“How was your birthday weekend?”
“Quiet.”
“Did you date any fine women?”
“No. I’ve sort of been avoiding dating these days.”
“Yeah, bro, I know what you mean. It can be distracting. If I’m going to retire at 30, I can’t be distracted. Make your money, bro, and the women will always be there.”
“I am rather busy myself.”
“What project are you working on?”
“Spiritual development.”
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Cacao
It’s amazing the difference in the price of raw carob powder these days and the price of raw cacao powder. I got a pound of raw carob powder this week for $6. Yes that’s right, $6!
What’s that all about?
I’ll tell you what it’s all about. In the early days, I’m talking about 30 years ago, those of us in the movement avoided chocolate in preference to carob. But now that chocolate has become all the rage, more especially with the touting of chocolate as a “superfood” by some in a most convincing manner, suddenly you can drive up the demand and charge $30 a pound.
But is it really healthy?
Consider the following from Paul Nison:
• No animal in nature will eat it unless tricked into it with milk or sugar.
• If you can convince an animal to eat it then it greatly shortens their life span if it doesn’t kill them immediately.
• The native people who ate it only ate the fruit of the theobroma (which contains all the benefits and none of the detriments) and only used the cacao seed as an addition to their psychedelic brew ahyuwasca and as a medicine in emergencies.
• Native people did not eat it as a food nor as a supplement, only for sacred use.
• Cacao is one of the most addictive substances known.
• Cacao is super toxic to the liver.
• It acts as a stimulant and agitates the kidneys and adrenal glands. This can cause: insomnia, nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night, shakes, and extreme energy shifts.
• It is extremely clogging due to the toxins carried in the oils contained within. Plus the fat chains are highly complex and require tons of work to break down.
• The result of long term use is a high level of liver and blood toxicity which can cause extreme mood swings, angry outbursts, violence, depression, paranoia, & dizziness.
• In some cases of long term use, there are also psychological effects that range from addictive tendencies, sexual dysfunction, violent outbursts, lack of reasoning, and decreased will.
• At mega doses of 40 plus beans, it acts as a hallucinogen and can cause many effects attributed to LSD or Hashish.
Probably the best advice that I’ve heard on things like this is: “if in doubt, throw it out!”
What’s that all about?
I’ll tell you what it’s all about. In the early days, I’m talking about 30 years ago, those of us in the movement avoided chocolate in preference to carob. But now that chocolate has become all the rage, more especially with the touting of chocolate as a “superfood” by some in a most convincing manner, suddenly you can drive up the demand and charge $30 a pound.
But is it really healthy?
Consider the following from Paul Nison:
• No animal in nature will eat it unless tricked into it with milk or sugar.
• If you can convince an animal to eat it then it greatly shortens their life span if it doesn’t kill them immediately.
• The native people who ate it only ate the fruit of the theobroma (which contains all the benefits and none of the detriments) and only used the cacao seed as an addition to their psychedelic brew ahyuwasca and as a medicine in emergencies.
• Native people did not eat it as a food nor as a supplement, only for sacred use.
• Cacao is one of the most addictive substances known.
• Cacao is super toxic to the liver.
• It acts as a stimulant and agitates the kidneys and adrenal glands. This can cause: insomnia, nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night, shakes, and extreme energy shifts.
• It is extremely clogging due to the toxins carried in the oils contained within. Plus the fat chains are highly complex and require tons of work to break down.
• The result of long term use is a high level of liver and blood toxicity which can cause extreme mood swings, angry outbursts, violence, depression, paranoia, & dizziness.
• In some cases of long term use, there are also psychological effects that range from addictive tendencies, sexual dysfunction, violent outbursts, lack of reasoning, and decreased will.
• At mega doses of 40 plus beans, it acts as a hallucinogen and can cause many effects attributed to LSD or Hashish.
Probably the best advice that I’ve heard on things like this is: “if in doubt, throw it out!”
Friday, September 26, 2008
Angela on CNN
Angela Stokes did a great interview on CNN this week. CNN did a good and unbiased job as well.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Spiritual Energy
Is spiritual energy food? I would say that it most decidedly is. I would go so far as to say that none of us could exist without it and neither could any of the food that we eat or air that we breathe exist without spiritual energy.
Indeed does man not live by bread alone.
Spiritual energy is more subtle than the air we breathe, yet it is just as physical, just as powerful, just as existent.
Imagine then, if spiritual energy, or the energy invoked through prayer, could be stored in a physical container and released whenever the need existed, say in a time of crisis. This would then be a technology that has not existed certainly since the time of Atlantis.
Check out the video below and see what you think.
Indeed does man not live by bread alone.
Spiritual energy is more subtle than the air we breathe, yet it is just as physical, just as powerful, just as existent.
Imagine then, if spiritual energy, or the energy invoked through prayer, could be stored in a physical container and released whenever the need existed, say in a time of crisis. This would then be a technology that has not existed certainly since the time of Atlantis.
Check out the video below and see what you think.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Veganism and Extraterrestrials?
I first met Dr. George King at his residence in Santa Barbara in October of 1996. I had been studying his life for the 10 years previous, and I knew him to be a very extraordinary man, and a very great Master of Yoga.Oddly enough or strangly enough, or maybe not so oddly and strangely enough, Dr. King had been in telepathic contact with certain very advanced extraterrestrials since 1954. And from my extensive research on the life of the man, I knew this to be true. Many of the messages given by these extraterrestrials where delivered through Dr. King using his voice whist Dr. King was in the much sought after state of Samadhi.
A rather curious message delivered by one such being, that went by the pseudonym, Aetherius, spoke about the downside of eating meat calling it “a foul crime”. Not only did this being recommend giving up such a practice, but also recommended that a raw plant based diet be adopted.As per Aetherius in a very brief excerpt from a transmission delivered through Dr. King on June 4, 1955 at Caxton Hall, London:
“Refrain from eating flesh during the next six weeks, as this is a foul crime. If you must eat meat, then eat fish. Use your cooking pots as little as possible – rather, eat fresh vegetables.”
Simple advice indeed, but how many were actually advocating raw veganism in 1955?
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Temperament
I’m eating mostly organic produce these days, although not entirely. In Los Angeles, there is fairly easy access to affordable organic produce if you know where to shop. I take advantage of the farmer’s markets here and get good deals on organic produce at those. There is a very small farmer’s market here in Silverlake on Saturdays and of course the huge farmer’s market in Hollywood on Sundays.
I feel that it is vital to eat organic. I think that is part of the reason that I’ve found myself here. It was much more difficult to access affordable organic produce in New Jersey even though, being the “Garden State”, produce there is usually abundant.
I’m also feeling the urge to water fast. I feel that will be the next step. I’ve actually water fasted since I was a teenager, but never anything really significant. Generally they were water fasts from one to three days. I watched an inspiring short film on fasting last night called Slow Down and Fast. Interesting indeed. Water fasting shall be something I will be experimenting with in the future.
I am also feeling the urge to stop driving the car. Many of the streets here have bike lanes, I have a $3000 bicycle and I know how to ride it. I’ve been cycling seriously for the past 25 years and was a runner 8 years before that. Lately, I’ve been riding 25 to 30 miles 6 to 7 days a week. In all the 25 years, however, I’ve not used a bicycle to commute.
There are challenges with cycling as a mode of transport here none of which have to do with the actual riding itself. These issues have to do with the nature of my job and location, which I won’t go into at the moment. Whether or not it will be feasible to entirely give up the car will remain to be seen. These challenges, are for the most part, safety issues because of city living and what that brings, but there are other challenges as well, but it is something that I have been giving much thought to and have been gearing myself for.
I’m not a particularly ambitious person per se. I don’t get an idea and then necessarily go head long into battle with it. I more or less get certain ideas and inspirations and visualize these allowing those concepts to imbue me until they manifest. At times, these manifestations have happened rather suddenly; at other times, it has been a more gradual process. For instance, I told my mother when I was 9 years old that I was going to be a fruitarian; however, a raw plant based regime didn’t become a reality until many years later.
It has always been rather strange to think of a thing and then at some point be engaged in the actual reality of that thing as it unfolds.
Often I think that I should be more ambitious. In my life, ambition has always been difficult to come by. I have always been far more enthusiastic about marked inner development. I can only attribute this temperament to the lives spent as a monk.
I feel that it is vital to eat organic. I think that is part of the reason that I’ve found myself here. It was much more difficult to access affordable organic produce in New Jersey even though, being the “Garden State”, produce there is usually abundant.
I’m also feeling the urge to water fast. I feel that will be the next step. I’ve actually water fasted since I was a teenager, but never anything really significant. Generally they were water fasts from one to three days. I watched an inspiring short film on fasting last night called Slow Down and Fast. Interesting indeed. Water fasting shall be something I will be experimenting with in the future.
I am also feeling the urge to stop driving the car. Many of the streets here have bike lanes, I have a $3000 bicycle and I know how to ride it. I’ve been cycling seriously for the past 25 years and was a runner 8 years before that. Lately, I’ve been riding 25 to 30 miles 6 to 7 days a week. In all the 25 years, however, I’ve not used a bicycle to commute.
There are challenges with cycling as a mode of transport here none of which have to do with the actual riding itself. These issues have to do with the nature of my job and location, which I won’t go into at the moment. Whether or not it will be feasible to entirely give up the car will remain to be seen. These challenges, are for the most part, safety issues because of city living and what that brings, but there are other challenges as well, but it is something that I have been giving much thought to and have been gearing myself for.
I’m not a particularly ambitious person per se. I don’t get an idea and then necessarily go head long into battle with it. I more or less get certain ideas and inspirations and visualize these allowing those concepts to imbue me until they manifest. At times, these manifestations have happened rather suddenly; at other times, it has been a more gradual process. For instance, I told my mother when I was 9 years old that I was going to be a fruitarian; however, a raw plant based regime didn’t become a reality until many years later.
It has always been rather strange to think of a thing and then at some point be engaged in the actual reality of that thing as it unfolds.
Often I think that I should be more ambitious. In my life, ambition has always been difficult to come by. I have always been far more enthusiastic about marked inner development. I can only attribute this temperament to the lives spent as a monk.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Elixer
It looks as though I may begin another period of juice to start on my birthday, September 28. I don’t usually breathe a word about my birthday to people, because as far as I am concerned, that is my private affair and I don’t need others to trouble themselves with its celebration.
I had considered starting juice today and actually have, having had about a gallon of juice thus far, since today is the autumnal equinox, a cosmically auspicious time, but since the birthday is up in 6 days, I thought that would be an even more auspicious time to me personally.
Whether or not I do begin juice on September 28, however, does remain to be seen. Having come off of 112 days of juice just under 3 months ago, I am not feeling particularly enthusiastic about going the liquid route again just yet. But having said that, the juice diet is never something that has been easy for me to start, so if I can do it, certainly anybody can!
Speaking of birthdays, one can view one’s birthday as a sort of hub in the wheel of one’s affairs, or should I say, cycles. The birthday is a time when the pranas flow nicely. It is said that the hour of one’s birth is a particularly auspicious time for pranayama.
As humans, we require three types of “physical” food and they come in this order: breath, liquid and solid food. Breath, of course, being the most important, it is possible to tremendously charge oneself with prana through the exercise of pranayama.
However, one should not dismiss the prana contained in fresh, raw juices made from organic or wild produce, as liquid is second in importance only to breath and is, strictly speaking, certainly more important than solids. Such juice or liquid is like an elixir of The Mother Earth Herself, and of course, The Sun, the living plants being virtual pranic batteries as it were.
And, as those who advocate a living, raw plant based diet, we also get our pranas through the living cells of plants which are indeed pranic batteries of the Earth, and Sun’s energy, and Cosmic energies too. To take these foods after having been cooked would certainly diminish the quality and quantity of that prana.
Having said all these things, I did also get a gracious email today from David and Katrina Rainoshek. I thought it to be rather synchronistic to have received such a generous email from the pioneers of juice feasting not only on the day that I originally contemplated going on juice, but also 6 days prior to the tentative official start, a sign perhaps that it is indeed time to have another go?
As David has said in the past, this is a hero's journey.
Indeed, is this a hero's journey!
We are One. We are One! The more one aligns oneself with the Earth and the Sun and the Heavens above, the more the realization of Oneness takes place and the more synchronistic life gets.
I had considered starting juice today and actually have, having had about a gallon of juice thus far, since today is the autumnal equinox, a cosmically auspicious time, but since the birthday is up in 6 days, I thought that would be an even more auspicious time to me personally.
Whether or not I do begin juice on September 28, however, does remain to be seen. Having come off of 112 days of juice just under 3 months ago, I am not feeling particularly enthusiastic about going the liquid route again just yet. But having said that, the juice diet is never something that has been easy for me to start, so if I can do it, certainly anybody can!
Speaking of birthdays, one can view one’s birthday as a sort of hub in the wheel of one’s affairs, or should I say, cycles. The birthday is a time when the pranas flow nicely. It is said that the hour of one’s birth is a particularly auspicious time for pranayama.
As humans, we require three types of “physical” food and they come in this order: breath, liquid and solid food. Breath, of course, being the most important, it is possible to tremendously charge oneself with prana through the exercise of pranayama.
However, one should not dismiss the prana contained in fresh, raw juices made from organic or wild produce, as liquid is second in importance only to breath and is, strictly speaking, certainly more important than solids. Such juice or liquid is like an elixir of The Mother Earth Herself, and of course, The Sun, the living plants being virtual pranic batteries as it were.
And, as those who advocate a living, raw plant based diet, we also get our pranas through the living cells of plants which are indeed pranic batteries of the Earth, and Sun’s energy, and Cosmic energies too. To take these foods after having been cooked would certainly diminish the quality and quantity of that prana.
Having said all these things, I did also get a gracious email today from David and Katrina Rainoshek. I thought it to be rather synchronistic to have received such a generous email from the pioneers of juice feasting not only on the day that I originally contemplated going on juice, but also 6 days prior to the tentative official start, a sign perhaps that it is indeed time to have another go?
As David has said in the past, this is a hero's journey.
Indeed, is this a hero's journey!
We are One. We are One! The more one aligns oneself with the Earth and the Sun and the Heavens above, the more the realization of Oneness takes place and the more synchronistic life gets.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Chef Ito and The Number 33
I met Brett and Jon at Au Lac today. If you haven’t been there, it is an amazing Vegan and Raw Vegan restaurant in Fountain Valley, California. The chef, Chef Ito, is in the midst of a 6 year vow of silence, which is a matter for discussion in and of itself. But in short, this is the kind of person that you want preparing your food.
Interestingly enough, Brett noticed that the Chef had changed or is going to change the opening time from 11:30 to 11:33 and the closing time from 9:30 to 9:33. I find the opening time very interesting indeed, but both times incorporate the master number “33”.
As we were standing at the door waiting to get in, two other people walked up. One of them looked at the sign with the new time and wondered if that was the opening time of the restaurant. I explained to this person that that was the new opening time to start on December 1, that the Chef had decided to make the opening and closing times more “metaphysical”.
“What do you mean, more metaphysical?”
“Metaphysical means beyond the basic physical, for instance, in numerology, ‘33’ is a master number.”
“33 is a prime number.”
“You are referring to basic mathematics; in the science of numerology, 33 is a master number.”
“So you are a philosopher.”
“Actually, this is science, strict science, but science based on metaphysics.”
What I didn’t tell our friend is that the number “33” represents the Christ Vibration, the vibration of universal and unconditional Love, the Son of the Father, the second person in the Holy Trinity, the preservative aspect of the Universe or Vishnu in Hindu tradition and philosophy.
Chef Ito is indeed an interesting fellow and I will certainly be back to his restaurant the next chance I get.
Interestingly enough, Brett noticed that the Chef had changed or is going to change the opening time from 11:30 to 11:33 and the closing time from 9:30 to 9:33. I find the opening time very interesting indeed, but both times incorporate the master number “33”.
As we were standing at the door waiting to get in, two other people walked up. One of them looked at the sign with the new time and wondered if that was the opening time of the restaurant. I explained to this person that that was the new opening time to start on December 1, that the Chef had decided to make the opening and closing times more “metaphysical”.
“What do you mean, more metaphysical?”
“Metaphysical means beyond the basic physical, for instance, in numerology, ‘33’ is a master number.”
“33 is a prime number.”
“You are referring to basic mathematics; in the science of numerology, 33 is a master number.”
“So you are a philosopher.”
“Actually, this is science, strict science, but science based on metaphysics.”
What I didn’t tell our friend is that the number “33” represents the Christ Vibration, the vibration of universal and unconditional Love, the Son of the Father, the second person in the Holy Trinity, the preservative aspect of the Universe or Vishnu in Hindu tradition and philosophy.
Chef Ito is indeed an interesting fellow and I will certainly be back to his restaurant the next chance I get.
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