and nearly fumed at the mouth, because Iassumed to insist that only Mother Nature wasa competent prescriber, intimating that he wasnot. I could not out-talk him, and so I sent hima challenge. He made the excuse that he wasleaving for the Continent for a rest, but wouldtalk further with me when he returned. Hisreputed forty-thousand-pound office practice ofprescribing his favourite dietaries had wornhim out and he was going for a rest. Later I
* Carl Voit, of Munich, prescribed as Standard daily diet for
a man doing moderate work : 118 grams of Protein, 56 grs. Fat,
500 grs. Carbohydrates, with a total fuel value of 3,055 large
calories; increasing the same to 145 grams Protein, 160 grs. Fat,450 grs. Carbohydrates, with a total fuel value of 3,370 large
calories. This is the celebrated Voit Diet Standard. Professor
Atwater, of Connecticut, went further, prescribing as Daily DietStandard no less than 125 grams of Proteins, with sufficient fat
and carbohydrates to equal a total fuel value of 3,500 large
calories for a man doing a moderate amount of labour;increasing the amount of Protein to 150 grams, with fats and
carbohydrates to a total fuel value of 4,500 large calories per diem.heard of him in a sanatorium—surely
disgraceful to a doctor to be compelled to go tosuch a place for " treatment."
The race, or contest, never took place, but
since then I personally have several timesbroken records established by men one-half, andeven one-third, of my age with progressive easeup to three years ago when last put to a test,and I have noted no letting-up of the progress ofrecuperation as judged by " feelings " orendurance when doing unusual stunts.
In this direction I now feel that I have done
enough, and that it is not for age to temptProvidence by competing with the Prime ofMuscularity in feats of strength and endurance.John L. Sullivan and Jefferies and many morewent once too often into the ring, and MotherNature, not Corbett or Jack Johnson, knockedthem out for good and all. Fletcherizing does notinclude either imprudence or bluff. It merelytrusts good Mother Nature for directions toaccompany her nutriment-medicine. Wheneverat any time I feel the impulse to turnsomersaults from the lead platform of a man-of-war into good, clean salt-water—as I did a fewyears ago or so in the Philippines, as a
demonstration to impress the natives—I will" up and do it, or die in the attempt." What I amdoing now more than ever is keeping my ear tothe mouth of Mother Nature, my finger on herpulse of command, and doing her biddings aswell as I can interpret them. If a thing is notagreeable to do, I take it as a warning not to do
it. There are so many useful things to do thatare pleasant, what is the use of going out of theway to do disagreeable things. There are somethings that are natural and agreeable that weshould do, and which we have got out of thehabit of doing, physical exercise, for instance.We are dealing with cultivated abnormalitiesalways in a cramped and complex civilisation." We are constantly doing the things that weshould not do, and leaving undone those thingsthat we ought to do," as the Prayer Book tellsus, including carelessness of eating, andshirking physical exercise. To return to thecallow book of the canny doctor-son of myantagonist of a dozen years ago. It isn't socallow as it is canny, and since the persons inthe case are of the canniest of peoples, thosewho are so shrewd that Jewish merchants do
not thrive among them, and the prescriptionresults in thousands of pounds a year revenue,the game may be set down to ordinarycommercial cupidity and popular gullibility. It issafe to always warn against Prescription forRevenue. Like patriotism or religion forrevenue, it is questionable, if not surelyselfishly prejudiced. On the other hand, MotherNature charges no fee for her advice. She paysgood coin as a premium for her patients in thesame way that I bribed my first test subjectsinto eating right by paying them for eating in
addition to furnishing the food.
DOUBTING  THOMASES
who are too lazy, or incredulous, or careless, to
take a month to try the Mother NaturePrescription as interpreted by me, are liable tosay: " Appetite is abnormal. Taste is perverted,and the demands of the body are whollyunnatural." True! But abnormality of that sortcan be corrected in a very short time. A "poorchap " who is lucky enough to have to gowithout food long enough to " whinney like ahorse " at the smell of fresh-baked bread and
the thought of good Danish butter on it, is notgoing to " turn up his nose " at even a crispbaked potato; neither is he likely to requiresweetbreads to coax himself to eat. Correctingperverted appetite is like purifying a streamwhich is being polluted at its source and runsmuddy all the way to the sea. Stop thepollution, and the stream will purify itself asfast as ever it can by hurrying along with itsimpurities to the great ocean sewerage.CHAPTER X
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE
Fletcherism and Longevity—W. E. Gladstone, Fletcherite —
Fletcherizing Liquids—Getting the Best out of Everything— TheStudy of Mother-Nature.
SINCE the term "Fletcherite" is incorporated
in some of the latest dictionaries, it is properthat the person whose name has been used forthe designation should define what constitutesa Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a healthy manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a polite manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who is faithful to his end of
responsibility in securing healthy nutrition forhimself is a respectable eater and a goodFletcherite.
WHAT  IS NOT A FLETCHERITE.
The above definitions are fully compre-
hensive, but sometimes it is more effective todescribe a thing by telling what it is not, andleaving the remainder as an inferential
description.
Following this suggestion: it is safe to say,
that :
Anyone who eats when he is not hungry or
what his appetite does not approve, is not aFletcherite.
All this presupposes the ordinary opportunity
for selection in civilized communities where thisbook is liable to be read and where itsrevelations and recommendations are mostneeded.
Any one who does not give his appetite a
chance to guide him to healthy nutrition is not aFletcherite.
Any one who does not extract all of the taste
from his


 enough, yet apparently the
number of complications from these vaccines is much higher than any
body would expect. On top of all this we have to remember that vaccines
are commercial products made with profit in mind. Is it true that the £3
million, which the UK government recently spent on MMR promotion, was
paid by the companies who have a commercial interest in this vaccine?
So, does MMR cause autism?
I do not believe that things are that simple. Here we have to look at vac
cination as a whole.
Let us have a look at what is happening to children in our modern society.
If you look around, how many healthy children do you see? Childhood
asthma, eczema, diabetes, allergies, hay fever, digestive disorders, ADHD
and autistic spectrum disorders have all gained epidemic proportions! The
majority of siblings of autistic children have eczema, asthma or another
one of those disorders. And though all these health problems appear
to be different, they have one thing in common. A very big thing - a compromised immune system. A compromised immune system is not
going to react to environmental insults in the normal way! Vaccination is a
huge insult to the immune system. The manufacturers of vaccines produce
them for children with normal immune systems which will react to these
vaccines in a predictable way. However, in our modern society with our
modern way of life, we are rapidly moving to a situation where a growing
proportion of children do not have a normal immune system and will not
produce an expected reaction to the vaccine. In some of these children
vaccination, putting an enormous strain on an already compromised
immune system, becomes that "last straw which breaks the earners back"
and brings on the beginning of autism, asthma, eczema, diabetes, etc. In
other children, whose immune system is compromised to a lesser degree,
vaccination will not start the disorder, but it will deepen the damage and
move the child closer to it.
So while MMR and othervaccines maynotbe the direct cause of autism,
in immune-compromised children they can do a lot of harm and in some
children may well provide the trigger which starts the disorder.
Following all the scandals around vaccinations it is no surprise that a lot
of people around the world express an opinion that we should abandon
childhood vaccinations altogether. What these people forget is that before
the vaccination era it was quite normal for every family to loose one, two,
three and sometimes even more children to childhood infections, like
measles, rubella, mumps and others. This is the natural selection law,
which Mother Nature has imposed on all living creatures on Earth. No
animal would have all of its young survive. In fact in many species most
babies in the litter die with only the strongest surviving. This law of natural
selection ensures that the planet is populated by the best and the fittest in
each species. In our modern world we humans are not prepared to obey
this law. No mother would allow her child to perish, when there are ways to
let the child live, despite the fact that this child may not be the best and the
fittest she can produce. Childhood infections are one of the tools of natural
selection. Children, who survive them, come out healthier with stronger
immune systems, weak children are not supposed to survive them.
Vaccinations are one of those ways we humans have invented to allow our
weaklings to survive. So, we cannot abandon vaccinations altogether
unless we are prepared to obey the laws of Nature. We have to come up
with a more rational approach to vaccinations.
Vaccinations, which saved the lives of millions of children world-wide in
the last century, are becoming dangerous thanks to changes in our VACCINATIONS. DOES MMR CAUSE AUTISM? 61
life-styles. The number of immune-compromised children in developed
countries is enormous and growing every day. It is time for the medical
profession and governments to review their attitude to vaccinations. The
rule to vaccinate everybody has to change!
In this book I propo se the following procedure : a comprehensive
immunological survey should be performed with every baby before a
decision about vaccination be made. This survey should include:
1. A questionnaire to assess the health history of the parents and the
infant.
2. A comprehensive stool and urine analysis to assess any risk of gut
dysbiosis in the baby.
3. Test to assess the infant's immune status.
These questionnaires and tests have to be put into an appropriate pre-
vaccination panel for all babies and the results of this survey have to be an
essential part in the process of deciding which of the following steps to
take:
• No vaccinations at all. An infant born to a mother with ME, fibro-
mialgia, digestive problems, asthma, eczema, severe allergies, auto
immune disorders or neurological problems should not be
vaccinated. An infant presenting with eczema, asthma, digestive
problems or any other disorder, which would indicate compromised
gut flora and immunity, should be a red flag not to vaccinate! Younger
siblings of autistic children, children with severe eczema, asthma,
allergies, ADHD, epilepsy and insulin dependant diabetes should not
be vaccinated. At the age of five years these children can be re-tested
and in those cases where the child does not have immune deficiencies
vaccination with single vaccines only may be considered. These single
vaccines should be spaced by at least six weeks from each other.
• Delayed vaccination until the results of the tests are better. This would
apply to infants who have generally healthy mothers and do not
present with any particular health problems, but on testing show
abnormalities in their immune systems. These children should be
re-tested every six to eight months and vaccinated with single
vaccines only when they are ready.
• Standard vaccination protocol with single vaccines only. This would
apply to healthy infants who have healthy parents and whose tests
show normal immune development. These are just initial guidelines, which need to be worked on in order to
set an appropriate vaccination protocol. Those £3 million which the British
government spent on promoting MMR might have been just enough to
develop such a protocol, and, in my opinion, be a much more worthwhile
investment in the future health of our nation.
Concerning our current standard vaccination protocol there is a strong
argument to administer single vaccines only rather than combined vac
cines, like MMR and DPT. In a natural situation a child would never be
exposed to measles, mumps and rubella at the same time. Indeed, in those
extremely rare occasions in history when two of these infections happened
at the same time the medical literature describes impaired physical and
mental development in the child. Of course the proponents of the com
bined vaccines would say that millions of children around the world were
vaccinated this way without any ill effects. However, in view of GAPS con
ditions reaching epidemic proportions we have to review our old policies.
It is very likely that combined vaccines will have to be abandoned
altogether. 9. SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is that big bag, where psychiatrists put all the patients who
are difficult to understand. There is a considerable overlap between
depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dyslexia and
schizophrenia. Quite often a patient would be diagnosed as bipolar to be
later re-diagnosed as schizophrenic. Depression is often the only symptom
present in a patient for years before other symptoms of schizophrenia
develop. Members of the family of a schizophrenic patient often suffer
from dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD and
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Just as it is with childhood learning disabil
ities we see that psychiatric patients do not fit neatly into our diagnostic
boxes. Is it because we are missing some underlying problem, which may
be causing all these different conditions in different people?
The only treatment modern psychiatry can offer schizophrenic patients
are antipsychotic drugs. The use of these drugs is often based on trial and
error and though in many cases they do control psychotic symptoms, they
have serious side effects and do not cure the patient. Like most drugs, used
in modern medicine, they are symptomatic, which means that they only
reduce the symptoms without treating the disease. On average anti
psychotic drugs reduce symptoms only by 15-25 %, which means that
75-85% of symptoms are left unresolved.
Before the era of pharmaceuticals ruling medicine, psychiatrists rou
tinely recorded that psychiatric patients not only have psychiatric prob
lems, but are also very ill physically. The most common physical problems
are digestive, cardio-vascular, diabetes, lung and urogenital infections,
autoimmunity and other signs of immune abnormalities. In an old
Textbook of Psychiatry by Henderson and Gillespie, published in 1937, it is
clearly stated: "A thorough physical examination is absolutely essential in
every case - schizophrenics are commonly poorly nourished". Recent
research proves it to be correct. Deficiencies in vitamins (such as niacin or
B3, B6, B12, Bi, folic acid, vitamin C) and many minerals (such as magne
sium, zinc, manganese, etc) are routinely recorded in schizophrenic
patients. A Canadian doctor Abram Hoffer has successfully treated thou-sands of schizophrenic patients with supplementation