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  MAN’S HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

  BY

  PROF. HILTON HOTEMA

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Contents

  TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

  PROLOGUE 5

  WHY WE LIVE AND WHY WE DIE 7

  INTRODUCTION 7

  MAN EATS TO DIE 8

  LESSON NO. 1—PHYSICAL PERFECTION 9

  BREATH OF LIFE 10

  STAGES OF DEGENERATION 10

  MAGNETISM 11

  SPIRITUAL POTENTIALITY TO PHYSICAL ACTUALITY 12

  THE WAY TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL MAN 13

  SO CALLED CIVILIZED VIEW 13

  WHY THE TRUTH IS SUPPRESSED 14

  ECONOMIC FREEDOM 14

  LESSON NO. 2—THE LIVING CELL 16

  CHIROPRACTIC LAW OF PHYSIOLOGY 16

  WHERE DID THE LIVING CELL COME FROM 17

  IS EATING NECESSARY 18

  ELIMINATION 18

  CELLS ARE NOT PRODUCED BY FOOD 19

  EARLY MEN WERE BREATHARIANS 19

  THE MIRACULOUS CELL 20

  LESSON NO. 3—PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY 21

  MAN’S BODY RESEMBLES THE PLANETARY BODIES 21

  MISLEADING REPORTS 22

  BODY CRAVES FOOD AS IT DOES POISON 23

  MAN EATS TO DIE 23

  DISEASE GERMS 25

  GOOD HEALTH IS NOT IMMUNITY 25

  IMMUNITY REDUCES POWER TO RESIST 27

  CONDITIONS THAT DESTROY HEALTH 28

  DANGER OF SMOKING 29

  TOLERATION BY THE BODY 30

  IMMUNITY 31

  LESSON NO. 5—BODY CHANGES 33

  MISLEADING THE MULTITUDE 33

  HARMFUL PRACTICES FROM BIRTH 34

  FEWER CENTENARIANS 35

  THE BODY FIGHTS AGAINST CHANGES 36

  RUDIMENTARY ORGANS 36

  LESSON NO. 6—MAN’S NATURAL HOME 40

  ALTITUDE IS BENEFICIAL 41

  LESSON NO. 7—SHE EATS NOTHING 42

  SURVIVAL IS NATURE’S GOAL 43

  BREATHARIANISM TO GLUTTARIANISM 43

  BURIED SIX MONTHS AND LIVES 44

  SPENT TIME IN CELL 45

  LESSON NO. 8—MATERIALISM 46

  WEIGHT AND VITALITY LOSS DUE TO AUTOINTOXICATION 46

  LIVE WITHOUT EATING 48

  THE GREAT BODY NORMALIZER 48

  LESSON NO. 9—BODY BUILDING MATERIAL 51

  DISCOVERY AMAZED MATERIAL SCIENCE 52

  IMPORTANT NOTICE 55

  LESSON NO. 10—THE AGING PROCESS 58

  CONDITIONS OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE 59

  RETURN MUST BE SLOW AND GRADUAL 59

  ANTIQUITY OF MAN 60

  HOW TO REVERSE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF AGING 61

  CONSTIPATION THE NATIONAL DISORDER 62

  LESSON NO. 11—DOES MAN STARVE 64

  FINDING THE TRUTH 65

  FOOD STIMULATES 65

  IT IS THE BODY THAT ACTS 66

  PEOPLE WHO CRAVE POISON 66

  POWER OF ADAPTABILITY 67

  FISH DOES NOT GIVE BRAINS 68

  LESSON NO. 12—DANGER OF ABRUPT CHANGES 70

  MEN OF GREAT STATURE 70

  STATURE ORIGINALLY GIGANTIC 71

  MAN’S BODY RESEMBLES THE PLANETARY BODIES 73

  MISLEADING REPORTS 74

  BODY CRAVES FOOD AS IT DOES POISON 74

  MAN EATS TO DIE 75

  LESSON NO. 13—CHRONIC AUTO-INTOXICATION 77

  BODY TRIES TO MAINTAIN BALANCE 78

  VITALITY INCREASES 79

  EAT LITTLE AND LIVE LONG 79

  LESSON NO. 14—BODY NEEDS 81

  MINERALS FROM COSMIC RAYS 81

  SENSATION OF HUNGER 82

  EATING IS A VICIOUS CIRCLE 83

  ATOMIC ENERGY 84

  LESSON NO. 15—EATING POISONS 86

  DANGEROUS NARCOTIC FROM JUICE OF POPPY 87

  MICE UNABLE TO LIVE ON HUMAN DIET 87

  EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION 89

  DORMANT ORGANS READY WHEN NEEDED 90

  LESSON NO. 16—VEGETARIANISM IS BAD 92

  BODY VITALITY REDUCED 92

  MOST VEGETABLES ARE NOT NATURAL 93

  CEREALS ARE A BAD FOOD 95

  FRUITS EASIER PRODUCED WITH LESS LABOR 95

  ALIMENTATION AND DECREPITUDE 97

  EARTHY SALTS CAUSE OLD AGE 97

  FRUITS HAVE LITTLE EARTHY MATTER 98

  FRESH FRUIT 99

  LESSON NO. 17—CARNIVORISM IS BAD 100

  BUTTER, MILK AND CHEESE LESS HARMFUL 101

  REASON FOR INCREASED VITALITY 102

  FLESH FOODS PUTREFY 103

  MODE OF LIVING BUILDS CRAVINGS, ACHES AND PAINS 104

  48 MILLION HAVE TRICHINOSIS 105

  TABLE SALT 106

  OPINIONS ON SALT EATING 107

  ANCIENT WISDOM 109

  LESSON NO. 18—LONGEVITY 111

  HE LIVED 256 YEARS 117

  BODY NEVER MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS OLD 119

  FRUIT AND LONGEVITY 119

  DOCTORS DO NOT LIVE LONG 120

  LIVE 200 TO 300 YEARS 122

  LESSON NO. 19—WATER CAUSES AGING 123

  LESS MINERALS NEEDED AFTER MATURITY 124

  CAUSES OF SCLEROSIS 124

  IMPORTANCE OF WATER 125

  “MINERAL WATER” NOT BENEFICIAL 126

  LIME DEPOSITS CAUSE STIFF JOINTS 127

  RAIN WATER AND DISTILLED WATER ARE SAFE 128

  LESSON NO. 20—THE WONDERFUL ORANGE 129

  KING OF FRUITS 130

  FINEST DISTILLED WATER 130

  SIX MONTHS ON ORANGE JUICE 131

  LESSON NO. 21—BREATH OF LIFE 136

  EARLY THEORIES OF RESPIRATION 136

  PHYSICO-CHEMICAL THEORY OF RESPIRATION REDISCOVERED 137

  BREATHING PRIMARY FUNCTION 138

  WHY MAN DIES 140

  WHY MAN LIVES 140

  LESSON NO. 22—SPIRITUAL ORGANS 143

  MATERIALISM IS A SUPERSTITION 143

  RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS ONLY PARTIAL 145

  THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITHIN 146

  UNCANNY POWERS OF INDIANS 146

  LESSON NO. 23—SPIRITUAL POWERS 149

  ANCIENT SCIENCE OF MAN 149

  SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE 150

  MAN’S INTELLIGENCE 151

  INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS 152

  MAN A MINIATURE UNIVERSE 153

  MAN IS DEAD AS HE LIVES 154

  MAN LIVES IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD 154

  PARTHENOGENESIS (VIRGIN BIRTH) 155

  THE KINGDOM OF GOD 156

  FEEBLE MINDS 158

  ANCIENT SCIENCE vs. MODERN NONSENSE 159

  LESSON NO. 24—PHYSICAL PURIFICATION 164

  FUNCTION OF BREATHING 164

  SHOWER OF RED MIST 166

  B
LOOD POISON 166

  BREATH CULTURE 167

  VITAL FUNCTION 168

  THE RESIDUAL AIR 169

  GASES AND ACIDS 170

  THE SKIN 171

  EXHALATION 171

  ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE 173

  500 FELLED BY GAS 174

  SUFFOCATION 174

  COLD FACTS 175

  LESSON NO. 25—BREATH OF DEATH 177

  POISONS IN THE BLOOD 178

  DEADLY CARBON DIOXIDE 178

  EXHALED AIR IS POISONOUS 180

  POISONS ENTERING THE BODY 181

  BIG BATTLE FOR HEALTH 181

  MILLIONS CHRONICALLY ILL 182

  LESSON NO. 26—POISONED AIR 183

  CARBON MONOXIDE GAS 183

  DANGERS OF POISONED AIR UNKNOWN 185

  BRAIN POISON 187

  PERNICIOUS ANEMIA 187

  CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE 188

  LUNG CANCER 189

  NERVE CELLS DESTROYED 190

  CAUSES CANCER 193

  EAT UP THE BODY 193

  SMOKE, SOOT, TAR, ACID, GAS 194

  TOBACCO SMOKE 196

  CORONARY THROMBOSIS 198

  SCIENCE EDITOR DIES OF “HEART ATTACK 198

  CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION 199

  KING GEORGE VI 200

  CHANGE YOUR WORLD 200

  LESSON NO. 27—THE COMMON COLD 202

  DEGENERATIVE PROCESS 202

  POLLUTED AIR 203

  ACUTE AILMENTS 206

  AIR CELLS BURST 207

  VITAL ADJUSTMENT 209

  NO COMPLETE RECOVERY 209

  HARDENED MUCUS 211

  AN INVISIBLE FOE 212

  THE AGING PROCESS 212

  THE BLOOD 213

  WONDERS OF THE AIR 214

  LESSON NO. 28—COSMIC AIR PURIFIERS 216

  THE HOME 218

  WHERE TO LIVE AND SLEEP 218

  OZONE 219

  IONIZED AIR 221

  SHALLOW AND DEEP BREATHING 222

  BREATHE MORE-EAT LESS 224

  AIR IS LIFE 225

  ETERNAL PHYSICAL LIFE 225

  THE NEW AGE 226

  LESSON NO. 29—DEGENERACY OF CIVILIZED MAN 233

  CIVILIZATION 235

  ALEXIS CARREL 237

  LESSON NO. 30—MYSTERIES OF LIFE 239

  MODERN SCIENCE IS YOUNG 240

  LIFE 241

  SCIENCE CHANGES WITH THE WIND 242

  ATHEISTS AND EVOLUTIONISTS 243

  THE PHYSICAL 243

  THE COSMIC CIRCLE 244

  THE PHYSICAL PLANE 245

  FOUR COSMIC BODIES 246

  RISE ABOVE THE MATERIAL 247

  PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY 248

  INTELLIGENCE 248

  FOURTH DIMENSION 250

  SO-CALLED LAW OF GRAVITATION 251

  END OF CREATION THEORY 252

  NATURE 253

  TWO KINDS OF FACTS 255

  SEE THE INVISIBLE FROM WITHIN 256

  SCIENCE OF MAN 256

  ANCIENT WISDOM DESTROYED 257

  ANCIENT SCIENCE 258

  SPIRITUAL KINGDOM WITHIN 259

  THE ANCIENT VOICE 260

  THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION 261

  LESSON NO. 31—THE SACRED SCIENCE 262

  DANGEROUS INVENTION 262

  MORE PIOUS FRAUD 263

  SPIRITUAL LIFE 263

  REGENERATION 264

  MAN’S DECREASING POWERS 265

  THE RED DRAGON 266

  TWO LAWS OF GENERATION 266

  GENERATION AND DEATH 267

  SEVEN SPIRITUAL CENTERS 268

  REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 270

  PROLOGUE

  Life is Creation’s greatest treasure for Man in the flesh, and most men should enjoy it much longer than they do. This can easily be done by learning the body’s simple requirements, and living in harmony with that knowledge, which is contained in Hotema’s late work titled Long Life In Florida.

  Some men are now living 120, 150 and 200 years and even longer, and what is possible for one man is possible for millions more. Charlie Smith of Florida is vital and vigorous at the age of 119 and says he intends to live considerably longer. Much about him is contained in our work titled Long Life In Florida, which everyone should read, as it’s the greatest work ever written on Longevity.

  In 1943 Santiago Surviate, an Indian, died in Arizona at the age of 135. In 1936 Zora Agha, a Turk, died in Turkey at the age of 162. In 1921 Jose Calverio died in Mexico at the age of 185. In 1795 Thomas Carn died in England at the age of 207. In 1933 Li Chung-Yun died in China at the age of 2 56. In 1566 Numes De Cugna died in India at the age of 370. He grew four new sets of teeth and his hair turned from black to gray four times.

  In December, 1888, when Mrs. Fred Miller was two years old, her mother found a little turtle nearly frozen in an alley near their home in Baltimore. She took the turtle home, named it Pete, nursed it back to health, and now at an age estimated to be more than 100 years, Pete is still the family pet and shows little signs of his age.

  All living creatures are ruled by the same laws of Creation, but they do not all live in harmony with those laws. Those that come the closest to it are those that live the longest in proportion to the length of time required for them to reach maturity of physical development.

  There are many reasons, most of them preventable, why people die young and hospitals are filled with the sick, whereas others are seldom ill and live three to ten times longer.

  It would logically seem that living creatures with the higher intelligence should be the ones to live the nearest to the requirements of the laws of Creation; but in action it seems to work the other way, the more intelligent creatures being those who appear to stray the farthest from the straight and narrow path which leads unto life (Mat. 7:13, 14).

  The large majority of the so-called health writers are not noted for longevity. They seem to die as early as those who read their writings. And some who live 120 years can’t tell why they lived so long, as in the case of Diamond, who lived 120 years, wrote a book on long life in 1904 when he was 108, on page 43 of which he itemized “My Daily Menu”, which is rather good, yet not one we would recommend.

  To reduce longevity to a scientific basis means that we must learn the requirements of the body and supply them. The fasts show that living is breathing. We can’t die as long as we can breathe—and we stop living when we stop breathing.

  Breathing is the primary function of the body. We can live for weeks without eating, and for days without drinking, but when we stop breathing for a few minutes, we stop living.

  And right here is the most neglected spot in the entire health field. Why is that so? First, ignorance; second, the claim of science that man lives on what he eats; and third, no one has yet found a way to commercialize air and breathing.

  This is the discouraging condition we found sixty years ago, when we set out to learn how to live healthy and long. And so, we began almost alone to learn something about breathing and the Breath of Life.

  The first valuable hint came when we found this: “If we maintain our blood in normal condition and circulation, sickness would be almost impossible. The blood is the life of the flesh. We are what we are by the influence of our blood flowing thru our body” (Bernarr Macfadden, in Vitality Supreme, 1910).

  Then there came another surprise when we discovered that blood is made of gas. The gases of the air constitute the total composition of the blood. We know that water is the product of the uniting of hydrogen and oxygen gases. When we drink water, we drink gases in fluid form. Blood is gases in fluid form. Everything can be transformed to gas by heat. The earth itself is constituted of condensed gas. There is the source and origin of all things.

  We have heard of fire damp, ignis fatuus, and will-o’-the-wisp. That fiery element is the Living Gas in what we eat and drink. That Living Gas is all the body uses of what we eat. Of that Living Gas the blood is made.

  This is the first valuable lesson in dietetics. Scientists talk learnedly and foolishly abo
ut protein, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, fats, lipids, etc., ignoring the fact that the ox, elephant, horse and moose live in good health all their days on grass and green leaves.

  The next lesson in dietetics is not to heat food and drive out of it the precious, volatile gases which the body uses in its laboratory to make its blood and the products it needs, which includes all the elements mentioned above.

  Remember this one: Creation never uses second-hand material in its building work. The protein in the food we eat never becomes the protein of our body. That protein has served its purpose, is a used product, and is never used again by Creation in its constructive work.

  The living gas in what we eat is all the body uses. The rest is useless waste, and cast off by the body as feces. Hence, most of what man eats goes down the sewer.

  As gases are all the body uses in making blood and bone and building flesh, consider the condition of the blood, bone and flesh that are made of the poisonous gases that saturate the air of modern civilization, where health is the exception instead of the rule. If a chemist analyzed the air we breathe and gave us his report, we would be shocked to learn the great amount of poison the body must endure to live in our polluted environment.

  This subject is so broad and vital, it would take a large book to discuss it adequately. But enough has been said to make a thinking person be more careful about the kind of air he breathes, the condition of the air in his home, and especially in his bedroom, where lack of activity during the night allows the air to stagnate and grow extra foul.

  That’s another reason why people die in their sleep. The polluted, stagnant air in their bedroom paralyzes the breathing center of the brain, and they just stop breathing.

  Stagnant air gets foul, like water in a stagnant pool. Keep the air in circulation in homes and bedrooms. Use electric fans for that purpose. Fewer people would die in their sleep if they had an electric fan in operation in their bedroom.

  This writer is only fifteen years under the century mark, which he expects to pass by many years, as he feels as fit as he did forty years ago. And he is telling the world here, in this work of his, some of the secrets of how he has done it.

  To an intelligent, unprejudiced person who can and does think, the information contained in this work may seem simple. But it is the fundamental simplicities that are always difficult to accept, because they are so very simple, and, therefore, unbelievable on that account.

  Prof. Hilton Hotema

  Tequisquiapan, Qro.,

  Mexico.

  Alt. 6000’.

  WHY WE LIVE AND WHY WE DIE