 the world with a squawk
and a head of thick, long, curly, black hair. This was remarkable
because most babies today are born with little or no hair. His glowing
color was the talk of the doctors and nurses—no milky white skin for
him! To the amazement of everyone, I was able to breast feed Eric, and
though the milk was slow in coming, I persevered, and soon there
was an ample supply of rich creamy milk, although I had always been
told that such milk is usually blue and watery. The hospital diet was rather dead after the live foods that I had
been eating, but I ordered every live or living food that was offered
on the menu. The nurses were constantly worried that my protein
intake was inadequate, so I was bombarded with huge glasses of
pasteurized milk every three hours.These I fed to the sink and replaced
them with water. My husband and my sister brought a quart of fresh
70 carrot juice to me each day, plus bags of freshly shelled hazelnuts to
supplement my meager diet. The tray of sun-dried fruits that I was
presented with was pronounced "dangerous" as—they said—it would
give the baby diarrhea. I could not see how it could hurt baby or me,
as I had eaten them for ten years and baby had done a beautiful job of
growing on it for nine months already. How wonderful it was to return home to an abundance of all the
foods 1 was used to. I could no longer resist the tray of dried fruits
and, as we expected, there were no ill effects! With all the raw food I was eating (at least 60% of which was
fruit) I was horrified after Eric was born, that he went day after day
without a bowel movement. Finally, on the fifth day home, he produced
a completely normal small stool—no constipation! No diarrhea! Where had the stool been so long? We were mystified, but this
was to be the pattern. How often I wondered if I should give him
enemas. The mystery continued until, by chance, we found an old
baby book on breast feeding, stating that the food was sometimes so
completely utilized that it was not unusual for a wee babe to go up to
seven days without a bowel movement. This pattern continued as long as he had no solid foods. At six
months of age he sipped a little fresh carrot juice, but it was not until
he was nine months old that he had any solid food. Very ripe banana
and a wee bit of avocado, both pressed through a fine strainer, made
up his first solid meal. Thereafter there was no waiting five days for his bowel movement. In the space of a few hours after eating, he produced a stool full of
tiny black threads! I was horrified! Now (I thought) he must have
worms! The public health nurse was due in our area that day. I tearfully
met her at the door and presented the diaper for her inspection. She
immediately wondered what he had eaten, and when I told her just a
bit of banana, she laughed and said: "Well, there are your worms:
banana cellulose!" To this day I find it hard to believe that a soft
banana is so full of cellulose! Eric had only these two foods-banana and avocado — plus a little
carrot juice until he was more than one year old. Slowly, then we
added the pulp of strained soaked raw prunes, dates, and apricots,
usually accompanied by avocado, to his diet. Soon he was having
blended fresh fruits as they came in season. Eric was the chooser of his food, we soon learned. Sometimes he
had only apples for days at a time. Then he would switch to avocado,
and so it went. He loved and still loves, to chew on dried dulse leaves. 71 The only milk he received was breast milk for two and a half
years. Now he drinks carrot juice, nut milk, and we hope to start him
soon on raw goat milk. He has never had a stuffy head, no mucus, no puffiness, no
distended stomach and no swollen glands. Most of my friends were busy feeding their babies pablum, and
from bottles. The pablum supposedly to keep them sleeping all night. Since their babies were unable to digest the starch, it was a never
ending round of colds, flu, pneumonia, diaper rash and allergies. Thankfully we have escaped all of these by following the simple but
rigid laws of Nature. One thing that bothered me about nursing was the fact that I
required more sleep and did not have my usual extra bounding
energy—but I had a happy contented baby instead. I also noticed that
my stomach did not go flat as I had expected, but after Eric stopped
nursing it resumed its normal proportions. Now it is May, 1970,—Eric is three years of age. His diet consists
of raw and dried fruits, fresh raw vegetables and their juices, nuts,
seeds and honey. He is well balanced mentally, well developed
physically, and full of energy and curiosity. My many thanks to Dr. Walker's Program. DO JUICES HELP BONES TO HEAL? HERE'S THE ANSWER! This is the letter I received from Adelle Vallaster, a Home
Economics Teacher, in Kamloops, B.C. Canada:
Finally, after years of planning, Mom and Dad left for Europe,
while we attempted to look after their Health Shop. The postmen
went on strike at this time, a further complication to our situation. AH
communication was at a standstill until that fateful telegram arrived
ten days before Mom and Dad were due home. We were instructed to
send extra money, to have "Bob" meet the plane with his car, and for
us to start planting boxes of wheat grass. Something was radically wrong! There was no way of knowing
what—until they arrived home. Ten anxious days: we learned that a
motorcycle had bumped into Mom as she was crossing a street in
Austria having all but severed her leg. By some miracle she was treated
by one of the leading bone specialists in the area, and he succeeded in
placing the terribly fragmented bones in position so that they had a
chance to knit. 72 Mom's one idea was to get home as fast as she could to her raw
juices and foods, for she knew of so many cases where healing had
been so wonderfully helped in this way. Two weeks after the accident, they were due to return to Canada. The doctor in Austria thought that they were mad to even think of
going. He felt that for one thing Mom would not be able to bear the
pain of being shifted around so much. Dad, on the other hand, felt so
strongly that he must get her home. Finally the doctor gave his consent. Mom managed the trip very well due to her wonderful health from
having been on the Walker Program for ten years. As soon as she arrived home we started the flow of Juices—4 oz. of wheat grass juice three times a day, carrot juice and an untold
number of cups of comfrey tea—both root and leaf. She also had
extra help from a natural Vitamin C, natural calcium, and Vitamin E.
We had an abundance of organically grown peaches, pears, grapes
and apples to supplement our supermarket salads that fall and winter. Each afternoon she had a mixture of sunflower seeds and sesame
seeds finely ground and mixed with a little honey, plus yet another
cup of comfrey tea. The doctor here, wanted to take her into the hospital immediately,
as gangrene had set into the wound. After much persuasion he finally
agreed to leave her home so long as the condition did not worsen, and
that we take her to the hospital regularly to change dressings. This
was a problem, but a solution was quickly found. How we would love to have been able to put comfrey and wheat
grass poultices on the wound, but with only a tiny slit on the casting
for air and instrument dressing, this was impossible. The condition held its own for about three weeks; then there was
a noticeable healing from the inside out. This was an unheard of
occurrence since no wonder drugs had been used. Only live juices
and foods were supplying the elements needed for healing. The
condition continued to improve steadily and hospital visits became
less frequent. Six months later when the cast came off, the nurses were astounded
to find that there was no odor as is usual when a cast has been on for
so long. When X-rays were checked, the small bone had knit but not
the large one, so another long cast, was put on. The doctor was quite
certain that it could not heal and that a lot of grafting, both of bone
and flesh, would have to be done because the break was so jagged,
with the healing surface so large, and because so much bone marrow
had been lost. 73 The doctor used to tell the nurses, jokingly, that this was the lady
who expected God and the greens to heal her, but when the cast was
removed, two months later, with both the bones completely knit, the
doctor was the most amazed witness! Now, twenty one months after the accident, flesh is steadily filling
in the scar. At first, there was literally just skin over bone. Now, Mom
walks without the aid of a cane, goes to the Health Shop each day,
and does her own shopping


 protein is either
eliminated in the feces or urine, or stored as fat. If protein were stored as
muscle, 90 percent of Americans would be walking around resembling
body-building champions. Look around, and you will quickly see that this is
far from the case.Meanwhile, the human body requires only a minuscule percentage of its
daily calories from fat—roughly 3 to 5 percent. Yet most Americans are
choking down upwards of 40 percent of their daily calories in the form of
fat, a lar ge portion of which is unhealthy saturated fat. The body has evolved to store extra fat in a very ef ficient manner. Only a
measly 2 percent of fat calories are burned up when fat is stored. This is
why the fat you eat is the fat you wear, as Dr. John McDougall has said. Most animal-based foods contain between 20 to 60 percent fat, whereas
most plant-based foods contain less than 10 percent fat. And animal
products contain no fiber, while the naturally occurring fiber in plant-based
foods allows you to become full without having to pile in so many calories. There is nothing in an animal-product-based diet that you cannot find in
a healthier, safer, and better form in a plant-based diet. Why? Because plant foods contain all of the essential amino acids found
in protein, both of the essential fatty acids (linoleic and alpha-linolenic), all
of the thirteen vitamins, and all of the seven major and nine minor minerals. And they can supply these nourishing macro- and micronutrients without
subjecting you to any of the toxic side ef fects of animal products—namely,
premature disease and death. As previously discussed, the only vitamin plants don’ t provide is vitamin
B12. The microor ganisms in the soil that once supplied our diets with B12
naturally have been stripped away by current farming methods, so plant
eaters must add this vitamin to their diet. The current recommendation is for 500 micrograms per day, but if you
consume milk substitutes and cereals, you are already eating products
fortified with B12 and are more than likely getting enough. If not, consider
taking a supplement. LET ME REPEA T: THE ANSWER to putting out a fire is water. The answer to
stamping out obesity is a plant-based diet. We all need to grab buckets of
plant-based foods and work as a team to douse the obesity crisis. Losing weight is not rocket science and it’ s not magic. It’ s just the
simple law of eating only constructive foods and omitting destructive ones. With the Engine 2 Diet, you’ll need only four weeks to lay a foundation that
can last a lifetime.ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE/DEMENTIA
Alzheimer ’s disease and dementia currently af fect twenty million people
worldwide, and are predicted to increase fivefold by 2050. They af fect 6 to
8 percent of people older than sixty-five, and close to 50 percent of people
older than eighty. The two diseases present themselves in similar ways, but the
mechanisms that create them dif fer. Dementia (cognitive impairment) is the result of many tiny strokes
called TIAs, which we talked about earlier. They’re also called silent
strokes because victims rarely realize anything has happened to them. After
a TIA, you typically suf fer a mild level of mental impairment lasting an
hour or two, and then return to normal. TIAs often occur while you are
sleeping, eating, or going about normal activities. The human brain rebounds quickly because it has such an amazing
reserve capacity. It isn’ t until we’ve had multiple TIA attacks that our brain
starts losing the battle, and a swift downward slide to mental oblivion
follows. Alzheimer ’s disease, on the other hand, seems to result from plaque
formation. However, instead of sticking to the artery walls leading to your
heart, brain, pelvis, or legs, these plaques develop in the pockets between
your brain cells. Such plaques are composed of a rogue protein called beta-amyloid. Numerous studies have shown a direct correlation between the amount of
cholesterol and fat in the diet and the amount of beta-amyloid protein
buildup in the body. I recently traveled to Austin’ s Station 9 to fill in for another firefighter
who was out sick. Over the course of my twenty-four -hour shift, I had a
heartfelt conversation with a firefighter friend and fellow triathlete named
Patrick. Patrick’ s father had suf fered a heart attack and respiratory arrest at
age sixty-two and had started losing his mind to dementia at age seventy;
two years later, Patrick and his mother moved him into a nursing home. The
man’ s perceptions of reality changed like a kaleidoscope; one minute he’d
think he was in the Vietnam War, the next he’d be in his hometown of
Coppers Cove, Texas. Patrick told me that the saddest moment in his life was when he looked
into his father ’s eyes and realized his dad had no idea who Patrick was.Patrick then told me not only that his father had been a smoker all his life,
but that he had eaten anything and everything that came his way. Patrick feared that he might be prone to the same fate as his father. I told
him that that was not the case; plenty of research exists showing that you
can lower your risk of Alzheimer ’s. In fact, a recent report in the Annual
Review of Public Health stressed that lifestyle and diet play a major role in
the development of this disease, and that it’ s never too late to take action—
especially if you have a family history that puts you at increased risk in the
first place. Other studies also point in this direction. For example, researchers at the
Ninth International Conference on Alzheimer ’s Disease and Related
Disorders reported in 2004 that obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood
pressure significantly heighten the risk of Alzheimer ’s. The researchers
followed a group of 1,500 older subjects for twenty-one years and found a
combination of all three factors increased that risk sixfold. The same study, released in the 2005 issue of The Lancet Neurology,
reported that older people who exercised at least twice a week had a
roughly 60 percent lower risk of suf fering from Alzheimer ’s and dementia
than their couch potato peers. The theory is that exercise helps ward of f
Alzheimer ’s by boosting blood flow to the brain and protecting its blood
vessels. Meanwhile, a four -year study of 815 Chicago seniors (reported in the
February 2003 issue of the Archives of Neurology ) found that a diet high in
saturated fat doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer ’s. Myriad other studies have linked Alzheimer ’s with high levels of a
substance called homocysteine. Homocysteine is an amino acid, one of the
building blocks of proteins. It is created by the liver when we consume
another essential amino acid called methionine. The quantity of methionine
found in animal protein is two to three times greater than in plant protein, so
it follows that eating meat and dairy can easily raise your homocysteine
levels to a dangerous degree. Another study from the July 2000 World Alzheimer ’s Congress had
more promising news. Researchers examined 5,395 individuals aged fifty-
five and older who were free from dementia in 1993, and again in 1999.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Reality:  Some carbs do, but good carbs don’ t. Most trendy diets claim that all carbohydrates are bad guys, yet of the
three macronutrients that provide calories in our diet (carbs, protein, and
fat), carbohydrates are the body’ s primary fuel source. They’re responsible
for managing your heart rate, digestion, breathing, exercising, walking, and
thinking. Roughly 70 percent of your daily calories should come from good
(complex) carbohydrates. The ones to avoid are called simple carbs. Both types of carbs are sugars. Both are digested and converted into
glucose, which is used by the body for ener gy: in the blood as glucose, or
stored in either the muscles or the liver as glycogen. When consumed in
excess, carbohydrates can be converted to fat. Simple carbohydrates include table sugar, molasses, honey, alcohol,
white bread, white pasta, white rice, fried chips, sugary cereals, fruit juices,
candy, and milk. Most simple carbs are nutritionally empty because they
have been tinkered with by humans, stripped of their fiber, minerals, and
vitamins. They are digested quickly by the body and cause a sharp spike in
your blood sugar levels. In response to this spike, your pancreas pumps out insulin to transport
and deliver the ener gy-bearing glucose to cells throughout your body. This
process causes your blood sugar and insulin levels to swing like a
pendulum, leaving you feeling fatigued, hungry, and craving still more
simple carbohydrates. And because simple carbohydrates are digested so quickly, any excess
sugar is converted to fat. For these reasons, most simple carbohydrates are a
poor food choice. In contrast, complex carbohydrates are nutritious, and include
vegetables, whole grain breads and pastas, beans, peas, brown rice, sweet
potatoes, oats, fruits, and whole grain cereals


ras. Even
though dolphin pose looks easy, it’ s actually quite challenging a s it requires
some upper body strength. Y ou can work your way up to holding dolphin
pose by taking frequent breaks. Dolphin pose is also good practice to build
your strength for a yoga headstand. Begin on your h ands and knees on your mat. Lay your forearms on the
mat with  your elbows directly u nderneath your shoulders. Fold your hands
together in front of you, and lock your shoulders back to create a stable
base. Y o ur hands and elbows will form a triangle. Gently lift yo ur knees of f
the floor  and walk your feet tow ard your elbows until you’re in an upside-down letter V. Y our head will  float above the  floor. Lift your tailbone high
into the sky. T o enhance the ene r gy toward the Ajna chakra, lif t your head
so the third eye is facing direct ly down to ward th e earth. Stay in the pose
for four to six breaths, then low er your knees to the floor and take a child’ s
pose as a counterpose: lower y our hips to the floor, and then extend your
torso fo rward an d rest it betwe en your thighs, with your fore head on the
floor. Healing the Emotional and Energetic Body
Then God said, “Let ther e be light,” and ther e was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated light fr om the darkness. — G ENESIS  1:3–4
A great obstacle in healing the emotional body, especially at the sixth
chakra l evel of consciousness, is the struggle of light versus dark. Earnest
spiritual seekers can be so inte rested in attainment of enlightenment that
they for get some crucial steps along the path. In the beginning of the chapter I discussed the duality dynamic of this
world. The push-pull of the world of opposites doesn’ t only live in your
environment; it also lives in you. There are aspects within you that seem to
work ag ainst eve rything you stand for on your spiritual path. Y et there they
are, either ever present or looming around the corner. The novice on the
spiritual path will try to push them away, hoping that they will n ever return. But these shadows must be con fronted and accepted in order to experience
the light fully. A  perfect example is if you never saw darkness, you could
never ex perience the night sky filled with stars, planets, and other astral
bodies. Often it is throu gh your own dar kness that you discover the light. In the
Bible, God created light out of the darkness since the darkness came first. My expe rience with cancer enabled me to help countless people  through my
writing about healing. When I talk to people in recovery from alcohol and
drug addiction, they all say that they would never have arrived at the
spiritual lives they now live if it weren’ t for the dark days of addiction.W e have all see n instances in the media demonstrating that pushing
away the darkness only makes things worse. Look at the sex scandals of
politicians, stories of embezzlement, and improper use of campaign funds. One of the grea test teachers I ever had, Dr. David Simon, used to say,
“Y ou can do al l the meditation in the world, but if you don’ t work on
emotional healing, you can’ t reach enlightenment.” Emotional healing
doesn’ t mean you have to spend twenty years in therapy. It sim ply means
facing your demons, the shadow  aspects of you that aren’ t fun to look at. Invite th em in and have a conv ersation with them. T ell them they aren’ t
going to rule your life anymore. I use d to have quite an issue w ith anxiety. At dif ferent periods in my
life, it ruined my daily experiences. I became paralyzed by stories in my
head tha t, for the most part, simply weren’ t true. But I let my mind entertain
those stories. I used to say in jest that the great thing about being a writer is
that I have a wi ld imagination, and the worst thing about being a writer is
that I have a wild imagination. Learning and practicing meditation saved
me because I learned that I can control my thoughts and their direction. The best  way to face your shado ws is to transmute them. T ransf orm the
shadow ener gy into something great that can help humanity. Sen d light into
the d arkness. For example, if your shadow is that you succumb to obsessive
cleaning and or ganizing in your home, you co uld start a business where you
help others or ganize closets and  living spaces. If you’re a shopaholic, you
can contact your local women’ s  shelter and ask them what they need in a
care box. Y ou c an then use you r shopping skills to find the best prices to
make ca re boxes for women and children in a safe home. The greatest thing
about being human is that you a re human. There is no reason to be ashamed
of your weaknesses or your shadows as long as you are not harming
anyone, includin g yourself. In f act, it’ s often when we bring our shadows
into the light that their power dissipates. Professional help can assist you in
this process, but sometimes a simple decision to act is all you need. Healing the Spiritual Body
Meditation is the primary practi ce that will help you attain the s ixth chakra
level of awarene ss. T alk about m editation is bubbling under the surface ofAmerican culture these days, and ef forts to include meditation in daily
activities are popping up in hosp itals, corporations, and even schools. More
than the  word meditation, you may hear the word mindfulness, which refers
to a type of med itation. As a me ditation teacher, I find the word mindfulness
to be  a bit of a misnomer when it comes to the ultimate goal of meditation. A wareness is certainly the key to everything we have discussed up until
now. Y ou must be aware of your thoughts, words, and actions, as well as
your bo dy and mind. However, when I think of mindfulness, I think of
concentration or  fullness of the mind. T o meditate, you need focus instead
of concentration, and release of the mind rather than fullness of it. Most people come to meditation saying, “I’m too much in my mind! Get me out of it!” Y ou are liter ally going out of your mind in meditation. (That pun was completely intended.) Everyone has experienced the ef fects
of monk ey mind. Y our mind fl its from thought to thought lik e a monkey
swinging from branch to branch. W ithout awareness that you are  the thinker
of your though ts, you become subject to the mind’ s unwiel dy habit of
flitting a bout wi th no sense of control. It comes as no surprise that millions
of peop le suf fer from anxiety and depression. If you are under the
impression that you have no c ontrol over your thoughts and the strong
impulses of the mind, of course you have reason to feel anxiou s. However,
the g ood news is that you do have control. Y ou simply need to le arn tools to
exercise the control muscle. By realizing that there are separate roles at play inside you, you can
harness the forces of your mind and get it to do what you want. Y ou achieve
this by cajoling your mind rathe r than forcing it to go in the direction you
desire. How do most of us try to control the mind? Let’ s sup pose you’re
trying to break a bad habit, such as eating a chocolate bar every night. Y ou
may try to break this habit by se tting a goal such as not eating chocolate at
all or eating chocolate only once per week. Then you might tr y to abstain
from ch ocolate by not purchasing it, distracting yourself in oth er ways, or
replacing it with something else. All these ways can and do wo rk. But they
all invol ve forci ng the mind int o distraction. If you have ever  tried doing
something like this, you know that it’ s dif ficult and tiring. Y ou really have
to f ight the mi nd frequently. Y our mind will tell you things such as
“Chocolate isn’ t  that bad. Studie s have shown it has antioxidant s that make
you healthy” or “Y ou’ve had a rough day today; don’ t you des erve a littlechocolate?” And  on and on goes the mind with great ar guments to separate
you from your goal. The thing about fighting or using strong resolve to get
to w here you w ant to go is that it’ s fatiguing rather than e mpowering. Eventually you will get tired of the battle and give up. Now let ’ s compare the above method with cajoling the mind by going
out of your mind. When you meditate, you are not in your mind. Y ou are
accessing your spirit or the par t of you that was never born and therefore
can never die. Y our spirit is the part of you that is eternal. My guru Dr. W ayne W. Dyer used to say  th at when you talk to


. The spine
and spinal cord extend consciousness from the brain, the seat of highest
awareness (ajna or third eye chakra), to the coccyx, the pole of greatest
density (muladhara or base root chakra). This consciousness, which came
through the sahasrara (crown) chakra, flows all the way down, activating the
muladhara c hakra so tha t the physical bod y starts taking shape. Our individual consciousness, called our kundalini shakti, moves in
sushumna nadi, one of the major energy channels running parallel to the
spine. This energy is also our personal fragment of the cosmic power, for self-
identification, represented as our ego or I-ness or ahamkara. While
discrimina tion is the main characteristic of intellect, possessiveness is the
chief characteristic of ego and self-identifies with every cell of our body from
conception until dea th. Kundalini moves in us all, rising from the muladhara (base root) chakra
to the manipura (solar plexus) chakra and then going down. Since our lower
three chakras are associated with the fulfilment of basic needs for survival in
this material world, as long as our consciousness remains entrenched in the
mundane, which is the material world, our kundalini moves in the lower
three chakras. However, once we start detaching ourselves from the material things in
life and develop discretion, our spiritual awakening takes place and kundalini
moves beyond manipura to the anahata (heart) chakra, crossing the subtle
barrier called the astral bridge. Then its movement is only upwards. This
process is called kundalini awakening, and it represents the awakening of the
consciousness. This also triggers our spiritual awakening. Even if we leave
our physical body at that point and take rebirth, the kundalini starts itsjourney from that point onwards or from the chakra to which we have
already evolved. We do not remember our previous life nor do we have a
realisation about the state of our kundalini, but it is evident from the
existence of things such as child prodigies and xenoglossy, or the ability to
speak a language without ha ving learned it. The more we identify with our individuality and are attached to the
material things in life the more we are stuck in the lower chakras, living in
the world of maya. On the other hand, when we develop detachment and
identify less with our individual ity, our consciousness level changes and we
reflect more of the macrocosm, reflecting our chiti shakti. Maya shakti keeps
us awake to the world but asleep to the absolute, while chiti shakti keeps us
awake to the absolute a way from worldly matters. OceanofPDF.com2
Energy
Our universe is the interplay of both manifested and unmanifested energy,
thus creating a vibrational field. In fact, everything in this universe is energy. Scientifically speaking, matter, whether living or non-living, is made up of
atoms and molecules. Atoms have a nucleus made up of one or more protons
(with a positive charge) and a similar number of neutrons. One or more
electrons (with a negative charge) are bound to the nucleus. Here we are
talking about energy at its most basic level of existence. What differentiates
between things in this universe is the level of the energy and the vibrational
field. All forms are manifested energy mass. Human energy is also the
manifesta tion of universal energy; it can thus be defined as a luminous body
that surrounds and inter penetrates the ph ysical bod y. The concept of universal energy has been recognised and accepted
through the ages by all cultures; it is omnipresent and in continuous interplay
with human energy. Human energy represents our subtle body or the energy
body; it is also called the bio-plasmic body. Ancient Indian seers call this
energy prana, the basic constituent and source of all life. In Chinese
philosoph y it is called chi, while in Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical theosophy,
it is referred to as astral lights. All other spiritual and religious traditions
mention auric la yers that are depicted as light ar ound holy or e volved people. Christian religious paintings portray Jesus and other spiritual figures
surrounded by fields of light. An aura is that part of the energy field
associated with objects; when it is associated with the human body it is called
a human aura. Modern advances in science have made it easy for us tounderstand the whole concept of energy as we now have devices that can
measure energy and vibra tions and take aura pictur es. Many Western scientific minds believe that a universal energy pervades
all of nature, with records of this perceived energy being found in
Pythagorean literature as early as 500 BCE. As reported by 12th-centur y
scholars Boirac and Liébeault, human beings have an energy that can cause
an interaction with other humans, even at a distance. It is a well-known fact
that one person’s energy can have a healthful/positiv e or
unhealthful/neg ative effect on another mer ely by their presence. A photographic system to capture the human energy field was developed
by Semyon Kirlian in 1939. This system involved the photographing of
subjects in the presence of a high-frequency, high-voltage, low-amperage
electrical field and resulted in photos of human bodies enveloped in a
luminous aura. It could even photograph a similar luminous energy field
around fruits and vegetables and non-living things. In 1911, medical doctor
Walter Kilner reported seeing human energy through coloured screens and
filters. He described seeing a glowing mist around the whole body that
appeared in three layers: a 6 mm dark layer closest to the skin surrounded by
a 25 mm wide vaporous layer streaming perpendicular ly from the body, and
finally a delicate luminosity of around 15 cm in diameter. According to
Kilner, auras differ from subject to subject depending on age, sex, mental
ability and physical vitality. He was able to diagnose diseases via the variation
and patches in a pa tient’s aura. Over a period of time many scientists, doctors, psychiatrists and healers
have studied and experimented  with human energy fields using electronic
devices, medical instruments and even clairvoyance. By observing energy
patterns they are able to make a diagnosis of any physical, physiological and
mental ailments, thereby giving clear indications that the electromagneticand light emissions from human bodies are closely related to the person’s
health. One of the most significant works in this field had been carried out by Dr
Valerie Hunt, who conducted research that demonstra ted colour and
frequency correlations. In a series of experiments recording frequency and
wave patterns from different body parts, Dr Hunt and associates concluded
that the auric colour bands correlate with the same frequency wave pattern
as the chakras. Their research in February 1988 showed the following
colour/frequency cor relations (which are measured in hertz or Hz):
Colour Frequency band (Hz)
Blue 250-275, plus 1200
Green 250-475
Yellow 500-700
Orange 950-1050
Red 1000-1200
Violet 1000-2000, plus 300-400, 600-800
White 1100-2000
Dr Hunt also stated that the chakras’ frequencies follow exactly the same
colour patterns mentioned in tantric and metaphysical literatures. She
associated the chakras with these colour s:
◼ muladhara (base root) with r ed
◼ swadhisthana (sacral) with orange◼ manipura (solar plexus) with y ellow
◼ anahata (heart) with g reen
◼ vishuddhi (throat) with blue
◼ ajna (third eye) with violet
◼ sahasrara (crown) with w hite. Dr Hunt’s research explains that the frequencies and colour patterns
showing up in different chakras are the result of the physiological activity of
the organs associated with the chakras. For example, our muladhara or base
root chakra is associated with the organs of elimination, the gonads and the
physical body, and their energy frequency shows up as the colour red in the
auric field and so on. The activity in certain chakras sometimes triggers
increased activity in another, which again proves that the chakras are both
related and inter dependent. Dr Robert O. Becker, author of The Body Electric, documented human
body energy in terms of electrical frequency. Bruce Tainio of Tainio
Technology in Cheney, Washington, the first person to measure the
frequency of the human body and foods, developed a calibrated frequency
monitor in 1992 to determine the relationship between frequency and
disease. Measured in megahertz (MHz), he observed that a healthy body
typically has a frequency ranging from 62 to 78 MHz and that when the
frequency drops the immune system gets compromised. Below is a list of
frequency vibra tions:
Body part Frequency (MHz)
Genius brain 80-8
Brain 72-90Normal Brain 72
Human body 62-78
Human body from the neck up 72-78


i would see it, there must be some element of witnessing
involved here—that is, Karin is having an experience and at the
same time watching herself have it. That does not have to be an
unreal way to relate to things. Quite the contrary—it could be seen
as the most real way, once the silent witness is acknowledged as the
core of the self. In ancient India, witnessing would have been calmlyaccepted and welcomed as a gateway to higher spiritual
experiences. Karin was not totally surprised when I brought this up to her, but
it did not make her any happier. “People have told me that my
awareness has risen too high, that it has become my enemy,” she
said, “but I don’t know how to turn it o. ” Turning her awareness
o is all she wants to do at this point. Time and again she has
intuited things that I would consider profound truths, only to reject
them as “sick. ” Here is one example:
“I have this experience of talking to someone and feeling  that I’m
on automatic. It’s like a reserve mechanism kicking in. I want to
shut it o. I want to be able to walk into a room and not think, ‘Oh,
look at that. I converted myself into matter. ’ The top layer of my
mind is now above automatic, but that doesn’t seem like a gift to
me, it’s just neurotic. How do I get rid of this high awareness or
sensitivity, whatever you want to call it. ”
I told her that other people have spent years on the spirit ual path
trying to achieve the very state of nonattachment that she has fallen
into. To a spiritual person, the feeling of being “on automatic”
implies that God or the higher Self has taken over from the small,
isolated self. Many saints, both Christian and Eastern, have reported
that they lived in such a blessed state. They considered it a kind of
second birth, freeing them from the bondage of the esh and the
ties of the past. After this rebirth, a person has nothing to fear from
the snares of Maya and can go forth to explore what lies beyond. Yet the everyday world seems to have no relationship to the
boundless one, and to stand on the threshold of the higher Self,
where Karin nds herself, can generate deep fear. No one can feel
her experiences with her. There is no objective standard for
weighing them, and their scientic validity remains marginal (the
renowned English physicist Sir Arthur Eddington once remarked
that any attempt to scientically measure a subjective experience
was like trying to nd the square root of a sonnet). In this light, the words that have come to us from the ancient
spiritual traditions are all the more valuable, since they can serve as
lifelines to the present. In India the Bhagavad-Gita  is taken as thequintessence of the collected wisdom on the nature of reality. There,
Lord Krishna tells the warrior Arjuna that every person shelters a
“dweller in the body” who is wholly unlike the isolated, vulnerable
ego:
Weapons cannot cleave him,
Fire cannot burn him,
Water cannot wet him,
Wind cannot dry him away …
He is eternal and all-pervading,
Subtle, immovable, and ever the same. Although this invulnerable dweller may seem to be a religious
concept—what most devout people call the soul—Lord Krishna
asserts that it is the same self that gives everyone his sense of “I
am. ” In Sanskrit several dierent words are needed to describe the
full range of the self, from the most local to the completely
universal. Each of us has an individual spirit that underg oes unique
experiences in life—this is called the jiva in Sanskrit; it comes
closest to being the soul. If you remove  all personal boundaries, the jiva expands into the
Atman, pure spirit without individual experiences. Emerson and the
other Transcen dentalists called this the Over-soul. (I will follow the
simple convention of calling it the Self with a capital “s. ”) When jiva
and Atman fuse, merging the individual and the cosmic self without
losing the qualities of either, one arrives at Brahman, or totality. A
person who has realized Brahman retains his individuality but
experiences himself as unive rsal, “under the aspect of eternity,” as
the church fathers phrased it. Brahman is also used to describe
reality as a whole, taking in both the objective and subjective elds
of existence, the manifest and the unmanifest. Beyon d the all-
inclusive Brahman, there is nothing. The jiva, then, is like a single wave on the ocean; Atma n is the
water that all waves partake of equally; Brahman is the ocean itself. If you ask which of these three is you, the answer is “all of them. ”
To say that one aspect of the self is dierent from the others may beuseful on an everyday basis, but it is not the nal truth. The self I
call “me” seems to respect the boundary of my skin, but at the same
time I naturally feel my kinship to other selves. When a child suers
in Afghanistan, I feel the pain. My sensation may not be as intense
as when I cause pain to my own body, but that simply says that I do
not share a particular set of nerves with the child. The ancient sages knew that each person is grounded in a
concrete reality that gives him his bearings in time and space. Nevertheless, they maintained that all selves are woven into the
same fabric of life. Karin could easily be stumbling into this state of
greatly expand ed self. However, she wants no part of it. She has
frequently stated to me in crisp tones that she did not have a
religious upbringing and nds no spiritual signicance in what is
happening to her. Clearly there is a knowledge gap here. No
tradition validates her experience for her; no elders or guides exist
to educate her further. She has been cast adrift. On the Outside Looking In
It is not easy to live with an original experience, and Karin would
much rather return to the mundane experiences that all of us put on
like ready-to-w ear clothes. “I want to watch TV on Satur day night,
drink a glass of wine, and not think about anything,” she complains. “I want  to be upset when my car gets dented and not feel detached
about it. I want to go back to feeling like I’m a part of life. Is that
even a possibility anymore. ”
At mom ents like this, one realizes how much in limbo Karin is. Since no convincing versio n of her present reality exists, she
remains comm itted to the unreal. Yet she is not as detached as she
appears. I sense that she is trying to connect with others all the time
but in hidden ways. I might have missed this except for a telling
incident. At one point durin g our rst talk, I wanted her to know
how impressed  I was with her level of insight, and I started out by
saying, “For a brilliant person like you—”
She cut me o with a strange look. “Why did you say that. ” she
demanded. “What. ”
“That I’m brilliant. What makes you say that out of the blue. ”
“Well,” I explained, “it is obvious that you have more self-
awareness than ninety-nine percent of the people I deal with. ”
“How can you tell that after one meeting. ” she asked
suspiciously. I said I just could, and she let the matter drop. Half an
hour later, she interrupted  herself and asked, this time rather
timidly, “Do you really think I’m brilliant. ” I repeated that I did. Again, the matter was quickly dropped. When we met a few days
later, the rst words out of her mouth were “I’ve been thinking
about why you called me brilliant. ”
Then I couldn’t help but notice that my compliment held a special
charm for her. It was a token, not just of my respect, but of my
aection. By calling her brilliant, I had said, “I feel close to you. ”
Replaying the tapes, I nd that Karin also managed to call me
brilliant severa l times that day—apparently quite unconsciously—
and whenever she did, one heard a shy, embarrassed intimacy in her
voice. Why was this little game of emotional hide-and-seek so important
to her. I think  it’s because she nds it much easier to intellectualize
about feeling unreal than to openly express the much more
wrenching feeling of being lost. Before their emotions get covered
over with a thick coat of denial, many children feel lost, set apart. Karin reminds me of a wide-e yed child one might nd on the fringes
of a social gathering—a wedding reception, cocktail party, or
Thanksgiving reunion—peer ing at the adults like a fascinated
spectator at the zoo. What the child wonders at is quite ordinary and yet very
disturbing: the casual deception of daily life. Behind the words “I
love him” or “I love her” lie guarded feelings


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handling. Without them a body might have to fast to heal, with the aid of protomorphogens a person migh t be able to get better
without fasting. And if protomorphogens are used (chewed up --ugh!) while fasting, healing is accelerated. Protomorphogens are made from freeze -dried, organically -raised animal organ meats (usually calf or lamb) combined with ver y
specific vitamins, herbs and other co -factors to potentiate the effect. I view protomorphogens as containing nutritional
supplementation specific for the rebuilding of the damaged organ. Doctor Royal Lee, a medical genius who developed protomorphogen s therapy in the 50s and who spent several stints in prison
in exchange for his benevolence and concern for human well -being, also founded the company that has supplied me with
protomorphogens. After decades of official persecution and denial of the effica cy of protomorphogens by the power structure, it
looks like they are about to finally have their day. As I write this book cutting -edge medical research companies are developing
therapies using concentrated animal proteins (protomorphogens) to treat arthri tis, multiple sclerosis, eye inflamations and juvenile
diabetes. The researchers talk as though they are highly praiseworthy for "discovering" this approach. Unfortunately, this development is likely to cut two ways. On one hand, it vindicates Dr. Lee; on the other, when these drug
companies find a way to patent their materials, they may finally succeed at forcing protomorphogens (currently quite inexpens ive)
off the non -prescription market and into the restricted and profitable province of the MD. I divide clients into two basic types: simple cases and complex ones. When I was treating mental illness, occasionally I had a
client who had not been sick fo r too long. I could usually make this client well quite easily. But if the person had already become
institutionalized, had been psychotic for many years, had received much prior treatment, then their case had been made much m ore
difficult. This sort had a  poor prognosis. A very similar situation exists with physical illnesses. Many people get sick only because
they lack information about how to keep themselves healthy and about what made them sick. Once they find out the truth, they
take my medicine withou t complaint and almost inevitably get better very rapidly. Some of these people can be quite ill when they
first come to me but usually they have not been sick for very long. Their intention when coming into my office is very positi ve and
have no counter i ntentions to getting better. There are no spiritual or psychological reasons that they deserve to be sick. If this
person had not found me, they almost certainly would have found some other practitioner who would have made them well. This
type of person ho nestly feels they are entitled to wellness. And they are. However, some of the sick are not sick for lack of life -style information; they suffer from a mental/spiritual malady as well, one
that inevitably preceded their illness by many years. In fact, their physical ailments are merely reflections of underlying problems. This patient's life is usually a snarl of upsets, problems, and guilty secrets. Their key relationships are usually vicious o r unhealthy. Their level of interpersonal honesty may be poo r. There are usually many things about their lives they do not confront and so, can
not change. With this type of case, all the physical healing in the world will not make them permanently better because the m ental
and emotional stresses they live under se rve as a constant source of enervation. Cases like this usually do not have only one thing wrong with them. They almost always have been sick for a long time; most
have been what I call "doctor hoppers," confused by contrary diagnoses and conflicting M D opinions. When I get a case like this I
know from the first that healing is going to be a long process, and a dubious one at that. On the physical level, their body will only
repair one aspect of their multiple illnesses at a time. Simultaneously, they m ust be urged to confront their life on a gentle gradient. There is usually a lot of backsliding and rollercoastering. The detoxification process, physical and psychological, can take several
years and must happen on all the levels of their life. This kind of case sees only gradual improvement interspersed with periods of
worsening that indicate there remains yet another level of mental unawareness that has to be unraveled. Few medical doctors or holistic therapists really understand or can help this ki nd of case. To do so, the doctor has to be in touch
with their own reactive mind and their own negative, evil impulses (which virtually all humans have). Few people, including
therapists, are willing to be aware of their own dark side. But when we deny it in ourselves, we must pretend it doesn't exist in
others, and become its victim instead of conquering it. Anyone who denies that they have or are influenced by their own darke r
aspects who seem to be totally sweet and light, is lying; proof of this is that  they still are here on Earth. All this generalizing about diagnostic methods and clinical approaches could go on for chapters and more chapters, and writin g
them would be fine if I were teaching a group of health clinicians that were reading this book  to become better practitioners. But
I'm sure most of my readers are far more interested in some complaint of their own or in the health problem of a loved one, a nd are
intensely interested in one might go about handling various conditions and complaints, what types of organ weaknesses are
typically associated with them, and what approaches I usually recommend to encourage healing. And, most importantly, what kin d
of success or lack of it have I had over the past twenty five years, encouraging the healing o f various conditions with hygienic
methods. In the case studies that follow I will mostly report the simpler, easier -to-fix problems because that is what most people have;
still, many of these involve life -threatening or quality -of-life-destroying illn esses. I will tell the success story of one very
complicated, long -suffering case that involved multiple levels of psychological and spiritual handling as well as considerable
physical healing. Arthritis
    Some years back my 70 years old mother came fro m the family homestead in the wilds of northern British Columbia to visit me
at the Great Oaks School. She had gotten into pathetic physical condition. Fifteen years previously she had remarried. Tom, h er
new husband, had been a gold prospector and general  mountain man, a wonderfully independent and cantankerous cuss, a great
hunter and wood chopper and all around good -natured backwoods homestead handyman. Tom had tired of solitary log cabin life
and to solve his problem had taken on the care and feeding of  a needy widow, my mom. He began doing the cooking and menu
planning. Tom, a little older than my mother, had no sense about eating but could still shoot game. Ever since their marriage  she
had been living on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy, white  flour bread with jam, black tea with canned milk, a ritual
glass of brandy at bedtime, and almost no fresh fruit or vegetables. In her youth, my mother had been a concert pianist; now she had such large arthritic knobs on all of her knuckles that her  hands
had become claws. Though there was still that very same fine upright in the cabin that I had learned to play as a child, she had long
since given up the piano. Her knees also had large arthritic knobs; this proud woman with a straight back and long,  flowing strides
was bent over, limping along with a cane. She was also 30 pounds overweight and her blood pressure was a very dangerous 210
over 140, just asking for a stroke. Instead of a welcoming feast, the usual greeting offered to a loved one wh o has not been seen for a few years, I immediately
started her on a juice fast. I gave her freshly prepared carrot juice (one quart daily) mixed with wheat grass juice (three o unces
daily) plus daily colonics. She had no previous experience with these tech niques but she gamely accepted everything I threw her
way because she knew I was doing it because I loved her and wanted to see her in better condition. She also received a daily full
body massage with particular attention to the hand and knees, stimulatin g the circulation to the area and speeding the removal of
wastes. Every night her hands and knees were wrapped in warm castor oil compresses held in place with old sheeting. I did not use any vitamins or food supplements in her case. I did give her fla vorful herbal teas made of peppermint and
chamomile because she needed the comfort of a hot cupa; but these teas were in no way medicinal except for her morale. In three weeks on this program, Grannybelle, as I and my daughters called her, had no unsig htly knobs remaining on either her
knuckles or knees and she could walk and move her fingers without pain within a normal range of movement. The big payoff for
me besides seeing her look so wonderful (20 years younger and 20 pounds lighter) was to hear her  sit down and treat us to a
Beethoven recital. And her blood pressure was 130 over 90. Breast Cancer
    I have worked with many young women with breast cancer; so many in fact, that their faces and cases


 Fasting has enabled many women to conceive
after years of sterility. Many of these women give a history of menstrual irregularities, profuse
flow, severe cramps that send them to bed each month, large clots, soreness of the breasts and
similar symptoms that indicate endocrine (ductless gland) imbalance, inflammation of the ovaries
or womb and nervous difficulties. Others give a history of metritis (inflammation of the lining of the womb) with a more or less
chronic vaginal discharge. In these latter cases, the discharge is often highly acid, sufficiently acid
to destroy the sperm. These are the types of cases that are most readily corrected and that are restored to health by a
period of physical, mental and physiological rest. Few cases of female sterility are absolute; most
of them are the outgrowth of conditions of disease and are remediable. Great numbers of women
have found the ability to conceive restored by a restoration to good health, and a large part of these
women have found the fast of inestimable value in the clearing up of conditions that prevented
conception. In passing, it may be well to mention that in those many cases of women who readily conceive,
but who abort, being unable to carry their baby to full term, a restoration of good health will
enable them to give birth to normal babies. A clearing up of the toxic state followed by greatly
improved nutrition enables them to avoid abortions. The most spectacular case of this kind that has come under the author’s observation was that of a
woman who had previously had twenty-eight spontaneous abortions. After a fast of ten days and a
period on a greatly improved diet, she became pregnant and at full term gave birth to a healthy boy. Delivery was normal. The length of fast required in cases of female sterility varies with the condition of the woman. I
recall the case of a comparatively young woman who had been married for ten years and had not
conceived, although no attempt had been made to avoid it. She suffered agonies with each
menstruation, going to bed every month and relieving her pains with drugs. A fast of ten days was sufficient to permanently end her menstrual difficulties and shortly after
the fast, she conceived for the first time, subsequently giving birth to a healthy baby boy. Another
woman much less vigorous and sick for a number of years, took several short fasts before she
140conceived. Her previous period of sterility was also of about ten years duration. The young Italian
woman whose story was recounted at the beginning of this chapter had a fast of thirty days. Absolute sterility is a comparatively rare condition in both men and women and fasting can do
nothing in such cases. When sterility is due to conditions of disease, rather than to defects of
development, there is reason to think that both men and women can almost always profit by a fast
of sufficient duration to enable the body to clear its abnormal states. 14137
Fasting in Pregnancy
When the rational mind recognizes that pregnancy is a normal biological process, it at once
realizes that it should be unaccompanied with any pain, discomfort or abnormal condition. It is
observed that animals in their natural state do not suffer with nausea and vomiting during
pregnancy. The condition is said to be unknown among so-called primitive women. Only about
half the women in civilized life so suffer. All the evidence points to the conclusion that nausea, “morning sickness” and vomiting are not
essential developments during pregnancy. Mild and evanescent in the majority of the cases, severe
and lasting in some cases, perhaps leading even to the artificial ending of pregnancy “to save the
mother’s life,” the cause is still a matter of much debate. If it can be understood that disease is the outworking of natural law, we may understand that
under certain states of the organism of woman, when pregnancy occurs, there is an urgent need to
put the physiological house in order. It is common to say that the nausea is a “reflex” and that it is a “reaction,” but these words
explain nothing. It is necessary that we understand the nature and cause of the condition that gives
rise to the “reflex” or to the “reaction.”
Nature plays no favorites, is no respecter of persons. If a woman suffers with nausea and
vomiting during pregnancy, this is because she has built her suffering by a way of life that has laid
the foundation for trouble. Her suffering is not due to the fact that she is pregnant, but to the fact
that she is toxemic. While we recognize that pregnancy is a normal physiologic state, we must
also recognize that, in
modern life at least, there is much that is not physiologic associated with the whole reproductive
process and that these conditions of abnormality have the same general causes that are responsible
for other structural and functional abnormalities of the body. In her efforts to promote life and its highest welfare, in her never-ending effort to endow each
new form of life with the finest that can be given, nature tries to give each child that is born the
best that life affords. She is, therefore, interested in the environment of the unborn child and
especially in its nutrition. The unborn child feeds upon substances supplied by the mother. If her blood is physiologically
suitable to the highest interests of the evolving embryo her pregnancy will be comfortable and even
pleasurable. If she is toxemic, there must evolve a process designed to prepare a better source of
nutriment for the embryo. The physiological house must be put in order to the end that the embryo
may have a clean, wholesome, and well balanced habitat during its intra-uterine existence. This does not mean that the uterus alone must be made acceptable for the evolution of the new
life, but that the whole body of the mother must be made ready. For unless there is systemic
preparedness, there can be no local readiness. We observe that the general metabolism of the pregnant mother is accelerated; glands that have
been all but dormant awake to renewed activity, and, if the way of life of the mother is at all
wholesome, her health improves. Symptoms from which she has long suffered often clear up and
she appears well again. The nausea and vomiting are merely parts of this general renovating
program. 142The toxemic woman is declared to be unfit for the new being. The toxins that have been retained
and stored in the organism until its chemistry is profoundly altered must be removed. This calls for
a radical eliminating process; it demands a temporary cessation of eating. There is rebellion in the stomach; it rejects food. The liver speeds up its excretory function. Much bile is regurgitated into the stomach and is vomited. There may even develop a psychic
revulsion to food, so determined is the organism to have its way and to clean house. If we can once
understand that nature is trying to provide a clean house in which to evolve the new life, we can
understand the need to cooperate in the work and not to throw monkey wrenches into the vital
machinery. The suppression of vomiting by the administration of drugs, always of doubtful efficacy, seems
only to make matters worse and to prolong the period of nausea and vomiting. The woman who
clings to the outworn idea that she needs plenty of “good nourishing food” and persists in eating in
spite of her repugnance to food, even to the sight, odor or thought of it, only adds to her discomfort
and prolongs her suffering. The physician, called to care for a case of morning sickness, tries
everything, seeking to satisfy
the patient’s demand for relief from symptoms, until the nausea and vomiting come to a
spontaneous end, but he fails to do her any real good. It has been said that all this discomfort and annoyance constitute a rather rude, impolite and
unpleasant way of asking a woman to stop eating. But it is more than just a command to cease
eating; it is a process of purification. It is a means of freeing the body of accumulated toxin. The
ignorant will eat in spite of the evident demand that no food be eaten, but nature gains her point in
the end; she simply throws the food back. Breakfast, noon meal or dinner, it is unwanted. When the pregnant woman feels the first faint beginning of nausea and vomiting, she should
voluntarily cease eating at once. Neither she nor the child will be hurt by ceasing to eat. A
prolonged fast might injure the baby, but a few days of abstinence in the early days of pregnancy,
such as the woman with morning sickness will have to undergo, will help her. She should go to bed and keep warm. She should throw off any fears she may have and poise her
mind. No drugs should be taken. My experience has shown that three to ten days are enough to
enable the body to put its house in order and there is no more nausea and vomiting throughout the
remainder of the pregnancy. A period of light feeding of fruits and uncooked vegetables should follow the fast for a few days
before the normal diet is resumed. By normal diet I certainly do not mean the conventional diet. Pregnant women tend to eat too much. They overeat on proteins. They need the very best of
proteins, but not in large quantities. Their greatest need, however, is for fruits and green non-
starchy vegetables. In ordinary cases of morning sickness three to four days of fasting are sufficient to restore
comfort and enable the woman to eat without distress. I have had one case that required eleven
days for comfort and digestive ability to return. There may be severe cases that will require a longer time than this; I have


 foods. My brother, D. Heard, then 80 years old, had run a farm at
Millersville, Alabama, through most of a lifetime. It was his life time
habit to put in a full days work, from sunup 'till sundown, hardly
missing a day until his health broke down. When he went to the hospital in Birmingham, the doctors there
gave him a going-over and then informed him that he had an incurable
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        Then my doctor suddenly discovered that my blood pressure was too low. Each morning I would get up feeling
a little weaker than before. At last I got so weak it was all I could do
to walk from the house to my office a few blocks away. As I would
pass down the street, the town jester would call out to me:
"Say, Doc, which cemetery did you escape from this morning. " That greeting did not pep me up any. But all the while I had
inside of me a secret determination to get well. I cultivated that and it
pulled me through. It was in June of 1925, 9½ years after I came to Hereford that I
had my crisis. My wife, Mattie, had drawn. out of me, tactfully, a little
at a time what disposition I wanted to make of my affairs. She had put
me to bed and kept my circulation going with hot water bags. I had an
electric pad at my feet. That was th e time of life an old friend recalled
to me not long since. "I saw you when, if you had gone one step farther," Perry
McMinn said, "you would not have come back. " Then everybody who knew me thought I had come to the end of
my row. Like Mr. Ready-to-Halt in "Pilgrim's Progress," I had
received my summons and was all set to cross over on the other side. In my own mind, all the while, I kn ew better. I fully realized my
condition and I made this plain to Mattie, but I told her I would be a
man again. PART II. IN WHICH I SEEK FOR REASONS WHY

CHAPTER 13. I START ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
 My quest for health led me to a sanitorium in Denver, where I
spent five weeks, and onto another in Chicago, where I stayed another
five weeks. I learned that both ins titutions were right up to the minute
on foods but both had a lot to learn about the human organism. By this time my condition had be come desperate. Everyone who
knew me thought I would die any day. One morning my next door
neighbor, Rex T. dropped by. He was going to Canyon to consult a
naturopath, Dr. H. A. Brown, wh o had built up a reputation by his
remarkable cures. "Come along with me and let this new doctor look you over," my
neighbor invited. "He can do no worse by you than the rest have
done. " I took him up on that. When Dr. Brown had finished his check-up of Mr. T. and had
prescribed for him, I asked the doctor to put me through the mill in the same fashion. When he had finished his examination Dr. Brown gave
me a grim, frank report:
"You are just about dead, old man. You have the dirtiest colon I
have ever found. I can clean it out, if  you are not too weak to stand the
shock. " By the way in which he went at  his examination I was persuaded
that Dr. Brown had gone right to the root of my trouble that had
eluded the diagnosticians whom I previously had consulted. Intuitively, I felt that here was the chance I had sought for so long to get back my lost health. Anyway, I had nothing to lose. I was at the
end of my row. But in my own mind, I knew I could make it. So when
Dr. Brown looked inquiringly at me  I had my answer: "Shoot, I am
rarin' to go. " Right off the bat Dr. Brown prescribed a long fast. He told me to
drink a glass of hot water every hour and to take nothing else into my
stomach. Once every 24 hours I was to wash out my colon with a hot
enema. The remedy was drastic, but as I realized it was being applied
to a desperate condition. For that clogged up, inert colon of mine was
constantly saturating my bloodstr eam with poisonous waste, I was
suffering from low blood pressure and anemia "to the nth degree. " Knowing that my life depended upon it, I took my medicine. It was
tough at the start. Like most people I thought if I missed a meal, I'd
starve. All my life until then, I had habitually eaten too much. The
excess sugar and starch—in white bread, potatoes and syrup, instead
of being food, reacted as filth because it could not be assimilated—
had been stored up and this had meant extra pumping for my
overworked heart. Now, I was about ready to drop. After two or three days of it, my craving for food vanished. I no
longer felt hungry. Every morning I walked down to my office,
opened up on schedule and did my day's work. As a rule, that meant
spending long hours on my feet. On the seventh day of my fast, I put
in a five-tooth bridge for John L. Wilson. On the twelfth day of my fast, Dr. Brown looked me over and
told me I was nearly, but not quite ready to break it. Stick it out for a
couple of days more, he suggested. At the end of fourteen days, Dr. Brown put me through his mill and told that, except for one bad spot I
had a clean colon. And he added: "You cannot go on now. You must
have nourishment. Maybe Nature will complete the clean-up. " As it turned out, happily for me, Nature did just that. Without Dr. Brown's friendly but firm warning, I would have
realized well enough that I had now come to the critical turn in my
fight to live. I had to break my fast by degrees. I must follow the
schedule he gave me to  the minute. One false step would probably kill
me. Right then, a light lunch, even  a bowl of soup would have been
speedily fatal. Dr. Brown started me off on a small glass of orange juice every
two hours. For the next day I could have a glass of milk every seven
hours. On the second day, one glass every two hours and on the third
day, one every hour. For the next two weeks, or exactly as long as I had fasted, I was on a milk diet exclusively. Then my system rebelled at the treatment. I no longer could digest my milk ration. It poisoned
me. So Dr. Brown told me to fast for one day. Then put me on a diet
of milk alternated 50-50 with fruit and vegetable juices. I kept that up for four months and then began on potlicker and boiled vegetables, such as mustard greens, turnips, cabbage and carrots. That was the
first solid food I had eaten for almost five months. I felt like a new man. For the first time since I was a boy I knew
the feel of bounding health. When on my fast my weight had dropped
to 120 pounds, four months later I weighed 178 pounds. That was eight pounds above par. I had failed  to weigh regularly. My potlicker
diet soon dropped me to 172 pounds. I kept that weight for several
years. Then gradually I dropped to my present weight, between 145
and 150 pounds. Since Dr. Brown treated me, 20-odd years ago, his profession,
naturopathy, has devised new and better methods of cleaning and
invigorating the colon than by a prolonged fast. He has abandoned that
method, he informs me, as too dangerous. Coming out of the fast
imposes to heavy a strain on the pa tient's will power. I had will power
like an iron horse, without it, I could not have made the grade. However, as I have proved to my own satisfaction, an occasional
short fast—one, two or three days, as conditions may warrant— can
be immensely useful. As I can realize now, looking back over my experience, it was
food eaten as appetite and taste dictated, nothing else, that reduced my
health to its lowest ebb. When I began eating according to formula my
health rose steadily to the high leve l where I have since maintained it. Whatever the disease it is self created. Disease cannot attack a healthy
body. At this writing I am enjoying what seems to me the best health of
all my 83 years. On that point, following my last check-up, my family
physician, Dr. L. B. Barnett of Hereford, gave me welcome
confirmation. He told me:
"The best 15 or 20 years of your life lie ahead of you. " Thus heartened, I can picture myse lf a hale and hearty, energetic
and peppy centenarian. You ask, how do I mean to do it. Well, as
nearly as I can


 from store to store. Because of
her busy schedule, Jennifer has gotten out of the habit of regular physical
exercise. As she approaches her  thirty-fifth birthday, she has be come more
conscious of her health and fitness and has decided to embark on a new
exercise program. Jennifer ’ s startin g BOL T score was 12 seconds, with no apparen t health
concerns. In the beginning, it w as important to avoid the comm on mistake
of overdoing it. In an ef fort to make up for years of not exercising, there is
often a temptation to plunge straight into intensive exercise, but performing
beyond your ability can lead t o increased breathlessness and feelings of
failure. This can sometimes b e enough to put you of f a ne w program
completely when you would have made much better progress by simply
taking e xercises at your own pace. The mantra for beginning any exercise
program should always be: slow and steady, increasing the intensity and
duration by no more than 10 percent each week. I s tarted  Jennifer of f very gen tly, matching specific exercises to her
BOL T s core an d fitness level. T o gently condition her body to a greatertolerance of carbon dioxide, Jen nifer increased her daily walks t o a light jog
as so on as her BOL T score reached 20 seconds. During her first week of
jogging, she alternated between 2 minutes of walking and 2 minutes of
jogging. In the second and third weeks, she began jogging for 3 minutes
followed by walking for 1 minute. By the fourth week she had achieved her
long-awaited goal of jogging for a half hour straight, and more important
she was able to  do this comfo rtably with her mouth closed. All in all,
Jennifer ’ s com mitment to nasal breathing, gentle reduced breathing
exercises, and regular physical exercise achieved impressive benefits with
no r isk of injur y or feeling defeated from overtraining. By intelligently
adapting a new exercise progra m to her needs, Jennifer was able to enjoy
her newfound fitness in a way that fit easily around her work and routine.P r o g r a m  f o r  B O L T  S c o r e  o f  2 0  t o  3 0
S e c o n d s
•  Measure your BOL T score each morning after waking. •   Breathe through  your nose  b oth day and at night, includ ing
wearing tape over the mouth during sleep. •   Redu ce brea thing using the Breathe Light to Breathe Right
exercise for 10 minutes, 3 times  per day, once in the morning,
once in the afternoon, and last thing at night. •   W arm up for 10 minutes by walking and performing a brea th
hold to achieve a medium to str ong air hunger every minute or
so to Simulate High-Altitude T raining. •   Br eathe Light  to Breathe Righ t during a fast walk or jog for 30
to 6 0 minutes daily with a relaxed body, abdominal breathing,
and nasal breathing to create an air shortage. •   Simul ate High -Altitude T rain ing during walking or jogging b y
practicing 8 to 10 breath holds. •   Afte r physical exercise, p ractice the Breathing Recovery
Exercise. •  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress.David is  twenty -three years old and a keen athlete. He trains fo ur times
per week and plays rugby for his hometown. His BOL T score is 20 seconds. David h as been mouth breathing and sighing regularly for several years. He snore s during his sleep and wakes up most mornings with a dry mouth,
nasal congestion, and fatigue. He also finds that during training his
breathing is noisier than that of his teammates (who uncharitab ly call him
“the train”). David’ s heavy breathing can be heard long before he makes a
tackle, with his opponents receiving advance warning that he is in pursuit. When I first me t David I took note of his narrow facial struc ture, flaccid
lower lip, and slightly protrudin g and crooked nose, indicating that he had
been breathing through his mouth since childhood. Like many athletes who have invested many years training to maintain
their fitness, David was at first a  little reluctant to make a drastic change to
his regim en. T o  help dispel any fears, I sat him down and we discussed
basic ph ysiology, the importance of optimal breathing for sports success,the theo ry behind BOL T measurement, and the benefits of simulating high-
altitude training. David is able t o maintain breathing through his nose while jogging
lightly. However, during intense training, he finds doing nasal b reathing too
dif ficult. T raining using nasal breathing creates resistance to breathing
simply because the nose is a smaller area to breathe through than the mouth. David’ s fear is that he may lose muscle conditioning because of the
decrease in training intensity resulting from having to keep  his mouth
closed. T aking this situation into account, the best approach for David is to
apply 90  percen t of the Oxygen Advantage program in order to improve his
BOL T score. This includes simulating a high altitude during jogging,
breathing through the nose at all times, and reducing his breathing by
relaxing during both rest and regular training. The only except ion to nasal
breathing should be when training becomes so intense that he needs to
periodically bre athe through his mouth. In time, as David’ s B OL T score
increases, he will be able to ma intain nasal breathing during high-intensity
exercise. In the meantime, he is able to check whether he is overbreathing
during training by comparing h is BOL T score before training and 1 hour
after co mpleting his exercise. His BOL T score after training should be
approximately 2 5 percent higher than before. If it is lower, D avid should
reduce the intensity of his train ing to the point at which he can maintain
strictly nasal breathing. David’ s goal is to reach a BOL T  score of 40 seconds within 12 weeks. Physical training with a lar ger air hunger is the key to achieving this goal.P r o g r a m  f o r  B O L T  S c o r e  o f  3 0  S e c o n d s
P l u s
•  Measure your BOL T score each morning after waking. •   Breathe through your nose  b oth day and night, including
wearing tape over the mouth during sleep. •   W arm up for 10 minutes by walking and performing a brea th
hold every minute or so to Simulate High-Altitude T raining. •   Breathe Light to Breathe Right  during the run by increasing the
intensity of exercise while maintaining nasal breathing to
develop a reasonably strong air shortage. •   Contin ue with  running and na sal breathing for 20 minutes to  1
hour. •   Midway through the run, practice breath holds to Simulate
High-Altitude T raining. Exhale and hold the breath for 10 to 40
steps while running at a good pace. •   After the breath hold, resume nasal breathing whi le
simultaneously relaxing the b ody. Continue to intersperse
breath holds every few minutes throughout the run. •   After physical exercise, pract ice the Breathing Recovery
Exercise.•   Practi ce one session of Advanced Simulation of High Altitude
every other day. •   Reduce brea thing using the Breathe Light to Breathe Rig ht
exercise for 15 minutes last thing at night. •  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress. Brenda i s thirty- two years old, in  perfect health, and runs ten miles, four
days a week. She is a competiti ve long-distance runner with a B OL T score
of betwe en 35 and 40 seconds. In order to maintain a high B OL T score,
physical exercise with a medium to strong air hunger is necessary. When B renda fe els that she wa nts to push her body harder and faster,
she incr eases her pace to run as fast as she can with her mo uth closed. Often, she is able to mainta in nasal breathing while running at her
maximum pace. As Brenda’ s BOL T score is close to 40 seconds, her bodycan perf orm high-intensity exercise without needing to revert to breathing
through her mouth. Since her b reathing is already so ef ficient, opening the
mouth provides no advantage to  her performance. Brenda’ s current training
regimen is suf ficient to ensure maintenance of her BOL T score. Oxygen Adva ntage Pr ogra m Summary for a BOL T S cor e of 10
to 30 Seconds Plus
W ith continued practice each w eek culminating in an improvement to your
BOL T score, more intense exerc ises can be employed to reach even greater
heights. Using the following ill ustrations, you can check your pathway to
success.P r o g r a m  f o r  W e i g h t  L o s s  o r  O b e s i t y


 nerve cell to thenext, a molecule of acetylcholine is consumed. Thus acetylcholine has to beconstantly replaced. As the body ages, levels of acetylcholine surrounding thenerves drop and in consequence, the nerves begin to deteriorate. DMAE israpidly and easily converted into acetylcholine and helps maintain acetylcholinelevels in older people at a youthful level. When laboratory rats are fed DMAE they solve mazes more rapidly,
remember better, live about 40 percent longer than rats not fed DMAE and mostinterestingly, when autopsied, their nervous systems resemble those of a youngrat, without any evidence of the usual deterioration of aging. Human nervoussystems also deteriorate with age, especially those of people suffering fromsenility. It is highly probable that DMAE will do the same thing to us. DMAE alsosmoothes out mood swings in humans and seems to help my husband, Steve,when he has a big writing project. He can keep working without getting writersblock, fogged out, or emotionally rollercoastering. DMAE is a little hard to find. Prolongevity and VRP sell it in powder form. Since the FDA doesn’t know any MDR and since the product is not capped up,the bottle of powder from Life Extension sagely states that one-quarterteaspoonful contains 333 milligrams. Get the hint? DMAE tastes a little like soursalt and one-quarter teaspoonful dissolves readily in water every morning beforebreakfast, or anytime for that matter. DMAE is also very inexpensive consideringwhat it does. A year’s supply costs about $20. Lecithin  is a highly tonic and inexpensive food supplement that is underutilized
by many people even though it is easily obtainable in healthfood stores. It is an
emulsifier, breaking fats down into small separate particles, keeping blood
cholesterol emulsified to prevent arterial deposits. Taken persistently, lecithinpartially and slowly eliminates existing cholesterol deposits from the circulatorysystem. In our cholesterol-frightened society lecithin should be a far more popular
supplement than it currently is. It is easy to take either as a food in the granularform or when encapsulated. Lecithin granules have very little flavor and can beadded to a homemade vinegar and oil salad dressing, where they emulsify the oiland make it blend with the vinegar, thickening the mixture and causing it to stick tothe salad better. Lecithin can also be put in a fruits smoothie. A scant tablespoona day is sufficient. Try to buy the kind of lecithin that has the highest phosphatidylcholine content because this substance is the second benefit of taking lecithin.Phosphatidyl choline is another precursor used by the body to build acetylcholineand helps maintain the nervous system. Algae. Spirulina or sun dried chlorella are also great food supplements. Both
make many people feel energized, pepped-up. It is possible to fast on eitherproduct and still maintain sufficient energy levels to take of minimal workresponsibilities. Algae reduces appetite and as a dietary supplement can assist inweight loss. It contains large amounts of highly-assimilable protein due to it’s highchlorophyll content, as well as a large amount of beta carotene. It also assists indetoxification of the lymphatic system. It can be purchased as tablets or powder.Take a heaping teaspoon daily, or at least six tablets. Chapter Seven
The Analysis of Disease States:
Helping the Body Recover
From the Hygienic Dictionary
Diagnosis. [1] In the United States, making a diagnosis implies that you are a doctor duly licensed to
engage in diagnostic function.... The making of a diagnosis is reserved only for doctors.... The term“analysis” does not have such an explicit legal definition. Thus, it is the term of choice of iridologistsand the one most often used by them. It is essential for the survival and promotion of iridology thatthose who choose to engage in its practice avoid naming any disease condition. As we have seen, to doso is to infringe on rights reserved exclusively for doctors and can land the iridologist, sooner or later,in a snarl of legal troubles. It is better for the iridologist to refrain from suggesting to a person that he has any particular
disease, letting such diagnostics remain the province of licensed doctors. In so doing, the iridologistwill avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally qualified todiagnose. It is indeed unfortunate that one of the greatest pitfalls awaiting the iridologist is the temptation
to name diseases. The feelings of satisfaction and power resulting from conferring a name are deeplyrooted in the human psyche. For example, the Bible tells us that man’s first task on Earth was to namethe animals, thus giving him power and dominion over them. Strong is the temptation to name diseases because nearly everyone has come to expect that his
malady has a name. Patients have come to expect, and doctors have been trained to make, a diagnosis.... “After all,” the patient may reason, “how can you hope to deal with my condition if you aren’tknowledgeable enough to call it by name?”
It is not necessary to name diseases in order to exercise dominion over them. Dr. Bernard Jensen,
Visions of Health. In self defense, I must make it very clear from the first word that hygienists and
most other naturopaths of various persuasions, and especially I myself, have neverin the past, never!, and do not now, diagnose, treat or offer to cure, disease orillness. Diagnosis and curing are sole, exclusive privileges of certified, duly-licensed medical doctors and may only be done with a grant of Authority to do sofrom the State. Should an unlicensed person diagnose, offer to treat or attempt tocure disease or illness, they will have committed a felonious act. With bigpenalties. Therefore, I do not do it. When one of my clients comes to me and says that a medical doctor says they
have some disease or other, I agree that the medical doctor says they have somedisease or other, and I never dare say that they don’t. Or even confirm on myown authority that I think they do have some disease or other. What I can legally do for a client is to analyze the state of their body and its
organs, looking for weaknesses and apparent allergies. I can lawfully state that Ithink their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be functioning well interms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a hard time of it. I cansay I see a lump sticking out of their body when one is obviously sticking out oftheir body; I can not say that lump is cancerous but I can state that the cells in thatlump test overly strong and that if I myself had a mass of growing cells testingoverly strong and if I believed in the standard medical model, then I would berushing my overly-strong-testing cells to an oncologist. But I don’t dare say theperson has a cancer. Or diabetes. Or is getting close to kidney failure. That is adiagnosis. To me, diagnosis is a form of magic rite in which the physician discovers the
secret name of the devil that is inhabiting one’s body and then, knowing thatsecret name, performs the correct rite and ritual to cast that demon out. I don’tknow why people are made so happy knowing the name of their condition! Doesit really matter? Either the body can heal the condition or it can’t. If it can, you willrecover (especially if you give the body a little help). If the body can’t heal a
condition you will die or live a long time being miserable. No “scientific” medical
magic can do better than that. By describing a disease in terms of its related organ weaknesses, instead of
pinning a Latin name on it, I am able to assist the body to achieve recovery in asuperior way that the physician rarely does. By discovering that the body with thelump of overly strong cells also has a weak spleen, liver and thymus gland, I cantake actions to strengthen the spleen, liver and thymus. If the body can strengthenits spleen, liver and thymus, then the overly strong cells miraculously vanish. But ofcourse what I did did not cure any disease. Any improvements that happen Iassign (correctly) to the body’s own healing power. The way I analyze the organic integrity of the body is through a number of
related methods, including the general appearance of the body, the patient’s healthhistory, various clues such as body and breath odor, skin color and tone, andespecially, biokinesiology, the applied science of muscle testing. Biokinesiologycan be used to test the strength or weakness of specific organs and their function.A weak latissimus dorsi muscle indicates a weak pancreas, for example. Specificacupuncture points can be tested in conjunction with muscle strength to indicatethe condition of specific organs or glands. The strength of the arm’s resistance todownward pressure could be calibrated with a spring scale and precisely gauged,but experienced practitioners have no need for this bother, because they are ableto pick up subtle changes in the arms resistance that are not apparent to thetestee. Thus muscle testing becomes an art form, and becomes as effective as theperson using it is sensitive and aware. Biokinesiology works because every organ and gland in the body is
interconnected with other parts of the body through nerve pathways and nervetransmissions, which are electrical and can be


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inside. Being in a state of gratitude is the exact same thing as being in a
state of respect—respect for yourself, which you give away freely, and
which will return to you tenfold. I close this chapter with the words of Jesus of Nazareth, speaking through
his apostle Saint Matthew (Matthew 5:48): “Be perfect, therefore, as your
heavenly Father is perfect. ” Reconnect to the perfection from which you
originated. You can’t have any more self-respect than that. OceanofPDF. comIT IS
MY INTENTION TO:
LIVE MY LIFE
ON PURPOSE
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose
of living. ”

— Buddha
“Your sole business in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless. ”

— Sivananda
A sense of purpose is at the very top of the pyramid of self-actualization
created by Abraham Maslow more than 50 years ago. Through his research,
Dr. Maslow discovered that those who feel purposeful are living the highest
qualities that humanity has to offer. During the many years I’ve been in the
fields of human development, motivation, and spiritual awareness, this is
the topic that more people inquire about than anything else. I’m repeatedly
asked questions such as: How do I find my purpose. Does such a thingreally exist. Why don’t I know my purpose in life. Being on purpose is what
the most self-actualized people accomplish on their life journeys. But many
individuals feel little sense of purpose, and may even doubt that they have a
purpose in life. Purpose and Intention
The theme of this book is that intention is a force in the universe, and that
everything and everyone is connected to this invisible force. Since this is an
intelligent system we’re all a part of, and everything that arrives here came
from that intelligence, it follows that if it wasn’t supposed to be here, then it
wouldn’t be here. And if it’s here, then it’s supposed to be, and that’s
enough for me. The very fact of your existence indicates that you have a
purpose. As I mentioned, the key question for most of us is: “What is my
purpose. ” And I hear that question in as many forms as there are people
wondering about it: What am I supposed to be doing. Should I be an
architect, a florist, or a veterinarian. Should I help people or fix
automobiles. Am I supposed to have a family or be in the jungle saving the
chimpanzees. We’re befuddled by the endless number of options available
to us, and wonder whether we’re doing the right thing. In this chapter, I urge you to forget these questions. Move instead to a
place of faith and trust in the universal mind of intention, remembering that
you emanated from this mind and that you’re a piece of it at all times. Intention and purpose are as beautifully and naturally intertwined as the
double helix of your DNA. There are no accidents. You’re here for the
purpose that you signed up for before you entered the world of particles and
form. Many of the things that you refer to as problems result from the fact
that you’re disconnected from intention and therefore unaware of your true
spiritual identity. The process of polishing that connecting link and
reconnecting is basic to your intention to live your life on purpose. As you
cleanse this link, you’ll make two very important discoveries. First, you’ll
discover that your purpose is not as much about what you do as it is about
how you feel. Your second discovery will be that feeling purposeful
activates your power of intention to create anything that’s consistent with
the seven faces of intention. Feeling purposeful. In response to the question What should I do with
my life., I suggest that there’s only one thing you can do with it, since you
came into this life with nothing and you’ll leave with nothing: You can give
it away. You’ll feel most on purpose when you’re giving your life away by
serving others. When you’re giving to others, to your planet, and to your
Source, you’re being purposeful. Whatever it is that you choose to do, if
you’re motivated to be of service to others while being authentically
detached from the outcome, you’ll feel on purpose, regardless of how much
abundance flows back to you. So, your intention is to live your life on purpose. But what is the spiritual
Source like in this regard. It’s perpetually in the process of giving its life
force away to create something from nothing. When you do the same,
regardless of what you’re giving or creating, you’re in harmony with
intention. You’re then on purpose, just as the universal mind is always
acting purposefully. Take this one step further. Does the universal Source of all life have to
think about what it’s doing with its powers. Is it concerned with bringing in
gazelles or centipedes. Does it concern itself with where it lives or what it
ultimately creates. No. Your Source is simply in the business of expressing
itself through the seven faces of intention. The details are taken care of
automatically. Likewise, your feelings of being on purpose in your life flow
through expression of the seven faces of intention. Allow yourself to be in the feeling place within you that’s unconcerned
with such things as vocational choices or doing the things you were
destined to do. When you’re in the service of others, or extend kindness
beyond your own boundaries, you’ll feel connected to your Source. You’ll
feel happy and content, knowing that you’re doing the right thing. I get that feeling of inner completion and contentment that lets me know
that I’m on purpose by reading my mail or hearing the comments I so
frequently hear when I’m walking through airports or eating at restaurants:
You changed my life, Wayne Dyer. You were there for me when I felt lost. This is different from receiving a royalty payment or a great review, which Ialso enjoy. The personal expressions of gratitude are what sustain me in
knowing that I’m on purpose. Outside of my chosen occupation, I feel purposeful in a myriad of ways
virtually every single day. When I extend assistance to someone in need,
when I take a moment to cheer up a disgruntled employee in a restaurant or
a store, when I make a child laugh who sits otherwise ignored in a stroller,
or even when I pick up a piece of litter and place it in a trash can, I feel that
I’m giving myself away and, as such, feel purposeful. Essentially what I’m saying is: Stay on purpose by expressing the seven
faces of intention, and the details will find you. You’ll never have to ask
what your purpose is or how to find it. Your purpose will find you. In a previous chapter, I reviewed the
obstacles to connecting to intention and pointed out that our thoughts are
one of the major roadblocks. I stressed that we become what we think about
all day long. What thoughts do you have that inhibit you from feeling as if
you’re on purpose in your life. For instance, if you think that you’re
separate from your purpose and that you’re drifting without direction
through your life, then that’s precisely what you’ll attract. Suppose, instead, that you know this is a purposeful universe where your
thoughts, emotions, and actions are a part of your free will and are also
connected to the power of intention. Suppose that your thoughts of being
purposeless and aimless are really a part of your purpose. Just as the
thought of losing someone you love makes you love them even more, or an
illness makes you treasure your health, suppose that it takes the thought of
your unimportance to make you realize your value. When you’re awake enough to question your purpose and ask how to
connect to it, you’re being prodded by the power of intention. The very act
of questioning why you’re here is an indication that your thoughts are
nudging you to reconnect to the field of intention. What’s the source of your
thoughts about your purpose. Why do you want to feel purposeful. Why is
a sense of purpose considered the highest attribute of a fully functioning
person. The source of thought is an infinite reservoir of energy andintelligence. In a sense, thoughts about your purpose are really your
purpose tryingto reconnect to you. This infinite reservoir of loving, kind,
creative, abundant energy grew out of the originating intelligence, and is
stimulating you to express this universal mind in your own unique way. Reread the two display quotes at the beginning of this chapter. Buddha
refers to the truth, and Sivananda suggests that God realization is our true
purpose. This entire book is dedicated to connecting to the power of
intention and letting go of ego, which tries to make us believe that we’re
separate from our divine originating Source and tries to separate us from
realizing ultimate truth. This ultimate truth is the source of your thoughts. That inner beingness knows why you’re here, but your ego prods you to
chase after money, prestige, popularity, and sensory pleasures and miss the
purpose of living. You may feel sated and gain a reputation, but inside
there’s that gnawing feeling typified by the old Peggy Lee song “Is That All
There Is. ” Focusing on the demands of the ego leaves you feeling