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HOWDY, YA'LL!
! Happy Spring Trails!
The place is Concrete, Washington. The date is February 2, 2011. The time is 8:00 P.M. I would have started out: "It is the dead of winter here." But The Cascade Mountains are wildly alive as they entertain a raging-storm outside. The winds of which will later that night knock out our electricity! Dr. Tosca Haag arrived earlier that day. She has just driven up from LaVernia, Texas, to stay in The Howling Wolves' Den and help me lay out the chapters to a new book she and I and Dr. Vetrano and Dr. Greg Haag will write. The book is destined to earn us either raging-storm anger or heartfelt gratitude from all Natural Hygiene teachers and Health Seekers, one way or the other!
The title of the book we have decided upon: What Doctor Shelton Didn't Know: Cutting Edge Science & Common Health Sense to Set The Natural Hygiene Record Straight for Health Seekers Everywhere! In this book, we 4 will stand behind the 90% of Dr. Shelton's teachings from 1926 - 1985 that are Correct Natural Hygiene. And we will correct the 10% of the teachings that are based in opinion-only or myth and not science, we will reset in kindness and respect Dr. Shelton's sometimes inappropriately angry and/or disrespectful social and anti-medical tones, and we will point out the common health sense errors in that way-off-track 10%. We 4 will present the corrected science accumulated in our collective memory banks as a result of studying from and/or working with the greatest Natural Hygiene Educator of the 20th century. Dr. Shelton, during his lifetime of genius and dedication, directly impacted hundreds of thousands of lives through 40+ books, 40+ years of Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review magazines, hundreds of lectures, thousands of published articles, thousands of unpublished letters, and tens of thousands of patients!
All the while, as Dr. Tosca and I are anticipating the storm we 4 Trailblazers are about to bring on with What Doctor Shelton Didn't Know, 2 Health Seekers are working their way through the wind and rain and up to the doorsteps of Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods. Within minutes, I will be reading to the wife what Dr. Shelton did know about the misery of migraine headaches and how to overcome them. And I will be apologizing for his dark tone at the same time. Here is a concrete example of what Doctor Shelton didn't know: when a Health Seeker is in so much pain from a full-fledged migraine on-going, so that she is literally trembling all over, as if in advanced multiple sclerosis or like a lone leaf in a raging storm, and when her eyes are rolling back in her head in misery, the last thing she needs is negativity and imagines of going to her grave!
I had been on the phone with the husband and wife a few days prior to their arrival. After our second long, prayerful talk
on the telephone, they left Montana in a rush and arrived in Washington
within hours. I didn't even catch their last names -- just the credit
card numbers! She had been getting migraines for years that were so unbearable
-- she had often wished for The Lord to take her. They began at age 16. Now, in her 40s, she was thin and frail and pale. Over the years, she had been spending many days at a time in bed, rocking in pain. She lived in fear of the next migraine. She suffered with tension headaches when she did not have full-fledged migraines. She had taken to studying books on how to endure long-suffering. She and the husband had spent tens of thousands of dollars during the last 2 decades, "trying everything." They both kept pleading for mercy: "THIS IS OUR LAST RESORT. THIS IS OUR LAST RESORT." When I first met her, I had the sense she would not be much longer in our world if she did not make a turnaround right here and now. She was just so frail.
This devout Christian couple were like many believers I have met. They love The Lord. They know their Scripture. They live good, righteous lives. But they practice 1 or more of The 10 Energy Robbers enough to get good and sick. Then, they find Natural Hygiene. But they do not get well because they do not apply The Good Book's most powerful passages to their situations to help them gain the faith and strength and wherewithal needed to do so! What good is a manual on how to take care of your Holy Temple if you do not apply the simple knowledge? That is something The Wilderness Woman can help The Christian Health Seekers to do -- if they ask, they shall receive!
This dear husband and wife lived on a ranch, maintained a covered feeding spot for a beloved herd of deer, loved horses, adored the 2 picture tours at www.naturecurerawfoodhealthretreat.com, and they were totally ready to let The
Wilderness Woman show them how to remove the causes of disease, how to
provide the conditions for health, and how to do so -- not only via
abstract teachings and a printed-out website -- but in the concrete!, daily life of fasting and eating live-foods. THEY WOULD LIVE THE 10 ENERGY
ENHANCERS AT OUR HYGIENE HOMESTEAD IN THE WOODS.
And what made it easy for me compared to some other guests, they knew full well what they were getting themselves into! I have now taken to requiring that guests... "READ THE ENTIRE WEBSITE BEFORE YOU COME!" And these were the first new guests to do so. Not only had they read it in its entirety, they had printed it out! It lay strewn across their dashboard, well studied. Both Tosca and I assured them that the little wife could get well if she stayed the course and did the studying. They had been praying for an answer for years. And now, it was at hand: "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN! BEGONE, MIGRAINE HEADACHES! AND WELCOME, GOD-GIVEN NATURAL HYGIENE -- IN THE CONCRETE!
I was surprised when Dr. Tosca took stock of the wife during her misery and suggested that she start a fast "tomorrow" and stop the 3 medications at the same time. They were not strong medications, or she would have needed to eat live-foods for 2 weeks as she weaned herself off them. To make this long story short, the sweet wife who had practiced long-suffering until she was an artist at it never suffered another migraine from that night on for 16 days -- when a family crisis pulled her away. The husband stayed and ate all live-foods for the first 7 days while he comforted the wife during her fasting. It was a beautiful thing. She took "feels-good massages" to ease the pain. At one point during a massage, she muttered: "I have never felt so good or so at peace in my life!" He got smitten by the frozen fruit that comes out of The Champion Juicer and got topped with my berry syrups and nuts! After 1 week, he went home to await his "HAPPY HYGIENIC HOME" purchases: The Commercial Champion, The VITA-MIX, The Acme Juicer with the citrus attachment, all 5 of my original seasonings in quart jars, and $1,000 in "GREAT & YUMMY GETWELL EDIBLES!"
That very first dark and stormy night, I read aloud to our group the entire T.C. Fry pamphlet entitled "MIGRAINE HEADACHES" by Dr. Shelton that was filled with Correct Natural Hygiene. But the tone was so negative that I had to stop and apologize to this poor woman trembling in pain. I could only think that if Dr. Shelton had written the following passage with her so deep in misery, standing there in front of him, her milk of human kindness would have inspired him to write with more compassion. See what I mean here:
The migraine headache constitutes no danger to life; but unless the cause is recognized and genuine Hygienic principles employed (The 10 Energy Enhancers), there can be no hope of permanent relief, as the men of alchemy (Medical Doctors) admit. Drugs that palliate (relieve pain but leave poisons in the body and side effects galore) are potentially harmful. It is true that the average Migraine Sufferer will endure less as she approaches 50 and 60; but as a Natural Hygiene Doctor, I have seen that if the cause (Enervation and Toxemia brought on by The 10 Energy Robbers) continues, this simply indicates that the body is losing its vigor and giving up the fight. Nature asks at this point: "What's the use?" and takes on a fatalistic attitude toward its wayward child. Continued abuse (The 10 Energy Robbers) will finally exhaust all the residual comeback power (Nerve Energy reserves) remaining in the body; and there are no longer any cleansing crises, which act as a safety valve in the body with vitality. (The Migraine Suffer slowly slips into chronic, degenerative disease.) By the time The Migraine Sufferer, who has forever used pharmaceutical drugs to quiet the cry of the body to care for and preserve itself, reaches 50, she has generally suppressed or choked and wasted all the Nerve Energy that the body possessed. From 50 on, the Migraine Sufferer drowsily staggers on to his grave under the influence of the accumulated drugs and toxins of many years."
You can see where the tone of this teaching is not going to be nearly as helpful as encouragement, cheer-leading, positive images of a happy life to come, and yes -- even prayer... something Dr. Shelton was not big on, to put it mildly. Still, they were those teachings which he resurrected from the 1800's Natural Hygiene Pioneers that we applied! They were those teachings that got the wife well. Dr. Tosca and I just took the dark images of "drowsily staggering to her grave" and put in the high joy of how fun it is to get well and stay well.
AND THIS STORY HAS SUCH A HAPPY ENDING! The marriage itself underwent a healing under the roof of Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods that it had been needing since its beginning. And the wife broke her fast on little 2-ounce jars of a wide variety of yummy, live-food juices every 2 hours, 6 times a day for 2 days. Then, she graduated to pint jars. And finally, the FUN! FUN! FUN! began: The Wilderness Woman's stock and trade of live-food secret formulas to make and plate 4 days of gorgeous arrays of beverages, appetizers, soups and chowders, main dishes, and desserts! We wined and dined on Correct Natural Hygiene recipes until we had to throw out perfectly good food to the perfectly fabulous HighJoy Horse!
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