Blogdate 6/23/06

Science is the language of the new millennium. It is the language that we use to build skyscrapers and rocket ships. Before that we had the language of religion. But there is an interesting concept now starting to break through in the realm of Quantum Physics. And that is a combining of the two schools of thought. All through recorded history these two schools of thought have been locked in mortal combat.

As we go deeper into Quantum Physics we are finding that the human spirit has the ability to affect physical things including our bodies on a cellular level. Many surgeons have seen the results of people surviving when by all scientific reasoning they should have died - simply because their spirit was so strong.

Language is an important factor. According to the language of certain physicists: “With a core belief system we are now able to influence the DNA of not only living beings but also the DNA of the physical elements including inanimate objects”. This concept is gaining ground in certain academic circles and you will find this language being used in articles, lectures and classes on Quantum Physics.

But if you were to say instead that “I have acquired skills in the realm of Voodoo magic” you would be written off as a Charlatan. Or if we say we believe that Jesus could really heal by laying his hands on people then it would be said of us that we had strayed from realm of scientific explanations.

But when you really stop to think about it science in its present format can explain so few things to a final conclusion that it almost goes against common sense to try to explain our world in a totally scientific format.

Before we go deeper into this concept lets first try to define what is meant by the term Quantum Physics. For many years the term Quantum Physics was a mysterious word that belonged to a very rarefied atmosphere of elite academics. To me the term Quantum Physics meant the study of the physical world. And my approach to this was simple common sense. So Quantum Physics instead of making the world a more complicated place can actually unravel many of the dilemmas that now confront us.

No where is this more true than in the field of study surrounding the concept of the raw vegan diet. I think that this is the one place where the concept of a benevolent deity and lets use the words Quantum Physics come together seamlessly.

But before we can continue we must first agree on some basic common denominators. The first one being that we are aging too quickly, the second being that we as a collective group are experiencing a high ratio of obesity with all its related ills and woes, and third, that we are experiencing a much higher ratio of debilitating chronic diseases.

Now on the Quantum Physics side one of the things that I love to do is look up and study statistics. I went to the Centers for Disease Control and I looked up the stats for some of the common debilitating chronic conditions that we are now suffering from such as cancer and heart disease. And I looked up the history of processed foods and when different chemicals made their début onto the American food scene. And if you made a graph of the processed foods and the modern diseases just going back to 1900 it would be amazing how as we left the farms where all the food we ate was organic for the modern life style the two graphs would show a definite relationship. For instance when DDT was introduced into the American landscape in the 50's the male sperm count was reduced by 50%.

And upon doing a more detailed study of the effects that different food additives have upon our bodies you can chart that the rise of a lot of what is considered now to be incurable chronic conditions are really the result of corporations trying to extend the shelf life and the taste of their products that they market to us with non stop advertisements.

This is huge because once you understand this concept then you are in position to take action that can result in a change in not only the quality of life for yourself but also for your family.

Lets take a look at another huge factor that definitely shows a relationship between Quantum Physics and our spiritual existence.

The sun is a major source of physical energy on earth. When we eat plants then we are eating close to the sun and the earth where all the nutrients in the food chain originate. When we eat an animal (most of the animals that we eat are mostly vegetarian mammals) then we are still getting our nutrients from the sun only they are “twice removed”. And if by chance we ate carnivores then we would be eating an animal who ate an animal who ate a plant so the nutrients would be “three times removed” .

So it would seem that the closer that we eat to the source which is the sun the cleaner our food is. And the further removed we are from that source the more toxic and unclean our food becomes. I have volumes of scientific evidence to support this with theories such as that our weak stomach acids are unable to break down meat, and that our 36ft long intestines won't allow us to digest and eliminate meat before it starts to rot in our systems.

As we start to shift through all of these different variations in ideologies and concepts we can see a pattern start to emerge which is neither strictly Quantum Physics nor spiritual but a seamless blending and overlapping of both.

Even though I do not belong to any organized religious group I like the concept of a benevolent creator. These bodies do not come with manuals so the our whole of our lives can be likened to a journey. Lets call it a journey of discovery. The riddles are many, varied and layered.

One of the biggest riddles confronting us now is what is the best possible food to eat? There are almost as many different answers as there are people.

It has been my own personal experience that food that has been cooked by fire has truly lost just about all of its ability to actually nourish you. This to me is Quantum Physics.

Whereas on the other hand food that is growing and has just been picked still contains the mysterious life force that is in some indefinable way passed onto us. This to me is spiritual. My own personal journey has been to do battle with the forces that are presented by the onslaught of time. This in and of itself is a kind of paradox because I don't have the slightest desire to live to be an old man. But as long as I'm here I want to be able to round up the totality or the sum total of my experiences and bring them to bear in the moment.

At the same time I feel that I'm starting to acknowledge a responsibility to not only my fellow humans but also to future generations. I think that we can do so much better in or with our stewardship of the planet. For years I was appalled by the greed and just sheer waste that is manifested on a day by day basis all around us. I kept saying someone should do something. Then one day I realized that all of us should do something. This was huge for me because I had always lived in the moment, for myself. I do what works for me, you do what works for you. To me earth was the hell plane. I have spend most of my life studying the art of war. I joined the army in 1968 and I have seen men do their absolute worst. And to this day I hate guns and will not have one in the house. The sword is my weapon of choice which is more of a metaphor because in following this paradoxical path it led me to the realm of a healer.

At the age of 57 I had for the most part retired from the world of men and their doings. And it was only at the suggestion of Jinjee that I publish some type of papers on my experiences as a Raw Vegan for over thirty years and I was pulled back into the affairs of men.

Most of my family is dead. Of the twenty four relatives that I grew up with, only four of us are still alive. Cancer mostly. Just about everyone was obese, and all of us were addicted in one way or another. Almost everyone in my generation is dead. All of my cousins, aunts, uncles, my mother. The doctors said that I was a high candidate for cancer and that it ran in my family. I say that it was the bad diet that ran in my family. At 57 I'm cancer free.

There is not a whole lot of information on the long terms effects of the Raw Vegan diet. So that in effect makes me a single test group. I of course don't like to look at my family as a scientific test group, I just realized that the Standard American Diet was not working for my family and I felt that I had to find a better system of eating or we would all perish. But when I hear critics say that the Raw Vegan diet is not a valid way of eating or that it is not possible to get all of the nutrients we need from the foods we eat and that we need to take supplements then I feel the call to arms. Of course it is possible to get all of the nutrients that we need from the foods that we eat if we don't cook them or try to digest the flesh of dead animals.

Is it too late? Of course we can not continue in the direction that we are going now. Once again is it Quantum Physics or just common sense. We have to turn to Solar Energy, we have to replace gasoline with hydrogen, and we have to stop cutting down trees to make houses and paper. We have to turn to more renewable types of materials.

I think that this battle starts with the individual. Then you can reach out.

One of the things that we are going to do is expand our outreach. Now that the technology is improved we are starting to plan a higher quality of downloadable media that we will use to do a sort of cable channel. The channel will be online. And instead of being a national cable channel it will be global in its reach. And it will be video downloads instead of DVDs which is what we produced for our first documentary movie which deals with Raw Vegan Kids. We created this film because there is the huge question "Does the Raw Vegan Diet really work". And what we tried to show in the film is not only does it work but it works very well. It works for 57 year old men who have been doing it 30 years, it works for two year old babies who have been doing it all their lives and it works for mothers who have given birth to four children and nursed them all for over three years.

We will develop content and air other people's productions every week. Everything on the website will be downloadable. I think that this is a good place to start because it creates an interactive global community and it allows us to have an exchange of ideas.

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