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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Stanley Burroughs for his consistent and unwavering commitment to his lifes work. Although he faced much opposition and ridicule, he was undaunted by forces that at times made his life difficult. He created a sound, yet simple, system of healing that is available to almost anyone who takes the time and effort to experience it.
I also wish to thank my instructor, Maynard Dalderis, who dedicated himself to properly learning Stanleys work by taking his training multiple times. Maynard was an adept and proficient teacher who made Stanleys work so exciting and credible that it inspired me and many like me to take this knowledge and bring it to others.
Richard Grassie and Michael Liggett were also instrumental in getting me on my newfound life path, and for that I am extremely grateful to them.
To Shannon Buchan, my former wife, who never made me get a job when I found it difficult to make the rent for some months when I began my healing work. I also thank her for helping me write this book and giving me many suggestions to make it a better one. Her constant focus helped me keep my attention on the work at hand.
Thanks also to Tamara Olson for supporting me in my endeavors in finding adjuncts to the Master Cleanse and for always believing in my lifes mission.
I would also like to express my gratitude to the many thousands of people who trusted me to support them during their health challenges, so that they might heal themselves. This body of experience that I gained from them has taught me much, which I can now share with others who are looking to enhance their health and seeking the empowerment that they deserve.
I cannot forget to thank both my editor, Mark Woodworth, for his patience and his wonderful editing skill, and the rest of the staff at Ulysses Press, including Nick Denton-Brown, for giving me an opportunity to fulfill my long-held desire by writing this book.
Finally, thank you to the Creative Power that makes all things possible.
PART 1
Origin of the Master Cleanse
CHAPTER 1
Why You Need This Book
For many years, clients and friends whom I have treated for various health problems have asked me to write a book such as this. They have benefited from my guidance, because of the extensive knowledge I have developed with the Master Cleanse and my experience in using it, as well as my relationship with its creator and developer (who will be profiled in Chapter 3) and one of his foremost students and teachers, Maynard Dalderis.
Recent articles about the efficacy of the Master Cleanse have been featured in leading American newspapers and on top-rated television shows, with a variety of celebrity endorsements, bringing it the attention it so rightly deserves. The Master Cleanse is a marvelous gift to those tens or even hundreds of thousands of people who are looking for a simple, inexpensive, and amazingly effective way to improve their health, boost their sense of well-being (both physical and emotional), and change from their experience of dis-ease (as I will spell it throughout this book) to a steady state of feeling healthy and whole.
What Is the Master Cleanse?
The Master Cleanse is one of the most simple, effective, and inexpensive cleansing and healing programs available. It is a liquid monodiet (that is, one mixture only) designed to work with and complement your bodys own cleansing and detoxifying processes, and at the same time to nourish your body with the things it needs to function. It is not a true fast (one in which there is no nutrition), nor is it a means to starve the body in order to lose weight dangerously fast. The cleanse is typically done for 10 days, but can be safely maintained for many more days in a row, even weeks, when desired.
The ingredients of the monodiet are specified in detail in Part 2 of this book, but for now you will be glad to know that they are readily available, light on the wallet, and easy to combine and drink: good water, fresh lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. Thats all.
I have benefited greatly from this program! For more than two decades I have followed my own instructions for doing the Master Cleanse, correcting my steps as I learned from experience, tailoring the program to my clients with a variety of conditions, and on occasion testing and adding other therapies as adjuncts. I have completed over one hundred cleanses of my own body, and can bear personal witness to its health-giving benefits. I would not recommend it if it did not work for me. Among the most important benefits it has brought me:
I have not seen a medical doctor for treatment from the first day I began training in this program, January 8, 1980.
For over 25 years I have used this program to treat all of my own health conditions, including neck and shoulder pain, prostate issues, headaches, constipation, shingles, and other minor ailments.
I have gained confidence and freedom by knowing that with the Master Cleanse I can deal with those health issues that arise for me.
Despite the thousands of successful Master Cleanse treatments I have helped clients do in my practice, and the hundreds of success stories I have heard from colleagues and other reputable sources, there are still many naysayers of the program. No surprise here! This is how a society typically reacts to virtually any holistic or unconventional nonmedical health practice throughout history, as well as to scientific discoveries that are later borne out by careful research.
Today, even though we are well launched into the 21st century and living in an age of supposed rationality, many people do not understand the simple concept of what causes, and cures, organic dis-ease. This is true partly because of the monopoly of the health care system by allopathic medicine, otherwise known as mainstream medicine. This monopoly makes every effort to discredit the alternative health care movement that has been carefully built on traditional folk-treatments dating back hundreds of years through myriad cultures.
GOOD TO KNOW
Dis-ease has its origins in the 14th century. The Middle English word disese, combining des- + eise, meant a condition of an animal, or one of its parts, that impairs normal functioning and is often manifested by outward signs or inner symptoms. The root ease derives from the Old French and Latin for adiacens, or lying down. Dis-ease implies the inability to rest comfortably and feel well.
Doubters and Skeptics
When I started practicing in my field of holistic health counseling, about a quarter century ago, the medical establishment held fast to the pervasive ideology that diet had little or no effect in causing dis-ease. Doctors treated patients as if their bodies had no necks to connect the mind and body, as one being. Their patients diet and state of mind were believed to be of little or no consequence to their bodies health. It was thought that people could eat whatever they desired, live however they wished, and if they developed symptoms of a dis-ease their doctor could prescribe a magic pill or potion, or do a little operation, that would fix all their problems, which seemed to be of unknown origin.