“KNOW THOU THAT THE HUMAN SOUL IS EXALTED ABOVE, AND IS
INDEPENDENT OF ALL INFIRMITIES OF BODY OR MIND. THAT A SICK
PERSON SHOWETH SIGNS OF WEAKNESS IS DUE TO THE HINDRANCES
THAT INTERPOSE THEMSELVES BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE BODY, FOR
THE SOUL REMAINETH UNAFFECTED BY ANY BODILY AILMENTS.
CONSIDER THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP. THOUGH AN EXTERNAL OBJECT
MAY INTERFERE WITH ITS RADIANCE, THE LIGHT ITSELF CONTINUETH
TO SHINE WITH UNDIMINISHED POWER. IN LIKE MANNER, EVERY
MALADY AFFLICTING THE HUMAN BODY IS AN IMPEDIMENT THAT
PREVENTETH THE SOUL FROM MANIFESTING ITS INHERENT MIGHT AND
POWER. WHEN IT LEAVETH THE BODY, HOWEVER, IT WILL EVINCE
SUCH ASCENDANCY, AND REVEAL SUCH INFLUENCE AS NO FORCE
ON EARTH CAN EQUAL. EVERY PURE, EVERY REFINED AND
SANCTIFIED SOUL WILL BE ENDOWED WITH TREMENDOUS
POWER, AND SHALL REJOICE WITH EXCEEDING GLADNESS.”
— Baha’u’llah, Gleanings From The Writings Of Baha’u’llah
“THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN’S BODY HAS NOT CHANGED TO MEET
THE NEW CONDITIONS OF HIS ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT THAT HAS
REPLACED HIS NATURAL ONE. THE RESULT IS THAT OF PERPETUAL
DISCORD BETWEEN MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT. THE EFFECT OF
THIS DISCORD IS A GENERAL DETERIORATION OF MAN’S BODY,
THE SYMPTOMS OF WHICH ARE TERMED DISEASE.”
— Professor Hilton Hotema, Man’s Higher Consciousness
“LONG-CONTINUED VIOLATION OF THE LAWS OF BEING IS
THE CAUSE OF DISEASE; LONG-CONTINUED PERSEVERANCE IN OBEDIENCE IS
THE ONLY MEANS BY WHICH HEALTH CAN BE RECOVERED.”
— Dr. Herbert Shelton, Hygienic Review
The Physiology Of Detoxification
In a world given to superstition, we must always get back to basic simple concepts.
Over a lifetime of eating cooked foods, the body gets “silted up.” This silt consists of the residues of an improper breakdown of cooked food, the elements of which are spread throughout the body. These obstructions act as blockages in the electro-magnetic circuitry of the body.
Dr. C. Samuel West, chemist and lymphologist, in his amazing book The Golden Seven Plus One describes that the primary obstruction in the body of the typical person is protein trapped in the intercellular fluid between the cells. He discovered that: “If the blood proteins cannot be removed from the spaces around the cells by the lymphatic system, they can cause our death within just a few hours.”
The whole process of detoxification consists of removing these obstructions from the lymph fluid (intercellular fluid) and washing them out of the body. As your body is lightened of obstructions, your health will rise accordingly.
Within a few hours of eating food, the quality of the blood is changed. Dr. Michael Klaper, in his video, A Diet For All Reasons, shows an example of thick, heavy blood drawn from a person on the standard cooked meat and pasteurized milk diet. Surgeons know that the blood is almost immediately thickened by eating heavy foods, making it dangerous to perform surgery. This is one of the main reasons why they will only perform surgery after the patient has fasted on water for at least eight hours. Eating raw fruits and vegetables, and drinking their juices, thins the blood, as does fasting.
The average person has approximately 1.2 gallons (4.5 liters) of blood. But each person has four times as much lymph fluid as blood. Your lymph fluid bathes every cell. Because the blood feeds and draws waste from the lymph fluid directly, the process of detoxification begins as soon as the blood is thinner than the lymph fluid, allowing trapped toxicity in the lymph to diffuse back into the blood to be detoxified. The principle of diffusion states that things move from areas of greater concentration to areas of lesser concentration.
Clean and light foods allow the blood to become clean and light, which in turn allows the lymph to become clean and light. Over a period of years (at least three) on The Sunfood Diet, as the body is purified, it will change from a solid, rigid, weakened condition to a comparatively elastic, fluid and energetic state. Yoga, exercise and massage speed up this process by stimulating the circulation of blood and lymphatic fluid.
As the lymph unburdens itself of undigested proteins, toxins, chemicals and other undesirable elements, the substances flow into the bloodstream. Instantly a poison may be all over the circulatory system before it is filtered out as waste. This is why some may have sudden cold or hot flashes, fevers, diarrhea, rashes, desires for poor foods, tastes of old medicines, mucus discharges and other symptoms, while detoxifying. These physical eliminations also carry with them a variety of emotional releases, such as anxiety, depression and other imbalances. These are good signs — you want those poisonous substances and emotions out of your body. Don’t worry about them, embrace them as part of the detoxification process. Other detoxification symptoms may include: bad breath, coughs, cold symptoms, drowsiness, headaches, momentary aches, nausea, unclear thinking and/or weight loss.
While detoxifying, the body makes use of all its eliminative organs: the bowels, lungs, mouth, sinuses, skin and kidneys, thus releases will occur in those areas. The urine, in general, is an excellent reflection of the blood; urine is purified blood. Turbidity in the urine is indicative of toxicity being released from the blood. Clear urine is a sign that the blood is clean at that moment.
Remember, as soon as anything cooked enters your mouth, detoxification stops immediately. Symptoms of detoxification will clear up almost instantly upon eating cooked food, as the blood is thickened and the lymph’s waste elimination halted. If you feel you are detoxifying too rapidly, you may want to introduce heavier foods to slow the detox process down. Eating lightly cooked foods or steamed vegetables will slow detoxification. Eating more young coconut, avocados, nuts, and seeds with green-leafed vegetables will thicken the blood to a degree that slows detoxification; this will allow you to remain on the raw diet, but also to comfortably detoxify.
During detoxification, blood pressure may increase as thick, soupy materials pass out of the lymph into the blood. This will pass over time on a natural diet as the lymph and blood unburden themselves and normalize. An elevated blood pressure is caused by obstructions in the blood vessels (cooked fat, cooked protein, chemicals), an increased thickness of the blood and/or a constriction of the arteries due to stress, all of which cause the heart to work harder to push blood through the vessels. Nutritionally, the blood pressure can be quickly decreased by adding garlic bulbs and onions into the diet. These foods help thin the blood so as to lower blood pressure.
Healing Through Detoxification
The major diseases and illnesses are diet-related. Detoxification through a raw plant-food diet is a major part of a physical path back to radiant health. If diet is ignored, the maximum benefit of other therapies will not be achieved.
There is no magic pill, but there is a magic process. For you, detoxification can be the greatest event of your life. As you become more aware of your body’s true condition, you will intuitively be presented with intelligent plans, renewed strength and energy with which to retrace the steps back to physical perfection. You will be healed naturally through detoxification.
Hering’s Law of Cure describes that all diseases retrace their history during the healing process. Specifically, the following pattern occurs:
1. Healing begins deep within and works its way out.
2. Healing occurs from the head down.
3. Symptoms occur in the reverse order from the way they developed.
The process of detoxification is non-linear. It travels in circles and waves and heals you in cycles according to Hering’s Law. Depending on your previous diet, you may feel worse before you feel better, as toxicity is washed out of the body. If one is coming from the Standard American Diet (SAD), a powerful detoxification may occur. If one is more purified on a vegetarian or vegan diet and eating organic food, the detoxification may be more mild.
Just as it takes years for your tissues to become encumbered by improper materials, so too does it take years to dissolve and eliminate these improper materials. In general, I have found that it takes one month on a 100% Sunfood Diet to reverse one year on a cooked, toxic diet. So, for example, if one is 45 years young, then it will take 45 months to detoxify the body on a 100% Sunfood Diet.
Every living organism strives always to remove obstructions and achieve perfect health. When you start removing obstructions from your body, radiant health appears. Obstructions are the residues left over from a lifetime of improper foods, spiritual stagnation and negative thoughts. Illnesses are caused by obstructions of one form or another. Symptoms are caused by the body’s attempt to detoxify obstructions. Death is caused by a suppression of detoxification.
When I began to study the psychology and science of physical detoxification, I used myself and my situation as the test of what was true. You must do the same. Listen to your inner voice. Detoxification is a skill. This is an “unwinding” process — seek the best way to unwind yourself out of the old habits. Nurture yourself through this process. Be kind and gentle to your body, mind and spirit.
Success philosopher and author, Og Mandino, used to say that, “You are not a human being, you are a human becoming.” You are constantly becoming something different. Remember, the human body is constantly recreating itself out of the air, water, food and thoughts you ingest. Studies show 98% of the atoms in the body are completely replaced in two years. In seven years, 100% of the body is replaced. In just a few years you can completely reconstruct your entire body from totally brand new high-quality materials! It is never too late for anyone. You can regenerate. My friend Shanti Devi says, “It is never to late to live, it is always too early to die.”
The body is a self-sustaining, wonderfully regenerating organism that wears out due to high levels of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual toxicity. This toxicity comes through diet, negative thinking, poor quality relationships and disempowering belief systems. Detoxification (“letting go”) at all levels heals all things.
The Mucous Lining
Your entire digestive tract and breathing apparatus is lined with a very sensitive, naturally transparent membrane. This mucous lining becomes irritated on a diet of chemicals, pesticides and cooked foods. An irritation of the delicate lining causes sensitivities or allergies.
The mucous membrane is always trying to diffuse impacted mucus and cooked-food residue up from the colon, intestines, and stomach to the less impacted areas of the digestive tract, such as the throat, mouth (tongue), and sinuses, through the simple process of diffusion (the movement of particles from an area of greater concentration to an area of lesser concentration). This is why Professor Arnold Ehret, author of The Mucusless Diet Healing System and Rational Fasting called the tongue the “magic mirror” because as soon as the body has a chance to diffuse toxins out of the lower digestive organs (through fasting or sleeping) it will do so and mucus will migrate up through the stomach lining, esophagus lining and into the mouth. The tongue will become coated, the breath will turn foul. The coating on the tongue then, becomes a key indicator as to how much constipated mucus has accumulated in the digestive organs.
Constipated mucoid plaque in the intestines is the product of decades of eating improper foods. To achieve excellent health, mucoid plaque has to be flushed out through the colon with the help of raw foods, herbs, colonics and fasting. Even if bowel movements are regular everyday, mucoid plaque can still be present, clinging to the intestinal walls, and should be addressed.
Mucoid plaque also builds up from incomplete bowel movements caused by not fully squatting while eliminating. Sitting on the standard toilet pinches the colon, hindering complete elimination. Consider squatting on the toilet, or purchasing a small footstool which raises the knees into more of a squatting position when sitting on the toilet.
Parasites
By far the greatest variety of parasites afflicting the present population of the Western world comes from animal foods. According to Dr. Hulda Clark, almost every variety of commercial meat available is loaded with parasites of one form or another. Also, parasites are present in tainted water sources. Parasites thrive in an unhealthy body. They feed on excessive toxicity (constipation) in the intestines, particularly cooked starch and decaying cooked animal foods. In that way they are somewhat beneficial; they help detoxify the intestines by breaking down substances the body cannot deal with into waste the body can eliminate. However, when the body becomes so weakened from a toxic lifestyle that the parasites breach the digestive tract and enter the internal organs of the body, major problems arise. Liver flukes, pancreatic flukes, eggs in the brain tissue, eggs in the liver (occasionally mistaken as liver cancer), etc., all have their role in the manifestation of the major diseases.
Freshly picked, raw plant foods typically have excellent microbes and bacteria for our digestive tract. They do not typically have harmful parasites on them, unless picked near contaminated water sources, or grown in soil saturated with toxic fecal matter.
The way to eliminate parasites is to stop taking in animal products of all kinds. Only pure (preferably fresh spring) water should be introduced into the body. Adopting The Sunfood Diet along with herbs, oxygen and taking special care to send “hot” foods through the digestive tract regularly, such as garlic, onions, hot peppers (cayenne), ginger and radishes. will help to eliminate parasites. These foods may be mixed in juices (see Appendix C: Sunfood Recipes under Molotov Cocktail), or eaten whole with raw plant fats, such as walnuts. Black walnut hulls have been used as a treatment for intestinal worms for thousands of years.
Colon hydrotherapy will also help flush parasites out of the system. I have worked with people who have passed worms in excess of 1 foot (0.3 meters) in length, and upon passing them, experienced a subsidence of disease symptoms and/or a transformation of consciousness.
Colon Hydrotherapy
Colon hydrotherapy speeds up detoxification. It allows a great amount of toxicity to be flushed out quickly, so we can continue with our daily lives without enduring extreme detoxification symptoms. I recommend beginning The Sunfood Diet and/or any healing regimen with a series of colonics. Colon hydrotherapy is simple, painless and discreet.
Trips to the colon hydrotherapist may replace trips to the doctor. The habit of regularly visiting a colon hydrotherapist will extend your life and increase your health. The raw-foodist Dr. Norman Walker had two series of 6 colon cleanses done every year of the second half of his life … he lived to be at least 109 (some say older). I’ve found that one colonic every 4 to 6 months has been effective for me — although I am sure that more would do me good. At the initial stages, I would recommend a series of 4 to 6 sessions even if you feel like you do not need it.
The primary goal of colon hydrotherapy is to empty the bowels completely in order for the lymph system to drain. The secondary goal is to remove encrusted mucus (which feeds parasites and poisons the system) from the inner intestinal lining. The third goal is to allow the liver to flush and release. The first time I ever had a colonic done, at the very end of the session, my liver released a deep yellow fluid (a standard colon hydrotherapy machine displays a clear tube which allows one to see exactly what is being eliminated from the colon). I felt a jump in vitality immediately. I later intuitively concluded that what was released was beer residue of some type, because I could never drink a beer again after that moment.
Colon hydrotherapy is a way to keep our colon mechanically operating properly, it is not a crutch to help us eliminate. Good elimination comes from eating healthy raw plant foods, from practicing yoga and from squatting naturally to release.
The growth of healthy bacterial flora can be assisted in the colon by eating raw foods, especially unwashed garden plants (roots in particular), wild plants and/or fermented foods. Probiotics (cultures of beneficial bacteria such as acidophilus, bifidus and bulgaricus) in powder or liquid form will work more effectively to restore harmonious digestive conditions and reverse problems due to an overgrowth of harmful bacteria.
Aside from colon hydrotherapy, you may also speed up the detoxification process by doing enemas coupled with fasting on lemon and fresh spring water or green-leafy vegetable juice.
You alkalinize your body by taking in green-leafy vegetable juices, which increase the blood’s electricity. Electricity increases the solubility of the blood. The more solubility in the blood, the more undigested and misappropriated minerals it can suspend, remove and metabolize or chelate. Chlorophyll and the alkaline compounds in green-leafy vegetables combine with heavy metals and foreign chemicals in the body to form salts, allowing the body to eliminate them from the system. I have coached and worked with many people who have overcome mercury and chemical poisoning by eating raw plants foods, especially green-vegetable juice and certain supplements such as digestive and metabolic enzymes, powdered raw vitamin C-containing berries (such as camu camu berry) and MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane), a biologically available form of powdered sulfur, as well as a teaspoon of chlorella with a shot of straight cilantro juice drank three times a day.
Liver
Even if the diet is toxic and deficient, if the liver is still functioning at a high rate, the body will compensate for deficiencies through biological transmutation. Louis Kervran, in his fascinating book, Biological Transmutations, demonstrates that living organisms have a limited ability to transmutate one element into another alchemically. That is, they can convert organic silica into calcium, or magnesium into calcium, or sodium into potassium, or manganese into iron, etc.
Biological transmutations most often occur in the green leaves and roots of plants. In the human body, such transmutations occur in the liver and intestinal flora (probiotics). To maintain vibrant health it is very important to keep the liver functioning at an optimal level. If the liver function drops below a specific level, biological transmutation stops, and one’s health is compromised.
One of the main goals of detoxification is to get the liver clean. The liver can completely rejuvenate itself even if only 10% functional. Fasting on juice or fresh spring water can help the liver deal with an overload of toxicity. Milk thistle seeds eaten whole and raw have been scientifically shown to accelerate healing in the liver. Dandelion and its juice are also beneficial for the liver. MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane) powder helps assist with liver cleansing as long as one starts using it slowly; MSM powder should be added to one’s drinking water at 1 tablespoon per liter.
One of the best ways I have discovered to increase liver function quickly is to do the following flush (or a more elaborate 14-day program as described in Dr. David Jubb’s work LifeFood Recipe Book).
This flush dramatically increases liver function and bile flow as the bile ducts are a waste release area for the liver. Once cleared, the liver can detoxify itself and excrete its waste properly. This will assist the entire digestive system, and improve overall feelings of health and well-being.
The gall bladder flush:
1. Fast for three days on fresh, raw apple juice (preferably made from organically-grown sour green apples or wild apples).
2. During the evening of day three, suck on 15-20 cassia discs (cassia is a wild pod-fruit possessing powerful laxative qualities) or simply take some laxative herbs such as senna.
3. At 3:00 pm on day four, at least two hours after your last drink, break the fast with six to eight ounces (0.25 liters) of organic stone-crushed and cold-pressed olive oil drank straight.
4. Follow with six to eight ounces (0.25 liters) of freshly-squeezed, organic lemon juice.
5. Rest the remainder of the day. Lie down on your right side. Stay warm. Place a warm castor compress (a towel soaked in warm castor oil) on your abdomen over your liver. Your liver is located on your right side just below your right, front, chest muscle.
6. During the evening of day four, suck on 15-20 cassia discs.
This will flush out “gravel” from the gall bladder and bile ducts, that will be eliminated out in the stool (usually on the morning of day five). The “stones” will be ovoid in shape, and may range in size from smaller than a bell pepper seed to as large as a Brazil nut. True stones consist of foreign cholesterol (from meat and dairy) and starch (some stones may simply be saponified oil). Most people on a toxic diet have anywhere from 300-1500 “stones” of various sizes in their gall bladder and bile ducts.
The Two Selves
In his wonderful book, The Master Key To Riches, Napoleon Hill describes that every human being has two sides, two separate entities, two counterparts that become operative at birth. One is a negative sort of person who thinks and moves and lives in an atmosphere of doubt, fear, poverty and ill health. This negative self expects failure and is seldom disappointed. It dwells on poverty, greed, superstition, fear, doubt, worry and physical sickness. The “other self” is a positive sort of person who thinks in dynamic, affirmative terms of wealth, sound health, love and friendship, personal achievement, creative vision, service to others, and who guides one unerringly to the attainment of those blessings.
Seasonal cycles and weather patterns allow Nature to clean and detoxify herself. Cold, raw weather should be embraced as it brings clean air and active oxygen.
I wonder if Napoleon Hill ever realized that these two mental selves have their physical equivalent? They have a physical basis in the foods we eat.
The average diet today consists of large amounts of animals (meat), roots (potatoes) and/or seeds (grains or rice), all of which are high in phosphorus and other acid-forming minerals. An overabundance of acid-forming minerals eventually causes an acid condition throughout the body, contributing to anxiety, edginess, irritability and worry — all these are emotions associated with the “negative self.”
Cooked animals, fried roots and incinerated seeds leave residues behind which are difficult for the body to metabolize and detoxify. By eliminating these cooked foods, and increasing your intake of green-leafy vegetables and alkaline fruits (olives, figs, oranges, papayas, etc.), you eliminate the physical basis for the “negative self.”
After you detoxify your body; when you become a raw-enthusiast; when at last you reach the point of maximum weight loss; when your body has emptied itself of all toxins … that is when your outward appearance will alter. You will literally push out your old persona (your false body) and, as it is purged, you will momentarily take on that appearance. You will see it in the mirror. Some have called it: “the alternating faces of detoxification.” It is one of the most stunning revelations one can experience. After that you will be a transformed person.
Rejuvenation
Then the body rebuilds. Your appearance will undergo a radical transformation. Your hair will be thicker and wilder. Facial lines may fade or even disappear. A chalky complexion will dissipate. The bone structure of your face may alter. You will be filled with a youthful vigor. You may appear younger and have people comment on this. You will radiate health and vitality. This entire change of your physiology will stand as proof that extraordinary transformations are possible.
When you begin eating only raw plant foods, when you start to delve deeply back into the plants and animals in Nature far away from civilization, you will see there are no longer familiar features in the world. Everything is new. Everything has never happened before. The world reveals itself and it is incredible.
Your own detoxification process will allow you to take on a wider vision of yourself and your potential.
When you cleanse yourself inside, you will surely find the outside cleansed and made more perfect. You will unfold as if from a dull green bud into a brilliant flower. Imagine a neglected houseplant with brown leaves. If one improves the soil, provides it with the right lighting and water, sends positive love energy to it, then it will dramatically change. So too will an unhealthy person be changed into a healthy person through detoxification, subsisting on living foods and love.
As you lighten the body of obstructions, a joy shall usher forth, such as you have never experienced in your life. You will laugh for no reason.
When one radiates health and vitality, one no longer draws on the vitality of other humans, animals and plants. This is due to one’s increased energy which diffuses from areas of greater concentration to areas of lesser concentration. As energy diffuses, it also creates a magnetism which manifests itself, in the form of charisma. A clean body is charismatic.
1 Ask yourself the following question: How can I celebrate my life and enjoy the process of detoxification, while letting go of toxicity? As soon as your mind comes with the answer, write it down in your journal and act on it immediately.
2 Decide in advance how you will deal with detoxification symptoms. Decide what level of detoxification will be too much for you to handle. Decide now what foods you will use to slow down the detoxification process. Write down your strategy in your journal.
3 In times of a healing crisis, maintain your poise, reread this lesson and fully understand the physiology of detoxification.
4 Read Dr. Norman Walker’s book: Colon Health: The Key to a Vibrant Life.
5 Call and set up a colon hydrotherapy appointment today. Check for listings in your local phone book or natural-food store.
INSTANT TRANSFORMATION
What if your life was suddenly changed?
How would you feel if your destiny was one day — exchanged?
How long does each moment last?
How would your life be if you rewrote your past?
Could life be more than it seems?
What if you become something more — on the way to your dreams?
Can you undo the things you’ve done?
Just how and when is a new life begun?
Are such transformations true?
What if you awoke and everything was new?
