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The Science of Wholeness: Part Two
LESSON #12: DANGERS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT AND BENEFITS OF ANTI-OXIDANTS, RAW FOOD, ETC.
12.1: ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FROM SUNLIGHT CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO HEALTH: Be wary of the long-term damaging effects of ultraviolet light from sunlight on both skin and immune system. Although sunlight is natural and we need some for health (vitamin D) and well-being, there is always risk of damage to skin in the form of wrinkling (cross-linking of collagen) and skin cancer, especially now when the protective ozone layer has continent-size holes in both the northern and southern regions of the earth! These dangerous holes may largely be due to industrial pollutants such as CFCs.
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Ultraviolet light happens to be one of the main causes of the old-age appearance which includes wrinkles, leathery skin, moles, and patchy pigmentation. For an informative scientific article on the subject of UV skin damage and ageing, go here
A sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15 is recommended by most health professionals. There are many sunscreens now available that protect the skin and immune system from both UVA and UVB frequencies of ultraviolet light. However I also hear contrary, confusing information that even sunsceens are not the answer because of their high estrogenic (estrogen producing compounds) effects that could actually increase the chances for skin cancer and possibly cause detrimental hormone imbalances, especially in men. I guess one might as well go around in a reduculously huge hat, wear a space suit with a massive UV reflective gold-plated helmit (expensive), or stay indoors all day and turn all white. No easy solutions for a tricky and potentially dangerous situation!
However there is now available a zinc sunblock that unlike sunscreen has no hormone like compounds and protects the skin the moment it is applied (sunscreen requires 20 minutes to start working) which is so atomized it remains clear and transparent so that when applied not too heavily does not go on whitish blue like all the original zinc sunblocks used to do. It is available from Sanitas at their website. There are also many other products available on that website that can help rejuvenate the skin.
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One of the greatest dangers of UV light and suntanning is its "stealthy" nature. Children and teenagers need protection the most because they tend to be outside all day whenever they get the chance and at the same time they have a false sense of invincibility. To add to the danger, is besides getting painful sunburns, the lingering, more serious permanent damage is not visible until 10, 20 or 30 years later. Also those with blue eyes, blond hair and fair skin are at the highest risk due to their lack of pigmentation. Getting a suntan to protect the skin from future sunburns only increases the long-term overall damage to the skin's elastin and DNA/RNA which doesn't show up until much later in life as lethery sagging dry skin, wrinkles, moles, small growths, tumors and lesions which can develop into cancer.
Most interesting to me are those individuals (quite often beautiful young women) sitting out in the midday sun while smoking a cigarette! I am sure most of them must be aware of the danger to their beauty and health, but age accelerating habits die hard don't they? Just think of the millions of Americans just lying out on the beaches gathering massive doses of UV light from both direct and reflected sunlight from the waves! When they get old, they will look their age. Most individuals, however, seem to WANT to look old, wrinkled and wise anyway. Barbecued flesh on the grill has always been quite popular--are things ever going to change?
12.2: SOME SUNLIGHT IN MODERATION IS BENEFICIAL AND EVEN ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: According to certain yoga teachings, ten minutes to a half-hour of early morning or late afternoon sunbathing is beneficial to the aura, nerves, eyes, pineal and pituitary glands, while providing a subtle form of energy, and, of course, it helps the body convert a form of cholesterol into vitamin D3. However, there should still be no question that midday sunlight is to be avoided.
What I am saying, there is a thin line to tread. While too much of a thing can be bad, also too little can be a problem too. However, many internal antioxidants, especially PABA, natural plant phytochemicals, flavanoids and carotenoids can help protect skin from sunlight damage. Even reflected sunlight from clouds, sky, and buildings can be dangerous over long periods or repeated exposure, yet we need it for happiness and some vitamin D. So the best thing one can do is to always avoid any uneccessary, excessive sunlight, tanning booths, smoking, drinking (except negatively ionized water!) and to eat mainly raw, healthy vegetarian meals high in superfoods and antioxidant supplements; therefore protection from sun damage is another excellent reason to stick to a healthy, high antioxidant, fruit and vegetable diet such as the regimen mentioned in this book.
Be certain to consume plenty of vitamin D! If one simply avoids sunlight without consuming plenty of vitamin D (1000 IU to 2000 IU) one simply trades in one form of cancer risk for another! Read this article to see what I mean!
Another good thing to do is to make sure you live in a body with plenty of brown hair, brown eyes and brown skin! (I am stuck with a pale complexion, blond hair and blue eyes, which is frustrating.) Green superfood formulas contain sun-protective properties such as chlorophyll, proanthocyanidins, flavanoids, and caroteniods. Taking large quantities of all types of antioxidants (such as astaxanthin, vitamin C, bioflavanoids, vitamin E, alpha lipoic acid, etc.) with every meal is probably one of the best ways to protect oneself from both the skin aging effects of normal, outside living while at the same time slowing down the internal ageing "free-radical" clock.
12.3 REVERSING SKIN DAMAGE: Bromelain from raw pineapple, and papain from raw papaya are enzymes that can help reverse some of the cross-linking caused by UV light and also help reverse non-sunlight free-radical damage to arteries and blood vessels in tissues and organs. Certain fruit acids have also been known to be of some help in bringing skin back to a more youthful appearance. A facial made from lemon juice and protein powder used twice a week for one month can probably help reverse many of the UV-caused skin aging symptoms by removing the top layers of dead cells on the surface of the skin. Eating the raw foods and essential fatty acids mentioned on other pages of this website while staying out of sunlight, has helped my skin more than anything. At one time, my skin used to be dry, itchy, and flaky, with acne and red sores. Vitamin A, many herbs and other antioxidants have changed all that.
12.4: EYES ARE ALSO VULNERABLE: One thing I have not yet mentioned and should is the danger of cataracts and possible retinal damage to eyes (especially blue eyes) due to a lifetime of neglect to protect the eyes. Eyes can be even more vulnerable to UV radiation than fair skin. Most ocular tissues, including the vitreous humor (the central jelly that holds up the shape of the eye) and especially the lens are vulnerable to yellowing and other forms of degeneration leading to blindness. UV protection wrap-around sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen should always be of primary concern to bring along on trips to the beach, sailing, skiing and other holiday trips. There are many antioxidants known to protect the eyes too. Most of them, I'm sure are listed in the diet that I follow.
12.5 SAW PALMETTO BERRIES, BALDNESS PREVENTION, AND SELF CONTROL: Saw palmetto berries and large quantites of fresh essential fatty acids from raw nuts and seed (especially pumpkin seed) could bring the condition of a healthy, normal, prostate gland back to youthful conditions in which containment of sexual fluids is easier because the physical pressure and physical desire to eliminate them is reduced. The healthier the prostate the more suitable it becomes for transmutation into higher states of expression. Sexual awareness is boosted to a much higher (and freer) level of love and affection: ideal for the mastery of yoga. Frustrating, agonizing, addictive, lustful cravings wasting absolutely vital and useful sexual fluids can be avoided and transformed into a much more expansive state of bliss, love and happiness. Conserved sexual energy can be used for a much higher purpurse while providing great power to creativity, romance, better moods, and wonderful, deeper meditations.
I believe the hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is a sort of a "breakdown" of testosterone, is largley responsible not only for the prostate problems men get later in life, but also for male pattern baldness or Alopecia which is another name for hair loss. I am hoping the reader does not confuse dihydrotestosterone with dehydro-epiandrosterone or DHEA which is a "fountain of youth" hormone part of my personal food supplement regimen. Small amouts of DHEA can also be found in raw, grated yam. For your interest, there is also an all-natural herbal, vitamin and mineral dihydrotestosterone (DHT) inhibiting product available. This product is a hair loss formula scientifically designed to help men retain and regrow their hair.
It is likely that saw palmetto berries could help women too in similar ways as far as conservation and expansion of sexual energy is concerned. Even women may need saw palmetto berries because they can also suffer from hair loss and thinning--especially after monopause. Women's bodies produce testosterone too, in much smaller, but still significant amounts.
Many of the raw foods and supplements (such as cayenne pepper, biotin, L-cysteine, niacin, pantothenic acid, silicon and other minerals) that I take tend to keep hair follicles in their growing phase for a longer period of time. To prevent baldness I also rub polysorbate 80 into my scalp and then brush it with a bristle brush (sometimes while doing the Shoulderstand to get more blood into scalp). Unfortunately, polysorbate 80 is so greasy I have to wash it out before socializing! Polysorbate works similar to saw palmetto berries, in that the conversion from testosterone to more damaging dihydrotestosterone is intercepted. I'm not making any claims for a cure for baldness, but rather how one could make conditions more favorable for future hair-growth and prevention of further hair loss.
A shampoo that I think is ideal for a balding hair and dry, flaky skin, is the Head and Sholders "Dry Scalp" dandruff shampoo. It protects the scalp's moisture balance while seeming to act as a powerful antioxidant due to its high content of pyrithione zinc. It was the first shampoo that ever worked for my dandruff (yes I suffered from EVERYTHING) and also helped other skin problems too, as well as hair loss. I'm not making any claims, but according to my genes, I should have lost most of my hair long ago, but that has not yet happened.
12.6: IONIZED WATER ENABLES ME TO EASILY LIVE ON ONE MEAL A DAY:
IONIZED WATER: The effect of ionized water on my health and well-being has been so great that I am no longer as concerned about getting the large amounts of food I used to feel I needed. And, I only need about half the amount of food I used to need, so I am eating far less. The effect of ionized water since I started drinking it since April, 2002, has altered my metabolic needs and therfore my chioce of food (diet) has gone through so many recent changes (great improvements!) that it has been quite a challenge trying to keep this information up to date!
ONE MEAL A DAY: A one meal-a-day "solid food" diet could be considered a stage in a process of continual "fine tuning" hopefully toward even greater wholeness and/or breatharianism that should naturally occur. As long as I drink plenty of the ioinzed water, I seem to do just fine on one raw food meal a day of not a necessarily large size, but usually more of a light to moderate amount. As always, I never snack and I fast on plenty of ionized water between meals in the form of daily 23 hour mini-fasts.
Breatharianism and Pranic Nourishment
The purpose of this book is to make others aware of the fact that inedia is possible, but not necessarily as a means to become a breatharian "living on light" yourself. The popular idea that breatharians simply "live on air" or even worse, "live on nothing" is misleading. Successful breatharianism which is really quite rare is the result of training the energies of the astral body and cells of the physical body over many, many years (or lifetimes?) to obtain nourishment directly from quantum energy. At the subatomic level, energy can never be used up, and if it is somehow lost, it is immediately replaced by more quantum energy. It may be possible for certain cells in the human body to obtain nourishment from scientifically unknown sources such as astral, spiritual and quantum.
Now, the most vital part of the diet, ionized water should be added to every blended mixture of fruits and/or vegetables and be the ONLY water you should ever drink. The outstanding alkalizing, antioxidant and ANTI-ANXIETY activity of ionized water is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of alternative medicine! Ionized water is "microclustered" meaning that it can seep through and hydrate much more living tissue than regular water can. It can also aid in the repair process of DNA molecules. There is much more to be said about this miracle healing water. Go here (to another part of my website) for more information. Don't ever leave home without it! I'm convinced that ionized water is the biggest health breakthrough ever discovered because of the antioxidants it contains, combined with the cleansing, hydrating, healing power of its miroclustered goups of only five (usually 12) H2O molecules.
12.7: IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHOOSE THE DARKEST COLORED FOOD such as dark purple grapes over green ones, red cabbage instead of green, red onion instead of white onion, etc. Natural food colors such as the "yellow" in yellow squash, the dark "green" in kale, and the "red" in cabbage, onion, etc. are actually very powerful antioxidants in the form of caroteniods, flavaniods, quercetin, etc. which as mentioned above help to protect the skin from sunlight damage and overall aging.
12.8: RAW EGGS, THE "SALMONELLA" FOOD: After eating 22000 raw eggs throughout my lifetime so far, I'll continue to enjoy their excellent health benefits, while leaving all such "salmonella" worries for you to consider. Before eating them, I always make sure they are only fresh eggs from free, healthy, happy, vegetarian hens and that the shells are NOT cracked. I am also very careful to check for any bad or unpleasant ordor inside of every shell I break open before adding the whole egg contents to my Vitamixer. More so than with any other food, In spite of all the incredible widespread pannic over the dangers of cholesterol, salmonella, etc. eggs happen to be one of the most balanced sources of protein on the planet and are of the highest boilogical value of any food. If they are so bad, as some researchers believed, then why did I find them to be one of the only few sources of nourishment that REALLY helped me? Also note that chicks do not die of cholesterol after they hatch! The main building material of the brain is cholesterol. All sex hormones are metabolized from cholesterol. Cholesterol, a mild antioxidant, is hazardous only if fried or dried into a powder, which causes the dangerous form of cholesterol: cholesterol epoxide. Homocysteine (caused by absorbing not enough vitamin B6, B12 and vitamin C), xanthine oxidase from homoginized milk, free radical activity from fats, oils, pollutants, etc. and the continual presence of too many free radicals in the bloodstream are the real culprits in high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and arterialsclerosis. Eggs also contain the most perfect balance of protein possible, loads of choline, and lots of B-complex vitamins. Only eat the WHOLE egg: eating parts of it can lead to nutritional imbalances. Paradoxically, most eastern spiritual paths forbid the eating of eggs as being too stimulating for the mind.
12.9: RAW FOOD SEEMS TO STRENGTHEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, WHILE COOKED FOOD SEEMS TO WEAKEN IT. If you are worried about "salmonella," and other dangerous microorganisms, etc. you can go ahead and sterilize everything before you eat it, but sterilizing would kill all the living enzymes, creating a dead food that, after eating on a regular basis, would weaken your system, requiring you to be much more careful regarding certain possibly harmful strains of bacteria resulting in a vicious cycle of poor health. Of course, I am NOT applying the "raw is healthier priciple" to meat, canned foods, fish, shellfish, etc. which are NOT part of the "Science of Wholeness" diet anyway. I feel these should not be touched. I do feel however, than one should wash fruit and vegetables in positively ionized water to remove any unpleasant "bugs" that could be on them (such as insects, worms, bacteria from hands, etc.) Always be sure to rinse off the positively ionized water with negatively ionized water before eating.
As long as you are a healthy raw foodist, your immune system should actually thrive on all kinds of invaders naturally present in raw fruits, vegetables, etc. much the same way muscle tissue stays healthy only through exercise. All living enzymes, including the enzyme activity of a huge number and wide variety of microrganisms help to fully assimilate all nutrients and provide many other vital symbiotic benefits. If, however, any such toxic or lethal "bugs" are accidentally consumed, the "mega-enzyme-charged" digestive system and "turbo-powered" immune system of the 100% raw foodist would very FIRMLY and IMMEDIATELY eject such an invader!!! In this case, cooked food is dangerous, because being devoid of enzymes and friendly microbes, it could allow the wrong sort of microrganisms to take root and become very hard to physically get rid of. Contaminated cooked food tends to be much harder to eliminate than contaminated raw food, which is much more likely to go right on through you!
12.10: HOW THIS DIET WORKS AND WHY NUTRITION IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO: The primary part of this diet is mainly antioxidants and enzymes from ionized water, raw vegetable juices and fruit juices such as pineapple juice. With enzymes being the basis of all life and the main factor for health and well-being, it is best to obtain a fresh daily supply of all these vital substances. All activity, including every form of mental effort, concentration and experience depends on the extremely complex and dynamic interaction of a massive quantity and variety of enzymes. Our very well-bieng, success in life and how we decide to live is all greatly dependent on the quality and efficiency of our enzyme systems. If these break down, you could simply cease to function on all physical and mental levels. If not enough enzymes, proteins, etc. are supplied, any variety of mental, emotional, physical and moral illnesses can occur. This is why I call it "The Essential Foundation." Wholeness is impossible without it!
Spiritual Energy and the Pranic Principle
There seems to be a universal field of prana in our atmosphere and throughout all of space and time in the Universe. Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning "life" in the context of a "life force" or "vital energy" that fills all living beings with vibrant health and all of nature with a living essence. Prana seems to correspond with the much subtler parts of the Universe such as the spiritual realms. There are many, many names for and aspects of this substance, just there are many names for God, and many aspects of God. Even mainstream science has long postulated the existence of a kind of "ether" that must be responsible for the transmission of light. Later on this "ether" was more accurately defined as some sort of multidimensional geometry of space in a vibrational state.
12.11: LATEST WORD ON SUPPLEMENTS: Because raw food is so wholesome, so nutritionally complete especially when one also drinks loads of negatively ionized water, and avoids all "free radically" damaging fats and oils, I should no longer have to use supplements the way I used to.
Anyway, I still need them just as much as ever! I found out the hard way this year by going off all my supplements for several months (mainly to save money). Things seemed to go OK for a while. However, in frighteningly unexpected ways, I started to fall apart: my thinking, moods and judgement, especially. It turned out to be one of the worse years (2003) of my life! I am still recovering from the emotional and financial damage caused by not having the essential supplements (herbs and antioxidants) my mind and body desperately needs.
I used to blend all herbs, vitamin and mineral supplements into one powdered formula which is immediately tightly sealed in a solid container and kept frozen. However, even with the above precautions, it turns out that too much of the benefical antioxidants get exposed to the air and damaged (made useless) anyway so as not to have the same theraputic effect. I am stuck again with the trouble and expense of having to take lots of capsules and tablets! Oh well.
I also add frozen ground saw palmetto berries, frozen flax seed oil, and frozen lecithin when available. Keeping all oils, herbs and related supplements frozen helps to prevent free radical damage (rancidity).
A good "all around" nutritional formula to use would be GREENS TODAY which should be available at most healthfood stores or from Amazon.com which tends to be the least expensive yet largest resource for all food supplements.
Unfortunately, in order to stay competitive and cut costs, some manufactuers of herbal and mineral supplements are cutting corners on their standards of quality. Also, some producers and suppliers are downright dishonest, even going so far as to substitute some of their supplements with cheap animal products and other worthless (and sometimes dangerous) substances. Often, only 20% or less of the original vitamin as advertised on the label would actually be present in the tablet!!! I would try to get all the antioxidants you need from ionized water and not take too much of any one vitamin or supplement. Stick to whole herbs if you can, ever better yet: grow your own raw herbs. I used to grow my own ashwaganda for increasing well-being and to boost kundalini energy and would grow many more different kinds of herbs if I just can have my very own private backyard to grow them in!
CHECK TO SEE WHO'S CUTTING CORNERS AND WHICH MANUFACTUERS ARE MOST LIKELY THE MOST RELIABLE AT: Consumer Lab Ironically, most nutritional supplements were legislated into the "food" category in the 1994 Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act which I strongly supported without realising that even though it helps to protectect the availability of supplements, it did not help to keep them at the standard potencies claimed on the labels! In other words, there is at this time no government agency to regulate the quality of these products, however, the FDA is working on establishing guidelines for these products.
12.12: LIVING ON LIGHT: I must comment on this subject, because right now, there is a spiritual movement in Australia that would have you believe that anyone can actually live on light or prana if one is pure enough and spiritually developed to do so. It does say one must prepare for such a drastic transition, but I do not recommend their "21 Day Process" unless one really feels absolutely compelled and guided to do it. I think breatharianism should really be attempted only be very advanced masters of yoga who already know how get their nourishment from astral, cosmic and pranic sources. Jesus knew all about breatharianism, saying that "man does not live by bread alone..." He fasted for 40 days in a very remote and lonely spot.
Living on blended juices from all kinds of raw food might be a possible step toward "living on Light". Raw fruits or vegetables can be blended with equal amounts of ionized water with other raw food added as needed. Eventually one is supposed to get so purified, subtle, vital and cleansed that one starts to no longer desire solid food at all. Also it is hoped that one will ultimately find it very natural and invigorating to blend more and more ionized water with the food, until one day, the "transformed" person is almost living on nothing but ionized water! This should be a lifetime process, and definitely, definitely one should always watch one's weight, strength, moods, memory, etc. when attempting something as "crazy" and "far fetched" as this! The other thing to watch out for is to make sure one is feeling and looking better, freer, happier, more loved, more beautiful, radiant and glowing! If not, you are doing it wrong, then go BACK to a more comfortable regimen and try to find what you have done incorrectly; this is "fronteer" territory and all fronteers have their dangers! SOME PEOPLE HAVE DIED WHILE TRYING TO LIVE ON LIGHT. If it is not comfortable, and it does not benefit you, don't do it! NEVER leave bliss, happiness, joy, contentment and good common sense behind on your path toward living on light!
I am interested in a more "step by step" nutritionally aware appraoch, where the body cells are gradually divinized into a vehicle of higher consciousness, vitality and much greater metabolic efficiency until such a point is reached where much less food is needed and eventually, maybe, somehow, even none at all. The whole idea is based on the theory that you are what you eat and if you subsist on prana, you eventually become prana, and prana would only need prana.
I am ever in search of the highest, most invigorating and liberating "diets" possible. As the body becomes more and more purified through ever more refined and progressive spiritual regimens, pranayams, etc. it becomes more and more subtle and able to receive and conduct into itself the surrounding energies generated by the forces of nature such as sunlight, rain, thunderstorms, negative ions, etc.
My wild and speculative theory is as follows: that gross physical cells are eventually replaced by subtler, more divinized immortal cells of organized life-tronic energy and bliss. If Babaji is no myth, this may have been the very same process that he went through to become what he is today. I am usually a very sceptical person, but because I can already actually feel and sense this "orgone energy" filling and saturating every atom of my being whenever I walk out into an open area during a beautiful evening, I know there has to be something to this theory.
Another alternative form of "pranic nourishment" may not be very esoteric at all. It is called "bioelectricty" and it begins with the very "currency" of energy itself: the ATP molecule which works by donating an electron to start the process of cellular enzyme metabolism in the mitochondria of every living cell. Ionized water also contains a large number of extra electrons which could possibly help provide more electrons through the "ATP transport system" allowing one to benefit from a non-caloric source of energy. The makers of Microhydrin also claim this is true for their product.
The first thing I noticed while drinking ionized water is its incredibly pleasing taste. The second thing I noticed was my mouth and saliva became very clean feeling and pleasant tasting as if I were constantly using breath freshener and peppermint herbs or something similar. The third thing that happened was a dramatic improvement throughout my entire digestive system and body, which all seemed to become absolutely odorless. Then I started eating much less food without losing weight! Hence, ionized water should be considered a critical step in the journey toward living mainly on prannic nourishment! Not only that, I also noticed a very definite decrease in the general level of stress and anxiety in my life!
There has also been much research done on the theraputic benefits of running a 6 volt direct current (one way) of electricity through human tissue to help rejenerate lost limbs and speed up the healing process of broken bones. Direct current from the negatively charged side of a 12 volt battery can be used to improve sense of well-being and wholeness. (Just because I'm mentioning this, I am NOT recommending it to anyone!) Direct current from a battery can be used for transmutation, boosting kundalini energy and to dramatically increase spiritual experience and bliss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, depending on the present conditions of the physical body and level of "fine tuning."
So can one really "live on light" without any help from physical food? I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that the healthier, more spiritual and more recreational the lifestyle, and the more vital, biologically useful, and digestible the diet, the less food one is likely to need. Also, the vitality and energy of perfect health seems to attract even more vitality and energy from natural surroundings, again reducing the need for food. Ionized water seems to, among many benefits, increase one's energy and reduce stress, both of which would tend to further reduce the need for food.
Why is it so important to reduce the need for food in the first place? Impurities? Yes. Toxins? Yes. Also: eating too much food takes up much digestive energy while dampening and diverting spiritual and mental energy toward subconsciousness. We spend around (depending on one's background) a third of our time and energy either working for it, buying it, then cooking, preparing, and eating it. Then additional time and energy is used up digesting it, getting sick from it (digestive upsets, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dental caries, etc.) while having to sleep longer because of its "subconscious" inducing effect. And the most absurd thing of all is having to go work off the extra pounds gained from eating too much of it. I think the right way to go about this problem is to eat and drink ONLY the most beneficial and essential substances most likely to create lasting joy, spirituality, energy, vitalilty and super health. This is the ideal that the "Science of Wholeness Essential Foundation" is aiming toward.
JUST THE RIGHT KIND, AMOUNT AND FORM OF NOURISHMENT COULD BRING ABOUT A PROGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION TO EVER NEW HEIGHTS OF PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TOWARD A PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE SO PROFOUNDLY EFFICIENT, THAT VERY LITTLE FOOD AND SOMETIMES NONE AT ALL WOULD BE NEEDED.
12.13 RECOMMENDED READING MATERIALS: I am listing several books that can help the reader get more in-depth knowledge on some of the subjects covered in this book. They are not required, but they have been an in-valuable source of information and inspiration in my search for wholeness.
ANTIOXIDANTS, NUTRITION AND HERBAL MEDICINE:
LIFE EXTENSION, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
THE HEALING NUTRIENTS WITHIN, Eric R. Braverman, M.D., Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D. (Facts, findings and research on amino acids)
BOGERT'S NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL FITNESS, George M. Briggs, Ph.D., Doris Howes Calloway, Ph.D.
DR. ATKINS' NUTRITION BREAKTHROUGH, Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
DR. ATKINS' SUPERENERGY DIET, Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Shirley Linde.
NUTRITION AND YOUR MIND, Dr. George Watson.
PSYCHODIETETICS, Dr. E. Cheraskin, Dr. W. M. Ringsdorf, Jr.
HEINERMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND HERBS, John Heinerman.
NEXT GENERATION HERBAL MEDICINE, Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
THE SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION OF HERBAL MEDICINE by Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
THE HERBS OF LIFE, Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., Herbalist.
CAPSICUM, Dr. John R. Christopher
THE BOOK OF APHRODISIACS, Dr. Raymond Stark N.D.
LOVE, SEX AND NUTRITION, Dr. Bernard Jenson.
THE ART OF SEXUAL ECSTASY, Margo Anand. (Tantra yoga)
YOGA, MEDITATION, SPIRITUAL, INSPIRATIONAL:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI, Paramahansa Yogananda.
BABAJI AND THE 18 SIDDHA KRIYA YOGA TRADITION, M. Govindan, M.A.
YOGA POSTURES FOR SELF AWARENESS, Swami Kriyananda.
FOREVER YOUNG FOREVER HEALTHY, Indra Devi.
SAMADHI AND BEYOND, Sri Surath Chakravarti.
THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA, Revised by Swami Abhedananda from M.'s original version. Published by the Vedanta Society.
KEYS TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS, Graham Ledgerwood.
YOGA, Ernest Wood.
EMBRACED BY THE LIGHT, Betty J. Eadie.
SAVED BY THE LIGHT, Dannion Brinkley.
INSPIRATIONAL FICTION:
THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, James Redfield (Inspirational fiction).
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, Richard Bach (Inspirational fiction).
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LESSON #12: DANGERS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT AND BENEFITS OF ANTI-OXIDANTS, RAW FOOD, ETC.
12.1: ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FROM SUNLIGHT CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO HEALTH: Be wary of the long-term damaging effects of ultraviolet light from sunlight on both skin and immune system. Although sunlight is natural and we need some for health (vitamin D) and well-being, there is always risk of damage to skin in the form of wrinkling (cross-linking of collagen) and skin cancer, especially now when the protective ozone layer has continent-size holes in both the northern and southern regions of the earth! These dangerous holes may largely be due to industrial pollutants such as CFCs.
Raw Food: Essential Striving Toward Fulfillment Celibacy and Nutrition Heal Anxiety with Diet
Essential Role of Diet Diet, Metabolsim, Enlightenment Acidophilus, Protein and Combinations
Ultraviolet light happens to be one of the main causes of the old-age appearance which includes wrinkles, leathery skin, moles, and patchy pigmentation. For an informative scientific article on the subject of UV skin damage and ageing, go here
A sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15 is recommended by most health professionals. There are many sunscreens now available that protect the skin and immune system from both UVA and UVB frequencies of ultraviolet light. However I also hear contrary, confusing information that even sunsceens are not the answer because of their high estrogenic (estrogen producing compounds) effects that could actually increase the chances for skin cancer and possibly cause detrimental hormone imbalances, especially in men. I guess one might as well go around in a reduculously huge hat, wear a space suit with a massive UV reflective gold-plated helmit (expensive), or stay indoors all day and turn all white. No easy solutions for a tricky and potentially dangerous situation!
However there is now available a zinc sunblock that unlike sunscreen has no hormone like compounds and protects the skin the moment it is applied (sunscreen requires 20 minutes to start working) which is so atomized it remains clear and transparent so that when applied not too heavily does not go on whitish blue like all the original zinc sunblocks used to do. It is available from Sanitas at their website. There are also many other products available on that website that can help rejuvenate the skin.
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One of the greatest dangers of UV light and suntanning is its "stealthy" nature. Children and teenagers need protection the most because they tend to be outside all day whenever they get the chance and at the same time they have a false sense of invincibility. To add to the danger, is besides getting painful sunburns, the lingering, more serious permanent damage is not visible until 10, 20 or 30 years later. Also those with blue eyes, blond hair and fair skin are at the highest risk due to their lack of pigmentation. Getting a suntan to protect the skin from future sunburns only increases the long-term overall damage to the skin's elastin and DNA/RNA which doesn't show up until much later in life as lethery sagging dry skin, wrinkles, moles, small growths, tumors and lesions which can develop into cancer.
Most interesting to me are those individuals (quite often beautiful young women) sitting out in the midday sun while smoking a cigarette! I am sure most of them must be aware of the danger to their beauty and health, but age accelerating habits die hard don't they? Just think of the millions of Americans just lying out on the beaches gathering massive doses of UV light from both direct and reflected sunlight from the waves! When they get old, they will look their age. Most individuals, however, seem to WANT to look old, wrinkled and wise anyway. Barbecued flesh on the grill has always been quite popular--are things ever going to change?
12.2: SOME SUNLIGHT IN MODERATION IS BENEFICIAL AND EVEN ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: According to certain yoga teachings, ten minutes to a half-hour of early morning or late afternoon sunbathing is beneficial to the aura, nerves, eyes, pineal and pituitary glands, while providing a subtle form of energy, and, of course, it helps the body convert a form of cholesterol into vitamin D3. However, there should still be no question that midday sunlight is to be avoided.
What I am saying, there is a thin line to tread. While too much of a thing can be bad, also too little can be a problem too. However, many internal antioxidants, especially PABA, natural plant phytochemicals, flavanoids and carotenoids can help protect skin from sunlight damage. Even reflected sunlight from clouds, sky, and buildings can be dangerous over long periods or repeated exposure, yet we need it for happiness and some vitamin D. So the best thing one can do is to always avoid any uneccessary, excessive sunlight, tanning booths, smoking, drinking (except negatively ionized water!) and to eat mainly raw, healthy vegetarian meals high in superfoods and antioxidant supplements; therefore protection from sun damage is another excellent reason to stick to a healthy, high antioxidant, fruit and vegetable diet such as the regimen mentioned in this book.
Be certain to consume plenty of vitamin D! If one simply avoids sunlight without consuming plenty of vitamin D (1000 IU to 2000 IU) one simply trades in one form of cancer risk for another! Read this article to see what I mean!
Another good thing to do is to make sure you live in a body with plenty of brown hair, brown eyes and brown skin! (I am stuck with a pale complexion, blond hair and blue eyes, which is frustrating.) Green superfood formulas contain sun-protective properties such as chlorophyll, proanthocyanidins, flavanoids, and caroteniods. Taking large quantities of all types of antioxidants (such as astaxanthin, vitamin C, bioflavanoids, vitamin E, alpha lipoic acid, etc.) with every meal is probably one of the best ways to protect oneself from both the skin aging effects of normal, outside living while at the same time slowing down the internal ageing "free-radical" clock.
12.3 REVERSING SKIN DAMAGE: Bromelain from raw pineapple, and papain from raw papaya are enzymes that can help reverse some of the cross-linking caused by UV light and also help reverse non-sunlight free-radical damage to arteries and blood vessels in tissues and organs. Certain fruit acids have also been known to be of some help in bringing skin back to a more youthful appearance. A facial made from lemon juice and protein powder used twice a week for one month can probably help reverse many of the UV-caused skin aging symptoms by removing the top layers of dead cells on the surface of the skin. Eating the raw foods and essential fatty acids mentioned on other pages of this website while staying out of sunlight, has helped my skin more than anything. At one time, my skin used to be dry, itchy, and flaky, with acne and red sores. Vitamin A, many herbs and other antioxidants have changed all that.
12.4: EYES ARE ALSO VULNERABLE: One thing I have not yet mentioned and should is the danger of cataracts and possible retinal damage to eyes (especially blue eyes) due to a lifetime of neglect to protect the eyes. Eyes can be even more vulnerable to UV radiation than fair skin. Most ocular tissues, including the vitreous humor (the central jelly that holds up the shape of the eye) and especially the lens are vulnerable to yellowing and other forms of degeneration leading to blindness. UV protection wrap-around sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen should always be of primary concern to bring along on trips to the beach, sailing, skiing and other holiday trips. There are many antioxidants known to protect the eyes too. Most of them, I'm sure are listed in the diet that I follow.
12.5 SAW PALMETTO BERRIES, BALDNESS PREVENTION, AND SELF CONTROL: Saw palmetto berries and large quantites of fresh essential fatty acids from raw nuts and seed (especially pumpkin seed) could bring the condition of a healthy, normal, prostate gland back to youthful conditions in which containment of sexual fluids is easier because the physical pressure and physical desire to eliminate them is reduced. The healthier the prostate the more suitable it becomes for transmutation into higher states of expression. Sexual awareness is boosted to a much higher (and freer) level of love and affection: ideal for the mastery of yoga. Frustrating, agonizing, addictive, lustful cravings wasting absolutely vital and useful sexual fluids can be avoided and transformed into a much more expansive state of bliss, love and happiness. Conserved sexual energy can be used for a much higher purpurse while providing great power to creativity, romance, better moods, and wonderful, deeper meditations.
I believe the hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is a sort of a "breakdown" of testosterone, is largley responsible not only for the prostate problems men get later in life, but also for male pattern baldness or Alopecia which is another name for hair loss. I am hoping the reader does not confuse dihydrotestosterone with dehydro-epiandrosterone or DHEA which is a "fountain of youth" hormone part of my personal food supplement regimen. Small amouts of DHEA can also be found in raw, grated yam. For your interest, there is also an all-natural herbal, vitamin and mineral dihydrotestosterone (DHT) inhibiting product available. This product is a hair loss formula scientifically designed to help men retain and regrow their hair.
It is likely that saw palmetto berries could help women too in similar ways as far as conservation and expansion of sexual energy is concerned. Even women may need saw palmetto berries because they can also suffer from hair loss and thinning--especially after monopause. Women's bodies produce testosterone too, in much smaller, but still significant amounts.
Many of the raw foods and supplements (such as cayenne pepper, biotin, L-cysteine, niacin, pantothenic acid, silicon and other minerals) that I take tend to keep hair follicles in their growing phase for a longer period of time. To prevent baldness I also rub polysorbate 80 into my scalp and then brush it with a bristle brush (sometimes while doing the Shoulderstand to get more blood into scalp). Unfortunately, polysorbate 80 is so greasy I have to wash it out before socializing! Polysorbate works similar to saw palmetto berries, in that the conversion from testosterone to more damaging dihydrotestosterone is intercepted. I'm not making any claims for a cure for baldness, but rather how one could make conditions more favorable for future hair-growth and prevention of further hair loss.
A shampoo that I think is ideal for a balding hair and dry, flaky skin, is the Head and Sholders "Dry Scalp" dandruff shampoo. It protects the scalp's moisture balance while seeming to act as a powerful antioxidant due to its high content of pyrithione zinc. It was the first shampoo that ever worked for my dandruff (yes I suffered from EVERYTHING) and also helped other skin problems too, as well as hair loss. I'm not making any claims, but according to my genes, I should have lost most of my hair long ago, but that has not yet happened.
12.6: IONIZED WATER ENABLES ME TO EASILY LIVE ON ONE MEAL A DAY:
IONIZED WATER: The effect of ionized water on my health and well-being has been so great that I am no longer as concerned about getting the large amounts of food I used to feel I needed. And, I only need about half the amount of food I used to need, so I am eating far less. The effect of ionized water since I started drinking it since April, 2002, has altered my metabolic needs and therfore my chioce of food (diet) has gone through so many recent changes (great improvements!) that it has been quite a challenge trying to keep this information up to date!
ONE MEAL A DAY: A one meal-a-day "solid food" diet could be considered a stage in a process of continual "fine tuning" hopefully toward even greater wholeness and/or breatharianism that should naturally occur. As long as I drink plenty of the ioinzed water, I seem to do just fine on one raw food meal a day of not a necessarily large size, but usually more of a light to moderate amount. As always, I never snack and I fast on plenty of ionized water between meals in the form of daily 23 hour mini-fasts.
Breatharianism and Pranic Nourishment
The purpose of this book is to make others aware of the fact that inedia is possible, but not necessarily as a means to become a breatharian "living on light" yourself. The popular idea that breatharians simply "live on air" or even worse, "live on nothing" is misleading. Successful breatharianism which is really quite rare is the result of training the energies of the astral body and cells of the physical body over many, many years (or lifetimes?) to obtain nourishment directly from quantum energy. At the subatomic level, energy can never be used up, and if it is somehow lost, it is immediately replaced by more quantum energy. It may be possible for certain cells in the human body to obtain nourishment from scientifically unknown sources such as astral, spiritual and quantum.
Now, the most vital part of the diet, ionized water should be added to every blended mixture of fruits and/or vegetables and be the ONLY water you should ever drink. The outstanding alkalizing, antioxidant and ANTI-ANXIETY activity of ionized water is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of alternative medicine! Ionized water is "microclustered" meaning that it can seep through and hydrate much more living tissue than regular water can. It can also aid in the repair process of DNA molecules. There is much more to be said about this miracle healing water. Go here (to another part of my website) for more information. Don't ever leave home without it! I'm convinced that ionized water is the biggest health breakthrough ever discovered because of the antioxidants it contains, combined with the cleansing, hydrating, healing power of its miroclustered goups of only five (usually 12) H2O molecules.
12.7: IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHOOSE THE DARKEST COLORED FOOD such as dark purple grapes over green ones, red cabbage instead of green, red onion instead of white onion, etc. Natural food colors such as the "yellow" in yellow squash, the dark "green" in kale, and the "red" in cabbage, onion, etc. are actually very powerful antioxidants in the form of caroteniods, flavaniods, quercetin, etc. which as mentioned above help to protect the skin from sunlight damage and overall aging.
12.8: RAW EGGS, THE "SALMONELLA" FOOD: After eating 22000 raw eggs throughout my lifetime so far, I'll continue to enjoy their excellent health benefits, while leaving all such "salmonella" worries for you to consider. Before eating them, I always make sure they are only fresh eggs from free, healthy, happy, vegetarian hens and that the shells are NOT cracked. I am also very careful to check for any bad or unpleasant ordor inside of every shell I break open before adding the whole egg contents to my Vitamixer. More so than with any other food, In spite of all the incredible widespread pannic over the dangers of cholesterol, salmonella, etc. eggs happen to be one of the most balanced sources of protein on the planet and are of the highest boilogical value of any food. If they are so bad, as some researchers believed, then why did I find them to be one of the only few sources of nourishment that REALLY helped me? Also note that chicks do not die of cholesterol after they hatch! The main building material of the brain is cholesterol. All sex hormones are metabolized from cholesterol. Cholesterol, a mild antioxidant, is hazardous only if fried or dried into a powder, which causes the dangerous form of cholesterol: cholesterol epoxide. Homocysteine (caused by absorbing not enough vitamin B6, B12 and vitamin C), xanthine oxidase from homoginized milk, free radical activity from fats, oils, pollutants, etc. and the continual presence of too many free radicals in the bloodstream are the real culprits in high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and arterialsclerosis. Eggs also contain the most perfect balance of protein possible, loads of choline, and lots of B-complex vitamins. Only eat the WHOLE egg: eating parts of it can lead to nutritional imbalances. Paradoxically, most eastern spiritual paths forbid the eating of eggs as being too stimulating for the mind.
12.9: RAW FOOD SEEMS TO STRENGTHEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, WHILE COOKED FOOD SEEMS TO WEAKEN IT. If you are worried about "salmonella," and other dangerous microorganisms, etc. you can go ahead and sterilize everything before you eat it, but sterilizing would kill all the living enzymes, creating a dead food that, after eating on a regular basis, would weaken your system, requiring you to be much more careful regarding certain possibly harmful strains of bacteria resulting in a vicious cycle of poor health. Of course, I am NOT applying the "raw is healthier priciple" to meat, canned foods, fish, shellfish, etc. which are NOT part of the "Science of Wholeness" diet anyway. I feel these should not be touched. I do feel however, than one should wash fruit and vegetables in positively ionized water to remove any unpleasant "bugs" that could be on them (such as insects, worms, bacteria from hands, etc.) Always be sure to rinse off the positively ionized water with negatively ionized water before eating.
As long as you are a healthy raw foodist, your immune system should actually thrive on all kinds of invaders naturally present in raw fruits, vegetables, etc. much the same way muscle tissue stays healthy only through exercise. All living enzymes, including the enzyme activity of a huge number and wide variety of microrganisms help to fully assimilate all nutrients and provide many other vital symbiotic benefits. If, however, any such toxic or lethal "bugs" are accidentally consumed, the "mega-enzyme-charged" digestive system and "turbo-powered" immune system of the 100% raw foodist would very FIRMLY and IMMEDIATELY eject such an invader!!! In this case, cooked food is dangerous, because being devoid of enzymes and friendly microbes, it could allow the wrong sort of microrganisms to take root and become very hard to physically get rid of. Contaminated cooked food tends to be much harder to eliminate than contaminated raw food, which is much more likely to go right on through you!
12.10: HOW THIS DIET WORKS AND WHY NUTRITION IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO: The primary part of this diet is mainly antioxidants and enzymes from ionized water, raw vegetable juices and fruit juices such as pineapple juice. With enzymes being the basis of all life and the main factor for health and well-being, it is best to obtain a fresh daily supply of all these vital substances. All activity, including every form of mental effort, concentration and experience depends on the extremely complex and dynamic interaction of a massive quantity and variety of enzymes. Our very well-bieng, success in life and how we decide to live is all greatly dependent on the quality and efficiency of our enzyme systems. If these break down, you could simply cease to function on all physical and mental levels. If not enough enzymes, proteins, etc. are supplied, any variety of mental, emotional, physical and moral illnesses can occur. This is why I call it "The Essential Foundation." Wholeness is impossible without it!
Spiritual Energy and the Pranic Principle
There seems to be a universal field of prana in our atmosphere and throughout all of space and time in the Universe. Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning "life" in the context of a "life force" or "vital energy" that fills all living beings with vibrant health and all of nature with a living essence. Prana seems to correspond with the much subtler parts of the Universe such as the spiritual realms. There are many, many names for and aspects of this substance, just there are many names for God, and many aspects of God. Even mainstream science has long postulated the existence of a kind of "ether" that must be responsible for the transmission of light. Later on this "ether" was more accurately defined as some sort of multidimensional geometry of space in a vibrational state.
12.11: LATEST WORD ON SUPPLEMENTS: Because raw food is so wholesome, so nutritionally complete especially when one also drinks loads of negatively ionized water, and avoids all "free radically" damaging fats and oils, I should no longer have to use supplements the way I used to.
Anyway, I still need them just as much as ever! I found out the hard way this year by going off all my supplements for several months (mainly to save money). Things seemed to go OK for a while. However, in frighteningly unexpected ways, I started to fall apart: my thinking, moods and judgement, especially. It turned out to be one of the worse years (2003) of my life! I am still recovering from the emotional and financial damage caused by not having the essential supplements (herbs and antioxidants) my mind and body desperately needs.
I used to blend all herbs, vitamin and mineral supplements into one powdered formula which is immediately tightly sealed in a solid container and kept frozen. However, even with the above precautions, it turns out that too much of the benefical antioxidants get exposed to the air and damaged (made useless) anyway so as not to have the same theraputic effect. I am stuck again with the trouble and expense of having to take lots of capsules and tablets! Oh well.
I also add frozen ground saw palmetto berries, frozen flax seed oil, and frozen lecithin when available. Keeping all oils, herbs and related supplements frozen helps to prevent free radical damage (rancidity).
A good "all around" nutritional formula to use would be GREENS TODAY which should be available at most healthfood stores or from Amazon.com which tends to be the least expensive yet largest resource for all food supplements.
Unfortunately, in order to stay competitive and cut costs, some manufactuers of herbal and mineral supplements are cutting corners on their standards of quality. Also, some producers and suppliers are downright dishonest, even going so far as to substitute some of their supplements with cheap animal products and other worthless (and sometimes dangerous) substances. Often, only 20% or less of the original vitamin as advertised on the label would actually be present in the tablet!!! I would try to get all the antioxidants you need from ionized water and not take too much of any one vitamin or supplement. Stick to whole herbs if you can, ever better yet: grow your own raw herbs. I used to grow my own ashwaganda for increasing well-being and to boost kundalini energy and would grow many more different kinds of herbs if I just can have my very own private backyard to grow them in!
CHECK TO SEE WHO'S CUTTING CORNERS AND WHICH MANUFACTUERS ARE MOST LIKELY THE MOST RELIABLE AT: Consumer Lab Ironically, most nutritional supplements were legislated into the "food" category in the 1994 Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act which I strongly supported without realising that even though it helps to protectect the availability of supplements, it did not help to keep them at the standard potencies claimed on the labels! In other words, there is at this time no government agency to regulate the quality of these products, however, the FDA is working on establishing guidelines for these products.
12.12: LIVING ON LIGHT: I must comment on this subject, because right now, there is a spiritual movement in Australia that would have you believe that anyone can actually live on light or prana if one is pure enough and spiritually developed to do so. It does say one must prepare for such a drastic transition, but I do not recommend their "21 Day Process" unless one really feels absolutely compelled and guided to do it. I think breatharianism should really be attempted only be very advanced masters of yoga who already know how get their nourishment from astral, cosmic and pranic sources. Jesus knew all about breatharianism, saying that "man does not live by bread alone..." He fasted for 40 days in a very remote and lonely spot.
Living on blended juices from all kinds of raw food might be a possible step toward "living on Light". Raw fruits or vegetables can be blended with equal amounts of ionized water with other raw food added as needed. Eventually one is supposed to get so purified, subtle, vital and cleansed that one starts to no longer desire solid food at all. Also it is hoped that one will ultimately find it very natural and invigorating to blend more and more ionized water with the food, until one day, the "transformed" person is almost living on nothing but ionized water! This should be a lifetime process, and definitely, definitely one should always watch one's weight, strength, moods, memory, etc. when attempting something as "crazy" and "far fetched" as this! The other thing to watch out for is to make sure one is feeling and looking better, freer, happier, more loved, more beautiful, radiant and glowing! If not, you are doing it wrong, then go BACK to a more comfortable regimen and try to find what you have done incorrectly; this is "fronteer" territory and all fronteers have their dangers! SOME PEOPLE HAVE DIED WHILE TRYING TO LIVE ON LIGHT. If it is not comfortable, and it does not benefit you, don't do it! NEVER leave bliss, happiness, joy, contentment and good common sense behind on your path toward living on light!
I am interested in a more "step by step" nutritionally aware appraoch, where the body cells are gradually divinized into a vehicle of higher consciousness, vitality and much greater metabolic efficiency until such a point is reached where much less food is needed and eventually, maybe, somehow, even none at all. The whole idea is based on the theory that you are what you eat and if you subsist on prana, you eventually become prana, and prana would only need prana.
I am ever in search of the highest, most invigorating and liberating "diets" possible. As the body becomes more and more purified through ever more refined and progressive spiritual regimens, pranayams, etc. it becomes more and more subtle and able to receive and conduct into itself the surrounding energies generated by the forces of nature such as sunlight, rain, thunderstorms, negative ions, etc.
My wild and speculative theory is as follows: that gross physical cells are eventually replaced by subtler, more divinized immortal cells of organized life-tronic energy and bliss. If Babaji is no myth, this may have been the very same process that he went through to become what he is today. I am usually a very sceptical person, but because I can already actually feel and sense this "orgone energy" filling and saturating every atom of my being whenever I walk out into an open area during a beautiful evening, I know there has to be something to this theory.
Another alternative form of "pranic nourishment" may not be very esoteric at all. It is called "bioelectricty" and it begins with the very "currency" of energy itself: the ATP molecule which works by donating an electron to start the process of cellular enzyme metabolism in the mitochondria of every living cell. Ionized water also contains a large number of extra electrons which could possibly help provide more electrons through the "ATP transport system" allowing one to benefit from a non-caloric source of energy. The makers of Microhydrin also claim this is true for their product.
The first thing I noticed while drinking ionized water is its incredibly pleasing taste. The second thing I noticed was my mouth and saliva became very clean feeling and pleasant tasting as if I were constantly using breath freshener and peppermint herbs or something similar. The third thing that happened was a dramatic improvement throughout my entire digestive system and body, which all seemed to become absolutely odorless. Then I started eating much less food without losing weight! Hence, ionized water should be considered a critical step in the journey toward living mainly on prannic nourishment! Not only that, I also noticed a very definite decrease in the general level of stress and anxiety in my life!
There has also been much research done on the theraputic benefits of running a 6 volt direct current (one way) of electricity through human tissue to help rejenerate lost limbs and speed up the healing process of broken bones. Direct current from the negatively charged side of a 12 volt battery can be used to improve sense of well-being and wholeness. (Just because I'm mentioning this, I am NOT recommending it to anyone!) Direct current from a battery can be used for transmutation, boosting kundalini energy and to dramatically increase spiritual experience and bliss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, depending on the present conditions of the physical body and level of "fine tuning."
So can one really "live on light" without any help from physical food? I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that the healthier, more spiritual and more recreational the lifestyle, and the more vital, biologically useful, and digestible the diet, the less food one is likely to need. Also, the vitality and energy of perfect health seems to attract even more vitality and energy from natural surroundings, again reducing the need for food. Ionized water seems to, among many benefits, increase one's energy and reduce stress, both of which would tend to further reduce the need for food.
Why is it so important to reduce the need for food in the first place? Impurities? Yes. Toxins? Yes. Also: eating too much food takes up much digestive energy while dampening and diverting spiritual and mental energy toward subconsciousness. We spend around (depending on one's background) a third of our time and energy either working for it, buying it, then cooking, preparing, and eating it. Then additional time and energy is used up digesting it, getting sick from it (digestive upsets, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dental caries, etc.) while having to sleep longer because of its "subconscious" inducing effect. And the most absurd thing of all is having to go work off the extra pounds gained from eating too much of it. I think the right way to go about this problem is to eat and drink ONLY the most beneficial and essential substances most likely to create lasting joy, spirituality, energy, vitalilty and super health. This is the ideal that the "Science of Wholeness Essential Foundation" is aiming toward.
JUST THE RIGHT KIND, AMOUNT AND FORM OF NOURISHMENT COULD BRING ABOUT A PROGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION TO EVER NEW HEIGHTS OF PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TOWARD A PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE SO PROFOUNDLY EFFICIENT, THAT VERY LITTLE FOOD AND SOMETIMES NONE AT ALL WOULD BE NEEDED.
12.13 RECOMMENDED READING MATERIALS: I am listing several books that can help the reader get more in-depth knowledge on some of the subjects covered in this book. They are not required, but they have been an in-valuable source of information and inspiration in my search for wholeness.
ANTIOXIDANTS, NUTRITION AND HERBAL MEDICINE:
LIFE EXTENSION, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
THE HEALING NUTRIENTS WITHIN, Eric R. Braverman, M.D., Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D. (Facts, findings and research on amino acids)
BOGERT'S NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL FITNESS, George M. Briggs, Ph.D., Doris Howes Calloway, Ph.D.
DR. ATKINS' NUTRITION BREAKTHROUGH, Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
DR. ATKINS' SUPERENERGY DIET, Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Shirley Linde.
NUTRITION AND YOUR MIND, Dr. George Watson.
PSYCHODIETETICS, Dr. E. Cheraskin, Dr. W. M. Ringsdorf, Jr.
HEINERMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND HERBS, John Heinerman.
NEXT GENERATION HERBAL MEDICINE, Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
THE SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION OF HERBAL MEDICINE by Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
THE HERBS OF LIFE, Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., Herbalist.
CAPSICUM, Dr. John R. Christopher
THE BOOK OF APHRODISIACS, Dr. Raymond Stark N.D.
LOVE, SEX AND NUTRITION, Dr. Bernard Jenson.
THE ART OF SEXUAL ECSTASY, Margo Anand. (Tantra yoga)
YOGA, MEDITATION, SPIRITUAL, INSPIRATIONAL:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI, Paramahansa Yogananda.
BABAJI AND THE 18 SIDDHA KRIYA YOGA TRADITION, M. Govindan, M.A.
YOGA POSTURES FOR SELF AWARENESS, Swami Kriyananda.
FOREVER YOUNG FOREVER HEALTHY, Indra Devi.
SAMADHI AND BEYOND, Sri Surath Chakravarti.
THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA, Revised by Swami Abhedananda from M.'s original version. Published by the Vedanta Society.
KEYS TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS, Graham Ledgerwood.
YOGA, Ernest Wood.
EMBRACED BY THE LIGHT, Betty J. Eadie.
SAVED BY THE LIGHT, Dannion Brinkley.
INSPIRATIONAL FICTION:
THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, James Redfield (Inspirational fiction).
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, Richard Bach (Inspirational fiction).
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One needs some way to grind small amounts of nuts and seed, or to create vegetable/fruit juices that include all the fiber, phytochemicals and other flavanoid constituents essential to health and well-being. Juicers that separate the juice from the fiber are OK, but I prefer and benefit much more from the extra natural fiber, ease and convenience that comes from using a Vita-Mixer in which no part of the whole food is wasted or lost. Very simple to use and clean.
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