From: owner-rawlife-digest@rawtimes.com (rawlife-digest) To: rawlife-digest@rawtimes.com Subject: rawlife-digest V1 #601 Reply-To: rawlife@rawtimes.com Sender: owner-rawlife-digest@rawtimes.com Errors-To: owner-rawlife-digest@rawtimes.com Precedence: bulk rawlife-digest Thursday, May 10 2001 Volume 01 : Number 601 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:33:36 -0400 From: "Helene Idels" (by way of JR Ellis ) Subject: [rawlife] Helene's Weekend Events Update Reminder! This will be all for now. I'll post info about later upcoming events next week. I'm still working on removing duplicate e-mail addresses and updating to new addresses. Bear with me! Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. My best to all of you. Know that you're in my thoughts and I'll reply to personal messages as time permits. Until then . . . . I hope to see many of you at these events! Pax Vobiscum and Health and Happiness to all, Helene Recap of events this weekend: Preview with DETAILED information to follow below: *Friday May 11: "Discovering Your Totem Animal" Circle By The Sea, Neo-Pagan spiritual group Special event *Friday May 11: Captured Dreams Singles Events Coordinated By Victoria M. Ross *Saturday May 12: SDC Living Foods Potluck lunch with Guest speaker Millan Chessman, author, instructor, colon Hydrotherapist, lecturer, and health practitioner. *Saturday May 12: Karl and Jeanne Anthony Benefit Concert. *Sunday May 13: Guided tour of Exotica Farm in Vista. ****************************************** ****************************************** Detailed information: ******************************************************* *Friday May 11, 8-10pm: "Discovering Your Totem Animal" Circle By The Sea, a Neo-Pagan spiritual group is pleased to present internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Raven Grimassi leading a session in Shamanic Trance Work - "Discovering Your Totem Animal", meeting at "Raven's Loft" at 252 E. Grand, Escondido, CA, North San Diego County, 760-746-5636, Love Offering requested. For more info call 760-888-9704. Next special event - Magickal Herb Incense-Making Class. ******************************************************* Friday, May 11, 7-10:30pm "Getting to Meet You" Party CAPTURED DREAMS SINGLES EVENTS COORDINATED BY VICTORIA M. ROSS It doesn't have to take 10 years to meet your perfect match! At Captured Dreams Singles Events, you will have the opportunity to meet your match in just three to three-and-a-half hours. You'll be able to find him or her through a series of icebreakers and small group discussions. Throughout the evening you will find yourself laughing and having a wonderful time sharing your values and interests with a great number of like-minded people. At this fun event you won't have to ask anyone out, or get anyone's phone number! You won't have to worry about having to say "no," or trying to get away from someone you don't like. All you have to do is tell your instructor whom you like. Then she'll give them your interest card or profile after the event. You'll only get calls and/or notes from people that you've met, that you liked and that liked you back! Victoria Ross has hosted over 60 Successful "Getting to Meet You" Parties for the Learning Annex in addition to coaching singles and offering dream fulfillment workshops through her company, Captured Dreams. This is NOTHING like any singles event you have EVER been to before! "GETTING TO MEET YOU" SINGLES EVENTS "Getting to Meet You" Party (Average Age - 40yrs) Friday, May 11th, 2001 (Mission Valley) 7:00-10:30 pm Course fee: $29.00 + $3 Materials Fee At The Door (If Pay Directly, No Membership Fee) PLEASE PRE-REGISTER BY SENDING PAYMENT to: Captured Dreams, P.O. Box 121389, San Diego, CA 92112 or Call (858) 492-8971 or (619) 299-2944 We send directions out - after we receive registration. Discounts and work trade are available!*Register today! Pre-Registration is required. No walk-ins. (This is necessary to maintain even ratio of men to women) CAPTURED DREAMS SEMINARS COORDINATED BY VICTORIA M. ROSS DREAM FULFILLMENT SUPPORT GROUP (New Location) The groups are facilitated. The only requirement is that you honor the environment that we have set up and that you want to fulfill your dreams and life purpose. You do not have to know what your life purpose is in order to attend. In this group you will: 1) Have a safe, expansive environment to share and crystallize your dreams 2) Be recognized as equally important and valuable, and 3) Be connected to people, services and products that are likely to fulfill or enable your dreams. Location: The Center for Moving Arts, 3255 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103 When: Every Monday Night - 6:30-7:30 p.m. (No class - Monday, May 14, 2001) Course fee: $10/session (First Session Complimentary) Pay at the door Your facilitator, Victoria Ross, has been coaching clients and offering Dream Fulfillment programs for the past fifteen years through her company, Captured Dreams. PAYMENT: Checks must be sent in advance to Captured Dreams P.O. Box 121389, San Diego, CA 92112. We send directions out - after we receive registration. Questions? Call (858) 492-8971 or (619) 299-2944 Victoria M. Ross CAPTURED DREAMS "A Better Way to Meet" P.O. Box 121389 * San Diego, CA 92112-1389 (858) 492-8971 * (619) 299-2944 Our expansion is creating a need for a CFO, a Sales/Marketing Manager and some telemarketing and admin/data entry personnel. If you or someone you know who is high-integrity is looking for a rewarding position, please have them call (619) 299-2944 or email: victoria@captureddreams.net. ******************************************************* *Saturday May 12, 12noon: SDC Living Foods presents: Millan Chessman: Lecturer, instructor, health practitioner, colon hydrotherapist, and author of "Stay Young and Healthy Through Internal Cleansing". The average American consumes over 1 pound of food additives per year. We are consuming over 3,000 toxic chemicals in our bodies. Learn: 1.Why and What is Internal Cleansing, 2.What cleansing herbs to use and why, 3.What is colon Hydrotherapy (Colonics) -its benefits and controversies, 4.Symptoms of a toxic body, 5.What are the benefits of Internal Cleansing, and 6.Fasting - Why and how. Time: 12:00PM - 3:30PM Donation: $2.00 members/$4.00 non-members We meet the second Saturday of each month to share a raw living organic food potluck and connect with each other. We also have a specific activity at each event (usually a speaker). Where: Santa Clara Point Recreation Center, Santa Clara Place, Mission Beach, San Diego. Directions: I-5 North to Grand West or I-5 South to Balboa/Garnet. Take Garnet West. Take Grand or Garnet West to Mission Blvd (last light before the beach). Turn left onto Mission Blvd. Go approx. 1 mile to Santa Clara Place. Turn Left onto Santa Clara Place. Drive to end (center is on the left). Find a place to park in front of building or in parking lot at back of building. PLEASE bring a RAW ORGANIC VEGAN dish to feed 6-8 people, a card listing the recipe ingredients, and your own reusable tableware (please remember serving utensils, too). Also from SDC Living Foods/Raw Foods Support Group: We would like to remind you that we meet monthly on the second Saturday of the month. Upcoming speakers include: ~Steve Cole: Specializing in human communications. Learn and practice the tools of compassionate (and effective) communication! (June) ~Dr. Star Ladermann: Chiropractor and Live Foods Prep instructor. Learn about the benefits of essential fatty acids, enzymes, chlorophyll, aloe vera and more. (July) ~Paul Nison: Author and public speaker, Paul Nison ("The Durian King") has just written one of newest books about the raw food diet and lifestyle, "THE RAW LIFE: Becoming Natural In An Unnatural World." This book will tell you much that you need to know about taking control of your health and your life. THE RAW LIFE will give you many ideas, suggestions and tips to consider. (August) ~The Boutenkos: Raw food prep instructional course. Stay tuned for details about this special event. (August) ~Patrice Carrington: Founder of Patrice Carrington Enterprises and professional motivational speaker with a national company. "Speaking to Inspire" will be the topic of Patrice's presentation. (September) ~Victoria Ross: Founder of Captured Dreams. Victoria will lead us in fun ice-breaking mixers games so we can all get to know each other better as friends (and potential romantic partners!) Victoria has prepared a special event for the raw foods group. (date TBA) For more information about these SDC Living Food events, call the Lifeline at 619-364-6968. (We have been having technical difficulties, so if you hear an old recording, just bypass it by pressing the pound ["#"] key and leave your name, number, and message and we will call you back with info. Please speak clearly so your message will record. Our apologies for any inconvenience.) ******************************************************* *Saturday May 12, 7pm: Karl and Jeanne Anthony Benefit Concert THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! Jeanne & Karl Anthony CELEBRATION CONCERT! 100% Of Your $10 Ticket Goes Directly to ...The Teen Life Change Foundation, a non-profit helping troubled Kids and Teens in San Diego. It's The Day Before Mother's Day, so BRING MOM! Tickets are Only $10...Available At The Door, or, In Advance at: The Church Of Today 8999 Activity Road, San Diego, CA 92126 For Info: 858-689-6500 Location of Concert & Directions: >From I-805, head East on Miramar Rd. to Clayton Rd. turn Left. The Church Of Today is on the corner of Clayton and Activity Road. >From I-15, head West on Miramar Rd., then Right on Clayton. The Church Of Today is on the corner of Clayton and Activity Road. ___________________________________________ WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING? Karl Anthony WILL reach his goal AT THE CONCERT! ...5000 of his NEW RECORDING Pre-Sold by MOTHER's DAY! That means only ONE WEEK LEFT! ...OVER 3800 ARE ALREADY SOLD! ...TO ORDER YOURS NOW, CALL 1-800-843-0165 or hit reply, for more details. ******************************************************* *Sunday May 13, 10am: Guided tour of Exotica Farm in Vista. Chris, a local organic gardener, will lead us on a tour of exotic fruits and vegetables grown at Exotica Farm in Vista. Plants are available for purchase. We will meet at my home in Vista at 9:30am and carpool to Exotica, located in northeast Vista (almost into Bonsall!). Please let me know ASAP if you are interested in attending so I can give you directions. ******************************************************* - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:45:03 +0200 From: Lovebirds Subject: RE: [rawlife] bio >Hi Kosotie, >Jasmuhen is a fake so I have heard...... Well, I haven´t followed her around myself for a year or so, but I aslo have contact with first swedish man who started this "process" and lived for soem six month without loosing weight, energy or health, just the opposite happend. So I all I know is that it´s interesting, and I always keep my senses open for new ideas. I have only seen a glimpse of paradise..... Thanks a lot anyway. Kosotie http://www.justabananer.nu http://www.fruitariannetwork.com Kärlek, Hälsohem, Fruktarianism, Ekoby, Webshop - Love, Healthcenter, Fruitarianism, Ecovillage - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:35:27 -0400 From: "Sam Bailey" (by way of JR Ellis ) Subject: [rawlife] 2001 International Raw Foods Festival in Portland, Oregon 2001 International Raw Foods Festival Portland, Oregon June 18-24 Vibrant people, Vital planet Co-Sponsored by Vitalities Incorporated, Alternatives Magazine, Living Nutrition Magazine, Communities ConneXion Magazine, EarthSave Portland/Vancouver Chapter, Raw & Living Foods Festival Association This event is the largest event in the world dedicated to educating the public about the benefits of raw, living foods. Over 50 of the World's Top Raw Food Teachers, Authors & Gourmet Chefs! Top environmental activists, including Howard Lyman, Robert Cohen, Michael McCarthy & Tre Arrow! The forces of Raw Natural Evolution and Compassionate Ecological Activism are coming together for the common good of all living beings... Environmental Responsibility will be practiced at this event as an example for all other similar events. Wherever possible, Natural Alternatives are being used, and Recycling being practiced! Even the food you eat will be served on leaf plates instead of paper! SEVEN DAYS OF.... Panels! Lectures! Concerts! Fun Vendors! Fresh Durians! Young Coconuts! Raw-some Food! Food prep demos! Music and Dancing! Yoga! Morning Workout Routines! Diverse Workshops! Onsite Child Care! Inspirational keynotes! Golden Branch Awards! Organic Farmer's Market! Wild Food Info! Healthy Living Soils Info! Raw Solstice Celebration! Wholistic Wellness Pavilion! Strolling minstrels! Personal growth workshops! Raw Pie Uncook-off Contest! Raw-cous comedy performances! Natural Vision Improvement! NEED I SAY MORE??? ( Although there is much, much more.... ) Location: Multnomah Holiness Association Campgrounds: 10801 SE Holgate, Ptld. OR. 97266 Url: http://www.rawfoods.com/festival Email: RawFestival@aol.com Express Individual Registration & Ticket Purchase Form Save time & money – register in advance! Please make Checks & Money Orders Payable to: Festival of Raw & Living Foods Association 8700 SW Borders, Portland, Oregon 97223 (503) 293-3039 Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ ____________________________________ City: ________________________________ State: ___Zip: ______Phone: ____________ Home phone: _________________________ 7 Days of speakers, exhibits & workshops! @ $125.00………......$_________ Save 10% on 7 day rate if you register before June 1, 2001 ……..$_________ Single day @ $25 per day, before or after 6/1/2001………………...$_________ Bed Space in Rustic Bunkhouse Cabins@ $10 person per night...$_________ RV Space & Tent Spaces @$20 per night (4 people)……..……....$_________ Space limited. First come, first served. Cabins available June 17 thru 24. - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:37:11 -0400 From: Bob Avery Subject: Re: [rawlife] Disclosure Mark, >Bob, you are going off the deep end here. I know you are a caring >individual, so I can only assume you have not given much thought to what you >are saying. For the record, none of the words you attributed to me were mine. Maybe some other Bob from some other list? Brenda, >It was me who responded, not Bob. I'm sorry Mark...I did not respond in a >very kind manner.... Thank you, Brenda, for setting the record straight! It's bad enough to be maligned justifiably, let alone unjustifiably. (:-) I was beginning to wonder if I had a split personality. >My dad did this also and had no change. There are apparently different skill levels of acupuncturists, and the medical profession is trying to take it over and certify only incompetent physicians trained for just one week in acupuncture. Then when they fail to get the hoped for results, they can propose their preferred methods of treatment, drugs and surgery, to a more receptive patient. And yes, Forest, you can read all about this conspiracy in "The Medical Mafia" by Guylaine Lanctot. Sometimes they really are out to get us. >Nick nearly died 3 times and was barely hanging on for weeks before >improving. He had multi-organ failure and was on dialysis, a respirator, had >3 tubes draining stuff off his lungs, wasted away quite a bit, was on very >heavy duty anti-biotics, blood-pressure medication, anti-seizure meds, >prescription enzymes for the pancreatitis, and LOTS of magnesium, calcium, >and something else(?) because these were leaking from his kidneys and I no >longer remember what else. He was swallowing about 40 or more pills a day!! They nearly killed him all right, and if he had died, they would no doubt have gotten away with murder. Somewhere in the upper echelons of the AMA, they know that they are scamming people. Read "Racketeering in Medicine" by whistleblower James P. Carter, MD (former?) chairman of Tulane University's nutrition department. Boy, did his department's grant money dry up after that book got published! It deserves a lot wider exposure than it got. >Nick thinks about these things also. He still walks with a cane and can't do >too much in one day or his hip/leg gets real sore. At least his endurance >has greatly improved, although not back to where it was. It would be good for him to go on some long walks, or as long as he can, and gradually increase the duration. Jay, >This statistic is likely to be seriously >underestimated as much of the coding only describes the cause >of organ failure and does not address iatrogenic causes at all. Indeed! If the whole truth were to come out, I think we'd find that physicians are the #1 cause of death, not #3 as this report claims. In Israel last year, the physicians went on strike. For the duration of the strike, the death rate in Israel *went down.* This has also happened several times before in other countries and once before in Israel. The press is always mystified when they report this statistic, but it shouldn't surprise any of us on this newslist. Loretta and others interested in fasting, Check out this link -- http://www.eatveg.com/raw/Dick_Gregory.htm Maybe this would be a good article to print off for some of your disbelieving friends. Marie, Here's one for you: http://www.made2smile.com/funpages/butterfly >Okay, you asked, but maybe you don't want to know. >Within 5-10 minutes after eating an orange or drinking o.j., even a >tablespoon or two of it in a fresh fruit cup, my abdomen begins to swell >(looks like I'm 9 months pregnant....again) and then I have explosive >bowel. That's certainly very interesting -- and dramatic. Have you ever tried persisting, maybe a few meals of oranges only, to see what would happen next? Arnold Ehret used to encourage people to eat whatever natural foods caused the most reactions in their bodies, believing these reactions to be cleansing reactions and that these foods would be the ones our bodies found most detoxifying. He was my favorite health guru back in my early raw days, and so I took his advice. For me, it was apples at first. The reaction was a feeling of nausea in the stomach after eating just a few. I persisted with them anyway, sometimes eating almost nothing but apples. Eventually I was able to eat as many apples as I cared to with no symptoms at all. Now, they are one of my staples in the winter months. I probably go through 4-6 / day then. Apparently there is something genetic involved. My dad has no problem with apples, but my mother won't eat them; she says they make her sick. So I guess I inherited some of my mother's digestive genes. >Back in 1959 I had to have my gall bladder removed after suffering for >more than two years with gallstones. Nobody has to have a gallbladder removed, BTW, though I'm sure that's what they told you. >Our rebounder came today, and I was able to bounce on it for a full 3 >minutes before I became exhausted. I'm looking forward to spending lots >of time on it. More good news! You're bouncing today; you'll be walking again soon. >just for fun Good jokes. Most were new for me. >This may not be the same as the Kombucha tea you are talking about...but >it sure sounds like it. We got it directly from the scientist who >discovered it. Chet Day experimented with it for awhile and came to the conclusion it was toxic. I agree. It may contain some useful B vitamins, but you can get those from real food. Ruth, >where do giraffes get B12 from - this is not a 'getting at you' question.. I >am sincerely interested.. Interesting question. If you lived in the wilds of Africa and ate only wild food, maybe you'd be getting plenty of B-12 also. Otherwise, it's a legitimate concern of "civilization." There are millions of vegetarians in India who never had to worry about B-12 problems unless they moved to places like the UK. Then suddenly they were getting B-12 deficiency symptoms. Even in India B-12 deficiency is getting to be a more common problem now that they have polluted their environment so much (cars and factories) and depleted their soils. Selenium is another valid concern. I'm sure giraffes get plenty of that too, but for "civilized" humans eating a vegan diet, brazil nuts are about the only reliable source of it. Farm animals in "civilized" countries like the US and UK are being routinely supplemented with trace minerals and, I think, B-12 these days, otherwise they'd be suffering too. Our bodies can store 2-5 years' (maybe longer sometimes) supply of the vitamin, so a deficiency can take a long time to become noticed. I myself have had problems with B-12 insufficiency and now take supplements. You might find this article of interest -- http://www.hacres.com/html/b12summary.htm It also appeared in M2M#47. Bob Avery (RWAvery@vegetarians.com) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:53:53 -0700 From: "Mark Hovila" Subject: Re: [rawlife] Disclosure Brenda, > It was me who responded, not Bob. I'm sorry Mark...I did not respond in a > very kind manner....I guess these sorts of "answers" to the world's problems > rub me the wrong way. My basic opinion still stands, although I am sending > healing thoughts of love, both to those who are suffering, and those > involved in the event. Glad to hear it. And sorry, Bob! Although I was kind of looking forward to getting into a debate with you. Thought I really had you this time. :) > Also, I'm never against anybody sending anything "different" to the group > and I think few others are....just that I don't have to agree with it. And > I hardly think that everyone on this list sits around agreeing with each > other all the time and you are the only one introducing anything > controversial or anything new. Maybe you are skipping lots of emails or not > receiving them all? :-) Hmm, I don't remember saying that I was the only one introducing anything controversial or new. People do that all the time on this list, which is one of the reasons I like it. Maybe you are confusing me with somebody else? That's OK, I can relate. :) BTW, a few news outlets are picking up the story. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24364,00.html is one of them. I understand CNN Headline News ran a very good, serious ten-minute segment on it several times today. Most of the media will ignore it, but I view this as the beginning of a process that may take months, or more likely, years to reach its objectives. Mark - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:18:27 -0400 From: Bob Avery Subject: Re: [rawlife] TC Fry & Dr. Herbert Shelton did not understand Natural Hygiene Hal, >Sounds very much like my cat; but what a boring life But is it boring for the cat? I suppose out in Nature the cat stands a chance to be eaten by a pack of dogs or woves, so maybe a wild life really is less boring, but is that the kind of excitement a cat would relish? Beats me; I'm some other species. (:-) >Sure, I'd stick around for an extra twenty or thirty >years without stress of any kind, but I'd rather enjoy the time I have, reveling >in each new experience and feeling it like no one can but me. Those who are heavily into meditation say that it is very exciting. People said of Jeanne Calment, who died recently at age 122, that she was practically immune to stress. Things that would upset other people just rolled off her back. Maybe equanimity is the greatest health factor after all. It certainly wasn't her diet that kept her alive that long, and she didn't quit smoking until age 116. Kosotie, >Well, I haven´t followed her around myself for a year or so, but I >aslo have contact with first swedish man who started this "process" >and lived for soem six month without loosing weight, energy or >health, just the opposite happend. What is his name? Does he have a website? Bob Avery (RWAvery@vegetarians.com) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:55:07 -0400 From: Bob Avery Subject: Re: [rawlife] Disclosure Mark, >Glad to hear it. And sorry, Bob! Although I was kind of looking forward to >getting into a debate with you. Thought I really had you this time. :) You'll have to try harder than that! (:-) Brenda's viewpoint on that issue is not one I would care to defend. >BTW, a few news outlets are picking up the story. >http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24364,00.html is one of them The subject of aliens is a rather complicated one. I highly recommend Bill Cooper's "Behold a Pale Horse" on that and other secret government issues. I won't try to spill the beans and tell what Cooper's surprising conclusion is, but he was in a good position to know more than most people, having retired from the US armed services with a Top Secret military clearance in the UFO area. He felt that telling the truth as he sees it was worth risking his life for, and he claims to have survived 2 assassination attempts, one of which left him permanently crippled (wheelchair). The least we can do is read what he has to say. It's a rather expensive paperback, but used copies can sometimes be found at places like www.half.com. It's not just a book about aliens. That subject is only one chapter. The rest of what he covers is of vital interest everyone who wants to live a long and healhy life since it concerns our political freedoms and why we may not get to enjoy them much longer if we don't wake up to what is happening in the modern world. Bob Avery (RWAvery@vegetarians.com) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:27:57 -0400 From: DRBERNARR@aol.com (by way of JR Ellis ) Subject: [rawlife] How to help heal addictions and bad habits, completely and permanently jrellis wrote to Dr. Bernarr, who successfully gets all kinds of drug addicts completely and permanently off drugs. jrellis wrote "what do you do to help them get off drugs what would you suggest, recommend for someone like me say me who can't stay at raw for longer than a few months at a time and acts like a cooked food addict." Shari V wrote:"JR-hope there is room in your boat for me because I am in the same predicament. I go about 90 days and then fall apart totally. The only thing missing is meat and dairy." HOW TO HELP HEAL ADDICTIONS By DR. BERNARR, D.C., D.D. Everybody can completely and permanently break a bad habit. You may contend that you can't break your bad habit because you are "addicted" to something. Nobody is "addicted" to any bad habit. It is impossible to be "addicted", i.e., to be physiologically dependent on and need anything that is bad for you. To contend that you are "addicted", implies that some external, destructive stimulus is controlling you, i.e., something outside your body has power over you. To contend that you are "addicted" to some bad thing, is to give yourself an excuse or alibi for your believing that you are unable to break a bad habit. To contend that you are "addicted", gives you an alibi to rationalize that you unconsciously, are compulsively devoted and obsessively dependent, upon something. Habits, unlike instincts are acquired patterns of behavior. We are born into the world without habits. All habits are made by us. We make our habits and then our habits make us. People resort to "addicting" habits of poisoning themselves by drugs, alcohol, tobacco, compulsive gambling, compulsive sex, coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, condiments, junk foods, cooked foods, overeating, etc., to suppress symptoms or to overcome the feeling of tiredness. "Addicts" do this for their temporary stimulation affects and/or to "relieve" themselves of certain symptoms of "disease" (healing). "Addicts" should confront the cause of their problems and stresses, instead of suppressing and escaping from them. In either case, they are following an illusion as every stimulation will be followed by a longer period of depression. The "addicts" then compulsively feel that they must again resort to even higher doses of their poison habits for more stimulation and the cycle is repeated again and again. The "addicts" use up vital energy to the degree that they use that poison. "Addiction" is committing suicide on the installment plan. The "addicts" as a result of their self-destructive habits, impair and may fatally damage their stomachs, kidneys, livers, hearts, blood vessels, pancreas and nervous systems and may cause themselves cancers, suicides, accidents, belligerence, spousal abuse, insomnia, seizures, visual and auditory hallucinations, anxiety and confusion that may progress to disorientation and delirium, digestive problems, nausea, vomiting, headaches, high blood pressure, strokes, respiratory problems, reproductive problems, immune system dysfunction, tremors, dysfunctional pregnancies and resultant physically and mentally defective offspring and flushing and temperature problems. No animals in the wild ever touch these harmful, self-destructive "addictive" substances. Arthur P., age 47, in 1963, was an alcoholic, tobacco and marijuana smoker and compulsive gambler for 30 years. After being under my care, he recovered from his alcoholism, smoking tobacco and marijuana and compulsive gambling. I was in contact with him for 25 years thereafter and he never drank alcohol nor smoked tobacco nor marijuana and never gambled again. Sally K., age 41, in 1959, was an alcoholic, drug addict and compulsively had sex promiscuously for 23 years. She neglected her family, friends and financial obligations. After being under my care, she recovered. I was in contact with her for 30 years thereafter. She never drank alcohol nor took drugs nor had compulsive and promiscuous sex again. She became loving and supportive of her family and friends. She became successful in business and satisfactorily took care of all her financial obligations. Laura T., age 38, in 1965, was a drug addict, alcoholic, junk food eater and overeater. She tried repeated suicides. She could not read, concentrate nor hold a job. After being under my care, she recovered. I was in contact with her for 30 years thereafter and she never took drugs, alcohol, ate junk food nor overate again. After the personalized health care I gave them, such as water fasting, eating exclusively raw food with all the essential minerals and nutrients, practicing feeling meditation, progressive resistance exercise and regular nude airbathing and sunbathing, they never had their "addictive" bad habits again. Being in contact with them for many years thereafter, they remained free of "addictive" bad habits. AVOID TREATING ONE'S SYMPTOMS. TO HEAL, REMOVE THE CAUSE To heal one's health problems, one must remove its cause. To just treat one's symptoms, does not permanently heal oneself. In treating one's symptoms, one is just treating the effects, not the cause. One's symptoms exist for one's protective benefit. One's symptoms are the healing and detoxifying reaction of one's inherent intelligence, one's God within. One's symptoms are always controlled by one's inherent intelligence. This is why one's symptoms should never be destroyed, interfered with and suppressed. The destruction, interference, and suppression of one's symptoms, prevents these inherent, protective bodily defenses from healing oneself. If one's inherent intelligence cannot heal one's distresses, nothing and nobody else can. No destructive, interfering and suppressive therapy of any kind can heal one, but only one's inherent intelligence can heal. WHY THE LIVING BODY ALWAYS DOES THE RIGHT THING One's body always does the right thing. After billions of years that the living being has been on earth, one's inherent intelligence within each cell of one's body, has already learned to make the optimum adaptation and resolution, to any problems or stresses to which one's body may ever be subjected. Whatever stresses one's body presently has, one's ancestors have already successfully learned how to cope with such, previously. It is already built into the DNA, the genes, chromosomes and every living cell of one's body. One's inherent intelligence, if it chooses to produce symptoms, it does so to protect one. One's pathology and symptomatology help one survive, despite one's incorrect self-destructive thinking, life style and spirituality. EVERYONE SHOULD FAST, IF ONE CAN, TO HELP HEAL IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY Everyone should be given a long fast as the surest and most rapid means of freeing the body of toxemia. A fast is necessary to restore nervous poise to one. Fasting usually leads to cessation of one's symptoms, permanently. IF UNABLE TO FAST, THEN EAT A CONSTRUCTIVELY BENEFICIAL DIET If one is unable to fast, then one should eat as constructive and beneficial a diet as is possible. Eat only natural foods. Eat only foods that one would eat in the wild. Eat only foods that one likes and that agrees with one. Eat preferably fresh, organic, raw foods, with all the essential minerals and essential nutrients. Every bit of cooking destroys vitamins, enzymes, minerals, nucleic acids, chlorophyll and damages fats, making them indigestible. The fatty matter becomes a local irritant. HOW TO LEARN TO LISTEN TO ONE'S BODY One's inherent intelligence, is always talking to one. One must learn to listen and do what one's inherent intelligence is telling one to do. To better listen to one's inherent intelligence, one can concentrate best, if one keeps one's eyes closed, every moment that is possible, of one's 24 hours, daily. WHY, TO GET WELL, YOU MUST GET SICKER If one is sick for a long time, to recover one's health, one must reawaken and re-express old pains or symptoms, one had on the way from one's good health to one's disease. This is part of the healing process. This is the course of restoration from disease back to health. All disease is self-limited. If the disease is suppressed by whatever means, one either accommodates to it or dies. The initial disease, acute, lasts minutes, hours, days or weeks. The suppressed disease becomes chronic, i.e., lasts months, years or a lifetime. To get well from one's chronic disease, one must transform one's chronic disease into one's acute disease again. To get well from one's chronic disease, one must develop one's acute disease symptoms again. This is called "retracing". The sick person may exhibit symptoms which have not been manifested for months or even years. HOW TO MEDITATE PROPERLY TO HEAL ONESELF One should lie down, keep one's body inactive, keep one's eyes closed and concentrate, meditate, think on, keep one's mind on one's symptoms and discomfort, till the symptoms and distress completely disappear. This is feeling meditation. HOW TO FAST CORRECTLY TO HEAL ONESELF When one fasts, one should keep one's eyes closed every day that one fasts. A fast is a physiological rest. To get total rest, one must keep one's eyes constantly closed. HOW TO REST CORRECTLY TO HEAL ONESELF When one's eyes are closed, one rests one's brain, mind and body. An electric rhythm starts as soon as one's eyes are closed and ceases immediately when one's eyes are opened. Activity of one's eyes prevents recuperation from occurring. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BODY WHEN ONE CLOSES ONE'S EYES When one's eyes are closed and one is at complete rest, bodily energies rejuvenate, cells replenish, tissues repair and organs refresh themselves and are made ready for renewed activity. Vital energy is produced by the blessed elixir of sleep and/or closing of one's eyes. Sleep and/or closing of one's eyes, are the great restorative healing processes of one's inherent intelligence. IF NO TIME TO CLOSE ONE'S EYES EVERY MOMENT, THEM CLOSE THEM AS OFTEN AS ONE CAN If one does not have the time or resources to keep one's eyes closed many hours of the day and night, then one should try to set aside as many seconds, minutes and/or hours that one can, to close one's eyes and feelingly concentrate on one's symptoms. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BODY WHEN ONE IS UNDER STRESS One's living body reacts to the stresses in one's sick bodily parts and creates inflammation in one's sick parts to heal them. As part of the inflammatory reaction of one's body in the stressful bodily parts, one's body instinctively brings its healing resources to the effected parts, to heal them. WHY THE BODY PRODUCES SYMPTOMS In every inflammation of one's body, the healing intelligence of one's body, causes symptoms in those sick bodily parts, to prevent one foolishly, from trying to move one's sick bodily parts. The healing intelligence of one's body, is trying to physiologically rest those sick bodily parts. One's symptoms are coming from the nerves in that spastic muscle. WHY SYMPTOMS HELP HEAL ONE When the healing intelligence of one's body wants to physiologically rest some sick parts of the body, it overstimulates one's nerves connected to one's sick bodily parts. These overstimulated nerves cause one's skeletal muscles surrounding one's sick bodily parts to go into protective spasm and therefore, immobilize one's sick bodily parts. HOW TO EXERCISE CORRECTLY TO HEAL ONESELF One should do exercises that are progressively stressful or resistant. When exercising, one's muscles should be contracted to their fullest extent and joints should be carried through their full range of motion. A short period of intense, vigorous exercise for one, is better than a long period of mild exercise. WHY ONE MUST EXPOSE ONE'S NUDE SKIN TO AIR & SUN Living beings are by nature nude animals, and are made to live in the open air and sun. The sun provides the basis for all life on earth. The sun is the source of energy for all plants, and indirectly for all animals. Sunlight purifies water, air and the surface of all objects. Without fresh air and sunshine, there would be no life possible on earth. WHY INCORRECT SEX ACTIVITY IS HAZARDOUS TO ONE'S HEALTH Sexual intercourse and the use of one's reproductive organs, are for the purpose of reproduction. Overuse of the male and female reproductive organs causes all kinds of illnesses for the male and female. NEVER DO ANYTHING FROM WHICH ONE HAS TO RECOVER. DO ONLY WHAT IMPROVES ONE Never do anything from which one has to recover. Do only that which improves one. Always be self-constructive, with one's physical life style, mentality and spirituality. HOW ONE WASTES NEEDED VITAL ENERGY IN ONE'S EVERY DAY ACTIVITIES Vital energy is used up by all the activities of life. Vital energy is used up by physical activity, by talking, digestion, emotions, thinking, seeing, hearing, smelling and sex. HOW TO HEAL & PREVENT DISEASE PERMANENTLY Every sick living being may be restored to sound health and remain free of symptoms. To correct and prevent symptoms permanently, one must stop all activities that cause enervation and toxemia. HOW TO ALWAYS STAY WELL ONCE DISEASE IS HEALED Once one is restored to good health, one should be taught how to keep oneself permanently symptom free, by a program that stresses eating natural, raw, unprocessed foods, with all of the essential minerals and essential nutrients, that one likes and that agrees with one, pure air, good water, intense, progressive resistance exercise, air bathing and sunbathing, as nude as possible, adequate sleep, feeling meditation, conservation of sexual energy and appropriate observation of the other needs of life. One should never do anything that does not improve one's physicality, mentality and spirituality. One should never do anything from which one must recover. HOW I CAN HELP YOU I have helped heal many people with "Addictions" by the Internet and the telephone. Contact me NOW and I will help heal your "Addictions", via the Internet and/or telephone. Dr. Bernarr D.C., D.D., God Healing, Inc., Natural Hygiene Society, Inc. PO Box 46832, Los Angeles, California 90046, USA, Telephone: 323-653-6314 ; 323-852-0403 Web site: http://www.HealSelf.org E-mail: drbernarr@aol.com - -- rawlife - http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html ------------------------------ End of rawlife-digest V1 #601 ***************************** --- ******************* END OF POST ****************************** RAWLIFE-DIGEST - faq at http://www.rawtimes.com/rawlife.html