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I'm using 20 drop solution in 2 oz. So I'm wondering, if anybody has treated allergies with MMS and if anybody has experienced a similar reaction like mine. I used MMS when I had allergies. Do not spray, just take them as per their instruction, mixed with juices or water.

Tap water is really bad. Find a better quality water. I hope it helps. I have now cleared allergies totally. MMS is sodium hypo chloride, 2. It may be injected into the blood. Bleach is sodium hypo chlorite, cannot be injected, poison.

MMS is not particularly good for allergies because allergies are a reaction to undigested food proteins that have hit the histamine producing mast cells in a cell membrane. Most allergenic people are hypo chlorhydric. Improving digestion is most important. When activated with an acid, it creates chlorine dioxide. Sodium Hypochlorite is common bleach. Chlorine Dioxide kills pathogens and purifies water through oxidation, like Hydrogen Peroxide. Sodium Hypochlorite disinfects through chlorination.

Have you read the book? It says burning of the skin means fungus or mold is present and you must first start the mold protocol as listed in the book. I have read that gas is a result of the bacteria, microbes, parasites etc being killed off - so I see it as a good thing that she is experienceing this. Continue at the lowest dose your friend can tolerate without causing uncomfortable symptons. With MMS you shouldnt need to suffer - just cut back on the amount of drops ingested.

Jim Humble states clearly many times on his websites that MMS should not be taken with a meal, but only an hour or more before or after. MMS works best on an empty stomach, so I'd suggest to wait about 2 hours after your last meal before drinking mms, or do it first thing in the morning as I do. From my experience it takes about 15minutes for mms to reach the bloodstream I feel like someone turned up the heat inside my body by a few degree, which lasts about 30min.

So, I assume to start eating or drinking whatever you want should be ok after an hour or so. Ever since I take mms, I have not been sick whatsoever From the comment that has been posted is correct. Also make sure she is not taking mms with her medications. Have her take mms with some food in your stomach.

And then a hour later have her take her medication. If the protocols are to take MMS every hour but then you can only eat an hour after or before it is not practical as it would then interupt the protocol??

I just wanted to ad that these Protocols are a guide. A person should use common sense and their own feeling as to what is working and good for them and what not.

The main idea is to have MMS going through your body in some regularity so that it will be able to pick, kill and eliminate patogens on it's way.

However, different people have different ways of doing things, different habbits and therefore they will have to adjust to a new addition - MMS.

I believe that you know best for yourself how much and when to take MMS as long as you try to do it in some kind of regularity. Hope this helps. For about 30 years of my 40 years in the paper industry I enhaled ClO2 which is a solution used to bleach pulp to 90 brightness. For you old dogs from the 40's the brightest paper was less than Newsprint is in the mid 70's because Hypo was the best bleach we had in those days.

ClO2 is the latest rage in killing pathogens. You know it as MMS. My question to you wormy folks. Was this good for me or bad? I now think it was good. This gas can kill you just as Chlorine can. Is life interesting or what? If u are trying to help yourself, make your body alkaline not acidic, I am a brain cancer survivor of 38 years and going strong. My dad came down seriously ill with a viral infection overseas and was ill there after for 2 years Im going to try Autism protocol on my two aspergers kids as they have had mms on and off over the years.

Great for my sons respitory tract infections and croup too, just by gasing it in sleeping quarters overnight I've recently read that mms drops cure all types of disease.

That's why it's probably getting degraded by the FDA and off the market. Has anybody been able to purchase this product from a legit website? If so from where? Is buying the book and the DVD the only way to know how to use it correctly? I can't get help from the people I've tried buying from. It is understandable but I sure would like to talk to someone who uses it.

Until now I've only used it for colds, flu and to prevent infections when the dog scratched me. Now I'm trying it for my RA. Don't know if I'm doing it right. Need help! I'm having a hard time finding a supplier in the province. As in years past one sulfite pulp mill could produce enough vanilla to supply the world so that never happened either. Chlorine dioxide has undergone its first clinical trial!!!

With astonishing results!!!! Not in the US, obviously, but Kalcker talks about it. You might have to dig a little bit to find information in English A few days ago I came down with a cold: - congested sinuses, sore throat, cough, tired. Went to bed. Next morning I was almost completely well, and about 24 hours later cold was gone. I have found that when I don't do MMS every day but save it for when I really do get sick, I don't get nauseated and it really helps.

I get more nauseated if I keep taking it day after day "whether I need it or not". I probably will start doing the 6 drops and another 6 drops an hour later on a weekly basis, since I find I feel fantastic, like it really cleansed me or something. Not more often than that though.

I would like to know what people think of this stuff besides myself - it cured my cold in a day and a half, it is said to kill all the bugs in your body that does not belong there. Anybody heard anything about MMS? I just met a gal last night talking about this great detox stuff?? Andrew Weil gives it a big thumbs down.

The info, here, suggests that it may be effective to rid oneself of worms I've seen no anecdotal evidence yet of anyone saying it helped or cured more serious illnesses of cancer or hiv.

I say "quietly" as he doesn't want his efforts to be stopped by Big Pharma and their friends. There is no way anyone who is sincere and investigates MMS can deny that it is very effective and has saved many thousands of lives. Does anyone have information regarding the effect of iodine on MMS? It is important to raise iodine levels using higher doses when fighting cancer.

Hi Ronald So if you combine them or take them at the same time, they will simply react with each other and cancel out each other's beneficial effects.

So if you take any anti-oxidant nutrient together with MMS then the same thing will happen. MMS only lasts for about an hour in the blood before it is quickly removed from the body so the best way to take MMS is to take it in a one to three drop dose, once an hour, eight times a day.

You can take it in higher single dosages, but this may cause headaches, nausea and vomiting similar to large dose HP. The MMS protocol is very similar to the Hydrogen Peroxide Protocol -- which only last for about an hour in the body as well because it also has similar pro-oxidant action.

Better But With Side Effects I've been badly poisoned by massive exposure to mercury and also to lead as a kid and even more later in industry. As I began taking out a lot of that mercury I also experienced very strong infection pains. That was a result of Herxheimer pains that occur whenever the body's immune defense discovers a powerful infection. Part of my infection came from getting a "dirty" blood transfusion. After I had that operation I felt terrible and my heartbeat began skipping real bad.

After my healing progress stalled I began to take small doses of MMS and worked on up. I got as high as 12 drops of MMS twice each day in 60 drops of citric acid mixture. After about 2 months of doing that in approx. After 3 or 4 more months passed that heartbeat began skipping again, but not nearly as bad. Now a massive amount of heavy metals have been removed so I started to take MMS some more now in July The MMS is now getting to my infections and killing them which causes those pains.

The mercury in me has been sequestering, or hiding, these infections so my immune could NOT have any affect and wasn't able to cure them. That's why mercury was being administered by doctors to patients in the s who had syphilis - because mercury in the body will lock those infections within a matrix of mercury ions and that causes the infection symptoms to be milder.

Robertson, from Columbus - what is Herxheimer pains? I have gotten up to 4 drops for 6 days and have diarrhea 5x times in the morning and then have different types of pains going on in my stomach. I have stopped it for the last 2 days and am afraid to go back on it, even though on 1 and 2 drops I feel fantastic. I have been told by a few practitioners that I have overgrowth of bacteria, some parasites and a worm infection. I really want to stay on this stuff, but I could use all the support I can get right now, I feel pretty bad in the bathroom department lots of intestinal gas, too although I have great energy otherwise.

Thanks for any responses. To Linda, if I may. If you feel great with 1 or 2 drops - why would you want to take more and suffer with stomach problems?

It is your body telling you that you found the right dose for yourself. Hello, I can see by reading these posts that people used to think like me 6 years ago -- after 6 years of herx reactions - yes, 6 years and maybe 50 herx reactions I finally figured out my elimination system is absolutely plugged with pathogens - I got on a homeopathic Detox Kit for liver, kidney and lymphatic and carry a water bottle with me drinking 4 ounces of alkaline water with some greens and lemon juice.

Now I am finally getting some headway with 3 drops of MMS per day. If my stomach is not better in months will try mastic gum and manuka honey, and maybe nano colloidal silver.

Good luck! I would highly recommend that you also include raw veggie juicing in your diet and a good quality whey powder. H therapy will also stimulate lymph flow which will make the heel detox kit work better. Try some Kefir for your bowels, sorta tastes like yogurt but is not. Yogurt only has 2 or three probotics where kefir has 6 or more and the best thing about it is that it populates your bowels. But how I accidentally cured it. I was taking Chlorine Dioxide for a virus infection.

And after days of drinking the stuff, the SIBO went away. It's been 2 months now and it has not returned. Drink 3 oz taken every hour, until the content of the bottle is finished 8 to 12 shots. It has no taste.

Just like water. Make a new batch fresh in the morning and repeat. Note: I believe this treatment will destroy any unwanted pathogen in the digestive tract causing harm like Crohn's Disease, Chronic Diarrhea bacterial in nature , Peptic Ulcers, Ulcerative Colitis.

My husband and I have been taking MMS for just over a week. We have tried all sorts of things for our health before, but this MMS has been the best so far. Almost straight away we felt something. It almost felt like we were "out of it". We could feel it moving around the body with obvious sensations.

By that evening after having another 2 doses, our eyes felt like they were really wide open. Each day we have been increasing our dose. I got to 5 doses but then felt extremely nauseous and dizzy. So I cut back on the amount. We continue to take it and I am slowly increasing the doseage. We have incredible energy, like never before since taking MMS.

My head experiences large moments of clarity instead of the foggy mist it normally feels like. I am very excited about it. My friend who had a sore tooth for quite awhile now, swirled it around in her mouth and straight away the pain went. Diane, since your last post was in June of this year, please update us about your experience with MMS. My husband and I have just started this week. I made an error this morning, drinking coffee no Vit. C after my 3 drop mixture. BAD stomachache and nausea resulted!

Crystallized ginger helped with the nausea, but my stomach is in a terrible knot after six hours. After about 15 minutes I felt nauseous for about 10 minutes, not too bad, my stomach was relatively empty. When I got to work, someone offered me a cup of coffee-bad mistake.

I have had such burning in my stomach all day for the past 8 hours. So my recommendation is don't drink coffee within several hours after taking MMS. It is very clearly written in Jim's book 1 drop of sodium chlorite and 5 drops of citric acid, so do it this way, if you take 3 drops of sodium chlorite then 15 drops of citrc acid Never other way Do not hazard with your health.

People Please! Read Jim Humbles book. He has a free pdf that explains all this. Many people on this list are taking MMS wrongly.

The MMS has prevented my youngest daughter from getting sick, it's healing bug bites on my wife's legs, and on my arms. I've been taking 2 drops activated MMS an hour for about a week 10 hours a day , and feel like a new man. In his full book, Jim Humble tells how to make it in your kitchen. We're buying a lifetime supply of the chemicals to make sure we always have enough. It is fantastic! You are dosing wrong!! This stuff is powerful in our bodies so be careful how and how much you take.

If you take too much too fast your body will react terribly. I use lemon juice sweetened with honey. Very good for animals as well. Please note that we use cookies necessary for the functioning of our website, cookies that optimize the performance.

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Sort by Default New Loved. Write a review. Organic Acid Activation of Chlorite Acid ClO2 Tartaric 0. In reply to Bob Murphy, Nc , Thank you for the informative post! Art Reply 4. You are welcome, Art. Did you ever use ClO2 gas to bleach pulp, like is done to kill mold in a house? Great info Bob. Also, does Hesselink's table refer to daily dosages? Reply 1. Reply 8.

Jim Humble Reply Reply 2. Hello Jim. Good to see you here. No one has treated more people than you. Reply 4. I'm not disputing how much work Jim has put into helping people.

Reply 6. Bob Henry I see you've been posting about chlorine dioxide for a long time here. Do you have any illness? Bob Reply. Out of spit. The Quant. Reply 3. Bob Reply 3.

We truly lost something valuable in Rife's microscope. Sorry being late for response, have been very busy elsewhere. There seems to be some confusion as to type of selectivity, so I'll make 3 points: 1. MMS kills both good or bad microbes? The answer to this question is "who care? MMS is selective against those good and bad microbes? Of course! They are other differences besides structural. This is well known fact. I hope they pay you well!! Thank you for sharing your hard work with us! Finally some real thorough information on MMS.

Robert T. Chris, if there are no viruses then how do exosomes travel outside the body to infect people? Hi Bob, Thank you for taking the time to go through this. If you are coaching people I would love to connect.

Thank you so much! If you have any questions feel free to contact me Reply. Interesting, thanks. You're welcome, Michael.

Hi Bob, I was wondering how long the MMS solution stays in organs or other parts of the body once you've done the 60 days as we just did? Cyndy Reply 1. It does not stay in organs. Quote from a different website: What about diabetes, does MMS cure diabetes? Brayden, you can try a bit of coconut oil. Thanks Reply. You are supposed to wash mms off your skin after about 30 seconds, otherwise it burns you.

Thanks for your help Reply. My experience with the external application of MMS is that it will give you a nasty burn. You can leave this on your skin, you can also spray on teeth, in mouth, inhale, etc. Sergio tells me that USTC directly reported experimental data only for up to order-7 correlations, and at least individually, the order-7 correlations are easy to reproduce on a laptop although sampling in a way that reproduces the order-7 correlations might still be hard—a point that Chaoyang confirms, and where further research would be great.

And order correlations, the Google team agrees, are hard to sample consistently with on a classical computer by any currently known algorithm. So instead, they relied on a statistical extrapolation from the observed strength of the lower-order correlations — there we go again with the extrapolations! The reason is that, with random circuit sampling, all the correlations except the highest-order ones are completely trivial — or, to say it another way, the reduced state of any small number of output qubits is exponentially close to the maximally mixed state.

This is a real difference between BosonSampling and random circuit sampling—and even years ago, we knew that this represented an advantage for random circuit sampling, although I now have a deeper appreciation for just how great of an advantage it is. Needless to say, any remaining errors are my own.

Meanwhile, though, if you look at the k th -order correlations for large values of k, then the USTC experiment continues to win. One thing I feel confident about is that, whichever metric is chosen—Linear Cross-Entropy or whatever else—it needs to capture the k th -order correlations for large values of k. Like many others, I was outraged and depressed that MIT uninvited Dorian Abbot see also here , a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, who was slated to give the Carlson Lecture in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences about the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

The reason for the cancellation was that, totally unrelatedly to his scheduled lecture, Abbot had argued in Newsweek and elsewhere that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives should aim for equality for opportunity rather than equality of outcomes, a Twitter-mob decided to go after him in retaliation, and they succeeded.

To my fellow progressive academics, I beseech thee in the bowels of Bertrand Russell: why would you commit such an unforced error? Yes, one can imagine views e. Please enjoy an hourlong panel discussion of that question on YouTube , featuring yours truly, my former MIT colleague Will Oliver, and political scientist and China scholar Elsa Kania.

Posted in Announcements , Quantum 70 Comments ». This Erev Yom Kippur, I wish to repent for not putting enough quantum computing content on this blog.

Of course, repentance is meaningless unless accompanied by genuine reform. While regular Shtetl-Optimized readers will have already heard or read most of what I say, I make some new comments, including about the new paper from last week , the night before my talk!

On the other hand, I also stress how increasing the circuit fidelity has become a much more urgent issue than further increasing the number of qubits or in the case of BosonSampling, the number of photons , if our goal is for these experiments to remain a couple steps ahead of classical spoofing algorithms.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my lovingly handcrafted visuals. While there was only time for me to field a few questions at the end of the talk, I later supplied written answers to 52 questions!! Thanks so much to Yan Timanovsky for inviting and organizing this talk, and to whurley for hosting it. Posted in Complexity , Quantum 73 Comments ». I posed more open quantum complexity problems in , and some classical complexity problems in My impetus, this time around, was a kind invitation by Travis Humble, the editor-in-chief of the new ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing , to contribute a perspective piece to that journal on the occasion of my ACM Prize.

I agreed—but only on the condition that, rather than ponderously pontificate about the direction of the field, I could simply discuss a bunch of open problems that I wanted to see solved. The result is below. Some of the problems on my new hit-list are ones that I and others have flogged for years or even decades, but others, as far as I know, appear here for the first time.

Posted in Complexity , Quantum 64 Comments ». These have not been an auspicious few weeks for Jewish-American-born theoretical physicists named Steve who made epochal contributions to human knowledge in the late s, and who I had the privilege to get to know a bit when they were old. This morning, my friend and colleague Or Sattath brought me the terrible news that Stephen Wiesner has passed away in Israel.

Decades ago, Wiesner left academia, embraced Orthodox Judaism, moved from the US to Israel, and took up work there as a construction laborer—believing or so he told me that manual labor was good for the soul.

In the late s, however, Wiesner was still a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, when he wrote Conjugate Coding : arguably the foundational document of the entire field of quantum information science. Famously, this paper was so far ahead of its time that it was rejected over and over from journals, taking nearly 15 years to get published.

Let me explain what Wiesner does in the Conjugate Coding paper. This observation—now called the No-Cloning Theorem —would only be named and published in , but Wiesner treats it in his lates manuscript as just obvious background.

An education which strives to divorce intellectual or aesthetic life from these fundamental facts carries with it the decadence of civilisation. Disinterested scientific curiosity is a passion for an ordered intellectual vision of the connection of events.

But the … intervention of action even in abstract science is often overlooked. No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover. The pleasure which art and sciences can give to toil is the enjoyment which arises from successfully directed intention.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical: that is, no education which does not import both technique and intellectual vision. There are three main methods which are required in a national system of education, namely, the literary curriculum, the scientific curriculum, the technical curriculum.

But each of these curricula should include the other two … each of these sides … should be illuminated by the others. Facing mandatory retirement in London, and upon being offered an appointment at Harvard, Whitehead moved to the United States in Given his prior training in mathematics, it was sometimes joked that the first philosophy lectures he ever attended were those he himself delivered in his new role as Professor of Philosophy.

The lectures formed the basis for Science and the Modern World And in the Preface of the third major work composing his mature metaphysical system, Adventures of Ideas , Whitehead stated:. The three books— Science and The Modern World, Process and Reality, Adventures of Ideas —are an endeavor to express a way of understanding the nature of things, and to point out how that way of understanding is illustrated by … human experience. Closely linked to this completion of the scientific scheme of thought, Whitehead developed a new scientific ontology and a new theory of perception.

His scientific ontology is one of internally related events instead of merely externally related bits of matter. His theory of perception cf. Symbolism: its Meaning and Effect holds that our perception is always perception in the mixed mode of symbolic reference, which usually involves a symbolic reference of what is given in the pure mode of presentational immediacy to what is given in the pure mode of causal efficacy:.

In his later metaphysics, Whitehead revolted against the bifurcation of the world into the objective world of facts as studied by science, even a completed science, and one not limited to physics, but stretching from physics to biology to psychology and the subjective world of values aesthetic, ethic, and religious , and he promoted the harmonization of the abstractions of science with those of art, morals, and religion, as well as the inclusion of more concrete intuitions offered by our experience—stretching from our mathematical and physical intuitions to our poetic and mystic intuitions.

Closely linked to this completion of the metaphysical scheme of thought cf. Part I of Process and Reality , Whitehead refined his earlier ontology, and generalized his earlier theory of perception into a theory of feelings.

His theory of feelings cf. The actual occasions ontologically constituting our experience are the elementary processes of concrescence of feelings constituting the stream of our experience, and they throw light on the what and the how of all actual occasions, including those that constitute lifeless material things.

This amounts to the panexperientialist claim that the intrinsically related elementary constituents of all things in the universe, from stones to human beings, are experiential.

But then this ontology has to take into account the fact that quantum mechanics suggests that reality is not only relational, but also granular the results of measuring its changes do not form continuous spectra, but spectra of discrete quanta and indeterminist physicists cannot predetermine the result of a measurement; they can only calculate for each of the relevant discrete quanta, that is, for each of the possible results of the measurement, the probability that it becomes the actual result.

Part IV of Process and Reality. Whitehead writes:. The authority of William James can be quoted in support of this conclusion. Your acquaintance with reality grows literally by buds or drops of perception. In his Harvard writings, however, Whitehead considers deterministic interaction as an abstract limit in some circumstances of the creative interaction that governs the becoming of actual entities in all circumstances, and he makes clear that his notion of causality includes both determination by the antecedent world efficient causation of past actual occasions and self-determination final causation by the actual occasion in the process of becoming.

Every philosophy recognizes, in some form or other, this factor of self-causation. The eternal objects are the pure potentials of the universe, and the actual entities differ from each other in their realization of potentials. Eternal objects can qualify characterize the objective content and the subjective form of the feelings that constitute actual entities.

Eternal objects of the subjective species, on the other hand, include sense data and values. A member of the subjective species is, in its primary character, an element in the definiteness of the subjective form of a feeling.

It is a determinate way in which a feeling can feel. But it can also become an eternal object contributing to the definiteness of the objective content of a feeling, for example, when a smelly feeling gives rise to a feeling of that smell, or when an emotionally red feeling is felt by another feeling, and red, an element of the subjective form of the first feeling, becomes an element of the objective content of the second feeling.

Indeed, each actual entity is a concrescence of feelings of the antecedent world, which do not only have objective content, but also subjective form, and as this concrescence is not only determined by the objective content by what is felt , but also by the subjective form by how it is felt , it is not only determined by the antecedent world that is felt, but also by how it is felt. How does this relate to eternal objects? According to Whitehead, self-determination gives rise to the probabilistic laws of science as well as human freedom.

We cannot decide what the causes are of our present moment of experience, but—to a certain extent—we can decide how we take them into account.

In other words, we cannot change what happens to us, but we can choose how we take it. Because our inner life is constituted not only by what we feel, but also by how we feel what we feel, not only by objective content, but also by subjective form, Whitehead argues that outer compulsion and efficient causation do not have the last word in our becoming; inner self-determination and final causation do. Whitehead completes his metaphysics by introducing God cf. Apart from the intervention of God, there could be nothing new in the world, and no order in the world.

The course of creation would be a dead level of ineffectiveness, with all balance and intensity progressively excluded by the cross currents of incompatibility; c [ ]. This commonplace is wrong. In considering religion, we should not be obsessed by the idea of its necessary goodness.

This is a dangerous delusion. Indeed history, down to the present day, is a melancholy record of the horrors which can attend religion: human sacrifice, and in particular, the slaughter of children, cannibalism, sensual orgies, abject superstition, hatred as between races, the maintenance of degrading customs, hysteria, bigotry, can all be laid at its charge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. The uncritical association of religion with goodness is directly negatived by plain facts. In Science and the Modern World , Whitehead expresses this transcendent importance of religion as follows:. Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes all apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

In Science and the Modern World this message reads:. Religion has emerged into human experience mixed with the crudest fantasies of barbaric imagination. Gradually, slowly, steadily the vision recurs in history under nobler form and with clearer expression. It is the one element in human experience which persistently shows an upward trend.

It fades and then recurs. But when it renews its force, it recurs with an added richness and purity of content. The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Gould wrote:. The lack of conflict between science and religion arises from a lack of overlap between their respective domains of professional expertise—science in the empirical constitution of the universe, and religion in the search for proper ethical values and the spiritual meaning of our lives.

However, Whitehead did not agree with those who hold that the ideal solution of the science-religion conflict is the complete annihilation of religion. Whitehead, on the contrary, held that we should aim at the integration of science and religion, and turn the impoverishing opposition between the two into an enriching contrast. According to Whitehead, both religion and science are important, and he wrote:.

When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relation between them. Whitehead never sided with those who, in the name of science, oppose religion with a misplaced and dehumanizing rhetoric of disenchantment, nor with those who, in the name of religion, oppose science with a misplaced and dehumanizing exaltation of existent religious dogmas, codes of behavior, institutions, rituals, etc.

Every age produces people with clear logical intellects, and with the most praiseworthy grip of the importance of some sphere of human experience, who have elaborated, or inherited, a scheme of thought which exactly fits those experiences which claim their interest. Such people are apt resolutely to ignore, or to explain away, all evidence which confuses their scheme with contradictory instances.

What they cannot fit in is for them nonsense. An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. This advice seems so easy, and is in fact so difficult to follow a [ ]. Life is an internal fact for its own sake, before it is an external fact relating itself to others. The conduct of external life is conditioned by environment, but it receives its final quality, on which its worth depends, from the internal life which is the self-realization of existence.

Religion is the art and the theory of the internal life of man, so far as it depends on the man himself and on what is permanent in the nature of things. This doctrine is the direct negation of the theory that religion is primarily a social fact.

Social facts are of great importance to religion, because there is no such thing as absolutely independent existence. You cannot abstract society from man; most psychology is herd-psychology. But all collective emotions leave untouched the awful ultimate fact, which is the human being, consciously alone with itself, for its own sake.

When taking into account science, religion runs the risk of collapsing. Indeed, while reshaping its outer life, religion can only avoid implosion by remaining faithful to its inner life. And he writes:. Religion, therefore, while in the framing of dogmas it must admit modifications from the complete circle of our knowledge, still brings its own contribution of immediate experience.

So there really is no alternative. But that does not render the task at hand any easier. Whitehead lists two necessary, but not sufficient, requirements for religious leaders to reshape, again and again, the outer expressions of their inner experiences: First, they should stop exaggerating the importance of the outer life of religion.