Despre sanatate - Meishu-Sama (fondatorul Johrei)

Sursa

TRUE HEALTH AND FALSE HEALTH

 Almost all humankind — or at least almost alli members of the "civilized" peoples — are ill. Some are not visibly sick while some are manifestly so. In other words, the people actually suffering are clearly ill, and the apparently healthy suffer from latent illness. Here I shall deal only with the condition of the latently ill, since there is no need to explain the condition of the manifestly sick

The latently ill harbor toxins, but purification to break down their solidified state has not yet started. A truly healthy person is one who is absolutely free of toxins and in whom no purification process takes place. In comparison with this, the latently ill person harbors accumulated toxins yet apparently stays in good condition, carries out his daily duties, even hard labor, and looks totally healthy. Furthermore, since it is difficult to discover such toxins, modern medical examination pronounces such people healthy. I call this condition"false health," and cannot help shuddering to think how many people today go merrily on their way in spite of the explosive load of illness they bear. The old-fashioned saying that human beings are "vessels for illness"refers to this state of "false health." 

February 5, 1947

WHAT IS THE COMMON COLD?

 It´s probably impossible for the ordinary person living as a member of society to avoid catching cold. Becoming chilled is generally regarded as the cause of colds, and it is difficult to avoid the condition that presents itself many times everyday when one may get chilled: undressing before going to bed, dressing upon waking, bathing, and going out into the cold wind and rain. Consequently, I teach that people should not worry about this too much.

Sometimes, feeling cold is followed by actually catching a cold and sometimes it is not. When it is, it is because the person had a slight fever; when it is not, it is because there was no fever. In other words, the person had already caught cold, and the slight fever was the first sign of the illness; the cold would have come no matter whether his body was chilled or not. Particularly if he has a slight fever, he will shiver from cold no matter where he is and no matter how heavily he is dressed.

It is important to realize, however, that when the weather changes or when a person is exposed to cold, there is no way to prevent the natural process of purification that takes place in response to those conditions. It is therefore futile to try to avoid catching colds, which are inevitable. Indeed, the attempt can have adverse psychological effects. I am convinced there is no one who can avoid a cold by being careful.

Medical science still cannot pinpoint the cause of the common cold. Nevertheless, I will attempt a rough explanation in the light of my own views. First of all, the basic cause of health or sickness in human beings is the purity or impurity of their blood. A healthy person has pure blood, whereas the blood of an unhealthy person is clouded. Fortunately, a purification process is constantly taking place in the body of a person with clouded blood, and the elements (toxins) responsible for the clouding collect in one place and harden. This is, as I have already explained, the first purification process. The second purification process — that is, elimination of the hardened toxins — follows. This process is what is called the common cold. Fever dissolves and liquefies the hardened toxins, which, after first accumulating in the lungs as sputum, are expelled by the pumping action involved in coughing. In other words, the common cold is the simplest form of purification. As a result cloudy blood becomes pure, and health is improved. Consequently, the cold is a great blessing bestowed on humanity by God and a natural physiological process. 

November 23, 1943

WHAT IS SICKNESS

 All human beings have both innate toxins, inherited from their parents, and acquired medicine toxins, which enter the body after birth. Most people find this statement surprising. From ancient times the belief was accepted, and served as the central idea underlying medical practice, that medicine was something that cured disease and improved health, and that, given the right medicine, the problem of sickness could be solved. People have thus assumed that the discovery of good medicines would solve the problem of sickness. Everyone knows the importance the people of the United States attach to medicines, and the extreme efforts they devote to discovering new ones. If medicines produced cures, the number of illnesses should in theory gradually decrease. Instead, in apparent defiance of all reason, they are steadily on the increase. There is no such thing on earth as a truly curative medicine. All medicines are poisons, each with its own effect. The operation of the poison called medicine appears to cure because it decreases pathological symptoms.

Why do I say that medicines are poisons? When the Creator made human beings He simultaneously provided all the foods they require. The things that are fit for human consumption are clearly distinguished from those that are not. Things that we should eat have pleasing flavors, and we have been endowed with a sense of taste. The scrupulous care the Creator has taken with these arrangements is revealed in the way people can derive all the nourishment they need simply by eating the things they like. We do not eat consciously to live, but live because we eat. The mystery of procreation is similar, in that men and women do not only engage in sexual intercourse specifically to have children. Children are granted to human beings as the incidental result of acts performed for other purposes.

The interior functions of the human body are incapable of dealing with foreign materials other than the ones created to serve as foods. These other materials are the medicine toxins, which tend to accumulate and, as time passes, harden in various parts of the body. The resultant hard areas are found only in regions where the nerves operate, such as the upper body, especially the neck and above. This is the region dominated by the brain, and includes the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. These are the places where toxins tend to accumulate, hardening in the vicinity of the neck and causing the stiffness in the neck and shoulder region that everyone experiences. When a certain degree of intensity has been reached, the natural elimination, or purification, process sets in. Fever dissolves the toxins, which, in fluid form, are passed out of the body in coughing, sputum, nasal discharges, sweat, bowel movements, and urine or the symptoms of what is called the common cold.

The cold is a process for ridding the body of toxins. If the patient endures the discomfort and allows things to run their natural course, eventually the interior of the body will be cleansed, and a cure will be effected. This is a marvelous thing. The simple physiological process known as the cold is actually evidence of God' s providence for which we ought to be grateful, even though people incorrectly interpret the suffering caused by purification. It is surely evident how mistaken medicine is in devising ways of putting an end to the process.

The more vigorous and lively the human being, the more readily the purification process occurs. Attempting to halt the process can only reduce the vigor of the body. Nevertheless, people still resort to the poison called medicine. From ancient times, people have prepared liquid medicines, pills, unguents and injections by brewing, powdering, and extracting elements found in grasses, roots, barks, minerals and animal organs for use in halting the purification process. Since such poisons are strong enough to be fatal, they are administered in small, diluted doses. Amounts are laid down to be taken several times daily. A medicine that works well is one in which the toxin has been strengthened as much as possible without reaching a level that can cause addiction.

The use of medicine toxins hardens those other toxins that, having been dissolved, are in solution and in the process of being eliminated. The current fuss about preventative hygiene and fear of the common cold indicate how poisoned modern man has become and how easy it is for him to fall sick. Furthermore, the happiness people feel over a life- expectation of sixty-odd years is gravely mistaken. If it were not for sickness, human beings could easily live to over a hundred. Death at less than that age is unnatural and caused by sickness; if illness were eliminated and natural death prevailed, we would all live longer.

As the discussion so far should have shown, medical therapy does not cure illness but simply alleviates pain temporarily. All the methods it employs to achieve that end — total rest, wet dressings, applications, ice packs, electrical therapy, radiation treatments, and so on — only harden the toxins. Moxa cautery and heat treatments are exceptions. These use heat stimulation to guide the toxins to certain locations and bring relief from pain, but that is all; when the situation returns to what it was before, nothing lasting has been achieved.

Therapy methods used until now have hardened toxins. The only way to bring about a true cure is to dissolve toxins and remove them from the body. 

January 1st, 1953

AN ANALYSIS OF TOXINS

 I shall now turn to an explanation of toxins. Basically, toxin is something that taints the blood, or clouds the spirit. This tainting or clouding arises, of course, as a result of contamination through evil. The idea of contamination has been made much of by religions since ancient time, but so far accounts of it have been over-simplistic: evil is contaminating, so it should be avoided. But this kind of explanation cannot possibly convince a civilization that has become intellectual and scientific. Today, people require a sound argument based on empirical logic.

Just as the world consists of a physical and a spiritual realm, so a human being is made up of inseparably interrelated physical and spiritual beings. Because the spirit and body are one, cloudiness of the spirit is reflected in the blood and vice versa. This is of paramount importance, and must be clearly understood. The physical wrong a person commits causes clouds to form on the spirit. An accumulation of these clouds cause a purification process to begin; this may take the form of illness, legal punishment, or some other disaster. Any wrong which escapes these kinds of purification will be spiritually punished according to God's law. A person may avoid retribution by his fellow man, but the punishment of God is absolute and will be reflected in the body in the form of some great suffering. Such illnesses are highly malignant and often fatal. The process of suffering the consequences of evil can be likened to a debt. The longer it goes unpaid, the more the interest accumulates. Those rare villains who manage to avoid the punishment of humankind and God in this world will plunge into hell when they die because of the gravity of their misdeeds, and finally be obliged to repent. The hell in question is like that which the Buddhists call Avichi, the lowest of all hellish regions, or the Nezoko-no-kuni (land below the roots) of Shintoism, where there is complete darkness in which one remains as if frozen for hundreds of years. All desperately wicked people must resign themselves to going to this kind of world. I realize that modern people will have difficulty accepting this, but I insist it be believed, since what I say comes directly from spirits I have heard during my researches into the spiritual realm.

The self-reproach one feels at doing wrong results in suffering which is in itself a form of mild purification. It would be good if complete repentance followed at this stage, but it rarely does, and most people go on sinning more and more. The extent of one's spiritual cloudiness is commensurate with the degree of wrong doing. Clouds, however, can come from without as well as from within. Take, for example, a case where one person causes another suffering. The victim becomes angry and bitter, and these emotions are transmitted through spiritual cords to the spiritual being of the person who caused the original harm, and thus cause clouds. By contrast, when one person makes another happy, his or her gratitude is transmitted back in the form of light to the benefactor, whose clouds are reduced by it. It is a fundamental law of nature that the more such good deeds are done in secret, and without desire for reward the greater will be the reward from God. Human beings shall believe and abide by this absolute truth. Purification of the cloudiness causes sickness and other disasters; therefore, if human beings wish to be happy they must do good, not wrong, and thereby prevent their spirits from becoming clouded.

Next, I shall touch on the subject from the physical standpoint. The form of illness which comes from murkiness in the blood is, of course, caused by the poison called medicine. Medicines are essentially toxic, but people have mistakenly interpreted them as beneficiai because they are unaware that sickness is a purification process. I shall explain the principle involved in toxic medicine from the standpoint of practical experiment, but must point out that even people who have been cured by Johrei can suffer a relapse. We call this repurification. Though the initial Johrei removes the toxins that have already stimulated the purification process, as the person returns to vigorous, active work, a brisk purification starts again. In other words, the patient becomes healthy as a result of purification, and further purification is stimulated by this good health. As the process is repeated, the patient gradually approaches full recovery. This repurification, however, can entail fairly violent high temperatures and severe coughing. The phlegm coughed up is old and therefore thick; it is easily recognizable by its medicinal smell. The patient loses appetite, grows weak, and in rare cases may die.

The Creator has enabled the Earth to produce all the food needed for the nourishment of humanity, the protagonists of the world. God has given to each food its own flavor and to human beings the sense of taste. There is thus no need to worry about nutrition. Merely to eat and enjoy the things one likes is enough for good health. The principle in operation in this case is similar to that governing the sexual appetite, which has other purposes than simply to create human beings. Thus, human beings should not put into their bodies anything other than substances specified as foods. If the food has no taste or is bitter it should not be eaten. It is through, ignorance of this, that people have always made the great mistake of assuming that unpalatable medicines are good for the body.

 December 1st, 1952

THE THREE KINDS OF TOXINS

All illnesses are caused by the three toxins: accumulated toxin ( nendoku ), urinary toxin ( nyodoku ), and medicine toxin ( yakudoku ). Accumulated toxin could also be called hereditary medicine toxin since it is transmitted from generation to generation and is ultimately transformed into an independent kind of toxin. Urinary toxin results from excess urine caused by malfunction of the kidneys. I have already explained what medicine toxin is, and will confine myself here to explaining the ways in which it manifests itself. It mainly produces such unpleasant conditions as fever, pain, itching, diarrhea, nausea, paralysis, and so on. The fever is more noticeable in people who take medicines in large amounts. For the same reason, it can be said that people who normally use no medicines rarely suffer from fever. Again, the pain caused by Western-style medicines is often sharp, whereas pain from Chinese-style medicines is duller.

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ebruary 5th, 1947

URINARY TOXIN

 As has frequently been pointed out, especially hard toxins that persist in the body as the result of generations of use of medicines and that are thus not readily discharged, tend to accumulate where the nerves are most dense. Since we tense our waists, hips, and backs in the positions we assume during various activities, these toxins accumulate particularly in the region of the kidneys; this is clearly illustrated in the ailments of golf enthusiasts. Since such toxins constrict the kidneys, the extent to which they accumulate affects the organ's efficiency. For instance, if kidneys operating at maximum efficiency are capable of removing ten units of urine from the body, they may be able to remove only nine units when constricted by toxin accumulation. The other unit remains in the body to become urinary toxin. Like second-stage toxins — those reinforced by some extraneous substance, such as medicine, multiplied on the original or first stage toxin — urinary toxin accumulates in regions of dense nerve concentration. Because of its relationship to bodily movements, it tends to concentrate most in the kidney region, the abdomen, the lympatic glands of the groin, the peritoneum, the shoulders and the neck. Toxin accumulation is greater on the side that is more constricted. Whereas hereditarily transmitted medicine toxins are limited in quantity, and medicine toxins themselves limited to the amounts of medicine taken, urinary toxins are constantly produced and therefore hard to treat. This urinary toxin is one of the three toxins that together are, generally speaking, the source of all disease.

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MEDICINE TOXINS I

I shall now go on to explain the grave danger of medicine toxins, in general, aside from what I call the "hereditary toxins."

In all ages and all places, it has been considered sensible to take medicine when ill, just as it is to eat when hungry. The idea that medicines cure is deeply ingrained. Yet I have realized that medicines are fearsome poisons that totally lack power to cure sickness. Indeed, they cause illness in the sense that they are its source.* Some people may find this difficult to understand, but it is true. I once read in a book the following words of a noted Chinese-style doctor: "Fundamentally there are no medicines; they are all poisons. Taking medicine for an illness is the same thing as attempting to control one poison by means of another." This is a very wise thing to say and reminiscent of the old proverb about "Making medicines out of poisonous herbs."

When pain is intolerable, relief can of course be had by means of, say, morphine injections. Yet as medical scientists know full well, the relief is brought about only by a temporary paralysis of the nerves caused by the poison called morphine.

I have explained earlier that sickness arises as a result of the process of purification, which is always accompanied by the suffering referred to as illness. Obviously, everyone dislikes suffering and wants to escape from it quickly.

There are two ways to eliminate suffering. One way to get rid of it completely is by totally expelling from the body those toxins that must be removed. The other is a temporary escape and a return to the condition predating the occurrence of suffering; this means, merely, halting the purification process and returning to the condition existing before its initiation. Since the complete elimination of toxins is a natural process, it takes time. It is the desire to be free of suffering quickly that has stimulated the development of all the medicai and other therapeutic methods invented in the past. Moreover, medical science has never yet understood the principle of toxin elimination and purification as the true nature of illness.

*Though medicines are capable of extending life temporarily and of creating a condition of false good health, they cannot bring about a fundamental cure. Essential good health is a conditionin which human beings can live without medicine. For this reason, itis important to avoid taking medicines as much as possible, though sometimes respect for human life makes their application necessary.

1939

LOW-GRADE FEVER

Though only some people are aware of it, probably no one today is without what is called low-grade fever. Because of the surprisingly great influence it has on the human body, I shall now discuss this kind of fever.

A persistent slight fever causes headaches, heaviness in the head, lack of psychological concentration, distraction, diminished memory, loss of perseverance, laziness in everything, sluggishness of the whole body, and a desire to lie around and doing nothing. It reduces the appetite and makes people finicky about what they eat. When afflicted with it, people show a preference for liquids and foods with high liquid content They may be irritable, shut off from the world, jaded, and pessimistic. They become hysterical, are negative in outlook, and prefer rainy to fair weather. They catch cold easily and are prone to stuffy nose, ringing in the ears, and tonsillitis. They become short of breath and suffer heaviness in the legs from walking fast or climbing slopes. As this brief summary of its effects clearly shows, a low-grade fever is not something to take lightly.

Because of these symptoms, such people do not mix well with their friends or get along smoothly with other people. Their marital and other relationships are poor because such people insist on acting precisely as they wish and always have some kind of justification for their own selfish behavior; "liberalism" is one of their favorite excuses. Because such people are dissatisfied with life at home, horrible things often happen in their lives. The currently increasing numbers of young people who run away from home may well be influenced by this kind of domestic situation. In the worst cases, entire families have been known to commit suicide together.

On a social level, large numbers of people concerned with nothing but pursuing and justifying their own selfish ends disrupt harmony, debate unimportant matters, and resort to conflict to solve issues that could be solved amicably. Egotism of this kind is apparently common in the world of politics.

Whenever something is being debated in a group, there is so much bustle and commotion that it takes a long time to come to an agreement; the reason is not so much that people are unaware of the cause as that they are indifferent to it.

But there is still more to the matter. As society becomes disturbed in the ways I have described above, people experience more unpleasant than pleasant things, and seek diversion by turning to alcohol; this is why the sale of alcoholic beverages, no matter how much they cost, continues unabated. Next, such people seek still stronger stimuli in the hope of escaping from their suffering. Young people seek unwholesome amusements. Older people with the money to pay for such things keep mistresses or seek consolation in the red-light districts. For this reason, the world today is filled with such unhealthy amusements.

Clearly, then, nothing is so fearsome as a low-grade fever, which is the fundamental cause of trouble in all these aspects of life. The presence in the body of medicine toxins is the cause of the slight fever, which is a sign of the slow purification process taking place in the body to eliminate these hardened toxins. Since Johrei is the only way to work a cure, an increase in the number of people who do Johrei will eliminate the deplorable situation I have described above. When this happens, society will be a pleasant, happy place in which to live; and we will have an ideal world.

September 5th, 1951

HUMAN BEING AS VESSELS FOR HEALTH

Since humankind was made to be healthy, we must correct the old belief that human beings are vessels filled with illnesses. Nothing could be further from the truth. A human being is a vessel for health. Nonetheless, we are subject to illness, and since the problem seems insoluble, many people give up and accept what they consider to be inevitable fate. Of course, illness is often difficult to cure. Sickness may linger for so long or recur so frequently that people may be sick more often than they are healthy. For this reason, people have come to think of their bodies as vessels for illness and have invented a proverb to express their condition. It is not surprising that, because the basic nature of illness has remained unknown, people have come to believe that sickness and death are unavoidable. The same belief led the Buddha to say that all life consists of the four sorrows of birth, illness, aging, and death.

I have already explained that illness is caused by deviations from the laws of nature. When people become ill, they usually resort to medicines, which is a mistaken course of action. It is unnatural to employ either Chinese medicines, which are made of herbs, roots, and barks, or Western medicines, which are usually extracts of mineral and vegetable substances. Medicines are always bitter, malodorous, sour, or otherwise disagreeable; since olden times, people have spoken of the need to eat or drink something good to refresh the mouth after a medicinal dose. Medicines are unpleasant because God made them so in order to show that they are poisonous and should not be taken. In contrast, all wholesome foods and drinks are designed to please the palate. This is the way of nature.

It is a mistake to attempt to define in generalities what is and is not nutritious. Foods differ according to the soil, climate, and locale in which they grow, but they are all produced to suit the needs of the people living on that soil and in that locale. It is right for Eastern peoples to eat rice, and Western peoples to eat wheat. People of an island nation like Japan eat large amounts of fish, and continental people eat meat. In accordance with this line of thought, it is right for farmers to eat plenty of vegetables, since a vegetarian diet is suited to people who must work long hours without resting. If the nutritionists of our time have their way in convincing farmers to eat more fish and meat, agricultural labor power will decrease. Since they eat seafood, fisherman work intermittently and are incapable of long periods of sustained labor. Moreover, eating seafood increases sensitivity and in this way also suits the needs of fishermen. Nature is truly wonderful.

April 20, 1950

MEDICINE'S BLIND POINTS AND THE BENEFICENT POWERS OF NATURE

 The greatest mistake of modern medicine is ignoring completely the natural powers with which human beings are innately endowed. We often hear of people who, when taken sick, go immediately to the doctor. After examining them, the doctor says, "It's a good thing you came to me without delay. If you had waited longer, it would have been too late." Doctors say such things because they believe illness or allowing an illness to go unattended, means that the patients condition is certain to worsen. Medicine dislikes the idea of not dealing with a situation in time, and immediately prescribes medicines or other therapy to halt the sickness as soon as possible. However, it is important to realize that this eagerness to stop the progress of a sickness is a serious mistake. Sickness is the process whereby toxins are eliminated. If it is allowed to run its course, the disease is certain to be cured once the toxins have been removed. It is to rid the body of toxins that such sufferings as fever, coughing, phlegm, runny nose, sweating, diarrhea, pain, and itching exist. All that is necessary is to put up with the condition for a while. When the impurities have been eliminated, the interior of the body will be clean.

There is no sense in trying to deal with sickness in accordance with a timetable. Doctors, however, ignorant of this principle, take the opposite stand and strongly caution against allowing an illness to run its course. They try to block the passage of impurities the body is trying to push out, and in this way cause the toxins to harden. Obviously, this is no way to bring about a fundamental cure.

Another serious blind spot of medicine is the dread of the suppuration that usually occurs when the human body suffers a wound or burn. Because of this fear, doctors make the great mistake of taking various steps to prevent infection. The shock of a wound or a burn causes toxins to collectin theinjuredarea; everyone has a considerable amount of toxins, which the body tries to expel whenever an opportunity presents itself. Since they collect around wounds, the larger the infected area the greater the amount of toxins that will be removed from the body. This, of course, is a very good thing.

The process whereby the human body is constantly cleansing itself and eliminating impurities is called natural self-therapy. Each human being is endowed with such power, and to respect it and give it every opportunity to manifest itself is the only true way to true medical science. In practice, however, as is amply borne out by the facts, doctors accept and even encourage things that hinder the operation of this natural power.

Simply to realize humanity's heaven-bestowed, natural self-healing powers — more wonderful than anything medical science is capable of — is a source of immense happiness. Johrei further reinforces and stimulates these natural powers and is therefore the most progressive and rational of all therapeutic sytems.

July 25, 1951

MEDICINE: A CAUSE OF WRONGDOING

Most readers will probably be surprised by the title of this article. The idea of a relation between wrongdoing and medicine is indeed startling. Yet astounding as it may seem, there is actually a very serious connection between the two. Medicine, as I often insist, is poison. When it enters the body, the blood becomes cloudy. When the blood becomes muddy, the spirit becomes cloudy, and this results in discomfort for the person who has taken the medicine.

The sense of discomfort is the true villain since it makes the person afflicted by it fretful, irascible, and ultimately bellicose. A person who feels well can shrug off provocative remarks from others, but may fly into a rage at practically nothing when he or she is suffering some malaise. In other words, the feeling of the moment determines whether a person is bright and cheerful or gloomy and ill-tempered. It must be taken very seriously, moreover, since it has a close connection with his or her whole fortune in life. Emotions play an important part in human life; they can lead to the break-up of married couples, quarreling between parents and children or brothers and sisters, trouble among friends, and in some cases to loss of one's job.

Obviously, emotions play a very large part in all spheres of practical, everyday life: whether, for example, an employee in some government or business office is liked and trusted by his or her superiors; whether a person is approved of by his or her colleagues, or a merchant popular among his or her customers; whether a technical expert is successful in his or her work or a student in his or her study; and so on. Emotion is a normal component in all such cases; what matters is when it gets out of hand.

People who have trained themselves to a state of great self-control can deal with emotional problems successfully, but ordinary human beings often look to the stimulus of drink, say, or gambling as a distraction from their sense of discomfort. Others, who are well off financially and occupy a high position in society, look for similar escape in luxurious living or sexual philandering. This all costs money, which is frequently obtained by less-than-admirable means. Human beings have been known to resort to embezzlement, fraud, graft, and — most terrible of all— murder, just to acquire quite insignificant sums. Some people claim to be able to find a woman behind every crime, but l myself think medicine is at the heart of the trouble. In brief, to find emotional relief, people today seek stronger and stronger stimulation. To serve their needs, organizations offering unwholesome amusements of all kinds are increasing and are becoming steadily more accessible through modern transportation methods. These factors, combined with the breakdown of older social restrictions such as class systems, make the serious life look foolish in the eyes of many.

However, troubles of this kind represent the brighter side of the picture. The darker side of medication is much more serious. Here, illness is caused in almost all cases. Moreover, people recklessly dose themselves with medicines and injections, so that illnesses increase and more and more human beings experience discomfort. The ramifications of excessive reliance on medicine are extensive. First, because medicines cause increased illness, patients must spend money on treatment and lose time from work. The expenditure and the loss of time on the job reduce their income and drain their savings. They must therefore borrow or be a burden on others. They become increasingly disgusted with life. At the same time, since medicines repress but do not fully cure, the illness drags on until they find themselves in a complete impasse, and are driven to steal the needed funds or, if they are weak-willed, commit suicide, either alone or sometimes with the whole family. Cases of this kind are reported in the newspapers every day. Tuberculosis is the illness precipitating many such tragedies.

To sum up, then, crime has its origins in a human sense of malaise, which is caused in turn by medicines. This is the meaning behind the title "Medicine: a Cause of Wrongdoing."

February 6, 1952

MEDICINE AND SPORT

 Athletes, who have splendid bodies and great physical strength, are generally considered likely to die fairly young. Why this should happen is a riddle to medical science, but the following are the reasons. Although there are many kinds of sports, a person usually specializes in only one kind. Consequently the athlete repeats the same movements over and over through long hours of training, so that toxins gather and harden at his power points. As time passes, the purification process starts. But since toxins are more persistent in athletes than in ordinary people, purification and cure are more difficult for them.

My own experience has shown that hard protuberances of accumulated toxins form on one shoulder or the other of swimmers, and that the purification process associated with them produces symptoms similar to those of tuberculosis. In evalulating the condition of such swimmers, doctors frequently diagnose tuberculosis, and this accounts for the large number of persons in this field apparently suffering from this disease.

Similarly, golfers tend to be afflicted with kidney trouble, because tensing the waist and hip region causes toxins to accumulate and harden around the kidney area, and it is a well known fact that marathon runners frequently suffer from enlargement of the heart.

For the sake of their health, athletes ought to engage in two or more sports.

Musicians should also be careful, since their work calls for repetition of the same movements, which could lead to sickness. For example, people who are fond of piano playing have accumulations of toxins in their chest regions since their power points are in both arms. Violinists are subject to the same kind of problem in their shoulders, and cellists in their left shoulder and hip region. These conditions deserve serious thought, and musicians should compensate by performing movements other than the ones involved in their work.

February 5, 1947

JOHREI AND THE THREE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF THE INTERNAL ORGANS

 Among the internal organs, the function of the heart, lungs, and stomach has the greatest importance to human life. I shall now explain how they act in terms of the three fundamental elements of fire, water, and soil.

The heart absorbs the fire element, the lungs the water element, and the stomach the soil element; the heart corresponds to fire, the lungs to water, and the stomach to soil. But the way in which medical science has explained this matter has been totally inadequate. Science has pointed out the way in which oxygen taken into the lungs purifies the blood, but this alone fails to reach the heart of the matter. I shall now explain the situation according to the medicine that has been divinely revealed to me, but I must first begin with an explanation of the true nature of the spiritual world. It is impossible to understand this true nature without realizing that, though it is imperceptible to the five human senses, the spiritual world is actually the fundamental source of all things.

The principle that water causes fire to burn and that fire causes water to flow is the key to the solution of all things. A prerequisite to an understanding of the invisible spiritual realm is an explanation of the realm of air. Oxygen, familiar through modern science, is the spirit of fire; hydrdogen is the spirit of water; and nitrogen is the spirit of soil. These three maintain their individual identities but when they are unified they form the essence from which all things rise. The ineffably mystical action of these three elements results in a situation in which extremely hot, extremely cold, and temperate climates are each suited to the needs of the creatures living there. Hypothetically, if all the water element were removed, the world would explode at once. If all the fire element were removed, everything would instantaneously freeze. If all the soil element were eliminated, everything would crumble to nothing. This principie should make clear the basic significance of the function of the heart, lungs, and stomach. In other words, the heart absorbs the fire element from the spiritual world; its operation is the pulse. In a similar way, the lungs absorb the water element; their operation is respiration. The stomach absorbs the soil element from the physical world; its operation is intake of nutrients.

The liquefaction of the hardened toxins that cause all illnesses demands heat. This is the first step in the purification process. Interpreted as a pathological symptom, this heat, which is necessary in large quantities, is fever. At such times, in order to accommodate this heat, the pulse rate increases greatly. Since heat concentrates in the affected region, it tends to decrease in other parts of the body, thus bringing about unpleasant chills. At such times, the lungs absorb large quantities of the water element, causing the respiration rate to increase, stimulating the activity of the heart, and preventing dehydration.

The spirit of fire is, of course, emitted by the sun, the spirit of water by the moon, and the spirit of soil by the earth.

Principal among the three major organs is the heart, which activates the lungs, which in turn activate the stomach. Though insufficiency of food in the stomach does not mean immediate danger to life, survival is possible for no more than a few minutes if the lungs become inoperative and for only seconds when the heart fails. This is clear from the custom of medicai science of always giving heart failure, not failure of the lungs or stomach, as the cause of death.

When a person dies, the heart first stops operating. The body then becomes cold as the spirit, the element of fire which had previously filled it, departs to return to the spiritual world. Then the lungs cease respiration, and the element of water which had permeated the body returns to the realm of air, initiating a process of drying up. Obviously the stomach also stops operating and the impossibility of obtaining drink and food causes the body to become rigid.

Since the human body is composed of an amalgam of the three elements of fire, water, and soil, curing illnesses that beset the body is rational only if it relies on the powers of those three elements. This is the principie of Johrei.

Johrei depends on power from the Supreme God, a transmitting of light. It is a spiritual light, invisible to the human eye, whereas the visible light of the sun, a lamp, or an electric bulb is the physical manifestation of light. The essence of light is a close union between the elements of water and fire. The greater the amount of the fire element, the stronger the light. However, the power of light composed of fire and water is insufficient. The element of soil is also necessary. Inclusion of the element of soil perfects the union of the three-in-one, which emits a light with wonderful healing powers. Waves of this light penetrate the body and eliminate polluting clouds in the spirit. The effect of this process is transferred to the body in the form of therapeutic effects.

As for the practical means of carrying this out, I write, as I have so often explained, the character for the word light on a piece of paper, which is then folded and worn inside the clothing. The spirit of light waves pass through my arm and through the pen to permeate and condense (though I use the word condense, the process is difficult to explain). A connection is then established between the character for light and the source of light within my body by means of spiritual cords along which a supply of light waves passes ceaselessly. The spiritual link between the Supreme God and myself is similar; an infinite amount of light waves is transmitted to me for the sake of the salvation of mankind.

As this explanation should have made clear, a therapeutic method making use of the power of the three-in-one composition of the human body is true therapy, and as is only to be expected, such therapy is capable of manifesting unprecedented healing powers.

August 6th, 1949