Despot depot

A person is smart but people are stupid. With enough time spent with others outside my close circle its often hard to digest what I see and hear. The emotional despotism and excessive playing of roles seems to get worse as time goes on. Its really sad because it confirms the damage done by predictive programing, cultural Marxism and compulsory education. I watch day after day as people are mistreated and disrespected because people believe so ardently in the pretend roles they assume. In my current line of work there is heavy saturation of Nepotism that chokes any morale and comradery between colleagues.  Very much like the Stanford prison experiment or the "lord of the flies" effect, people for the sake of money and dumbed down cultural obedience actually become mentally or emotionally stimulated by their pretend roles and manifest "real" problems with others pretending roles.

With the ex-Bolshevik takeover and changing of education into mimicking and memorization you can see how so much fustration and suffering is from a sort of identity displacement; feeling unfulfilled and dis-contentedness even though they work and consume. Why aren't things getting better?  Why is the world plunging into a dark age of increased war, disease, inflationary depressions, poverty, doubt, fear? Why are more and more people each year on psychological drugs, why is bigger government determining our future and freedoms? Why isn't anyone improving this?

For example; I witness people who hear words and concepts like healthy eating, organic food, etc but are incapable of making a relationship to the meanings of those words outside of conceptual understanding and memorization. But to understand the social-economic-political relationships these  words have and how entangled they are with the rise or fall of the current ideologies that hold this country together involve a level of awareness you cannot learn in school. This is generally because school teaches that;
* Truth comes from Authority
* Intelligence is the ability to repeat and remember
* Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded.
*Non- compliance is punished
* one must conform intellectually and socially.

From ancient social programming to modern it is written over and over that if a child could be kept childish beyond its term in nature, if they could be cloistered in a society of children without any real responsibility besides obedience, if their inner lives could be attenuated by removing critical thought, if the imminence of death and certainty of pain and loss could be removed from daily consciousness, if the profound reflections of ones impermanence could be replaced with the trivializing emotions of greed, lust, desire, young people would grow older but would never grow up.  Schools and indeed society creates fixed habits of reaction of authority. This precludes critical judgment completely. Also determining each persons social role, your function based on cumulative records and fixes your place in the social machine to adhere to conformity. Next as Galton and Darwin mention greatly, schools and the social collective focus on hygiene. The previous mentioned functions are to better identify the unfit or terminally inferior. To separate the weak from the strong. This is part of the propaudeutic function. In other words only a small fraction of "kids" will take over management of this continuing project, guardians of a population deliberately dumbed down and rendered childlike in order that government and economic life can be governed with limited hassle.

People do so little outside the act of consuming and so have they become consumers rather than produces; takers rather than givers, buyers rather than makers. They have little to contribute and base so much of their happiness on the illusion of freedom through choice. And it's a dollar menu. Because that is all they have in the myopic scope of what it means to be alive. Yes, I place heavy judgment on the person I come across and this world because as long as people remain ignorant these conditions will impact me and my family because this, after all is a wonderful democracy where the wolves tell the sheep what is for dinner.

So as they smoke and eat shit they give power to corporations snatching of the genetic blueprint for nearly ever species to make intellectual property, forging alliances with government to have specific laws shift power over food, resources and make natural freedoms become rights and entitlements while they stop the independent progression of hopeful research via bio tech firm protection. As they watch their bills increase because of Keynesian economics and fractional banking that has taxed them by the very money they print with the eye of providence and the very symbol meaning slavery they play up their persona and roles that give them a little taste of illusory freedom so they don't come to the simple conclusion; that they don't know what to do. I am tired of seeing ignorance prevail.

None are more enslaved than those who believe they are free.  They can act, think, feel, mimic and pretend all they want, in the end what you truly know by practical wisdom, not conceptual knoweldge will determine if you will adapt to the changes coming.

A gentle reminder

I'm writing after so long mostly for my own record or someone who might be reading.. After moving to NY and undergoing so many changes I realize that going full circle is about being gently reminded. Reminded that no matter who or how you think you are, that most of what we do and experience on a daily basis is out of our control. Any moment we may be swept off our feet finding ourselves enveloped in a great adventure or challenge. We might find a spark of inspiration or love in a moment. So though life may deliver chaos it is often best to not respond so quickly until we see where it leads us.

There is a gentle reminder in life that we will keep repeating the same events, challenges and circumstances until we learn from and grow beyond them. Take a moment and realize that all your life's events create a chain where each moment links to another revealing something grander and more interconnected than we see at first. When we understand this we can easily see that along with patterns and interconnectedness in life comes purpose; mathematical meaning. All the things that happen, all the people in your life have a meaning, but you have to discover it. Meaning and purpose don't have value if not unlocked. It's up to us to discover the meaning of people and events in our lives and access that potential. Stop seeing things as just things, problems as problems. Realize that all people and things are so much more.

I know who I am, deep to my bones and beyond. I'm a catalyst. I help people become unstuck, yet rooted. I create circulation where there is none and find the reasons where there seems to be none. I find use for the barren and unused soil in our minds to produce results with the seeds of our thinking.

What is truth?

"What is real, how do you define real? If you are talking about what you can touch, what you can taste hear and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain".- Morpheus

What are we to think about all the different churches, philosophies, gurus, teachings, and other assorted points of view which purport to be windows onto Truth? If the universe is ultimately One, isn’t there a religion or spiritual revelation which is the real one … that has all the answers? Isn’t there a philosophy which is the Truth, in which people may believe and have confidence, and which will eliminate the confusion of there being many different ways of expressing knowledge of Reality?

But we might also ask why all people don’t dress alike, speak alike, or eat the same foods. Is such diversity a problem? Why is it that some people are predominantly intellectual, others mainly emotional, and still others essentially physical in their orientation? Do we imagine that a band of nomad warriors, utterly lacking in technological awareness, represents Truth in a way which will satisfy someone who has been raised in an environment of Western scientific sophistication? And do we think that our modern technological knowledge equips us more adequately to recognize Truth than do the aimless songs of an unschooled child sitting in a field of flowers?

Many people, for example, speak with great eloquence about the unerring applicability of the law of cause and effect, yet any student of modern physics knows there are levels of the super-small where that “law” is not a law at all. Most persons are trained from birth to differentiate certain parts out of the whole universe and treat them as separate, learning to manipulate those “parts” and feeling very clever about it. But another perspective sees that manipulation as having been a hysterically funny exercise of the manipulator’s ego, while the universe simply flows and grows. Some persons are certain that understanding the mechanics of nature is a prerequisite to enlightenment, while others believe that feeling oneself connected to nature is required.

Who among all of these people is right? In a multilingual world, what is the right language? In an orchestra, which instrument really expresses music the best? What is the right way to feel about life? What is Truth?

The answer is, of course, that there is no final answer. We may properly strive to eliminate from our consciousness that which is anti-Truth, but once we have begun earnestly to do so, we are not likely to find that Truth, itself, has one particular form. Nor are we likely to devise any special teaching, philosophy, or religion which satisfies everyone – otherwise the Truth might prove to be limited and dull.

People who yearn to know why will adhere to a philosophy which offers answers. People who don’t care for answers may seek a way of life which promises profound experience of the self. Those who like large groups and deeply meaningful ritual will gravitate to a different expression of Truth than those who prefer solitude and quiet communion. Who is right? Which is best? Where is Truth being most adequately represented? Which is better – blue or green?

Florida: A sovereign, independent Nation and the lies of the past.

Florida has a long and varied history. Priror to her becoming a state , she had seen the Spanish, French, British, and American flag flown over her. On March 3, 1845, by becoming a state, she became a free sovereign and independent nation on equal footing with the original 13 colonies. Sixteen years later, on January 10, 1861 she decided to secede from the U.S. and reaffirmed her status as a sovereign and independent nation. She was then invaded by a foreign army. On March 19, 1865 that invading army declared her de jure government null and void and on June 5, 1865 issued that an arrest order for her de jure governor. On July 13, 1865 a puppet assembly was installed which on October 25, 1865 wrote a constitution that her people were not able to ratify. This constitution create a de facto government which replaced the duly elected de jure government of Florida. Florida's de jure government never surrendered, there was no peace treaty signed.

A constitution is a contract between people of state. Common law dictates that all parties must freely enter into a contract in order for it to be valid and any contract entered under threat, duress, or coercion renders the contract voidable. Florida's 1865 constitution was dictated by the federal government of the U.S. and not the people of Florida. Therefore it and all following constitutions are deemed null and void. The government they created, which she still has today, is a government defacto.

The Civil war was not fought to emancipate the slaves, but to defeat state sovereignty over the federal government.  The black slaves were emancipated at the end of the civil war appears to have been an economic sanction against the rebel south, not the morally superior or righteous idealism of the northern abolitionists. Black slaves were considered private property, and the government cannot take private property without just compensation.

The sovereign power structures did not ultimately lose the American revolution, they simply regrouped and continued their assault in the political, economic, and legal realms.  The most visible of the power structure was the East India Company, an entirely private enterprise whose flag, as adopted by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, happened to have 13 red and white horizontal stripes wit a blue rectangle in its upper left hand corner.

When George Washington took comman of the U.S. Continental army, the flag used for that occassion was the East India Company's flag.

While British government lost the 1776 war, the East India Company's owners who constituted the invisible Power structure behind the British government not only did not lost but moved right into the new U.S. of America economy along with the latter's most powerful land owners. When the British fled we did not take their land or rid the earth of them, they continued thier takeover of the U.S., when we were fighting in New Orleans they sent lawyers to infiltrate our system and take control without ever firing a shot.

Birth Certificates, second hand citizens, strawmen and the corporate name were created over the human being, inalienable rights were trampled as the de facto government illegaly taxes the people and merges with world government and policy.


As people are awakening to the reality that the federal government has become a behemoth, they are searching for solutions and an identity. This treatise is to help indentify the present state of governance, the bad laws in place and ultimately to know history to create a solid and true future. The sovereign power structures did not ultimately lose the American revolution, they simply regrouped and continued their assault in political, economic and legal realms. with the 14th amendment, birth certifications and the creation of the strawman, this set into motion the de facto government that has now illegally taxed its second class citizens. The birth certificate is the security instrument (collateral) for debts owed by the government.

Florida has a long and varied history. Prior to her becoming a state, she had seen the Spanish, French, British and American Flag flown over her. On March 3, 1845 by becoming a state, she became a fee sovereign and independent Nation on equal footing with the original 13 colonies. Sixteen years later, on January 10, 1861 she decided to secede form the U.S. and reaffirmed her status as a sovereign and independent Nation. She was then invaded by a foreign army. On May 19 1865 that invading army declared her de jure government null and void and on June 5 1865 issued arrest order for her de jure governor. On july 13 1865 a puppet assembly was installed which on October 25th 1865 wrote a constitution that her people were not able to ratify. This constitution created a de facto government which replaced the duty elected de jure government of Florida. Florida's de jure governmen never surrendered, there was no peace treaty signed.

A constitution is a contract between the people of state. Common law dictates that all parties must freely enter into a contract in order for it to be valid and an contract entered into under threat, or coercion renders the contract voidable. Florida's 1865 constitution was dictated by the federal government of the U.S. and not the people of Florida. Therefore it and all following constitutions are deemed null and void. The government they created, which she still has today, is a government de facto.


 His/herstory:

Great Britain gained control of Florida from Spain by the treaty of Paris of 1763. Florida was divided into two provinces, East Florida whose capitol was Saint Augustine, and West Florida who capitol was Pensacola. Florida was not one of the 13 original colonies that declared their independence from Great Britain. Instead, it reamined loyal to Great Britain during the Revolutionary war.

While the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4th 1776, it wasn't until seven years later that King George III recognized their independence in the Treaty of Paris 1783. In it declared:

" His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rholde Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all calaims to government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and evey part thereof"

King Geories III being king of Great Britain was recognized as a sovereign. As such, prior to July 4th 1776, he was sovereign of the 13 colonies. Therefore, as theyir sovereign, when he specifically named each of the 13 colonies and declared each one to be free sovereign and independent Nation, each of the 13 colonies was recognized as a free sovereign and independent Nation.

In accordance with the Treaty of Paris of 1783 Geat Britain ceded Florida back to Spain. Florida remained divided into two provinces, East and West. During this time period many Americans started to settle the Florida provinces. On September 23, 1810 a group of Americans who had settled in West Florida rose in armed rebellion against Spanish rule defeating the Spanish forces at Baton Rouge and The Republic of West Florida was created. The West Florida Assesmbly met at St. Francisville, their new capitol, wrote a constitution, chose their name to be the State of Florida and elected Flwar Skipwith as their governor. Thier glad was the Bonnie Blue Flag which became a predominan symbol during the war of northern aggression, had a song written about it and was also incorporated into the flag of Texas. Thus, the state of Florida was the Original Lone Star Republic. On October 27, 1810 President James Madison issued a proclamation annexing the State of Florida ( The Republic of West Florida) claiming its territory was included in the Louisiana Purchase. While initially resisting President Madison's proclamation, the state of Florida finally backed down and agreed to be annexed.

As More Americans began to settle East Florida, they ran into resistance from the Seminole Tribe. While technically still belonging to Spain, the U.S. sent Andrew Jackson into East Florida to fight the First Seminole War which lasted from 1814 until 1819. By this time the U.S. essentially controlled East Florida and Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. by the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819. Andrew Jackson severed as its military governor. On March 30, 1822, the U.S. congress created the Territory of Florida by merging East Florida and parts of West Florida. On July 22, 1822, the first session of Florida's legistlative Council met in Pensacola, which has been the capitol of West Florida. The second session met in St. Augustine, which had been the capitol of East Florida. Because of the time it took to travel, 59 days by water for the eastern delegates during the first session and 28 days by land for the western delegates for the second session, it was decided that they would start meeting half way and thus Tallahassee became the capitol of the Territory of Florida.

Article 5 of the Northwest Ordinance, July 13th 1787 declares a "State shal be admitted, by its delegates, into the congress of the U.S., on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state independent Nation of equal footing with the original 13 colonies."

Therefore, in order for the Territory of Florida to become a sovereign and independent Nation on equal footing with the original 13 colonies, it had to first become a State/ As a prerequisite to becoming a State, a Territory had to have a constitution. The Territory of Florida Assembly met on December 3, 1838, and created its constitution. On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th State of the U.S. of America and thus became a sovereign and indepenedent Nation on equal footing with the original 13 colonies.

On January 10th, 1861 the State of Florida reaffirmed her status as " a sovereign and independent Nation" in her 1861 Constitution in which she seceded from the U.S. of America:

We the people of the State of Florida in convention assembled, do solemnly ordain publish and declare, that the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself front the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the U.S. of America, and from the existing government of said states; and that all political connection between her and the government of said states ought to be and the same is hereby totally annulled and said Union States dissolved, and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent Nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded, and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far recognize or assent to said Union, be and they are hereby repealed.

Madison Starke Perry was the Governor of Florida during her secession. On October 7, 1861, John Milton became Florida's Governor. On April 1, 1865 Governor Milton, seeing their fight to resist Northern tyranny was coming to an end, committed suicide stating " Death would be preferable to reunion." Upon Governor Milton's death, Senate President Abraham Allison became the acting Governor. On May 13, 1865 Governor Allison " appointed D.L. Yulle, J. Wayles Baker, M.D. Papy, E.C. Live, and J.L.G. Baker as commissioners to proceed to Washington for the purpose of making known to the excutive authorities of the U.S. the steps in progress for harmonizing he government of this state with the constitution of the U.S."  " Governor Allison also" issued a proclamation calling the legislature together on the 5th of June. On May 13, 1865 Brigadier- General E.M. McCook, commander of the Federal occupation forces in Florida, inquired of headquarters, " Shall I permit he legislature to meet, or request him to withdraw the call?"  On May 19, 1865, Brigadier-General Vogdes responded. " I am instructed by General Gillmore to inform you that he expects the requirements of General Orders, Number 63, herewith enclosed, strictly carried out..You will not recognize the so called governor, or any officers purporting to act under his orders, as having any authority whatever. Should they not desist from exercising their unsurpred authority, you will arrest them and send them under guard to this place. " (emphasis added)

General orders, HDQRS Department of the South, number 63, " the proclamation of A.K. Allison, styling himself acting governor of Florida, dated at Tallahassee, on the 8th of April, 1865 giving notice and direction that an election will be held on Wednesday, the 7th day of June, 1865, for governor of the State of Florida, are, eacg and all of them declared null and void.. The persons and people to whom the proclamations herein above referred to have been respectively addressed are therefore enjoined and commanded to give no need whatever thereto or to any orders, proclamations commisions, or commands emanating from persons claiming the right to exercise the functions and authority of governor in either of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida. (emphasis added)

On May 24th, 1865 General orders HDQRS. District of Florida, 4th September Brigadier- Dept. of the South, Number 22 was issued which stated:

" In order to carry out instructions of General Ordres, Number 63, headquarters department of the south , May 14th 1865, the following orders and instructions are given for the guidance of all concerned... All proceedings at law, acts, or deeds, based on the authority of the so called Confederate government, or of the State of Florida, as some of the numbers of that government, are null and void, and if persisted in will subject the persons engaged in it arrest and trial by the military authorities."

Thus in fear of his freedom, on May 19, 1865 Governor Allison resigned from the office. On June 5, 1865 an arrest order was issued for Governor Allison directing him to be sent to Fort Pulaski, Governor Allison was arrested and arrived at Fort Pulaski on June 19, 1865.

On July 13, 1865 President Andrew Johnson appointed William Marvin, a New Yorker, as the De!bet Governor of Florida. On August 3, 1865 Wlliam Marvin issued a proclamation in which he declared that the duly elected government of the State of Florida ceased to exist. ' In the same proclamation, Marvin called for a convention to amend Florida's constitution in which there were Florida Citizens who were disfranchised from voting for delegates to this convention. The registration of voters and the election to the convention were conducted by Federal military and civil officials. "  " The election was held on October 10, 1865 and he convention met on October 25, 1865. During the convention George K. Walker, delegate from Gadsden County, said "remember that we are here only by the grace if the Federal Government." This body had revised the commonwealth constitution to conform once more with that of the U.S. had acknowledged the obvious political and social wrought by the war... The Convention had fully complied in essential points with the indirect dictates of the national administration, A minority had all along outspokenly opposed and criticized wha was termed " Presidential dictation."  The convention adjourned after 12 days, however, the constitution they created was not submitted to the people for ratification."

The body Whisperer: healing and listening to life.

Our body is a vast microcosm, an extension of and not in anyway separate from the universe. We have inhabitants, billions of citizens in our body that have lives, jobs, produce younger cells and work synergistically to maintain balance. When we understand the natural laws that govern the inner cosmos we become like a compassionate God unto our inhabitants. It is to be selfless to the self, to do what is needed of the body without the obstructions and desires of the mind. I will use this as a platform to talk about the relationship to stress, tension, limitation and pain in the body.

Our body, face and voice reflect our habits, emotions, thoughts and lifestyle. Our innermost thoughts, neuromuscular tensions, and habits form, in large part the shape of our bodies and the topography of our faces. If our bodies become weak, toxic, stiff or achy then we lack the free and focused attention that enables us to tune in to more refined levels of existence.A quote from a great man I knew years ago:

Butch Artichoker of Lakota Sioux

"... one person wants to deal with the emotional cause of the illness and the other person is afraid to deal with the emotional cause. I've learned over a long period of time that when it comes to healing there is an emotional basis to the illness or to the condition. And when people fail to look into and try to heal the emotional cause, it is very difficult to heal the effect, the physical condition."

The want of now: New age public relations has done an incredible job with creating a society of thinkers. People are exploring vast inner dimensions as they think of abundance, manifestation and the now.  Living in the now doesn't mean doing as you please, rather it means understanding the paradoxes in life and how doing as you wish all the time can limit you where discipline and restraint can refine and free you.Getting what you want will leave you feeling unfulfilled. We will explore how this ties into the dynamics of the mind and body. Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way. The body is not independent of the mind, the mind being a buzz word for states of consciousness. We have to realize that consciousness is not in the mind and body, the mind and body are in consciousness.When you let go only now will exist, not by thinking but by action.

Control: We attempt to control every aspect of our life from our self to children and others. Where is the success of this? Who is happier from it? The more you try to control the more you distort how you interpret reality. I say try to control, because trying is not natural. Nothing in nature tries. You cannot control anything, as most people display they cannot even control themselves or their emotions. The physical world is always moving. People try to grasp and control aspects of a life that is an existence of constant change. When you want to get control of change, it is difficult. The more you squeeze to contain water the less of it you actually grasp.But in order to have control you have to give it up. When we don't interfere with the natural flow of feelings and emotions, with events and circumstances we become capable of understanding their function and purpose and our place. So we become less attached and more aware of the process to direct our feelings to a place of stability and strength. After all strength is using your thoughts, actions and beliefs when you need it most.

The Hope trap: Desires, even for healing are often the same methods that brought on the problems we face. And problems are simply challenges we do not learn from. Just be still, with no desire for anything more or better, because once you get rid of the illusion of a better you will not suffer your life. Be absolutely hopeless, because hope is nothing but a new name for desire. Hope is a beautiful name for desire, dressed up and appealing to us. It is a fantasy that lacks accountability. There is no future, so drop all ambition, only this moment exists.


Power of words: You words have power, in old days words were seen as a form of magick. Take a moment to think about what words have done, think of Christ, Buddha, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, even of Hitler. All these people did great things with words. Please understand great does not mean good or bad. It simply demonstrates the power of the words, or in actuality, the powerful relationship our associations have to words. This is why words like hope, try, struggle, strife, suffering, wish, etc. all have to do with you not being a part of the answer you seek. You may want the answer to come from outside of you, but this cannot be. You got yourself into whatever situation you encounter, be realistic and seek to undo what has been done through education, responsibility and self awareness. Any hope, prayer, or voodoo to undo what you do to yourself is simply not being accountable for yourself.

Understanding the natural self: Accepting ourselves is accepting our body. Not the passing phase of sensations related to pain or pleasure, but the act of existence. If we begin to lose contact with our physical nature with the more earthly aspects then we lose touch with our higher aspects as well. The body functions best when we live in alignment with the natural laws of diet, exercise, breathing, stretching, rest, relaxation, posture and balance. The bio machine that is your body must not be dragged through extremities of over work and over taxing without having proper time to restore.

You have to lose to win: Like quicksand, when the body begins to stiffen and become restricted, the more you continue the same routines the more damage will you do. To get out of the quicksand you have to relax and stop moving.  Emotional tension, most of which you are unaware of will begin to close off parts of the body and limit mobility, flexibility, blood and lymph flow. What do I mean by unaware of the body? Consider the great tasks your body undertakes daily; think of your cell production, digestion, hear beat, the amazing function of your liver and organs, even when you cut yourself and your body (not your ego) knows how to heal it. Now realize, the body has wisdom and every time we overwork ourselves we are going against the body. In the mind we create duality, the body and mind become opposites and naturally we suffer. As it is, the problem began in consciousness and in consciousness only can it be resolved.

"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole." -(Plato)

Resolve: There are no cures.. to anything. There is no starting or stopping, only doing. Often the resolve to problems in the body start with a shift in the ego, the basic self and its attachments and desires for perfection, over achievement and obsessive compulsiveness. We begin to think our resolve or remedy lies in whatever we feel finally works to help us. This is a lie perpetuated  by the ego. You may have found a remedy, but like herbs, medicines, and medical practices, remedies help symptoms but never touch the causes of those symptoms.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.- Albert Einstein

Let your body be your coach:  Listen to your body, stop the internal dialogue and listen. Don't resist how you feel, accept that it is not realistic to always feel energetic and willing. The body knows itself better than we can comprehend. People have yet to learn to be one with their own body as they haul it through endless cycles of routine and struggle for certain attainment, thinking they are teaching and conditioning their body when the truth is your body, which is a part of the evolutionary process- in direct contact with universal wisdom, is teaching you. But you will suffer the body, mind and life as long as you ignore the lessons your body and life are teaching you. When you are tired slow down, when you are hungry eat, when you are thirsty, drink. Don't be compulsory, listen to your body not your mind. This is enlightenment.

Pain and suffering are not the same: Having once said this to a Kung-fu teacher his response was " You are a masochist!" . But there is truth in my phrasing. Pain is an objective function of your nervous system. Mental, emotional or 'Suffering' are your subjective creations based on your meanings and interpretations. Every time you become angry, nothing outside of you has to do with that feeling. It is hard wiring through choices and perception.Suffering is attachment, so what are we attaching to?

Its all connected: It is obvious that your health is comprised of your thoughts, attitude, diet, mind state, actions, and lifestyle. So when one thing becomes out of balance, the other aspects still being directly entangled are also involved. All physical pain has an emotional, chemical, dietary and mental basis. A victim of rape may through muscle memory have flashbacks if put into a posture she might have experienced during the ordeal. The limitations in the body are only held by the mind, the mind in every cell of the body that are not separate. If you were no longer consciously present in your body, where is the pain and limitations in the body? Where is the person or ego to say " ow" or " that hurts?" What are we holding onto, and what is it we cannot let go of that we have to seek ways to resolve in the body. Relationships, self image, beliefs- all these things have a deep relationship to posture, habit, movement, tension and openness in the body. Are you willing to explore the emotional basis of physical limitations? " We are emotions and emotions are us, consider that every aspect of digestion, every sphincter that opens and closes, every group of cells that comes in for nourishment and then moves out to heal something , are all under the influence of the molecules of emotion." - Candace Pert, Ph.D

Mindful Exercise: Most people exercise, but they are not enjoying or experiencing the process, they are only trying to reach the end result. And the payout is menial as ultimately most people only work hard so they can admire their own reflection and be admired by others. This is a very real co-dependency, a result of low self worth. And it reveals itself as an addiction when people become unstable, unhappy or neurotic if they cannot work out. Mindful exercise is in effect moving meditation. Dan Millman wrote "meditation in action is different from doing it. do do there is a doer, a self conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do. So your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition or fear." See my blog on True Meditation for a story about attachment to expectations, such as the exercises and self image.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein 

The healing process:  In many cases we look to others and feedback from so called experts when we 'suffer' the pain of the body. We want to know how long it will last, when will it end and how we can speed up the process. We do not seek to explore why we have become this way, investigate and penetrate the everyday habits of our thinking and actions in relationship to our state of mind and body. The healing process is a journey, and it will be as broad a road to travel as you are willing to walk. And it is your particular experience, not anyone elses and not something others can describe to you. It has never been walked before, it is unique as you are. The more you close your mind off to the details and individuality of your particular path the less you will learn from it. Some people want the suffering they experience to go away asap. They don't want to learn why it happened, they just want relief. Not wanting to know is being an enabler to your own ignorance. Eventually the problem will arise again if someone else remedies the symptoms for you. Because you did not learn its mechanics and do not know how to detect and resolve its growth. I would never wish for what some consider miraculous healing,  I would never wish to 'be healed' and robbed of the enlightenment that is the reason I exist this way. I would never want to miss a moment of my life, particularly how to heal myself through my own awareness.

Living without time: Time is experienced in the mind and you are the master of your time. Where are you rushing to? So many people want to heal now,  they will keep exploring avenue after avenue until they almost give up. Experience shows that slow and steady win the race, that if we can have a gentle and patient approach to healing we will have less stress and absorb and release more of what is necessary for our growth.

Go with the flow: We must at some point learn to accept that life presents highs and lows. Though we often choose to lean our emotions on the outcome of circumstances so we can determine what is right and wrong in life. But does that make it so? No. Everything we perceive in our lives that generate feelings are based purely on perspective. I'll say that again- purely on perspective. Because we cannot see where the road takes us, or how certain events will help us move forward, even though they seem bad at the moment. So what we get out of what we experience is what we choose to see. But either way, the road that is underfoot exists because of our own doing. If you want proof of that look back and see the footsteps you have made to take yourself there. Ther is no arbiter of your fate but yourself.

Self Compassion: As ancient observations have shown, the soft overcomes the hard. Observing nature we see how soft can over come hard such as water shaping rocks and land.  Using this perspective we see how our ultimate strengths can be our greatest weakness. We need balance to function optimally.We must learn to be compassionate and gentle with ourselves, especially where healing is required. Remember to be gentle to yourself...it took awhile to amass toxins, stress and tension, do not try to rush them out in an instant or it can cause unnecessary healing stresses.

This is your journey: Don't worry that something may work for someone else and not for you. Stop magnifying the negative. The desire to speed things up retards your natural growth and healing. How do you expect change when you focus on the same things? How do you want become aware how to resolve  your own problems when you focus on someone else? Your situation is yours and yours alone. Even if others share the same symptoms it is in no way the same. Often our self image and drive for accomplishment is on a comparative basis. We feel good about ourselves because we know we are not in bad shape. To identify bad shape we have to hold in consciousness the attributes of 'bad shape'. Eventually it comes down to particular characteristics. You are incapable of defining these characteristics without people, the same way you cannot define how I walk without including the ground and scenery in which I walk on. You may not bring up the ground or earth but it is deeply involved with your description. We indirectly look down on those ' bad shape' or 'worse off' characteristics and find ourselves through comparing.  We are programming ourselves to find happiness by looking down on others. This is called shameful joy.  But more so it is a form of leaning, of dependency on others to feel validated. Comparing is weakness, it is imbalance and from the mind it eventually manifests in the body. Since the mind is in every cell of the body, the body follows the brain waves and chemistry of the motherboard, of the brain. Don't compare, stand firmly on the ground and get a sense of self without needing to do anything.


Your mind makes it real: Universal laws of vibration and resonance 'attraction' give you more of what you focus on. The universe or life does not deal in good and bad as you do. Those are your views,  the outcroppings of your experiences that help define limits and boundaries based on your sensory perception. If you focus on the suffering in your life, even if you physically feel it, then you will encounter more of it. If you focus and magnify the process of healing and change then you will experience the same. This is not magick, this is actually biochemical. Focusing on change instigates change in your body. Your brain chemistry changes and you produce more endorphins, fibroblasts, growth hormones and peptides that give your body the requirements for longevity. Give the body a task and it will adapt to it, within reason of course.

The power of visualization:  Science and psychology have shown the relationship between our imagination or "self image" and our happiness. We now know that we can release powerful chemicals in the body and even aid the body in healing simply through visualization. If you are to technically define reality as it is perceived and filtered in the brain, you might be surprised that there is no difference between your imagination and what you believe to be the physical world. To use creative visualization you have to change how you feel and perceive your thoughts. Learn the difference between half conscious fantasies and a cultivated imagination. One technique I learned years ago which helps with this is called journeying. We take time to sit with our eyes closed and be in control of where our imagination goes. You can discover places within yourself that bring about feelings, sensation or even insight. These "worlds" as they are called can become places of power where phenomenon happens. The mind can let go, and we can connect with our true self; the inner guide that is the source of our natural knowing and understanding. Look at your self in the mirror and tell your saliva glands to fill your mouth with saliva. How did that go? Now, close your eyes and focus very hard on the saltiest food you can think of. If your concentration is strong you should have produced saliva. To some, the imagination is like day dreaming and while day dreaming does have its place, it does not have the power & thrust of vivid mental pictures that have been written, produced and directed by your mind with you as the star. Imagination is the ability to create an idea or mental picture in your mind. In creative visualization, you use your imagination to create a clear image of a goal. Science has discovered that the human brain does not know the difference between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers. The same activity is happening in the brain, at all times a matter of fact. This is how the eyes filter the the images we see before us and shape them into recognizable patterns- a result of our associative memory. Take a moment to think about a time in your life where the thought of a future event excited and enlivened you. Think about how you felt, how you went through that day and felt more aware, more alive and happy. What if that desire was unfulfilled? Where do the feelings go? Nothing gave you those feelings, they were already inside of you. Though it seems to the contrary, we are not dependent on outer circumstances to generate feelings. The conscious mind believes people and situations make us feel, but this is not true. Your outer circumstances are complimentary to your inner circumstances.

Principles and laws:  *The physical universe is energy: The physical world we live in is composed of sub-atomic levels, seemingly solid matter is seen smaller and smaller particles within particles, which eventually turn out to be just pure energy.

*Energy is magnetic: An immutable law of energy states that energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality & vibration. Thought and feeling have their own magnetic energy which attracts energy of a similar nature.

*Form follows idea:To create, thought comes first. Philosophically speaking, if we are to believe that God or a divine force created all of life, this God had to think of us first. Thought is the ground floor of being and the connecting force in consciousness. Understand that thoughts held long in consciousness pass into the subconscious where you will begin to open to and manifest situations in your life that resonate with your held thoughts.

*The law of radiation & attraction: This is the principle that whatever you put into the universe will be reflected back to you. As you sow so shall you reap. What this means from a practical standpoint is that we always attract into our lives whatever we think. Whether we fear something, hate something or love something we will experience what the mind holds in focus the most. Are you paying attention to what you life gives you daily?

*The law of subjective attention: The brain is a dual instrument & in its functioning is divided into objective and subjective or subconscious phases. The objective attunes with the external world, while the subjective is the seat of all manifestations. The more you plant seeds in your subconscious, the more these seeds with turn from thoughts to physical situations in your life.


When we realize we are in the driver seat and responsible for our own emotions, we can begin being creative and learn to discipline our minds to create outcomes in our lives. The association you might have to the word "create" might be a little out of date, keep in mind to create through visualization one must actually go with the flow, surrender and work with governing universal laws. There are principles to creative responsibility.

Drugs are drugs.

A recent conversation with someone who claims to understand health and wellness prompted me to do some research on the history and dangers of medicine. Already having a knowledge for this I was amazed to learn some important issues surrounding the broad topic.

"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation." Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951

Since early Egyptian times, it has been recognized that obedience to physiological law is a prerequisite for maintaining health. Hippocrates is supposed to have said that the physician should have two special objectives regarding disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. According to the Hippocratic concept, the doctor is the servant, the "helper" of pthisis (nature). He said, "It is important to help, or at least not to harm."

The very early physicians knew of the importance of obeying these natural laws and their practices evolved around this concept. Today there is an increasing body of scientific evidence which supports these concepts and more attention is now being devoted to diet, exercise and the other natural essentials of health.

During the very early years when man was evolving into the being we know today, he knew nothing about science and medicine yet his bones healed, his wounds healed and life went on. Primitives, like animals, instinctively relied upon their own intrinsic powers of healing.

During the 19th century, medical sects arose out of opposition to the so-called "heroic" treatment of their day and they shared some success. When we study each of these sects which arose during that time, we begin to see certain patterns emerging. The highest success rate was among those practitioners who did the least harm and allowed "nature's healing powers" to work unhampered.

By "nature's healing power" I do not mean a specific entity for healing but a capacity which resides in all living animals to heal themselves and to maintain a steady state. The goal of life is to maintain life and the body always strives toward a healthy state. Problems arise when too many obstacles are thrown in the path of this effort. The role of the Hygienic practitioner is to remove those obstacles by teaching his students how to correct those errors in living which caused his illness and making sure that all of the conditions for health are supplied in the proper quantity and quality. It is important that all of these conditions are present at the same time as health cannot be achieved if any of them are missing or lacking. These conditions include proper food, pure air, pure water, sunshine, rest and sleep, exercise and emotional poise. The body then becomes the healing force. This is demonstrated in wound healing, healing of broken bones, in self-limited diseases such as colds, flu, etc.

When we consume such unnatural and unwholesome foods as the highly refined products which are so popular today, we build disease. We inflict our illnesses upon ourselves by poor dietary habits, lack of sleep, a sedentary lifestyle and other unhealthy habits. We then develop atherosclerosis, cancer, kidney stones, or ulcers from our own wrong actions. We cannot eliminate these errors in living by taking a drug. We must look amongst our practices for the "cure."

The cell is a homeostatic mechanism requiring precise entry of nutrients and elimination of wastes. These wastes result from ongoing metabolic activity and the deterioration of structural elements. With proper nutrition and detoxification, the cell is programmed for specific functions. Assuming these functions are healthy cells and tissue that lead to healthy organs that lead to a healthy organism.

Since illness is the result of unhealthful practices, then health should be restored by removing these causes and supplying the conditions for health. This is the philosophy of the drugless practitioners. They do not add further contaminants to an already toxic organism by dispensing drugs but rely on natural means which depend upon the body's own ability to heal.

History Of Drugs

The oldest known written record of drug use is a clay tablet from the ancient Sumerian civilization of the Middle East. This tablet, made in the 2000's B.C., lists about a dozen drug prescriptions. An Egyptian scroll from about 1550 B.C. names more than 800 prescriptions containing about 700 drugs.

Ancient peoples used many drugs. An Egyptian physician, for example, tried to cure blindness by pouring a mixture of honey, pig's eye, and other ingredients into the patient's ear. But occasionally people who had taken drugs as remedies would recover naturally. As a result, they credited the drugs for their healing.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the demand for drugs remained high and pharmacies became increasingly common in Europe and the Arab world.

In the early 1500s, the Swiss physician Philippus Paracelsus pioneered the use of minerals as drugs. He introduced many compounds of lead, mercury, and other minerals in the treatment of various diseases.

The drug revolution began about 1800 and has continued up to the present. During this period, scientists have discovered hundreds of drugs. Scientists learned how to isolate drugs from plants in the early 1800s. In 1806, morphine became the first plant drug to be isolated. Within a few years scientists had isolated quinine and several other plant drugs.

The pace of the drug revolution quickened in the 1900s. In fact, most of the major drugs used today have been discovered since 1900, such as hormones, antibiotics, and sulfa drugs.

What Are Drugs?

Pharmacologists consider all chemicals that affect living things to be drugs. Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines a drug as "A therapeutic agent; any substance, other than food, used in the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease in man and animal."

The truth is that all drugs are poisons and always do much harm, even when taken in small quantities. The body reacts defensively to all foreign substances which are introduced. This response is mistakenly attributed to the action of me drug when in fact the drugs do not act mechanically to produce any response. It is the body which acts upon the drugs in its efforts to dispose of this dangerous substance as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Hygienists know that the living organism is dynamic and full of energy. Its self-reparative and restorative ability remains intact as long as energy is abundant. Over 100 years ago Dr. R.T. Trall demonstrated the difference between lifeless matter and the living organism. He said that the living organism is active and the lifeless matter is passive.

Drugs are passive inert substances which have no magical powers to impart life and health to a living organism. Drugs combine chemically with the chemical constituents of the body where they do much harm by interfering with normal life processes.

Drugs Produce Disease

People take so-called headache remedies, stimulants, anesthetics, pain killers, sleeping pills and narcotics for the temporary relief they afford. As a direct consequence of drug poisoning, gastric ulcer, anemia, kidney disease or any of many other ailments many develop. The pathologies these poisons occasion are added to the disease for which they are given. This is to say, physician-made diseases are worse than the natural disease.

It has been said that drug-treated patients have to recover twice—first, they have to recover from the original disease and, second, they have to recover from the drug-induced disease. The fact is that every drug is a poison and every drug produces disease. All too often patients are killed by the drug and, in an even greater number of cases, where the drug does not kill, it produces permanent harm. In fact, the most common cause of chronic disease is drug treatment for acute disease.

There are no harmless drugs; there are no safe drugs. All of them, even the least toxic, result in the production of pathologies, if they are repeatedly administered, even in small doses. It is certainly unwise to continue drug practices, especially in the face of the fact that they produce only ills. For example, what good comes from the administration of cortisone for arthritis? The symptoms are temporarily suppressed; the patient may be provided a certain measure of relief from pain, but the sufferer's condition inevitably becomes worse and recovery is more difficult. The ultimate result is increased suffering for a brief respite from pain. This is true of all suppressive measures. Both physician and patient are deluded into believing that some suffering is being saved, but the later increased suffering outweighs the brief periods of freedom from pain. In fact, the increased suffering is usually of longer duration than the periods of comfort and is far more acute than the periods of "relief."

There are no drugs now used by the medical profession and there were no drugs used by any of the schools of medicine in the past that did not and do not produce disease.

Side Effects

If a drug, which is a chemical substance, unites with the protein of the cell, it destroys the cell. It is precisely to prevent this union and thus to save the life of the cell that the drug is resisted, rejected and expelled. All the action that is mistaken for drug action is cellular or organic action designed to protect and preserve life.

When a drug is picked up by the blood, either from the digestive tract or from the site of the injection, it is carried by this medium throughout the body, so that it comes in contact with tissues everywhere. The so-called side effects of drugs are the actions of the different tissues with which the drug comes in contact in rejecting, resisting and expelling the drug. So-called drug effects are not drug actions but vital actions.

If a drug may be employed and it suppresses symptoms, it is said to be good. That the drug may produce unwanted effects at the same time it suppresses the symptoms is, of course, unfortunate and the physician hopes that the "side" effects will not be too great or that he can stop the drug if the "side" effects threaten to become formidable.

Hygienists know how to avoid these poisonous effects. They simply avoid all drugs. We cannot be poisoned into health.

Why Drugs Should Not Be Used

As you have learned from previous lessons, disease is a body-conducted remedial process. It is an effort on the part of the organism to repair and heal itself. You have also learned that disease is not something lurking in the bushes ready to attack the first person who passes by it. Rather it is occasioned by our own transgressions of life's laws.

Drugs cause disease and only disease. They do not prevent or eradicate it. Ingestion of drugs adds further toxins to an already toxic organism. Further, it is very enervating for the body to deal with drugs. The less vital energy the body has, the less equipped it will be to initiate healing.

Further, taking drugs does not solve the problem. One cannot attain health by suppressing symptoms. The problems of ill health still remain and the person is usually worse off than before he or she began taking the drugs. We are, in effect, telling our body a lie when we take drugs. We attempt to deceive it into thinking that this or that drug will be the "miracle cure." But in reality, we are hurting our body more by taking these poisonous substances.

Healing powers are possessed solely by the living organism. It is always in force and is forever functioning in the body in sickness or health. Hygienists cannot "cure"; they have no "cures." Neither has anyone else.

Outside of the human body, man cannot make blood; he cannot produce a cell; he cannot mend a broken bone; he cannot repair a wound. All that he may do is to remove all interfering factors, whether internal or external, and supply the normal conditions for life. After that, the organs and processes of life do the work of healing.

People do not become well if the causes of their illnesses are not discontinued and their modes of living are not corrected. Enervating habits cripple their functioning powers so that they remain toxic. They can get well as soon as they cease to build disease.

A toxic state of the body develops and slowly devitalizes the tissues for years, resulting in delayed healing and degeneration in injured or devitalized parts. When men live in a manner to maintain a continuous toxin saturation, they are in line for the development of any disease to which diathesis or environment determines them.

It is foolish to suppress symptoms. Let us consider a cough. It is a vigorous, forceful and dramatic expulsion of air from the lungs and is accomplished by sudden contractions of the walls of the chest and of the diaphragm. It is intended to force obstructing and irritating matter (mucus, blood, water, particles of dust, smoke, gas, etc.) from the air passages. In pneumonia, coughing keeps the lungs cleared of exudate so that breathing remains possible. The cough is part of the remedial effort, not an attack upon the body from without. If the cough is checked or suppressed by drug devitalization, passages tend to fill with exudate. Checking the cough definitely, reduces the patient's chances of recovery.

Analogous to coughing is diarrhea. Like coughing, diarrhea is a dramatic acceleration of a normal physiological action. It is a bowel action and is, designed to free the colon, perhaps even the small intestines, of unwanted material. The unwanted substance may be unsuitable, or decaying food or drugs, or it may be a mineral water. In any case, the diarrhea is a remedial effort. To check the diarrhea while there is a need for it is to lock up, as it were, in the food tube the unsuitable material the diarrhea is intended to remove. The diarrhea automatically ends when its purpose is served and no suppression is necessary.

What The Body Does When Drugs Are Taken

The first thing the body does when drugs are taken is to make an attempt at their removal through the bowels, the skin, the kidneys, the liver, the lungs, the mucous membranes, by vomiting or by other means.

Noxious materials within are either rejected or, failing that, shunted aside where they offer the least harm. Resistance and expulsion are self-preservative efforts on the part of the living organism. Sometimes due to lowered vitality, it is very difficult to expel certain toxic substances and may even be too difficult. Then the body adopts another technique for self-preservation—it stores them away in the bones' fatty tissues or even creates sacs called cysts or tumors for this purpose.

The poisonous quality of drugs that occasion vital defensive actions are termed the "medicinal action" of the drug.

Pharmacologists mistakenly believe that drugs have specific relations to various parts, organs, or structures of the organism, although they have never been able to verify it. Hence their belief in selective affinity, i.e. certain drugs act on one part of the body, and others act on other parts. Thus they classify drugs as cathartics, emetics, purgatives, diaphoretics, etc.

It is the body, the living organism, which chooses the way it can best expel drugs. Some drugs will be thrown out of the body via kidney excretion, which the pharmacologist will call diuretics, another by vomiting, and yet another by expectoration. Some drugs, because of their more poisonous nature, will be ejected by the body through as many channels as possible. Hence, its alleged "multiple actions."

Healing is a normal physiological or biological process. It results from the orderly operations of the ordinary and regular forces and processes of life, working with agents and substances that bear a normal relation to the living organism. Success of the body's efforts at self-healing depends absolutely upon removal of the cause of its ills. This is to say, the body mends itself when causes are removed. No healing can take place without removal of cause.

The force that is in any "medicinal action" is really vital power, that is, the power of the body itself. Understanding this property of living matter, we can clearly see that medicines do not at all act; do not furnish power for action; and do not in any mysterious way impart power to the body for its own action. The action occurring between the body and drugs is exclusively vital action, power being expended, not generated.

The organized body has remarkable powers of self-regulation, adjustment and distribution. When unhampered, it distributes its available energy to the various organs and tissues in proportion to their importance and needs.

Easily shown is that disease is a process of repair, renovation or healing; and that "cure" in the proper sense is nothing more nor less than the correction of those basic causes which necessitated, in the first place, the institution of disease. All disease phenomena exhibit vital action.

There is this relationship: unhygienic conditions of life give rise to a toxic state of the body. Toxicosis (or toxin saturation) develops beyond a point of vital toleration and evokes special eliminative efforts. These special efforts are the process called disease. Disease tends to free the body of its toxic overload. Disease is, itself, the healing process. Recognizing disease as the "cure," why employ drugs to stop it? Does that make sense? Is it working against the body's efforts to heal an exhibition of wisdom or ignorance?

Constructive disease is evidence of vitality. It is obvious, therefore, that therapy is anti-vital—destructive of the vital faculties of the body. Treatment by means of drugs is in reality directed against a beneficial, curative process. The remedy actually subdues vitality and with it physiological activity called "disease." This is harmful inasmuch as vitality is wasted, the restorative process is arrested, and poisonous substances are introduced into the system to lay the basis for further toxemic crises when vitality shall have been summoned to eject the "medicinal" accumulation. Thus the drug-treated body has a double liability: (1) The poisons introduced and (2) the continued retention of noxious materials because of suppressed remedial efforts.

To the extent that the body diverts energy to drug expulsion, to that extent a reduction in vital activities elsewhere in the body is occasioned. This usually results in the reduction of the remedial- process, or illness, not by removing its needs, but by a reduction of the vital power whereby it is conducted. Such a reduction comprises suppression.

It becomes apparent that you cannot indulge in the causes of disease and expect to be made free of its consequences. Physiology does not work that way. We cannot be made exempt from violations of Nature's laws.

The medical profession no longer advocates bloodletting, leeching, purging, puking, mercury treatments, tobacco and alcohol treatments, or a long list of other injurious and deadly practices of the past.

The medical profession, however, continues to defend drugging, vaccination, blood transfusion and a whole host of injurious and deadly practices. How long will it take them to admit the fact that these practices also require condemnation?

The Poisoning Practice by Virginia Vetrano, B.S., D.C.

Beginning about twenty-five hundred years ago and making but little headway in public patronage until the time of the renaissance, the drug system has now completely blanketed the earth. So great has grown popular reliance upon the drug practice and so thoroughly have the people been indoctrinated in the belief in drugs, that the practice has become a greater threat to mankind than the nuclear bomb. The drug system is filling the land with side effects of drugs, filling hospitals with iatrogenic diseases, the jails with drug addicts, the mental institutions with drug-induced psychoses and the graveyards with the premature dead.

In the great main the drug system is a system of spectacular palliation. Physicians are for the most part engaged in providing the sick with temporary and doubtful relief from their discomforts. Instead of seeking for and removing the causes of suffering, physicians seem to be content to provide questionable and evanescent respite from pain and discomfort.

A patient says to a physician, "I have a headache, what should I do?" The physician is likely to reply, "Here, take this aspirin."

As an outstanding example of this kind of practice and its results, let me briefly go over a case history that I recently received from a guest of the Health School.

A young girl, age 21, arrived at the Health School with the following story: at the age of thirteen she developed severe abdominal pains and was taken to the hospital and operated on for appendicitis. Later it was discovered that this was not her trouble as she still suffered with the same pains after the operation. Her parents reentered her in the hospital for an exploratory operation, during which the physician found lymphatic tumors in the abdominal cavity. Soon after this operation she developed epilepsy, and had to make frequent trips to the hospital for tests. She had all the diagnostic X rays known and many other diagnostic procedures for epilepsy. There were an array of diagnoses, first hypoglycemia, then hyperglycemia, then high blood pressure, then low blood pressure. One diagnosis contradicted another, and there was no end to the diagnoses, but they never could ascertain the reason for her epilepsy. Her brain waves appeared normal on the electroencephalogram .

Every known drug for epilepsy was given her, but she said that they only made her worse. Her physician insisted that she continue taking the drug despite the increased incidence of her convulsions. In desperation he finally decided to use new experimental drugs, but with the same results—no decrease in her epileptic fits. Is it any wonder that she developed kidney trouble, after this treatment? Soon she couldn't have normal micturition but required a catheter. For five weeks straight, she was forced to have the catheter in place. During this time, she complained that 'they injected drugs through the catheter into the bladder in an effort to reach an infection. It was during this period in the hospital that she began losing the ability to walk. After this her sight and hearing became impaired. It was then that her physician told her parents that she wouldn't live and sent her home to die.

She was indeed a victim of the curing practice. There is no wonder that at the hospital she lost her ability to walk, see and hear, as she said she had to take 200 pills a day, every day. Furthermore, she was force fed, and had seven shots a day. Despite her continual complaint of lack of appetite, they made her eat.

Her parents took their dying child home. Here she became more a master of herself. She was disgusted with having to take so many drugs that were apparently making her worse. She said no one but a blind person could fail to see that she was steadily growing worse under this treatment.

When she arrived home, she had to be carried to bed. Sensing that the drugs were making her worse, and with the permission of her father, she quit 90% of them. She was afraid to quit all of them at once. Disgusted with the encumbering and uncomfortable catheter, she took it out. She noticed immediate improvement in her health. Her eyesight improved, her impaired hearing became normal and almost overnight she found that she could walk again. Within five hours her bladder was functioning satisfactorily.

When it was lime to make her regular trip to the epileptic clinic, she walked in unaided. Her M.D. marveled at her improvement and called in other practitioners to show off the miracle. The girl that couldn't walk, that was dying just a few weeks before, walked in unaided! Her drugs were indeed miracle workers! He immediately prescribed more of the same. He never learned that she had quit taking most of her drugs. It was after this that she presented herself to the Hygienist.

Can she regain the high level health she had at birth? How much recovery can she make after being subjected to such treatment? It is doubtful that she can regain the high level health of which her pristine organism was capable. Drugs and surgery have made of her a cripple. This girl has adamantine determination, however, and I'm sure that she will recover as much health as is possible.

The Hygienist has little to work with when a patient comes to him machine gunned with X rays, vandalized by the surgeon's knife and enervated by the drugging practice. Can you imagine a family afraid to try natural and harmless methods after subjecting their daughter to all the most pernicious practices of our times? Her family was against her from the start and she had to plead, beg and cajole them into letting her stay long enough to take a lengthy fast. Because of her medical abuse, I was fearful of taking her as anything may happen on a fast after such treatment, and her parents would have been the first to point an accusing finger.

At the end of 18 days of fasting they told her she would have to come home soon. I immediately broke her fast in order that she would be able to travel. She began having mild convulsions soon after taking juices, and developed a slight fever and symptoms of acute distress. There was nothing to do but place her back on the fast and let nature continue the healing process. Somehow she persuaded her parents to let her stay longer. They were very apprehensive and couldn't believe that she could live through 18 days of fasting. When she continued on through 58 days of fasting, they were sure she could not even walk down to the phone and talk to them. During the second fast she passed kidney stones. During her second fast and subsequently she had no convulsions and has not reported any since leaving here.

How soon she will reach positive and top level health depends upon how well she carries out her Hygienic living. But as mentioned at the beginning of this article, she will have her limitations because of medical bungling.

It is unfortunate but most everyone coming to the Health School has his limitations in recovery because of his prior use of drugs, X rays and surgery. It is not only the elderly, whose health has been wrecked by drugs and surgery, but younger and younger person's, organisms are impaired because of their physicians' poisons and their surgeons' knives.

Daily we receive clippings in the mail from Canada and the United States describing the evils attributed to drugs, but the drugging continues. Neither patients nor physicians lose their faith in magic potions. It seems that very few people ever lose their faith in the physician with his armamentarium of poisons. Despite all the enlightenment of hazardous effects of drugs in the papers today, physicians and their patrons cling to the belief in their efficacy and harmlessness. The drugging continues.

The title of an article received recently, is "No Drugs During Pregnancy," then in small letters "unless absolutely necessary." These were the words of Dr. Benirschlese, research pathologist of animal pregnancies. To prevent pregnant mothers from refusing drugs a loop hole is always left for the physician to deem the taking of a drug absolutely necessary. Intelligent mothers, fearing it may hurt their baby, may balk at taking their physicians' prescriptions and ruffle their physicians' pride. He can then assure them that he is giving the drug only because it is "absolutely necessary" in each instance.

Dr. Benirshchlese said "even such simple drugs as sleeping pills have unknown effects on unborn children." He continues, "We don't really know what effect different drugs have on the human fetus but we do know they bring about changes in animals."

Are we not of the animal kingdom? Are we intangible angels? We are of the animal kingdom and we have the most complex and differentiated organism of any animal on earth. Because of this complexity, many more things can go wrong with human physiology than with the physiology of a lower animal. We can also enjoy greater functioning capacity than the lower animals because of our increased complexity of structure.

A simple machine has fewer things to go wrong than a more complex one. The slightest change in complex machine will immediately upset its workings, whereas a little flaw in a simple machine may not result in any modification of the machine until the damage becomes immense, then it is easily fixed.

Being the most complex living organism, man is more sensitive to inimical agents and influences than are the lower animals. It has been shown that man is more sensitive to radiation than the mouse, so also is he more sensitive to drug poisons.

A significant remark made by Benirschlese was exactly what Dr. Shelton has been saying for years, that a "nine-month gestation period in humans makes research difficult and long-term effects of drug use should be studied until a child is twenty years old." Minute impairments of vital organs from drugging may not manifest until a child has reached maturity. The increase in microcephaly, liver damage, heart trouble, kidney trouble, diabetes, and cancer in younger and younger people makes us wonder just how many of these young people would not have suffered if their parents had not taken drugs while these children were in utero.

The vigor that was manifested in our pioneers and in the Amerinds is not seen today in our youth and middle aged. This is certainly due in part to our greater dependence upon the medical profession to care for the slightest bruise, cut or headache, and the prescriptions of drug poisons given for these mild afflictions.

Recently a jury awarded a child $500,000 because her mother was given demerol, a drug used to lessen pain during labor, and the child failed to develop mentally. The child was chronologically seven but had the mind of a three-year old. The drug was not supposed to be given to mothers of premature babies. Despite the prematurity of her baby, this woman's physician gave her the drug.

Another clipping received by mail stated "digitalis drug poisons many patients." The article states , "digitalis, one of the most commonly-used drugs for treating heart failure, causes some form of poisoning in an unbelievably unusually high proportion of the patients who take it." John Ruedy of the McGill University said this is happening because of "improper" use of the drug.

I should like to point out that there is no such thing as the proper use of a drug poison. They are poison no matter how given. They never prolong life but always shorten it, and make more uncomfortable whatever life is left in the patient. Drugs greatly lessen the person's ability to get well Hygienically. They damage and lessen the vitality of every organ and organ system in the body.

When a drug is given to a man suffering with a weak heart, it weakens the heart still more. It is like whipping a tired horse to make him go. He expands more vital energy to get away from the whip, but he wears out quicker. The impaired heart must now pump more blood with each beat to help get the drug out of the system by increasing circulation. But the heart, in doing this, will wear out quicker than if left alone and patient rests. The heart needs rest not stimulation. Exhaustion of all the vital organs is the common result of such stimulation. Premature death is the result of stimulating people into such good "health."

With 5,000 new drugs being created each year, we should all remain healthy until the age of 140. We actually see more and more of the crippling disease, that people can't get well of (even by Hygienic means). All drugging impairs the organism's ability to function.

Instead of removing the causes of the impairment, people are drugged into insensibility in order that they may continue in their disease-producing ways until there are so many organic or morbid changes in the tissues that full recovery is impossible. The Tribune medical reporter states that this is creating one of the most pressing challenges in medical history; that of how to prevent the new drugs from causing other illnesses or side effects. This has led to the development of a new science, pharmacokinetics.

The very name of their "new" science indicates that they do not yet know the relation between lifeless and living matter—the former being passive and the latter active, always. Kinetics indicates movement and drugs do not move but are moved by the body to various parts of the body.

Pharmacologists freely admit that they don't know how their drugs act, or how the drugs achieve their therapeutic effect or that they act at all. They don't even bother to try to prove that drugs act.

If physicians, pharmacokineticists and pharmacologists could begin with a valid premise, their conclusions would be more likely to be correct. They would soon learn that all drugs are as inert in the living organism as in the pill bottle, and that all action attributed to the drug is body action. They would soon realize that these actions, occasioned by the drug, are the actions of the living organism expelling the drug because it is not useful, hence poisonous. As long as they attribute action to inanimate substances, they will continue to confuse themselves about the true nature of the drugging practice, and fail to see the destructiveness of their poisons.

Because of our self-preservative instincts, if a substance is introduced into the organic domain that it can't use, the cells in immediate contact with the drug, via our magnificent complex nervous system, alert the entire organism to the threat to its integrity. It is not one part of the body that resists a drug but many parts acting as a whole. It is the integral organism which acts to expel the drug before ii damages any one part too greatly.

Digitalis may be given to a man with a feeble heart and there is an immediate pick-up in the pumping ability of the heart, not because the drug acts on the heart but because the heart has to pump blood faster to the emunctory organs in order to save the whole from succumbing to the drug. The digitalis didn't stay in the heart; it didn't even have to be near the heart, for it to know that something poisonous was in the system and that it had to .step up its activities in order to do its share in the expulsion and rejection of the nonusable toxic substance.

Because the living organism has done all the acting, its energy is depleted in exact proportion to the amount of work it has had to do to eliminate the poison. His functioning power is permanently lowered, and much rest is needed to recover from the depletion. The already weak heart is more feeble than before the digitalis was taken.

Trall frequently clarified the explanation of the fact that it is the living system that acts and not the drug, by the following example: if you introduce a drug into a dead person, there will be no action whereas there should be more action if the drug acted, because there would be less resistance from a dead person's tissues than a live one. But the dead body cannot vomit it, it cannot develop diarrhea, nor do its kidneys function to expel it. The drug does nothing to a dead body, except chemically combine with the constituents of its tissues.

This is the difference between drugging a live person and a dead one. The live person resists the chemical union, and as long as it is alive it will continue to do so. For the chemical to combine with the constituents of the cell would mean death of the cell, and the formation of a third substance unlike the two which combined to form it. The living organism fights with herculean force to prevent the chemical union, and in doing so sometimes dies in the struggle. The cells had to die first before the chemical could combine with their constituents.

A debilitated old person cannot resist a drug as well as a healthy young person, for the same reason that a dead person can't act. The debilitated person has less energy to expend in eliminating the drug. Trail points out that if the drug acted, it should act with more force in a weak person because of less resistance from the weak organs, but we see the opposite.

I cannot repeat too often that anything that the living organism cannot make into living tissue or use in any of its metabolic processes is a poison. Drugs cannot fit this qualification, and hence are all poisons. Some are more virulent than others, depending upon their chemical compositions, but they all cripple the organism to a greater or lesser degree, depending upon how much ability a particular organism has to eliminate them.

Cells, tissues and organs are damaged in resisting and expelling drugs. This results in impaired function. Because much of the damage to the organism from drugs is permanent, complete recovery is impossible in those who have been drugged for years.

The damages of drugs are legion and we could fill many volumes with their evil effects, but I shall end this article by stating that if you desire to recover your health drugging is definitely not the answer. Drugs hinder the healing process and occasion diseases of their own.

The causes of disease must be removed. Then, the primordial requisites of life must be supplied in keeping with the living organism's ability to use them. Then and then only will the living organism be able to return to health. It will make as full recovery as is possible, depending upon how much previous damage has been done by the drugs. The fewer the drugs taken, the speedier and more complete the recovery.

True meditation

The best meditation is a mind that knows how to let go. The vast array of self help and new age books today offer so many practices in meditation that it can seem overwhelming to people, as they try to use someone elses ideas. This person says this, this book advises that, that guru suggests etc. But what do you say, what do you suggest, what have you learned from real experience when we take away second hand information? Don't live through someone elses conclusions and dogmas, they are not for you. I am the way I am, and it works for me but not for you. Whenever I speak to suggest a form of thinking I am selling you something. Don't buy so easily. People are willing to easily question other peoples actions, thoughts and the constant nonsense of the mind yet they never question the most important things, the things they believe. They are open to let the mind be penetrated and influenced. The father of PR Edward Bernays said "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it." What we see as "normal" is the conditions of the mind and senses by public relations and advertising. The world is filtered through controlled media, suggestive advertising and subliminal messages.

Ultimately we want someone else to forge our ideas and ideologies so when they don't work out we have someone to blame. This is called prediction vs peace. But whose fault was it ? Yes, ours. We all make our own beds. People will come to me and say "can you tell me the best meditation, or practice for stretching, or way to eat?" They don't want to discover their own path, they want you to do it for them, this way they have someone to get upset with when it doesn't work out- which it won't.

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible"- Bertrand Russell

People who end up in being easily swayed or controlled by their own mind or external factors have only themselves to blame. Meditation is a tool to help us be fully awake in every endeavor, every moment. We buy all the paraphernalia, the beads, incense, statues, alters, cushions, music and eventually the honeymoon ends, and we have to stand the test of time. It's not long before we easily start responding to things again, giving in to sensations, habits, desires while emotions run all over the place. If we lack the endurance to apply knowledge and make it wisdom, did we ever possess it at all? No. And the possession is the problem, like with most things that enliven or enthrall us, we want to own it, this is how we are raised; because of that commercial, advertisement or person that gave me that feeling I have to have it/them! If I don't I will go insane. It's a joke to say we own things or even our own children when we don't own up to our own emotions and responsibilities. Of course at first its easy to get into a new groove and it feels whatever diet, philosophy, idea or regimen you apply is making great progress, but then over time the of task polishing and cleaning and caring for that new shiny aspect of the self becomes a chore. We become so obsessed with the idea of the end result that we forget about the journey. Its easy to apply philosophy and change when its fresh and you feel things are going your way, its easy to be happy when you feel you are in the mood to accept life; but the task is applying knowledge and maintaining a joyful mind when we face our hardest challenges.

Wisdom cannot be communicated in words or concepts or theories; it has to be discovered and experienced by yourself. And it will work just for you, for your unique position in life, the outcroppings of your perspectives and feelings you call emotions, and the history the has brought you to this place in time.

Meditation is not just sitting for some time. Meditation is a way of life. It is practiced all the time. Just as you will go to a school and be fed compulsory education while seated, in this experience you will also sit to learn but the intention is different than thinking, visualizing or creating activity in the brain for the body to respond to. In our seeking of knowledge about food, politics, economics and our general sense of well being every day something new is added. In meditation and practicing wisdom every day something is let go. There is no separation between meditation and everyday living. It is not an attitude, I'm not talking about ego. We will always experience our emotions and we should not ignore or seek to control them, but what meditation in daily life means is getting outside the good- bad, right-wrong arena and realizing our choices have reactions and consequences. We can learn from them or we can keep doing what we've always done and chase ourselves in circles.

Dan Millman wrote "meditation in action is different from doing it. do do there is a doer, a self conscious 'someone' performing. but when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do. So your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition or fear."

In Professor Eugen Herrigel's classic book zen in the art of archery, he describes his first day at a Japanese school of zen archery- Kyudo, the way of the bow- when he was asked to shoot an arrow into the straw target around ten meters away. He had practiced some archery back in Germany, where he taught Asian studies, so he eagerly notched the arrow, aimed and watched as the arrow pierced the bulls eye. He turned with some pride to see the archery master shaking his head in displeasure.

This made no sense at all to Herrigel and his external goal oriented training. It was only after many months of study that he came to understand that the goal of Kyudo was not merely external show but the internal state of satori, the egoless shot, when there was no separate achiever doing the shooting- only bow, arrow, pulling, arrow flying. To put this in more western terms , the body does the shooting without the sense or focus of and "I" being in control.

One day nearly a year after he began , Herrigel stood and breathed softly, and the arrow notched and flew- and hit the corner of the straw bale. The master yelled "hai" yes! And Herrigel realized what had happened, a selfless, natural, action without fear, attachment, or ambition. There was no one to succeed, no one to fail, no credit, no blame. Later Herrigel had an opportunity to ask " Sensei, I finally understand the internal purpose of my training, but is it not also important to be able to shoot with accuracy?"

The master took the bow and stood facing the target. "Turn off the light!" He instructed. Herrigel did so. In the darkness he heard a thwak !As an arrow struck the target then a second thwak. "lights on" said the master.

When Herrigel's eyes adjusted he saw two arrows in the center of the bulls eye- one had nearly split the other in the darkness. He found out later that his zen archery master had established a record of twelve hundred bulls eyes in a row. Meditation in action.

When the ego isn't running the show, the show still goes on, even more effectively as it turns out. We notice this kind of living and action in animals as they do not hope, fear or wrestle with themselves to carry out a task. What might the quality of our lives become if we meditated all our daily actions of eating, walking, speaking- lettin gthem all happen naturally, spontaneously, without a tense doer holding tightly to the controls? the egoless actions is what the zen masters mean when they advise you to die even while you live. it took me considerable time to embody this core teaching- to loosen my tight grip, to get out of my own way, to die in each moment so that i might truly live.