Reading back thoughts I wrote about three years ago. I think feasting is a lot about reconnecting the past with the now - through our memories we experience anew the present, gaining insight into the essential, understanding our achievements and reiterating the need to continue going forth burning our flame and understanding every moments we perform as an essential part of the dance of life. I am shocked to read how deeply melancholic, and negative my feelings about life were as a teenager. Its seems so unnatural that I used anger to reconcile my lack of comprehension for the movements of society. Funnily enough, I spoke about the same issues then that concern me today - drugs, pornography, media, etc but I used anger to block them out rather than compassion to deal with them. I think it is very easy to get into self-healing and forget about the larger picture, but to loosely quote Steiner, healing oneself start with healing the world. I think I am learning that all the wonderful gifts of understanding that I have gleaned with such gratitude these past two years must be used to help others. This is what I am becoming conscious of at the moment. I dream of one day living in a rural idyll with pure nature, but I think there is a much greater responsibility to fulfill first. Raw food and natural health has totally cured a lifetime's depression, yes a deep misunderstanding of life that long preceded puberty! I remember feeling suicidal as a six year old. That can't be right. But as soon as I started to connect with living foods, nature and life I felt whole again, in connection with life and brimming with joy, pretty instantaneously. I believe deeply in this path as a method of healing and repair. I have heard so many times that drugs and alcohol are so pervasive because people can't deal with the reality so they to tune out through this medium. It is time that people started reconnecting, with each other and with nature to rectify the damage that generations of perverse living patterns has invoked. With each generation, we are getting sicker and sicker, and school teachers will testify to the dissipating behavior of children. Such is the dilemma, as a raw foodist I have felt a deepening desire to 'get back to nature' and live in a raw community. I have experienced this at the Ecoforest, which was a truly sublime experience. But I believe that I ought to be connecting with and helping others here and now. I would love to train as a natural nutritionist and am looking at courses right now. I believe that there are many lessons that we need to get out there. I think it starts with food, as soon as you start nourishing and cleansing the body, you return to a lively state where you can follow your intuitions and connect with the world. Of course, it goes much deeper than food afterwards. But it follows simultaneously with the path of natural living/loving. It seems that simple to me. Thus the importance of staying put, and sharing love, vibrations and teachings as so many people are doing. This global juice feast sounds so rife with hope and possibilities, I am looking forward to tuning into this with so many wonderful people.
So back to juices, I am like a teething baby right now, chewing on everything before it goes in the juicer; celery, fennel, apples, romaine, you name it! I hope this fascination with food doesn't signify a winding down for me, because I am so hoping to go on with this, into the deep murky waters, so that when I emerge from this it will be such joy. Not to mention the pleasure of the taste buds, a simple fennel in my mouth feels like such a blessing. I like that. I tried a combination of spinach, parsley and carrot and it might have been a science of proportions but for some reason that particular combination tasted like bananas. Oh the pleasurable sensation of a banana smoothie, mmmm! Made 2 litres. Some excess silt of the unwashed spinach, that got past my nut milk bag some how made into my colon and presented me with a lovely cleanse.
Today I have so far had:
2l 'Banana Milk' Spinach, Carrot, Parsley
1l Cucumber and Pear
1l Romaine, Fennel, Cucumber, Apple
3tbsp Raw Local Honey (naughty)
1l Celery and Carrot
1l Water with Psyllium
Enema and Skin Brush
2 comments:
Like you, raw foods have also come a long way to helping me work through my depression--something I've had all my life. So here's to that.
And yes, I agree. Once all systems are functioning, it is easy to look outside ourselves and our communities with horror only to realize what the world has come to and desire to change that.
The world is starting to vibrate with raw food's impact--I think it is only a matter of time. Great post. Thanks for sharing yourself.
xx Raw B
Blessings to you B. I so much appreciate this comment and it so wonderful have you tuning into my thoughts the way you do. Wishing you joy and light, Poppy
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