Kelder - Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, Book 2

I n this volume, you will be introduced to ideas, techniques, and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living, and cause you to live longer. However, you wont notice that youre living longer. Youll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.

I often see people start to live their lives to the fullest only after they develop a life-threatening illness and must come to grips with their own mortality. When this happens, they experience a spiritual and physical rebirth so powerful it can improve or even cure the illness completely. Once this renewal process takes over, aging ends and youthing begins. Please, dont wait until youre facing death to set the youthing process in motion in your life. Begin it now.

This book is intended to help you do just that. In it, youll discover a wonderful series of simple exercises called the Five Rites. You will also find a wealth of related information on diet, breathing, voice energetics, and many other topics. You will read about the uplifting experiences of people who practice the Five Rites. And youll find advice and insights from physicians who will share their knowledge with you.

But as you read the pages that follow, keep in mind that this book is not really about ritual, or exercise, or techniques. At its heart, it is about youyour uniqueness, your attitudes and beliefs, your desires and hopes, your potential, your ability to joyfully embrace life and live it fully.

Science has demonstrated that your body and brain are physically altered by both your activities and your thoughts. By the same token, you can purposefully alter your activities and thoughts to achieve your goals for change. The exercises and techniques in this book are aimed at this very thing. I have done the Five Rites, and they make a lot of sense to me. I am convinced that if you do them regularly, and if you engage in life joyfully, you will improve your physical health and your mental outlook, and you will begin the youthing process.

Also, you will access and put to use the life force energy which is the essence of all things. Science now has the ability to measure this energy and is beginning to explore it. I have experimented with this books advice on mantras and mantrums, and I can feel the energy difference they make. Allow me to share this story:

The other night I was meditating and performing my mantras while lying in bed. My cats were in bed with me, curling up to go to sleep. My wife, who was in the other room, could feel an unusual energy, and she came in to see what was happening. When she entered, I opened my eyes and discovered that the cats had also sensed something unusual. They were sitting upright, as alert and wide awake as I have ever seen them at 11 p.m.. To me, the incident demonstrated how real and palpable this energy is and how it can make things happen in your life, things that are sensed and perceived by those around us.

My advice to you is this: Take the valuable information you are about to read. Bring to it your own insights and inspiration. Then, create your own personal transformation. Remember, you will not find the fountain of youth by looking outside yourself. The source of all things is found by going within.

So start right now!

Peace,
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

W hen the last key had made its imprint, he pushed back from his typewriter, made a neat pile of the pages he had written, and gazed with mixed satisfaction and uncertainty at the title page which read, The Eye of Revelation by Peter Kelder.

The manuscript which Kelder held in his hands was not a major literary feat. But it was well crafted, short, simple, and direct. Moreover, it conveyed a message which many have since found meaningful and even profound. Even so, Kelder could not have imagined then, in 1939, that his little book would endure for generations, to be read by millions of people throughout the world in a dozen languages and even in braille.

His book told the story of five ancient Tibetan exercises brought to the West by a retired British Army officer identified only as Colonel Bradford. The Five Rites, as they were called, were said to unlock the secret of nothing less than the fabled fountain of youth.

Kelders book was published soon thereafter, and while it was not a best-seller, it was popular enough to be expanded and reissued eight years later in 1947. Even when it did eventually go out of print, it showed surprising staying power. Kelders book survived by word-of-mouth as copies were passed from hand to hand, and in time it gained the status of a cult classic.

Then, in 1985 Kelder updated his book and it was republished by Harbor Press under the title Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth. By then, more than half a century had elapsed since the book initially appeared, and the world was a very different place. Western culture, coming to terms with a new age of technology, had begun to search for answers in the ancient wisdom of the East. Eastern mysticism, the concept of subtle energy, the practice of yoga, and the belief that these things interacted with health and physical aging, were no longer the odd concepts of a lunatic fringe. They had become fixtures of Western popular culture.