Man’s Higher Consciousness

by Hilton Hotema

  The first clue to Gigantopithecus appeared in the shop of an herb doctor in Hong Kong who had three “giant’s teeth” For sale.

  Dr. Weidenreich saw the teeth and was convinced they were human teeth. But this seemed preposterous, as they were twice the size of the biggest ape teeth.

  In 1941 a jaw-bone was found in Java, unquestionably human, but of such gigantic size that it could have held those “giant” teeth.

  Between 400,000 and 500,000 years ago there was Meganthropus of Java, still a giant, but weighing only 400 pounds.

  Some 200,000 years ago there was Java’s Nandoeg Man, with another marked reduction in size.

  Then came the Wadjah Man of Java, comparable with the Neanderthal Man of Europe.

  Continuity, periodicity and evolution or development are fundamentals of Manifestation, as we find it. Races of men have inhabited the globe for many millions of years according to the testimony of Ancient Wisdom; and the stature of all things was originally gigantic compared with the period of recorded history.

  In prehistoric days giant animals roamed the earth. Some species of the Dinosaurus were 60 to 80 feet long and their weight exceeded 35 tons. These species are said to have been herbivorous only, but had such defective dentition as to make impossible the mastication of food. Did they eat?

  The theory has been advanced by some scholars that man was not originally an eating animal. Some scientists show that what he eats now does not nourish his body.

  It is said the cells of man’s body are self-existent and self-sustaining, the same as other objects are that are composed of atoms, as the body cells are; and that man should have no more need for food than a stone or a star.

  The body is built of cells, the cells are composed of molecules, the molecule is composed of atoms, and the atom is composed of electrons.

  Within the molecule in the three states of solid, liquid and gas, everything remains the same, i.e. the proportion of substance to emptiness does not change.

  Electrons remain equally far from one another inside the atom, and revolve in their orbits in the same way in all states of cohesion of the molecule. Changes in density of matter, i.e. transition from solid to liquid and gaseous states, do not affect the electrons.

  MAN’S BODY RESEMBLES THE PLANETARY BODIES

  The area inside the molecule in the living cell is exactly analogous to the vast space in which move the celestial bodies, which space scientists assume to be void and empty. Radio proves that theory is erroneous.

  Electrons move in their orbits in the atom in the cells of the human body just as planets move in their orbits in the solar systems of the Universe. The power of movement in all these instances comes not from food. There is one universal law that governs all bodies.

  The electrons in the atoms in the cells of man’s body are the same celestial bodies as the planets of the sky. Even their velocity is the same. This now established fact shows how completely man’s body resembles the planetary bodies.

  The Ancient Masters were right when they said, “As above, so below.” Man is microcosm and the Universe is macrocosm.

  If the planetary bodies depend not on food for their origin and maintenance, neither should the human body. One universal law governs all bodies.

  Why does it seem that man dies of starvation when deprived of food? Because his body is adapted to that kind of stimulation.

  Somatic death results from the shock of the body’s being deprived of a certain kind of stimulation. It is the loss of that stimulation which activates the vital machinery of the body, and to which stimulation the vital machinery is geared, and adapted, and accustomed by reason of ages of practice.

  As man adopted new habits through the ages, it was necessary for the body machinery to adapt itself to the new practices or perish. The adjustment occurred slowly, gradually, the body yielding to the new habits through the Law of Vital Accommodation only when the primary reaction was disregarded and the practice continued.

  Each phase of the adaptive process can occur only at the expense of a depression of all the vital functions, which must be injurious if long-continued or often repeated.

  Man never turns back. He was proud of what he terms “progress” as he stupidly advanced from perfection to imperfection and greater imperfection. He believes that each new practice is an improvement, provided the effect of it does not kill him instantly. So he continues on his descending course, while his health steadily declines and his life-span constantly decreases. The basic causes are never suspected.

  MISLEADING REPORTS

  Deceptive propaganda is often put out to show man’s life span is increasing. People believe these reports. They are false and calculated to deceive. It is the “life expectancy” that has increased, and not the life-span. The “life expectancy” has increased because more babies are living than they did fifty years ago.

  In the press of July 30th 1929, Professor C. H. Forsyth of Dartmouth College said: “The expectation of life from the age of 45 on, is the lowest of which we have any record. Far lower than it was only forty years ago—and it is still falling, not rising.”

  Carrel wrote,

  “A man of 45 has no more chance now of dying at the age of 80 than in the last century....Not even one day has been added to the span of human life” (Man The Unknown, P. 178).

  Man has died suddenly upon receiving bad news because his body could not take the shock. Many a man has died because the body could not take the shock of being deprived of a certain poison, as opium or morphine, which his constant use had forced his body to adapt itself to that stimulant so completely, that its use became a physiological necessity in the vital economy of the organism. The same is true of food.

  Doctors know that it is dangerous to stop any practice too abruptly. No doctor will claim the body needs opium. Yet man sometimes does when deprived of it. It is a matter of common knowledge that the drug addict dies by inches from the effect of the poison which his body craves, and that it is dangerous to deprive him of it suddenly.

  The more poisonous a substance is, the longer it takes the body to make the adjustment, the greater the adjustment from the perfect point, and the greater the shock when the body is deprived of that substance.

  The greater the shock, the more dangerous the shock. The drug addict almost goes crazy when deprived of his poison. The nerves of the smoker practically go out of control when the last cigarette is gone.

  BODY CRAVES FOOD AS IT DOES POISON

  That is a typical example of the operation of the law of Vital Adjustment. Due to the established fact that the body will adapt itself to the point of craving to the death a destructive poison, it is not difficult to understand that, by countless ages of practice, the body has become so firmly and completely habituated to the stimulating effect of food, that it will gradually sink down in death when deprived of that kind of stimulation. We must remember that it is stimulation and not nutrition in this case.

  If sudden death results from the physiological shock of depriving the body of a certain poison, it should not be mysterious that death by steps and stages occurs from the shock of depriving the body of another form of stimulation called food.

  It is well to consider that both eating and drinking are voluntary and controlled practices. Not only are these under man’s conscious control, but he can go without food for weeks and without water for days—but to stay the breathing is to stop the living. This evidence proves beyond question the paramount importance of air to the body.

  Furthermore, the function of respiration is an automatic, involuntary process, and so far beyond man’s conscious control, that he breathes when unconscious in sleep, or from injury, even better and deeper, more regularly and rhythmically, than when conscious and awake. Furthermore, polluted air disturbs the sleeper more than it does the worker. Quite often the cause of insomnia is bad air.

  It is impossible for one to commit suicide by holding the breath. As soon as consciousness is lost, breathing automatically begins
again.

  It is neither reasonable nor practical that man’s body is so constituted that its existence on earth depends on the exercise of voluntary and controlled processes, such as eating and drinking are.

  The breathing function is not only automatic and involuntary, but the primary function of the living organism. All other functions are secondary and designed to keep the body fit to perform Respiration.

  The lungs are definitely constructed and constituted for their work. They are by far the largest organs in the body, filling the thorax from the clavicle to the floating ribs and from the sternum to the spine.

  In comparison, the stomach is an insignificant organ, being only an enlargement of the alimentary canal that extends from mouth to anus.

  MAN EATS TO DIE

  In the 19th century a group of eminent doctors, composed of Hufeland, Rowbotham, Raymond, Rayer, Gumbler, Monin, Freille, Bailey, Winckler, Easton, Evans and others, working independently, made a special study of the causes of Old Age and death from so-called natural causes. Without exception they all arrived at the same conclusion by finding that the cause is—“We eat to live, and we eat to die” (Densmore, P. 284).

  If we eat to five, how can we eat to die? If we eat to die, how can we eat to live?

  These doctors found that we grow decrepit and go to the grave because of what we eat, and that appears as definite and irrefutable evidence to prove that eating is not natural.

  All authorities who have investigated the matter, agree that as man descended from the Breatharian State, he first ate fruit. Then came the time when he began to fish and hunt, and he added flesh and fish to his diet. He next became a “husbandman” (Gen. 9:20) and began to till the soil, and increased his diet with the addition of vegetables and cereals.

  These authorities place fruits and nuts first in their fitness as food; animal products are placed second, vegetables third, and last and worst, pulses and cereals. The latter, due to their excess of earthy minerals, are most suited of all foods to induce ossification of the tissues and joints, thickening and hardening of the muscles and arteries, and consequent and inevitable premature Old Age—that decrepitude and imbecility almost universal, but wrongly reckoned as a necessary condition of senility.

  Each step man took he considered progress—as he still does. It was progress in the wrong direction—as it still is. But he never turns back. As he took the first step of this “progress,” his health began to decline and his life-span to decrease—but the cause was a mystery to him.

  When the cause was definitely discovered, it was too late to do much about it. Man’s body had suffered such serious degeneration and had so completely adapted itself to the new regime, that he refused to resist his craving for it, finding it easier to sicken and sink into an early grave than to fight against the bad habits that had enslaved him as he “progressed.”

  In this age he is still progressing, still adopting new habits, while holding hard to the old ones, and is steadily sinking both mentally and physically—while “medical science” wages its “bitter battle against disease,” as was boastingly declared in the press of February 15th 1925 by Dr. Morris Fishbein, late editor of the Journal of the A. M. A.

  LESSON NO. 13—CHRONIC AUTO-INTOXICATION

  When Dr. Evans in 1879 wrote in his “How to Prolong Life,” that

  “We eat to live, and we eat to die,”

  he made a statement that inspired us to search and see whether we could find an answer to this riddle.

  We found that a vegetarian diet causes cretaceous degeneration, atheroma, arteriosclerosis, hardening of the blood-vessels, ossification of the tissues and joints, and premature decrepitude or aging.

  Furthermore, alcohol is made of grain; and the production of alcohol is in constant operation in the bodies of those who eat grains and cereal products.

  These vegetarians are always in an auto-intoxicated state, to which their bodies have become so completely adjusted, that when the toxic effect begins to fade, an uncomfortable feeling appears in the sensations of hunger, weakness, nervousness, headache, etc.

  The doctors warn these people to be regular in their eating habits. That keeps the body in its chronically intoxicated state, the condition to which it has become adapted. So they feel better and regard the doctor as a wise man.

  The condition is similar to that of the chronic drunkard sobering up. He is weak, nervous, has headache. These symptoms simply show that the body is calling for more liquor to keep it in the semi-paralyzed, auto-intoxicated condition to which it has become adapted.

  The more tobacco or liquor one uses, the more the body craves it. The more food one eats the more the body craves it. The more flesh and cereals one eats, the more the body craves them. The basic cause is the same. In each case the craving shows that the body has adapted itself to these damaging poisons.

  The flesh-eating man is in a steady state of mild irritation, or auto-intoxication, rising from the excessive stimulation caused by the decaying flesh food in his stomach, bowels and blood.

  Just as in the case of the flesh-eater, the vegetarian has eaten his diet from childhood, and the condition of auto-intoxication is deep-seated and chronic. The victim’s body and organs are adjusted to it.

  Another reason why man feels hungry is because flesh protein starts to putrefy as soon as eaten, and the sensation of hunger results from the toxic condition that rises. He eats bread, and this starchy product ferments in the intestines, producing alcohol and acids that temporarily dull the putrefactive bacteria that work on the protein remnants of the flesh formerly eaten, thus suppressing the effect of auto-intoxication, and the fatigue produced by the auto-intoxication temporarily subsides.

  BODY TRIES TO MAINTAIN BALANCE

  After a meal of bread, meat and potatoes one feels strong. “Food gives you strength,” say some people. What actually occurs is only a stimulation of the tissues and intestines that increases peristaltic action, and their contents are moved along, while the carbohydrates suppress the protein putrefaction.

  Man eats a sandwich of bread and flesh and feels stronger because the bread counteracts the rotting of the flesh formerly eaten. A few hours later the last flesh eaten starts to rot, and the sensation of new hunger causes him to eat another sandwich, which temporarily counteracts the toxic weakness mistaken for hunger. That is the vicious circle.

  Hunger is usually a call for food to counteract the effects of toxins of the food previously eaten and to stimulate the intestines to move along their contents.

  Ehret reported cases of religious devotees who had fasted for decades. He held that the purer the body, the less it craves food. When the body is perfectly free of toxins and in normal condition, the need for food practically vanishes.

  When there are toxins in the body, acids form in the fluids, creating a need for alkalines in the form of fruits and green vegetables, which supply the body with activity in cell function by stimulation.

  Man realizes not how filthy his body is internally until he takes a fast and the body begins to purge itself of accumulated filth.

  The body of the average man is filled with accumulations of filth where the body has adjusted itself and compensated for errors and indulgences. When we stop the errors that age and disfigure us, these accumulations start to dissolve and depart via the eliminative channels—the skin, lungs and bladder.

  When headache lassitude, vomiting and skin eruptions appear as the purging process continues, the details of which we know nothing, most people get frightened and they are advised to “stop this nonsense of not eating.”

  As soon as they begin to eat, that stops the purification process, and they feel better as the eliminative processes cease. They think eating is necessary and that fasting is dangerous, as medical art teaches. Did they not feel better as soon as they began to eat?

  They feel better because the eliminative process was halted. One feels bad as the body begins cleaning out obscure corners and this foul mess begins to leave the body.<
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  This filth within the body is in the form of fat, lumps, blind boils, tumors, cancers, growths of all sorts, silent within the body.

  We blame much on the weather, when it is the filth being eliminated because the sudden changes in temperature have made the body forces active, aroused and awakened them, brought them into action, perhaps by making an opening in the heavy coating of corroding filth around the poles of the cells which obstructed contact with the Life Principle.

  Feasting fills the body with filth and disorders, while fasting enables the body to cleanse itself.

  Dr. Pearson reported that he removed a tumor from a patient of over twenty years standing with a fast of 30 days. Dr. Eli G. Jones reported the removal of cancers by fasting. Simply remove the Cause and you have the Cure.

  VITALITY INCREASES

  Sometimes fasting patients begin to vomit about the 20th or 25th day, and may vomit intermittently for two or three days. Then they get very weak. But after the vomiting rids the body of filth stored in it for twenty or more years, they are amazed by the increase of strength.

  This filth corrodes the poles of the cells and interferes with the reception of Life Force. As the filth is removed and eliminated, better contact is established between the cells and Life Force and the patient’s vitality immediately increases. This fact is known only to doctors who have fasted patients, while medical art will claim the statement is false. No orthodox doctor dares to make a test of it.

  On account of ages of habitual eating, we cannot trust our apparent instinct and craving for food. We should combat the craving until the habit is conquered, as with all habitual errors, indulgences and abuses.

  A man living in good, fresh air can break more of Nature’s Laws and reach a ripe old age than one living in foul, stagnant air. Evidence of this appears daily in the press of people who live to be 100 or more, who have broken many health laws—smoking, drinking, gluttonizing, sex abuse.