The Philosophy of Fasting: A Message for Sufferers and Sinners. - Hardcover

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Fasting is not a panacea. Only Nature grants panaceas. And she makes hers fresh for each case. Nor does she employ human dispensaries. But Fasting, rightly conducted and completed, is nearest a panacea for all mortal ills of any drugless remedy I know, whether physiological, metaphysical, or inspirational. Fasting, resting, airing, bathing, breathing, exercising and hoping--these seven simple measures, if sanely proportioned and administered, will cure any case of acute disease. And almost any case of chronic. It is not however with the therapeutic side we are chiefly concerned in this book. The healing phase is unquestionably the most vital. But its importance has caused it to be discussed already in a variety of convincing ways by specialist pioneers, preceding me in the field. "The Philosophy of Fasting" considers rather the mental, psychic and spiritual components which are themselves based on the physiological.

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