accessible to people of all ages and levels of ability, yoga is ideal exercise for Gerson patients,
who wish to improve their flexibility, stamina and muscle tone. Yoga postures, known as asanas,
help to achieve balance and poise. The breathing exercises are soothing and relaxing and increase
the supply of oxygen to the organism, a great advantage, since cancer cells can only thrive in
an anaerobic, i.e., oxygen-free setting. Please note:  patients suffering from lung cancer or
emphysema should only undertake breathing exercises under the supervision of a trained yoga
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www.thegersonway.comteacher, whose help would also be valuable to all beginners.
Massage for Gerson patient must be limited to the mildest, gentlest kind, involving barely
more than a soft stroking. Deep manipulation is strictly counter-indicated, because cancer patients’
muscles are normally weakened and vigorous handling could easily damage them.
 The only kind of massage Dr. Gerson recommended for cancer patients consisted of a twice-
daily rub of their skin before meals with a mixture of two tablespoons of rubbing alcohol and two
tablespoons of wine vinegar in 1⁄2 glass of water. This method stimulates the circulation, opens the
capillaries and. leaves the patients feeling refreshed and invigorated.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 21
Watch Out—Pitfalls Ahead
 To err is human, and as humans we can make mistakes in any area of life. But when seriously
ill people undertake a potentially life-saving program, such as the Gerson Therapy, even a
minor blunder or oversight could cause a major setback. This way of healing demands a total
transformation—not only of lifestyle but also of how the patients understand the principles of
sickness, health and healing, and how they respond to their bodies’ needs. This understanding is
all the more important, because the therapy forbids a great many things that are normal parts of
the Western lifestyle, and patients need to know  the reason behind the strictures in order to accept
them wholeheartedly.
 There is also the matter of observing the rules of the therapy, even without an authority figure
to check or chide the patient, as there would be in a conventional medical setting. It takes maturity
and inner strength to be one’s own supervisor and stay on the straight and narrow path—but the
rewards are enormous and make it all more than worthwhile.
Save Up Your Energy!
 So let’s take a close look at the possible mistakes, temptations and tripwires that a patient
is likely to encounter, especially in the early stages of the Gerson protocol. Ironically enough,
the first pitfall is the great improvement in the patient’s condition that sets in during the first few
weeks on the full therapy, especially if these are spent at the Gerson hospital in Mexico. When
such patients return home—this holds true especially for women—they look and feel better, are
often free from pain, and so the family assumes that they can once again rely on the patients to
take up all ‘normal’ duties and serve them. This is particularly heavy on the wife/mother, who
probably feels guilty anyway for ‘letting down’ the family by being ill and having very real needs
of her own; guilt may drive her back into her normal routine. Male patients normally have a more
relaxed attitude on coming home, but even they want to start to work, take exercise, or deal with
chores around the house.
 Neither behavior is acceptable. As stated before, patients need a great deal of rest. Their
bodies are working hard to detoxify and heal, and that is more important than any domestic
activity. Actually in most cases, although patients look remarkably better, they do feel tired and
even weak for the first 2-3 months of the therapy, unable to indulge in much activity. And yet,
instead of listening to their bodies’ message, some patients actually force themselves to be up,
make their own food and juices (a 6-8 hour daily job!) and exhaust themselves. That is a serious
mistake, almost guaranteed to undermine the good effects of the program.
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www.thegersonway.com A similar problem arises 3-4 months into the therapy, when the initial tiredness goes and
energy returns to such an extent that patients feel virtually normal again. So they want to be fully
active again and make up for ‘lost’ time; women launch themselves into major house cleaning,
they wash curtains, scrub floors and attack mountains of ironing; men clear out the garage, and
according to the season either shovel snow or cut the lawn, or even repair the roof, just to prove
that they are fully functioning once more. The urge is understandable but must be resisted.
Superficial improvements, e.g. increased energy, do not equal healing. Rest and more rest is still
essential, to avoid a sudden downturn.
 It was one of Dr. Gerson’s important rules that patients should be in bed not later than 10 p.m,
not reading or watching TV or listening to the radio—sleeping if possible, or at least at complete
rest. The time before midnight is particularly valuable for the body’s self-repairing and restoring
work and must not be curtailed.
Bending the Rules
 Admittedly the dietary rules of the Gerson Therapy are pretty strict, and while most patients
quickly get used to them, there are some who long for their now forbidden favorite foods—never
mind that those had probably contributed to their health breakdown. These patients tend to think
that surely having a “little extra” on the side every now and then can’t possibly do much harm,
and would even raise their morale and improve their mood.
 Wrong, on all counts. First of all, how much is “a little,” and how often is “every now and
then?” Furthermore, once the strict adherence to the protocol is broken, it’s easy and tempting to
break it again. And again. Also, consider that since in this treatment the body receives instructions
and messages via precisely calculated nutrients, each of which affects all the others, to disturb the
process with occasional additions of salty, fatty, chemical-laden junk food sounds like a disastrous
idea.
 Often it is not the patient but well-meaning visitors—friends, relatives—who suggest
breaking the diet and having “a nice big steak to build you up!” They are the ones who question
how a grown person can survive, let alone heal, on all that “rabbit food,” and even if the patient
manages to ignore their advice, a certain irritation ensues. Please remember that people who
criticize the Gerson protocol, including otherwise helpful and well-meaning health professionals,
do so out of ignorance and incomprehension, and for that reason can be safely ignored. It’s best
to ask your visitors and friends to please respect your choice of treatment, support and encourage
you—or else leave you alone. Also ask those who suggest changes to the therapy: how many
terminal patients have they saved with their advice?
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www.thegersonway.comBeing Firm With Friends…
 Of course it’s nice to have visitors to break up the necessary monotony of juices, meals and
enemas, but only under certain conditions. One rule is never to allow anyone in the house who is
suffering from a cold, however mild, a cough or a flu-y symptom. It takes 9-12 months before the
patient’s immune system grows strong enough to deal with a cold or, worse still, flu; an infection
of that kind could lead to complications that might even endanger the patient’s life. If a friend
or relative thoughtlessly turns up while suffering from a cold or any other infectious condition,
the patient MUST retreat to his or her bedroom and have no contact whatsoever with the visitor.
To be that firm is very difficult when children and especially grandchildren come visiting—the
patient wants to love and hug them, even if they are sneezing and spluttering, but it is not to be.
Moreover, if the patient’s spouse gets a cold, he or she has to sleep in another room.
…And With Friendly Doctors
 A friendly allopathic doctor willing to support a Gerson patient is a great asset, if he agrees
to prescribe the necessary blood tests and urinanalyses. The problem arises when he reads the
test results. If any item is out of the normal range, he suggests that the patient take some drug or
medication ‘to bring it to the normal level.’ That, too, can be a serious mistake. The abnormal
value will clear up on the Gerson Therapy, but allopathic drugs can cause damage. For example,
we know of a doctor who noticed


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Iodine, Breast Cancer, and Fibrocystic Breast Disease
CHAPTER 8: IODINE, BREAST CANCER AND FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE
Joan, a 60-year-old English teacher, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989. She refused conventional therapy and
looked for other options. She found a holistic doctor who recommended that she take 2mg/day of iodine in addition to a
regimen of vitamins and minerals. She was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism and treated with thyroid hormone. Over
the next ten years, she felt well and continued to teach. The tumor metastasized in early 2005. Joan’s tumor markers also
increased and she felt very fatigued. She lost 25 pounds of weight by July 2005. “I felt like I was dying,” she said. After
she read of Dr. Abraham’s research on iodine, she found a doctor to prescribe
iodine for her. She increased the iodine
dose from 2mg/day to 50-62.5mg/day using a tablet form of Lugol’s (Iodoral
®
). As she increased the iodine, she was able
to stop the thyroid hormone. After six weeks of taking the higher iodine dose, Joan had a PET scan. The PET scan
showed that all of the existing tumors were disintegrating. The central areas of the tumors were disintegrating after just
42 days of taking a higher dose of iodine. “I am so grateful for this information as it is surely saving my life,” Joan
claimed.
Joan’s case is not unique. Iodine can cause tumors to shrink and necrose from the center. I have observed similar results with
nodules and cysts in the thyroid, ovaries, and uterus after instituting orthoiodosupplementation.
This chapter will explore the relationship between iodine deficiency and disorders of the breast, including fibrocystic breast
disease and breast cancer as well as other cancers. For over 60 years, it has been known that iodine concentrates in and is
secreted by the mammary glands. The breasts are one of the body’s main storage and utilization sites for iodine. An adequate
iodine level is necessary for the development and maintenance of normal breast architecture. Milk from lactating breasts contains
four times more of the ingested iodine than the amount taken up by the thyroid gland.
1
Animal studies have shown conclusively that an iodine deficient state can alter the structure and function of the breasts. After
my own research and study, I concur with several investigators that iodine deficiency is a causative factor in breast cancer and
fibrocystic breast disease. I believe it is essential that women have their iodine levels tested, and if it is shown there is an iodine
deficiency, iodine supplementation should be initiated.
The breasts are one of the body’s main storage sites for iodine in the body. In an iodine-deficient state, the thyroid gland and
the breasts will compete for what little iodine is available. Therefore, this will leave the thyroid gland and the breasts iodine
depleted and can set the stage for illnesses such as goiter, hypothyroidism, autoimmune thyroid illness, and breast illnesses
including cancer and cystic breast disease. In addition, other glandular tissues, such as the ovaries which contain the second
highest concentration of iodine in the body, will also be depleted in an iodine-deficient state.
IODINE: THE ANTICANCER AGENT
Iodine has many anticancer properties. Cancer cells, unlike normal cells, do not have a normal life cycle; they just keep
dividing over and over. Normal cells have a life cycle, and when they eventually die, they are replaced with a new cell. This
process of timed cellular death is known as apoptosis. Iodine has been shown to induce apoptosis (death) in breast and thyroid
cancer cells. However, this apoptotic effect will be negated if a goitrogen is given.
2
 More about apoptosis is found in
Chapter 5
.
How does iodine provide this apoptotic effect? One mechanism may be the iodination of lipids. Lipids are fats that make up
our cell membranes throughout our body. Iodine can become incorporated into lipids (fats) inside the cell. These substances are
known as iodo-lipids. When iodine is incorporated into the lipids, it helps to stabilize them and also helps each cell to maintain a
normal life cycle (see
Chapter 5
 for more information on iodo-lipids).
Iodine has been shown to be a potent antioxidant even more effective than vitamin E, phosphatidyl choline, and vitamin C.
3

4
5
 As with vitamin C, iodine can function as both an antioxidant as well as an oxidant in the body. This dual effect makes it a strong
anticancer agent. One of the best signs of health in the body is a balance between antioxidants and oxidants. Items like iodine and
vitamin C can help maintain that balance, and therefore, are some of the most powerful anti-cancer agents known.
Delores, an active 73-year-old woman, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. She refused conventional therapy
and wanted an alternative treatment. “Why would I do chemotherapy and radiation when the doctors told me that these
treatments may not help? They could not give me good statistics that these
treatments would prolong my life. When I
asked them to help me find the cause of this illness, they just had a blank stare in their eyes. When I read about the
relationship between iodine and breast cancer, I asked my doctor about it and he said, “There is enough iodine in salt”.
When I saw Delores, I measured her iodine and bromide levels as part of a study I was conducting on breast cancer
patients. Her results are summarized below.
 Delores: Urinary Excretion of Iodide and Bromide Before and After Taking Iodine

Delores’ initial results show that she was excreting large amounts of the toxic halide bromide at the same time that
her body was very deficient in iodine. After taking 50mg of iodine/iodide (Iodoral
®
), her bromide excretion increased and
still was elevated after 30 days of taking iodine. At the same time that her body was absorbing iodine, it was also
excreting the toxic
halide bromine. Delores was treated with a holistic treatment program that included vitamins,
minerals, and bioidentical hormones in addition to other natural items to support her detoxification pathways. This
holistic regimen included the use of Celtic Sea Salt
®
 and iodine. The salt and iodine were utilized to help the body
detoxify bromide. After three months on this program, Delores felt significantly improved. “My energy level was so much
better. I can now do ten times what I could do before,” she said.
Delores had a repeat


its	genes,	not	in
the	atoms	themselves.	The	fact	that	empty	spaces,	or	gaps,	between	genetic
material	are	so	important	brings	us	back	to	the	void,	where
something
	is
arranging	random	events	so	that	they	are	meaningful.
Once	a	form	has	been	created,	it	has	to	be	remembered	in	order	to	stay
together.	The	universe	remembers	what	it	has	created	and	meshes	it	with	older
systems.	The	Earth’s	ecosystem	is	a	good	example.	Life-forms	constantly
relate	to	each	other	in	exquisite	balance.	The	oxygen	given	off	by	plants
during	photosynthesis,	for	example,	would	eventually	poison	the	entire
atmosphere,	killing	off	all	vegetation	that	needs	carbon	dioxide,	were	it	not
for	the	evolution	of	animals,	which	consume	the	oxygen	and	return	carbon
dioxide	back	to	plants.	This	extremely	complex	balance	can	be	traced	back	to
the	void,	where	every	single	fluctuation	of	virtual	energy	is	passed	along	and
absorbed	by	a	virtual	particle	in	need	of	energy.	(As	one	popular	writer	has
put	it,	it’s	as	if	the	cosmos	were	passing	along	a	penny,	so	that	every	time	one
particle	is	a	penny	poorer,	another	gets	a	penny	richer.)	The	basic	pattern	is
very	simple,	but	when	trillions	of	energy	exchanges	are	involved	every
second,	as	they	are	with	life	on
Earth
,	the	ecosystem’s	ability	to	keep	one
form	separate	from	another,	yet	in	dynamic	relationship,	is	mind-boggling.
There	are	other	things	the	mind	can	do	that	are	paralleled	in	the	universe.
The	mind	can	keep	track	of	two	events	separated	in	time—this	is	how	we
recognize	a	face	today	that	we	saw	years	ago,	for	example.	Similarly,	the
universe	keeps	track	of	any	two	paired	electrons.	They	will	be	paired	for	all
time	even	if	they	travel	millions	of	light-years	apart.	Uncannily,	if	one	of	the
paired	electrons	should	change	in	position	or	spin,	its	twin	will	change
simultaneously	without	sending	a	signal	that	needs	to	travel	through	space.
The	Zero	Point	Field	communicates	without	regard	for	time,	distance,	or	the
speed	of	light.
The	very	fact	that	we	use	a	word	like	“communicate”	indicates	how	hard
it	is	not	to	see	parallels	between	our	minds	and	Nature	“out	there.”	Whichbrings	us	to	a	dangerous	trap.	Mind	and	matter	offer	two	ways	of	describing
the	same	thing,	but	they	are	not,	in	themselves,	exactly	the	same.	If	one	could
show	that	the	universe	has	a	memory,	for	example,	that	wouldn’t	prove	it	had
a	mind.	Remembering	a	face	is	a	mental	act.	The	ability	of	two	electrons	to
match	each	other’s	spin	across	a	vast	distance	is	a	material	feat.	The	same	trap
works	in	reverse.	If	one	could	calculate	every	vibration	of	a	violinist’s	bow
while	playing	a	Beethoven	sonata,	that	wouldn’t	explain	music	or	its	beauty.
Those	are	mental	phenomena,	not	material	ones.	All	we	can	do	is	draw
parallels	between	two	models	in	an	effort	to	place	them	in	one	reality.
I’ve	been	speaking	as	if	the	universe	consciously	knows	what	it	is	doing
when	DNA	creates	an	amoeba,	for	example,	instead	of	a	chimpanzee	or	a
human	being.	This	implies	self-awareness	on	the	part	of	molecules,	and	that
in	turn	requires	the	Zero	Point	Field	to	act	like	a	mind	as	it	organizes	every
possible	fluctuation	in	the	cosmos.	No	matter	how	closely	one	draws	the
parallels,	this	premise	can’t	be
proven
—or	disproven—because	the	Zero
Point	Field,	by	containing	everything,	contains	us.	We	cannot	step	outside	it,
and	so	we	are	in	the	same	position	as	a	fish	trying	to	prove	that	the	ocean	is
wet.	Unless	the	fish	jumps	out	of	the	ocean,	water	is	everywhere;	there	is	no
contrast,	and	therefore	no	dryness	that	makes	wetness	possible.
We	cannot	prove	that	the	universe	has	a	mind,	because	we	aren’t
mindless.	Nobody	has	ever	experienced	mindlessness;	therefore,	we	have
nothing	to	base	it	on.	The	Vedic	rishis	were	fortunate	that	they	started	out
believing	that	consciousness	was	real	and	needed	no	proof.	Physics	doesn’t
hold	that	consciousness	is	a	given.	To	speak	of	a	self-aware	universe	puts	one
at	the	fringes	of	speculative	thinking	in	physics.	But	for	our	purposes	in
looking	for	evidence	of	the	afterlife,	it	is	vital	to	show	that	consciousness	is
everywhere,	because	then	there	would	be	nowhere	to	go	after	we	die	that
isn’t
conscious.
Mind	over	Matter
What	if	our	minds	could	alter	the	quantum	field?	Then	we	would	have	a	link
between	the	two	models,	mind	and	matter.
Such	a	link	was	actually	provided
by	Helmut	Schmidt,	a	researcher	working	for	the	Boeing	aerospace	laboratory
in	Seattle.	Beginning	in	the	mid-Sixties,	Schmidt	set	up	machines	that	could
emit	random	signals,	with	the	aim	of	seeing	if	ordinary	people	could	alter
those	signals	using	nothing	more	than	their	minds.	The	first	machine	detected
radioactive	decay	from	strontium	90;	each	electron	that	was	given	off	lit	up
either	a	red,	blue,	yellow,	or	green	light.	Schmidt	asked	ordinary	people	to
predict,	with	the	press	of	a	button,	which	light	would	be	illuminated	next.
At	first	no	one	performed	better	than	random,	or	25%,	in	picking	one	of
the	four	lights.	Then	Schmidt	hit	on	the	idea	of	using	expert	psychics	as	hissubjects,	and	his	first	results	were	encouraging:	psychics	guessed	the	correct
light	27%	of	the	time.	But	he	didn’t
know
	if	this	was	a	matter	of	clairvoyance
—seeing	the	result	before	it	happened—or	something	more	active,	actually
changing	the	random	pattern	of	electrons	being	emitted.
So	Schmidt	built	a	second	machine	that	generated	only	two	signals,	call
them	plus	and	minus.	A	circle	of	lights	was	set	up,	and	each	time	a	plus	or	a
minus	was	generated,	a	bulb	would	light	up.	If	two	pluses	were	generated
consecutively,	the	lights	would	go	on	in	a	clockwise	direction.	Two	minuses
would	light	up	in	a	counterclockwise	direction.	Left	to	itself,	the	machine
would	light	up	an	equal	number	of	pluses	and	minuses;	what	Schmidt	wanted
his	subjects	to	do	was	to	will	the	lights	to	move	clockwise	only.	He	eventually
found	two	subjects	who	had	remarkable	success.	One	could	get	the	lights	to
move	clockwise	52.5%	of	the	time.	An	increase	of	2.5%	over	randomness
doesn’t	sound	dramatic,	but	Schmidt	calculated	that	the	odds	were	10	million
to	1	against	this	occurring	by	chance.	The	other	subject	was	just	as	successful,
but	oddly	enough,	his	efforts	to	make	the	lights	move	clockwise	had	the
opposite	result:	they	moved	only	counterclockwise.	Later	experiments	with
new	subjects	raised	the	success	rate	to	54%,	although	the	strange	anomaly


 another adult.
Relative truth isn’t stable or reliable. It is constantly open to
disagreement. Being certain that you are right and someone else is wrong
creates endless hostility in traffic jams, religion, politics, and family life.
Yet each person justifies their participation in the hostilities by feeling that
they have truth on their side. To upgrade your story in this area, Royal Yoga
provides essential tactics to increase social intelligence.
THE PRACTICES OF TRUTH
Abandon the certainty that you are always right.
Allow the possibility that everyone has their own truth.
Hold on to your truth in silence. Don’t rush to broadcast it.
Don’t make other people wrong.Realize that your truth exists to bring light into your life and
those around you.
Don’t use “I’m only telling the truth” as a cover for blame,
criticism, and discord.
When your truth is compatible with the light, it will create no problems
for you. When your truth is a disguise for the desire to wound, criticize, and
blame other people, you are not even practicing relative truth—you are
lying to yourself instead.
Exercise
Glance over the list of practices for living your truth. Take an honest
look at how well you are following these practices. The first step, as noted
earlier, is to pause and stop yourself from following an impulse that would
make the situati on worse. The second step is to reflect afterward if your
response helped the situation.
For exam ple, imagine that you are talking to a friend or family member
whose beliefs you strongly disagree with. The most sensitive topics tend to
be the familiar ones: religion, politics, and money. You feel an impulse to
set this person straight, acting out of the certainty that you know the truth.
This certainty is a sure sign that you are using relative truth for the wrong
ends. There is no possibility that you will set the other person straight. You
will be creating resistance and hostility instead. The stress level  for both of
you will rise.
How do you know that those negative reactions will be the outcome?
Social intelligen ce tells you so. Bashing someone over the head with your
truth is a perfect example of doing more of what never worked in the first
place. By holding back, you are choosing a higher truth, and the higher
truth is that bringing light to any situation begins by not increasing the
darkness.
WEDNESDAYBeing Yourself
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I embrace the wholeness of myself.
I embrace the wholeness of myself.
The third yama  is abou t acting unselfishly, without envy, jealousy,
greed, or coveto usness. What makes this guidance hard to follow  is that we
are constantly comparing our stories to someone else’s. The rich, powerful,
and gifted seem to exist to fuel envy, and when we are drive n by social
climbing and ambition, these motivations typically come from a desire not
to be seen as inferior or to be left behind. As a result, “I want your story
instead of mine” is easier to indulge than upgrading your own story.
Royal Yoga teaches that stories are just temporary phases. The things
you envy and covet are not the values of the true self. You can choose to
envy the rich and famous, and this might provide you with motivation to
claw and compete for your chance at the golden ring. But in your fierce
focus and determination, you will lose sight of the wholeness of life.
While we use the word wholeness  to refer to everything from whole
foods to holistic medicine, Yoga has a unique view of it. The Yogic view is
that you are already whole but don’t realize it. Instead of striving to
overcome your inner struggle, along with the beliefs and condi tioning of a
lifetime, Royal Yoga advises only one thing, and that thing is to be yourself,
because no other behavior will open the way to realizing your true self.
The practices of the yamas  are like a testing ground to determine if
Yoga’s view of wholeness literally works. By practicing the third yama, you
do away  with envy, greed, and covetousness simply by being yourself,
moving away from the habits that keep you from knowing who you really
are.
THE PRACTICES OF BEING YOURSELF
Stop comparing yourself to others.Don’t depend on other people to validate you.
Set aside the criticism and judgments of others.
Get beyond self-judgment.
Accept who you are and appreciate what you have to offer.
Give everyone the space to be themselves.
Assume that all people, in their essence, are whole.
The key to these practices is to live without comparing yourself to
anyone else. In classic Yoga this yama  is specifically about not being
envious and covetous. I’ve expanded the theme for modern life, in which
mass media floods us with reasons to feel inadequate because we aren’ t as
rich, beautiful, smart, or talented as someone else; therefore, we feel the
need to acquire more and more of the things we lack. Endless consumerism
offers substitutes for embracing  who we are. Craving the next iPhone, a
bigger SUV, more premium channels on your smart TV, and all the rest of
the flashy material things around us is a hollow surrogate for the true self.
Royal Yoga isn’t telling you to look at your present life and call it
perfect—the yamas  are all about upgrading your story. Approach your life
with an attitude of “I am enough in myself,” instead of an attitude of
insecurity and lack. Social intelligence tells us that such a negative
starting point won’ t bring a better life; it only makes your present life less
rewarding.
Exercise
You cannot be yourself if you are constantly distracted. Today’ s
exercise is about becoming more aware of those times when you are
stressed, worried, overwhelmed, confused, or distracted in any way. The
moment you notice that you are feeling any of these things, find a moment
to be alone in a quiet place.
Take a few deep breaths, close your eyes, and center your attention in
the region of your heart. Easily follow your breathing as you breathe in and
out. Don’t try to control or suppress any thoughts that arise. Don’t try tochange anything. Just be easy with the moment as it presents itself because
that’s the basis for a life in wholeness.
This simple practice of centering yourself will reappear over and over
again on our journey. No matter which limb of Yoga you are focused on, it
is crucia l for the experience to be natural and easy. Nothing is more natural
or easier than being yourself. Your sense of self is your lifelong companion,
and it will bring  immense rewards as you begin to realize that the self you
sense is the true self.
THURSDAY
The Value of Innocence
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I treat every day like a new world.
I treat every day like a new world.
The fourth yama  is abou t radiatin g a presence of purity and innocence.
The contrast with modern life could hardly be more glaring. As time moves
inexorably forw ard from the moment we are born, innocence is left behind.
Our experiences  teach us abou t the risks and obstacles in life, we stop
trusting automa tically and begin to distrust just as automati cally. Most
people would agree with this thumbnail sketch, but Royal Yoga pushes
back. Reality is timeless, and the things we lose, such as innocence and
trust, shouldn’ t be lost. They fade from our lives because we buy into a
scheme that everyone agrees on, the scheme that idealizes youth  and dreads
the ravages of time.
Right now, you can stop buying  into the illusion that your life is ruled
by the clock and the calendar. The light is always present; every day is a
new beginning; and innocenc e can always be reborn. Adopt those
principles, and your behavior will follow suit.As applied to your social self, innocence involves a set of practi ces, just
as all the yamas  do.
THE PRACTICES OF INNOCENCE
Don’t bring old expectations to new situations.
Don’t fear the present because of bad experiences in your
past.
Practice trust, including the ability to trust yourself.
Be open to other people as your default, rather than being
defensive or suspicious of them.
Be attuned to the mood of people around you. Don’t impose
your own mood on them.
In place of trying to control other people and the events of the
day, give them space to unfold the way they want to.
As with the other yamas, these princip les are based on social
intelligence. You are not aiming to change your inner beliefs  and habits.
That’ s why the word tactics  applies. Yet there are deeper levels to the
yamas, and one level is about the proper use of energy. The connection  with
innocence isn’ t obvious, so let me explain.
Royal Yoga teaches that energy you expend during the day is yours to
control and, as you become better at controlling it, more energy is provided.
This applies to every kind of energy—physical, mental, and emotional. A
good example is the energy of love. Falling in love is a disor ganized state,
known as “infatuation.” When you are infatuated, nothing matters but the
beloved, and all your ener gies are directed at your beloved, including sexual
energy. When you are caught up in infatuation


 up in itself is a totally  relaxed,
spontaneous state, open to whatever happens here and now.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 7

The stringing together of perceptual snapshots creates a
sense of continuity, the same way a movie is created from
the rapid sequence of still frames.
When the invention of motion pictures revealed that our eyes
can be fooled b y stringing together a series of snapshots at  twenty-
four frames per second, a d eeper truth about reality was also
revealed. The human brain w orks by the firing of neuron s. Each
firing is  a burst of energy, followed by a pause, then the ne xt burst.
The bursts slice reality into bits of information from the five
senses. When a train races past you, you are not seeing it in
motion. You are seeing bursts of information in your brain that
give the illusion of motion. Likewise, you don’t hear con tinuous
sounds.
The con tinuity of your life is  a necessary illusion. We have to
see the world in motion so that we can live in motion, no t frozen
bits of sensation. Right now you are experiencing pictures and
stories created in your mind through the same piecing-together
process. When you wake up, these pictures and stories will  be seen
for wha t they are: artificial constructs of the mind. You will live
from th e “real” reality that is beyond pictures and s tories—
consciousness itself.
For Today
Sit in front of a moving image on your TV or computer—this
can be anythin g, from people walking around to a news or sports
event. Focus on something m oving across the screen from left to
right. In reality there is no person moving across the screen; not a
single p hoton of light is movi ng across the screen. Instead, burstsof color are ha ppening, each one totally stationary. By s tringing
these bursts in a sequence, th e illusion of motion is creat ed. Now
notice how hard it is to see the actual process taking place before
your very eyes. Your mind m ust see motion because, since you
were bo rn, the world has been a series of pictures in moti on—this
is how conditioned you are to accept an illusion as reality.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 8

The physical body and the appearance of the physical
world are created in the mind as constructs from
sensations that are intermittent and ephemeral.
In daily life we do not investigate how the mind creates a three-
dimensional world out of random, meaningless bits of sensation.
Starting with the simple world a baby experiences, everything gets
more an d more complicated. A newborn cannot focus on its hand,
which l ooks like a pink blob floating in the air. In time the blob
becomes a hand attached to the body; it acquires a name; it
develops many  skills. Medicine studies it down to every tis sue and
cell.
This buildup of knowledge occurs in the mind and is created by
the min d. A naked hand has  no story to tell; it has no developed
skills. E verything a hand can become when it belongs to a skilled
painter, sculptor, circus performer, chef, or welder is mind-made.
The same goes for the whol e body and the physical world. We
construct virtual reality so that we can have the pictures and
stories that are necessary for being human.
For Today
Take a  sheet of ordinary 8 ½ × 11-inch paper and poke a
pinhole in the center. If you hold the paper close to your eye, you
can see the wh ole room through the pinhole—this is your mental
picture of the room. Now hold the paper one or two inch es from
your eye, until you see only p arts of familiar objects—just pieces of
lamps, chairs, windows, and so on. Try to walk around the room
seeing only these bits and pi eces. It is quite difficult. Deprived of
the picture your mind makes, the room is a disconnected  jumbleof fragmented images. Reflect on how you have used the mind to
construct the familiar three-dimensional world you accept at face
value.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 9

The appearance of the body and the world are activities in
consciousness—verbs, not nouns—constantly and rapidly
changing.
When you enter a room, go to work, or take a stroll outdoors,
the objects you see appear to be fixed and stable—but they aren’t.
Your b rain is constantly firing to keep the illusion of stability
going. Your five senses cooperate by turning photons into pictures
and air  vibrati ons into recognizable sounds. In other words, you
are constantly  making the world. An ever-changing, endless
process is taking place in your awareness. Therefore, the outer
world is an ever-changing, endless process wearing the disguise of
fixed, stable objects. By waking up, you see past the mask of
matter, reconnecting with the creative process that makes the
world.
For Today
Look at  a photo of a friend, family member, or celebrity. Now
turn it upside down. Notice  that you cannot recognize the face
anymore. A hitch has occurred in your brain, which is conditioned
to r ecognize faces only righ t side up. There was a process to
recognizing a face; the face itself is meaningless. Or imagine
placing a photo on a turntable and setting it spinning (you can try
this on a lazy Susan or a record player). Notice that you cannot
make sense of the photo wh ile it is revolving. The movin g world
has no reality until the min d constructs it into a human  world.
Constant change acquires the illusion of stability and nonchange.YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 10

The mental construct of the body and the world is the
product of centuries of conditioning.
In daily life we accept the world as a given. Trees, mountains,
clouds, and sky are simply th ere. But these are merely the scenery
of v irtual reality. Everything i n the world beyond raw sens ory data
is r ooted in mythology, history, religion, philosophy, culture,
economics, and language. Raw sensation is overlaid with this
complex conditioning. As a result, the body and the world we
perceive have been interpreted in advance. They exist as
extensions of the human drama. By waking up, you step out of the
drama to be who you really are. You see that virtual reality is a
kind of hand-me-down, which you no longer have to settle for.
For Today
Here is a simple exercise in perception. Contemplate the letter
A. When you set eyes on it, you saw a simple sign made with three
short strokes of a pen. Bu t those strokes have no i nherent
meaning, as you can instantly determine by turning A  on its side
or u pside down. The meani ng of A  is emb edded in it. It is an
ancient meanin g, going back to the Phoenician alphabet. M ixed in
is the Hebrew letter aleph, which stands for the beginning,
creation, and God. A  is syno nymous with one, which connotes
individuality a nd the start of  arithmetic. A  is  a de sirable grade in
school, and if you earn enough A s, y ou are like ly to be well -
educated and end up prosperous.
If a sing le lette r of the alphab et carries so much history a nd so
many implications, imagine how complex the fabric of the human
world i s. We inherit a weal th of meanings that hold the worldtogether but also become a burden. (Think of all the trouble
caused by another letter of the alphabet, I.)
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 11

The mind itself is nothing other than conditioned
awareness.
Each of us was born into an interpreted world. Pre vious
generations spent their lives giving everything a human
meaning.  Every newbo rn grows up by learning the ropes, and
once you can navigate the world—walking, talking, making life
choices, forming relationships—you find your place in virtual
reality. At some point you w ould like to have your own unique
experiences. “I want to be me” is a powerful incentive.
But the  only way to have an e xperience is to use the mind, and
everyone’s mind is totally conditioned. It had no choice. By
learning the ropes, each of u s sacrificed “I want to be me” in the
name o f “I want to fit in.” Mo re than social pressure was at work.
The rules of v irtual reality require us to accept a shared set of
pictures, stories, beliefs, and  habits. By waking up, you get to be
yourself beyond the rules. The “real” reality is always new and
original.
For Today
Today the challenge is to ha ve a thought that is totally your
own. Su ch a thought cannot echo anything you’ve heard s omeone
else say  or anything you’ve re ad in a book. It can’t be couc hed in a
familiar phras e. It must not grow out of memory, becau se then
you would only be repeatin g the past. Faced with this  simple
challenge, you can see how ti ghtly the conditioned mind holds you
in its grip. The re are well-tried


food	molecules	are	allowed	to	enter	the
bloodstream	though	damaged	gut	tissue.	The	immune	system	recognizes	these
food	particles	as	foreign,	and	you	have	an	immune	response	called	an	allergy.
The	body	remembers	this	response;	every	time	you	eat	the	offending	food,	an
allergic	reaction—and	the	toxins	created	by	that	reaction—	is	produced.
When	an	offending	substance,	called	an	allergen,	reacts	with	an	antibody
produced	by	the	immune	system,	large	amounts	of	allergen/antibody	(immune)
complexes	can	be	formed.	If	immune	complexes	are	formed	in	greater	quantities
than	the	body	can	handle,	they	can	be	deposited	in	tissues	(such	as	brain	arteries,
brain	membranes,	small	blood	vessels,	the	liver,	the	uterus,	the	lungs	and	the
kidneys),	where	they	are	capable	of	clogging	blood	vessels	and	joints	and	are
known	to	release	chemicals	that	cause	a	cascade	of	health-damaging	reactions.
Through	this	mechanism,	immune	complexes	may	be	responsible	for	up	to	90
percent	of	all	kidney	disease.
Allergies	are	an	indication	of	systemic	illness	and	should	be	considered	a
serious	immune	dysfunction	disease.
If	you	are	allergic	(and	most	Americans
have	allergies	and	intolerances,	although	they	may	be	unaware	of	it),	determine
the	substances	you	react	to	and	avoid	them.	More	importantly,	strengthen	your
immune	system,	through	diet	and	supplements,	so	these	reactions	will	not	occur
in	the	first	place;	optimize	your	body’s	ability	to	detoxify	so	that	you	can
minimize	damage	caused	by	the	allergic	reactions	you	do	suffer.
Stress	Poisons	in	Many	Ways
Stress	can	be	loosely	defined	as	any	demand	we	place	upon	the	body;	thebody’s	reaction	to	these	demands	causes	us	to	“feel	stressed.”	Everybody	knows
that	stress	is	hard	on	us,	but	few	people	understand	why,	on	a	physical	level.
Chronic	stress	literally	poisons	you.
The	body’s	response	to	stress—often	called	the	“fight-or-flight	response”—
refers	to	feelings	of	anger	or	fear	that	generate	the	release	of	chemicals	in	your
body,	designed	to	give	you	more	strength	in	an	emergency.
In	an	emergency	situation	that	passes	quickly—for	example,	you	rush	to	catch
someone	who	is	falling—the	body	is	able	to	detoxify	the	stress	chemicals	that
are	produced.	However,	when	stress	is	chronic,	and	we	constantly	live	our	lives
in	stressful	ways,	these	chemicals	build	up	and	inflict	damage	to	our	cells.
Common	stress	symptoms	include	muscle	wasting,	fatigue,	osteoporosis,	high
blood	pressure,	fragile	blood	vessels,	suppressed	immunity,	impaired	mental
function	and	a	host	of	other	problems.	What	stress	is,	how	it	affects	you
(physically	and	psychologically)	and	what	you	can	do	about	it	will	be	explored
more	in	chapter	7,	which	explores	the	psychological	pathway.
As	we	have	discussed,	the	cells	in	your	body	naturally	produce	toxic
byproducts	that	a	healthy	body	is	designed	to	handle.	If	the	body	becomes
overloaded	with	toxins,	for	whatever	reason,	even	normal	metabolic	toxins	can
add	to	the	total	toxic	load	and	damage	cells.	Chronic,	internally	generated	stress
chemicals	can	often	move	us	into	toxic	overload.
Illnesses	also	stress	us	with	massive	amounts	of	internally	generated	toxins,
which	is	why	we	must	choose	health	in	the	first	place.	When	symptoms	of
illness	do	manifest,	cells	are	malfunctioning	and	the	body	is	struggling
desperately	to	make	itself	well	again.	Under	these	extra	stress	loads,	to	minimize
the	damage	done,	taking	steps	to	optimize	cellular	function	becomes	even	more
important.
Your	Primary	Toxic	Defense:	The	Liver
Various	organs	in	the	body—kidneys,	bowels,	lungs,	lymph	system	and	the
skin—are	designed	to	eliminate	metabolic	waste.	Fiber	helps	“carry	out	the
garbage”	in	the	digestive	system,	and	exercise	helps	us	detoxify	via	sweating
and	movement	of	the	lymphatic	system.	Water	promotes	detoxification	through
the	kidneys	and	sweat	glands,	and	saunas	assist	in	removal	of	both	water	and	oil-
soluble	toxins.
At	any	given	time,	about	25	percent	of	all	the	blood	in	your	body	is	in	your
liver,	awaiting	detoxification.	This	process	begins	with	a	sophisticated	filtering
system	that	captures	and	digests	foreign	debris.	Next,	enzymes,	produced	by	theliver,	deactivate	and	eliminate	toxins.	If	these	enzymes	are	interfered	with—
either	deactivated	by	environmental	toxins	such	as	lead	and	mercury	or	never
manufactured	in	the	first	place	because	of	nutrient	deficiency—toxic	overload	is
certain	to	result.	Liver	enzyme	detoxification	has	two	phases:	In	phase	one,	the
liver	produces	enzymes	that	take	harmful	toxins	such	as	alcohol,	pesticides,
herbicides	and	prescription	drugs,	and	oxidizes	them	(burns	them)	in	preparation
for	removal	from	the	body.	This	process	creates	potentially	harmful	free	radicals
that	must	be	neutralized	with	dietary	antioxidant	nutrients.	In	phase	two,	more
enzymes	are	used	to	combine	the	oxidized	chemicals	from	phase	one	with	other
molecules,	which	then	can	be	excreted	harmlessly	in	the	bile	or	urine.	In	both
phases,	the	food	we	eat	supplies	the	raw	materials	needed	to	produce	all	of	these
enzymes	and	other	chemicals	that	are	required.	These	elegant	detoxification
systems	depend	on	a	constant	supply	of	nutrients,	which	we	must	obtain	from
our	diet,	but	we	frequently	do	not.
Help	your	liver’s	phase-one	detoxification	process	with	antioxidant	nutrients:
vitamins	C,	E	and	A,	along	with	coenzyme	Q10,	carotenoids,	bioflavonoids,
selenium,	manganese,	copper	and	zinc.	Some	of	these	nutrients	neutralize	free
radicals	directly;	others	activate	enzymes	that	neutralize	them.	Red,	yellow	and
green	vegetables	are	loaded	with	these	antioxidant	nutrients.	Assist	your	liver’s
phase-two	detoxification	with	cruciferous	vegetables,	such	as	cabbage,	broccoli,
cauliflower,	green	onions,	kale	and	brussels	sprouts.	These	vegetables	enable	the
liver	to	eliminate	powerful	carcinogens,	helping	to	protect	us	against	cancer.
These	dietary	suggestions,	combined	with	high-quality	supplements,	can	keep
your	liver’s	toxic	defenses	at	peak	function.
Much	of	our	body	is	made	of	water;	the	kidneys	need	it	to	excrete	water-
soluble	toxins.	Water	constantly	moves	throughout	your	body	and	must	be
changed	frequently	to	keep	it	pure.	A	minimum	of	eight	glasses	of	pure	water
should	be	consumed	every	day,	and	more	is	better.	Your	water	supply	must	be
pure	so	as	not	to	add	to	your	toxic	load.	Water	should	be	consumed	as	water,	not
as	beverages	such	as	coffee,	tea	or	alcohol


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Mike : Hello, everyone. This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and today I’m joined by John Hartman,
the president and cofounder of Ocean Grown, a harvester and marketer of ocean minerals for enhanced
health that can be accessed online at OceanGrown.com. Thanks for joining me today, John.
Hartman : It’s a pleasure to be here.
Mike : You’re joining us from Florida today. Can you please tell us what your product does, what it’s
for, and how it might benefit people?
Hartman : What we do is go out to sea on the east coast of Florida, because that’s where the clean water
is. We have a proprietary process, and what we do is extract the minerals out of seawater. Seawater
has all 90 natural minerals in a very particular proportion, and I’m sure that proportion will come up
several times in this chat—and it’s terribly important. That proportion is used by anything that grows,
whether it’s vegetables, flowering plants, trees or grass.
Mike : So these are minerals that people can put on their home gardens?
Hartman : That’s right.
Mike : Are any commercial growers using the product as well?
Hartman : Yes, we have quite a few commercial growers, because our intent and our mission at the
company is to reinvigorate the food supply, because it’s terribly lacking in minerals that are so important
for health. We’ve predominantly gone after commercial growers, because we really want to do that in a
quick fashion. However, we do have a loyal following of wheatgrass growers and home gardeners that
also use it. It can be used anywhere.
Mike : What happens to people’s produce yield when they put this product on their garden? What kind
of results do they typically see?
Hartman : Well, that brings up an interesting point. What we do, as a company, is promise equivalent
yields, although, generally, our yields are higher. The point is, when you sit down with an agronomist
and growers, the last thing they want to talk about—the last thing that crosses their mind—is the
quality of the food. All they talk about is yield and disease resistance. Are we going to be able to
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harvest in 90 or 91 days? These are the kinds of things that interest farmers. It’s what the commercial
marketplace has brought everything to, and people have forgotten why they grow food.
Mike : So what’s in the food when it’s raised on Ocean Grown minerals is very different from what’s
in food that is conventionally grown. Is that what you’re saying? So, what can people expect? I mean,
how many more minerals are in a tomato grown in a garden with Ocean Grown minerals? How much
greater mineral density will it have, compared to a conventionally grown tomato?
Hartman : Well, typically, if you go to a grocery store and buy a tomato, it looks lovely. It can be blemish
free, bright red and look so nutritious. But typically, those tomatoes—from a hothouse or even out of
the ground—have 12, 14 or 15 elements. Tomatoes are genetically disposed to pick up 56 elements,
and it’s always the same 56 in a certain proportion. That’s what tomatoes pick up. Every vegetable and
fruit is different, but that’s what tomatoes want. When people buy fruits and vegetables, and take them
home and taste them and they taste like cardboard, people say, “What happened?” What happened is
that they were completely depleted. They are like virtual food.
Mike : It’s really just a shadow of the original tomato that people should be eating.
Hartman : That’s right, and it brings up an interesting point made first by Dr. Murray, who was really
the discoverer of how to use ocean water and minerals to grow food. When you sit down and think
about what commercial agriculture has come to and what modern cultivation techniques have come
to, you’re not really looking at somebody growing food. What you’re really looking at is a strip-mining
operation, because when you grow a crop of corn or wheat or whatever it may be, and you ship that to
market, you ship some quantity of elements in a certain proportion and quality off to market. What
current practice calls for is that you put back three elements, even though you might have shipped 56
or 74 elements off to market.
Mike : To be specific, when you say “elements” here, you’re using that in a sense of the table of
elements?
Hartman : Yes. I’m using that in the chemical sense, but people use the word interchangeably with
mineral elements.
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Commercial fertilizers provide only three elements to crops
Mike : When you say they put three back into the soil, these are the three common components of
every commercial fertilizer on the market, right?
Hartman : That’s right: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.
Mike : So, farmers can grow something that looks like food, but they’re only putting three elements or
minerals back into the ground.
Hartman : That’s right. Even if they were growing cattle for beef, the same thing would be going on.
Cattle are fabulous foragers. They raze the grass and pick up the elements, and they become part of
their body. Then the cows get shipped to market. It’s a strip-mining operation with no easy solutions,
and putting back three elements is not going to do it.
The health consequences of mineral depletion of crop soils
Hartman : One of the things that we quote from time to time is that the United Nations has come to
a realization that I give them a lot of credit for: Two billion people out of the six billion inhabitants
of the planet are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition. Personally, I would quarrel with them
slightly, but the fact that they recognize this is impressive. I believe that six billion people—all the
people on the planet—are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition, and many doctors have done
a lot of work with how DNA replicates itself. One of the things they’ve come to understand is that
many millions of replications happen every day, but every replication needs a mineral to catalyze it.
On a given day, because minerals are not in our food, there’s something like 250,000 transactions that
can’t happen because there is a missing element—whether it be cobalt, selenium, gold, tin or platinum.
They’re missing.
Mike : The long-term result of the mass demineralization of the population is that we end up with
chronic disease acceleration, right?
Hartman : Absolutely. You know, people think we’re living longer, but


-sized slice from the end of a fresh gingerroot, cut off the
peel, and chop very fine. Add a few drops of lemon juice and a pinch of salt.
Eat this mixture a half-hour before lunch and dinner to stimulate your
digestion. If that is incovenient, the mixture can be eaten just before the
meal.
GHEEGhee, or clarified butter, is prized because it increases agni without
simultaneously fueling Pitta. Ghee in fact is considered excellent for
balancing Pitta. Kapha types generally need to avoid too much oil of any
kind, but ghee is the best for them, too. Ghee is used:
As a cooking oil. Small amounts of ghee are good for sautéing vegetables
(not for deep-fr ying). Ghee does not work as well as butter in baking—
breads and desserts need the moisture and milk solids in regular butter.
As a flavoring in place of butter. Since ghee is a prepared food, using
butter is not the same as using ghee. Where you would ordina rily butter a
vegetable dish or a baked potato or mix it into your oatmeal, ghee is a better
choice.
As a digestive. Drizzle a teaspoon of ghee over food at the table (more is
not better, since too much oil of any type is not healthy).
How to Make Ghee
Place one pound unsalted butte r in a one-quart saucepan over low heat.
Allow to melt completely, then raise heat to medium. Skim off foam as it
rises. When the butter starts to boil, giving off its water conten t, lower heat
again and cook slowly for abou t ten minutes. The ghee is done when all the
moisture has cooked out and the milk solids at the bottom of the pan have
turned light golden brown (there will also be a nutty aroma, but no hint of
burning). Remov e from heat, let cool, and pour into a clean glass jar or bowl.
Ghee keeps indefinitely in the refrigerator but can also be stored at cool or
even room temperature for several weeks.
OTHER SPICES FOR GOOD AGNI
Herbs and spices can be selected for each body type, as we did in the
Vata-, Pitta-, and Kapha-pacify ing diets. But certain ones are good for
generally improving the quality of agni.(Pitta types have to be careful to use these in small amounts, since they
tend to increase Pitta dosha.)
Building up excess Kapha will make digestion difficult by decreasing
agni; it is also bad for buildin g up ama, since both are cold, heavy, and
viscous. Using bitter and pungen t herbs will reduce Kapha and also “scrape”
ama out of the tissues. Ayurve da specifically recommends bitter taste for
purification. Among the more common spices that attack ama are:
As you can see, these are some of the spices recommended for stimulating
agni. The regula r but moderate use of these flavorings in your cooking will
help prevent ama from forming. Chewing fennel seed after a meal and
sweetening your herb tea with raw, uncooked honey are also standard
practices for balancing agni.
A BLISSFUL  DIET
If bliss is basic to life, there should be a physical counterpart for it in the
body, and indeed there is. According to Ayurveda, the body’ s counterpart to
pure joy is a subtle substance called ojas, which is extrac ted from food once
it has been perfectly digested. Like the doshas, ojas is just on the edge of
being physical; one could call it a subtle substance that registers on both
mind and body. The final and most valuable result of eating a good diet is toextract every drop of this subtle  substance from your food. That enables the
cells to “feel happy,” to experience the cellular equivalent of bliss.
Twenty years ago, the idea of a happy cell would have made little sense in
scientific terms.  Now we know that the body in fact is capable of generating
a complex network of chemic als (neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and
related molecules) that the brain uses to communicate emotions throughout
the body. It is also known that a single meal can change  the brain’ s
biochemistry quite radically. A brain chemical connected with feelings of
well-being, such as serotonin, goes up and down in response to the food
being digested in the intestinal tract. This has opened up the exciting
possibility of a “food pharmacy ” to correct depression, anxiety, and other
mental disorders, just as fiber helps to correct cholesterol.
In Ayurveda we can bypass the bewildering complexity of brain
chemistry. Natur e has given us ojas, a single substance for happiness that the
body makes all the time.
THE SA TTVIC DIET
Ideally, any food you eat is turne d into ojas. At the breast, a baby naturally
turns his mother ’s milk into ojas, but it would take a remarkable digestive
tract to produc e ojas from three-day -old leftover pizza. An excellent,
balanced diet can be planned around the foods that turn into ojas with the
least effort on your body’ s part. Ayurveda calls these the sattvic, or pure,
foods.
To this list one often sees added wheat, mung beans, coconut, oranges,
dates, and honey. You do not need to be compulsive about these few foods,
or eat them exclusively. Just include them in your diet on a regular basis. On
a more general level, a sattvic diet contains:
Light, soothing, easily digested food
Fresh produce
Spring water
Balance of all six tastes
Moderate portions
According to Ayurveda, this is the best diet for physical strength, a good
mind, good health, and longevi ty. It is conducive to happines s and loving
emotions becau se it is in tune with nature as a whole. The list of sattvic
foods is short and would not fulfill a normal person’ s dietary requirements,
although if well managed, a diet limited to milk, vegetables, rice, and fruit
would certainly be excellent for one’s health. The famous Duke University
rice diet, based only on boiled rice and fruit, is recognized as an effective
therapeutic regime for heart patients, diabetics, and obese people.
Milk is currently unfashionable among health-conscious people, who tend
to link it with digestive problem s, allergies, and high cholesterol. Ayurveda
holds that most of the objections to milk have to do with consuming it
improperly. Milk should be boiled before drinking, which makes it more
digestible. It can be drunk hot, warm, or cool, but never ice cold, straight out
of the refrigerat or. Milk should not be taken with tastes that conflict with it
(pungent, sour, salty) but only with other sweet foods (such as grains, sweet
fruits, and cereals). Whenever possible, drink milk from organic dairies that
do not use hormones or pesticides and have a stated commitment to treat
their cows compassionately.
Sweet foods aside, it is recomm ended that you drink milk alone rather
than with your meals, since this is easier on your digestive tract. Low-fatmilk may be best for Kapha types, but whole milk is preferred for all other
body types (unless there is a problem with high cholesterol, in which case
skim milk is best). If you still have trouble digesting milk after it is boiled,
or if it seems to create mucous congestion, try adding two pinches of either
turmeric or dry ginger before boiling (adding a little raw sugar or honey will
cut the bitter taste of the turm eric). These measures remove most of the
current objections to milk, which Ayurveda traditionally considers an
excellent food for bodily strengt h, longevity, and peace of mind. Cow’ s milk
is favored above others as the most sattvic.
To move  in the direction of a more sattvic diet, try having your next plate
of pasta  with butter, cream, and Parmesan cheese instead of tomato sauce
with meat, onions, and garlic. Any such change, even for one or two meals,
should amply demonstrate that sattvic eating makes digestion easier, gives
you more energy after you eat, and infuses a light, buoyant feeling
throughout the body. (If you want to measure this difference accurately,
don’t drink alcohol with your meals while you are experimenting.) If your
cholesterol is elevated, go easy on the butter and cream; tossing the pasta
with olive oil, fresh basil, and a touch of Parmesan is a delicious substitute.
Another example of a sattvic food is sweet lassi, an excellent digestive aid
that can be drunk during mild or warm weather (it may tend to promote
excessive Kapha in the chill of winter).
Sweet Lassi
For four people, place a scant quarter teaspoon of cardamom, a pinch of
saffron threads, and three tablespoons of hot water in a blender. Blend for
ten seconds. Add two cups plain yogurt, two cups cool water, and two
tablespoons sugar; blend until smooth. If your mixture tastes too sharp, add a
quarter cup heavy cream. Adding a few drops of rose water at the end is
quite sattvic and cools Pitta (rose water is available at Indian and Middle
Eastern groceries and many health-food stores).


(you	might	recall	the	lab	rat	you	dissected	in
high	school	biology	was	embalmed	in	this),	it	irritates	the	skin	and	can	cause
inflammation,	joint	pain,	allergies,	chronic	fatigue,	and	dizziness.
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	It	is	also
considered	a	potential	carcinogen.	Stay	away!	(Be	sure	to	avoid	nail	polishes
that	contain	formaldehyde,	too.)
RADICAL	BEAUTY	TIP:	HAIR	CARE	IN	THE
SUNJust	like	your	skin,	your	hair	needs	adequate	sun	protection	to	prevent	it	from
drying	out	and	becoming	brittle,	damaged,	and	discolored	from	overexposure	to
the	sun.	There	are	some
sunscreens	made	for	the	hair,	but	the	easiest	and	most
effective	way	to	prevent	sun	damage	to	your	hair	is	to	wear	hats!	This	is	especially
important	when	you	are	out	in	the	sun	for	extended	periods	of	time.	From	sun	hats
to	boleros	and	beyond,	you’ll	be	able	to	express	your	personal	style
and
	protect
your	precious	hair,	all	at	the	same	time.
IMIDAZOLIDINYL	UREA	AND
DMDM	HYDANTOIN
On	that	note,	these	two	ingredients	are	preservatives	that	release	formaldehyde,
so	look	for	them	as	well	on	ingredient	lists.
PROPYLENE	GLYCOL	(PG)
PG	is	a	form	of	mineral	oil.	This	is	a	controversial	ingredient	that	some	believe
has	some	immunotoxicity	concerns.
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	It	comes	in	different	grades,	including	an
industrial	grade	that	is	part	of	commercial	products	such	as	engine	coolants,
antifreeze,	and	various	enamels	and	varnishes.	For	beauty	products,	it	helps	to
drive	ingredients	down	into	the	hair	(or	skin)	for	deeper	penetration.	It
may
break	down	the	proteins	that	make	up	your	hair	in	the	process	(obviously	the
opposite	of	what	you	want!),	and	also	may	create	allergic	reactions	or
irritations.
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POLYETHYLENE	GLYCOL	(PEG)
PEG	is	included	in	shampoos	to	help	dissolve	oils,	but	it	can	overstrip	your
hair,	leaving	it	vulnerable	and	weak.
DIETHANOLAMINE	(DEA),
MONOETHANOLAMINE	(MEA),	AND
TRIETHANOLAMINE	(TEA)
Does	this	remind	you	of	the	song	“Do-Re-Mi”	from
The	Sound	of	Music
?	These
rhyming	ingredients	are	not	happy	like	the	song.	They	are,	in	fact,	potential
hormone	disruptors	and	irritants
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	and	can	be	absorbed	into	your	hair	follicles
and	enter	your	body.	These	ingredients	are	“foamers,”	so	they’re	not	necessarily
even	great	for	your	hair,	per	se,	but	are	included	solely	for	the	experience	of
using	them.	But	really,	you	should	never	have	to	choose	between	foaming
shampoo	and	your	health.	Got	a	shampoo	with	any	of	these	three-letter
acronyms?	Into	the	trash	it	goes!
FRAGRANCE
This	is	a	tough	one	because	we	understand	that	you	want	your	hair	to	smellawesome.	But	fragrance	is	a	generic	term	for	up	to	3,100	stock	chemical
ingredients,
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	many	of	which	are	synthetic	and	toxic.	You	really	don’t	know
exactly	what	is	in	your	shampoo	or	conditioner	with	just	“fragrance”	on	the
ingredient	list,	so	you	risk	getting	headaches,	dizziness,	rashes,	and	a	number	of
allergic	reactions.	Tests	of	fragrance	ingredients	have	found	an	average	of
fourteen	hidden	compounds	per	formulation,	including	ingredients	linked	to
hormone	disruption	and	sperm	damage.
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	Exposure	to	these	types	of	chemicals
can	adversely	affect	your	central	nervous	system	and	even	affect	your	mood,
making	you	more	irritable.	No	good-smelling	shampoo	is	worth	being	moody!
Check	out	products	with	essential	oils,	which	smell	great	and	are	nontoxic.
NATURALLY	BEAUTIFUL
TEETH	AND	GUMS
A	beautiful	smile	stemming	from	authentic	joy	is	one	of	the	most	compelling
features	you	can	possess.	Feeling	confident	about	your	teeth	can	help	you	smile
more	naturally.
Oil	pulling,	or	swishing	sesame	or	another	oil	around	your	mouth	for
a	few	minutes	in	the	morning	before	spitting	it	out,	is	something	you	can
incorporate	into	your	morning	routine	to	help	keep	your	mouth	beautiful.	It	is
another	increasingly	popular	ancient
Ayurvedic	practice	that	benefits	your	mouth,
teeth,	and	gum	health.
Oil	pulling	is	believed	to	encourage	detoxification	by	attracting,	binding,	and
removing	bacteria,	toxins,	and	parasites	from	your	mouth	(where	a	lot	of	bacteria
tend	to	accumulate)	and	lymph	system,	while	helping	to	clear	out	mucus	and
congestion	from	your	throat	and	sinuses.	Some	even	believe	that	oil	pulling	can
help	activate	the	vagus	nerve,	which	sends	information	between	your	brain	and
the	enteric	nervous	system	in	your	gut,	which	controls	digestion.	Stimulating	the
vagus	nerve	is	said	to	activate	anti-inflammatory	pathways	in	the	digestive	tract.
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Directions	for	oil	pulling	are	simple:
1.
Warm	1	to	2	teaspoons	(or	a	bit	less,	if	you	have	a	tiny	mouth!)	of	pure,	cold-
pressed	sesame	oil.	(You	can	do	this	by	parceling	the	sesame	oil	you	are	using
into	a	small	vial,	and	then	holding	the	vial	under	hot	water	for	a	few	seconds.)
2.
Swish	the	warmed	oil	vigorously	around	all	parts	of	your	mouth	and	back	and
forth	across	your	gums	for	2	to	6	minutes.	Don’t	move	it	into	your	throat,	and
resist	the	temptation	to	gargle!	Although	sometimes	you	hear
recommendations	to	swish	the	oil	for	far	longer,	traditional	Ayurvedic
teachings	believe	that	is	unnecessary.	When	you	are	done,	spit	out	the	oil	into
the	garbage.
In	addition	to	oil	pulling,	another	component	of	the	Ayurvedic	morning	routine	is
chewing	2	or	3	teaspoons	of	black	sesame	seeds,	moving	them	around	the	entire
span	of	your	teeth,	for	1	to	3	minutes	before	spitting	them	out.	This	is	believed	to
help	polish,	strengthen,	and	mineralize	the	teeth;	remove	stains;	and	also	keep	your
gums	healthy.	The	black	sesame	seeds	are	extremely	high	in	calcium,	as	well	as
phosphorus,	iron,	and	magnesium.Radical	Beauty
Nail	Care
It’s	important	to	take	care	of	your	hands	and	nails,	which	are	an	extension	of
your	beauty.	They	undergo	a	great	deal	of	daily	wear	and	tear,	from	relentless
exposure	to	heat	and	cold	to	abrasive	soaps	and	excessive	water	from	hand
washing	and	detergents.
RADICAL	BEAUTY	NAIL	WHITENING	TIP
To	brighten	yellowed	nails,	try	scrubbing	them	with	white	vinegar.
Your	nails	are	largely	made	of	a	tough	protective	coating	called	keratin.	A
proper	diet	and	excellent	circulation	are	of


 like myself, arrived at "naturism"
and natural therapy not primarily through concern with illness but as the
practical outcome of a sifting of cultural values and intuitive philosophy
of life, by far the most interesting aspects will relate to how Professor
Szekely reaches his conclusions and the logical consequences  to which
he  carries  them.

ATOMS AND STARS
To the whole vast sidereal, astrophysical and astrochemical
purview, the correlative etheric and ultra-etheric, ultra-atomic and intra-
atomic vibratory milieu through which Professor Szekely traces life in
evolution from nebula to man, I can make but a passing and
meaningless reference here. That man is one with the cosmos, a
microcosm within a macrocosm, has been taught by the seers through
immemorial ages and notably by Edward Carpenter and D. H. Lawrence
among poet-philosophers of recent times. It has remained for Professor
Szekely to give scientific formulation to that "eternal ocean of cosmic
radiations" whereby solar systems and atoms are reciprocally related
and the cells of man's body and the thoughts of his brain vibrate in tune
with   the   farthest   stars.
"The most elementary dynamic formations are those of matter
(matter being merely an aggregate of the movement of atoms), while the
highest dynamic formations are those of currents of thought." So the
long history of this vertiginous dynamism of thought itself is reviewed
by Professor Szekely in terse summaries of nearly a hundred
philosophers from Thales down to date. For as part of his omnilateral
system is included "the entirely new and original application for
therapeutic purposes of the masterpieces of universal literature,
philosophy and the arts based on psychotechnical diagnosis of individual natures." To Professor Szekely's own philosophic formula of
"dialectical correlativism," in which is woven really the whole fabric of
his thesis, I cannot do justice in this outline.

MAN AND TREES
There remains still to be noted the ethnological and ethnographical
backbone of the book. This—if more than the others—has been
Professor Szekely's especial line of research, in which he has made
some original and significant discoveries. As a pragmatic consequence
he is able to correlate all that is be st in the most recent scientific and
cultural developments with a modernistic renaissance of the heliolithic
culture of homo sapiens sylvanus, the original fructivorous man of the
forests and trees. It was from this dominant species, characterised by
maximal longevity and endowed with a cerebral capacity for unlimited
intelligence, that subsequent culture and civilization took its sources.
Identifiable with the Cro-Magnon family, with the pre-diluvian
patriarchs of the Old Testament, and with other legendary figures of the
earliest folklore, this great race received its first severe set-back from
that planetary and climatic disaster recorded as "the Flood." This
destroyed its first optimally favourable natural milieu and caused its
scattered survivors to   become   more    pyrolithic   (fire-using   and
food-cooking) and omnivorous (flesh-eating) in their habits—and much
shorter-lived. It might almost be said that, dating from that event, a
progressive series of enforced adaptations, complicated by human
follies, has brought us down to "the present pessimal milieu of homo
sapiens faber" —the office and factory age of treeless cities and towns
we exist in to-day.
Trees and forests, declares Professor Szekely, "are accumulators
of the cosmic forces and radiations and are the generative source of
cerebral energies." (Italics mine.) Reflecting that it was the forest sages
of India who wrote the profound and unsurpassable Vedas and
Upanishads, one can well believe that this is so. Forests, moreover,
afford the best protection against storms, floods, droughts, extremes of
heat and cold, by acting as natural regulators and distributors of the
moisture and temperature of the air. Modern man, in his commercial,
money-maniac blindness, has devastated and laid waste the green earth.
It is a ruin compared with what it used to be, and man himself—''is a
veritable bundle of rags and bones compared with the perfect, statue-
like forms of his paleolithic sylvan ancestors." The more human beings
have destroyed the forests and cut down the giant trees, the more
frequent and terrible have been the calamities, storms, hurricanes and
cyclones that have descended upon them, raging in recent years with
unparalleled violence. It is cause and effect. Yet still must walnut trees
be felled to make rifle butts, and miles of forests be sacrificed to provide
paper for the Daily Mail!
Those of us who have always loved trees will be wholeheartedly
with Professor Szekely in his campaign to combat every plan for
destroying and cutting them down, to promote re-afforestation over the
whole earth and restore "the Holy Alliance between Men and Trees."
Our "mere sentiments" on the matter are, after all, radically justified,
just as they are when along with Professor Szekely we deplore the
"senseless stupid men who relentlessly hunt down little birds, slaying
them without pity and without remorse"—with the result that crops are
ravaged by vermin and men themselves are plagued by mosquitos and
flies. (News now comes to hand of a modified death-ray soon to be
commercialised for the destruction of vermin and insects and, doubtless,
of more little birds. The pious hope is expressed that it may never be
amplified and turned, on the human insect himself!)
 WORLD CHAOS AND CALAMITY
Yet it would be futile to denounce the world's evils—alas! as so
many still do —with no clear recognition of their root causes in the
world-wide economic crisis and crashing chaos of which they are all
merely symptoms. It would be equally pointless to evolve grandiose and
Utopian conceptions of "omnilateral aristology," "paneubiotics" and
optimal well-being without facing the fact of a corrupt financial system
that can only spell their frustration. Professor Szekely is undoubtedly a
man of great Vision, but he is much too penetrating and
uncompromising a realist—and much too good a natural therapist—to
be guilty of either defect. His is no idealistic flight into phantasy. He
sees through to pauses. His analysis of the present world situation is
among the most masterly I have read. Multiplying unemployment,
poverty amidst plenty, the unprecedented crisis of "over-production,"
the impending fearful collapse of finance, the false foundations and
futility of the League of Nations, the pell-mell preparations for war
(which is only held off for the moment by the very complexity of
interlaced imperialist antagonisms), slave-mentality everywhere,
confusion, jobbery, and antagonism among the ruling classes
(themselves but slaves who lord it over slaves), the desperate attempts
through dictatorships to bolster the bourgeoisie, the whole piled up
impossible impasse—all this is but "the prelude to the frightful disaster
which is soon going to overwhelm humanity in all its intensity." Only, it
would seem, after terrible catastrophe, can come the "Great
Renaissance," for which, however, in the name of humanity we must
even now prepare.

THE GREAT RENAISSANCE
We must, in the words of Romain Rolland, "unite all the spiritual
forces of Life against the forces of Death." In that spirit, too, we must
utter "an unqualified 'No' to war." We must vow our devotion to "the
Optimal and Omnilateral Restoration of All Things." By extending into
Society and social behaviour the paneubiotic law of the healthy body,
whereby every organ functions for the wellbeing of every other organ as
bound up with its own, we must combine to build the kingdom of active
love upon earth. Professor Szekely's remedy is, again, no regress into
"back to nature" primitivism. For him "naturism" and individualism are
necessarily correlated with all that is truly valuable in community and
technological achievement. He believes in the future, yet his motto is
"always and everywhere, Here and Now."
And so when, in conclusion, Professor Szekely outlines his plan
for the new order of self-supporting, co-operative, paneubiotic garden-
communes (one at least having already been successfully established) it
is an eminently realistic and practical plan, and, as far as I can see,
about the only way out. None the less, on that account, will these
communes be devoted to realisation of optimal individual and social
wellbeing through the practise of active  love, the omnilateral pursuit of
knowledge, unison and harmony with the eternal currents of cosmic life.
Professor Szekely has followed his cosmotherapeutie premises to their
logical conclusion, not even faltering before the menace of a world-
disease, imbecility; and impending disaster which may soon reduce all
personal aches and pains to pitiful insignificance. Because of that alone
his book would tower like a giant above all the smug little panderings to
hypochond


 185-acre piece of
property had suddenly com e up for sale at a very
reasonable price. Since the property was in the City of
Alachua, we were told that it was possible to get it zoned
for b usiness usage. I will neve r forget Rick’s face when he
walked into my office to tell me of his conversation with
the Rea ltor. Th e impossible had happened—the flow of
life had  just unfolded in a w ay that led to a phone call
telling us that i nstead of a waste dump adjoining Temple
property, we could put our business there. Rick and I just
sat i n si lence fo r a while. The  feeling of awe and grace in
that roo m was so powerful th at neither of us could move,
let alone speak.
Just look at what Rick and I had witnessed in the past
six months. First, life had in formed me, in no uncertain
terms, that I h ad to leave my office on Temple property
and find a new location. When I tried to comply, nothing
would fall into place. Then, out of the blue, we were
presented with a piece of land that would ultimately
connect Temp le property to our future office property,
without us having the slight est idea of what was really
going o n. The flow of life then presented us with what
appeared to be a terrible situation wherein someone was
preparing to build a waste dump adjoining our property.
But what was really going on was that life was preparing
to give us a gre at gift—the most perfect piece of land for
Personalized P rogramming’s future. This land adjoined
Temple prope rty and could get legal business zoning,
something we had previousl y been told was impossible
out here where we lived. And  let’s not forget that all this
happened while I only had twenty-five employees and
could not possibly have known that I would ever need
anything like this—but apparently life knew, and she
certainly took good care of us. So it came to be.Personalized Programming now had legal business
zoning on property adjoining the Temple’s land. It was
time to build.
With so  much land having come in such a miraculous
manner, I was forced to rethink my plans for the size of
the new  office building. I stretched my thoughts into the
realm of building something that assured that we would
never have to build again. We designed a beautiful,
14,500-square-foot office building that was worthy of a
company as successful as P ersonalized Programming.
Built with Love, which I had sold many years ago to one
of m y job fore men, built the building, and it turned out
exquisite. In June 1993, Personalized Programming
moved its twenty-five employees just down the road to
their new home. We moved  from 4,300 square feet to
14,500—at least we would never have to build again.
Amazingly, tha t did not turn out to be the case. Over
the nex t year we more than doubled in size and had to
start planning for another building. Building 2 was even
larger than Building 1 and ad joined to it with a covered
walkway. It’s a good thing th at life had given us enough
land to handle this totally unexpected expansion. By the
time it was al l done, we ended up with five buildings,
giving us more than 85,000 square feet of high-tech
office s pace. To this day, I stand in awe of how life
unfolded so perfectly to provide us exactly what we
needed, exactly when we needed it.Personalized Programming, 1993. They said it was impossible, yet
life manifests this gorgeous new office building bordering Temple
property. What an amazing flow of events!Medical Manager Corporation R&D facility, 2003. Life even knew
enough to  allow for undreamed of exp ansion—from one building to
a pristine five-building office campus.4 1.
T h e  F o u n d a t i o n  I s  B u i l t  f o r  t h e  F u t u r e
P ersonalized Programming’s growth was astonishing.
With it came all the problem s associated with a rapidly
growing technology company. Managing ten to twenty
people is one thing, managing fifty-five is quite another.
At some point you have to start hiring managers just to
manage the people. I resisted creating middle
management as much as possible. I tried to let the teams
manage themselves with my constant guidance. Because
we h ad grown from the grou nd up, and very few of my
people e ver left, we had a tremendous wealth of technical
and industry knowledge in our programming group.
With tw enty-five percent of all independent physicians
across the United States using The Medical Manager, the
practice management industry flowed through Alachua,
Florida. We didn’t have to de cide what direction to go in;
we were surfers riding the powerful wave of industry
demand. There was so much work to do that it was
almost impossible to keep up.
By l ate 1994, I  began to realize that I couldn’t possibly
run all the programming groups and the financial and
management aspects of a multimillion-dollar business,
as w ell as prepare for the next wave of growth. I needed
some serious help. So I did what I always did—worked
even harder and waited for the flow of life to do its thing.
It w as in this backdrop that I first met Tim Staley. Tim
was a professional software developer and senior IT
consultant who  had decided to move his family out to the
country. He had chosen the tiny town of High Springs,
just a few mile s north of Ala chua, as his new home. Ifyou’re a professional IT person and you move out to my
neck of the wo ods, you are certainly going to hear about
Personalized Programming. Tim applied for a job just
like any one else would. But T im was not like anyone else
—Tim was another miracle. Just like everything else that
showed up exactly when it was supposed to, life had
dropped this highly skill ed and experienced IT
developer/executive in my lap. He would not only end up
being the solution to the software development problems
we w ere having, he would als o end up being the solution
to a much larger problem that hadn’t even surfaced yet.
I remember the first time I met Tim. He was in a rush
to find employment in the area so he could move his
family up before school started for his children. After
seeing his résumé, I allowed HR to set up a Saturday
meeting so Tim did not ha ve to miss work. He was
young, very clean and prope r looking, and in his right
hand he  was carrying a bible. That’s an unusual thing to
bring to a job interview, but Tim was clearly a very
religious Chris tian, and he wanted me to know it. I had
no problem with that, but I was not sure that he would
not have a problem with a ponytailed, sandal-wearing
yogi for a boss.
We went up to my office, and we began to get to know
each other. Tim was, in fact, a rocket scientist. He had
worked for years at Harris Corporation writing code for
missile guidance systems. I immediately realized I could
check off the “smart enough” box. He had been a
developer, tea m leader, and project manager. Tim
excelled so thoroughly at his overall project development
and peo ple skills that he was now a senior consultant for
Texas Instrum ents running large projects for clients.
Interestingly, at that time he was consulting on a major
IT project for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida.
We began to discuss development philosophy, and we
were as  different as the way we dressed. To me, software
development was a creative art—to him it was anengineering project. The truth is, I knew it had to be both
in orde r to be successful in  the long run. Tim clearly
brought to the table the e xperiential discipline that
comes from being a senio r software engineer  in a
Fortune 500 technology company. We were desperately
in need of that knowledge and experience.
Tim and I spe nt hours together and really got to like
each other. He was a perfect fit for what Personalized
Programming needed, both professionally and
personally. Bu t I still had one issue that needed to be
resolved. If Tim was going to seriously consider taking
the job, I needed to be sure he was going to be
comfortable with who I was. At some point he was
certainly going to hear about the Temple across the
street. I  decide d the only fair  thing to do was to take him
over there and show him around.
I was amazed by how open T im was to the Temple. He
was fascinated by the artifacts of the various religions
and asked a lot of deep questions about meditation and
yoga. It turned out that Tim was much more than a very
religious person—he was deeply spiritual and was truly a
lover of God. R ather than being offended by how I had
come up, he w as inspired by it. A very deep spiritual
bond formed that day as we shared our spiritual
experiences and beliefs with each other. This bond of
spiritual friendship grew stronger and stronger over the


isdifficultandmaybelouderthanusual.
Thereisafeelingoftightnessinthechest,andthe
coughisaccompaniedbythecharacteristicVeratrum
coldsweat.
Diarrhoea
SymptomsDiarrhoea:exhausting;involuntary;
violent.Pains:burning;cutting;dull/aching.
Stools:copious;frequent;green;watery.Withicy-
coldhandsandfeet;sweating(seeGeneralSymp-
toms)duringandafterpassingastool;vomiting(see
below).
Worseafterdrinking;duringamenstrualperiod;for
movement.
Causesfruit;gettingchilled.
Thisdiarrhoeamaybeaccompaniedbyaravenous
appetite,withafeelingofemptinesswhichisnot
relievedbyeating.Thepersonhastroublepassing
wind,andwhenisabletodosomaypassaninvolun-
tarystool.Stoolsshootout,andthepersonhastopass
themfrequently.Handsandfeetareicycold.
Exhaustion
SymptomsExhaustion:paralytic;sudden.Withcold
extremities.
Worseafterpassingastool.
Causesdiarrhoea.
Fever
SymptomsWithsweating(seeGeneralSymptoms).
Worseforsweating.
Theskinispaleandicycoldtotouch,eitheroverthe
wholebodyorinspotsorpatches.IfthereisdiarrhoeaZincummetallicum (Zinc.)
Othername:zinc
Zincisasoft,blue-whitemetalofmoderatehardness.
Itdoesn'trustandisthereforeusedto'galvanise'
metalsorprotectthemfromcorrosion,aswellasto
makealloyssuchasbrass(zincpluscopper).Ithas
manyuses,forexampleindrybatteries,radios,zips,
carparts,electricalfuses,roofingandguttering,cable
wrappingsandorganpipes.
Zincasatraceelementisessentialforbothplants
andanimalsandisfoundinmostfoods.Zincde-
ficiencyinhumanscauseslossofappetiteandsenseof
taste,andslowhealing.Zincointmentstopromote
healinghavelongbeenknowninmedicine. Itismildly
astringentandprotectivetotheskinandisusedin
dustingpowdersandlotionssuchascalamine,where
itiscombinedwithiron.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadebyheating
purezincandthengrinding ittoafinepowder.Itis
thentrituratedanddilutedbysuccussion.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Facepale.Whitespotsonfingernails.Twitchy.
Trembling.
Worseaftereating;duringtheevening;atnight;for
Zincactswellinpeopleofanyagewhoareweary
andrundownfromstressandoverwork.Theymay
tremble,twitchandjerk.Theirsymptomstendtobe
worseatnight,fromdrinkingwineandaftereating,
althoughtheymayfeelbetterwhileactuallyeating.
LikeSulphurtypestheyhaveanemptyfeelinginthe
stomacharound11a.m.
Thoughthereisageneraltwitchinesswiththese
164•Zincummetallicum(Zinc.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
types,akeynotesymptomisrestless,twitchylegs;
Zincumtypeswillfeelexhaustedbutfidgety,andthey
willfeelthattheymustkeeptheirlegsconstantlyon
themove.Thisisworseintheeveningsinbed,andthe
legswillcarryontwitchinginthesleep.
Inachildhoodillnesslikemeasleswheretherash
doesnotappearproperlythechildmaybeleftfeeling
weakandlowandtwitchy,andpossiblychesty.
Zincumwillbeofhelp,ifthisisthecase.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Depressed.Irritable.Moody.Sensitivetonoise.
Sluggish.Uncommunicative.
PeopleneedingZinchavedifficultythinkingbecause
ofnervousexhaustion.Theirthoughtswanderand
theymaybeslowtoanswer,perhapsrepeatingyour
questionbeforeanswering,orforgettingwhattheyare
sayinghalfwaythroughtheirconversationwithyou.
Theyaredepressed,irritableandgenerallywornout.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPainsincoccyx;inneck;inspine;aching;
sore,bruised.Withweakness.Worseforsitting,forwriting.
Thewholebackfeelssoreandweakfromtoomuch
stress.
Exhaustion
SymptomsLegs:restless;weak.
Thelegsfeelweakandtwitchy,especiallyinbedat
night.
Eyeinflammation
SymptomsEyes:sore;gritty,burning.
Worseduringtheevening;atnight;afterdrinking
wine.
Theeyesfeelsoreandgritty,particularlytheinner
corners,asifthereweresandinthem.Thereisa
generalaggravationduringtheeveningandatnight,
whentheeyesmaywater.
Headache
SymptomsHeadachenervous.Pains:inforehead;in
sidesofhead;intemples;bursting;tearing.
Betteriorfreshair.
Worseafterdrinkingwine.
Causesoverwork.
Theheadachemaybeonbothsidesorononesideonly
ofthehead.
INTERNAL
REPERTORY
AbscessesCalc-c,Heps.,Mercs.,Sil.
Dischargingpus:Calc-s.
PainsseePains
Ofglands:Calc-s.,Heps.,Mercs.,Sil.
Ofrootsofteeth:Heps.,Mercs.,Sil.
Absent-minded (seealsoConfused;Forgetful)
Caust.,Nat-m.
Affectionate Phos.,Puls.
AfraidseeFearful
AnaemiaCalc-c,Calc-p.,Chin.,Ferr-m.,Kali-c,
Kali-p.,Mercs.,Nat-m.,Nit-ac,Phos.,Puis.,
Stap.,Sui,Sul-ac.
Afteracuteillness:Calc-p.
Lipspale:Ferr-m.
Withexhaustion:Calc-p.,Ferr-m.
Causes:
lossofblood(haemorrhage,heavyperiods,
etc.):Chin.,Ferr-m.
pregnancy:Ferr-m.
Angry(seealsoComplaintsfromanger;Irritable)
Ars.,Bell.,Bry.,Cham.,Heps.,Ign.,Kali-c,
Kalis.,Lye,Nat-m.,Nit-ac,Nux-v.,Sep.,
Stop.,Sid.
Fromcontradiction: Ign.,Lye,Sep.
Raging:Bell.,Cham.
Violently:Cham.,Heps.,Nit-ac,Nux-v.,Stap.
Whenhastoanswer:Nux-v.
AnklesweakCarb-a.,Nat-c,Sil.
Childrenlearningtowalk:Carb-an.
AntisocialseeDislikescompany
AnxiousAco.,Arg-n.,Ars.,Bell.,Bry.,Calc-c,
Calc-p.,Calc-s.,Carb-v.,Caust.,Chin.,Cocc,
Con.,Kali-c,Kali-p.,Kalis.,Lye,Mag-m.,
Nat-c,Nit-ac,Phos.,Puis.,Rhus-t.,Sep.,
Spo.,Sul.
Anticipatory(seeExamnerves,Fearfulpublic
speaking):Arg-n.,Gels.,Lye
Duringafever:Aco.,Ars.,Bar-c,lp.,Sep.
Onwaking:Lach.,Spo.Whenchilled:Aco.
Whenindoors:Kalis.
Whenoverheated:Kalis.
Better:
freshair:Kalis.,Puis.
Worse:
aftermidnight:Ars.
around3a.m.:Ars.
evening:Calc-c,Calc-s.,Carb-v.,Sep.,Sul.
inbed:Ars.,Carb-v.,Mag-c,Rhus-t.
whenalone:Ars.,Phos.
fromdownwardmotion:Bor.
heat:Kalis.
indoors:Lye,Puis.,Rhus-t.
night:Ars.,Puis.
onwaking:Ars.,Lach.,Spo.
Apathetic(seealsoSluggish)Ap.,Carb-v.,Chin.,
Nat-c,Nat-m.,Nat-p.,Op.,Pho-ac,Phos.,
Puis.,Stap.,Sep.
Duringfever:Op.
Appetite
Alternatingwithhunger:Ferr-m.
Lost:Chin.,Ferr-m.
Apprehensive seeAnxiousanticipatory
Argumentative seeQuarrelsome
ArthritisseeJointpain
Athlete'sfootSil.
Cracksbetweentoes:Sil.
Withprofuse/smelly sweat:Sil.
AwkwardseeClumsy
BackacheBry.,Calc-c,Calc-f.,Dulc,Ferr-m.,Hyp.
Kali-c,Kali-p.,Lye,Mercs.,Nat-m.,Nats.,
Nux-v.,Phos.,Puis.,Rhod.,Rhus-t.,Ruta.,
Sep.,Sil.,Sul.,Zinc.
Betweenshoulderblades:Phos.
Coccyx:Hyp.,Zinc
Lowerback:Bry.,Calc-c,Calc-f.,Dulc,Ferr-m.,
Hyp.,Kali-c,Lye,Mercs.,Nat-m