Freedom, fear and bedtime lullabies

<>A great argument for organic food hit me the other day...Some people say it's too expensive to buy healthy organic food and they can't afford it. But I say your doctor's bill will balance out the money down the line when your paying 400 bucks a month for your cholesterol medecine. Or when you need that thousand doller triple by-pass surgery from your clogged arteries.

I guess it's just a matter of chosing who you want to support. Organic farmers trying to change the world and make your life a little healthier and easier, or corrupt doctors trying to profit with pharmaceutical drug pushers... If you don't believe their drug pushers, just go to your local doctor's office and watch what's on the TV for 15 minutes and think about that idea while your watching it. Just think about it. Or think about it next time you see some new drug advertised on the evening news...It doesn't take much to realize their real agenda with a little bit of research and mindfullness. Animals in nature live plenty healthy without their script of zyaxetrin and albuterol... And they don't seem to be suffering from any side effects from a natural raw food diet. Animals seem to be a lot happier too don't you think? I don't know what the exact fact on this, but I'm almost positive that humans are probably the sickest animals on Earth and their living the smallest portion of their natural life span. If you want to cure cancer, stop eating food made in labratories and then you can stop dicking around in them so much looking for ways to help this food keep us alive wasting a lot of time and many American's blown charity money. I don't know about you all, but evolving so we can eat twinkies and aspartame and red dye#40 and hydrolyzed soy and hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup and actually stay alive is not exactly the height of human progression in my eyes.

By the way, healthy food is NOT that expensive if you shop around and use your head a little. Example: Rawfood.com sells 2.5 pounds of one of the most nutritious foods on the planet, goji berries, for 52 bucks...which is pretty much the going price, rawchoice sells them for a similar price. BUT, I get two pounds of the lyci berries for 24 bucks from the mountain rose site listed in my links. It's just a matter of using your head and shopping around a little bit, it's not rocket science. Plus, most people don't realize that you can't eat but more than a handfull of goji berries in one sitting before your body just can't absorb anymore of the nutrients in them because they have so many.  So their really not that expensive since you can probably at LEAST 100 handfulls out of 2 pounds...probably more...

Take a look around you. It's a pretty green world out there for the most part. Common sense alone would tell us that green leafy vegetables and greenfoods should play a pretty significant part of our diet. I mean, green things cover entire CONTINENTS when you look at it.  On a very basic level, I think this is a huge key to life on Earth here that humans have completley skipped over.

 Green is the middle color of the rainbow. This is a pretty powerful concept if you think about it. And highly concentrated greenfoods like spirulina do seem to have a calming and balancing effect on our body and mind. Green's balance our blood sugar, they alkalize our blood and bodie's, they heal our eye sight, and they soothe our nervous system with their high concentrations of essential absorbable minerals.

For those who don't know or haven't realized it yet, I'm what's known as a raw foodist. This means I don't consume cooked, processed, or denatured food. Basically I eat like every other animal on this planet. I don't dry my food, I don't lay it in the sun on a hot rock for hours at a time..and I don't wilt it and burn it with a fire or excessive heat. If I wanted dead dry food I would eat leaves. I just eat my food as is. When you cook your food, you essentially cook your body is basically the theory behind my diet. You lose the essential enzymes needed to run our body, the vitamin content is cut in half and many vitamins are completley lost, and you lose the healthy purified water. You ask your body to use it's own limited reserve of enzymes instead of giving it more enzymes, which causes premature aging and disease in the long run, and a loss of well being in the short run.

But what about protein? Yeah, ask the gorilla whose strength easily doubles ours combined where he gets his protein in his diet of predominatley green leaves. Ask the cows who live exclusively off of grass where they get their calcium... It's there. Those two common sense arguments alone, challenge and destroy our whole idea of eating we've been sold in this world. Spirulina, an algae, actually has the highest protein content of any food on the planet, being about 60% protein in it's make up. Of course it's not too aesthetic to eat algae alone for adequate protein, but it's a pretty strong argument to me that we do not need to eat flesh to maintain our own flesh.

And when you eat nothing but spirulina smoothies for a day, and nothing but cow for the next day, you WILL notice a PROFOUND difference in your well-being and energy levels. Spirulina is a great example of a strong healing food...Where as cows, or no animal really, provide healing effects on the body. The aesthetic pleasure is a bad habit we've learned at best...and believe me, it can be unlearned. I have been a vegetarian for 2 years now with no breaks, and raw for 3 months with minor breaks, and I could not eat meat now if I wanted to. It's not appealing to me at all. Do you guys ever look at dogs or birds or squirrels and get hungry and think of dinner? Again, we just tore the whole model we've been sold on eating apart with one little argument...because the answer is no, nobody ever looks at animals and makes the connection that it could potentially be dinner.

And have you ever noticed that almost all of our valid medecines and health food come from plants and not animals??? The only benefit you get from eating a lot of animals and animal products is high cholesterol and heart disease, which is one of the largest killers on this planet if not the largest. <>So when you see me go on long health-oriented rants, it's because it's a passion of mine. It's a lifestyle really, raw foods. It's not some trendy diet, or a weightloss one though it's very valuable for that. I was skinny on the SAD(standard american diet), so it's definatley not a weightloss diet and I've struggled with gaining weight my whole life. But it is a way of living that gives you energy, living uncooked enzymes, purified refreshing and hydrating plant water, clarity, and many other valuable things as you go through this life. If anyone has any questions about it or any natural health, please feel free to give me an email at ModernMedecineMan@yahoo.com and I would be glad to discuss anything with you furthur.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind." Albert Einstein

 

The body has an unconditionally loving force inside of it. Consider that no matter WHAT we put into our body, our body is always working to detox it. It's always working for us no matter what, always detoxing, always giving it's all, always trying to heal and clean us. The body never gives up and say's, okay that's it, I've had enough. It gives us it's all as much as it possibly can. If we just work with this healing force, and let this healing force do what it wants to do, we can really get in tune with this life force inside of us and then get attuned to a lot more going on in this world.

Also consider that an unconditionally loving and regenerative healing force exists in nature. When we cut a lawn, what does it do? Does it say "THATS IT!!! I'm done growing!!!"? Not at all. It grows back, and it trys to give us more oxygen and life force. It persists on unconditionally. You could curse at your lawn, jump on it and scream at it and play heavy metal into it, but it would still try to grow for you...I would think, I've never actually tried that...

But maybe there is a lesson to learn from these persistent and unconditionally loving forces we find all through nature. The sun doesn't pick and chose who it shines on, it just shines. Shine on y'all

And be good to your maker(your dad) this coming Father's Day.

 

"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. " Etty Hilsum

Hey y'all.

I just watched a really cool video online that was probably more inspiring and filled with more meaning than any television show I've ever seen in my LIFE. I watched it twice and got chills both times. Check it out...

 

http://photos.imageevent.com/shutternut/sacredconnectionsfinal/SacredConnectWebStream.mov

You can learn more about this truly amazing and inspiring woman at the website of her organization,

The Circle of Life

 

So, let me talk a bit about something else environment-oriented that we can all do to easily make a difference... Compact fluroescent light bulbs. Some of you might have heard of them from when we suddenly got environmental after gas prices went crazy and the country went through oil shortages(ha, ha ; ). But compact fluroescents are just light bulbs that burn 15 watts instead of the typical 60 watts. You can imagine how that much electricity and fossil fuel burning could add up to if we all used them... You could probably imagine how much cash that saves you too!!! The average amount saved with these light bulbs is twenty dollers a month. That is a pretty significant saving!!! This means they pay themselves off as well as another set in one month, as they cost about 10 bucks for two where I live.

And get this, they last over five times longer than 60 watt bulbs. Five times longer is a pretty significant amount of hours burning, and it adds up to significant savings too!!! Check them out next time your near a hardware store or a pharmacy... or you can even order them online. Their definatley a good thing to know about and keep in mind, and they make great gifts. Truly gifts that keep on giving when a person saves about 20 bucks a month consistently for over a year just implementing something as simple a light bulb.

For more fun web media... Check out the PEAK PERFORMANCE archives I linked in my favorite places on the side here. The bird flu interview sample there is a blast to listen to. All of the stuff on that site is to me really... It's completley inspiring and much more fun to listen to when I'm surfing the net instead of subconsciously listening to some dramatic piece of music. I guess it could be considered self-help, and self-help might seem weird or unecesary to some people... But I know I want all the help I can get through this life. And even if all self-help things aren't 100% effective for every person all the time, why not try to put the odds in your favor when you can? And if it doesn't teach you anything, and I sordove doubt that it won't...what's wrong with being reminded of things we already know, and reinforcing knowledge so that we can actually implement it and become successful and happy people?

 

"But it's like the harder that they hit us, the louder we become, like the skin on a drum..." Michael Franti

Raw food enthusiast David Wolfe has a pretty good philosophy on politics I think. You don't vote at elections, but you vote with your money. Many people like George Carlin and Bill Maher would also say the world isn't run by politicians, but by money. It's run by donations and campaign contributions from oil companies, food companies, and pharmaceutical companies, friendly things like that. So if we can conclude that voting is pretty much a powerless activity because elections are rigged and American people don't really care about what's going on and what they can do anyway... what CAN we do to put our wishes and desires for a better world out there? What kind of a way do WE want to live anyway? Well, you put your message out through what you buy and what you make of your life.

For example, if you buy organic food, you say that you want a cleaner and more nourished planet Earth. If you buy and plant trees, edible and useful plants and flowers... you express your desire for man to achieve harmony with the natural world. If you buy nice porsche cars all the time, your saying that the world should be filled with finely designed hunks of metals driving all over a paved planet. A paved planet, that's a pretty powerful concept when you stop to actually think about it, and a pretty grim one to me.I'd be willing to bet that almost everyone who buys nice cars never once realize it. Ghandi said it best, you life is your message to the world.

See, this is why I think vegetarianism is so great. It shows you that as a consumer, you have the power to influence the world. You can change things, you can have your message and your opinions heard with your doller. It wakes you up to the reality that we all buy comes with consequences that we often don't see right up front. People don't see candy factories emitting pollution and producing so called food on massive amounts of electrical metal equipment. People don't see how high fructose corn syrup is made and how the way it's made just LOOKS completley poisonous and carcinogenic like crack when it's boiled down. They don't see Genetically Modified corn labratories, and they don't see red dye #40 is and how it is derived from cockroaches. They don't see the MSG that's put into their products to subtly addict us to them. I would be willing to bet though, that if they saw all of that actually happen, and they heard the people of those companies talking about how to make their product appealing to turn a profit... laffy taffy would go out of business the very next day. The same way with ciggerates, or maybe people would be too addicted to quit?

And you know what, people do feel the stress and the afterburn of that stuff eventually, whether they realize it or not. People are dying, people are crying, people are depressed and anxious and confused, people are at war with each other, people are killing each other... and they haven't even begun considering the most important saying in the world as David Wolfe likes to says. You are what you eat and inner pollution creates outer pollution. Unhappy people are not trying to make other people happy. The problem in the world is not terrorism, it's not drugs, it's not the economy or war, it's constipation.

But people don't see the clearcuts that go on in ancient forests to make Kleenex tissues. People don't see the cruelty that goes into making veal. People don't realize that other people have lost almost all of their sense of values, and only us can start to cultivate that sense again. Nobody else can do it for us...

"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die." James L. Hayes

In my search to make my voice heard and spread the word that I feel needs to be heard, the idea of a blog came to me. What better way for someone with public speaking fears, to communicate with massive amounts of people? I guess in that way the internet is both a blessing and a curse...helping me spread important things I know with others, and helping me avoid my fears... Ah well, regardless...I'm here to speak my peace, and maybe youll find a bit of peace in what I get into here. The beauty of reading is just that...Learn from my experience, don't go through the trouble of respinning the wheel of life yourself to learn that lesson. Just read massive amounts of other literature and jump right through massive amounts of hoops in a small but incredibly saturated amount of time. nd learn more and more, improve yourself, and then improve the world. That's the way it really works...If were not happy, if were not doin what works for us, what kind of things can we offer other people... besides the best ways to NOT find happiness? That's definatley a lesson, but is it the best we can do???

 

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