 is best not set a deﬁnite time limit. If we want to use magic to help our
expectation to manifest, we can use energy imagery as mentioned earlier: visualise or imagine the desired result and ﬁll it with
emotional and etheric energy. The critical factor then is our unwavering faith until the expected event appears.
This brings us to the next important step, to know what to manifest. It is said that we should be very careful with our wishes because
they might come true. That means that we are usually ignorant about the hidden implications of a fulﬁlled desire. Often there is a
spiritual or karmic price to pay. We may delay our spiritual progress or even take on a karmic burden of another individual whom we
try to help. We may still have certai n karmic obligations to fulﬁl in this lifetime and it would be detrimental to our spiritual progress
trying to delay or avoid their consequences.
Often an incarnation with the speciﬁc purpose to reach ascension in this lifetime starts already with a severe handicap and is
intentionally ﬁlled with difﬁcult and possibly tragic karmic events. These tests need to be passed before reaching the high goal. The
greater the handicaps, the greater the victory if we are able to overcome them. When we are progressing on the spiritual path bad
things do not just happen to us by accident. Therefore, we really do not need to worry; whatever happens to us is good in that it helps
us to reach our goal.
Every adverse event, whether karmic or not, gives us a chance to proof ourselves. We need to pass tests on every step of the way to
make sure that we have learned our lesson; otherwise the lesson has to be repeated over and over again. To come close to such a
worthy goal as illumination or ascension, we must be able to pass the lion test in one form or another.10/30/24, 3:03 PM Health-Science-Spirit - An Integrated Spiritual Path
https://health-science-spirit.com/Spirituality/An-Integrated-Spiritual-Path.html 4/7What all this means is that it is not advisable on the spiritual path to use magic that is our mind power, lightly to avoid obstacles and
make ourselves an easy life. If we are successful, we may just have evaded a test and will have to wait for another test to be
arranged. Another way of saying this is to go with the ﬂow of your life and do the best you can, rather than always trying to make
things happen according to a preconceived plan.
Pure Motive
Another thing to watch out for is the motive for our actions. While it is important that we try to do the right thing, it is even more
important that we have a pure motive. Being pure at heart means having pure motives. Therefore, another job for our inner observer
is to watch over our motives and warn us if there is any doubt. In case of important decisions we may meditate and contemplate
about our motive and make sure that it is sufﬁciently pure.
A method that helps us to be fair in all situations is to see a problem from all sides, especially from the side of someone who
disagrees with us. Usually everyone in a disagreement has a valid point and we have to learn to understand all these opposing views
and ﬁnd the common ground that is fair to all.
With all this focus on purity and doing the right thing, it is easy to fall into the old habit of suppressing what we perceive to be negative
within us rather than transmuting and overcoming it. Suppressing creates new blockages and brings us back where we started.
Rather we have to acknowledge and integrate all parts of our personality into a single conscious unit. Only when we are fully
conscious of our negative parts can we successfully transform them.
Acting like a Master
A good way of overcoming our weaknesses and reaching spiritual mastership is by acting as if we have already reached it. With
every doubtful or important decision we may ask ourselves what a spiritual master would do in this situation and then just do it.
Remember the advice given to Jonathan Livingston Seagull by his teacher? In order to be instantly in another place just imagine that
you are already in that place! If you habitually act like a spiritual master, then you are a spiritual master. Never mind a few mistakes or
wrong decisions. Nothing better then our own mistakes to learn from. You still have many years ahead of you to learn doing the right
thing most of the time.
Actually, when you have reached a level where your motives are basically unselﬁsh, then you do not need to be too concerned about
making the right decision. Just trust your intuition or inner guidance. Whatever you choose will usually be right. It will be like going on
a camping trip or bush walk and you have four choices of getting to the selected camp site: a high track over the top of the hill, a
much longer level path, a shortcut across a stream through an overgrown valley or you can simply sit in a bus or car to get there.
Each of these choices will give you a different experience. Depending on your preference at the time you may choose the high road
or the low road, adventure or comfort, it does not matter, there is no wrong choice, only dif ferent experiences.
However, the concept of right and wrong still exists in relationship to our intentions or goals. If it is your intention to reach the camp
site in the most comfortable way, then obviously the bus or car is the right choice and the other choices are wrong. Right and wrong
only disappear if you look at life or your path as a fascinating adventure and do not mind what it brings you, if you are not attached to
outcomes.
MIND T OOLS
Prayer, meditation and studying holy Scriptures were the basic original mind tools on the spiritual path, especially in the West, while
in the East visualisation or guided imagery and mantras were commonly used in addition. All of these are still very useful now. For an
introduction to some of these metho ds see Mind Tools. In addition you will ﬁnd some of the more modern techniques very helpful,
especially regression therapy, relaxation, afﬁrmations and centring.
You may gradually develop a routine where you combine several of these methods in a daily program. This may, for instance start
with prayer and/or afﬁrmations, followed by relaxation, then guided imagery and ﬁnally meditation. During the day practise centring. A
good way to remain centred is to use a silent mantra. A Hare Krishna devotee might use "Hare Krishna" as mantra while someone
raised in the Christian tradition may mentally repeat "Jesus Christus" or "Y our Will Be Done".
At the same time we may focus part of our consciousness on the heart or forehead chakra. We can do this whenever our mind is
reasonably idle without the need for concentrated thinking. When we have to focus our attention we temporarily interrupt and
afterwards start again with the mantra. After some time of practise it will be easy to do this automatically whenever the mind is idle.
A powerful exercise is to imagine being puriﬁed by a violet ﬂame. There are different versions of this exercise. For one such exercise
see www.newage.com.au /.
In addition, you may make an effort to become and remain more and more aware of your God Presence, at ﬁrst in meditation and as
guided imagery, but gradually also in your daily life. Imagine your God Presence as shown in the picture of The Magic Presence  in
the introduction to the Spirituality Section. Instead of a ﬁgure, you may just visualise an intense white light over your head or feel or
sense a protective and loving presence.
Initially imagine sending an offering of love or devotion through the top of your head straight up to your God Presence or if lying down
send it up through the forehead or from the heart centre. Then imagine a strong beam of white light together with an intensiﬁed
feeling of love and protection entering your top centre and proceeding through the forehead and throat centres to the heart centre. At
the same time feel and possibly see your whole body surrounded by intense white or yellow, rose and purple light as depicted in The
Magic Presence.  Connect with your God Presence in this way especially before any prayer or healing work.
The classical text on the mystical path is 'Mysticism' by Evelyn  Underhill, ﬁrst published in 1911. The teachings of 'A Course in
Miracles' may be studied as part of the puriﬁcation process, especially  at the mental level. The theoretical part may be difﬁcult to10/30/24, 3:03 PM Health-Science-Spirit - An Integrated Spiritual Path
https://health-science-spirit.com/Spirituality/An-Integrated-Spiritual-Path.html 5/7understand, especially if you are more of an emotional than a mental type. However, it will be beneﬁcial for developing your higher
mental abilities. For details and contacts see www.godchannel.com/miracles.html  or http://www.acim.org/.
For details on ascension teachings see the books by Joshua Stone and his ascension web site http://www.drjoshuastone.com/. A
wealth of information on the spiritual path is also in the Alice Bailey books channelled by the master Djwhal Khul, see
http://www.lucistrust.org/. I also like the two volumes of 'A Search for God' from the readings of Edgar Cayce, especially for


i's sarcoma intermittently over portions of my body.
My energy level was very low.
To make long story short, I started Urine Therapy.
The first treatment with urine was on my skin.
The second day I noticed that the KS lesions were starting to fade.
Then I stared to drink my own urine.
I took about one ounce a day in the beginning.
My thrush went away.
Every time when I apply urine to any aberration or sore on my skin,
it all but disappears. The KS leision I was talking about is not even one-fourth the original size.
Also, my energy level is much higher. I had colitis. I no longer have an inflamed colon.
I am steady as a clock and do not suffer anymore from chronic diarrhea.
So evidently this is working for me.
Mr. M. New York
I am a PWA. My major problem was parasites. My stool sample contained pus,
large amounts of yeast and several parasites. My last test came back totally clear.
No more pus_and no more parasites!
54 Mr. A. Georgia
I am a PWA and have been doing Urine Therapy for two-and-one-half months.
My Lymphadenopathy was gone within 48 hours after starting the urine.
I had a severe acne problem on my back. After five weeks the skin is clear.
My energy levels increased enormously within a few days of drinking my urine.
Mr. S. New York
One and one-half months ago I was diagnosed with gonorrhea, anal sores and herpes.
I took medication and the condition improved but two weeks later the herpes came back even
worse. So I started Urine Therapy. Within two or three days, everything cleared up totally.
What was even more amazing to me is the parasite problem I suffered for quite some tome got
resolved inadvertently with Urine Therapy, while treating my herpes.
Dr. G.K. Thakkar Bombay
The last 40 years I have suffered from eczema, and the last 20 years from amoeobic dysentery.
I got rid of both diseases by this wonderful remedy, Urine Therapy.
You will be further surprised to know that there were some side effects too; but not of the usual
nature, which you suffer in allopathic treatments. I also suffered from falling hair and dandruff.
I always used to have cracks in my feet and even on my lips during all the seasons.
Once every few months I also suffered form stomatitis.
I got rid of all the above complaints and ailments unknowingly, as side effects of this therapy.
My wife was a regular patient for more than 20 years and was suffering from numerous disease
like ear trouble, vertigo, constipation, pain in the joints and many more.
She tried the best available treatments in allopathy, homeopathy and ayurvedic medicine but
without any results. At last she tried Urine Therapy and got rid of all her ailments miraculously.
And if this is not enough, my younger son, 17 years old, suffered from hematuria (blood in the
urine) for more than a year. The doctors thought that something was seriously wrong with his
kidneys and recommended an intravenous polygraph.
I persuaded my son to start drinking his urine for 30 days and then to take another urine test
After that period of time, the report of the urine test came back absolutely normal!
Mrs. B. New York
One day I wanted to make sure my iron was turned off before I left the house.
So I checked the iron surface with the palm of my hand, expecting it to be cold.
To my surprise, the iron was very hot Unfortunately, the damage was already done.
I burned my hand with at least second degree burns. It was very painful, to say the least
Then I remembered that some weeks earlier I had stored away a bottle containing urine.
I got that old urine from the bottle and covered my burns with it.
The pains soon left.
A few hours later, My hand looked and felt as if nothing had happened to it.
No blisters, no scars, no redness.
The effectiveness of this simple but powerful liquid is amazing.
Mr. M. Florida
If it is of interest to you for any research purposes, I nearly died from the reactions of several
strong antibiotics administered over several months of lung infections. I have been hospitalized
three times in the past year for the resulting gastro-intestinal problems created by the medication.
After the most recent hospital stay, I refused to continue with the medication.
Most of the problems began to clear up within a few days.
However, my rectal bleeding from colitis and internal hemorrhoids continued.
In the meantime a friend told me that in the Tennessee Hills, where he was raised, urine enemas
were used for similar problems. On July31, 1988, I began using urine for daily enemas.
By the end of the following week, the bleeding had stopped completely, and as of this date
(September25, 1988), I have not passed a single drop of blood.
55 NOTHING UNSCIENTIFIC ABOUT URINE THERAPY
Dr. B.V. Khare
How does it feel to be an allopathic expert promoting urine therapy?
I feel great! Many doctors know about it but they feel inhibited because of many reasons:
they don't have experience; they feel scared that if people really start doing it and remain healthy
their practices will go down, etc..
I have given more than 200 lectures all over India and when I gave a lecture at Mumbai Rotary
Club, the doctors present there told me to stop promoting it because they were having a slack
season. They were afraid if I promoted urine therapy with greater enthusiasm the number of
patients attending dispensaries would be further reduced.
How do others in the medical fraternity react to this?
Some were curious to know more about it and some were sceptical about its value. Many of them
reacted favourably and started sending patients to me with chits for consultation on auto-urine
therapy. You will be surprised to know that I treated with auto-urine therapy(AUT) many doctors
too and they were cured of their ailments. But when asked to give me a certificate that they had
such a remarkable result, they refused for obvious reasons.
How do you tackle people who may tell you that your are unscientific?
There is nothing unscientific about it. Mr. Moraji Desai, the former Prime Minister of India, was
using this remedy for years and he lived for almost a hundred years bouncing with good health.
In fact, I got an invitation to give a talk at the Rotary Meeting on alternative therapy four or five
years ago just because the doctors who were under my treatment showed no signs of aging and
they insisted that I should be invited to talk to the general public.
Many people are working all over the world and doing research on this.
The Dean of J.J.Hospital is keen that I should start research on this project And I have given my
consent. We should start some work in the next 2 to 3 months.
Is there any scientific research in this regard? Or some documented evidence?
There is a lot of scientific research and documented evidence on auto-urine therapy.
The Italian surgeon Stanislau R Burzynski, now settled in America, separated anti-neoplastin
from human urine and showed remarkable results in the treatment of cancer. But the cost of
treatment was in lakhs.The other substance found in large quantities in the urine is called
dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It is a hormone related to testesterone. This, as research
showed, has anti-aging, anti-cancer, and anti-obesity properties. There is also lots of research on
urea. When recycled by mouth, it is converted into essential amino acid.
In what otherwise-incurable diseases do you find urine therapy effective?
I have personally treated many patients with allergies, especially asthma, which have been cured.
The other condition on which AUT has effect is chronic amoeobic dysentery which is really a
problem in India. Chronic constipation, which is also a common thing in old age, gets cured in a
few months. Some cases of cancer have got cured, but one cannot say that all cases can get
well. This mainly depends on the stage of the disease. For common troubles like skin diseases,
cold, cough, bronchitis, viral fever and pyorrhoea, it is really a boon.
How did you get interested in this therapy?
I read a book in 1975 called "Manav Mootra" by Ravjibhai Patel. It gave me an impetus to treat a
case of Hodgkin's disease with high grade cancer. The patient was supposed to be a gone case.
But with auto urine therapy, this man is still perfectly all right.
Then in the last few years, I have treated many patients not only from India but also from a few
places abroad with this therapy. The diseases I have treated with this auto urine therapy are :
psoriasis, eczema, allergy, arthritis, diabetes, obesity, backache, hyperacidity, ulcerative colitis
and mental depression. Now appointed in Shushrusha Hospital as a yoga therapist,
naturopath and urine therapy consultant, I am doing regular consultation on this.
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There are no side-effects at all if taken in excess. In fact, in viral


 units of life
force daily through breathing, eating and resting. Yet he may spend
125 units of life through poor diet, smoking, gluttony, overwork,
anxiety, constitutional weakness, drug abuse and frequent loss of
the vital sex fluid. To spend the extra 25 units he must continuously
borrow vitality from the brain and organs. This theft of vital energy
from one's own million dollar reserves gradually induces mental
and physical sickness and premature aging.
Conserving sexual energy is a practical way to earn 125 units
and spend 100 units or less. It's an investment in one's physical,
mental, and spiritual growth. The imbalance of one's personal
economy can be corrected by reducing the disastrously wasteful
expenditure of ejaculation. A "profit" of 25 units of vitality is then
made by transforming the conserved sexual fluid into higher mental
or spiritual energy. Eliminating other bad habits will reduce the
loss and increase the profit, but no other single factor in life is so
potent as sexual energy.
If you work hard all day, you've already used up much en-
ergy. If you then have a few drinks, eat a heavy dinner and later
have sex in which you ejaculate the vital sperm fluid, you are
overspending your life's provision prematurely. Some people
would call it a day well spent, as they cannot envision anything
better in life to spend their energy on. If you continue to overtax
your resources, you may wake one morning fatigued with life, sick
with arthritis or cancer, or maybe you won't wake up at all. You
will have prematurely exhausted your vital capital and may have to
die at an age that you feel is somehow "unfair" or possibly worse,The Sexual Economy 37
suffer through your final years in life with your creative powers and
physical faculties greatly diminished.
I am a Taoist living in the twentieth century near New York
City and lead an extremely busy life. I have a wife and an overly
energetic young child. I own a computer, drive a car in city traffic,
deal with teaching hundreds of students, and maintain a heavy
travel schedule flying around the U.S.I know it is possible to lead a
rich and rewarding life without exhausting oneself, and have seen
my students do the same. The more you cultivate your chi energy
with daily practice, the easier it becomes to replace energy spent
and still end up ahead.
Of course, if you choose a simpler lifestyle you can progress
much more quickly. That's why many Taoists choose to live up in
the peaceful mountains. But you can live by the same Taoist princi-
ples anywhere. The universe is bountiful if you know how to live
with it. Sexual energy is one of the most abundant gifts given to us
by nature, yet most people casually toss it away without realizing
the full value of its treasure.
As Americans become more aware of the importance of per-
sonal health they are seeking to change their lifestyles. Many peo-
ple are now realizing that they have been living destructively. For-
tunately, they have grown conscious before it is too late. Whether
they are jogging or taking a dance class, they wish to begin a life-
energy conservation program. First they must pay the interest on
the vital sums they have overspent from their mind and body. After
a while they may repay both interest and principal as they begin to
produce and conserve more energy. At that point they can take the
path of cultivating their chi energy into its original spirit.
Have realistic expectations. You may have spent more vi-
tality than you had to spare. Concentration and patience are neces-
sary to recover it. You can spend $100,000 in an hour, but you may
need one year to earn it back. Serious physical and mental trauma,
heavy use of drugs, and frequent ejaculation all involve grossly
excessive spending. Many young people seem to have unlimited
energy. But these youths are toying with the sources of life as if on
a wild spending spree.
Many older people apparently in good health are, in fact,
tottering on the brink of serious breakdown. Only the strength of
habitual self-will allows them to continue to function. When they
have a check-up—often prompted by unconscious awareness of38 Taoist Secrets Of Love
their condition—the doctor may order an immediate halt to stren-
uous exertion. Often these people collapse in the first days of their
enforced rest because the flimsy strand of willpower which kept
them going has been cut. Friends will say, "I can't believe it.
Yesterday he seemed strong as an ox." If you learn to balance your
account in the sexual economy, you will be taking the most prudent
steps possible to avoid such a scenario in your own life.
THE YOUTHFUL FURY OF SEXUAL FRUSTRATION
One of my main concerns is the frustration of youth in our society.
Upon the quality of their thoughts and acts civilization will endure
or crumble. Most male youths are more interested in sex than
almost any other subject. This is natural, as their bodies are work-
ing overtime to produce billions of sperm cells. Women cannot
imagine what an intense experience this is, as their energy cycle is
more evenly distributed over the fluctuation of a monthly men-
strual cycle.
This build-up of male energy is a natural manifestation of
universal Yang energy. The development of traditional romantic
love at this stage is natural. If this expanding Yang energy finds a
receptive female to nourish it the love between them can mature
and spiritual evolution gradually awaken. The problem of ob-
sessive sex arises from a material society that stresses the value of
physical sex so highly that people remain immature all their lives
seeking to sustain a lusty image of sex that exhausts them and
ultimately blocks their evolution by stimulating them to rapid loss
of their seed.
The harder youths try to grab pleasure, the more surely it
eludes them. In their frustration, many seek pleasure with increas-
ing fury, a quest for identity that leads to frequent masturbation
and promiscuity. The more often they spill out their vital seed, the
more empty they gradually become despite the temporary feeling
of gratification as the life force passes out their loins. Unrestrained
sexual frenzy can destroy a young man's fragile identity and melt
him into the mob mind cultivated by sex-for-profit industry and
sexually exploitive media shows. Higher vital energy which should
nourish the young person's true center serves instead to grease the
empty fantasy of his bed of lust. Afterward he is left with nothing.
This spells spiritual disaster if the excesses are not corrected inThe Sexual Economy 39
time. This type of young man may have difficulty in his relationship
with women and ultimately this leaves a vacuum in his understand-
ing of himself and the female pole of his own male energy.
For this same reason adolescents tend to fanaticism, political,
religious, or otherwise. Mao's Red Guard is but one youth group
that has propagated its reigning tyrant's brand of fascism. The
proliferation of various cults in the U.S. is strong evidence that the
young are not able to fill the void in their lives with the physical
pleasures that have become standard. If the fragile link with his
newly forming adult identity is frayed or broken by lack of love or
social nurturance, a youth has only the group psyche to animate his
life. The group mind provides the fullness their hollowness craves.
As Nature abhors a vacuum, their own emptiness despises itself.
These remarks apply to adults in our sex obsessed society as
well; many are desperately questioning for an identity that is their
own by natural right, if only they knew how to claim it. The proper
understanding of the function of sexual love in their personal evo-
lution would go far to correct these excesses. Education about
methods of chi cultivation of all types, but especially of the sexual
energy is the most direct solution. Teenagers will never give up
their sexual desire, but it is not far-fetched that many of them
would be interested in improving it if they knew how.
SEX AND THE SUPER ATHLETE
There is a widespread belief among many professional sports
coaches that an athlete who makes love the night before a big game
loses his competitive edge. This is a controversial topic and a sur-
vey of existing opinion on the subject is inconclusive. Clive Davis,
editor of the Journal Of Sex Research, looked into the effects of
having sex before competition and concluded "You can always
find anecdotal reports to support any position you want to take, but
certainly you couldn't support either side medically."
Top-ranked prize-fighters are the most vociferous in contend-
ing that they cannot violate natural laws without paying a stiff
price. Ken Norton publicly stated that he gave up sex for eight
weeks before his first fight with Ali and abstained for a similar
length of time in subsequent Ali fights. "A couple of times in my
first 10 or 11 fights, when I didn't abstain from sex, I think it hurt
me." Norton said that he believed that "9 out of 10" fighters give40 Taoist Secrets Of Love
up sex while training for a bout. Joe Frazier, who also fought Ali,
felt very strongly about the damaging effects of ejaculatory sex: "If
you mess around before a fight you don't have any reserve energy
left."
It is rumored that the great Muhammed Ali observed strictest
sexual continence for as long as one year before his bouts. He
didn't publicize this because he keeps


 So to truly live out your destiny as a piece of the originating Tao,
you must shed your ego and return to spirit—or you can wait until your
body dies and make your return trip at that time.
Six centuries after Lao-tzu dicta ted the 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching, the
man who wrote a huge percen tage of the New Testament also spoke of
whence we come. Formerly called Saul of Tarsus, he became known as
Saint Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ. In his letter to the people of Ephesus,
he wrote: “You were created to be like God, and so you must please him
and be truly holy” (Eph. 4:24). This is an invitation for us all to return to
what we came from, which is loving, kind, and not exclusive in any way.
How is this accomplished, according to Saint Paul and Lao-tzu, who
emphasizes this point in many of the verses of the Tao Te Ching? You do so
by yield ing your ego, surrendering, and being humble. To that end, in hisletter to the people of Corinth, Saint Paul quote s Jesus directly: “My grace
is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Paul then
goes on to say himself, “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’ s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’ s
sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor. 12:9–10).
Indeed, yielding is the way of the Tao, as well as the key to an uplifted
existence, according to virtually all spiritu al texts that have survived over
the centuries.
When you truly change the way you think about all of life, the world
begins to look very different. You begin seeing everyone and everything as
if they have round-trip tickets: You know they all arrived from spirit, and
you know they must return. All that composes also decomposes, and
whether anyone  else understands that isn’t important to you. You find the
awareness that life on Earth is a death senten ce to be a liberating and
amusing viewpo int. You’re choosing to live every day, each moment that
you have and as much as you can, as the nonbeing aspect of yourself.
As a being of spirit, you decide  to use your “return ticket” while you’re
still in physical form by keeping yourself in precisely the same loving status
that you occupied before enter ing this world of boundaries. As you take
your return journey, you not only get to lose your ego-identification card,
you have the added bonus of regaining the power of your Source, which is
the all-creating power of the unive rse. You merge into the onene ss of a
being who dissolves ego concerns, and the world that you now see is
perfect and infinite in nature. There is no more worry, anxiety, or
identification with your possessions—you’re a free person. You’re a
spiritual being first, last, and always.
This is what I feel that Lao-tzu is telling you in this brief yet profound
teaching of the 40th verse of the T ao Te Ching: 40th V erse
Monitor your dir ection, emphasizing r eturning and yielding.
Mentally make an ef fort to assess every step you’re taking in all aspects of
your life—including in your career, your relationships, and your health—in
terms of directionality. That is, ask yourself, In which way am I truly
moving? Am I getting away from my originating place, or am I returning toit? As you make this assessment, you can be more forthright about
returning to, rather than movi ng away from, the Tao. A resolution to
exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-
being from which you originated. A decision to suspe nd your ego and take
an interest in another person is a movement of moving back to the Tao. A
determination to be generous rather than hoard is a choice to be in the
return motion. All of these actio ns come from your thinking first about the
direction in which you’re moving— away from your origination spirit or
back to it.
Surr ender!
This is what yielding is all about. Recognize that your little ego does
nothing and that the Tao creates everything, including you. As I sit and
write these words in my magic al writing space, I know that I don’t own
what mysteriously appears on the paper. I’ve surre ndered. I know that God
writes all the books, composes all the music, and erects all the buildings. I
bow to this all-creating power. While  it appears that all of the 10,000  things
are born of the world of beingness, as I think about it more, the beingness
itself came from nonbeing.
It is to this glori ous state of nonbeing spirituality, or the Tao, that I yield. I
encourage you to do the same, and then peacefully obser ve how it all flows
together perfectly.
Do the T ao Now
Strategically place a picture of a yield sign, frequently found as a traffic
device, within your field of vision. Each time you look at this sign, use it as
a remind er for you to return to the Tao. At least once each day, rather than
continuing a disagreement, cede on the spot. In the midst of talking about
your own achievements or basking in the light of your ego, stop and
become an instant listener. The more you yield each day, the more you
return to the peace and harmony of the T ao.
OceanofPDF.com41st Verse
A great scholar hears of the T ao
and begins diligent practice.
A middling scholar hears of the T ao
and r etains some and loses some.
An inferior scholar hears of the T ao
and r oars with ridicule.
Without that laugh, it would not be the T ao.

So ther e are constructive sayings on this:
The way of illumination seems dark,
going forwar d seems like r etreat,
the easy way seems har d,
true power seems weak,
true purity seems tarnished,
true clarity seems obscur e,
the gr eatest art seems unsophisticated,
the gr eatest love seems indiffer ent,
the gr eatest wisdom seems childish.

The T ao is hidden and nameless;
the T ao alone nourishes and brings everything to fulfillment.
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Appearances
This verse of the Tao Te Ching  influenced my choice of the title for this
book. By changing your thoughts so that they harmonize with the Tao, you
see that what you’ve called “reality” is in fact an outward form, an
appearance only. In the beginning, your new way of regarding oneness is
clouded by old ego-inspired habits. What you’ve been accustomed to still
resonates within you as real, and your Tao-ins pired world may not be
consistently recognizable. But you will begin to look beyond what only
seems to be your truth and move into a direct experience of the Tao,
uncluttered by your previously limited views.
Reread the first section of this 41st verse of the Tao Te Ching, noticing
your response. Ask yourself whether you’re a great, middling, or inferior
scholar when it comes to unde rstanding and applying the wisdom of the
Tao. For example, I can unabashedly proclaim myself  a great scholar after
so many years spent studying and writing it. And the more I’ve studied, the
more diligently I’ve practiced. I’ve become highly attuned to the infinite
variety of daily opportunities to employ the principles of the Tao. As you
examine your own thoughts, you may discover an aspect of yourself that
wants to learn how to utilize these ancient teachings. Thus, you can move
from being a person who knew very little about the Tao, and might even
have ridiculed it, to being a great scholar.
The application of the Tao each day determines the greatness of a scholar,
rather than whether he or she intellectually understands these paradoxical-
sounding concepts. Lao-tzu points out that without the ridiculing laughter of
inferior scholars, the Tao couldn’ t even exist. Talk about paradoxical
concepts!
In A Warrior Blends with Life: A Modern T ao, Michael LaT orra comments
on this 41st verse:
The Way is only attractive to those who are already wise enoug h
to know  how foolish they are. Sarcastic laughter from other foolswho believe themselves wise does not deter the truly wise from
following the Way. Following the Way, they do not beco me
complicated, extraordinary, and prominent. Rather they become
simple, ordinary, and subtle.
As you elect to live the Tao each day, what you experience within and
around you will be different from what it appears to be. You will go way
beyond surfaces into the blissful world of the Tao, and it’s vital that you
choose to stay in this truth regardless of how it all seems. Others will make
fun of you, but remember the paradox that without that ridiculi ng laughter,
it wouldn’ t be the T ao


 To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt themselves to it as they may, but in proportion as a man
has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.
Your assumption is the hand of God moulding the firmament into the image of that which you assume. The
assumption of the wish fulfilled is the high tide which lifts you easily off the bar of the senses where you
have so long lain stranded. It lifts the mind into prophecy in the full right sense of the word; and if you
have that controlled imagination and absorbed attention which it is possible to attain, you may be sure that
all your assumption implies will come to pass. When William Blake wrote,
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be he was only repeating the eternal truth, there is
nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Rom. 14:14
Attitude
Because there is nothing unclean of itself {or clean of itself), you should assume the best and think only of
that which is lovely and of good report. It is not superior insight but ignorance of this law of assumption if
you read into the greatness of men some littleness with which you may be familiar or into some situation or
circumstance an unfavorable conviction. Your particular relationship to another influences your assumption
with respect to that other and makes you see in him that which you do see. If you can change your opinion
of another, then what you now believe of him cannot be absolutely true but is only relatively true. The
following is an actual case history illustrating how the law of assumption works:
One day a  costume  designer  described  to me  her difficulties  in working with a  prominent  theatrical
producer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized and rejected her best work and that often he was
deliberately rude and unfair to her. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she found the other rude and
unfair, it was a sure sign that she, herself, was wanting and that it was not the producer, but herself that was
in need of a new attitude. I told her that the power of this law of assumption and its practical application
could be discovered only through experience, and that only by assuming that the situation was already what
she wanted it to be could she prove that she could bring about the change desired. Her employer was
merely bearing witness, telling her by his behavior what her concept of him was. I suggested that it was
quite  probable that she was carrying  on conversations with him in her mind  which  were filled  with
criticism and recriminations. There was no doubt but that she was mentally arguing with the producer, for
others only echo that which we whisper to them in secret. I asked her if it was not true that she talked to
him mentally, and, if so, what those conversations were like. She confessed that every morning on her way
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in person. The intensity and force of her mental arguments with him automatically established his behavior
towards her. She began to realize that all of us carry on mental conversations, but, unfortunately, on most
occasions these conversations are argumentative... that we have only to observe the passer by on the
street to prove this assertion... that so many people are mentally engrossed in conversation and few
appear to be happy about it, but the very intensity of their feeling must lead them quickly to the unpleasant
incident they themselves have mentally created and therefore must now encounter. When she realized what
she had been doing, she agreed to change her attitude and to live this law faithfully by assuming that her
job was highly satisfactory and her relationship with the producer was a very happy one. To do this, she
agreed that before going to sleep at night, on her way to work, and at other intervals during the day she
would imagine that he had congratulated her on her fine designs and that she, in turn, had thanked him for
his praise and kindness. To her great delight she soon discovered for herself that her own attitude was the
cause of all that befell her.
The behavior of her employer miraculously reversed itself. His attitude, echoing, as it had always done,
that which she had assumed, now reflected her changed concept of him.
What she did was by the power of her imagination. Her persistent assumption influenced his behavior and
determined his attitude toward her.
With the passport of desire on the wings of a controlled imagination she travelled into the future of her own
predetermined experience.
Thus we see it is not facts, but that which we create in our imagination, which shapes our lives, for most of
the conflicts of the day are due to the want of a little imagination to cast the beam out of our own eye. It is
the exact and literal-minded who live in a fictitious world. As this designer, by her controlled imagination,
started the subtle change in her employer's mind, so can we, by the control of our own imagination and
wisely directed feeling, solve our problems.
By the intensity of her imagination and feeling, the designer cast a kind of enchantment on her producer's
mind and caused him to think that his generous praise originated with him. Often our most elaborate and
original thoughts are determined by another.
We should never be certain that it was not some woman treading in the wine press who began that subtle
change in men's mind, or that the passion did not begin in the mind of some shepherd boy, lighting up his
eyes for a moment before it ran upon its way.       William Butler Yeats
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                       RENUNCIATION
There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned.
Resist not evil.  [ What you resists persists! ]
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
THERE IS a great difference between resisting evil and renouncing it. When you resist evil, you give it
your attention, you continue to make it real. When you renounce evil, you take your attention from it and
give your attention to what you want. Now is the time to control your imagination and Give beauty for
ashes, joy for mourning, praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord that He might be glorified.
You give beauty for ashes when you concentrate your attention on things as you would like them to be
rather than on things as they are. You give joy for mourning when you maintain a joyous attitude regardless
of unfavorable circumstances. You give praise for the spirit of heaviness when you maintain a confident
attitude instead of succumbing to despondency. In this quotation the Bible uses the word tree as a synonym
for man. You become a tree of righteousness when the above mental states are a permanent part of your
consciousness. You are a planting of the Lord when all your thoughts are true thoughts. He is I AM as
described in Chapter One. I AM is glorified when your highest concept of yourself is manifested.
When you have discovered your own controlled imagination to be your saviour, your attitude will be
completely  altered  without  any  diminution  of  religious  feeling,  and  you  will  say  of  your  controlled
imagination
Behold this vine. I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I
pruned the plant and it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted as you see into
these clean full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.
By vine is meant your imagination, which, in its uncontrolled state, expends its energy in useless or
destructive thoughts and feelings. But you, just as the vine is pruned by cutting away its useless branches
and roots, prune your imagination by withdrawing your attention from all unlovely and destructive ideas
and concentrating on the ideal you wish to attain. The happier, more noble life you will experience will be
the result of wisely pruning your own imagination. Yes, be pruned of all unlovely thoughts and feelings
that you may think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of
thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.
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                          PREPARING YOUR PLACE
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine.    John 17:10
Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Rev. 14:15
All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything
depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself cannot be realized
by you. The promise is
“Whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever
hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have


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Gifts from Eykis  Page 1
 It’s not what happens around us, or to us, but within us that really count s, but
when it comes to applying it.
Problems arise in communication when; p eople do not communicate  truthfully.
I observed that most p eople:
1. Live in either past or future.
2. Take a pill to cure things
3. Dissatisfied with themselves
4. Chase success but seem never satisfied
5. Always wanting more of this or that : possessions
6. Suffer from unnatural fears called phobias
7. Do not love self
8. Cannot love others

Why do so many go to therapists for help?
1. Anger
2. Procrastination
3. Anxiety
4. Self contempt
a. All are neurotic behaviors

Why do we use up our precious moments for living by worrying about something
which we cannot do anything about?  It is pointless.
Guilt :  if you do something that you disli ke, such as use bad language to your
parents, you close your eyes and just feel guilty for one minute and then release  it
and go about your day.
Guilt is a sign to change your behavior and thinking process.
A good solution: Live only in the present momen t!
When people are living fully in the moment there is no need to cause hurt or pain
to others.

 Notes from Dr Wayne Dyer Gifts from Eykis  ©2009 Author Jackie Paulson

Gifts from Eykis  Page 2
 You become obsessed by what you have done or have not yet done, this guilt is
not reality.  It is your mental state.  There is no guilt. Learn from your mistakes
and avoid bad or negative behavior and vow to make a mental note to change it.
All the guil t does is STOP  you from correcting your behavior.
Guilt thoughts are:
• Should have
• Would have
• Could have
o thoughts but they are only thoughts

By saying you should have -people are telling other people that they did not do
something as well as they might have.  What purpose is served by rehashing what
you should or shouldn’t have done?  It’s over, done with!   Forgive yourself and
others and move ahead.

Why are people afr aid of elevators?  It is the attitude people have towards small,
closed spaces.    But in reality elevators scare me is  not true, it’s your thoughts
that create that reality.
What is acrophobia??  It is the fear of heights or high places.

First you chos e to think anxiously, and then you blame the results on anxiety
itself, rather than on your own choices.   This thought process behind saying I am
having this or that attack…

When people assign responsibility for their anxiety to some mythical anxiety
attack, they need a second myth to correct the original.  The second myth is the
antidote, such as a tranquilizer, will rid them or their imagined anxiety.
You have power over what you decide to think.  This is your reality.
Most people have learned to ma ke an incorrect choice  because it’s easier to
blame someone else  for their anxiety than to accept responsibility  for it and rid
themselves of it.   Notes from Dr Wayne Dyer Gifts from Eykis  ©2009 Author Jackie Paulson

Gifts from Eykis  Page 3
 People want to avoid taking responsibility for their problems including th eir
anxiety.  This gives them a n excuse when it comes to doing what is necessary to
change.
Wrong way reality

Incorrect choices
You chose unhappin ess by blaming someone or some thing else for your
problems, circumstances, etc.

HINT:  blame account /Blame bank:  Just take the blame and put it into the blame
bank or account and leave it there.  Let it go.

Blaming others let s you avoid having to take risks.  It makes it easy to explain why
they are unfulfilled, and it reduces the options they have t o change.
Blaming the poison, rather than themselves for the ill effects.  It’s like blaming the
mirror for what it reflects.

How can the stock market control a person’s emotions?  I checked into the stock
market and I found that it has no connection wi th human emotional conditions,
yet I heard many, many people blaming the market for their unhappiness.

People in fact, elect t heir _______________ through self -defeating choices, and
then blame others for their conditions.
Everything seems to be in the blame category.   It all seems to boil down to self
responsibility vs. blaming others.
Obviously those who accept responsibility for themselves and live
their lives are few and far between.

 Notes from Dr Wayne Dyer Gifts from Eykis  ©2009 Author Jackie Paulson

Gifts from Eykis  Page 4
 Sayings like, “my father’s alcoholism made me what I am today ” are not correct -it
is an excuse and it is incorrect.  Your parent’s where doing what they knew best at
that time.  Excuses are not the answer.
People blame everything else so they do not have to change their incorrect
thinking, which is really the cause of their fears and incorrect thinking.

Schools, colleges, parents, etc… tell people to learn to think for themselves, but
you rarely allow them to do


 remember when he had
his first stroke. There was a large
family of Braggs, and we were
all seated together around the
dinner table. Suddenly, there
was a crash of dishes when my
grandfather slumped over the
Teach me Thy way O Lord; and lead me in a plain path. – Psalms 97:11 37 table. When the countr y doctor arrived, he stated sadly
that grandfather had lost all control of his left side due
to brain damage from the stroke.
From then on, he needed constant attention. W ith a
completely paralyzed left side, he could not walk without
the aid of someone to steady him. He had absolutely no
control of his eliminative system. There was great difficulty
getting food into his body because he had lost the ability
to chew. We could only  feed him ver y soft, mashed foods,
vegetables, potatoes, fruits and soups.
This fine man we knew and loved was, as far as real
living was concerned, dead. Y ou have no idea what a
great burden he was on my parents and family. The poor,
helpless man struggled on in this manner for 3 years.
Then the second and final stroke came and he die d. The
doctors who performed the autopsy stated that his
arteries were like stone. My grandfather was born and
I was just a little boy when my father explained to
me the outcome of my grandfather’ s autopsy. I asked
my father in despair, “How could his arteries turn into
stone?” He couldn’ t give a satisfactor y answer to my
question. That ver y day, I resolved to find out why my
grandfather’ s arteries had hardened.
I read medical books loaned to me by my Uncle
William, who was our family doctor. I besieged my uncle
with hundreds of questions as to why human arteries
could become like stone. It was to be many years before
my questions were answered. Over time, I witnessed
what hard water was doing to my family, our relatives
38 reared on that farm and drank that har d water ever y
day and he paid for it with his life.
I Discovered the Miseries
Caused by Hard W ater
and friends. It also corroded our water pipes (page 81).
Drinking the right water in the right quantity at the right time is just as
important as eating well. Pure distilled water is the right drink! – Paul C. Bragg
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.  – P. Syrus Millions Suffer W ith Joint Pain
Many fine people from all walks of life worked on
our farm. W e all got along together as one big family.
One of the women who worked in our home was named
Bessie Louise. She was just like a member of the family,
and we all loved her dearly. Poor Bessie developed
arthritis in her hands, wrists, elbows, hips, knees and
ankles. How that poor woman suffered day after day
from tormenting pain! Sometimes the pain would be so
great that she would burst into tears.
Again I asked my doctor, Uncle W illiam, what caused
the arthritis. I wanted to know if there was a cure for
this tormenting condition. He answered me honestly.
“Paul,” Uncle W illiam said, “we do not know the cause
of crippling, painful arthritis, and we have no cure for
it. All I can do is give Bessie strong painkillers to relieve
her great pain and suffering.”
SEVEN TYPES OF JOINTS
Shoulder
(ball and socket) Elbow
(hinge joint) Radius and Ulna
(pivot joint)
Vertebrae
(gliding joint) Wrist
(angular joint) Ribs and Spine
(partially moveable joint)
These are the 7 types of joints in your
body, the m oveable and the im movable.
Between each of the moveable joints there
is a clear amber fluid called synovial fluid
which acts as a lubricant to keep the joints
moving fr eely and easily. When inorganic
minerals from drinking water and toxic
acid cr ystals replace this synovial fluid
youexperience stiffness, pain and miser y. Cranium
(immovable joint) 39 In time, poor Bessie was confined
to her bed in pain. In just a few years
she was dead. She never reached 65.
Her last years were filled with intense
pain, miser y and suffering.
My poor young brain suffered.
“What causes this horrible, crippling
disease?” I would ask myself in the
late hours before going to sleep.
Here we were living on a big, fine
farm, with an abundant supply of
foods of all kinds. W e had a good,
comfortable home. It was a beautiful
farm on a majestic river. But ther e
was suffering among the adults.
These pains were grouped under one
word, and that was “miser y”! Each day I would hear my
mother ask different people, “How is your misery today?”
The sufferers would answer my mother dolefully.
Frustrated, I would go to our kind and patient doctor,
Uncle W illiam, and put the question squarely to him.
“Uncle,” I would ask, “Why do so many people suffer
from the miser y”? His answer was, “I wish I knew.” Then
again I would say to myself, “Someday, I will find out
why people suffer from the miser y”!
T.B. in My T eens – Changed and
Guided My Life! and My Future!
When I was just a lad I saved a man from drowning.
As it turns out this man was ver y rich and to reward me
for saving his life he gave me a scholarship to a large
militar y school. My parents were ver y eager for me to
attend, so at the tender age of 12, I was enrolled in a
large militar y school in the south. At the militar y school,
I not only drank har d water, but I was fed a poor
institutional diet. We were ser ved loads of star ches such
as refined flour hot cakes, biscuits and white rice. For
our meals, we could select several over cooked meats,
hot dogs, sausages, fried potatoes, and end up with heavy
desserts loaded with white sugar, (continued on page 42 )
Millions suffer with pain.
40 1 Locations in the Body Where Osteoporosis,
Arthritis, Pain and Miser y Hit the Hardest
OSTEOPOROSIS
Affects over 30 Million
and Kills 400,000
Americans Annually
Boron
Miracle T race Mineral
For Healthy Bones KNEES HIPSOUCH!
BORON – A trace mineral for healthier bones that also helps the
body absorb more vital calcium, minerals and necessar y hormones!
Good sour ces are most vegetables, fr esh and sun- dried fr uits, prunes,
raw nuts, soybeans and nutritional Brewer’s yeast. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture’ s Human Nutrition Lab in Grand Forks, North Dakota,
says boron is usually found in soil and in foods, but many Americans
eat a diet low in boron. They conducted a 17 week study which showed
a daily 3 to 6 mgs boron supplement enabled participants to reduce
loss (demineralization) of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium from
their bodies. This loss is usually caused by eating refined, processed
fast foods and lots of meat, salt, sugar and fat and a dietary lack of
fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains (www.all-natural.com).
After 8 weeks on boron, participants' calcium loss was cut 40%.
It also helped double important hormone levels vital in maintaining
calcium and healthy bones. Millions of women on estrogen therapy
for osteoporosis * may want to use boron as a healthier choice.
Also consider natural progesterone ( 2%) raw yam cream and other
natural options. For pain, joint support and healing use a
glucosamine/chondriotin/MSM combo ( caps, liquid and r oll-on ).
University of W ales recent study showed Cod Liver Oil eases pain
and heals. Scientific studies a lso show women benefit from a healthy
lifestyle that includes some gentle sunshine and ample exer cise (even
weightlifting ) to maintain healthier bones, combined with a low-fat,
high-fiber, natural carbohydrates  and fresh salads, greens, vegetable,
fruit diet and also add 2 tsp cinnamon powder to teas, drinks, etc.
This lifestyle helps protect against heart disease, high blood pressure,
cancer and many other ailments. I’m happy to see science now agrees
with my Dad who first stated these health truths over 80 years ago!
* For more hormone and osteoporosis facts read pioneer  Dr. John Lee’s book.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause. www.amazon.com
41 including doughnuts, sweet
buns, chocolate cakes, pies,
puddings, cookies and ice cream.
In exactly 4 years, at only 16,
I was a sad victim of tuber culosis.
Again and again I asked my uncle
who was a doctor why this had
happened to


 metabolism upon which
all life depends; both are closely and inextricably connected with each other; furthermore, the
reserves of both are not inexhaustible.”1
 Once the reserves of the soil were exhausted, the plants also began to sicken. Having become
deficient, they lost much of their defenses against pests, rust, fungi and a multitude of other
invaders. Hence fungicides, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals were developed to overcome
the attackers.  Of course it was assumed that these agrochemicals were harmless if applied ‘as
directed.’ Unfortunately this was not the case.
 The heavy pesticides, specifically DDT, were first distributed halfway through World War II,
around 1943. As Dr. Gerson reports in his book, this and other toxic materials were found in meat,
butter, milk, and even mother’s milk within 18 months!
Subsequently it became clear that the toxic agrochemicals were also penetrating into the soil
and the water table. What this meant can be seen today in several areas of California, heavily
treated with huge amounts of pesticides every year, where the water and the soil are so toxic that
an epidemic of primary liver cancer has hit children who played outdoors.
 But the situation has gone from bad to worse. After DDT had been used for some time, the
insect pests became resistant to it, so that heavier, even more toxic materials, such as Dieldrin,
had to be produced.  At the same time it transpired that the human body was not able to develop
a resistance to those poisons. Their effect on adults is bad enough; tragically embryos, tiny babies
and small children with their delicate constitutions suffer more serious damage to their developing
bodies. That is one of the reasons why the cancer mortality of children has risen greatly, so that
cancer is now the No.1 Killer of children under 17 (some ten years ago it was accidents). It is
a sobering thought that cancer, formerly a degenerative disease of the elderly, is now afflicting
children. Needless to say, the cancer incidence among the general public is increasing at a much
faster rate.
 To illustrate the extent and speed of the increase, it is worth recalling that in 1937, when the
Gerson family had just settled in the U.S., posters at street corners proclaimed that one person in
14 died of cancer. In 1971, President Nixon declared “War on Cancer,” and assured the public that
if enough money were spent on research, a cancer cure would be found. In that year some 220,000
people died of cancer.  25 years later, in 1996, USA Today  published the result of the research.
That year, after 39 billion dollars were spent, 560,000 people died of cancer. The research had
been done on chemicals, more and more toxic chemotherapy drugs, not nutrition. As a matter
of interest, today one in three people are expected to develop cancer and, according to British
estimates, that proportion is moving towards one in two.
 Over the years the harmful effects of agrochemicals in food have become better understood.
A Swedish study2 produced evidence to show that non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is linked
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www.thegersonway.comto pesticides. (An earlier study in 1981 specified phenoxy herbicides as the culprit).  Another
herbicide implicated in the increased incidence of NHL is glyphosate, marketed by Monsanto
under the trade name of Roundup. Rather alarmingly this poison is now incorporated in the
genetically altered seed produced by Monsanto, allegedly “to save the spreading of pesticides.” An
earlier study by the same Swedish group has implicated Roundup in causing hairy cell leukemia,
while animal studies have shown that Roundup can cause gene mutation and chromosomal
aberrations.
The pesticide DDE, a breakdown by-product of DDT, is known to interfere with male sexual
development by de-activating the male sex hormone testosterone. Throughout Europe male
fertility, measured by sperm count, is in decline. (The highest sperm count was found among
Danish organic farmers who have no contact with toxic agrochemicals.) Equally alarming is the
spread of breast cancer among women of all age groups. In the UK alone, every week some 300
women die of the disease, and at least 750 are newly diagnosed with it. Although other factors
also contribute to this trend, the effects of agrochemicals cannot be discounted.
 As if dealing with the existing problems caused by agrochemicals were not enough, human
health is facing the further threat posed by Genetically Modified (GM) food. This is an area where
the conflict between powerful commercial interests and public health has come out into the open,
despite GM-producer Monsanto’s best efforts to suppress data casting serious doubts on the safety
of GM foods for human consumption3. This is in keeping with the normal routine of agrochemical
manufacturers who invariably set out to prove the safety of one or another of their products. But
anyone on an average modern diet is bound to consume the residues of several toxic substances
contained in fruits and vegetables, yet no-one has ever researched the cumulative effect of this
kind of toxic cocktail.
 The picture is gloomy. Yet all is not lost. From small beginnings the organic production of
fruits and vegetables has grown exponentially in recent years, allowing the enlightened consumer
to live on poison-free produce. Organic food, grown on traditionally fertilized soil, has the further
advantage of containing all the minerals, trace elements, enzymes and vitamins needed for good
health. This is why, in order to achieve healing, Gerson patients must use nothing but organic
produce.
 Enough has been said to show the vicious circle in which people on an average modern diet
are caught. Living on toxin-rich but nutrient-poor food, especially “fast food,” in due course
people begin to suffer from headaches, arthritis, insomnia, depression, frequent colds, infections,
digestive problems, and more. So they use more over-the-counter drugs, while doctors prescribe
more painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-depressants and other symptom-relieving drugs, which don’t
deal with the underlying problems.
As all drugs are liver-toxic in the long run, the body’s defenses are weakened and eventually
break down. The link between the sick soil and the sick human being is painfully obvious.
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www.thegersonway.comDrugs
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate
the masses not to take medicine.
 -Sir William Osler, 1849-1919
Medical Historian, called
“the most influential physician of his age”
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown
out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Dr. M.H.Fischer, M.D.
“A Pill for Every Ill” sums up the extreme reliance on drugs that has become an integral
part of today’s lifestyle. One only has to turn on the TV or the radio to hear an endless recitation
of the latest drugs being promoted to overcome every kind of human ill. Also invariably there
is a rapidly recited and de-emphasized list of the many harmful side effects of each one. This
denial of risks is not always successful: witness the scandal that broke in late 2005 around the
drug giant Merck & Co., in connection with their arthritis drug VIOXX. At first Merck publicly
admitted that worldwide some 16,000 people had died in the two or three preceding years of the
drug’s side effects, and withdrew VIOXX from the market. Remarkably enough, Merck & Co.
had for some years published the life-threatening side effects and warnings concerning this drug
in the Physicians’ Desk Reference book (PDR). As the enquiries widened, Merck eventually had
to admit that some 55,000 people had died of the side effects of a drug they had taken to ease
the pain of arthritis. But the truly scandalous fact is that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
allowed the killer drug back on the market, claiming that its benefi ts exceeded its risks.
Another overused drug increasingly in the public eye is Ritalin, routinely prescribed to
children suffering from so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The PDR,
which lists and describes all drugs on the market for use by physicians, specifies that it should not
be used by children under the age of six years, and lists the following side effects: suppression of
growth, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss, insomnia and visual disturbances. (It does
not mention the many documented cases of suicide and unprovoked killings by youngsters on
Ritalin.) Despite the warning, children as young as 2 and 4 years old are known to have been put
on the drug, which is also highly addictive, causing severe withdrawal symptoms. Psychiatrist Dr.
Peter R. Breggin, Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology,
published a book, Talking Back to Ritalin,4  in which he lists the many scientific studies


 don’ t have to bring
this altercation into form. Y ou g ot out in front of it; it’ s gone. It’ s all been
played out in yo ur mind. Y ou use your mind to not  bring into form, into
your life, into action that which you know is not beneficial for e ither one of
you.
In relatio nships, this means letting go of your need to be right and instead
celebrating the dif ferences in t he other person, and agreeing to disagree
about them for the rest of your life if necessary. I tell people that this is a
wonderful stage  to get to, because once you and your partner are both there,
you can still express your perspective. Y ou don’ t have to be a certain age to
get to this point—you can learn it at any time in your life.As you move across the levels of enlightenment, you go from being an
actor in the firs t stage, being directed by events, circumstance s, and other
people, to being the director you rself in the second stage. Then  in the third
stage, you become the producer too. Y ou are now the actor, the director, and
the producer of your entire life, and you’re doing it all with your mind. If
it’ s a career move that you onc e would have agonized over, y ou can see
how it’ s going to go. If you’re l iving in Atlanta but need to go to Houston,
you can  see yourself selling your home and driving to T exas to start this
new job or enterprise.
When yo u play all this out, you can actually see how everything  is going
to w ork, because what you think about expands. Then you can d ecide. Y our
decision isn’ t based upon, My boss  is going to do this to me, and the world
is going to do this, and if these things don’ t work out...  It’ s based upon
your pro jecting in your mind how you want things to be. If the picture
doesn’ t come out exactly the wa y you want it to be, then you’re  out in front
of it already, and you don’ t go to Houston after all. Or perhaps you do
choose t o move because you see it as an exciting, wonderful ad venture and
a t ime to do something new. And you can do these steps with anything that
you perceive to be coming at yo u but is really what you’re creating through
all the choices that you’re making.
Y ou can  use your mind in exciting ways, as I said. On the job, you can
see how, if you react in a certai n way toward your boss or co-worker, you
know that If I say or do this, that that’ s going to set them off. I don’ t have to
go ther e  anymor e. Instead of behaving like A, B, C, or D, I’ve a lr eady done
it all in my mind, and I’ve seen the r esult. I don’ t want to go th er e. I don’ t
want my form to  have to follow  that anymor e, so I’m in fr ont of it.  It’ s like
you’re producing your life through your mind.
WIN-WIN SOLUTIONS
The totally awake and aware pe rson has almost moved beyond success.
Success in W estern society tends to mean accumulation or winning rather
than achievement. It almost always means you have to outper form or get
more than the ot her guy. This is very much a part of our culture, and there’ s
nothing wrong with it. But now  you understand that success, a chievement,and performance all have built into them the notion that somebody else has
to lose in order  for you to win. When you are enlightened, y ou learn to
approach conflict from a win-win position. While this has become a popular
slogan and philosophy in business, it can also be used in any type of
interpersonal situation.
I t hink very strongly that when you are in a romantic relation ship, you
fall in love with the things in another person that you don’ t have in yourself.
After al l, to fall in love with somebody who has everything exactly the
same as  you is to  have a redundant relations hip. Y ou’ve already got that;
what do you need more of it for?
Y et peop le will say, “Oh, we have so much in common. He says  this, and
I s ay the same thing; he likes to do this, and I like to do it t oo. He’ s an
athlete, and I lik e athletes.” They think it’ s such a wonderful thing that they
have all these th ings in common. I always think, Uh-oh, this one’ s doomed.
W e’ve got some r eal pr oblems h er e.  But  wh en someone says, “Ah, she’ s the
exact op posite o f me,” I think that’ s almost always where the most intensity
is found. When this couple looks at each other, they realize, They ar e many
things that I am not and can’ t be, and I like that. I like having that ar ound
me. I need that passion ar oun d me. I need that person who talks a lot
ar ound me, because I’m very quiet.  This is what endears them to each other.
What of ten happ ens, though, is that as time passes in a relation ship, you
for get that the dif ferences are what give it spice. Then you turn those
dif ferences, whi ch are the very thing that attracted you to the p erson in the
first plac e, into areas of conflict or confrontation. Y ou begin to try to alter
the p erson you love. This does not make them think that you lov e them, but
rather that you want them to be dif ferent. Y ou have to remember to go back
to what you fell in love with.
All relationship s are about an opposite. Y ou don’ t need a mirror of
yourself—you’ve already got th at. Even with your children, the things that
usually endear you the most to them are the things they do that are not like
you. Those are often the things you respect the most. Y ou admire, for
example, your child who will st and up for what she thinks is rig ht and take
the sling s and arrows that go al ong with such fearlessness. Of course you
don’ t want her t o be contrary an d disobedient, but there’ s a part of you that
says, “Y ou know, I never had the courage to do that myself. I don’ t want her
to ever not  do that.” When you ad mire such qualities, you can le arn from
them, and they become your teachers.Y ou can make something very positive and beautiful out of those
dif ferences. When you make conflict something to honor, to da nce with, to
celebrate, you become instant ly focused on solutions. Most often, the
solution to the d if ferences in any relationship lies in respecting, honoring,
and cele brating the very things t hat are dif ferent in the other person. Again,
you bring a win-win attitude to it.
So when conflict crops up at wo rk, you have to take the same a pproach.
Resist th e ur ge to be problem-oriented—that is, I’m going to make this
person wr ong, and I’m going to make myself right —or turn it into a contest.
Y ou do not need  to feel threaten ed by the dif ferences in other people. Y ou
see t hat others a re on a dif ferent  part of the path than you are. Some people
are very ef ficient at getting things done, while others are slower. Instead of
making them wrong, you can refrain from being ego-involved in this at all.
I think this one of the hardest things for us in the try-to-get-ahead-of-the-
other -guy, comp etitive-oriented W est to grasp. Y et we must try to get to the
point wh ere the dif ferences in other people are to be respected a nd honored,
accepted for what they are rather than treated as contests. Bringing in a
spiritual, right-brained, intuitive kind of approach isn’ t going t o make you
wimpy, weak, or less profitab le; in fact, it will bring you peace and
harmony. It will give you a sense of knowing what you’re about and why
you’re here, and that lack of the need to be right or to win or to put
somebody else down frees you up to do better.
I hav e moved m uch more in this direction in my own life. I don’ t need to
make a contest out of every dif ference I have with others; instead, I
recognize those variations and look toward solutions. I dance with, even
enjoy, th e disco rd rather than tr eat it as something that shouldn ’ t be there.
Since I’ ve given up some of my attachments to having to be right and
embarked upon a path of sending out love and peace and ha rmony and
contentment, I’v e never had more “success” come into my life. My books
and audio programs are very popular. The demand for


ato,	peeled	and	diced

1.
1	apple,	cored

1.
1	ripe	pear,	cored

1.
2	medium	tangerines,	peeled

Directions

1.
Clean	the	ingredients	thoroughly.

2.
Press	the	carrot	and	sweet	potato	through	your	juicer	following	the
manufacturer’s	directions.

3.
Add	the	apple,	pear,	and	tangerine	segments;	process	again	and	serve	right
now.

4.
When	choosing	pears,	keep	in	mind	that	softer	pears	yield	more	pulp	and
less	juice	to	your	drink.Spicy	Cucumber	with	Key	Lime
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	clove	garlic,	peeled

1.
1	cucumber

1.
1	teaspoon	dried	dill	weed

1.
2	scallions,	trimmed

1.
2	key	limes

Directions

1.
Process	your	ingredients	through	a	juicer	according	to	the	manufacturer’s
directions.

2.
Stir	before	serving	and	serve	over	ice	cubes	if	desired.

3.
Cucumber	is	a	natural	diuretic,	so	this	juice	benefits	our	digestion.Powerful	Green	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	cups	fresh	green	beans

1.
5	large	leaves	lettuce

1.
1	cucumber

1.
1	tomato

1.
1	lemon	cut	into	quarters,	peeled

Directions

1.
First	of	all,	press	the	beans	through	your	electronic	juicer.

2.
Stir	in	the	lettuce,	followed	by	the	cucumber,	tomato,	and	the	lemon.

3.
Mix	the	juice	thoroughly	and	serve	immediately.

4.
Punch	up	your	energy	levels	with	this	great	vitamin	juice!Yam	and	Pineapple	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	yam,	peeled

1.
4	tangerines,	peeled

1.
2	carrots,	trimmed

1.
1	small-sized	pineapple

1.
1/2	teaspoon	Maca	powder

Directions

1.
Process	yam	through	your	electronic	juicer	following	the	manufacturer’s
instructions.

2.
Add	tangerine	and	carrots.

3.
Remove	rind	from	pineapple.	Cut	it	into	slices	and	transfer	to	the	juicer.
Afterwards,	add	Maca	powder.	Juice	all	the	ingredients	and	pour	prepared
juice	into	two	glasses.	Enjoy!Vegetable	Juice	with	Sprouts
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	carrots

1.
1	cucumber

1.
6	leaves	Iceberg	lettuce

1.
2	handfuls	fresh	spinach

1.
1⁄2	cup	alfalfa	sprouts

Directions

1.
First	of	all,	process	carrots	and	cucumber	through	a	juicer.	Then,	add	the
lettuce	leaves	to	the	feeding	tube.

2.
Add	the	spinach	and	sprouts.	Mix	your	juice	thoroughly	and	serve	with
drinking	straws.	Enjoy!Veggie	and	Lime	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	large	cucumber

1.
2	cloves	garlic,	peeled

1.
1/2	lime,	peeled

1.
1⁄2	cup	parsley

Directions

1.
Process	the	cucumber,	garlic,	and	parsley	through	an	electronic	juicer.

2.
Serve	over	ice	cubes	if	desired.

3.
The	parsley	will	help	to	combat	garlic	breath.The	Best	Beet	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	carrot

1.
2	sugar	beets

1.
2	apples,	cored

1.
1	orange,	peeled

1.
2	celery	ribs

Directions

1.
Scrub	and	trim	the	carrots	and	the	beets.	Then,	cut	them	into	chunks.

2.
Next,	process	them	through	the	feed	tube	of	your	juicer.

3.
Add	apples,	orange,	and	the	celery.	Mix	the	juice	and	serve	as	soon	as
possible.

4.
Beet	cleanses	the	kidneys	and	liver	and	it	also	helps	to	replenish	the	red
blood	cells.The	Cabbage	Master
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	ripe	pear,	cored

1.
1	green	apple,	cored

1.
1/4	green	cabbage,	cut	into	wedges

1.
6	lettuce	leaves

1.
1-inch	piece	of	ginger

1.
4	sprigs	fresh	mint

Directions

1.
Prepare	all	the	above	ingredients	before	juicing	them.

2.
Juice	all	ingredients	thoroughly.	Pour	into	two	chilled	glasses	and	drink	as
soon	as	possible.

3.
This	juice	is	very	good	for	our	skin	and	energy.Favorite	Skinny	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	small	bitter	melon

1.
1/2	small	pineapple

1.
1	apple

1.
2	carrots

1.
1	lemon

Directions

1.
Wash	all	ingredients	well.

2.
Then,	remove	the	skin	from	the	melon	and	pineapple.	Cut	the	melon	in	half
and	scoop	out	the	seeds.	Core	the	apple	and	scrub	the	carrots.

3.
Press	everything	through	juicer	and	serve!

4.
Bitter	melon	is	a	great	ingredient,	which	can	help	you	fight	the	excess
pounds.Fruity	Veggie	Energizer
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	pears,	cored

1.
1	small	cucumber

1.
1⁄4	bulb	fennel

1.
1⁄2	lemon,	peeled

1.
1⁄4	inch	ginger,

1.
1	cup	spinach

1.
1	small	tangerine

Directions

1.
Core	the	pears	and	process	them	through	the	feed	tube	of	your	electronic
juicer.

2.
Place	the	remaining	ingredients	and	mix	your	juice	thoroughly.
	3.
Lastly,	serve	over	crushed	ice	if	desired.	This	juice	will	keep	you	on	your
toes	all	day	long.	Enjoy!Tropical	Green	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	pineapple

1.
1	pear

1.
1	medium	Granny	Smith	apple

1.
2	handfuls	spinach	leaves

1.
1⁄4	cup	parsley

1.
1⁄2	pink	grapefruit,	peeled	and	seeded

1.
1	cup	coconut	water

Directions

1.
Remove	rind	from	pineapple	and	cut	the	fruit	into	chunks.	Core	the	apple
and	the	pear.	Tear	spinach	leaves	and	parsley.

2.
Lastly,	peel	red	grapefruit.	Add	all	the	ingredients	to	your	juice	extractor
along	with	coconut	water.
3.
Process	them	until	you	get	the	juice.	Pour	into	glasses	and	sprinkle	with
some	extra	coconut	flakes	if	desired.	Enjoy!Ginger	and	Pear	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)


 Brazilian prostitutes, Arab slaves, and Persian prisoners.
The most famous specimen, I was told, came from an Irish prisoner who’d
been hanged in 1824 for killing and eating fellow convicts.
The skulls ranged from 200 to thousands of years old. They were part of
the Morton Collection, named after a racist scientist named Samuel Morton,
who, starting in the 1830s, collected skeletons in a failed attempt to prove
the superiority of the Caucasian race. The only positive outcome of
Morton’ s work is the skulls he spent two decades gathering, which now
provide a snapshot of how people used to look and breathe.
Where Morton claimed to see inferior races and genetic “degradation,”
Evans discovered something close to perfection. T o demonstrate what she
meant, she walked over to a cabinet and retrieved a skull marked Parsee,
for Persian, from behind the protective glass. She wiped bone dust on the
sleeve of her cashmere sweater and ran a neatly trimmed fingernail along its
jaw and face.
“These are twice as lar ge as they are today,” she said in a staccato
Ukrainian accent. She was pointing at the nasal apertures, the two holes in
the back of the throat that connect to the nasal passages. She turned the
skull around so it was staring at us. “So wide and pronounced,” she said
approvingly.
Evans and her colleague Dr. Kevin Boyd, a Chicago-based pediatric
dentist, have spent the last four years X-raying more than 100 skulls from
the Morton Collection and measuring the angles from the top of the ear tothe nose and from the forehead to the chin. These measurements, which are
called the Frankfort plane and N-perpendicular, show the symmetry of each
specimen, how well-proportioned the mouth was relative to the face, the
nose to the palate, and, to a lar ge extent, how well the people who owned
these skulls might have breathed.
Every one of the ancient skulls was identical to the Parsee  sample. They
all had enormous forward-facing jaws. They had expansive sinus cavities
and broad mouths. And, bizarrely, even though none of the ancient people
ever flossed, or brushed, or saw a dentist, they all had straight teeth.
The forward facial growth and lar ge mouths also created wider airways.
These people very likely never snored or had sleep apnea or sinusitis or
many other chronic respiratory problems that af fect modern populations.
They did not because they could not. Their skulls were far too lar ge, and
their airways too wide for anything to block them. They breathed easy.
Nearly all ancient humans shared this forward structure—not just in the
Morton Collection, but everywhere around the world. This remained true
from the time when Homo  sapiens  first appeared, some 300,000 years ago,
to just a few hundred years ago.
Evans and Boyd then compared the ancient skulls to the modern skulls
of their own patients and others. Every modern skull had the opposite
growth pattern, meaning the angles of the Frankfort plane and N-
perpendicular were reversed: chins had recessed behind foreheads, jaws
were slumped back, sinuses shrunken. All the modern skulls showed some
degree of crooked teeth.
Of the 5,400 dif ferent species of mammals on the planet, humans are
now the only ones to routinely have misaligned jaws, overbites, underbites,
and snaggled teeth, a condition formally called malocclusion.
T o Evans, this raised a fundamental question: “Why would we evolve to
make ourselves sick?” she asked. She put the Parsee  skull back in the
cabinet and took out another labeled Saccar d. Its perfect facial form was a
mirror image of the others. “That’ s what we’re trying to find out,” she said.
Evolution doesn’ t always mean progress, Evans told me. It means
change. And life can change for better or worse. T oday, the human body is
changing in ways that have nothing to do with the “survival of the fittest.”
Instead, we’re adopting and passing down traits that are detrimental to our
health. This concept, called dysevolution, was made popular by Harvard
biologist Daniel Lieberman, and it explains why our backs ache, feet hurt,and bones are growing more brittle. Dysevolution also helps explain why
we’re breathing so poorly.
T o understand how this all happened, and why, Evans told me, we need
to go back in time. W ay back. T o before Homo sapiens  were even sapiens.
•       •       •
What strange creatures. Standing in the tall grass of the savanna, all gangly
arms and pointy elbows, gazing out into the wide, wild world from
foreheads that looked like hairy visors. As the breeze swayed the grass, our
nostrils, the size of gum drops, flexed vertically above our chinless mouths,
picking up whatever scents the wind brought in.
The time was 1.7 million years ago, and the first human ancestor, Homo
habilis, was roaming the eastern shores of Africa. W e’d long since left the
trees, learned to walk on our legs, and trained ourselves to use the small
“finger” on the inside of our hands, to turn it upside down into an opposable
thumb. W e used this thumb and fingers to grab things, to pull plants and
roots and grasses from the ground, and to build hunting tools from stone
that were sharp enough to carve tongues out of antelope and strip meat from
bone.
Eating this raw diet took a lot of time and ef fort. So we gathered stones
and bashed prey against rocks. T enderizing food, especially meat, spared us
from some of the ef fort of digesting and chewing, which saved ener gy. W e
used this extra ener gy to grow a lar ger brain.
Grilling food was even better. Around 800,000 years ago, we began
processing food in fire, which released an enormous amount of additional
calories. Our lar ge intestines, which helped break down rough and fibrous
fruits and vegetables, would shrink considerably under this new diet, and
that change alone saved even more ener gy. These more modern ancestors,
Homo er ectus,  used it to grow an even bigger brain—an astounding 50
percent lar ger than those of our habilis  ancestors.
W e began to look less like apes and more like people. If you could take
a Homo er ectus, dress him in a Brooks Brothers suit, and put him on a
subway, he probably wouldn’ t draw a second glance. These ancient
ancestors were genetically similar enough to possibly have our children.
The innovation of mashing and cooking food, however, had
consequences. The quickly growing brain needed space to stretch out, and ittook it from the front of our faces, home to sinuses, mouths, and airways.
Over time, muscles at the center of the face loosened, and bones in the jaw
weakened and grew thinner. The face shortened and the mouth shrank,
leaving behind a bony protuberance that replaced the squashed snout of our
ancestors. This new feature was ours alone and distinguished us from other
primates: the protruding nose.
The problem was that this smaller, vertically positioned nose was less
ef ficient at filtering air, and it exposed us to more airborne pathogens and
bacteria. The smaller sinuses and mouth also reduced space in our throats.
The more we cooked, the more soft, calorie-rich food we consumed, the
lar ger our brains grew and the tighter our airways became.
—
Homo sapiens  first emer ged on the African savanna around 300,000 years
ago. W e were among a coterie of other human species: Homo
heidelber gensis, a robust creature who built shelters and hunted big game in
what is now Europe; Homo neanderthalensis  (Neanderthals), with their
massive noses and stunted limbs, who learned to make clothes and flourish
in frigid environments; and Homo naledi, a throwback to early ancestors,
with tiny brains, flared hips, and spindly arms that hung down from squat
bodies.
What a sight it might have been, these ragtag species all gathered around
a blazing campfire at night, a Star W ars cantina of early humanity, sipping
river water from palm cups, picking grubs from each other ’ s hair,
comparing the ridges of their brows, and scampering of f behind boulders to
have interspecies sex in the glow of starlight.
Then, no more. The big-nosed Neanderthals, the scrawny naledi, the
thick-necked heidelber gensis  were all killed of f by disease, weather, each
other, or animals, or laziness, or something else. There was only one human
left in the long family tree: us.
In colder climates, our noses would grow narrower and longer to more
ef ficiently heat up air before it entered our lungs; our skin would grow
lighter to take in more sunshine for production of vitamin D. In sunny and
warm environments, we adapted wider and flatter noses, which were more
ef ficient at inhaling hot and humid air; our skin would grow darker to
protect us from the sun. Along the way, the larynx would