Peter: > Bodhi, Great article! How is Johnny doing these days? I have gotten > very mixed reports about his Ecuadorian experiment throughout the > years. Has he given up on a raw, fruit-based diet and if so how come? > Has he published anything recently that might shed some light on this? aloha! peter, i've never met johnny lovewisdom outside the pages of _remineralize the earth_, various books by viktoras kulvinskas, and joe alexander's epic _blatant raw foodist propaganda_. lets read what joe has to say about johnny: dr. johnny lovewisdom is another very outstanding raw food advocate. his goal in life has been to discover the solution to all human problems and the secret of physical immortality. i once saw a color photo of him in his 60's and he looked like a radiantly happy 35 year old, with a full head of hair and not a trace of gray in his blond hair and beard. it did indeed look like he had found the secret of eternal or at least greatly prolonged youth. i have heard though, that he is crippled, which he says is because of parathion poisoning earlier in life when he worked in apple orchards in california. he calls his system the vitarian way of life. he says that in adolescence, the body begins to wear out because of the undue strain imposed on the digestive system and liver by foods too high in starch and protein, as well as any other poisons entering the system through eating, drinking or breathing. so the body, sensing that its eventual death is inevitable, activates the sexual reproductive system with accompanying sexual desire so that the species may be continued through creation of new bodies, though the individual must eventually die. but lovewisdom says that by living on the vitarian diet of "living water" foods, fruits and vegetables containing about 90% of water in their composition, the liver and digestive systems are not overburdened with the excess starch and protein of rich foods, thus the body does not gradually decay and wear out; the sexual reproductive system does not reach mature activation and all energy that would have gone to sexual activity is channeled instead into renewal of the body, and development of higher mental and psychic faculties. to be effective for these purposes, such a vitarian diet must be organically grown with no trace of pesticides or other artificial poisonous chemicals, and the individual must breathe clean air with no trace of air pollution. lovewisdom himself lives high in the andes mountains in ecuador, on the western slope; apparently the prevailing winds blow from the east and thus fallout and other pollutants are deposited on the eastern slope of the mountains and thus the western slope is the cleanest available spot on the globe, with possible exception of antarctica, where the climate of course is too cold to grow fruits. lovewisdom has founded the international university of natural living and the pristine order of paradisean perfection in order to teach others how they may gain eternally youthful life and the highest possible happiness if they will live by the strictest discipline on earth, compared with which the discipline of military and business life cosists of nothing but slipshod, sloppy indulgence of every sort of weakness. lovewisdom points out also, that the cultivation of grain, which forms the mainstay of the conventional diet, necessitates the plowing up of soil every year which allows erosion which eventually turns the land into sterile desert, thus grain-eating cultures always leave a trail of destroyed, lifeless land as their legacy; whereas the cultivation of fruit trees for vitarian diets creates a stable ecosystem as the tree roots bring up nutients from deep within the subsoil which then becomes added to the topsoil as mulch when the trees shed their leaves. the raising of cattle, sheep and goats for meat diets likewise leads to serious erosion which eventually leaves the land as desert. lovewisdom points out the falsity of technological development as the supposed road to greater happiness, abundance and paradise on earth. people build machines as a substitute for human capacities which have become atrophied as the result of unnatural way of life. living on cooked grains, we become sluggish and lazy and want to build cars to ride around in. as our mental faculties degenerate, we try to substitute for them with computers. i have heard that some primitive peoples despised literacy; they didn't want to learn to read because "it will make us stupid and unable to remember!" if we were wiser, we would not so much seek for machines to do our work for us, but for more energy and strength so we would enjoy doing our work, and would know more clearly what is worthwhile doing! -------------------------------- blatant raw foodist propaganda by joe alexander peace, bodhi