Another angle on raw food
from Joe Jennings about my talk at the Alternative View:
‘Congratulations on your amazing talk! I’ve never heard anyone talk about raw food from that angle and you did it so well! ’
I get the impression that the info i shared in the talk did clarify things for a lot of people there and inspire people. The book I am writing is along the same lines, and including a lot of practical information about the connections between food, the brain and how we experience. I don’t want to tell people what they should do - just share some more ideas about things we can do that may help. All the information is out there obviously or can be gleaned from experience - it’s just getting all the relevant bits in one place in way that shows how they fit together. I am really bored of the raw food wars - why don’t people stop competing to be the experts and just share the useful information and experience they have and stop judging the choices people make. Classic one recently - I heard a well known raw food expert (who i in fact respect immensely and whose information I have found very useful) saying that everyone’s dietary requirements are individual and then went straight on to explain why no-one should eat dairy products. If the way someone’s living feels so good they wouldn’t need to grab energy off other people by putting them down or trying to be THE raw food expert. We all have our opinions but let’s recognise them for being just that. Research confabulation - we all think we are right and everyone else is to varying degrees wrong. In my opinion we have to go into a pretty strong state of denial to claim to be feeling completely and perfectly wonderful all the time in the world the way it is - we have to go into a mental stance rather than genuine communicarion of feeling - at the moment we are engaged in a task to get back to feeling the way we sense we could - the greatest joy is probably to be engaged in that task in our own way, and as we have not got there, none of us can claim to have all the answers - but it’s a lot of fun finding out.
I did enjoy reading this post by Roger Haeske - he has a lot of interesting things to say:
There will be dvd’s of the all the talks at Alternative View available soon. I have had a lot of very warm feedback about my talk and the whole thing.