FASTS, NATURAL DIET, aid PHYSICAL and MENTAL PURITY

Long fasts and a raw food diet is the quickest way to attain purity.
A person should do many short fasts before
attempting a longer fast.

PETE'S JOURNAL, JULY 2000

7-1-00
Completed 7 day water fast. Wt. 240. Fast wasn't to bad, a bit sick/confused at times. Broke fast with a big piece of watermelon. Sat well on my stomach. From now on I'm dropping all meat, fish, fowl, eggs, soda pop and candy from my diet. I have been addicted to Pepsi Cola for the past few years. I had a couple of sleepless nights last week during my fast because of the cleansing of the caffeine out of my body.

7-2-00
I remember the first 7 day fast I did about 25 years ago. I tried to get past the third night for weeks, and finally succeeded. I woke the fourth morning with my mouth completely filled with a gelatinous mass that tasted and smelled like rotted meat. I was so sick that I rolled over and spit it out on the floor.

The next four days I felt so bad that I could hardly get out of bed. My body smelled like rotted meat and I tasted rotted meat all four days. This was an awful experience and took a 'bit of faith' to continue my fasting after the fourth morning. In previous years, I had been a heavy meat eater.

7-3-00
A simple list of diet upgrades: (Always drink plenty of pure water between meals.)

Omnivore Diet: meats, vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, legumes, dairy products, eggs. Raw-cooked, fresh, canned or frozen.

Lacto-vegetarian Diet: vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, legumes, dairy products, eggs. Raw-cooked, fresh, canned or frozen.

Vegan Diet: vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains Mix of raw, sprouted and cooked, mostly fresh.

Fruitarian Diet: Summer: mostly fruit and melons. Some+/-,vegs., greens, sprouts. Winter: dried fruit, nuts, sprouted seeds and grains, some milk with greens, honey. All food eaten raw, fresh and in season.

Living food Diet: Same as above. All food eaten raw, fresh and in season. All nuts, seeds and grains sprouted.

My destination is the raw food diet. The last time I was a Fruitarian I seemed to function very well on the diet. I didn't eat a lot or crave other food as many people do. I was very active physically.

7-4-00
The first goal then is finding a retreat and learning to slow down and starting to live a natural life style. Cleansing the body and mind. And Studying: books at first, later on, learning by direct inspiration and doing. By the time a person is able to maintain a strict-raw food diet and has fasted some, their sex drive drops to zero. They can still have sex, but there is no longer a lusting desire for sex. I remember what a great feeling it was to relate to women, just as people, without sexual thoughts creeping into my mind.

Fasting and a raw food diet also 'deletes' those nagging thoughts of guilt and remorse that seem to run and rerun unbidden through the mind. I have read that thoughts are stored in the muscles of the back and legs. It may be true, in my experience, as the body is cleansed, the bad thoughts are released.

7-5-00
As a person ascends the path 'things' begin to happen very fast. It is important to be ready mentally for the time when the bodies senses are pure enough to begin to see into the 'unseen world'. This is a time a person may need support. The rational mind may begin to, 'wobble a bit', and a person may need help in staying oriented. Always remember the, 'formula'... "you are One with Almighty God." Nothing can harm you! Get plenty of rest. E-mail others on the path and discuss your experiences, and feelings.

Take counsel only from other seekers on the path, because medical doctors and mental health counselors, and maybe family and old friends, will just declare you crazy and lock you up. Remember, in the ordinary world, what you are doing is not rational. In the East seeking enlightenment is a revered undertaking, in the West, however, it doesn't make money, so it's craziness.

Slow down and be comfortable... stay on the path. This new reality is part of the 'truth' you have been looking for. You, your conscious self, coupled with the Almighty God's Being are the Master of it all, seen and unseen.

7-6-00
Please understand that the little humorous statements in this journal doesn't mean that I am not serious. I am very serious about what I am saying. I just like to see the humor in things.

As I see it, seeking the truth and enlightenment should be a happy and joyous experience. And it is. Yet, I have seen and lived in the unknown and been very frightened (terrified) and have experience periods of insanity because my mind was not prepared or pure enough. If you are not serious, just fooling around, or dabbling, this is not the path for you. When I say the words: insanity, injury, and death; I'm not putting you on or trying to scare you.

If I had ran from that bull, he might have killed my body, or at least seriously injured me. One night out in the mountains, I stood on the very edge of a cliff without knowing it until later, but was inspired to turn and walk in another direction. If I hadn't caught that faint signal of inspiration, I might have experienced severe injury or death.

7-10-00
Had visitors the past four days. I feel a bit disoriented today."God, I Am, filled with peace and calm always."

7-11-00
Still out of it today. Feel fine physically, but mentally, I feel like I can't wake up.

7-12-00
OK today, feel great both mentally and physically. Doing some work around the place. Getting my mind geared up for another fast in a few days. Lacto-vegetarian diet holding well. Dropped sugar from my diet, and sweetened pastry like maple bars-- which I dearly love.

A warning to people who have taken hallucinogenic drugs. When you fast, and the body begins to cleanse the toxic matter out, you may experience some hallucinations about as strong as when you first took the drug. You are not going crazy... its just, what goes in, must come out.

I have heard that the herb Chaparral taken in fairly large doses for about 3 weeks will help to clean drugs out of the system. A person should check into this before they try their first fasts. (Books, health food stores, herb growers and dealers, naturopaths, new age healers)

7-13-00
The body has two cycles that the medical and health professionals seem to be unaware of, or ignore: nourishment and elimination. When a person takes in food the body is nourished through digestion and blood circulation. And when a person stops eating or fasts the body switches into the elimination mode and uses the same systems to cleanse the body of stored waste.

7-14-00
Started 7 day water fast this evening at 7pm. As toxic matter is released and cleansed from the body a person may experience a whole range of negative emotions and physical dis-ease. I sometimes wake up angry and stay angry all day. Then I might have a dull headache for two or three days. Cleansing in one area of the body usually lasts no longer than three days.

Next I might feel good for a couple of days, then frustrated for no reason, or depressed, to hot or cold, feel like I am asleep all the time and can't wake up or can't sleep, then my legs or back will ache for a couple of days, and so on. It's not much comfort, but I often have to remind myself, that I did this to myself by eating the wrong things, and experiencing those strong emotional responses.

7-15-00
On two occasions in the past I felt that the fast was getting away from me, that my body was becoming overloaded with toxic matter and I was afraid I might die. I was confused, couldn't think straight, experienced long dizzy spells, and generally felt sick like a severe case of the flu. In both instances I ate a large tablespoonful of peanut butter and it stopped the cleansing process immediately.

If a person is doing a fruit juice fast and their body becomes overloaded with toxic matter, they should switch to vegetable juice for a day or so, to slow the cleansing process down. A person needs to learn the bodies signals. That's why its good to start slowly, a number of 1 day fasts, then 3 day, 7 day, and then after the 7 day fasts become somewhat easier, then try for longer periods. It would also be good to read all you can about fasting. (Health food stores)

7-16-00
I have read in a number of books that say a person can become, 'illumined' or reach union with the Soul by mental exercises alone. Theoretically, this seems quite possible. I am inspired, however, to follow and fulfill both the mental and physical laws that I have been shown. These are the guidelines for my path.

Physical purity
Mental purity
Fasting
Raw food diet
Right thought action
Few words
To do good
To be good
Natural living
Meditation
Exhilaration of the mind
Help others when they are in need
Be willing to give up my desires, for the sake of others
Be kind in thought, word and deed
Love my brothers and sisters as myself
Return good for evil
Love God above all else

7-18-00
Blew 7 day fast today on the fourth day.

7-19-00
Started exercise program today. Get up a sunrise, 5:30am +/-, walk a brisk mile(with shoes on) and then do some easy exercises.

7-22-00
Starting a series of one day fasts today which I intend to alternate with one day of eating a raw food cleansing diet.(Fresh fruit, melons, juice, leafy green salads, with a bit of avocado and tomato) Fast: loosen and eliminate toxins; eat: cleansing diet and sweep out toxic waste. My weight still hanging right at 240.

7-23-00
What seems to happen in the body is that your weight stabilizes according to how much toxic matter is in the system. When a person reduces the amount of toxic matter sufficiently the body will automatically lose another 15 or 20 pounds. And so on, until you reach your desired weight. This has been my experience every time I have fasted to lose weight and cleanse the body.

7-24-00
I believe that seeking to unite the conscious mind with the Soul to be the greatest endeavor that a man or woman can undertake. For us today, 'the path' is one of the last frontiers on earth. We have but to walk the path and realize the truths encountered along the way, and put them into daily practice. The path may be hard, but it is sure. Stay on the path, no matter how many small failures occur. Small failures, are just stepping stones, required to succeed. You haven't really failed... until you give up.

The beginning of the path can be likened to a talus slope. Small pieces of loose rock flowing down the slope from the base of a cliff high above. You can't get anywhere trying to walk up it upright so you must crawl on all fours. You crawl for a bit and stop to rest. You lift up to begin crawling again, and the whole slope breaks loose around you, and you slide back to the bottom.

This time you will climb more slowly and carefully and you will not stop until you reach the base of the cliff. Over half way up you come to a place where the talus is loose and deep and with every movement you slide back. You slide to the bottom, where you must decide to begin again and climb more carefully yet, or take a different approach, or quit.

The talus slope might symbolize a 7 day fast and the cliff, your first 30 day fast. The point here is that in the beginning everything is hard and there are no apparent rewards. After a number of slides, cliffs and plateaus the rewards begin to appear; but at first one must try, and try, and try, and try, until you succeed. Stay on the path.

7-25-00
I had, 'one of those small failures' this morning. The fasting and diet routine, I started three days ago was working fine, but this morning I started thinking about hash brown fried potatos and gravy(I pick the small bits of sausage out) and off I went.

7-26-00
So what have I been doing out here in the woods for the past 3 months. My daily routine goes something like this: I get up around 5:30am(sunup) and pray and say my affirmations. Walk a mile and do exercises. Gets my blood moving. Take a dip. And rest a bit. Do daily chores: feed and play with dogs, water garden and flowers, tidy house. Weekly chores: sort clothes, wash and dry ( in town, we're short of water), do grocery shopping, pay bills, do banking, buy supplies, maintain cars, repair stuff around place.

Work on the computer, write or research. Study books. Work in the garden early. Walk bare foot, sun and air bath, deep breathing, I usually have a small glass of juice in the morning, and a light lunch of fresh fruit in the early afternoon.(most of the time, when I am not fasting, or completely losing it :-)

In the afternoon I work around the place, study, take a short nap, and later fix supper for Juanita and myself, usually a vegetable salad. We bath and retire around sundown. I say my prayers and affirmations in bed.

7-29-00
Started 3 day juice/water fast at 7pm today. People who have been lifelong heavy, 'meat, bread, potato, and gravy' eaters will be very ill during their first fasts. They should begin with a series of short fasts and gradually increase the number of days. Have faith, research and use common sense.

7-31-00
Broke fast after 2 days. If you cannot maintain a water or juice fast, drop to eating a raw food diet and some cleansing will continue. Another words, fasting is the quickest way of cleansing the body, but a raw food diet is also very cleansing, particularly the first few days after a fast. Sweeps the waste out of the colon.

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