>I attended a portion of the SF LiFE expo yesterday. I was amazed by
>the number of people, and by how mainstream they looked!

Roy, I am sorry we did not get to meet at the expo. Like you I was
amazed of the attendance - 300 people or more. I attended the lectures
of Ray Kent, Tom Stone, Tom Billings, Richard Salome and David Owen and
the panel discussion with Ray K., Roe Gallo, Lee Hitchcox, Jasmin, &
Christopher Morrill. In between I rushed through the exhibits sampling
some of the raw food delicacies and trying to do some of the exhibits
some justice while chatting with people I had not seen in a while. I
had a lot of fun and my hat is off to Tom, Dorleen and the others who
pulled off this very successful event.

>The high point was Tom Billing's talk

I agree and found myself wishing somebody like him had been around 10 -
20 years ago. Then I would surely have avoided some of the many
mistakes I have made throughout the years.

> I enquired and looked for somebody that might match the Colonel's
>description: an older gentleman with a crazed look,
>wearing combat boots, fatigues and a bayonet, mumbling to himself
>about disemboweling the next instincto :-) I did find one who almost
>matched, sans the boots, fatigues and bayonet, but it turned out to be
>Ric :-)

Very funny. I imagine the colonel being a bit like the general
character in the old "Soap" series on TV on a bad acid trip.:-)

>I attended David Wolfe's talk which turned out to be like the book:  a
>collage of motivational sayings from different sources ("raw food for
>the brain")

The big difference between NFL live and NFL in writing is they are much
milder and more likable in person whereas in their book the tone is
much harsher and with more content - the latter a bit of a
contradiction in terms I admit.;-)

>But he couldn't resist adding "but many of my friends have tried and
>had really bad results.

He is probably referring to Zephyr as I sincerely doubt that he hangs
out with people who experiment with RAF. Six months ago when I spoke
with him he surely did not.

>Hope LiFE does this more often, and I hope we can arrange a "special
>interest group" or "birds of a feather" meeting to get acquainted in
>person the next time.

Great idea.

Best, Peter
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