I like this down-to-earth approach to changing habits, by taking on finite “30 day challenges”. Matt Cutts, who is the unoffical spokesperson for Google, illuminates some very useful points in this 3 minute video.

One of the biggest challenges with patients is to get them to make a diet or lifestyle change which will inevitably bring up a resistance either small or large. The idea of simply “trying” something for a brief period of time can sometimes be enough to get them over the hurdle from resistance to actually engaging, as the commitment doesn’t seem so monumental. As Matt pointed out, 30 days seems to be just about the right amount of time to make or break a habit, and the likelihood is high that the new habit will continue afterwards. And it’s so much better than the typical “…I know I should” resigned attitude.

I first saw this video a few months ago, and I was inspired to try a few of my own 30 day challenges. My most recent one has been to give up grains, which I’ve done before, but never on a permanent basis. The first couple of weeks of this challenge brought up all kinds of suppressed emotional content within myself, but since I’ve passed through it, it has been quite smooth sailing, and the cravings as well as the emotional attachments are gone at this point.

As we always advise patients, the best way to make changes that stick is to make progressively small, incremental changes over time, rather than cramming a huge life transformation into a short time (which always blows up on itself). These small, steady changes build self-confidence, and each new challenge becomes a little bit easier than the previous ones.

As Matt says — the next 30 days are going to pass, whether you engage in a 30 day challenge, or not, so why not give it a try?

The fiction author Steven Pressfield has written a couple of books about the creative process itself, and in his book The War of Art, he very specifically addresses the reality of resistance, and how it is a constant struggle within every creative process.

Its sequel, Do The Work, is also a short and valuable read to help illuminate the nature of this challenge to activating one’s creativity.

While these Steven Pressfield books are great for gaining a conceptual orientation for the problem of resistance, Julia Cameron’s classic book The Artist’s Way, gives many practical exercises to actually start to chip away at these resistances and blockages. Her “morning pages” exercise is often known by people who haven’t even read this book, and is one of several practical exercises offered by Cameron.

While these books are specifically written with writers or artists in mind, the concepts and principles they illuminate apply to anyone who is wishing to access their own creativity and desire function, even if that is for something outside of the usual world of the arts. Our desire function and creativity can be directed into any activity — it is just a question of finding out what that is for you. What tools have you successfully used to help with your creativity?

One of the highest, overarching functions in our health is what we call the “desire function”. The ills of a patient can often have more to do with their failure to connect to and activate the contents of their desire function, even more than anything which seems amiss in their nutrition. The word ‘desire’ originates in the sense of something which comes to us ‘from the stars’, which relates to our higher rather than lower form desires. Finding what it contains, and activating it, are often a tremendous struggle for many of my patients; but this struggle is of central importance in a full system of healthcare.

What many patients suffer, due to the nature of our compulsory education system, is that their ability to hear their own inner voice was usually squashed at an early age, and it takes a Herculean effort to restore it, and begin to breath life back into it.

I enjoyed this Ted Talk by Béatrice Coron, who is a self described “paper cutter” and artist. In this video, she describes how she woke up to her true desire function in her 40s, after drifting through numerous occupations throughout her life. While she is not, to my knowledge, Heilkunst treated this is the type of story I have been honoured to witness in a number of patients as they begin to unfold their own desire functions as they progress through their own treatment.

There are two nutritional books which I look at with most new patients:

Dr. D’Adamo’s blood type diet book provides the ultimate foundation for all patient’s as far as their long-term maintenance of their health, even after they have completed their primary Heilkunst treatment. Also, following this diet has proven to be very useful for patients who are suffering from all forms of chronic illness, as the guidance of this diet prevents chronic inflammation and other unnecessary impairments to health. There isn’t any patient who wouldn’t experience some degree of improvement incorporating the blood type diet into their regimen.

Dr. Abravanel’s glandular type diet is something that I’ll look at with many patients — particularly where there are any issues related to hormones, as well as the whole cycle of cravings and weight gain. We’ve helped many patients end their years of frustration with diets, to a new experience of approaching their optimal weight and body shape by easily re-balance their diet according to understanding their dominant glandular system. The numerous health side-benefits are also impressive when this approach is included in the patient’s regimen.

The word “addiction” in the subtitle of Dr. Mercola’s No-Grain book is quite revealing as to the strong attachment that patients have to grains and sugars, and the incredible difficulty that most face in even considering a low- or no-grain diet. It’s true that eliminating grains is one of the easiest ways to lose unneccessary weight, but even more important is that it is linked as the primary factor behind most of our modern chronic illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. This is one of the most important elements for patients to consider for their health, but unfortunately, only a few are willing to consider this practice. It is not only celiac patients who need to consider gluten-free or even grain-free living.

Finally, we come to the problem of “but I don’t have time to exercise!”. I ask patients if they have 30 minutes to spare once every 7 to 10 days. That’s all it takes to properly do this “slow motion” version of strength training, which is the safest form of using weights, and the most thorough in terms of the benefits it delivers not only to the muscles, but many other related systems.

These represent just a few of the possible starting points I focus on with a new patient as we explore where they are currently at with their regimen, and where their improvement opportunities lay. There are many more individualized issues which need to be addressed for each patients, but there is no harm in starting with any of these books as you are called to do so for yourself. When a new patient comes in with their regimen already in fairly good shape, it makes treatment much easier, and quicker to get into the deeper root causes of chronic illness which we address through treatment of their time line, and ultimately the genetically inherited diseases from their family tree.

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:26

A few years ago, a very beautiful woman had first came in to see me for various complaints, including a sore neck, joints, migraines, chronic constipation and pain during intimacy.  A month later, she came back to see me for her routine follow-up and cited that I was a miracle worker as every one of her symptoms were completely gone.  She accredited it to the homeopathic remedies.  I smiled, knowing  that the quick results were more attributed to the increase in her daily water consumption.  She had replaced her 18 weekly coffees with about 2.5 litres of water!  It is amazing to me that most folks are actually chronically dehydrated and that technically, they don’t really qualify for medical remediation until we’ve assessed what percentage of their medical issues have to do with faulty regimen, especially dehydration.

It is still amazing to me how many folks still believe that other beverages like juice, milk, coffee and tea qualify as hydration.  Countless women have pleaded with me trying to justify herbal teas as a form of hydration.  Sadly, I’ve served countless children who hate the taste of pure water because it has always been sweetened and watered down with juice.  When a patient is unknowingly suffering dehydration I will explain that if a beverage contains too many TDS (total dissolved solids), then the body will read it and understand it as “food”, rather than water – no exceptions!

The body is constituted of around 70-80% of a jelly-like material that resembles the primordial ocean.  This mesenchymal layer, or the part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.  We are mostly just congealed sea water, with a titch of minerals thrown in for colour, and we’d do well to bathe our innards to precisely the same degree that we bathe our outer chassis.

If you think about it, planetary systems have an orbit that they adhere to based on gravitational pull.  Our bodies, too, rely on dynamic, mass-free forces possessing a fluid-crystal structure which is sub-divided into different levels of density, frankly, to hold us together.  Physics states that the density of this fluid body is proportional to the density of any physical substance occupying the area of space that it is concerned with.  For example the watery domain will increase around large bodies such as stars and planets, acting as a refracting medium, affecting the speed of the propagation of light.  This medium is relied upon for conveying electromagnetic forces while adhering to the theory of relativity.  Rudolf Steiner stated, “As above, so below.”

You may be asking yourself, what the heck does this have to do with the 2-3 litres of water I’m supposed to chug down per day?  Well, I’m getting there.  Try to bear with me for a quantum second or two!  Quantum field theory states that all fundamental fields, such as the electromagnetic field, must be anchored at each and every point in space (including our bodies).  A field in physics may be envisioned as if you could see space filled with interconnected vibrating balls and springs (Reich’s orgone energy).  The strength of the field affects the displacement of a ball from its rest position.  If you like, read that last statement, again, and just let it congeal as an etheric impression on your watery body for a moment.  The theory requires for “vibrations” in, or more accurately changes in the strength of, such a field to propagate as per the appropriate wave equation for the particular field in question.  The second quantization of your quantum field requires that each of the ball-spring combinations be allotted a quantized (a measurable pole of strength) depending on its capacity to act as a harmonic oscillator, pulsation with excitation form the field corresponding to its elementary particles in space.  Crazy stuff huh?  That’s what I thought too!

Our bodies can only be attuned to energetic excitations from the universe, then, to the degree that it is able to shift, amble, contract, displace  and expand its harmonic oscillator … its watery body!  Even the vacuum theory cites a vastly complex watery structure and all calculations of the quantum field theory must be adjusted to the degree that certain bodies in the field are able to oscillate at stronger frequencies than others.  When you “distill” this all down, you will clearly see why my patient was able to resolve her ills simply by drinking more water.  She created motility where stasis was formerly beginning the stiffening, sclerotic processes just by propagating her “wave equation”.  Can you imagine how much fun I am to invite to your cocktail party?

Disease is a function of being cut off from “the big field” of communication, otherwise known as the domain of well … God.  The intellect, unhooked from its watery etheric impressions, has mostly mired us in matter, or salt!  The Genotype Silicea (the most intellectual of all of the Homeopathic Constitutions) will often display a strong preponderance towards the phenotypical state of grief or feelings of perpetual disappointments in love and romance otherwise known as Natrum Muriaticum.  These folks generally live in the past, just as Lot’s wife did feeling alienated and cut off from themselves and the Initiates of the higher domains as per Rudolf Steiner.  It is no accident, that the homeopathic remedy for grief, or living out of the past is Natrum Muriaticum, the Latin term for salt.  Protracted grief, over time, may start out producing emotional armoring, hardening of the attitudes, stiffness in the joints, constipation (holding on to old … um … shit) tumors, fibroids, cancerous growths and if the sclerotic effects are left untreated the final stage is rigamortis.  If you slice open a tumor, you will find it largely comprises a big ball of acidic sodium chloride in addition to other toxins.  This, really, is a hardened representation of the patient’s hardened and rigidified past.  The disease of Cancer was Lot’s wife’s lot in life!  Now, try saying that 10 times fast!

The astounding properties of 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen molecule forms the only substance in nature to be labile and flexible enough to be able to respond to varying temperatures.  Miraculously water will harden to ice, flow like a river, or vaporize like your breath on a Wintery day in January north of the 49th parallel.  Folks with the Cancer state of mind, generally feel chilled regularly with extremities like ice, while folks who are more healthy and orgastically potent create a renewable source of flowing warmth and heat.  You will notice it in their bright eyes, smooth, soft skin, and their open smiling face.  While pure pH balanced water is not a good conductor of electricity, the TV show “Myth Busters”  threw radios, hair dryers and electric heaters into bathtubs to confirm, or myth-bust, whether these things will really kill you or not. The electric heater released so much energy that it turned the dummy to charcoal and exploded the bathtub into a hundred pieces! It was hilarious.  Of course, it would be tragic if it were a person; but when it’s a dummy, it’s ROTFL funny, as my kids would say.  It is of interest to note that only contaminated city water will produce these results, picking up every current introduced to it!

If your mesenchymal layer is mostly salty, acidic and littered with contaminates, leaching potassium and creating a super-saturated domain, just imagine how you may be limiting your capacity to be quantized and vibrating to receiving quantifiable messages from The Field.  If most folks are actually dehydrated and potentially rigidifying from their own toxicity, what does this mean for their capacity to pick up resonant “vibrations?”  Wilhelm Reich, a Psychotherapist was originally Freud’s most favored student, until he recognized that the body’s capacity for orgonotic vibrations introduced through a device called an orgone accumulator was destroying cancer cells and producing more orgastically potent individuals.  A simple harmonic oscillator, quantization, produces excitations of the field corresponding to the elementary function of the orgasm.  What a concept.  Now you know the deeper reason why my patient began to enjoy pleasurable sex with her husband again.  I recall her exclamation that during that first month, after introducing proper water regimen, that her libido returned with full thrusters and that she hadn’t had that much delicious sex in years!  Giddy up!

In the teachings of Theosophy, Devas (powerful Devine powers) are regarded as living either in the atmospheres of the planets of the solar system (Planetary Angels) or inside the Sun (Solar Angels) (presumably other planetary systems and stars have their own angels) and they help to guide the operation of the processes of nature such as the process of evolution and the growth of plants (etherically, watery imbued organisms); their appearance is reputedly like colored flames about the size of a human being. It is believed by Theosophists that Devas can be observed when the third eye is activated. Some (but not most) Devas originally incarnated as human beings.  It is believed by Theosophists that nature spirits, elementals (gnomes, ondines, sylphs, and salamanders), and fairies can be also be observed when the third eye is activated.  While this capacity is mostly a function of an older consciousness, it is maintained by Theosophists that these less evolutionarily developed beings have never been previously incarnated as human beings; they are regarded as on a separate line of spiritual evolution called the “Deva evolution”; eventually, as their souls advance as they reincarnate, it is believed they will incarnate as Devas.  All this to say, that these beings possess etheric bodies (but no physical bodies) that are composed of etheric matter, a type of matter finer and more pure that is composed of smaller watery particles than ordinary physical plane matter.  So it all goes to say that if we are suffering an internal desert, we may be bereft from experiencing the salvation of a healthy mind, body and spirit.  Our oasis in the physical enables communion with our etheric body where we render impressions on this watery domain, suck up the impressions into consciousness and render them anew through inspiration, imagination, and illumination.  This process is only the function of human consciousness and if we are too dry and dehydrated, we remain mostly mired in matter imprisoned in our own salt.  Sadly we’re doomed to looking back with Lot’s wife.  Did the poor girl even have a name?

In Dr. F. Batmanghelidj’s profoundly accurate book, “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water,” he states, “When the human body developed from species that were given life in water, the same dependence on the life-giving properties of water was inherited. The role of water in the body of living species – mankind included – has not changed since the first creation of life from salt water and its subsequent adaption to fresh water.”  The human body has a major problem with its normal water regulation, caused by a gradual loss of thirst sensation. If you do become thirsty, it is too late, you’ve already become dehydrated.  Humans seem to lose their thirst sensation and the critical perception of needing water. Not recognising their need for water, they gradually become increasingly and chronically dehydrated with the progress of age. Batmanghelidj went on to advise Physicians that recognizing thirst signals of the body will undoubtedly produce complicated problems in the present way of treatment of these conditions. It is all too easy to assume these signals are complications of a serious disease process and begin to treat signal-producing dehydration with complicated procedures. Although water by itself will alleviate the condition, medications or invasive diagnostic procedures may be forced on the person. It is the responsibility of both patients and their doctors to be aware of the damage that chronic dehydration can cause in the human body. Dr. Batmanghelidj was very clear when he said, “These chronic pains include dyspeptic pain, rheumatoid arthritis pain, anginal pain (heart pain on walking, or even at rest), migraine and hangover headaches, colitis pain and its associated constipation.  The “view shift” dictates that all these pains should be treated with a regular adjustment to daily water intake. No less than two and a half quarts (two and one half litres) in 24 hours should be taken for a few days prior to the routine and regular use of analgesics or other pain-relieving medications.”

In closing, maybe think about the principles of quantum physics illustrated above and how they relate to cosmic wisdom that holds the planets in the cosmos (above) in conjunction with your body (below) in good physical and  spiritual equilibrium.   When we drink water, depending on the volume of water that enters the stomach, a hormone/neurotransmitter called “motilin” is secreted. The more water we drink, the more motilin is produced by the intestinal tract and can be measured in blood circulation (immune function or ontic, sense of the self). The effect of motilin on the intestinal tract, as its name implies, is to produce rhythmic contractions (Reich’s orgonotic pulsations) of the intestines – peristalsis – from its upper parts to its lower end. Part of this action would involve the timely opening and closing of the valves (labile flexibility also indicative of a labile state of mind) that are in the way of flow (watery formation) of the intestinal content (and the function of the orgasm). Thus, when there is enough water in the body for all the digestive processes that depend on the availability of water, the pancreas (the organ that metabolizes the sweetness in life) will produce its watery bicarbonate solution to prepare the upper part of the intestinal tract to receive the acidic content of the stomach. Under such ideal circumstances, the pyloric valve is also allowed to open (open on emotional level, think of acid reflux or indigestion) for the evacuation of the content of the stomach. Motilin has a major “transmission” role in co-ordinating this action. Motilin is a satiety hormone secreted when water extends the stomach wall.  Ah, relaxation.  All is well that ends well!  When operating in concert, we are able to transmit, receive and radiate information, beyond the veil, anchored to the measurable quantum divide.

Sources:

Dr. F. Batmanghelidj: “Your body’s many cries for water” – 154 pages.
Published by: The Therapist Ltd.
ISBN: 1 899398 35 X
Price: 9.95 pounds sterling.

Lowering Cholesterol can actually be harmful to your health!  The New England Journal of Medicine has actually corrected the myth that dietary intake of fat does not cause heart disease, but that sugar is a much more significant factor in the cause of dangerous heart and arterial inflammation.  Cholesterol is actually an important molecule released by the liver in order to allow life to exist.  It is the healative agent in cellular inflammation.  Lowering cholesterol with statin drugs can actually cause more harm than good, and even provoke inflammation in the body instead as the cells feel unaided by the fatty, corrective bath.  There is actually no good or bad cholesterol.  LDL and HDL are vehicles that transport fats, repair cells, regulate hormones, and metabolize vitamin D3.   Cholesterol doesn’t oxidize in water, or in the blood, and it has never been proven scientifically to cause inflammation.  Actually, sugar drives the supposedly good HDL cholesterol down and is considered more harmful if the pre-diabetic state becomes glycated forming inflammation of the heart muscle.

Lipitor, Crestor and Zocar are chemical drugs touted by Big Pharma to lower your Cholesterol. Most Doctors are instructed by the Big Pharma companies to get a person’s cholesterol down to “70.”  This is in fact, unnaturally low and can cause more damage to the cardiovascular system than good.  Also, Dr. Mark Hyman proposes that these drugs are aimed at the wrong enemy, as dementia (sycosis), cancer and diabetes are actually the bigger causes for heart disease.  When he accessed the study in the New England Journal it was found that, “The study found a 39.8 percent reduction in LDL (or bad cholesterol) and a 138 percent increase in HDL (or good cholesterol).  Sure, the medications lowered cholesterol. However, the study was not large enough or long enough to answer the most important question: Did the drug results in fewer heart attacks and deaths. Despite this glaring omission, the scientists reporting on these results used words such as “spectacular”, “giddy”, “enormous”, “most excited in decades” to describe their enthusiasm over the medication. Of course, the researchers (as I described in a recent post “Dangerous Spin Doctors”) were on the payroll of Merck who funded the study.”

It would seem that the scientists, themselves, suffer some dementia or short-term memory loss, as in 2007, just three years ago, a new wonder drug from Pfizer called Torcetrapib, working on the same mechanism as the newer Merck drug, Anacetrapib does.  In fact, it follows precisely the same action as the other.  It had been confirmed that LDL was dramatically lowered, while HDL cholesterol was raised, just like the new drugs from Merck.  The concurrent problem was that deaths from heart attacks increased 25 percent and deaths from heart disease in general, increased a whopping 40 percent.  Overall deaths increased to an abominable 200 percent.  After spending over $800 million in the development of these drugs, Pfizer had to walk away due to the results where they caused more harm by heart disease and deaths than those that were saved.  Why is Merck being permitted by the FDA to proceed on the basis of the same already tried and harmful findings?

Also, Dr. Ron Rosedale touts similarly, “Common sense would indicate that we should avoid the oxidation (rancidity) of cholesterol and fatty acids and not get rid of important life-giving molecules. Using the same conventional medical thinking that is being used for cholesterol would lead one to believe that doctors should reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by taking out everybody’s brain.  In fact, cholesterol is being transported to tissues as part of an inflammatory response that is there to repair damage.”  We are then just shooting the messenger as opposed to treating the underlying cause.  It is actually the sugar and refined carbohydrates that cause the rancidity, inflaming arteries, the heart muscle and raising insulin.  The cholesterol is actually released from the liver in an effort to repair the damage caused by the inflammation.  If we lower it, unnecessarily with drugs, we in fact leave the cells unprotected and rendered impotent to resolve their plight.

Dr. Rosedale goes on to illuminate unequivocally, “The fixation on cholesterol as a major cause of heart disease defies the last 15 years of science and deflects from real causes such as the damage (via glycation) that sugars such as glucose and fructose inflict on tissues, including the lining of arteries, causing chronic inflammation and resultant plaque.”  Ah, so now that we now the true culprit, it is up to Physicians to stop deluding the public and breaching the Hippocratic Oath by perpetuating harm.

We know that drugs do not treat the root cause of disease, ever.  They are not prescribed on the basis of natural law and are unfortunately only suppressive or palliative at best.  They can give the illusion that the symptoms are gone, but the root cause prevails and will generally find other ways of manifesting.  The root cause of heart disease is dynamic and is due to a dissonant diet high in sugars (unable to extract the sweetness from life), unreconciled stress, a lack of a true love relationship with the self or others, and the influence of a dastardly genetic miasm or two.  A satiric editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, many years ago, suggested that Doctors should prescribe new drugs vehemently early on before the side effects are brought to light.  Use of the new Anacetrapib seems to be following this harmful diatribe.

The Empiricists are amazing, as it has been suggested that statin drugs be placed at the cash counters of MacDonald’s.  This is the epitome of faulty reductionist thinking.  I served a patient a couple of years ago who insisted on remaining on the drug as insurance, even though after Heilkunst treatment, he’d arrived at the desired state of homeostasis.  His LDL and HDL levels were perfectly normal and stabilized.  Although he suffered odd symptoms, including heart palpitations, loss of sexual potency, a loss of muscle mass while still actively playing hockey and sudden drops in blood pressure, he was reluctant to go off the medications prescribed by his Doctor, even though the literature from other studies like these illumined that the drugs were the cause of the harmful phenomenon at play.

Abnormal cholesterol levels are just an indicator of a dynamic spiral downward that is mostly resultant of “diabesity,” a term coined by Dr. Hyman.  It is the continuum of insulin and blood sugar issues indicative of pre-diabetes and end stage diabetes.  Taking a CETP inhibitor or a statin drug can not effect this downturn.  A diet high in sugars and refined flours, low fibre, a sedentary lifestyle, excessive stress, lack of rest, love-less relationships, or the harmful effects of chemical or emotional pollution are the regimenal factors to be addressed first.

When looking at the blood in a patient’s live blood analysis, instead of just looking at cholesterol numbers, we will look for undue contraction or inflammation of HDL or LDL particles.  If they appear small and dense, we know that they are more atherogenic (more likely to show up as plaque in the arteries that leads to heart attacks), while large, fluffy, more buoyant cholesterol particles are desired.  Small particles are more indicative of pre-diabetes (or metabolic syndrome) and diabetes which are indicative of insulin resistance.  It is the sugar that is the enemy.  In fact, in an article I read years ago, it was said that the FDA would not approve the use of refined “sugar” in our diets.  On top of that, recent research actually reveals that statins may be a cause of diabetes which can be the precursor to this much bigger problem of heart disease.

This metabolic syndrome just described is rarely diagnosed by Allopathic Physicians, although it affects over half of the population.  We are finding that refined sugar may be the major cause for heart disease, diabetes, aging, dementia, cancer, infertility and sexual dysfunction as per Dr. Hyman.  Yet, it is most ignored by Doctors.  You may ask yourself why? And the answer is both tragic and simple; there are no drugs qualified to treat it effectively.  If they can’t target it with drugs, it just doesn’t exist in the Big Pharma matrix.  This is why statin drugs remain so popular in North America, despite the vast research against them.  It is a grand lie, that we remain prey to.

Dr. Mercola has personally suffered from the myths of lowering your cholesterol illustrated in a article he wrote back in 2008, attributing his premature hair loss to lowering his cholesterol.  He cites, “I have significant personal experience with low cholesterol. I bought into the low-fat myth in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and with my diet and long-distance running actually got my cholesterol level down to 75 without taking any drugs. At the time it seemed to be a good thing — but now I know it was a prescription for disaster and was likely one of the major reasons I lost my hair.  The fact that your body naturally makes cholesterol, and uses it for producing cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help you digest fats, among many other things, is a major clue that cholesterol is necessary and beneficial for your health.”

Mercola goes on to say that, “One of the most important things I advise people looking to lower their cholesterol to do is to reduce, or eliminate, refined sugars and grains from their diet.  What do sugar and grain have to do with cholesterol and your heart?  Eating too much sugar and refined grains is the primary cause of high triglycerides, and restricting sugar and grains seems to normalize triglyceride levels in most everyone who tries it.”

Triglycerides, are very much like cholesterol, belonging to the lipid family. They, too, are not soluble in water.  They’re also a major source of energy for your body, and are either obtained from your diet or produced in your liver.  However, when your body has more triglycerides than it can use, the excess spillage ends up being transported to be stored as fat cells (rather than being used by your body for energy). If your triglyceride levels remain elevated it can lead to atherosclerosis and heart damage.  In other words, high triglycerides are an incredibly potent risk factor for inflammation and heart disease. In combination, high triglycerides and low HDL levels create an even bigger risk; this ratio is even more important to your heart health than the standard good vs. bad cholesterol ratio.

Dr. Mercola refers to one study, that in fact, found that people with the highest ratio of triglycerides to HDL had 16 times the risk of heart attack as those with the lowest ratio of triglycerides to HDL!  That is astonishing.  So while you strive to keep your HDL cholesterol levels up, you’ll want to decrease your triglycerides. How? You can increase your HDL levels by exercising and getting plenty of omega-3 fats like those from krill oil. Triglycerides are easily decreased by exercising and avoiding grains and sugars in your diet.  We can help you with this.

Your body actually requires cholesterol to survive, and it needs to be trusted for producing it.  It is best not to tell folks that cholesterol is bad and must be lowered, as this can be harmful for your health.  Even for years after Mercola touted the ill effects of lowering cholesterol, among others, Doctors still test for cholesterol levels and prescribe for them with harmful and unproven statin drugs.  Did you you know that if your cholesterol dips too low that you are increasing your risk for:

• Stroke
• Depression
• Violent behavior
• and even Suicide

Healthy oils, as per Rudolf Steiner, are the vehicle for the incarnation of the self, healthy metabolism and stellar immune functioning and we strongly recommend olive oil, flax, almond, walnut and coconut oils regularly in the diet.  In addition to reducing refined sugars and carbohydrates, regular exercise that respects your blood type is stellar for health and longevity.  We can also provide Drainage and Organ Support that includes “Cholesterol” and “Saccarin” homeopathically in a low potency to combat the ill effects of a dissonant diet.  Also, being in love with your own creative genius and in turn, in love with others, reduces stress and anger wrought from the un-lived life or from rescuing others to the exclusion of the self.  A person’s past emotional and physical traumas and perpetuating karmic patterns can cultivate “diabesity” and the metabolic spiral downturn that Allopathic Doctors don’t diagnose.   We’ve wholly got you covered through principled Heilkunst regimen, medicine and psychotherapeutics, enabling you to get on with your life.

The stories illustrating prayer received and held by the physical properties of  water, really elevates us from the mundane and mechanical view of life up into the cosmic, spiritual Pleroma.  I loved the story about the man, orphaned as a boy, who intuitively wandered strange lands until he bent to sip at a pool of water that restored memories of his family and his childhood home.  It is equally astounding to watch the scientists unravel, before your eyes, the measured and proven truths about how the intention of “Love” can be captured as an organized “snow flake-like” structure of the most beauteous form in a droplet of water.  You will also see, under that same high powered microscope, how the words “you idiot” create chaos and disturbed images also on the tableau of the water, confirming that the the negative thoughts perpetuated by karma can have long term devastating consequences on an organism.

While this is all valuable knowledge, perhaps stretching the imagination, I would like to try to show how the etheric, watery domain of man is influenced by medicine. I will try to show, simply, that water can be the medium to purvey homeopathic intentionality from outside our selves, and how this informed remediation actually impresses its curative action on our watery etheric body effectively  influencing our human organism in a different way from the merely material.  For if I tell you that, “I love you,” with true intention, if receptive, you will receive an impression on your etheric body, and even a resultant physical sensation dispersed by your own etheric body through auricular channels or waterways to the level of your skin;  all that motility occurs in that primordial ocean sloshing around bathing your bones!

Rudolf Steiner expounds on the properties the  watery etheric domain housed under our skin and how it permeates all of life,

The etheric body has approximately the size and form of the physical body, so that it practically fills the same space. It is an extremely delicate and finely organized structure. Now, the particles of the etheric body are in continual motion. Countless currents stream through it in every direction. By these currents [meridians], life itself is maintained and regulated. Every body that has life, including animals and plants, possesses an etheric body. Even in minerals traces of it can be observed. These currents and movements are, to begin with, independent of human will and consciousness, just as the action of the heart or stomach is beyond our jurisdiction, and this independence remains unaltered so long as we do not take our development in hand in the sense of acquiring supersensible faculties.

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Steiner, Rudolf, Anthroposophical Spritual Science and Medical Therapy, Lecture II, 3rd edition, Dornach, Switzerland, 1963.

[parentheses are mine]

It is important to note, here, the logos language used to describe the primordial ocean within, the etheric body; currents, movements, maintained, regulated, and finely organized.  What you may notice is that the etheric body is not only  structured, but also motile at the same time.  It is a polarity.  The etheric body, in fact, defines the entire level of health of our organism, keeping it labile and flexible within an ordered environment, just like water bubbling up from an artesian well or over the crest of the Himalayans.  The opposite state of disease is depicted in the sclerotic, static and rigid state en route to the ultimate end; rigor mortis [Latin : rigor, stiffness + mortis, genitive of mors, death.]! If you watch the film, you will see how every right angle in city pipes carrying water to offices and homes is diminished of its life energy.  The sludge-like nature of pollution with chaotic crystals may even cause you to feel grief, anger and fear.

If we stop to define health as per Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, we start to piece together how this moving labile etheric current keeps us in harmonious, vital operation “In the healthy human state, the spirit-like force (autocracy), that enlivens the material organism as dynamis, governs without restriction and keeps all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation as regards both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling rational spirit can avail itself of this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.”  Again, just notice the language depicting this state of being: harmonious, spirit-like, governs, vital operation.  It also feels very much how we describe the etheric body above.  There is that polarity of structure and motility again, structured just like healthy, life-giving water.

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Rigor mortis definition derived from Answers.com

O’Reilly, Wenda Brewster, The Organon Of The Medical Art, Birdcage Books, 1996, translated by Steven Decker from Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, 1842.

Health is related to the etheric body as illness is to the astral body (airy element or desire/fulfillment) and death to the ego (warmth organism, ontic or sense of self). This becomes ever clearer and clearer on spiritual investigation as per Rudolf Steiner,  “To heal, to restore health, means to be able to create in the etheric body counter-reactions to the processes that produce illness and that proceed from the astral body. One must work from the etheric body in order to paralyze the forces of the astral body, which are the processes producing illness.  Then there is a fourth factor. This is, in a certain way, the polar opposite of death. I must point out first that we can perceive death entering the human being concretely when his whole inner organization has become so physical (absence of spiritual lability) that no nutritive process, no really effective nutritive process, can be introduced anymore. This is death from old age. Death from old age is actually the inability of the organism to absorb substance. Usually this phenomenon cannot be fully observed because ordinarily the human being dies of other causes before it sets in, rather than of this bodily demise in its pure form. But it is really a failure of nutrition. Thus the polar opposite of death is nutrition, and we can relate the nutrition in the human being to the physical body.”

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Ibid.

Ultimately, the currents dry up and impressions from nature, whether sourced from thought or substance,  can no longer penetrate the human being on the watery domain.  That is why you may hear us describe the disease process in terms of armoring, sclerotic tendencies or in Wilhelm Reich’s terms, The Cancer Biopathy, “Since everything is antithetically arranged, there must be two different types of single-celled organisms: (a) life-destroying organisms or organisms that form through organic decay, (b) life-promoting organisms that form from inorganic material that comes to life.” This idea of spontaneous generation led him to believe he had found the cause of cancer. He called the life-destroying organisms “T-bacilli,” with the T standing for Tod, German for death. He described in The Cancer Biopathy how he had found them in a culture of rotting cancerous tissue obtained from a local hospital. He wrote that T-bacilli were formed from the disintegration of protein; they were 0.2 to 0.5 micrometer in length, shaped like lancets, and when injected into mice, they caused inflammation and cancer. He concluded that, when orgone energy (life energy) diminishes in cells through aging or injury, the cells undergo “bionous degeneration,” or death. At some point, the deadly T-bacilli start to form in the cells. Death from cancer, he believed, was caused by an overwhelming growth of the T-bacilli.

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Reich, Wilhelm, The Cancer Biopathy,  Orgone Institute Press, Inc.,  1973

You may be able to discern from this excerpt that disease is an engendered state, an impregnation of the etheric body.  Cancer for example just hijacks the motile etheric currents, arresting its promotion, and starts to reproduce, at an alarming rate, “bionus degeneration” for its own use.  The anatomy of a tumor is an accumulation of deadly orgone energy.  In essence, it hijacks the mission for life-giving ideas, creativity and harmonious operation, circumventing it, depriving it of life, anaerobically squashing the breath right of each watery cell.  That is why cancerous T-bacilli can not metabolize water, heat or light and while the patient may be drinking lots of life-giving water, or sitting in the sun regularly, the organism simply can’t absorb it.  The cells become hardened by their attitude of resignation.

To cure disease means that you need to cure on the level of the etheric body.  On the basis of the law of resonance, this must be done on the homeopathic principle of the law of cure, “Like Cures Like.”  As in the movie Water Science, I know that I can deliver information to water simply through conscious thought.  This is the harnessing of Christ-consciousness and spooks the dickens out of the traditional, material and mechanical scientist, but not anymore.  If you watch Water Science, you will see one of those scientists, Dr. Emoto (Messages From Water), actually prove that the crystal formation in water is categorically different for music played to it by a recording by Bach than by Mozart.  If I tell you that, “I Love You,” or “Arnica 1M” prescribed for bruising or exhaustion, I am providing an arcane impulse, harnessed by thought or the logos and if received by your etheric, primordial ocean, on the basis of lawful prescribing, I will cure your disease without causing an ounce of harm. Look Mom, no hands!

Water Science is a testament to our burgeoning consciousness into spiritual science and Heilkünst provides a way to structure this domain and harnessing her Sophia-imbued wisdom.  Through refined nature delivered on the basis of law, in order to cure the process of rigidity incumbent with disease, we can restore the particles of continual motion in the watery etheric body so that the source of all of life is once again in flow, maintained and wholly regulated.

“People with beliefs don’t shift beliefs based on scientific evidence. The key is to get at what is driving and feeding the belief.”
Rudi Verspoor
I have served a number of clients who are staunch vegans, vegetarians or animal activists.  When the topic of resonant regimen comes up and we discern that the person is an “O” Blood type, or suffering a weak immune function (scientific code for “sense of self”) and eating as a vegan, I brace myself for the emotional reaction before I suggest that they are potentially going to run into health issues if they don’t introduce red meat into their diet. I had one mystical ‘peace and love’ patient react so angrily that she told me that she was going to meditate on changing her blood type from an “O” to an “A.”  I wished her luck in that regard, however, in the interim, I suggested that she needed to look at the the consumption of red meat for the digestive issues she suffered.  She suffered gall bladder attacks as a result of harbored anger and the weekly volatile arguments she was having with her Boss were clearly destabilizing to her.
Having the heart of a Farmer, and a love of human beings over animals, I have chosen to be a steward to the animals in my care.  Yes, we named our beloved pets, even when they were designated for humane slaughter.  Our ducks, chickens, lambs, donkey and horses were a source of pride, nurturing myself and my family with eggs, raw milk and beautiful meat for our table.  I gave thanks each time I assumed their offering into my consciousness to furnish me with the thoughts it takes for me to fashion this blog article or researching the book I’m writing.  I am very fortunate to know such abundance in my life and on my table.  However, an angry fired up vegetarian will tell you that the animals in my care had no choice in the matter at the time I covet their eggs or slaughter them for meat.  When it comes down to it, animals don’t want human choice, or they’d be born with an ontic organization (sense of self).  As per Rudolf Steiner, each animal species shares a group soul, as opposed to the individual soul that each human being has.  That’s how dogs know to wag their tail … one doggy-mind tells them to.
One patient, who used to come to my home, once told me it was cruel for my Samoyed dog to live outside in the Winter, although her breed hails from Siberia and she is designed for the cold, he would not listen.  I tried to explain that her three layers of downy fur would thin if I brought her in doors causing a compromise in her health and well-being.  I began to wonder where the animal rights activism line begins and ends?  What I realized is that it doesn’t end and if the animal rights folks, and environmentalists, actually had it their way, they would exterminate the human race.  They are in fact anti-human!
Thomas S. Derr, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of FIRST THINGS, is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Biblical Literature at Smith College.  He wrote an article entitled, Animal Rights, Human Rights where he states, “Although many advocates of animal rights do argue that this revolution in ethical consciousness is for the benefit of the human race as well as the animals, there is nevertheless a persistent strain of anti-humanism in their movement, particularly, as we have seen, when it is joined to deep ecology. We human beings are not necessary to nature, which would be better off without us, evil creatures that we are. Nor is the defense of civilization an acceptable excuse for placing human concerns ahead of the rest of nature. “What I detest is humanism,” says Clark bluntly. Human personality and civilization “seem frankly psychopathic.” No doubt.  In his mind, he’d rather cancel out the complications associated with diverse human emotion.

It is interesting to me that animals represent our desire function, our astral body, as per Rudolf Steiner, and are a great barometer to discern our level of fulfillment in our lives.  Animals living in captivity will even take on our human diseases as they operate through our consciousness, being devoid of their own, and I’ve had patients react with surprise to realize their their symptoms show up in their animals if we transfer human qualities onto them.  For example, animals in the wild rarely die of cancer, heart disease, or arthritis.

In Lecture IV of the “Anthroposophical Spiritual Science And Medical Therapy” Series, Rudolf Steiner talks about the dangers of fanaticism and the long term effects on the human organism with regards to consuming purely a raw diet becoming so prevalent today — “There must really be no fanaticism of any kind in medical art—for example, fanatical adherence to an uncooked diet. A raw food diet also entails the exclusion of cooked plant substances obtained from the part of the plant lying toward the root, and this generally has definite consequences for the human organism: it slowly undermines the health of the respiratory system. A destructive influence on the human organism of this kind can continue for a long time, since it is not so easy to destroy this organism, but fanatical adherence to uncooked food will in time lead to shortness of breath or similar symptoms.”  As far as we can ascertain, resonance, principled science and balance are key to a healthy regimen.

A colleague of mine also observed the long term negative effects of an “O” Blood Type trying to go successfully without animal protein long term,  “My son is a raw food vegan.  He is studying with Dr. Gabriel Cousens in Arizona at the Tree of Life.  He is a A blood type and we have had many discussion and debates regarding the O blood needing red meat protein.  I am O blood and tried the raw food diet and felt as if I was dying to say the least.  Now I do agree that Americans eat way too much meat, but am sold on the fact that O blood needs animal protein.  When I was at summer school and saw the [live] blood [analysis] with my own eyes, it was not only convincing, but fascinating to say the least.  Thank you Roxanne [Harris]!  Recently Dr. Mercola discusess this subject and I sent it to my son and he won’t budge on his belief that we can all get the protein we need from plants and that there is no need for animal protein.   Can someone please give me more scientific proof on this?  It would be greatly appreciated.”

It is interesting to read in Dr. Mercola’s article above and find that he cites, “Interestingly, most of my initial failures were related to encouraging many thousands of patients to eat too many vegetables in relation to fats and animal protein.”  He cites that even popular books like The China Study by Dr. T. Colin, “will invariably cause harm and suffering in many whose biochemically and genetically determined nutritional type requires large amounts of fat and protein.”

Mercola goes on to say that The China Study is fundamentally flawed in that it was never tried on real live human beings, also the data actually indicates that carbohydrates and sugars actually are associated with high incidences of cancer, not animal protein as it set out to prove.  In fact, in 1985 Mercola tried to adhere to the regimen prescribed in the popular book, Fit for Life, due to its compelling arguments derived from The China Study where he found that over time that increasing his consumption of raw fruits and vegetables he found that,  “After a few weeks I tested my blood work and was shocked to find my fasting triglycerides were nearly 3,000. That is not a typo. Nearly three thousand…This was surprising because they had never been over 100 in the past.  Clearly this diet was killing me and I am convinced I would have died long ago had I remained on it. I now realize that this approach probably helps some, but was a disaster for me personally.”

Dr. Eades also concluded the same thing with his patients that Dr. Mercola did, “Interestingly we both observed the same results, namely that large numbers of sick people failed to improve when they implemented vegetarian or vegan diets.  Many of these patients significantly worsened and nearly died. Many even left our practices because they lost faith in our ability to use diet as a tool to help them regain their health. What we both realized after these well-intentioned efforts is that . . . There is No Perfect Diet that Works for Everyone.”

I too can personally substantiate similar results.  When, 20 years ago, I went on Weight Watcher’s Fat and Fibre Diet, eliminating most all fats from my diet, I became so sick and hypoglycemic, I almost died.  In fact, my sugars measured so low during a fasting blood test, I passed out, having to be revived by the Nurses and Doctors in the Clinic.  The Doctor told me that I was measured at less than 1 and that 0 was death.
Arcanum’s own Jeff Korentayer is also an “O” blood type and lived as a vegetarian for 8 years, causing a host of symptoms he still has to manage including a permanently damaged thyroid and an enlarged goitre.  He still can feel a compromise in energy on occasion and needs regular doses of iodine to keep his system bolstered.

Mercola goes on to say, “It is sad to see that many staunch vegans and vegetarians fail to even acknowledge that anyone is designed to have animal protein.  Unfortunately they are able to convince many with seemingly compelling information like Campbell’s China Study and as a result, many people continue to suffer from not including vital nutrients in their diet — nutrients they were designed to eat.  Ultimately, if you are sincerely honest and seek to understand what diet is best for you, it is my recommendation to abandon any previously held convictions you might have about diet and listen to your body.”

While “A” Blood Types will generally do well with a mostly vegetarian fare, a “B” blood type thrives on foods higher in purine like lamb, venison and rabbit.  They also thrive on raw dairy.  Again, I will often hear fears towards this super food that has been consumed safely for over 6,000 years.  Dr. Mercola suggests, “My recommendation to everyone is to try cheeses made from raw milk and compare them to cheeses made from pasteurized milk. I’m willing to bet that most of you would agree the taste of raw cheese is far superior. This is so well known, no self-respecting cheesemaker would ever choose pasteurized milk over raw when making cheese, because the properties are entirely different – it’s basically damaged goods.”

Enzymes and nutrients are actually destroyed in the pasteurization process, although necessary to protect folks from harmful bacterias associated with cows wrongly fed on brewer’s yeast, infections treated with antibiotics from infections in udders and hooves indicative of cash farming.  A lot of your pasteurized milk from grocery stores comes from cows who have never seen the light of day, standing in their own feces for hours at a time causing them to suffer hoof rot.  My friend and raw dairy farmer, Michael Schmidt, who raises cows naturally, walking them to pasture year round after every milking,  states that you want to pasteurize the milk that comes from cash farming as it would be dangerous to consume otherwise.

In summation, it is best to eat based on typology and science as opposed to fad or belief.  One humorous example of this can be found in the Guinness World Book of Records, where you can find a story about a man who ate an alarming amount of metal over a two year span. Until he died in 2007, France’s Michel Lotito had eaten two pounds of metal every day for more than 40 years, and he still holds the Guinness record for the world’s “strangest diet.” To cement his title, he dismantled a 1,111-pound Cessna 150 airplane and ate it — piece by piece — over two years. Apparently though, bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick to his stomach.  This is just an example that it takes a strong sense of self to be able to metabolize any type of food.  We can make it easier on ourselves by eating out of knowledge, typology and resonance in order to maximize our health before we start working on eating a Cessna!

That’s a great question!  In the case of the blood types, and the genotypes, there are no apparent correlations, but who knows what a carefully organized research project could reveal about a more general pattern of correlation.

Heilkunst medicine works as well as it does, because it works though the correct application of corrective therapeutics applied at the right time to various dimensions of typologies of health and disease that we’re all made up of.  If nature herself did not work on the basis of typology, then it would not be possible to have any system of medicine, as each individual would be a completely unique phenomenon governed by laws uniquely their own.

Personally, I have always been drawn to various typology systems, and is partly what brought me to Heilkunst medicine, which treats at a variety of levels of typology, such as:
•    Blood type diet (D’Adamo)
•    Glandular type diet (Abravanel)
•    Metabolic type diet (Walcott)
•    Genotype (healthy constitution)
•    Phenotype (highly stressed constitutional states)
•    Character typologies (Dr. Wilhelm Reich)
•    Jurisdictions of disease causation:

• Homogenic (specific physical or emotional trauma)
• Pathogenic (includes both acute miasms such as measles, and chronic miasms, such as tuberculosis)
• Iatrogenic (disease caused by doctor’s error)
• Ideogenic (disease caused by belief)
• Geogenic (disease caused by natural phenomenon, such as magnetic lines of the earth)

•    Temperaments (Ancient system of “earth, air, water, and fire” giving rise to Phlegmatic, Sanguine, Melancholic and Choleric personality types)
•    etc.