Hi Kirt, >I share your impression. This grounding is very apparent compared to a >vegan diet in my experience. And, perhaps surprisingly, there is another >side to the RAF issue for many instinctos: "advanced" RAF like aged fatty >fish, aged meat, bone marrow, and even shellfish, when attractive, provide >a pycho-physical rush that can only be compared to a mild buzz. In my >experience, this buzz takes effect within five minutes after consumption, >and may last as long as an hour or two or more. It is not a disconnected >feeling, and not like a sugar high, but something very pleasant and >"centered". You _know_ when experiencing it that your cells are basking in >the long-absent nutriment of primo RAF. One feels a bit like superman, but >with both feet on the ground, so to speak. Bee larvae has led to this >sensation whenever I have eaten it. Further, my experiments with raw butter >show a similar effect. I get a mild, euphoric buzz (unlike the frentic coffee thing) from eating sashimi. >This is very interesting, but I'm not sure I understand because I don't >know what a "delta" is. Are you saying that yoga isn't giving you the >satisfaction it did before because you are feeling better overall, that >our "baseline" is higher so the boost from yoga isn't as pronounced? Yes, I'm not as stressed out and ragged when I get back home to do Yoga. By the way, Julia Lorimer is a Yoga fanatic too, and we share the same Yoga teacher, Ramanad Patel. (Julia goes to his SF classes, while I go to his San Jose classes.) Julia told me that Ramanand was so impressed with her improvements with anopsology that he is going to give it a try himself. >Still, it is hard to get really good eggs in the USA. Lots of them are >marketed as "free-range" but are always given prepared feeds as well. Then >again, when people really have the taste for them, it doesn't seem to >matter if they are of the highest quality, but it would be best if they >were. (One way--but certainly not instincto--to eat raw eggs is to use the >yolk as a salad dressing. Its pretty good really. I did so for a while >hoping to unblock for eggs, but to no avail.:( I found one particular brand of the ones that claim "free-range", "naturally fed" at Whole Foods. I don't remember the name, but it is the most expensive. (About 3+ $). It appears to be the tastiest of all. >But Roy, I must tell you that we could care less about fresh meat or fresh >fish fillets. Sashimi is preeeetty boring; at its best pleasant and at its >worst bland with a bad "mouthfeel". Fresh meat is often tough, acrid. Other >people do have a taste for fresh flesh and fish fillets, and some >instinctos never get into aged RAF. But not us! Though, of course, we >initially cut our teeth (so to speak) on fresh RAFs. I know that I will have to go for aged and cured RAF (I'll start with fish). But I have to be discreet about it, or I'll have serious marital problems. I plan to get an Excaliber dehydrator, then hide my experiments inside it. >(POLARICA at (800) 426-3872 distributes game meats, much of which is the >highest-quality meat commercially available in the USA. They are located in >San Francisco, but will mail order $150 minimums. They will also mail you a >catalog free for the asking. One could also ask them if there are any >retailers of their game products near you...) Thanks! I just called and ordered a catalog. >Unfortunately, the inclusion of RAF in an all-raw regime is no assurance of >mental balance--as Guy-Claude Burger has shown for decades. Fringe people >are attracted to (and apparently invent) fringe diets, and the best food is >no assurance that emotional problems with be dealt with as they come to the >fore. One women in Farnce put it this way to me: "Instincto doesn't solve >your problems--it only helps bring them up into the open to be solved--or >not." Her words impressed me then as they matched my own experience. And I >am reminded of her words often as I watch the goings on in the raw foods >arena. Whatever his shortcomings, the man is a Genius. Reminds me of BKS Iyengar, my teacher's teacher. The man is a Yoga Genius, but other than that he is a psychotic. I guess I have to seperate the message from the messanger. >Many people have a time of weight loss after which weight returns to normal >levels. Of course, this has long been the line used in NH as well, though >the weight often never returns (so one shops around for a new ideation, CR >perhaps?). But there are no universals. I gained ten pound immediately on >instincto (from 165 on Fit for Life) to 175. When I eat "freely" of avos >and have lots of RAF available I gain another ten pounds to 185. I consider >185 to be overweight for my build and it pisses me off to a degree, because >then I am back at the old dietary of restriction in some way. The point >being that there is a variety of individual experience and you won't really >know what yours is until you experience it! I confess that after Julia mentioned that the men at Pangaia are "buff" because they eat lots of raw meat, I went out and tried a little raw beef. It was the most disgusting thing that I had ever done in my life. The taste stayed in my mouth for a few days, accompanied by stomach cramps. There - I got it off my chest. I think my next foray into meats will probably be chicken, after ample use of the forthcoming dehydrator. I'm comfortable with eggs and raw fish, but I have to eat them past the taste change to meet Sears' zone equation. Maybe I could take Peter's advice and add Spirulina. (Bee pollen?) Thanks for the information, and for your encouragement! Roy