A Summer Solstice Dream about Freeing the Pigs and a Very Dangerous Idea

June 22nd, 2014 | Uncategorized

Happy first day of summer everyone.

Today while browsing on Toronto Pig Save’s Facebook group, I found this beautiful and touching fragment from the head of the group, Anita Krajnc.

“Today I dreamed that a transport truck had sick pigs and had to return to the farm and I let the pigs out of the ‘barn’ and created an opening in the fence. I had plans to give them a bath too”

Isn’t there something very beautiful about her dream.

It makes me tear up honestly.

One of the things that made me open my eyes to veganism is watching a must watch vid of Anita confronting the workers at now shut down Quality Meat Packers.

It stunned me really to see heroism like that.

You don’t see that that much.

Anyway, this summer solstice dream about freeing the pigs has me thinking about an idea that has been forming in my head since reading the awesome The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle.

At first I thought this book was going to be like new age hippie pseudo science whatever. NO. It’s actually one of the most interesting books I may have ever read. So many cool ideas. Very radical ideas too but they make sense.

One of the main ideas in it is we used to be a very different kind of culture.

We used to live in fertile valleys, and we only ate plants.

I like to envision we were fruitarians with perfect glowing health and fitness, or maybe we were high carb vegans, and ate delicious rice bowls all the time.

Have you heard of the goddess cults? In those days, god was a woman, (I have this book When God Was a Woman about it) and we worshipped women and femininity and softness and the magic they possessed to bring new life into the world.

I like to envision a lot of pagan rituals and like children running through wheat fields as tall as their hands by the banks of the river and ribbons in the hair and dancing by the light of the moon and all that.

Ok, but then this awesome culture was invaded by a violent people. Yes, you will never believe it, these violent people were shepherds. The seemingly peaceful guardians of sheep.

But the fact is they killed the sheep. They started herding wild animals and one by one killing them off. Tuttle says this made them violent and these violent people overthrew the peaceful plant eating cultures and started instating new values like violence and domination of women and stuff like that.

He thinks their violent mentality was caused by killing animals.

And this herding culture is the same culture we live in today, except the herds are out of sight in factory farms.

But because we still eat animals, the violence and violent mentality still pervades our life.

I mean it sounds crazy, but it kind of makes sense.

He says we worship violence in our culture instead of life.

It makes me think of how a PG-13 movie can have tons of graphic violence and death but put sex in a movie and it gets a Nc-17.

Ok you got to read the book.

But it is interesting because ever since becoming vegan, which is really becoming aware of other LIFE on our planet, I have just had these dreams, visions, flashes of yearning, to go back to the fields and live closer to nature.

Almost like I was remembering this goddess worshipping fruit eating fertile valley living culture from ancient times.

I don’t like watching violent movies anymore. I don’t like the city. I want to eat only plants, I want to go fully raw. I want to swim in the ocean and be in water. I want to wear like nothing and go swimming.

Sigh.

This is what being vegan did to me.

This is what Toronto Pig Save did for me.

For everyone to go vegan it would mean more than just meat was gone from the supermarkets.

It would be a huge shift. It would change our entire culture and return us to something ancient.

Replacing violence and domination with life. Freeing the pigs.

Letting all life live harmoniously. Letting us be frugivores and experience peak health.

Letting the animals raise their own children.

I think this is what they call a dangerous idea.

Happy Summer Solstice to everyone.

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Hiring a Raw Vegan or Fruitarian Health Coach: is it a DO or a DON’T?

May 27th, 2014 | about me, fruitarianism, raw veganism, veganism

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share something interesting I did today.

I hired 80/10/10-er raw vegan Ellen Fisher of mangoislandmamma.com for a consultation. Basically, a 1 hour Skype call where I asked her all my questions.

Recently I have been really wanting to eat more raw foods. I have been really enjoying my raw till 4 ish lifestyle and loving my dinners and how easy and great tasting it is to eat this way, but I had an inner urge to shoot for the stars and get back to how I was feeling when I was eating fully raw and on banana island.

To be more clear, I felt this amazing zing in my step. I felt sometimes so good that I felt my body was a wonderland lol. I felt like a god among men, in an inner way. Like my body just felt like zinging up and down with a great feeling. I felt so much energy that it felt effortless to run. I felt light. I felt beautiful. I never felt gross and sluggish after a meal. I felt myself getting stronger and more athletic. It was just a good experience all around.

But when I went back to eating cooked foods, though I kept many of the benefits, like weight loss, I lost that great spring in my step and goddessly feeling.

I decided to take a chance and hire someone who was living that lifestyle and maybe they could help me out with a way to possibly try it again.

Though being fully raw was a great feeling, what I am doing now is much easier, tastier and more convenient…but I just wanted to see…

Anyway, the coaching thing was really amazing and I wish I had done it sooner. It was inspiring and also cleared up for me a lot of things I was doing wrong.

I really recommend Ellen Fisher if you are wanting to get healthier in any way. She does it by Skype and it is extremely inexpensive in my opinion.  Also her ebook is the best one I’ve bought and I think I’ve pretty much bought them all lol.

Here are 13 things I learned today from my health coaching session with Ellen Fisher, pictured below:

11 Things I Learned from my Fruitarian Health Coach

1. Don’t make smoothies so much. Eat bananas whole. You won’t necessarily stop when you’re full if you’re drinking a smoothie and you could feel sluggish and uncomfortably full after, which I sometimes do.

2. eat one mono meal of fruit a day at least.

3. for dinner eat a salad with zucchini and cucumber noodles and a raw vegan dressing and don’t eat any fruit after. If you are still hungry, make more of the salad. Or if you eat cooked food, just eat more of that and not fruit after. This will make a big difference in your digestion.

4. cutting out balsamic vinegar, mustard, ketchup and pickles will make a big difference in how you feel over time.

5. following those food combining charts will make a big difference in how you feel.

6. when you wake up before breakfast, try to get in a quick workout.

7. sleeping a lot is very important.

8. try to think about your diet in terms of self love. If you know you feel good eating only raw food, try to think of it as a practice of self love to give that to yourself and do what makes you feel your best.

10. banana islands are very good for healing the body. Do more banana islands.

11. don’t try to tell people about your diet or talk about your diet much at all. Let people come to you.

Even though it’s weird, talking to her made me realize how much I do desire and am really interested in going extreme and achieving a very high level of health and being fully raw. She made me feel like it was easy.

I really recommend getting help from someone who really knows what they are talking about and lives the lifestyle you want. You might be able to get someone you admire to mentor you for free even.

What do you think, would you hire a coach to help you achieve your health goals? Do you have any inkling of a desire to be an extreme health zealot and go fully raw, or do you prefer a more moderate approach to life? 

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