What makes me a miracle teacher?

Thirty years of fighting heart disease, diabetes, brain tumour, serious gall bladder operation results, threat of prostate cancer, pneumonia, suicide tendencies and a bunch of other stuff related to these diseased attitudes. I have often faced death because there were no resources left that our medical profession could draw on to save my life or return me to health. When one is so cornered, or trapped, you will try everything and or, perhaps, any thing, to make your self better. I have, fortunately, had several near death experiences that have given me great insights to how I function spiritually. My fear
of death is now literally non-existent.

I also sold herbal products and met many others, that were helped or cured, using these supposed magical products and listened to their stories of success or failure. It is these lessons and direct experiences that have finally led to my writing this course. I truly want to help you make the changes I know you may need, or can use, to make your life healthier and or more successful. I believe health and success are intimately involved. You cannot have one without the other. The process for either is exactly the same. The treatment process is exactly the same for your life’s situation as they are for your health and well being.

I have come to the conclusion that the psyche [my word for soul, or spirit] is the key player in my life.
Nothing happens to me, whether good or bad, that can not be traced back to the results my psyche has set up for me through my subconscious mind. This set up, in my opinion, has been set up by me making my choices. This is exactly the same for you.

You may ask me what my mission is. Essentially it is to make a positive difference in my community,
and a positive difference in every one I meet. This is a mission I have had for many years. Not always
clearly defined, but it caused me to do many things. To these ends I have been a Rotarian for many
years, have won one of their highest awards for exemplary service. I have done many projects in and
with Rotary. I claim personal credit for two large projects in Rotary, one was bicycle paths or trails
around two parks in my community and a band shell for public use. These have proved to be very popular and well used facilities. The bands and dancers get a lot of use out of the band shell. It is literally free for the novice bands and musicians and stage actors. The bike paths cost 450.000 dollars and the band shell cost some 250.000 dollars.

I am working on this Miracles project to help people become more successful in accomplishing their goals and to become healthier. This is part of my mission to make a positive difference in your life. I have two other ideas I am working on in addition to this one.

Another thing I have successfully done at various times is to form think tanks. These think tanks proved successful for me and others. I am in the process of setting up a think tank for this project.

I am convinced that we all have an innate and primal desire to do and accomplish certain missions in our lives. I also think we may not know what that mission is or should be. This course will assist you in determining exactly what you want to do. When you are in tune with your mission, you are unstoppable and successful.

All of this miracle stuff really started with a heart attack [MI] at the old age of 42. I was a successful
world traveler, had a beautiful family and home, and at the ripe old age of forty one had moved to a water front retirement home on the shore of a lake in the Okanagan Valley. In mid December, I had my annual check up and was told I should stop smoking, maybe loose a few pounds, maybe do some more exercise, but was in general good health. Two weeks later, on Dec 25th/1978, without warning, I had a very mild heart attack [MI - Myocardial Infarct].I was sent home from the hospital the same day so I could have Xmas dinner with my family and visiting relatives. I was told not to worry, every thing was just fine. I was lucky to get a mild warning so I could go and fix myself. The next day - Boxing Day - Dec 26th, 1978, I got clobbered with a severe MI that really raised serious health problems.

I was not expected to live, and was deemed too ill to be immediately flown to Vancouver for an emergency heart by-pass operation. A long stay in the intensive care unit evolved. During that attack I also had a near death experience [NDE] or out of body experience [OBE]. This experience was, and is the most profound thing to ever happen to my psyche and mind. I was so fundamentally spiritually changed, it actually frightened me. All of my previous religious beliefs were blown out of the water. These beliefs were so ingrained, so deep in my psyche, that suddenly letting go of them was and some times is still difficult.

What you are not told at the time of the heart attack, and when you are primarily in the care of the
cardiologists, is that other cardiac health problems almost automatically will occur. You are not told how to avoid these, and more particularly not told how to cope with them. The medical profession seem to say that they don’t know what will happen - but they think they can deal successfully with them as they show up. Essentially correct, but it does scare the beejeebers out of you as they happen.

When I was in the intensive care unit of the hospital immediately after my heart attack [MI] a dear friend
snuck in to visit me by putting on a priest’s collar and telling the staff he was my minister. He was let in for a moment or two. The first thing he did was whisper in my ear to tell me that “I should not let them
operate on me [meaning open heart surgery] till I had talked to him and he took me to an herbalist in a
neighbouring town that had given him some cayenne pepper that had really helped him”. After a few
minutes he was asked to leave. Staff then wanted to know what he said - my response was that
discussions with my clergy man were private and would remain that way. I think the medical people were simply curious.

I got out of intensive care some three weeks later and was slated to fly to Vancouver later for an
angiogram to determine the by-pass operation the medical people believed I needed. As soon as I was out of the hospital, I went with my ‘minister’ friend to see this herbalist. The herbalist prescribed huge amounts of cayenne pepper, and several small amounts of several other herbs. He had these other herbs in stock and I bought several months supply and but had to go to a grocery store for the cayenne pepper. At that time I thought cayenne could be purchased in bulk only. Ingesting cayenne in water was not particularly pleasant. I ended up taking a heaping teaspoonful in a glass of water - three times a day. Rugged method, but I continued doing this because I felt better.

Finally I made the trip to Vancouver, and had the angiogram for the planned by-pass operation. An
interesting experience. The angiogram showed a huge amount of repair work being done by the heart
muscle on its own, to get blood flowing around the heart attack wound. Prognosis by the cardiologists -
they felt there would be no more real benefit to gained with by-pass surgery as the heart seemed to be
healing itself so well. I happily agreed to wait further development with my curious treatment. The doctors asked me what I was doing, and when I told them about the cayenne - they expressed disbelief. I chided them for not believing what their eyes were telling them. And that I would not have any operation by them until another angiogram was done by people who trusted their vision. This sounded somewhat tongue in cheek to the them - but I was serious. I did not have a heart bypass operation till several years later, and then from other causes. Then I arrested [my heart stopped beating] as a reaction to the contrast dyes used for the angiogram. I was allergic to them. I knew I was arresting, so relaxed and let it happen as I trusted these people to be experts at reviving people with stopped hearts. They did bring me back in record time. Then I was transferred to a cardiac care intensive unit for a couple of days. While there, I decided if I could do non-medical stuff that was helping me as much as by-pass might do - then I was going to get off all heart medications and cure myself of heart disease and to do this as fast as possible.

And I accomplished this some eighteen months later. By this time I had taken a job in Toronto, and used a cardiologist in Toronto as a diagnostician to see that I didn’t do something really dangerous, or tell me what was happening so that I could correct my doings to mitigate the challenges of potential damages. I succeeded and after some time you could not tell I had had a severe heart attack. Heart tests, and X-rays were normal. I lived normally for the next several years.

Lets talk about pepper and other food for a few moments. Capsicum is the main ingredient of cayenne
pepper. Cayenne is considered a hot pepper. For centuries cayenne pepper has been considered a prime heart food. I agree with that. I learned a lot about peppers, particularly cayenne. The spicy heat in peppers is measured by the Scoville heat scale. Over 50,000 Scoville units is deemed hot. Well the bulk cayenne I was purchasing in he super markets had a heat rating of perhaps fifteen to twenty thousand Scoville units.My friendly herbalist made cayenne pepper with some eighty thousand heat units. I switched to this for years. Finally, I found a cayenne pill made by a the company Solaray called Cool Cayenne. They have a Scoville rating of 100,000. There is no hot taste, no stomach disruption and no after burn. A pleasant way to get my vital spice. I still eat this cayenne pepper daily to keep my heart healthy. It really works.

I have tried many foods and supplements to maintain or regain my health. At one stage I ate so much bran and fibre I was passing rattan furniture! I slowed down on this when I had refurnished our home! Vitamin E was used in great quantities. Cod liver oil is back in my diet. I keep trying new supplements and many of them are beneficial. I have also bought my share of snake oil. I do not worry or care much about the bad products, it is simply a price I seem to have to pay to get the good ones. I credit one product with saving my life. After my open heart surgery, and several angioplasties - I was dying. My cardiologist, heart surgeon and GP told me to make sure my estate was in order, I simply could not live much longer. Sorry - but I simply fell through the cracks.

My chiropractor told me about a product called heart drops that was saving all kinds of people from death caused by heart disease. I called these people and they mailed me a bottle of Heart Drops. I believed they would work. I had nothing to lose but my life - which I was losing at that point. Strauss Heart Drops really worked as the magic bullet - I am still alive after more than eleven years. I have survived the open heart surgery and a myriad of other heart problems. I say a huge thank you to the Strauss Herb Company, and particularly Jim Strauss, its founder, and the inventor of Heart Drops.

I also went through the trauma of a divorce after some eighteen years of marriage. My wife was a good
person, but we simply grew apart. She developed cancer and would not see a herbalist. She simply said I will listen to my medical doctors. Unfortunately she died at the ripe old age of forty three. She did not die of the cancer, but died of the treatment. Another sharp and immensely painful lesson from the medical profession.

To make a long story short, I decided to go to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to get a BA in
parapsychology to learn more about non-medical health treatment. By this time I was quite convinced that health was not a function of medicine, but more a function of mind [soul] and spirit. From my experiences at this point in time - I had become convinced that our medical people were literally marvelous technicians in a crisis, but were far less likely to be of much benefit, if any, over the long term. On the long term, they seemed to rely more on drug producers recommendations than their own experience. They have committees formed to protect their own from liability if some one is harmed, and protect their own from licence suspension and absolutely nothing formally engaged to make our doctors real healers and health practitioners. Their functions are guided by actuariasts to keep their damage liability as low as possible. That way they can afford to make mistakes in medical treatments, and pay out a few claims. No, we spend millions training these good people, and then spend further billions to keep them in business. I can tell you from experience, you will never get one doctor to criticize or tell you what another doctor has done wrong. Even doctors with addictions are seldom ever exposed. They are found out because their addictive behaviours may be exposed in public places out side of the operating rooms. The public then exposes them, but they are probably never exposed by their compatriots.