Tuesday 4 December. 2012
I believe now that my history of ill health was caused in part by chemical exposure early with my first job after leaving school. With the help of my father I got a job with the international advertising agency, Mc Can Erickson, Melbourne, Australia, as a junior artist and trained to be an assemble artist. It entailed literally cut and glue/paste long before the digital revolution. My tools were a scalpel, ruler, pens, pencils, brushes and glue. Following the layout drawing as a guide I would assemble the advertisement by gluing all the components such as captions, text, bromides/pictures the logos etc onto cardboard with rubber glue (milliners solution). In retrospect I must have been breathing at close quarters, thinners. I did not last a year in that agency. A big day came to the office. We were going to have a visit by a group of Americans from head office New York including the great advertising guru David Ogilvy. I was told to take up some chairs from the studio downstairs up to the boardroom. I have about four chairs two to an arm I get through the door way to the stairs and I am about up to the landing and the turn in the stair way when the big shots come down to look at the studio. It got a bit slap stick at the the half way landing. I thus came to the attention of the managing director and was fired. I think it may have also come to his attention that the agency my father worked for handled TAA Airline while. Mc Can Erickson handled, ANSETT Airline as a major clients. I then worked in several other studios breathing the glue. I spent some time in the screen printing industry where a lot of bad stuff is used, acetone for instance to clean ink off the screens. While working in Sydney as a freelance artist I also worked in a Car Wash pumping petrol to make ends meet. I suffered from the skin condition, eczema. The itch in the rash is powerful as is of course the need to scratch. I have suffered on and off with this condition since very early childhood.
Wednesday 5 December. 2012
It is my plan to write a self help book as I plan to rid myself of this skin condition and regain health by following the teachings from very wise ancient texts. I am starting from a unique position to write such a thing as I have yet to experience success. Instead of being a great success in life like motivational speakers and the many writers of self help books who are supposedly to be experts in their field. I am not an expert in self improvement but I have had life experiences as we all do as time and the years pass. Through sheer desperation of having to live with bad health the aching bones stiff and sore and in my case a bloody (literally) itchy and just dam uncomfortable in my own skin. My plan is to follow wise ancient wisdom passed down to us from the Essenes the teachings those of Buda and other sources. I hope to adhere to the instructions too the letter and get results giving my writing credibility for my Self Help Book.
From working in Melbourne and Sydney as a fairly well off professional career person, to then suddenly a poor drop out hippy in Nimbin. It was in Nimbin that I found myself back again in commercial art. This happened when an amalgamation of the councils on the North coast of NSW Australia and the need for a new Tourist Authority. The district then became known with the tag of Summerland. At this time all media was owned/controlled by a cartel of local business people including the local Member for parliament Dough Anthony. they had brought up all the independent small town papers in the area. The flag ship paper is the Northern star plus radio station and, TV. The new tourist authority put out a tender for a monthly tourist guide and two hippies from Nimbin won the contract they needed an experienced artist and i became partners and we successful published a monthly “what’s on” magazine the Summerland Times plus maps and other commercial work for about three years until there was the (according to Paul Keating) the credit squeeze we had to have. Then another radical change, a lovely woman came into my life and i moved with her yup to the Gold Coast in Queensland then with my yet to be father in-law we became business partners. Establishing a successful retail shop on the Queensland, Gold Coast Hats by the Hundred. Later we were to franchise hat shops in Sydney Brisbane, Cairns and the QLD, Sunshine Coast, A radical change from hippy to Gold Coast business man, white Rebooks and colourful shirts, house on the water,we had two daughters. Other life changing factors were to follow, divorce, ill health caused by the eczema, result of which I lost the sight of one eye, depression, upset gut, aching body, insomnia and allergies bit of a mess wouldn’t you say. As well to being a commercial artist I am also a fine artist, water colour being my forte; I also have a degree, BA in creative writing from Southern Cross University, Australia. Five children from two wives, I am grand father too one girl and three boys.
my arm with eczema at its worst
As I write these words I have just recently turned sixty seven and now rising up from being pretty down and out. So dear reader I invite you on my journey of discovery where I intend to follow the advice of a great men and women to rid myself of eczema and regain perfect health and happiness. To begin this experiment I invested about ten dollars today, I purchased a small rectangle plastic bucket, paper wipes, paper cups, organic wheat seeds plus other seeds.
I am not trying anything new or untested here or some mad cap idea of my own.
Day1. Thursday December 6 2012
To start my first wheat grass i placed Into a paper cup one Table spoon of organic wheat seeds I then covered then with two thirds of tepid water then covered the cup with a cut square of paper wipe, fastened it with a rubber band. I also did the same with a couple of hands full of mostly wheat and sunflower plus other seeds. This is for a healing grass meadow, more about this later.
I made a new years resolution for 2012 to become more involved in society and get out and meet people after being a bit incapacitated and low. I noticed in the Around Town the community notice page in the local paper that there was a choir that sang Gospel and Soul. My mother tried to get me to sing but being a smart arse kid I sang out of tune on purpose at school to get out of choir practice. Only once have I sung with a mike and that was at a party when I was drunk and a bit out of it. They had a band there that was very good, I knew some of the women were going to sing with the band, when they got up and made for the stage, I up and followed them through the tangle of cables to some mikes on stands. They made me welcome I was nervous as I knew by reputation that the women backup singers were also very good. The band broke into Chuck Berry, Johnny Be Good and away we went I just got into the grove and bopped along and now and then did my own thing by sinning, go go go go Johnny be good etc, stepping forward with the girls to sing harmony then, when I stepped down to join the crowd I was told I did alright. The choir practice motioned above is held ay a fantastic old pub in Lismore set between two bridges called The Wimsome. It is no longer licensed and now is a home for homeless men, it is also a place for functions, choir practice plus the soup kitchen and cafe. I have been volunteering in the kitchen now for about three months, the people who run and volunteer are just great because they are all positive and caring people. For a while now I have for breakfast, a banana with pawpaw and one other fruit such as kiwi fruit and sometimes a decaffeinated coffee. Later in the day a make a banana smoothie with Bulk Mass Gain and fermented milk drink. I still have food I have brought in the past and recently that will finish eating as I wean myself onto the more restrictive diet as I undertake the requirements of the experiment.
Last Monday as I was hunting in my now diminished library for a book when I came across one I have managed to hang onto since the mid seventies, titled, THE TENDER TOUCH. Biogenic Fulfilment, by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely. Academy Books, San Diego, California.
Below is copied from the back cover of this book.
EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY
Grandson of Alexander Szekely, the eminent poet and Unitarian Bishop of Cluj, is a descendant of Csoma de Koros, Transylvanian traveler and philologist who, over a century ago, compiled the first grammar of the Tibetan language, an English-Tibetan dictionary and wrote his unsurpassed work, Asiatic Researches. He also was Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society in India.
Dr.Bordeaux earned his Ph.D degree from the University of Paris and other degrees from the Universities of Vienna Leipzig. He also held professorships od Philosophy and experimental Psychology at the University of Cluj. A well known philologist in Sanscrit, Ararmatic, Greek and Latin, Dr Bordeaux speaks ten modern languages. His most important translation, in addition to the selected texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Zend Avesta and pre-Columbian codices of ancient Mexico. He is the author of 68 books published in several countries on philosophy and ancient cultures.
The last decade for me has been a time of depression and bad health. My troubles began with a stroke of luck. I moved too Lismore to study for a degree in IT but ended up majoring in Creative Writing and Contemporary Art. While a student and living in shared house arrangements I decided that as a mature single adult with out a home of my own that the future was not very certain accommodation wise. I decided to apply for state housing and I was told that it could take up to fourteen to sixteen years wait. About two and a half years later I was staying with a mate that I had met at university and his partner. They lived in a large and very nice pole house with a large salt pool it was situated amongst tall palms and just above town. I was paying rent but I got a feeling that it was approaching time I was to leave. I was heading home from the shops one day when on a whim I decided to take different fork in the road. I came to a small park with two trees and in their shade stood solid wooden tables with bench seats, nearby were swings and a plastic play structure with slide. On the corner I noticed a brand new block flats two storied and solid brick. As these things go they were not too bad. I walked around and noticed from the other side of the street a driveway between the buildings too a large concrete yard and carports. I remember thinking as I stood there that’s just what I need. It was NEW, nothing to maintain, and just a Zimmer frame shuffle to the shopping square, if need be.
A short time after this I was on a buss heading back home from the Gold Coast after visiting my daughters when my mobile rang it was Philip from the housing department, out of the blue saying they had a place for me. I told him that I was on the buss and would be back in Lismore soon. He said to meet him after lunch to fill in the lease and I should be able to pick up the keys the next day. I was over the moon. Sure enough it was the upstairs flat on the corner opposite the park. I went home and told my mates the news. Had to go back down to the square to buy a bottle of bubbly to celebrate and have another look. This time there was a group of about five men standing at the entrance. I walked past while having another deco at my new place, a place of my own! and then I twigged that it was the official hand over of the property, guys from the department the builder etc. I hung a U-ee, introduced myself. Told them I had just pulled number eight, they said that was great as it was in their opinion the best apartment in town. Philip rang to say that I could pick up the keys later that same day. I was in that night with a mattress on the floor. A few days later with the help of another mate I had all my furniture and stuff out of storage and settled in. It was that new that the paint must have still been drying on the walls.
Day2. Friday December, 7. 2012
I slept in this morning as I did not get to sleep until after two and rushed out without doing the morning rinsing of the wheat etc. I could not get to sleep because, as is often the case I had a sore tummy and a racing brain thinking about this project. For this ailment I have been to my GP and had tests, my haemoglobin reading was off the chart and most everything else was ok.
Today I had lunch at work it was chicken and vegetables with a fruit crumble for desert. I can also take home food, some of the food is fresh as home growers donate produce from their gardens other fruit and vegetables come from the supermarkets unfortunately a lot is bruised, or been on the shelves for too long. A lot of day old bread and buns are given away. I have to avoid grain as it affects my gut but I am hopeless and still now and again have something with my coffee, I know I will pay but I still indulge. In the past I have been pretty hopeless at self improvement except for Yoga. In one of the share house situations I met a woman (I shall from now on refer to as the besty) who at the time lived two doors up the street and over the years we have kept in touch and become best of mates. It was the besty that introduced me to Yoga and it has been the best thing for me over the last ten years or so. Even so I am still very stiff and sore in my joints and ligaments, if I walk for too long I get pain in my legs, if I sit for awhile and then rise I have to straighten up with effort as my insides are quite sore even some times walking around stooped like a very old man. Otherwise I am quite fit and now having put on a bit of weight for the first time in quite some time I am starting to feel good about myself. i am sure that it is problems with my jut that is causing me all the disvomfort
Evening day two: I uncovered the planted grains, moisten them, and replaced the plastic bag and paper wipe, I rinsed the wheat grains which have been soaking and set them to sprout.
I am feeling quite positive about this project now or I do remember writing that it was an experiment, anyway writing about it, will I hope strengthen my resolve to see it through.
Day3. Saturday December, 8. 2012
Followed the procedure this morning by making up a new cup to soak and water the others. Then off to Yoga for an hour and a half of stretching, exercise and meditation. I cannot recommend Yoga enough. The body discomfort the aches and pains, not able to sleep because of tummy pains and pains in the legs plus the irritable bowl are now I firmly believe a direct relationship with an upset digestion system and what I eat. I am sure yoga has helped. It is also a good place to meet like minded people, widen your circle of friends and acquaintances On Saturday morning after Yoga we have brunch, coffee etc, it is not a good idea practice after eating.
There has been a long period in my life of about thirty years or more when I enjoyed life with perfect skin. It was a total change of life style that did the trick but that is a story for later. This out break began in the same share house as I mentioned before the time I met the besty. The house belonged to a woman who was lecturer at the University she rented it out and i had a sub let room the owner of the house heard that we had a spare room to rent and asked if she could have the room for her self as she had a boyfriend up the coast and would be staying with him four nights a week. It worked out fine for about a week until she turns up with a very old Labrador dog. She gets its old dog a rug and sets him up with a bowl of water and a bone right at the top of the front steps and dashes off to work.. The dog was out of the blue never mentioned before. The poor old thing had eczema and all day as I was in my room trying to study its back leg would continually tap staccato on the wooden floor just out side my French doors. The woman my house mate who I sub rented from worked from home as a masseuse and her clients had to navigate past the mangy dog. I felt sorry for the poor old thing especially when that night she brought the dog into the house and I told her no way and told her that I was allergic too cats and dogs and that we had already rejected several applicants for the room who had dogs. She said that she had no alternative as she would not get rid of it, it being an old family pet and had lived in the house before. The up shot was that she soon sold the house. I went up and stayed with my friends in the pole house above town with itchy skin. Apparently there is a thing called dog dander it is the flakes of skin from the rash and floats through the air as dust motes and sticks to our skin. I saw a dermatologist about it and told him about the new place and how the condition had got so much worse since moving there. I told him about the fresh paint when I moved in and about the theory of the detrimental effects of poly carbons, polyurethanes, glues, carpet etc, as I spoke I could tell that he was skeptical, you know the look. He did say that I could be allergic the carpet if it was wool, and car fumes and gave me scripts for ointment and a yeast bath. The next time I saw him he had been to America and one of the speakers there had talked about the effects of chemicals such as the above mentioned.
This evening I put the seeds with soil out on the windowsill, this should have been done this morning, oh well, and drained the seeds that have been soaking and set them to sprout. Here is the schedule
Day one 8 am
Put one flat table spoon of wheat grains in a small jar or drinking glass. Fill two-thirds full with tepid water, cover top with a small piece of cheesecloth (I used paper wipe cloth, one layer!) and fasten with a rubber band.
Day one 8 pm
Drain out the water, then rinse the grains thoroughly by letting faucet water run into the jar, then out again, repeating two or three times, repeating a few times. (The cheesecloth will prevent the grains from escaping.) set the jar or paper cup in a diagonal position in your kitchen is not dark at night, cover with one piece cloth.
Day two 8 am
1. Rince the wheat grass, and spread there evenly over soil almost filling a cup-size container. Moisten thoroughly (don’t water too much-remember it is a very small amount of soil!) and place a small plastic bag around the cup size container of soil (poke a tiny hole in it somewhere for air). Put in a dark place, or cover the plastic bag with a piece of paper towel.
2 Place one flat tablespoon of wheat grains in the small jar or paper cup or drinking glass, and fill with water, cover with cheesecloth or paper wipe cloth, etc as in day one.
Day4 Sunday 9 September. 2012
I was talking to a neighbour this morning and the conversation came around to the times we live in and the fact that we are approaching what some consider a momentous moment. On December the 21 we will arrive at the apparent end of the Mayan Calendar it is based on the Solstice Sun alignment with the Galactic Centre, only a few days to go till that device to chart time ends. The rapid changes we are experiencing for both good and bad. It has been on the news that Washington State USA has in part legalized hemp a momentous moment in history of that nation, on a par I would say with the end of probation one more step towards sanity and freedom. This is great news to an old hippy like me, let’s hope the stone keeps rolling. Anyway it was my lucky day today I was on my way to the library taking a short cut a along a narrow path, when I came across a twenty dollar note on the concrete, wow, then one or two paces on there was lying a fifty dollar note. Now this could bring forth a slight moral question for me. From the teachings of Buda. (Do not take that which, dose not, belong to you.) But I ask you seventy bucks just lying there?
The purpose of going to the library was to research Edmond Bordeaux Szekely and the teaching of Buda.
Day4. Monday December 11, 2012
Compared to the meadow that I planted in the 2lt tub the wheat sprouts in the cups look quite sad. In retrospect I must have watered them too much. The meadow looks absolutely magnificent with its bright green and luxuriant spears thrusting up to the light and tiny green spoon shaped leaves of the sunflowers. I just use my fingers tips now to sprinkle water droplets onto the budding sprouts.
As a Young man Edmond Bordeaux was Szekely was sent to Rome to study and it was there around 1923 that he reportedly discovered a Hebrew text, a gospel, written in Aramaic, the same language spoken by Jesus. He also reportedly discovered a fragment of Hebrew origin in the same language in Monte Cassino. Another claim to his credit is a copy of the manuscript in old Slavonic in Vienna again there is few details known as to there whereabouts of this evidence to this day. I think that he could not resist and knocked them off. Be such as it may the man has brought great wisdom to those who want to learn and follow his guidance for a much improved life.
Szekely published a section of the manuscript in 1937 as the Gospel of Peace by the Apostle John. It is now published as the Essene Gospel of Peace. This is the title of a book that I bowered from the library yesterday. It was around this time while in France he that founded several communities to follow the teachings. The war and Hitler intervened and he migrated to then settled in Tecate, Mexico, south of San Diego. He purchased land and became a Mexican citizen, established the Essene School whose function was to promote the theory that Jesus and the first Christians were Essenes. The practitioners at the school learnt the principles for healthy living. A term he coined for the practice is biogenics, a form of vegetarianism and the use of whole fresh foods. For those of you dear reader who draw the line at the suggestion of this diet please do not bother to follow my experiment any further and also to those skeptics who believe that because there is no validation of the discoveries his writing has no merit can also leave the room now as it is going to get more fantastical from now on.
I am at present I admit a carnivore.
His estate, Rancho la Puerta, became famous as a health spa, attracting many wealthy and famous people. The ideal living promoted there was vegetarianism along with fresh healthy food.
In 1958 Szekely opened the Golden Door, a health spa in Escondido, California it was to become one of the most famous of the era, the patrons being the rich and wealthy especially favored by Hollywood stars.
To perpetuate his health and life style teaching pursuits he authored numerous books also founded the International Biogenic Society and the Academy of Creative Living. The writing in Mexico included the second and third installments of the Essene Gospel of Peace (1974).
He spent the last years of his life in Cartago, Costa Rica, where he died in 1980. After his death others continued the good work including his wife and one of his colleagues Gary White.
Edmond Bordeaux. The Gospel of Peace by the Apostle John. London: C. H. Daniels, 1937. Reprinted as The Essene Gospel of Peace. San Diego: Academy of Creative Living, 1971
The Essene Way, Biogenic Living. Cartago, Costa Rica: International Biogenic Society, 1978.
Day5. Tuesday 11, December 2012
Compared to the sprouted mixed sprouted seed in the 2lt tub that is looking just fantastic bright luminous green and shooting up, however the wheat sprouts in the paper cups look a bit sad especially the very first, obviously over watered. Now I water by flicking the water onto the grass with my finger tips. And use glass jars to sprout in.
My besty and I went to the organic market this morning where I noticed a vendor selling sprouts, only sunflower sprouts.
This afternoon I walked into town and back which is about three large blocks in distance the old legs got a bit painful after about two blocks. I went to get more wheat seed as I plan to make wheat sprouted bread the mixture will also include some Rhy seeds. I also purchased a hand grinder to process the sprouted wheat. This bread is ideal for those who are intolerant to wheat flour. The action of sprouting eliminates the……………….?
About being a vegetarian. It was on the news tonight about the discussing treatment of cattle at a abattoir in Israel, the treatment seen on the news was abhorrent to behold, the poor suffering animals were paralyzed with fear and pain and so brutal treatment was applied to get them to move, savage beating with sticks, cattle prods used up backsides and applied to their faces, it was absolutely horrifying to watch. Our Australian live cattle and sheep trade must end. Surly we can dispatch the animals while facing Mecca and supply these nations with frozen meat. We as consumers can never be sure even here in Australia how the beasts are slaughtered, in a humane way or not.
It is not going to be hard to give up meat for me now.
I have now realized that what I am doing here is exactly the sort of thing that may be an ideal platform for a blogg.
Day6. Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Well am I excited today? It was back to the library this morning to get a book on blogging and I came away with Blogging for Dummies, and have been reading it for most of the day. It would appear that I have unintentionally been writing material that would suit a niche blogg, instead of a book, but that still could happen too. I have done web sites in the past, including a semester for an IT subject, Web Design. I think the subject matter I have so far written about would fit into a niche blogg for people who through desperation are seeking to rid them selves of sickness after having tried all the avenues that are medical orientated, to enjoy life while benefiting both in health, mind and also dare I mention the purse. And we prepared to walk on the wild side and try something new, radical and maybe a bit difficult, but is in fact guidance derived from very ancient wisdom.
The name that I have come with at this stage for my blogg is WIZE OLD HIPPY HELP.
Below is the first instalment of the credentials for my claim to be an old hippy.
In 1972 Genevieve my then wife and my new born son Nathan set off from Sydney for the Aquarius Festival to be held at Ninbin, in Northern New South Wales, Australia. At the time I had an old Holden ute, with a busted tail shaft. A mate who knew Bondi told me there was one the same model as mine dumped in a back lane. It was no problem getting at it as it was sans the wheels and up on bricks, job done in no time and I had wheels. The three of us left Sydney the big noisy dirty metropolis and headed north for greener pastures. Just free of the suburbs we rolled up to the toll gates on the brand new freeway the one that cuts directly through the wild sand stone country. If I remember rightly the toll was about two bucks. Gateway to freedom and cheap at that, one of my best experiences ever, only two bucks for freedom and a new life. I slapped in a tape my sisters boyfriend had made up for the trip, and on came Canned Heat. Going Up The Country. We were headed up the coast to meet up with some friends who were originally from the Netherlands and now living on a property up in the hills behind Mulumbimby. It was great, we all stayed in an old packing shed set among the bananas. Originally coming from Melbourne I thought that I had really arrived in the tropics. The day of the festival arrived and I found myself helping out to build a goat shed of all things, got pissed off as they intended to build on a slope with no level foundation. Next morning the wife the kid and I set off for Ninbin and the festival. After the festival we returned to Mullumbimby. Through the local real estate agent we got too rent an old but in good condition a four bedroom farm house for ten dollars a week. A moment in history for the dairy industry in that area was the deregulation of the Dairy Industry. It created a situation where a lot of small farms went under and were brought up, hence the empty farm houses at cheap rent. the country had not caught up with city rents as until then there was no demand. The next thing was work. At this time the abattoir was still operating at the old whaling town of Byron Bay. I found myself in a line of likely lads sitting on a low concrete wall out side the meat factory. Just to the right of where I was sitting were the cattle yards full up with freaked out bellowing beasts. Directly in front of us was a high long white wall and running along the very top just under the eaves were glass windows, a ramp for the cattle rose up to a covered platform at the top where the animals where killed the carcass then hanging from a hook moved along on the steel conveyer rail still twitching before our eyes, just behind the glass windows. After a while of sitting there a small door in the large wall and to my left, one I had not really noticed till then opened and a bloke with a bandaged hand came out and walked away, and so did I.
Day7. /Thursday 13, 2012
At the soup kitchen this morning I did not indulge in any meat and only a bit of short bread with morning coffee I think writing about my experience at the abattoir has strengthened my resolve to see my goal of health and happiness achieved. It was also after that attempt to find employment we became vegetarians also being poor contributed to a basic diet. It was at this time while we were living near Mullumbimby that my eczema cleared for the first time for many years. My simple diet now seems to be working for me already. Another contribution to my feeling of well being is what I am doing now I have a reason to write a great occupation occupy my mind and time. I went to the Optus shop to connect to the internet so I can get started on my blog. Got home and I had problems getting connected.
Day8. Friday 14, 2012
The World Health Report announced that we are living longer but are suffering from health problems including chronic disease. Alziheimers Disease is up 20% and depression is a major problem and of course cancer. Sorted out the internet problem at the shop and are now on my way to establishing a blog. I learnt that Turmeric Powder is very good thing to use for arthritis and a friend also said that I was also good as a defence against developing Alzheimer's . I have not done a lot of writing as I am still reading the Gentle Touch by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely and the Blogging, For Dummies.
Day10. Saturday15, December. 2012
Yoda this morning after attending to the wheat sprouts and I also ground up the sprouts for the bread and made flat biscuit shapes and set them out in the sun for them to absorb the life force of the sun.
Day11. Sunday 16, December 16, 2012
This morning I threw out all the sugar, tea (I kept some for visitors) and coffee not a big tea drinker anyway. I have herbal tea mix that I should be drinking for eczema. One step at a time, tomorrow it is the condiments cupboard. Today I hope to get the domain name WISEOLDHIPPYHELP and the blogg established. I have written the tag and the description for the Blog investigated domain names and wiseoldhippyhelp is available as a domain name. I do not have a credit card but I do have a Visa account so it will be only a few days before I can go on line unless I get a free one with a host. So I will keep writing and reading.
Diet: This afternoon I had a very tasty and filling lunch. As it is Sunday I am unable to get organic food so I got from the supermarket, carrot, mushroom, baby spinach and rocket salad I got the feta cheese from the fridge from my little garden provided parsley, basil, and chives and fresh green shoots from the meadow. The taste sensations were surprisingly tasty varied even zesty, I felt quite satisfied after eating.
Savings: I have used up what was in the fridge and cupboard and ate my first lunch of fresh food there was no cooking involved and minimum wash up. No oil or grease involved the chopping board, knives rinse clean, no hot water needed. I snack on fruit and nut mix with seeds and carob chips during the day perhaps a bit too much, which I purchased from the local bulk whole food shop the most inexpensive way to go. You should be able to order seeds, nuts and sun dried fruits on line.
Eczema: Yesterday I visited a friend with a dog all the while I was there the dog was lying on the floor near by and last night I was very itchy but today the itch has been quite mild considering.
Day12. Monday 16, 2021
I will remind you dear reader that I did not start out writing a blog and was quite ignorant about twitter and such, though I have a smart phone. I have been learning about tags and longtails, traffic in conversation, friendship etc. Blgging it would seem to be the best online communication device yet and I am getting quite excited. I would be on line now if it was not for having a card that worked, it will take a few days to arrive. Meanwhile I will continue writing daily about the experiment and the blogg progress. I have written 6255 words in twelve days so I think that I am doing quite well and can see no reason why I should be able to keep up the daily word impute and the communication required to have a successful blogg. It was a newyear resolution of mine to more social to get to know more brothers and sisters.
Sanity: With reference to the above I am feeling very positive now I have something to occupy my time, something worth while and time consuming. As a pensioner I have a lot time to spare on my hands that should be utilized as a positive resource, One that is creative not that I was not creative before. I have had a painting sitting on the easel that I have not touched in months and it is almost complete. I have been lazy and listless just reading trash and watching TV, a bit depressed but getting over it.
Survival: In these times of uncertain future and rapid change I we often think of having a stash of food put away for emergencies. What I now eat is ideal for storage; seeds when stored properly last as do sun dried fruit and nuts. Sprouted seed supply fresh nutrients.
Day11. Tuesday 17, 2012
Last night I slept well without an upset stomach for the first time in a long time and more good news is that the itch is much reduced as is the rash.
Today with the help of a friend I managed after much hassle Windows Live Writer and Windows Blogger.
Day12. Wensday 18, 2012
I did not get to sleep easily last night as I think I over did the snacking on the nut, seed dried fruit mix while watching TV but I am sleeping better waking early and feeling good in the morning. I did a bit of research for a on line supplier for the kind of snack food I eat and found Honest to Goodness, an organic food supplier based in Sydney. Australia. You can contact them on http://www.goodness.com.au they have a raw nut and fruit mix at $ 16.10 for 500g.
My skin is less itchy again today my feet and toes now being the worst area for the rash.
More of my experiences as a Mullumbimby hippy, I can say with some conviction that I would have been one of the last to hand cut sugar cane in the Northern Rivers area of NSW. One day I heard on the radio that there was work for cane cutters down the coast near the sugar mill at Woodburn. There had been strong wind down there that had caused havoc among the harvest and the cane was a flattened and tangled enough so that it could not be machine harvested. I hitch hiked down and was given this most deadly looking instrument, it had a wooden handle and a blade that was wide flat rectangle of stainless steel honed razor sharp at the back end of the blade was with a mean hook. I think that the majority of us there were novices. At the time I was coming down with a bad cold or the flue. I had heard that cane cutting was very hard but I took to it with a will and got stuck in and it was not long that I had blisters on my hands. After a while I looked around to see how I was going and was supprissed to see that I was in the lead by quite a stretch. The technique for cutting cane is to swing and cut low then with the nasty hook flick the stalk away and stack it down to the right in a continuous pile. It took a few days to clear the patch. Pay day came and we learnt that there was no money as the ganger had pissed off in his little red MG sports car with our wages. I was standing on the road hitch hiking back home feeling sick and sorry for myself when an old Holden car pulled over for me. It was full of Aborigines (Australians of indigenous, decent) they slid over on the back seat to make room for me and off we went. Straight away a flagon of wine was passed over from the front and I was told to get stuck in, I said that I had a bad cold and did not want to pass it on, then amongst quite a bit of mirth I was informed that not to worry brother that between them it was likely they had every thing going around. What the hell I needed a drink!
Day13. Thursday 19, 2012
Today I brought a bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar and a bottle of Colloidal Silver. I have tried both before and noticed some benefit from using them and no detrimental side affects. I don’t know if I will be able to tell if they are helping this time around because every day I feel better in both mind and body with just the results of the diet I have started.
Colloidal Silver can be used internally if you do not feel quite right and think you may be getting sick or it can be sprayed on the skin (as a liquid or applied as a gel ) to help with any skin infections. Quality Colloidal Silver is made using Pure Silver Rods and Ultra Distilled Water. It is a product that is 100% natural and safe to use for all the family, from new born babies to the elderly as well as your pets, it has never been known to interact with any medication. Silver has been used medicaly for centuries. It is said that Phoenicians stored water, wine, and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling.] In the beginning of 1900s, people would put silver coins in milk bottles to prolong fresh milk from going sour. Hippocrates, the "father of medicine", wrote that silver had beneficial healing and antidisease properties. In the early 1900s, silver gained approved as an antimicrobial agent this was prior to the introduction of antibiotics. Colloidal silver is used as a germicide and disinfectant it has also used byphysicians as an eyedrop for ophthalmic problems and various infections and sometimes internally as well for diseases such as epilepsy, gonorrhea, tropical sprue, and the common cold. Colloidal silver preparations (CSP) have been used to treat or prevent gonorrhea and gonorrheal conjunctivitis. I know people who swear by the benificial effects of taking small doses daily of Colloidal Silver for improved overall heslth. If in dought I suggest that you reaserch this topic before digesting the substance.
Day14. Friday 20, 2012
Today I was really stupid and weak as I had instant coffee with my fellow workers at the soup kitchen. Straight away after drinking the coffee I got itchy and started to scratch. I think that as one continues eat better avoiding foods that are detrimental your condition the reaction seems more reactive.
Apple Cider Vinegar is made from apple juice and fermented to hard apple cider then fermented a second time to apple cider vinegar. The vinegar will balance your entire inner body system. The body constantly strives to achieve a state of equilibrium. Apple cider vinegar helps the body maintain a healthy alkaline pH level. Research shows that the higher acid levels (lower pH level) lead to a lack of energy and higher incidences of infection. You can sip some a few times a day for a natural boost of energy.
What I am interested in is the fact that other research suggests that apple cider vinegar can help with allergies because of its ability to reduce mucous and sinus congestion it helps to break up mucous throughout the body and cleanse the lymph nodes reducing the effects of allergies.
It can also help stave off sinus infections and their related symptoms (sore throats and headaches).Taken daily it regulates the pH of your skin. A 2009 study published in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, that subjects that consumed acetic acid for 12 weeks experienced significant declines in body weight, abdominal fat, waist circumference and triglycerides. Triglycerides contribute to cholesterol a high reading we all want to avoid. The vinegar is rich in natural enzymes that help rid your body of yeasts that are attributed to thrush in humans. Candida also is blamed for creating symptoms of fatigue, poor memory, sugar cravings, and yeast infections. In the processes of balancing the body's pH, apple cider vinegar creates an overall detoxification of the body. Research shows that it can help stimulate cardiovascular circulation and help detoxify the liver. There many other uses for Apple Cider Vinegar such as a cleaning agent around the house, hair rince, teeth whitener, an aid in weight loss, used to reduce heartburn. It is effective in repelling fleas on your pets. One part vinegar and one part water can be sprayed on fur and rubbed in generously to the skin saturating the entire coat. Any flea infestation will surely be gone in a mater of weeks when applied daily.
Day15, Saturday 21, 2012
I report that I woke up around 7am and did not have too stumble out of bed for a pee during the night. But best of all, in the past I would be scratching as soon as I got out of bed but this morning it did not bother me
I am not doing Christmas this year but I did go too the soup kitchen Christmas BBQ. I had a bottle of Apple Cider, salad, potato salad, potato crisps and went to bed with gut ache but slept well eventually. This morning was the last Yoga lesson and had brunch with the besty and another student we had fruit salad and a yummy date and fruit slice that my the besty got at the Farmer Market. I was telling them about writing the Blog and the subject matter and my good friend got up and came back with a book by Ann Wigmore who is also expounding the virtues of what I am committing myself too. By just flicking through her book that it will be like a bible for my undertaking. The book is titled
Recipes for Longer Life “here at last are Ann Wigmore’s famous recipes fpr rejuvenation and freedom from degenerative diseases. The incidence of cancer, heart disease stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes can be greatly reduced by providing our bodies with the vital nourishment as herein described”. The besty recommended the nut cheese.
Day16, Sunday 22, 2012
Could not get to sleep for hours last night, usual thing, gut ache, it is like I have overate and the gut feels extended, it can be quite vocal.
Managed to read the introduction and about the author, forward etc for Ann Wigmore’s book Recipes for Long Life
Dr Ann founded the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, USA to spread her word to the World through her Living Food Program.
Ann has repeatedly demonstrated that the body will heal itself of any illness when given Living Food Nourishment, food that is easily digestible and wonderfully nutritious. Health is achieved by only digesting plants that are vigorous with new growth and the energy from the sun. Sprouts, wheat grass, seeds, grains, indoor greens, fermented sauces and uncooked fruits and vegetables. The doctor has demonstrated many times during her long, (twenty years) of caring service that these living foods provide our bodies with everything needed to gain optimum health, harmony and vitality.
Some hundred years before the birth of Christ, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, taught that live food could restore and maintain vibrant health. He wisely stated that “your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food”. You will agree with me that health wise, the people of the developed World is in very bad shape. I live only one block from the shopping mall with its food court. The amount of vastly overweight and unwell people eating bad food there knocks me out, huge mothers feeding their kids crap so the kids end up looking like their parents ( It could be said that it is a form of child abuse.) with all the associated health problems that go with eating like that. The cancer rate just keeps rising as do most other diseases, modern medicine seems to be loosing the battle even though there are new discoveries in science all the time, the health issue it is costing us a fortune and a big political issue. The problem with the way of life I intend to follow is that the food I eat costs so little, no value added, no processing, no packaging or advertising, transport, no profit, sorry share holders, You value add yourself and save money in your own home with home grown food. It sounds good I have certainly convinced myself and so it would be my greatest wish dear reader that you join me in this experiment, give me feed back and we will get well together. The good doctor suggests that there be a period of transition. A diet to eliminate drugs, medicines, and other chemicals: meat, alcohol, white sugar, white flour, salt and coffee and all processed food.
There were big changes this afternoon I have been wanting to get rid of my old analogue TV set for some time now, it was given to me and it has dominated my spare room, consumed time and it was not good for me as I tended to sit badly while watching it.. It was big and heavy my friend gave me a hand and we went for a tip run filling her car. The getting rid of the TV has had a run on effect where finally after a decade have at last got every thing arranged in my flat to my liking. The spare bed room that has always been a bit junky is now clear and ready for guests. So this is my first night without TV and I am writing to you my dear reader with the computer set up in my bedroom.
Day17, Monday 23, 2012
My good friend rang me early to ask if I wanted to go with her to the farmers market around 9am it is usually held on Tuesdays but with the silly season with us, which reminds me as mentioned above the Japanese are now into Christmas and there is an image from japan of Santa crucified on a cross. With the new home arrangement I came away with two styrene fruit boxes that I had been using to put the set top box and the DVD player on. I had time to go to the shopping square and get two bags of potting mix. First I broke up the lids and used them under the mix I also brought a bottle of seaweed fertilizer and lettuce seeds. At the market I brought some lettuce and a lime flavored parsley seedlings for the boxes and for my food a bag of fresh salad mix, bananas, and other greens.
My good friend is the one we should thank for putting Dr Ann Wigmores recipe book our way as I am sure it will be a great tool for the experiment.
I have not been that successful with the wheat sprouts in the paper cups. Some got too wet or I got the sequence wrong but I do have some grass I can now try eating.
Yesterday my legs were playing up again after the night of tummy discomfort.
Here are some suppliers of organic food i have found in Australia.
Steves Organics, Wholesalers of organic food, South Australia. Phone 0883597700, Email: Sales@stevesorganics.com.au.
Sunzest, Phone Peter on 0412558499. Email: sunzestorganic@bigpond.com
Fundamental Foods, Lismore, phone 0266222199, for Byron Bay, 02 66856429,
for Paddington QLD, phone 07 33681855.
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Day18, Tuesday 24, 2012
Christmas day and the world as we know it has not ended, thank Christ. I must admit that I am a bit pissed this evening, as is I imagine is a whole lot of other Aussies on this Christmas eve. I had a festive lunch at the Winsome then a few beers with a new friend an American Indian and this mistress. Confession time, I did have a chicken leg and some ham otherwise it was fresh salad with mango, potato salad and a taste of cake. This evening I had the evening meal with the besty and her two grown children, i drank some bubbly and dry white, not bad considering I suppose.
Day19, Wednesday 25, 2012
I had a lunch with my two daughters who are up from Melbourne at a pub I had chilly prawns that had been frozen and a beer. And a coffee with friends this morning.
I have not been very successful with the sprouting in jars and the paper cups and the wipe cloths. I do not think that the paper cloth is a good idea and I have learnt that they need more rinsing than I have been doing of late. I have been looking on the Web for sprouting systems and equipment. There is for the handy person who likes to tinker around a make your own automated sprouter at home. www.youtube.com/
watch?=UYZEz56YMo
aquabarrel.com
Easy Green sprouting Machine
Livingapartment.com.au
Day20, Thursday 26, 2012
Over the Christmas break I have spent some time in houses with dogs this combined with eating things I know are detrimental, the eczema has now spread to my chest, tummy and face and I am quite itchy all over again.
More information about the good Dr Ann Wigmore and her success with healing using sprouts etc.
In 1978 the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded her with a citation for “exemplary development of food self sufficiency through the wise use of natural resources”. Among the many other honors and awards for her outstanding work is the 1971, the Nobel Prize Foundation (Royal Laplander Academy of Science) in Europe presented her with a Recognition Award for work in the field of Youthfulness for and Efforts in Regeneration of Human Cells and Tissue; in 1978 Dr Ann was made Lady Ann Wigmore by the Kingdom of the Nether Lands which presented her with it’s highest award, the Order of Chivalry , for distinguished achievement and noble deeds” in recognition of her outstanding work in the field of health and human ecology. In 1979 she was presented with a Cancer Victory Award by the Arlin J Brown Information Centre” in appreciation for saving human lives. ..” Quoted from Ann Wigmores Recipes for Longer Lives Avery Publishing Group. She traveled extensively and helped thousands of ailing people were helped to health by her program of living food, sprouts, colon cleansing
Day21, Friday 27, 2012
Even though the eczema is bad the gut troubles have gone and my daughters told me over Christmas to keep doing what I am for my health because I look a lot better also one of my fellow workers at the soup kitchen told me that she has noticed a difference for the better as well. We were also discussing how doing good deeds for others can be a benefit for ones own well being. Today I was searching for a suitable host for my blog.
Day22, Saturday 28, 2012
Day23, Sunday 29, 2012
I have not mentioned this before but I am also a biker not a heavy dude with skull patches on my jacket but just an old dude with a classic BMW R100RS. At the Winsome soup kitchen I met a couple from America who also ride a BMW and today we went for a ride from Lismore to Kyogle via Rock Valley. The country side is looking just wonderful at this time of the year with bright green grass covering the fields, we had a great time. I have just got the bike back on the road after not having it registered for a year or more, I did have a campervan which I sold to pay for work needed on the bike the registration insurance etc.
Like I said at the beginning I have not had much success with diet and such and I am finding it hard to be completely adhere to the fresh food discipline especially over Christmas and now New Years Eve. I have been drinking wine and beer and even the odd smoke and my skin is telling me that they are not good things to do. My stomach has settled down and I am sleeping much better so I do have something positive to report on my progress. So tonight I will make it my new-year resolution to do every thing in my power to adhere to what is required, to follow through with the experiment and succeed to regain perfect health.
Day24, Monday 30, 2012
THE TRANSITIONAL DIET
“The purpose of the transitional diet – from that of meat, processed foods, sugar, white flour products, et., to a total living foods diet of vegetables, fruit, sprouts, fermented nuts and seeds – is to allow the body to gradually cleanse accumulated waste materials at a slower pace until the whole diet is one of living foods. Even while on the transitional diet, attempt to incorporate as many green sprout salads as you can comfortably can in order to speed up detoxification and allow the body and mind to accustom them-selves to this new diet.
The first phase in the transition diet is to eliminate drugs, medicines and other chemicals; meat, tobacco, alcohol, white sugar, white flour, salt, and coffee.—all processed foods.” This may be a radical change for some people, as these “foods” have become deeply ingrained habits and dependencies. One way to approach this is to “decrease and substitute.” If you eat meat every day, for example, decrease it to two or three times a week, and substitute fish and fowl in its place. If you drink or smoke each day, cut it to every other day, then every third or fourth day. Substitute clearer thinking and deep, clean breathing exercises in their stead. You aren’t giving anything up – you are really choosing something better.
In the meantime, use as many live foods as possible as substitutes for the refined and processed foods. Use unfiltered honey and dates instead of sugar; whole grains instead of white flour; raw milk rennetless cheese instead of processed cheese;raw milk instead of homogenized milk; fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned, frozen or packaged food. You’ll notice a taste change, and in short time your taste buds and mind will automatically choose nutritious foods.
Day25, Tuesday 1, 2013
I spent new-year eve with my new American friends, we had potato crisps, crackers, dips and other tasty things, shots of bourbon with home brew beer chasers. I feel a bit wooly in the head as I write this but no hang over. So from now on, in this new-year I will stick to the fresh food diet with I hope not too many deviations. My morning routine now is I do my yoga before breakfast which is a fruit salad followed with half a table spoon of Apple Cider Vinegar and the same amount of Colloidal Silver. I used to dilute the vinegar with hot water and honey but now I find it better to just gulp it down straight like a whisky shot (whooharr) followed with a glass of filtered water and a multi vitamin pill. Later on I have a banana smoothie, one chopped banana in a large glass, add coconut milk plus bulk powder and blend with a Barmix sometimes I add pawpaw or mango.
THE TRANSITIONAL DIET
The second phase in the transition of mucus – forming foods such as dairy products: milk, butter, cheese, eggs, yoghurt, etc. begin to substitute seed milk cheese and seed yoghurt. While in this phase, try fasting on juices one day a week or more to expedite toxin elimination.
The third phase in transition is the elimination of all cooked foods from the diet. This includes grains, cooked fruits or vegetables, granola, crackers, all cooked legumes, bread, etc. the ultimate diet is that of fresh raw fruit and vegetables, sprouts and fermented nuts and seeds. This transition may take months for some, perhaps only a few weeks for you. It’s your decision
Some additional diet data;
- Have three juice meals a day to nourish the body. Include a salad with each drink.
- Clean out the colon with enemas and wheat grass implants once or twice a day.
- If you cook or steam vegetables, cook as little as possible, on the lowest heat possible, to retain the maximum amount of nutrients.
- Eat living foods before cooked foods.
- Try not to drink liquids for an hour after mealtimes.
- Chew your food very, very well.
- Find out more about food combining and digestion and begin using only foods that are easily digested.
Quoted from Ann Wigmores Recipes for Longer Life
