Denise Acker, left, died at 55 from lung cancer. Heather Allen, right, from leukemia
Breast cancer
photographer
makes women
feel beautiful
By Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) This article is not meant to condone any conventional cancer therapies using radiation, drugs and chemotherapies. Having organized an alternative cancer treatment center, I know the alternatives are far, far preferrable over the toxic treatments conventionally used. Natural therapies do not make a woman’s hair fall out!
How can disfiguring approaches be healing? It goes against all common sense.
But then modern medicine convinces us to give over rational judgment to the doctor’s pontifications, being led by the most miseducated individuals in our culture by far and whose consciousness is shaped lock-stock-and-barrel by drug-company funded educational institutions.
Uplifting Women Battling Cancer
This post is meant to uplift women battling breast and other cancers in more than a superficial way, and to give real hope.
Let us honor a woman’s sacred body by first going organic, avoiding as much as possible the exposure to chemicals in our total home and office environment, and most certainly not taking in chemical drugs through our mouths or by injection (the abomination that we call modern medicine). A large class of pharmaceuticals can cause cancer as a main, not so-called side effect (a matter of brainwashing). Let the beautiful women of this world not fall prey to a doctor’s prescription to treat cancer with the most toxic, anti-healing of elements – advocated by an archaic, barbaric system of medicine that is in shambles.
The Biggest Con of Cons
There is hardly a bigger con in modern medicine that to take the drugs that cause cancer to claim to cure cancer – what is actually a ploy not to face the fact that chemicals cause cancer – what would require deep life-style changes. The statistics for the insanity of modern toxic medical approaches are brutal, and yet they continue to be practiced for the bottom line.
Honor a Woman’s Beauty
So let us greatly honor every woman’s beauty….and by more than superficial means – to just take a surface image photo.
Let us advise every woman undergoing this trauma to stay far away from the loors, the wallet-vacuum-cleaners, the deceptions of modern $-allopathic-$ medicine with its most toxic of approaches. Don’t be fooled.
With that said, here is Meagan’s heartening story about Terri Shaver’s passion:
Nearly every day, Terri Shaver comes face to face with cancer and can’t help but think about her life and how short it could be. For more than four years, the 56-year-old photographer has taken free portraits of people with terminal and life-threatening illnesses as part of the Oldham Project, the nonprofit she founded after her husband’s two sisters-in-law died from breast cancer.
Although the Oldham Project, named for the two sisters, provided photos for families and children, Shaver started Be Bold, Feel Beautiful, a campaign specifically aimed at women with cancer, in summer 2010.
“I’ll never be the same,” she said. “These women are already dealing with the choices of the things they want to accomplish or need to accomplish before their time here is over. They really see the things that are important.”
To Feel Beautiful Again
The campaign began as a way to provide the women who lost their hair from cancer treatments photos in which they felt beautiful. Although she had already been taking photos of people with cancer, Shaver wanted to raise awareness, and from her extended family, knew what a powerful effect going bald had on women in particular.
“When they lose their hair, 99.9% of these women have said that they lose themselves,” she said. “They lose their identity.”
Shaver remembers one woman telling her that when her eyelashes and eyebrows fell out, she looked in the mirror and saw an alien. But when the women see their photos — some somber and some lighthearted, posing with something significant to them — they regain their self-image. Shaver said some have even told her that they stopped wearing their wigs after the session.
Since the campaign started in July 2010, Shaver has photographed about 100 women — ages 20 to 82 — who have had cancer, as well as partnering with a local spa to pamper them and try to make them feel gorgeous for a day. Although it began as a campaign planned to run until October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Shaver said the feedback from the women was overwhelming and she extended the campaign to be a permanent fixture of the Oldham Project.
“Your will has a lot to do with progress that you make when you’re sick,” Shaver said. “I firmly believe that if I can make women feel better about themselves, while they’re undergoing this treatment and have no hair, their treatment will be much more successful.”
Before starting a session, Shaver turns up the music in her studio and strives for an optimistic perspective, determined to make the day an uplifting experience for the woman.
Resources
http://www.breastcancerbeautiful.com/
Key words; natural breast cancer treatments, alternative breast cancer therapies
Based on an article by Meagan Choi, CNN
Testimonial video on the Gerson Therapy which integrally reverses breast cancer by truly healing,
not poisoning the body:
Keywords: breast cancer survivors, breast lumps, breast cancer treatment, types of cancer treatment, forms of cancer treatment
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) It is extremely sad that Steve Jobs , a man of great vision and genius at the helm of Apple, died today and prematurely from his cancer treatments. There is little doubt, as that is what usually happens with about 97-98% of cancer patients treated conventionally, that his life was cut short like that of millions of others. This occurs due to a culture-wide indoctrinated belief that we must to follow and trust the dictates of persistent failure, as long as it has the stamp of approval of conventional medicine and its Big Pharma funding sources.
Criminal Ignorance
In fact, Steve Jobs died only a few months after being treated with chemotherapy at the Stanford Cancer Center and prior thereto with radiation. Here was a man whose life force was decimated by the horrid toxicity that is commonly and criminally inflicted on cancer patients via chemotherapy and radiation. We call it “criminal ignorance” on the part of the medical industry because they know no better and shut their eyes to the alternatives.
Fortune also reported that Steve Jobs underwent a secret liver transplant.
In January of this year, Roc4Life.com reported:
“Jobs’ medical leave is due to cancer, but no one knows whether it stems from his 2004 battle with pancreatic cancer or complications from a secret liver transplant in 2009.
Steve Jobs thus underwent major conventional treatments, all of which combined converted a slow growing cancer into an abrupt end of his life.
Lesson To Be Learned
This is what every first grader should know.
Yet the most left-brain intelligent Phds coming from the best of Ivy League Schools don’t quite get it – not if bankrolled by Big Pharma. Basically if you poison your body with chemicals, you come closer to not farther away from death. Think of a compost heap where all plants decay or breakdown to form all other plant life in an unbroken circle of unity. Throw in any random mix of chemicals, and all life therein dies. This is elementary.
You know how drug companies spend billions to test drugs in isolation. This is the foundation of their Big Scam. They never test the whole order of chemistry because that would end their mean game. Think of a compost heap wherein the order of chemistry clashes with the order of life – why we have organic farming. The more chemicals we randomly put into the heap (to test the whole order of chemistry) the more life therein dies. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone understood that.
This means that chemistry’s order is not living nature’s order.
If life is at the core of nature overall, then chemistry’s order is not nature’s order as such
Well what a radical idea that is! Only at healingtalks will you find dozens of articles about a life-centered vision of nature replacing the mechanical math-based.
This deeply radical idea is that worth repeating, imagine that, contrary to what modern education teaches us….
Chemistry’s Order is Not Nature’s Order
We have been indoctrinated or weaned on a faith in chemistry. We have been taught that chemistry constitutes a science of sciences. Unfortunately many take this belief not only to heart, and into their sub-subconsciousness, but to their early graves. Several Nobel Prize winning physicists and chemists have also pre-maturely died of Alzheimer’s – not understanding, in this view, the nature of life and consciousness in nature; never suspecting that math symbols don’t and can’t point well to that kind of essence of nature.
If this counter-cultural view is true, then chemotherapy not only won’t work…..it can’t!
Using chemotherapy to try then to undue cancer is like using fifty cups of coffee just before going to bed to sleep better!
The insanity of using the most intensely cancer-causing chemicals to cure cancer, nevertheless, is commonplace. It is a sign of our crazy times.
The practice is dictated again by a belief at the core of modernity – and the vast denial that this belief is and could be wrong, or that the whole chemical/pharmaceutical/drug-based approach is false, fallacious, erroneous, mistaken and even downright idiotic and stupid.
Is a doctor going to admit such a thing? Or that his core approach to nature is bankrupt?
No way, and he will do everything possible to try to prove the very opposite.
Medical Heresy
If any doctor falls out of line, it is also a heresy. Naturopaths and other holistic professionals thus become the heretics or infidels to be stamped out.
No one is allowed to question the underling vision or the road of progress it supposedly unravels (an ever better life through chemistry).
No one is allowed to question the mechanical, death-ridden vision of nature – and as first introduced in ancient Greece and as latter brought to dominance in the 17th century.
Mandatory and Necessary Denial
Again to question the underlying worldview is to risk being thrown out of the club – like a monk thrown out of a monastery for adopting a different religion. That would be too devastating.
The same underlying worldview of medical doctor is the foundation of what gurus of technology follow. So it is little surprise that someone of Steve Jobs’ stature should turn to conventional cancer “solutions.”
Take away that belief in the underlying worldview, however, and the justification to prescribe drugs, surgery and radiation dies – rather than the patient!
So that worldview is of no minor importance.
It is sacrosanct.
A denial or heresy stance would again destroy their whole approach to the healing arts.
Thus Never Mind the Consequences
Thus never mind that chemicals do not cure cancer.
If the evidence shows that one would think doctors would wholesale abandon drugs and chemicals in that field.
But no. Absolutely not
So deep a belief, so hypnotically held, cannot be denied mentally or culturally.
As we learn with hypnosis in general, a belief will take precedence over ANY evidence of our senses.
Of course we’re never taught that possibility…and for something so vital…namely that the root vision of nature, the mathematical, is really a vast belief system in symbol idols that structures rather than discovers the nature of our world.
We are rather taught this is all and only objective science, and chemists and doctors are our best guides thereto. We only then look at how the vision or belief works successfully (as in designing Apple computers and other mechanical things) and not how and where and why it utterly fails. And the failures are really legion, but blotted out in the fabric of that worldview.
A belief that again that so deeply constructs reality cannot be overturned with ease.
Unfortunately great individuals fall victims to the denial process that there are failures. Famous individuals who took conventional treatments and then soon died include Farrah Fawcett, Peter Jennings, Patrick Swayze, Michael Douglas.
Still there is a society-wide blindness that ever persists. Conventional cancer treatments obviously fail. They maim and kill millions.
They don’t work, except in relatively rare cases, and for short periods of time.
This is because poisons poison our body. Duhhh
But if doctors unrelentingly tells us to still take such poisonous treatments (and to pay them and hospitals dearly for the same) perhaps we should? And then we have to face the consequences of our gullibility rather than better taking health into our own hands.
Why Conventional Cancer Treatments Cannot But Fail!
The underlying reason is as follows:
If healing is a connective coming to wholeness then
Surgery – cutting our body apart (disconnecting it) can’t heal us.
Organ Transplants – treating the body as a machine made of separate interchangeable parts can’t heal us.
Radiation – using a by-product of things falling apart can’t heal us
Is There a Bigger Lie Anywhere In Our Modern World?
So back to how Steve Jobs’ life as stolen by the cancer industry.
The mass media filters out the hints that conventional medical doctors might be lying to us and to themselves when they so rarely care about chemicals in our processed foods polluting every organ of our bodies. Why? Obviously that would make us question similarly taking in chemical drugs into the depths of ourselves as dictated by doctors – pharmaceutical front men and women !
You must tell people that they need to use such chemicals to undue and cure cancer!
Is there a bigger lie anywhere in our modern world? If so, pray tell.
Keywords: chemotherapy failures, conventional cancer treatments, Steve Job dies
Interview with Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, a tw0-decade experienced expert on pancreatic cancer (Steve jobs was recommended to see him but Jobs chose not to) discusses Steve Job’s unfortunate death . The interview also highlights the more sane and effective natural pancreatic cancer treatments:
Keywords: Steve Jobs dead, Steve jobs death, steve jobs cancer, steve jobs biography, steve jobs died, steve jobs pancreatic
(Healingtalks) “In 1974, I began working at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the world’s leading cancer treatment hospital. I was an idealistic and eager young science writer, sincerely proud to be part of Sloan Kettering and Nixon’s ‘War On Cancer.’ Ever since I was a kid, my main heroes were scientists (with the Brooklyn Dodgers running a close second!) The job at Sloan-Kettering seemed like a dream come true for me. I wanted to be part of the winning team that finally beat cancer.
“Within three years, I had risen to the position of Assistant Director of Public Affairs at the Hospital. At the time, I was 34 years old, married to my high-school sweetheart, and we had a daughter and son, then 9 and 7 years old. We had dreams of buying a house and saving for the kids’ education, so you can imagine how thrilled we were when I was promoted, with a huge raise, glowing feedback from my bosses, and was told that perks of the job would eventually include reduced tuition for the kids at New York University. Needless to say, we all were really counting on my ‘bright future’ at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. But something soon happened that changed the course of my life forever.
“A big part of my job as Assistant Director of Public Affairs was to write press releases for the media about cancer news and to write the in-hospital newsletter. I also handled calls from the press and public about cancer issues. So I was just doing a normal day’s work—or so I thought—when I began interviewing an esteemed scientist at the Hospital for a newsletter article I was working on. It turned out that the scientist, Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, had repeatedly gotten positive results shrinking tumors in mice studies with a natural substance called amygdalin. (You may have heard of it as ‘laetrile’.) Excitedly (and naively!) I told my ‘discovery’ of Sugiura’s work to the Public Affairs Director and other superiors, and laid out my plans for an article about it. Then I got the shock of my life.
“They insisted that I stop working on this story immediately and never pick it up again. Why? They said that Dr. Sugiura’s work was invalid and totally meaningless. But I had seen the results with my own eyes! And I knew Dr. Sugiura was a true scientist and an ethical person. Then my bosses gave me the order that I’ll never forget: They told me to lie. Instead of the story I had been planning to write, they ordered me to write an article and press releases for all the major news stations emphatically stating that all amygdalin studies were negative and that the substance was worthless for cancer treatment. I protested and tried to reason with them, but it fell on deaf ears.
“I will never forget how I felt on the subway ride home that day. My head was spinning with a mixture of strong feelings—confusion, shock, disappointment, fear for my own livelihood and my family’s future, and behind it all, an intense need to know why this cover-up was happening. After long talks with my wife and parents (who were stunned, as you can imagine) I decided to put off writing any amygdalin press releases as long as I could while I discreetly looked into the whole thing some more on my own time. Everyone at the office seemed happy just to drop the whole thing, and we got busy with other less controversial projects.
“So in the next few months, I was able to do my own investigating to answer the big question I couldn’t let go of: Who were these people I worked for and why would they want to suppress positive results in cancer research? My files grew thick as I uncovered more and more fascinating—and disturbing—facts. I had never given any thought to the politics of cancer before. Now I was putting together the pieces as I learned that:
• The people on Sloan-Kettering’s Board of Directors were a ‘Who’s Who’ of investors in petrochemical and other polluting industries. In other words, the hospital was being run by people who made their wealth by investing in the worst cancer-causing things on the planet.
• CEOs of top pharmaceutical companies that produced cancer drugs also dominated the Board. They had an obvious vested interest in promoting chemotherapy and undermining natural therapies.
• The Chairman and the President of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the world’s leading producer of chemotherapy, held high positions on MSKCC’s Board.
• Of the nine members of the Hospital’s powerful Institutional Policy Committee, seven had ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
• The Hospital itself invested in the stock of these same drug companies.
• Directors of the biggest tobacco companies in the U.S., Phillip Morris and RJR Nabisco, held places of honor on the Board.
• Six Board Directors also served on the Boards of The New York Times, CBS, Warner Communications, Readers Digest, and other media giants.
“Not surprisingly, profits from chemotherapy drugs were skyrocketing and the media glowingly promoted every new drug as a ‘breakthrough’ in cancer. I kept all my notes in my filing cabinet at work. I had no idea what I would ever do with them. I just knew that I had to get to the bottom of it, for myself.
“Meanwhile, the public’s interest in laetrile refused to go away. A lot of people were going across the border to Mexican clinics to get the stuff and my secretary’s phone was ringing off the hook with people wanting to know what Sloan-Kettering thought of its value. I was once again told to give out the news that the studies had all been negative.
“At home, I called my family together for a meeting. With their support, I decided I couldn’t lie on behalf of the Hospital. In November of 1977, I stood up at a press conference and blew the whistle on Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s suppression of positive results with amygdalin. It felt like jumping off the highest diving board, but I had no doubt I was doing the right thing. I was fired the next day for ‘failing to carry out his most basic responsibilities’ as the Hospital described it to the New York Times. In other words, failing to lie to the American people.
“When I tried to pick up my things in my office, I found my files had been padlocked and two armed Hospital guards escorted me from the premises.
“Luckily for all of us, I have a very smart wife who all along had been making copies of my research notes and had put a complete extra set of files in a safe place. Those notes turned into my first book, The Cancer Industry, which is still in print (in an updated version) and available in bookstores.
“That dramatic day, when I stood up in front of the packed press conference and told the truth, was the beginning of a journey I never could have predicted. I was launched on a mission that I’m still on today—helping cancer patients find the truth about the best cancer treatments.
“Well, we weren’t able to buy a home until years later, the kids went to colleges on scholarships and loans, and my wife took on a demanding full-time job to help us get by. But in retrospect, my experiences as an insider in ‘the cancer industry’ were among the best things ever to happen to me. My values were put to the test and I had to really examine what was important in my life. It is because of this difficult experience at Sloan-Kettering that I found a truly meaningful direction for my professional life, rather than just climbing Sloan-Kettering’s career ladder and losing my soul in the process.”
The story of Ralph Moss, which is really the story of Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, is just the tip of the iceberg. Numerous alternative cancer researchers have been rewarded for their discoveries with jail, being driven out of the country, loss of license, harassment, and many other things. This war is not for the weak at heart.
Between the years 1975 and 1980 there were so many things happening that I am sure I do not remember all of them. Some of them were going on at the same time. These stories need to be told. While the exact chronological order of these stories may be incorrect, the stories are true.
Certainly one story that needs to be told is that of Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura. In 1975, Dr. Sugiura was, and had been for some years, one of the most respected cancer research scientists at Sloan-Kettering. In working with cancerous mice, Dr. Sugiura found that, when he used Laetrile on these mice, seventy-seven per cent of them did not develop a spread of their disease (metastatic carcinoma). He repeated this study over and over for two years. The results were always the same. Dr. Sugiura took his findings to his superiors at Sloan-Kettering, but his study was never published. Instead, Sloan-Kettering published the results of someone else who claimed that he had used Dr. Sugiura’s protocol. This “someone else’s” study showed that there were no beneficial effects from the use of Laetrile. Dr. Sugiura complained. He was fired. A book was written about all of this entitled The Anatomy of A Cover-up. This book has all the actual results of Dr. Sugiura’s work. These results do, indeed, show the benefit of Laetrile. Dr. Sugiura stated in this book, “It is still my belief that Amygdalin cures metastases.” Amygdalin is, of course, the scientific name for Laetrile.
A few months later, a cancer researcher at Mayo Clinic, in a private, informal conversation with a friend of mine, stated that it was very unlikely that any positive effects from the use of Laetrile would ever be published because “the powers above us want it that way.”
During this period of time, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) stated that it wanted to run a study to show the difference between patients treated with orthodox therapy (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) and those treated with nutritional therapy. I was asked to participate in this study. I went to New York to meet with one of the doctors who was conducting the study. I will call him Dr. Enseeye (not his real name, of course). There was a group of perhaps six or seven of us who had dinner that night with Dr. Enseeye. Betty and I were seated next to him.
Dr. Enseeye explained the study to me. The NCI would take a group of cancer patients and treat them in the orthodox method. Those of us who were using nutritional therapy would take a similar group of patients and treat them by our method. The NCI would then compare the results. This is the conversation that followed:
“What will the NCI use as a criteria for success or failure in these treatments?” I asked.
“Tumor size,” Dr. Enseeye replied.
I said, “Let me make sure I understand what you are saying. Suppose you have a patient with a given tumor. Let’s suppose that this patient is treated by one of these two methods. Let’s say that the tumor is greatly reduced in size in the next three months, but the patient dies. How will the NCI classify that?
“The NCI will classify that as a success”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because the tumor got smaller,” he replied.
I then asked, “Suppose you have a similar patient with a similar tumor who was treated with a different method. Suppose that after two years this patient is alive and well, but the tumor is no smaller. How will the NCI classify this?”
“They will classify that as a failure.”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because the tumor did not get any smaller,” he said. Dr. Enseeye went on to say, “In this study the NCI will not be interested in whether the patient lives or dies. They will be interested only in whether the tumor gets bigger or smaller.”
I chose not to participate in this study!
During this period, the FDA was sending speakers throughout the country to talk about the’ “evils” of Laetrile. One such speaker was scheduled to appear on the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in the spring of 1978. It just so happened that my son Rick was a sophomore at Macalester College at that time. Rick was very knowledgeable on the subject of Laetrile. When he found out when the talk was to be given, he called his older brother, Bill, who was a senior at the University of Wisconsin in LaCrosse. Bill was equally knowledgeable about Laetrile and agreed to come to Macalester for the speech. Rick had also recruited a friend who was a freshman at his school, Michelle Kleinrichard, who knew as much about the subject as the two of them.
The three of them went to the speech, but they did not sit together. Bill sat near the center just beyond half-way back in the auditorium. Rick sat toward the front on the right. Michelle sat toward the front on the left.
According to all three of them, the speaker left much to be desired. It was easy to see he had been given the speech to read, and that he had only a superficial knowledge of the subject. At the end of the speech he asked for questions. The first one on his feet was Bill (in the center). What happened was as follows:
Bill: “You said that you knew of a patient who had cancer and was treated with Laetrile. You said that the patient died, and this proved that Laetrile was worthless. Hubert Humphrey had cancer and was treated with chemotherapy. He died three months ago. Doesn’t that prove that chemotherapy is worthless too? But, that’s not my question. You also said that a little girl in New York took five Laetrile pills and died from cyanide poisoning. The parents now state that she took only one Laetrile pill. She was fine for three days. Then the doctors started treating her for cyanide poisoning. The next day she died. How do you explain this?”
Speaker: “I have no explanation for this.”
Bill: “Another question.”
Speaker: “No, we’ll go to someone else.”
With this, the speaker turned to another nice looking young man on his left. This other nice looking young man was Rick. (I have to say they were “nice looking” because I’m their father.) Rick pointed out that the speaker had stated that work done by Dr. Harold Manner, using Laetrile alone, had shown no positive results on cancerous mice. This, the speaker had said, was considered to be of great scientific value. Subsequent work done by Dr. Manner using Laetrile in combination with pancreatic enzymes and Vitamin A had shown excellent results. Yet, the speaker had indicated that these latter results were of no scientific value. Rick’s question was why were these latter results ignored. The speaker could not answer that question.
The speaker then turned to his right. There, standing and smiling at him, was a pretty young lady. The speaker must have thought, “At last, a friendly face.” The young lady was Michelle. Michelle was a member of the debate team at Macalester. The speaker was badly out-classed. She hit him with both barrels. She asked for a full explanation of why, if so many people die from chemotherapy, is chemotherapy so good? Why, if Laetrile makes people feel better, is Laetrile so bad? She asked who determined that Dr. Manner’s recent results were not scientific. The poor speaker was in trouble. He hemmed and hawed, but never answered her questions. Finally, he said, “The question and answer period is over.” He turned and rapidly left the stage. In five minutes Bill, Rick and Michelle had completely destroyed the credibility of the forty-five minute speech.
So, you ask, whatever became of those three free-thinking undergraduates who perpetrated this dastardly deed on this unsuspecting FDA speaker? (You probably weren’t going to ask, but I’m going to tell you anyway!).
Bill got his law degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He worked for Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald as his legislative director until the KAL Flight 007 incident. Subsequently, he worked for Congressman A1 McCandliss as his legislative director. Later, he became the Republican counsel for the House Banking Committee. He has since gone to work for a private business.
Rick got his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Texas. He is a professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rick was, incidentally, the first astronomer to view the moon around the planet Pluto.
The International Astronomical Society has named an asteroid (a small planet), Asteroid 2873 Binzel, in his honor. In 1982, Rick and Michelle were married.
Michelle, in addition to being a full-time housewife and a full-time mother of two children, has also managed to complete her Ph.D. in Business Management. When those two children become teenagers, Michelle is going to need all of her debating skills. I don’t know anything about business management, but as the father of six children, I sure do know about debating. I wish I had taken it in college.
The story of Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark is similar to that of Rene Caisse (see NR Vol. 8/3, ‘Ojibwa Herbal Tea’). Both are Canadian, both discovered natural cures for cancer, and both have been persecuted by government, the conventional medical community and the big drug companies. Dr. Clark Ph.D.,N.D., is an independent research scientist specialized in biology, biophysics and cell physiology. In 1979 she left government research to begin private consulting full-time and in 1985 discovered a radio electronic technique for scanning the human body, the Syncrometer, which tests for viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, solvents and toxins. This gave her clues to the cause of cancer, HIV and other diseases. She now operates a research facility in Tijuana, Mexico, and her health books are best sellers—in the top 3% of books sold on amazon.com.
Like Rene Caisse, Dr Clark wants to help as many sick people as possible and has chosen not to patent her work. She believes that the sick have been held hostage long enough by doctors and the medical industry, and seeks to de-mystify the causes of disease. In the preface to her book The Cure For All Diseases she expresses the spirit of her work: “Wouldn’t it be nice if they (doctors and their suppliers and insurers) could all go back to gardening or some other primitive and useful endeavor? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the sick could join them?”
Only 2 Health Problems
Dr Clark’s theories are based on the simple idea that the human body heals itself if kept in good condition. No matter how many symptoms a person has she identifies only two things wrong: they have in them pollutants (toxins which make it difficult for organs to do their work) and/or parasites (protozoa, amoeba, worms that use up our food and give us their wastes). Her solution to good health is as follows:
Parasites – Electronic and herbal treatment
Pollution Avoidance
Her strategy to return to health is:
1. Kill all parasites, bacteria, viruses and fungi,
2. Remove toxic moulds, metals and chemicals from food and body products,
3. Clear and wash away gallstones, secretions and debris already formed, that hinder healing,
4. Use herbs and special food factors to hasten healing, being careful to use only unpolluted products.
Causes Of Cancer
Dr. Clark discovered that two things are responsible for cancer: isopropyl alcohol and the human intestinal fluke parasite. She has found the fluke in every case of cancer, HIV infection, Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s disease, Kaposi’s, and endometriosis. The fluke is a flatworm which normally lives in the intestine and passes its thousands of eggs in the bowel movement. Parasites are meant to live quietly not to kill you, but when the eggs hatch inside your body and develop inside you, cancer can develop. If the eggs and other stages develop in your breast it can become breast cancer; if in the prostate it can become prostate cancer. A growth factor is needed to make them multiply and affect the cells. This growth factor cannot be made without the presence of an abnormal solvent, isopropyl alcohol. So it is necessary to kill the fluke and its stages and get rid of isopropyl alcohol.
Parasite Killing
Flatworms, roundworms, protozoa, bacteria and viruses are killed using a combination of an electronic device called a ‘zapper’ and a herbal parasite killing program. Dr. Clark has found that this can benefit almost every illness. The zapper is a hand held battery operated (9V) frequency generator that uses a positively offset square wave to electrocute parasites. Its effectiveness may be because it regenerates the white blood cells by building a positive magnetic field in the body. It is a recognized medical device, which should not however be used by people wearing pacemakers, or by pregnant women.
The herbal program kills remaining stages throughout the body, which cannot be reached by the electric current. It consists of black walnut hull tincture, wormwood capsules, and cloves taken over 3 weeks. A weekly maintenance program is then recommended to prevent re-infection from the home, pets, undercooked dairy products and undercooked meat, the latter which she believes is the main source of intestinal fluke.
Solvent Pollutants
Foods and products polluted with isopropyl alcohol include shampoo, hair spray and mousse, cold cereals, cosmetics, mouthwash, decaffeinated coffee, vitamins, minerals and supplements, bottled water (polluted with antiseptics from the bottling procedure), rubbing alcohol, white sugar, shaving supplies, carbonated beverages and store-bought fruit juice. Dr Clark recommends home-made products, unprocessed foods and a limited number of tested supplements. Once you stop using isopropyl alcohol it disappears from your body within three days. If the immune system is uncompromised the body will detoxify this; but when the body is overloaded, illness sets in.
When isopropyl alcohol is present, the intestinal fluke uses another organ as a secondary host and that organ becomes cancerous. Other solvents in the body produce other diseases. For example, benzene causes the intestinal fluke to use the thymus for its secondary host, ruins the immune system and AIDS develops. Wood alcohol invites pancreatic flukes to use the pancreas as a secondary host and diabetes develops. Dr Clark states that cancer could be completely eliminated if laws required testing for solvents in animal feeds and human foods. A significant reason for isopropyl alcohol pollution is the chemicals used by manufacturers to sterilise food-handling equipment.
Clean-ups for Healing
After cancer is stopped one can get well if the toxins that invited parasites, bacterial and viral invaders are removed. Removing toxins from the affected organs lets them heal. For example, lung lesions will not heal unless cigarette smoking, freon, asbestos, and fibreglass exposure is stopped. Carcinogens draw the cancer to the organ: nickel draws cancer to the prostate, barium draws cancer to the breast. Dr. Clark considers the most serious threats to be: freon (CFCs or refrigerant), copper from water pipes, fibreglass or asbestos, mercury from amalgam tooth fillings, lead from joints in copper plumbing, formaldehyde in foam bedding and new clothing, and nickel usually from dental metal.
Dental, diet, body and home clean-ups aim to remove parasites and pollutants at their source. The body constantly fights to remove pollutants, but if you are being ‘re-supplied’ with them, the body cannot heal.
The dental clean-up has been found crucial in shrinking tumors and restoring health. Dr. Clark advises: 1. removing all metals and large plastic fillings from the mouth, 2. removing all infected teeth and cleaning cavities.
Silver or amalgam fillings contain 48-55% mercury, 33-35% silver, and various amounts of copper, tin, zinc, and other metals that corrode and seep into the body. Mercury is continually released from mercury fillings in the form of mercury vapour and abraded particles, which can be increased 15-fold by chewing, brushing and hot liquids. Research has shown that mercury, even in small amounts, damages the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands, blood cells, enzymes and hormones, and suppresses the body’s immune system.
At the beginning of the 20th century Dr. Weston Price, head of the American Dental Association, found that root canal therapy, used to save a tooth that has become infected or dead, had serious side affects. He showed thousands of instances of disease created from devitalized teeth, from head and neck pain to rheumatism and cancer. Most patients with devitalized teeth had thyroid dysfunction. The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology reports that because it was not what the dental establishment wanted to hear, the results were ignored. Safe treatment requires extracting the dead tooth rather than filling the root, and removing any infected tissue from around the tooth. Later the space can be filled with a bridge or partial denture.
The materials which have entered our food chain and body care products—particularly petroleum products, alcohol, asbestos, colorings, dyes, formaldehyde and perfume—should not be there and were not there fifty years ago. The tested ingredients in 99% of perfumes are labeled as toxic hazards and not allowed in the agriculture industry. So, apart from avoidance of processed foods, Dr. Clark warns us against commercial salves, ointments, lotions, colognes, perfumes, deodorants, toothpaste, soaps, washing powders etc. and gives recipes for home-made substitutes, e.g. borax powder for cleaning.
Cleaning up the home environment to make it safe includes moving paints, varnishes, thinners, cleaners, and chemicals from the house; sealing cracks around pipes; changing your refrigerator for a non CFC one (Dr. Clark found freon concentrated in cancerous organs, where it facilitates the accumulation of other toxins); checking air conditioners for leaks; sealing or removing uncovered fiberglass; removing clothes dryers, hair dryers containing asbestos and radiators and electric heaters which give off asbestos if their paint is old, and changing copper plumbing to PVC plastic. She suggests if you have been quite ill to move house to a warm climate where you can avoid heating and cooling, and sit outside in the shade all day.
Dr David Ho and Dr Bette Korber in the US have verified that AIDS and HIV were in the human population before World War II and possibly before the 1930’s. So why did they not explode until the 1980’s? Perhaps because it is then that petroleum products, notably benzene, entered our food chain and body care products on a large scale, and weakened the human immune system to an extent that AIDS and HIV could enter.
Syncrometer testing makes it possible to know exactly which toxins cause the patient’s cancer. The Syncrometer can be used for diagnosing and monitoring progress until cured. It consists of an audio oscillator circuit which includes the body as part of the circuit. Dr Clark discovered that every living and non-living entity produced certain specific frequencies which can be heard with the audio oscillator. Every living creature broadcasts its presence like a radio station. The Syncrometer tests for parasites or pollutants in any product or body tissue, by using samples of those parasites or pollutants. Cancerous tumours grow in the body for at least three years before they are big enough to be detected by medical imaging techniques, but the Syncrometer can detect them long before that.
For detoxifying the body Dr. Clark recommends vitamins, minerals and herbs from safe sources. Apart from the parasites and dental cleanses she gives detailed instructions for liver, kidney and bowel cleanses. She recommends that the liver cleanse should not be done if the liver contains living parasites, and is best carried out after a parasite and then a kidney cleanse. The liver cleanse is reported as the single most important thing you can do for your health. Medical herbalists, naturopaths and other natural healers speak highly of her cleanses.
New 21 Day Program For Advanced Cancers
In October 1999 Dr. Clark’s 21 Day Program for Advanced Cancers was introduced for severely ill patients in cancer stages 4 and 5, including imminent death. It is described in The Cure For All Advanced Cancers. Although there are many extra problems that an advanced cancer patient faces, the causes are the same. Dr Clark identifies three tasks:
1. Kill clostridium bacteria. (Clostridium are the tumour-making bacteria, which supply the DNA, the toxic amines and also isopropyl alcohol which will eventually contribute to malignancy),
2. Kill all other parasites,
3. Remove metals, malonic acid (which comes from some common foods, tapeworm larvae and plastic teeth), and other carcinogens from the body.
Her latest book reports a remarkable 95% success rate with the 21 day program. Many cures are reported of ‘terminal’ cases. She also reports those who were not cured. Two examples follow. A man came to them who had had tumors and cancers for ten years. His thyroid had been removed and his neck was burned from extensive radiation therapy. He had external tumors on his neck, around his arm pits and a full size tumor on his sternum. Doctors gave him only weeks to live. Within four weeks on the 21 day program, the fist size tumor had shrunk to 1/10 inch. Another patient was given only days to live: her eyes were dead and she smelt extremely rotten. After two weeks on the program, she had much energy, felt good, her eyes were alive, the smell was almost gone and her blood test showed normal except for some anemia.
Although Dr Clark does everything she can to demystify cancer and other serious illnesses, it is not simple and for self-curing it is necessary to read and study everything in detail. It is easy to miss one point which may be crucial and affect everything else. Someone with advanced cancer will need someone close to them to study the method and guide them.
The Dr. Clark Research Association
David Amrein is president of the independent Dr. Clark Research Association, which manages the business side of Dr. Clark’s work. After discovering Dr. Clark’s book The Cure For All Cancers, he started talking to her patients, visited Dr. Clark’s clinic in Tijuana, and took the Syncrometer course.
He informed me that there are now several hundred alternative therapists using the Clark therapy in Germany and Switzerland. However, while more and more cancer patients seek alternative, holistic treatment for cancer, the medical profession is trying to make self-help and simple treatments illegal. The US Government has legislated that any cancer treatment used in the US, other than the AMA sanctioned treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, will be considered ‘quackery’, and punishable as a felony. The AMA/FDA monopoly maintains that new protocols are not legitimate until many years and vast sums of money have been spent on ‘scientific’ research.
In 1993, after a complaint by an unhappy client, Dr. Clark was charged with practicing medicine without a license in Indiana. The prosecutor tried to force Dr. Clark, now 71, to accept a ludicrous plea bargain which would have included her not being able to see any more patients ever, even abroad, and withdrawal of her books. It is interesting to speculate whose interests the trial is serving. The judge and prosecutor withdrew from the case after it was discovered that the prosecutor had married the woman who investigated the case seven years before and had failed to get earlier elected prosecutors to pursue Dr. Clark. When the case was brought against Clark, the Speaker of the state legislature, one of the most important political figures in the state, came to her defense, telling how he had been treated and helped by Dr Clark and found the charges against her unwarranted.
Dr Clark’s organization has been built from the grassroots up by her former patients, and relatives of patients. They have seen that her therapy works; many are alive today because of her. Information on the Dr. Clark Research Association can be found on the web-site www.drclark.net
I have been working closely recently with a few extraordinary nutritional researchers, and I find that the information they have compiled is quite eye opening. Interestingly, what these highly esteemed doctors are saying is just beginning to be understood and accepted, perhaps because what they are saying does not conveniently fit in with or support the multi-billion dollar food industries that profit from our “not knowing”. One thing is for sure: we are getting sicker and more obese than our health care system can handle, and the conventional methods of dealing with disease often have harmful side effects and are ineffective for some patients.
As it is now, one out of every two of us will get cancer or heart disease and die from it – an ugly and painful death as anyone who has witnessed it can attest. And starting in the year 2000, one out of every three children who are born after that year will develop diabetes–a disease that for most sufferers (those with Type 2 diabetes) is largely preventable with lifestyle changes. This is a rapidly emerging crisis, the seriousness of which I’m not sure we have yet recognized. The good news is, the means to prevent and heal disease seems to be right in front of us; it’s in our food. Quite frankly, our food choices can either kill us – which mounting studies say that they are, or they can lift us right out of the disease process and into soaring health.
In the next few months, I will share a series of interviews I’ve conducted with the preeminent doctors and nutritional researchers in the fields of their respective expertise. And here it is straight out: they are all saying the same thing in different ways and through multiple and varying studies: animal protein seems to greatly contribute to diseases of nearly every type; and a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it’s also curative of the very serious diseases we face .
Cancer
On the subject of cancer, I’ve asked Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus of Cornell University and author of the groundbreaking The China Study to explain how cancer happens and what we can do to prevent and reverse it. Dr. Campbell’s work is regarded by many as the definitive epidemiological examination of the relationship between diet and disease. He has received more than 70 grant years of peer-reviewed research funding, much of which was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and he has authored more than 300 research papers. He grew up on a dairy farm believing in the great health value of animal protein in the American diet and set out in his career to investigate how to produce more and better animal protein. Troublesome to his preconceived hypothesis of the goodness of dairy, Dr. Campbell kept running up against results that consistently proved an emerging and comprehensive truth: that animal protein is disastrous to human health.
Through a variety of experimental study designs, epidemiological evidence, along with observation of real life conditions which had rational biological explanation, Dr. Campbell has made a direct and powerful correlation between cancer (and other diseases and illnesses) and animal protein. Following is a conversation I had with him so that I could better understand the association.
KF: What happens in the body when cancer develops? What is the actual process?
TCC: Cancer generally develops over a long period of time, divided into 3 stages, initiation, promotion and progression.
Initiation occurs when chemicals or other agents attack the genes of normal cells to produce genetically modified cells capable of eventually causing cancer. The body generally repairs most such damage but if the cell reproduces itself before it is repaired, its new (daughter) cell retains this genetic damage. This process may occur within minutes and, to some extent, is thought to be occurring most of the time in most of our tissues.
Promotion occurs when the initiated cells continue to replicate themselves and grow into cell masses that eventually will be diagnosed. This is a long growth phase occurring over months or years and is known to be reversible.
Progression occurs when the growing cancer masses invade neighboring tissues and/or break away from the tissue of origin (metastasis) and travel to distant tissues when they are capable of growing independently at which point they are considered to be malignant.
KF: Why do some people get cancer, and other don’t? What percentage is genetic, and what percentage has to do with diet?
TCC: Although the initiated cells are not considered to be reversible, the cells growing through the promotion stage are usually considered to be reversible, a very exciting concept. This is the stage that especially responds to nutritional factors. For example, the nutrients from animal based foods, especially the protein, promote the development of the cancer whereas the nutrients from plant-based foods, especially the antioxidants, reverse the promotion stage. This is a very promising observation because cancer proceeds forward or backward as a function of the balance of promoting and anti-promoting factors found in the diet, thus consuming anti-promoting plant-based foods tend to keep the cancer from going forward, perhaps even reversing the promotion. The difference between individuals is almost entirely related to their diet and lifestyle practices.
Although all cancer and other diseases begin with genes, this is not the reason whether or not the disease actually appears. If people do the right thing during the promotion stage, perhaps even during the progression stage, cancer will not appear and if it does, might even be resolved. Most estimates suggest that not more than 2-3 percent of cancers are due entirely to genes; almost all the rest is due to diet and lifestyle factors. Consuming plant based foods offers the best hope of avoiding cancer, perhaps even reversing cancer once it is diagnosed. Believing that cancer is attributed to genes is a fatalistic idea but believing that cancer can be controlled by nutrition is a far more hopeful idea.
KF: You said that initially something attacks the genes, chemicals or other agents; like what?
TCC: Cancer, like every other biological event–good or bad–begins with genes. In the case of cancer, gene(s) that give rise to cancer either may be present when we are born or, during our lifetimes, normal genes may be converted into cancer genes by certain highly reactive chemicals (i.e., carcinogens).
Consider ‘cancer genes’ as seeds that grow into tumor masses only if they are ‘fed’. The ‘feeding’ comes from wrongful nutrition. It’s like growing a lawn. We plant seeds but they don’t grow into grass (or weeds) unless they are provided water, sunlight and nutrients. So it is with cancer. In reality, we are planting seeds all of our lifetime although some may be present at birth, not only for cancer but also for other events as well. But this mostly does not matter unless we ‘nourish’ their growth.
The chemicals that create these cancer genes are called ‘carcinogens’. Most carcinogens of years past have been those that attack normal genes to give cancer genes. These are initiating carcinogens, or initiators. But more recently, carcinogens also may be those that promote cancer growth. They are promoting carcinogens, or promoters.
Our work showed that casein is the most relevant cancer promoter ever discovered.
Aside from chemicals initiating or promoting cancer, other agents such as cosmic rays (energetic particles) from the sun or from the outer reaches of space may impact our genes to cause them to change (i.e., mutate) so that they could give rise to cancer ‘seeds’. The most important point to consider is that we cannot do much about preventing initiation but we can do a lot about preventing promotion. The initiating idea is fatalistic and outside of our control but the promotion idea is hopeful because we can change our exposure to promoting agents and reverse the cancer process, thus is within our control.
KF: What exactly is so bad about animal protein?
TCC: I don’t choose the word “exactly” because it suggests something very specific. Rather, casein causes a broad spectrum of adverse effects.
Among other fundamental effects, it makes the body more acidic, alters the mix of hormones and modifies important enzyme activities, each of which can cause a broad array of more specific effects. One of these effects is its ability to promote cancer growth (by operating on key enzyme systems, by increasing hormone growth factors and by modifying the tissue acidity). Another is its ability to increase blood cholesterol (by modifying enzyme activities) and to enhance atherogenesis, which is the early stage of cardiovascular disease.
And finally, although these are casein-specific effects, it should be noted that other animal-based proteins are likely to have the same effect as casein.
KF: Ok, so I am clear that it’s wise to avoid casein, which is intrinsic in dairy (milk and cheese), but how is other animal protein, such as chicken, steak, or pork, implicated in the cause and growth of cancer?
TCC: I would first say that casein is not just “intrinsic” but IS THE MAIN PROTEIN OF COW MILK, REPRESENTING ABOUT 87% OF THE MILK PROTEIN.
The biochemical systems which underlie the adverse effects of casein are also common to other animal-based proteins. Also, the amino acid composition of casein, which is the characteristic primarily responsible for its property, is similar to most other animal-based proteins. They all have what we call high ‘biological value’, in comparison, for example, with plant-based proteins, which is why animal protein promotes cancer growth and plant protein doesn’t.
KF: Isn’t anything in moderation ok, as long as we don’t overdo it?
TCC: I rather like the expression told by my friend, Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD, the Cleveland Clinic surgeon who reversed heart disease and who says, “Moderation kills!” I prefer to go the whole way, not because we have fool-proof evidence showing that 100% is better than, say, 95% for every single person for every single condition but that it is easier to avoid straying off on an excursion that too often becomes a slippery slope back to our old ways. Moreover, going the whole way allows us to adapt to new unrealized tastes and to rid ourselves of some old addictions. And finally, moderation often means very different things for different people.
KF: Are you saying that if one changes their diet from animal based protein to plant-based protein that the disease process of cancer can be halted and reversed?
TCC: Yes, this is what our experimental research shows. I also have become aware of many anecdotal claims by people who have said that their switch to a plant-based diet stopped even reversed (cured?) their disease. One study on melanoma has been published in the peer-reviewed literature that shows convincing evidence that cancer progression is substantially halted with this diet.
KF: How long does it take to see changes?
TCC: It is not clear because carefully designed research in humans has not been done. However, we demonstrated and published findings showing that experimental progression of disease is at least suspended, even reversed, when tumors are clearly present.
KF: Consider a person who has been eating poorly his whole life; is there still hope that a dietary change can make a big difference? Or is everything already in motion?
TCC: Yes, a variety of evidence shows that cancers and non-cancers alike can be stopped even after consuming a poor diet earlier in life. This effect is equivalent to treatment, a very exciting concept.
KF: This is sounding like it’s a cure for cancer; is that the case?
TCC: Yes. The problem in this area of medicine is that traditional doctors are so focused on the use of targeted therapies (chemo, surgery, radiation) that they refuse to even acknowledge the use of therapies like nutrition and are loathe to even want to do proper research in this area. So, in spite of the considerable evidence–theoretical and practical–to support a beneficial nutritional effect, every effort will be made to discredit it. It’s a self-serving motive.
KF: What else do you recommend one does to avoid, stop, or reverse cancer?
TCC: A good diet, when coupled with other health promoting activities like exercise, adequate fresh air and sunlight, good water and sleep, will be more beneficial. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
MORE THAN JUST A THEORY A theory of “what is consciousness” generally consists of an outline image in our minds that supposedly points to something real in the world on this subject matter. All our words and symbols are just inner pointing tools to something. Theories are organized ways of orienting or pointing our awareness to things in our world and in relationship to each other. Thus to demonstrate that a particular theory or set of ideas actually points to something systematic, real, valuable and predictable becomes an event.
THE HARDER PROBLEM Consciousness, however, represents potentially such a vast-touching -upon-all-the-world phenomena that its exploration can take a trillion different confusing directions. Everything we know is something we know in our consciousness. And sophisticated and intricate theories may only point to some relatively narrow or ivory tower vistas of a part of that whole. These can result in a variety of entanglements of mind which miss the whole point of seeing “what is consciousness” in its full essence. Or one can easily fail to fathom a truly inner-mountain-peak vantage point of this unified and vastest of arenas for knowing. Adeptly using high abstractions (universal concepts) in a philosophy of consciousness and states of consciousness may thus give but the deceptive appearance of having latched onto this transcendent highest view with some mastery. This is the harder problem in dealing with “consciousness.” However this is easier to be said than attained. An acid test is whether that proposed theory or definition of consciousness can actually help anyone enhance their consciousness or resist the slippages into consciousness diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Otherwise the theory is just so much disingenuous jibber-jabber.
TACKLING CONSCIOUSNESS One highly effective way to get past this “harder problem” is having again an authentically high overview and not a personal or cultural, conceptually-biased orientation. this means looking from above the pointing paths of all concepts because touches everything. This is as if one must look at consciousness from above the entire left/right brain divide which is a superhuman feat. The left-brain conceptualizes. It forms outline images as pointing tools or the world of ideas as Plato referred to this. It uses these ideas to separate elements of consciousness and thereby to focus one’s attention. The right brain does the opposite. It helps us unpoint and unfocus. It looks at things as a whole or connectively and non-conceptually or intuitively. Sometimes what is called “right-brain” ends up dominantly functioning in the left-hemisphere of the brain and visa versa because these are two forms of consciousness that are tuning into dominantly by one side or the other, rather than physically bound. One verbalizes and philosophizes with concepts and the other cannot and has no inclination or need. Here I consider myself to have an advantage in overviewing this study of a trans-split-brain view. This is simply because first I was trained in dominant left-brain skills as a philosopher and math prodigy and experienced the exact opposite, a radical left-brain meltdown causing a brain polarity shift to right-brain or connective consciousness dominance. This was similar to what happened to Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard brain scientists who had a stroke that also shut her left-brain down. It allowed her, and myself similarly, to visit the internal highways in unusual ways – and from what I consider again a seeing from a higher vantage point. This didn’t mean that when I later returned to using familiar words and comfortable sentences – speaking English or German or Chinese or Hebrew – that then I discounted the importance of words. I did not abandon the dominantly verbal/mathematical approaches of the west in favor of a solely non-verbal, intuitive, vague or right-brain dominant mysticism – as with indigenous shamans . On the contrary, I sensed the huge and profound need to bridge these two worlds. It seemed now that I had a gift, and could do so with an impersonal, conscious and intentional approach.
BREAKING GROUND FOR A DEFINITION Ultimately I came to some unique conclusions about truly what consciousness is, and resulting in the following definition and theory which I consider of priceless value for the development of a higher consciousness and a conscious mind. When one enters the raw world of consciousness there is no such thing as a “theory.” Theories only exist when right and left brain consciousness is severed. When I try thus to state this in so many words – but not really needing those words - it may make little or no ripples with others at first if my language of expression is not translated. It is like writing a physics formula on a blackboard and about how to create an atom bomb – and without first explaining how to apply the formula. The formulas appear meaningless and insignificant – just white marks on a dark blackboard – except to a person who knows the vast implications and pointing paths of those symbols. The responsibility then remains to demonstrate the value of what is created by those symbols (and here for the making of not bombs but integral healing of life and consciousness within ourselves and throughout nature).
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? With this said, let me now offer a definition of consciousness that shakes the foundations of the western worldview – the matter/energy math-defined vision. Imagine that consciousness forms a potentially universal relationship of connection in all of nature.
Just as chocolate makes up the permeating “essence” of a chocolate bar, it is another discussion to show that this consciousness also and thereby forms the penetrating, defining and universal essence of nature (and not mathematical relationships or the postulated microscopic atomic/subatomic model as what should be centrally focused upon). This means that at the core of nature there is a dance of consciousness and unconsciousness, of connection and separation, rather than a dance of matter and energy defined mathematically. This one idea, theory or definition thus has the potential to change the whole of our vision of nature. Or when adopted, it can change the heart and soul of the collective view of what is nature and the functioning of our cosmos.
A third discussion is how this same consciousness can permeate nature to higher and lower degrees. The greater permeation or concentration manifests in life. This means that living organisms, rather than machines brought into being by math-designs, thereby represent nature’s core essence to be elicited or brought out to dominate natural terrains – rather than machines and what is mechanical.
Some philosophers may not at all be open to this kind of thinking about consciousness.
In their minds, they may think it is far more rational and flattering to view the essence of consciousness as tied to higher-order skills in human beings – include self-cognizance triggered by human brain neurons. Everyone can define consciousness as they choose, with resulting limited foci. The defining words I use point to a larger and highly revolutionary vision. Here consciousness is not seen as something small, special and proprietary to human brain cells but as arising out of a universal cosmic terrain from the core of all of nature. This may shatter the view of the Renaissance, namely of humans being so special.
This view also came to me via a dissolving of the functions of my left-brain conceptual faculty – leaving behind attachments to such flattering conceptualizations.
The foregoing definition still can for a long time remain meaningless until examples are given of how it applies. The applications are powerful.
Note that we really want to know 1) what best brings out consciousness or maintains, nurtures, supports and raises that consciousness and 2) what does the opposite or takes away, destroys, corrupts or lowers consciousness, and how and with what procedures we follow this divide.
AT THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE
Above we referred to a close link between consciousness and life. Here we refer to, among other things, the sentience and awareness of all living creatures, not just higher order brain skills. It is this awareness that manifests with life and among millions of species as a common denominator. Let us therefore think for a moment of life as theconcentrated expression and presence of consciousness. This means living organisms are expressive containers for what brings out the connective essence of nature (consciousness) and rather than machines (per the math-based vision of nature) reflecting nature’s essential laws. So what is the first sign of this special presence of consciousness coming out of the core of nature? Life per se.
Organic life brings forth also certain distinct common features. In fact when an organism remains alive will it retain its connected wholeness. It will display on the surface or as seen in a silvered mirror what I would call the “badges of organicity.” These are thin outer signs of the more important full depth-inner presence of depth-connectedness.
These outer signs include the solar radiance of a flower’s pedals, the rings of a tree, the organic-in-form branching veins of a leaf, the swirls of sea shell, and so on. Again organic forms show off these beautifully attractive badges when they are reflective of a more deeply present connected whole via living consciousness.
Consider the possibility that consciousness again lies at the foundation of that depth-connectedness which keeps all living forms alive. Therefore when an organic life dies, it then predictably loses both the outer organic badge, the whole appearance on the surface, and its more important inner-depth consciousness or fuller connectedness with. Trigger this undoing of life with a bullet or surgical knife or sword - cut a living organism progressively into parts – and again it dies. There are exceptions, as the hard form of shells displays the organic badge longer until time it’s elements dissolves into its surroundings. Ultimately the body’s flesh separates into parts or “falls apart.” It turns to dust in earthen graves. The inner consciousness once connected it more deeply within, and to the world around it as well. Now it is no longer present. This is but a first step in demonstrating how this theory, definition and understanding functions in nature. Next we need to visit what are tell-tale signs of any rising, eliciting and support of the presence of consciousness – and derivatively life?
MORE EXAMPLES OF HOW AND WHY Here are a few more genres of examples. We can discuss the details in future blog post.
A) Water elicits life and consciousness
Water’s essence in the mechanical/math-based/atomic worldview is H2O. In a life-centered worldview it establishes the connective relationship to elicits life and consciousness from every seed – and detoxifies, purifies, and helps re-establish life and raise consciousness in ourselves. There are several ways of demonstrating how water so function, and in this context why it brings out the rainbow, forms bubbles, rounds the sharp/oppositional corners of rocks, puts out fire, and so on.
B) Fire destroys life and consciousness
This is works on the same principle in reverse. This is why various states of inflammation are acute harbinger of later chronic illnesses, when inflammation is not healed. The effect is a lowered state of inner health, wholeness, connectedness and overall awareness. When a person is angry, or their emotions are inflamed, the This is why largely uncooked,
C) Love elicits life and consciousness; hate and fear the opposite
Love establishes an emotional connective relationship. Hate and fear do the opposite. This is why an angry person is not well aware of their surroundings, another persons feelings, etc. Anger and fear inflame emotions and bring on fiery adrenalin . Love guides us to connective oneness with what is loved. Hate and fear brake us away from that connective oneness in our consciousness.
D) Money corrupts consciousness. Money mathematizes awareness. The lusting for money makes a marriage with the mechanical worldview. This lowers consciousness, brings us into deeper states of illusion and corruptions of consciousness – where illusion is the falling apart of the integrity of the essence consciousness, its awareness of connective oneness. A money-centered society thus traps others in countless deceptions. It puts everyone in competitive opposition to each other. It elicits fiery friction and feeds on fears and addictions to move an economy “forward.” It does not integrally evolve our human consciousness, the essence of our being, and the key to our evolution.
E) Chemicals harm Life; pollute the environment; upset the ecology of the whole planet, cause species to die Take a random and large mix of chemicals, to test not individual separate chemicals but the underlying math-based order, and the mix will kill and destroy all of life and consciousness in the compost heap. The compost heap is symbolic. It is were a large and random mix, in fact all plant life forms can decay to form the building materials of all other plant life forms in an endless and integral circle of unity. The philosophy of chemistry, the math-based worldview, clashes and thus when widely and deeply applied will destroy life and consciousness in nature. This is why we have an epidemic of species dying.
F) Surgery, radiation and chemical drugs – chief tools of allopathic medicine – fail to truly heal consciousness ailments . We see this with the health epidemics of cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. To reverse these ills both in ourselves, and on a culture-wide basis, involves a true and revolutionary global mind change – a moving to a different essential vision of what is the core of nature, and our innermost being. It sets us on a different course to healing rather than ills. A true global mind change thus first heals our consciousness and its relationship to our mind’s understanding of the world, then emotions, body, and being in this world or to all that surrounds us each day of our lives.
OVERVIEW – DO CT SCANS REALLY CAUSE CANCER?
Two research studies published in the December 15 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine brought to light an evaluation of CT scans and how they deliver more radiation than previously thought. Scans may actually be responsible for nearly 30,000 cancers each year and 14500 deaths. This is the equivalent of the harm of several Twin Towers attacks.
DETAILS
One study, led by prestigious researchers from the National Cancer Institute, examined 1119 patients at four San Francisco hospitals and estimated the number of cancers caused. They found patients exposed to up to 4x as much radiation as previously assumed. It was the equivalent of 74x as much radiation as emitted by a mammogram or 442 chest X-rays. Young people are most at risk and among 20 year old women undergoing CT scans, 1 out of 150 will develop cancer.
MOSTLY UNNECESSARY
Some radiologist may be up in arms over these findings but Dr. Rita Redberg of the University of California at San Francisco wrote that “up to 1/3rd of CT scans are unnecessary.”
In my opinion, most are unnecessary since they only give a surface or superficial view and no real depth insight into the etiology of what brings about systemic diseased conditions. Looking at surface appearances is like looking at illusions. Contrary to belief, examining such scans in order to develop chronic-disease-treatment protocols is not an advanced science. Not everything is really what “meets the eye on the surface.” Unfortunately doctors are not taught a real and advanced science of conscious, borrowing instead from the mechanical philosophy of nature of the 17th century – the math-based, which poorly guides consciousness. If that were understood, all of modern medicine would change.
GOOD AND THE BAD
Modern medicine is actually to be commended and admired for its advanced emergency treatments, especially some mechanical fixes like high-tech mending of broken bones. This, however, feeds an illusion that modern medicine is also good at treating other health conditions – the systemic and chronic. It is not. That is why we have uncontrolled or not-reigned-in health pandemics like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
REVOLUTION IN THOUGHT
What we thus need is a deep revolution in thought, moving away from the 17th century’s mechanical vision of nature that underlies how doctors view the whole of our bodies and treat virtually all systemic disease conditions.
The umbilical chord is meant to bring nutrients and oxygen to an infant. Nowadays it also brings hundreds of toxic chemicals and poisons along with the nutrients. Between 2007-8, the Environmental Working Group tested a group of minority infants and found 232 known chemical poisons in their blood.
TYPES OF CHEMICALS Mercury and PCB were among the most lethal chemicals that were present. The group also found BPA, a petrochemical derived from babies plastic bottles. Perfluiributanoic acid was further uncovered, an ingredient of non-stick cookware. Its a PFC chemical linked to promoting cancer. Synthetic fragrances and detergents were prominently present. Actually 9 out of 10 of the umbilical chords contained various chemicals from rocket fuel, which also tend to hamper brain development. A fire retardant was present which interferes with thyroid functions. The list goes on!
PRIOR STUDY This was the 11th in a series of studies by The Environmental Working Group which has discovered a total of 404 chemicals so far in human blood. A similar infant study was conducted in 2005. It also isolated industrial chemicals in the umbilical chord of American infants and found 287 present out of a total of 400 tested. Of the 287, 180 were known to cause cancer in humans and animals. Furthermore, 208 cause birth defects. More chemicals would have been studied except for the fact that chemical companies are not required by law to reveal how such chemicals can be detected. There are currently about 100,000 industrial chemicals in use and 150,000 registered pharmaceuticals. Take virtually any dozen or more of such chemicals, put them into a compost heap, and you have yourself a super-toxic waste site that kills all of life. The industry does not get it because there is just too much money to be made.
AUTISM, ADHD, and Cancer Is it any wonder that autism rates in this country have skyrocketed or gone from 1 in 2500 to 1 in 166 in just a few decades… or that ADHD syndroms in children are epidemic. Why is it that cancer is the number one disease killer of children in America?
SOLUTIONS What we really need is not federal funding to help put more drugs, chemicals and synthetics into our bodies (the current healthcare reform proposals) but rather the opposite - a national funding of naturopathic practices, organics, regional detox centers and the subsidizing ofFIR or far infrared saunain literally every home in America.
We also need a paradigm shift away from the chemical, a synthetic understanding of nature introduced in the 17th century.
This is the message of our philosophy of raw-wisdom.
Ourhealth care delivery system really is a wholesale shambles and ourchildren suffer the most as a result. Rarely do you find physicians promoting natural healing and preventive measures because that’s not where the money is. Ourchildren are the fall-guys and as adults they also reap the harvest of life-long chronic disease. Here are some of the main health statistics to back up this statement
CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC AILMENTS
The number of children with chronic diseases has nearly quadrupled since the time when some parents were children. In the 1960’s 1.8 % of children reported a chronic ailment. In 2004 it was 7.0. In 2006 it was 7.3% so that these statistics seem to keep rising.
CHILDREN WITH DIABETES One in three children born this century will have diabetes. Diabetes is a life-long debilitating illness that yields more heart disease, blindness and neuropathy – yet diabetes is really preventable and reversible.
CHILDREN WITH CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS
By the age of 12, 70% will have signs of the hardening of arteries. Between the ages of 5-10, 60% have at least one risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease; 20% have two or more.
CHILDREN OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE 1 in 4 children will be obese or overweight in the past three decades. Nearly 50% of the obese and overweight children will remain so in their adult life. One 1 out of 4 children are on food stamps buying mostly processed, high-sugar junk foods.
CHILDREN WITH CANCER Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among children. Incident rates have risen about 25% over the last 30 years. ADULTS OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE
Two-thirds of all adult Americans are now overweight.
ASTHMA
We have twice the asthma rates since the 1980’s. 9% of children have asthma.
ADHD AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
7-8% of school age children are diagnosed with ADHD or attention deficit disorder. Also 8% will have signs of a learning disability. ADHD was not on the radar in the 1960’s. About 2-3% of children are on medications for these conditions.
CHILDREN ON RITALIN In 1990 the number of children on Ritalin was approximately 900,000 and has in two decades risen to 4-5 million.
ADULT CANCER
One in two men and one in three women will develop cancer in their lifetime.
TAKING DRUGS
Otherwise half of Americans have a chronic health problem (asthma and arthritis included) whereby they are taking prescription drugs every week.
HIGH CHOLESTEROL
100 million Americans have high cholesterol.
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS There has been a 50% rise in rheumatoid arthritis among women in the past two decades.
MULTIPLE CHRONIC DISEASES
More Americans are being diagnoses with multiple chronic diseases.
MOST ON THE RISE The main chronic diseases in the US are on the rise, especially Alzheimer’s, diabetes, mental illness and obesity.
CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
There has been no real progress in bringing down the death rate from cardiovascular disease or cancer. Since the year 1900 cancer rates have at least tripled.
Our expensive medical system does not focus on low-cost prevention means but rather on expensive, profit-generating medical and drug treatment. The system is really broken and needs to be overhauled. Physicians should be paid in relationship to keeping people healthy not for prolonged sick care. Ourchildren suffer the greatest brunt of this mess. It is hugely tragic. None of this has really been tackled or grabbed by the horns with our currently proposed government healthcare reforms.
HOW DANGEROUS ARE PESTICIDES? How dangerous are pesticides? Research is indicating they are more dangerous than previously thought. This includes links to the development of Parkinson’s disease and a doubling of the rate of brain cancer for children who live in homes where pesticides are sprayed. Now a new study shows another link – all the more reasons to go organic as to our food and home environment plus engage in as many potent detox therapies as possible – likefar infrared saunas, fasts, colonics, and juice feasting.
PRECURSOR OF MULTIPE MYELOMA A new National Cancer Institute study published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology indicates conclusively that applying pesticides doubles the rate of a blood abnormality called MGUS disease or monoconal gammopathy of undetermined significance. The disorder is evidenced by an abnormal level of blood proteins. It requires life-long monitoring because it can lead to a most painful cancer of the bone marrow cells called multiple myeloma. The research involved a five year study of 678 individuals culled from over 50,000 farmers who had worked on fields that were pesticide sprayed.
What can help bring about a global paradigm shift – a core inner change to heal our world – is allowing the huge crises of our times to penetrate us within –or not to block the feeling of pain on an emotional, and spiritual level. Pain, for me, is the greatest messenger of healing so I have never taken pain killers to block their message. Consciousness is the force of connective in ourselves and thus rushes to the site of a hurt, a cut, a separation, in order to help heal or make whole again. Thus we need to welcome the pains of our greatest crises and allow them to penetrate within – especially the ones, like global pollution, species extinctions, the death and destruction toll of wars, cancer and diabetes pandemics, atomic weapons proliferation and so on and so forth, or what may effect us personally the most, is life-threatening or whose impact really touches us to our core – if we allow that penetration.
TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPACT OF THE NAZI ERA The first few years of my life I grew up in Germany, right after World War II. I still remember the sight of burnt out buildings. What made the greatest impression was the pain that my parents, and their close family and friends, had endured during the war. My mother was also in Siberia, where she said the “roads were paved in blood.” My step-dad, Gabriel, was in more than half a dozen concentration camps. My aunt Helen was was injected with typhoid as part of a Nazi medical experiment, and lost an eye from the infection that followed. All of this made me very deeply wish to gain a greater sense of the world we live in.
OPPORTUNITIES TO THINK AND FEEL DEEPER
All forms of deep suffering again can be approached most positively as vast opportunities to grow and heal within.
CANCER
For example, when a person has cancer, they may not realize that they are also facing a huge opportunity to learn from their out-of-touch-with-nature lifestyle mistakes. it is a wake-up call. However, they may not see this as an opportunity at all, falling into a state of intense fear that is also fed by a profiteering medical system. They may then fail to take any personal responsibility for their present state – considering it a matter of bad luck to have cancer. Instead of correcting lifestyle missteps, they would rather hand themselves over to a doctor to kill and destroy the foreign invader, the disease entity separated from oneself, and using the very same chemicals that actually cause cancer. This is pretty insane but then we live in an insane society. As a result, the cancer may or may not be arrested. The learning opportunity, however, definitely is arrested, stymied and missed. This is why I am such a strong advocate of going the natural cancer treatment route and learning all one can about it. This includes multiple forms of detoxification (getting the synthetic chemicals out) and via saunas, colonics, alkaline hydration, and much more. We have on our site a great film called Crazy Sexy Cancer which is about one young person’s immense journey through such a process of growth and enlightenment in facing cancer.
CONVERGING AND PENETRATING CRISES
There are presently many different health, social and environmental crises that can not only penetrate our thick cultural defenses but that are converging together in our modern times. They are all great learning opportunities to help redirect us in more healing paths.
GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT
When their combined effects are allowed to penetrate us, they can trigger the most important wave of healing, that of a making more connective, conscious and healing change of our core worldview. It is itself ill. Thus I have advocated in my raw-wisdom articles a path of such a deepest healing begins with a spiritual or inner shift from the current mechanical, death-centered, math-constructed vision of nature to one that is life and consciousness center and thus can help us evolve and heal the most.
