October 22, 2007

Excerpt from The Mir­a­cle of Fast­ing — Chap­ter 3
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Pru­dently assume, that your con­di­tion is one of autoin­tox­i­ca­tion. If you feel your energy is at a low ebb, and not up to par, go on a short fast last­ing from 24 hours to 3 or 4 days. Drink noth­ing but pure, steam dis­tilled water. I will tell you more about water later. You will expe­ri­ence a crav­ing for food, but not an actual hunger. It’s the body reflexes that are accus­tomed to being fed at cer­tain inter­vals. Again let me state, “Flesh is dumb!” It has all kinds of crav­ings, but you must be its mas­ter. You must con­trol your entire body with your mind — your human mir­a­cle com­puter. I read­ily admit that fast­ing takes immense deter­mi­na­tion and willpower.

I remem­ber very well my first 4 day fast. It was while I was under the care of the famous Dr. A. Rol­lier at his san­i­tar­ium in Switzer­land. I was bat­tling for my life with tuber­cu­lo­sis and I had been at the san­i­tar­ium for sev­eral months. Dr. Rol­lier told me it was going to be a great expe­ri­ence — and it surely was! The good doc­tor told me to study my urine daily, so each day I took a spec­i­men of my urine and kept it in a bot­tle. I put it on a shelf in my room and I would look at the spec­i­mens each day. As the urine would cool and set­tle I could see the great amount of for­eign mat­ter that was leav­ing my body.

As soon as I fin­ished the fast, I was placed on a highly alka­line diet with an abun­dance of fresh fruits and raw and lightly steamed or baked veg­eta­bles. About 2 weeks after the fast, I expe­ri­enced a sense of exhil­a­ra­tion and well-being that I had never known in my entire life! From that time on my health and vital­ity grew by leaps and bounds! That was not my only fast under Dr. Rollier’s super­vi­sion. He started me out with a 24 hour weekly fast and in the next 9 months, put me on a 7, 14 and 21 day fast. Between fasts I was fed an alka­line diet.