At the age of 94, Stanley Bass has had over 70 years of experience helping patients detoxify, increase their vitality, and remove disease and deficiencies. Stanley knew Dr. Herbert Shelton, a pioneer for alternative medicine, and wrote articles for his magazine. Stanley is also a Knight of Malta.
00:02:18.840A friend of mine was told he had a heart condition, and he was a trumpet player.
00:02:24.480We used to work together. We used to go work summers to the Catskill Mountains for 10 weeks and play with the band and do things like that.
00:02:35.100And he used to just hang around. He didn't do any exercise or anything because he had pain and stress, and he was told he had a heart condition.
00:02:45.620So he was afraid to move around, so he just sat most of the time.
00:02:48.920Well, one day after about four years that I had known him, somebody recommended a naturopath, and he went to this doctor.
00:03:01.600The doctor examined him and told him there was nothing wrong with him, that there was gas pressure.
00:03:08.780He had a lot of gas pressure in his stomach, pressure against his heart, giving him the pain.
00:03:14.340And so the doctor proved it by putting him on a juice fast, a juice fast for 10 days, orange juice.
00:03:23.960And after the 10 days, every trace was wiped out.
00:03:28.740And from there on, his whole life changed.
00:03:32.080So me seeing this, I was fascinated by this remarkable story.
00:03:37.320And out of curiosity, I asked him, ask your doctor next time who I can read in the library to learn about the speech neuropathy and that knows so many things that the medical profession doesn't know.
00:03:55.900So he recommended William Howard Hay and Rasmus South Baker, who worked for the Sundyed Health Sanitarium.
00:04:04.720They were the medical doctors that were using a natural approach.
00:04:09.440So I went to the New York Public Library, which was a whole block long, on 22nd Street.
00:05:48.200First, I read his books on venereal disease, syphilis, gonorrhea, where he said these diseases were not really diseases.
00:05:56.280He said they were detoxification programs the body sets up to get rid of toxins in the body that cause disease.
00:06:07.020Now, these happen to be sexual diseases.
00:06:08.900Then another book I read, he said he was talking about colds and flus and these serious type of colds where you get high fever, weakness and all that.
00:06:24.080And he said this was serious attempts in the body to make major detoxifications.
00:06:31.100You know, if you throw out drugs or harmful things that you've taken in your life from food or other bad habits of tobacco and things that people do that poison the body and retain these poisons.
00:06:46.640And then when the body reaches a certain density, it starts an acute condition where you have pain and the symptoms running your nose and all that.
00:06:59.100And he said all these diseases are efforts of the body to purify it and to cleanse it so that you can preserve your life and keep on living.
00:07:11.500And I said to myself, my God, this is unbelievable.
00:07:15.280The concept, I said, if this is true, anybody can learn these things and become his own doctor and his whole life has changed.
00:07:24.820I've become free from the slavery of having to go to doctors and other people and pay a lot of money and give advice.
00:07:34.400A lot of it was questionable and I knew that doctors used drug use that had used to hurt people and that the more people died from drug use given by doctors than from wars even.
00:09:17.240So I had my room near the yard, and the yard was closed off with stones going two stories high in the Bronx.
00:09:25.460And so this was a winter night, the middle of winter.
00:09:30.000And I decided I was going to try to catch a severe cold, preferably the flu, that I could give it the acid test and find out if it was really true.
00:10:51.440I had gone into some kind of a coma, I guess.
00:10:54.200And after the three days, all symptoms were gone, and I was cured.
00:10:59.900I went through the chills, the high fever, the weakness, chills jumping, running up and down my spine, and all kinds of scary sensations, which I was scared.
00:11:17.960Because I said, well, I'm just taking a chance, but I hope God is with me to help me if I made a mistake.
00:11:26.760Because, you know, I was just an innocent young boy.
00:26:52.100And when he came to nutrition, to New York, I became a student.
00:26:55.820And then he educated me into what he knew.
00:27:00.000So I went, I got a degree as a dietician, and then I went to, and then I went, I figured, I got to get away to get a license so I can practice, and then I can make a living.
00:27:11.540Then I'll drop music and become a doctor.
00:27:13.460So then I found the only way to get a license was that what a lot of doctors learned were becoming chiropractors, and chiropractors were using nutrition.
00:27:24.060So that was the way to get into nutrition and to practice and to get a license to practice.
00:27:59.040All right, now, anyway, by that time, I was pretty, very knowledgeable, and I was, my reputation was growing.
00:28:07.740Because everything I learned was I tested on myself, and I knew what was working and what didn't work, and the average doctor didn't do that.
00:28:16.560He went to school, they told him what to believe, and then he went into practice.
00:28:20.060So he had no experience outside of what they taught him.
00:28:23.200But I was self-taught, so I learned things that nobody knew.
00:28:28.140Because I was reading the literature all over the world, of every country.
00:28:35.200Well, anyway, so then my practice grew, and I started to make a living.
00:28:42.740And eventually, eventually, I bought a property in Brooklyn, and I decided that the best way for me to practice was to go, I bought this property, and then I decided to form a church.
00:29:04.580You know, like the new, like the Christian Science Church, and you have the Southern Day Adventist Church.
00:29:14.680And the churches that went into nutrition, I think if I went into the church, and I told nutrition there, I could revolutionize the whole subject.
00:29:28.700All they knew was about fasting, and most of them went to medical doctors.
00:29:33.080So I created a new type of a church based on natural healing, fasting, and psychology, and yoga, and everything that was constructive.
00:29:45.000And I gave this, oh, yes, and I was practicing as a chiropractor at this time.
00:29:49.780So I went to the state, and I said, I want to get a tax exemption for a church.
00:30:03.220I want to give the property to a church, and I want to use half of it for a chiropractic practice and get a tax exemption on the church part.
00:30:16.320So they said, you can't do it because we don't give the partial exemptions, either the place as a church or as a chiropractic office.
00:30:23.440So I said, well, I wanted to go into the church because I knew so much about religion by then that I could, you know, I could be a very good minister, a very high-class minister.
00:30:36.880So I decided to give the property to the church, and I stopped the chiropractic practice.
00:30:42.940So I went totally into the church, and I was practicing through the church, and I was practicing nutrition, nutrition as part of the church.
00:30:53.440And I practiced like that for 36 years.