On Sunday, January 14th the World Research Foundation sustained major damage due to a severe freeze in Sedona, Arizona. Temperatures in Sedona hit record lows, and water pipes were freezing in homes and businesses all over Sedona, as well as  Phoenix, Arizona, to the south. At 9:00 AM, one of the pipes that supplies the water for the fire sprinkler system froze and cracked, sending cascading water down from above the second story ceiling.

Because of the tremendous pressure in the pipes, the upstairs offices began to fill with water very quickly. However, since it was one of the water pipes that is connected to the water for the fire system, an alarm went off at our local fire station. Apparently the fire department was on the scene in about twelve minutes. They quickly determined that there was not a fire, but they saw water running down the stairway from the second story. The fire sprinkler system cutoff valve was inside the building and they needed to enter the building, which was locked at that time. The firemen had to break down a huge metal security gate and then break through the locked doors to our lower and upper floors. Read the rest »

Taken from, The Science of Breath, by Yogi Ramacharaka, 1904.

Breath is life! Life is absolutely dependent upon the act of breathing.

To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life. Not only are the higher animals dependent upon breath for life and health, but even the lower forms of animal life must breathe to live, and plant life is likewise dependent upon the air for continued existence.

The infant draws in a long, deep breath, retains it for a moment to extract from it its life-giving properties, and then exhales it in a long wail, and then its life upon earth has begun. The old man gives a faint gasp, ceases to breathe, and life is over. From the first faint breath of the infant to the last gasp of the dying man, it is one long story of continued breathing. Life is but a series of breaths. Read the rest »

For decades, the gold standard of medical research has been the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.  You give one group of patients a medicine you want to test, and another group a dummy pill that has no active ingredients.  Neither the patients nor doctors know who is getting which.

Placebo trials are used to tell researchers whether a tested drug has any healing effect beyond that which occurs a certain percentage of time when people take an inert pill.  A patient’s belief in a pill – a supposed medicine, but chemically innocuous – is thought to activate their body’s healing powers. Read the rest »

The effects of color and light on the human system are subjects of continuous scientific investigation. The research and experiments of the late Dinshah Ghadiali proved that the body could be tuned or adjusted from disease to health by systematically exposing it to colored light. An example of this effect is found in the medical practice of treating premature babies with Bilirubin Syndrome (jaundice) by exposing them to blue light, although the methodology is somewhat different from Ghadiali’s. Read the rest »

Coronary artery disease is currently the leading cause of death in the United States.  Despite the increasing sophistication of surgical techniques, the introduction of new techniques such as balloon angioplasty, and a number of new drugs (e.g. beta blockers, calcium antagonists), it is estimated that over 1 million heart attacks will occur this year, resulting in 500,000 deaths.  In short, we do not have an adequate therapeutic solution to the problem of myocardial infarction (heart attack).

The cornerstone of therapy for treatment and prevention of myocardial infarction is to remove blockages in coronary arteries that are thought to be the cause of the infarction.  This adheres to the widely accepted coronary artery thrombosis theory of infarction; that is, arteries become clogged with plaque, damaged from such things as smoking or high cholesterol.  A clot forms a fissure in the plaque.  The clot may shut off the blood flow of the coronary artery, causing a heart attack.  It is deceptively simple:  The coronary arteries are clogged.  No blood can flow, so the muscles of the heart cannot be supported, and heart metabolism stops, leading to death. Read the rest »

“Since man first became conscious of himself, he has been eager to understand the two most striking mysteries surrounding him: The enigma of the natural phenomena, and the secret of his own existence.  What is the motive force within him that thinks, wills, loves, and hates?  What takes place in his system that subjects him to sickness and afflicts him with physical and mental suffering?  With the meager knowledge at his command, man has traced the origin of the world and its manifold natural events to one source, divine power, and localized in himself an essential supernatural principle, a soul that governs his physiology and psychology.

It is commonly believed that the primitive philosopher resorted to supernatural conceptions of the universe out of choice.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Read the rest »