Again, I would like to use myself as proof that my system works. I smoked for more years than I care to remember, I smoked cigars, cigarettes and a pipe. I was almost a chain-smoker. But one day, six years ago, I decided to quit cold turkey.
Outside of a cough, I noticed no ill effects except that smoking greatly reduced my sense of smell and taste. I loved to smoke. However, I quit because smoking is a messy habit. I was always burn ing holes in my clothes, furniture and rugs and there were always ash trays that needed cleaning. Even with my reduced sense of smell, stale smoke smelled terrible.
By my system, you quit cold—just stop smoking, period. You do not substitute anything for smoking. You do not follow any of the hundreds of so-called ways to stop smoking. My Astral helpers must receive full credit for my success. W hat worked for me will work equally well for you.
I have no intention of getting into any arguments as to whether or not smoking is harmful. I have known of heavy smokers who died of lung cancer. I have also known of persons who never smoked in their lives who have died of lung cancer.
Doctors present us with a long list of the detrimental effects of smoking—from yellow fingers to cancer and heart failure. I know of a medical doctor who tells his patients to quit smoking. He himself is a chain smoker. Anyway, I will not argue the point. However, if you have what is to you a good reason for kicking the habit, then my system will do the job for you. It makes no difference why you wish to discontinue the habit or how long you have smoked.
My Wife Tried Several Systems Without Success
My wife is further proof that my system works. She tried several of the so-called plans for kicking the habit over a period of ten or more years. None of them worked. I kept telling her to quit cold like I did. She finally put my method to work. My father-in-spirit was her Astral helper. He made it possible for her to quit cold turkey. It has been over two years now since she smoked her last cigarette. She has no desire to smoke and did not gain weight. She has stopped spending money for cough syrup. She smoked for over 30 years.
Ted Thought Up His Own System—It Did Not Work
I have discovered some smokers who developed their own plans for discontinuing smoking. Ted is a case in point.
He started out his day with one cigarette in his coat pocket. When the urge to smoke would hit him, he told himself that he had only one cigarette so he had better save it until later. He generally ended up smoking the one and bumming from others to get through the day. His system did not work; my system does.
What To Do When Physical Conditions Can Be Traced To Smoking
Sam had already stopped smoking when he came to me. It was his doctor who provided the motive for not smoking. Said his doctor, “Stop smoking or die from emphysema.” He decided that he wanted to live, so he stopped smoking.
However, he still had a bad case of emphysema. The same is true for hundreds of smokers who have kicked the habit. They stop too late for medical science to do anything for them. It is never too late for my magic formula unless you are actually at death’s door.
Helen had a strong but too-rapid heart. Her doctor did not believe that smoking would kill her, but it would shorten her life.
She attended classes using “ scare techniques”—motion pictures showing the terrible conditions of your body caused by smoking. She religiously followed the instructions put out by several well-known plans. None of these worked; her heart kept on beating too fast.
Today, there is a new Helen. She did not even gain weight by my system. Her heart has slowed down to normal. She can smell and taste again. Even her frequent nosebleeds have ceased.
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Women Do Not Find it More Difficult To Stop Smoking Than Men
Under My System
I have read that women find it more difficult to stop smoking than men. Not so with my system.
Paul and Pauline, as a husband-wife team, both decided to stop smoking. Paul kicked the habit by quiting cold turkey. Pauline tried to quit cold turkey but was back smoking after two weeks.
Now both are off the weed for good. Paul went along with my system to keep his wife company and make sure that he was off for good. It also made it possible for both to discuss their progress.
These are the factors necessary in my system: 1. Quit cold turkey
2. Get help from one of your Astral helpers
3. Do not substitute food, candy or anything else for smoking.
Never Permit Any Physical Matter To Control You
Dean Martin is a slave to a three-inch roll of tobacco. He cannot get through one song without smoking a cigarette. There are millions who are slaves to tobacco. It is ridiculous for anyone to let anything physical control them. The material things around us are to fulfill our needs and desires, not to push us around.
The alcoholic is a slave to alcohol; the drug user to drugs. These people have no control of themselves, It is equally ridiculous to let people push you around. Many people are just as much slaves as if someone had bought them at a slave market.
Perhaps the most undesirable type of slavery today is being a slave to money. Many millionaires let money push them around. I have already called your attention to the man who read a book on how to get rich. He was rich and miserable until he applied my magic formula.
There is nothing wrong with smoking, drinking, gambling, or making money as long as you stay in the driver’s seat. You must be in control of the physical; never let the physical control you.
Let A Mural Of The Parade Of Life Come Into Your Mind
Picture your life from the very beginning—I mean from your first incarnation hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago. Picture the beginning as the source of a river, gradually increasing in size as
you live each life, increasing in strength as you move to the “sea” or oneness with God.
The sea is made up of many other rivers or individual lives which form the “Sea of Life.” Picture yourself becoming more and more aware of your place in this great stream of life and flowing into it.
I hope that I have succeeded in telling you that your life and all individual lives are aiming at something. I know not the ultimate goal of the creator, but it is an inspiring thought to feel that each of us is an expression of life and the great intention. If you view life in this manner, you cannot help acquiring a sense of responsibility and a desire to make yourself culturally valuable.
As you let this mural unfold in your mind, your total life seems similar to a relay race in which you are given the opportunity of car rying on and adding to the contributions of past generations. You will become aware that the race of life is becoming accelerated. Your past lives and the past lives of all humans have given much that you may carry on.
As you come to the end of this mural that you are picturing in your mind, ask yourself these questions:
What am I doing with my own personal life?
Have I allowed runners from past generations to cross the finish line while I watched indifferently?
Am I leaving achievement to others?
Am I a slave to one or more physical things resulting in my getting nowhere?
Have I all the things that bring prosperity but still do not have hap piness and the feeling of fulfillment?
Or am I getting the supreme thrill that comes with counting myself in on all that is important in the total universe?
Does Your Goal Release Astral Power?
Recently, a patient of mine stated “The girl I love is too good for me. I have no future. I think that I will marry a girl who demands nothing—who will not expect me to be a success.”
I said, “ I suppose you will stay home and vegetate while your wife is out earning a living.”
This young man has taken his place in “the groove of failure.” He is too lazy to even watch the miracle of mental-action images
172 Stop Smoking and Cure Its 111 Effects becoming reality. He will not act aggressively and fearlessly when it comes time to move toward the type of goal that will free him from the birth-slavery to the physical death-rebirth cycle.
My formula will give you a balanced physical, mental, emotional and spiritual life that makes not only for health, wealth and happiness but movement toward oneness with God.
My Astral Helpers Agree That a Balanced Life Goal is Needed
When I first started teaching psychology in college, I told my stu dents that to understand themselves, they needed to trace every aspect of their lives back to early childhood. I now know that that is only a small part of the truth. You need to trace every aspect of your life back through all of your incarnations to your very first trip to the earth plane. Your balanced life goal must take into consideration everything that has happened to you for hundreds—or even thousands—of years.
Astral Helper Howard Townsley, M.D., Reports
Dr. Townsley was our family doctor while we lived in Ohio. He was killed in an auto accident in California. He is now again our family doctor. He is the one who made it possible for me to continue living on the earth plane. 1 have already told you that I was scheduled to pass to spirit on February 20, 1972.
I remember how surprised we were to hear the news of his death. We had heard part of the story but did not know about the auto acci dent or why he was in California.
Part of Dr. Townsley’s success and failure story can now be told. He was a very successful general physician with many patients who developed a great love and respect for him. He regularly took his turn as head of the osteopathic hospital in this Ohio city. He not only was a fine physician but a good business manager.
However, he and his wife did not get along well. I do not know all the details, but I feel sure that Dr. Townsley was not the primary cause of the trouble.
Dr. Townsley made the biggest mistake of his life when he decided to just disappear from his home town, wife and family, friends and associates. He now knows that he should have divorced his wife rather than walk out on his whole life situation. To this day, he does not know why he decided to give up all that he had worked so hard to get.
No one in this Ohio town knows what happened to Dr. Townsley, and may never know. There were rumors that he went to Mexico, but no trace of him has ever been found. They do not know that he is now on the spirit side of life. If disappearing from the earth plane without a trace can be called a success, then he was successful.
A doctor friend of Dr. Townsley prepared false documents that made it possible for Dr. Townsley to identify himself with a Califor nia hospital. Dr. Townsley will not tell me the name that he used.
When Dr. Townsley was killed, his doctor friend did not dare reveal the truth and send the body back to Ohio or he would have been in deep trouble, so he took care of the burial and closed the door on his friend’s practice of medicine in California.
Dr. Townsley now sees his big mistake. He tells me that he is very sorry that he did not use a better method of handling his family’s affairs.
“ If I had had a balanced life goal and the traits necessary to move toward that goal, I would never have done what I did. I had everything anyone could ask for: all the money I needed, and the respect of my medical associates and patients. Why did I do it? I just felt that I had to get away from it all,” Dr Townsley told me this and much much more about the terrible mistake that he made.
I do not suppose that anyone knows how many people try to solve their problems by disappearing. Do they really solve anything?
“ Dr. MacNitt and his wife had confidence enough in me to let me handle their medical problems. I did not believe that I needed a psychologist. I thought that I could handle my own problems. How wrong I was! You who read this book are lucky. You will not make the mistakes that I and hundreds like me made,” Dr. Townsley con cluded this discussion of his disappearing act.
“One more question, Doctor. Should I inform your wife where you are?” I asked.
“Please don’t,” was his simple reply.
Well, anyway, we are glad that Dr. Townsley reappeared and is with us to help in any way he can.
Astral Helper Inger Stevens Reports
Inger tells me that if my book had been available to her, she would still be on the earth plane.
“I had everything anyone could want. I had $50,000 in the bank, was scheduled to start a new T.V. series, and had many true friends. Why did I do it? Why did I decide that I did not want to go on living?
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Why did I keep my marriage a secret?” Inger talks reluctantly about her life on the earth plane.
I asked her why she married a black man. She told me that she thought that color made no difference when you were in love. However, she was not ready to face the world with her marriage or she would not have kept it a secret. Why?
inger can ask many questions, but she still does not have all of the answers to her own questions.
She is happy to be a member of our Astral helpers’ team and ful ly expects to receive as much help as she gives. I sincerely hope that by now you fully realize that through my book you can help not only yourself but also many on the spirit side of life. They need our help also.
Later in this chapter, I will tell you about Inger’s very valuable contribution.
Astral Helper Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) Reports
I have been in contact with Norma Jean for some time. She is as beautiful now as she was on the earth plane. She is with me now as I write these lines. She throws little dots of silver and gold light on the paper to let me know that she is here. I have seen her in gorgeous color several times. I can feel her presence. She is also very close to my wife. They were good friends 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem.
Norma Jean wants the world to know the true story of her pass ing to spirit. She returned the last time to learn a few lessons from be ing an illegitimate child. She tells me that the various accounts of her early life are reasonably accurate. She did indeed learn many valuable lessons. Norma Jean was not murdered, nor did she commit suicide. She will tell you exactly what happened.
“ I was very depressed all day Saturday, August 4. These feelings had gotten worse ever since 1 was released from my last picture. Dr. Greenson spent several hours with me Saturday, but it really did not help. 1 really needed my good friend Ralph Roberts, but since Mrs. Murray was planted in my home by Dr. Greenson, I did not see him very often. His massage treatments could have helped me that fatal night. I called him, but could not reach him.
“ It is little wonder that Mrs. Murray took an extended trip to Europe. She must have felt very guilty. I was not really ready for Dr. Greenson’s plan of getting rid of my dependency upon others.
tended by Peter, Pat, Bobby and Mrs. Murray was not a happy occa sion because Í threw a blanket of despair over them. I asked Bobby to stay with me, but he refused. Eventually, the party moved to Peter’s beach house. Naturally, Mrs. Murray did not go.
“When the party got under way, Bobby called and wanted me to change my mind. Others had joined the party and it became a free wheeling event. Bobby’s asking me to join such a party only greatly increased my feelings of depression. I thought that he had more respect for me. Jack always treated me with great respect.
“ I never did like those Hollywood parties and was refusing to take part in them with greater frequency. I loved to be loved but I never considered these actions love.
“ My depressed feelings after Bobby called were really getting me down. Í went to the bathroom and got rid of what little food I had eaten. I then started taking the pills that Dr. Engelberg had prescribed the day before.
“Then I took off all my clothes and lay nude on my bed. My mind was a whirl. My whole life seemed to come into my mind for me to view. It surely was not a pretty picture. Yet, there was Joe whom I really did love and still do. He was my greatest love and the only one worth mentioning.
“ As my life passed in review, I kept taking the pills. I then realized that Í needed help, I called Ralph, but could not reach him. It seemed that I could not keep my hands off that bottle of pills. Soon they were all gone and I was slipping away fast. I made one more ef fort to reach someone on the phone but it was too late.
“ My Astral Record indicates that I passed over at 11:35 P.M. I have also discovered that a higher spiritual force decided that my life on earth should be terminated. The future would have created only more problems. After all, my mission on earth had been completed.
“You can call it suicide or an accident. It makes little difference