Adytum Sanctuary has been called the healthy, gourmet B&B
for foodies and we’ve been on the path to what the Chinese call ‘radiant health’,
the highest health attainable, ‘health beyond danger’ for 18 years now together.
As we forge a deeper commitment to our
shared pursuit of radiant health you will see new offerings on the breakfast
menus at the Sanctuary. We’ve wanted to bring more of our daily green drink
smoothies out to guests, but frankly they aren’t always so tasty! Donn’s been
perfecting exotic elixirs taught to him by Truth Calkins made with the Chinese
tonic herbs from www.dragonherbs.com
and www.longevitywarehouse.com
and believe me, some of them are phenomenal! You can feel them working… Cacao
is a superfood and makes the most luxurious ‘ice creams’ and drinks when
combined with coconut and hemp oils. Reishi is showing up in nearly everything
and capsules being opened and blended…Donn’s an eye doc turned alchemist and the
Vitamix is his greatest transformational tool.
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| Donn's Famous Shooters |
We are focusing on the longevity foods and the Chinese tonic
herbs which Ron Teeguarden, presenter at the LA Longevity Now Intensive
conference we attended, called transformational ‘growth herbs’ – growth in
terms of our character, our well-being, and our evolution. The longest lived
among us eat gogi berries, olive oil, honey, dark chocolate/cacao, and drink moderate amounts of red wine. Can you
handle that? Sign me up! But there were herbs unknown to us in the West that are actually the symbol of longevity in China, like Reishi that we use now after being introduced to them by this team of presenters.
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| Reishi Mushroom: Symbol of Longevity in China |
Jeanne Louise Calment, the world's longest living person
(who died at the age of 122) was known for laughter and living without stress.
She once said “If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.” She
also ate 2 pounds of chocolate a week until her uninformed doctor (whom I am sure she outlived) persuaded her to give it
up at 119. Port wine and olive oil figured into her longevity regime as well.
In China, the Reishi mushroom is the symbol of longevity- we
don’t have a symbol like this in America…we’re learning to use these medicinal
mushrooms like Reishi and Chaga and taking a lot herbs I can’t pronounce but
that are helping in so many, many ways not only with health but in creating
clarity mentally, enhancing beauty, spirituality, and building reserves so
greater stress can be endured without succumbing to it emotionally or
physically. These herbs are adaptogenic ‘thinking’ herbs. They have the power
to bring balance as they are regulatory herbs. The Chinese have been employing
and enjoying them for thousands of years. In China they have two systems of
healthcare: one remedial and one strongly promoting radiant health. ‘Health and
longevity’ is the common greeting there. I like that and the power we have to
create by our words. They are truly tapping into all realms.
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| David Wolfe and Kat Carroll, Longevity Now Intensive Seminar in Los Angeles |
I loved hearing each presenter; David Wolfe, Truth Calkins,
and Ron Teeguarden, and each led me into a more exalted understanding of the
place food and thoughts impact us. Really, though, you need to see them. They
have at times (David continually) an electric energy arcing from them. They are above all passionate, magnetic, charismatic, bright eyed and youthful.
The energy levels maintained
throughout hours and hours of speaking and/or listening was impressive. We were
all hooked to grounding ‘earthing’ mats which helped with the EMF’s and
disturbances caused by the lighting but their energy really came from their
spirit, lifestyle, and the tonic herbs and it set them apart, it showed!
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| Truth Whipping up a Miracle in a Glass |
David and Truth have agreed to either write for Health Freedom
News, (www.thenhf.com) which I co-edit with Scott Tips, and/or be on the TNS
Radio Show (www.tnsradio.ning.com)
for an interview. Ron left before I got a chance to connect with him personally
but he was invited as well, and in many ways, his wisdom with Chinese tonic
herbs and medicinal mushrooms is what I am most excited to learn right now
because Donn pioneered it for us and his vitality has grown substantially. Ron gave a fantastic talk on balance and using
top longevity herbs/mushrooms/etc. (Reishi, Gynostemma, Schizandra, Deer
Antler, Ant, etc.) (I say ‘etc’ because I haven’t learned enough yet to know
how you’d classify trimming the tips off deer antlers or eating ants! Herbs…mushrooms- I have those classifications
down (: )
Ron writes a great book which he sells through his company www.dragonherbs.com that I am immersing
in called The Ancient Wisdom of the
Chinese Tonic Herbs. He discusses how “the Daoist sages of China have
taught that each of us is born with an intrinsic energy that determines our
fundamental, constitutional strength. It is called Primal Essence, or Jing.
Jing is said to determine our potential life expectancy as well as the vitality
of our life while we are living it.” Jing is what many of us wish to build and
learn to prevent from ‘leaking’. We’re equally desirous of building and storing
Qi.
Truth Calkins www.longevitywarehouse.com
stated some eat for their liver, some for their heart, etc. but we need to eat
to elevate Shen or the spiritual ruling part of our life. We aren’t our body,
which will die. We are spirit, and nurturing/feeding spirit is of greater
long-term value than merely feeding the body however that doesn’t mean we
disregard it as so many in the West do, eating whatever they want and focusing
only on their spiritual life. When we eat to enhance our spiritual
experience, embracing it without the influence of the numbing dullness that
processed and devitalized foods deliver, we will be living from the most
powerful integrated point.
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| Ron Teeguarden at Dragon Herbs |
Here’s what Ron has to say in his book about shen, “The
Classics say: “The Heart is the Supreme Master of the organs and is the home of
shen, the Spirit. If the Master is brilliant, his subjects are peaceful. If the
Master is disturbed, his twelve officials [the body’s organ systems] are
endangered.” Shen is the spiritual aspect of a human being. Shen presides over
the emotions, allowing them to manifest appropriately but overriding them when
they are not appropriate…when shen is shaky or disturbed, any emotion can
become dominant.” This makes sense, eating to maintain that equanimity in Shen.
When I transformed OVERNIGHT in my early 30’s from eating
the typical American diet (SAD) to eating vegan with no alcohol, coffee, pop
drinks, sugar, refined foods/flours, I observed a few things. My eyes got very
clear and even changed color to a jungle-cat green at that time. And my
spiritual ‘eye’ became more clear, my prayers more powerful and constantly
breathed, my intuition heightened, prophetic dreams becoming more ‘matter of
course’, and my Union with the Godhead [Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit] much more
vital, intimate, and connected. Later when I removed gluten, added red wine based
on longevity studies, and ate mostly raw, the shen elevation was even more
pronounced. I’m still on my journey and will be for life, it’s my commitment to
myself because my start in life was not from a healthy standpoint at all. Jing
can be restored and those of us who had a rough start can, with diligence, end
up better than most that had a great beginning from the womb onward. Over the
course of 20 years I’ve added buffalo and fish back in, and took one or both
back out again mainly due to the frequency that I could now feel- my aggressiveness
rose dramatically with buffalo, irritation and anger coming up that had not
been a part of my life at that time. With fish it’s always the same response no
matter how supposedly ‘clean’- hot flashes to get the mercury out by sweating
when hot flashes are not a part of my experience otherwise. Pay attention to
frequency and consequences. As a Nutritional Therapist we were taught the Coca
Pulse Test. The pulse will tell you if your body likes what you deem as ‘food’
or ‘nourishment’. http://blog.bioticsresearch.com/2012/03/05/testing-for-allergies-using-the-coca-pulse-test/
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| Frederick Hart's Fragment 3: Ex Nihilo, Out of the Mind of God |
Food can be a closed door to keep us from experiencing higher
levels of spiritual life or it can be an open door inviting us into higher
levels...If we are sick, tired, or stressed we focus on how to fix what’s
bothering us instead of maximizing our potential by union with our Source. We’re
in charge of which door we focus on and for most of us elevating Shen – or intimate
experience of God -involves going from one door to the next throughout our
lives as we learn to release addictions and emotional attachments to food,
drinks, substances, and people that block Union with our Creator. Some people
take it to the limit giving up all attachments, even food and water; it’s hard
to believe there are people like Breatharians among us! Some of them feel
that food is just ‘entertainment’ or an exercise in 'numbing' and mostly toxic waste.
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| Breathairian, Genesis Sunfire, a true Warrior for Good |
David Wolfe http://www.thebestdayever.com/ introduced us to a
true Breatharian, European-based Genesis Sunfire https://www.facebook.com/pages/Genesis-Sunfire/304334442911817
who hasn’t eaten food or drank water in years and only drinks salt
water when he is doing his cleanses, which he leads occasionally. Why doesn’t
he starve? He says it’s a mental thing. ”
A professional athlete, Genesis carried David Wolfe a quarter mile over
his shoulders. David is 185 pounds, Genesis is 145. He is strong and ripped and
looks fantastic…vibrant! Here are some excerpts from Genesis’ YouTube
interview:
“Break the addiction and emotional attachment to food…
eating a lot of these foods is like taking drugs because of what the food
industry has programmed into the flavors to manipulate us into overeating. The
food industry is making it harder to have a conscious choice (marketing to
children, etc.) We really have no choice
(at points) When in the mother’s womb, the child has no choice- they eat what
she eats, drink what she drinks, takes what she takes. We are not taught to be
conscious what we put into our bodies, we aren’t taught to pay attention to our
bodies’ signals- cause and effect. We’re taught to go to the doctor to get some
pills and our body will sort it out. They are relying on us being sick for
their business.
Become conscious and
aware of why we are eating. I was sacrificing long term health for instant
comfort. Active, addictive ingredients make it hard to make a conscious
decision. It’s hard to give up products that have a detrimental effect on your
mind, body, and soul. The food industry
makes sure we come back for more; numbing, desensitizing us. The body functions
in spite of what we eat not because of what we eat. The body sends out white
blood cells when we eat cooked foods; it is seen as an invading danger. Our
addictive mind sees it as good. Cooked and processed food dehydrates and drains
the body of its resources. It takes away and we are left with disease and
wearing ourselves down. At the end of the day the universal effect is
destruction of the body, mind, and soul. The
purpose of food has evolved into getting us as Divine human beings to forget
who we are. Like a roller coaster, I
had to get off this ride.”
Dr. Richard Schulze teaches we can get benefit from an 80%
raw food diet. David has been on 100% raw food for years, and I met him about
14 years ago at a Raw Food Festival along with Dr. Gabriel Cousins and others
in the raw food movement. David’s now walked through the next door embracing as
he described it, “living mostly on herbs…” the superfood Chinese herbs and
medicinal mushrooms.
His Chaga book, available on Amazon, is a must read because
it is the “king of mushrooms” in his view, and this is the topic of his article
in an upcoming Health Freedom News issue as well as his interview with Scott
Tips. David Wolfe reminded us that if we didn’t know Genesis 1:29, to go look
it up. I did, and this is how he lives:
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One interesting concept David introduced was his belief that we must eat for our magnificence – that there is a plan to poison us with
processed and addictive foods that cause us to forget who we are, Divine Beings
made in the image of God. Truth’s focus on elevating Shen by each food and
drink choice assures us we will not only be healthy in our body, mind, and
spirit, but we will claim the magnificence that is ours by Divine right and
fulfill our destiny calling with passion and enthusiasm vs. stumbling through
life from one doctor to the next in search of the pill that will undo the
damage we’ve done with our choices and habits. David and Truth concur with
Genesis Sunfire who teaches that ‘the purpose of food (today’s polluted, GMO
infected, processed, etc) has evolved into getting us, as Divine Beings, to
forget who we are.” We just keep evolving day by day trying to hit the ultimate mark toward radiant health a little higher each day by the grace of God. We left this conference determined more than ever to keep
refining and fine-tuning our evolution toward higher levels- to radiant health
where we are protected from disease and living gloriously, magnificently!
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| Fragment 2, Frederick Hart, Ex Nihilo: Out of the Mind of God...Simply Magnificent! |
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