Brnody had no easy time. She started in the classroom in 1975 or early in 1976 physically well. But by 1977 or 1978 needed crutches and then leg braces and then by 1984 was in a wheel chair. She was diagnosed with osteoarthritis. She had polio as a kid but it was thought to be in remission. At one point I believe Ti indicated it developed because of her need to grow by battling an influence (booger) who thrived on being in control, as a manager, but who couldn’t get it’s way in the classroom so the conflict surfaced as disease that made it so she had to be in control in a different way by limited her ability to function like everyone else in the classroom and thus need special attention. I’m not implying that everyone who experiences this or other diseases is in the same boat, but according to Ti and Do there is a connection between disease and the influences we attract. For instance if I recall accurately at one point Ti and Do wanted us to get rid of any guilt we might have felt at any time in the past. One example I believe they used was that some breast cancer in women developed because of being made to feel guilty in some way about their breasts. Again, I’m not saying they said anything else about it that I recall but I don’t think they were saying this is the case for all who contract breast cancers. Linking physical disease with what we allow in the content of our Mind/Spirit was also evidenced in Do’s tape he sent to Terrie that was just recently broadcast part of the Pineapple Street Media podcast, episode 5 – The Tape.
At one point DO had 4-5 students lay hands on Brnody’s legs, her knews and ankles and feet were very swelled. She also had medications from a doctor – I recall progesterone was one. I was one who laid my hands on her legs and I recall thinking for this to work I needed to believe it possible so that perhaps my vehicle could be an instrument in that way. I think we did that laying on of hands twice, though we also did some massaging of her legs from the knees down that I also participated in a few times. There was no change I was aware of or every heard about. She could barely walk with braces with one leg totally bent out of shape.
Note: Saying this laying on of hands didn’t work gives those of you who are critics of Ti and Do more ammunition expecting that they should have been able to heal Brnody. My response to that is that Ti and Do were simply following their instructions that came when they sought how to help Brnody whether it worked or not. As a side benefit it put those who were doing the laying on of hands to the test as what if it didn’t work. Was it another of the things that didn’t come true? Yet to me and I suspect to others who were doing that laying on of hands (as I don’t know if the whole class knew about it as it was done behind closed doors), that I recall one was Alxody for me it didn’t phase me that it didn’t seem to work.
So after TI left we started on cleansing diets that DO said TI didn’t need to experience even though it was TI who started us on “pink drinks”, we called them made with protein powder and a number of supplements like Lecithin and Wheat Germ so one can’t say that DO started us on health based consuming – linked to overcoming food likes and dislikes separate from TI’s instructions. Ti also started us on a Pritikin like diet which was very low amounts of flesh foods. Our diet research began with a fast on apple juice and then a mucousless diet that came from Dr. Christophers mucousless diet system that was also stemmed from Arnold Ehrets writings. DO continued exploring a number of diet for health and longevity so our vehicles could last as long as needed and also served as a challenge to our dietary habits. Ti said that food was not an addiction, yet there were aspects of it that needed to be overcome. That research using ourselves as guinea pigs became the basis for the book “The Transfiguration Diet” with the author listed as, “littlegreen, inc”. I used to take copies to my out of craft task in Dallas so I could try to sell them during my lunch hour. I did sell a half dozen or so. I could do that because I was the car pool driver so I ended up with keeping a car at my out of craft task. Less than a year after publishing some of us moved to California while part of the class remained in Dallas. Do then sent Jwnody and Lvvody to visit with Anne Wigmore, the founder of the Hippocrities Health Institute in Boston. They were in Anne’s workshop for a “live food” diet. When they came back they put what they learned into motion as we began to grow our own food in the house we lived in. That house was actually one of John Wayne’s old houses in Newport Beach up the channel a little ways. We had over a dozen 4 shelf 12 foot long racks we put cafeteria trays on that we grew Buckwheat greens and Sunflower greens on and wheat grass and we made our own compost. We would blend the greens and add apple to cut the bitter taste to drink every day. We did a number of things and also started a side business called ALERT – Advanced Life Extension Research Team, selling off the excess carrots and other vegetables we bought in bulk at the LA docks at a farmers market.
Then DO started Brnody and myself and maybe another person or two on colonic irrigations via a professional service. I had vertigo that started when we started on the Pink drinks that prompted Ti and Do to cease that diet alone and added yeast rolls which did the trick to rid me of the vertigo symptoms, though they started to come back if I ran myself down.
But this laying of hands and dietary changes and massage seemed to have little to no affect on Brnody’s health and Brnody seemed to be getting worse. One time DO was meeting with craft overseers, of which I was one at that time and he expressed a real concern that Brnody could die as she was curling up and not able to get out of bed sometimes. DO was very concerned about this from the perspective of Brnody and also for the continence of the classroom. Brnody always was under a doctors care for years, though I don’t know if that continued once we started the dietary research.
We were in California then and DO had a crew go down to Tijuana, Mexico to the Gerson clinic and they came back and started Brnody and Alxody and a couple others on a special diet that included the use of raw cows liver. I don’t know what Alxody’s health problem was exactly.
I’m not getting the timeline exactly right but eventually DO felt to start up a “craft” (satellite) for Brnody and at first with Anyody (who was among the 38 but had a new name I don’t recall right now). I was on the crew with Jwnody that took Brnody there and got her situated and then added Anyody and at one point Cddody as well, though they had problems working together so Cddody got another apartment in the same complex in Dallas. Cddody had other problems. He got into an angry pushing match with Alxody one time but was also showing rebellious signs of not wanting to be in the classroom. A year or so later he was invited back into the classroom and didn’t want to rejoin so never returned. I visited with him in Dallas in 1995 and he had become bitter against Ti and Do. I kept in touch a little and a few years ago I saw a newpaper article that said he had died.
At one point around that time when Brnody and Anyody were at this half way type of craft Alxody and Sngody were also sent by DO to have that experience but I don’t know why but it wasn’t long lasting for them two. Tllody and Stlody left the classroom some time later and had their own places in Dallas but returned when they saw the Beyond Human tapes play on Satellite TV.
But the experience for Brnody proved to be excellent for her. She became very independent. DO helped her get a car and she qualified for govt assistance with getting a wheel chair lift installed on the back of it. And she got a good job working for that JR Ewing TV show, in accounting or something like that. I was sent to visit her once with Brnody and sometimes I was on phone calls to her. She always had contact with us and a crew assigned to keep up with her. She tried hard to live by all the procedures we had. She had become very debilitated requiring so much extra care and consideration while in the larger classroom setting and was limited in her in craft service because she couldn’t get around well and couldn’t move quickly when needed, etc. The classroom operated as a professional business.
When Brnody and Anyody returned they were quite happy and Brnody said so on the exit video, still in a wheelchair but she had conquered her vehicles rebellion and disease enough to have a positive attitude and I know that was no easy task for her even though it didn’t appear that sexuality was ever a characteristic of her biggest “booger”.
Sawyer Stands for Ti & Do's Heaven's Gate 