INSPIRATION
by Dr. Lawrence
Wilson
©
May 2014, L.D.Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All
information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
Scientific,
educational and other discoveries of the twentieth century literally catapulted
the entire planet earth into a new era.
I was fortunate to have stumbled onto the books and biographies of many
of the men and women who led this wave of brilliance and inspiration. I also met several of them.
Nutritional
balancing science gathers some of their insights into a new system of
healing. This article focuses on
the persons themselves, and their amazing lives. Anyone who wishes to be inspired need only read their
biographies and their works!
For me, to be
inspired is most important. This
is especially true because institutions that are supposed to inspire us as
children and adults such as schools, television, music, newspapers, and the
internet often do not do so today.
Each person will
find different sources of inspiration.
This article discussed those who have inspired me. May they do the same for you, and may
you, in turn, inspire your children and many others.
J. KRISHNAMURTI (1895-1986), Philosopher, Scientist,
Psychologist, and more
Born in India, and
educated in both Eastern and Western traditions, J. Krishnamurti
was one of the foremost teachers of what may be called wisdom science of the
twentieth century.
I stumbled upon one
of his books when I was about 20 years old, and it literally opened my
mind. I could not get enough of
his personal and simple words of wisdom, of love and of sacredness. Fortunately, he wrote many books and
they are all similar, so one can begin anywhere to read them. For much more, visit www.jkrishnamurti.org.
MARIA MONTESSORI
(1870-1952), Child Development Educator and Physician
Education is an area
that is desperately in need of improvement in most nations, including
America. While ÒMontessori
schoolsÓ are part of the answer, the lessons of Maria Montessori are incredibly
inspiring for anyone who feels sad or despairing sometimes at the wastefulness,
insanity and stupidity of our beleaguered education system today.
Maria Montessori was
an Italian physician at the beginning of the twentieth century. One day she was assigned to care for a
group of impoverished and sickly two-year-old orphans. Though she was asked to help them
medically, she did far more than this.
She had been told
these children would never go to school and could never learn much,
anyway. She did not agree. To everyoneÕs surprise, she soon had
them learning at rates much faster than their peers in the regular school
system. We owe her such a debt it
will scarcely be realized. Here
are just a few of her contributions to education and child development and
health:
1. A great secret of
her success was to allow the natural rhythms or cycles of attention of the
children to remain unbroken.
2. She realized that
children learn in different manners at various ages.
3. She learned that
what she (the teacher) considered important often had nothing to do with what
the children considered to be 'the lesson'. This is quite radical and very poorly understood even today,
almost 100 years after she lived.
4. Her approach was
far more child-centered, natural or holistic than most education.
5. Instead of
Òfilling the childrenÕs head with knowledgeÓ and forcing children to learn, her
approach involved vastly more respect for the natural learning patterns of
children.
6. She developed the
Montessori method of education, which has yet to be understood by the vast
majority of educators. One reason
for the failures of 'modern schooling' is precisely the lack of respect for the
natural learning methods and styles of children. Instead, knowledge is forced down their throats at the pace
and in the style of the teachers.
7. Even among
Montessori schools, her wisdom is often not fully appreciated, and her work is
still years ahead of our so-called modern educational methods. Give yourself a treat this day and read
her biography.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
(1895-1991), Inventor, Scientist, Designer, Mathematician and Philosopher
Born in 1895,
ÒBuckyÓ, as he was called, was one of the most brilliant visionary scientists
and designers of the twentieth century.
He worked as an architect, designer, scientist and artist, in a way. Most important for me, he was a
very positive thinker who believed in modern technology and the
potential of modern society to satisfy peopleÕs needs.
Fuller had his
problems. He was born extremely
nearsighted, and became an alcoholic because he was so discouraged with the
world he saw around him. At one
point, he was ready to commit suicide because of family problems and the death
of his daughter. He had a
spiritual experience, he said, where he was lifted up and told that rather than
be discouraged, that his ideas were correct and he should just start telling
everyone about them and keep inventing, making experiments and writing about
his ideas.
True
environmentalism. He was an ardent
environmentalist, but he was not a doom and gloom environmentalist at all. He repeatedly pointed out that we must
not stop our technological progress.
Instead we need more industry and more inventions. He proved with all sorts of research
and charts that good inventions make the world cleaner, better and safer. We must not give up our industry and our
way of living, but instead help everyone around the world to live at a higher
standard of living so they stop polluting their lands and water. The key, he said, is simply better
technology, not endless rules and regulations, and taking peopleÕs rights away
to do as they please with their property.
Bucky stands in
stark contrast to the doomsayers.
What is interesting to me is that he,
not them, has been proven correct over and over again. Whether it is about pollution, oil
prices, the wars we fight or other issues, he had a positive attitude and his
predictions have proven correct.
He believed in people and their capacity to overcome all obstacles. He understood that everyone wants the
same thing – a better life for themselves and their children.
Buckminster Fuller
always wanted to understand the Ôbig pictureÕ in the world, and his vision was
totally global and planetary in nature.
He will help anyone who is feeling stuck, negative or thinking in a
small way.
Bucky spent a week at
Harvard University and thought that college was stupid. He spent his entire allowance quickly
and was told to get out of Harvard.
As a punishment, his parents sent him to work in a factory. He loved it and soon was inventing
better machinery at the factory.
He was especially interested in the housing industry, transportation and
other areas of human needs. Bucky
went on to develop a whole series of items from a car that got 100 miles to a
gallon of gas (in 1933) with a conventional engine to the geodesic dome.
He began the
manufactured and mobile home industry and predicted the computer revolution we
have today. He coined the
term 'spaceship earth'. He was at
least 100 years ahead of his time in his positive attitude and his mode of
thinking about all problems as ÒsystemsÓ, not isolated incidents.
He was an admiral in
the US Navy, which he said taught him to think big and to think in terms of
systems. He was forever grateful
for his Navy experience, although he was not a war-mongering person ever, and
believed that if people had more truth they would stop wasting their time,
money and manpower on warlike activities.
What distinguished
him the most for me, however, was his positive view about our world and the
incredible benefits of technology and capitalism to lift the world out of
poverty and misery. When I first
started reading his books, I had a very dim view of science, technology and the
military. He helped me understand
the truth about these, and much more.
Bucky backed up all
his assertions with impeccable and thorough scientific research, something that
is so often lacking today. He was
a researcher and published volumes of information about the world, its energy
situation, its natural resources, and much more. Unfortunately, his books are not that easy to read.
I also love that he
valued the power of truth and integrity,
the title of one of his books. He
always asked what one, not-powerful person could do to change the world. He used the analogy of the tiny rudder
on a large ship turning the entire ship around to illustrate how anyone with
understanding, could cause change far out of proportion to his or her status or
position in the world. He truly
valued the Òlittle guy and galÓ and showed exactly why these are the people who
must come forward and learn the truths of our world. For much more, please visit www.challenge.bfi.org.
MARGARET FULLER
(1810-1850), Powerful womenÕs advocate, Natural philosopher and Writer
Buckminster
Fuller spoke often of his great aunt, Margaret Fuller. I read about her in a book called The
American Transcendentalists.
She, too, was a most inspiring lady who lived in the early 1800s on the
east coast of America.
One of her most
famous writing was an essay entitled Women
In The Nineteenth Century. Her
writing is beautiful and brilliant.
She was also a publisher, and in fact was the first to publish the
writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two of the greatest
thinkers America has produced.
She, in fact, influenced their thinking quite a lot, as she was a
brilliant woman indeed. For more,
please visit www.Margaret
Fuller.org.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
(1856-1915), Educator, Writer, Builder of a university, and A Will Of Steel
Booker
Washington grew up as a slave at the end of the Civil War. He managed to talk a white lady into
teaching him to read. He learned
to love reading and became a great inspiration to many throughout the United
States and around the world. He
became the most famous Afro-American in America in the late 1800s.
He began with
nothing but a dream of helping his people, and eventually founded the Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama to educate black
people. Not only did it accomplish
its purpose, but it pioneered many new educational ideas for the entire United
States that have still not been instituted at many colleges.
Booker Washington's
story is dramatic and proves that nothing can keep a good person down. Everything
this man thought and said is worthwhile listening to. He tells about it in his book, Up
From Slavery.
This book should be
required reading for everyone, but particularly African-Americans. The perspective and attitude are much
healthier than that which most black leaders preach today and so much more
inspiring than what is taught in schools today. Booker Washington, a slave, was never a victim. He made up his mind what he wanted to
do and overcame the odds in a beautiful and passionate way.
His little book
should be required reading for both inspiration and for practical guidance on
how to live your life. I recall
him saying that Òdiscrimination will always exist. DonÕt pay attention to it.Ó Instead, he said, spend your time and energy becoming very
responsible and skilled at what you do.
Then you will win the respect of good people everywhere. You will never win the respect of
bigots, so don't bother with them.
Many more lessons
can be taken from the life of Booker Washington, one of the greatest Americans
who ever lived. For more, please
read his books, which are listed at www.docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washington/bio.html.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
CARVER (1864-1943), Inventor, Scientist, Botanist, Humanitarian
George
Carver was another dramatic, amazing man who was also born at the end of the
Civil War, but in a border state without slavery - Missouri. He was quickly orphaned after birth
when his mother was kidnapped. The
kidnappers wanted to sell the Afro-American mother in the deep South as a
slave. They did not want the baby,
so as a newborn he was literally thrown to the ground from a galloping horse
and left to die. A white woman and
her husband found him, and they raised him as their own child.
From early
childhood, George Carver had an unusual ability to make plants grow. He seemed to be able to speak with the
plants. He loved every aspect of
gardening, planting, raising food, raising flowers and more. Eventually, he attended the University
of Missouri and became a brilliant soil scientist.
He saw how cotton
was ruining the soil in the American South and saw how they desperately needed
other crops besides cotton and tobacco to make money. He began to experiment and eventually taught farmers to grow
legumes (soybeans and peanuts) to regenerate the soil. Almost single- handedly, he developed
the peanut as an important cash crop for South-Eastern US farmers, and came up
with some 300 products made entirely of peanuts. They included foods, plastics, semi-synthetic building
materials, and much more. It was a
true gift to America and to our world.
His story, like that
of Booker Washington, is one of incredible success against great odds, and I
find it truly inspiring. Reading his
biography makes so much better reading than most of Òmodern literatureÓ. Look for his biography in the library
and visit sites such as www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299
- awesm=~oEtSCMHOQHK8dm.
IDA ROLF
(1896-1979)
Ida Pauline Rolf was
the founder of structural integration or as it is better known, Rolfing. This is a very deep type of body tissue
manipulation, not at all like most massage, that can help restore the natural
architecture of the soft tissues and most other structures of the body. It is truly a revolutionary science of
healing that is gaining acceptance around the world, although it is still
mainly limited in its acceptance to a relatively small group of
holistically-minded healers in America and Europe.
I first experienced
this work in 1981, and was very impressed. It helped me understand and solved a number of structural
and pain problems I was having when medical science was unable to help. I went on to have over 40 sessions of
Rolfing, and I continue to be extremely impressed with this technique. Ida Rolf formed the Rolf Institute in
Boulder, Colorado, which offers training in this area. For more information, please visit www.rolfresearchfoundation.org/.
NIKOLA TESLA
(1865-1943)
Nikola
Tesla was another of the most brilliant inventors ever. His story is also extremely
inspiring. He was born around 1865
in what is today Croatia or Yugoslavia near Turkey. He went to
school to learn electrical engineering in Europe, but he saw that America was
the land of opportunity and invention.
He arrived in New York in 1889 with about fifteen cents in his pocket,
having been robbed on the ship on his way to America.
Dr. TeslaÕs many
discoveries, as he called them, include alternating current power systems, the
alternating current motor, X-rays, radio, radar, television, fluorescent
lights, microwaves, remote control and robotics, star wars technology,
touch-tone dialing, the ignition coil on a car, and many more amazing
inventions. Some of these we still
do not have for our use for political and other reasons.
The lives of Edison
and Tesla are very inspiring stories of how basically penniless men changed the
world for the better through their own efforts, with no help from governments,
and little help from anyone.
Several biographies of Tesla and Edison are in print and available in
libraries. Edison is fairly well
known. Tesla has been ignored and
deserves much more attention in the history books.
THOMAS EDISON
(1847-1931), Inventor, Scientist, Humanitarian
Thomas Edison was a
child prodigy, taking a keen interest in electricity from a very young
age. He never made it past the
fourth grade in school. Today we
would label him with Ôattention deficit disorderÕ. His mother was told to take him out of school, as he seemed
unable to learn much. Yet he went
on to become one of the greatest inventors of all time. School never got in his way, he said.
His many inventions
include the phonograph, moving pictures, the incandescent light bulb, the first
electrical power system in New York City, and dozens of others that we take for
granted today. In 1890, he invented
an electrically-powered car. In
all, he took out over 1000 patents for new electrical and mechanical
devices. To learn more about him,
please read www.content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999143_1999200_1999163,00.html.
PAUL C. ECK
(1925-1996), Biochemist, Nutritionist, Scientist and amazing Synthesizer of
Knowledge
Paul
Eck was a brilliant biochemist and nutrition researcher who is largely the
inspiration for this website, at least for the nutritional part of it. He is the originator of nutritional
balancing science, with whom I worked closely for 14 years.
Early in his career
he worked for several pharmaceutical companies and for Sivad
Bioresearch, a prominent vitamin company of the day. He gained a reputation as a very knowledgeable and caring
nutrition specialist.
In the 1960s, he
heard about the new technique of hair mineral analysis. It intrigued him and he soon began to
study it, applying all of his biochemical knowledge to this rather puzzling new
method for testing the mineral levels in the body. Soon, pieces of an amazing puzzle started to fall in place
as he recognized that one could determine many things from a simple mineral
analysis, if one arranged the minerals correctly on the chart or graph, and if
one did not wash the hair at the laboratory.
Soon, he began his
own hair analysis laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, and offered services to the
many physicians he knew through his work at Sivad
Bioresearch. His research
continued all his life, adding to and refining the insights he had gained from
his early studies of the hair mineral analysis and all that it taught about
human physiology and pathology.
An avid reader and
experimenter, he was able to synthesize thousands upon thousands of pages of
biochemistry, physiology, naturopathy, medicine, toxicology, stress theory,
systems theory, cybernetics and more into an integrated approach to healing he
called mineral balancing science or the new nutrition.
This is the work I
do today, much expanded but basically the same in its principles and
practices. I feel greatly honored
and privileged to have spent 14 years learning from him. His dedication was amazing, and his
brilliance was in no small part a product of that dedication. He stuck with his principles and had a
grasp on human systems principles that I am still in awe of. He did little writing himself. I have published by far the most
complete book on his work, Nutritional
Balancing and Hair Mineral Analysis (2014 edition), noting which is his
work and what has been added since his passing. Many of the articles on this website are also based, in part
or in their entirety, on his work.
LOUIS KERVRAN (1901-1983), Scientist, Agronomist, Inventor
Louis
Kervran was a brilliant French scientist who early in
his life took a keen interest in the possibility that plants and animals can
transmute one element into another at low temperature and pressure. This idea is called biological transmutation. He went on to test this hypothesis very
carefully and repeatedly, and wrote about his theory and his experimental
results in several books published in the mid-twentieth century.
Paul
Eck read Dr. KervranÕs work in the 1960s and 1970s,
and was amazed to find that his work correlated directly with his findings on
hair mineral tests. Although the
details are still not all worked out, the principles of biological transmutation
form one of the bases for nutritional balancing science. For much more about Louis Kervran, please visit www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue34/bookreview_biotrans.html
and other sites and books about Louis Kervran.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
THOMAS JEFFERSON, GEORGE MASON, JAMES MADISON, JOHN ADAMS, AND MANY OF THE
OTHER AMERICAN FOUNDERS
The real story of
the founding of America is amazing and a miracle, given the odds against its
success. Essentially, a small band
of untrained, poorly armed farmers who wanted to live free of colonial
domination went up against the most powerful empire the earth had ever seen
– and won.
It is a story that
unfortunately is often told to school-age children in school without much
feeling or understanding. No
wonder many Americans do not understand or value their liberty, and the system
of free enterprise called capitalism.
No wonder some Americans donÕt even like concepts such as free speech,
freedom of religion as long as that religion offers the same to others, and our
system of equal justice for all.
Thomas Jefferson,
along with many of the other founders of America such as Ben Franklin, John
Adams, James Madison and others, were remarkable men. Their depth of understanding about human behavior and the
nature of government power is astounding, by todayÕs standards.
Their depth of
intelligence and knowledge puts all modern statesmen to shame. JeffersonÕs story, along with that of
Adams, Madison and many of the founders of America, is also dramatic and most
inspiring. Their stories are human, yet they had a vision that is rare as can
be.
The
wisdom of Jefferson, Washington and the others birthed a nation unlike any that
had ever been seen before. Those
who denigrate the founders because they were slave owners or for any other
reason just demonstrate their ignorance of the men they so carelessly talk
about.
Jefferson
wrote quite a bit, and his writings have been collected by various editors and
authors. An in-depth study of
Jefferson, in particular, would be well worth the effort of anyone who wishes
to understand our world today and why we, as a nation, are loved by billions
and hated by those who do not want freedom for their people.
The truth must be
told to the young people in school, or America will fail. I am nauseated when I read in books or
hear on television that Thomas Jefferson was just a white slave owner who had a
negro mistress, and this is all there is to Thomas Jefferson. It is almost criminal. Please read a good biography of
Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry and
the other American founders. Every
child needs to read these menÕs story of courage, desperation, at times,
intelligence, cunning in the face of a powerful enemy, dignity and grace.
America was and is a
unique experiment in liberty and the rights of the individual. Most nations only give lip service to
these concepts. Because this
is not taught in school, America is losing this little by little.
ROY MASTERS (1928-
), Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Spiritual Psychologist
Roy Masters has
taught a spiritually-based psychology for over 50 years through his 16 books
and his radio program that reaches most of America and parts of Europe. His teachings dovetail with nutritional
balancing science in some remarkable ways. In particular, his meditation-observation exercise, as he
calls it, fits perfectly with nutritional balancing science. I have modified it, so it works even
better for healing purposes. For
this reason, it is included in all nutritional balancing programs today. To learn more about him and his
excellent work, please visit www.fhu.com.
JOHN HARVEY
KELLOGG, MD (1852-1943), Philanthropist, Physician And Surgeon, Educator,
Innovator, Businessman
Dr. Kellogg led an
amazing life. Among his many
accomplishments, he created the now famous KelloggÕs breakfast cereals, which
used to be health foods. He also
started and ran one of the most famous of the American sanitariums located in
Battle Creek, Michigan. He studied
medicine with the leading experts all over the world, and brought their
insights and techniques to America.
Many famous people were healed at his Battle Creek Sanitarium.
John Harvey Kellogg
was one of many who inspired nutritional balancing science, as he used all of
the same modalities of healing we use today. These include diet, lifestyle, meditation, spinal
correction, foot reflexology, carrot juice, coffee enemas, and he was the first
to make use of the electric lamp sauna.
His were built by the inventor of the incandescent lamp, Thomas Edison,
who was his friend. For much more
about John Harvey Kellogg, please visit www.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg.
FRANCIS ELLIS
Mr. Ellis invented
an electrical machine called the
microdynameter. It was one of the most popular
electrical machines of the early 20th century, used mainly by chiropractors
to assess the spine and much more about the body.
THE JESHUA TEACHINGS (as found in a set of CDs sold by the Shanti Christo Foundation)
This is a remarkable
set of CDs, now in book form, as well, in a book entitled The Way Of Mastery. It outlines a way of thinking, being
and acting that is Biblically based, but with a different emphasis than that
found in the Bible. There is
nothing at all wrong with the Biblical teachings, of course, but this has a
different focus that some people will not like, frankly, but I found very
useful and quite amazing.
The teaching is not
so much about sin and failure and that the one called Jesus came to save
us. Instead, it is about the fact
that we are loved, that we are Òthe expression of love in formÓ, and that is
the truth about each of us. It is
time to love ourselves wholly and thoroughly, which does not mean to indulge
the ego. Quite the opposite, in
fact. This is an all too brief
introduction to the teaching.
For more, please
read the article on this website entitled The
Real Self. I also put the same
ideas into a short book entitled The Real Self, and the same material
is discussed in a little more depth in a compact disc program that I offer.
MORE MODERN
POLITICAL INFLUENCES
RUSH LIMBAUGH
CHARYL ATTKISON
MARK STEYN
SHAUN HANNITY
MARCIA BLACKBURN
DENNIS PRAGER
FOUNDATION FOR
ECONOMIC EDUCATION
MICHELLE BACHMAN
SUMMARY
These
are some of the great souls who have inspired me. I continue to find others. However, start with these, I would suggest, and you wonÕt be
led astray.
Beware that some
apparently Ògreat men and womenÓ are just great talkers. Their philosophies, when examined
carefully, are really empty and destructive. They may say beautiful words, but they agitate for class
warfare and other things that are ultimately quite negative. Be careful about this.
I suggest
surrounding yourself with inspiring, uplifting books, tapes, and people. Get rid of friends, books and other items
that pull you down. This will do a
lot for your mental healing, in particular. It has kept me going and working when things get tough, or
if I am tempted to feel sorry for myself or just plain depressed at the way
people sometimes talk and treat others.
Returning to your inspiring books and other material is like a breath of
fresh air in such situations.
For a related
article with more detail, read The Theory Of
Nutritional Balancing Science on this site.
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