Masterpieces of the Internet

NEW LISTINGS
This page lists the titles of on-line books that have recently been added to our index, or whose entries have been recently revised. For a full list of available books, try the main on-line books page.

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April 29, 2004
Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2004), ed. by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi (PDF with commentary at Athabasca)
April 28, 2004
Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1986), by George C. Thorpe, contrib. by Stanley L. Falk (PDF at ndu.edu)
Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at ndu.edu)
The Middle East in 2015: The Impact of Regional Trends on U.S. Strategic Planning (2002), ed. by Judith Share Yaphe (PDF at ndu.edu)
Firepower in Limited War (second printing, 1993), by Robert H. Scales (PDF at ndu.edu)
NATO Enlargement and Central Europe: A Study in Civil-Military Relations, by Jeffrey Simon (PDF at ndu.edu)
Acquisition for the 21st century: The F-22 Development Program, by Michael D. Williams (PDF at ndu.edu)
Crisis? What Crisis? Security issues in Colombia, ed. by James L. Zackrison (HTML at ndu.edu)
Korea on the Brink: From the "12/12 Incident" to the Kwangju Uprising, 1979-1980, by John Adams Wickham (PDF at ndu.edu)
April 27, 2004
The Princess Ilsee: A Fairy Tale (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1867), by Anonymous, illust. by Eugene Froment (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
An Inquiry into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna, Translated Hell in the Common English Version, by Walter Balfour, ed. by Otis A. Skinner (PDF with commentary at free-yes.info)
The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment (based on the second edition), by Henry Constable (PDF at free-yes.info)
The Doctrine of Future and Endless Punishment, Logically Proved in a Critical Examination of Such Passages of Scripture as Relate to the Final Destiny of Man, by Reune R. Coon (PDF at free-yes.info)
The Eternal Duration of Future Punishments is not Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes of Justice and Mercy, by George M. Gorham (PDF at free-yes.info)
The Verdict of Reason Upon the Question of the Future Punishment of Those Who Die Impenitent (Boston: Nichols and Noyes, 1865), by Henry Martyn Dexter (PDF at free-yes.info)
The Valley of the Shadow: Eight Sermons on the Doctrine of Future Punishment (New York: T. Whittaker, 1878), by Charles Henry Hall (PDF at free-yes.info)
The State of the Impenitent Dead, by Alvah Hovey (PDF at free-yes.info)
Five Discourses on Future Punishment, by Cameron Mann (PDF at free-yes.info)
An Oral Debate on the Coming of the Son of Man, Endless Punishment, and Universal Salvation, by E. Manford and B. Franklin (PDF at free-yes.info)
Love and Penalty: or, Eternal Punishment Consistent with the Fatherhood of God (1860), by Joseph Parrish Thompson (PDF at free-yes.info)
April 23, 2004
The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1904-07), by Herbert L. Osgood (HTML at dinsdoc.com)
April 15, 2004
Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
The Lost Lemuria (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1904), by W. Scott-Elliot (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
A Problem in Greek Ethics: Being an Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists, by John Addington Symonds (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Wonder Tales From Baltic Wizards, From the German and English, by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of, ed. by W. F. Skene (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
The Mabinogion (second edition with notes; London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877), ed. by Charlotte Schreiber (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Folk Tales From the Russian, by Verra Xenophontovna (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Popular Tales from the Norse (second edition, with introduction and appendix), by P. C. Asbj?rnsen and J. E. Moe, trans. by George Webbe Dasent (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Japanese Fairy Tales, Second Series, by Teresa Peirce Williston, illust. by Sanchi Ogawa (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

See link called: Masterpieces Subjects or http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

Mysticism in World Religions
Mysticism is concerned with the nature of reality, the individual's struggle to attain a clear vision of reality, and the transformation of consciousness that accompanies such vision. This site explores the mystical traditions of six religions by comparing and contrasting quotations drawn from their respective literatures. These quotations have been organized by topic as seen below. Because I didn't want to bias the presentation by using terminology unique to a particular religion, I have tried to come up with broad, descriptive names for the topics.

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Since this site consists of hundreds of web pages, I've also developed a single page called The Short List which includes an illustrative quotation for each topic presented here. Looking over this page will give you a feel for the entire site.

Focus on one religion

If comparative mysticism doesn't appeal to you, feel free to focus on Judaism, Christianity, Islam/Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Taoism. By selecting one of these links you will be able to access everything published at this site which pertains to that religion.

Focus on one mystic

If you'd prefer to concentrate on an individual mystic rather than a particular topic, check out Mystics, theologians and scriptures. By following the hyperlinked names on this page, you can browse through all the quotations which were drawn from the same individual's works, regardless of topic. Mystics, theologian and scriptures provides an alternative means of exploring the entire site. It also doubles as the site's bibliography.

See: http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/ or the Mysticism link.

Fundamental Theology: Faith and Reason
In one of my classes in Fundamental Theology our Professor asked us what does it mean when someone says, "Faith is the ground of being?" I responded that religious education teaches us about the faith of our family, however we need to embody this faith for us to truly know it.

We can believe the truths of our faith, and reason can help us better understand the truth; but it is knowing that God loves us by having a personal relationship with him that proves to us that God is real. It is through our own personal transformation that brings meaning to our life.

Through history the church has taught us about Faith and Reason. Pope John Paul II writings on the subject were published in 1998. Here is the beginning of
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON

My Venerable Brother Bishops,
Health and the Apostolic Blessing!

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth--in a word, to know himself--so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).

INTRODUCTION

"KNOW YOURSELF"

1. In both East and West, we may trace a journey which has led humanity down the centuries to meet and engage truth more and more deeply. It is a journey which has unfolded--as it must--within the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and the world, the more they know themselves in their uniqueness, with the question of the meaning of things and of their very existence becoming ever more pressing. This is why all that is the object of our knowledge becomes a part of our life. The admonition Know yourself was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony to a basic truth to be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to set themselves apart from the rest of creation as "human beings", that is as those who "know themselves".

Moreover, a cursory glance at ancient history shows clearly how in different parts of the world, with their different cultures, there arise at the same time the fundamental questions which pervade human life: Who am I? Where have I come from and where am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this life? These are the questions which we find in the sacred writings of Israel, as also in the Veda and the Avesta; we find them in the writings of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the preaching of Tirthankara and Buddha; they appear in the poetry of Homer and in the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do in the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle. They are questions which have their common source in the quest for meaning which has always compelled the human heart. In fact, the answer given to these questions decides the direction which people seek to give to their lives.

2. The Church is no stranger to this journey of discovery, nor could she ever be. From the moment when, through the Paschal Mystery, she received the gift of the ultimate truth about human life, the Church has made her pilgrim way along the paths of the world to proclaim that Jesus Christ is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14:6). It is her duty to serve humanity in different ways, but one way in particular imposes a responsibility of a quite special kind: the diakonia of the truth.(1) This mission on the one hand makes the believing community a partner in humanity's shared struggle to arrive at truth; (2) and on the other hand it obliges the believing community to proclaim the certitudes arrived at, albeit with a sense that every truth attained is but a step towards that fullness of truth which will appear with the final Revelation of God: "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully" (1 Cor 13:12).

3. Men and women have at their disposal an array of resources for generating greater knowledge of truth so that their lives may be ever more human. Among these is philosophy, which is directly concerned with asking the question of life's meaning and sketching an answer to it. Philosophy emerges, then, as one of noblest of human tasks. According to its Greek etymology, the term philosophy means "love of wisdom". Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself. It is an innate property of human reason to ask why things are as they are, even though the answers which gradually emerge are set within a horizon which reveals how the different human cultures are complementary.

Philosophy's powerful influence on the formation and development of the cultures of the West should not obscure the influence it has also had upon the ways of understanding existence found in the East. Every people has its own native and seminal wisdom which, as a true cultural treasure, tends to find voice and develop in forms which are genuinely philosophical. One example of this is the basic form of philosophical knowledge which is evident to this day in the postulates which inspire national and international legal systems in regulating the life of society.

See the link on the right: Faith and Reason or http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

Mysterous Mystical Adventure
A couple of weeks ago I over heard my nephew, and his cousin talking about what it felt like being lost in a cave for over two hours. He told me that he took his girl friend and another couple into the cave, but they were not very well prepared.

I remember the first time the Pittsburgh Grotto Cave Club took a group of us from the Community College to Bear and Con caves at Hillside. I was able to visit both caves. The trip to Bear cave was short because I took a path across the creek that looped back to another top entrance of the cave, and the main party passed deeper in the cave, and I was not sure which fork they took.

I guess when you are novice everything about caving is a mysterious mystical adventure. It almost seemed like the cave in the Fellowship of the Ring. You can almost imagine the path I took on the right side of the cave entrance that looped back to the top entrance. However, Bear cave is perhaps one of most worn down caves you will ever hear about in your life.

The only way I could think of how that group got lost was if they took the left fork in and tried to take the right fork back. The right fork has about a six foot wall on the left side you have to climb. If you miss it, you will think the room is a dead end, and you will circle back into the cave.

A lot has changed since 1974. Con cave is closed, and there are new rules about visiting Bear cave; but the adventure is still well worth the three mile hike up Hillside, and the over six hundred foot mazed cave exploration.

You will find the latest information at this address:
http://www.karst.org/bear_cave1.htm, and a mystical idea of what a novice might dream about before exploring their first cave. Click on the Fellowship Cave link on the right for all the details.

Charismatic Renewal at Duquesne
I remember first hearing about the Duquesne Weekend at Community College on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I just got back from serving in the US Navy in Vietnam. The Fall semester was about to begin and I was looking for a college to attend. I stopped into the Carriage House to see the Campus Ministry room and talked to some other potential students there.

I decided to attend Point Park College because they would accept most of my credits that I got while attending St. Andrew's Seminary 1961-63. After college I rented an apartment in the old Jones' House of the J&L Steel family that also owned the Carriage house on the campus of CCAC.

The landlady knew much about the old neighborhood often referred to it as millionaire row, because of all the Mansions on Ridge Avenue, and lower Brighten Road. She loved the area, and had a dance studio nearby. When the Highway Department wanted Route 279 to travel through there she got over ten thousand signatures to stop the project and the media began to refer the stalled project by the term "The Bridge to Nowhere!"

In 1970 I got a job in Harrisburg working for Accounting Control in the Health and Welfare Departments and would spend most of my breaks in the building's library. I would always read Psychology Today and Behavior magazine. Many of the articles of the Human Potential movement got my attention and I began planning for my return back to Pittsburgh to get a Masters Degree in Education.

I moved back home to Pittsburgh in 1973 and began studying Psychology, and Computer Programming. I also attended the St Francis Prayer meetings and there met the group that taught Life in the Spirit. We used to sing from the Songs of Praise book and one of my favorite hymns was "He Is Everything to Me."

Hear the song and read the lyrics at:
http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis/songbook/everything.html See also the Christian Midi Music link in the right column.

Healing Meditation
One of the final techniques we learned at the Slvan Mind Control training was how to help those that were sick. Wired News has several articles on the subject.

"I was amazed a couple of years ago when I discovered Thong Len. I had a burnt hand, and (when I used) that technique, it was like an anesthetic had been injected into my arm," said Jack Pettigrew, a renowned Australian physiologist, at a Science and the Mind conference that was attended by the Dalai Lama.

Thong Len is a meditative technique developed by Tibetan Buddhists almost 800 years before the discovery of anesthesia. It's explained in that classic of Tibetan Buddhist thought, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. It works by imagining someone else's pain, like a burn, and drawing it into oneself. As you take the pain from others, your own hurt disappears.

Adepts of the technique are constantly practicing Thong Len, every minute of the day, drawing pain from those around them and enhancing their own sense of well-being. They've been described as "(pain) filters," taking negative energy out of the world and replacing it with positive.

"You can explain what might be happening when you anesthetize your own arm," Pettigrew said. "But people in a room with a Thong Len practitioner have also said they feel better. How do you explain that?" Scientists don't know, but they know it works, powerfully.

Pettigrew believes Western science could use Eastern introspection, or meditative techniques, to deepen its understanding of how the brain works and to provide practical help to people in distress.

In a host of fields, Tibetan practices have subsequently proven valid when science finally developed technology sophisticated enough to test them.

A recent experiment proved this. Subjects were asked to watch a video of two teams passing a ball. One team wore white shirts, and one black, and subjects were asked to count how many times players in white shirts passed the ball to each other.

What subjects didn't notice was the man in a gorilla suit who walked on screen, waved at the audience and walked off again.

This established that humans perceive only what they are looking for, not what's there. Oh, and Buddhists figured this out 2,000 years ago, while modern science caught up in the last two decades.

The Science and the Mind conference, held last month in Canberra, Australia, explored areas of possible contact and cooperation between Tibetan Buddhism and modern science.

"Truly great advances of any kind are about making leaps ... that explode on you seemingly from nowhere," said Allan Snyder, keynote speaker at the conference, who is working on a thinking cap using magnetic pulses to access the creativity of the non-conscious mind.

He added that altered states of consciousness, such as Tibetan meditation, could achieve the same end, and it is time for science to explore the synergies between the two traditions.

The issue is not that modern science is dumb and Tibetans are smart. Rather, Tibetans have discovered many scientific truths through empirical observation. They also have many other techniques that still mystify scientists, but seem to work, like Thong Len.

Max Bennett, professor at the University of Sydney and one of the world's top neurologists, underlined the issue, explaining that it is possible to relieve the suffering of some stroke victims using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. "But I have to emphasize, we haven't got a clue what's going on," he said.

Worse, the problem is potentially huge: "Goodness knows what's happening (when we apply magnetism) to the 100,000 million neurons that make up the brain, each of which has about 10,000 connections with other neurons. We dealing with figure of 10 to the power of 15 connections, and we haven't got a clue which ones are turning off, which ones might be excited by this stimulation.

"It's a phenomenon. But in one sense, it does indicate that there are a lot of things that we know nothing about in Western science."

He added, however, that neuroscience is on the threshold of an exciting era of discovery with the identification of the human genome.

"We know by the year about 2020, the greatest disabling phenomenon for the health of the human race will be depression," Bennett said. "Not cancer, not heart disease, but depression."

See: Wired News or http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,53820,00.html for more information about the mind and healing.

How to beTotally Healthy
Today, the risk of dying of anything before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40 you enter the zone of the 7 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us. (2) Can you guess what they are? Heart Disease - Cancer - Stroke - Diabetes - Arthritis - Osteoporosis - Alzheimer's.

The 7 deadly diseases will send more than TWO MILLION North Americans to an early grave this year!

I used to think that the definition of aging was to get one of these seven diseases and then to die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, our number one killer, is a relatively new disease. The first modern cases of it were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare. (3) How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot? What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us succumb to it. (4) Same as with stroke, which killed very few a hundred years ago. Today, it's the number three killer. Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it. (5) And diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation. (6)

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong - in our lifetime. But, we're acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process. Not so! There is nothing normal about degenerative disease. Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary. And that's the tragedy!

When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you'd think there'd be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year. Year after year.

But here's the good news.

None of these diseases is inevitable. All of them can possibly be avoided or at least delayed - and in some cases even reversed, by taking a few simple steps which I'll share with you before we're done. Because of this, more and more of us will be living healthy lives all the way to a hundred and beyond.

How about you? Do you want to live to 100? With the way trends are going, you may reach 100 whether you want to or not. And that scares some people. We tend to think of old people as frail and sickly, but research on those who live to a hundred finds them "amazingly frisky". 84% function well, and 73% rate their health as good to excellent. So what is their secret? As a group, they like to walk, they are rarely overweight, and 52% take extra vitamins and minerals daily. (7)

If you want to join them, you'll have to adopt many of the same habits. And one of your first goals is to avoid the deadly seven for as long as possible.

Know thy enemy!

There is an adage in war. Know thy enemy. Each of us is being stalked by 7 mortal diseases. If we don't want to be cut down early, we need to find out more about these diseases so we'll better understand how to conquer them.

You have a different future to look forward to. You could make it through the danger zone to live healthy, strong and pain-free for years beyond the average person.

Remember, life is a game you win by finishing last. Great people in ages past, when life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today, were able to beat the odds and live long productive lives. Plato lived to 80, Leo Tolstoy to 82, Thomas Jefferson to 83, Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin to 84, Isaac Newton to 85, Michelangelo to 89, and Frank Lloyd Wright lived to 93. Just think what you could accomplish with a hundred years or more!

In the book "Hunza Health Secrets" are many practical ideas about good health. They would make a good ad for lowering your blood pressure. Eat more fresh fruits, and vegitables like tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, and corn. Eat less eggs, cheese, red meat, mayo, whole milk, and hot dogs.

Blood pressure is the force at which blood presses against your artery walls. It is recorded as two numbers.

140 Number when heart is pumping.
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90 Number when heart is resting.

A blood pressure consistly above 140/90 is considered high blood pressure.

Other test figures are total cholesterol above 240 mg/dL or HDL less than 35 mg/dL are at risk.

Overweight by 20 or more pounds for your body type.

A blood sugar of 126 mg/dL or more.

To find out more about any particular aliment, see Dr. John's Aliments on my home page, and then go to the Curezone for detailed advice.

[TBF GF[P BPHN by Phil Cutrara
[TBF GF[P BPHN the text read at the upper left hand corner of the frayed ancient scroll. The assignment for the class of aboriginal ancient text was to translate the scroll, and determine its date.

The first day of the class was still a couple of days off, and Jason Lassor had several more books to purchase for his class Languages of the World 404.

He decided to take this class because he had heard so much about Professor Kirt Wandergut. Every year before the fall semester he would travel to the Far East in search of ancient civilizations. This year his group of grad students had just got back from Jaluka a small excavation about 23 miles north of Aden.

In the Duquesne Caf?, Jason stopped to rest a while after his long day of shopping for books. It was ridiculous how expensive they all were, especially the language dictionaries for the ancient texts. He decided to see what was in the library that could help him with this much anticipated class.

The Duquesne library was one of the most unusual Jason had ever seen. You enter on the top floor, and there were four floors below. Most of the reference dictionaries were on the main floor, and they would tell you the origin of all the known words. Just for kicks Jason started to look up the first words of the scroll that would be his text for this year's elective.

[TBF what could it mean? The [ looked like a C and the others what they were, so adding an "A" for the vowel sounds the first word was CATABAFA. CATA usually meant by or down, if it was a "K" sound instead of a "C." Now what could BAFA mean...

Jason turned to the Bs in that huge volume. There to his amazement was the ancient Middle Eastern word that meant baffle. "Boy" Jason said to himself, "I hope the rest of the text will be as easy as this!"

The day of the first class had finally arrived and Professor Wandergut told the class how the course was going to be taught. He asked if any of the class had begun the translation. Jason was about to raise his hand when a young dirty blond hair girl began reading the first couple of sentences she had translated. There were a couple of things she said that did not make much sense.

It appeared that this text was a lot older than anyone had ever seen. It was written around the Era of Giants and the time of the Old Humans that lived for many centuries. One of the Old ones was talking about traveling through time, and knowing what was in the hearts of men.

Professor Wandergut said "Very good, Jean. I never had a student able to do so well with text as old as this one! But what we as a class need to do is to modernize the translation, so that everyone can find some interest in it. Let's begin at the beginning of the scroll and see how the class translates the text."

He then began with the first words that meant. "Life is a perplexing adventure where we can see what has been and what will be." Then he asked the class what would be a good translation for "JGRJG?" The students began plugging in the vowel sounds.

JaGRaGaJ was a new one for all of us. I heard some of the women in the class say the word meant "coming to form." But how could this fit into the context? Some of the guys around me began to say that the speaker was telling about time travel, and that when he came to another time he was like a ghost becoming solid.
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DETOXIFY OR DIE
I remember working for the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. My father's cousin, and my cousin also worked there at the spa. We helped members with the various treatments like the hot wet room, and the dry hot room.

From the earliest times humans learned that there were many benefits from sweating. Many herb doctors perscribed the "cold sheet treatment" for even the "incurables."

Another type of treatment uses the "Far Infrared Sauna." Here are some excerpts from the book "Detoxify or Die."
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DETOXIFY OR DIE
BY DR. SHERRY A. ROGERS, M.D.
FREE BOOK when you complete a sauna estimate request.

(Excerpts)

The Superior Sauna -- -- -- F I R S (Far Infrared Sauna) pg 199

What is the best way to get rid of toxic chemicals including pesticides, heavy metals and hydrocarbon residues when you cannot tolerate a sauna? When a sauna makes you feel weak, sick, have a fast heart rate, faint, dizzy, panicky, headachy or just plain miserable, what is the solution? The far infrared sauna. Thanks to improved technology, the far infrared sauna is far safer and infinitely more tolerable, because it uses a heat energy that penetrates tissues, triggering mobilization of chemicals from subcutaneous fat storage, directly into the sweat. This activating penetration allows for a much lower overall temperature to be used (as I'll show you later), one that is enjoyable and not torture.

But more importantly, you haven't forced the body to bear very high temperatures (160 degrees and higher), pulling chemicals back into the bloodstream where they can duplicate original symptoms. Instead they slip out the back door, so to speak, from just under the skin storage directly into the sweat. Over weeks and months there is an equilibrium, or chemicals that are stored in other organs slowly and safely disseminate throughout the body and eventually empty into subcutaneous fat. It is the chemical load that is stored beneath the skin that is the main area activated by the far infrared sauna.

Another thing I always worried about in a conventional sauna, even for a few brief moments I could stand one, was the fact that my eyeballs burned so much. I couldn't believe that intense heat on my corneas was good for them and feared triggering cataracts. To my knowledge, no studies have ever been done on this, but this high-temperature on the eyeball and lens cannot be good for them. It's unphysiologic. Anyway, I do not get that type of eye pain in the infrared sauna, only profuse sweating. And that is just the effect you want in order to release a lifetime of toxins from the body storage. The body gets rid of stored chemicals in stool, urine or sweat. The sweat route requires no drugs and is the most efficient and natural (man used to physically work and sweat before computers were invented). As the oldest of eight children I used to hesitate to recommend something as expensive as a home sauna. I was looking for treatments that were natural, but inexpensive and definitely not high-tech! But when you realize the lifelong incapacity and expense of diseases such as chronic pain syndromes, heart disease, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraines, Alzheimer's, cancer or any others caused by chemical toxicity, a sauna is cheap. Let's face it: high tech pollution requires high tech solutions.

(1) Just add up the time and money you wasted getting diagnosed. (2) or add up the cost for a year of prescription medications and you will pay for it. But its advantages do not end there. (3) Once you have it, it's yours to use forever, for the world will never run out of ways to poison us. (4) The whole family can use it. (5) It is not only capable of providing the primary "cure" or solution for your current medical problem, but can free you from symptom producing medications. Since we're continually being bombarded by new chemicals every day, it is a tool to keep you "cleaned out" for life. It is a win - win situation.

I'm convinced that the far infrared sauna is something that everyone should do to restore health, and then continue to do on a less frequent basis to maintain the "cleaned out" state for the rest of their lives. It's therapeutic as well as prophylactic.

The Hot Solution for Body Pollution: FIRS pg 202

How can we bring aging and illness to a screeching halt? Better yet, how can we turn back the hands of time? By booting those nasty disease-causing chemicals out of the body. Sweat out the poisons is the answer, but not any old sauna or sweating program will do, in fact some are dangerous.

FIRS, the Only Sauna Proven Safe
for Elderly, Severe End-Stage Heart Patients pg 202

Many people who are sick, like heart patients, would never tolerate the extreme temperatures of regular saunas. In fact it would make them worse, raising blood pressure and heart rate, while triggering arrhythmias and shortness of breath. Clearly heat is contraindicated. Imagine a man with cadmium-induced arthritis and hypertension, or a woman with Mercury-induced shoulder pain and angina, or toluene-induced migraines and arrhythmia. When environmental chemicals create pain in addition to cardiovascular disease, as examples, what is the heart patient to do?

If you are like most people, you may have never learned much about the diagnosis of CHF or congestive heart failure. Yet it attacks more people each year than cancer, and it is as lethal as cancer. For with the diagnosis of cancer, the median survival (different cancers have their own survival rates, but if you average them all together) is six years. With CHF, the median survival is less: five years. When the diagnosis of cancer is made, folks feel eminent doom and urgency. But with CHF, it has received such scant press that it merely engenders a "So What?" response. It fosters no doom and gloom urgency.

In fact, even though congestive heart failure is more prevalent and more lethal than cancer, folks know so little about CHF that they do not concern themselves with preventing it the way they do cancer. CHF starts with any heart symptom you can imagine. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, angina, arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation, dyspnea (shortness of breath, beginning with the stairs and inclines), claudication (leg pain when walking), pedal edema (ankle swelling), pericarditis, cardio-myopathy (heavy metal or other poisoning of heart muscle), fluid in the lungs, recurrent pneumonias, bypass surgery (putting new coronary vessels in) or endarterectomy (roto-rooting or reaming out the old plugged arteries) can be the beginning that insidiously leads to congestive heart failure. The most common symptom shortness of breath, especially on stairs, inclines or while doing repeated deep knee bends, or jogging. An even worse sign is swelling of ankles at the end of the day, indicating a heart so overloaded that fluid backs up all the way to the leg vessels.

As with every illness, in "modern medicine" CHF suddenly, becomes a deficiency of a multitude of heart drugs. Drugs to control the rhythm, like calcium channel blockers (proven to cause shrinkage of the brain and loss of mental function as well as increase the risk of heart attack and cancer). And ACE inhibitors are often prescribed, known to cause bronchitis (chronic cough). Digitalis-type drugs like Lanoxin to boost the force of contraction, and diuretics or fluid bills to decrease the swelling and work of the heart (and known to cause worsening of high blood pressure and a chance of sudden death by heart attack) are some of the other drugs added to the brew.

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Cure All Diseases
Dr. Clark follows up "The Cure For All Cancers" with "The Cure For All Diseases" where she expands her natural treatment techniques. She posted her book on the Internet except for some image details, and schematics. See the link on the right or:
http://drclarkia.com/books/The_Cure_For_All_Diseases.html