Stop Living a Life of Duality

Surrendering the Negative Influences in Your Life

Growth has to begin somewhere. Start by exploring both the constructive and the destructive aspects of your nature. First you must deal with the negative. By dealing with what doesn’t work in your life, you’re going to know what excuses not to fall back on. You will know why you are not doing the things you’ve dreamed of doing. You will know why you stay with people who don’t support and love you. It’s a simple matter of deciding which direction you want to put your energies into — positive or negative. Once you understand the consequences of your negative qualities, you could say: “Hold on — do I really want to feel this way or go down this path again? I’ve been here so many times, and I know that what I’m about to say or do or feel is not going to change things. I’d rather choose a positive option when dealing with a negative situation, which hopefully would help me resolve this constant repetition of old patterns of behavior.” Once I have decided that I can make a positive change, then it merely takes the courage to give it a try.

Dark Calories: How Veg... Shanahan MD, Catherine Check Amazon for Pricing. Breaking destructive patterns is the gateway to getting on with your life. Positive input only becomes significant after you deal with the limiting negative factors. Sure, confronting the negative will make you uncomfortable, but the discomfort is necessary. Change never occurs without it. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said it in two words 25 centuries ago: “Character is destiny.” The patterns you refuse to confront become the life you are condemned to live.

Once you understand your negative characteristics, you can claim your real self by saying, “Hold on, I don’t buy into this anymore.” Once you resolve these issues you will be able to reclaim the dreams of your youth and enact them as an adult. For every problem, you will be able to find a positive solution.

But before we get to the practical work — the questions you must ask yourself about the people and patterns in your life — I want you to understand something deeper. I want you to understand why negative influences are so destructive, and why removing them is not merely a matter of psychology or self-esteem. It is a matter of energy. And that is not a metaphor. It is science — science I spent decades of my life helping to prove.

The Discovery That Changed Everything

We owe credit to Professor Bruce Lipton, working at Stanford University back in the mid-1980s, who discovered that after removing the DNA from a cell, the cell continued to exist. It continued to function for a period of time. This shocked him. Just imagine taking the brain out of a person’s skull and finding that they continue to think. Take the engine out of a car and it continues to drive. It went against all the known laws of science.

It would take him years to figure out how that was possible. And yet he came up with a solution — one that was both accepted and rejected within the scientific community, because it was a combination of physics and of faith. In effect, it was the placebo effect.

Consider what the placebo effect really means. An inert substance — a sugar pill — is used routinely in scientific studies as the control against an active ingredient some company has patented. What happens when the placebo outperforms the active ingredient? It happens more often than the pharmaceutical industry would like you to know. As one example among thousands: a drug was introduced to Italian physicians with the claim that it would produce remarkable improvement in patients’ pain. The doctors told their patients it was an anti-pain drug — and indeed, it worked. Then the doctors were informed that it had been a placebo, a sugar pill, all along. So how is it that with all the best medicines available to suppress pain — drugs designed to block the COX-2 pathway in the body that governs pain — a sugar pill worked better?

There is where Lipton is actually correct. A person’s belief in an outcome can impact the outcome. Now, what if that same drug had been given to patients without any statement at all — no promise, no expectation? Would they have improved? Probably not. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus understood this two thousand years before the double-blind trial: “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” The belief is the active ingredient. The belief is the energy.

And this ties directly into my own original work — work that began long before Lipton published a word.

A Chimpanzee Named Kokomo

Let me go back to the beginning, because the road that led me to the laboratory started in an unlikely place.

A friend of mine kept a chimpanzee — Kokomo Jr. — in his apartment on West End Avenue. When he went on vacation, he asked me to look in on her each day and see that she was fed. I said fine. But I didn’t like what I found. He kept her in a cage six feet by six feet by six feet, with a little strap holding a disc on her back. If she started to act out in any way, he’d press a button and it would give her a shock. I thought that was cruel, and I told him so. 10-Minute Strength Tra... Deboo PT, Ed Check Amazon for Pricing.

So while he was gone, I opened the cage and I took the strap off. She looked at me, and then she came over and she grabbed me and started hugging me. From then on she had the run of that whole floor — I lived in the next block in a small one-room apartment, so I know the difference space makes. I would lay out all kinds of fresh food, point to each one and say, “Kokomo,” and give her a little sample. She’d smell it, taste it, and either throw it down or eat it. Within a week I knew exactly what food to buy for her — fresh food, none of the overly processed food she’d been fed. Then came pictures, and what she liked on television — cartoons — and the music she responded to, all the things that showed there was an intellect there, not merely instinct. She came to understand about a hundred and seventy-nine words and could respond to them.

After two years I wrote a manuscript, From Instinct to Intellect: A Study of Higher Primates. Because here is what the laboratories — including today’s — refuse to acknowledge: they use these wonderful sentient creatures for experiments, torturing them, confining them, keeping them prisoner in cages for decades. Not long ago a laboratory finally released chimpanzees that had been in captivity for twenty and thirty years. When they stepped outside, they looked at the sky, they saw the sun — and they were simply overwhelmed. I have seen pure, unconditional love emanating from these creatures. I have seen sadness. But the world doesn’t want to see that.

You don’t want to see the beauty and the love in a cow if you’re going to eat a steak or a hamburger. You don’t want to see the love in a chicken who will come up and sit on your lap to be hugged, or in a pig that is smarter than your dog. You see it in your dog; you see it in your cat; you would never eat your dog or cat. But if you’re going to eat a cow or a fish, why not understand that it is all the same life energy — one energy, simply manifesting in different forms?

The Dinner That Opened a Door

One evening my friend Jerry, a well-known and highly respected New York photographer, arranged to have dinner with me at that apartment, and he brought along a friend of his I had never met: Dr. Lawrence LeShan.

LeShan was the first psychologist in America to propose that if a person is being deeply responsible to other people but is given no appreciation in return, they begin to feel badly about it — in effect, they feel disrespected. You give your time, you give your energy to your family or to whomever it may be, and no one acknowledges it; they take it for granted. I believe all of us, even without a study, understand what happens when people take us for granted. LeShan went further. He told me he had followed women who had none of the classic risk factors for cancer — no smoking, no excess sun, none of the causes — and yet when they did not feel appreciated for the work and devotion they had given, a statistically significant number went on to develop either arthritis or breast cancer. He followed some of these women for years, and the pattern held. Unappreciated giving is not a neutral condition. It is a slow leak in the human energy system.

That night, while LeShan and Jerry talked, I started getting dinner ready and asked if he’d like to join us — I’d made extra. I told him I was a vegan and had no animal food to offer, and he said that was fine. Then I called Kokomo over. “Kokomo,” I said, “let’s set the table.” And there she was in her little apron — she loved that apron — putting down the plates and forks, getting things out of the refrigerator. I said, “Kokomo, go wash your hands,” and she did. Then we all sat down together, Kokomo included, and I talked with her as she ate, and she understood and responded. LeShan watched all of this, and it frankly astonished him.

We talked for hours that night, and in the discussions that followed I told him what I believed. I said: these creatures we dismiss as dumb animals — the dismissal we use to justify experimenting on them by the hundreds of millions — are sentient. They think. They feel. And then he asked me: what would you like to prove? I told him about the praying doctors of the South — physicians who give you every orthodox medical treatment they know, and then sit at your bedside and pray with you. There was no study showing whether it actually worked, because science had already decided it couldn’t work: there is no God, no afterlife, no before-life; the body is a machine, and when a part breaks, the doctor is the mechanic who fixes it. And I said: I believe science is missing something — something that could improve healing. When you believe in something, that faith can make a difference. It is an energy.

He said, “You know science won’t accept any of that.” And then he said something else. He said, “I also believe in this — and I know a place where you can test it.” Fall Prevention Balanc... Cunley, Linette Check Amazon for Pricing.

Proving the Energy Exchange

That is how, in 1971 — as a very young, naive, trusting, and not terribly bright new scientist — I became the youngest researcher in the history of the Institute of Biology, working alongside very experienced, very intelligent scientists in their sixties, seventies, and eighties. I appreciated those great scientists upstairs. They were nearly all Jewish, and they had come out of the Institut Pasteur and other great European institutions during World War II, when the Nazis put the word out to seize them. They fled, they got out, and they formed this institute back in the 1940s. I was young and simply in awe of their knowledge. LeShan, who was a friend of Dr. Stanley Krippner — probably the most famous scientist then studying what was called paranormal research (“para” simply means other than) — introduced me to the director, and after a long conversation the director and the head of science both said: you can do this. Mind you, they were all atheists. They thought the whole thing was stupid. But the institute was funded by Big Pharma, and my study threatened nobody’s patent, because what I was testing could never be patented. They told me right up front: you have to show you deserve to be here. All the other scientists were wondering, who is this kid? What has he done?

So that kid tried an experiment. They put me up on the third floor, alone, and there I did the first study. Over the years that followed I would successfully complete more than 174 experiments in health, and double or triple that number in psi research — energy research — across nearly four decades of association with that work. But it began with mice.

Fifty people came into the study. The goal was simple: here is a mouse — heal it. They could not touch it. Two assistants had to be present at every session to make certain no one exchanged mice or handled them. What I did not tell the participants was that the mice had ascites tumors — a cancer that kills a mouse in about twenty-two days, without exception.

In that first experiment, five of the fifty succeeded. Five people cured mice of a lethal cancer without ever touching them, and those mice went on to live normal, healthy, full lives. And these were not carnival mystics. One was Dr. Dolores Krieger, head of nursing at the New York University School of Nursing. There was Dr. Thomas Kruth of the Order of St. Luke, and Rabbi Abraham Wiseman from Brooklyn, and Dr. Morton Jacobs, and Dr. Audrey Kargere.

But healing a mouse with an ascites tumor one time doesn’t really prove anything. You’ve demonstrated a phenomenon — an anomaly — but you haven’t proven cause and effect. So you do it again. And again. I ran the experiment six times. Six out of six times, they healed the mice.

Then came the deeper question. I had never told these people the mice had ascites tumors. So how did whatever they were doing know what to heal? And suddenly I understood — years before Bruce Lipton reached the same conclusion from his cell biology in the mid-1980s — that my hypothesis was correct: everything we truly need at the body level to survive is already encoded into our genes at birth. The healing intelligence is in there. I would imagine that many people thought about – is there something beyond the physical that allows 37 trillion cells to work in perfect harmony? – but now for the first time we have the proof of it. And the question would become, would the atheists permit themselves to even consider it, because it pointed to something operating beyond the body-as-machine with its replaceable parts.

And what did all of the successful healers have in common? Every one of them was engaged in prayer. They were using themselves as a channel. They were connecting, according to them, to their higher self — and that higher self allows the healing of others. We proved it, for the first time in scientific history: human beings exchange energy, and that energy can heal.

I remember Dr. Krieger saying to me, “All right, Gary — I’ve worked with you for two years. If we have an energy that can cure a mouse of cancer, what else can we do?”

When Good Intentions Carry Bad Energy

In that same study I found something else out — something just as important, and far more sobering. National Geographic Ro... National Geographic Maps Check Amazon for Pricing.

I walked into the lab one night and neither of my assistants was there. Both were sick. In the middle of the summer — and nobody knew with what. Since the protocol required a witness, I asked one of the other scientists, Dr. Berman, whether he could sit in for half an hour. He said fine. Afterward he came upstairs and said, “Man, oh man, I have a splitting headache.” I asked whether he normally got headaches. He said, “No. I never get a headache. Never.”

Hmm. So I asked him: what was the only thing different tonight? He said, nothing — this woman came in, one of the people in the study, and she closed her eyes and was doing some kind of meditation or prayer. And that’s when it started.

I looked at the lab notes, she had been there four consecutive weeks and the mice she worked on had all died. I called her back a week later and asked her to work on a different mouse, and this time I sat in the room myself. Suddenly I felt something, and it was really bad — like someone putting my head in a vise and slowly turning it. This went on for two minutes. Understand: outside of chickenpox and measles and mumps as a kid, I cannot remember being sick. I said, “What are you thinking? What are you thinking — specifically?” And she said, “I’m thinking about helping these poor mice. They’re suffering. I don’t want them suffering.” She didn’t say cancer — I had never mentioned to her that it was cancer. I said, “Stop for a moment. Look at the mouse.”

The mouse was lying on its side, gasping for breath. It had not been doing that when she came in.

Her intention was compassionate. Her energy was destructive. She was projecting her anguish at their suffering — and her energy was actually speeding the animal toward death. My goodness, was that important for me to see: a person can use their energy, sincerely and with the best of intentions, in a way that accelerates another being’s decline.

Now imagine what that means for you. Imagine how you feel when you’re around negative energy — a negative person, a toxic environment. The energy is real. It transfers. And it does not need malice to do its damage.

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