“Cholesterol obtained from an experimental animal’s blood unexposed to ultraviolet radiation and kept in the dark for about a week is incapable of supplying growth-producing reaction when fed to a mouse on a vitamine-free diet, but if the animal is irradiated under ultraviolet radiation for a total exposure equivalent to one minute per gram weight of animal at 75 volts and 40 inches from the uviarc source, the cholesterol obtained from the blood is then capable of sustaining life.”

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“Tantric Kriya Yoga takes you into the state called Bindu — the state between wakefulness and dreaming. You will come to a point where you are asleep physically but you are wide awake.”

“In the earliest days in the mountains, infection was rare. In the fresh mountain air and on the diet available, men recovered rapidly from serious wounds. Some of the Indian remedies were quite useful, but as we all know, many people simply recover. The mountain men, for example, and western men generally, were in excellent health to begin with.”

“Certain savage races living in cool climates do without clothes, as, for example, aborigines of Terra del Fuego, who, according to the reports of travelers, substituted a covering of oil.”

“Bones and skin possess a particular affinity for metals, and the possible relationship between this property and the predisposition for calcification may be a fruitful subject for future study.”