We live in a mysterious world, presently dealing with many ecological, social, political and personal difficulties. Our ability to meet these challenges with sensitivity, intelligence, courage, grace and power is what will ensure not just our survival, but our fundamental happiness together here.

What does this have to do with food?

Food is about survival, sensual pleasure, bodily health. In our growing awareness, we also ask how our diet affects global ecosystems? What is the “footprint” of our lunch? Another view is: Our abilities to observe, think, feel, communicate and act arise within the biology of our body-mind systems. We are what we eat. Literally! Our blood, bones, muscles, organs, brain tissue and enzyme systems are created from the disassembly and reassembly of components of our diet. There is more going on, like alchemical transmutation of elements, bacterial creation of nutrients and biological changes caused by our thought, but fundamentally it is food that is being reformed into everything that we are.

Including our neurochemistry. Our levels and ratios of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin and many others have a profound (almost absolute) effect on consciousness, affecting our moods, thoughts and balance. They govern how we feel and function in our relationships. Anyone who has been drunk, painfully hungover, stoned or otherwise “adjusted” by any number of recreational or pharmaceutical mood drugs (including caffeine, sugar and nicotine) knows how profoundly we are affected by the simple forces of chemistry!

If we wish to know the world, make good decisions, communicate with subtlety, and act with strength, compassion and wisdom then we must become responsible for what we take into ourselves

What creates the optimum bodily terrain for the most pristine and artful express ion of consciousness ?

• The cleanest water possible – preferably from a natural spring or mountain stream, or secondarily, well water, rain water, or re-energised and re-structured RO filtered or distilled water. Hydrate yourself deeply everyday. The brain is about 80% water.

• A highly-mineralized, natural, predominantly plant-based diet. Organically grown. Never sprayed with pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. Never irradiated, pasteurised, or homogenized. No junk. Ideally eat nonhybridised heirloom varieties grown in rich soils full of natural compost, earthworms and soil bacteria. Leafy greens are our perfect food. Highly alkaline, they will balance our bodily pH which is necessary for proper functioning. Eat maximally raw. Heating food above 40° C destroys enzymes, placing biochemical load on the body and decreasing capacity for neurotransmitter synthesis.

• Wholefood-based natural supplementation – for removal from the body of what should not be there and for deeply nourishing the body with everything that should be there. Ideally whole, living, enzymatically active and energetically and bio-electrically living. Not dead, inorganic, isolated, inert, synthesized or complexed with toxic excipients. Life is only begotten by that which is itself living. To create life your food and your

supplementation must be full of life-force. Make delicious raw food smoothies with organic greens, highest quality raw superfood powders, good water and a little fruit for sweetness. Maximise these perfectly complete meals in your life.

• Clean air, breathed deeply, in forests, walked barefoot. Regularly! It is very simple. Eating this way will regenerate your life. And it will feel very good. Pleasurable feeling in the body is a primary marker for deep levels of health. And when we feel good, and the mind is clear and the heart is open, then we can more ably create the kind of world we choose to live in.