Blogging the healing journey and beyond...'s Journal (original) (raw)

10:50p

ok wow it's been awhile. i felt for a long time i wasn't making much progress and i didn't really have any new stuff coming in, but it seems it was the calm before the storm. this has been 23 days on raw foods and going strong. it has really been pretty easy this time, about as hard as going vegan was, which means mild and quickly passing cravings that are mainly gone by three weeks. i am still adjusting as far as going out to restaurants with family. i am becoming more confident, but i am still shy about explaining to people about the raw diet. one step at a time.

i realized that all disease is a product of cellular nutritive deficiency and inability to remove waste. in other words, not enough in, not enough out. as this condition becomes more systemic, tissue becomes "dis-eased", then organs begin to fail, on and on. now, mental disease is no different. and cravings for poisonous things (food, drugs, relationships) is a dis-ease. so how do we resolve this situation? we clean out the waste and flood with nutrition. here is a perfect day (i don't always get all of these every day, but i try):

morning:
oil pulling
angstrom minerals
wheatgrass juice shot
trace minerals with orange juice
superfood smoothie (about halfway down) with lots of berries and a banana - i also throw in some alkalizer, Phenalmin, and some stuff that makes water wetter

afternoon:
more angstrom minerals
juice 1 head celery, 1 bunch cilantro, and 1 bunch kale to make about 1 quart green juice

evening:
another wheatgrass juice shot
more trace minerals with orange juice
more angstrom minerals just before bed

yeah it seems like a lot and some people think i'm crazy for using all those crazy hippy supplements, but they work. never before have i made it this long and had it this easy eating raw. if anyone wants information on the why for all this supplementation i can post lots of information about the need to remineralize. i also learned that it's about abundance. treat yourself well. eat an entire jar of raw black olives with a bunch of sundried tomatos and cashews. have three enormous salads a day of romaine, purple cabbage, green cabbage, raddichio, celery, cilantro, heirloom tomatos, wild dandelion greens, purple onion, green onion, chives, basil, dill, red bell pepper, jalapeno, olives, pumpkin seeds, cashews, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, celtic sea salt, cayenne, white peppercorns, chili powder, garlic powder, and caraway seeds. try those crazy looking fruits in that small section of the produce section. make lots of fruit juice. take road trips and check out health food stores in strange cities and be ecstatic to find they have the "right" kind of avocado and organic blood oranges and organic pink lady apples! =P yes, abundance...

salt. it's pretty obvious the refined, dried stuff found on most tables is toxic. luckily for the salt fiend *raises hand* there has emerged celtic sea salt and pink Himalayan salt. these are completely untreated, hand harvested, dried in the sun, etc. they are high in trace minerals and retain their natural crystalline structure. from personal experience they do not cause the kind of nastiness dealt out by toxisalt, but there is still a noticeable difference when going without these salts for a few days. cleaner, clearer, etc. and Dr. Anderson of the Arise and Shine cleanse program says even these natural salts will halt a cleanse. so i found an alternative. someone over at the goneraw.com forum posted that if you dehydrate lemon and celery, then grind to a fine powder, you have an excellent salt substitute. so i dehydrated two ribs of celery and one peeled lime (i like lime), and ground them in the blender. and...he was right! i tried it for the first time on my salad tonight and did not notice the absence of salt! yay! i'll try it in guac and salsa tomorrow too. after trying the powder straight i realized i could probably add another rib or two of celery and not change the effect.

so armed with these three tools (super nutrition, abundance, and salt alt) we can confidently undertake a full cleanse program. i'm almost finished reading "The Sunfood Diet Success System" by David Wolfe and recommend it to anyone interested in being human.

the effects of all this have been wonderful. in the beginning i went really high and was having epiphanies all day long and energy was bursting forth. then it kind of flat lined for awhile (and i got sick), and is now climbing slowly but steadily upwards again.

i have not been to Deeksha in quite awhile and don't really feel the need to. it was enough of a spiritual experience just crossing the Colorado state line coming up I25 and suddenly being dazzled by the expanse. you should check it out sometime.

have i mentioned "The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness" by Carl Calleman is an amazing book about humans evolving? it is.

on a final note - there is one other piece of the puzzle that i have not touched on, and will not for a few months. in the meantime, those interested can research ormes for themselves.