BRUCE: I think learning about permaculture and living foods is the most important thing we can be doing now. Permaculture is a catchword for anything to do with learning to live sustainably in community. Community is the antidote to the dysfunctional modern paradigm of the isolated consumer, who is absolutely disconnected from his or her food sources, from nature, from other people, from reality. Apart from an artificially constructed reality that we call modern life.

LAURA: So, you're saying that this retreat will help us to learn how to create a bridge between our daily life in mainstream society and “living the dream” of a conscious, sustainable community?

BRUCE: This retreat will empower those who attend it to reconnect to their authentic selves, and to reconnect with the context of what really living is about, i.e., in connection with the earth, with each other, and with the skills to get there.

This retreat is about
1. Experiencing this reality now, Paradise Now, and
2. Learning those skills.

Those skills are:

~raising food sustainably,
~foraging for wild food,
~creating renewable energy systems,
~creating sustainable dwellings, ie, green building and green planning,
~rain cachement systems, and also,
~learning to build what in permaculture are called "invisible structures, " ie, community structures such as consensus based decision making,
~and things as simple as doing all the above activities together in an integrated way, and more importantly,
~changing the ways our minds work so that we can create successful community lifestyles,
~beginning to see the connections between the way things work.

That's called "ecological literacy."

In other words, we will learn to start to think, work, live holistically, as opposed to being a fragmented piece of a divided culture. What I'm saying is, on a basic level, it is about rediscovering the bliss of participating in the dance of life.

LAURA: Speaking of that, aren't we going to have music as well? Absolutely we are going to have a fab music celebration with the astonishing music of HUMAN and The Other Humans, in addition to jams with local musicians and exploring musical jams in our jammies on the beach, in the bungalow, in the coconut trees.

Speaking of coconut trees, we will have an all-you-can-drink fresh young green coconut bar.

LAURA: What do you mean, a coconut bar?

BRUCE: Bar like, you mean, you can go up and crack your own coco-ut, climb the tree if you want, and guzzle the electrolyte elixir fresh from the tree ya man!

LAURA: And~tell me a little about your permaculture training.

I'm going to tell you a little story of how raw foodism led to my ecological awakening. Here I was working at the first live food restaurant in the world—Juliano's RAW in San Francisco back in the 90s, preparing beautiful live food made form 100% organic ingredients, when I came to a realization that unlike the other mainstream restaurants that I had worked in, instead of creating piles of trash, we were creating piles of beautiful compost.

This made me realize that something was absolutely different here with live foods.

In addition to healing a serious illness, feeling great, elated, energized, and being more in touch with my life and my surroundings I realized that something profound ecologically was happening.

This inspired me to enroll in a program through SLUG, the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, in their Composter and Green Gardener Educator Course. So, after 9 months of every Saturday, learning about gardening and composting and working in different community and school gardens, I got certified, which led me to make even deeper connections.

After that, I enrolled in a masters degree program at New College of California, called Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community. In this groundbreaking program, so to speak, I got the full ecological download, much of I have now condensed so that we will be living it at the retreat. The difference is that where I learned it there, we will be living it at this retreat. I created a masters thesis project,

LAURA: Which, by the way, we'll be featuring this in upcoming issues.

BRUCE: Yes, I look forward to sharing it. In it, I studied the ecological impact of raw veganism. So, the Masters Degree and forthcoming book is titled, The Raw Revolution: Saving the Planet (and Ourselves) One Delicious Bite At A Time.

This education has led to my life's passion: connecting the sustainability and raw food movements.

The only reason people shouldn't ocme to this retreat is if they want to continue becoing part of the problem instead of part of the solution. And guess what the more you become a part of the solution, the more delicious, more amazing, more fun, more empowered, m ore blissed out your life becomes. So if you don't want your life to e totally blissed out, delicious, juicy and empowered, don’t come to this retreat.

LAURA: And, but~but but, but, Bruce, what if I DO want that? BRUCE: If you do want that, you ought to sign up for this unbelievable deal really fast because space is limited and this retreat will sell out.

LAURA: How many people can attend?

BRUCE: We have a max number of 25 people. That means people are going to get individualized attention, not to mention, black sand beaches, swimming with sea turtles, tropical succulent fruit buffets, hands-on ""living it" community building, professional instruction, Rev. Sprout's Raw Food Revival and so much more.

We are gonna RAWK OUT.

LAURA: Wow. next time I'm going to ask you to tell about the other presenters, okay?

BRUCE: Okay, talk to you later Laura

LAURA: Aloha, Rev. Chef Sprout!

When you begin your journey of dietary transformation it is far more rewarding to immediately jump into a life of ‘Yes!’ ~ to jump into anything you do that supports your goal. By doing this you redistribute your energy to attract the success you seek on an unconscious level as well as a conscious one. This is far more powerful than simply using your conscious mind alone by telling yourself “I wont eat X” (X being other than optimal foods.). The eating of X is a symptom itself and like all “symptomology’ dealing with it directly doesn’t address the underlying cause.

We as individuals and as a collective family of human BEINGS tend to move in cycles as we grow. In other words, at first it seems that health transformation is easy, then it can become tougher and we crave, and then it becomes rewarding as we grow through what that craving teaches us.

To work with this cycle, the most important thing to avoid is the tendency to give all our energy to the down part of the cycle as that helps the heavy energy take a hold. Indeed, it’s what the heavy energy wants! .

Having a strong but unrealistic ‘No!’ for a particular food, and then not being able to live up to that commitment can extend the down cycle for months, fighting to exhaustion and moving further away from the original goal.

However, if we celebrate the ‘Yes!’ for what we are doing that is supporting us, then there is no line in the sand to cross. There is no reaction point for our darker selves to fight against. There is no act to which our voice can say ‘you messed up!>” Without that fixed line, we can have a few bites of less loving food and move on, recognizing its part of OUR journey and despite that ‘blip’ in resolve, we are moving in the right direction.

The challenge is, in those moments the light can seam far away. However, this is an illusion based on programming. This mindset is how we are taught to focus on negatives~ and we are taught this from every source, from worried parents to the news channel. We lose track of the fact that the journey is a process, and not a single event. On the path to food freedom forever, temporarily revisiting old out-dated habits becomes a failure only if you make it so. If you don’t make it so, it is just what it is: Doing something you have done for years and are in the process of transforming into something more beautiful.

The way forward is to celebrate the success, and I mean every success~ whether you change completely ovenight or just ask for extra lettuce in a burger at a junk food store. Put all your energy, heart and love into the celebration of your health improvements and what you ARE doing that works. This will prolong the upstroke and drive out those darker desires in the process.

This does not mean we should avoid using the power of ‘No!’ altogether. It is a huge force. However, the complex nature of human psychology simply means until the ‘No!’ has worked its way into our subconscious self, it will act like a command to rebel against instead of an inner truth to live by.

What to do then if the cycle does revert? Just remain silent and observe.

Say gently to yourself, "Oh, I'm doing this now!" and leave it well alone.

As Mr Lennon said, ”Let it be!” Give it no fuel whatsoever. It is a part of you that wants to be loved~ and love it you can, with silent watchfulness.

That part of us may be looking for a fight; after all, we have taken away its toys and if you do get drawn into battle, you can only lose. That darker society-driven self can only fight against a ‘No!’ Yet bathing yourself in love and light and a ‘Yes!’ for what is, brings that part home.

Over time the up stroke strengthens and the down stroke diminishes. Both are following cues from the quality of your energy and if that energy is a ‘Yes!’ then the up stroke becomes a life party and the down becomes a blip. "I ate an orange, how wonderful!”

“I had a sandwich”-silence-

”This freshly squeezed juice is amazing, I love it! Isn't it great to eat that salad, wow!”

“I had a piece of chocolate”-silence. "I ate raw chocolate~! Get out the maracas, were having a party!" You get the idea!

This is the path to freedom: Positive, life affirming, holistic celebration of everything you are. Love! Love! Love! And not a condemnation or a comparing of yourself to some *imagined* thing you are not! The undeniable truth is this. If you were not already that so-called perfect healthy being who does everything right first time, then how can that version of you have ever been? And if it has never been, then what is it you are comparing yourself to that is creating a need to condemn that which you truly are? There is only one you and that is the you who reads this, the you who is doing one action at one time, on one path and in one reality. This one! And it is all happening perfectly! Yes!

Joe Best

Jenna is pictured here with Fun Yung Moon, who interviewed Morella about her superpowers.

Let’s take some time out for a spot of tea. With fantastic friends or simply solo, any heart-tea tea will do
Longevi-tea, Vitali-tea, Hospitali-tea

The Tea Song

What shall we drink to tonight?

Generosity
Sincerity
Clarity
Prosperity?
Sensuality
Sexuality
Equality
Tranquility?

Ability that transformed the common rigidity into an
Age of agility
Acidity away
Alkalinity to stay forever
And a day in the life and times of God is
Eternity
Is without time
Sublime familiarity with all light and pure entities
Capacity to explore everything lying before our
Perfect path of complicity

Parity
Similarity is the name of all sentient beings
Under the sun
Under the One
Condense without conformity into one.
Propensity for conscious change in
Virility alive and well
Go tell it on the mountain
Fountain of youth and flexibility

Break open the bars
On the cage of incongruity
Absurdity and normality
Embrace and release the duality that used to exist
Before the shift to synchronicity

Now
Only authenticity and sincerity abound
A boundless heart
Circularity of honesty
Reality is a singularity of veracity!
Legitimate intimacy

Sufficiency where scarcity scared the community
Immunity where once was vulnerability
Ability
Facility for flourishing individuality
Inimitability in actuality
Ultimate levity
Brilliant brevity
Universality within every personality
Hilarity and infinite hospitality
Conviviality, compatibility
Sacrosanctity in our simplicity.

Masculinity and femininity
Manifest the best creation
Sensation and unity in our own divinity
Serendipity, serenity
Spontaneity
Each moment suspended on a frequency
Of Gaiety
Palpable perspicacity.

Speak the speech of impeccability:
Completely compassionate civility
Discover the duty of all humanity
With alacrity and ingenious insanity!

Identities shift with increasing velocity
Adaptability appears in everyone’s
Visibility
Dexterity in healing
Tenacity for feeling the force
Flying free and congealing
To form formless solidity
Solidarity and liberty
In the vast sky of opportunity.

Wait patiently for your spiritual community
Merging
Converging to cultivate fertility
Plant the seed that sprouts absolute humility.

Thank you for sharing this spot of tea
~Jenna

MOON: What are the cornerstones of a healthy lifestyle?
MORELLA: Great question! I believe that a healthy lifestyle is all about living with joy. Now, if we want to think about the cornerstone to anchor a healthy way of living, I would state the following: 1) Conscious living, 2) Good food, and 3) Good soul food.

Conscious living has many levels. At the fundamental level I think that a healthy lifestyle requires pausing and consciously deciding what choices we make. How much food to eat? How much to sleep? Whether to stay at work another hour or go home, etc. Beyond that, conscious living also means deciding what life you want to create for yourself.

Good food is obviously all about learning what foods heal us and what foods make us sick. This is unique to every single individual. As they say, one person’s food is another’s poison. For some it may be 100% raw, for others it may be that Macrobiotics work very well. At a very minimum everyone should eat organic foods and good water.

Good soul food is the most fun of all! It’s creating more room for joy and fulfillment in your life. It’s taking action to heal all aspects of your life that need healing. I have a soul nourishment menu that I hand out at some of my classes, it includes things like: doing something or being with someone who makes you laugh, taking a warm bath, listening to music and dancing naked in your room~ or elsewhere, whatever you like! It’s all about joy!

MOON: What advice would you give to people transitioning to raw foods, or wanting to add more to their diets?
MORELLA: Use your intuition. Nobody can tell you what is right for you. As every other species in nature, your body and your intuition tell you exactly what you need. This is connected with conscious living. Before eating, when hunger comes, pause and close your eyes and ask yourself: “What am I truly hungry for?” Visualize the foods and imagine how you will feel after you’ve eaten them. Some you will immediately discard and then something will seem exactly right. Two other tips I would share: 1) look for inspiration in recipes or raw food restaurants, and 2) have fun with it! The transition for me was easy because I loved creating new smoothies and my toughest meal to do raw was breakfast, so I made breakfast smoothies and it was a blast!

MOON: Do you have any super powers?
MORELLA: I do! I have the super power of unconditional appreciation and listening. The magical things that can happen in the space of pure love and appreciation are incredible. That is where transformational healing lies. I also have the super power of laughter! I love bringing lightness to life and sharing that with others. Laughter and joy carry us through the “challenges."

MOON: Where do you see health care going in the future?
MORELLA: Here’s my belief: either medical science will evolve to come round-circle and reconnect with natural healing (supported by all of their scientific studies) or in time a majority of the people, aware of natural self-healing, will cease to require prescription drugs, etc. If I had a crystal ball I would tell you that in the future people won’t talk about “health care." Perhaps they’ll talk about balanced living. Whenever they come out of balance the body will signal that something is off, and they will take action to understand what tipped them over and how to come back into balance. In fact, they will know when they are out of balance much before their body needs to cry for help. We know many who already live this way. In the meantime, we will continue on the journey to awaken people to the knowledge of how to build sustainable health naturally.

MOON: What do women really want?
MORELLA: hahahahahaha! :D Women want juiciness!

MOON: What role does health play in the evolution of humanity?
MORELLA: HUGE. How cosmic do we want to get? As a race we have made ourselves sick and frail through terrible lifestyle and dietary habits. It is unsustainable. To continue forward we need to heal ourselves and live with greater consciousness of the decisions we make for our bodies, our lives and our communities. A question to consider is whether humanity would be capable of pondering chemical warfare if human bodies were not toxic themselves already? At a minimum we can use a Darwinian view and say that natural selection will only allow the healthy strands to continue to evolve. Beyond that, I believe that we are evolving into super humans in ways we’ve never seen through conscious health-building habits.

MOON: What gives you the most satisfaction in working with your clients?
MORELLA: The joy of seeing people reclaim their self-healing powers. Witnessing someone get healthier, wiser and stronger is a miracle. The most unbelievable gift is to be allowed to help facilitate that.

More About Morella Devost: As a Holistic Health Counselor I help people regain their health and achieve vibrant living through an integrated body, mind and spirit approach. The foundation of my approach is nutrition and psychology. You see, the majority of us have been in the dark with regards to how foods can heal us and also how they can make us more ill. On top of it, our relationships with food often reflect deeper emotional issues that remain unaddressed and which we unconsciously seek to muffle with food. The final and most important aspect of what I do is to help people fall in love with life over and over again. Health and vibrant living are therefore not just about food but about living a nurturing, juicy life.

Following a stint in business, I started by getting a Masters Degree in Counseling from Columbia University Teachers College and I practiced Family Therapy for a while. I quickly knew that for me there was a lot missing in looking to help people through mind and emotions alone. Therefore, I attended the program in Holistic Healing and Nutrition at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Through all of this and my own personal journey to heal myself, I have realized that healthy, vibrant living is not only possible but it is our natural state.

In an initial consultation I do a couple of different assessments and I listen a lot. One of the assessments is what I call a Health History and the other is the Circle of Life. Through these I learn about historical eating habits, current diet and lifestyle, any major conditions and what are my client’s health concerns. In addition, we assess the person’s level of fulfillment across sixteen different dimensions of life (i.e. career, relationships, home environment, etc.) This initial session leads us to set the life and health goals toward which we will work together. Healing then unfolds through education, coaching, fun, and unconditional support.

On a daily basis, customers, clients, friends, and loved ones ask me how to go raw. I have spent countless hours of my time creating this article offering what I've learned in the hopes that it will inspire people to a happier, pain-free life.

I have had many Raw Food Eaters send this article to their family members immediately after reading it. Please use it for anything you like. I have pasted the document below and I have included it in a word document that is attached to this email. I wish you and those you love, the very best of everything!

The following information is for education only and is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat illness. It is valuable to seek the advice of an alternative health care professional before making any changes.

Healing is possible! Vibrant health is our God-given right, and our responsibility. I have learned there are three keys to health and I spend much of my time offering what I've learned in hopes that it will inspire people to a happier, pain-free life.

My name is Matt Monarch, Raw Food Educator and Author of the book Raw Spirit. For the last 6 years I have been on a 100% Raw Food diet. I have appeared as a key speaker at events including The Raw Spirit Festival and The Oneness Expo, and I was featured in a Raw Food TV Spot that aired over 5 times on Al Gore’s new TV Network, Current TV. Over the past year I spent much of my time touring the country, presenting well over 200 Raw Food Lectures. As 5-year owner of The Raw Food World and Living Nutritionals, I am well versed in people's needs and concerns about health.

Many people ask me, "How do I become Raw?" First off, you don't need to be 100% Raw to be healthy. You can be very healthy on an intermediate transitional diet without taking it to such an extreme as I have with the 100% Raw Food Diet. I know how difficult it is. I am doing it!

So...How does one begin the journey to better health? There are a lot of diets out on the market today. I am sure you have heard about a few such as the Zone Diet, Macrobiotics Diet, South Beach Diet, Maker's Diet and others. Now I don't like to discount any of these programs because they all produce positive results. I have personally witnessed people lose weight and heal from degenerative diseases after adopting these diet plans. There is one common denominator that explains why these programs succeed: they all require people to leave out certain foods from their diets without cheating! Foods like refined sugar and processed starches are completely omitted. Because of this, a person's health improves considerably. The reason the 100% Raw Food Diet is the greatest diet in the world is because you leave out everything that could make you ill and only keep in the best of foods.

It is critically important to understand that what you leave out of your diet completely without cheating is the way to ultimate health. What you don't eat is actually more important than what you do eat. I don't care if you eat Raw Foods until you are blue in the face. You are not going to fully heal unless you eliminate the cause, which means omitting certain foods from your diet. I like to break foods down into the following five groups:

* Animal Protein
* Dairy
* Refined Sugar - Cake, Cookies, Candy, Bakery items
* Processed Starches - Bread, Pasta, Cereal
* Raw Vegan Foods - Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Seeds, and Sprouts

If what we leave out of our diet completely without cheating is the way to ultimate health, then it makes sense to first eliminate the food groups that are most damaging to the body. The two most damaging food groups are the refined sugars and processed starches. THAT IS THE SECRET! That is what all those other diets do. Their plans require that you leave out the refined sugars and processed starches without cheating! If you can do that alone, you are on your way to ultimate health. You can do that and live a very healthy life. I also recommend staying away from red meat and cow's dairy products. Those are not good at all.

I work with Dr. Fred Bisci who has been on a 100% Raw Food Diet for over 40 years. He has a full-time Nutritional Practice and has helped thousands heal from deadly degenerative diseases. He uses an Intermediate Healing Diet for those that don't want to go 100% Raw. Many of the foods people enjoy are on this diet plan, including some tasty substitutes that offer a healthier option. He suggests Tinkyada Pasta, which is wheat and gluten free pasta, now available at most health food stores. Other foods to enjoy are brown rice, beans, baked potato, soy milk, whole grains, and sprouted grain bread.

There are certain rules in this diet, such as not mixing animal protein with starches and only eating 4-6 ounces of animal protein every other day. As long as you only eat the foods that are on this diet and nothing else, you can live to a very old, healthy age. I knew a woman that tried this diet and healed herself from a degenerative disease. She said that her arthritis went away after only two weeks. Fred gave permission for his Intermediate Healing Diet to be printed in my book Raw Spirit, available at www.RawSpirit.org. If you want to take this Intermediate Healing Diet to the next level, you can eliminate starches, such as Tinkyada Pasta and Brown Rice. If you are already 100% Raw, you do not need to follow this transitional diet. It would be going backwards.

Many people I meet at my lectures tell me they are 70%, 80%, 90% Raw; this doesn't mean much to me. They can eat 70% Raw, while the other 30% of the time they are eating pizza, soda, candy and cake. Now don't get me wrong. If you eat more Raw Foods, chances are your health will improve. But you are not going to do as nearly good as you could if you left certain foods out of your diet completely without cheating. When you leave these certain foods out completely without cheating, this is when your body transforms, this is when your chemistry evolves, this is when your body becomes a more RECEPTIVE, IN-TUNE MACHINE TO SPIRITUAL ENERGY! This is not religion. This is physical! Spiritual energy is something you can actually feel. My book Raw Spirit details the spiritual experiences I had when I became 100% Raw. Ever since then my journey has just become richer.

Now let's talk about that second half of the phrase, WITHOUT CHEATING. If you cheat, even if it is only every once in awhile, you don't give your body the freedom to take its healing to the next level. Let's use an example of someone addicted to crack, who uses it every day. Let's say they quit completely, except once every two weeks. They will never detox the drugs at a cellular level. Why?

The following explanation applies to detoxing anything from drugs, caffeine and nicotine, to processed sugars, wheat and dairy. Our cells are filled with waste from all the years of poor eating and they have expanded and grown to accommodate this waste. A certain amount of detoxification always takes place immediately as soon as the quantity of drug or food is reduced. However, the body holds onto the toxins stored at a deep cellular level until the source of that particular toxin is stopped completely. To experience the next level of health, these buried poisons must be released. When you actually eliminate the drugs or foods completely, the toxins will leave your cells and now your body will have the freedom and the strength to take its healing to the next level.

Once given this permission, the body will move toward even more perfection, and start to eliminate other toxins stored in various places throughout the body, making you cleaner and more sensitive. If you try to go backward, your now healthier, more refined system will not tolerate what it used to with the same silence. As you become cleaner your body will say, okay, you can't eat that food now without getting a runny nose, fatigue, headache, belly ache, and so on. If you stay consistent, the body will continue to detoxify and you will continue to feel better and better. Once the cells take their healing to the next level, you may find foods that never gave you a problem in the past are now unworthy to enter your cleaner system.

Perhaps you are one of those rare individuals who will go to the next level of health by leaving certain foods out of your diet completely without cheating. More than likely you will experience the Famous Detox. Our bodies are comprised of millions of cells. These cells have been forced to inflate and expand in size to accommodate all the waste stored in our bodies from years of poor eating. The waste is stored as gaseous carbonic acid. Once the harmful foods have been eliminated completely from your diet, the body doesn't have to work on those processed ingredients anymore and immediately starts improving your cellular chemistry. Your oversized cells contract, shrink, and they begin to pour out that gaseous waste. This "outpour" detox can be very uncomfortable. People get sick, feel ill or moody, and go through intense cravings for foods they used to eat. Usually we blame the diet, become convinced it's not working and start suspecting it could even be dangerous, and then we either quit or cheat.

I have found the best way to keep up with all this waste being eliminated is something called Colon Hydrotherapy or Colonics. The colon is the central waste station of the human organism. All the waste comes here, including residue from the foods we eat, environmental toxins, chemicals and drugs. Even if you have bowel movements three times a day, on a cellular level most of us are clogged up like a stopped sink. A filthy colon is where all disease begins. I recommend everyone do a series of colonics when they start to detox after an improved diet.

There have been many cases of big-bellied people eating a Standard American Diet for many decades. Some tried the 100% Raw Food diet. At first, the results are fantastic. They lose 50 pounds and have incredible energy. As time goes by and the detox goes deeper, these same individuals lose energy, don't feel well, get a runny nose, and their face starts to look older. They are bathing in their waste, even if the bowels are emptying three times a day. They need colon hydrotherapy to keep up with all that is being excreted by the cells. If they are not able to do colon hydrotherapy, I would highly suggest they get off the CLEANSING 100% Raw Food diet.

Colonics remove the solid waste from our colon, but that is not the main objective. Many colon machines have a viewing window where you can look at what is coming out of your colon during the session. In addition to solid waste, you can also see many tiny bubbles leaving the body. The bubbles are that carbonic acid gaseous waste! That is what we are most interested in getting rid of. There have been many examples of people's rings falling off their fingers during a colonic. Why does this happen? Our fingers are comprised of thousands of cells. That solid matter, our finger, is a puzzle piece of cells. Remember, our cells have expanded and become bigger to accommodate that carbonic acid gaseous waste. When these clogged people did a colonic, they "unclogged the sink" and that gaseous waste was free to leave their cells. This release of carbonic acid allowed the cells to shrink and become smaller, which shrunk their fingers, causing the rings to fall off. They deflated! You can sometimes see when people are kind of inflated and need to get this done. If a series of Colonics is not possible at this time, a good alternative is a Colema Board , a less expensive at-home colon hydrotherapy system, which you can read about on our website, www.rawveganbooks.com.

Dr. Fred Bisci, Dr. Norman Walker, The Ann Wigmore Institute, Hippocrates Health Institute, Creative Health Institute, and many other reputable individuals and organizations for health all strive to help people heal. They use these principles that I have just shared with you. Each makes sure to offer three things: diet plans that eliminate certain foods completely without cheating, they administer colonics to everyone, and they also give everyone Green Vegetable juices.

Juicing is not the same thing as blending. Juicing is when you use a juicer to extract the juice from the fiber and pulp of green veggies such as romaine spinach, lettuce, kale, parsley, and dandelion. All the fiber is discarded and you are left with Vitamin & Mineral Rich liquid. This is the best way to get vitamins and minerals in their most absorbable form. Your body just loves it, especially the Green Juices. Green Juices are actually a beauty secret. I can tell when someone juices greens. Their skin is shiny, glowing and beautiful. Doing colonics and drinking Green Juices is the ultimate beauty secret!

In addition to getting vitamins and minerals in their most absorbable form, the juices also act as very powerful alkalizers. Green juices lower your pH from a more Acidic to a more Alkaline state. For those eating animal protein, I recommend drinking a veggie juice before the meal. Foods are synergistic, meaning they can balance each other out. Veggie juice will counteract the acidic animal protein and put the body back in balance.

All veggie juice alkalizes your system and gives you nutrients. However, some juicers produce a liquid with higher nutrient quality than others. The best juicer for the most nutritious veggie greens, that promotes health, beauty and longevity is the twin gear juicers (Green Star Juicer). They are a bit more expensive than some of the other juicers out there. To see all the different types of juicers we offer and the benefits of each, you can go to: www.rawveganbooks.com If you do three things - eliminate certain foods from your diet completely, colon hydrotherapy/colonics, and juicing - your body will respond immediately and you will notice. It is not an easy process emotionally or socially. I recommend taking it one food group at a time. The goal is to get rid of those refined sugars, processed starches, red meat, and cow's milk products, and don't overdo the animal protein or other processed foods. On a good intermediate diet, you can be very healthy. You can also take it to the next level. There is no rush. You can eliminate one food group at a time, taking months or years for each group. Make it as slow of a process as you need. Just don't cheat. I recommend getting Raw Spirit so you can view Dr.Bisci's detailed Intermediate Diet. Raw Spirit is available at www.RawSpirit.org.

As a Raw Foodist, I eat very well. The few supplemental products I take have proven themselves to be tremendously beneficial. I recommend them to everyone:

* Freddie's Blend Probiotics - The best probiotics I have ever seen. They need to be refrigerated.
* Dr. Fred Bisci's Enzymes
* Dr. Fred Bisci's Green food
* B12 by Hallelujah Acres

These products are all available here.

Your situation is not hopeless and you are not helpless. No one food supplement or medication can solve anyone's medical problem, ever. The body has God given remedial capabilities to heal itself, once you leave out the cause of disease. Diet is the key. What you leave out of your diet completely is what heals you. Supplements are a great addition to a better diet.
May your journey be rich with life!
Sincerely,
Matt Monarch

Keep the dates October 12-14 open so you can travel to Sedona to be with Raw Spirit Family!

When you register, be sure to mention that Laura Fox and Raw Inspirations sent you. I'll be involved behind the scenes again this year. Big, huge, beloved thanks to Happy Oasis for all her amazing, outstanding superhero efforts at creating and maintaining the Raw Spirit Festival for all of us!

Happy offers us a poem from her book Uncivilized Ecstasies:

~happy oasis from "uncivilized ecstasies"

Happy is a blissologist and the founder of the Raw Spirit Festival

Welcome to this Live Broadcast from Dream Manifestation Headquarters

Thank's for steping up and standing tall, rooted in integrity and flying with grace. An inner smile from inner space. Holy Cacao! Christ Consciousness and InLightenment has turned chocolately, armed with compassion. See my chocolate recipes in the next article.

“Ah” is the sound of Creation, the Sound of Love, the sound of God. Whatever is your bliss, enjoy it- in other words, “in-joy” yourselves, “in-joy” whatever returns you to your own flavour of delicious sourcey-ness, for you are a source-ahrahr, a wise-ahrd. cast spells with your every word and spin tapestries of harmony with your every thought.

We don't need another GURU, We just wanna know the way hOMe.

Aho, turn up the innerlight, drown the innerfright,- alchemize through insight. All the real gurus have first and foremost been their own gurus and folllowed their own inner light, and by example of loving themselves as much as the presence of eye awareness Is. By being the eye of the donut, (the most nutrious part), the column of liquid light pours through us as we are spun around our central Sun. the beloved sacred heartist is becoming us, coloured through the attitude and awareness we give it. Dynamic Vortexes are Whirling Us into even more delicious realities than we thought we could dream.

The food of love is the happily ever laughter
The fun and joy of freedom married with Love, rather than being diametrically opposed to it, in our relationship to ourselves and thus creation. Flowing beyond resistance through persistence as each drop finds its way back to the ocean.

Latest Cacao Superhero Product:

Spagyrics Cacao from al-kemi company whose anthology of essences is as multiversal as imaginable. These guys and their veracity rock. http://www.al-kemi.com

I’m ecstatic that we’re all having ever more off the charts funderfull implosions of presence.

Try these recipes for Super Hero Activation!

All your superfoods~ maca, ginseng, Chinese herbs and medicinal mushrooms, highest quality bee products, wild berries, and algaes etcetera, are likely to work synergistically with cacao, so why not mix them together in your mortar and pestle, vitamix, or free energy blender and enlighten your being in a single bite, no holds barred.

White Chocolate Mamba

2 cups Cacaobutter- gently warmed to liquid
1/2 cup Artsana Coconut Butter- gently warmed to liquid
1/2 cup Coconut Flour
1/4 cup Mesquite Meal
1/2 cup hawaian white honey
1/2 cup gojiberries, lightly pulsed in a processor
2 Tbsp Maca
1Tbsp Irish Moss Powder
rose petals lightly pulsed in a processor
pinch unprocessed sea salt

Process all ingredients in food processor, VitaMix or by hand in a mixing bowl. Form into delightful shapes or press into a mold or spring-form pan. Super-food-yum!!!

Buffalo Berry Chocolate:

1 cup Unprocessed Unsalted Sundried (often Peruvian) Olives
2 cups Cacao Powder
1/2 cup Cacao Butter
1 cup Dried Golden/Incan/Cape Gooseberries/Phisallis lightly pulsed in a processor
pinch of cloves(freshly ground)
pinch of pau d’arco(freshly ground)

Process all ingredients in food processor, VitaMix or by hand in a mixing bowl. Form into delightful shapes or press into a mold or spring-form pan.

Delectable!

Enjoy whilst burning some Paulo Santo incense.

A dear, kind person, raw foods enthusiast and dedicated musician, Sudhananda, has a new musical CD out. I hope you'll visit his site.

This album is a special collection of original songs by Sudhananda with lyrics by the mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi from the English translations of Coleman Barks, featuring vocals by Sudhananda & Tina Malia with accoustic world instruments. Dive In and The Garden of Mystic Lovers are two of my many favorites on this awesome album.

And I'm happy to say that Sudhananda will be performing at the Raw Spirit Fest! If you decide to go, please tell them I sent you!

Love, Laura

What if we became aware of the real love in the hearts of our friends and family by just the transmission of a single thought?

How beautiful would this be?

This is my invocation, my choice for humanity to share this quality of interaction. This is a conscious choice to make, based on past experiences of having less of this, and knowing the boundary of going without~and choosing more love instead.

We can have interactions that are anesthetic or highly inspirational and joyful.

I choose the uplifting, alternative, mysterious and tantilizing vision of the spectrum because life is so precious and so short. There is not time to waste on trivia. No time to give away to worry about what 'might' happen. That would be living with our past projected into our future. Our past can only offer limited and controversial experiences, meaning, poor advice. These limited events call us to remember them merely as lessons in karma. We don't need to go to these places again. We have already been through these experiences. They offer us their best advice in what's possible and nothing else.

Love,
Laura