From The Edgar Cayce Readings: Natural Remedies And Cures; The Gerson Therapy: Regeneration For The Body's Immune System

These two titles are both from the "Flame of Freedom Speaks" series of lectures which were videotaped at Summit University, a 33,000-acre ranch/community and new-age retreat in Montana. Hosted by interviewer, and college founder, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the programs are presented in a talking-head format before a studio audience. In the first title, noted author Jess Stearn and Dr. William and Gladys McGarey discuss the late Edgar Cayce's home remedies, such as castor oil packs for internal pain, sniffing applejack brandy for respiratory diseases, and applying potato poultices for cataracts. Often, the discussion becomes muddled because guests and interviewers operate from different points of orientation: Stern, et al, offering specific advice, and Prophet responding with meaningless religious non sequiturs ("communicate with the Christ intelligence in the body elemental" for example.) In the second program, Charlotte Gerson, continuing her father Max's work exemplified in the book "A Cancer Therapy", discusses a regimen for strengthening the body's immune system. Stories of miracle cures are trotted out with tiresome regularity, and the heightening enthusiasm of the speakers gives rise to some fairly outrageous claims: the Gerson therapy, with its diet of fresh juices and coffee enemas, can possibly cure AIDS sufferers (and here we have the beauty of alternative cure logic: in a world where nothing is certain, everything is possible.) There are several other programs in the series. Libraries with high interest in homeopathy might want to consider some of the titles. Of the two titles listed above, the first is fairly innocuous, but the second (with its babble about intravenously injecting separate . ozone molecules into the bloodstream) is downright dangerous. (Available from: Athena Productions, Box 860, Hwy 89, Corwin Springs, MT 59021-0860.)