by Jim Carter
September 8, 2003
Dear Twilight Friends,
For the longest time I did not want to reveal anything about my personal health problems. They were nobody's business, I thought, until my personal physician released without consent my medical history to the public. Norman Shealy was my friend, my collaborator, my reporter, who did not realize that my business problems were caused by a serious medical condition for which he was one of the doctors treating me. It resulted from a common little accident. Perhaps I will publish a book someday.
On October 19, 2001, we launched Twilight. I use the word "we" because it was started with a lot of help from a lot of people and the "we" part is still alive. Twilight was an experience, not a promise. Twilight was designed to deliver on three hopes: The hope of better health by slowing or reversing the aging process, the hope of returning the vitality to the world by restoring the life to the water of Mother Earth; the hope of working together to build a better life for all who wanted to come along on this adventure. You be the judge of our success.
On December 23, 2001, I "kicked the cat." Actually I caught the paw of one of our house cats between my big toe and the toe next to it. The ensuing entanglement resulted in a minor scratch that I ignored. The following day I notice a pain in my leg and over the next ten days found that my leg from the big toe to my hip was in increasing distress, leaving me unable to walk or for that matter to move my left leg without excruciating pain. With the help of some really powerful pain killers, muscle relaxants and antispasmodics, on January 28, I crawled to the back seat of a car and returned to work. My left leg was atrophied and paralyzed and the muscles and skin had fused together down the entire outside of my leg. This wasn't the first time I had encountered a personal challenge that medicine had no treatment for, and it certainly was poorly timed.
I have worked with some of the top doctors in the world for years and their combined knowledge had left me with codeine for pain; Robaxon to relax the muscles and Valium for the muscle cramps that had spread into my back and chest as my body tried to adjust structurally, literally to the effective loss of my leg. With these nice high quality prescription drugs I was able to smile when I met people and act as if nothing was wrong. So long as I sat still the sensation that my leg was on fire was bearable.
The Twilight products were designed to reverse aging and restore the environment. They were not effective against a raging fungal infection that was consuming my leg. My condition did have a major impact on the operation of Twilight, forcing my daughter Amy to take on far more than she could carry.
By May of 2002 I realized that I had to stop the highly addictive medications, and had come to know the pain as a friend, I did take them occasionally when the discomfort was extreme. Twilight was doing well even though many of the business challenges were not being resolved. With the hope that a change in scenery would bring back my enthusiasm which was at extremely low ebb, we began Twilight Australia. As the events that ensued have nothing to do with the purpose of this letter, I will just say that I found some peace in Australia, and leave the rest to the judgment of time.
A year since the accident, in December 2002, the damage to my leg was not healing. No matter what I tried, I just did not get results. The pain had worn me down to a point where even answering an email required a two hour nap to recover. If you wondered why I did not respond to your inquires, it was because I simply was not able.
It became clear to me that if I was going to recover, I would have to create my own remedy. Something, that had the power to supply the damaged cells of my leg the necessary building materials so they could restore themselves. The only remedy offered by the doctors was to cut the nerves in my back to stop the pain, hardly a responsible choice.
I had no idea of what these cells needed and I still don't. The doctors had no answers, and the existing Twilight products were not helping either.
Inspiration is the beginning of all invention and necessity is its mother. Inspiration is the answer to need, the answer given by the spirit that has always guided man. If you ask, listen and react, it will guide you to the answer in any situation.
"You don't need to know, you just need to put all the pieces together and let your body sort it out" would be the words of the message if it had been in words. I knew that Magic Water could be used to transport anything into the cellular structure of the body, just as we had done with Magic Oil and magnesium and many other things for my doctor friends. I knew that combining Alfalfa and Kelp would provide every vitamin, every mineral and every essential amino acid. I also knew that there were some shortfalls in supplying them through the digestive tract; the healing would come in a year, if at all.
The shot gun effect was the way, and it was not traces but high volumes that made the most sense - Lots of building materials for lots of cells. I had lots of damage. I began working on the extraction, making sure the enzymes that keep these building materials vital within the cellular structure of the dried plant are extracted and remain vital. The Goldenseal Drops was such a living solution. It was alive and it grew in intensity with age. Alfalfa, Kelp and herbs in general are almost totally composed of cellulose. The active part is literally grams per pound. To reach the extreme concentration I required took multiple extractions with the same solution.
The first extraction of what was to become Topically Everything was wonderful, stable and alive. But it did not have the power I needed. By the tenth extraction, the strength was there but there was still something missing; the traumatized skin of my leg was repelling it. It would take forever to heal.
"Broaden the base with herbs" would have been the word message, so I added Valerian Root to soothe and relax the traumatized cells, Goldenseal as the anti-everything that it is and St. John's Wart because I had some on hand. Topically Everything was born: a beautiful liquid that looked like honey and smelled a bit like a wet dog, that even the most traumatized skin simply "drank up." The pain relief was almost instantaneous. For the first time in a year and a half, my leg did not hurt. In a matter of a few days my skin was supple again and the skin and the muscle began to separate. The fire went out!
This is my personal story and how Topically Everything came to be. The upgraded products are the results of my attempts over the last year to heal my own body. Many of them really helped, but until Topically Everything came about, the answer wasn't complete.
I hope this gives you a better idea of the why's and what's of Twilight's last year and a half. I am back. I am healthy, and more vigorous than I was when we started. I want to make these advanced products, especially Topically Everything, available to everyone who needs them. It is up to all of us to get these powerful products into the hands of those who need them. It is time to stop the pain.
Jim Carter