We've attempted to state that which is ideal for the creating of the best conditions while the body is healing itself. We've mentioned some of those indications, manners and means in which oxygen can be increased in the blood by the introduction of hydrochloric acid or even hydrogen peroxide directly into the bloodstream and that it has a stimulating effect or a response, of creating freely a flow of oxygen into the circulatory system, although it is recognized that this does not hold for great periods of time.

Meaning this, that the release of the oxygen and the stimulation of the white blood corpuscles which results from the oxygenating of the blood in this manner, allows for the lymphocytes to have an edge, the leukocytes on attacking the cancer cells.

The principle then needs to be communicated even when the practitioners often are leery of the process. The stimulation allows then for the means of oxygenating the blood, body. These can be accomplished as well through other means of oxygen therapy including the deep breathing techniques particularly in relation to music or rhythm and meditation.

The deep breathing produces some indications of hyperventilation. This will also allow for the oxygenation of the system to the blood. And a similar effect to deep laughter, both of which are effective healing processes for the body, not only for cancer, but for the release of embodied emotion that are factors present in many forms of disease.

And see these things in this manner: When one takes those foods as are known to increase oxygen content in the physical, those of the concentration of vitamin C and E, which are considered the carriers which increase oxygen and combat the free radicals of the body. These are for oxygen in the system in the same manner.

But let's focus more directly on the putting of plants into the Earth. For in the introduction of a plant, not so much the planting of the seed in the soil, you see, but the working with the hands and the face, particularly in the transplanting of the young starts into the Earth and the watering of these, in a sense this is a participation in a birth, a first breath, a refreshing breath of a plant and releases a burst of oxygen into the self and the face.

If we could describe it, it is more than that. It is participation with the plant in its work and its purpose, its life purpose, if you will. There is the symbiotic relationship between the human and the plant and in your healing of it and the soil. The soil and the plant in turn heal the self, the body, and even the breathing.

For the symbiotic relationship depends a great deal upon your breathing upon the plant as you put it into the soil, giving forth the carbon dioxide, to put it in simple terms. But more effectively perhaps, the breathing of your attitude upon the plant in introducing it to life and the opportunity for expression.

In this moment of tenderness between the planter and the planted, there is exchange of vital energies for the healing of both, but in opposite directions. As you give forth that which is released from your body and which stimulates the life of the plant, so the life of the plant in turn gives forth its excess in oxygen, if you will, but more appropriately, in the full breath returning to the human that which is given in love from one to the other and is the most vital of the healing processes.

Heal the soil and heal yourself. Heal the Earth and heal the body which comes from the Earth from which it was born, which was created from the Earth with the natural interdependence of the life which springs from it.


It is your purpose in being placed in this garden that you participate with it and that it heals you. It is the most appropriate and most effective means for the healing of the self in this moment. Not only working with the garden, with planting, with the nurturing of the plants, but in the most literal sense, the healing of the soil itself.

For the life of the plant is a participation with the Earth. But it is with the Earth itself and the healing of the relationship with the Earth, even to the extent that the attitude of mankind has developed over these last few centuries to think of the soil as dirt and dirty.

What a symptom of man's losing of his relationship of appreciation with the Earth. Those then who restore the appreciation to the soil and to the Earth and to the healing vitality and the ability of the Earth's immune system to correct the dreadful influences being released into the atmosphere. The greatest means that one has for restoring this balance is to assure the Earth itself that the caring by one for the healing of that portion.

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