Is it possible for one man, aided by a few dozen more, to affect the entire qi canopy which surrounds the Earth?
Is that possible? Is there such a thing?
In 2004 I began reading reflections from Laozu, and knew there was something very significant being worked upon, something which I would like to be part of.
Here is a recount of his experiences, as he sees fit to tell them, my experiences with Laozu had significant ‘way out there’ moments, which appeared to barely cause Laozu to pause, and, do not make the recount, my sense is that he would see those events as irrelevant (or barely relevant) to the topic being discussed.
It is my belief there is an epic adventure of great magnitude being retold here.
A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects.
Chapter 17 : Origin Of Physical Deformities
One origin of physical deformities
FACES are classified on the basis of physical characteristics and appearances which identify them as having a common ancestry. The constant reproduction of ancestral patterns constitutes one of the fundamental laws of heredity. We are concerned here with the divergences from the normal course of reproduction.
The precision with which Nature reproduces widely distributed racial stocks demonstrates how deeply seated and controlling are the Mendelian laws. In Fig. 98 may be seen four young men of the Melanesian race born on four different islands. They have never seen each other, yet they look like brothers. Similarly, in Fig. 99 are shown four Polynesian girls. Here again they look so much alike that they might readily be taken for sisters. Yet, they live in four different groups of Polynesian islands; the Hawaiian, the Samoan, the Tahitian, and the Rarotongan.
FIG. 98. These four Melanesian boys born on different islands look like brothers but are not blood relations. They illustrate the role of heredity in reproducing racial type. Heredity, however, can only operate normally when the germ cells have not been injured. 99. These four Polynesian girls live on different islands and are not related though they look like sisters. They record their racial type by undisturbed heredity
The blending of different racial stocks produces typical characteristics of either or both ancestral patterns. When, however, marked divergences appear without mixing of racial stocks, the result is not due to heredity, but occurs in spite of heredity. In the previous chapters, I have shown that in the modernized groups of various primitive racial stocks, ccrtain individuals developed marked changes in facial and dental arch form from the racial pattern. We are interested to know the nature of the forces responsible for this distortion of the ancestral pattern. In a study of 1,276 skulls of the ancient civilizations of Peru, I did not find one with a typical divergence from normal such as we find in modern whites or in children of primitive racial stocks after the parents have adopted the foods of our modern civilization. It is important that we study this phase in further detail.
In Fig. 100 are shown two Indian fathers and their sons, whom we studied in Peru. The father and son shown above lived at Talara, in a highly modernized Indian colony. The father worked in the oil fields on the coast. This district is an arid desert into which practically all food has to be shipped for the large colony engaged in the oil industry. The father was born while his parents were using the native foods of the coast, including an abundance of sea foods. The son was born to his parents after they had adopted the foods of modern civilization. The father and son shown below, lived in the high Sierras. The father is an Indian descendant of the Incas and was born while his parents were living on the native dietary of the high plateau country, near Cuzco. After the adoption of the modern foods by the parents, the son shown to the right was born. It is important to keep in mind that the marked change in these fathers and sons has occurred in the first generation after the parents have adopted the white man’s foods, and has occurred in spite of heredity.
FIG. 100. Disturbed heredity. Above, father a primitive coastal Indian of Peru with normal facial and dental arch development. Son at right presents distortions of both facial and dental arch form. Below, father a primitive Andean Indian with excellent facial and dental arch form. His son at right has not reproduced the racial pattern. Both sons are full blood.
In Fig. 101 above is shown a Wakamba father in central Africa, a man who is working for the railroad company which contributed largely to the food supply for the laborers. The boy shown at the right was born after the parents had adopted the imported foods. In the lower picture, in Fig. 101, is seen a Fiji Islander and his son. The father was born to parents living on the native foods, and his son was born after the adoption of the white man’s foods. All these are typical cases of the inhibition of Nature’s normal procedure. We have additional data which indicate that our problem is associated with a progressive lowering of reproductive capacity on the part of one or both of the parents.
FIG. 101. Disturbed heredity. Above, the father is a primitive Wakamba of Central Africa. His son at right has not reproduced the tribal pattern. Below, the father presents the typical Fijian primitive facial and dental arch form. His son at right has a narrowed arch and change in facial form. Both sons are full blood.
In photographing the members of modernized families, regardless of racial stocks, we frequently find that changes in facial expression appear in the younger members of the family. This change in facial contour within a family does not occur in the primitive races, while on their native dietary.
In contrast with this we see, in Fig. 102, two sisters and two brothers. In each pair there is a marked change in the facial form of the younger. The arches and the nostrils of the younger child are narrower and there is a marked lack of development in both the middle and lower thirds of the face.
FIG. 102. Disturbed heredity. Quichua Indians. Note the marked change in shape of the face and dental arches of the younger sister at the right. Also of the younger brother at the right. These families demonstrate a lowering of reproductive capacity of the parents with the later born children.
Very striking illustrations of this progressive degeneration in the children of a given family were found among the modernized aborigines of Australia. Two views of brothers are shown in Fig. 103 (upper). The father and mother of these two boys were born in the Bush. They were living, when photographed, in one of the reservations, on the imported modern foods which were provided by the government. This is also illustrated in the lower photograph. Note the marked underdevelopment of the middle third of the face of the girl.
FIG. 103. Disturbed heredity. These children are Australian Aborigines. Note the marked change in facial and dental arch form in the younger child at the right in both families. This is depressed reproductive capacity of the parents.
Striking instances were frequently seen among the modernized Maori of New Zealand. Two sisters presenting two extremes of facial form are shown in the upper section of Fig. 104. The girl to the left is the older. She has the typical tribal pattern which has been completely lost in her younger sister to the right.
FIG. 104. Above, two Maori girls in New Zealand and below, two white girls in Peru. Note the facial change in the girls at the right compared with their older sisters.
If the change in facial form were the result of racial admixture, we should not have the types of deformity patterns that these cases show. Indeed, in the same family we should not find several different deformity patterns. The lack of development downward of the upper anterior incisors and the bone supporting them is illustrated for the younger child, in Fig. 103 lower right. It will be noted that when this girl’s molar teeth are in contact her front teeth still miss occluding by a considerable distance.
Members of the white race are affected in a similar manner. In Fig. 104 (lower) are shown two sisters; the younger to the right reveals strikingly the lack of development of the middle and lower third of the face. The fact that this condition so frequently shows a progressively severe injury in the younger members of the family is a matter of great importance in tracing the causative factors. It is important to keep in mind that when the injury shows in the face of the young child it becomes worse when the adult face forms. This increase in deformity occurs at the time of the development of the permanent dentition, at from ten to fourteen years of age.
In the islands north of Australia where contact with modern civilization is just being made, the adult individuals showed a constant reproduction of the tribal pattern, while those born since contact was made, had many divergences from normal. In Fig. 105 will be seen a family of six individuals. Four were born before the modern store was put on that island and two after the parents had come into contact with the influence of the imported foods. It will be seen that the four older brothers show marked uniformity of facial design, and that all have reproduced the tribal pattern. The two younger members show definite change in facial pattern. This is also illustrated in Fig. 106 above, in which the oldest brother was born before the store was put on Badu Island, and the three younger, after the establishment of the store twenty-three years ago.
FIG. 105. Of these six brothers the four older were born on Badu Island before the white man’s store was established. The two younger at right below, after. Note change in facial form. FIG. 106. Above, the brother at the right was born before the store was put on Badu Island, the three younger, after. Note the change in facial form. Below, note that the dental arches are too constricted to provide space for the erupting cuspids. This boy is the one shown at the left in Figure 107.
This problem of progressive degeneration in the younger members of the family is again illustrated by the group shown in Fig. 107. The older girl has reproduced the tribal pattern of the race with normal broad, dental arches. The second girl shows marked narrowing and lengthening of the face. The third child, a boy, shows very marked divergence from the tribal pattern. This group is shown below with their teeth exposed. It will be seen that the oldest girl has broad dental arches typical of Nature’s normal design. The second girl has a marked depression laterally in the molar and bicuspid region producing a narrowing of the palate. The third child has in addition to the narrowing of the face a marked deficiency in bone growth so that the cuspids both above and below are forced entirely outside the arch. The total circumference as well as the breadth of the upper arch is so reduced that space is not available for the cuspids. They will be seen imbedded high in the tissue, as illustrated in the lower picture of Fig. 106.
FIG. 107. Natives from islands north of Australia. Above, note the progressive facial change in the younger sister and brother with lengthening and narrowing of the face and body. Below, note the broad arches of the oldest girl at the right, lateral depression of the bicuspids and molars of the next girl and inadequate bone development of the boy’s face. These are on an island north of Australia.
Fig. 108 shows three white girl scouts in New Zealand. Note that progressive narrowing of the body including both shoulders and hips has occurred in the younger members of the family. This is also shown in Fig. 107.
FIG. 108. White Girl Scouts, New Zealand. Note the progressive lengthening and narrowing of the face and narrowing of the hips in the younger girl at the left.
It would be remarkable if these disturbances in the physical pattern were limited to the face and dental arches. An illustration of other deficiency injuries is shown in Fig. 109, which shows three children in a modernized Maori family. It will be seen that while the oldest girl has the typical Maori racial pattern of face, there is a marked lack of development of the middle third of the face, with progressive severity of distortion in her two younger brothers. On observing the feet it will be seen that she has splendidly formed feet while the second child has flat feet, and the third child has clubbed feet.
FIG. 109. New Zealand Maori. Note the progressive change in facial form of the two younger boys as compared with their older sister. Then note the progressive change in their feet. Normal feet, flat feet and club feet.
I have found similar examples in several of the modernized primitive racial stocks. The severity of the disturbing factors may be different under different circumstances. Drought, industrial depression, unemployment, and the like, all have their influence. In Fig. 110 will be seen three Maori children of New Zealand; the second child is smaller in stature than the third and gives more evidence of facial injury. While his older sister and younger brother have normal feet, his quite severe disturbance in facial growth is associated with club feet.
FIG. 110. New Zealand Maori. Note the marked undersize of the second child and underdevelopment of the face associated with marked deformity of the feet.
I have one patient who was the seventh of a family of eleven children. All the children in the family have good facial development, except this patient. She was born in the midst of a severe financial depression when the total amount of money available for the food for the family was reduced to a very low level. The other children were born before or after the depression, and were not injured. In addition to this patient’s severe facial deformity, she has had some arthritis and a general rheumatic tendency. Her facial injury is marked and is characterized by a lack of development of the middle third.
Deformities of the feet associated with facial deformity have been found in several modernized groups of primitive racial stocks. A typical case among the modernized Indians of Peru is shown in Fig. 111. The face of this boy shows abnormal development with narrowing of the upper arch and displacement of the teeth. This is associated with gross deformity of one foot and shortening of the leg. He lives in the high country. This phase is strikingly illustrated in Fig. 112 where the face is very badly injured and both feet are seriously clubbed. This boy is a Coastal Indian.
FIG. 111. This boy is a modernized Indian in the high Sierra of Peru. Note the disturbed development of the face associated with the deformity of one foot. FIG. 112. This is a modernized coastal Indian of Ecuador. Note the serious facial and dental arch distortion associated with club feet.
The serious expressions of physical deformities which we found had occurred in several primitive racial stocks, after they have become modernized sufficiently to be using the foods of our modern civilization, are occurring in our modern American families with equal severity and great frequency.
One method for determining the cause of these deformities is through an examination of birth and death certificates to note the recorded data relative to physical deformities. An outstanding contribution to this approach has been made by Dr. D. P. Murphy, of the University of Pennsylvania. In an examination of 130,132 individual death certificates that have been recorded between 1929 and 1933, he found physical deformities recorded in 1,476 cases. Dr. Murphy sent field workers to make a personal study of the family histories by contacting the mothers or grandmothers, of whom they were able to locate 890. From this group he was able to select 405 with sufficiently complete family histories to allow tabulation in a form that would throw light upon the birth rank and other data. His studies strongly emphasize the presence of a period of low reproductive activity. In concluding one of his reports he states: (1)
Miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births occurred more often than would be expected by chance in the pregnancies immediately preceding and immediately following the pregnancy which resulted in the birth of a defective child, and less often than would be expected by chance in the remaining pregnancies. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and premature birth occurred most often in the pregnancy immediately preceding that of the defective child.
From the above observations, it is concluded that the birth of a congenitally malformed child may be only one expression of a prolonged decrease in functional reproductive activity, the other expressions being miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births.
It is suggested that the obstetrician has unusual reason to suspect the possible existence of a congenital malformation in the pregnancy which follows immediately after a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or a premature birth.
Shute, of the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, in a personal communication, states that he has been impressed, in his studies of aborted fetuses, with the large percentage that are malformed. This seems to link the malformations with the causative factors which have resulted in decreased reproductive activity.
In connection with the production of imperfect infants, the period in the formative process at which the injury occurs and also its origin are important. Murphy has thrown important light on this phase in his study of the cause of the defectives in forty families with two or more malformed. (2) He concludes: “Many if not most of the congenital malformations met with in this study resulted from defects in the germ plasm, which were present before fertilization.”
Among the important questions that arise is the relative responsibility of the two parents. As an approach to this phase Murphy (2) has made a study which deals with a consecutive series of 884 families in each of which there appeared at least one congenitally malformed child. In forty of these families, there were two or more malformed brothers and sisters. He presents extensive data in tabular form from which he takes examples to illustrate his interpretation. He states under the “Clinical Value of Study” the following:
It is evident from the above data (tables) that there is a strong tendency for congenital malformations to duplicate in siblings that belong to a consecutive series of families. And also that such defects tend to appear rather frequently among their more distant relatives. This duplication of malformations is to be observed in the case of the more serious types of defects, just as it is noticed in the less serious ones. These findings lend support to the theory that congenital malformations are primarily the result of influences which affect the germ cells prior to, rather than after, fertilization. The validity of this theory is emphasized by three examples taken from Tables I and II. Family 17 in Table I contained 3 children with pyloric stenosis, two of which were twins. Family 6 in Table II possessed 2 siblings with cleft palate, conceived by the same father, but born to different mothers. Family 8 in Table II contained 2 children both exhibiting an absence of the right half of the diaphragm. It does not seem likely that such sequences of events as these could be the result of any forces that did not operate until after fertilization had taken place. . . .
Since, as has been shown in a previous report, congenital malformations are 24 times more common in siblings of defective children than in the population at large, the present observations should be of added clinical interest.
Summary and Conclusions
A consecutive series of 40 families having 2 or more congenitally malformed children has been studied with respect to the duplication of defects in siblings.
The defect observed in the first malformed child reappeared in a subsequent malformed sibling in about 50 per cent of all cases; the 50 per cent remaining including all other possible defects.
In a second group of 39 consecutive families, in which a malformed child possessed a malformed relative, the malformation in the child and in the relative were identical in about 41 per cent of cases.
In 19 non-consecutive families with 2 or more malformed children, the defect of the first child repeated in a subsequent child in over half of the families.
It is significant that while these important factors are just coming to light in our modernized civilization, the evidence clearly indicates that several so-called primitive races have been conscious of the need for safeguarding motherhood from reproductive overloads which would reduce the capacity for efficient reproduction. For example, G. T. Baden (3) in his book “Among the Ibos of Nigeria” states:
It is not only a matter of disgrace but an actual abomination, for an Ibo woman to bear children at shorter intervals than about three years. . . . The idea of a fixed minimum period between births is based on several sound principles. The belief prevails strongly that it is necessary for this interval to elapse in order to ensure the mother being able to recuperate her strength completely, and thus be in a thoroughly fit condition to bear another child. Should a second child be born within the prescribed period the theory is held that it must inevitably be weak and sickly, and its chances jeopardized.
Similarly, the Indians of Peru, Ecuador and Columbia have been familiar with the necessity of preventing pregnancy overloads of the mother. Whiffen (4) in his book “North-West Amazons” states:
The numbers (of pregnant women) are remarkable in view of the fact that husbands abstain from any intercourse with their wives, not only during pregnancy but also throughout the period of lactation–far more prolonged with them than with Europeans. The result is that two and a half years between each child is the minimum difference of age, and in the majority of cases it is even greater.
It may also be important to note that the Amazon Indians have been conscious of the fact that these matters are related to the nutrition of both parents. Whiffen states that:
These Indians share the belief of many peoples of the lower cultures that the food eaten by the parents–to some degree of both parents–will have a definite influence upon the birth, appearance, or character of the child.
This problem of the consciousness among primitives of the need for spacing children has been emphasized by George Brown (5) in his studies among Melanesians and Polynesians in which he reports relative to the natives on one of the Solomon Islands as follows:
After the birth of a child the husband was not supposed to cohabit with his wife until the child could walk. If a child was weak or sickly, the people would say, speaking of the parents, “Ah, well, they have only themselves to blame.”
These new data have a very important bearing on the problems of degeneration in our modern civilization. Since it is true that a racial pattern can be changed in a single generation our modern concept and teaching with regard to the role of heredity must be modified, in its relationship to cause and effect. A deformity arising from intercepted heredity is just as truly biologic as a deformity arising from accumulated impacts as expressed in heredity. Instead of blaming the past generations for the distortions or frailties of our modern generation and thus relieving our own generation of responsibility these new data indicate that the social organization that is creating these divergencies from normal must alone accept the responsibility.
This completely changes some aspects of the theories and practice of modern social education. Instead of planning the care and management of distorted personality as though the lesion were the result of environmental influences upon a normally organized individual, it should be looked upon as a distortion affecting one link in the chain of heredity which is neither the result of the distortions of previous links nor a controlling factor for future links in the chain. The prognosis, in other words, while being bad for the individual is not necessarily bad for his or her descendants.
While many of the individuals who have suffered physical distortions have apparently practically normal brain development we shall see in the following chapter that a certain percentage have so great a disturbance in brain organization that they cannot and should not be considered as individually responsible for their behavior.
It is urgent therefore that the data presented in this chapter be looked upon as an important key to the progressive degeneration that is taking place in many parts of the world under the influence of our so-called modern civilization. It is a matter of profound significance that the most primitive races were originally able to avoid the physical degeneration so general in many communities today. It is also a matter of importance that the primitives recognized not only these dangers but were conscious of and practiced adequate means for preventing them. They had sufficient character to achieve the ends which they deemed essential. Weakness in character may constitute the greatest barrier in the reorganization and conservation of our modern civilization.
Two serious defects from which many individuals in our modernized civilization suffer are impacted teeth and the absence of teeth due to their failure to develop. It is significant that in the arches of the primitive races practically all teeth form and erupt normally, including the third molars. In the modernized primitives and among our modern whites with deformed dental arches many teeth are impacted and often several of the permanent teeth have never formed. The evidence indicates that this, like the facial and dental arch deformities is due to an absence of vitamin A in the diet of the mother during the gestation period or of one or both of the parents prior to conception. The cause is discussed in the next chapter.
References
MURPHY, D. P. Reproductive efficiency and malformed children. Surg. Gynec. and Obst., 62:585, 1936.
MURPHY, D. P. The duplication of congenital malformations in brothers and sisters and among other relatives. Surg. Gynec. and Obst., 63:443, 1936.
BADEN, G. T. Among the Ibos of Nigeria. Phila., Lippincott, 1921.
WIFFEN, T. North-West Amazons. N. Y., Duffield, 1915.
BROWN, G. Melanesians and Polynesians. London, Macmillan, 1910.
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High levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines are characteristic of inflammaging, a term coined to describe age-related chronic systemic inflammation involved in the etiology of many age-related disorders including nonhealing wounds. Some studies have shown that supplementing diets with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid [EPA] and docosahexaenoic acid [DHA]) lowers systemic levels of key proinflammatory cytokines associated with inflammaging. However, findings from the few studies that have focused exclusively on older adults are inconclusive. As such, the objective of this randomized controlled study was to test the effects of EPA+DHA therapy on circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines in adults in middle to late adulthood.
Methods
Plasma levels of fatty acids and interleukin (IL)-6, IL-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were measured in 35 participants with chronic venous leg ulcers (mean age: 60.6 years) randomnly assigned to 8 weeks of EPA+DHA therapy (2.5 g/d) or placebo therapy.
Results
EPA+DHA therapy had a significant lowering effect on levels of IL-6, IL-1β and TNF-α after 4 weeks of therapy and an even greater lowering effect after 8 weeks of therapy. Further, after adjusting for baseline difference, the treatment group had significantly lower levels of IL-6 (p = .008), IL-1β (p < .001), and TNF-α (p < .001) at Week 4 and at Week 8 [IL-6 (p = .007), IL-1β (p < .001), and TNF-α (p < .001)] compared to the control group.
Conclusion
Adults in middle to late adulthood receiving EPA+DHA therapy demonstrated significantly greater reductions in circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines compared with those receiving placebo therapy. EPA+DHA therapy may be an effective low-risk dietary intervention for assuaging the harmful effects of inflammaging.
PREFACE: To “My Dear friends of Nature and to those people seeking happiness. M.T. I write to you today as MatteoTavera.
I wish to be brief and non–invasive as I offer you my work, the fruit of numerous years of reflections and observations. It took a long time to study and discuss my observations with Nature and to reach this hypothesis. Suddenly, one day a great enlightenment happened to me in full clarity.
Having discovered this truth, I cannot detach it from my spirit since Nature, in its total beauty, is more generous to me now that I finally understand it. Nature no longer teases me about its constant work, its rights and obligations engendered within. Now that I understand it, Nature reveals itself totally, and the intrigue becomes challenging.
LA MISSION SACREE, (SACRED MISSION) is the hypothesis on which I found my law. I present it to you, my dear Friend of Nature, today, for your pleasure, for your health, for the Earth and of all of its fruits. In addition, on this day as I converse with Nature, if you are disposed to take on the relay, I am then certain that many mysteries will also appear before you, just as luminous in total clarity as which occurred to me.
This work is destined to a certain category of persons who love Nature and show interest in the problems of life. As well, it includes those who think that not all is going so well on this earth, certainly not as it should. Who has not echoed a cry of alarm started by Illustrious American Biologist, Raquel Carson in her resounding book: “Silent Spring”? This work carries the introduction of Scientist Jean Rostand, stating “A strong voice calls us to give our help to Nature slowly being assassinated by men” and Roger Heim wrote the preface as director of “Musee National d’Histoires Naturelle” and PRESIDENT OF THE “ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES”. At that exact same time, Günter Schwab in Germany was shouting the same cries in his book: “Dance with the Devil”. The French version of this serious work was recognized in “La Presse” in France and Europe.
Many serious magazines around the world also show their great interest and concern in “Sicknesses of Civilization.” Are they not tired of the excess use of chemical products in the domains of agriculture, industry and food preparations? Besides the number of interested lay people ever increasing, including doctors and agronomists who have great concerns. Many associations are denouncing these dangers. Many others, grouping together, such as farmers wish to exercise their profession outside of the facilities offered by chemical products. In the same chain of thought, everyone knows that the food businesses, supposedly called “dietetic” or “weight losing” regimes, have an increasing success when they attach themselves more and more to the idea of securing or buying foods prepared without artifice, without adulteration, excepting the help of nature only.
None of this is a mystery. It becomes more and more popular.
My work’s aim is this subject. It has always been the object of many studies in the La Presse as well as in diverse writings. I am pleased to say here that the certitude of the progression of evil, physical and moral decrepitude, towards which we tend, does not come strictly from the causes mentioned. It comes from the non-observance of the law, of which I speak, at the beginning of this introduction. Awareness of this law is already a step able to help turn events. I will try to reach you, more, with my letters, following: I have destined them for you.
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Searching for potent and specific antibiotics against pathogenic Helicobacter and Campylobacter strains
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and siamycin
Matsui et al. screened for specific inhibitors of the futalosine pathway in culture broth samples of 6183 microbes including 2160 fungi, 3783 actinomycetes, and 240 lactobacilli. They employed a paper disk method using two indicator microorganisms, B. halodurans C-125 (the futalosine pathway) and B. subtilis H17 (the canonical pathway). Isolation and structural elucidation of active compounds from screening hits revealed that ω-3 and ω-6 PUFAs, including α-linoleic acid, γ-linoleic acid, arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 21), as well as, siamycin I (22), a lasso peptide natural product, specifically inhibited the futalosine pathway [28]. They next showed that compounds 20–22 suppressed the growth of H. pylori strains SS1 and TN2GF4 in a dose-dependent manner. They also evaluated the effect of these compounds using a mouse model of H. pyloriinfection. Treatment of mice with EPA (30 μg/ml), DHA (30 μg/ml), or siamycin I (5 μg/ml) in drinking water significantly reduced the colonization of H. pylori by 96, 78, and 68%, respectively. In addition, they prepared 10-hydroxy-cis-12-octadecenoic acid (HYA; C18:1 ω-6, 23) from linoleic acid by bio-conversion with Lactobacillus plantarum and showed that 23 also suppressed the in vitro growth and in vivo colonization of H. pylori by blocking the futalosine pathway. HYA was also effective against Helicobacter suis, which causes the formation of gastric lymphoid follicles [15], when 23 was added to the drinking water of a mouse model of H. suis infection.
“Listen, Little Man!” is a book written by a truly great man named Wilhelm Reich. I first read this book when I got out of high school at the age of 17. Having never read a complete book throughout all of school (I was always quite bright, though I certainly did not take kindly to being forced to do things against my own will) this was the first book I ever read from cover to cover. I have since become an avid reader and I have read this book dozens of times. In fact, I still read it frequently. I strongly believe this is one of the best books ever written, it completely changed my life and helped make me the man I am today. This book changed my life all because of one single thing, the most important thing I have ever done in my life… The book made me look at myself. For once in my life I saw myself as I truly was… I have never been the same since, and at the young age of 21, though I am still living and learning, I can truly say I am free. That is not to say I am completely free, but I am free to be honest with myself. I am free to think for myself without asking “what will my neighbor think of me?” I am free to fully live like I once did as a child, as all children live before they are forced to become “civilized.” That is not to say I am free from cooperation and responsibility, I am not insolent. It does mean I am free to go swing on a swing, or to go play in the snow without reservation, and if some “civilized” neighbor disapproves of my motility I know that they only act that way because they are dead inside and cannot stand to see others truly living (because they know deep down they could, and should, be doing it too). Most importantly, I am free to be honest with myself, and with others, and that, my friend, is the foundation of true freedom. For that, I say thank you Wilhelm, thank you for showing me what life and living truly is, thank you for showing me what life is truly about, and thank you for caring about me at a time when I didn’t even care about myself.Thank you.
Your friend,
Christopher
What follows is a short excerpt from the book. PREFACE “Listen, Little Man!” reflects the inner turmoil of a scientist and physician who had observed the little man for many years and seen, first with astonishment, then with horror, what he does to himself; how he suffers, rebels, honors his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he acquires power “in the name of the people,” he misuses it and transforms it into something more cruel than the tyranny he had previously suffered at the hands of upperclass sadists. […] It was felt that the “common man” must learn what a scientist and psychiatrist actually is and what he, the little man, looks like to his experienced eye. He must be acquainted with the reality which alone can counteract his ruinous craving for authority and be told very clearly what a grave responsibility he bears in everything he does, whether he is working, loving, hating, or just talking.
THEY CALL YOU Little Man, or Common Man. They say your day has dawned, the “Age of the Common Man.”
You don’t say that, little man. They do, the vice presidents of great nations, the labor leaders, the repentant sons of the bourgeoisie, the statesmen and philosophers. They give you the future, but they ask no questions about your past.
You’ve inherited a terrible past. Your heritage is a burning diamond in your hand. That’s what I have to tell you.
A doctor, a shoemaker, mechanic, or educator has to know his shortcomings if he is to do his work and earn his living. For several decades now you have been taking over, throughout the world. The future of the human race depends on your thoughts and actions. But your teachers and masters don’t tell you how you really think and what you really are; no one dares to confront you with the one truth that might make you the unswerving master of your fate. You are “free” in only one respect: free from the self-criticism that might help you to govern your own life.
I’ve never heard you complain: “You exalt me as the future master of myself and my world. But you don’t tell me how a man becomes a master of himself, and you don’t tell me what’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with what I think and do.”
You let the powerful demand power “for the little man.” But you yourself are silent. You provide powerful men with more power or choose weak, malignant men to represent you. And you discover too late that you are always the dupe.
I understand you. Because time and time again I’ve seen you naked in body and soul, without your mask, political label, or national pride. Naked as a newborn babe, naked as a field marshal in his underclothes. I’ve heard you weep and lament; you’ve told me your troubles, laid bare your love and yearning. I know you and understand you. I’m going to tell you what you are, little man, because I really believe in your great future. Because the future undoubtedly belongs to you, take a look at yourself. See yourself as you really are. Hear what none of your leaders or spokesmen dares to tell you:
You’re a “little man,” a “common man.” Consider the double meaning of these words “little” and “common”…
Don’t run away! Have the courage to look at yourself!
“By what right are you lecturing me?” I see the question in your frightened eyes. I hear it on your insolent tongue. You’re afraid to look at yourself, little man, you’re afraid of criticism, and afraid of the power that is promised you. What use will you make of your power? You don’t know. You’re afraid to think that your self–the man you feel yourself to be–might someday be different from what it is now: free rather than cowed, candid rather than scheming; capable of loving, not like a thief in the night but in broad daylight. You despise yourself, little man. You say “Who am I that I should have an opinion, govern my life, and call the world mine?” You’re right: who are you to lay claim to your life? I will tell you who you are.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task which meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness, endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else’s strength and greatness. He’s proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.
Let me begin with the little man in myself.
For twenty-five years I’ve been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You’ve been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!
That’s news to you, isn’t it? Your liberators tell you that your oppressors are Wilhelm, Nicholas, Pope Gregory XXVIII, Morgan, Krupp, and Ford. And who are your liberators? Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin.
I say: Only you yourself can be your liberator!
At this point I hesitate. I claim to be a fighter for purity and truth. But now, after resolving to tell you the truth about yourself, I hesitate for fear of you and your attitude toward the truth. Truth is dangerous when it concerns you. Truth can be salutary, but any mob can preempt it. If that were not so, you would not be where you are.
My reason says: Tell the truth at any cost. The little man in me says: It would be stupid to put yourself at the mercy of the little man. The little man doesn’t want to hear the truth about himself. He doesn’t want the great responsibility that has fallen to him, that is his whether he likes it or not. He wants to go on being a little man, or to become a little big man. He wants to get rich or become a party leader or head of the VFW or secretary of a society for moral uplift. But he does not want to assume responsibility for his work, for food supply, construction, mining, transportation, education, scientific research, administration, or what have you.
The little man in me says:
“You have become a great man, known in Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, England, America, and Palestine. The Communists attack you. The ‘saviors of cultural values’ hate you. The sufferers from the emotional plague persecute you. You have written twelve books and 150 articles about the misery of life, the misery of the little man. Your work is taught at universities, other great, lonely men say you’re a very great man. You are ranked among the giants of scientific thought. You have made the greatest discovery in centuries, for you have discovered the cosmic life energy and the laws of living matter. You have provided an understanding of cancer. You told the truth. For that you have been hunted from country to country. You’ve earned a rest. Enjoy your success and your fame. In a few years your name will be on all lips. You’ve done enough. Take it easy. Devote yourself to your work on the functional law of nature”
That’s what the little man in me says, because he’s afraid of you, little man.
I was in close contact with you for many years, because I knew your life through my own and wanted to help you. I remained in contact with you, because I saw that I was indeed helping you and that you accepted my help willingly, often with tears in your eyes. Only very gradually did I come to see that you are capable of accepting help but not of defending it. I defended it and fought hard for you, in your stead. Then your leaders came and shattered my work. You followed them without a murmur. After than I remained in contact with you in the hope of finding a way to help you without being destroyed by you, either as your leader or as your victim. The little man in me wanted to win you over, to “save” you, to be regarded by you with the awe that you have of “higher mathematics” because you have no inkling of what it is. The less you understand, the greater your awe. You know Hitler better than Nietzsche, Napoleon better than Pestalozzi. A king means more to you than Sigmund Freud. The little man in me aspires to win you over, as you are ordinarily won over, with the tom-tom of leadership. I am afraid of you when the little man in me dreams of “leading you to freedom.” You might discover yourself in me and me in yourself, take fright, and murder yourself in me. For this reason I am no longer willing to die for your freedom to be an indiscriminate slave.
You don’t understand. I am aware that “freedom to be an indiscriminate slave” is anything but a simple idea.
In order to progress from the status of faithful slave to a single master and become an indiscriminate slave, you must first kill the individual oppressor, the tsar for instance. You cannot commit such a political murder without revolutionary motives and a lofty ideal of freedom. Accordingly, you found a revolutionary freedom party under the leadership of a truly great man, let’s say Jesus, Marx, Lincoln, or Lenin. This truly great man is dead serious about your freedom. If he wants practical results, he has to surround himself with little man, with helpers and executants, because the task is enormous and he can’t handle it all by himself. Besides, you wouldn’t understand him, you’d ignore him if he didn’t gather little big men around him. Surrounded by little big men, he gains power for you, or a bit of truth, or a new and better faith. He writes testaments, issues laws to ensure freedom, counting on your help and serious willingness to help. He lifts you out of the social muck you had sunk into. In order to keep all the little big men together and not to forfeit your confidence, the truly great man is compelled, little by little, to sacrifice the greatness he had achieved in profound spiritual solitude, far from you and your daily tumult, yet in close contact with your life. In order to lead you, he must let you worship him as an unapproachable god. You would have no confidence in him if he went on being the simple man he was, if, for instance, he lived with a woman out of wedlock. Thus it is you who create your new master. Exalted to the rank of the new master, the great man loses his greatness, which consisted in integrity, simplicity, courage, and the closeness to the realities of life. The little big men who derive their prestige from the great man, take over the leading positions in finance, diplomacy, government, the arts and sciences–and you stay where you have always been all along, in the muck! You continue to go about in rags for the sake of the “socialist future” or the “Third Reich.” You continue to live in mud huts daubed with cow dung. But you’re proud of your Palace of People’s power . . . Until the next war and the downfall of the new masters.
In far countries little men have closely studied your longing to be an indiscriminate slave. It has taught them how to become little big men with very little mental effort. These little men were not born in mansions, they rose from yourranks. They have gone hungry like you, suffered like you. And they have found a quicker way of changing masters. For a hundred years truly great thinkers made unstinting sacrifices, devoted their minds and lives to your freedom and well-being. The little men from your own ranks have found out that no such effort is needed. What truly great thinkers had achieved in a century of hardship and earnest thought they have managed to destroy in less than five years. Yes, the little men from your own ranks have found a shortcut–their method is more blatant and brutal. They tell you in so many words that you and your life, your children and family, count for nothing; that you are a feeble-minded flunky to be treated as it suits them. They promise you not individual but nationalfreedom. They say nothing of self-respect but tell you to respect the state. They promise you not a personal greatness but national greatness. Since “individual freedom” and “individual greatness” mean nothing to you, while “national freedom” and “national greatness” stimulate your vocal cords in very much the same way as bones bring the water to a dog’s mouth, the sound of these words makes you cheer. None of these little men pays the price that Giordano Bruno, Jesus, Karl Marx, or Lincoln had to pay for genuine freedom. They don’t love you, little man, they despise you because you despise yourself. They know you through and through, much better than Rockefeller or the Tories know you. They know your worst weaknesses, as you ought to know them. They have sacrificed you to a symbol, and you have given them the power over you. You yourself have raised up your masters and you go on supporting them although–or perhaps because–they have cast of all masks. They have told you plainly, “You are and always will be an inferior, incapable of responsibility.” You call them guides or redeemers, and shout hurrah, hurrah.
I’m afraid of you, little man, very much afraid, because the future of mankind depends on you. I’m afraid of you because your main aim in life is to escape–from yourself. You’re sick, little man, very sick. It’s not your fault; but it’s your responsibility to get well. You’d have shaken off your oppressors long ago if you hadn’t countenanced oppression and often given it your direct support. No police force in the world would have had the power to crush you if you had an ounce of self-respect in your daily life, if you were aware, really aware, that without you life could not go on for one hour. Has your liberator told you this? He called you “Workers of the World,” but he didn’t tell you that you and you alone are responsible for your life (and not for the honor of the fatherland).
You’ve got to realize that you have raised up your little men to be oppressors, and made martyrs of your truly great men; that you have never given a moment’s thought to them or to what they have done for you; that you haven’t the faintest idea who brought you the true benefits of your life.
[…]
I tell you, little man, you’ve lost all feeling for the best that is in you. You’ve stifled it. And when you find something worthwhile in others, in your children, your wife, your husband, your father or mother, you kill it. Little man, you’re small and you want to stay small.
How, you ask me, do I know all this? I’ll tell you.
I have known you, shared your experiences; I’ve known you in myself. As a physician I’ve freed you from what is small in you; as an educator I’ve often guided you in the path of integrity and openness. I know how bitterly you resist your integrity, what mortal fear comes over you when called upon to follow your own, authentic nature.
You are not always small, little man. I know you have your “great moments,” your “flights of enthusiasm” and “exaltation.” But you lack the perserverance to let your enthusiasm soar, to let your exaltation carry you higher and higher. You’re afraid to soar, afraid of heights and depths. Nietzsche told you that long ago, far better than I can. He wanted to raise you up to be a superman, to surpass the merely human. His superman became your Fuhrer, Hitler. And you have remained what you were, the subhuman.
I want you to stop being subhuman and become “yourself.” “Yourself.” I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor’s opinion, but “yourself.” I know and you don’t, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you’re a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan. And because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognize only the heavy weight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you’ll undoubtedly go to the fight.
You plead for happiness in life, but security means more to you, even if it costs you your backbone or wrecks your whole life. Since you have never learned to seize upon happiness, to enjoy it and safeguard it, you lack the courage and integrity. Shall I tell you, little man, what kind of man you are? You listen to commercials on the radio, advertisements for laxatives, toothpaste, shoe polish, deodorants, and so on. But you are unaware of the abysmal stupidity, the abominable bad taste of the siren’s tones calculated to catch your ear. Have you ever listened closely to a nightclub entertainer’s jokes about you? About you, about himself, and your whole wretched world. Listen to your advertisements for better bowel movements and learn who and what you are.
Listen, little man! Every single one of your petty misdeeds throws a light on the wretchedness of human life. Every one of your petty actions diminishes the hope of improving your lot just a little more. That is ground for sorrow, little man, for deep, heartbreaking sorrow. To avert such sorrow you make silly little jokes. That’s what you call your sense of humor.
You hear a joke about yourself and you join in the laughter. You don’t laugh because you appreciate humor at your own expense. You laugh at the little man without suspecting that you are laughing at yourself, that the joke is on you. And all the millions of little men fail to realize that the joke is on them. Why have you been laughed at so heartily, so openly, so maliciously, down through the centuries? Have you ever noticed how ridiculous the common people are made to look in the movies?
I will tell you why you are laughed at, little man, because I take you seriously, very seriously.
Invariably you miss the truth in your thinking. You remind me of the whimsical sharpshooter who purposely misses the bull’s eye by a hair’s breadth. You disagree? I’ll prove it.
You could have become the master of your existence long ago if your thinking aimed at the truth. I’ll give you an example of your thinking:
“It’s all the fault of the Jews,” you say. “What’s a Jew?” I ask. “People with Jewish blood,” you say. “How do you distinguish Jewish blood from other blood?” The question baffles you. You hesitate. Then you say, “I meant the Jewish race.” “What’s race?” I ask. “Race? That’s obvious. Just as there’s a Germanic race, there’s a Jewish race.” “What are the characteristics of the Jewish race?” “A Jew has black hair, a long hooked nose, and sharp eyes. The Jews are greedy and capitalistic.” “Have you ever seen a southern Frenchman or an Italian side by side with a Jew? Can you distinguish between them?” “No, not really . . .” “Then what’s a Jew? His blood picture is the same as everyone else’s. His appearance is no different from that of a Frenchman or an Italian. On the other hand have you ever seen any German Jews?” “They look like Germans.” “What’s a German?” “A German is a member of the Nordic Aryan race.” “Are the Indians Aryans?” “Yes.” “Are they Nordics?” “No.” “Are they blond?” “No.” “See? You don’t even know what a Jew or a German is.” “But Jews do exist!” “Of course Jews exist. So do Christians and Mohammedans.” “That’s right. I meant the Jewish religion.” “Was Roosevelt a Dutchman?” “No.” “Why do you call a descendant of David a Jew if you don’t call Roosevelt a Dutchman?” “The Jews are different.” “What’s different?” “I don’t know.”
That’s the kind of rubbish you talk, little man. And with such rubbish you set up armed gangs that kill ten million people for being Jews, though you can’t even tell me what a Jew is. That’s why you’re laughed at, why anybody with anything serious to do steers clear of you. That’s why you’re up to your neck in muck. It makes you feel superior to call someone a Jew. It makes you feel superior because you feel inferior. You feel inferior because you yourself are exactly what you want to kill off in the people you call Jews. That’s just a sampling of the truth about you, little man.
When you contemptuously call someone a “Jew,” your sense of your own littleness is relieved. I discovered that only recently. You call anyone who arouses too much or too little respect in you a Jew. And as if you’d been sent down to earth by some higher power, you take it on yourself to decide who is a Jew. I contest that right, regardless of whether you’re a little Aryan or a little Jew. No one but myself is entitled to say what I am. I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don’t pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes. I’m told that you didn’t want a Jewish engineer in Palestine because he was uncircumcised. I have nothing more in common with Jewish fascists than with any other fascists. I am moved by no feelings for the Jewish language, Jewish religion, or Jewish culture. I believe in the Jewish God no more than in the Christian or Indian God, but I know where you get your God. I don’t believe that the Jews are God’s “chosen people.” I believe that someday the Jewish people will lose themselves among the masses of human animals on this planet and that this will be a good thing for them and their descendants. You don’t like to hear that, little Jewish man. You harp on your Jewishness because you despise yourself and those close to you as Jews. The Jew himself is the worst Jew hater of all. That’s an old truth. But I don’t despise you and I don’t hate you. I simply have nothing in common with you, at any rate no more than with a Chinese or a raccoon, namely, our common origin in cosmic matter. Why do you stop at Shem, little Jew, why not go back to protoplasm? To my mind, life begins with plasmatic contraction, not with rabbinic theology.
[…]
Twenty-two years, twenty-two long, eventful, anguished years have passed since I began to teach you that what matters is not individual therapy but the prevention of psychic disorders. And again you’re behaving as you’ve behaved for thousands of years. For twenty-two long fearful years I taught you that people succumb to madness of one kind or another or live in misery of one kind or another because they have become rigid in body and soul and because they are capable neither of enjoying love nor of giving it, because their bodies cannot, like those of all other animals, convulse in the act of love.
Twenty-two years after I first told you so, to tell your friends that the essential is not the cure but the prevention of psychic disorders. But you go on behaving as you’ve behaved for thousands of years. You state the great aim, without mentioning how it’s to be attained. You don’t mention the love life of the masses. You want “to prevent psychic disorders”–that much it’s permissible to say–without going into the disaster of people’s sexual lives–that is forbidden. As a physician, you’re still up to your neck in the swamp.
What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That’s what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You’re a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don’t want the thorns of my roses. Haven’t you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven’t you ridiculed me as “the prophet of bigger and better orgasms”? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions of lives?
You value security before truth.
When you hear about my orgone, you don’t ask, “What can it do to cure the sick?” No. You ask, “Is he licensed to practice medicine in the state of Maine?” Don’t you realize that though you and your wretched licenses can obstruct my work a little, you can’t stop it; that I have a worldwide reputation as the discoverer of your emotional plague and the investigator of your life energy; that no one is entitled to examine me unless he knows more than I do?
You fritter away your freedom. No one has ever asked you, little man, why you haven’t been more successful in winning freedom, or if you have won it, why you have quickly lost it to a new master.
“Did you hear that? He has the gall to cast doubt on democracy and the revolutionary upsurge of the workers of the world. Down with the revolutionary, down with the counter-revolutionary! Down!”
Take it easy, little Fuhrer of all democrats and of the world proletariat. I am convinced that your real prospects of attaining freedom depend more on the answer to that one question than on ten thousand resolutions of your party congresses.
“Down with him! He has insulted the nation and the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat! Down with him! Stand him up against the wall!”
All your cries of “Up” and “Down” won’t bring you one step closer to your goal, little man. You have always thought you could safeguard your freedom by standing people “up against the wall.” You’d do better to stand yourself up to a mirror . . .
“Down! . . .”
Take it easy, little man. I don’t mean to insult you, I’m only trying to show you why you’ve never been able to win freedom, or to preserve it for any length of time. Doesn’t that interest you all?
“Do–o–own . . .”
[…]
You come running to me and ask: “Dear, good, great, Doctor! What should I do? What should we do? My whole house is collapsing, the wing is whistling through the cracks in the walls, my child is sick and my wife is miserable. I’m sick myself. What should I do? What should we do?”
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you’re torturing to death, the love in your child’s body, your wife’s dream of life, your own dream of life when you were sixteen. Exchange your illusions for a bit of truth. Throw out your politicians and diplomats!
Take your destiny into your own hands and build your life on rock. Forget about your neighbor and look inside yourself! Your neighbor, too, will be grateful. Tell your fellow workers all over the world that you’re no longer willing to work for death but only for life. Instead of flocking to executions and shouting hurrah, hurrah, make a law for the protection of human life and its blessings. Such a law will be a part of the granite foundation your house rests on. Protect your small children’s love against the assaults of lascivious, frustrated men and women. Stop the mouth of the malignant old maid; expose her publicly or send her to a reform school instead of the young people who are longing for love. Don’t try to outdo your exploiter in exploitation if you have a chance to become boss. Throw away your swallowtails and top hat, and stop applying for a license to embrace your woman. Join forces with your kind in all countries; they are like you, for better or worse. Let your child grow up as nature (or ‘God’) intended. Don’t try to improve on nature. Learn to understand it and protect it. Go to the library instead of the prize fight, go to foreign countries rather than to Coney Island. And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.”
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In view of all this, I’m bidding you goodbye, little man. I will serve you no more, I refuse to let my concern for you torture me slowly to death. You can’t follow me to the distant places I’m bound for. You’d be scared to death if you so much as suspected what the future has in store for you–because undoubtedly you’re in the process of inheriting the earth, little man! My remote solitudes are a part of your future. But for the present I don’t want you as a traveling companion. As a traveling companion you may be all right in a club car, but not where I’m going.
“Kill him! He despises the civilization that I, the little man in the street, have built. I’m a free citizen of a free democracy. Hurrah!”
You’re nothing, little man! Nothing whatever! You didn’t build this civilization, it was built by a few of your more decent masters. Even if you’re a builder, you don’t know what you’re building. If I or someone else were to say, “Take responsibility for what you’re building,” you’d call me a traitor to the proletariat and flock to the Father of all Proletarians, who does not say such things.
You’re not free, little man, and you haven’t the faintest idea what freedom is. You wouldn’t know how to live in freedom. Who brought the plague to power in Europe? You little man! And in America? Think of Wilson!
“Listen to him! He’s accusing me, the little man! Who am I? What power have I to interfere with the President of the United States? I do my duty and obey orders. I don’t meddle with politics.”
When you drag thousands of men, women, and children to the gas chambers, you’re only obeying orders. Is that right, little man? And you’re so innocent you don’t even know that such things are happening. And you’re only a poor devil, whose opinion counts for nothing, who hasn’t even got one. And who are you, anyway, that you should meddle with politics? I know, I know! I’ve heard all that many times. But then I ask: Why don’t you do your duty in silence when a wise man tells you that you and you alone are responsible for what you do, or tries to persuade you not to beat your children, or pleads with you for the thousandth time to stop obeying dictators? What becomes of your duty, your innocent obedience, then? No, little man, when truth speaks, you don’t listen. You listen only to bluster. And then you shout Hurrah! Hurrah! You’re cowardly and cruel, little man; you have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and to preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
You will drag yourself and you meanness through many centuries before becoming your own master. I’m bidding you goodbye in order to work more effectively for your future, because when I’m far away you can’t kill me, and you respect my work more in the distance than close at hand.You despise anything that’s too close to you!That’s why you put your proletarian general or marshal on a pedestal: then, however contemptible he may be, you can respect him. And that’s why great men have given you a wide berth since the dawn of history.
“That’s megalomania. The man is stark raving mad!”
I know, little man, you’re very quick to diagnose madness when a truth doesn’t suit you. You regard yourself as “normal”!
You’ve locked up all the lunatics and the world is run by normal people. Then who’s to blame for all the trouble? Not you, of course; you only do your duty, and who are you to have an opinion of your own? I know. You don’t have to say it again. It’s not you I’m worried about, little man! But when I think of your children, when I think how you torment the life out of them trying to make them “normal” life yourself, I almost want to come back to you and do what I can to stop your crimes. But I also know that you’ve taken precautions against that by appointing commissioners of education and child care.
I with I could take you on a little tour of the world, little man, to show you what you, as the “apostle and embodiment of the people,” are and have been, in the present and in the past, in Vienna, London, and Berlin. You’d find yourself everywhere and recognize yourself without difficulty, regardless of whether you’re a Frenchman, a German, or a Hottentot, if only you had the courage to look at yourself.
“He’s insulting me, he’s desecrating my mission!”
I’m not insulting you, little man, and I’m not desecrating your mission. I’ll be only too glad if you show me I’m wrong, if you prove that you’re capable of looking at yourself and recognizing yourself, if you can give me the same kind of proofs as I’d expect of a mason who’s building a house. I’d expect him to show me that the house exists and is fit to live in. And if I prove that instead of building houses he merely talks about his “mission to build houses,” this mason will hardly be entitled to accuse me of insulting him. In the same light, it’s up to you to prove that you are the apostle and the embodiment of man’s future. It’s no use trying to hide like a coward behind the “honor” of the nation, or of the proletariat, because you’ve already shown too much of your true nature.
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A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE. I can’t tell you what your future will be. I have no way of knowing whether you’ll ever get to the moon or to Mars with the help of the cosmic orgone I have discovered. Nor can I know how your space ships will take off or land, whether you will light your houses with solar energy, or whether you will be able to talk with someone in Australia or Baghdad through a slit in the wall of your room. But I can tell you what you will definitely not do in five hundred or five thousand years.
“Would you listen to that! He’s a crank! He can tell me what I won’t do! Is he a dictator?”
I’m not a dictator, little man, though, what with your smallness, I might easily have become one. Your dictators can tell you only what you can’t do in the present without ending up in a gas chamber. They can no more tell you what you will do in the distant future than they can make a tree grow faster.
“But where do you get your wisdom, you intellectual servant of the revolutionary proletariat?”
From your own depths, you eternal proletarian of human reason!
“Listen to that! He gets his wisdom from my depths! I haven’t got any depths. And what kind of individualistic talk is this, anyway!!”
Oh yes, little man, you have depths, but you don’t know it. You’re afraid, mortally afraid of your depths; that’s why you neither feel them nor see them. That’s why your head swims when you look into the depths, why you reel as if you were on the edge of a precipice. You’re afraid of falling and losing your “special character.” Because, try as you will to find yourself, it’s always the same cruel, envious, greedy, thieving little man that turns up. I wouldn’t have written this long appeal to you, little man, if you didn’t have depths. And I know these depths in you, little man, because in my work as a physician I discovered them when you came to me with your affliction. Your depths are your great future. And that is why I can tell you what you will certainly not do in the future. A time will come when you won’t even understand how you were able, in these four thousand years of unculture, to do all the things you have done. Now will you listen to me?
“Why shouldn’t I listen to a nice little utopia? In any case, nothing can be done about it my dear Doctor. I’ll always be the little man of the people with no opinion of my own. And anyway, who am I to . . . ?”
Just be still! You’re hiding behind the myth of the little man, because you’re afraid of getting into the stream of life and of having to swim–if only for the sake of your children and grandchildren.
All right. The first of all the many things you will not do in the future is to regard yourself as a little man with no opinion of his own, who says, “Anyway, who am I to . . . ?” You have an opinion of your own and in the future you will regard it as a disgrace not to know it, not to express it and stand up for it.
“But what will public opinion say about my opinion? I’ll be crushed like a worm if I express my own opinion!”
What you call “public opinion,” little man, is the aggregate of all the opinions of little men and women. Every little man and every little woman has inside him a sound opinion of his own and a particular kind of unsound opinion. Their unsound opinions spring from the fear of the unsound opinions of all the other little men and women. That’s why the sound opinions don’t come to light. For instance, you will no longer believe that you “count for nothing.” You will know and proclaim that you are the mainstay and foundation of this human society. Don’t run away! Don’t be afraid! It’s not so bad to be a responsible mainstay of human society.
“What then must I do in order to be the mainstay of society?”
Nothing new or unusual. Just go on doing what you’re already doing: till your field, wield your hammer, examine your patient, take your children out playing or to school, write articles about the events of the day, investigate the secrets of nature. You’re already doing all these things, but you think they’re unimportant and that only what Marshal Medalchest or Prince Blowhard says or does is important.
“You’re a dreamer, Doctor. Don’t you see that Marshal Medalchest and Prince Blowhard have the soldiers and the arms needed to make war, to mobilize me for their war, and to blow my field, my factory, my laboratory, or my office to pieces?”
You get yourself mobilized, your field and your factory are blown to pieces, because you shout hurrah hurrah when they mobilize you and blow your factory and field to pieces. Prince Blowhard would have neither soldiers nor arms if you really knew that a field was for growing wheat and a factory for making furniture or shoes, that fields and factories were not made to be blown to pieces, and if you stood foursquare behind your knowledge. Your Marshal Medalchest and your Prince Blowhard don’t know these things. They themselves don’t work in a field, factory, or office. They think you work not to feed and clothe your children but for the grandeur of the German or the Workers’ Fatherland.
“Then what should I do? I hate war; my wife cries her heart out when I’m drafted, my children starve when the proletarian armies occupy my land, corpses pile up by the millions . . . All I want to do is till my field and play with the children after work, love my wife at night, and dance, sing, and make music on holidays. What should I do?”
Just go on doing what you’ve been doing and wanting to do all along: work, let your children grow up happily, love your wife at night. If you stuck to this program knowingly and single-mindedly there would be no war. Your wife wouldn’t be fair game for the sex-starved soldiers of the Workers Fatherland, your orphaned children wouldn’t starve in the streets, and you yourself wouldn’t end up staring glassy-eyed at the blue sky on some far off “field of honor.”
“But supposing I want to live for my work and my wife and my children, what can I do if the Huns or Germans or Japanese or Russians or somebody else marches in, and forces me to make war? I have to defend my house and home, don’t I?
Right you are, little man. If the Huns of any nation attack you, you’ve got to pick up your gun. But what you fail to see if that the “Huns” of all nations are simply millions of little men like yourself who persist in shouting hurrah, hurrah when Prince Blowhard (who doesn’t work) calls them to the colors; little men like yourself who believe that they count for nothing and ask, “Who am I to have an opinion of my own?”
If once you knew that you do count for something, that you do have a sound opinion of your own, that your field and factory are meant to provide for life and not for death, then, little man, you yourself would be able to answer the question you’ve just asked. You wouldn’t need any diplomats. You’d stop shouting hurrah, hurrah and laying wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (I know your unknown soldier, little man. I got acquainted with him when I was fighting my mortal enemy in the mountains of Italy. He’s the same little man as yourself, who thought he had no opinion of his own.) Instead of laying your national consciousness at the feet of your Prince Blowhard or your marshal of the world proletariat to be trampled on, you’d oppose them with your consciousness of your own worth and your pride in your work. You’d be able to get acquainted with your brother, the little man in Japan, China, and every other Hun country, to give him your sound opinion of your function as a worker, doctor, farmer, father, and husband, and convince him in the end that to make war impossible he need only stick to his work and his love.
“That’s all very well and good. But now they’ve made these atom bombs. A single one of them can kill hundreds of thousands of people!”
Use your head, little man! Do you think Prince Blowhard makes atom bombs? No, they’re made by little man who shout hurrah, hurrah instead of refusing to make them. You see, little man, it all boils down to one thing, to you and your sound or unsound thinking. And you, the most brilliant scientist of the twentieth century, if you were not a microscopically little man, you’d have thought in terms of the world and not of any nation. Your great intellect would have shown you how to keep the atom bomb out of the world; or if the logic of scientific development made such an invention inevitable, you’d have brought all your influence to bear to prevent it from being used. You’re caught in a vicious circle of your own making, and you can’t get out of it because your thought and vision have taken the wrong direction. You comforted millions of little men by telling them your atomic energy would cure their cancer and rheumatism, though you were well aware that this was impossible, that you had devised an instrument of murder and nothing else. You and your physics have landed in the same blind alley. You know it, but you won’t admit it. You’re finished! Now and for all time! You know it, I’ve told you so very plainly. But you keep silent, you go on dying of cancer and a broken heart, and on your very deathbed you cry out, “Long live culture and technology!” I tell you, little man, that you’ve dug your own grave with your eyes open. You think the new “era of atomic energy” has dawned. It has dawned all right, but not in the way you think. Not in your inferno but in my quiet, industrious workshop in a far corner of America.
It is entirely up to you, little man, whether or not you go off to war. If you only know that you’re working for life and not for death! If you only knew that all little men on this earth are exactly like yourself, for better or worse.
Someday ( how soon depends exclusively on you ) you’ll stop shouting hurrah, hurrah. You’ll stop telling fields and operating factories that are slated for destruction. Someday, I say, you’ll no longer be willing to work for death but only for life.
“Should I declare a general strike?”
I’m not so sure. Your general strike is a poor weapon. You’ll be accused–and rightly so–of letting your own women and children starve. By going on strike you will be demonstrating your high responsibility for the weal or woe of your society. Striking is not working. I’ve told you that someday you would work for life, not that you’d stop working. If you insist on the word “strike,” calling it a “working strike.” Strike by working for yourself, your children, your wife or woman, your society, your product, or your farm. Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do. Outside every big city on earth, mark off a field, build high walls around it, and there let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other. That’s what you could do, little man, if only you’d stop shouting hurrah, hurrah and stop believing that you’re a nobody without an opinion of your own . . .
It’s all in your hands, little man: not only your hammer or stethoscope but your life and your children’s lives. You shake your head. You think I’m a utopian, if not a “Red.”
You ask me, little man, when you will have a good, secure life. The answer is alien to your nature.
You’ll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion; when the mood of Beethoven’s or Bach’s music becomes the mood of your whole life–you have it in you, little man, somewhere deep down in a corner of your being; when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings; when you’ve learned to recognize two things in their season: your gifts and the onset of old age; when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors: when you cease to set more store by a marriage certificate than by love between man and woman; when you learn to recognize your errors promptly and not too late, as you do today; when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats; when instead of enraging you as it does today, your adolescents daughter’s happiness in love makes your heart swell with joy; when you can only shake your head at the memory joy; when you can only shake your head at the memory of the days when small children were punished for touching their sex organs; when the human faces you see on the street are no longer drawn with grief and misery but glow with freedom, vitality, and serenity; when human bodies cease to walk this earth with rigid, retracted pelvises and frozen sex organs.
You ask for guidance and advice, little man. For thousands of years you have had guidance and advice, good and bad. Not bad advice but your own smallness is to blame for your persistent wretchedness. I could give you good advice, but in view of the way you think and are, you wouldn’t be able to convert it into action for the benefit of all.
If, for instances, I advised you to put an end to all diplomacy and replace it by your professional and personal brotherhood with all the shoemakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, mechanics, engineers, physicians, educators, writers, administrators, miners, and farmers of England, Germany, Russia, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Palestine, Arabia, Turkey, Scandinavia, Tibet, Indonesia, and so on; to let all the miners work out the best way of preventing human beings all over the world from suffering from cold; to let the educators of all countries and nations determine the best way of safeguarding the world’s children against impotence and psychic disorder in later life; and so on. What would you do, little man, if confronted with these self-evident truths?
Assuming for the moment that you didn’t have me locked up as a “Red,” you would reply in person or through some spokesman of your party, church, trade union, or government:
“Who am I to replace diplomatic relations between countries by international relations based on work and social achievement?”
Or: “There’s no way of overcoming the discrepancies in the economic and social development of the various countries.”
Or: “Wouldn’t it be wrong to associate with the fascist Germans or Japanese, the Communist Russians, or the capitalistic Americans?”
Or: “What interests me first and foremost is my Russian, German, American, English, Jewish, or Arab fatherland.”
Or: “It’s all I can do to manage my own life and get along with my garment workers’ union. Let someone else worry about the garment workers of other countries.”
Or: “Don’t listen to that capitalist, Bolshevist, fascist, Trotskyite, internationalist, sexualist, Jew, foreigner, intellectual, dreamer, utopian, fake, crank, lunatic, individualist, and anarchist! Where’s your American, Russian, German, English, or Jewish patriotism?”
You would undoubtedly use one of these statements, or another of some sort, as an excuse for shirking your responsibility for human communication.
“Am I then utterly worthless? You don’t give me credit for one ounce of decency. You make hash out of me. But look here. I work hard, I support my wife and children, I try to lead a good life, I serve my country. I can’t be as bad as all that!”
I know you’re a decent, industrious, cooperative animal, comparable to a bee or an ant. All I’ve done is to lay bare the little man in you, who has been wrecking your life for thousands of years. You are great, little man, when you’re not mean and small. Your greatness, little man, is the only hope we have left. You’re great when you attend lovingly to your trade, when you take pleasure in carving and building and painting, in sowing and reaping, in the blue sky and the deer and the morning dew, in music and dancing, in your growing children, and in the beautiful body of your wife or husband; when you go to the planetarium to study the stars, to the library to read what other men and women have thought about life. You’re great when your grandchild sits on your lap and you tell him of times long past and look into the uncertain future with his sweet, childlike curiosity. You’re great, mother, when you lull your baby to sleep; when with tears in your eyes you pray fervently for his future happiness; and when hour after hour, year after year, you build this happiness in your child.
You’re great, little man, when you sing the good, warmhearted folk songs, or when you dance the old dances to the tune of an accordion, because folk songs are good for the soul, and they’re the same the world over. And you’re great when you say to your friend:
“I thank my fate that I’ve been able to live my life free from filth and greed, to see my children grow and to look on as they first began to babble, to take hold of things, to walk, to play, to ask questions, to laugh and to love; that I’ve been able to preserve, in all its freedom and purity, my feeling for the springtime and its gentle breezes, for the gurgling of the brook that flows past my house and the singing of the birds in the woods; that I’ve taken no part in the gossip of malicious neighbors; that I’ve been happy in the embrace of my wife or husband and have felt the stream of life in my body; that I haven’t lost my bearings in troubled times, and that my life has had meaning and continuity. For I have always hearkened to the gentle voice within me that said, ‘Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart’s bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don’t let it harden you.'”
When on quiet evenings after the day’s work I sit om the meadow outside the house with my beloved or my child, alert to the breathing of nature, then a song that I love rises up in me, the song oh humanity and its future: “Seid umschlungen, Millionen . . .” And then I implore this life to claim its rights and change the hearts of cruel or frightened men who unleash wars. They do it only because life has escaped them. And I hug my little boy, who says to me, “Father! The sun has gone away. Where has the sun gone? Will it come back soon?” And I say, “Yes, my boy, the sun will come back soon with its kindly warmth.”
I have come to the end of my appeal to you, little man. I could have gone on indefinitely. But if you’ve read my words attentively and candidly, you will be able to recognize the little man in you even in connections I haven’t mentioned. For one and the same state of mind is at the bottom of all your mean actions and thoughts.
Regardless of what you’ve done and will do to me, of whether you glorify me as a genius or lock me up as a madman, of whether you worship me as your deliverer or hang or torture me as a spy, your affliction will force you to recognize sooner or later that I have discovered the laws of living energy and have given you an instrument with which to govern your lives with the conscious purpose which thus far you have applied only to the operation of machines. I have been a faithful engineer to your organism. Your grandchildren will follow in my footsteps and become wise engineers of human nature. I have opened up to you the vast realm of the living energy within you, your cosmic essence. That is my great reward.
And to the dictators and tyrants, the crafty and malignant, the vultures and hyenas, I cry out in the words of an ancient sage:
I have planted the banner of holy words in this world. Long after the palm tree has withered and the rock crumbled, long after the glittering monarchs have vanished like the dust of dried leaves, a thousand arks will carry my word through every flood: It will prevail.
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FINAL WORDS FROM CHRISTOPHER Hello friend, I hope you enjoyed this book as much as I did. This book taught me many things, to look at myself honestly, to be honest with others, to give freely, to live life and much more. I think the most important thing it taught me is to stop hiding behind the myth of the little man. No matter who you are, there are times when you get a hint that you are not just a little man. Even if it is only in a dream, there is a part of you which knows you could be something great. Trust that part of yourself! You are not “just” a little man!
“And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.”
Take care my friend,
Christopher
“Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart’s bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don’t let it harden you.” – Wilhelm Reich, “Listen, Little Man!”
Anybody who is interested in health-I’m interested in them because, you know, this has been one of the most interesting lives i’ve had. It had been a little different, I guess than the rest of them. I happen to be the luckiest person in this room-so lucky because the Lord made it possible for me to be “born sick.” I was born with rheumatoid arthritis, born with it. This is some-thing you’re supposed to only get from eating rich viands and drinking wines, you know, but I was taken from the orphans’ home when I was 14 months old, and I don’t think the orphans’ home gave me wines and rich viands, and so this was hereditary, and this is one of the things that is so-interesting in life. Are we going to pass on our sins of omission or commission or are we going to clean them up?
I am here to tell-you tonight, in simple language, there are no incurable diseases, absolutely. It may sound a little abrupt and a little strong, but it is an absolute fact. There are no incurable diseases. There are some incurable -patients, but no incurable diseases, and the reason we have incurable patients,there are several reasons. One of them could be that the individual is a hypochondriac who enjoys ill-health-one convinced against their will is of the sane opinion still—and we can’t do much for them. Another is that their time has come because everything moves in its time and season. There is an hour to be born and an hour to die.And if a person’s time has come—we have had this demonstrated many times—people have been brought to us with just the skin over the bones, skeletal remains, rapidly dying with sores all over their bodies. In some cases, they have been cursing God because of the pain. In a matter of a short time we bring that body back to normal size. The sores are healed, and they feel better than they have felt for many years, but then they say, “it is so wonderful to feel good, but my time has come, I’ve got to go.” And I have seen them die within hours, within a day or two days after they say, “My time has come in.”
The only way that we can keep this body in good condition is to go back to the basics, and the basics are so simple that I think we have overlooked them. The good Lord made us from the dust of the earth, “From dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return.” But in the dust of that earth, we have everything that is needed in mankind, and that’s why we were built from the dust. You can go out with a shovel and dig up a shovel-full of dirt from a good piece of soil, put it on a piece of equipment, and you’ll get an analysis of most of the 17 basic and the 70 trace minerals that are in the human body. They are all in that soil–in the dust of the earth we’re made of. We can take those minerals and with an Osborn separator, by molecular weight, pull the lead over here, the iron over here, the copper, the zinc, put then in their divisions, make them pharmaceutically fine, put them in the capsules or tablets, and take them into our bodies. You can get them at most pharmacies–flowers of sulphur, your iron, and different things. They’re there for you to use and they can go right into the body, and they are accepted into the body. This is the terrific thing! They are accepted into the body, but they are not assimilated. There’s your key! They lie there heavy because they are of low vibration, and they will vibrate to the areas that are weak, or the sickly parts of the body, and as they lie there, they cause side effects and after effects. We wonder how we’re going to get those minerals into our body because when it starts to fall to pieces at the seams, we have to rebuild it, refurbish it, and take care of it because God will not dwell in an unclean tabernacle, and this is the Temple of God, There is only one way it can be rebuilt and that is through the dust of the earth. I’m not saying be a dirt eater. I’m saying let’s go back and read the instructions. You know when all else fails, follow the instructions. There’s your key! And what are the instructions? Well, this body was built by God and I’ll go back to his instructions, regardless of the great intellectual minds of man, because He has given a complete picture, everything that we need, right there.
In 1941 1 got turned on to the scriptures because I was told that I couldn’t live past my 40th year. Four imminent physicians told me that it was impossible for me to go past my 40th year and, if I did, it would be a very short time before I would be either in a hospital, in a wheelchair, or incapacitated. Well, it was enough to frighten anybody, but I turned to the scriptures and refused to go their way. I didn’t want my back fused. I didn’t want operations for my cancer. I didn’t want the things done that they were going to do, and I found,in the scriptures, my answer. Well, the four men who told me I would die by the time I was 40, three of them are dead, and the fourth one is on the skids. I am averaging 120 cities a year and I’m on the go, and I LOVE IT! And I praise the Lord because he made me so sick that I had to learn on my own how to come out of it.
Well, after a period of time, I found the answer in the scriptures. Of course, we’re told what foods we’re to eat. In Genesis 1:29 and 30, we are told that all green, seed-bearing herbs are the food for man and for beast. That’s the meat for man and beast. In Ezekiel 47:12, it tells us that the fruit of the tree shall be for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine. When we go on into this, now don’t worry, I get on the pulpit for a few minutes, but I’ll get, back on the podium, so don’t panic, because the pulpit part of it are the instructions. When all else fails, follow instructions. But I found a scripture that was absolutely fantastic and it is the answer. In Psalms 104:14, we have an answer to how we get the food out of the dust of the earth and build this body from the dust of the earth and that says, in part, “and I have given grasses for the cattle to eat.” But here is the key in Psalms 104:14., “but I have given herbs for the service of man that he may with it bring forth from the earth FOOD,” and there is your key! The seed, from the seed bearing herbs that are to be our meat, goes down into the earth, and with a little heat, a little sun, and a little moisture. it has a power because God, in the fact that he told us that if we had the faith of a mustard seed, we could move mountains, and every seed has that. I have seen 300,000 seeds and plants, when I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that had been collected and put into fireproof storage, catalogued, 300,000 of them. Those seeds look an awful lot alike. But, here is the amazing part about it, Man can build a seed that looks exactly like God’s. You can’t even tell them apart, even with a microscope. I defy you to. Very smooth operation! But we do have a test to tell which seed is which. Plant the two of them in the earth; under the same condition, and the seed that man made is so stupid it doesn’t do anything but rot, but the one that God made has the power of God in it and it goes down and, like the mustard seed who never went to school and didn’t learn and a little of that'” It goes down into the earth and it says, “I am going to have this and I am going to have that,” and it gets it because it has faith of the mustard seed. It could move mountains.
One of the seeds that I am so intrigued with is called “yellow dock.” Yellow dock seed goes down into the earth and it starts, like an Osborn separator, to pull to it the minerals that are there in the dust of the earth and it pulls a number of them to it, but 42% of those minerals is iron. Iron! It is one of the strongest iron plants we’ve got. How does it happen to work? It takes the dead, inorganic minerals, through the process of osmosis, changes them to live, high-vibrating minerals that, formerly in the dust of the earth, could only be accepted into our body, but as it goes through plant life, as it tells us in Psalms 104:14, to bring food forth from the earth, it, by osmosis, makes those minerals change to live minerals. Now they can be accepted into the human body. It’s so simple, All we have to know is which herbs to use. There are only three or five hundred thousand of them. No problem! No problem! We’re not even going to worry about that because Hippocrates with 29 herbs, 29 herbs of the odd herbs that were known at that time, saw that everybody on the Isle of Cos was healed and there were no contagious diseases at all and his fame spread from city to city, and eventually Rome took over his program and outlawed all other types of medicine, outlawed everything else unless they went on the wholistic routine: of course, the wholistic routine is anything that is beneficial to mankind, that cannot hurt him: that is the wholistic program of healing. And so for 600 years Rome had no contagious diseases because they went on the wholistic routine. And, then of course, we got back to the old medieval setup. Now we aren’t as smart as Hippocrates, but with less than 100 herbs, we have herbal formulas that will cure any type of disease known on the face of this earth. That’s why I say there are no incurable diseases
You talk about cancer. You talk about cancer of the bone. You talk about diseases that are sent home to die, incurable. That’s what we built a practice on. For 35 years I have built a practice on the culls after they have been turned down, sent home to die, or given the answer, “There is no more we can do for you except maybe relieve the pain a little.” Those were my patients, and they grew, and grew, until they were running 85 to 90 patients a day, with a staff of 14, but our results were unusual
People asked me not too long ago how it was that we got such phenomenal success, and so I sat down and wrote the smallest book that I have written. We have a number of booklets that we have gotten on the market, a new one just coming out, “Childhood Diseases.” But this particular one I wrote and the title I put on it is a ridiculous title. It is called “The Incurables.” They are incurable, why worry about them? It’s the incurables that can be handled with this program. I’ve put it out line by line, precept upon precept, point by point, and it can be done in your own home. It’s a “do it yourself” kit. Yes! You can take multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, polio, stroke. You can take tumors of the brain. You can take cancer, advanced cancer. You can, take cancer of the bone. And they can be healed! Sounds like Buck Rogers, doesn’t it? Sounds like I’m out of character here. Herbs? Surely! The Lord gave them to us and they’re here for us to use, but what have we done? We have pushed them in the background. We’ve ignored them and we’ve become very complicated and the Lord wants us to be, I think, a little more on the simple way
So what’s the key? We go back again to the scriptures and it says all herbs I, the Lord, have given you for the use of man in their wholesome state–IN THEIR WHOLESOME STATE. Look up that word wholesome in Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and the word wholesome means that the life there is as in its original state. All right! We’re talking about different things that are supposedly killers in herbs. We talk about saffron which is taken from sassafras, and saffron is a killer. Well, you know, the number of years that I have had sassafras tea as a kid, we weren’t smart enough to take the saffron out and take it by itself and kill ourselves. We took the sassafras in its wholesome state and the balance of it offset anything that would be disastrous to you just like we have an herb called cinchona, Peruvian bark. Cinchona is one of the great herbs that’s down in Central and South America. Of course, here we have the quaking aspen and others that will do the same thing, but this is just a good example. The pharmaceutical’s sent their groups down to gather some of this to see what could be done, because it was internationally known wherever it was used as being the greatest cure for fevers that could ever be found, whether they were the worst types of killing jungle fevers or whatever they were. But you could take the bark of the Peruvian tree, make it into a tea, and let a person drink as much tea as they would want, as much as they could hold with reason, of course. Use all herbs with prudence and skill the scriptures say. You don’t want to put 10 gallons of herbs into a three quart capacity, you know, but it will clear any fever there is. And so the pharmaceutical houses said, “Well, here’s what we need. Mankind needs it.” So they started to tear that bark to pieces. They pulled off this; they pulled off that; and they tossed out this, and they chucked this away, and they wound up with a little white crystalline material. This little white crystalline material he said “That’s the key; that’s what killed the fever That’s it.” So they’ put it into capsules and tablets and you can go to any pharmacy and get it right now. Go down to the pharmacy. Don’t ask for cinchona; don’t ask for Peruvian bark, ask for quinine. That’s what they took out of Peruvian bark–quinine.” But take enough quinine and you’re deaf. You’ll never hear again. Take an additional amount and it will kill you! IT WILL KILL YOU! It has skull and crossbones on it. Why? Because it is not taken in its wholesome state. Isolated. There’s your key
The herb in its wholesome state. Now, the Peruvian bark is harmless. You can give it to a small infant. You can give it to anybody and it will do nothing but good for them. But when you isolate out the specific, you’re asking for trouble. Anything in its wholesome state—but of all the herbs that we have on the face of the earth-and by the way every one of you here today are here because of herbs. I know what’s going through your minds. “I don’t drink any of that stuff. ” Wow! An herb is anything that is green and seed bearing and what’s on the face of this earth. All of our vegetation is from seed-bearing herbs. All right! Take those out of the face of the earth and what have we got? A sterile earth and there’ll be no animation if there isn’t vegetation. So you wouldn’t be here today and I wouldn’t be here today. This is a fact and so you’re here because of herbs. Ah! We’ll get you one way or another. Now those herbs can be divided down the middle. Part of these herbs we use medicinally and part of them we use nutritionally. I don’t like the word medicinal but Ezekiel used it. He says, “The fruit of the tree shall be for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine. ” But, nevertheless, the herbs that we have for dinner-fruits, vegetables, grains,nuts, and seeds, and they are luscious and delicious when they’re prepared properly-that’s for nutrition. But if you don’t eat those properly and eat enough. of them and have your grains which are extremely important because your grains are your anticancer. All right, if you don’t have those in your diet, drop around and I’ll mix you up a bunch of leaves. – It’ll be nasty enough that maybe it will drive you back to eating properly
We have all types of herbs but there are three types that a true herbalist will not use and will refuse to use. No. 1 – we will never use a toxic herb. No. 2 – we will never use a poisonous herb, and No. 3 – we will never, under any condition, use a habit-forming herb. That still leaves plenty of herbs. Out of the 300,000, folks, there’ll be four or five I won’t talk on today so we’ll get out in time. Don’t worry, not going to hold you. But those herbs are precious. With the fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds, you can live a thousand years. Sound crazy. But stop and think a minute. From the time of Adam down to Noah, you have no history of meat eating. None! And if you don’t believe in the Bible, if you don’t believe in the old sriptures, go back to Josephus, bless his soul. He was a hard-headed historian and he’ll tell you the same thing. There was no meat eating. The were vegetarians, from Adam down to Noah, and they lived close to a thousand years — Methuee elah 969, Adam well over 900, so forth and so on, but, when the Ark landed on Mt. Ararat, —it landed on a sterile area and the Lord had written a book already and the play was perfect according to the way the book was written. He had told them to put seven of the clean, only two of the unclean on, of the animals, and when they landed, as it says in my religion-I happen to be a Mormon-and it says meat should be used only during times of cold winters and famine. Well, they were hit at a time of famine, and so they went to work and started eating meat and they got hooked on it. Yes. They liked it. Now you wish you hadn’t come because you still got some of that roast in the refrigerator. Don’t worry, folks. I’m not trying to push anything down your throats. I’m not to push vegetarianism down you because most vegetarians are on the wrong track anyhow. They just stop eating meat and they eat all the garbage that’s still left on the market that’s highly advertised to tease the taste buds. They take the junk foods.” This isn’t a true vegetarian. But it’s there for you to use, if you want to, and you can go back to living a thousand years. You know, after Noah and his friends started using meat, it took just three generations-go back and trace it down -three generations, to drop from nearly 1,000 years to 120 years. The life span of a man dropped to 120 years in three generations.” We have a hard time now making threescore and ten. Yes! Where does that fit us? It fits us pretty heavy because we have a promise. You may believe it or you may think it’s Just fiction, but we have a promise, folks, that ahead of us is 1,000 years of peace, a thousand years of peace. I’d like a week. Yes! I’d like a week when someone isn’t locking over my shoulder to see if they can slip the handcuffs on. You think that’s being facetious? Whenever I hit a new city, I always call my wife to tell her what hotel or what jail I’m in. From the things we have taught over the years, I’ve been in and out of those jails many, many times to try and keep this thing going, and it’s kept going, and now the pendulum is swinging our way be cause people are beginning to realize that it is the natural things of God, the pure simple things in their wholesome state in keeping away from processed foods, that will cure any disease.
No. 1. We have to clean that bowel out! We have one of the dirtiest bowels in the world in this Nation today. Over 90% of all disease is caused from the dirty bowel, 90%. So let’s clean it out, and there are ways that it can be done–that it can be done that are not habit forming–and yet you can have from three to five bowel movements a day. Now that is the first step for getting ahead of cancer.
The second’ step is to clean up the blood stream. You know, people haven’t stopped to think. You have boils and you go and have them lanced, tapped, and drained, and you say, “Well, I’ve had all the boils lanced, tapped, and drained; they’re all done now. I never have to worry about ’em any more.” People say, “You’re nutty. You’ve bad ’em all your life. How do you expect that to do it?” It’s the same principle. They say, “Well, maybe I better clean up my blood stream. We don’t stop to think. When cancer hits, it hits a weak area, and the cancer is in the blood stream, and it hits that weak area and that’s where it multiplies! So we cut it out like we’re opening a boil and what happens? You say, “Well, we got the cancer out.” You worked on the effect but you haven’t gone to the cause and the cause is in the blood stream because just give it a few more months, and she’s going to pop out some place else, and again some place else until finally, they open you up, look in, sew you up, and send you home. I’ve had many of these cases. All right! Let’s reverse this. Let’s reverse it and get away from those things that are accepted into the body but not assimilated. Let’s get back to natural foods again. There is the key of long life and you think it can’t be done. I can’t get along without my steak. I can’t get along without my meat; it’s impossible.
Ihe Lord left on the face of this earth another animal besides us. You think that’s insulting calling you an animal? Well, you don’t have feathers. You’re not birds. So you must be animals. I am. He left another animal and it’s called a gorilla and the gorilla is built with every organ in it that you and I have. Every organ is identical. You can take the organs from a gorilla and put ever here, and ones from a human put over here, and have you folks come in single file. And you’d look at them and you couldn’t tell which were the organs from the human and which were from the gorilla. Oh, maybe some smart cooky would come along and say, “That one looks healthier than that one; that must be the gorilla. ” Could be! Could be! Someone else says, “Well, that one has a bigger brain than that one. I guess that’s the human. ” That is the human, and that’s why it has such a sickly body because it’s been to school and learned the negative. The gorilla has to depend on the power of God to guide it along. He doesn’t bring in any foods from Minneapolis, ‘St. Paul, Hawaii, or St. Joe. He grazes under his own fig tree, in his own backyard, in his own altitude, latitude, and longitude, where we should grow most of our foods. In our own area, and he be comes obnoxously healthy. A lot of people say, “Well, why do you compare us? I don’t look like a gorilla.” Well, some of my patients didn’t. No! But some of them do. As far as that gorilla is concerned because he depends on the Lord, the Lord says, “Look. You are like a human. You’re built to be a vegetarian. You’re not a carnivorous beast. Just eat right. ” And so they do in their natural habitat. They live to be 150 to 200 years old. They won’t in our cages where we feed them, but in their natural habitat, and then they generally die because of accident, but when they die, they look like they’re 35. They hold their youth. But I’ll tell you something else they hold. Right up until the time they are ready to die, I defy any of you to get into the ring for two falls out of three. Yes, two falls out of three. Yes! And I’ll tell you something else. When that gorilla at 150 to 200 years of age dies, he has his own teeth and he has his own hair. Can you beat that. And what did he live on? -fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and seeds.
And I talked about 1 000 years of peace. What are the qualifications? The qualifications are that every man must be at peace with his fellow man, that there will be no death or hurt in all my kingdom. How are we gonna be at peace with our fellow man? You know. You can’t be at peace when you’re constipated. We can we ever have peace if we have got a lot of constipated warriors sitting around the peace table ? You can’t do it.All right! Let’s start at home. Let’s clean ourselves up. Let’s get on the program and clean up the bowel, clean up the blood stream, get back onto the mucousless diet, but the true mucouseless diet isn’t Arnold Ehret’s because, up until just before he died, he eliminated all grains. He said, “Don’t use grains.” Prevention magazine backed that up, but let me tell you, the Lord didn’t because in Ezekiel 4, he even enumerates the grains and the beans, and the lentils. You know, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego-they were pretty healthy people–and the king said, “They are wiser than all my wise men in my kingdom.” But they lived on lentils. They lived on those very things that we have been advised against using by the intellectual mind of man. But with using the natural foods that are not processed, you’d be amazed what can happen. We have a grain of wheat that is the best example I think I can give you today of what processing does–of taking things from their wholesome state. That wheat, we take it, take the outside coating off which is bran, throw it away, give it to the horses. Then the next coat is shorts; that feeds the chickens and the turkey’s. We don’t want it to last on the shelf just a little while, we want it to last a long while. So we pull the heart out of it. What can live without a heart? So we pull the heart out pull the oils out so we can use it for lubricating something or other, and we’ve got white flour left. Now, folks, don’t sell white flour short. It’s great! Absolutely great! You take a pan of white flour and mix it with water, put it on that wall and put wallpaper on there and you can’t pull the wallpaper off. It’s great as a paste. It a wonderful. So where does that fit with us? Well, we’re not putting any wallpaper in us, or on us, but we eat our breads,’ and our pastries, and our Twinkles, and we make up our paste inside. We haven’t any wallpaper to put on, but each layer of paste puts on another layer of old fecal matter and glues it on the side of the bowel wall until it gets thicker, and thicker, and thicker.Cut that bowel wall in two on a descending colon in autopsy and it’ll look like an old tree that’s been cut down, You have got your year marks and you can tell the lush years when you had a lot of money to spend on pastries. Yes! Those year marks show how you lived and it’s stored in there. I always tell people, sure, hard times might come, store your food up, but don’t store it in the’ bowels. Store it in the basement. Yes. All right.
We’ve got now another thing. With the grains you have in the grains every vitamin that’s needed in mankind’s body. You have all the vitamin B’s, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 18, 109, 111, 113. You haven’t heard of those. I haven’t either, but the Lord knows all about them and they are in there. Man hasn’t caught upwith with Him yet. But all of the vitamin B’s, C’s,, D’s, and E’s are in there, every one of them ! And if we will eat them in their wholesome state, learn how to pre-soak, and low heat, you can make the most delicious, terrific casseroles, and you can have food that is fit for a king, and you are the kings and queens if you’ll just follow through with each different thing that happens to the body. Sometimes diet alone won’t do it. Maybe you fall over with a heart attack. I’ve been called out on hundreds of cases of heart attacks, house calls, and I go there and I see the person lying on the floor, passed out, barely mumbling and I say, “Well you had a heart attack. You better go on a proper diet.” They say, “That guy is crazy. We always put nitroglycerin under the tongue, digitalis , or something else.” We don’t do that in our program. Your nitroglycerine, digitalis, it’ll flip that heart, get it coming and keep it going a little while longer, yes. Well, what do we do? We prop the individual up and pour down him a cup of cayenne tea, hot cayenne tea. What are we doing? We’re not working on the effect. We’re going to the cause and what is the cause? Malnutrition. That person has been starved and that heart hasn’t had a good heart food for a long time. But the cayenne is one of the most perfect foods you can give, that and hawthorne berry and some of these. But you know what? A man in the east here, a doctor, kept heart tissue from a chicken alive 15 years in a sterile beaker with nothing but distilled water and feeding it cayenne. He had to trim that every few days because it had no pineal or pituitary control and it just kept growing and would have split the beaker open. But he kept trimming it down and for years that heart tissue kept alive with nothing but cayenne pepper as its food. His associates after he died, kept it alive for another two years before they destroyed it. This is why we say, any organ in the body that’s s in malfunction, we have herbs that’ll take care of it. As an example, the pancreas, and how many are dying from diabetes? How many are being put in the asylums from hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, because they don’t know what else to do with them. That could all be done with herbs and we have had some of the worst cases of diabetes and hypoglycemia cleared within one year’s time, the worst cases and no recurrence. Why? Because we have fed that pancreas. We have gone to the cause and cleared up the pancreas and the other glands that associate with it by feeding it the right herbs. You see, there are herbs for each part of the body. This is the wonderful part. Your cascara sagrada, sure it’s a mild laxative, but the cascara sagrada is a thinking herb and when you take it into your body, where does it go? It goes directly to the perislaltic muscle in the bowel. Most people in this room and most people as you walk along the street you meet, they have peristaltic muscles that are either lazy, dormant, or paralyzed, and they’re going to get bowel movements by forced action or laxatives, but that peristaltic muscle has quit working and your cascara sagrada goes in and feeds it. This is why we have that as one of the nine ingredients in our bowel food because what we’re doing is not working on the effect, getting a laxative and getting a bowel movement, whichmes is temporary and habit forming. We are going down to the basic cause and healing the peristaltic muscle, healing the liver and the gall bladder, healing the parts of the body that need help, but there are’ so many herbs, if you will Ju8t learn how to use them
Let me tell you about one. So me of you have heard about it, I know. I know you have. it’s called comfrey. Yes! Some people won’t use it because they say it was discovered in Russia. (You see, Russia tried to say they~invented the Ford car,) But this is the truth. It was discovered in Russia. We finally got it~over here, root, to grow in 1955, but I’ll tell you, it’s one of the great herbs of all times. I think it is a throwback from the Garden of Eden because of its great healing ability. Let me give you a formula here for comfrey in the form of a paste that is the healer of healers. You take equal parts of wheat germ oil and honey, regular liquid honey, equal parts and mix them up. Now you add into this powdered or finely ground comfrey root, or leaf, it doesn’t matter, or both, but grind it down fine, whether it’s fresh or dried, it doesn’t matter, but keep mixing it in until you have a thick paste. Now it’s ready to use. Third degree burns, third degree incurable burns, put it over these. Now you don’t have to believe what I’m telling you. Just go home, mix some up, and when you’ve got a burn, an abrasion, a severe cut,’ or a black eye, use it. And it works. Let me tell you how well it works. The first time that I ever had used it, I didn’t know enough about comfrey. This was back in 1968. I didn’t know much about it, but I knew that it was a great herb and I only wished that I had enough of it because we had to bring it in from either France or England and we couldn’t afford to at this time because it hadn’t been growing enough that we had a big enough supply. They brought me in a little boy that had been brought straight down from the hospital. He and his little ten-year old friend, the two of them had been playing with gasoline and matches and they had roasted their hands up to the wrists and when they took the bandages off, the bones were sticking out through the flesh; the nails were burned off; the tendons were gone. They had just come from the hospital where they were given a choice They could either have their hands cut off at the wrists and claws put on, metal claws, or they could leave them in the hospital for approximately a year and, through surgery and skin grafting, they could keep those hands but they would be claws, permanent mummified claws that couldn’t move. One couple said, “We’ll keep our boy here.” They said, ‘We can’t do anything until sometime next week, but we’ll keep him here if you want. ” The other one said, “We want to try something else. ” So they came down to me, folks, to let me see him. I looked at them and my compassion was with this boy. I wanted to see those hands healed but I didn’t know how to make up any kind of paste or anything else. At this time, you see, I was supposedly one of America’s top herbalists but I’m not that good. I Just don’t pull things out of thin air. I need a helper and I have one, and, right quick, no type of meditation or long prayers. I said, “Lord now, I need it.” And He gave me this and so I told them to write it down, equal parts of wheat germ oil and honey, put the comfrey in, and I said it was good for incurable third degree burns, for scalding, for cuts, abrasions, broken bones, many things. And I rattled it right off and they wrote it down. They made it up and the following week, now here it is. Both those boys hands had been burnt about alike and both of them were in the same condition. This boy they had put the paste over his hands and in one week’s time they took him back to the same doctor. They took the bandages off. He gasped and said, “This is a miracle. Instead of third degree incurable burns, it’s down to first degree burns. “Go on with what you’re using,” and he said “we will not have to use any surgery. They had used this paste that they had made up and it had come down to first degree burns instead of third degree incurables. The other boy–and by the way they went on using—-in the matter of weeks he has no ‘scars and his hands are as good as mine. The nails grew back on. The Lord left the plans and specifications and all the cartilage and everything came right back in again and his hands were perfect. But the other boy, in the same condition, it took nearly a year in the hospital. It cost over $150,000 and he came out at the end of the year with two mummified claws that were so horrible that they had to put gloves over them and he went on as a recluse. He wouldn’t even go out to school or any place after that and it cost them over $150,000. The insurance took care of almost everything except they were in the hole about 20 grand’ when they got through, after selling their house and their car, but this other boy that used the simple formula of God’s herbs, it cost them less than $10 for the initial and a little, bit mo re when they added on to finish the job off.
We have seen this very formula, folks, used on spines where cancer of the bone had perforated the spine from the atlas axis down to the tall bone so nothing could be fused in and I – 1/2 vertebrae completely eaten out with cancer of the bone. Six months from the time we started with this in giving the comfrey orally, this woman could get up and walk around. She was helpless lying there. They couldn’t even put a cast or brace on her and she was lying there waiting for death. In six months’s time, where the vertebrae and a half had been completely destroyed, and we have osteopathic physicians’ x-rays, before, during, and after, and it’s there, but the cartilage came in, in the same form that the original bones were, following the plans and specifications, she could get up and walk around. By the end of the year, the cartilage turned to bone and she has a spine that is as straight as any teenage spine in the entire city of Provo, Utah, where she was. But the whole thing was healed. The perforation, where they couldn’t fuse in, where the bones were so badly deteriorated, all came back to perfection, That was many years ago, This woman was x-rayed again, within the last six months, and her spine is as good as any teenager in town.
Just remember, folks, don’t sell herbs short. They’re great and God bless you. Thank you
Book: School of Natural Healing by John Christopher
Walnuts are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, phytochemicals and antioxidants making them unique compared to other foods. Consuming walnuts has been associated with health benefits including a reduced risk of heart disease and cancer. Dysbiosis of the gutmicrobiome has been linked to several chronic diseases. One potential mechanism by which walnuts may exert their health benefit is through modifying the gut microbiome.
This study identified the changes in the gut microbial communities that occur following the inclusion of walnuts in the diet.
The diet groups had distinct microbial communities with animals consuming walnuts displaying significantly greater species diversity. Walnuts increased the abundance of Firmicutes and reduced the abundance of Bacteriodetes.
Enclosed is the recipe for the drink from the website which is now closed til a new site is up. The Moreless Alkalizing Drink
Here’s a great alkalizing drink that can help remineralise you quickly and cheaply! This is an amazing power packed, mineral and nutrient dense drink that will not only help to alkalize you, but will give you loads of electrically charged energy! It may be taken 2-3 times a day as needed.
Ingredients: 1. 1 tablespoon of blackstrap molasses (it may be Unsulphured )
2. Juice of half a lemon (OR 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar if you can’t take citrus or get hold of lemons)
3. 1 + tablespoon pickling lime water (how to make pickling lime water : 1 tablespoon of pickling lime powder, aka calcium hydroxide, diluted in 1 gallon (=4 litre) of distilled water) *see safety notes below*
4. Small pinch of Epsom salts
5. Norwegian kelp powder 1 + teaspoons
6. 1 glass of clean water to mix it with
*** you can take a lot MORE pickling lime water and “Kelp” than is suggested above. Start slow and if things don’t improve, slowly build up. Some of us use up to 20 tablespoons of pickling lime water and up to 2 tablespoons of kelp powder each time ***
The chemical reaction between the acid in the lemon juice and the alkaline minerals in the molasses releases energy into the body and makes the minerals more bioavailable.
Method: *Dissolve the blackstrap molasses and epsom salts in warm water (leave to cool if desired)
*Add 1 (or more) tablespoons of pickling lime water
*Add the lemon or ACV (I sometimes add both) Add these only when the drink has cooled down, you don’t want to destroy the enzymes
*Some people like to mix their kelp in with their drink, some just put the kelp straight into their mouths Special note on the kelp!: Most people find the taste absolutely vile ?
it may help to moisten it and your mouth first so you don’t gag! Some people use a straw to bypass the taste. But this really is an essential part of the drink and is packed with loads of minerals and complex carbohydrates, so do what you need to do to get it down! And yes, kelp is available in capsules, but the powder is much cheaper.
(This is an edit .. after several months of taking the kelp powder, it no longer tastes so vile! I am becoming immune to the taste – hooray!) … And drink!
If you are chronically ill: I suggest you start with with just a teaspoon of kelp and a tablespoon of the pickling lime water along with all the other ingredients. Over time, start building up on both those ingredients until you can manage 2-3 teaspoons of kelp and 2-4 tablespoons of the picking lime water in each drink. You don’t have to drink it all at once, you can also sip it over a few hours.
When someone has been chronically ill for a while, a drink like this might create a powerful reaction and start to release acids from organs and tissues too quickly, that is why I am suggesting you start slow. (Better to aim for minimal discomfort while you begin to rebuild your health) Can you make a batch in advance?
You can mix the Blackstrap Molasses, pickling Lime water and kelp together without the Lemon juice or the ACV and keep this cool – then add the ACV or Lemon juice just before drinking. The batch should be ok for a day, but not longer than two days. Fresh is best! Heath Notes:
*Blackstrap molasses should be unsulphured. Sulphur is acid forming. *If using apple cider vinegar, buy organic and unpasteurised (*with mother*) so full of active enzymes. Otherwise, just find a good source of unpasteurised ACV. *Pickling lime is normally found in the pickling/canning section of shops. Your alternative is to buy calcium hydroxide powder and put 1 tablespoon of the powder in 1 gallon of distilled water and use that as your pickling lime solution. *Buy food grade epsom salts. *Kelp is apparently purest from Norway, and it is better if it is finely powdered. *If you are very acidic, you can also add a pinch of epsom salts or a tablespoon of ACV with a tablespoon of pickling lime water to your normal glasses of water (the pickling lime provides calcium by the way).
I’ve been happily drinking the above 2-3 times a day. And it has a buzz to it! To keep your mineral reserves up, to every glass of water throughout the day, you may also add a tablespoon of pickling lime water (plus a dash of lemon or ACV) The Moreless alkalizing drink is basically a very cheap and effective method of creating alkalinity and is NOT meant as a substitue for a wholesome diet with complex carbs as is found in foods like green veges. The drink is basically a method to get us more alkaline quicker, but it is NOT the way to become alkaline totally, that takes some effort!
What Moreless is presenting people here are various options. Not everyone is prepared or able to go all the way with eating right. So he is giving people easy and cheap ways to kick start their healing whilst finding their way at improving their diet, which will in turn be the most important part of their healing. The kelp and molasses are packed full of minerals that may be difficult for people to find in the foods that are available to them right now. Moreless on the alkalizing drink: HERE The Epsom salts, pickling lime water, lemon juice or ACV create the electro-magnetic energy so that our bodies can make the best use of the minerals.
** SAFETY NOTES ON CALCIUM HYDROXIDE ** (For those who can’t get hold of the pickling lime water.) CALCIUM HYDROXIDE (also known as – pickling lime water/Ca(OH)2/slaked lime/biocalc/lime water etc.)
In concentrated powdered form, this stuff is a skin, eye and respiratory irritant. It is CORROSIVE and causes burns. Should you be using this concentrated form to dilute with water before use, please protect yourself by wearing safety glasses, gloves and minimize your exposure to the dust itself. There are no safety issues if you buy the pre made pickling lime water.
Remember, the drink asks for 1 (to 4) tablespoon of the diluted lime water – you take 1 tablespoon of the powder and add it to a gallon of water. You do NOT add the powder directly to your drink!
This powder is also incompatable with strong acids!
Start small and slow, and add more after checking your response. We are all unique, so someone else’s ideal doseage may not be the same as yours.
My suggestion is to make up your solution outdoors. This powder is very fine and fluffy, it’d be easy to accidently spill some on your kitchen or bathroom floor for unsuspecting kids and pets to walk on.
More useful information about Calcium Hydroxide here:
The following is as good a description of calcium hydroxide as I can find (albeit it’s relating to use in aquariums, but surely applicable when considering human consumption):
“A preferred method of calcium supplementation comes in the form of calcium hydroxide, known as “kalkwasser” to reef aquarists. Calcium hydroxide has a chemical formula of Ca(OH)2, in other words, it supplies one Ca+2 ion for every two OH- ions. Calcium hydroxide can be mixed at approximately 2 teaspoons [5.7g Ca(OH)2] per gallon (or 1.5g/L) of filtered freshwater to attain approximately 800mg/L calcium solution to be dripped slowly into the reef aquarium. A beneficial side effect of using calcium hydroxide is that the OH- (hydroxide) ions maintain the pH of the aquarium by neutralizing acids present in the aquarium, thereby helping to maintain (but not build) the alkalinity in the aquarium. One could use pickling lime, which is also calcium hydroxide.
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Glycemic load chart below should be used as a guide to make wiser food choices to perform better all day long and feel better generally by keeping your blood glucose levels relatively constant.
If there is a sudden spike in your blood sugar, your pancreas secretes more insulin, bringing your blood sugar down by transforming the excess sugar to fat. The higher the rate is, the lower your blood sugar will go. Blood glucose being too low means increased hunger and fatigue.
Glycemic index and glycemic load are both about the impact of carbohydrate rich foods on your blood glucose levels or in other words how quick or slow they cause a rise and a fall.
The difference is that glyemic load is based on the idea that a small serving of a high GI food will have the same kind of effect as a big serving of a low GI food. Foods that are mostly water, for instance, will not cause a sudden rise in your blood sugar even if they have high GI values.
That’s how they’ve come up with the glycemic load- GL. GL takes into account both the GI value and the quantity of carbohydrate in that food. So it provides a more accurate picture than glycemic index, as you will see on the glycemic load chart below.
Glycemic Load = (Quantity of carbohydrate content x GI ) / 100.
• GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 is medium and a GL of 10 or less is low.
• A food with a GI of 70 and a carb content of 10g has a GL value of 7.
• A food with a GI of 10 and a carb content of 70g has also a GL value of 7.
Glycemic Load Chart:
Dairy Products:
• Full cream milk — 250ml — 3
• Soy milk — 250ml — 4
• Skimmed milk 250ml — 4
• Semi skimmed milk — 250ml — 4
• Low fat ice cream — 50g — 6
• Low fat fruit yogurt — 200g — 7
• Banana smoothie — 250ml — 8
• Mars flavoured milk — 250ml — 15
Fruits:
• Grapefruit — 120g — 3
• Cherries — 120g — 3
• Peach — 120g — 4
• Watermelon —120g — 4
• Pear — 120g — 5
• Plum — 120g — 5
• Orange — 120g — 5
• Apricot — 120g — 5
• Apple — 120g — 6
• Grapes — 120g — 8
• Banana — 120g — 12
• Sultanas — 60g — 25
• Raisins — 60g — 28
Vegetables:
• Broccoli — 80g — 1
• Cabbage — 80g — 1
• Spinach — 80g — 1
• Asparagus — 80g — 1
• Carrot — 80g — 3
• Green peas — 80g — 3
• Broad beans — 80g — 9
• Parsnips — 80g — 12
• Sweet potato — 150g — 17
• Sweet corn — 150g — 17
• Baked potatoes — 150g — 26
Legumes:
• Soy beans — 150g — 1
• Lentils — 150g — 5
• Split peas — 150g — 6
• Baked beans — 150g — 7
• Red kidney beans — 150g — 7
• Garbanzos — 150g — 8
• Romano beans — 150g — 8
• Pinto beans — 150g — 10
• Navy beans — 150g — 12
Grains:
• Barley — 150g — 11
• Bulgur — 150g — 12
• Whole wheat kernels — 50g — 14
• Brown rice — 150g — 18
• Couscous — 150g — 23
• White rice — 150g — 23
Cereals:
• Muesli — 30g — 10
• Porridge — 250g — 12
• Kellogg’s All Bran — 30g — 12
• Swiss muesli — 30g — 13
• Oatmeal — 250g — 13
• Kellogg’s Special K — 30g — 14
• Puffed wheat — 30g — 16
• Instant oatmeal — 250g — 17
• Corn flakes — 30g — 19
• Coco pops — 30g — 20
Breads:
• Burgen fruit loaf — 30g — 6
• Pumpernickel Bread — 30g — 6
• Barley and sunflower bread — 30g — 6
• Rye bread — 30g — 7
• Rice bread — 30g — 8
• Whole wheat bread — 30g — 9
• White pita bread — 30g — 10
• Baguette — 30g — 10
• White bagel — 30g — 11
Snacks and Beverages:
• Tomato juice — 250ml — 2
• Apple juice — 250ml — 10
• Carrot juice — 250ml — 10
• Banana cake — 80g — 12
• Vanilla wafers — 25g — 14
• Corn tortilla — 60g — 14
• Pepsi — 250ml — 15
• Cranberry juice drink — 250ml — 16
• Sponge cake — 60g — 16
• Rice cakes — 25g — 17
• Snickers bar — 60g — 19
• Fanta — 250ml — 23
*Foods with low GL values are almost always low in glycemic index too. Those with medium or high GL could be anything- from very low to very high GI.
*You can only see the glycemic load values of foods on the Glycemic Load Chart above, if you would like the glycemic index values as well, please refer to the Glycemic Index Chart, where you can make a comparison between glycemic index and glycemic load values of carbohydrate rich foods.
