Daniel Reid Quotes

“A large dose of niacin is one of the most rapid and reliable ways to pull a person out of a bad trip on psychedelic drugs.”

“Aspirin can cause critical deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and folic acid when used daily and should therefore be taken in conjunction with extra supplements of these nutrients.”

“Besides robbing us of health and vitality, emotions constitute the greatest obstacle to spiritual cultivation by diverting energy and attention from internal development to external distractions, and by provoking behavior that contradicts our best intentions.

Our emotions constitute our own worst enemies, yet not only does Western medicine overlook the severe pathological consequences of emotional imbalance, Western philosophy romanticizes emotions as heroic impulses to be indulged rather than recognizing them as primitive instincts that must be controlled by the higher sentience of human awareness.

Herein lies one of the most fundamental differences between Eastern and Western tradition, for Eastern philosophy clearly identifies emotions as obstacles to spiritual development, pollutants to mental clarity, spoilers of human relations, and enemies of intent and reason.

When Asians remark that Westerners have 'hot feelings', what they mean is that they overreact emotionally, thereby 'overheating' human relations with unrestrained emotional energy.”

“Choline, an amino acid often prescribed for poor memory, absent-mindedness, and other cerebral inneficiencies associated with senility, is therapeutically impotent unless taken in conjunction with a large dose of vitamin B5.

Choline is the basic building block the brain uses to produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, deficiencies of which are associated with symptoms of senility, but without the synergistic presence of vitamin B5, the brain cannot convert choline into acetylcholine.”

“Conventional cancer therapies damage the blood, liver, and immune system so severely that if they fail, as they usually do, the patient no longer enjoys the option to try alternative holistic therapies, which can work only in conjunction with the body's natural defence mechanisms.

Therefore, if you get cancer, consider alternative therapies first, because even if they don't help you, at least they won't harm you, and you can always let conventional doctors try to poison, burn, or cut the cancer out of your system later if you wish.”

“Fasting is by far the most effective method for purifying the blood, organs, and all bodily tissues, and in this age of pervasive pollution it is more important than ever in warding off premature degeneration of the body due to toxicity.

In laboratory tests on rats and other animals, periodic fasting has proven to extend average life spans by up to 50 per cent.”

“Flexibility, spontaneity, and complete freedom of thought and action are the only ways to respond successfully to the constant flux of nature and thus live in accord with the Tao.”

“Food has become a cause of disease rather than a guardian of health in the modern world. Once regarded as the central pillar of life and the most effective of all medicines, food is now a major contributing factor in cancer, heart disease, arthritis, mental illness, and many other pathological conditions.

Virtually monopolized by agricultural and industrial cartels, public food supplies, are processed and packaged to produce profits and prolong shelf life, not to promote health and prolong human life.

It seems incredible that public health authorities permit the unrestricted use of hydrogenated vegetable oils, refined sugar, chemical preservatives, toxic pesticides, and over 5,000 other artificial food additives that have repeatedly been proven to cause cancer, impair immunity, and otherwise erode human health, while restricting the medical use of nutrients, herbs, acupuncture, fasting, and other traditional therapies that have been shown to prevent and cure the very diseases caused by chemical contaminants in food and water.”

“In light of the evidence against antibiotics, you should think twice before using them, and when you do, you should increase your daily dosage of vitamin and mineral supplements to replenish lost nutrients and also take a supplemental source of lactobacteria, such as Rejuvelac, to restore the friendly intestinal flora destroyed by the antibiotics.”

“In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.”

“In traditional Oriental societies, pregnant women were carefully screened from viewing or hearing any unpleasant sights or sounds, especially those which arouse anger, fear, grief, or any other extreme emotional response, in order to prevent adrenaline, cortisone, and other hazardous biochemicals from being released and transferred to their developing foetuses via the bloodstream. This may have prevented mental, emotional, and physical abnormalities in their offspring.”

“Nootropic drugs can be important weapons in the battle against premature degeneration, senility, and death.”

“Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind, which clings to the human ego as the proverbial 'monkey' of drug addiction clings to addicts.”

“The body concentrates vitamin C around brain and nerve cells specifically to protect them from oxidation and free-radical damage, because vitamin C is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.”

“The brain and the central nervous system have such enormous needs for vitamin C that they actually operate 'vitamin-C pumps' to extract it from the circulating blood and concentrate it in the cerebrospinal fluid, where its level is ten times greater than in the blood.

From the cerebrospinalfluid, another pump transfers vitamin C directly into the sheaths enveloping brain and nerve cells, concentrating it by another factor of ten, which means that the cells of the brain and central nervous system are bathed in a solution of vitamin C that is 100 times more concentrated than in blood plasma and other bodily fluids. Vitamin C is obviously very important to the health of brain and nerve cells.”

“The herbs he recommended most highly for promoting health and prolonging life were ginseng, gotu kola, Polygonum multiflorum, and garlic.”

“Vitamin C also protects other tissues from free-radical damage. Whenever it encounters a free radical, it sacrifices one of its own electrons in order to 'pacify' and neutralize the intruder, destroying itself in the process.

This running battle between vitamin C and free radicals occurs hundreds of thousands of times per second, and if you fail to supply your body with adequate quantities of this friendly free-radical scavenger, the enemy will eventually erode your body by attrition.”

“When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.”

“Without sufficient supplies of vitamin C, the spinal cord deteriorates from chronic free-radical damage caused by lipid peroxidation, and the entire body then becomes vulnerable to disease and degeneration because of faulty communication between brain and body and impairment of biofeedback between the nervous and immune systems.”