>I looks a bit compulsive to me how you are attacking that RAF item. I
>have read about your ethical difficulties with it in the archives and
>I think I understand them. So wouldn't things become easier if you
>simply waited long enough for your body to develop a real need for
>RAF? So that, if you smell it your mouth becomes watery?

If I wait for that I will be waiting until Hell freezes over.:-)

>That you dream of RAF (if this is possible given your long vegan
>history)?

I never said I was a typical vegan.;-)

>A lot of people who switched to instincto and had the same problems
>saw them disappear when their >bodily need was so urgent, that they
>h a d to eat RAF.

It is very possible that this would happen to me as well but I do not
have the patience or faith to wait for it to manifest. I believe that
my psychological conditioning has been denying my body its natural
needs for too long and caused its stops & limits to be overridden to
such a degree that its instincts can no longer be trusted.

>And it tasted so wonderful and was so satisfying then, they never
>forgot this experience.

Now that I look forward to. :-)

>To come to a real need I would recommend excluding any animal protein
>from your diet, including the non-instincto dairy.

I wonder if this has worked for people with a vegetarian background as
ingrained as mine?

>Also it might be a good idea to eat 100% raw since steamed veggies or
>cooked things might serve the function to get you balanced without RAF
>(a riddle to me because steamed veggies are not containing animal
>protein but it was watched so often that nobody can deny it.)

My experiment of adding cooked foods to my diet was very short, and I
am now back to 100% raw. I had a very strong reaction - an abscess - to
the cooked food (or possibly to too much raw dairy?) which has left me
a little confused.  I am not sure that having an strong, initial
reaction to cooked food is necessarily a sign of health - like when the
body rejects a toxin like tobacco - so with my sensitivity to cooked
foods I have either reached a state of superior health or my health is
on some kind of decline. Either option seems very unlikely so that
leaves me with coincidence. Not a very satisfying option for somebody
who is seeking certainty - but I understand certainty is an illusion
anyway. :-)

>Does this sound reasonable to you?

Thanks for your many inspiring posts on the issue. They help keep the
instincto vision pure and undiluted and give us some perspective on the
human condition by re-connecting us to our ancestral roots. To my
romantic soul instincto is an ideal expression of the highest form of
spiritual practice but unfortunately way out of reach for a neurotic
mortal as myself, and I believe that one of the reasons why so many of
those who try it fail is that they are not spiritually ready to
undertake it. Maybe it would be helpful if the vision was separated
from the practice and a revision of instincto practice was introduced
in the form of a transition or compromise diet of some kind -
especially seen in the light that Orko-quality, wild foods are the only
foods that instinctos seem to be able to eat safely without getting
into trouble with overeating too much of the wrong of foods and that it
according to instincto theory will take several generations of
instinctive eating for instinctos to reclaim their original, primal
health. Both seem to call for some kind of comprise if more than just a
very few highly inspired & strong-willed people are to eat
instinctively.

Another problem is that instincto is basically a human version of the
chimp diet and no matter how close we are genetically to these our
closest primate relatives, I do not think trying to emulate their diet
is a very instinctive act but rather an attempt to pursue an
intellectual idea that no matter how truthful is a construct of our
imaginative neo-cortex. If instincto was practiced truly instinctively,
I believe that we among instinctos would see a greater variety in the
types & proportions of foods chosen to mirror the great diversity of
circumstances ( seasons, climate zones etc) that man has been able to
adapt to and to match the unique history, background & genetic make-up
of the individual trying to practice it and see less of the
one-size-fits-all ideology that seems so prevalent.

The way Kirt has described how he & Melisa often ate during their
travels around the world, their diets for periods of the time sometimes
only consisting of a couple of foods - depending on availability -
often predominently RAF,  I believe came closer to how our foraging &
scavenging, Paleolithic ancestors ate than the year around banquet of
exotic foods made available by Orkos. As examples of this I see it as a
justification for neurotic cravings more than an expression of
instinctual needs when instinctos in Northern temperate climates
periodically claim to be needing massive amounts of durians from the
tropics or dates from hot, subtropical desert climates in order to
thrive.

Best, Peter
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