Part 13

Every nerve has two ends. When there is an irritation at one end, there is a response, or so-called reflex, at the other. Oh! why has this thought never occurred to our “learned authorities?” Our worthy doctors are forever trying to remove the effect, never reaching the cause. If a man’s blood is out of order, does the bad blood cause illness, or is the illness and bad blood the result of the imperfect transforming of food by the intelligence whose duty it is to perform such functions?

When I first showed my ability to produce in a hypnotized subject three pulsations at one time, the doctors declared it to be a trick; that it was an impossibility; that the heart only controlled the circulation. If our most learned (?) men would only think (and such a thing were possible), they would readily see the futility of such claims. If I am rightly informed, there are several miles of vascular piping in the body, and the heart of itself is not strong enough to pump the blood that distance; if it were, the frame of the body is not strong enough to maintain the resistance to such an action. The truth of the matter is, that the heart is simply the governor, i. e., regulator, that starts the rhythm of the pumping, and different nerve centers (mind) take up and carry on the action. Our doctors tell us that a man dies because the heart stops beating. No, he dies because the intelligence that forces the heart to beat stops working.

Man is a tube lined with a series of insulated electric wires. These wires run from orifice through ganglia of Abdominal Brain to orifice. Every nerve has two ends; irritate one end and through the action of its ganglia a response will occur at the other. Our doctors treat the response, paying no attention to the cause, although they talk nothing but cause.

From a series of experiments that I have made, I am satisfied that the body is rebuilt every six or seven months. The Abdominal Brain in the embryonic child is complete at the end of two months; and, as the child is born at the end of nine months, the first attempt of the Sympathetic System, the Abdominal Brain (mind) built a complete child in seven months; although a child born at eight months is seemingly complete. If mind in its first attempt can build a child in seven months, why should it take longer to build a second time, particularly when it has a freer hand and environment to work in?

Our doctors start on the premise that man’s eyes, lungs, heart and all vital organs live forever, unless bugs get in and destroy them. I cannot accept any such statement. For the sake of argument we will say that all organs and tissue are rebuilt every six months. I care not if every six years, but we will assume that they are rebuilt every six months, constantly wasting and constantly being replaced. The doctors will tell us that a cataract grows on our eye. I deny that, maintaining that the eyes are replaced every six months, and when there is a cataract, the ganglion of the Abdominal Brain (mind) is so irritated that it builds an imperfect eye, an eye with a cataract. The doctor with his knife removes the cataract, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred it grows (?) back. The Mental Scientists, the Christian Scientists, the Faith Curists and the Hypnotists remove the cataract. How? By causing the mind to stop building the cataract and resume its previous building of a healthy eye. I have cured dozens of cases of astigmatism and myopia, and several cases of cataract simply through personal suggestion and orificial surgery.

Many people come to me saying “Mr. Santanelli, I have been wearing eye-glasses for a year. Can you cure me?”

“Yes.”

“How many hypnoses will it take?”

“None.”

“Why, what will you do?”

“I will take you to my surgeon, and have the proper orificial work performed.”

“And will that cure me?”

“Certainly.”

Another comes to me and says, “Mr. Santanelli, can you cure me?”

“How long have you been wearing glasses?”

“Ten years.”

“How old were you when you began wearing glasses?”

“Twenty years.”

“Yes, I can cure you.”

“How long will it take?”

“I do not know.”

“What will you do with me?”

“I will send you first to an orificial surgeon and have the cause removed. Then I will break up the nerve habit.”

“What is that,—the nerve habit?”

“Why, I mean this, that until you were eighteen, your ganglia (mind) built good eyes, when, through an irritation, it developed into building a pair of bad eyes, called astigmatism, myopia, et cetera. You get two pairs of eyes a year, in eighteen years you get thirty-six pairs of eyes; and up to that time the ganglia (mind) has the memory of building good eyes, in twelve years it builds twenty-four pairs of eyes; after the cause of building bad eyes is removed, I must force the memory of thirty-six to overcome the memory of twenty-four, which is not a very difficult task; but if you came to me ten years later, it would be nearly impossible for me to cause a memory of thirty-six to overcome a memory of forty-four. Where the nerve habit or new memory is not too pronounced, through personal suggestion I can readily revive the first memory. It is through the lack of knowing how to overcome this that our orificialists fail in many cases. This is the greatest use of so-called hypnotic suggestion—the breaking up of nerve habits.”

The same argument holds good as to the lungs, and in all early stages of heart trouble, et cetera.

The doctors tell us that when we have consumption, bugs are nesting in and eating our lungs; but why, most wise (?) gentlemen? Life is indestructible, and if you will use microscopes powerful enough you will always find life (bugs). When man is most dead (?) and burned to a handful of ashes, drop a little acetic acid on them and you will find there is life, movement; and life is simply energy.

I maintain that man gets a new pair of lungs every six months, and when the ganglion that controls the building of the lungs transforms the food into healthy lungs, we lack consumption; that when it makes an imperfect transformation we have the so-called diseased lung, the germ, which is the mal-transformation of food containing life or energy.