As a follow up to my recent missives on bacteria, viruses and the implausibility of the germ theory, I wanted to post a link to this recently published video that was actually made many years ago, which features T.C. Fry decrying the hoax of “AIDS” and explaining the true causes of disease.

Enjoy!

Best wishes,

Nora

I read recently in Dr. Joseph Mercola’s newsletter of an experiment where someone introduced some “pathogens” (e-coli, salmonella, etc.) to a dish of raw milk, and then introduced the same types of so-called bad bacteria to an identical dish of pasteurized milk.  The samples were allowed to sit at room temperature for awhile and then were tested.  It was observed that the newly added bacteria flourished in the pasteurized milk, while they died off in the raw milk.  The researcher’s explanation for this is that the raw milk contained so many forms of “good” bacteria that the “bad” ones were vanquished in the ensuing battle between them.

The experiment might have yielded some interesting factual information, except that the experimenter, led by his preconceived biases, was more focused on building a story that left these intact than giving us a glimpse of reality about what makes bacteria tick.

Like all other organisms, bacteria seek their food supply.  Bacteria belong to a class of species known as “necrophages”, which simply means that they eat dead things.  This is the process we call “decomposition” and without it nothing dead would ever go away, it would just continue to pile up.  What the above experiment proved, if anything, was that fresh raw milk has less for bacteria to feed upon than milk that has been cooked such that its nutrients are rendered substantially unfit for consumption by all but bacteria.  This is why you will notice that cooked (pasteurized) milk left at room temperature goes sour quicker than raw milk does.

However, the important take-away message is that the imagined battle between the mischaracterized “good” and “evil” microorganisms never happens at all.  Different types of bacteria don’t compete with each other, in the same way that carnivores don’t compete with herbivores.  Different bacteria eat different types of “food”.  Bacteria that decompose certain foods that don’t belong in the human body are thought to be “bad” because these foods create so much waste that the people who eat them tend to get sick more than people who don’t.  The bacteria that feed upon these types of waste are accused of being “bad” “unfriendly” or “pathogenic” and are convicted of disease causation on the flimsiest circumstantial evidence — their mere presence at the site of disease.  They no more cause sickness than solar flares do.  They just happen to be present when medical professionals go looking for microscopic villains.  A perfect analogy would be the cops showing up at the scene of a bank robbery, rounding up all the customers who were in line at the time and throwing them in jail without due process, while the real robbers escape to rob again.  When we fail to identify real culprits, the biggest negative consequence (among the many) is the inability to prevent similar occurrences in the future.  As a side note, it occurs to me that this might actually be the perfect analogy because it could be argued that banks deserve to be robbed (if you didn’t know that the banking industry is a criminal enterprise, you haven’t been paying attention) in the same way that people who get sick ‘deserve’ illness.  After all, it is one’s own actions that cause sickness, not contact with any germ or sick person.

For all its arrogant faux certainty about the role bacteria plays in sickness, medical “science” has never established a definitive causal connection between bacteria and sickness.  In fact, when they have attempted to demonstrate this hypothesis,  they have failed.  The simple truth is that bacteria are present at the site of “infection”, by implicit invitation, helping to clean up the mess.  Their relationship to us is similar to the relationship we humans have to fruit trees.  We don’t “invade” orchards when we pick and eat the fruit.  The trees depend on us to disseminate their seeds, and we benefit from the nourishment.  This is known as symbiosis, and it’s exactly what’s happening when bacteria proliferate in our bodies.  Anyone who understands the realities of the natural microscopic world would not use a military euphemism like “invasion” to describe a natural process in which two species interact for their mutual benefit.

Has it occurred to anyone that hospitals are the most sterile places on earth but seem to have the highest rates of spontaneous “infection”?  No matter how germ-free the operating room is declared to be, people with polluted bloodstreams (i.e., everyone) who undergo surgical injury very often become “infected”.  Antibiotics are administered to kill the bacteria, but they also toxify the body, kill living cells and end up interfering with the healing process.  The word “antibiotic” literally means “against life”.

Imagine putting a bunch of humans in a sealed igloo in the Arctic with no food.  Eventually they’d die, and they wouldn’t be making any more little humans.  This is all we have to do if we want to get rid of bacteria – make our bodies inhospitable to them by removing their food supply.  If we want to control or otherwise minimize the bacterial populations in our bodies, we need only stop eating waste-producing foods and stop causing our bodies to become depositories of accumulating sewage.

We could never kill or disable all the bacteria on earth or even the “bad” bacteria, and if we tried we’d soon drown in our own waste.  It is foolish to fear or give even a second thought to a species that we are so utterly dependent on for our survival.

If humanity survives long enough into the future, the ideas we currently have about bacteria will be ridiculed like we now scoff at the idea that evil spirits were responsible for disease.  Bacteria are the modern equivalent of evil spirits.

It’s impossible to overstate the harm that has sprung from modern civilization’s irrational fear of bacteria and the mistaken blame that has been placed on them for sickness.  And it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if those of us who know the truth fail to speak out.  The monopolized partnership between government and medicine has already spawned a thousand ridiculous and destructive “health” laws that attempt to force people to participate in their absurd war on “germs”, and much more is coming our way if we continue tolerating the insanity.

The next time you encounter an example of “contagious” disease, instead of thinking about microscopic villains, look for the real causes.  I guarantee, they will be there.

Best wishes,

Nora

Hi All,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287767/Two-month-old-baby-boy-killed-cold-sore-virus-loving-kiss-father.html

I realize that it’s the most outrageous headlines that get attention for mainstream media outlets these days, and this one was probably written with that goal in mind. In a sane world, we might hope that through their audacity the media have pushed the masses into questioning their veracity. That probably is happening to some small degree (look at the rise in popularity of ‘alternative’ news sources), but that seems not to matter because THIS is the kind of “news” that the mainstream press continues to churn out.

To synopsize, a baby that was disadvantaged from the outset (born prematurely), misfed and perhaps drugged before birth, bottle-fed after birth, likely vaccinated and who knows what else, fails to survive.  For those who understand the real causes of disease, especially among babies, this kind of outcome is almost predictable given the conditions and procedures this baby was subjected to.  The late great Herbert M. Shelton said it best: “When one considers the abuse that parents and physicians heap upon children, it causes him to marvel, not that so many children die, but that so few die. For, he soon sees that the child enters a conflict against sinister foes the day it is born, even granting that it has not been forced to fight with them before birth.”

In typical form, the medical voodooists respond to the baby’s death in the worst possible way.  Rather than trying to find the real causes, which wouldn’t take much looking at all and which might lead to the prevention of other such occurrences in the future, they get out their microscopes and go looking for some scapegoat “pathogen”.  Of course since “pathogens” are ever-present even in the healthiest among us, they find a suitable culprit.  And as in virtually every other circumstance involving “contagious” disease, true causes are ignored and blind alleys are pursued instead.  What this means for the parents is that they are blamed for the death of their baby, and not in the way they SHOULD be blamed (after all, they were responsible for how he was treated in and out of the womb), but in a way that doesn’t get anybody any closer to understanding why it happened.

The big winner in this situation is, once again, the medical profession.  Although doctors likely did nothing but hasten the death of this child, they get to look like heroes who did their very best in the face of an unbeatable foe.  Everyone else loses.  The parents are made to look like clueless imbeciles who should have known better than to kiss their child and the rest of us must give up a little more control over our own lives. That’s because this is exactly the kind of situation that motivates misguided legislators to pass useless laws.   Why shouldn’t we lock up parents who “give” their children ‘contagious’ diseases, they will reason, if it prevents even one child’s death? If you think that sounds crazy, ponder the hundreds or thousands of innocent people in prison right now because they committed the crime of “transmitting” HIV to their sexual partners, a crime that isn’t even possible never mind provable in a court of law.

More and more people are quietly rejecting the germ theory, but even these exceptional thinkers don’t seem to recognize how much power it confers to the medical/governmental establishment, or perhaps they wouldn’t be so quiet. As I write this, I’ve been following a thread on a local whole foods buying club, where a group of small dairy farmers and those who want to buy their products are commiserating over their lack of freedom to do business because of laws and regulations ostensibly intended to keep consumers “safe” but are really in place just to prop up big dairy and other industries.  They are apparently oblivious to the fact that at the base of all this harm is not the insurance industry or even the government, but one little ludicrously false idea that almost everyone accepts without question – that disease is caused and/or carried by microorganisms.

The negative consequences go on and on, all unfelt by a populace that still regards itself as “free” in spite of all the hoops we must jump through for our own “protection”.  A couple years ago I was almost kicked out of a restaurant for bringing fruit in because of some “sanitation” regulations passed down by the Oregon Dept. of Public “Health”.  All around me, people were eating the foods that we all know are the true causes of disease, yet I was deemed a threat because of the germs my fruit may have carried, or some other such trumped-up fear.

I know how difficult it is to speak up against the tide of near unanimity that the germ-disease belief system enjoys.  Even I don’t take every opportunity, nor do I necessarily advocate that.  But I do encourage people with receptive minds to do their homework so they are prepared when opportunities arise to educate others.  There are more and more germ theory exposés being written all the time but my current favorite is “Goodbye Germ Theory: Ending a Century of Medical Fraud” by Dr. William P. Trebing.  Even if you choose to stay in the germ closet, at least you will know you’re being bamboozled when you read a headline like the one above.

Best wishes,

Nora

I’ve received some feedback from my last blog entry that indicates further clarification is needed on the topic of breakfast eating.  It has been pointed out to me that people all over the world eat first thing in the morning!  Apparently this is thought by some to constitute evidence that breakfast eating is a natural and healthy habit.  In truth, all it reveals is that unhealthful habits that are practiced universally will have the same bad consequences among people everywhere.  All smokers feel the discomfort of withdrawal when they go too long without a cigarette, and food addicts, even those who are 100% raw, similarly suffer the pains of withdrawal when they don’t get a timely fix.  This is particularly true in the morning when the body’s cleansing efforts are heightened.

In addition, we humans have a natural propensity for copying each other’s behaviors, healthy or otherwise.  Watching and learning from each other served us well for most of our development as a species, as it allowed our early ancestors to avoid wasting their energy and resources on perpetual re-invention.   When destructive habits are as rife as they are in modern civilization, however, this tendency only causes the consequent harm to continue unabated and even unquestioned.

On the whole, civilized humans tend to have very little awareness of their bodies’ true needs.  They misinterpret their feelings, generally, and adopt habits and behaviors that bring temporary relief from bad feelings at the expense of long term health.  Breakfast eating is a perfect example.  Since the body cannot simultaneously cleanse, heal, and digest food, the bad feelings that come with cleansing must stop when we give the body the task of digesting food.  When we eat instead of just enduring the bad feelings, cleansing is postponed, just like in the caffeine addict who drinks coffee when he has a headache.  Thus, the cycle of addiction is perpetuated.

It should be pointed out that we’re talking about regular, habitual breakfast eating.  Even the healthiest, non-addicted person will eat in the morning occasionally.  If insufficient food was eaten the previous day, legitimate hunger may be experienced in the morning.  This will be a rare occurrence, however, because people who are not addicted to food learn how to read their body’s needs very well and in our culture food is almost always abundantly available.

When the freedom from breakfast eating is achieved, it can be a real eye opener. One of the benefits is the ending of morning ‘hunger’ pangs, thus revealing that these sensations are symptoms of earlier self abuse, not hunger.  Personally, although I do still regularly eat before noon, I have made a great deal of progress toward my goal of giving up breakfast.  On those occasions when I’m too busy to eat or don’t have access to food before noon, I’m no longer plagued by feelings of weakness, light headedness, stomach tension/growling, irritability or desperation to eat.  I used to mistake these feelings for hunger, and always had to eat first thing in the morning to be able to function.  Nowadays I can wait till 10:30 or 11 before eating without discomfort.  In fact, morning before breakfast is the time when I feel my most content, patient, energetic and clear-minded.  Delaying eating in the morning, among other healthful habits, has allowed me to experience a reversal of the symptoms that previously compelled me to eat in the morning.  It should be noted that genuine hunger is not a symptom, it is a gentle, not-unpleasant reminder from the body, a bit like mild thirst or the desire for fresh air.  It is not painful or uncomfortable, despite popular conception to the contrary.

For many people, the morning eating habit is fairly easy to overcome and is a nice stepping stone towards learning about and gradually overcoming other false habits.  For others, it requires a good deal of effort. Getting off the breakfast habit does not need to be done suddenly.  Employing the strategies below, it can be done quite gradually as a person learns to eat simpler and later, and consequently experiences fewer uncomfortable feelings in the morning.

Hi All,

Many of you may be members of Loren Lockman’s Facebook Group “Getting Out of the Way w/ Loren” and have been enjoying his videos on YouTube. If not, I highly recommend both Loren and his group as a source of information and inspiration to aspiring raw fooders.

A few months ago, Loren sent out a letter that explained all the recent happenings at his fasting retreat, Tanglewood Wellness Center, which included being unjustly evicted from their previous location in Panama. The facility has now been re-established on a 9-acre property in Costa Rica and is currently open for fasting. It will close for regularly scheduled maintenance in September but will open again from November 10th until January 5, 2013. More fasting sessions will be scheduled for 2013 and the dates will be posted on the Tanglewood website.

I have long hoped to do an extended fast at Loren’s Panama facility. In the Spring of 2011, I finally planned it. I purchased my fasting time in advance, booked a flight and arranged to be gone from my business for 3 weeks. However, for reasons not relevant to the topic of this post, I had to cancel a week before I was due to leave.

For me, that turned out to be the window of opportunity for a lengthy fast that isn’t likely to return any time soon. A few months after my planned fast, I began to have problems with several deteriorating 35-year-old dental crowns (they don’t last forever!). My focus now and for the next year or so will be to have them replaced, which I have begun doing in Mexico.

That brings me to the point of this blog post. Loren has kindly given me permission to re-sell the 2 weeks of Tanglewood fasting time I had purchased in advance. A 2-week fast at Tanglewood normally costs $1,995, which you may know is already a very good price. The price for the 2 weeks I am selling is only $1,000, a savings of almost 50%. It must be used before the end of summer, 2013.

If doing an extended water fast in a tropical paradise is of interest to you, I highly recommend Tanglewood. Loren is a very skilled fasting practitioner and a 25-year natural hygienist who walks his talk in his own personal life. About 10 years ago I watched a video Loren had made and was so impressed that I called him and arranged to coordinate a talk for him in Seattle. The resulting event was a huge success. We did another one a couple years later, and both times I hosted Loren in my home. As a transitioning hygienist myself, it was a very valuable experience for me to be around Loren, to watch his energy levels, moods, eating, sleeping and other lifestyle habits. When I speak of the two people I’ve known who have truly freed themselves from all harmful addictions, Loren is one of them. (The other is my friend Robert Rust, another 25-year raw foodist/hygienist).

I will paste the text from the above referenced letter below for some additional background info, including a recounting of Loren’s original reasons for opening Tanglewood. For more information about Tanglewood, please visit: www.TanglewoodWellnessCenter.com. To inquire about purchasing the 2-week fasting package that I have for sale, please email me directly.

Thanks and best wishes,
Nora

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As you may know, I opened Tanglewood roughly 15 years ago. I had gotten very sick 28 years ago, shortly after graduating from college (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, chronic sinusitis, candidiasis, and 57 allergies,) and had gotten worse with three years of medical care. Finally, not knowing where else to turn, I realized that I needed to take matters into my own hands. I made radical changes to my diet, and ultimately adopted a raw vegan diet and learned about fasting. And though both were very powerful, I was amazed by the power of fasting to allow my body to cleanse and heal itself. I had tried juice-fasting quite a few times, and had even gone 4 months once. But one week on water was far more powerful for me than 4 months on juices…(and I hear similar things from my clients with juice fasting experience all the time.)

My health, vitality, mental clarity, and emotional balance all soared to new levels. After suffering for many years and trying many paths without success, I had found something truly amazing. And I wanted to share it with the world.

I walked away from a lucrative career in commercial real estate to offer this information and experience to as many people as possible. I’d known for years that I wanted to live in the tropics, and now that I was living on mostly fruit, that desire was more fervent than ever. I decided to open and establish the center in the US, and move a few years later.

The first location was just outside of Washington, DC. It was challenging getting started, with almost no one around that understood what I was doing. I started offering monthly seminars and later traveled to speak at most of the large raw food events/expos as well as traveling each year to Costa Rica or Panama looking for a tropical home. The word started to get out, and within a few years, we had outgrown the first location, where we could house 9 guests.

I looked for a place to lease, thinking that we would be there no more than 2 years before moving to the tropics. I finally bought a large place where we ultimately could house 18 guests and 7 staff on 18 mountaintop acres near Camp David, in Thurmont, MD. And because Not moving is always easier than moving, it was four years before I’d found a location, made the necessary arrangements and was ready to move.

That was seven years ago. I signed a lease/option contract for our home in Panama, a building had been built as a retirement home for nurses, but never occupied because the Nurse’s Association never had the money to open and operate it. The Panamanian government built the building, handed the nurses the keys, and then the building sat vacant for nearly 8 years, a white elephant…until we came along. Though it had many issues, the building and layout worked well for our needs, and though the grounds consisted of five acres of cow pasture that were cut to the ground every month, I saw enormous potential there.

We agreed to lease the property with an option to buy it anytime during the lease period at a fixed price. Coming from the US, the price looked very attractive to me, and I was thrilled to have this lovely place to create a piece of paradise that would serve our guests as well as possible.

Though we registered as a normal corporation (because it was much easier to set up that way,) Tanglewood had always operated as a non-profit, and had little money at that point, but I still had some funds personally, and I invested all of my capital plus everything coming in to make the center and grounds as beautiful and comfortable as possible. When we left, we had some renovations happening on the place in Maryland, and I expected to be able to sell that property for far more than we needed to cover the cost of purchasing the place in Panama.

We renovated the building, adding new light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, ceiling fans, screen doors, entry doors, custom louvered sliding glass doors into the office and guest dining room, and much more. And we created more than 1km of trails, planted hundreds of fruit trees, thousands of ornamental plants and trees, added 8 fountains, dozens of sitting areas with wooden benches, four thatch-roofed structures, amazing landscaping, ponds, streams, papaya and banana circles, arbors for passion fruit and granadilla, and much more. We built a 100 meter wall along the road to minimize noise from the gravel road alongside the property, three beautiful cottages for guests who wanted to stay longer after completing their refeeding, a guardhouse at the entry way, a garage, and later, an apartment inside the garage where I lived.

We had succeeded in creating a little piece of paradise. As the lease period was winding down, the real estate market crashed in Maryland, and when the property there didn’t sell after 18 months, I gave it back to the bank, as I had already spent everything I had left carrying the property. I didn’t know how I was going to come up with the funds to buy the new place. Then the president of the nurse’s association assured me that they would extend the contract to give me 6 more months to find the funds. I asked many times to get that assurance in writing, but they kept stalling, telling me that they would get it to me soon. A month from the contract expiration, they sent my lawyer a letter telling us that they would Not extend the contract and that we had 4 weeks to pay or move out.

I sent a letter to our client list and many amazing clients helped with small and large donations and loans. A week before the end of the contract period, we had the funds we needed. But their lawyer never responded to our many calls to sit down and sign the contract. They had decided that since the property was worth much more money, they should get more money, even though we had a valid contract…which they had written.

I fired my lawyer (who had proved to be inept at this point,) and sought new representation. I went to a half-dozen of the largest law firms in Panama City, who all told me the same thing: we had a valid contract and would prevail if we just waited 3-4 years for a judge to decide the case. I hired a real estate law firm and we filed suit. And waited. And waited.

I had invested both all of my own funds, as well as everything coming in to the center in creating the place we wanted, and I had expected to be able to get this money back as soon as we had title and could go get a loan on the property. Now with no funds available and no way to borrow against the property, we were crippled, and more so as the economy went into recession.

After many years of operating at near full-occupancy, we were struggling to stay afloat and I finally realized that I needed to get back on the road to give lectures and seminars as this had always been the most effective way of letting people know about what we do.

Over the last ten years, at any given time an average of 75% of our guests here were either returning or were referred by another happy client. But with the serious economic downturn, many of our clients were not in a position to be able to come. We needed to start spreading the word again (and probably would have been better off if we never stopped!)

Our fasting and internship schedules meant that I had only a couple of days free each quarter, so traveling wasn’t really possible. We changed the internship to a nine week program to allow me to travel when we were closed (and when I was previously teaching the interns every day for a month) and I went back on the road.

In September, I was mid-way through a 4-week lecture tour when I received an instant message from my secretary in Panama, who was frantic. She told me that the police were at the center with a judge, and that they were in the process of evicting us and seizing everything at the center. I immediately called my lawyer’s office, and couldn’t get him on the phone.

I was reeling, and couldn’t imagine what had happened, but I realized that I had guests scheduled to be at the center in just over two weeks…and I no longer had a place to fast them! I contacted some people in Costa RIca that had a retreat center and inquired about renting some space there to spend the next fasting session. Fortunately, it was the slow season, and they had space available. I informed my guests and rerouted them to Costa Rica.

I returned to Panama two weeks later and was given a few hours to get my clothing and a few personal items.

Everything else was lost; furniture, mattresses, organic cotton linens and towels, comforters, pillows and all bedding, dishes, glasses, flatware and all kitchen equipment, environmentally friendly washer and dryer, large library of books and DVDs, computers and office equipment, Creating Perfect Health System inventory, automobiles, cash, art, sculpture, rugs, curtains, light fixtures, audio and video equipment, client files, hammocks, gift store merchandise, etc.

It was only “stuff” but it was all the stuff I needed to operate the center, and little money to replace it. And though I was down, I wasn’t out. Having helped so many people dramatically improve their health and their lives, I was committed to finding a way to keep the center going.

I took a bus to Costa Rica with two suitcases and met my clients at the retreat center. Thankfully, it was a quiet session, and while we were open, I spent a few hours each week looking at potential center locations. I found a beautiful place on 9 acres, negotiated a 3-year lease, and moved there in time to open the December session.

It took me several weeks to find out what had happened in Panama. After being told by so many lawyers that we had to win, it was shocking when it went the other way. More shocking was when I found out that the judge had made the decision back in January, 2011…and I was finding out in September. They had waited to evict us until there was no more possibility of appealing the decision. Further, the experts I spoke with suggested that the judge must have been paid off, and because my lawyer had a fiduciary responsibility to me, he must have been paid off as well. The property in Panama was now worth much more than my contract price…not surprising given that I had invested a small fortune in it, and that the area had appreciated considerably.

Apparently, the nurse’s and their lawyer couldn’t resist the money sitting in the property, even though they never had a penny invested in the property.

I’ve always felt very privileged to be able to help people through this amazing process, and intent on creating the best place and experience possible, have always put almost every penny back into the center, never paying myself a salary. When everything was seized in Panama, I had nothing saved for this rainy day I never thought would come.

Fortunately, the new place was mostly furnished, and I bought just enough linens and towels and glasses and plates to be able to meet my guests needs and have replacements when it was time to wash. And so Tanglewood has been reborn in Costa Rica.

I moved out of my mother’s house when I was 16 and started working while finishing high school. I was motivated to win an appointment to the US Air Force Academy partly because I wanted to fly (and I did!) and partly because I wanted to have my education paid for (thanks, if you pay US taxes.) I’ve always relied on myself and have always found a way to make things happen.

In case you are concerned about our long-term future, there are many wonderful things happening, including finally starting to put up YouTube videos and seeing some excellent response from that, starting a new Facebook group called Getting Out of Your Way w/Loren, designed to inspire and teach you how to get out of your body’s way and make the best choices possible on an ongoing basis (come on over and check it out!), setting up a new monthly e-newsletter which will be going out soon with lots of great features, and getting back out on the road to travel and speak — the single best way I’ve found to get the word out up to now. The last tour to Arizona and California was very well-received, and continuing to do these events assures an ongoing flow of business…it just takes a while to get started!

A client who holds a very key position at the University where he works, and who credits me for saving his life many years ago has arranged for the institution to make a very nice contribution to Tanglewood which could become an annual gift. (The issue is that for tax reasons, they won’t make the donation until we have 501c3 non-profit status and right now, we don’t have the funds to pay the lawyers to make this happen.)

And perhaps the most exciting development is that after more than 10 years of making excuses, I’m now hard at work on a book that will not only show people how to create an amazing level of health for themselves, but will also share many of the miraculous stories of healing that I have been a witness to over these last 15 years. Getting a book out can really change the game and with your help, it’s success will insure that more people than ever can learn how to attain their birthright of near-perfect health.

So there are many things happening now which will positively impact our long-term viability, and which, I believe, insure that Tanglewood will continue to help people for many more years.

If you are not interested in fasting now, or not sure, you might want to check out the videos below.

To see an Introduction to Water-Only Fasting with me, click here: http://youtu.be/FXN-W5Tcx5A

To see recent guest Elicia discuss her 30-day fast, click here: http://youtu.be/e6Yw2pPQTsQ

To see recent guest Monique discuss her 28-day fast, click here: http://youtu.be/zy3D5zMetKM

To see recent guest Sheryll discuss her 15-day fast, click here: http://youtu.be/R4aC6w1QbWk

To see 2011 guest Basia discuss her 21 day fast and subsequent 6 weeks at Tanglewood, click here: http://youtu.be/vNaQ7SKNg1g

You might consider investing in the Creating Perfect Health System, now a digital download of more than 15 hours of live lectures and seminars on every aspect of health and healing. The program consists of more than 9 hours of audio files, more than 6 hours of video files, and about 40 pages of written material.

This is the same information that I used to go from being sicker than anyone I knew at 23 to being healthier than almost anyone I know at 51. In over 25 years, I haven’t been sick a single day, and have more energy, clarity, and vitality than I would have ever thought possible. And you can enjoy the same thing. The program will sell for $295 but if you order now, it will be yours for only $250. And it comes with a 12 month, unconditional money back guarantee. If you don’t find it to be worth far more than you paid for it, just let us know and you will be entitled to a full refund.

You might consider a phone consultation, or even a series of phone consultations. There is so much information out there that it is difficult to know which way to turn. And many of the self-proclaimed “experts” out there seem to be most interested in selling you their pills and potions. I know that only the body heals and that we never need to use supplements, super foods, or anything like that. All we need to do is to learn how to meet all of the body’s needs as well as possible, and we will experience an amazing level of health. Having achieved and maintained this elusive level of health for so long, and having helped thousands of others take their own health to new highs, I can help you, too. You can get one hour of my time for $100, and you can get a package of 6 consultations (one hour to start, then four 30 minute sessions, then a final hour to complete) for only $300.

Here’s what a few Tanglewood clients said when I told them about our current situation:

An alternative health care provider recommended I read Fasting Can Save Your Life by Herbert Shelton. The book was eye opening and suggested every individual should take ownership for his or her own health. Tanglewood Wellness Center has provided me a wholistic escape from my life when all else has failed.

I came to Tanglewood in 2003 for a 28-Day fast after leaving the Pentagon with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, anxiety and Candida. The Candida had gotten so bad it started to impact my memory. This was my last option because I was planning to return home to Michigan so my mother could care for me. A junk food vegetarian for 6 years I weighed in at 160 pounds. During that fast my energy returned, I felt great again, and I lost 32 pounds.

After the fast I failed at raw but became a vegan and more healthy. This new level of restored health and calm in my life allowed me to conceive in 2005.

In 2007 I returned to Tanglewood for a 21-Day fast suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, anxiety, depression, and major side effects from the drugs that had been prescribed for these conditions. I knew I had to take control of my health again, and one again, Tanglewood provided the optimal conditions and opportunity to allow me to do that.

I look forward to returning to Tanglewood in 2012, and am so sorry that Loren has lot his beautiful facility in Panama. I want to insure that Tanglewood exists as long as possible so that me and others can have this oasis of calm when they need to heal.

- Michelle in DC

“I don’t know if any other place has what Tanglewood has. Tanglewood has the best of knowledge and supporting presences… It’s not only the place where the good stuff happens, it’s the place where you learn what you need to know, and I’m grateful for it. Loren Lockman is a sharp guy, and I hope his work continues.” — Leland Wright

“When I consider the idea that because of its current financial stresses, my beloved Tanglewood Wellness Center could disappear, in my heart I am called do whatever I can to help it avoid such an outcome….for to me, Tanglewood’s continued existence is invaluable. Because of Tanglewood, I got my health back. I deeply believe this world needs it to continue existing… there is just no other place like it! Please then, join me as you are able, in making a onetime gift to this rare and very worthy institution, that it may successfully absorb the financial costs of losing it’s Panama location, and complete its return to full functionality in Costa Rica. Thank you.”

- David Seacord, Fine Art Painter (www.davidseacord.com)
Rev. David Seacord
Fine Art Painter / Sufi Cherag
(505) 603-0565 cell
david@davidseacord.com

Tanglewood is the 8th wonder of the world. It is the best cure available, open year-round, run hands-on by a compassionate man with many many years of experience. Loren really knows his stuff and wants to help you; he certainly helped us when no one else could. Two years ago my son’s physical and mental health was being eaten up by some undiagnosed malady and further worsened by the doctors we took him to. Thankfully Tanglewood was available when we needed it, or he might have died. Loren runs a relaxing, inspiring, safe place where my son started the deep healing he needed. After you’ve spent time there, you will never be the same – the experience stays with you and keeps working its benefits. If you can help out Tanglewood right now, that would be wonderful!

- Kathy Raine

I had struggled with feeling sick most of the time for many years (and especially after meals) eating a standard american diet. I also used many antibiotics, and antidepressants. My problems were excess weight, candida, chronic fatigue syndrome, hyperhidrosis and acne. After researching nutrition and detoxing through fasting and doing my own experimentation with nutrition like Atkins, and the bnlood type diet (mine is AB +) and organic CSA sustainable type diets, I did a week fast drinking mostly psillium fiber and felt amazing after that but returned to old eating habits and my addiction to coffee.

Thankfully I found Tanglewood and Loren Lockman. After water-only fasting and feeling amazing, that is 100% wonderful on raw food, I also had all the answers to my nutrition confusion thanks to his daily lectures. I was previously not eating any fruit because I had read that fruit exacerbates candida which I struggled with. I went to Tanglewood to fast only and did not realize how much I would learn. I didn’t know anything about the raw food lifestyle.

Thankfully, I was introduced to raw foods and the truth about the importance of our bodies hydration! With the raw diet I truly feel amazing and I do not have to rely on any substance or medication to prop myself up. I am so grateful for Loren’s knowledge and years of fasting experience and I am grateful that Tanglewood continues to help many be and remain well, and this is why I’m happy to support Tanglewood to insure it’s continuing survival.

- Emily Ann Gjertson Cass

Thanks for taking the time to read this long letter. Whatever you do, I wish you the best in creating whatever it is that you choose to manifest. You can enjoy an amazing level of health and vitality and you can create an amazing life, doing whatever you’re passionate about. There are no limitations except that ones that you choose to accept.

For your optimal health,
Loren

Loren Lockman
Director,
TanglewoodWellnessCenter.com
…the natural way to perfect health!

Recently during a coaching session I was asked to name the one thing that helped me the most toward my recovery from food addiction. Without doubt the one intellectual idea I’ve learned that helped me the most is that food addiction is an extremely powerful force. When people want to escape other addictions in our culture, they can get help. There exists a social safety net for people who recognize the harm of continuing to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, take drugs, gamble, shop or even have sex compulsively. But there’s no help for food addiction recovery. There might be some lip service given to the problem as it relates to hard core, heavy weight (literally) compulsives, but if you really understand what garden variety food addiction is and go looking for help, you soon realize that nobody’s REALLY tackling it, and I mean NOBODY. Even so called food-addiction experts are themselves food addicts in irretrievable denial.

Added to that is the fact that addiction to food is every bit as physiologically-centered and physically damaging as any other addiction. It might take 30-50 years to kill a person, typically, but it does kill. It needs to be taken seriously, and its power needs to be respected. The consequences of not doing so are what causes so many raw fooders to fail. People think that getting over harmful life-long eating habits is just a matter of ‘will power’, and that it can be approached like any other problem – in the head first, then followed through in practice. The problem is, it’s the extremely rare person who can recognize all his/her dietary issues at once and then get rid of them overnight or even quickly. In fact, it’s impossible, particularly for those who attempt dietary improvement in their 30s and beyond. The longer bad habits are in place, the slower they are to change.  Virtually everyone who fails to recognize these facts and tries to change too quickly not only meets with failure, but a great deal of psychological demoralization and self-recrimination as well.

When overnight change is attempted, people not only typically fail, but in practical terms, they become confused and lose their sense of direction. They feel that they can’t move forward, but they can’t go all the way back to their previous eating habits either.  Feeling stuck and trapped, they sometimes end up wishing they’d never even learned about raw food or the power of the body to heal itself.  From this vantage point, it’s easy to feel deprived and envious of “normal” people who obliviously abuse themselves and get lots of support and sympathy for the consequences that follow.

Slow transitional changes, on the other hand, give people something to fall back on at each stage, if/when they realize a little compromise is needed. This allows gradual, gentle and graceful forward progress.

The challenge of slow improvement, however, is that you have to learn how to deal with the conflict that arises from not instituting ALL the changes at once that you know are necessary to enjoy peak health. In other words, self-forgiveness.

Self forgiveness is the biggest challenge by far for the type of people that the low fat high fruit lifestyle seems to attract (Type “A”s, perfectionists), and it’s the one that most people don’t manage to pull off. Instead they go too fast, then they backslide, then they make that same mistake over and over. It happens much more in the high fruit camp than among the high fat crowd, because people in the latter group tend to go much slower. I don’t think they realize it necessarily, but they have the tools to take their addictions seriously – namely, foods that allow a certain amount of healing (by virtue of the improvement they represent) and also keep them emotionally satisfied. Unfortunately people using that approach tend to stay in transitionland forever, not realizing that just eating 100% raw is not the finish line.

For some reason, high fruit eaters tend to be very competitive. They regard the high fat, complicated-recipe approach to dietary transition to be indulgent and less self-disciplined. In reality, both approaches can lead a person to a kind of health purgatory, where forward movement is either restrained or nonexistent, and the need for compromise is either overindulged or completely denied.  In high fat raw fooders, it means eating the same miscombined and questionable transition foods forever. In high fruit eaters, it means bouncing back and forth between “optimal” and the old way of eating, or close to it, regardless of what that was.

There’s a way to transition that offers the best of both worlds, and at its foundation is an UNDERSTANDING of the incredible power of the foe we’re all up against: food addiction. No military strategist ever won a battle by underestimating the enemy, and the same goes for transitioning raw fooders.

To your health,

Nora

Hello fellow raw fooders and aspiring health seekers! As a special “thank you” to all of you who’ve signed up to be notified when the RawSchool blog is updated (and a lesson to those who haven’t that you might be missing out on something good:)), I’ll be offering FREE coaching this Sunday, September 25. Here’s how it works: If you have previously entered your email address to receive blog updates — you know who you are (and so do I) — you are eligible for a free ½ hour phone consultation between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) this Sunday. Bear in mind this ½ hour won’t be as comprehensive as a normal coaching session, because I won’t be taking any written background information on you. It’s meant to be just a personal Q&A session, wherein you can get questions answered that you may have been struggling with or are just curious about. Possible topics for discussion include general natural hygiene principles, raw food eating, or raw feeding for dogs and cats. NOTE:  As of today, Sept. 21, all the free mini sessions have been spoken for.  However, watch this space … I will offer free coaching again in the future!

All you have to do to sign up is email me directly at the contact link at the very bottom of this page.

Until Sunday!